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Usually, a frame is rendered on a single processor.

We have been very happy with sources - it doesn't cover EVERY service we use (yet) but taking even just one or two out of in-house ETL is a huge benefit.

P(adult evil | talk to them) < .0001 P(stranger evil | they talk to you) > .0001

It's kind of ironic that this article is presented as a PDF version of a journal paper.

I would add bookings vs. revenue.

If you sign up a $120k yearly contract, you have $120k in bookings, but can only recognize $10k of revenue each month.

This list is missing my favorite pre-Pixar paper.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS284/PAPERS/CatmullClark...

I would LOVE to see a Founders at Work 2.0 - so many incredible companies have been built since that book was published. The iPhone had just been released, for instance.

Never underestimate the human ability to consume power / CPU / memory / sensors / etc. So far we've never had "enough" of any of these.

the worst thing about "the hard thing about hard things" is that Ben seems to have slowed his blogging output.

I hate this stuff.

Steve was pretty explicit to Tim Cook and others that they should never ask "what would Steve do". He knew what that kind of attitude did to Disney after Walt died. It destroyed their creativity for years.

This is true for ALL exploding offers. Not just accelerators or investment term sheets, but for employment as well.

It's amazing to me that medical journals print results based on 20 control and 20 test subjects.

This article only describes a concerted effort to recruit drivers by hailing rides. Lyft still gets paid.

I believe that the hail / cancel tactic is unethical, but this article only describes direct recruitment.

So which is it - is poaching another company's drivers bad, or is making secret anti-poaching agreements bad?

I think you should think about it as a multiple of what you would expect per-employee were the company to hire everyone off the street. So if you would get 10k options / employee off the street, what multiple of that is it worth to get the full team.

This is a huge pain in the ass. When I travel, I often don't use my phone for many days at a time, and usually return without a charged device.

No.

Signing up for a new twitter account shows why _you think_ the company is struggling to grow.

Without any insight into their acquisition, retention, or other core data that drove these decisions you have no idea what you are talking about.

Don't get me wrong - I think these are all good hypotheses. But without data they are just hypotheses.

Nitpick - Ali wasn't at Pixar @ the time of the IPO, though I'm sure he was instrumental during the Disney acquisition.

There's a pretty good case that "mobile" is the 10x force and major change that opens up basically every early web property to disruption.

Payments / bitcoin innovation is a second likely 10x factor (in particular for ebay).

Good point - I hadn't thought about how early stage startups are your customers.

I don't understand how the CEO of a high-growth startup does anything at this level of commitment outside their existing jobs.

I barely understand how CEOs do even the one job.

You're right. We should disregard a first hand account and instead believe second or third hand rumors.

It's not clear that Amazon has 100% control over how they distribute video. Rights holders are pretty controlling about DRM, distribution, and what devices can use their content.

I don't know anything about the specific deals here, but I wouldn't be surprised if an open Amazon Instant Video was an Amazon Instant Video without very much content you'd care about.

It's called AngelList.

For everyone saying "you should have read the release notes" - yes I agree. However, there are two things that made this very opaque and should have been better.

1) all sources indicate everywhere that the software is "up to date". I realize that as a developer I should be keeping better tabs on things but I usually trust things not to just lie to me. It's pretty opaque.

2) The error you get when the beta expires makes no mention of the fact that the beta expired. Without judicious twitter searches and a quick look on hacker news, I didn't know what the source of the error was and assumed something was wrong w/ apple's activation or that someone had compromised my account in some way.

The reply-to being from the user is super useful. It means I can talk to someone who wants to connect without having to go back to LinkedIn. It's good UX design.

Minus the up-front commitment and the management fee.

This is a great strategic partnership even if the net value is low to the NFL.

1) The cost to uber and the NFL is basically zero. It leverages existing functionality and the NFL already pays for this kind of service.

2) The NFL gets good press about drunk driving prevention and might actually prevent a few accidents.

3) Uber gets itself in the NYTimes, top of hacker news, etc for free, exposes itself to lots of new users, and reinforces itself as a brand aligned with luxury and convenience.

Personalized guidance will be a huge component of any service that hopes to make people live healthier and more active lives. We are certainly pushing in this direction at RunKeeper.

An aside - this model feels a lot like an AA sponsor. AA works (I've heard, not a friend of bill myself), and I'm surprised we haven't seen a semi-anon online accountability model like this in similar domains.

Dropbox is quickly unseating Facebook, who unseated Google before it, as the premier bigco employer.

These kinds of talent shifts tend to accelerate as the company becomes more successful. Remember when google was giving $1m offers to keep engineers from going to Facebook pre-IPO?

Anecdotally, it looks like this is true for top college grads as well.