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hardware way cheaper to do in china

inherent problem with the watch is that it's not a standalone device, its an extension of the phone.

but you're right, there's alot of revisionist history when it comes to apple product success during Jobs era. iPhone didn't become this massive product til 2010 when the 4 was released. that device changed everything for them

how cool would it be if this obama tech team really bolstered recruitment of more software engineers into gov't?

I'm talking federal, state, and local level. Just like each state has senators and reps; 1 engineer for every 1M residents that live in the state.

each state's teams would tackle problems with software, share solutions to widespread, formulaic issues with one another. it'd be a iconic and fresh-breath-of-air kind of way to speed up efficiency and effectiveness (government and big corps are SO SLOW)

it's hilarious to me how many people are upset with YC experimenting with snapchat. what are pitches about? explaining your startup/idea in a easy to understand manner.

What do snaps do? force content to be valuable in a constrained amount of time, making it a great way to practice your elevator pitch. if it's not interesting, next snap.

Will justin and co solely base their decision on the snap story? of course not. it's just a fun way to try something new.

yeah but tech industry in midwest is lowkey compared to NYC and west coast. I grew up in new england, went to college in ohio, but moved back here because of the access to capital/talent of NYC & greater metro. Nobody is going to go out of there way to be in a midwest city because the tech scene is still very small, relatively speaking.

They are wealthy enough that the investment price means nothing to them if wasted, but if successful, this will affect technology on a fundamental scale

That's how most industries are. Pharma/biotech is all about this

What makes you say that? Last I saw they had great revenue/were filing for IPO. Just wondering.

I hated the idea of twitter for a long time because I thought it was the shitty part of facebook (incessant updates from people whom I don't care about) x 10, because it's just a feed.

But since I started really getting into it last year, I've become so much more knowledgeable by following the best entrepreneurs, VCs, anyone with interesting insight. It's a surprisingly pure channel of news/knowledge if you use it correctly and not go on a follow spree.

It's definitely not the place for social networking as far as communicating with friends/family goes.

Every industry will have dynamic pricing in the near future, transportation has only just begun to fully embrace it

nobody is asking you to read them though -- the only way you get better at writing is to write. If after writing a couple duds they get better, then the statistics will let them know that more people are reading it.

I think medium is an excellent service. the trending articles definitely needs work though

I like to compare it to the research done on olympics and their economic impact. Big investment in hopes of a strong injection in the economy.

The opposite happens, once the event is done, the facilities/stadiums/everything goes unused -- novelty and interest lost.

Same thing happens to these business when they worked with Groupon: make some money (oftentimes they don't even break even) during their promotions/deals, but as soon as it was over hardly any bothered to return.

Food/drink intake is probably like 90% of it, yeah. It's important to keep track of calories, absolutely avoid shit food and do the right kinds of workouts.

eating within a specific period of time long before you actually go to bed (become sedentary). I wake up anywhere between 7-10 am, immediately go top heavy with big breakfast -- you're going to be moving about the entire day. By dinner time (like 6 or 7), I'm only having a milkshake or something <200 calories. Go to bed around 1 or 2 am.

Since I've began intermittent fasting (Only eating in between 8am-8pm) my appetite and amount I can eat to be satisfied has decreased tremendously. It's crazy how quickly changes can be made to your body

I've heard directly from an Uber's exec himself that he does not feel safe getting into a driver-less car.

agreed. I've tried several language learning products and found memrise helped me retain a lot more than any other

This is great. I'm in a game theory class right now and all we do is just find Nash equilibria with hardly any real applications

There's no way any accelerator can be competitive against YC if Peter Thiel is going to be doing office hours

The 2nd piratebay dude had the same argument, and there is definitely some value to that notion -- convincing all these bright engineers to go join the so/lo/mo products instead of helping to build upon the BIG ideas.

they just need something to pick on. It's a shame it has come down to this, with all these officials attacking Uber around the same time in an attempt to stifle them

I think they should rebrand and start moving on instagram territory

I fully agree. No idea why they are willingly disregarding such a lucrative market

haha needed and what they got are entirely two different things. It's unfortunate, but the problem was that because it was a government website, the developers were strictly not allowed to get help, i.e. have someone review it/ask a friend for help/post on stackoverflow/etc.

this probably was the source of the initial failure.

Check out your local law schools, I've had friends with startups who paid like a $300 flat fee or something cheap to get all their legal startup advice for the year. Just make sure that you're not their first customer.

Just a side note, just register as a LLC in your state of residence, it's cheaper and pretty straightforward to convert to a Delaware C-corp when it comes time to raise funds from VCs.

Viddme has worked pretty well for me, what makes yours better?

Yea, I'm pretty positive you're both correct--it was a government related project that they needed utmost of security and secrecy while rapidly building it. All of which are very challenging obstacles for developers

I'm sure they care and do their best to rid these posts, but every single marketplace has this issue -- airbnb is just the hotspot now because they can get big bucks relative to ebay

If i am relaxing back and have to enter a difficult captcha to watch a movie, I am not watching that movie.

Microsoft really needs to get back on that path of completely changing the game in the mobile realm. I don't know if this is the start, but its sure as hell better than releasing the same thing slightly updated over and over again (Don't mimic Apple with this strategy, it won't work for you MSFT)