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Electric bike that folds into a shoulder bag(engadget.com)
19 points by zhyder 17y ago|12 comments
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by zhyder 17y ago
Great execution, but in terms of the market this strikes me as being 3 degrees separated from profit: Tweetvite -> Tweetup -> Twitter -> Profit!
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by zhyder 17y ago
Beautiful, thanks for the insight into the process.
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by zhyder 17y ago
This example has been beaten to death. Google was at least an order of magnitude better than other search engines, and was the first that actually worked , so it didn't matter how crowded the space was. When evaluating an opportunity, "___
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by zhyder 17y ago
I agree with the author's thesis but I'm bothered by the way the numbers are presented. Other articles in favor of making immigration for skilled workers easier usually are guilty of the same number fudging. In the article: "My research tea
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by zhyder 17y ago
"In a world where educational opportunities are often disproportionately allocated, it's exciting to think that today anyone with an Internet connection can download any of over one million free public domain books" I've always thought the
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by zhyder 17y ago
The big problem is that the the chip industry's market is shrinking in the long-term. As hardware has gotten faster ('fast enough'), the need for custom hardware solutions has reduced, since you can more easily and cheaply do things in so
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by zhyder 17y ago
A better term for what Zoho does is "offshoring". Outsourcing and offshoring are orthogonal. It's only when the two go together that you get sweatshops.
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by zhyder 17y ago
The default search in Safari is also through Google. And to be fair, Maps+Youtube are more significant apps than Weather+Stocks in terms of usage and complexity (should be easy to swap out the Yahoo sources for some other ones).
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by zhyder 17y ago
There's probably been a change in mindset at Apple over the last 2 years, from seeing Google more as a partner to seeing it more as a competitor. Unless something from Google (like Search/Maps/Youtube) is obviously of big value to most iPho
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by zhyder 17y ago
Agreed. I was just hoping to get actual info on: - Conversions from 'visitors' to pledgers - Conversions from pledgers to payers - Avg monthly payment (volume of tips) per payer (Btw, doesn't Compete often underestimate by a factor of 2 or
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by zhyder 17y ago
Sorry to hear about the shutdown. FWIW, I'm impressed how open you're being, about profitability as well as money-raised ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=777010 ). Btw, apparently you have a decent amount of traffic ( http://siteanalyt
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by zhyder 17y ago
"this graph does shows that health care expenses are almost three times higher for those over 65 than those under 65. So - in the first graph - as the baby boomers move into the last 4 columns, the health care expenses will rise sharply." H
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by zhyder 17y ago
This is the bigger than Youtube, YC-mafia, etc. trying to put the nail in the IE6 coffin. IE6 is big in enterprises, and Microsoft has incredibly strong relationships with them. Plus office.com would actually be seen as an important product
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by zhyder 17y ago
Your link has "Kundra holds an undergraduate degree from UM in psychology and a master's of science in information technology." Which actually doesn't indicate that the MS in IT was from UM, and hence doesn't clash with Dvorak's post. Edit:
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by zhyder 17y ago
The problem is that the same healthcare service costs a lot more in America than it does anywhere else in the world. It's understandable if the surgery that only 4 surgeons in the world can do costs a lot, but relatively routine/commoditize
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by zhyder 17y ago
You're the guys behind meetcast right? meetcast.com is 404'ing right now. You should probably do a 301.
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by zhyder 17y ago
Another similar thread that's been killed but has more comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746701
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by zhyder 17y ago
I'm surprised he hasn't been accepting options at Google either.
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Schmidt's Apple Gig: He Worked for Free(businessweek.com)
17 points by zhyder 17y ago|4 comments
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by zhyder 17y ago
"Guitar Hero is a very poor comparison. As far as I'm aware, there's no way to take one of these toys and create any kind of original music with it" Actually the latest version of Guitar Hero ('World Tour') does include the ability to recor
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by zhyder 17y ago
Well professional investors still have the same amount of time as before, so they'll attend as many pitches as they used to. Wish we could measure the total volume of $'s coming out of these demo days and compare.
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by zhyder 17y ago
Cool! Looks like most folks using GoDaddy as registrar switch to some other service (typically web host?) for the DNS. How come? Are any of the companies with Softlayer using their Cloudlayer offering? If yes, how do you find it?
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by zhyder 17y ago
Dabbleboard is making money, just with the whiteboard. And we started well after WebEx was sold; thankfully WebEx doesn't care about the whiteboard. We're working on a broader solution that'll compete more with the likes of WebEx (coincid
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by zhyder 17y ago
The Authorize.net downtime a few weeks ago was just as bad if not worse. They didn't even send an update+apology after things came back up. Terrible customer service.
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by zhyder 17y ago
I'm impressed with how quickly the FCC is responding (and that it's responding at all). The questions are thorough and well thought-out too. There's still hope...
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by zhyder 17y ago
It isn't fair to compare people's reactions to a Segway/Segwell with their reactions to the Eunicycle, because the latter still hasn't worn off its novelty. People probably initially smiled when they saw the first Segways too. Given enough
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by zhyder 17y ago
Congrats on the launch! Feature requests: 1. You should have a more complex timeline control or at least annotate the video with the time you're currently looking at. I need to know when the highlights are happening (when did my baby cry, i
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by zhyder 17y ago
Oracle's been around a while and their stability and security have been battle-tested, or at least that's the perception that makes a prospective customer trust them. Interesting that there are other closed-source MySQL storage engines. I w
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by zhyder 17y ago
Looks like it's not open source, though they're apparently considering it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729338 . For such an important part of infrastructure, I don't think closed source will do, especially not from a startup that'

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