yggydrasily

25 ms·

1.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Google wouldn't do anything interesting like that if they bought Pandora. The first thing they would do would be to require a Google+ account to use it, which everyone would hate. Then they would keep changing the UI and the name over
2.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
The problem is that Steve Jobs isn't around any more to give the company the proper focus and hold everyone to a high quality standard. The recent slippage in quality and focus mirrors what happened in the late 80s and early 90s after
3.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
I draw the opposite conclusion, as all of your examples are from several years ago. Three of your four links are more than 1600 days old! Ever since AirBnB became the most valuable company in YC's portfolio, there has been a remarkable
4.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Yes, things have dramatically improved, but there are still taboo subjects on HN. For example, try saying any of the same things about YC's own AirBnB and see how that goes over. In fact, this very article had an early comment[1] compa
5.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
I wonder how much of their most recent round of funding went towards this.
6.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Tim Cook doesn't seem to care about anything other than the supply chain. He came from being a COO, so that's all he knows. Consider how many different models of iPad there are.[1] It's like he's bragging. "Look how
7.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
This is the best explanation I've ever seen. Just lots of focus, attention to detail, and iteration until they got it right: http://inventor-labs.com/blog/2011/10/12/what-its-really-lik...
8.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
The cracks in the facade of phony, good-for-bragging-rights-only "valuations" are really starting to show now. Hold on, this is going to be quite a ride!
9.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
The only reason humans have had nothing to fear from machines so far is because of their brains. What happens when those are no longer a differentiator?
10.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
But if we just keep interest rates low / near-zero forever , then we can keep inflating the debt bubble forever too! Problem solved!
11.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Biotech included: http://www.businessinsider.com/venrock-partner-bryan-roberts...
12.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Even though I really appreciate the idea behind it, I was never all that comfortable running f.lux on my Macbook. I never understood why it was free yet closed-source. It made me suspicious in a way, if that makes sense. After a while I jus
13.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
The "something else" is money laundering (i.e., all-cash purchases with zero oversight). Thankfully, the US government is finally starting to crack down on this stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14&#x
14.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Zuckerberg is the new Bill Gates. In the 90s, Gates was notorious in his ruthlessness to define personal computing as a 100% Microsoft-only experience. Today, as you pointed out, Zuckerberg is pushing equally hard at defining the internet a
15.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
"What if text was actually text?" Imagine if you traveled back in time to the 90s and showed this to someone and said this was coming from the CEO of two multi-billion dollar 21st century companies.
16.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
If I had a self-driving car and some time on my hands, I'd get rid of my home and be in that thing practically 24/7, seeing the land and enjoying having it drive me around. No way I would rent in that situation. I'd definitel
17.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Or people could still own self-driving cars and rent them out AirBnB-style when they aren't home. In the suburban sprawl where the majority of the USA lives, we already have a nicely distributed network of storage (homes with attached
18.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
> Mom, dad, and kid all need to go to work/school at roughly the same time. That's okay, once automation really gets going, Mom & Dad will be out of work, solving that problem.
19.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
The article only gives three examples of APIs that are "missing" on iOS, and one of them is the vibration API. Since when is the vibration API a "good example" of something necessary to "give the full app experience
20.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
> Doesn't sound like they'll have the extra people. When automation wipes out 99.99% of jobs, nearly all people will be "extra" people. Globally.
21.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
> That homelessness persists in Silicon Valley has puzzled me. The reason is (as the paragraphs just below this line indicate) in fact the same reason for a great deal of issues in the Bay Area: lack of regional planning. Planning in the
22.
Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets(businessinsider.com)
7 points by yggydrasily 11y ago|1 comments
23.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
Yahoo finance says the market cap is only $340M, but all the articles leading up to today said their valuation was going to be $2.5-3B. Did they really only IPO less than 20% of the total company and keep the rest private?
24.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
So lemme get this straight: it's okay for someone to post this advertisement-disguised-as-an-article about a YC-backed company's product that doesn't even do what it claims to do (the "article" reveals at the end th
25.
by yggydrasily 11y ago
The report doesn't really say how this happens or what it means exactly. Does this result from say, people's fingers getting cut by the processing machines and little bits of flesh going in, or is it human waste ending up in the m