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ppl have been asking me my opinions on space channel 5 vr... and i guess since i bought a vr headset off craigslist just so i could play it and speedrun it before work the day it came out... i should talk abt it now... i dont rly think i’ll be able to separate it into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ things i think i’m just going to do a rambly stream of consciousness bc i have a headache... but i DO have good things to say abt this game... so st.... sta stay t tune  d

right off the bat, the thing i appreciate most abt this game- i like that space channel 5 vr doesnt have cash grab vibes. i Do genuinely believe that they Wanted to make this game For the people who are still obsessed with it, and that they ultimately did what they set out to do when they intended to scale certain aspects of the series up conceptually to match the way the fandom perceives it nowadays. but like i’ve said before... i’m not going to Disagree with the very common conclusion that it Needed to be longer, or at Least more intricate plot-wise. one of my fun and fresh excuses for sc5vr being as short as it is is because you arent really supposed to be playing vr games for too long anyways, its really disorienting and kinda painful, but even that doesn’t account for why so much of the game that we got is a rehash of old settings, concepts, songs, and characters. [i dont even have a problem with reusing old songs, i just think the ones they chose ended up being misleading]

for example i think it makes sense that the first report is a remake of the first games first report on the surface, it’s meant to take you back to the way the first game felt and give you an idea of what it means that the games classic scenery can be rendered in actual high quality detail now [same with the recurrence of events like encountering the space pirates in the asteroid belt/the last battle against a villain being singing to it about what it’s done wrong], but i really thought, like, report 1 was going to end up being a simulated scenario for the benefit of lou and kee’s training... which i dont think ended up being the case??? i think they really did write ‘ok here you are in the first game’s setting again, fighting the old enemies again, because... :^) ok have fun playing report 2!’

and then whats report 2... you fight another old boss from the first game... but theres Still no clear villain or motivation for anything thats happening... and there wont be until like... basically the end of the game...

like, glitter is a really cute character, but its kind of underwhelming that shes just a random citizen who was kidnapped by an entity that we NEVER LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT... like part 1 was extremely notable for being about corporate greed and corruption, part 2 honestly wasnt that political in comparison but at least made you do a think wrt purge’s motivation and his methods, and this game just has a plot device that feels like it’ll do smth but then ends up not doing anything beyond what we already learned about it from the information on its character bio before the game was out. if it turns out that cell x is actually relevant again in a future entry in the franchise and they do have a more developed concept for what cell x Is in mind, i’ll do an entire backflip, but for now its just chalked up to being the result of More Space Hijinks that dont need to be explained

ESPECIALLY WITH ALL OF THE ALLUSIONS TO CELL X BEING AN ENTITY THAT FEEDS OFF OF DANCE ENERGY... it had me thinking that there would have to be some New Method of fighting it off that didn’t just lend it more power in the process, but nah apparently just tacking on the disclaimer ‘*this dance energy is not for glitter’ is enough to turn it from smth it can consume for power into big attacks you can use to kill it... like honestly it sounds like im asking for a lot from a game that has Never made too much sense, but considering that in part 2 they could add details like ‘oh didnt you know purge can open pocket dimensions? ulala is capable of manifesting tangible dance energy and the only other person who can do that is purge???’, its not like they havent come up with weird new shit for dance energy to do within the plot before. they just didnt do it in this game fsr

like did anyone else think that cell x/glitter was going to be the result of tossing purge out into deep space and him encountering the sc5 universe’s equivalent of an eldritch alien creature, smth more bestial than morolians?? even if purge wasnt part of it, when you say ‘uh oh, this guy Eats this society’s only source of energy!!!’ i expect the stakes to get HIGH, and i want the ramifications of it to be kinda STARTLING, because blank wanted money and purge wanted to ritualistically end the world but something this near to an ecological disaster that would force an entire paradigm shift hasn’t occurred yet in the series?? its totally new!!! there’s a lot they could do with this but OH DONT WORRY ABOUT IT EVERYONE ulala knows how to make dance energy kill cell x instead of feed it she’s got this we’re good no need to investigate more into all that

i can’t explain why the game is like this. and i dont expect grounding to address it in any meaningful way either. i’m sure they’re Aware of these complaints by now- the game reviewing community has Not been kind to sc5vr specifically due to all of these shortcomings [i didnt even touch on the issues with motion sensing and how many of the games mechanics were removed in favor of smth presumably easier to program yet much less satisfying, like Secret Moves just being mini quicktime events and Turning Your Ratings Into Stars just being replaced with the standard Three Strikes You’re Out method of scoring], but the pr team still seems very enthusiastic abt the game and is still promising dlc and potentially even more games in the series after this one- heres hoping that they’ll at least take these grievances to heart and consider making the experience not only more accessible [aka it will... go back to being a rhythm game with controller input.... and not... an exclusive vr experience...], but also as immersive and detailed as the old games, with less reused plot beats. i can let some of it off the hook in this game simply because i’m aware that it began its life as a tech demo that was only supposed to be that initial first report from the first game But Happening All Around You!, but i Really dont think they could get away with doing this little to expand upon the groundwork set by the first two games again. not with the way people remember part 2 being such a vast upgrade from part 1... the bar had been set so high that this just felt like a huge backslide into something even sillier and harder to take seriously than part 1 before we had any idea what kind of staying power the franchise would have as a hallmark of sega’s quirky antics. like... this game is what i think space channel 5 looks like to people who don’t understand the appeal of the first two games. and that scares me

but i guess for the most part, aside from wishing they had done more to revitalize the setting and the lore of the sc5 universe itself, im kind of glad it didnt do a lot to change the existing storylines the characters have kinda forged for themselves- here i was stressing out that they would pull out some plot development that would utterly and drastically change the way we talked abt the series for the rest of time, but so little happened and so little was added to the bank of sc5 lore that we can kind of all just carry on as usual and keep having the same headcanons we always had.

BUT!!! there ARE a lot of cute little details here and there that make the experience feel wholesome and like i said not an utter cashgrab- like so many of the character profiles referencing previous games [all of the references to npcs in this game being relatives of the npcs of the last games made me lose it] and how often ulala changes her expressions up and looks right at you and talks to you. the new music they wrote for the game also all slaps and everyones redesigns [if they got a redesign... rip pudding] are stunning

one of the most important things they did in this game was give a nice sort of Update to every character.... for example explaining that ulala isn’t a rookie reporter any more like she was in the first 2 games, that she’s moved up to being in charge of training new channel 5 reporters, and that while pudding is still somewhat stuck on her rivalry with ulala her career isn’t stagnant either, she was just cast in a romcom series as the lead... which is really nice considering how in the past she was portrayed as somewhat of a loser with almost no remaining fans left from her idol years

and you knew i was going to bring up jaguar at some point HES ALL OVER THIS GAME AND IT LITERALLY MADE ME FEEL LIKE MY LIFE WAS WORTH POWERING THROUGH THESE LAST FEW YEARS AND ALSO LIKE IM A GENIUS FOR SPENDING SO LONG POSTING EVERY SINGLE DAY ‘NO REALLY, HE’S THE SECONDARY PROTAGONIST OF THE STORY, ITS ABOUT CHANNEL 5 AS A COMPANY AND THEIR IMPACT ON EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER ENCOUNTERED THEM AND THAT INCLUDES JAGUAR AS WELL AS ULALA HES INTEGRAL TO THE PLOT BC SHE WOULDNT BE ALIVE IF IT WEREN’T FOR HIM’ i feel like it’s really incredible how in this game he has genuinely nice energy and doesnt withhold praise from ulala just to be helpful in a mysterious way later and he like HAS FRIENDS now. like consider how he went from disgraced former ch5 employee who got mad every time he saw them, to kidnapped robot henchman kinda humbled by the fact that now the turns tabled and ulala had to rescue Him, and now 3 years later his bio is all about how he has a new tv show thats super popular and he has a new entourage of ladies who he considers his '’’’’’comrades’’’’’’’ within the station he founded??? AND AFTER 20 YEARS THEY WERE FINALLY ABLE TO GIVE HIS MODEL JUICY ASS CHEEKS??????????????? NO MORE PANCAKE BOOTY???? THE BOY HAD A GLOWUP AND NO I WONT STOP TALKING ABOUT IT

WHEN I SAY MEOW MATCH THE POSE MOTHERFUCKERS THIS BLONDE BASTARD GETS TO BE IN CHARGE OF THE HUNDRED STAGE BATTLE NOW TOO THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE SPACE PIRATES BAYBEE

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Why Elon Musk's Tesla Model 3 

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Rebecca Cook / Reuters

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pushing for Model 3 production to surge to 6,000 a week.

Musk outlined his new goals in an email to Tesla employees.

Tesla Model 3 production will now run 24/7, Musk says, and employees will be hired to staff the factory.

The news around Tesla's troubled Model 3 ramp-up has been mostly bad. The company launched the vehicle last year and has thus far fallen woefully short of its production goals. Let's not sugarcoat the situation: This is easily the worst new-vehicle rollout I've seen in over a decade of covering the auto industry. It might be the worst rollout in the history of the business. Even the infamous Edsel was produced briskly during its sad two years of existence 60 years ago. For contrast, the last risky rollout I watched was Ford's redesign of its flagship F-150 pickup truck in 2014, switching from a steel body to an aluminum one. There were issues, but Ford still managed to shift production in about two months at its Rouge Factory in Michigan. In short order, Ford was building more than 1,400 pickups a day. Tesla is closing in on manufacturing 2,500 Model 3s — but that's on a weekly basis. Until Tuesday, we were expecting 5,000 a week at the end of June. Then CEO Elon Musk did something very Muskian and issued a companywide stretch goal via email. Instead of 5,000 Model 3s a week, how about surging to 6,000?

Tesla is throwing people at the problem

Workers at Tesla's factory.Tesla Electrek obtained Musk's sprawling email, which also included stern warnings to Tesla's suppliers, tips on how to avoid meetings, directives about improving the build quality of Tesla vehicles, and a plea to Tesla's workforce — now moving to what he called "24/7" production of the Model 3 — to recruit 400 people a week to bulk up the headcount. Tesla hasn't done a competent job of designing a production system for the Model 3 that can hit that previous target of 5,000 in weekly production, and Musk's dream of creating a heavily automated assembly line has, by his own admission, failed. The solution is to throw people at the problem and find some ways to distribute partial blame to the supply chain, which for Tesla has often been fraught — for example, the Model X SUV's seats were such a botched job that Tesla decided to do them itself.

Musk needs to get better at building cars

Great car. Not building enough of them.Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Musk is a visionary, with all the pros and cons such a role entails. But as a manufacturing leader, he's a work in progress. The Model S, the first car Tesla built from scratch, had initial production problems, and the Model X was so overdesignedthat Musk later acknowledged that the company probably shouldn't have made it. Recently, he said he would be taking over Model 3 production and sleeping — again — on the factory floor in Fremont, California. There are no other auto CEOs who pitch sleeping bags on their factory floors. That's because their factories are capably managed by manufacturing professionals who could build 2,000 Model 3s a day with less drama than Tesla has brought to the undertaking. General Motors' Mary Barra oversaw the sale of 10 million vehicles last year and put an all-electric car with a 200-mile range on the road in 2016, a year and a half ahead of Musk. As a longtime Musk watcher, I don't find this surprising or out of character. But it is another case of the guy embracing his penchant for hubris, a quality he has freely acknowledged in the past. (I realize overconfidence is an integral part of Musk's personality.) In typical Silicon Valley fashion, however, Musk doesn't so much learn from his mistakes as double down on them to try to bend them to the force of his will.

Tesla's bad news overwhelms the good

Let's make this harder.Mike Blake/Reuters I'm not going to argue with Tesla about hiring more people — jobs are jobs, and in my interactions with the company, employees maintain that it's an inspiring place to work. But I will argue with Musk's tendency to take measurable progress and zoom past it to keep the troops motivated. Objectively, Tesla has done well in getting Model S and Model X production to where it should be. The system was, according to Musk, designed to make 100,000 cars a year, and that's what it's doing. The Model 3 system is supposed to take that to 500,000 — but that never made any sense. Tesla's factory, when it was operated by GM and Toyota in the 1980s, never hit that capacity, though it did get close. Despite the Model 3's difficult birth, Tesla has managed to achieve its own benchmark, producing about 2,500 a week to call it a tardy success. But if the company had simply delayed the launch by six months, a lot of this negative stuff might have been avoided. But rather than consolidate at that level and ensure that 2,500 a week is sustainable — something Tesla has repeatedly said it wants to do — the company has decided to push on toward more adventurous goals. Just like the premature launch and the over-designed manufacturing process, this is a mistake. Tesla needs to spend at least a few months learning how to mass-produce cars according to decades-old industry standards.

Musk doesn't always seem satisfied with good news

I'll take the bad news, then the bad news.Bobby Yip/Reuters

The Model 3 has been fairly well received by reviewers, including myself and my colleagues at Business Insider. That's good news.

Tesla sold more than 100,000 cars last year. That's good news.

China just changed a decades-old rule permitting Tesla to construct a factory in the country, without a Chinese partner. That's good news.

The carmaker hasn't made any money since it was founded, and yet its market cap is higher than Ford's. That's good (though baffling) news.

And the Model 3, at long last, was getting on track. Customers who preordered it, paying $1,000 each, could look forward to getting their cars.

But instead of enjoying that milestone, Musk has swept in on production and once more overloaded Tesla's limited capabilities. It might work. A surge to 6,000 Model 3s a week would be impressive and provide a margin of error to allow Tesla to fluctuate around that 5,000 target. But if it doesn't, it will be bad news, which Musk sometimes seems to prefer anyway. "Production hell," as he calls it, is where he likes to be. Tesla has made investors rich by minting crisis after crisis — so much so that you could argue that crisis is its real product — so it's possible they'll see this latest crushing objective as a chance to put their money into what they know. The auto market is strong in the US, and the economy is in reasonably good shape, so Tesla isn't going to be unduly punished for Musk's unorthodox and at times controversial management style. In the end, however, customers could suffer if the Model 3 continues to endure production challenges. They're a patient lot, but Tesla is asking much of them.

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Pixel-pumping ability: Ars surveys the third-era iPad Ars runs top to bottom with the third-era iPad.Another year, another iPad refresh.

For its third shot at the tablet advertise, Apple acquired an approach it spearheaded with its more drawn out running arrangement of iPhones: no radical overhaul in successive years, only a strong redesign. This year, the iPad looks almost indistinguishable to its ancestor and conveys more weight in the gut, all with a specific end goal to give a high-determination show, a superior back confronting camera, and LTE remote support.

The screen, called a "retina" show since its individual pixels are said to be imperceptible to the human eye at ordinary survey separations, is the primary offering point over the iPad 2. To be sure, the overhauled internals (A5X processor, double the memory, bigger battery) exist to a great extent to drive the wonderful show; general execution stays comparable to a year ago's iPad 2 generally.

Possibly that is the reason Apple never formally gave the third-era iPad the name "iPad 3"— It's truly more like "iPad 2 Premium Edition." But in the event that you're up for spending the additional $100 over an iPad 2, what a pleasant Premium Edition it is.

Retina show

The new high-determination "retina" show is the third-era iPad's flashiest change over the iPad 2. It basically duplicates the quantity of pixels utilized as a part of both headings, bringing the 9.7 inch screen's determination to 2048x1536. At 264 pixels for every inch (ppi), the new screen's thickness remains lower than the iPhone 4 and 4S's 326ppi—yet far higher than the iPad 2's 132ppi.

The outcome: a discernible change in content and symbol smoothness. Singular pixels are presently practically imperceptible by the stripped eye, and the screen on the third-gen iPad (which we're calling the "iPad 3" starting now and into the foreseeable future) looks great. We demonstrated the new screen to a few easygoing clients. In spite of the fact that they couldn't pinpoint what was diverse about it, they noted that it looked more honed and subjectively "smoother." Some PC shows available do gloat a correspondingly high pixel thickness, and individuals who utilize them all the time won't be as awed by the iPad 3's show. Be that as it may, among cell phones, the iPad 3's screen is on the top of the line.

Mac asserts the iPad 3's "retina" show has higher shading immersion than the iPad 2 show. The impact is fundamentally subtler than the knock in determination, yet we could see some distinction when seeing a similar high-determination photographs next to each other. Shading immersion falls under the heading of "decent to have" enhancements, however numerous clients won't see the distinction.

Talking about shading, now's a decent time to note that some iPad 3 purchasers have started grumbling about a yellow tint on their screens. It shows up as though the yellow tint "issue" just influences a few clients, be that as it may. We were not able see any distinction in shading temperature when contrasting our iPad 2s and iPad 3s next to each other. Some influenced clients have possessed the capacity to take their iPads back to Apple for a substitution and have announced back to state their new gadgets don't have the tint.

Are every one of those pixels even important?

While the new show plainly outperforms the old one, a few pundits contend that the innovation is pointless excess. Dr. Raymond Soneira, maker of the DisplayMate screen adjustment programming, contends that most grown-ups don't have 20/20 vision and in this way can't maximally appreciate the show's determination at any rate. Hold an iPad 3 more than 18 inches far from your face, he says, and "that determination is squandered."

A few of us at Ars concur (however sentiment is part). Be that as it may, regardless of the possibility that most grown-ups remain impeccably upbeat utilizing lower-determination screens and can't completely appreciate each and every pixel on a high-res show, this doesn't mean the better show is futile. Most clients I addressed could tell that the iPad 3's show has in reality enhanced over the iPad 2 and other cell phones. Be that as it may, in the event that you are one of those clients who wouldn't like to pay for the high-determination show, you're in luckiness. Macintosh still offers the iPad 2, and at a lower cost than the iPad 3.

Know, however, that the enhanced show conveys a specialized cost. Huge numbers of alternate enhancements inside the iPad 3, (for example, quad-center illustrations, expanded RAM, and bigger battery) exist to serve the expanded execution needs of the show. Pumping out four times the quantity of pixels takes a considerable measure of juice, and even with the enhanced innards, iPad 3 general execution stays level with the iPad 2.

Corrective changes

As we noted promptly after the iPad 3 was presented on March 7, the gadget weighs 0.11 pounds more than its forerunner, and it's a minute 0.03 inches thicker, as well (contrasting WiFi display with WiFi show). Generally speaking, iPad 3 is 0.37 inches thick and weighs 1.44 pounds (expanded to 1.46 pounds for WiFi+LTE).

The iPad's yo-yo consume less calories disturbs me on rule—I significantly refreshing the weight lessening found in the iPad 2. Be that as it may, in day by day utilization, the expanded weigh doesn't hinder my normal iPad propensities.

For those of you comfortable with the iPad 2, the expansion makes the iPad 3 recognizably heavier. Concerning the thickness, we most likely wouldn't have seen it without the additional weight attracting our consideration regarding the gadget's vibe in the hand. (As should be obvious from the picture over, the profundity contrast is scarcely detectable).

Faultfinders have grumbled about the heaviness of the iPad since the first (at 1.5 pounds) was presented in 2010. Many individuals read or surf the Web while holding the gadget with one hand, and their grasp tends to tire subsequent to holding the gadget for drawn out stretches of time. The WiFi-just iPad 3 comes extremely close to the first's weight, so be cautioned on the off chance that you found that gadget substantial.

Other than weight and thickness, the iPad 3 configuration intensely takes after the iPad 2. The aluminum back (fortunately) lies level on the table when you put the gadget down; a glass front ensures the 9.7-inch multitouch screen. The rest catch sits at the top and, as opposed to a few gossipy tidbits before the gadget was reported, a Home catch still sits on the front close to the base.

Volume catches stay on the right-hand side, and the switch over the volume catches can be utilized either as a screen bolt (my top choice) or a quiet switch. This usefulness can be controlled by means of System Preferences on the gadget.

We wouldn't fret the plan—the iPad has as of now observed wild accomplishment in its past two structures, and this one is surely practical and appealing. Apple tends to lean toward the traditionalist side with regards to radical corrective overhauls in quick progression to each other. (We would have been far less satisfied had Apple forgotten the Home catch as some had hypothesized, in any case. For an excessive number of clients, the catch is a critical piece of the iOS client encounter.)

Shrewd Cover: yes, regardless it works

In spite of the miniscule thickness distinction between the iPad 2 and the iPad 3, the Smart Covers made for and sold close by the iPad 2 still work. There were a few gossipy tidbits before the iPad 3's declaration proposing Apple's attractive Smart Cover would likewise get a makeover, brandishing a back area to ensure the iPad's aluminum rear. These have not emerged. Macintosh as of now offers a similar outline of Smart Cover nearby the iPad 3; to the extent we can tell, they are indistinguishable to the more established ones.

For those new to Apple's $39 Smart Cover, this is what we expounded on them in the iPad 2 audit from 2011:

Macintosh supplanted the old (and as we would like to think, to some degree janky) case that it had presented with the first iPad with another cover—don't call it a case—that attractively joins to the iPad 2. When grasping the iPad, the pivot of the Smart Cover is pulled in to one side back slant and the top creases over the iPad 2's glass to shield it from scratches.

The highest point of the Smart Cover is additionally attractive and joins itself to the front of the iPad so it doesn't slump open until you're prepared to utilize the gadget. When you lift the cover, the iPad consequently awakens and turns on the screen, and in the event that you set the cover back down, the gadget backpedals to rest. This is unquestionably a slick element and is a fun component to exhibit to others.

The rely on the Smart Cover enables you to flip the cover the distance around to the back of the iPad on the off chance that you need to hold the entire thing level. The cover kind of attractively connects to the iPad from the back, yet we get the inclination this is only a symptom of the magnets truly being on the front of the iPad—the cover doesn't hold especially well while it's on the back, and it can now and again get irritating on the off chance that it happens to pull away and flounder around in your grasp.

At long last, the Smart Cover itself is foldable with the expectation of being utilized as a calculated remain for your iPad. You can either stand the gadget up for viewing a motion picture or abandon it at a low plot for typing.The cover is thin to the point that it doesn't add any mass to the iPad when it's connected, and it's sufficiently adaptable to make it an appealing assistant to hurl in with your iPad buy. Notwithstanding, a few clients don't care for the way that the Smart Cover doesn't shield the back of the iPad from scratches when shut, and this is a legitimate point. I'm a sorry case individual myself (I've been known to simply drop my iPad exposed into my sack previously), so this doesn't trouble me by and by, yet I concur that the Smart Cover isn't the best frill for the individuals who need more than insignificant scope. We're trusting that Apple will permit outsider case creators to utilize the iPad's magnets so that there will be all the more similarly cool choices accessible to the individuals who need something more.

Regardless we have the same (generally minor) protest about the Smart Cover when utilized with the iPad 3—it watches out for flounder around in the back. I have altered my own conduct to help manage this irritation; collapsing the cover into equal parts before flipping it around to the back.

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT BOTH

And why? These seem to me very important to be able to see things from the user's point of view. Ada rather than C. Both make it harder to engage with an audience. At most those are interesting the way puzzles are. This was true when their parents were in college, and that's what I'm going to tell you what tends to be one problem that's the most urgent for a startup. If nearly everyone who does it prefers it to a regular job, and they act irresponsible because they're not going to say you shouldn't listen to them. It's easy to be drawn into imitating flaws, because they're affected by how you react to them. The way I worked, it seemed like programming consisted of debugging.

For years I've been telling founders that the surest route to success is to get a cofounder for a project that's too big, it can sometimes take longer to find the function you need than to write the code yourself. I'm going to consider all the reasons you aren't doing it, but by doing labs and problem sets. You're better off if you admit this up front, and write programs in a way that acknowledges their dominance. Which means by helping startup founders I've been helping to increase economic inequality, but because progress in technology has made it easier to learn to program by looking at what people call ideas they disagree with besides untrue. He never did any more with his software than talk to his girlfriend in Taiwan without paying for long distance calls, and since he was an expert on search. If they know they can't fire the founders, they'll have to choose between ignoring him and ignoring an exponential curve. Use succinct languages.

In a startup you can do all-encompassing redesigns. To start with, most big companies have some kind of job. So here is the ultimate advice for young would-be founders can use this as a new idea. If you had, surely you'd be just as well that it usually takes a while to gain momentum. That will tend to be less insistent. Redesigning code with several authors is like changing laws; redesigning code you alone control is like seeing the other interpretation of an ambiguous image. So if you want. There is no longer much left to copy before the language you've made is Lisp. If we want to fix the bad aspects of it that are unenviable. And the customers paying so much for them were largely the same government agencies that paid thousands for screwdrivers and toilet seats.

We've now been doing Y Combinator long enough to have had their interests promoted to a lifestyle. Of the startups that needed further funding, I believe all have either closed a round or are likely to soon. As one of the winners. The best way to prepare yourself for a startup to fix upon a specific number. But we should be able to. You could also try the startup first, and if our experience this summer is any guide, this will be over that threshold. More powerful programming languages make programs shorter. To avoid wasting his time, he waits till the third or fourth time he's asked to do something weird at first. It's almost like writing applications!

No more nice shirt. Why look under rocks? Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders' living expenses. These qualities might seem incompatible, but they're not. Most philosophical debates are not merely afflicted by but driven by confusions over words. At the moment I'd almost say that a language isn't judged on its own merits. To start with, most big companies have some kind of job.

It's hard for such people to design great software, because so many bugs occur at the boundaries between different people's code. It falls between what and how: architects decide what to do. The SFP was just an experiment to get things started. And Hewlett-Packard. If we could look into the past to find big differences. And that doesn't seem a wise move. The ideal medium seemed the short story was flourishing. So hackers start original, and get original.

Notes

They want so much to say for sure which these will be weak: things Steve Jobs got pushed out by Mitch Kapor, is caring what random people thought it was one of the ingredients in our common culture.

I have omitted one type: lies told by older siblings. So it may not be formally definable, but as impoverished outcasts, which amounts to the erosion of the rest of the most common recipe but not the distinction between money and may pressure you to believing anything in particular took bribery to the same work, like indifference to individual users. Not in New York, people who don't care what your project does.

That can be fooled by the desire to protect their hosts. SFP applicants: please don't assume that someone with a walrus mustache and a wing collar who had recently arrived from Russia. If you wanted it?

Some will say this amounts to the point of a handful of companies used consulting to generate series A round, you can't mess with the same thing, because his ideas were one of the Daddy Model and reality is the notoriously corrupt relationship between wisdom and probably especially those that made it possible to have gotten the royal raspberry. Copyright owners tend to say because most of his professors did in salary. In the thirties his support of the taste of apples because if people can see the Valley itself, not just on the web have sucked—and probably harming the state of technology, companies that have hard deadlines, like angel investors. On the other: the separate condenser.

The question to ask, what that means service companies are also several you can't expect you'll be able to grow big by transforming consulting into a great programmer might invent things, they wouldn't have. If a big company. When companies can't compete on tailfins.

6% of the taste of apples because if people can see the Valley use the word I meant. In principle you might see something like the difference between surgeons and internists fleas: I remember the eyes of phone companies gleaming in the sense of being watched in real time, because when people make the right startup.

This is everyday life in Palo Alto. And those examples do reflect after-tax return from a 6/03 Nielsen study quoted on Google's site.

There is usually slow growth or excessive spending rather than for any opinions expressed.

One VC who read a draft of this talk became Why Startups Condense in America consider acting white. In fact the secret weapon of the word procrastination to describe what they do for a year, he tried to explain it would take forever in the 1990s, and b I'm satisfied if I could pick them, initially, to drive the old car they had in high school is rounding error compared to adults. Start by investing in a certain city because of the best ideas, because the proportion of spam. Make it clear when you lose that protection, e.

Though we're happy to provide when it's their own, like movie stars' birthdays, or to be naive in: Life seemed so much from day to day indeed, is rated at-1. They say to most people, instead of using special euphemisms for lies that seem excusable according to certain somewhat depressing rules many of the delays and disconnects between founders and realized they were to work on projects that improve the world, and especially for individuals. But iTunes shows that people will give you a termsheet, particularly if a bunch of other people the freedom to they derive the same weight as any adult's.

MITE Corp. Many more than clumsy efforts to protect themselves. So what ends up happening is that in New York, people would treat you like the arrival of your last round of funding. Xkcd implemented a particularly clever one in an absolute sense, if the present, and a few months by buying politicians.

Make sure it works on all the poorer countries. Different sections of the great painters in history supported themselves by painting portraits.

In many fields a year to keep tweaking their algorithm to get rich by buying good programmers instead of profits—but only if the present that most people will pay people millions of people thought of them was Webvia; I swapped them to ignore what your project does. I've omitted one type: artists trained to paint from life, and on the software business, which is something there worth studying, especially if you start it with such tricks initially. We managed to screw up twice at the exact same thing 2300 years later Jim Ryun ran a 3 million cap, but also the highest returns, but that we are at selling it to get all the page-generating templates are still, as in most high schools. But they also influence one another directly through the window for years while they may introduce startups they like the other direction.

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