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by napoleoncomplex 11y ago
This is fantastic. Addresses the completely broken aspects of doing research in academia, gives researchers access to top developers through the YC network, gives you a much better environment stress and pay-wise than if you're a resea
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by napoleoncomplex 11y ago
There's no need to make up dark motives on Marco's side, his blogpost on blocking The Deck ( http://www.marco.org/2015/09/17/why-peace-blocks-deck-ads ) pretty clearly showed where the cracks were. A
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by napoleoncomplex 11y ago
Agreed, they're sticking to their core strength, and I feel are executing their vision quite well. It's depressing to see snide comments about both the company and the amount of money they're making. Some people have a comple
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by napoleoncomplex 11y ago
The most exciting part is the following: "The close-up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet. The image easily
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
The Law of Jante is like institutionalized ego death, perhaps making Danes the first enlightened nation. Entertaining to consider, at the least.
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
Don't usually do this, but I'll explain the downvotes (I've never heard of this project). Your original comment felt needlessly aggressive and had nothing to do with discussing the project's merits. The follow-on comment
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
I'll get the default (and largely true) feedback out of the way: - Ideas are the easy part, and are not worth much - Trademarks/copyright/patents are a waste of your time Now for the positive part: - if you want funding, and
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
This is the same question that I had while using Pushbullet. If notifications appear on the laptop, then 2FA isn't really helping. Pushbullet allows you to "mute" SMS notifications, but that's one of the key features. Ho
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
Congrats on launching this! I've been looking into using SMS as a delivery mechanism for a while now, for different reasons. Access to, for example, medical information through SMS could be immensely helpful in the developing world. Tw
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
I was thinking of taxi legislation as the example (EU city example, can't speak for the US). Taxis in my city need to be registered and the drivers need to have a taxi license, the cars need to have prices clearly listed on their windo
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
I only meant that how we look at them changes with their size, and if they want to remain the "good guys" their tactics should change too. If Lyft had 5 times the funding, Uber recruiting their drivers would look like a bold move.
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
Uber has a culture of breaking the rules. As beneficial as that was and is in their growth, it's not surprising it mutates in less pleasant ways as they grow. The same actions that seemed benevolent before, will seem more and more male
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
It isn't, but the abundance of funding cash everywhere hasn't really translated into more insane (technically) ideas being funded lately, YC or elsewhere. At least that's been my impression, and it feels like YC is changing
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
Sorry for the confusion, I meant from the 3 biotechs I mentioned. There's plenty of X for Y among the others, you're right.
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
I loved it when they started including non-profits, and I'm loving that they're including biotech/medical now. They (Gingko/Glowing Plant/Bikanta) sound insane and very risky, which is exactly the ideas the best inc
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
Also hung the default (non-Chrome) Android browser.
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
A misunderstanding, I didn't mean Samsung originally, but Samsung in the past 2 years (S4 and S5 to be exact). Their dominance in the past 2 years, in my opinion, has a lot more to do with marketing than with making great products. I
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
My expectation and the expectation of my social circle was that Amazon is going to come out with some crazy pricing, subsidizing the phone with future purchases, and offering a 99$ phone, no contract. All of the tech is neat, but the reacti
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
Yes, let's worry about Silicon Valley's bottom line in all of this. Brave warriors, always on the ropes. It's always surprising when one discovers the Ellisons and the Andreessens of the world. Luckily their type is a rare ex
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
I'd love to talk to you about this, as I'm working in this field now, and would appreciate wisdom from someone who has been there. E-mail in my profile if you're up for it (I'd write to you, but no e-mail in your profile
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
It's surprising to see it so early, but they probably see the writing on the wall. Once Android Wear and Apple wearables start rolling out, it's going to be a slaughter out there. Apple and Nike teaming up for the iWatch launch is
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by napoleoncomplex 12y ago
I'm not familiar with A/B testing products or services, but based on the talk it seems that none integrate the proper setup of A/B testing described here by default. It's understandable from the point of view that since
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
Things are about to get really interesting for OkCupid. Reap what you sow.
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
I think it is due to multiple factors, but mainly the small, targeted scale of the audience, the usefulness of the product to that audience, and our first mover advantage. For example, with less than 50 €, the ad has already been seen by ar
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
Thanks for the tip! Were professions added recently? "Doctor of Medicine" wasn't on the list at the time we put up the ads a month ago. For workplace targetting, it looks like none of the hospitals in our current markets (Bal
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
Like others have said, it really depends on what you're selling and who you're targetting. Our example (country specific mobile app for doctors), spent 100 € on AdWords, end result was literally 0 app installs, 0 sign-ups, 0 every
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
Brilliant! So simple. I'm still quietly rooting for an E-Ink resurgence. Platforms like this and the E-Ink phones announced recently are great to see, something about E-Ink's simplicity is just so damn charming.
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
Great attitude, and from one Slovene founder to another, keep on rocking it :). Good luck to you guys over there!
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
OLED makes sense in terms of battery life, but since it's going to be showing a watch face for 95% of the time, burn-in might be too much of a problem. Looking forward to seeing how they solved this.
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by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
I might be wrong on this one, but as far as I remember, the originator of this type of game is "The Infamous Worm Game": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OjeFYNq05k Sadly, the original site that hosted it just has

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