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by chaz 13y ago
I think the difference is that you're reading it as practical word problem, when the intent is to present a math problem. I first heard about this problem in a politically incorrect variation: a tribe chief is given the opportunity to
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by chaz 13y ago
Or what they don't want to be money losers. When the support link is in the top nav, it's an indicator of a customer-focused company. Bonus points for a toll-free number at the top. If it's buried in a tiny font at the bottom
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by chaz 13y ago
Yes, which is why they give you hard buttons for presets and up/down scan.
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by chaz 13y ago
It depends on each manufacturer's implementation. The ever-growing complexity needs to be managed, both in learning curve as well as overall placement and design of features. For one, BMW does this right. The large screen is controlled
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by chaz 13y ago
Navbars are a great way to get a sense of the company's priorities, generally influenced by the biggest money makers. Amazon's navbar in 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20041102060756/http://w
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by chaz 13y ago
Agreed. I live in NYC, and every corner has been completely mapped, and it's a level playing field for almost every mapping tool that's out there. Google isn't competing on completeness of maps, but rather on transportation d
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by chaz 13y ago
Interesting dataset, though I do have some quibbles. For example, registered users aren't the same as monthly unique visitors, which is how CNET is best measured. And ecommerce like Zappos have completely different metrics. One thing I
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by chaz 13y ago
> I need $20B to buy ITER, $19B to buy WhatsApp, and $11B to buy the LHC No, you could say that it would cost you $20B to build a copy of ITER -- very different. You can't buy ITER for what was paid to build it. Or maybe you can.
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by chaz 13y ago
One is a cost, the other is a valuation -- two completely different things. A ditch can cost a million dollars to dig, but have a ~$0 valuation.
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by chaz 13y ago
Stopping for 30 seconds to come up with subpar copy is usually worth it vs using some sort of placeholder that you need to come back and fix later. When I know the copy is awful and that I need to come back and replace it, I put in a commen
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by chaz 13y ago
I have found the Pomodoro Technique ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique ) to be helpful. I can't do it for a whole day, but a short sprint to grind through something is a near, achievable goal. For ext
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by chaz 13y ago
> If you feel like working, then work. If you don't, then don't work I know this is HN, but please don't over-parse the headline. Telling your boss or customers that you just don't feel like working today is a luxury
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by chaz 13y ago
No. The switching cost is getting all of your contacts to install a different app and use it regularly.
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by chaz 13y ago
WA has had issues with delayed messages, too. Not so helpful to get those, "I'm running 15 minutes late" messages 3 hours later.
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by chaz 13y ago
100/s = 8.6M per day. That seems unrealistically high, even for the most viral of apps. WhatsApp is currently at 1M per day. Either Telegram means requests of some sort or they're getting DDoS'd. Edit: looks like it might be
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by chaz 13y ago
MIT doesn't do legacy admissions: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-don...
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by chaz 13y ago
Nothing wrong with that -- it's just paying an acquisition cost. PayPal paid out millions: $10 for new registrations, and $10 to the referring user back in 1999 (?). By incentivizing customers to add payment info, it takes the friction
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by chaz 13y ago
WeChat would tell you otherwise. They launched a taxi-cab hailing service in January. In the first month, 21 million cabs were hailed. http://www.techinasia.com/wechat-21-million-taxi-rides-booke... This is why messaging is
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by chaz 13y ago
This is known as customer personas, and is a hugely valuable tool for figuring out how your product is going to meet the needs of various customers in different situations. It can help sketch out their needs, concerns, pricing, risks, etc.
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by chaz 13y ago
Drag the email to the tab you want it to go to. It will ask you if you want Gmail to do this for future messages from the same sender.
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by chaz 13y ago
This may be true, but there's still a lot of value to being written up in TC because it can drive other coverage. Other tech news read TC for stories and look into who they cover, so it can provide a multiplicative effect for mentions.
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by chaz 13y ago
Curation. Art and design products meant that you could actually "shop" on the site (until risks forced them to require better disclosure), and interest in one type of project would lead to discovery of other similar projects. The
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by chaz 13y ago
> FB buying WhatsApp will have almost zero impact in day-to-day lives. I was only responding in the context of parent's PR comment, re: scale of press worthiness of the day. Tech sites have been covering WhatsApp/FB non-stop fo
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by chaz 13y ago
PR works better when you don't compete with competitors for attention. You either beat them to the headlines, or you wait a couple of days to find a clearing. This announcement is interesting, but not nearly the scale of WhatsApp/
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by chaz 13y ago
Actually, this is what acquihires are great at. An interesting article recently about eBay's turnaround and how CEO John Donahoe started acquiring startups to drive innovation with talent they can't simply hire or grow internally.
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by chaz 13y ago
Just 50 employees. http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2013/12/400-million-stori...
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by chaz 13y ago
I found this article helpful for ELI5: "9 questions about Ukraine you were too embarrassed to ask" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/30...
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by chaz 13y ago
King booked $1.9B in 2013 revenue in 2013, with $568M in profit and 665 employees. Supercell (which sold 51% to Softbank for $1.5B in 2013) booked $892M, with $464M EBITDA and 138 employees. Zynga booked $873M in revenue with 2,000 employee
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by chaz 13y ago
Chrome -> Settings -> Search Engine. I see Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, and AOL on my US Nexus 5.
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Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’(web.mit.edu)
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