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by seiji 11y ago
Groupon was a deliberately calculated scam once it started getting huge investment though. Investors are always willing to burn the long term (the public) if they can pop the short term (themselves).
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by seiji 11y ago
Intractable character flaws. more derp available at http://themajestichusky.tumblr.com/archive
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by seiji 11y ago
How often is that considered, outside of mobile platforms? Never. Flash Player should be a crime against humanity based on its energy usage alone.
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by seiji 11y ago
capitalism is capital -ism which is predicated on literally: the more capital you have, the more revenue you get in return (which lets you buy more capital, which lets you sell more things and receive more revenue). Except, these days, nob
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by seiji 11y ago
You don't always have a choice: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2216487046_b7ca640f56_o.... Plus, we live in cloud la la land these days. You have no idea how any of your machines/VMs are connected toget
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, guaranteed consistency requires coordination and if your coordination mechanism is over a network, then the speed of your writes will be multiple factors of your network latency. "network" doesn't necessarily have to
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by seiji 11y ago
For systems within a single datacenter, redundant networking makes partitions almost impossible, derp, nope. No amount of redundant networking can avoid administrator mistakes or accidental "our redundancy all runs through the same
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by seiji 11y ago
Business 101 doesn't apply to Rapid Startup Knowledge 101. Rapid Startup Knowledge only involves things like LTV, CPM, MAU, DAU, DAU/MAU, and (monthly employee cost / corporate bank balance). After all, the entire YC thesis i
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by seiji 11y ago
This is why there's a dearth of reasonable funding these days. VCs, the bad ones (which most of them are), are flock-driven creatures. Nobody wants to step out of line, and that's a problem when something new, novel, or actually
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by seiji 11y ago
I believe it's called "money." As in, "I wish to exchange my fantasy internet points for money ."
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by seiji 11y ago
Not just some casual "car guys" — Eddy Cue is on the board of directors for Ferrari.
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by seiji 11y ago
Perhaps the latter will actually become reality. Let's not call out Apple as some evil locked down hardware platform company. How user serviceable or after-market modifiable is a Model S? Tesla cars get over-the-air software update
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by seiji 11y ago
Reminder: companies aren't just the CEO. As a project it's almost literally a moon shot, Not even close. Tesla exists. They built a new car infrastructure from nothing. Apple can steal their senior engineers all day long.
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by seiji 11y ago
they are by far the most skillful at AI. I'd submit they are the best at getting people to believe they are the best, but are they _actually_ the best? Assumes facts not in evidence.
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by seiji 11y ago
in terms of car manufacturers, I think there are a lot who do luxury better than Apple. What does that even mean? Are you from the future?
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by seiji 11y ago
I can't believe such a large company would cheat like that. Companies, at the time when "company" was still being defined, used to do anything to exploit people and kill the environment just so their owners got a return on
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, plug in OBD-II reader, get result back. Some emissions places also do the tube-up-tailpipe check, but the car could adjust exhaust output if it has an active OBD-II connection.
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by seiji 11y ago
Medical problems are difficult to class action because they are so distributed and so private. Earlier this year a doctor killed a family member of mine by telling her, across multiple visits in the same week, her swollen ankle was a sprain
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by seiji 11y ago
Solved "problem" with a petabyte of training data and 18,000 GPUs to train the model. :-\
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, Randy was a bit miscalculating the estimate there. Within a month of that comic, flickr made http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or...
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by seiji 11y ago
I want Jarvis. "We were promised Jarvis, but all we got were eight different closed-source, non-extensible, hosted voice recognition platforms." What are the leading voice recognition assistant thingies? Siri, Google Now (no hu
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by seiji 11y ago
A common response to these has been: "But you're using it wrong!!!!" If your product is so complex or so ill-specified that full time testers can't make it work correctly, it's probably difficult for your developer
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by seiji 11y ago
Replacing older and cautious and raising children with younger and ambitious and fabulous often yields amazing results.
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by seiji 11y ago
YC is no longer a quaint little outsider experiment. They are now The Man, The Establishment, The Gatekeepers. What will rise up and be the new YC for unconnected 18 year olds? YC probably wouldn't even talk to Steve and Alexis under
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by seiji 11y ago
Automatic bot traders caused Tesla stock to move when Tesla made an April Fool's post.
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by seiji 11y ago
It tends to be amazing how certain closed platforms magically get new features right after they get released in open source projects.
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by seiji 11y ago
software engineering negotiations aren't adversarial Put 4 angry software developer men with wildly different opinions on The True Way Forward in a room and see how long it takes for the yelling and physical altercations to start.
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by seiji 11y ago
It would be nice if we had actual software engineering negotiations instead of endless fighting over tiny architecture details. But, the first rule of software engineer negotiations is — don't work with cowboy programmers who refuse to
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by seiji 11y ago
They are both trying to cannibalize each other's target markets. I don't see zenefits (with their project nutgrab or whatever it was) catching up to gutso.
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by seiji 11y ago
The vague mission statement of " empowering companies to put people first " that could mean literally anything from genocide to running a grocery store.

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