sah2ed

82 ms·

691.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Interesting. It appears you guys had seen the writing on the wall and had adapted your business model accordingly. Thanks for your insider's take but who was the originator of the old business model? The Deck or Carbon?
692.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Yes, but even they can't keep up with the projected demand for batteries which is why Tesla is building out its own factory [1] in partnership with Panasonic [2] to manufacture batteries. [1] https://www.tesla.com/gigaf
693.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Thanks for adding your perspective to the discussion though I'd argue that your experience might not have been representative of the larger population.
694.
by sah2ed 10y ago
A battery/renewable energy company.
695.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Nice work! Definitely bookmarking.
696.
by sah2ed 10y ago
It might not be obvious, but there are actual people whose lives are impacted negatively by creeps who will go to any length to get their fix. Your comment would have been fine without the "I'm okay with creepy" part.
697.
by sah2ed 10y ago
A googler already summarized their strategy succinctly up-thread [1] as: Google is a feudally organized collection of fiefdoms and this shows in their product strategy. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13951918
698.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Mind me asking what ad blocker you use on iOS?
699.
by sah2ed 10y ago
There is already an ncurses library for JavaScript [1] so one for WebKit shouldn't be far off ;) [1] https://github.com/chjj/blessed
700.
by sah2ed 10y ago
I agree that mimetic pressures drive consumption but I was trying to dwell on the bit about black women becoming less proud of natural hairdo to make the market for hair attachments massive like it is today. I don't think Michelle Obam
701.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Honest question: if Microsoft didn't bundle IE and the user hadn't received a copy of those ubiquitous AOL CD-ROMs which came in the mail/magazines (and sometimes carried the Netscape Navigator installer), how is the user exp
702.
by sah2ed 10y ago
> There are some interesting cultural questions about how in North American society, natural black hair is deemed unacceptable, and this has generally been internalized by black women. If you choose to just be natural (as my friend did)
703.
by sah2ed 10y ago
How will the MOOC tie into your investment decisions now that the fellowship is no longer available?
704.
Secret Service laptop with details on Clinton email probe stolen(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by sah2ed 10y ago|0 comments
705.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Very interesting names indeed. Some notable ones: - Tim Berners-Lee - C. A. R. Hoare
706.
by sah2ed 10y ago
I bet you've just given some folks a SaaS idea that might be worth tackling with full-on automation.
707.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Glad you were able to recover from you "well, actually" habit as Miguel de Icaza termed it :) http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
708.
by sah2ed 10y ago
I wouldn't say they had no clue about email. The NYT did in fact publish an article about email in 1990 [0]. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/us/some-computer-conversat...
709.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Uber recently released a tool on urban mobility [0] so how does this relate to your work? [0] https://movement.uber.com/cities
710.
by sah2ed 10y ago
"[T]he universe is just too darn interesting for us to be able to plan enough to prevent it from being interesting." -- Beat That's a great line. How should I attribute it?
711.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Do you by chance keep a public log of your postmortem collection :)?
712.
by sah2ed 10y ago
... plus with a population of ~1.25 billion people, it's an incredibly large market to overlook.
713.
by sah2ed 10y ago
How can you be so sure it was Uber? Susan's tweet was intentionally vague [0]. You are forgetting that some past and present employees that could be directly implicated by Susan's evidence may also choose the smear campaign route
714.
Nokia Ozo(ozo.nokia.com)
1 points by sah2ed 10y ago|0 comments
715.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Why do you say this? (FWIW, I find many of lordnacho's HN contributions to be decent and in many cases insightful).
716.
by sah2ed 10y ago
The scope of this is unreal on so many levels. 20 hours since this post and these entries are still up ...
717.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Not the parent but I posted a plausible explanation to your question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731656
718.
by sah2ed 10y ago
Usually only the big tech companies and well-funded startups can afford to use device fingerprinting in addition with auth tokens. This essentially involves keeping track of the last time you logged in, your IP address, your device characte
719.
by sah2ed 10y ago
In practice, when it comes to outside investments, I don't think the artificial separation between Google Ventures (GV), Google Capital (Capital G) and Google Corporate matters that much. FWIW, David Drummond, longtime Chief Legal Offi
720.
by sah2ed 10y ago
For the record, I absolutely do not condone what she did. What she did was very dishonest and she has paid the price. Merely pointing out what has already been said elsewhere in the thread that the internet, as a medium of communication, ca

More ›