thanks, we've found that it does take about 5-6 days before there is enough data, but from there they are a good approximation. One cool thing is that since it is a historical model, if some major event happens during your campaign (big media hit, some successful paid adverts etc), the model will adapt accordingly.
I'm a nerd, and I'm sorry to be crude but NERD ALERT. A smart watch today starts at Geeky and works, laboring and awkwardly, towards generally acceptable.
If you think a smart watch by any manufacturer, at this early point, is everything but geeky you gotta get out of the office.
Every time I see stories like this on HN I am very tempted to scream about how my burn rate is $700/mo living a very good life without too many distractions from my work. I cannot imagine why people would lace up with lead boots on their first venture by trying it in SF.
"We all like to believe great works are made like the book Ulysses. James Joyce locking himself literally in a hotel room for 2 years straight and doing nothing but working. But reality most great works take as much from what surrounds them as give back to it." -John Green (Slightly Paraphrased).
"all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen." - John le Carre
It does happen. However, as the article you linked notes, they hold the reins a lot tighter when it does. I speak from personal experience, since I ran a startup located in Florida which was funded by DFJ. I can say that it was a different experience than the typical Valley startup; we didn't benefit as much from networking as much as we possibly could have. After the first year, we would have a new funding round every few months, and we had to meet benchmarks to show progress. Even though Tim is a really nice guy and was great to work with, it was very stressful to operate with such a short but continually lengthened (until it wasn't) runway. I wouldn't recommend it to the weak of constitution. However, I can understand why they did it - without eyes on the scene on a frequent basis, they were putting much more trust in us than they were in other startups which they could more easily monitor and guide.
Why is this "hacking"? Using this word in lieu of more suitable words like innovating, variating, changing, or adapting (for starters) devalues the word's meaning and makes light of English's amazingly diverse buffet of vocabulary and rather expansive etymological roots.
Fair enough. I (the author of the post) actually changed the title some time after posting. I wasn't happy with the word choice myself, but I couldn't find the right words.
I don't want to stir up bad blood, I'm just making a point so don't kill me =).
Almost every one of those devices has at least 5 buttons (up, down, left, right center). That's not simple at all. One button is simple. The touch screen on the iphone takes those away so only one is needed. It's the reason the iphone got so dominant--it worked.
It's the reason Jobs realized his foray into tableting in the 90s (with development starting in 1987, the first being released in 1993!), the Newton, sucked. He killed it when he realized it wasn't working. The tech wasn't there, when it was, he moved.
I know people hate apple, but they need to look at this objectively. this wasn't apples first rodeo--they helped write the book on the PDA market. They're also not suing palm or Visor or HP. Those companies didn't reiterate. Apple did.
If you wanna hate, hate being judged by a jury of your peers (you probably shouldn't do that), or our current patent system. And drink some tea or something.
Jobs was running NeXT during the development of the Newton. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in late 1985 and became interim CEO in September 1997. He discontinued the Newton project in March 1998 to refocus the company toward profitability again.
Well color me schooled. Still, I've always had the impression from interviews (just an impression mind you), that it was a dream of his to have a working tablet, but the tech wasn't there. He was thinking about it is the sense I got, but I could be off.
question for the founders I'm really curious about because you probably get asked it a lot (and it probably has a great answer): why would I use this over CL?
