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by arn 16y ago
Relevant discussion/quote from pg from previous thread on "fu money": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104 "One thing you learn when you get rich, though, is how few of your problems were caused by not being rich. When you can do w
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by arn 16y ago
How about this take. Happiness is relative, and your personal happiness likely settle down to the same place. So if you get a huge windfall (millions of dollars), you will be happier for a short term, but ultimately, your happiness will fa
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by arn 16y ago
well, not having an external source link simply means this is the source. Whether or not you believe it or not is a separate issue. disclaimer: I wrote the article, and I believe it likely to be true, but can't verify it for certain, unles
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by arn 16y ago
It's relative. Assing all 850 million were to be considered profits, that's over 2 years so roughly $106 million a quarter. For reference apple made $6 billion in profit last quarter,. So, no it's not a big profit center.
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by arn 16y ago
Digg wasn't a "popular competitor" at the time. It was an unknown competitor. TechCrunch did a first profile on Digg 5 days before Reddit launched. I'm going to assume reddit took more than 5 days to build. http://techcrunch.com/2005/06
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by arn 16y ago
- It's rare that stock completely bottoms out. There's a lot of tea-reading that happens with reseller stock levels near new product launch. It happened with the iPad too: http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/news-gadgets/ipad-stock-sho...
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by arn 16y ago
- Apple doesn't usually clear the channel beforehand - "Limited stock" is relative. Clearly they sold as many as they made. If they made 500,000 would you call it limited stock still? 1,000,000? 2,000,000? You just don't know how many t
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by arn 16y ago
Apple staff pick featured on a weekly basis. I believe the new featured appear on Thursday now. From my understanding, they are generally hand picked. If you are a known publisher, they seem to pay attention to those. Big name titles, lik
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by arn 16y ago
Or you can, as I did, sign up once for a free NYTimes account like 5+ years ago, and then never have to think about it again.
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by arn 16y ago
http://www.geekdesk.com/ is much cheaper alternative. Still $750-$800 though. I echo other people's recommendations of getting a tall desk and a high chair. It's not quite the same as sitting at floor level, but it's pretty close.
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by arn 16y ago
Does anyone else find it surprising that SlashDot is the highest ranked favorite tech website amongst respondents?
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by arn 16y ago
Ok, I've given some more thought to this. To give some constructive criticism. I've been watching the videos, watching people enter data, soap notes, and the transcription. It all seems so painful. The interface is a lot of small screens
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by arn 16y ago
Regardless of the interface? You seem to be saying that if an app is on an iPad, doctors will blindly love it (and it can't have a bad interface, which is obviously not true)
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by arn 16y ago
So, I don't know. I haven't had time to delve into their backend, so I'm not sure how they import all that data (lab results, ekgs, xrays). But the interface seems clumsy (coming from a former physician, and current ipad user) from the v
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by arn 16y ago
>You honestly don't believe that most Apple customers just buy Apple products because of the brand name on the box? This is a ridiculous stance. It is dismissive and doesn't explain how Apple turned around from being an almost bankrupt
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by arn 16y ago
Pages crawled is a strange graph to post. The dramatic dropoff makes me think you have a crawling problem, not that google pegged u a content farm. Is google simply not crawling content farms? No they are ranking them lower but still cra
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by arn 16y ago
Why does milk at a gas station cost more than at a grocery store? Because prices for goods are set based on what the market will bear, not on some formula or notion of fairness.
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by arn 16y ago
Well, it's easy with MacRumors since Apple is hot. And that's what we write about. :)
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by arn 16y ago
So... and this is a serious question. Let's say you cover the next Twitter or Facebook before they become the next Twitter or Facebook. Once they explode in popularity, are you going to stop writing about them? Even though those articles
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by arn 16y ago
You can't do this. Apple states you must price it the same.
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by arn 16y ago
I'm impressed with how they committed to it. I guess they couldn't ignore it, but still, opening an office in India and spending considerable amount of time there when they weren't familiar with the culture at all.
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by arn 16y ago
"monopoly over apple devices" doesn't equal illegal monopoly. So, I don't think there's a legal issue at all, especially since Android exists and is doing well.
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by arn 16y ago
Is getting a lot of traffic really a realistic goal with a landing page? I mean, I'm sure there are exceptions. But this seems like a strange thing to even care about.
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by arn 16y ago
I find this an interesting topic. So you guys thing Huffington Post was successful despite their home page design? The big headline feature seemed like it was modeled after Drudge Report... or maybe that's another style I was just unaware
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by arn 16y ago
"Nobody is saying acetaminophen is ineffective" Actually, the linked article is saying exactly that: "I remember being annoyed that in order to get narcotic pain relief I was being forced to take a hepatotoxin that added little to the pain
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by arn 16y ago
Carmack was the first to come to my mind in terms of individual programmer notoriety. In his day, he was probably considered by many to be the best programmer in his field. Part of that had to do with pushing limits of the hardware at the
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by arn 16y ago
NYTimes is not a paywall.
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by arn 16y ago
Agree. NameCheap.com is my registrar that I consolidated to. I have 318 domains there. They have good bulk domain handling and pretty good tools.
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by arn 16y ago
Nick Denton wrote an interesting piece about it late last year: http://lifehacker.com/#!5701749/why-gawker-is-moving-beyond-... I agree with a lot of the thoughts behind it, but in execution I don't enjoy using it.
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by arn 16y ago
He must have meant http://wordoid.com/ Of course, here's a perfect example of a novelty-name recollection failure.

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