akqu

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by akqu 8y ago
> It's interesting to me that Mr. Cook is downplaying this, but it makes some sense, since the price of the stock (and therefore the valuation) is only loosely tied to the success of the company. Aren't these types of messages
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by akqu 8y ago
There are currently huge opportunities in applied computing for people who can break out of the status quo. There has never been such a big gap between what technology can do and what technology culture can't. Of course it isn't e
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by akqu 8y ago
Have you read Vice? We can all argue who, if anyone, is right, but it certainly isn't unexpected that the twenty-something freelancers writing a puff piece about her weren't the shining example of professionalism. If they were she
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by akqu 8y ago
I think that is an underappreciated point. What makes a lot of open source software productive only exists in proprietary code, infrastructure and knowledge guarded as a competitive advantage at large companies. I have never really understo
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by akqu 8y ago
The problem with intellectual property is that it favors the sum, rather than the rate, of innovation. Companies have a natural incentive not to innovate. Since you make profit by not spending the revenue of your previous innovation on new
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by akqu 8y ago
I do think you have a good point. What I have been telling people who wants to learn things for a few years now is to make sure they have a pipeline to test their ideas. To many people are perpetually learning, tinkering and building fantas