jamesfranco
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I completely disagree with what you have said.
I have meet a lot of wealthy/successful people and trust me, they are way more happy than the poorer people I have meet. They've achieved their dream and can continue doing so. They have traveled, they given back, they create things, they are loved and they're happy.
>On your death bed you probably won't be looking over your life and decide whether it was worthwhile or not, and give yourself some report card on it. Instead you more likely won't even remember more than bits and pieces, and then eventually die and forget it all.
You're wrong about this one. The biggest regret for people on their death beds were having gone through life with goals unfulfilled. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five....
I've always found it funny how others like you label rich people as having a shit life. That they can't find true love and have to hire escorts etc.
Success is what makes you happy. That could be making a billion dollars or milking cows.
Most of people have huge dreams and goals they want to achieve, its just that most don't care and don't try.
There a lot of pressure when you have 40+ people expecting you making them a 10x + return. But raising money is something that startups think they must do these days.
I'll say. Raising money is why many startups fail.
My writing skills suck. This would be really helpful!
"Nobody pressures you to achieve a certain level of material success."
I live here in New Zealand and thats quiet true. There are 3 billionaires in NZ and almost no one knows who they are. The only guy that is living a noticeable extravagant lifestyle is Kimdotcom, but that guy's german.
OMG they find one of these all the time.
What are you talking about? Quixey.com is an app that let users discover apps and hasn't been removed from the android app store. Plus it has raised millions from Eric Schmidt's fund, Innovation Endeavors.
Chris, do you plan to release this on iOS? Are there any restrictions from Apple?
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jamesfranco on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:09PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I read a bit about Intel Jarvis and they're saying that it really fast as they process everything offline on the device itself [1]Google's Speech Recognition is blazing fast. So they might have really fast servers as they process everything on their backend. [2]What one do you think is faster?[1]...
Whatever you wear reflects on you. I don't think this is something for someone who is fashion conscious people (like many people in LA). Wealthy people would prefer an Audemars or a Rolex any day compared to a Motorola or Samsung. Definitely see maybe teens and techies in Silicon Valley wearing these.
Like the iPad when it first when out, the smartwatch should do some key things better than any other device, which it does and some minor things like telling the weather, taking notes etc. although reading long articles, viewing photos or anything that involves a lot of interaction is be suited on a phone, tablet or computer.
I have 3 question:
1. Will this only work with Android phone for now?
2. Do you agree that smart watches are more for apps that don't need a lot of user interaction. Like Instagram or Dropbox will not be great on these. Simple things like showing weather etc. will be okay.
3. Does anyone know the price of the Moto G or another Android Wear devices?
Secret's just a Instagram/Snapchat/WhatsApp wannabe. Those VC's are hoping as hell.
Thanks for the reply! I thought Squirt used Spritz technology?
Does anyone know of a speed-reading API another than Spritz?
What's new? This is old. Hasn't this startup been featured on HN a couple of times?
I contacted them a while ago and they stated that they will let developers create their own intents soon.
http://www.ask-ziggy.com is also similar
lol my username had been taken and I am a couple of accounts and I forgot login details for them so I used James Francos name.
Would you recommend the book for beginners with minimal knowledge?
Thanks for your reply. Would you recommend this course by Udacity?
https://www.udacity.com/course/cs046Its in Java and seems to teach you how programming works. How difficult is it to transfer from Java to Ruby?
Posted by
jamesfranco on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm a beginner trying to learn Ruby on Rails. Most tutorials show who to .reverse strings of text. I want to create user logins not reverse text!I usually go through the course and never understand how I am going to use them when buildings apps. Learn how to print 1+1 is boring and demotivates me. When am I going to learn the good stuff?Has anyone else had this problem?original question on...