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by volaski 11y ago
I actually think Starbucks Americano is one of the best Americanos I've ever tried, and I've tried all kinds. I've lived in both SF and NY and been to many "famous" coffee shops like blue bottle, philz, etc. (in my
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by volaski 11y ago
Something similar to what you say now was said by people when Starbucks was just beginning. "The majority of Americans just drink Folgers and don't care about arabica coffee"
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by volaski 11y ago
You should read "innovator's dilemma"
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by volaski 11y ago
First thought those guns were automated drones flying around killing people
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by volaski 11y ago
It's bad (for firefox) because it's already too slow. I used to be a loyal firefox user but they have completely lost it. While I can keep tons of tabs open on chrome, on firefox when I try anything similar it just hangs a lot of
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by volaski 11y ago
Can't believe i have to google stuff to comment here. I don't know where you got that misinformation but here you go: http://www.quora.com/Did-Bill-Gates-really-work-16-hours-a-d...
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by volaski 11y ago
Who would you pick if you had following two candidates: 1. A rockstar developer who wants work-life balance 2. Not famous but passionate junior developer who has potential I would always pick 2 over 1. I know because I have made exactly tha
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by volaski 11y ago
I just want to say here, if you are a founder (or THE founder mentioned here) who works hard to the point where other people thinks you're crazy, you are NOT crazy and you are NOT wrong. I am not saying you should completely get rid of
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by volaski 11y ago
One of the biggest mistakes I made while working on a past startup was listening to an advice like this. What you say is totally valid if your company is a fortune 500 company, but the type of people who start companies shouldn't str
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by volaski 11y ago
You may not want to believe it but getting users is 90% of what it takes to succeed with dating apps. It's much more severe than any other types of services out there due to the nature of what it does. To succeed you should either have
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by volaski 11y ago
Tinder didn't go viral naturally, it was pure hustle
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by volaski 11y ago
What's up with that condescending "Engineers :)" remark, which has nothing to do with whether Jerry Yang returning to Yahoo made a difference in how Yahoo recovered from its demise.
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by volaski 11y ago
I don't think this guy actually read the book (or read but didn't read carefully enough) and based his post on what he read online, and a lot of people online are misinformed about the concept of "lean startup'. Most of
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by volaski 11y ago
That story only means that guy's execution failed. And that you didn't try and now rationalizing that your idea was bad just because someone else failed with that idea.
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by volaski 11y ago
agree that oculus rift doesn't feel real? I own a rift too, and I don't understand how someone can easily say it doesn't feel real if they actually tried it. Sure it brings nausea sometimes, and sure a lot of the graphics are
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by volaski 11y ago
A genuine question, how is it differentiated from Stubby? http://stub.by/
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by volaski 11y ago
Exactly like you said, Apple had Ping. Google had Google plus, Wave, Google Glass, and countless other projects that failed horribly. And you can't say these failures didn't affect them at all. These PR hits DO shave billions off
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by volaski 11y ago
Engadget was one of the blogs for Weblogs, which he founded
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by volaski 12y ago
"right people getting involved" IS execution
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by volaski 12y ago
Windows ecosystem had level playing field for each player. Appstore has rankings (which feeds into itself, which leads to developers having to pay people to download just to rank higher initially) and featured (subjective and non-transparen
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by volaski 12y ago
native ads
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by volaski 12y ago
Apple
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by volaski 12y ago
"Yahoo is willing to absorb that great business you're running -- so they can own your work and relationships and keep the eyeballs." ==> This doesn't sound like anyone getting "fooled".
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by volaski 12y ago
I don't believe cloud computing had anything to do with "just a bookstore" either and it turned out pretty well for them.
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by volaski 12y ago
I think it's not because who's better or worse, but because of how their interest is aligned with focusing on this problem than Apple.
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by volaski 12y ago
Why don't you back up your statement with data? Your argument (that most developers live in the USA) is the one that requires convincing. Maybe you slept through your social studies class but USA is just one part of the world and the
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by volaski 12y ago
How are these "failed"? Just looks like a nice set of demo purpose apps to me
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by volaski 12y ago
It's more that advertisers don't want their brand to be associated with negative emotion readers get while reading about tragedy.
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by volaski 12y ago
This is because startups are not supposed to be working on these "seemingly big" problems. If a problem looks big and looks like it potentially has a huge market, every other large company in the field would be already working on
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by volaski 12y ago
it's a math competition for god's sake. so math competitions are for celebrating "mathematicianship" rather than measuring how good you're at math?

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