I'm so curious about this film! Originally planned as another Sorkin/Fincher combo (team behind The Social Network) with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Jobs. Sorkin's written a 3 act film in real time backstage before the launch of the Mac, the Next and the iPod. Now Fincher's dropped out and Danny Boyle's in, which actually makes perfect sense when you think about his treatment of time in 127 hours. And DiCaprio's out and Christian Bale is in, which seems perfect given Bale's assholish Jobs-like freakout on the Terminator set a few years ago.
Timely. A raccoon walked up to my stoop in Downtown Brooklyn last week. I've been there 19 years and have never seen such a thing and I thought to myself, how the hell does a raccoon survive in Brooklyn?
Oooh Momma, Elliot Zaret! 'It works like this: The entire Web is constantly downloaded onto Google's computers, where it is aggregated, indexed and prepared for searches. When a user types in a search, Google performs a complex computation -- solving an equation that has 500 million variables and 2 billion terms -- to determine the best results on the "most important" sites. That equation takes into account many factors including how close the search terms are to each other, and whether other "important" Web sites point to the site the terms are on.'
I never got any good ollies in high school. Watching the vids and reading the article I think I realized something I never understood. It looks like most of the skater's upward body acceleration is coming from using the the _left_ leg, with the right foot going along for the ride (and smacking the tail down). I always tried to get the major jumping lift from my right leg, while also somehow smacking the tail at the same time. I think I've always had it backwards!
Square Cash, Square Capital, Square Market, Square Stand, Square Register, Square Reader. Add the recent Caviar acquisition to the spaghetti on the wall.
I'd upvote twice if I could. In my previous business, I learned these lessons the hard way. Higher paying clients are nicer to work with. One regret is that I didn't spend enough time on "sales and marketing", which seemed like BS and a waste of time. Devote 30% of your time to it. Don't be afraid to ask for testimonials, keep a regular newsletter going, let everyone know what you're looking for and what you're good at.
The simple fact is that the Times revenue off print ads was an order (or two) of magnitude in difference. Online, the Times is competing against Google and Facebook CPCs and there's no way to get a high enough value/volume to make up for the lost print revenue.
Whoa, first off, I'm responding to the use of "corrupt" instead of the more accurate "Monopoly". Second, while I don't personally agree with Thiel he raises an interesting point about monopolies - primarily that freedom from commodity competition allows them time to innovate (a la Google). His point is that there are three kinds of monopolies (unethical, govt sanctioned, innovative) and that the innovative kind may not be so bad - kind of like a benign dictator.
I'm not sure if Google is "corrupt" or not, but I've been reading Thiel's new book and he makes a strong and simple case for Google being a monopoly (and this maybe being OK).
The post is ostensibly about depression and race, but this quote really stuck out for me, "All this happened simply because, for once, I felt that there was someone who didn’t treat me the same way everyone else did." Who hasn't longed to feel that same connection? I've always loved the outsideriness of hacker culture and I hope we don't lose it. What potential would we unlock if we embraced our differences instead of policing the border?
This is good advice, but I think it's more helpful (and less dangerous) to share personal experience than give blanket advice. "These things worked for me," is more useful than "These things will work for you."
KS currently is just a platform to match backers to projects - more like Ebay than YC. But, you're onto something here. Maybe they start a guidebook? Or a certification program? Or a community (like HN)? Or a school?
This. In the coming years it will be increasingly convenient and perhaps mandatory to have your data on iCloud - if you want to backup, restore or find your devices. The latest iCloud upgrade allows for 1TB of data - it's easy to imagine having your entire laptop, phone, ipad up there in the near future. So physically preventing access to a single device is not nearly as important as protecting your entire digital life in the cloud. This announcement by Apple is a good sign, but it feels like the real battle for privacy from govt snooping will be in the cloud.
Maybe I'm just a corner case, but the "Spotlight, multitasking" section didn't address whether Apple has changed the refresh settings when multitasking between apps. Not a day goes by that I don't switch between open apps (say, Mail and Safari) only to watch the browser content disappear under my fingers while it decides to hit the network and refresh the screen with the same content. This is especially frustrating when out of network/wifi range which happens frequently in NYC.
Fitbit and Fuel Band prove there's a market, but these aren't mass market devices. Maybe the idea is to fit that functionality into a traditional mass market device and see if they can make it work.