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by cdibona 17y ago
I would only say that I can't imagine that Last.fm lost any users due to the TC story. The intersection of the users of Last.fm and those that would read, believe and act on this TC story are probably pretty scant. That said, this recap in
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by cdibona 17y ago
It's funny how this story pops up now and then on different sites. It has a 3 year recycle rate, hopping from geek aggregator to geek aggregator. It is a great book though, my wife found ours at a thrift store in palo alto, for somthing lik
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by cdibona 17y ago
This kind of thing happens every 6 or so months, the journalists (if you can call them that) love a fight. It is all they know. They seem to live in a world that only routes packets to the 'winner'
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by cdibona 17y ago
Shawn is the author of Repo, Gerrit 2 and we use those tools and jgit quite a bit for distributing and developing Android. He's pretty awesome. (works for me, I'm proud to say)
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by cdibona 17y ago
It's all bs, basically.
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by cdibona 18y ago
A previous poster got it right, we all have androids, and the calender program works fine, as does the email alerts. As a side note, the radishes (that's what they were called) we're tied into google calender and worked really well.
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by cdibona 18y ago
It can be discouraging, but move on or try to out-execute your competitor. Either way, not doing anything about an idea means you should be happy to see someone else do it for you. More ideas will come.
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by cdibona 18y ago
I don't mean to nitpick, and I'm not trying to brag, but I'd add another catagory of 300+.
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by cdibona 18y ago
And by that you mean the antenna's aren't as exposed/well placed as a user would wish. Antenna placement in cell phones is a high art, and when you consider a modern phone supports a huge number of frequencies and protocols in which it has
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by cdibona 18y ago
We did indeed work with gigabyte on that board.
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by cdibona 18y ago
(not speaking for google, btw) That said, this isn't an april fools joke, it's real. Rich Miner and Bill exist!
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by cdibona 18y ago
No, it wouldn't. I've been at companies that took money from large company investment arms (in my case, intel and idg) and it didn't really change things either way. Well, a little on the positive side from a connections standpoint and a lo
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by cdibona 18y ago
If you haven't seen hixie's web authoring statistics (collected over a billion html docs) then you should. http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html
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by cdibona 18y ago
Ooo, ooo are you talking about the La Brea tar pits?
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by cdibona 18y ago
We actually do a/b testing. I don't work with the ui folks much, but we're always running tests like this. It's why you sometimes see some design/functionality feature appear for like one search and then poof you don't see for a while if
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by cdibona 18y ago
So the problem with this kind of reasoning is that you deny what happens to companies after they are acquired. Look at Keyhole, which became Google earth. This was a small company in Maryland with a small audience of paid, mostly government
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All we want are the facts, ma'am.(norvig.com)
107 points by cdibona 18y ago|20 comments
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by cdibona 18y ago
Not speaking for Google, but I'd also point out that newcomers and competitors can experiment with search (think ranking, ui, etc) in very interesting ways. For all the teasing that cuil received, the did try something pretty interesting wi
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by cdibona 18y ago
It was, but there is no reason you can't swap out the keyboard, the os supports it. Some carriers will want alternative IMEs, after all.
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by cdibona 18y ago
Yep. It's obviously not hidden :-)
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by cdibona 18y ago
Probably because suggesting LA for a person who wants public transport is like suggesting they move to the maldives if they want great, low latency, bandwidth for their data center.
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by cdibona 18y ago
Cambridge is the only one with both jobs and usable public transport. If you are a decent cyclist, I may add Berkeley.
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by cdibona 18y ago
really, with one space between each? That's probably one of the many reasons I'm not a tech writer :-)
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by cdibona 18y ago
I think that Google isn't always so good at helping people move between projects. I'm glad you found somewhere that worked for you, though.
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by cdibona 18y ago
So, look again at the words "If" and "may" and maybe you'll read that quote with less vitriol and see its not so different from what you are talking about. Also, note that nowhere in what I said did I say this is the only reason people leav
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by cdibona 18y ago
Honestly, I have no clue. I've not sat in those committees and I've only seen a few of the tech writer packets, and I was at best observing (I don't know much about that group). If I were you I'd track down Tom Galloway, he used to work in
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by cdibona 18y ago
I'm kind of wondering which comment you are answering, you seem to be angry at my post for some slight that I didn't even say in my comment (or even in the quote). If you have a chip on your shoulder about google, fine, but the things you s
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by cdibona 18y ago
Oh, but the worst thing to do is read this comment stream. Just pick one and do it for a while. If it flops, start another :-)
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by cdibona 18y ago
#1: Take it and make it applicable to distributed systems/clusters and maybe you have something. #2: Is this Fashion News? I kid. This might be a fun site to write, so long as you aren't saddled with the inventory. #3: Consulting around sec
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by cdibona 18y ago
Some of my best times hacking have been on planes. A pal of mine used to fly around the world, selling off upgrades and miles online to cover it. He spent a lot of time reading, the slack...he could have been coding!

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