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   by askafriend 7y ago

   Incredible business.
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   by askafriend 7y ago

   I think we're largely in agreement. If you can't leverage the asymmetric information about your company to make a competent buy/hold/sell decision then yes by all means diversify it all. I just want to make sure the poin
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   by askafriend 7y ago

   It wasn't necessarily the right move. He/she likely had asymmetric information about where Google was going and how likely it was to continue succeeding. If they couldn't sufficiently exploit that, then that's on them (a
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   by askafriend 7y ago

   I'm sorry but as a user, I trust my relationship with Apple more than I trust random third party devs. As a user, I want Apple to lock down the system and make things hard for developers. As a developer, I empathize with my perspecti
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   by askafriend 7y ago

   Instagram does extremely complicated things. If you think it’s just a bunch of static photos in a feed, you’re wrong and it’d be clear you know nothing about the service.
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   by askafriend 7y ago

   It’s probably not a lot easier and lifetime value is probably a lot lower.
7. 727.▲
   by askafriend 7y ago

   It'll get unbundled into AirPods + Watch + Glasses and maybe further down the line Brain Implants will come into the mix. It won't be going away for a long time though. It's here to stay a while.
8. 728.▲
   by askafriend 7y ago

   Seattle, LA, New York
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   by askafriend 7y ago

   I don’t sell any second hand items to random anonymous people. I just don’t want to risk those kind of interactions. That’s why I exclusively sell second hand items on Nextdoor or to people who have filled out, legit looking profiles on Fac
10. 730.▲
    by askafriend 7y ago

    You can just stay on Mojave. You don't have to update.
11. 731.▲
    by askafriend 7y ago

    How is the experience of being "ramen rich"? Care to expand how it changes your day to day work or relationship with work?
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    I would rather pay more to take an Uber/Lyft than a Taxi almost always. With the ride share services, I have a full record of my trip and ability to rate the driver afterwards. I can even contact someone if something goes wrong or if I
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    I want to buy into a platform that is controlled tightly by a single entity that I trust to deliver a good user experience reliably; in this case, that's Apple. I consider the tight control a feature and I'm glad this philosophy o
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    > it's removing a choice. Not from the marketplace. If you care about this so much, you can go over to Android. I personally like the way Apple handles their platform with an iron grip and is part of the reason I buy their products.
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    It's social media. It's not a news aggregator. People post things they want to talk about. It just happens to be largely links (but not always; for example AskHN). Let's do a quick test. Do you consider Reddit to be social me
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    Hacker News is social media too. Tough for people to look in the mirror.
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    Ben is one of the greatest thinkers in technology writing today - period. You're only depriving yourself of an important perspective in this case. He's open to arguments and is extremely reasonable. If you're only looking for
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    What entitlement do you see?
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    You can write a blog. I think people would take interest in those kinds of stories.
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    I actually do notice and appreciate it, personally. I don't mean to excuse the keyboard problems - those should be addressed. But I just wanted to share my opinion because there are A LOT of others who feel the same way I do - they jus
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    I'm a developer (I've worked on products many here use). I prefer thinner and lighter pro laptops. It has nothing to do with status. People use these things around town in coffee shops, take them around campus, travel the world wi
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    Why would you compare Datadog to Hanes and Dish Network? How is that relevant at all?
23. 743.▲
    by askafriend 7y ago

    Something in Design or the Arts broadly.
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    Apple takes more proactive steps to ensuring user privacy than anyone else in the industry at their scale. They put out products that are by far the privacy conscious of the bunch. Statements like yours seem to exist in some weird ideologic
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    > We have a $1.5 trillion annual Total Addressable Market FWIW, anyone who throws out ridiculous TAMs when trying to sell their idea is an immediate red flag. It's a poor and over-used tactic.
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    A couple of bad companies don't characterize an entire market. Have you forgotten about the successes already? Slack, Zoom, Pinterest, PagerDuty, Okta, Cloudflare, Twilio, Shopify, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Roku, Elastic, etc etc. T
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    Can you explain how what they do is illegal?
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    Nailed it. I'd love to use the bus but it's just not a realistic option given the state of bus systems in most US cities.
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    You don't know which companies in your respective industry and adjacent industries are hot right now?
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    by askafriend 7y ago

    I think it depends on the purpose. Instagram is great for sharing quick stories of interesting things throughout your day and for photographers who want to showcase their work to a casual audience. Snap is great if you're younger and w