I've got an older Kindle and this annoys me greatly. I don't use it a lot, maybe read one or two books a year on it. It works fine and the fact Amazon expects me to retire my perfectly good working device and hand them money for a new one is ridiculous. They are likely to lose me as a buyer of books on Kindle I will make the effort to buy more books elsewhere.
Does anyone know of a Kindle equivalent? Or has Amazon locked down the format to prevent that?
You can still use it, you just cannot browse the store from the device anymore, afaik. I never did that anyway, I always sent books from my browser to the kindle, which should still work.
I posted on here yesterday they are offering entrepreneurs $15,000 to start a company there. While that might not be like getting into yCombinator or Techstars its what they can afford to offer. It is a pretty low cost place to build however with a strong entrepreneur culture and some excellent coworking centers such as Bamboo.
There was a mass shooting event at MSU back in 2023 and campus administrators made a lot of changes as a result so they are still very sensitive to the issue.
Had he required a signup process with student ID that might have muted the concern somewhat. But I totally understand his excitement at creating something and wanting to share it with his friends. It got way too popular which is a testament to the fact he had built something better than what existed. In the end I hope that university officials are understanding.
I have both graduated and worked for Michigan State. I truly feel sorry for this poor developer. He was trying to scratch that itch and make things better. If I was that department I'd hire him not try to get him thrown out of school. When I worked there we had some truly amazing student interns who went on to jobs in Silicon Valley.
If I had a way of reaching this kid (or he reads HN) I will buy him lunch and try to convince him he's really a born entrepreneur but he just doesn't know it yet.
You might not be able to live in Detroit quite as cheaply while building your startup at say Thailand but you can go a pretty long time on $15K. Plus there is a very strong entrepreneur community and great coworking centers like Bamboo.
Detroit doesn't have a Barbary Street. Unless that is a reference to staying away from the rougher parts of the city. Course that is true in any city. In general if you ask the locals will point out to you the places to avoid.
I wonder if Paul remembers that his company (Apple Corp.) had several trademark lawsuits[1] against Apple Computer over the name. Which is why System 7 had a alert sound called "sosumi".
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has failed for 15 years to produce a complete federal program inventory.
So a rather newish employee, April Haring, figured out how difficult can it be? She fired up ChatGPT and let it compile it for her. Now if they don't fire her for doing this on her own it's yet another reason why AI is going to change things forever everywhere even including the federal government.
If they ever name an award in the federal government after the trailblazing Carl Malamud this lady should receive it.
https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512
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