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by zach 15y ago
The WWDC dates at least sound plausible. So... It wouldn't be a bad idea to book a hotel reservation for those dates if you're planning on going this year. They dry up fast once it's announced and you can always cancel later. http://www.
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by zach 15y ago
Direct link to the text of the S-1: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125120...
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by zach 15y ago
The simple answer is that a16z is showing the world how this is done, and so many investors have come knocking on their door that it'd be silly to say no. First off, they're clearly doing this right. They are more than just the new face of
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by zach 15y ago
The note at the end is priceless. I think there is something in operating under a fearful authority that spoils people in this way — that causes them to make excuses, obfuscate, counterattack, pass the buck or shut down when confronted by a
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by zach 15y ago
This is starting to happen all over. Tech startup accelerators in places like Vancouver are in danger of becoming a farm system, a "minor league" of tech entrepreneurialism. A team that attracts attention will impress the scouts (either acq
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by zach 15y ago
This is stupendous! I've done these kind of car searches many times and this is a huge improvement. Seriously wish I had this for my last car search. Well done! - The lineup and grouping by price, sort order and "worse deals" are all don
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by zach 15y ago
I am blown away to see that Art History cracked the top ten on this list. My mom was an art history major, while I insisted on studying computer science, even though apparently there's no money in it. What a rebel I am! Then again, in par
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by zach 15y ago
I think just using a pastel color on the "Official Site" lozenge would work well. Maybe a goldenrod to suggest the idea you're trying to communicate. The gold seal/blue ribbon idea is a good one but may disrupt the very-text-based rhythm o
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by zach 15y ago
Exactly — every GoDaddy "opposition" of SOPA seems like you could insert ", while we still think it's a great idea, " somewhere. This is like one of those apologies where the miscreants "apologize if anyone was offended" or "are sorry that
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by zach 15y ago
Google is totally a no on this count. Their generally-available programs are all for people entering search terms into Google's own widgets and specifically exclude software sources. I asked around at I/O and the answer was basically a sh
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by zach 15y ago
Is there any way to monetize legitimate software search traffic to a decent search engine without cutting a special deal like this? I have an app-launcher-like project I'm working on that could benefit from this kind of arrangement, but bro
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by zach 15y ago
Do you have as many data points as Trevor does, though? Just curious since this would be impressive in itself.
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by zach 15y ago
I presume it means that, having seen things from the inside out, his team knows winning and losing things to spend time on. Nearly every startup ends up with a list a mile long of potential features, ideas, refinements, communities, partner
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by zach 15y ago
With these companies constantly getting into each others' business, I'm reminded of the old joke: Heaven is where the police are British, the lovers French, the mechanics German, the chefs Italian, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell
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by zach 15y ago
I actually don't think so. For one thing, this argument is true of Dropbox itself, and are music files really that special? For many people, the simplicity and convenience is worth it. Plus if you have some extra space in your Dropbox (y
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by zach 15y ago
The amount of Jeopardy! questions that are online in J!-Archive is by now quite large. So large that it has begun to approach the corpus of facts from which knowledge-based non-current-events Jeopardy! questions are drawn. Although Jeopard
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by zach 15y ago
Wow. This is a far more thorough approach than the experience-focused app I made in 2007, but then again Roger Craig is also a lot better at Jeopardy! than I am. http://zachbaker.com/how-to-win-on-jeopardy-with-ruby-on-rai...
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by zach 15y ago
I'm talking about the Siri outages at peak times, which seem to have subsided for now but indicate that they weren't ready for even the demand they've had.
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by zach 15y ago
Ha! Very true, I didn't even picture it and indeed I can't. I don't think they would actually put any Siri hardware features on a MacBook in the first place, so I went off the deep end there.
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by zach 15y ago
Apple has clearly had a difficult time keeping up with early demand for Siri services as it is. I think keeping it limited to the 4S looks a lot more like a operational necessity at this time. Given that, If Siri appears on the Mac between
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by zach 15y ago
To me, the clearest mandate for using three dimensions for file management is in creating a space that people can become as mentally familiar with as they can with a house. We already know that one of the most powerful methods for creating
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by zach 15y ago
When you rescale the human body in proportion to how much of the brain is concerned with each part, you end up with this: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2004/12/sensory-homunculus/ The hands are huge because so much of your brain is devoted to s
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by zach 15y ago
I should clarify that it's not in quotes, my fault for not using bracket syntax (now edited). But for me here in California, [+pepsi] entered in either box takes me to Pepsi's Google+ page — and crucially, not to pepsi.com.
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by zach 15y ago
So this is what the + is for now. Go ahead, enter [+pepsi] in the Google Chrome omnibox. This looks like the first time Google's fundamental search syntax has been changed to support a new product. Right? Wow. So I guess now we know how
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by zach 15y ago
This is a tough thing for founders. I was in this situation earlier this year after I won a ticket to Google I/O. One of the events was a Google Ventures mixer, which turned out to be a "speed-dating" event. I was excited to meet Joe Kra
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by zach 15y ago
There is already an "I don't know this person" option when declining friend requests as far as I've seen.
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by zach 15y ago
This is an essential upgrade for modern Ruby development. Everyone knows staying on top of gem versions becomes like herding cats, so any help would be appreciated. The service is a nice combination of technologies into a useful, speciali
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by zach 15y ago
This all seems reasonable to me, but I'm not sure this is the full meaning of the "I finally cracked it" remark. I know Steve was enthusiastic about the moment when he could see something that finally met his standards, but he also wanted t
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by zach 15y ago
The thing that's fascinating about people with that much money is that they have a lot of freedom to express themselves within their lifestyle. Cars are a very particular expression of that. So Larry Ellison has a custom all-aluminum roads
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by zach 15y ago
I'm not upset about it or concerned with the financial arrangements, I'm just kind of amazed by the concept. On top of the self-expression of never having license plates, he got one of the finest cars in the world delivered to his driveway,

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