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by cafed00d 6y ago
Having worked at Amazon’s retail division and at Apple probably gives me some credibility to share a different perspective. Perhaps? :) Companies that acquire smaller companies and let them run independently typically create a schism in the
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> It'd be nice if I can choose what I want to see. Have I got news for you?! You can choose exactly what you want to see. There's a very cool "App Store" on your iPhone right now. Somebody in marketing named it "
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> It's $280.5 billion in revenue in 2019 put it above the GDP of Romania, Peru, Ukraine, etc. > Corporations should never be allowed to get this large. Or maybe we should convince a larger swath of humanity to unite behind an ide
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by cafed00d 6y ago
It's stuff like this that makes me wish for a _version_ of Windows that is completely built & operated by Valve. Or atleast, I wish Microsoft could implement such features for their login interface. I love gaming on Windows &
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Not only does Parler have the option to set up their own infra like the old-school days of the web, they even have the option of promoting their speech via modern mobile only apps. It’s not impossible to have the entirety of their community
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> Why did Twitter allow “Hang Mike Pence” to trend last night? Where are the suspensions and permanent bans? Thus is a brilliantly good question! My big takeaway from reading Twitter’s blog behind Trump’s suspension is that the words of
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by cafed00d 6y ago
iPhone won’t be able to make even a dent in the BlackBerry empire.
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by cafed00d 6y ago
There is absolutely nothing competitive about coordinating about moderation policies. If Twitter and Facebook software engineers were coordinating about what rules to define in their respective orgs for a company-wide JavaScript linter then
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by cafed00d 6y ago
In the darkest days of the model 3 production, do you think there’s much of a difference between him and the single mom with 3 kids and 2 jobs? Sure, I can accept that the work a single mom is doing is much nobler, much more humane and much
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> or, have mandated open apis that _force_ products to integrate. Yep, I mostly agree. Except, defining APIs is pretty much the realm of software engineering more than regulations. I mean, we don't want to have regulations that esse
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Do'h! Realized I made a typo :') > That modesty sound right, imho Meant to say: "That doesn't sound right, imho"
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas. I find this statement highly suspec
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by cafed00d 6y ago
I would say Amazon’s main business is commerce. They want to be involved everywhere people are buying/selling things. AWS & Amazon.com are coincidences of them starting up around the same time as the internet. Before long, they’ll
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Well of course! How many people who walk into Apple stores are reading hacker news to learn about Wayland, Gnome and XPS running Linux? I can see you’re frustrated and lashing out with “Don’t buy their shit”. Honestly I would be too if I ha
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by cafed00d 6y ago
If you think about it, _thats_ always been Apple’s MO. Back when they had 10% marketshare with macs in the ‘90s or even with 70% marketshare with iPods in the ‘00s. The forcing function, for all the attributes you listed, over the last 10 y
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Sigh. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to. You should go write an app for something else. You can’t distribute it yourself for precisely the same reason you can’t distribute a game to PS5 yourself, or for reasons you could never distribu
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by cafed00d 6y ago
If you slightly shift your perspective and think backwards from "what does it take to get _products to market_" then the the question of management track vs. IC track goes away completely. It would be impossible to pull off creati
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by cafed00d 6y ago
That’s such a creative way to make journalism relatable to the nerds on hn lol XD XD
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Your comment reminds me of the line from Dead Poets Society: _We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medi
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Can confirm. This app works like a charm. I remember attempting to move over from Spotify to Apple Music in 2017. Used some other apps at that time. Didn’t work so well. So I gave up and used Spotify for a few years. And then switched afres
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Fair enough. I agree: Pretty UI doesn't _necessarily_ win all the $$$s But I feel there's something to be said or appreciated about building or striving to build something beautiful despite that.
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Hmm, yep, could be. Although I personally feel it may just be innate appreciation or love of the craft. It's interesting to compare Stripe with other providers such as PayPal, AWS/Amazon, Square. AWS is (and has been) focussed on
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by cafed00d 6y ago
One could argue that a company like Stripe's target demographic is _precisely_ the enterprise markets; yet, their product pages are slick af! Smooth scrolling, animations and all that jazz. Because they're made up of folks who lov
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Yaaaassss! Spotify has such a good recommendation system! I loved every new artist I discovered through Spotify. I only wish they’d let me port all that over to Apple Music. Oh well. Fingers crossed, I guess.
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Unsurprising, for core business reasons, for sure. But, it is still customer-unfriendly behavior from Spotify. And probably anti-competitive too. Boy, as one of the very few people who switched over from Spotify to Apple Music, I’m hoping t
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Yes fair enough. This is why every employee should get paid _stock/rsu/whatever_. The rewards of efficiency gains that Walmart, the enterprise makes, should be shared by the people who made it happen. But then again, not many peop
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> As is common when HN discusses legal matters I see a lot of people blaming the judges for not understanding tech, but the problem here isn't really the judges so much as the law itself. Yep I second this. I think there’s a paralle
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> Now many stores have intelligent inventory tracking that requires little to no work from employees. > Why isn't the benefit of that efficiency passed on to those employees who are now more efficient? It is, though, right? It i
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Google needs a marketing department. Badly! I mean, all that insanely cool technology and even the geeks on HN are confused how to use it.
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by cafed00d 6y ago
LOL @ myself: I thought "Calculus in SaaS" meant that they had an app like Wolfram Alpha or something. But, idk, with more features ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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