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If this is AR, Palm was multi-touch.

That's right. Musk himself didn't say "power", though.

Some people criticize May whatever she does. If she calls election, because she wants to destroy opposition or because the election will cause more political instability, and if she doesn't, because she is afraid of democracy or something.

Honestly, this makes no sense at all.

Rule of thumb: if you want people to do X, make people to have economic incentives to do so.

If you want to make the web decentralized again, then think about how would you pitch it to consumers and companies, no tech guys like us.

Either you have searched you doctor, or your doctor has searched you.

Stock buyback?

How does this compare with the Superbook?

Apple is good at UX and design. A L5 Self-driving car implies no UX at all, and most people won't care of the design if Self-driving cabs become a commodity. Apple is not about logistics.

So, Apple's opportunity will be L2-L3.

Owning that much cash, why they don't just buy the companies that they need?

Am I the only one who finds very interesting many B2B startups that are supposed to be "boring"?

That's incredible. Congratulations!

What bothers me is that in theory there should not be any trade-off here.

I mean, programming languages and developer tools could be easy AND with high performance.

Seems interesting.

Why Temple OS?

Twitter, Reddit, Bloomberg.

Answering a different question, but what I liked about it was the Mac-like global menu bar.

I bookmark webpages all the time but then never find them again.

If they add Linux and Mac support, this will be HUGE.

Yes, or Kickstarter.

The point is that to actually validate a product idea, potential customers should actually pay, or show a real interest in paying, for that product. Otherwise, it's not validated.

Disclaimer: never tried, but it's a typical advice I read in this kind of posts.

Probably.

I'm not giving that advice. I'm saying that there are people who do.

Something I would like to be able to understand/know/study is how logic programming languages are implemented and how their runtime looks like.

Imagine a reusable rocket, like the SpaceX one, but bigger and being able to reflight in, say, one week.

If in every flight there were a satellite + space tourists, going to the space would be much more cheaper, and it's feasible I'm the near term. I see both SpaceX and Blue Origin offering "cheap" traveling to Space in less than a decade.

Am I the only one who doesn't like this news?

I shared the Shuttleworth's view on convergence.

I was proposing the sale of a nonexistent product, but making clear that it doesn't (already) exist and telling properly how it will look like. Also, this product should be feasible to do in, say, less than a month.

So, it's kind of a preorder, but a cancellable (by the seller, obviously by the customer too) one.

It's a very tough sale, but precisely for that is a way of discarding business/side projects ideas in a massive way. If you can sell it before it exists, it means that there are people VERY interested in such a product, so you are on the way to success.

Disclaimer: it's very easy to speak and very difficult to put in practice, and I have never tried.

Really? Maybe the way I didn't write it didn't imply it, but I actually meant that you always had to make very clear that the product doesn't exist yet. You are selling the concept of something you are or you will be working on. If after a week you have managed to do only 1 sell, then return the money, say your product didn't receive enough interest, and try something else. However, if you manage to do 1 sell, you will probably manage to do more than 1. The first one is the difficult one.

If you achieve a decent amount of sales in a week, then build quickly the first version of your product.

Instead of building an MVP and then trying to sell it, there are people who suggest: 1-Think of an idea. 2-Make a simple landing page with a mockup or something. 3-Try to sell the product. And by selling the product I mean actually selling it (so people actually transferring you money). If you can achieve a given amount of sells in a given amount of time (important: set concrete goals with concrete timing), then you have validated your product. 4-Build a first version of your product. 5-Iterate.

Very simple to say, very difficult to do (I've never tried, but I would probably fail). But I think there would be ways to systematically apply steps 1-3 until you find the right product to work on.

Any thoughts?

Time to long Ford.

All of these products can potentially be commoditized. But their brand is strong.

Copying Office and making it a webapp with less features is not killing Office. Not even close.

Microsoft Office is legacy software. Its killer won't have anything to do with, it will be totally different. For example, Slack.

I mean, killing PowerPoint is not making a webapp to create presentations, but creating something that makes creating presentations unnecessary.

Ideas: SaaS, ML, cloud dashboards and analytics, communication.

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