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by bigtones 6y ago
Direct Sales
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by bigtones 7y ago
They still are in SaaS - with 'Workplace by Facebook' The article is referring to IaaS from my initial read. https://www.facebook.com/workplace
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by bigtones 7y ago
Twitter thread identified him from court filings: https://mobile.twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/124049711317...
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by bigtones 7y ago
That's the first thing that came to my mind too when I saw it - looks like a Holden or Ford Ute from Oz. Her dog is an Australian Blue Heeler too.
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by bigtones 8y ago
That's not true - see Amazon. Public markets value and price future potential profit.
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by bigtones 8y ago
Because the total addressable market for consumer mobile apps, and therefore potential dollars of revenue is much higher than for Mellanox with Infiniband - which by contrast is only the HPC market at this point.
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by bigtones 8y ago
This was such a lovely story it made me tear up. Barkley does come across as a really nice guy on television and his friendship with Shaq is legendary, so it's great to hear confirmation that that is really the case. And Charles words
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by bigtones 8y ago
Why are Microsoft and Google employees so different that it's OK for Microsoft to have a censored China specific Bing search engine, but it's not OK for Google to have one ? https://www.bing.com/?mkt=zh-CN https:
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by bigtones 8y ago
This is a wonderfully told story of two very senior engineers who developed a lifelong friendship and wrote some of the core of the Google search engine I use countless times per day - I really enjoyed this piece.
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by bigtones 8y ago
Also brains can remap themselves over time so if pathways are broken, sometimes new pathways can be built.
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by bigtones 8y ago
It's the BBC, their quality of editorial content accuracy is terrible.
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by bigtones 8y ago
Wow, what a hard piece to read. The sense of helplessness while reading it is tantamount. Incredibly tragic, but terrific reporting.
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by bigtones 8y ago
Microsoft came out with a competing technology in that timeframe called 'Microsoft Pen Computing' as a direct response to the hype around General Magic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computin
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by bigtones 8y ago
They design Ferrari's and put a big badge on the side - lot of Ferrari fans out there :-)
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by bigtones 8y ago
Azure is aimed at Enterprises and developers inside those companies who already run a lot of Microsoft tech and are familiar with Visual Studio. They do really well in that space because they already have a lot of mind share there, and that
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by bigtones 8y ago
Abercrombie and Fitch share price is at a 17 year low and they have put themselves up for sale. I don't think their strategy is working out too well for them in a market where foreign competitors like Zara and H&M entered with much
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by bigtones 8y ago
Yhis was all after the bell as was the earnings announcement, and the quoted stock drop was in the after hours trading market, so it could be less tomorrow in the standard market.
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by bigtones 8y ago
This coming not even one month after the CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich, resigned after violating that company's code of conduct by having an undisclosed relationship with an employee. Similar to Brian Crutcher at TI, he too had been at
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by bigtones 8y ago
Interesting to note that the SSD is literally 4 chips permanently soldered on both sides of the motherboard, they don't even bother with an NVMe M2 drive. So you can't upgrade your hard disk to a larger one ever - you have to choo
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by bigtones 8y ago
They were all acquired or merged for a lot of money - and they were all highly profitable companies. None of those businesses failed. That is just natural business evolution for successful businesses.
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by bigtones 8y ago
Also, if the math was that wrong that it made the entire deal not make sense financially given it was a very large deal in monetary terms (which he stated) what were those 30 people doing? Most M&A deals make sense strategically first
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by bigtones 8y ago
Oh oh, it's already causing a lot of confusion. Just check the 70+ comments in this thread alone hating on the naming and professing their confusion and it's been out less than 12 hours... and that is from a self selecting very te
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by bigtones 8y ago
Rolled Royce have over 50,000 employees directly involved in designing, manufacturing and testing engines. The team to design an engine is well over 500 people and takes more than a decade from concept to first production run. It's by
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by bigtones 8y ago
Yes, it's their main sales tool for recruiting and public relations efforts. Everyone gets two weeks training in part on 1-1-1 when they join, and employees involved in recruitment get a lot of training on how to present it and respond
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by bigtones 8y ago
It's like a Microsoft Word document on how to use Google Docs.
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by bigtones 8y ago
It was solved a long time ago - just start taking 1mg of Propecia once a day as soon as you start to see the start of hair loss. Propecia will allow you to keep the hair you already have, well into your seventies - just ask Trump. There are
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by bigtones 8y ago
It's the almost forgotten cousin to the much overused "alleged".
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by bigtones 8y ago
GitLab is not completely open source - it's only open core. https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-gith...
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by bigtones 8y ago
This is such bull. They are backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures who would vote with their preferential shares to sell GitLab for $7.5 Billion dollars without question. They're in the exact same bucket as GitHub except no wher
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by bigtones 8y ago
The link below has video with audio of the victim crashing against the wall during the catch, and it certainly sounds like he got a pretty bad knock. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6426086/incredible-moment-fire...

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