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Not really... most people I know use things like the Wirecutter instead.

This became Hacker News fare because lots of people were unhappy with the new MacBook Pros for other reasons.

So I assume you shorted the DJIA? Must have been rough.

When people started working in them. Cubicles are arguably worse and people aren't promoting cubicles when they criticize open offices.

Nobody accurately forecasted the Wii's popularity. Nintendo would have been insane to actually make as many consoles as they ended up needing.

Nintendo's released a lot of products and while not having enough supply is annoying, dramatic oversupply can be catastrophic.

Most other people in her position can't do what she's done because they are capable of feeling shame.

You cite "ignorance of what a GMO really is" - what do you think they're misinformed about?

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately? See what they charge for arugula?”

The Bush thing is almost certainly a fake story. He was playing along with being impressed by some new UPC code reader technology that was being demonstrated that could read damaged UPCs.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscanner.asp

We actually don't know that they're safer to puff. We simply don't have any evidence that indicates that they're as or more dangerous.

Every variety of plastic or food additive that ended up being proved harmful was thought safe for years. People are right to be skeptical of them for the next thirty years or so.

What was the Foursquare CEO exercising when he made unsubstantiated allegations against Yelp?

The touch strip would be even more of a joke on any other machine because you'd guarantee 0% buy-in from software developers.

The only reason it's getting any positive feedback from anyone is because it's Apple and people are charitably imagining that software developers are going to dedicate resources to support a doodad that doesn't even exist on 90% of apple machines (and only ~5% of notebooks/desktops are Apple in the first place!).

The RPG idea is something that has been tried for ages - the earliest example I can remember is the "Chocobo World" minigame on specific interactive memory cartridges for Final Fantasy VIII for the Playstation I. More recent examples include the Game Boy integration with the Wii and the default controller screen for the Wii U console.

None of these attempts ended up being very successful with the exception of the wildly successful Nintendo DS, which is different in a lot of ways (in that the real estate size between the touch screen and the real screen is equal).

The objection that a lot of people here have to the touch bar is that it's a sort-of-nice-to-have, never-essential feature used on very few machines, and these are the sorts of features that developers instinctively smell danger around.

You're correct, and I apologize for the misinformation. I'll add an addendum to my post reflecting this.

I was always skeptical but the thing that made me concretely understand why these valuations aren't real is when I learned about liquidation preferences.

At least a 2x liquidation preference is standard for most VC investments (Y Combinator is an exception to this, I think). In simplified form, this means that regardless of what happens, the investors will get 2x of what they invested before anyone else in the company sees a cent. This means that even if giphy fails, the investors will always get a 2x return on their investment unless the company falls so far that it's no longer worth $24 million when it's sold off somehow.

EDIT: After being informed in responses to this, it appears that 1x preferences are now the standard. I apologize for any misinformation.

They haven't done anything remotely extraordinary since Steve J left. I don't know why people are so charitable towards Apple when everything indicates it's a company that's no longer what it was.

To quote someone, "revenue is a lagging indicator in the technology business".

Apple hasn't done anything even close to genius since Steve J died.

They pay a lot

Next keyboard has a 2.5 rating on the app store right now for the current version of the app.

Here's a comment from the article:

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I appreciate this case study, but I feel it doesn’t cover everything.

I backed you on Kickstarter, and you didn’t deliver the features you said you would, even ones that were mainstays of that campaign. Swipe to type, as an example. After beta it just slowly… faded away with little or no communication from you guys.

I believed you when you said you wanted to fix the keyboard, but yet-another-theme won’t do that. More stickers won’t do that. What excited me about Next, initially, was that it seemed like you were going to push the envelope on input methods and keyboard user experience.

Unfortunately, every time I’ve used Next it’s been extremely unstable to the point of being unusable, so you didn’t come close on the things you did deliver. I actually think I had a better experience with it in test flight.

We can blame this on Apple APIs, but I’ve used a number of other keyboard replacements and they haven’t had crazy issues. That includes GBoard, which can be slow loading but then runs smoothly where it counts: when you’re using it.

I know I’m being more than a little bitter, but I wanted you to win.

I’m very sorry to hear that you have to sunset this project, and I’m a big fan of your previous work. I’m also looking forward to what’s next.

But I hope that you spend more time making it work than making it cute.

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Meaning that the answer to the byline - "How our app went from $20,000/day to $2/day in revenue" - is probably "the product wasn't very good".

The pertinent question for these articles is often why the founders thought they could pull of what they were doing with the budget they had in the first place.

We can, and do have video chat at eye-level but most people seem not to like it.

Typing is a first step and is a great way of testing the technology and verifying that the sensors are working as expected, as it's extremely obvious how accurately they're working.

As a college graduate, I'd be ok with student loan relief as long as it's funded by a tax on college graduates (and it has to be preceded by something preventing this occurring in the future, like making student loan debt dischargeable under certain circumstances)

Seems twisted to tax the rest of the country who decided not to or weren't able to participate in college in the first place

Yeah, I even heard there's a little land in Vancouver that's still owned by Canadians

I have two takeaways from this article:

1.) Your organization is in a rough state right now (for any number of reasons, some outside of your control), and you're likely to have more difficulties going forwards.

2.) You haven't successfully placed a single developer into a job yet even though forty thousand people have signed up.

Both of these statements might be inaccurate, but those were the main things communicated. I'm much less likely to open an account having read this, and I don't understand why new levels are being released when the recruiting pipeline currently seems like the bottleneck of the business.

That guy existed - his name was Ian Gibbons and he killed himself in 2013 apparently.

You're not a conservative, you're a libertarian.

I'm going to guess that these big name investors have liquidation preferences of at least 2x, meaning that her stake will probably be worth nothing once this all blows up even if the company maintains any value (and it probably won't anyways)

I don't think that's really fair. The perception is that raising an autistic kid or being autistic yourself is basically a nightmare and they're trying to find something not depressing to say.

Buzzfeed always gets the kid gloves treatment in the media and somehow became one of "the cool kids" despite being a website built on dumb viral content like so many others.

No surprise, I guess - big names like Andreessen Horowitz invested so now we all have to pretend like this all means something. Watching something as unimpressive as Buzzfeed get treated this seriously in the press makes me wonder just how little you have to pay a tech journalist to own them.

There is absolutely no STEM shortage at the Facebook/Google level. Google has been on the record many times that they're happy rejecting good applicants in order to reduce the risk of hiring a bad candidate. That's not what hiring during a shortage looks like.

Starcraft has way more possible board states

The article disapprovingly states that 55% of Facebook is white as if that's a disproportionate amount, even though 63% of the USA population identifies as non-hispanic white. What's up with that