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"It's so early in the lifecycle that we're better off emphasizing innovation." Early in the lifecycle, when there is a lot of R&D overhead and risk, is where companies actually have incentive to collaborate. It'
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The tech industry is full of stories of meritocratic success, sophisticated technology and abundance of wealth. For the average person working at, or with, one of the big tech companies is going to sound like a good idea. Maybe not the oppo
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WhatsApp is pretty big, but I doubt Google is even now second before Facebook, WeChat or QQ. Unless you include e-mail, but that isn't being encrypted as I understand.
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That's a pretty meaningless statement. Just because you can explain something with the concepts in covered in econ 101 doesn't mean that you understand it after econ 101. Few people who understand even basic economics are surprise
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If you care about crypto you should probably care what happens to the most appealing device out there and if you care about open source you should probably care what happens to companies that makes open sourcing part of their business.
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Some buildings have integrated lockers. In some countries you can order things to your nearest convenience store. It a fairly solved problem.
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It's a unique product in the sense that it has nice form factor and holds additional functionality for more main stream uses. I have a number of these devices, including the external card reader, the usb key card reader and the integra
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"People that spend considerable effort turning a good idea into hardware that sells tell me otherwise. ;)" The execution and the overall ecosystem of course matters. But the hardware design, how the chips are connected, isn't
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1. The hardware design per se isn't that valuable. It's quite easy to reverse engineer and is probably more like a reference design that anything. More likely NXP (?) don't want open designs and open software because it makes
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"They clearly changed stance to ensure users cannot play with the hardware" As per the statement (and earlier statements) you can't change the firmware unless you have a yubikey neo developer edition, which was only sold duri
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"Do some workers and employers prefer a lower salary for more vacation days? sure. Just agree on that as part of a contract. Don't force a one size fits all solution on everyone." That wasn't the question, but rather if
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"All other "protections" usually end up costing you someway or another." That's not really how you calculate compensation. You have to look at the salaries plus benefits. Usually people undervalue what the company c
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Yet, almost every week there's someone writing online "this happened to me what do I do?". I mainly use my union for unemployment insurance, salary statistics, contract negotiation and conflict resolution. It's more like
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It makes more sense if you think of tech companies as media companies instead of software companies. Facebook doesn't need hundreds of programmers as such, they need hundreds of people to manage their publishing platform which happens
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While it's obviously questionable from a technical perspective you can argue that Java, as a fairly good trade-off between abstraction and power, is faster (in terms of development iteration) than a lower level language and lighter tha
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What can I say, Facebooks new headquarters: https://www.instagram.com/p/05d5kiF_8X/ Tencents (wechat) new headquarters: http://www.kikiwangarch.com/tencent-hq/
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Europe has done pretty much everything the US wants, from spying on our citizens to foreign companies paying little to no tax. All you hear these days is how lame Europe is because we don't have a Facebook and how we should all move to
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Stockholm has produced a few successful startups, but it's not a competitor to SV. It's is a global competitor in telecom systems and games (though I guess many game companies are now owned by US companies). Spotify is basically t
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I paid attention at the time, but has since repressed most of it. While torching the platform made me bitter about the tech industry, it was also that very few people even cared. It even gave the iPhone a match [0]. The industrial design wa
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Nokia N9. The "more linuxy" Nokia Android competitor that was released late and dead on arrival (in terms of ecosystem), but was still years ahead of Android in many ways and fundamentally better in others. https://www.
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William Gibson usually talk about how when things are new they are called with a prefix, like "electro", "cyber", "i" or "wireless". Then when it becomes commonplace it usually just sounds silly. We u
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To succeed you often have to get in early, which means that barrier to entry will be low and competition will be extreme. Plenty of these things didn't fail because they idea failed, but because they got beaten by another company, or a
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Newsgrounds and Kongregate was "web casual games platforms" not "casual games companies" like King or Zynga. Notch (Minecraft) worked as a programmer at King between 2005 and 2009. The app store didn't exist until m
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"My point was that anyone entering into the dev/tech world would be wise to spend a year" Yes, but that was what she was looking for when she said "find one start-up I wanted to devote the next year or so to building&quo
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nsxwolf pointed out that WebTv was something I've never heard about [0]. I guess we didn't get web on the tv so much as tv on the web. I'm guessing the original purpose was to give more people access to the web and that as su
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Yeah, I think the weather trope is getting old. Winters are fairly mild in the Baltic region and most people would prefer below freezing over rainy and windy anyway. It's not even the winter as such that gets to you, but the darkness.
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Habbo, even though it has an enormous churn rate since it mostly attract teens, is still one of the most successful communities out there. It just that now these things are commonplace so it's not very exciting anymore. https:/&#
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More in the way that we assumed that "people like to communicate", so we built something that looked like the real world. But what people really want to do is share experiences and talk about that, which is why everything from spo
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As far as I remember the "virtual" hype of the 90s was more about the concept of virtual worlds, cyberspace and having experiences online. I think that part has become true in things like WoW and Minecraft. VR as a technology is s
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Yet, how many billions have MMOs made? The hype was right (well, hype often prevents good discussions), the implementation was wrong.

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