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sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app
For family meals or when you want leftovers convert your common recipes to being weight based. On some common seasonings (Costco sized) I write the conversion for that seasoning for 1 tablespoon in grams. So much easier to combine dry ingredients without needing a litany of measuring utensils.
1. How much did your involvement lead to the fundraising success?
2. How much did your involvement lead to the products' early success?
3. Does it make sense to take the IP early idea that you were passionate about as part of your exit package?
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Expectations:
* you should expect no cash. taking cash will lead to a lower chance of a return on your equity. if you desperately need cash, you should get a small package based on your salary.
* you have no way to protect against being diluted. you have no idea how much work it will take to make this project successful. making it successful will require dilution. at best you could negotiate never being diluted under a certain amount, and making that based on successive valuations. if you leave at pre-seed, and it becomes a unicorn, you likely don't deserve 10%. what do you think you realistically deserve if this is a massive runaway success AFTER you leave.
* one way to think about this, is what would your time have been worth at a company with a higher TC. if you would have been paid $500k including equity somewhere else, maybe you should get the same amount of equity as someone investing 500k in cash, and get the exact same dilution as they would.
* you will not find a standard answer anywhere. you need to find the best solution between:
1. your ego
2. your cofounders ego
3. giving this startup the best chance of success so that all of this time will be worth something for everyone. even if thats less than you want it to be, its better than $0. because all of the hard work lies ahead.Apple TV lets you share with two sets of apple headphones, which is awesome... but I wanted a way to:
* Share to more than two sets * Extend coverage past the (very generous) bluetooth range of AirPods. * Have lossless (albeit 44khz/16bit) wireless audio with audiophile headphones.
I was considering using an esp32, but so happy this exists now! Thanks!
This feels really disingenuous. Larry and Sergei are the team that brought us Google Search.
"Magic of" is trying to hide the fact that you didn't bring Google Search to fruition. The last 5 years of Google Search do not feel magical at all.
Instead, claim credit for something that you did do with Google Search.
From looking at your LinkedIn: CTO > Joined Google via acquisition of ITA Matrix and worked on schema.org amongst other very impressive things. Before that, founding team of Bing @ MSFT. CEO > Worked on search at Google from 2018 - 2024 ( 6 years )
These are impressive credentials-- so find a better way to showcase them.
``` import Foundation import SwiftData
@Model final class FocusItem { let created: Date = Date() var completed: Date? var theFocus: String = "New Focus" var details: String?
init(completed: Date? = nil, theFocus: String, details: String? = nil) {
self.completed = completed
self.theFocus = theFocus
self.details = details
}struct FocusItemDescriptors { static let currentFocusPredicate = #Predicate<FocusItem> { $0.completed == nil }
static let sortDescriptor = SortDescriptor(\FocusItem.created, order: .reverse)
static let currentFocusFetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor(
predicate: currentFocusPredicate, sortBy: [sortDescriptor])``` import SwiftData import SwiftUI import WidgetKit
struct ContentView: View { @Query( filter: FocusItemDescriptors.currentFocusPredicate, sort: [FocusItemDescriptors.sortDescriptor]) private var items: [FocusItem] @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext
@State private var isAddingNewItem = false
@State private var newFocusText = ""
var body: some View {
NavigationStack {
List {
ForEach(items) { item in
NavigationLink {
FocusItemDetailView(item: item)
} label: {
Text(item.theFocus)
}
}
.onDelete(perform: deleteItems)
}
.navigationTitle("Focus")
.toolbar {
#if os(iOS)
ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
EditButton()
}
#endif
ToolbarItem {
Button(action: addItem) {
Label("Add Item", systemImage: "plus")
}
}
}
}
.sheet(isPresented: $isAddingNewItem) {
AddFocusItemView(isPresented: $isAddingNewItem, addItem: addNewItemWithFocus)
}
}
private func addItem() {
isAddingNewItem = true
}
private func addNewItemWithFocus(_ focus: String) {
withAnimation {
let newItem = FocusItem(theFocus: focus)
modelContext.insert(newItem)
DataManager.shared.reloadWidgets()
}
}
private func deleteItems(offsets: IndexSet) {
withAnimation {
for index in offsets {
modelContext.delete(items[index])
}
DataManager.shared.reloadWidgets()
}
}struct FocusItemDetailView: View { @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss let item: FocusItem
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text(item.theFocus)
if let details = item.details {
Text(details)
}
Text(
"\(item.created, format: Date.FormatStyle(date: .numeric, time: .standard))"
)
Button {
item.completed = Date()
DataManager.shared.reloadWidgets()
dismiss()
} label: {
Text("Mark as Complete")
}
}
} var body: some View {
NavigationView {
Form {
TextField("What is your focus?", text: $newFocusText, axis: .vertical)
.lineLimit(3...10)
}
.navigationTitle("New Focus")
.toolbar {
ToolbarItem(placement: .cancellationAction) {
Button("Cancel") {
isPresented = false
}
}
ToolbarItem(placement: .confirmationAction) {
Button("Add") {
addItem(newFocusText)
isPresented = false
}
.disabled(newFocusText.isEmpty)
}
}
}
}With the heavy lifting of SwiftUI/Swift Data, and iCloud providing automatic and private syncing, this is the cloc output for my project, (including widgets and all of the code and projects needed to target all of these platforms.)
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Language files blank comment code
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XML 13 0 0 579
Swift 19 131 142 548
JSON 4 0 0 115
YAML 1 7 0 43
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SUM: 37 138 142 1285
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If you live in the apple ecosystem and want to make a simple tool for yourself, you really should go ahead and do that.
It started as a desire to have a "focus" on my Apple Watch at all times, and in less than 10 hours, I have widgets, shortcuts (and Siri) integrations, and syncing across every apple platform (although I haven't yet tried it on tvOS).
I've thought about productizing it, and I might one day, but that would add orders of magnitude to the time of making this something that people should be asked to pay for.
And I'm not going to open source it, because it is ~500 loc, with no libraries plus a bunch of Xcode generated stuff.
$ sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app
This was a common complaint I have heard from those coming from Windows/Android and even Linux... It's unix.
Also, the play/pause key works with other apps. Other default apps can be set.
Many other valid points in this article and thread, but I don't know why people expect the default behavior of the play button to behave any differently when no media is playing. Music.app may have an upsell, but it's still a place to organize your own personal music library. No cloud or SaaS required.
It provides a compelling argument as to the root cause of ADHD.
1. The Ryzen setup has twice the ram
2. The Ryzen setup has twice the cpu cores
3. The Ryzen setup has 3x the power envelope (in watts) as the M2[1]
4. They are using Asahi Linux on the M2.[2]
Too bad I missed the window to downvote.
If this said: Apple M2 (Linux/8gb/4c) vs. Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U (Linux/16gb/8c)... it would have been more honest, and potentially interesting, as it would also be an indication of the progress of Asahi Linux.
(edited to add line breaks)
[1]: Ryzen 46w (not sure if this includes the GPU) vs M2 15w (not sure if this includes the GPU)
[2]: Asahi Linux is super cool, but most M2 chips in the wild are not running it. So it's not a useful comparison.
IMHO most consumer routers need to be reset because they have memory leaks, that reduce the amount of memory available for the routing table. A power cycle becomes the common fix.
Meanwhile 4GB of RAM on PfSense can probably power an office of 50 engineers with 50% of its ram left available (and no swap)... and it will never need to be restarted.
An audience member asked about how to get pricing right early. Part of PG's answer (from autogenerated CC):
you can always change your prices later though if you want to lower your prices no one's gonna complain and if you want to raise your prices you just grandfather your existing users which if you have exponential growth will always be a tiny subset of your total users and then no one will complain about that either
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/85-a-conversation-with-p...
Roku wants a cut of revenue from apps too. It is not in Amazon's incentive to limit distribution of Twitch. This may be why it is no longer on Roku.
They may have to "add" you to their insurance plan or carrier before renting you the car. That infuriating service fee might actually be personalized for your driving record.
As for the credit card, it is user-hostile at best to demand this before being able to see a price. I wish there was an easier way to complain about businesses that openly violate terms of the standard merchant agreements. Imagine a physical store requiring you to swipe a credit card before being able to enter. Amazon had to allow for customers without phones or credit cards at their "Go" stores for compliance reasons.
Hope they are taking great care of you at YC!
1. For those unaware, Guido, the creator of Python, who remained the Benevolent Dictator for life until 2018.