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One of the best Jazz pianists ever. Gone to join the Coltrane Quartet for eternity. RIP.

Each time I read a billionaire criticizing the current capitalistic system, that reminds me of Jacques Attali's argument on how Karl Marx was misunderstood with Socialism.

https://www.newstatesman.com/node/195490

Extract: "Attali: What he tried with the international socialist movement was an amazing attempt to think about the world in global terms. Marx is an amazingly modern thinker, because when you look at what he has written, it is not a theory of what an organised socialist country should be like, but how capitalism will be in the future. Contrary to the caricature of Marxism, he is first an admirer of capitalism. For him, it is a much better system than any other before it, because he considers the earlier systems to be obscurantist. Once or twice he had the idea that it was going to be the end, but he very rapidly decided that this was not the case, and that capitalism had a huge future.

What is very modern also in his view is that he considered that capitalism would end only when it was a global force, when the whole of the working class was part of it, when nations disappeared, when technology was able to transform the life of a country. He mentioned China and India as potential partners of capitalism, and said, for instance, that protectionism is a mistake, that free trade is a condition for progress.

For Marx, capitalism has to be worldwide before we think about socialism. Socialism for him is beyond capitalism and not instead of capitalism. He has much say on globalisation, what is happening to movement of companies, delocalisation and everything that is linked to the way we live today. In a sense, the Soviet Union was destroying or interrupting the validity of Marx's thinking and the fall of the Berlin Wall is giving back a raison d’être to his work, because Marx was thinking of the world globally and the Soviet system was a nightmare that he did not forecast."

The English say "Yes, but..." or " I am afraid ..." but in fact they mean no...

The French say "Non, mais..." ending up most of the time with yes...

So what's important? the start with No or the conclusion with a Yes.

The word is actually Berber - Amazigh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timgad Interesting though to see that the same word means something to someone else in another culture. We're all connected somehow.

Thanks everyone with your personal suggestions. This will allow me to widen my reading spectrum. Interesting that no mention about books on History.

Another proof that strategy consultancies producing recommendation reports and advices and not getting involved in the implementation add no value versus the new model as you described above.

For me, it's a matter of writing down my thoughts and revisit them by reading my notes later. I can adjust accordingly by refining my thoughts in rewriting them.

Very sorry as my intention was not to claim the work. I completely ignored the posting rule because I did not know. A friend of mine sent me the link and I found Radio Garden so amazing that I wanted to share it to this community. I really meant no other intentions except sharing it widely for the greater good. Again apologies to the author studiopuckey and everyone else who felt offended.

Thanks for that. This is awesome too. Easy to use.

I do hope this announcement will not turn into a civil war or something similar.

Our startup has been selected to start NUMA winter batch next week, and the last thing we want to have is blood on the street.

Congratulations Andrew. Really great to hear about your journey thus far.

You're most welcome to come & visit us in Barcelona, Casablanca or London.

NB: your FB and linkedin links at the end of your post do not work.

That's really cool. I would love to know/see how many YC companies are going back to their country of origin versus how many are actually settle in the US. Thanks for the effort.

So funny to read and so true. Moral of the story, best money to secure is the one from customers. Much more difficult to get but so rewarding and the types of answer we get from prospective customers does not exceed 3.

Big thank you to Steven for making the entire logistics work and Russ CTO and co-founder at Rainforest QA our advisor for his help, advice and support.

https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/324

My co-founders and I really enjoyed the 10 week startup school. We're full time founders and have been working for the last three years on building MyAppConverter. The course gave us time to really get some actionable advice on how to grow our business. The greatest thing is that our time committment for the OH call and weekly reporting on our business metrics made us really focus on what matters i.e. making and selling as part of daily work. Wether or not one applies to YC programme, I would highly recommend any founders to join the MOOC course.

I always enjoy listening to him or reading him and although I don't always agree with him on all topics, we need more people like him in this world.

That's really cool. We've built the first online mobile application porting platform.

We currently offer two options: Self-Service Option (99$ USD) (recommended if you have in-house Android experts): You use our UI porting platform to port your entire iOS UI elements (storyboard and xib) to native Android UI (xml). Before you purchase this, you get to view it online (we use appetize.io to let our customer to view online the Android UI output before purchasing the Android source code). We offer this at 99$ USD per porting session. The output you pay for is a full Android UI source which you can start from (to edit in Android Studio) to complete manually the app and get the final Android application. That means you can hire any expert Android developer to do this manual work, yet still saving you some time, effort and money. If you are looking at this option, it is a self-service. Just login to myappconverter.com and upload your iOS storyboard project and follow the instructions. We do offer 15 days free support on our UI output products. Fully Managed Porting Service Option (Starting from 3000$ USD) (recommended if you don't have any Android experts): You really want to use our accredited experts engineering team at MyAppConverter to take the UI Android and complete the work to deliver you a full working Android application. In this case, once your upload your entire iOS project, you ask us for a free/no-obligation quote. For that quoted price, you will get a full working native Android app and its Android source code. The way we work is that you will be receiving a series of apks for you to test and you report all issues/bugs through our bug tracking portal; you will typically get the first UI based apk, then the next one will be including some logics and more functionalities, until the final apk represents the fully working & tested app on Android. On average, the porting timeline is around 3 to 5 weeks. We tend not to take porting projects in excess of 5 weeks work to minimise customer delivery risks. This is the full turnkey option and yet fast, efficient & price competitive. We have both our in house resources also a handful carefully selected and accredited freelancers. Let me know if you need further information.

The UI porting is around storyboard and xib . We port this instantly with our porting tool to native android.

We are three co-founders based out of London and Casablanca.

Median looks really cool.

We've applied along with 50k applicants (http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-registrati...) and we are in this batch along with 3000 other startups coming from all corners of the world (startup founder track).

In our case, we've built MyAppConverter about three years ago, starting from native iOS to native Android code conversion and now building an online mobile application porting platform. We've applied and we feel so privileged to have been selected because it costs us nothing except our time we have to put in (watching lectures, online group sessions, tutor/advisor sessions and assignments). We do not have to move to SV (as yet) and yet benefit from shared valuable experiences amongst YC fellows as well as from other entrepreneurs.

you should read the article first and then you may learn something.

I think you underestimate the global reach PH has achieved within such a short time across the five continents. Most startups everywhere - including mine - building their product has a key milestone - almost as a habit- to get it on PH and shout loud about that this is a significant milestone for their users and customers to know about.

I am grateful to PH and the team lead by Ryan because they helped MyAppConverter raise our profile despite we are not based in SV. I will always remember one day one early user who found us, used our product and put it directly on PH. Soon after that, we got a huge spike in our sign-up and platform usage and gave us global coverage.

So thank you PH, Ryan Hoover & team and best of luck with the next chapter.

Awesome idea this list. What an impressive (quantity and quality) - list of companies. Some of them are known to me as YC portfolio companies - because I buy from them or have heard of - but loads of them, I would not have guessed that they are YC funded.

My view is a SV only wake up call is not enough but a worldly one is needed. Look at how Europe is getting dismantled... Lack of thoughtful technology is not too blame only but failed political systems with their failed politicians who only think about serving themselves as opposed to serve others especially the next generations.

Thanks for the correction. Not sure what happened here. True, the the 404 page is really cool.

Amazing. These are all pictures taken in the UK. Pity there is no picture taken at a Fish&Chips with the then popular newspaper wrapper and then seeing the equivalent 40 years later.

We are in favour of Native. We are still in product market fit with our current product (native iOS to native Android online instant porting tool, www.myappconverter.com) but we are making good progress based on customers and user feedback. We are currently working to support auto-layout.

Nice good looking turkey getting invited for Thanks Giving and Christmas this year! Enjoy!

It remains to be confirmed that they have actually secured $250mil. Very unlikely, you close the business in less than 2 years after securing such amount. Sometimes, loads of startups think success means raising loads of money... hence announcing the news, thinking media will shine on them and then get more investment followers...

Thanks for this. Will show indeed both versions.

We’ve made some recent improvements to make the porting as easy and as simple as possible, our objective being to give an enhanced amazing user experience from using our platform. We’ve also making progress in completing all the iOS UI to Android UI mapping but the major feature on Xcode 8 such as auto-layout will be supported in November. he major improvement made in this release is the automatic apk generation so the user can visualise the UI part of the app in an Android device simulator.

In order to visualise the apk, make sure you turn-off for now auto-layout in the iOS submitted project.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.