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Ah! Had no idea. Guess the point is true twice over then. What a quietly great company.

> this is how HBO started streaming, by buying what MLB had built I think you might be referring to Disney/Disney+ and BAMTech → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Streaming_Serv…

There's an app for Mac/iOS ($4.99) called WhiteNoise that does a similar thing. It also has a really extensive library of new sounds you can add: http://www.tmsoft.com/white-noise/…

Jane > all three

Maybe I've read too many Paul Graham essays, but this felt like a book-centric explanation of "Make something people want".

The stats from comscore show how heavily skewed toward the younger demographic Snapchat is: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bv3CIHgCYAEF0P0.jpg:large

Got it: Snapchat Fetches $10 Billion Valuation Kleiner Perkins Investment Gives the Messaging Services a Shot in the Arm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has agreed to invest in Sn…

(╯ಠ_ಠ）╯︵ s||ɐʍʎɐd Anyone have the text of the article?

They had already built a pretty full-featured beta that was used by many when they raised funding. It was not "pre-launch" in the way Color was.

The implications of this are pretty interesting. People will only use software that solves actual problems they have. Software development is now more accessible to more people bec…

If there was an HN equivalent of Reddit Gold, you'd get it for this.

Stop wasting your time with blog posts like this and just read Behind the Cloud : http://smile.amazon.com/Behind-Cloud-Salesforce-com-Billion-...