28 karma · joined April 29, 2013
github: https://github.com/joshbkremer
> Amazon has stayed ahead by creating the Kindle, in-house.
Is he suggesting that the only way to be innovative is through hardware? Facebook has gone through many changes over the years, adding the wall, adding photo sharing, and a host of other things. To say
> Facebook innovation is centered on changing privacy and advertising policies
is just plain wrong. Also
> One can even argue he stole his original idea from the Winklevosses.
sounds like he watched The social network to many times.
"His ideas are in various stages of development and include a food delivery service, a laser company, and a hardware accelerator program."
This tells me that he has all of these "ideas" but no actual expertise in any of these areas. How often have you heard some "bro" say they have a great idea in some field which they don't know anything about.
"Whatever he does next, Roth intends to hire from within the homeless community, which he views as a hotbed of untapped talent."
I'm sure there are some very smart homeless people out there, but you need skills in relevant technologies to be a successful worker in the type of companies hes wants to start. Food delivery might be easy for the homeless to pick up, Optoelectronics on the other hand not so much.
Good on the guy for learning some valuable skills, turning his life around and helping the homeless. Lets just try and be a little bit realistic about whats going on here though.
The author mentions things like "It's hard to delete my signature." I've never done that, and if you find yourself deleting your signature all the time you might want to figure out a different work-flow / change your signature.
Most of the time when I'm trying to send an email I want to get in and out of the editor as fast as possible. I feel like the new gmail is streamlined for that exact purpose.