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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
A quick glance at Twitter's 2016 Annual report: 2016 Revenue: 2.5B 2015 Revenue: 2.2B 2014 Revenue: 1.4B 2013 Revenue: 660m In the past 2 years, Revenue almost doubled. Over 700m gets spent on R&D each year - if they cut that they
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Ask HN: Why did you learn lisp and how did you go about learning it?
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Ask HN: How did you acquire your first customer? How do you handle sales?
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Ask HN: How do you compare engineers?
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Ask HN: How would you fund Firefox while preserving user privacy?
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
I think he's saying that not having an opt-in/out feature would show FF's dedication towards privacy, but if they are going to have an Opt-feature, Opt-in is better than opt-out.
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
I know most people on this aren't a fan of the subreddit /r/The_Donald, but there is a tremendous push on that sub for people to use alternatives to major tech giants. Google, Facebook, and Amazon (due to the connection with
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Ask HN: What specs do you have for your Linux PCs, and what distro do you run?
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
It'd be more accurate to state "dozens of industries fail to adapt to the needs of Milennials." Businesses serve consumers - not the other way around. Perhaps if businesses realized this, they wouldn't be getting "k
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
I came here to mention this, but thank you for doing so already - and providing sources! One thing I would suggest you may want to add for clarification: certain agents of corporations have fiduciary responsibilities to act in the best inte
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
Because it's super easy to buy and hold Bitcoin, if it becomes more popular the value of mining rigs will increase. Right now, there's probably no material difference between buying the coin itself or buying the rig and mining, bu
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
The seemingly lack of intelligence isn't due to them being ineffective, but rather being effective at a task you weren't necessarily evaluating. The key difference between marketing and advertising is that marketing is advertising
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
On a slight tangent, I find it interesting the contrast the author paints between poetry and math. Perhaps it was unintentional, but it saddens me to hear or read people discuss math as if it were some polar opposite of the arts (or in this
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Ask HN: How much 'slower' do ads make the internet?
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Obvious
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
This is really valuable insight. Thank you for sharing this! If you don't mind me asking, did you apply this approach to specific programming languages? I'm curious which ones you tried to learned and ended up sticking with, and w
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by ajc-sorin 9y ago
Unfortunately no. All we have right now is the highest "levels of confidence" from our major intelligence agencies with their belief that Russian-promoted hacking agencies hacked the DNC, and released that information to wikileaks
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Ask HN: Codecademy-like sites for mathmematics?
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Ask HN: Where can we learn more about front-end design?
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