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This person seemed ready to sell, and was interested in having discussions to that end, so that advice isn't of much assistance there, unfortunately.
He shouldn't be, because his business is growing and about to achieve success, but is not yet worth much. There is no way he gets a fair evaluation based on being popular for a few days.
For a period I was heavily recruited by google. Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job. It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that it was a job interview and nothing more. Maybe there are a lot of talented engineers out there who are doing startups but aren't really committed to them and google manages via the f…
As a recruiter, I'd be curious to hear what tricks were played to get you to interview. I'm an independent, so when I speak to people there is never anything ambiguous about our discussions (my clients are not looking to acquire your product if you have one). Is it possible that Google liked your product and subsequently thought you might be a good hire, but didn't like your product as a potential acquisition? That i…
In the post above, the whole bit about being from "Google Corporate Development" is shady. We're only hearing one side of the story, but it seems someone at Google is using a famous name and the fuzzy promise of an acquisition to try to trick him into coming to California for a job interview.
For a period I was heavily recruited by google. Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job. It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that it was a job interview and nothing more. Maybe there are a lot of talented engineers out there who are doing startups but aren't really committed to them and google manages via the f…
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The accelerometer and gyroscope. The double integral of acceleration is displacement. On iPhones/iOS it's extremely accurate to the point where you can integrate displacement from it and not be far off from the real result - over short timespans/distances anyways. One of the lesser-appreciated qualities of Apple hardware (more accurately, hardware and drivers) is the quality and accuracy of their sensors.
Sounds like what used to be called inertial navigation and was used on the US SSBN (intercontinental ballistic missile firing submarines) before the Navy's version of the later USAF's GPS. Inertial navigation was good enough to be quite useful before the Navy's version of GPS. The Navy's version of GPS was done, at least started, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). They had a receive…
I don't understand the problem. Was he expecting a $100m acquisition and was upset it was only $2m? Feels like an overly aggressive reaction to something most people would only dream of.
> She replies that it’s usually a maximum of 2 million.
Given that he has sold his company before, I think he has an idea of what upper bar $2M translates to.
I take it the application is RoomScan ( https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/roomscan-app-that-draws-floo... ). It's bugging me that I can't understand how it works, at least not in a way that would produce accurate results in most environments (i.e. No GPS). http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/roomscan-app-iphone-floor-... Anyone have any ideas?
The accelerometer and gyroscope. The double integral of acceleration is displacement. On iPhones/iOS it's extremely accurate to the point where you can integrate displacement from it and not be far off from the real result - over short timespans/distances anyways. One of the lesser-appreciated qualities of Apple hardware (more accurately, hardware and drivers) is the quality and accuracy of their sensors.
In my experience moving and the stopping the phone would always end up with the two accelerations not exactly canceling out so that the calculated position would drift away from the true position at a constant rate.
Even applying a floor to velocity to eliminate the drift, the distances calculated for simple linear motions were consistently off by ~50% in either direction.
This was a few years ago so sensors may have improved - have you actually done this in practice and found it to work?
Does Google ever access your Google Analytics or other Google tools you are using to get more insight info about your website or app? Would they ever do such thing?
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Google initially was talking about an investment or purchase, but the discussion soon devolved into an acqui-hire situation. But in reality an acqui-hire was the intent all along, Google was just being deceptive.
> Google initially was talking about an investment or purchase I don't see anything like that. Also, what’s the difference between a purchase and acquihire in this case? Both would surely mean an employment at Google.
Off the top of my head? Price, role at Google post accusation, golden handcuffs.
Does Google ever access your Google Analytics or other Google tools you are using to get more insight info about your website or app? Would they ever do such thing?
I wonder if they read your personal Gmail account to see if you're considering other offers? Or if you've corresponded with other people about their proposal?