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by meterplech 14y ago
I think this is proves Apple is going to continue holding design and user experience above all else even with Steve Jobs no longer at the helm. In reality you operate under a very fixed amount of constraints, and easier upgradeability would
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by meterplech 14y ago
I think these posts are something like productivity porn for life hackers or 4 hour work week people. I definitely agree that 4 truly productive focused days of works beats 5 lackluster uncreative and unfocused days and I applaud creative w
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by meterplech 15y ago
While that's a good point and a great advantage of YC, did you only try one other investor? I have met with four VCs/early stage investors in NYC just by responding to blog posts or e-mailing in to contact me posts. I have obviously e-maile
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Youth as an Advantage (in B2B)(jkatzur.tumblr.com)
1 points by meterplech 15y ago|0 comments
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by meterplech 15y ago
I wasn't knocking you at all- sorry if it seemed that way! I was merely saying it's unfortunate that the discussion is going to focus too much on what made you think of this post (this particularly hot-button issue around women in tech), in
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by meterplech 15y ago
The first thing I thought when reading this article is that it's a shame the author chose this topic as his way of framing the post. If you remove the focus completely from the potentially flame-war issue this is based on there is some grea
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by meterplech 15y ago
I think this is a terrible headline that masks an interesting philosophical debate. Especially at this community, we feel we intuitively understand that we get the convenience and social value from Facebook for $0, and we pay in our persona
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by meterplech 15y ago
I am honestly not sure, because the author is using some serious fuzzy math, but I don't think that's what the article is saying. 100 dud 25k investments means a loss of $2.5 million. I think it is saying that if one company you invest in s
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by meterplech 15y ago
I was basing my comment on this earlier comment from HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3245520
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by meterplech 15y ago
Not to personally attack at all. Honestly. But, JF- your profile says you are a developer evangelist for Microsoft. Which is one of the biggest supporters of SOPA. Do you think it's a little unfair to provide an opportunity to pressure YC c
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by meterplech 15y ago
Or they pulled in 18 million over the past year but their monthly revenue is now higher, and thus on a growth trajectory to pull in much more than 18 million next year. This also doesn't include advertising revenue to their 20 million user
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by meterplech 15y ago
This topic reaches the frontpage on HN at least once a week. Can we avoid rehashing the same arguments? Maybe just vote these up when something original comes up.
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by meterplech 15y ago
Not to sound naive here- but why does Microsoft support this if all the others don't?
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by meterplech 15y ago
>> "It should not be that hard to take income (or labor income) and regress against educational level and get a pretty good sense of how much inequality is related to educational achievement, and how returns to education have change
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by meterplech 15y ago
The HN reaction should involve posts like Amex's 0day. Look- I enjoyed reading this too. But you come to HN instead of Reddit for a reason
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by meterplech 15y ago
I think a unified queue hurts the loyalty for instant queue people. Whenever I am on instant queue and I search for a movie and see that it's not available for instant I am annoyed. You could argue that it would help convert me to DVDs- but
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by meterplech 15y ago
I'm not highly educated about this. But, it seems like they are assigning a lot of deep motives to people. Maybe he just didn't want to work for a big company any longer. He is obvious very entrepreneurial and vested in the startup communit
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by meterplech 15y ago
Can people stop talking about the effect of the stock? I get it- many of us own AAPL. This is one of the greatest entrepreneurs and CEOs ever stepping down. Let's focus on that.
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Mint.com Pre-Launch Pitch Deck(slideshare.net)
1 points by meterplech 15y ago|0 comments
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by meterplech 15y ago
I'm impressed with the list actually. It's hard to create something like this- in order to be interesting you have to pick people others would consider relevant. There are only two picks that are obviously wrong: Reed Hastings and Mark Zuck
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by meterplech 15y ago
Maybe that's what they are going to use the intended 340 new hires to build. I think that a much higher priced enterprise version that included client-side encryption & much more storage than currently available could be a game-changer
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by meterplech 15y ago
Full text of the page in case it's down: Just over a month ago we launched our new app Discovr Apps to help you find apps for your iPhone and iPad. Everything has gone really well and we’re very excited to announce some of our most recent s
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by meterplech 15y ago
I kind've hate when people say this type of thing. It reminds of high-schoolers getting annoyed when another student was disappointed with getting a B. People have different standards of success. It's true- not a ton of people will have thi
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Will Americans be Able to Adapt to the Self-driving Car?(slate.com)
1 points by meterplech 15y ago|0 comments
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Apple Patent Would Stop iPhone Concert Recordings(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by meterplech 15y ago|0 comments
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by meterplech 15y ago
Just when I (and everyone else) was saying how horrible this is, I was shocked to find out the Google did something very similar to a Director of Operations named Brian Reid. They fired him 9 days before the IPO- leaving him with 119,000 un
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Another Example of Why Competition is Good(jkatzur.tumblr.com)
1 points by meterplech 15y ago|0 comments
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by meterplech 15y ago
As PG suggests: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672454.. . the best thing you can do is work for a company where you trust the management team and the VC's that back them. An early stage investor would almost never do such a thing bec
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by meterplech 15y ago
IANAL: But, I bet Zynga ends up trying to buy them when the lawsuit settles. The huge IP threat certainly devalues the company. And regardless of their copycatting they have a big presence in a massive market that Zynga doesn't have.
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by meterplech 15y ago
I think you might be getting too specific, but I'm sad you got downvoted. I think it would be very useful to have 2 tracks of a degrees- a "computer science" more academic and algorithmic training and a "software development" with industry

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