emdowling

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by emdowling 6y ago
Exactly this. AMD is willing to forgo on margin to make up for it in volume. Being ahead of Intel in outsourcing manufacturing will help them keep up with demand.
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by emdowling 6y ago
I agree that ARM is a threat to AMD as well, but AMD has two things going for it: 1. Stronger x86 design: AMD's recent CPU releases have shown they are inching ahead of Intel on x86 design, and are able to achieve significantly better
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by emdowling 6y ago
Hey Peter! Former client, And used your firm for several employees. You’ve become an expert in this space. How do you think about scalability and succession planning? What motivates you to keep being so hands on? What has motivated you to b
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by emdowling 6y ago
100% this. University exposed me to a much wider range of society than I’d ever encountered before. Those social interactions have been foundational to my career. The knowledge you learn in classes is secondary to the skills you learn livin
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Twitter restricts new Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’(theverge.com)
84 points by emdowling 6y ago|2 comments
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by emdowling 6y ago
So nostalgic and brings back many memories of my teenage years. I had way too much time when Windows XP was being built - would hang out on IRC and download leaked new builds every week or so. devils0wn is forever embedded in my memory (if
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by emdowling 6y ago
It’s pretty simple to reverse engineer an Android binary. While most Android apps ship with code obfuscation, it’s relatively easy to get around. Using that method, one could determine if the publicly available app came from the same source
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by emdowling 7y ago
I’m a former TransferWise employee and I cannot speak more highly of them. Yes, they aim to make money like every business, but I’ve never seen a company so focused on transparency to customers. The CEO intensely interrogates roadmaps from
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by emdowling 7y ago
I agree with all of the above, but unfortunately no matter how good the intention and clarity of market ("high quality software targeted at a specific group of users"), if that user group is not willing to pay, then you are doing
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by emdowling 7y ago
Some friendly feedback: Your pricing table lists the most expensive plan as being "for big boys". This is really not appropriate and looks immature; it will put a lot of people off. I assume this is not your intention though!
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by emdowling 7y ago
Real time feedback for the author: Good content but the excessive abbreviation use makes it impossible to easily read and digest.
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by emdowling 7y ago
Ditto for gaming desktops. All I want is a really nice, subtle tower that doesn’t look like it belongs in a 13 year old’s bedroom. The Xbox Series X design looks exactly like what I’m after, just in PC form.
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by emdowling 7y ago
This seems like the right response. For Americans who are used to driving everywhere, it is hard to state just how critical the tube is for all people to get to work. Very few people in London have cars, so shutting down the tube entirely w
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by emdowling 7y ago
100% this. I think you've built something that has a lot of potential. Speaking from experience, the biggest trap you'll fall into is trying to find a feature set and a pricing model that caters to every segment who could possibly
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by emdowling 7y ago
The two caveats/differences you mentioned are the biggest complaints against Medium. Medium is a fantastic platform for finding an audience when you don’t have one already. It’s an awesome way to just write and get your work out there.
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by emdowling 7y ago
Salary payments are typically still BACS and I think Faster does have a transaction limit in the 10’s of thousands of pounds range.
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by emdowling 7y ago
I want to, but the online requirement for seemingly basic commands like “next track” renders the feature useless when I need it the most: the London Tube. I often have no hands free when travelling in peak hour and connectivity at stations
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by emdowling 7y ago
You know you have a killer product when your customers will literally fly half way around the world just to use it. When I started my company (since acquired) in 2012, Stripe was so game changing I flew from Australia to the US to open a ba
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by emdowling 7y ago
I co-founded a company called App.io which ran from 2012 to 2015. We let people run iOS apps in the browser and we did it by streaming the simulator from virtualised macOS instances. We were running EXSi on Mac Minis colocated in data centr
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by emdowling 7y ago
Only 1% of Australians are fully excluded from financial services (no transaction account, no credit card, no general insurance)[1]. I doubt this law will have much of an impact on that small population. [1]According to this report from 201
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by emdowling 7y ago
At no point did I say more vegans do this than non-vegans. I would say the proportion of people who engage in this behaviour is broadly the same regardless of diet. My point is that being a vegan in the name of the environment and animal cr
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by emdowling 7y ago
I, and the people around me, mock vegans because 50% of vegans I've encountered are hypocritical. They don't eat meat or animal products, because of the "environment", but then eat fruit and vegetables that were imported
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by emdowling 7y ago
Encryption for a business chat app limits the potential users rather significantly, as I understand it. A number of sectors (like banking) have strict rules which require keeping a record of company communications. How does Keybase deal wit
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by emdowling 7y ago
I would almost be tempted to drop iOS. The holy grail for a product is to find the problem you can provide a 10x better solution to. I wonder if you’ll ever be able to be 10x better for creating a website for the vast majority of iOS users.
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by emdowling 7y ago
You need to get this on Android. For the majority of iOS users, they have access to a larger screen so will prefer creating on that. The problem this solves is less pronounced. But for emerging markets, their Android phone is the first and
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by emdowling 7y ago
While DO is not without fault in this story, any Fortune 500 company would have to be pretty stupid to work with this company after they admit to not storing backups in other places. I feel for you, but a backup is not a backup if it’s subj
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by emdowling 7y ago
Not to discount the hardware, which looks absolutely beautiful, but what strikes me the most is the business model. A new game, every Monday, delivered wirelessly to your pocket. What excites me about Playdate is that it is something only a
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by emdowling 7y ago
Twilit has been on an absolute tear over the last 2 years. I wasn’t sure what they would do next to innovate, but their evolution to customer support products, authentication solutions and now this are inspired. What sets them apart is that
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by emdowling 8y ago
Product Managers should never be mini-CEOs. That is a model naive, ego-driven junior PMs adopt. Good PMs should be servant leaders, doing whatever it takes to ensure their team can have maximum impact and ownership. A big part of that is id
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by emdowling 8y ago
Still not resolving in a lot of places, also making your app not work (I’m in the UK).

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