In 2005 I got the startup bug and founded a video effects software company. Later built React Studio (https://reactstudio.com) and Vidpresso (YC W14, acquired by Facebook in 2018). Now engineering video stuff at Daily.co (YC W16).
I just took delivery on a new European made car (DS no 8) last week and it’s been great. The driver assist features are useful, automatic lane switching works perfectly, and the driver awareness nags are very modest.
I’d never want to go back to an old non-EV. My previous car was a Tesla, and the DS is as good or better in every respect that matters to me.
It’s a Stellantis brand on their shared platform, so I assume their other brands are similarly fine (Fiat / Opel / Citroen / Peugeot etc, also American Dodge / Chrysler use the same platforms).
So you’re saying that the war-ravaged Europe of 1946 that was split by the Iron Curtain and needed Marshall Aid was more powerful and important than today’s EU?
Insane take. But somehow people will go to any lengths to disparage the EU.
A very HN comment... At the time, almost nobody felt spending billions acquiring these companies was "elementary". Instagram was bought so early that spending a billion on a startup was unheard of. And WhatsApp was so expensive that they questioned Zuck's sanity.
You mention two strategic enablers that made these unusual acquisitions seem obvious to FB leadership. So were those two not good calls?
Windows 2000 really was the best desktop OS from release until 2002 at least.
Linux was incomplete, Sun and SGI were dead except for servers, classic Mac OS was a crashy dinosaur, and Mac OS X was a slow mess. I bought 10.0 on release day and installed it on a dual core G4, almost the top Mac you could buy. It was not usable, much as I wanted to. (The real v1 was Mac OS X 10.2.)
Windows 2000 was designed for real professional apps because late ‘90s Microsoft had a serious appetite for taking over the workstation market. Microsoft acquired companies like Softimage, the leading 3D CGI app, and rebuilt their previously Unix-based products on Windows. This pro usability focus reflected back into the OS itself.
This didn’t last because Microsoft unified the Windows 95/98 consumer lineage into NT/2000, so starting with XP there wasn’t a pro Windows anymore. They had decisively won the workstation market and saw no need to invest anything more (just as happened with browsers). So 2000 remains the last time a major tech company built a pure pro desktop OS. Mac was always a consumer/pro hybrid, and ultimately Apple did it better than Microsoft.
The contemporary right operates on a simple principle: everything they complain about is something they plan to do on a massive scale when they get power. It’s just a process of rationalization (“our enemies left us no choice but to do $bad_thing”).
I remember being shocked back in 2016 when Steve Bannon said he’s a Leninist. But it’s a clear-eyed and unusually honest example of how the far right is about becoming the thing you profess to hate.
If you mean Alexandr Wang, the number is off by an order of magnitude. Forbes estimates he made over $3 billion from selling his startup to Meta and getting hired as chief AI officer.
Think “how do I implement a search engine whose interface is visible in the browser address bar?” This was a reasonable question on the early web. And that’s why they are called query params.
The question mark indicates you’re making a query. And the ampersand is a boolean operator. You could imagine query params implementing | in addition to &.
It reads multiple times “DMCA” on that page but you’re saying it could be some unspecified other type of complaint.
If that’s really the case, isn’t Google a fraudulent party here by sending people DMCA notices that aren’t? The DMCA perjury penalty would seem to apply here as well (lying about receiving a third party notice).
Was there ever a public square where children could participate anonymously among adults? (I’m imagining three Dickensian urchins in a trench coat giving a speech in Hyde Park.)
This LLM PR description style is getting very tiresome. The obvious signs are the little lists (“not x, not y, not z”) and pompous declarations like this:
“The bring-up log at the bottom is honest about what broke and what it took.”
They're getting paid in extremely overvalued stock, so maybe it balances out.
This is not really a diss on SpaceX either because a lot of IPOs go through an immediate pop and then 1-2 years of doldrums as lockouts expire and promises aren't quite delivered.
Nobody knows what 60 billion in SpaceX stock today will be worth when Cursor insiders finally get to sell (at least a year from now, after other SpaceX insiders have started selling).
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