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This was the original 'Google Phone' presented in 2006 (2012)(theverge.com)
4 points by staunch 8y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 8y ago
This company was founded on the myth that the original Android OS was an important part of the history of smartphones. And that Andy Rubin was somehow an important innovator. His arrogant rant on the Essential homepage explains why they fai
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by staunch 8y ago
Graham Barr did the world a huge service by creating and running search.cpan.org. I used it for many years, across many projects. Thank you Graham! And it's nice that there exists a great replacement in metacpan.org
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by staunch 8y ago
Most often: Rage Against The Machine on a loop. It's been working for me since ~1999.
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by staunch 8y ago
1. The only thing that really comforts me deeply is the fact that we were here and we lived. I've had a really great life overall. I've gotten to enjoy a lot of what makes human life great. Much more than most people and that luck
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News from the Front (2007)(paulgraham.com)
1 points by staunch 8y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 8y ago
To answer "Which VPN?" you first need to answer "Why VPN?" because there are a lot of different reasons for using a VPN. If it's just privacy from snooping, you'll be fine with setting up your own VPS with Open
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by staunch 8y ago
This is good for small stuff but most people should just register their own domain name. It's so cheap now and such a benefit to have a publicly-accessible and publicly-reserved address. There's no need to make your DNS records pu
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by staunch 8y ago
These posts should come with a disclaimer: If you don't have a) significant traction or b) "elite" connections, then it's unreasonable to expect to raise a seed round in Silicon Valley at all. The author has Yale and YC
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by staunch 8y ago
It might be even worse than seeming like an asshole sometimes, it might actually make you anti-social the way being a VC or police officer does for most people. It could be that having thousands of negative interactions with people tends to
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by staunch 8y ago
1. Being lower-class in America means things like your parents are not well educated, they don't have any significant amount of savings, you attend public school, you aren't prepped for college, your parents can't pay for col
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by staunch 8y ago
Steve Jobs and John Carmack are very similar people in a lot of ways. They're both from lower-class backgrounds, incredibly smart, had serious personality problems as children that could have landed them in prison as adults. They'
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by staunch 8y ago
Yes, that's why Elon Musk stays on as CEO of Tesla but it becomes a subsidiary of Apple, Inc.
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by staunch 8y ago
That doesn't seem very different from Tesla's situation with manufacturing and retail stores.
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by staunch 8y ago
The key to Elon Musk making Tesla work well is figuring out how Apple works so well. I have no real idea how Apple manages to be effective and innovative with 100,000+ employees. I don't think Elon Musk really understands what they&#x2
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by staunch 8y ago
I think most citizens would support a blanket fine of $1 million for every CDC-verified victim. It would help the victims and possibly eliminate the problem.
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by staunch 8y ago
Your ad hominem attack is against the guidelines of Hacker News. I simply believe that founders, products, and teams determine success and that investor happiness is a lagging indicator. This is clearly what Elon Musk believes too. Wall Str
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by staunch 8y ago
Wall Street and their car industry friends want to kill Tesla. They use every opportunity. They probably pay "PR" firms to do anti-Tesla propaganda, judging from the shill YouTube comments I've seen. None of it matters if Tes
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by staunch 8y ago
I hope people and technology can fix her completely and this ends up just being a bump in the road of her life. She's already made the world better (yet again) by sharing this experience. We all need to be reminded of how precious life
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by staunch 9y ago
I love you Marcus. Sorry, I didn't write any other comments for you. It's not really what HN is for. But if you're reading this, I love you so much buddy! Be happy, healthy, and live!
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by staunch 9y ago
Only a group of politicians could make Zuckerberg look like the human one. These senators are a disgrace. Their questions and statements are ignorant, intellectual dishonest, and bullying. They're mostly shitty people. We do not need t
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by staunch 9y ago
> I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. This is probably just self-delusion of the emperor-has-no-clothes variety. A lot of investors think they're funny, s
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by staunch 9y ago
"Hitler followed a vegetarian diet. At social events he sometimes gave graphic accounts of the slaughter of animals in an effort to make his guests shun meat." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Heal
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by staunch 9y ago
Engineering is largely about making trade offs. Battery life is just one (very important) variable for smartphones. PWAs are generally going to be less efficient than native apps because they're just web apps running in Safari. This
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by staunch 9y ago
Someone that apparently works on Safari at Apple, posted some interesting comments about progressive web app features on Jan 24. https://twitter.com/rmondello/status/956256845311590400 "iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.
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by staunch 9y ago
There's no comparing proprietary products with open source projects. The Go project is a beautiful body of work and there's no call for comparing it to proprietary crapware.
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by staunch 9y ago
It's so damn exciting to see the world unfold as I had hoped. The hard part is that you have to wait for the pressure to build and society as a whole to catch up. Watching first-generation social internet services like Facebook, YouT
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by staunch 9y ago
You could choose to accept payment in the form of a life lesson. This jagoff just taught you that there are jagoffs like him in the world. Maybe this will save you from a much more damaging jagoff in the future. It might be nice to stop thi
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by staunch 9y ago
We just need better technology. We need to stop giving our information away and then hoping it is somehow protected. We need technology to empower us without sacrificing our privacy and freedom. Decentralization and encryption are probably
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by staunch 9y ago
Congratulations to dhouston for being a great example of a startup founder, and for creating a very successful company.

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