phmagic

someone ought to = nobody will.

If this is a real problem for USV, they can financially back a team to do this.

This is exactly why they slightly pivoted to serving business teams.

Agreed, it would make Apple more successful in the home than all of their HomeKit efforts have been so far.

+1 to the wonderful resource of the public libraries.

I find that I retain more if I actually read the book then write my own summary in a journal somewhere. I learned that habit from a friend and once in a while I'd go back over the notes.

Speaking from a hiring manager's perspective:

I don't care if you're from a dev bootcamp or an Ivy League school. I care if you care about your craft.

Experience is really hard to quantify, hence the programming tests. They are a crude way to standardized the measurements.

But care for your craft comes through right away. I'd ask them about the stuff they are interested in within their domain, then dig a little deeper to see if they have a strong grasp of what they are talking about. Sometimes I'd debate with them.

I also find that the best engineers I've ever met came from a variety of countries. They turned out to be amazing team members to work with as well. Once you're no longer just looking at US schools and US dev bootcamps, you get amazing selection.

Speaking from an applicant's perspective:

Heck yea, study up no matter how trivial you think it is or how it belittles your years of experience. Remember that this crude method is not an accurate measure of the hiring company's potential or yours. It's just a filtering mechanism for both sides to start a dialog.

I'm not sure if this is good or bad news for companies like Eero. In the short term, this is great news because of less competition for the extremely easy to use Wi-Fi router, but I have wonder why Apple got out of this business since they often see technology trends years down the road.

"I can’t recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers, because it’s going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction. Nowadays I work as a freelance writer, so I usually do contract technical writing part of the year and then I take time off and do fiction writing the rest of the year. It’s too difficult for me to do technical writing at the same time as fiction writing — they draw on the same parts of my brain. " - Ted Chiang

Can this be a blocking factor for coding side projects as well? What if companies offered a role where 11 months of the year, you do the company's work, and one whole month you get to make whatever you want? Or a project-based role that covers a year's expenses.

I love this! There is no reason why the NYTimes can't be a media-tech powerhouse 10x what it is now.

Interesting, little is mentioned of re training workers for their new products

Many would rejoice in the fact that is actually moving. Backwards and forwards to many in this election is a matter of opinion.

I think the market will self correct shortly.

This is a great motivation to start.

I thought this was the order: 1. Seed - delight hundreds of people and pull in thousands a month. Demonstrate your idea is viable in the niche.

2. Series A - delight thousands to a million people. Demonstrate you can take that idea beyond the niche.

But there's a couple of capital intensive plays that have distorted the system like Magic Leap. For those plays, it seems like the main customers are VCs, not actual users.

Dominating the robot vacuum market has never been irobots problem. They still haven't figured out what's next.

This is a similar story to Fitbit and GoPro, once you've own the market you're after, then what?

I agree with you that the wedge was there before Trump arrived.

The original comment might have insinuated that Trump was the primary cause of the divide. My intention was to ask: where do we go from here?

I think you are right but there's a time and place for it. I don't think it can save Twitter at this point but could have created a healthy ecosystem if timed well.

But it's very hard to time this well. Even Facebook and their apps ecosystem didn't create enough of a moat.

The polar sentiments and social divide in America that Trump took advantage of will not go away after the election. I really don't want them to be swept under the rug, but I worry about the civil unrest if we continue to debate each other in such barbaric ways.

The iPad happened. Most of the uses for the Japanese laptops can be covered by the iPad.

I think the author has some good ideas about the things Twitter can leverage once it becomes the de facto method of broadcasting in the world.

However become a protocol would not have helped Twitter get there.

I think the better path is to build and then protect a captive audience. Instead Twitter saw its audience based erode away not once, but multiple times with Facebook News Feed (Twitter for news) then Instagram Video (Vine).

Twitter once had a massive captive audience and unique data. Now their competitive advantages have all disappeared. Opening up more won't help them gain an audience.

I think this is the Medium strategy. I think there is a mid size business in it, but one that's hard to defend and will see margins erode with time.

There is absolutely no "moat" in Twitter being a protocol.

Brilliant, keep up the good work

We're getting closer the ability to create immortal copies of ourselves. Exciting times!

I wonder if other animals find gore and distorted faces horrifying.

The article mentions the customer configuring 3 sliders of wine characteristics, that might be too much decision making for me at a restaurant.

I'd still ask a sommelier standing nearby to pick something for me.

Perhaps an Instagram team member can answer for me:

Is there a way for Instagram creators, stylists and influencers to make money by recommending products or styles?

My use case: I buy clothes based on "looks / styles" and camera products based unique experiences created by other people. I'd like to pay influencers for creating such awesome content that help me discover new products.

Is Facebook GameRoom the new Yahoo Games?

sococo looks pretty cool, may I follow up with you about how you use it? I'm looking for a solution for my team.

I am phmagic on gmail.

I was a heavy user of Instapaper and switched to Pocket.

The reading interface for Instapaper is much better. Pocket has more clients, browser plug ins, etc so you can take it anywhere (When I switched Instapaper Android wasn't available).

Both are lame when bookmarking things like github repos.

I really want these services to open up their engine so that I can write a plug in for displaying bookmarked gists or repos.

I've tried many Hackintosh options out there years ago specifically to get started developing on iOS. While I think many machines can run Mac, I gave up on Hackintosh for iOS development mainly because:

1. Opportunity cost - The time you spend on hackintosh could be spent exploring the iOS SDK. It is an extensive and amazing SDK to work with.

2. Need to embrace the platform - I once hated the fact that you had to get a Mac to develop for iOS. But then a light clicked in my head: If you aren't willing to get a Mac, you'd never appreciate the iOS platform and always hate it for not being more open, or not supporting many languages, etc.

While I think this is a good summary of tactics for an entrepreneur, I would encourage my kid to develop a unique worldview (or a true north) through meaningful experiences.

There is no playbook for success, as the slides state in the beginning. But the many experiences and failures of a person help them recognize opportunity when they see it.

Most of the advice out there regarding entrepreneurship will be contradictory and generalized. Knowing which advice to follow when depends on your true north.

I'd say to my kid: get out there and get dirty, stay curious and take nothing for granted.

Great timing on GM's part to eat at the majority share of the EV market dominated by the Leaf.