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IT Spending Hollows Out Labor Markets(economist.com)
2 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
Definitely. The iPad desperately needs this control, because brightness can only be controlled in an app using a private API reserved for iBooks.
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by gamble 16y ago
The US reminds me of a company that's suffered from stagnant revenue and decreasing profit margins for years, yet whose profits continue to grow through a combination of cost cutting and underinvestment in research and infrastructure. Meanw
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by gamble 16y ago
Or Canada. They even sold the original Zune here, then pulled out when the Zune HD was released.
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by gamble 16y ago
Keep in mind that however much people talk about startups as a shared mission or a calling, it's also about the money. Try asking for a meaningful chunk of equity if you want proof. The goal of every startup is to reach an exit, which is an
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by gamble 16y ago
This issue is the philosophical equivalent of Apple's App Store censorship, for Android fans. Android's partisans are so fixated on victory over Apple that they ignore or excuse the fact that carriers are steadily chipping away at the 'open
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by gamble 16y ago
Around 4% of alimony recipients in the US are male.
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by gamble 16y ago
The only purpose of a resume is to get you past the first round of screening. Name recognition trumps everything else. A job at a well-known and respected tech company like Google or Facebook gives you an automatic pass to the next round. R
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by gamble 16y ago
They approved Cinexplayer and AirVideo.
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by gamble 16y ago
I didn't say that they weren't profitable. I said they made very little profit considering that they have an enormous audience. A substantial chunk of the planet frequents Facebook, yet people still argue whether they turn a profit. That sa
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by gamble 16y ago
Another possibility is that this is as open as Android is ever going to be. The original Droid was a high-water mark for openness and standardization on Android. Subsequent phones have been progressively more customized and locked down. Exa
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by gamble 16y ago
Yeah, especially when you're on a metered data plan. If I'm stuck paying for x GB, I damn well want to use my quota any way I like.
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by gamble 16y ago
Digg's trouble illustrates how the size of a site's audience isn't as important to the bottom line as their quality. (From a marketeer's point-of-view) Digg, reddit, even Facebook have trouble turning a profit despite receiving a huge numbe
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by gamble 16y ago
You can't right now. It's on the list of things they haven't finished reimplementing from v3.
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by gamble 16y ago
The real problem is that v4 removed the illusion that average users had an influence on the rankings, without altering the fact that they don't.
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by gamble 16y ago
Not to mention that it appears to eliminate the long "measuring before you cut" thing at the start of new projects. Fingers on keyboards equals productivity!
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by gamble 16y ago
Hurd's only real achievement at HP was finishing Fiorina's work and applying the coup de grace to the HP Way. HPers loathe him. They'd have been dancing in the street when he left, if they didn't know that the board was so happy with his pe
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by gamble 16y ago
For me, the chain bookstores are just a place to get a book when I don't want to wait for shipping. The only other store I visit is a local independent, which only stocks titles that the staff recommends. They're a great place to go if I wa
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by gamble 16y ago
Sure. They'll charge what they can. If phones were sold at list price without a contract, they'd have a price set by the market and not solely by backroom negotiations. I'd expect a contractless iPhone 4 to run a ~$150 premium over the iPod
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Oracle Hires Mark Hurd As Co-President(nytimes.com)
77 points by gamble 16y ago|34 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
I suspect the process that assigns official contract-free prices to phones is entirely based on telco politics. The goal for telcos in the US and Canada is to lock you into a long-term contract, and high prices that no one is intended to pa
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by gamble 16y ago
> After all, it's going to be a $10 billion company one day, and that 0.25% is going to make you a millionaire many times over, no? Sage wisdom, here. It's easy to seem generous when you're dreaming about carving off a tiny sliver from
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by gamble 16y ago
I think it depends on the size of your hands and how you use it. I have big hands, and all physical keyboards sized for a phone are painful to use. Once I trained myself to ignore typos and let the iPhone correct them for me, I became far f
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by gamble 16y ago
Do you friends actually make more, or do you just think they do based on an opulent lifestyle? People see the trappings of wealth, but not the debt. They assume everyone else is at least as responsible with money, because no one ever ment
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by gamble 16y ago
Extra vacation time is much harder to negotiate than the equivalent bump in salary. Vacation is more visible than salary, and people who want more time off than their coworkers are perceived as slackers or 'not a team player'. Plus, many co
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by gamble 16y ago
...and it will run on a new line of Amigas.
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by gamble 16y ago
I meant the personal computer in general, not just IBM's model.
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by gamble 16y ago
It is a $500+ device. At that point most people are looking for some guarantee that it's going to be useful. The iPad is an unusual product, because doesn't address an obvious need. Laptops were just portable desktops. mp3 players were digi
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by gamble 16y ago
Because the US is willing to accept a non-reciprocal arrangement. Protectionism works pretty well when the other party represents a huge market and where ideology and special interests prevent them from responding in kind.
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by gamble 16y ago
One day, the Mozilla folks are going to wake up and realize that all the opinion-makers abandoned them for Safari and Chrome.

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