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Makes me think of this video "The Life and Death of Javascript " which brings what the future could be like with asm.js: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

I had my own office at Microsoft and so did most people on my team.

courserank was bootstrapped and acquired by chegg

You can see them as abstractions of AWS in some ways. An average consumer wouldn't go through the trouble of dealing with AWS to backup their files and even for developers heroku provides a nice level of abstraction

A big part of investment is pattern recognition. Of course they try to understand what people are doing but that only gets you so far. Ideally, you would want to be able to learn from your previous decisions and improve on your process. If you have real data and a way of using it for more insight then you can make much better decisions.

Probably to build internal tools. A lot of VCs firms are trying to apply more data to their investment decisions and that requires internal tools to handle it all. Also makes sense given the qualifications they are asking for.

Doing this helped me start my startup while working full time and eventually feel confident enough to quit my job and work full time on my startup

I think it is more than just connecting supply and demand with a great UX. The UX is actually creating demand. With taxis, Uber has created a whole new market of people who use uber but didn't use taxies before. I see a similar thing happening with couriering.

I can't tell if the algorithm used for placing tiles is less sophisticated or if removing the numbers makes me a better player.

Attent by Seriosity has an interesting solution to this: http://www.seriosity.com/attent.html. They create a scarce currency that companies use internally to send messages.

Yes, this definitely makes sense. I'm just surprised that this is consistent across all those dimensions when almost nothing else is.

Interesting that the only pattern that was consistent across gender, race, and economic status was this:

"Despite being in the labor force a greater percentage of weeks, individuals held fewer jobs from ages 23 to 26 than they did from ages 18 to 22. While ages 18 to 22, individuals held an average of 4.3 jobs and were out of the labor force 26 percent of weeks. From ages 23 to 26, individuals held 2.7 jobs while being out of the labor force 16 percent of weeks."

This is the CueCat done right! Technology is similar but their is a clear use case.

it should have been weaker than it was

One of the biggest reasons that native apps are getting more usage than mobile web apps is the existence of an app store. There is no central distribution center for web apps making discovery difficult. The process of getting a mobile web app pinned is not easy enough compared to a native app.

I'm guessing threshold which would be huge if the rumors are true. It would combine a lot of the OS cores for desktop, phone, and xbox to allow developers to write once and run across Microsoft devices. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/windows-9-features-ne...

I can definitely see Google merging Chrome OS with Android

Is branding the biggest reason for hosting your own git server?

I think all the methods listed by mc_hammer are great but nothing beats talking with your target customers and figuring out whether what you are building is a real problem. I will admit this is a lot easier for a B2B startup than a consumer startup but it has worked great for us.

Google is eating Microsoft's lunch

You are right, I misread the pricing the first time. The prices are basically the same now

Office 365 is much cheaper now - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/compare-plans.aspx?...

I also do this to scroll the page at the same time.

There are engineers in New York and some remote engineers

Awesome! I have been using this for a while now and it really lets you look deep at your tweets and understand their individual impact as well as notice patterns in your tweets.

Corporate venture arms like this tend to be too conservative and not willing to take risks.