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by aston 18y ago
Congrats, guys. Matt, classy getting this to the NYT. Definitely a step up from Techcrunch.
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by aston 18y ago
The analogy you note between the Zune and the Xbox is maybe more similar than you think. People forget the Xbox first came out 2001. It takes years for an investment in a new market like that to get big, even if executed perfectly. I'm inte
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by aston 18y ago
Oh, shoot. Too true. Gerry definitely recounted this story to me, although I can't recall now whether he claimed he was involved or not. I am Aston's total lack of geektitude.
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by aston 18y ago
Hilarious story. And Gerry Sussman swears it's completely true. edit: GLS = Gerry Sussman, creator of Scheme, co-author of SICP, and MIT professor.
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by aston 18y ago
I think FireEagle might turn out to be pretty cool.
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by aston 18y ago
That Guido got to work on a version of Mondrian for the outside world indicates less about Google's willingness to open up and more about their need to please their superstar.
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by aston 18y ago
15 people, all engineers?
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by aston 18y ago
Upmod for having the audacity to call this a mini-post.
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by aston 18y ago
Maybe so. The Zune marketing is an interesting case study, since it's in a lot of ways very un-Microsoft. They've tried their best to hit the hipsters with the campaign: launch parties at Stussy stores, commercials featuring trippy video se
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by aston 18y ago
My money's on us seeing the hostile takeover, too.
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by aston 18y ago
Max! You don't have your email in your profile...Shoot us an email.
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by aston 18y ago
If Apple's marketing relies so heavily on it being a niche, exclusive club rather than the market leader/product of the common man, how do you explain the iPod?
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by aston 18y ago
Painting the bike shed. Classic. Why should I care what color the bike shed is? The really, really short answer is that you should not. http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.19.shtml
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by aston 18y ago
By "he," you mean "you." Grandparent poster is the author.
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by aston 18y ago
You missed part of his point, which is that there are huge tax benefits in not taking a salary, and these are well-known, therefore not news.
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by aston 19y ago
As a person working on a web storage product, I'll tell you that's not a dirty little secret--it's our business.
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by aston 19y ago
If my math is right, these guys need somewhere on the order of a hojillion gigs of space if they want to give away an account or three to every digg, reddit, and news.yc reader.
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by aston 19y ago
It's a geat book. Required reading if you're coding Java. Google gives it out to new employees. Joshua Bloch writes well and is more qualified that most to write a book on Java. His little stories that he weaves in about this part or that o
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by aston 19y ago
I assumed based on the title he meant "hire people from your family." Was totally expecting an essay about the McAskill's at SmugMug.
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by aston 19y ago
Why's this domain displayed as ".informationarchitects.jp"?
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by aston 19y ago
Really? http://slashdot.org . Still kicking, still has a CowboyNeal joke in every poll, and with more readership than this site by a decent integer multiple.
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by aston 19y ago
One of their big selling points is reach. Slide's is on the order of Facebook's, and in theory could be bigger. If in fact the huge monetization thingy turns out to rely on sheer user numbers, half a billion will be way under what Slide is
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by aston 19y ago
It wasn't clear whether you were criticizing Vista or responding to my claim that the goodness of default email clients was irrelevant to the evaluation of the OS. These OS war threads are always overheated and people basically read what th
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by aston 19y ago
I assume because it uses your argument against you.
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by aston 19y ago
Vista hate is amazing lately. What does setting up email accounts have to do with the underlying OS, again?
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by aston 19y ago
Yahoo's stock price has not had much to do with their fundamentals for a long time. At this point, all of the institutional investors are just placing a bunch of over/under bets on the Microsoft acquisition going through, hence why it's bas
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by aston 19y ago
There're only two questions that are important for trying to put a price on Facebook: 1) How much are Facebook users worth to advertisers (brand and/or CPC) on average and in aggregate? 2) How much is the data Facebook has (the socia
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by aston 19y ago
Splay tree are the moment when you should stop reading your theoretical data structures book, for all practical purposes.
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by aston 19y ago
Now you're talking about how he made that money work for his company. Might as well throw in the whole "don't pay myself or my co-founder," "work odd consulting jobs to get more cash," and "work out of my grandmother's old apartment," among
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by aston 19y ago
They didn't announce until after hours, so only after-hours trading is going to reflect the call. And there, it's up big.

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