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You know that's a good question. I feel like I would want to know though. Another thought I had was some sort of Machine learning Caller ID/CAPTCHA that just emits some garbage that only a…

If I got a call from Duplex and I asked Are you a robot? Is it required to tell me the truth?

I worked for bbn.com back in the mid 2000's before they went out of business. BBN employed some of the smartest people I've ever worked with, but the company couldn't figure out how to…

I have an interesting Jekyll performance story. I was trying to build a website [1] that was going to be the new destination for git information. The site is a static site and I figured that since J…

I just ran both of the speed test benchmarks [1][2] mentioned in the article, plus two other tests [3][4]. | Firefox | Safari | Chrome ----------------|--…

That's effectively what Jump Bikes are. I took one last week in SF and they go about 30 miles an hour with very little effort. They aren't fully electric though, just electric assist.

I was at WWDC last week chatting with a few folks about this (San Jose had tons of Bird and Lime scooters all over the place). One of the thing that these scooter companies (and deckles bikes) are do…

I read a story a few weeks ago where people were actually taking the scooters. Then they would be marked as stolen, and the people would return them and collect the lost & found fee.

You want to buy gitignore.io? I'll sell it for a fair and reasonable price :).

I have an ex-coworker who just got a job in Seattle at Facebook and he mentioned something similar. The reason it came up is because some executives were trying to push React Native as a solution for…

To be fair, the organization only consists of 1 guy (Aleksei Potov) at the moment.

I'm still surprised that no company has been able to de-throne Twitter.

I totally agree. That's really what makes picking extremely difficult. It takes a lot of due diligence when searching for an opportunity to figure out which one is going to be great for your fi…

Coinbase, Uber, AirBnb, Pinterest, Lyft are a few. Look at where the tech media is focused on right now. Sharing economy, Social Media, Ride Sharing, AR/VR, Cryptocurrencies, and companies work…

Good lord AMP is garbage. I get sent to this Redirect Notice link. Can a moderator update the link please?

I wonder if people make New Years resolutions to stop using Facebook and then relapse a few weeks in?

I've been rejected from YC at every stage, but I still think there is a lot of value in building relationships with the community. There are tons of people from all sides of the spectrum that yo…

None of the addresses in your examples are the same.

An exit is not an exit for everyone. In a lot of cases, employees are investors too and sometimes acquihires are only wins for people that own preferred stock (vC's, founders), not common stock.

Being acquired or acqui-hired(soft landing) means the company (and probably the culture) is gone. I worked at BBN Technologies back in the mid 2000's. This is the company that co-founded the in…

I don't think business school is for people that want to be entrepreneurs. I have a lot of friends who think that business school is for people who want to become entrepreneurs. Business sc…

1280 Companies[1] — 1 IPO Kingmakers... hardly. I remember going to a Commonwealth Club talk in January of 2013 titled: "Y Combinator:The Secret in this Incubator's Sauce". They talke…

GetAround is big in SF. I did an interview there about 5 years ago and I also used their services supplementing ZipCar. The cars for GetAround were a lot nicer, but the experience of getting the key…