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by mlinsey 7y ago
I remember all these services being far less reliable in the past. The irony of us talking about the bygone era of stability in the context of Twitter is particularly hilarious. I do think that internet services in general are much more m
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by mlinsey 7y ago
Mods like Dota or Legion TD are so different (from a gameplay/design perspective) from the base game, that it really makes sense to think of them as new games built using a very high level/accessible toolchain. You can have bazaar
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by mlinsey 7y ago
IMO the big example is WarCraft III mods. While they often did have an inner circle of maintainers for each one, the nature of making mods made it easy for any player to open up the mod, take pieces, make edits, post their own versions, etc
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by mlinsey 7y ago
I believe it's common for tech companies to consider all engineering / product payroll as R&D, even if we might consider some eng work as maintenance. In this case a lot of it is stock-base compensation being recognized post I
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by mlinsey 8y ago
Hailing cabs by phone (and later on, using the non-Uber hailing services that interact directly with cabs) never worked as well for me as Uber. Takes too long for them to get there, and the incentive for them to abandon your request and pic
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by mlinsey 8y ago
Eh, while I was pretty upset in the moment, I could get a ride eventually, and it wasn't enough to make me stop using Uber/Lyft, since in the specific scenario where this would always happen (late on Friday/Saturday nights af
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by mlinsey 8y ago
From what I've seen at other on-demand co's, the three most likely culprits are: 1- User acquisition costs (discounts, marketing, etc - for both sides of the platform). this gets more expensive in the face of competition, and th
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by mlinsey 8y ago
The USPS already offers a service that will scan and email the outside of your mail, so you at least can usually see who it is from.
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by mlinsey 8y ago
For end users, I agree. It’s also interesting to consider how content providers will be paid: per user who plays, per user-hour, a flat catalog fee, etc., and what downstream effects this will have on games.
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by mlinsey 8y ago
I wonder if it is actually the case that YC believes 150K is the necessary number to operate over the course of the program. As I recall, the chain of events was YC provided 16-20K, then Yuri Milner decided to index over all YC companies by
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by mlinsey 8y ago
None of the numbers in the article seem unrealistic to me. Keep in mind the big tech companies (FANG et al) are really a tier above in terms of pay, and also that the numbers given here include both RSUs and a projected performance bonus. I
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by mlinsey 8y ago
You're exactly right. Investment into STEM education would be a very slow, inefficient way for FANG et al to reduce worker pay compared to collusion (which they were busted for in 2014) or more aggressively focusing on hiring overseas
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by mlinsey 8y ago
It's really amazing. Only countries I've ever visited without Fi support were Iran and Ethiopia. Even in Iraq and Myanmar, Fi worked great. Your traffic also automatically goes through Fi's VPN, which unlike ExpressVPN and
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by mlinsey 8y ago
The most interesting speedrun I've ever seen is the Super Mario World credits warp, which requires the player to write + execute arbitrary code in game by carefully positioning koopa shells. At first thought to only be possible with to
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by mlinsey 8y ago
I assume they're referring to the existing game mode called Random Draft. The pool is usually 50 heroes instead of 18, but you'd run it the same way. Ordered picks like Captains Mode, except no bans.
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by mlinsey 8y ago
I watch Twitch because I grew up playing lots of video games and now watching is less of a time commitment then playing the games. Streamers aren't meant to be consumed by watching them every day for hours on end. I mean, I'm su
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by mlinsey 9y ago
I agree 100% with the direction of your conclusion - different companies can have different cultures / different processes and candidates (especially experienced ones with high market value) can just go with whatever style of company y
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by mlinsey 9y ago
I think that after the loss of a major population center, public sentiment from the rest of the world would be much more accepting of massive retaliation, especially if such retaliation was non-nuclear but still used very large scale conven
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by mlinsey 9y ago
"how existing gender and racial biases are being encoded in our algorithms" sounds like a great first problem to work on for those worried about super-intelligence, as it's basically a concrete instance of the value-alignment
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by mlinsey 10y ago
True for web software - but that's never been true for hardware. Hardware always starts expensive for early adopters and gets radically cheaper as adoption scales up. The cheapest Apple 2 was over $5,000 (in inflation-adjusted dollars
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by mlinsey 10y ago
Trump is uniquely dangerous and I would fully endorse YC cutting ties with prominent supporters/backers of his...if that would do anything concrete to reduce Trump's chances of winning the presidency, by even one epsilon. I don&#
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by mlinsey 10y ago
Can you explain how you think YC cutting off ties with Peter Thiel would decrease the likelihood (even infinitesimally) that Donald Trump becomes president? There are a number of tangible things an individual could do to help defeat Trump,
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by mlinsey 10y ago
the delta also includes YC companies that have not launched publicly or not publicly revealed they are part of YC.
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by mlinsey 10y ago
"their VC cronies stuffing self-serving valuations down everyone's throats" Whose throats? The other VC "cronies" who are buying shares at those prices?
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by mlinsey 10y ago
It's a variation of a famous John McCarthy quote: "“As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more.” http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/138907-john-mccarthy/ful... It's not meant to be a ser
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by mlinsey 11y ago
Interesting, didn't know they were using React. I thought they wrote their own framework. (Didn't they even have their own compiled-to-JS language at one point?) In any case, "Just because X, doesn't mean it's fast&
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by mlinsey 11y ago
I like Asana's product design a lot, my one complaint is that (at least as of when I most recently tried it a few months ago), it was so slow. I like for my personal todo list have very fine-grained breakdown of tasks and having each p
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by mlinsey 11y ago
"In fact for any ad that's beyond static text I am more likely to remember your brand and deliberately not buy your stuff in future." I believe you when you say you don't click on things, but if it were possible to someh
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JavaScript aficionado wanted for front-end role at Homejoy(grnh.se)
1 points by mlinsey 12y ago
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Homejoy is hiring an iOS developer(grnh.se)
1 points by mlinsey 12y ago

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