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by rdouble 13y ago
Part of what they offer is the appearance at your destination of having been delivered by a private driver. Uber X and Uber Taxi are just Priuses and regular taxis.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Yeah that's true, too.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Apple makes videos of the sessions available through iTunes to registered developers after the conference. The main reasons to go to the conference are to network and be a part of the spectacle.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I used to spend about 2 hours per day on food. Typically I would cook eggs for breakfast, eat out for lunch, and cook a quesadilla, pasta, or a burger for dinner It seems strange that it would take him 2 hours to cook a combination of egg
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by rdouble 13y ago
Make it more like the Parse documentation.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Did Loren Brichter confirm he was moving to Facebook or is he just "helping out?"
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by rdouble 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609898 Parse is hands down the best of the bunch, though.
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by rdouble 13y ago
That is a good point which is quite apparent today. :)
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by rdouble 13y ago
You mainly just need to be a good C++ programmer to get a job. To get a job where you aren't just a C++ programming resource you need the advanced degree, advanced math, previous experience, etc.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Back end services like these are a lot of work for limited financial reward, which is why they almost all eventually sell, if they can.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's still an afternoon's worth of headache. Parse is just the time it takes to set up the certs, profile and configure your app. Plus, doing it DIY means you have to maintain a system for sending the notifications, whereas Parse provides t
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by rdouble 13y ago
I guess I didn't realize this was about muscles. I was just replying to the guy asking if agriculture was done by hand. Maybe shouldn't follow threads via the /comments page. I end up not knowing what the context is.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Parse is even more attractive to the experienced developer. After 15 years of backend bullshit, I was pretty stoked to find something which could make almost all of that pain and suffering finally go away.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Plowing is not done by hand but picking is. Sugar beet field weeding used to be done by teams of migrant workers with handheld hoes. I think they've figured out how to not have the weeds in the first place with better pesticides. Most fruit
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by rdouble 13y ago
Are push notifications and identity so painful to deal with that there's a business in creating a full platform to deal with it? Yes. (at least on iOS, not sure about Android or Win) Parse has an iOS data object that syncs properly, where
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by rdouble 13y ago
It drains talent by offering smart people salaries that other industries can't afford This is repeated a lot, but the skills of financial wizards are orthogonal to what most tech companies need. It's also not the case that the tech indust
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by rdouble 13y ago
how many people go to WWDC as a hobby? how many are really price insensitive? A lot of indie developers go to WWDC. I would go so far as to say they are the mainstay audience for the conference. Raising the prices significantly would mean
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by rdouble 13y ago
I can't figure out if this is just an elaborate troll.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In American public schools, class ranking leads to public shaming of the students who are doing well...
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by rdouble 13y ago
The demand for skilled programmers is unevenly distributed. There's huge demand in the Bay Area and then a much smaller smattering of demand elsewhere. If you are a skilled dev who doesn't live in the Bay Area, it can very much feel like yo
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by rdouble 13y ago
ROTC is a plus at elite engineering schools like MIT, though.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Five years is more than enough to make $150K+ as an iPhone developer.
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by rdouble 13y ago
There's that payscale list of best ROI per college which mostly confirms this, but there are some colleges in the top 20 I wouldn't have thought of (Duke, Babson, Harvey Mudd). http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value
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by rdouble 13y ago
In Manhattan, doorman buildings are much taller than 5 stories.
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by rdouble 13y ago
http://hypem.com/
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by rdouble 13y ago
It seems like in 2010 it would have been easy to get funding for an e-commerce site because investors all wanted a zappos, rue-la-la, net-a-porter, gilt, etc in their portfolio.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I'd be interested in seeing some examples. E-commerce is brutal and it's rare that anyone makes money out of the gate.
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by rdouble 13y ago
can you really raise millions without any documentation at all? Yes, of course. Do you think Instagram had a "balance sheet" when they went to raise money? Replace Instagram with any other popular startup.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Chemistry is applied physics, after all.
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by rdouble 13y ago
This is what e-commerce balance sheets look like, though. Someone must not have told him that anything related to online (or offline) retail loses money for at least 3 years, making any money at all after 5 years is considered amazing, and

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