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by duado 8y ago
My personal theory is that they are doing this very deliberately... they view “selling stuff” as a lousy business and AWS as the real business, and are just maximizing short term retail profits to invest in AWS.
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by duado 8y ago
The alternative: Target.com. Once you try it, you’ll never go back. Amazon is still where I buy a wireless mouse, or a phone holder for my car, but big electronics come from B&H or Newegg, diapers and kids toys and baby food comes from
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by duado 8y ago
You think everyone on the Internet except people at Amazon knows about this?
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by duado 8y ago
Shopping on Amazon is like shopping in Chinatown now. The funny thing is, you know Amazon has the data and must be optimizing in the short term. This shit must be working, for some definition of working. Personally, anything that touches my
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by duado 8y ago
That’s a view that works if you want a static job, like a passport inspector. No one expects or wants them to go “above and beyond.” But in a company like Google, the work that needs to be done is far harder to define, and change frequently
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by duado 8y ago
When white people move out of a neighborhood, it’s “white flight,” when they move in it’s “gentrification.” What is it called when they stay where they are?
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by duado 8y ago
A $300 Canon 5D with a fast lens like a 28/1.8 or 35/2, in good light, outperforms most of what you can get today in any similar price range.
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by duado 8y ago
The cynical corporate interest is that they don’t really want more people knowing about this whole underworld.
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by duado 8y ago
The difference between a micromanager and a detail-oriented manager is the micromanager tells you how to do it, the detail-oriented manager tells you what to do. I only see detail orientation here. Even the string to describe the API was wr
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by duado 8y ago
Vituperative? That’s a pretty common word known by most well-educated people. I definitely hate thousand dollar word syndrome but this isn’t really it.
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by duado 8y ago
Frankly a good CEO would not tolerate this bullshit or promote people like this. My guess is people there are promoted on technical merit alone which means that there must be a lot of smart fucking people there but with obviously poor task
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by duado 8y ago
It is always great to see what an utterly incorrigible dweeb (and I use that term affectionately) does with power and money. I just fucking love that instead of a Learjet he has basically a large ecosystem of software built specifically for
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by duado 8y ago
This is crazy. He is the CEO of an 800 person company and the people talking to him sound like they are completely unprepared for the conversation. Of course the third argument needs to be fucking documented! Their response should have been
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by duado 8y ago
I can’t believe marketing culture has gotten to the point where someone is pre-announcing Part 2 of his notes and offers to notify you if you subscribe.
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by duado 8y ago
The best way to read Gladwell is his articles in the New Yorker. His books are just a magazine article’s worth of ideas in book length.
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by duado 8y ago
Why doesn’t someone this wealthy have a “body man” to carry around all this shit for him?
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by duado 8y ago
He’s like a Mozart who thinks he’s better than Bach.
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by duado 8y ago
Every company is set up to cater to the whims of one overlord. Then there is a group who can change the overlord. Most effective companies are dictatorships with a fairly reasonable dictator.
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by duado 8y ago
It’s not that nobody notices that he’s walking... it’s that, what is anyone going to do about it? Who signs their paychecks?
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by duado 8y ago
Employers can do whatever they want if the employees are OK with it. When I was 22 I signed up for a job that kept me in hotels 250 nights a year. I loved it but now with kids would obviously tell any such job to go fuck itself.
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by duado 8y ago
That's a pretty high bar which almost nobody needs to meet to be widely acclaimed and highly profitable.
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by duado 8y ago
The detection has value itself. I’d much rather know now that I have a year to live today than a week to live in 51 weeks.
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by duado 8y ago
There’s a big difference between someone getting turned on by motorcycles and a two-sided marketplace of sexualized videos of minors.
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by duado 8y ago
Well, I can guarantee you that YouTube will solve this problem. Why? Because major advertisers are pausing all advertising on YouTube. The only leverage we have against the Internet giants is their money supply.
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by duado 8y ago
Those diminishing returns haven’t seemed to happen yet. What is it this year... Avengers vs. Batman?
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by duado 8y ago
The main market for Macs are people who want an expensive-looking, high perceived quality machine for emails, Facebook, and Slack.
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by duado 8y ago
Everyone in my school took cooking in 7th grade. As a result I cook a thousand times better than my wife. Compound interest.
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by duado 8y ago
Different people can have different versions of the word “collusion” but the important definition is that in the law, and in most countries it does not require an explicit agreement between parties.
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by duado 8y ago
Does the US Navy’s mission require it to maintain readiness to blow up anything in any ocean to smithereens at a moment’s notice?
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by duado 8y ago
There's a lot of correlated factors in all-cash businesses. Yes, they don't pay CC processing, but they often sell lower-end goods, are in worse neighborhoods with lower rent, may acquire some of their merchandise in sketchier way

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