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by asharpe 12y ago
There is no model where Piracy makes sense. There is a cost of piracy (both in setting up and in risk of using). That HBO hasn't found a way to easily capture that value speaks to them not having found the right channels to market.
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by asharpe 12y ago
Agreed - but enterprise sales is a very different market and sales process. It is not the freemium often developer led market that Google has traditional excelled in.
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by asharpe 12y ago
Where Google has succeeded is to offer a free service (search, maps, email, android/mobile os) that was either initially or after feedback best in class. And they successfully monetised those products (not so easy vis Twitter). Howeve
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by asharpe 12y ago
This seems very one-sided and does not address real issues. If you don't address key issues around expectation setting, common goals, etc then yes these may occur. Similarly, claiming that open plan offices put people under fluorescen
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by asharpe 12y ago
Agreed, so large you can drive a truck through it analogy. Why is there not more of a furore about this? When Bush set up (and it was found out) about the extensive activities of the NSA, the reaction was vitriolic in every sense of the wo
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Will Galleries and Museums Ever Embrace GIF Art?(news.artnet.com)
1 points by asharpe 12y ago|0 comments
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by asharpe 13y ago
Title should be: Heroku still hasn't pushed a fix for HeartBleed
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by asharpe 13y ago
Most if, not all, competitors have already pushed their fix (eg http://blog.cloud66.com/security-vulnerability-cve-2014-0160... ). Ouch, 3 hours to go for the next update, ie not a fix.
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by asharpe 13y ago
What's remarkable is that: 1. Someone still thinks this is news 2. People, per above, still think working at these companies is anything other than the well known reality That's not a slight on the companies mentioned. In all cas
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by asharpe 13y ago
The Gallery/Show business provides two things: 1. Reputation/trust (especially for younger artists) 2. Reach to potential collectors The validation required to spend $5,000 vs $1,000 on a work is purely intangible, a reputable gal
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by asharpe 13y ago
Artsy is focussed on a specific niche in the art market that is not the high end (ie $100k ++ work), but more what they would call entry level $5k - $50k works. Artsy (and some of it's competitors) help these entry level collectors to
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by asharpe 13y ago
This is normally the sign of massive underperformance of the CEO ...
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by asharpe 13y ago
That's a very cynical position to take. For once, here is a large market player focussing on providing delivering value via the product and not wasting time on pricing. In many cases, even with these price reductions (and their claim
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by asharpe 13y ago
April Fools setup anyone?
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by asharpe 13y ago
Much has been said/written already about the Facebook community and where users are. There is a long term trend that early adopters of Facebook (read Western world) are using Facebook less (though using their OAuth identification more
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by asharpe 13y ago
Some nice points for action and the basics of interoffice communication. The article/blog misses a key item for 'web-workers' aka Developers where there is often a breakdown/non-existence of the understanding of develop
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How to deliver better Rails app performance – Ninefold(ninefold.com)
8 points by asharpe 13y ago|5 comments
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by asharpe 13y ago
If and when AWS responds will be quite interesting. GCE launched with lockstep product offering and pricing with AWS. This is the first real movement away from that lockstep position. On one hand it is competitive, on the other hand does
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by asharpe 13y ago
Identity (online and offline) is ultimately what this entire market (and product space) is about. 100 years ago, all you had was a street address. Then came telegrams (but often the last mile was still your street address. For the last 5
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by asharpe 13y ago
An admirable start, but really where is the Leyland P50 (among many many others)
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by asharpe 13y ago
I used to lead the BB MSG product lead, I can safely say from the inside the communication aspects were absolutely viewed as the killer feature. Simply all US Bond trading is done over the BB MSG system - this is a trillion dollar per day
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by asharpe 13y ago
That's the crux of it: Andreessen did the right thing. The wider question is too much of the tech landscape running through one man? All power to him: all companies want his magic, but at some stage, the web of connections will cause
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by asharpe 13y ago
I don't agree it's a distraction - it's a valid point. Say he was the Mail Boy ... would they quote the Google Mail Boy syndrome then? Is this another of those: if he/she is not a dev, he/she is not truly valuable
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by asharpe 13y ago
I actually worked at Bloomberg when this article came out (in product). While he was writing this in the news organisation, we were busy providing one of the launch apps for the iPhone under strict confidentiality. Also, 5 of my colleague
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by asharpe 13y ago
Wow - how could they be so wrong. I especially like the incumbents: Nokia and Motorala ... where are they now?
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by asharpe 13y ago
The only time I have personally left the office before 5, I was back on my MacBook at 8 until midnight. :-p
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by asharpe 13y ago
Taking aside the blatant sexism (kudos - we need more people raising this issue), there is a significant 'rolism' in the tech community. I have worked on the business/product side of tech for more than 10 years. What you sa
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by asharpe 13y ago
I am sure you have some great photos of this (or at least I hope you do) My wife and I keep on having [hand|head] moments when we miss these photo ops
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by asharpe 13y ago
Having worked for a major mall owner many years ago, this is the primary reason why malls 'fail' and was completely omitted by the article. Shifting demographics affect Malls in both ways: the design and build of a Mall serving a
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by asharpe 13y ago
While I understand they want their own server farms, it is interesting that Facebook does not use any cloud compute. This is almost the perfect usage example and pattern for cloud compute.

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