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Okay, maybe it's just Twitter, Stratechery, and Matthew Ball, but in my little filter bubble... it felt like everyone was talking about the Metaverse non-stop.

Author here, what do you think would give this kind of content more substance? Still very new to this and genuinely looking for feedback!

Hey thanks for posting this!

By "never be technically possible" do you mean:

Not possible in the usual 10 year timeframe we consider for Silicon Valley type companies.

Or

Never in a million years, completely violates the laws of physics.

Pricing in a small chance that the acquisition won't go through (maybe due to FTC clearance, but could be other due diligence related items).

TheMelt wasn't in Y Combinator, but it is an interesting story.

It depends on the price they paid for stock or the exercise price for stock options. If you were an early employee and your received options when the company was only worth $10m or something low, you could make money.

The risk is that one of the later investors had a ratchet or something that would allow them to claim more of the proceeds in a sale. You can't just take $220M cash, subtract $105M in funding and pass that to the founders and employees. The preferred shares were probably "participating" meaning they get a portion of the common.

Here's an example of a ratchet: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/07/unicorn-s...

Came here to comment this.

Does anyone have any theories as to how Nanite actually works? I've never heard of virtualized micropolygon geometry before and it sounds a bit buzzwordy. Do we think they are just loading the full model into GPU memory, or are they baking down various LODs and normal maps at compile time through some automatic process? Either way, it's a huge workflow improvement. It's just unclear what's actually happening...

Agreed, Peopleware is great. Very good for engineering leadership specifically.

Just shared a google sheet with you.

Highly recommend the Space Engine subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengine/

I wonder how long it will be for them to build a version that actually uses the screen images as opposed to all the data from the Bot API. Seems like it would be a lot harder when you add an image processing step and restrict processing of information from across the map without actually scrolling over there.

Thanks for building this! I was wondering about this a few months ago, glad it’s finally here. This is such a good example. https://twitter.com/johncoogan/status/890780575480430593

Completely agree. Was joking in my original comment. Obviously having a healthy lifestyle will lead to increased productivity. Fetishizing workaholism is dumb and a big part of why Wall Street is struggling to retain talent these days.

You don't need to work 24/7. At most jobs, you just need to seem like you work 24/7. Batch up all your emails for the day, then space them out to be sent at odd hours like 11:30pm and 5:45am using something like Boomerang for Gmail.[1] Everyone will think you're working constantly.

[1] http://www.boomeranggmail.com/

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Robertson Dean is the greatest audiobook narrator of all time. http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narrators/robertson-dean/

I think it's one of these: https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbF0BXX_6CPJ4TgDuCDIN...

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Good work on this! Cool app and very easy to use, can definitely see it spreading. I think it would be awesome if you added video support since your landing page has a video and it's very popular to use background video these days. Also, dog-fooding and making building your own landing page in broadsheet seems doable and cool.

I'm itching to know more too, but I'm sure we will all learn plenty in due time. From the post: "they’re participating in the batch like any other company". To me, that means Quora will be participating in demo day, and I'm sure their will be reporter coverage of their pitch. Really excited to see what's in store!

Does anyone have an opinion on why the price of Bitcoin doesn't seem to move on news like this? It seems significant in my opinion and I would think that wider acceptance would lead to a higher price, but that hasn't been the case over the past few weeks / announcements.

I would like to see a startup sell the wiring equipment that allows you to perform the hovering tricks featured in this video. I bet it's really fun to fly around on one of those harnesses, even if it doesn't use magical anti-gravity technology.

Amazing work, incredible on-boarding experience. Opening the app for the first time and having the past few days already perfectly chronicled for me felt truly magical. Maybe I just got lucky, but I felt like the combination of my photos, geolocation data, and time data was perfect. Thanks for showing!

I love this type of hacking on undocumented APIs. Does anyone know if it's possible to bend or break the technical rules of SnapChat through this type of direct API access? It would be interesting to try and post a 20 second video... or send someone Lord of the Rings. :-)

This is awesome! I can't wait to see the mashups that spring forth from this (and hopefully make one or two myself). There will definitely be something really creative soon. Thanks for doing so much legwork on this.

No one said it would be MORE complicated than the examples.

"Would also be interesting" and "fun to compare" give no implication of relative difficulty. I would like to see the algorithm though so please post the code if you get it working in JS! That would be awesome!

I fail to see how this addresses the idea that Balanced was "promoting their brand." Was anyone questioning the engineering talent at either company?

Stripe wrote this blog post to promote their brand, Balanced let potential customers know that they have similar functionality. Both companies, in my opinion, offer extremely high-quality services (I have used both in production) and have great engineering talent. I do not think we should knock either company for "promoting their brand", it's important that potential customers (read: HN users) are able to make informed decisions. I think zende, pc, and the original blog post all do a good job of articulating the features available through their respective APIs.