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NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: Lock-free Multi-producer Multi-consumer Queue on Ring Buffer

You may prefer this version of the article which is better formatted but split across multiple pages: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lock-free-multi-producer...

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: Report: Dropbox seeks new funding, valuing company at $8 billion

"Dropbox tallied $116 million in sales last year, more than doubling its $46 million in revenue in 2011. The year before, it nearly quadrupled sales from $12 million."

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: PrimeSense bought by Apple for $345M

If Apple did indeed acquire Primesense, there certainly is good possibility that they will keep the hardware and software for themselves and stop licensing it out to other companies.

I wonder if this spells doom for the following products: ASUS Xtion http://event.asus.com/wavi/product/xtion.aspx

Structure Sensor http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/occipital/structure-sens...

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source

Taptrix (the developers behind Inkpad and Brushes) was YC S10, though if I remember correctly they joined YC after their Brushes app was already a smashing success on the iPad. Brushes was released the same day the iPad 1 came out and the two guys behind it were both Apple veterans. [1] [2]

Brushes — This startup created the Brushes application for painting on your iPhone or iPad. The app was used to create the well-known iPhone covers for the New Yorker. With 250,000 paying users and $60,000 in monthly revenue, Brushes apparently holds the YC record for most profitable startup on Demo Day. Its eventual goal is to become the “Adobe of touch devices” by building a suite of apps. [3]

If I had to guess, I'd say the devs probably have enough money to retire. Congrats! Thank you for contributing your code to the world.

[1] http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/03/brushes-ipad-launch-scree...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/y-combinator-demo-day-2/

[3] http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/24/five-new-y-combinator-star...

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: New Dell UltraSharp Monitors

While I hope that this will be the first 4K monitor to do 4K 60p over DisplayPort using SST I highly doubt this is the case. I was hoping the same for the Panasonic's 4K 65" LCD but no such luck.

Still waiting for the first 4K display to support 10-bit 4K 60p over DisplayPort SST and have HDMI 2.0 ports. Will have to wait until CES 2014 for more HDMI 2.0 displays.

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Sketchology

Can you export to SVG, PDF or some other vector format?

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: Lenovo’s new Yoga 2 Pro has the same flexible hinge, 3200×1800 display

Except most 4K displays can't do 60Hz which for most is the bare minimum for computer usage.

I would avoid that Seiki monitor, it can only do 4K at 30Hz max and there are wide reports that it can't even do 1080p at 120 Hz properly (even though its in the spec sheet).

The first 4K 60p input displays are just coming to the market this year. You can see a list: http://www.noteloop.com/kit/4k/

Right now it is just a trickle but expect a flood of both cheap and expensive 4K 60p displays next year.

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: Steve Blank: Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats

http://www.paulgraham.com/control.html is a good follow up to read on this topic.

NLPsajeeth | 12 years ago | on: Snapchat close to raising $100 million

I wonder how many millions will end up at Google since Snapchat is built on Google App Engine. [1]

[1] http://gigaom.com/2013/05/07/snapchats-act-of-faith-in-build...;

NLPsajeeth | 13 years ago | on: 37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million

$40M+ Exits with Public Prices:

Heroku - W08 - $212M > Salesforce [1]

OMGPOP - S06 - $180M > Znyga [2]

SocialCam - W12 - $60M > Autodesk [3]

Loopt - S05 - $43.4M > Green Dot [4]

$40M+ Exits with Rumored Prices:

Parse - S11 - $85M > Facebook [5]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-he...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/zynga-ceo-mark-pincus-omgpo...

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/17/socialcam-autodesk-60-milli...

[4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/09/green-dot-...

[5] http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/facebook-parse/

NLPsajeeth | 13 years ago | on: 37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million

pg says in a later tweet reply [1] that it is 37 out of 511. Which is 7.24%.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/338809374459977729

NLPsajeeth | 13 years ago | on: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

Although Google Checkouts is shutting down, Google Wallet for Digital Goods still lives on (https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449). It offers pretty much the best pricing on the net (most favorable of 5% or 1.9% + 30c (USD) per transaction is automatically applied.) and works in way more countries and currencies than Google Checkout ever did (https://developers.google.com/commerce/wallet/digital/faq).