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Nextbit’s Robin Is Another Pretty Phone–But with Infinite Storage(wired.com)
47 points by slewis 11y ago|38 comments
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by slewis 11y ago
This is probably an underestimate for the product development phase. And if you want to sell to Best Buy you usually need to work with a distributor who has their own margin. Rule of thumb is 3-4x COGS to get to MSRP.
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by slewis 11y ago
Your first question is answered by beambot. The 10% argument is that Google felt it had to raise salaries by that much for everyone after collusion ended, in order to retain employees.
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by slewis 11y ago
The period in question is 4 years so multiply by 4 (although not all litigants were present during all 4 years so you can back it off a little). And 5k is too low. Google gave a 10% raise across the board around the time this information ca
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by slewis 12y ago
You can forward the work email to a regular gmail account (and set up the reply from feature so you can reply from yor work email address).
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by slewis 12y ago
Shawn from Beep here. We're super pumped to be integrating with these guys. As someone who wakes up almost every single night either overheating or freezing this product is near and dear to my heart and I personally can't wait to
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by slewis 12y ago
Not sure if it's true that mean people fail. But here's a theory as to why nice people succeed: niceness is correlated with a sense of empathy, empathy is the ability to understand people unlike one's self, the understanding
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Doblet (YC S14) Plans to Be Everywhere Your Phone Charger Isn't(techcrunch.com)
7 points by slewis 12y ago|2 comments
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LegalSifter: find out if your client sent you a fair contract(techcrunch.com)
4 points by slewis 12y ago|0 comments
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Inside The Beep Factory (YC S14)(techcrunch.com)
4 points by slewis 12y ago|0 comments
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A World Of Open Source Sex Toys, Built By Three Georgia Tech Students(fastcolabs.com)
5 points by slewis 12y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 12y ago
Check this out too: http://8devices.com/carambola-2 The hardware design isn't open-source, but all the software is, and it's available now for 19euro per module. It's built on Atheros' AR9331 chipset whi
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by slewis 12y ago
Does the government sell seized USD?
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by slewis 13y ago
I agree with your point that it might be worth paring back features to improve code quality. But there is no one true code to test ratio. If you're trying to become a better programmer be wary of dogma. As posted here the other day, ai
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by slewis 13y ago
Ha, what I remember most is you modifying presentations based on the psychology of the audience (investors). For example, for Pebble you said, "put this joke in there: 'I bet you guys really want to check your phones right now but
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by slewis 13y ago
Will you still review all the preview/demo day pitches? For those who haven't witnessed this: pg stands there for an entire day (maybe longer now), watching every pitch, slicing and dicing like a samurai. It's super rapid-fir
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by slewis 13y ago
Shawn, Beep CTO here. CrowdtiltOpen is currently hosting our e-commerce site. I can't say enough good things about you fine folks! The service rocks, the team is fantastic. And we get to keep all the incoming link juice (because it poi
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by slewis 13y ago
It's independent of the phone. So the phone just acts like a remote control
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by slewis 13y ago
Good question. We don't delay signals since the user may walk between rooms. Syncing is an interesting problem for sure. It's really a question of how precisely you can sync the clocks between devices. Our current method is fairly
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by slewis 13y ago
Hey there! Shawn from Beep. We listed iOS7 since we're shipping in fall, it's market share is already pretty high. But if it's not high enough then we'll support iOS6. We are also looking at supporting DLNA or some other
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by slewis 13y ago
It's not on the author to say something. There were a handful of other people there who could have spoken up. Please, everyone, if you witness this type of rude behavior, speak up. We are all, male, female, undecided, both etc. respons
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by slewis 13y ago
Do you have any proof that this hurts the business? They may have lost a sale to you but gained 10 others.
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by slewis 13y ago
Aren't you the author? I love how people missing the point actually reinforces the point. Well done.
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by slewis 13y ago
I'm curious. Why free? Portfolio juice?
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by slewis 13y ago
Sure, there is some really bad code out there. But even pretty good code looks really bad to a lot of developers, because of the "This is shit" mentality the article describes.
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by slewis 13y ago
Great points (upvoted). It probably also depends on what skills and experience you have in the team.
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by slewis 13y ago
Did you think I said the Android emulator is better than the iOS one? I wasn't trying to say that. Maybe I confused the use of "simulator" v. "emulator". Agreed, the Android emulator sucks and I don't use it. O
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by slewis 13y ago
My company has prototyped on both platforms, and I strongly prefer Android for this purpose. Test flight is significantly more inconvenient for all parties than sending around Android apks. So is Apple's provisioning process for develo
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The modern phenomenon of nonsense jobs(smh.com.au)
7 points by slewis 13y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 14y ago
Yup thanks! Just a pre-coffee brain fart.

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