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Cancer Researcher: Steve Jobs Death Unnecessary(quora.com)
19 points by dr_ 15y ago|1 comments
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by dr_ 15y ago
Even before this announcement, it is beyond me how anyone can argue that this is not the best smartphone on the market. It has an incredibly fast processor, fantastic camera, one of the most popular music hubs (iTunes), the largest app sto
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Analyst: Siri more than just speech recognition(forbes.com)
31 points by dr_ 15y ago|24 comments
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There was something particularly touching about this. I think it was the words "Thank You", where you felt it wasn't coming from "The Colbert Report" Colbert, but the actual Stephen Colbert himself.
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Accomplished more in his 56 years of life than many people do in a full lifetime. Thank you for your vision, creativity and inspiration.
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Although exclusivity is hard to believe, the only thing that makes this plausible is that it makes sense for Apple to want multiple carriers for their products, each with lesser influence, than one or two major carriers with major influence
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Not sure how being a blogger qualifies one to become a VC, but I'm guessing this is to keep him "in the techcrunch mix". TC doesn't risk losing a solid contributor, and MG gets to potentially make a good amount of cash.
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I haven't used it, but I suppose it's an interesting concept. What starts out as broadcasting random nonsense could evolve in to individuals broadcasting a produced show on fb. Sort of how podcasting evolved - with a social twist.
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by dr_ 15y ago
When you start your company, you think of it as an innovative product, not a probability. If you start thinking of it in terms of probabilities from the very beginning, you are not going to succeed.
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The title of the article suggests that it was a mistake to leave NYC for Palo Alto, but there is nothing in the article which suggests Palo Alto was the problem. You may as well have titled this article "I got screwed by a guy named Ted". I
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Bankers were secondary to the tech scene? Maybe for a couple of years in the dot com era, but otherwise I'm not sure which NYC you are referring to. We are not just talking >200K, we are talking 8-9 million people, a mix of bankers, med
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by dr_ 15y ago
"distractions of city life" is no understatement. What makes NYC quite a fun place to visit or live in also detracts from it becoming a serious contender to the Valley. It's a city of bankers who have, or traditionally have had, tons of mon
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by dr_ 15y ago
Spotify can do whatever it wants. It may seem a bit extreme to require a facebook account to use the service, but honestly - competing with a behemoth like Apple and iTunes, with it's inevitable rollout of a similar service at some point th
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I understand their position up until the point of The NEJM Feb 2010 study, where they are dismissive of it as "conjecture". Granted it's a computer simulated model but they are using valid data from the National Health and Nutrition Examina
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by dr_ 15y ago
The user experience, from the website, mobile to device to phone calls, will be a big part of people signing up. There are a lot of people out there who are unhappy with their banks. If they get enough users to sign up with them, the actu
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by dr_ 15y ago
What kind of nonsense is this? It's the board of directors that needs to be dismantled and reorganized. I'm indifferent to HP as a company so it doesn't matter to me what their corporate strategy is. However, if you bring in a new CEO to
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by dr_ 15y ago
Personally, I feel product announcements should be made by the head of the team that developed the product in the company. That's what Google does, for example. It gives some well deserved spotlight to that person for their hard work. It al
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This may be true on the outskirts, but in the cities, China has made huge advances, especially with infrastructure, roads, railway, etc. Of course, this is not true for all of China.
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I'm not sure what it means to be a large economy anymore. If you roam around any of the cities in India, you see nothing but a third world nation, with rampant poverty and horrific infrastructure. And of course in the villages, it's even wo
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I haven't tried it, but maybe with iOS 5, which is rumored to offer markedly improved speech to text capabilities, it might make a difference. I agree that templates don't work great.
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In theory, however, Qwikster doesn't have to limit itself to DVD's in the future. If it's real focus is shipping speed for items that are rented (or more likely purchased), it could expand into other product lines. Speed of shipping is a pr
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by dr_ 15y ago
I don't have any personal vindication towards any of these journalists, but I don't understand why it's a big deal that the editor of TechCrunch resides in New York. Didn't Arrington himself move to Seattle before the sale?
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This is really inspirational for people who are working at it, hard, but don't get traction immediately, and all the while are reading about others whose businesses just skyrocketed right away. It's not always a launch to the moon, sometime
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At a 3.49% credit card rate, I'm not sure how much of a real competitor it is. No fixed fee helps for smaller sized transactions though.
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It's not inconceivable that, as AI advances, at some point there with be algorithms that figure out the questions you have posed.
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Creating Jobs: A Capitalist Idea(nytimes.com)
9 points by dr_ 15y ago|1 comments
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This will require strong leadership. First thing is you're gonna have to convince the Board and investors not to simply sell Yahoo off. The changes have to be dramatic in order for Yahoo to thrive: - Simplify it, starting with the homepage
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Hallelujah! Finally someone is saying it like it is. The American education is far from perfect - it will always be far from perfect. Even for those who fully go through it, you have to question, at least up through basic college, what kind
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Creating Jobs (NYTimes Mag profiles Steve Jobs, 1997)(nytimes.com)
1 points by dr_ 15y ago|0 comments
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Seems more like Amazon's tablet will hardly be recognizable as Android - with a focus on it's own AppStore and other services Amazon offers, the underlying OS gradually becomes irrelevant. With what Apple has done to their supply chain, I'm

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