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by taylorwc 12y ago
Which is ironic because Apple's relatively small amount of employees enables their profitability, which in turn enables their market cap.
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by taylorwc 12y ago
For some people they are... and maybe in the future they can be both (hence Apple making a smart watch with gold). It will probably segment, but the average non-techie probably wants fashion over practical.
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by taylorwc 12y ago
I think that for any mass-market adoption (arguably not what the Pebble Time is aimed at), any smart watch will have to bridge that divide. Most people buy a watch as a fashion piece, not as a practical tool.
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by taylorwc 12y ago
I think there is a distinction between textbooks and literature. Reading the average novel on a Kindle or tablet is not hard or distracting... Reading a Statistics textbook is darn near impossible. This article spends a lot of time focusing
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by taylorwc 12y ago
Absolutely. A few years ago, someone gave me some great advice about marriage: doing the right thing is always simple but that doesn't mean it's easy. That applies to a lot of things. Simple, but not easy.
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Startup advice, briefly(blog.samaltman.com)
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Mongol – The Insanely Useful Meteor Development Package(mongol.meteor.com)
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by taylorwc 12y ago
Agreed. Seems like the lesser of two evils in this case. I applaud MSFT for realizing that the vast majority of their users will not have the impetus nor the requisite skill to remove this from their machine.
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Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless(wired.com)
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by taylorwc 12y ago
This is awesome. Any links to source or comments on what tools you used to make it?
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iMessage just got secure: Apple expands iCloud two-factor authentication(gigaom.com)
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Biomedical Results of Apollo Missions(history.nasa.gov)
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by taylorwc 12y ago
> it scares me that we are willing to judge and condemn people for so little. Me too! That's why I try my absolute best to exercise caution and be thoughtful about what I say in a public forum. I don't disagree that the reactio
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by taylorwc 12y ago
I agree with you that there was an overreaction. But that's a risk each of us runs when we publish something via a public medium. Any time I want to publish something, whether it's a private SMS, a tweet, a comment on HN, or somet
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by taylorwc 12y ago
I sure as hell have. Many times. And every time, no matter how much I hated it, I had to face the music and deal with the mess I had created, regardless of whether it was my original intent.
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by taylorwc 12y ago
Even if one were to give her the benefit of the doubt on whether or not her tweets express racist sentiment, there's still a stupendous lack of judgment on her part. She's saying things publicly, associated with her name. Anyone w
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by taylorwc 12y ago
I think they article would more aptly have been titled, "How One Thoughtless Public Expression of Justine Sacco's Lack of Judgment and Racism Had Consequences." Really hard to feel sympathy for her.
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Amazon’s Newest Tool Lets Anyone Host Giveaways Online(techcrunch.com)
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by taylorwc 12y ago
> Always think about bringing your capabilities in-house, if still outsourced -- EE, ME, firmware, ID, apps, frontend & backend dev. This. 1000x this. The temptation to outsource everything is huge in the beginning, but the margin
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by taylorwc 12y ago
That was exactly my question! Seems like some people would bristle at that moniker.
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by taylorwc 12y ago
Indeed. But crowdfunding has opened up a new channel for hardware startups: preorders. It makes developing a hardware product, which used to be very difficult and take a lot of up-front investment, much more accessible. It's still diff
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Apple is finally killing iPhoto – and this is the replacement(theverge.com)
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by taylorwc 12y ago
I'd guess that it's part of a diversified approach. Yes, they are capital intensive, but YC isn't the one who will be investing the hundreds of millions, and if one of these is successful, then I'd say it's likely t
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by taylorwc 12y ago
TIL that MSFT used R to develop algorithms for xbox online matchmaking. Awesome!
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by taylorwc 12y ago
>found a near-universal preference for print, especially for serious reading Is this really any surprise for "serious reading"? Reading a textbook, especially one with lots of graphs, charts, figures, etc., is miserable on an e
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by taylorwc 12y ago
Why would this be more true of npm than any other package manager for any scripting language?
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How Mobile Phone Data Reveals Food Consumption Patterns in Central Africa(technologyreview.com)
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Vulnerability announced: update your Git clients(github.com)
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Raising More Than $750K in Hardware Crowdfunding(techcrunch.com)
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The dawn of trustworthy computing(unenumerated.blogspot.com)
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