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   by akd 18y ago

   Relax people, it's just a cute story. It's not really asking whether Gates is "smarter" than Zuckerberg (if that question is even well-formed).
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   by akd 18y ago

   I am not familiar with their consumer-grade machines but my Latitude D620 is tougher than a ThinkPad. It fell out of my bag while I was biking and hit the pavement, and the battery case split open and keyboard pried off. After fitting them
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   by akd 18y ago

   The author knows this, and was making a merely aesthetic point which you seem to have sucked all the fun out of.
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   by akd 18y ago

   Perhaps. The data may have "left the barn" but all updates to that data are done through Facebook itself. People are really bought into Facebook, I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. That said, Friendster failed, and so can Facebook
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   by akd 18y ago

   Early adopters are useless for a company like Amazon which can advertise the Kindle on their front page to several million people each day. If you don't have that kind of existing customer base you need the early adopters to push your produ
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   by akd 18y ago

   I once had to use some Gartner numbers and they looked really sketchy; they predicted that almost all desktop PCs would be the all-in-one iMac style in 3 years. I called up the main analyst (at a cost of $800) and asked him how he got the d