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The Great American Fear(medium.com)
3 points by FreedomToCreate 11y ago|2 comments
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
These points are spot on, but I also believe these are common sense things everyone knows. The issue is that its extremely difficult to detach from the digital world and many jobs require you be available at any time. A a previous job (they
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Walt Mossberg outlined the issues really well. A lot of programs are becoming bloated, and as the company expands the number of people working on its products fragmentation across the platform is inevitable. Essentially Apple is the first c
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Similar things happened in Canada under the Harper government. When everything is viewed from a monetary gain perspective, a lot of research that has no foreseeable innovation or gain becomes obsolete, but this viewpoint is extremely distor
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Probably the "If i build it, they will come" mentality.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
The author is on point in describing how to create a business not just an app but he glosses over that many people develop apps with monetization as an afterthought and that monetizing an app is as complex as rocket science. Pleco had a lot
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
I scary to think about. I currently spend my days in a start up incubator and a majority of people in there are on this same schedule. They sit for 8-10 hours a day and rarely exercise, all with the hope and sometime soon they will be back
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
The product video nails it. I would purchase this if only there was a major city with a tech industry that was affordable enough to buy a house in. One thing though, how well do the vents block air from flowing through? I know the vent grat
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
I agree that there are probably some conspiracies, even statistically its bound to happen. People always have something to hide. Whats ridiculous though are the infowars type of sites that literally state everything is a conspiracy and that
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
I know for fact that engineering students who attend universities like Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo and Stanford, receive way more opportunities to work for major companies early on versus their peers at other public and private universities.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Doubt it. They would just say that the One World Order elites have done this to trick us even more.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
I already have to mute or turn off slack for periods of time at work because the group chats I am in get out of hand. I also use WeChat and remember a couple of colleagues transforming our event organizing group into a debate about racial s
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
The most important line from the author is "it takes time to be a good programmer". Those nights of debugging and reimplementing will decrease as you better understand how to develop code. Also I find open concept offices terrible
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Wonder what this guy would say to the countless millions who toil away in factories, big box retail, and accounting offices. None of these people do this for the love of the job. They do it because it needs to be done and they get paid for
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Its absolutely incredible how year after year, Apple convinces people to continually upgrade their devices, as well as drive new customers to there business. An important metric to note from there release however is that 66% of sales came f
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
This concept is going to be the future of Slack. It is going to be interesting to see the multitude of start-ups focused on developing bots for Slack, Facebook and other platforms. Apple could probably make Siri more useful if they opened u
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Individual component prices to give a sense of how much it would cost you alone to make one versus NTC.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Went through the schematic and digikey/taobao(chinese eBay)/googled the most significant ones. Came out to roughly 45 bucks and added 5 bucks for the passives i didn't look up.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
I priced the BOM and it came to 50 bucks USD. So yeah there is definitely aggressive subsidizing going on, but the company is small and growing so they must have something in place that makes their plan feasible.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
NTC worked directly with Allwinner and I believe they have a special agreement that made the CHIP possible. There business model is kind of like the Gillette Model. Sell the CHIP for cheap and get people to buy the accessories which have mu
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
That was a long read but I got a real sense for the struggle, work and success the Snapsort/Sortable team has gone through. The road to forming a company is windy and complex and I don't think there is anyway to understand it unti
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How Zano raised millions and failed - Detailed report(medium.com)
5 points by FreedomToCreate 11y ago|0 comments
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
What about companies that went through a specific type of accelerator (ex. hardware, or life science focused) and now wants to accelerate there business growth. How are these types of accelerators viewed by YC?
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
The price is high but I had a chance to play around with a set and the quality is impeccable. The dials and buttons have a great tactile feel and everything works fast. Blows away having to go through adobe control panel. I really want one,
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
To use a tech example, look at computers. Just 20 years ago they were extremely expensive and out of the hands of many people, especially schools in poorer communities. Through manufacturing processes, we have driven there price extremely l
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
I think the cynical thing here is assuming that the Elite class will continue to grow and make the lower economic classes suffer at their expense. The thing is though that being overly rich in a shit world is not much of a benefit to anyone
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Its a game. God is hiding somewhere in the Universe and we have to find him. Thats the purpose. Its just a giant game of Hide and Seek.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
Pretty Cynical there. Its really all about perspective. Look at this. As we continue to automate things, we reduce the time and effort required to manufacture the things we need. This creates an immense amount of leisure time. As we focus o
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
If Planet Nine exists I wonder how the astrologers will tweak there models.
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by FreedomToCreate 11y ago
This is awesome, but man are they are ton of different programming languages for the purpose of learning now. Most beginners are going to be confused on just which one to pick. Best to Wolfram. Lets see if this can become the pack leader.

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