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HBO is in a position to know, but HBO isn't in a position to make decisions on the basis of what benefits HBO. Rather, HBO has to do what's best for Time Warner as a whole regardless of whether what they decide is in HBO's interest.
Unsure. I know we haven't had cable/sat for six years now and haven't looked back. Sure, I miss the history channel from time to time, but the only time we watch TV is for superbowl, etc. The rest of the time we stream through netflix or amazon, so we went from $150 or so a month to 7.00 for amazon prime and 8.00 netflix.

I don't think we're alone, which gets to your point about how many people are out there. How would you even begin to measure that number?
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"And what they are doing seems to be working out the best for them."

then

"It's possible they are wrong, but if they are wrong they will be the ones suffering the consequences."

You can't have it both ways.

My opinion: there's no way to know if they are right or wrong. I'm one of their new potential customers of HBO Go only. I pirated a bunch of HBO shows only because it was the only way for me to see them. I would have paid $10-15/mo to see them. I do, after all, want these shows I like to be successful and to make many more seasons.
I'm sorry, but you should really ask yourself if this is true. Bing maybe, as they can do what ddg does and pull a feed from Yahoo/Bing BOSS (maybe?) but to scrape Google would be a very bad and unreliable (and counter to the Google TOS) way of getting this information.

This whole situation is very sketchy, honestly.
Thanks - really appreciate it. Sorry again.
The techcrunch article title is misleading - they don't want to be Amazon; they're not maintaining warehouses (which may prevent them from crashing like Webvan). They're effectively delivery people that you hire to bring you products from local stores, which is a very different market.

Regardless, there are a lot of dead companies that litter the path for a product like this. I'd be surprised if Instacart succeeds.
This is fantastic! It leaves me wondering if there could be some email tickler, or even email input ability that could keep you on the wagon, filing out your forms.

I really enjoy the summaries from 3 months ago I get from idonethis.com and I could see some similarities here.

Way to keep it simple and focused.
I'm not using enyo, so I don't know from a dev's perspective, but according to http://enyojs.com/about/ , it is targeted to be cross platform, including all major browsers on the web.
I don't think that's the moral at all. The moral is that when you build on someone else's platform, they may decide to extinguish you at any moment.

That doesn't mean never build on someone else's platform, it just means to be aware of the risk and include it in your planning.
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Chart My Self looks like it takes a lot of work; Lucid Tracker doesn't.

In all seriousness, their tool is used primarily for tracking quantifiable health-related things. You can track pretty much whatever you want with Lucid Tracker and it doesn't have to be quantifiable.
Milkplease (refused by YC) is more promising and we are trying to be faster

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I don't really think anything about Dalton's motivations, I was commenting more that FB was attempting to buy an amicable outcome. They sort of made a mess of it, but I think that was their intent.

When I do think about Dalton's motivations, I think he made a very risky bet and lost, and he's probably a bit angry with himself as much as he is with anyone else. Nothing wrong with that, I'd probably feel the same way.
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That is ever so subtly different.
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Thanks for the kudos.

As someone else recommended, I'll probably implement an optional email reminder system down the road. Accepting inputs via email would be very tricky though. We'll see what folks want.
7.62x39 ... It's generally the same is the 5.56 (basically a .223) in that it's a non-expanding bullet typically due to the FMJ

The fact that they're typically jacketed is where the similarity starts and ends. They are loaded differently, spin at different rates, and so on. But most obviously, 7.62x39 is almost twice the diameter of 5.56.

7.62x39 is probably much more comparable to the .308 Winchester [1] typically used for hunting larger game. According to wikipedia, "the .308 Winchester has become the most popular short-action, big-game hunting cartridge worldwide".

Now, circling back to my original point about the AR-15 (or, really, the 5.56mm cartridge it shoots) being low-power, wikipedia lists the energy of the energy of the .308 bullet at 3600J-3900K, nearly triple the power of the 5.56mm.

So I stand by my claim that the AR-15 is a low-power rifle.

You can purchase non-NATO 5.56/.223 ammo for hunting, and are typically required to use it when hunting game.

This is absolutely false. 5.56mm ammunition is too small for hunting deer, bear, etc. You've got to be a very good shot to take down large animals with something bearing so little energy. That's why hunters tend to use rounds in the .30cal range -- like the .308 I mentioned, and also very commonly the 7.62x39 from the AK, but when hunting it's probably being shot out of an SKS [2]. Wikipedia verifies that "In the early 1990s, the Chinese SKS rapidly became the "poor man's deer rifle" in some Southern areas of the United States".

So there are a variety of larger cartridges used for hunting larger game, generally in the .30cal neighborhood or more, because the 5.56mm/.223 cartridge just doesn't carry enough energy to take down the big animals.

(looks like someone changed the wikipedia link on me! The new link for 7.62x39 is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62%C3%9739mm )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.308_Winchester

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sks
I'm wondering what army or manufacturing facility is going to assemble 2,000 devkits?
If you have some solid technical skills that you can put on a resume and "prove" in any way(experience, project you've coded, open source patches, etc) you can easily get a well paying internship. 20+ /hour easy.
Here's one source, though I don't think anyone's ever accused Nielsen of being particularly scientific...

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/i-wa...

"Americans spend 35 hours each week watching content across screens, and 94 percent of that is still on a traditional television."

(This isn't exactly the same as people who for-sure don't "want to" drop traditional TV, but my suspicion is that anyone consuming 35 hours (!!) a week needs the 100-channels-24-7 stream of traditional cable or satellite to sate them. Pay-as-you-go has a way to go before it's cost-effective compared to that.)
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Exciting to see your perspective, Vikram, including the evolution of an incredible product like Firebase.

In some ways joining a startup in the middle of YC is the best time - as employee #1, you're almost a founder yourself, with tremendous input over the direction of the company. Is that how it felt to you?
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Metro is not even out for desktop in its final form and you seem to have accumulated a lot of opinions on it already. :) It is different than what people are used to so people are bound to have polarizing views on it.

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bin is not an integer field. It's a binary field - it can save anything.

And no, you can not save 'y' to an integer field, so your rant is misplaced.
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I just downvoted you by accident on mobile, it should have beeb an upvote.
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Would it help Google if they bought it as their own dev tool for Android? Something like Apple's own Xcode? Or are the incompatibilities too great to bother with it?
So because HBO is selling more subscriptions to HBO (due to having one of the most popular shows available), they're doing as well as they possibly can? That seems like it's ignoring all of the customers they could pick up and are sweeping aside as irrelevant.

Everything that Bewkes says indicates that he has preconceived notions of what he wants his business model to be. I would be very surprised if he wasn't cherry-picking data to meet his hypothesis. It's not very surprising that the CEO of a television conglomerate is sticking with forcing people to get cable subscriptions - that's probably better for Time Warner's bottom line, not HBO's.
Aren't you always extending Facebook's core features when building with their API? The point of leveraging Facebook platform is to build amazing products that Facebook doesn't have the time or resources to create (see zuck's statement on the importance of Facebook platform during the earnings call).
On the subject of ultrabooks: I've seen plenty which look sleek. I have yet to find one which combines equivalent quality fit and finish, screen, keyboard, and battery life at any meaningful cost savings.

Even if such a product exists, the other side of that is hardware / software integration: does the vendor not install a bunch of crap which needs to be removed / disabled, did Microsoft provide a single, simple place to configure and interact with the system (hint: maybe for Windows 9), etc. None of these are unworkable but I've heard them mentioned over and over by people who've switched from PCs to Macs over the last decade[1] enough that it feels like the sharp decline of the traditional PC industry is more due to some local-minima revenue decisions than anything else.

1. That describes me as well but I'm excluding my own experience as unrepresentative & sticking to more normal users
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As befits the hype surrounding fruit based cult of personality, too much focus on individuals in these reports. Without wanting to diminish his achievements you need more than a couple of guru VP's to building best in class SoC's on schedule.
Of course, it goes without saying (or even trawling linkedin) that Apple has built up such a team from a range of sources for an impressive pipeline of future products :-)
This isn't really a MySQL issue though. He used bin instead of int, and MySQL did exactly what he asked - stored the raw binary data as is.
Capturing the video display from the presenter seems almost easier than having a videographer manually time static slide changes along to the video afterwards.

This also assumes that people use slide decks that can't be shared afterwards (in their original glory), can't iframe content, or have syntax highlighting within reach? I'm sorry but for developer speakers and audiences, Keynote is a poor choice.
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They used to do that. They were told to stop. They stopped. They found a new way that didn't affect CL bandwidth. So what they started off doing is not all that relevant to what they are doing now. However, what this Chrome Extension is doing is pretty much what PadMapper was doing... so it would follow that this Chrome Extension will get smacked. Or worse... the extension users each get smacked.
While I agree that a lot of smart people have tried this before (Kozmo.com, WebVan, etc), I believe that there are significant differences in the approach that we are taking.

Specifically, Kozmo.com was founded in an era where you could IPO without having profits. Having that mentality from day one allowed them to make huge concessions to users such as give them free delivery on everything, and not have a minimum order. For example, you could pay $1.50 for a gum on Kozmo and get it delivered to you within an hour. WebVan, on the other hand spend $1B on building it's own warehouses and fulfillment infrastructure.

Learning from those companies, we have done a lot of things differently. For starters, there is a minimum order of $10. There is a delivery fee of $3.99 for 3 hours and $9.99 for 1 hour. (Would you not pay $4 for someone to do all your groceries?) And, we do not hold any inventory - all of it is sourced directly from local retailers.

It is also important to mention that the time that we live in is very different. People are a lot more comfortable adding their credit card information on web/mobile. Not to mention, the access to smart phones that people have gives customers the ability to shop from anywhere - office, couch, next to the fridge.

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I would suggest looking at Comcast's subscriber numbers they release with their quarterly earnings. They are still gaining subscribers. I'm not sure they have recovered to pre-recession levels yet. Employment & housing have such a huge impact on the cable industry it's hard to decouple the data. You could argue the subscriber drops of previous years were due to IP video but now that the numbers are on the rebound that seems unlikely unless people switched to IP video exclusively and found it to be inadequate. It's also important to look at Comcast (and others) own IP video solutions which are not talked about a lot but may fill the void that would otherwise send customers into IP-only solutions. If you have Comcast and you want to watch TV on your iPad the easiest way is to just use the XFINITY TV app. The cable MSOs were very slow to take IP video seriously but, IMO, they are in much better shape now. I'm sure HBO is aware of this too. They are betting that bundled linear/IP services are going to be the way most customers consume media.
If you miss the history channel of six years ago, trust me, you're not missing anything now.
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P.S. Typo on FAQs: 'desgned' should be 'designed'
I recently had a meeting where our side came out of it literally saying "WTF was that?". We'd expected it to be about how a partnership would progress and it was more the other side questioning us about why there should be a partnership at all.

In retrospect, our contact with the other side that had set up the meeting hadn't properly communicated to us what the meeting would be about, and presumably had not communicated much with his side about what they were looking for at this stage.

Their side was basically dysfunctional, with each person on their team having a different agenda.

I wouldn't say that meeting was mal-intentioned, just that their company was really screwed up.

Facebook may be in a similar stage at certain levels.
Could you side-load it?
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