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shrike82 posted:All you need to know about UK unicornland is the nickname for their tech hub "silicon roundabout" when you call something silicon $NAME you know you're a mediocre me-too tech hub late to the game when you call something silicon fen you know you are a provincial shithole that should have specialised in whisky distilleries or something
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blowfish posted:when you call something silicon $NAME you know you're a mediocre me-too tech hub late to the game Silicon Fen is home to the technofae, and adorable. 
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Mar 22, 2016 00:39
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The fall of unicorns: investment opportunities in Silicon Death Valley.
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Prepare to cringe: http://needwant.com/p/visit-factories-china-entrepreneur/
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Mar 22, 2016 15:36
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Prepare to cringe: Seems pretty innocuous to me.
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Mar 22, 2016 15:38
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shrike82 posted:Seems pretty innocuous to me. It's the story of mid twenties white guys going "Hey everyone, the culture in China is different!" over and over again.
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Mar 22, 2016 15:52
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Given the excesses in Unicorn-land these days, I'd have needed the story to be along the lines of them setting up an accelerator in China and getting 100 million in funding from locals due to their white guy status to get erect. White guys tourism is pretty boring.
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Mar 22, 2016 15:55
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Anyone doing manufacturing should visit the factories they're considering. Modern consumer-stuff business involves someone(s) spending a lot of time in China.
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Mar 22, 2016 16:51
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Subjunctive posted:Anyone doing manufacturing should visit the factories they're considering. Modern consumer-stuff business involves someone(s) spending a lot of time in China. Not if you're incompetent and/or plan to be acquired before loving up.
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blowfish posted:Not if you're incompetent and/or plan to be acquired before loving up. Those types tend not to have physical deliverables.
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Subjunctive posted:Anyone doing manufacturing should visit the factories they're considering. Modern consumer-stuff business involves someone(s) spending a lot of time in China.
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How much is lean startup to blame for this current climate? VCs are showering incremental "Uber of X" and "Facebook of Y" products with millions and billions of dollars. Actual innovative products will never get past the MVP phase because the market just wants faster horses.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:57
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This is the stage where a lot of Kickstarters fall apart: they assume they can deal with Chinese manufacturing at arms' length, then they use up all their money receiving and returning shipments that don't meet their standards.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:53
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This is the stage where a lot of Kickstarters fall apart: they assume they can deal with Chinese manufacturing at arms' length, then they use up all their money receiving and returning shipments that don't meet their standards. A friend of mine ran into this with a guy Kickstarting large foam polyhedral dice. They were not well put together, had misprinted numbers and so on, and they complained to the factory. The factory responded by sending a picture of a worker. He was sitting at a desk with the foam and a stencil, spray painting them all by hand. I think he was implied to be the only worker. The Kickstarters stopped complaining.
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foobardog posted:A friend of mine ran into this with a guy Kickstarting large foam polyhedral dice. They were not well put together, had misprinted numbers and so on, and they complained to the factory. The factory responded by sending a picture of a worker. He was sitting at a desk with the foam and a stencil, spray painting them all by hand. I think he was implied to be the only worker. The Kickstarters stopped complaining. Was he chained to his desk?
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WampaLord posted:It's the story of mid twenties white guys going "Hey everyone, the culture in China is different!" over and over again. Also 20% business 80% hey look I'm on vacation in a different place.
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Mar 22, 2016 21:11
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Cultural Imperial posted:Was he chained to his desk? Probably not literally. I think I remember another Kickstarter announcing that after they had ran out of stretch goals, they bought the factory to build nothing, essentially giving the workers a vacation. They actually did not get one normally. Basically, China has gained so much manufacturing because rather than making new machines or something like that, they can throw people at the problem. On one hand, hey, they have jobs, and it's not usually complete sweat shop slavery, just mind-numbing wage slavery. On the other, it really sucks, and will result in one of those famous crises of capitalism at some point.
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I think that was cards against humanity where they ran an Black Friday offer of paying $5 for nothing, then turned around and bought out the factory capacity (to produce a bunch of nothing) to give them some time off.
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Shifty Pony posted:I think that was cards against humanity where they ran an Black Friday offer of paying $5 for nothing, then turned around and bought out the factory capacity (to produce a bunch of nothing) to give them some time off. Given that it's China, the workers were probably working another contract during those hours 
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blowfish posted:Given that it's China, the workers were probably working another contract during those hours Some of them probably did, but CAH asked the workers to write them letters talking about what they did.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:12
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Prepare to cringe: I can't imagine existing in a life where I'm trusting enough to jam a sim card into my phone that promises free internet and I got at a random kiosk.
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Bushiz posted:I can't imagine existing in a life where I'm trusting enough to jam a sim card into my phone that promises free internet and I got at a random kiosk. Seriously. How on earth are they both so trusting and still alive?
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Bushiz posted:I can't imagine existing in a life where I'm trusting enough to jam a sim card into my phone that promises free internet and I got at a random kiosk. Not entirely free, you still have to tap on random Chinese ads to keep your phone topped. Also I just learnt what a top sheet is. I looked up their company and saw they made a blanket which clipped to the top sheet, I assumed the sheet they were talking about was the fitted one that folds around your mattress. It seems they've over-engineered a problem that could have been resolved by ditching this top sheet and getting a duvet to suit you. Marenghi fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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n...nooooquote:Baer, who was recruited to Austin by Trilogy in 1999, says he’s never seen things going as well as they are today. The most recent company to get funding through CF is Aceable, which makes an app that allows you to complete a defensive-driving class by playing a game on a phone. “The cost of creating a start-up has gone down,” says Baer. “And the ability for anyone to get involved has gone up.” It’s a lot like playing music or starting a band. Most start-ups fail, just like most bands do. But for a time, at least, the possibilities seem endless.
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Marenghi posted:Not entirely free, you still have to tap on random Chinese ads to keep your phone topped. Sure, if you like washing your duvet all the time rather than a sheet to keep your bed from starting to pick up a funk. The actual solution to the 'problem' is to make your drat bed once in a while, rather than sleeping in a filthy rats' nest of blankets.
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Liquid Communism posted:Sure, if you like washing your duvet all the time rather than a sheet to keep your bed from starting to pick up a funk. It's almost as easy to remove and wash a duvet cover as it is to sleep with an extra sheet. But it seems like a product you'd see on the shopping channel, especially with their intro video talking about how complicated and hard top sheets are to use. Even if I used a separate sheet alongside my duvet I cannot see making it being such a big deal that I'd buy a specially made combination product.
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If my blanket is clipped to the top sheet how am I supposed to kick it off when my Nest thermostat decides to randomly set the heat at 88 degrees during the middle of the night?
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Shifty Pony posted:If my blanket is clipped to the top sheet how am I supposed to kick it off when my Nest thermostat decides to randomly set the heat at 88 degrees during the middle of the night? Kickr.
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Introducing AssHol, the only solar-funded startup that will expropriate the bones of production from any number of 1br-seeking bourgious
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shrike82 posted:Seems pretty innocuous to me. My favorite parts are how shocked they are by the bamboo scaffolding as opposed to "traditional metal" like nothing more than five feet high was built ever built by humanity before aluminum or glass fibre hybrid and this sentence: "It was a great meal, but felt very foreign." On a scale of great Chinese stories ranging from Handbreezy to Iron Monkey I'd give it a solid Haier. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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Farhad Manjoo in the Times, The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesn’t Translate (you may convey your shock through interpretive dance, on my count. One, two, one two three)quote:Luxe solved parking with an army of smartphone-guided attendants who parked and retrieved your car at the push of a button. That sounds like a bourgeois luxury, but the real magic of Luxe was its underlying economics. By ferrying cars from popular areas to underused parking lots, Luxe’s founders argued that they had discovered a loose thread in the city’s parking knot. It wasn’t simply more convenient — at $5 an hour, with a maximum of $15 for the day — Luxe was also significantly cheaper than just about any other way to park.
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My favorite part is "Though I still use Luxe frequently, it now often feels like just another luxury for people who have more money than time."
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Javascript is a house of cards. tl;dr: some stupid also-ran chat company threatens to sue someone for using the same name as them in some library inside the node.js stack. The developer refuses, but the managers of the stack fold. In response, developer pulls all of his source from the stack. Now loads of other people's builds don't work. Here are those geniuses whose name is oh so important: quote:Only Kik lets you connect with friends, groups, and the world around you through chat. Just ask, “What’s your Kik?” 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Javascript is a house of cards. Holy *cow*. Check out the mail these jerks sent to the developer. https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breaking-of-the-internet-3d4d2a83aa4d#.8bz14mje7
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Neo Rasa posted:My favorite parts are how shocked they are by the bamboo scaffolding as opposed to "traditional metal" like nothing more than five feet high was built ever built by humanity before aluminum or glass fibre hybrid and this sentence: "It was a great meal, but felt very foreign." I stopped reading around that point, but also because the writing style feels like a 5th grader's school paper about their family vacation. Knowing I was actually reading something written by an adult was... off putting.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Holy *cow*. Check out the mail these jerks sent to the developer. I don't know, the developer seems more wrong to me here. On one hand, he has no reason to change the name of his library, considering it already exists. On the other, Kik are very correctly describing trademark law in this case, and I could see how his first email seemed to imply he was planning on further competing with them. That said, assuming his library does highly different things, there's no reason that he can't keep being Kik, just as there is the Unity game engine and the Unity dependency injection framework. But even then, how hard of change would it be? How many users would be impacted? The dev doesn't even consider that, just sticks to his guns. He takes the involvement of the node maintainers as treason, rather than acknowledging he is part of a community that often places limits to work together better. Not that node needs the help, but if avoiding user confusion improves their product, or increases their user base, they should feel fine at asking for the change. The dev went Galt and if this was the real world, he'd be the rear end in a top hat. True, Kik is definitely ignoring how threatening it is to mention involving lawyers, though, even if they don't want to use them. And Kik is definitely hoping their corporate power will win, and underestimated the social power the dev had. Call their library KikChat or something and get over it. Both sides are being idiots here.
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Kik already had a JS SDK; another unrelated JS library with that name is IMO (IANAL) reasonably likely to lead to confusion. (And the communication from Kik was eminently reasonable considering that I'm pretty sure the law and legal process are both stacked on their side.)
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foobardog posted:I don't know, the developer seems more wrong to me here.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I talked to my friend the IP lawyer and she says the developer is completely in the wrong, legally, and that the most unreasonable person here is clearly the developer. I still feel that Kik tried to use a "we're all buddies here, please do this" tone when they weren't buddies and it wasn't a request. Yeah, I definitely agree. This sort of faux friendly tone seems to be the trend among corporate speak, and it annoys me how transparent it often is. Same way that Starbucks wants you to see them as a community, not a company.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I talked to my friend the IP lawyer and she says the developer is completely in the wrong, legally, and that the most unreasonable person here is clearly the developer. I still feel that Kik tried to use a "we're all buddies here, please do this" tone when they weren't buddies and it wasn't a request. They asked how he'd like to proceed, and even offered compensation, when the developer was breaking the law. They were much nicer than the law requires, and much more polite than the developer in the conversation. The outcome was pre-ordained: he was going to remove or rename the "kik" projects. IMO the Kik representative was more than considerate in exploring how to get to that point.
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