beatle

171 karma · joined November 28, 2011

ideas + execution. both are needed.

execution is not limited to personal skills. if the "ideas guy" doesn't have the skills to implement his ideas, he can hire/partner with someone who can.

beatleon Kevin Rose Will Join Google

Ideas yes.

GREAT ideas? rare.

Great ideas + execution? rarer.

beatleon Kevin Rose Will Join Google

developers are a dime a dozen. I can hire ten people from India or China who are better than you (xpose2000).

most developers hate successful people who don't have technical skills (Steve Jobs, MBAs, managers, non-technical founders, etc.) because they make the developers look a lot less important.

beatleon Why I Left Google

Just because you're ok with it, doesn't mean other people are.

beatleon New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea

Looks more (not completely) like they're looking for a CEO and not a founder.

beatleon Why I Left Google

Because Apple sells products.

Google sells YOUR personal information that you do NOT want to share to advertisers.

Big difference.

beatleon Why I Left Google

>This is the era when Google decided to get "real managers" and they hired a bunch of executives from places like Oracle, IBM, and Intel.

Wrong. The problem with Google started with the new CEO. The decision to focus on Facebook, the Motorola acquisition, Google+, integration across all Google products and services,etc. these are not mid-level management decisions. These are decisions made by Larry Page.

The problem is with the CEO.

beatleon Why I Left Google

Google's Focus On Beating Facebook Is Wrecking The Company, Says This Former Engineer. Google's Focus On Beating Apple will seal the company's fate. Google's Motorola acquisition is going to be a disaster for Google.

beatleon Yahoo Crosses The Line

>they have a fiduciary duty of care to the corporation

I absolutely agree. if you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, it is your fiduciary duty to extract value from the company's assets.

Exhibit #1: Sun Microsystems

if Sun had the cojones to sue Google (re: Java/Android) they'd still be in business today.

beatleon A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children

> Please do not give your future 2-year-old marbles to learn physics with. Choking hazard. Harder to swallow an iPad.

I don't care if I get down voted but this made me laugh so hard.

beatleon Khan Academy iPad app launched

This is a very common in iOS. You can preload the array. inside cellForRowAtIndexPath return the array instead of the cell. works perfectly.

beatleon Khan Academy iPad app launched

great. this and the iTunes University App = Golden

beatleon Mika Mobile ends Android development

what are these people complaining about?

Google didn't release Android to give the users the best possible product, service and user experience. They released Android so they can serve ads.

An ad company will never give a shit about user experience.

I knew this the minute Google bought Android. It took them these long to figure to this out.

beatleon The iPad Is Unbeatable

on a related subject:

Apple sells out of launch-day iPads

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/09/apple_sells_ou...

beatleon The iPad Is Unbeatable

Hah! very true. Also, people are forgetting about the iPad 2. it's $100 cheaper.

"In reality, 2012 will be the year the iPad loses its market dominance in tablets. By the end of 2013, Apple will hold 1/4 to 1/3 of the market, which is exactly what their entire business model is designed around: lower market share, much higher margins."

beatleon The iPad Is Unbeatable

Android is the modern day Nokia.

Like Android today, Nokia had a huge market share. but that market share was useless because their users didn't give a shit about their crappy phones. their users were not spending money, etc.

beatleon The iPad Is Unbeatable

you're thinking they don't?

"software" vision != TouchWiz, Motoblur, HTC sense, widgets or any of that crap.

"software" vision = ease of use, speed, elegance, stability, secured (NO viruses/malware/spyware), good developer support, good ecosystem.

beatleon Critical Google Chrome hole plugged in 24 hours

Meanwhile, critical Android security holes remain unpatched for more than 2 yrs.

beatleon We Need to Talk About Android

>The endless parade of fragmentation discussions regarding Android all prove one thing: a lot of people don't understand what wins a market.

market share is useless if your users are not spending money.

Android is in the same position as Nokia 10 yrs ago. And we all know how much Nokia profited from their enormous market share.

beatleon Linus torvalds on security

CAN and SHOULD. but it's NOT.

beatleon Linus torvalds on security

don't tell me. tell the linux developers who created the server application.

beatleon Linus torvalds on security

Changing time zones can fuck up a server application.

beatleon IPad Event Confirmed: Apple Invites Press to 'Touch' Something

in related news:

iPad 3 Event Announcement Propels Apple market cap to half a trillion dollars

http://www.cultofmac.com/149350/ipad-3-event-announcement-pr...

beatleon Linus Torvalds on C++

"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it."

So what's his excuse? RE: Linux

beatleon Steve Jobs ignored Warren Buffett's advice for a stock buyback

you got this info from an intern who got this information from a talk from some guy other than the CEO/CFO?

beatleon If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone

>As I understand it they had full screen touch-based prototypes as well. They were experimenting with everything.

wrong.

beatleon Ubuntu for Android

Androbuntoid: a THICKER client

beatleon Stanford researcher: Google Circumvents iOS Privacy protection in AdSense ads

Not even the most loyal Google apologists can spin this one.

beatleon Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings

Google disabled its code after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

Not even the most rabid Google apologists can spin this one.

beatleon About Gatekeeper

No one's taking away your freedom to use Windows or Linux.