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by salimmadjd 7y ago
In our context, we used to talk about all the new tech innovations, languages, frameworks or new products. I always want to build a better "mousetrap", I'm an engineer/product guy first, and he was a hustler first. If my
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This post makes me sad. I was friends with Carlos Icaza, one of the co-founders. Carlos was a diabetic who died too young. Every time I walk by the Stacks in Burlingame I think of him. We used to have breakfasts there every week or two incl
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
This is sad and tragic. I remember going with a friend on a Tesla test drive. He was eager to try the Autopilot system. And within a few minutes we got freaked out with what seem to us as unpredictable action and we turned it off. I think t
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
1 - keep in mind investors (good ones) typically invest on people, market and then idea. 2 - if you're not known with a track record, you need a warm reference. A VC once told me, if a founder is not able to hustle his way into gettin
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
Even the "newspaper of record", the NY Times has lost its journalistic process. This is just one recent example that comes to mind. See why Harvard Professor is suing the NYT [1] for completely twisting his post about MIT and Jeff
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
I was an early enthusiast of Elm. Sadly, Elm was never able to build a true core development team outside of Evan. Or at lest it didn’t do it fast enough. Evan is a smart programmer but not a strategic organizer or a communicator. As a resu
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
Jay Jamison (when he was a VC) gave me a great advice once. "Companies are bought not sold"
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
How come there are no information on your site about the founders, team, investors, etc. It’s hard to take you seriously as the arbitrators of transparency when there is no disclosure about your own company.
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
Actually getting fired by the VCs might have been a blessing for him. He can liquidate his holdings without worrying much about misleading the market and a potential law suit from shareholders if he was still the CEO or a director.
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Interesting historical background (not taking sides here). Russia sold Alaska to America to pay for the debt accrued from the Crimean War.[0] It was Nikita Khrushchev who decided to hand over Crimea as territory of Ukraine.[1] [0] https:&#x
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
My feeling is that Fitbit really wanted to sell, especially before the holiday seasons and risk showing unfavorable numbers.
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I’m guessing that’s what you mean by “PR piece” ? About the Author Bryce Salmi is the lead avionics hardware engineer for the Los Angeles aerospace startup Relativity Space.
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The mainstream media has lost control of the narrative because of places like FB. Everything that covers politics is a form of political ad and EVERYONE has an agenda. So how will you control that? What NYT, WaPo others offered was a brand
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
Slightly better worded article: Amazon Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court on Pay Claims by Workers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/amazon-re...
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
One of my favorite movies of all time. So much so that I own it in Blu-ray and when I visited Vienna I took a ride on the famous ferris wheel. The night images are amazing and they spent so much time spraying the streets every night with wa
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
MKBHD at 5:32 talks about this after the event [1]. He talks about directional airdrop sharing features that the U1 allows. [1] https://youtu.be/UVpJouUyLBM?t=332
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
The original BBC mini-series is a must watch. For me is the best of all of his material turned to a motion picture. Followed by the “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold”.
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>"You know how a workout 'hurts so good" This is what I exactly tell people. It's the only way to sustain it.
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by salimmadjd 7y ago
my cynical side says there is more to this. I think FB is a major threat to the distribution of news that is mostly owned and controlled by the mainstream media owners. I think this is all part of forcing FB to come to the negotiation table
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by salimmadjd 8y ago
I've been following how Buttigieg's rise has been manufactured by 1-2 insiders. Mainly David Axelrod. He did a SXSW town hall. I watched Tulsi Gabbard (disclosure, I volunteer for her a bit) first and then tried to watch Mayor Pet
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by salimmadjd 8y ago
This is very cool. But, there are two ways to make your trips shorter: 1 - make them feel shorter by providing some luxury, comfort, ability to sleep watching movies, or remaining predictive, etc. 2 - go faster and reduce the travel time. T
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by salimmadjd 8y ago
The evidence that points to Iran comes from a company named, Resecurity. But there are some odd stuff about this company. 1 - their CEO has no real linkedIn history [1] 2 - they revenue and employment went off the chart just in 2 quarters [
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by salimmadjd 8y ago
I love so many things about this, yet at the same time I don't get the positioning of this product. 1 - Is this is a product for consumers who buy $300-500K super sports cars? 2 - Is this targeted to the consumers who buy private plane
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A side note - I work with developers in Belarus which borders Ukraine and the Chernobyl to the north. In that process I’ve met many young people who grew up in neighboring villages and small towns who call themselves Chernobyl-baby. Nothing
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by salimmadjd 8y ago
Slightly OT: IMHO, I think Samsung made a huge mistake announcing the Fold along with their other products. 1 - This is a new product category and I think it deserves its own stage. 2 - Fold is overshadowing everything else Samsung announce
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Last month we made a decision to buy our own router and not rent from Comcast (Xfinity). Then I started doing the math, and soon realized at the end of the day it might be that much better. 1 - It's unclear which is the best modem&#x2
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Geoff Goldberg (@geoffgolberg) [1] who is very vocal about this on twitter and has done bunch of analysis about foreign bots, got his account suspended by foreign trolls flagging him. Presidential Candidate, Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) ac
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Trump got about $5 billion in free advertising [0] That seems like far more impact than $50k from some memes. It’s clear the media is picking Kamala Harris as their choice [1] And already positioning her as the best candidate to beat Trump
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by salimmadjd 8y ago
Congrats on continuous progress of the team. But I have a question. I took an online Erlang class and I actually ended up really liking the Erlang syntax once I got used to it. To me now, Erlang is now far more readable than Elixir. I under
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OT - two weeks ago I was snowshoeing in the Assiniboine park (border of Alberta and BC) for photography and saw their fresh tracks. At first I thought it might be a wolf. Their front paws were as big a my hand - Photo: https://tw

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