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Re: Bijan Sabet — Don't break the bronco

antrod — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:14:27 -0000

I think this is a lovely observation. Too many times board members expect the founder to be superhuman and their dissatisfaction is often clothed is ridiculous terms like "founder X doesn't scale." Scaling in that way is something you do as pixels in a CAD program not human beings— and certainly not ones with the rare form of crazy that makes things people love.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/07/28/disposable-vending-machines-thoughts-on-my-nexus-7

antrod — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:54:51 -0000

iPad falls on your face because it is too heavy.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/02/14/why-the-cylons-will-first-arrive-through-the-twitter-stream

antrod — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:36:33 -0000

Steve,

Your comment has me thinking of doing a "bot economy" post where we take all of the things that can be botted (CPC ads, app downloads, social network activity) and subtract out the amount of automated activity from the ultimate value of the asset. With your 35% number this would imply that most of the 10X Internet properties are worth only about 60% as much as people who value them on traffic think they are. Hmm...

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/27/on-selling-companies-and-the-startup-ecosystem-virtuous-cycle

antrod — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:28:02 -0000

Amen brother!

Re: http://weblog.bocoup.com/startup-data-trends

antrod — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:44:42 -0000

I love the transparency of implementation here as well. Much more useful than the backbone Todo tutorial to understand what you can do. I'd definitely drill into this implementation with a few more posts if you are up for it.

Well done.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/19/how-ios-can-lose-the-independent-developer-as-a-canary-in-the-coal-mine

antrod — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:58 -0000

Steve,

No, you!

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/09/android-as-we-know-it-will-die-in-the-next-two-years-and-what-it-means-for-you

antrod — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:25:01 -0000

I agree that few people care about technical implementation details but I don't agree that they don't care about bigger issues like: latency on the UI, lack of 3d hardware acceleration, etc. They may not know what to call it but they definitely know how not to use it.

On your suggestion about the end run, I like the idea. Not sure you can get away with it legally but if you could, it would certainly be a worthwhile contrarian bet worth exploring.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/09/android-as-we-know-it-will-die-in-the-next-two-years-and-what-it-means-for-you

antrod — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:32:07 -0000

I agree with you 100%. And the diversity may be as healthy for the ecosystem as biodiversity is for an ecology.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/09/android-as-we-know-it-will-die-in-the-next-two-years-and-what-it-means-for-you

antrod — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:40:44 -0000

Good feedback. I'd love to hear from others if it is hard to read this. Every piece of type on the page should be user scalable.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/09/android-as-we-know-it-will-die-in-the-next-two-years-and-what-it-means-for-you

antrod — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:37:36 -0000

+1 to the app fad not lasting. I really hope you are right and it is a right catch there.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/09/android-as-we-know-it-will-die-in-the-next-two-years-and-what-it-means-for-you

antrod — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:37:10 -0000

Steve,

I agree with you that 3D is the worst stuff on compatibility today but fear that it is going to be a lot worse going forward. More Fire-like experiences and fewer Sense-like experiences.

Re: http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2012/01/09/android-as-we-know-it-will-die-in-the-next-two-years-and-what-it-means-for-you

antrod — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:35:09 -0000

Guys,

We haven't held that stock since before I was out of high school. I will admit that until Dec 31, I personally held a bunch of Apple stock. And lest you think that I am an Apple fanboi, I've got another post coming on what they are doing wrong in the next couple of days.

I like open systems including the Android splinters. I just loved the notion of a really wide, standard Android system more and was trying to write the eulogy for that phase of the vision.

Re: Quick thoughts on the Kindle Fire

antrod — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:20:40 -0000

I think the iPod touch is masterfully designed around cost constraints while most of this thing was left in the hands of the ODM on that front. BTW, on the touch also sucking, I wonder if the reason why that is isn't because what AZ really wants is a free device and therefore they are putting most of their cycles against the $79 one which on the face of it looks like a vast ID improvement over the last version. At current course and speed, they might get to $0 on that one next year which might be a truly disruptive thing for them to do in the content business.

Re: Bye bye Steve

antrod — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:51:23 -0000

I agree. I was at D with them and it was awesome. They were both super approachable after.

Re: Bye Bye space program

antrod — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:12:54 -0000

Joe,

Your story about the lacking color printer kills me. I guess this is what happens when bureaucracies are allowed to run amok. I recently got to meet astronaut Scott Parazynski and I asked him what he thought might take the place of NASA in encouraging future generations of explorers and engineers. He was optimistic about the private sector but had no better answer than that.

Re: How Much Money To Raise

antrod — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:08:09 -0000

Am I wrong in thinking that for most of the history of the venture business, the A round has been 40-50% dilutive with 2 firms each ending up with 20-25% of the company?

Re: Declaring and getting through Twitter bankruptcy

antrod — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:17:15 -0000

You know Savage, back in 07 when I last saw Ev Williams he madea provocative statement about how great products come from taking existing ones that are popular and adding a constraint (the 140 chars being his on blogging). Maybe it is time for the 1 tweet per day constraint!

Re: Declaring and getting through Twitter bankruptcy

antrod — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:06:52 -0000

Ray,

I'd be happy to. Shoot me an email and I'll send both the jQuery to make ManageFlitter more useful and the Python code to selectively bulk delete.

Re: Leveraging the Dark Matter of the Internet (or a prediction for WWDC)

antrod — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:58:17 -0000

So which company with millions of deployed CPUs can do this?

Re: Everybody codes— a year later

antrod — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:33:57 -0000

I think it does. Plus is helps engineers understand real world pain. +1 to this idea.

Re: It's all the same: app breadth is now irrelevant

antrod — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:08:56 -0000

1. yes for sure. Look no further than China.
2. Nokia is done in my opinion. Death by neglect (and I say this having been a diehard user for a decade)
3. In the enterprise, it is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

Re: Everybody codes— a year later

antrod — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:02:12 -0000

This is a great pointer. Were I trying to learn to program today, I'd probably start with this for webby stuff or the Stanford iPhone course for mobile stuff. Thanks for pointing it out!

Re: Everybody codes— a year later

antrod — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:11:30 -0000

Try this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/19.... The one I used 10 years ago was Programming Python but it looks like it may have fallen off since then.

Re: Five Reasons Not to Buy an iPad 2

antrod — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:18:21 -0000

You are missing weight as the key new thing. And what would be good to know is whether the .2 lbs (which seems like a trivial amount) really makes a difference as the original one is too heavy as an ebook reader.

Re: How to hire front-end engineers

antrod — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:41:04 -0000

I think that while back-end folks may benefit from a take-home test, my main point was the the other tactics work well for them as proxies for talent on the job. Not 100% but better than the totally random correlation between these tests and the skills of a good FE engineer.