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by zaidf 8y ago
Someone I know applied for a designer AND front end dev position at a startup. He went through multiple rounds plus a project. This describes my friend: - super passionate (paying customer for while) about the product - great designer with
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by zaidf 8y ago
I feel like I have this setup. For the last 3 years, I’ve been going to a cafe in downtown SF. Over the course of this time, I’ve met people who’ve become best friends, roommates, ppl to do side projects with and much more. Friends know if
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by zaidf 8y ago
I have recently found myself reconsidering my views on Tim Cook. He has generally positioned himself as the voice of reason, especially on matters of privacy. He’s gone as far as attack companies like Google and Facebook. And yet, all of th
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by zaidf 8y ago
People in the industry were calling out Theranos' nonsense for many years People in the industry enabled Theranos. You don’t make deals with Walgreens and Safeway without people in the industry backing you. Of course, there were fair
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They don't merely exist as a business. They have a higher market cap than 4/4 FANG companies.
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The same way people have been predicting the death of IBM, Microsoft etc. for past couple decades?
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by zaidf 8y ago
unless the face-based device joins us in our every day activities like the smartphone, it's not going to be directly useful to facebook Isn’t that obvious / circular reasoning? It’s basically saying “unless people start using VR
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by zaidf 8y ago
It is bold of Stratechery to make a longterm bet against any face-based device. The press of the 90s and early 2000s was laden with writers claiming in essence that there won't be any smartphone revolution. They'd have ample of p
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by zaidf 8y ago
Nothing is without consequences. Take water. People die daily from having too much water in their system.
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by zaidf 8y ago
In contrast in the case of Apple you have a customer relationship with the company that sold you the device and they have an incentive to keep you as a customer without having a need to extract as much advertisement revenue as they can. D
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by zaidf 8y ago
It’s even worse: many people are demanding Facebook monitor Messenger chats for abuses in Mayanmar while at the same time not wanting Facebook to monitor Messenger chats. This is just a perfect example of constant catch-22s I see in people’
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by zaidf 8y ago
Amazon app already does this.
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Why make a habit of buying things in this method when...you're often unsure of the authenticity? That sounds like the argument Internet bears made about online shopping during its early days.
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This is far from novel. PMs, devs and architects allow the tech stack to influence product all the time, often on the basis of back of napkin cost-benefit analysis. In fact, an org that doesn’t define tech constraints is setting itself fo
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by zaidf 8y ago
And if, at the bottom of Page 50, all you're really interested in is who marries whom, or who the murderer is, then turn to the last page and find out. Ironically, I simply wanted to know what the actual rule was. It takes some effor
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by zaidf 8y ago
> In all other respects the MBP is the best laptop I've owned, after ~20 years of Apple/Microsoft/Dell/IBM/Lenovo hardware. I considered switching away from Apple gear but now think I'll stick it out. It&#x2
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by zaidf 8y ago
Distributed doesn’t necessarily mean “decentralized”. I can have a distributed database stored across 5 servers. It wouldn’t mean my database is “decentralized.”
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I also think “will crypto ever be successful?” and “isn’t it just like the dot-com bubble?” are worth answering separately. I’m pretty sure blockchain applications will emerge eventually and have wide usage. But I also think crypto is mor
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by zaidf 8y ago
AFAIK Ripple-the-software has very little to do with crypto. It’s a centralized system to move fiat and only the super tiny fee it charges banks are paid using XRP — and that too is optional. Chuckecheese tokens have more widespread usage t
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by zaidf 8y ago
Cash can be used at tens of thousands of locations for non-shady uses. Same can’t be said of crypto.
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What’s their end product to date besides speculation?
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Key difference: dot-com bubble followed successes like Yahoo, Amazon, Hotmail. What are the crypto equivalent of the Yahoos that have a material product and user-base?
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They were exposed after they raised almost a billion dollars from sales and investments, often on the basis of glowing media. The book is filled with anecdotes abt how the positive media was leveraged by Holmes and often cited by internal
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by zaidf 8y ago
Keep in mind the actual fraud is NOT saying “we will try to do impossible task X” and failing. The fraud is going to extreme lengths to cook up results to drum up sales and investments. UBeam might very well flameout but I think if you ar
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by zaidf 8y ago
Vast majority of VC flameouts don’t put tens of thousands of lives at risk. Theranos had to void blood tests of 76,000 people just in Arizona. If Holmes had her way, that number would be millions.
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If you read the book, it’s very apparent it was a case of fanboyism from a very specific demographic: older males in positions of power (WalGreens CEO, Safeway CEO, mulplitude of investors like Murdoch, Larry Ellison, politicians like Schul
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by zaidf 8y ago
I've used both Regus and WeWork and would pick Regus over WeWork any day. I am so much more productive at a more laid-back, quiet (both sound and visual noise) environment than the hustle and bustle that WeWork takes pride in. WeWork c
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by zaidf 8y ago
arguably it doesn't actually make many ads more effective anyway Source?
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React Native is the best thing to have happened for native mobile dev. FB has LOTS of full-time devs working on it. If/when that changes, we can revisit this tweet. Until then, nothing more than FUD.
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But now, companies can just tell their software engineers that they're writing user-friendly data-portability features. Across all product lines, they'll happily code away, completely oblivious to the fact that their code is also

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