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by aston 18y ago
If you didn't already know Steve Jobs was an ego-centric CEO with a cult-of-personality keeping him going before the article, you're pretty far behind in tech news. However, I had no clue about the reasons behind Fadell's firing, and that's
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by aston 18y ago
Mistitled. Why not just call it "Love-Hate: Why iPod chief Tony Fadell is really leaving Apple" like Cringely did?
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by aston 18y ago
I think Facebook's internal valuation is probably on the order of a small number of billions, so $550M in stock would represent somewhere around 6-10%, which would seem to be way too large a chunk of equity.
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by aston 18y ago
Oddly enough, I was at this speech. I left with a lot more respect for Crichton as a scientific thinker, and I almost read the book he was publicizing at the time, Prey.
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by aston 18y ago
Unlike Wikipedia and Craigslist, Facebook has zero moderation by the actual users. In fact, I think the only time they've asked users to do anything for them was the translation effort. Given the success of that, maybe they'll move to more
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by aston 18y ago
Database systems are already optimized for disk i/o that has blazing fast sequential reads and a high penalty for seeking. SSD's put the seeking penalty to zero, but with worse sequential read speed compared to your typical raided disks. Wh
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by aston 18y ago
Lots of Facebook's man power is in customer support (which also involves community moderation). When you have more than a hundred million users worldwide, there's a lot of work to go around in that area. And I guess they're not outsourcing
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by aston 18y ago
The typical cut taken from a $5 transaction would probably look like about 30 cents flat fee plus 3% = 15 cents with another maybe 5 cents per transaction (on average) from the flat fees you pay to all of the people helping you process card
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by aston 18y ago
Deep question: Take away Microsoft and how much money is Google willing to give Mozilla for the search bar?
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by aston 18y ago
10% conversion rate would be astronomical for a site like Facebook.
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by aston 18y ago
How long's it take to join a mailing list and get the content the way Calacanis requests? Seriously, guys. Just do it, it's worth the 25 seconds.
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by aston 18y ago
If NYT makes you login, clear your cookies. Easy peasy.
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by aston 18y ago
URL shrinking is a funny little business. With the right implementation, your product only gets worse as it gets popular (and the URL's get longer). If I were running one of these, I would focus on buying as many short domains as possible a
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by aston 18y ago
http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/externalcss3.shtml
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by aston 18y ago
Microsoft is probably more concerned about repeating the fiasco around the Vista launch. Nothing hurts adoption of your new OS like having third party drivers broken on launch day. It's not like you avoid getting the new Ubuntu just because
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by aston 18y ago
Enter Pressflip...
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by aston 18y ago
To be fair, Dziuba's criticisms of startups have always been on technical and design points. Here, Arrington is attacking the personal choices Dziuba's made, which seems a bit inappropriate for a business blog. For all I can tell, Pressfl
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by aston 18y ago
Skiplists are for most CS students their first and maybe only introduction to a data structure where the theoretical math comes out beautifully (impossibly?) small, and gets beaten by some variation of the binary tree if you actually try it
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by aston 18y ago
Also true, though their LPs do get paid only on the profits (less the aforementioned management fees). If they weren't comfortable with the risk, they wouldn't invest, right?
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by aston 18y ago
If you watch the screencast, it offers an option to save as spaces, so the "I hate tabs" argument is kind of irrelevant. Unless you also hate tabstops.
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by aston 18y ago
Mind linking to some of the underlying stock exchange algorithms?
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, the reason VC's can stand higher variability is the aggregation, but the reason they want it is approximately your argument, that the distribution makes it so that their worst case is not that bad, but their best case is great (due
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by aston 18y ago
Matt's mostly right, but the mathematical conclusions are, depending on how generous you want to be, minorly misleading or flat out wrong. Leaving aside the incorrect graphs and potentially wrongly chosen distributions mentioned elsewhere,
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by aston 18y ago
You can do the same sort of chaining in any language with a method call dot operator...
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by aston 18y ago
Well, the pattern isn't "random group of people get-together," it's "severe minority group get-together." Less of a warning sign and more of a general pattern. I think it makes a lot of sense to look for the familiar when you're surrounded
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by aston 18y ago
Is your opposition with the fact that minorities are forming groups or that they might be exclusive in nature? If it's the latter, most of them actually aren't--feel free to join your local National Society of Black Engineers chapter.
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by aston 18y ago
Oh. Not that surprising, really. Affirmative action exists. Even (especially?) in the best schools in the nation. It's not just for race, though. Women get it at tech schools, men get it at some state schools, and poor people get it anywher
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by aston 18y ago
My one and only gripe with jQuery is the heavy emphasis on chaining method names on top of method names. Sure, the code you get out is terse and relatively readable, but you're not coding Javascript anymore. And Javascript is too cool not t
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by aston 18y ago
Just curious whether you'd be willing to share some of those eye-opening insights with us.
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by aston 18y ago
Is the etymology there R2-D2 -> Rjd2 -> RjDj?

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