Hyena

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by Hyena 15y ago
I don't think Amazon is likely to succeed in "pulling an Apple"; what I do see is a way to "pull an iTunes". Amazon is already a trusted retailer with financial resources. This will allow them to better curate an app store. Adding a hardwar
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think that subset can be profitably ignored; evidence: Apple.
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by Hyena 15y ago
On a more realistic note, I've often thought that combining hacker/maker spaces, good digital libraries and some communal living would make an excellent, low-cost fellowship for people looking to experiment for a couple of years. Related as
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by Hyena 15y ago
Well, that's kind of the thing: it's not so much "customer-facing" as "geek-facing". It doesn't really do the customer much good at all except tell them that their service sucks or, contrary to their experience (why else are they looking?),
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by Hyena 15y ago
This is a little jumbled to me and it has the glaring problem that what I really want, to see what my usage looks like, whether that's an issue and an easy way to fix it, simply does not appear. It's certainly an interesting thing for the c
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by Hyena 15y ago
Doesn't quite change anything and may actually make it worse since it would have rendered ay claim by an Apple employee that they were police or somehow acting in an official capacity more believeable.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Don't underestimate the fact that expensive foreign branded products are considered prestigious. That may have more to do with why Baidu's OS is copypasta than anyting else.
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by Hyena 15y ago
It's perfectly acceptable. In my experience, it's better to exchange money for labor in certain cases because it helps to define an activity away from the friendship and so prevents it from becoming precedential.
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by Hyena 15y ago
In line with what I've been saying here in every CEO discussion.
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by Hyena 15y ago
The problems people note are solvd if you issue a patent free for a short time, like 3 years, and then auction a much smaller number of extensions to that term. This creates a pricing maximum for years 4 to whenever.
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by Hyena 15y ago
This. I first did programming when I was 11, using BASIC on our first computer; it was not an encouraged hobby. I only programmed regularly when I got a TI-83. But this is just to emphasize your point about technology access as children and
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by Hyena 15y ago
Consider that a lot of us don't like Facebook and use it only grudgingly, if at all. I use it solely as an address book, it's practically never updated; I largely retain it as a service to others who have lost/forgotten my contact info.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I set up a standing configuration yesterday by putting a side table atop my desk and it's been great. If I keep liking it, I'll do a more complete solution that actually costs me money.
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by Hyena 15y ago
The blog spam charge makes me wonder about blog formats. On Google+, I basically run a share plog most of the time. One or two lines of comment, usually why I think it is worthy of a read or a quick summary of main points. What exactly qual
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by Hyena 15y ago
Just a possibility: HP is a large company with deep pockets, it can likely afford to sell TouchPads at a loss for quite a while. That would give them time to work out bugs, recoup some in apps and find a less costly manufacturing process (o
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by Hyena 15y ago
"IMHO, this persuasion has convinced other content producers to trust Apple in their walled garden model." How so?
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think this is because a lot of the file swappers were actually pretty broke. Teenagers don't all simply hemorrhage cash from every poor, only some do. The rest were burning CDs for friends and later downloading off Napster.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Is that not precisely what I said ?
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by Hyena 15y ago
I'm not sure it matters why the devs left. What they did was still a breach of ethics.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I never understood how the music industry survived the period between Napster and iTunes when not a single song was sold. Any way, the article is wrong. Jobs contribution here was to persuade record companies to let people download music. P
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by Hyena 15y ago
The author routinely confuses right and legal, makes spurious value arguments and believes that literal contractualism is a replacement for social norms. In essence, the author believes that a defection-oriented society is right and good, t
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by Hyena 15y ago
I have the opposite experience: freed from absolute reliance on physical objects, my experience and enjoyment of them have multiplied. I find myself carefully selecting the objects I share space with and I have more time to wander public sp
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by Hyena 15y ago
This sort of thing is weird to me. I don't have a problem with these services, but the whole "this changes everything" meme has got to stop. We've been through this every decade since, I imagine, the printing press. We still have designers,
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by Hyena 15y ago
I've already addressed this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937832
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by Hyena 15y ago
I don't find this to be a meaningful reply. Hiring people is important, sure. So is maintaining cash flow. So is accounting. So is marketing. Etc. But all these things are only important because . The CEO is the head of because ; if that'
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by Hyena 15y ago
Assuming the CEO is the one responsible for that. I mean, that's just this huge assumption.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Yes, but that's how it will be with everyone. The growth of a social network is driven by having lots of nodes to start from. Google+ doesn't have that; it has a core of techies. My invite is only once removed from a Google employee and the
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by Hyena 15y ago
This discussion is dumb. To begin with, CEOs don't all do the same thing. To end with, it's only a certain sort of CEO people don't like. In reality, the CEO is just the top level person in an organization. The most important task the compa
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by Hyena 15y ago
Invite only . Until that changes, none of this is relevant.
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by Hyena 15y ago
If you still need an invite, your answer lies in that.

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