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Ford Debuts In-Car Voice Commands for Amazon’s Cloud Music(wheels.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by boomzilla 14y ago|0 comments
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by boomzilla 14y ago
Was there a big change in development direction, and a lot more capital is needed?
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by boomzilla 14y ago
It could just be some rogue deployment script running from EC2 that are a little more active that it should be. Imagine someone is deploying their 1GB repo from GitHub to 100 small EC2 instances :)
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by boomzilla 14y ago
Agreed. When you don't have collective excellence anymore, you are left with process.
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by boomzilla 14y ago
I wish good luck to all involved with this company. I am not sure if it's a good idea to work so closely with your fiance/wife/husband in a start up. If things don't work out, there will be more than a job that's lost.
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by boomzilla 14y ago
You never worked with a service oriented environment, right? When you need to override dozens of services your build/local instance depends on, it could easily take a couple of weeks, especially for fresh graduates who used to "./configure
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by boomzilla 14y ago
The only problem with display ad is that you can't effectively measure ROI for small campaigns. The value that Facebook is supposed to bring to the table is a scalable platform for small, well targeted campaigns. As a result, big ad spender
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Zuckerberg to employees: Stock price drop has been “painful” to watch(venturebeat.com)
3 points by boomzilla 14y ago|0 comments
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by boomzilla 14y ago
I think this is a very bad move from Quora. My guess is that they have goals on user growth and had to resort to this tactics in order to achieve that. If you want to grow your user base, provide more value to registered users. Here are a c
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by boomzilla 14y ago
why so bitter ;) A rising tide lifts all boats. We, as workers in this industry, should all be glad that there's now so much hype. There are many important industries that should get more of the community attention, but don't.
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by boomzilla 14y ago
Maybe the word choice was not right (I am a non native speaker). What I think is the users should always be treated with respect and transparency: everything is laid down on the table upfront. A lot of freemium services are implemented in a
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by boomzilla 14y ago
Of course, if you add value for the users or solve their pain point, they will be willing to pay. I personally think that one month free trial model is better than freemium. It sets the users' expectation from the beginning. I always though
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Amazon Exec Defrauded by Fake Tom Petty Booking Agent(businessweek.com)
1 points by boomzilla 14y ago|0 comments
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Two chatbots having a conversation(youtube.com)
1 points by boomzilla 14y ago|0 comments
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by boomzilla 14y ago
Simple: programmers' productivity has very high variance, especially in team project. It's not because programmers are unpredictable, it's the nature of the work. Some main reasons are: 1) Programming (by that I mean R&D, not configurat
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by boomzilla 14y ago
Actually I think this business model works better in big and dense Asian cities. There are a few things going for them: 1. cheaper labor: that drives down delivery costs 2. low credit card penetration is a business advantage: the drivers (
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by boomzilla 14y ago
bummer :) don't you guys run perf. test with your biggest competitor before launch?
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by boomzilla 15y ago
oh, tharunka, the life saver in those boring lectures :) I really miss Sydney (specifically UNSW and the eastern suburbs), but there is just no start up in Sydney. If you are a top CS grad from UNSW or USyd, there are only two options: Goog
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Graduates of elite colleges don't make more money(irs.princeton.edu)
23 points by boomzilla 16y ago|6 comments