Viewing profile — ebf

There are 450 million Snapchats sent a day. Their engagement is insane and so is their month over month growth. Snapchat has created a new form of communication that a lot of peopl…

There are plenty of people who graduate from top universities and end up in low-paying sales jobs.

Facebook already tried to acquire Snapchat and obviously was not successful. I would assume that's would spurred them to make Poke.

They removed the screen images and changed the copy so it says >The ASUS VivoTab Smart is lighter than the iPad, has more ports, works with more printers, lets you see two apps at …

TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Shaker tried to do something similar. Never took off, however. https://www.atshaker.com/

> Yahoo has a ton of services, a ton of engineers and apps that could do better if they were made better. Does buying Tumblr take away focus from their other services? I don't thin…

Seems like the OP's sentence has a sexist undertone to it.

There's a Google Search app on Win8.

That app is built by YouTube.

Black History Month may have not been the best example, but I think there is value in highlighting success of minorities in a field where there aren't as many minority models to lo…

I don't think your argument holds weight. Do feminist activists make themselves complicit in sexism? Does having a Black History Month encourage racism?

Maybe because there is a lack of girls in engineering due to many reasons, including sexism?

>The real ultimate feature that's missing here though - the one that no one else has and would make go out and buy 3-4 of these things is the ability to sync audio and video playba…

I know publishing through Amazon, authors have access to that type of data.

How is PayPal being unreasonable? A person without a SSN has received $200,000 in their PayPal account. I would be surprised if PayPal didn't freeze that account.

You had me nodding until >4. Also, yes, touchscreens are on laptops are stupid. This is a stupid idea. Sure, touchscreens aren't going to be your main form of input in a laptop, bu…

I wonder if the same commentators who disagree with the author's usage of "privilege," also believe Silicon Valley is a meritocracy.

>An advantage is like having a secret television in North Korea or living near the northern Chinese border. I think one could argue that your example is a privilege.

What is the basis for helping Americans over others? I think having the biggest impact you can is the "noble" thing to do.

>This is definitely not normal. I don't know if it was because I was running out of disk space, but taking photos and texting became absolutely terrible on my iPhone 4. iOS 6 made …

VC:Seed Accelerator::Record Label:Hipset The payment is just acting as a low level barrier for initial contact.

I wouldn't recommend that approach for every startup, but if you are a small team, it's a huge plus if your engineers have great product sense (and and some design sense too). It a…

Those are daily active users. Monthly active users are around 43.6 million. Source: http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/124024574287414-instagr...

Number of steps is not necessarily and indication of the speed and ease of the action. Steps != a good metric to judge a UI by. Would you really say that a double click is equivale…

To continue using the iPhone as an example, I realized that after two years, my Dad never realized that double clicking brings up the app switcher. I agree that it is better if you…