Hyena

11 ms·

61.
by Hyena 15y ago
None of the article provides an argument for their headline. It's just bait for a standard high skill immigration reform op-ed. If "the next Steve Jobs is Asian", the reason will almost certainly be that Asia has approximately 3.9 billion p
62.
by Hyena 15y ago
I don't see this. Carriers already compete with messaging services like AIM creating AppleTalk-for-mobile doesn't seem that disruptive considering. The article's evidence looks more like ATT responding to a bifurcating market with no-text a
63.
by Hyena 15y ago
People need to a good place to start and a map of how to continue. These are almost never provided together.
64.
by Hyena 15y ago
I think this is accurate. Once the KF sweeps the low end, the tablet/iPad identity will start to break. I think there was a similar dynamic in mobile phones: there were phones and Blackberries, then iPhones along and finally most people sta
65.
by Hyena 15y ago
Why do people on Hacker News routinely complain about business models, management pilosophy or funding methods in technology? Is it perhaps because they realize that their industry, at least, is an ecosystem of concepts and social pressures
66.
by Hyena 15y ago
How difficult would t be for the DoD to make an OS just for themselves with no public distribution or documentation? That seems like the permanent solution here.
67.
by Hyena 15y ago
Cognitive bias? Advertising is impersonal but advertising firms are very personal? Why do people ever make bad decisions in the face of data? I think there's a core of people convinced that advertising really works well or convinced that "i
68.
by Hyena 15y ago
Yes, but now you're making the skeptic's point: management consulting works by using the shock-and-awe of lots of Ivy League degrees to provide cover for management. In other words, a complete waste of shareholder money and employee time.
69.
by Hyena 15y ago
Pay for performance only works if the marginal value of pay is greater than the marginal cost of performance. A performance bonus of $6.40 per week is less than a third of that pay at 40 hours, so why would someone work more than an additio
70.
by Hyena 15y ago
The difficulty or inconvenience of a job does not really imply additional remuneration. If it did, migrant farmworkers would probably be the richest people in the world.
71.
by Hyena 15y ago
My gut feeling is that, privacy issues aside, the people who are really getting fleeced are advertisers.
72.
by Hyena 15y ago
Sharing code back isn't the only way to assist the ecosystem. As long as compatibility is good, the Fire will encourage more app development. It will also encourage app developmet at its form factor, which might finally start opening up the
73.
by Hyena 15y ago
Google, et al are taking over the traditional printing and retailing business. This was only the province of publishers when it made financial sense to provide these services in house. Publishers also market, set, edit, translate, and fin
74.
by Hyena 15y ago
This assumes that Wall Street banks are trading on ability rather than prestige or that these things aren't in part one-in-the-same in the industry.
75.
by Hyena 15y ago
There's no particular reason why the Internet would eliminate traditional middleman roles. Middlemen match trades, curate and absorb risk. The Internet only changes matching, eliminating a good chunk of the discovery but leaving the cajolin
76.
by Hyena 15y ago
I didn't realize Hong Kong had lacked an Apple Store.
77.
by Hyena 15y ago
I think it would take tremendous political capital to do this. Every favored tax treatment would be a hill to die on and there's a risk that the opposition woukd win on a platform of adding some back in, destroying precedent against changes
78.
by Hyena 15y ago
I don't think companies locate to collect graduates from nearby universities, they locate to collect on positive externalities from aglomeration. How many times has PG statetd that being around other hardworking, innovative people is import
79.
by Hyena 15y ago
I think we should just add this to the pile of "why the advertising supported model is one of the more dangerous systems in technology".
80.
by Hyena 15y ago
I love how they mention employing the locals even after noting that about half are illiterate and presumably even less have a college or even high school education.
81.
by Hyena 15y ago
He's not actually saying they lack incentive so much as that there are significant disincentives. The rest of sience contains an incentive, various types of professional censure, for the behavior you describe. CS does not and in fact contai
82.
by Hyena 15y ago
This only applies if those rare skills aren't rare simply because the need for them is rare. Supply and demand determines prices.
83.
by Hyena 15y ago
Worked on mine.
84.
by Hyena 15y ago
Yes: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/scotus-rules...
85.
by Hyena 15y ago
Wasn't there a post a few months back claiming the current tch market wasn't a bubble because during the last bubble firms bent over backwards to claim revenue and now they don't?
86.
by Hyena 15y ago
See, I never got to test it. I think this is differently sad now.
87.
by Hyena 15y ago
Undermining presence: lack of IPOs or desire to hold one, increasing prominence of partnerships, prominence of smaller businesses (technology seems to lead here), private equity shops, the almost complete elimination of vertical integration
88.
by Hyena 15y ago
Would you mind giving some income information? Like a rough approximate or something? The viability of this strategy is something I'm very interested in.
89.
by Hyena 15y ago
The answer depends on what is meant by "Western capitalism". There are fairly credible arguments that it, in the sense of the general structure created in the 19th and 20th centuries, is ending because of how firms are being operated and fi
90.
by Hyena 15y ago
Isn't the valuation of Facebook actually extremely murky vis-a-vis open market pricing? It not being generally purchaseable and highly valued makes me think of PetroChina.

More ›