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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Although the rendering engines and computer vision are rather mature, we’re still years away in terms of packaging all of this in a sleek glasses-like form factor.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Id then allow digg style voting up of stories in order to bubble things up to the top page of the site.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Today with algorithms we have a secret black box. Just like last century, corporations claim they can’t tell us what’s inside their algorithms as it’s ‘a trade secret’. I’ll add that they do actually make editorial decisions when they filter content through algorithms. Natural Monopolies.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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