mcrady

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by mcrady 4y ago
IANAL but it seems like it could be a basis for appeal. And what's the point of putting in months of work hearing a case if there's a chance that it will all get nullified.
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by mcrady 4y ago
I also had a magical autonomous ride when I visited Phoenix a couple years ago. I asked a friend who works at waymo why it's taking forever to build up a critical mass of vehicles to get the wait times down to a more reasonable level.
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by mcrady 4y ago
It's great that your single unit hasn't failed but that's not much evidence against a recall. My onewheel at some point started to fail occasionally. The first time I was going at ~15 mph and fortunately I came away with only
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by mcrady 4y ago
I had a onewheel that would occasionally just stop. The first time I was going at 15 mph and fortunately came away with only a few scrapes. I sent it in and they fixed it. This is their explanation which I don't know that I fully belie
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by mcrady 4y ago
I took a fully autonomous Waymo in phoenix a year ago. Very cool. A little jerky and at one point it said "Figuring this out" but whatever it was got resolved very quickly. Also, it was a pain to book it. I tried once and there we
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by mcrady 7y ago
This ignores payroll taxes, I assume.
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by mcrady 7y ago
Two clear inaccuracies are that the team worked out of the mountain view office and they joined months before the ipo.
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by mcrady 7y ago
I sold my mobile maps startup to Google around the same time and worked closely with the where2 guys. This article sounds like the result of a casual conversation with Noel and not a well researched piece. A number of inaccuracies as far as
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Show HN: Eventagogo, a local event discovery engine(eventagogo.com)
3 points by mcrady 8y ago|0 comments
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by mcrady 8y ago
It seems like these two articles are more relevant: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conun... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overk
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by mcrady 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? Even without cellular data turned on, carriers know your rough location based on cell tower locations.
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by mcrady 8y ago
Are you implying it's illegal to do that? It seems like the whole point of the article is that this is entirely legal. It sounds like congressmen and senators explicitly voted to prevent the FCC from making things like this illegal.
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by mcrady 8y ago
Mobile carriers are selling your real time location to anyone willing to pay. The number of nefarious uses for real time location is immense And meanwhile, the press is worked up about cambridge analytica accessing your facebook friend net
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by mcrady 9y ago
:) Yeah, I'm a super lurker.
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by mcrady 9y ago
And here's info about Yahoo Go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Go
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by mcrady 9y ago
We launched on j2me flip phones and soon added support for blackberry. The displays were small and most phones didn't have GPS.
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by mcrady 9y ago
Android was acquired in 2005. Larry was the driving force behind the acquisition, IIRC.
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by mcrady 9y ago
I launched Google Maps for mobile in 2005. In 2006, Eric Schmidt was worried that Yahoo Go was a killer app. My claim that Google Maps was the real killer app fell on deaf ears. :)
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by mcrady 14y ago
Except there's no "shared limited resource" in this case. Just an overvalued social network.
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by mcrady 15y ago
I'm highly skeptical of this iteration idea. I've been through this two times and it's taken me two years each time to fully prove out the idea. Any examples of good businesses that have been proven out in a short period of time?
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by mcrady 15y ago
Agreed. Just look at Microsoft after Gates. Or Intel after Grove. In both cases, they turned things over to operational, #2 types in Balmer and Barrett and in both cases, the companies stagnated.