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by frossie 15y ago
Exactly. First, it doesn't matter if the AirBnB guys are nice or not - it wouldn't be the first time in the history of mankind that a nice guy did the wrong thing faced with a woman in distress. The problem is that this woman sounds like ev
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by frossie 15y ago
buy her something nice If this is all playing out in her head the way she is blogging it, I don't think she wants something nice. First, she probably wants what nobody can giver her (her peace of mind back). Secondly, she probably wants
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by frossie 15y ago
Also, I think there are two kinds of links, "original story" links, and "what are people saying" links. For example if you are for some reason genuinely interested in AirBnB as a business, both the original story AND what tech crunch are sa
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by frossie 15y ago
Exactly. The OP is basically "and these are the problems I have because this technology is early-adoption" rather than "and these are the problems I had because of fundamental issues with technology". As to the whole speed of whipping out t
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by frossie 15y ago
read/write permissions for shared files/folders Yeah, there's is a lot more that Dropbox can do with sharing, and it really expands the usage past the "backup my stuff in the cloud" core, without necessarily entering feature-itis territor
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by frossie 15y ago
Irrespective of context, I second the recommendation for Red Queen. As to the question, since my college years are in the "drought" years described in the OP: there is no way I would have done a CompSci degree in those days. The CompSci pro
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by frossie 15y ago
I just don't understand why people are so against Google over this, when Facebook has always been doing it. Because we wouldn't be interested in Google+ if we thought it would just be another Facebook? I mean, if the fresh launch of a bet
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by frossie 15y ago
This. If Google went poof tomorrow, the lack of Reader would be the one thing that would leave me bereft. On the iPhone, I use mobileRSS as the UI, but I use the web app directly on the desktop. I assume the OP question was to establish whe
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by frossie 15y ago
Skud was actually Internet-famous before being a Google engineer Hell, Skud was Internet-famous before Google existed
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by frossie 15y ago
Yeah, his whole argument is based on this Simply put: the way we consume music is fundamentally different to the way we consume movies and TV. This used to be true, but I am not sure it is any longer - at least not for everyone. Listening
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by frossie 15y ago
I would have posted the HTML but, ironically, it wouldn't render right in my browser.
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Unicode Support Shootout: The Good, The Bad, and the (mostly) Ugly [pdf](training.perl.com)
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by frossie 15y ago
Actually eBay have made changes through the years - it is just that all of them are bad. The move to favour large corporate sellers, and to only give feedback as a buyer completely broke the "swap meet" feel that eBay had. Buying and sellin
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by frossie 15y ago
For years the major weakness of gmail was the really poor contacts management. Now that they have Plus users actively curating their social network into Circles, I am going to cry if that doesn't tie back to Gmail. I want to be able to emai
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by frossie 15y ago
As far as I can see in other reporting, it's something of the order of a 20% write down (at least for the German Banks) with the EU buying up some of the bonds and the terms being extended to 15 and 30 years. In other words, it is not clear
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by frossie 15y ago
For both of these to work, Color needed a viral social product to gain data and users. I don't disagree with your analysis, but surely one surefire way to gain social network data is to be bought by someone who has the data already. Googl
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by frossie 15y ago
To clarify, I did not mean to indicate elitism by mentioning gentlemen's clubs - rather their social purpose, which is in fact close to how many people use Starbucks or other wi-fi coffee shops today: somewhere to go instead of going home,
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by frossie 15y ago
The interesting point is how little of the positive bookstore experience you describe actually involved taking the book home. It seems to me that there might be a niche for something that is a cross between a bookstore, a library and the ol
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by frossie 15y ago
The problem here is that this is what customers want And I want a pony, they gonna give me that too? A business transaction is a negotiation between seller and client. You don't always have to give them what they want, and if you are go
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by frossie 15y ago
I suspect the etiology is quite simple - if somebody is behaving like an ass and getting away with it, it must be because they are powerful, otherwise somebody else would stop them. And so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by frossie 15y ago
I also think the flat v. hierarchy is pointless. In my experience, people are to some extent naturally hierarchical in their social structures. If you don't agree - think about an argument on some implementation detail that has dragged on f
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by frossie 15y ago
Had Google actually engaged the industry Engaging the industry is a customer-serving function. I suspect that Google is just not interested in that kind of activity - because if they were, surely they would be better at it. It almost seem
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by frossie 15y ago
Bingo. It is all very well to say "I and my business buddies only use 10 apps". Go have a look at a random teenager's iPhone and if they are not full of game apps I will eat my hat. And yes there are a lot if kids with iPhones out there, ei
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by frossie 15y ago
I am sure it is very complicated, but they need to be careful with the hype, especially since it the meanwhile some other online offerings (such as ING direct) have been getting better, to the point that it seems to me that the opportunity
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by frossie 15y ago
I am not sure it is that simple. For one, there are people who don't switch to Chrome because of specific Firefox extensions that they love [ed: you can pry Tree Style Tab out of my cold dead hands] and therefore maybe those who switch to C
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by frossie 15y ago
I went into this management position with zero management experience. If I am at the top end of small business management then we're all doomed. I think you might be conflating experience with ability. There are people with a lifetime of
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by frossie 15y ago
I am not on Facebook, but the last few games I tried on iOS have a "post achievement on Facebook/Twitter" every single level . I can't help thinking that if anybody is actually pushing those buttons it must drive their "friends" absolutely
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by frossie 15y ago
Not just PHBs. In a crowded space, where users essentially choose you semi-randomly, charts like that provide the user with some self-justification ("I picked them because, err, they have more features!"). And anyway these kind of slides ar
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by frossie 15y ago
You may be right that Facebook has not peaked, but saying Facebook overthrows countries is kinda like saying the inventor of the quill wrote the Declaration of Independence. Civil dissent overthrows governments. Ubiquitous communication met
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by frossie 15y ago
To be fair to the OP, their argument isn't "since I don't use it, nobody uses it". Their argument was a (totally defensible IMHO) personal expression of disappointment about all the brain work going into something whose impact seems to have

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