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by saddino 14y ago
Every startup requires some level of the Jobsian RDF to exist around the founders and extend to the core team. The problem is that, for most startups, the RDF will be threatened by real-world events (nobody is using/buying/investing-in you
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by saddino 14y ago
I'm ok with them taking away a better hamstrung licensed product for a crappy one that will only get better simply because it probably had to happen at some point. Yes it's been obvious to Apple (and developers like myself since PR1), but t
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by saddino 14y ago
Out of curiosity (since nobody every mentions this), do successful entrepreneurs every apply (and get in?). Obviously someone with a previous exit already has a network of investors, co-founder(s), etc., but could the exposure via YC (and
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by saddino 14y ago
I remember playing with one at Bell Labs in 82 or 83. The mouse was gigantic but looked AWESOME (black orb with red buttons). Not sure if the commercial version had the same issue, but it was slow, especially when spawning a new layer. F
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by saddino 14y ago
We could save ourselves a lot of back-and-forth commenting by understanding that it doesn't matter whether this (or any) document on its own is damning or a smoking-gun. What matters is the totality of the evidence. That's what the Jury wil
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by saddino 14y ago
In 2003 I began to supplement my contractor income by writing OS X apps as a sole indie developer and eventually went full time. In the first six years I made enough to live on. In 2008, mostly out of curiosity, I wrote a free iOS app and
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by saddino 14y ago
Especially for pancreatic cancer.
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by saddino 14y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, there is no such thing as "clearly falling under fair use." Fair use is always arguable and it's up to a federal judge to make that finding.
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by saddino 14y ago
Conversation here on whether this would be a good acquisition for Google just got me thinking about Google's motivation behind Glass (a bit off-topic): 1) Google can (easily) make the argument that it needs to sample the image stream from e
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by saddino 14y ago
Such a nice project, but both the name and logo infringe on Atari trademarks. Why risk it?
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by saddino 14y ago
IMO truly great developers are not just developers. They are also software architects, UX and UI designers, network engineers, etc. "A" developers knock down learning curves and assimilate everything about software creation innately .
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by saddino 14y ago
The Scrabulous case alleged both trademark infringement (the obvious name ripoff) AND copyright infringement (the board and tile design).
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by saddino 14y ago
That's nice and all, but didn't stop Hasbro from taking down Scrabulous: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/scrabulou... And didn't stop the Tetris Company from taking down Mino: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/06/wire
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by saddino 14y ago
Hasbro is a little crazy about defending their copyrighted board and rules (including point values, board layout, letter distribution), etc., so if WordBase gets any serious traction expect to get a letter.
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by saddino 14y ago
Yes. If your business was acquired and you gave your investors a decent return, you won't (or shouldn't have to) bootstrap your next company, thus reducing your personal cost (and risk) the next time around.
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by saddino 14y ago
Risk and reward are relative to your personal status quo. If you are gainfully employed, then leaving to start your own company has real cost (the opportunity cost of your lost income + the cost of your lost savings) and clear risk (the ri
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by saddino 14y ago
While Apple as Jobs and Woz hocking Apple I kits was started on almost no budget is true, Apple as an actual company was started with a $250K loan from Mike Markkula. Hardly a small budget when you consider those were 1976 dollars. Steve
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by saddino 14y ago
There's another, very salient reason for selling your company. But only if you are a serial entreprenuer: An exit validates your ability to build to sell and may move you ahead of the pack when a potential angel or VC calculates your probab
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by saddino 14y ago
If you have no problem entrusting your software architecture and development to someone on oDesk, then yes, you will have no problem entrusting your design work to someone at 99designs.
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by saddino 14y ago
The best approach I've seen for expanding APIs in iOS is the one Apple tends to use: pass a single NSDictionary of keyed parameter values. The API parameter list never has to change, it's guaranteed to be backwards compatible and you can s
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by saddino 14y ago
"This seamless armor, is stunningly beautiful and perfectly smooth. It feels like cool liquid to the touch. It is also, incredibly strong. It's a fantastic fusion of design and function."
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by saddino 14y ago
I'm partial to Localytics, but that's because we pay for their Enterprise solution which insures a complete copy of your raw data stream on S3 and much better reporting (including custom funnels). We also run GA in parallel just for the rea
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by saddino 14y ago
I'd also recommend The End of Overeating (David Kessler) which posits that the obesity explosion is due to recent advances in food science re: foods engineered (precise ratios of fat, sugar and salt) to make you want to eat more ("condition
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by saddino 14y ago
In corporate culture, the CEO is, fairly or not, a proxy for the company, and thus, the individual held responsible for the success or failure of the corporate entity. No different from firing the manager or head coach of a sports team (wh
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by saddino 14y ago
Spot on. I think Color's pitch was to stealthily suck value out of Facebook by attacking what it perceived (and Instagram proved out) as its greatest weakness: a healthy amount of user engagement on FB is around photos. If one could create
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by saddino 14y ago
>>>59. What was "ubl"? ubl ("under bell labs") was a AT&T UNIX port of BSD rogue with some minor changes, most significantly the name of the executable. At the Labs, a short cut (bypassing going up to a floor with a walkway)
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by saddino 14y ago
If XCode ran on an iPad, then I'd be sold. As it is, it's the only reason I need to carry around my MacBook Air.
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by saddino 14y ago
I know MM personally, and although he's a bit quirky, he's not "evil" by a long shot (see grassroots.org).
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by saddino 15y ago
Concept video is a bit rough though http://bit.ly/J3YOnt
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by saddino 15y ago
Started out my career while in high school in 1985 as a C programmer hired in the Solid State group at Bell Labs. Best part of the experience was lunch surrounded by physicists who bantered about the world from a analytical perspective; po

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