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by alex_c 10y ago
>Blackberry needs to target them. Why? Dumb phones are more or less a commodity - margins are tiny, and volumes are likely small. If Blackberry lost at the high-end smartphone game, then switching to enterprise security or whatever they&
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by alex_c 10y ago
I'm not a member of either community - can you expand on the difference you see between the two?
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Joist lays off 60 employees as company relocates to San Francisco(betakit.com)
3 points by alex_c 10y ago|0 comments
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by alex_c 10y ago
Well, both HN and the business press are often negative - and on the surface Microsoft was buying a failing business, so it's a reasonable reaction. A case in favor of the acquisition might go something like this: 1. Microsoft was far,
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by alex_c 10y ago
Fair enough. My point was that there's a difference between a valuation mistake and a calculated risk that doesn't work out - and it can be very difficult to tell which one's which, especially from the outside. Any acquisiti
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by alex_c 10y ago
It's easy (and fun!) to criticize in hindsight, but there was a strong strategic case to be made for the Nokia acquisition back then. Obviously it didn't work out, but given Microsoft's cash reserves at the time it wasn&#x27
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by alex_c 10y ago
SEEKING WORK: Toronto, Canada or remote Skills: Mobile Development (iOS / Android, both native and hybrid), Web Development (Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, SQL, and front-end). I run a small development studio based in Toronto, Canada. We
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by alex_c 10y ago
This is probably my favorite line from the entire post: "Okay. The purpose of the problems is to be solved."
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by alex_c 11y ago
I feel like the Stanford Bunny should get an honourable mention too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_bunny
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by alex_c 11y ago
It might be part of his plan to launch his hip hop career. http://hiphopdx.com/interviews/id.2825/title.martin-shkreli-...
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by alex_c 11y ago
Part of the lesson that was drilled into our heads in my MBA program as it relates to strategy consulting was to always start by understanding the goals and motivations of owners/management. The fact that you should understand people&#
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by alex_c 11y ago
Is the face recognition done on the device, or on Facebook's servers? It's one thing to give the app permission to access your photos, it's another entirely to have it upload every single photo you take to Facebook's ser
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A Farewell to HearthArena(reddit.com)
4 points by alex_c 11y ago|1 comments
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by alex_c 12y ago
Well, there are two aspects to Magic... one is that it's versatile, the other is that it's low (close to zero) friction. Sonar seems to take care of the low friction part, I guess the versatility/usefulness is up to the busi
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by alex_c 12y ago
It's basically the equivalent of four 20" 1080p monitors with no border between them. For (nowadays) a bit over $300. Pretty nuts.
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by alex_c 12y ago
I use one for development and love it. There is lag and it is noticeable - it's most noticeable for moving the mouse cursor, and it is somewhat annoying because it makes any mouse operation feel slower and less precise. The lag doesn&
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by alex_c 12y ago
It's funny, I'm doing my MBA right now and many of our profs specifically warn us against using "MBA speak" or "MBA jargon" in presentations and assignments. It's much easier to retreat behind MBA speak, e
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by alex_c 12y ago
Seems like a good idea: http://www.reddit.com/r/4kmonitors/
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by alex_c 12y ago
I use a 39" Seiki with my MacBook, and managing windows is a relatively minor but real annoyance. I just drag and resize manually, and usually end up with overlapping windows of different sizes all over the place. I still love the dis
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by alex_c 13y ago
I guess what I'm really missing is what is the killer app that will make VR deliver on that promise (if it's not games). I understand that it's a unique experience, but the mainstream will love it for what it lets them do, n
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by alex_c 13y ago
Okay, I will freely admit to also lacking vision. What part of Zuckerberg's genius am I not seeing? Put another way: VR goggles have come and gone in gaming several times, failing each time due to a combination of price, poor experien
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by alex_c 13y ago
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZRk1lL90Q Well worth the listen.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Curious what you think about PCI Compliance and whether it should exist. After all, stealing credit card numbers is already illegal.
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by alex_c 13y ago
I love the writing, I love the anecdote, and I love the self-awareness it shows. Almost just as much, I love the comments here - they're just so incorrigibly HN. Not everything is a problem that should be taken literally, dissected, an
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by alex_c 13y ago
That saying is rather amusing, given Harvard's (and other US colleges) grade inflation - for example, only 5% of Harvard undergrads get a C or less[1]. I wish the article had touched on this, the system makes it surprisingly difficult
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by alex_c 13y ago
But a 200hp car won't get you there 200 times faster than a horse. It'll get you there anywhere from 2 to 20+ times faster depending on the distance and the speed (city vs highway), but the comparison is pretty meaningless. (in o
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by alex_c 13y ago
Some people do both - in the most literal sense. One of the top Eve players was killed in the Benghazi attack in Libya in 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Smith_(diplomat)
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by alex_c 13y ago
I have the impression that if I started out as a complete newb now in EVE, there would be no way for me to get up to speed and be one of the big guys, running a titan(?) That's the beauty of Eve - everything is for sale, including pi
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by alex_c 13y ago
Hi.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Even if it's true, it's an absolutely boneheaded thing for a CEO to actually say.

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