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Apple Now a Bit Easier to Deal With - France Telecom’s CEO(allthingsd.com)
1 points by dm8 14y ago|0 comments
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by dm8 14y ago
There was sudden spike in traffic (both unique IPs and pageviews) in the months of July-Aug last year. I'm curious to know what caused that spike?
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by dm8 14y ago
What will happen when countries will start producing tons of graduates but not enough white collar jobs? I fear it will create very unhealthy dynamics in the society.
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Google’s Biz Chief: 50 Percent of Ads Will Go Online in the Next Five Years(allthingsd.com)
2 points by dm8 14y ago|0 comments
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by dm8 14y ago
It's an interesting showdown of personalities. Steve Jobs had invited the actor who portrayed him at WWDC. So looks like Jobs also thought portrayal was accurate. I think both of them had their own flaws as individuals but their strengths m
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by dm8 14y ago
Wow, Bill Gates thinks his portrayal in Pirates of Silicon Valley was very accurate ( http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_c... ). Even Woz had said that the film accurately portrayed all the personalities. However, we
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by dm8 14y ago
Given their annual revenues of $60B and they were down for ~ 20-25 minutes. So they must have lost ~$3M in revenues during entire downtime. P.S. Wild guess. No idea about how much sale do they make during peak hours.
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by dm8 14y ago
It's up now! But it's strange that they were down. And don't they run on AWS themselves?
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by dm8 14y ago
I agree on the point of transaction vs investment part of non-profit. CRY ( http://america.cry.org/site/index.html ) has been doing it for years for educating children and they are quite successful (what I've heard).
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by dm8 14y ago
I hope this movie doesn't make Woz as the guy who was total nerd and didn't know what to do with computers.
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by dm8 14y ago
I agree. Kids post their age to get attention. They want experienced devs to take a look at their code/app/project. Lets help them! All you need to do is a upvote or comment.
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by dm8 14y ago
Wrong place, wrong time. Better to learn the trade by yourself!
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by dm8 14y ago
Honest question - Are they losing ground due to onslaught from social/content discovery apps (like Flipboard) in last couple of years?
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by dm8 14y ago
> sorry, but I agree. wholeheartedly immoral. Google also mixes sponsored results in their search results. Is that immoral?
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by dm8 14y ago
> What you are doing is basically deriving monetary benefit from the considered act of deliberately manipulating people's views on behalf of corporate interests. No way. Even we are users too. We have family members who are not as tech
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by dm8 14y ago
It's not that simple. There are lot of pieces. Feel free to send me an email (in my profile page). I don't want to sidetrack current topic.
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by dm8 14y ago
These type of ads are known as "advertorials". They are not new (read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial ). They are new in digital realm. In print magazines/newspapers, we are also used to the concept of "advertising supplement". W
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by dm8 14y ago
Disclaimer: I run startup that helps publishers to create these types of sponsored stories. Sponsored stories are much better way to monetize content, especially for journalism industry. However, the issue is publishers should control what
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by dm8 14y ago
> What are the chances of a child brought up within such closed philosophy becoming a complete self-actualizing adult? That's an interesting thought. Or may be kid will be complete opposite. That would be extreme too.
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by dm8 14y ago
As someone who is in twenties and may have family in near future, I worry that it'll be hard to deal with teens in this new 'tech' era. But then I realized; most of people in my generation were teens in late nineties when Internet was explo
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by dm8 14y ago
It must have been one hell of a time during 60s/70s as a student at UC Berkeley's CS dept. You had opportunity to work with folks like Joy, Thompson etc. (who were also students) who became legends of the field by contributing things like U
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by dm8 14y ago
I agree with the premise. But were they really not fundable? :-) I believe investors were running after them (funny thing is 5 of them had Sequoia as institutional investor, in fact first VC for 4). Also all of them worked like a charm. In
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by dm8 14y ago
>> I (and I'm sure a large majority of Instagram users) am pretty much instantly put off by ads. Especially in-app or in-feed apps. Any ad space sold on my screen is pretty much money wasted. Why don't you like them? Aren't they bet
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by dm8 14y ago
I received my custom tag and loved it!
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by dm8 14y ago
Just like long-term relationships, when breakups happen then people never speak again in most of the cases. But are differences that extreme?
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by dm8 14y ago
Honest question, why daily deals sites are imploding all of a sudden?
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by dm8 14y ago
I had same reaction. It looks unerringly similar to Sheldon Cooper's relationship agreement. May be writers of Big Bang Theory might have referred to this letter to draft that.
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by dm8 14y ago
Really? That lacks every bit of common sense. Also, how folks (in fortune 500 companies) justify these decisions to their bosses?
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>> Is it the prevailing opinion in the startup community these days that building up personal debt and letting your relationships fail are worthwhile parts of starting a company, or is this, as I suspect, just a sad story about misa
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>> This very much seems to be a generation gap between people in positions of power (politicians, bureaucrats, police) who are not used to the internet and the way it gives voice to everyone. Unfortunately, it is true and I fear we

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