JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: CTO Lunches
NYC group?
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JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: Is the Lean Startup Dead?
Theoretically you're right. In practice not enough customers think about that risk for it to have a material impact on the startup's financial viability.
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: The End of the TV Writers’ Room?
I met up with a pro TV writer I know and he said he was so happy the season was over because he could finally go to a mattress store and buy a new mattress. He said he didn't have time to do it for the last X months.
Basically being a TV writer is like working in video games; there's another person right behind you who would love to have your job because of the perceived glamor so terrible conditions persist.
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: The Middle Child Is Going Extinct
Going extinct? Typical middle-child attention getting stunt.
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: Please stop asking me to use the app
They should have bought Shine and called it a day. Amazing how poorly their new UI works compared to a Chrome extension.
jelling | 7 years ago | on: Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade
Portugal is popular with the digital nomads because it's cheap. It's a similar situation in the canary islands. But knowing these types well, they tend to focus on lifestyle businesses / business with small markets so it's a long-shot that they will materially increase employment locally.
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: Developers are manufacturing prefabricated apartment buildings
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: Ada Diamonds sells lab-grown diamonds and jewelers can't tell
I.e. the mattress in a box business model.
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: When a College Takes on American Poverty
The Atlantic and other sites regularly change A/B test article titles so they likely changed it
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: PatternFly – a web UI framework by RedHat
Probably because complaining isn't allowed at work. They mandated the usage so that's not a good sign especially when OPs complaints are deal breakers for anyone who isn't mandated to use it.
I.e. the emperor has too much kb.
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: How to Run a Blockchain on a Deserted Island with Pen and Paper
SpaldingCoin is the hottest ICO in the archipelago
JohnnyConatus | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you handle long-running workflows at your company?
Have you tried integrating home-grown services into their workflows? Curious as otherwise it looks pretty good.
JohnnyConatus | 8 years ago | on: Google is bleeding cash trying to take on Amazon in the smart home
Smart lights are the killer app for Alexa. There's no going back once you have it. And the only thing keeping most people from getting smart lights is the cost which will fall.
JohnnyConatus | 8 years ago | on: Chasing fake volume: a crypto-plague
White label exchange providers openly advertise wash trading as a feature. Also many provide liquidity from other exchanges so using aggregate market cap across exchanges is extremely inaccurate.
JohnnyConatus | 8 years ago | on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
Also winter. Most of the dense cities in the U.S. also have significant winter weather that makes biking less ideal.
JohnnyConatus | 8 years ago | on: Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails
IANAL, is this a real risk? This sounds like suing a paper company for a ransom note written on it's paper. You can bring a suit for nearly anything but it feels like there would be a lot of precedent to immediately dismiss it.
JohnnyConatus | 8 years ago | on: Foxconn buys Belkin for $866M
According to sources, Foxconn really didn't want to buy Belkin but that's all they had at the store.
jelling | 8 years ago | on: I Hope for Goldman Sachs’ Bankruptcy: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game
He may be a pompous jerk but 400 lbs is still significant.
JohnnyConatus | 8 years ago | on: Lessons from Spotify
Spotify is an excellent product. They have addressed and solved almost every problem users cited for why they wouldn't pay for music via other means.
It's time to admit it: consumers do not deserve this level of product in exchange for listening to a few ads. These users are obviously unprofitable. And the premium version could likely be more expensive, too.
The devaluation of music was a collective moral convenience. Now it's time to pay.
JohnnyConatus | 8 years ago | on: Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption Promised
I have FIOS and aside from finally syncing my online backups, I've been struck by how little difference / improvement there is over cable. I'm not a gamer so the latency doesn't matter. My TV isn't 4k so no help there and I suspect video "CDNs" will be the primary fix for most of the market.
What is the best use case for fiber? I feel like I'm missing it.
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