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by dstein 15y ago
I think they need to make some more drastic changes that that. They need to break up the company, and have several new CEO's. All their cash cows are tied to the personal computing industry, and it is coming to an end faster than they can
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by dstein 15y ago
I would've thought something like Mechanical Turk would be more valuable. Mining WoW gold sounds like something that could be fuuly automated. Why not have them do things that require human insight instead?
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by dstein 15y ago
As an application developer the VPS/cloud model is very appealing. So much so, I think you'd be nuts not to build a datacenter that doesn't target this market. I'm not interested in floor space, dedicated servers, or supplying my own hard
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by dstein 15y ago
From what I've seen Ashton Kutcher tends to invest in companies that make tech that he really wants use. I don't think profit is really the number one thing on his mind - he already has money. And since it was revealed that he was involved
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by dstein 15y ago
If that kind of thing is possible, then I wonder what other things could be replaced. I'm thinking along the lines of a distributed SSL authentication service.
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Thoughts on Bitcoin mining(colorfulwolf.com)
4 points by dstein 15y ago|0 comments
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by dstein 15y ago
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamenting of the women.
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by dstein 15y ago
Think about it this way, if you ballbark their maximum exit at $30M, and you own 1%, you end up with $300,000. But the chance of that happening are slim. You already make good money, at $85K per year you can save and invest more than $300
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by dstein 15y ago
Oops I missed that part. Argument retracted. Yeah this isn't a good enough deal given his situation. I'd ask for a lot more equity or walk.
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by dstein 15y ago
Sounds cool, but how will you make money?
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Josh Berkus: "Scale Fail" how to be sexy like Twitter and Reddit(youtube.com)
4 points by dstein 15y ago|0 comments
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by dstein 15y ago
See, you're doing it too. You're putting words in people's mouth and arguing against a position that was never made.
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by dstein 15y ago
Or Datacenter-Heated Sea, depending on your perspective.
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by dstein 15y ago
Sigh. I didn't say the game was a waste of time, or that FPS games or dead, or anything like that. If you're going to be pedantic, at least try to interpret an opinion literally.
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by dstein 15y ago
I excusively use touchpads now. Even at a desk I use an external Apple touchpad synced with my laptop.
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by dstein 15y ago
Except all of Microsoft's profitable business lines are in a dying industry, the personal computing industry. It's kind of an ironic role-reversal for IBM and Microsoft given their history and the way MS became the behemoth it is.
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by dstein 15y ago
My point was this is being released far too late for me to care. I was anxious about a sequel in the late 90's. But now it's been so long that I no longer use the technology or this type of entertainment anymore.
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by dstein 15y ago
I would have much preferred a lackluster sequel 14 years ago than an amazing game today. I no longer own a Windows PC, play first person shooters, or use a mouse.
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by dstein 15y ago
The Winklevoss brothers.
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by dstein 15y ago
Walk. These guys are amateurs looking for an easy ride after watching The Social Network.
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by dstein 15y ago
Mobile apps will die off for the simple reason that it is too expensive for businesses to create and support 6 mobile platforms in addition to their websites. How many businesses are going to pay top dollar for an Android developer to port
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by dstein 15y ago
LinkedIn could be turned into the world's best job board. But it is currently built like an old-fashioned dating site. It's like Match.com for jobs.
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by dstein 15y ago
Like "e-business" and "social network" before it, "cloud" is simply a pseudonym for the Internet.
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by dstein 15y ago
Once Microsoft won the browser wars and Netscape was out the picture there was little reason to continue improving it. The development of IE was merely a hedge against an all-internet software paradigm, the exact one that is now threatenin
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by dstein 15y ago
Considering IE9 is one whole generation behind the other browsers, it too should be considered a legacy browser.
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by dstein 15y ago
As usual, the middleman is not really needed. Or they wouldn't be if a new stock exchange was designed to make this process easier. I guess this is essentially what Second Market is trying to circumvent. If the shares of companies can be
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by dstein 15y ago
You're okay as long as you don't extend Object which only leads to "hasOwnProperty" messiness. In cases where I might want to extend Object I use a static Object.foo(object) instead.
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by dstein 15y ago
In JavaScript I always use: String.prototype.startsWith = function(s) { return this.substring(0,s.length)===s; }; String.prototype.endsWith = function(s) { return this.substring(this.length-s.length)===s; };
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by dstein 15y ago
Through an under the table deal with any hedge fund, or any number of other means, an investment bank that owns LinkedIn shares could quite easily insure their profits. That is exactly what these businesses do.
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by dstein 15y ago
They probably are, but what I mean is they could use some 3rd party to short their own shares. We're talking about people that can rob the US government of a trillion dollars in plain sight.

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