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Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf](kpcb.com)
310 points by conorh 10y ago|66 comments
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by conorh 10y ago
I work at a dev shop and we've been developing web apps for 10 years or so. We've run through PHP, Rails, Node, Python (Django) and lately Go. For the types of apps that we develop, web apps, or perhaps web apps with an API. We ha
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by conorh 11y ago
I find these sticky top navs extremely annoying. I like to have the entire screen for reading, rather than partially obscured by an unnecessary header, I'm quite capable of going back to the top of the page if I need the nav thank you.
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by conorh 11y ago
The number of DNS lookups for SPF records is limited to 10 [1] so that that could be a technical issue that needs to be worked around [2] depending on how many SPF records each service adds: [1] http://www.openspf.org/FAQ&#x
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by conorh 11y ago
You've pretty much described what happens when a surgeon joins a hospital. Well perhaps that is an exaggeration, but my wife sat through several required classes on basic procedures before starting her surgery job. Hospitals, like any
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by conorh 11y ago
My wife is in Myanmar at the moment, in a place called Taunggyi, she was there a few years ago too and it is amazing the change. Now she can reliably Facetime from there to the east coast of the US, whereas a few years ago she couldn't
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by conorh 11y ago
Sorry yes, wasn't saying anything about cardiologists, just wanted to point out that surgery might be different. I'm familiar with the second study you mention there - I'd take it with a large grain of salt! It highlights the
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by conorh 11y ago
Not going to talk about this generally, but this may not be the case for surgeons, and it depends on the procedure etc. This was one study showing that surgical volumes improved outcomes: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full&#x
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by conorh 11y ago
In places where they have implemented outcome tracking they give patients risk scores and adjust based on those scores - which in itself is tough (bias to give patients worse scores), but you have to start somewhere. I've had this disc
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by conorh 11y ago
I've posted about this before - my wife is a highly specialized surgeon. This article really only scratches the surface of the issues with surgery around the US, as a software developer working in a pretty transparent and open industry
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by conorh 11y ago
Ex StreetEasy dev here (from a long time back). Is this buying or renting? If it is renting then I would agree with you, the market is so commoditized in NYC for renting that the current broker structure doesn't make sense.
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by conorh 11y ago
I tried Soylent 1.5 for about a month (not as my sole food source, but for maybe one meal a day), but I was unable to adjust to it well, my stomach was just constantly upset and I didn't feel great after eating it. I then tried Nutren
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by conorh 11y ago
We use this as a static site backup for some of our client's sites (site goes down failover to static version on s3) and we built a small tool to help with keeping the static version up to date: https://github.com/Squar
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by conorh 12y ago
"Yes. I know. He's Vorbis," said Brutha. "Vorbis changed people. Sometimes he changed them into dead people. But he always changed them. That was his triumph." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) I love t
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by conorh 12y ago
Aha, see here you have extrapolated from the framing in the media headlines (and the plaintiff), without actually looking at any context. So to look at what you just said and present it differently: (note: I'm not coming down on either
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by conorh 12y ago
Admittedly I'm not unbiased, having done work for KPCB (although I know nothing about this case). However, I am extremely disappointed reading the comments in this thread and in the media. People seem ready to jump to conclusions and c
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by conorh 12y ago
My wife is a highly specialized surgeon, she does one operation, and she does it around 600 times a year (Parathyroidectomy). An average endocrine surgeon might do 20 of these a year. She went through training as an endocrine surgeon and
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by conorh 12y ago
I worked on a project with Verzion to wifi enable NYC payphones in 2003 [1], I think we did around 150 in the end. I worked on backend software and then eventually driving around the city in a Verizon van debugging hotspots. The system didn
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by conorh 12y ago
I don't think that anyone outside the field can understand just how bad and pervasive this problem is, it is everywhere and harming patients every day. One more example - my wife is a surgeon working in a specialized field and in thi
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by conorh 12y ago
I would take a London taxi for the same reason that I'd read a paper book, for the experience, not for the result. The Knowledge is such a wonderful anachronism, and I hope that it can co-exist in some form with new services such as Ub
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by conorh 12y ago
Several years ago I traveled from Rio De Janeiro to Capetown on a freighter (although not nearly as large as this Triple-E ship!) There are some ships that still offer paid passage and staying on board of one of these enormous ships, manned
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by conorh 12y ago
2-3% of the invoice value seems high to me. They aren't providing any additional value for larger invoices, so why should they receive a percentage of the total?
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by conorh 12y ago
If you look at the network requests when the page loads you can see a good hint that something is going on, 'dialuptone.mp3' is requested from the server (and there are DOM <audio> nodes to play it). I guess if they had want
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by conorh 12y ago
If you get a chance I highly recommend visiting this location. I drive by it often and have walked around it a few times. It is a breathtaking building.
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by conorh 12y ago
It just became available in the US ibook store https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-programming-language/...
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by conorh 12y ago
The slideshare embed is having some issues. We added a link to download the PDF directly until slideshare works that out.
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by conorh 12y ago
I recommend this url instead. It will redirect to the PDF file and will always redirect to the most up to date version: http://www.kpcb.com/file/kpcb-internet-trends-2014
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by conorh 12y ago
I'm interested to hear the feedback. We did the design for the site and tested it extensively on mobile. What issue are you seeing? My email is in my profile if you want to drop me a line. edit: The slideshare embed is having some issu
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by conorh 12y ago
Thanks. We had another report of that too, unfortunately we do not have much control over the slideshare embed, but we are working with them on it.
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by conorh 12y ago
I figured this might appear on hacker news soon enough. If anyone has any questions about the tech behind this microsite (although it is pretty straightforward) let me know. We developed the site and the hosting to account for an enormous a

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