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Sonalight (YC W12) Lets You Text While Driving Without Touching A Phone(techcrunch.com)
84 points by sskates 15y ago|52 comments
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by sskates 15y ago
A lot of fun and well polished.
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by sskates 15y ago
I think people in this thread are reading too much into his list of requirements. He's telling you some of the details you can get right that will help him to decide to invest in you, and you're taking them literally. I don't use twitter, b
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by sskates 15y ago
WakeMate had a disastrous launch where some of their USB chargers lit on fire. I think Gabriel doesn't want to deal with/feel he can help startups with these sort of problems that only come up when you're making a physical product.
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Google’s Broken App Search(techcrunch.com)
5 points by sskates 15y ago|0 comments
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by sskates 15y ago
Wow, that's almost exactly like the deal IBM gave to Microsoft.
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by sskates 15y ago
You can laugh, but Android Market search is horrible.
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by sskates 15y ago
I think you don't fully remember how different 2000 is from today.
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by sskates 15y ago
"The Oscars make clear that there is only so much room at the top." I hate when people make this fallacy. It may be true to some extent for entertainment but there doesn't seem to be any limit to the number of businesses that can be created
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by sskates 15y ago
"Desktop PCs will always outperform portable devices" That doesn't mean portable devices won't replace them. Laptops began to replace desktops a few years ago, the same way PCs replaced mainframes.
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by sskates 15y ago
I think the author's is people make mistakes way too much more on the other end of the spectrum where they read news while deceiving themselves into thinking it's a productive activity. I know I'm guilty. It might be worth it to push the bo
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by sskates 15y ago
Wow, the list of issues really highlights how much polish had to go into the product to get rid of edge cases. They care about stuff like: "The Galaxy Nexus takes a lot of time to connect on OS X because it likes to pretend that every image
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by sskates 15y ago
This might be a shocker, but my personal machines run Windows. Anyone familiar with a simple automated full disk backup tool for Windows?
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by sskates 15y ago
Most users don't have an automated process that regularly performs full backups of their hard drive, so reinstalling the OS is painful. Hopefully software will solve this problem permanently for us in the near future. Until then it will be
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by sskates 15y ago
Wow, it's great to see a bunch of very candid assessments of failure. You don't get a glimpse of failure very often often, especially for really early stage stuff, so it's hard to learn from the mistakes other people make. Appreciate the au
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by sskates 15y ago
You might be shocked to hear this but the vast majority of businesses in the real world have such huge process issues that you'd diagnose most of the economy as full of "very sick companies that need life support".
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by sskates 15y ago
You only see crash reports in the publisher console if the user reports the crash. In practice, users will send a report only a small fraction of the time, so that's where software that automatically does it all the time becomes very useful
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by sskates 15y ago
This is a fantastic idea. I regularly get contacted by a recruiter from Google. Citing it as a reason you wouldn't feel comfortable working there is definitely a way to impact their thinking the next time they have to make a decision that n
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by sskates 15y ago
A lot of companies are just sitting on the cash (most likely in a bank account). Interest rates are very low right now, so there's not much incentive to lend the money out.
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by sskates 15y ago
Trying to make a competitive AI for Battlecode is uncannily similar to trying to create a successful startup (and much, much less intimidating.) Aaron deserves a lot of credit for starting it (the other founder is David Greenspan, who also
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by sskates 15y ago
I think not being able to guarantee that there always 7200 seconds between 11:00pm and 1:00am the next day could be a worse problem than having the sun rise at noon in a few thousand years.
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by sskates 15y ago
I think your expectations aren't properly calibrated, Dropbox's track record is stellar relative to the rest of the industry.
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by sskates 15y ago
Isn't that what business acumen is? The ability to make good business decisions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_acumen
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by sskates 15y ago
If you've ever run a company or any sort of organization, you'll realize that walking around blind is the default. It takes effort to get information on what's going on. Because you can't wait forever for perfect information, you end up tak
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by sskates 15y ago
Have you made money as a result of code you've written? If so, you're a professional programmer. I wouldn't worry about whether you conform to a checklist an arrogant troll (I don't use these words lightly, but check his comment history) wr
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by sskates 15y ago
It's not as if creating a webapp is a more certain path to success. I'm certain that the bottom 80% of webapps split less than 1% of the revenue. Is there any platform out there where you're guaranteed to make money just by showing up?
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by sskates 15y ago
They get a 30% cut of any app purchase. They don't get any cut from 3rd party advertisers though.
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by sskates 15y ago
This isn't quite the feedback loop that the AI singularity folks talk about, but the Internet is one heck of a positive feedback loop, much much tighter than technological progress feedback loop before it. Makes me excited for where we'll b
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by sskates 15y ago
Not disagreeing/agreeing, but do you have any evidence to back up the claim "for every "understand the mind of god" faith-driven scientist there are at least one thousand screaming, irrational, dangerously unbalanced regressives"?
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by sskates 15y ago
Every country that issues government bonds has some amount of debt. For some countries (most notably Russia) the total debt issued is a tiny fraction of their GDP. edit: The surplus/deficit is the first derivative of the debt. Whether a cou

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