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by gamble 15y ago
"Innovation" is a glittering generality that tech companies and their admirers feel obliged to assume, but most successful companies are built on execution rather than innovation. Apple is actually an exemplar of execution over innovation.
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by gamble 15y ago
There are lots of bad $200 Android tablets out there. The Kindle Fire was supposed to be a good tablet, sold at low cost because it was tied closely to Amazon's digital products. Instead, the reviews are suggesting that it's just another ba
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by gamble 15y ago
That's exactly what gross margin is for. The number itself is arbitrary; people are only interested in it so that they can compare against other products from the same company.
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by gamble 15y ago
It's incidents like this that always remind me how surprisingly conservative geeks can be about relatively minor changes. I love the iOS-style scroll bars and natural scrolling in Lion. The fact that Apple is willing to make minor changes l
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by gamble 15y ago
Windows tablets have been available in a variety of forms for around twenty years. Without exception, they've all been failures in the marketplace. People like the idea of a Windows tablet much more than the reality. Real products have to m
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by gamble 15y ago
> A new survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that more than 40 percent of current tablet users in the United States want a tablet that runs Windows. That number jumps to 53 percent when non-tablet owners are included. The reason:
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm skeptical about Tesla's future, but not because I doubt their product. The Roadster was an amazing, unique vehicle that wasn't priced so high it was unattainable, at least to the moderately wealthy. There are plenty of Mercedes on the
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by gamble 15y ago
It cuts both ways. In the past, the smaller number of Canadian banks made it easier for them to push common payment projects, albeit ones that don't challenge their business model. For example, debit cards were in common use in Canada at le
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by gamble 15y ago
I was actually impressed with the basic functionality of the Playbook, but it's ridiculous that it shipped months ago and still doesn't have email or calendar support without a tethered Blackberry. It's also hard to believe that they're pin
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by gamble 15y ago
> Tesla seems to have the rather limited "I'm a rich dude who wants to show how much I care about the environment by driving around in an expensive electric car" market sewn up pretty well. I've always wondered about that. Tesla only sh
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by gamble 15y ago
Didn't he do the same thing during Apple's IPO? I was under the impression that Apple employees only received stock because Woz voluntarily gave up some of his own to form an employee pool. It's this tight-fisted aspect of Jobs that makes i
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by gamble 15y ago
The reason people don't typically act this way is that anyone who tries to give honest advice quickly realizes than in 90% of cases, the person seeking advice doesn't want to be challenged. Especially budding entrepreneurs, who are often
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm not sure they conflict. The post you linked is about keeping an open mind and offering advice on specifics, instead of just shutting someone down because you think their idea isn't viable.
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by gamble 15y ago
Write a long memo: "This is too long to read" Write a short memo: "This is just your opinion" I'm not going to try to parse Brin's response, but realistically, if Yegge had just written a page-length summary of his argument on this subject
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by gamble 15y ago
I think it's hard to overemphasize how much of an effect the respect accorded to teachers in Finland draws in the most motivated and skilled. Teachers in the US are all but regarded with contempt, and in many cases deserve it. Teaching hasn
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by gamble 15y ago
That does depend on other countries buying those high-end products, instead of simply reverse-engineering them or stealing the designs and manufacturing them at lower cost within protected domestic industries. China's highly protectionist i
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm thinking more the kind of delay where the product is already on the market and a part shortage stops production, leaving Apple with nothing to sell.
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by gamble 15y ago
The advantage of operating at Apple scale is the ability to buy components in vast quantities, giving Apple better deals and exclusivity that their competitors can't match. The downside is that they have to buy at those scales. Apple can'
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by gamble 15y ago
Nothing embarrasing here. I'm sure it's just that Google's management are very private people who wouldn't like their personal information exposed and spread about to third parties.
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by gamble 15y ago
I hope you didn't formally drop out. Dropouts hurt a school's USNWR ranking, so they will almost always let students take 'temporary' leaves of absence. If the startup fails you'll be able to go back without penalty.
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by gamble 15y ago
I was hired as a C# programmer once, only to find out that they'd lied to me about the nature of the position and I would actually be working with SharePoint. I threatened to quit unless they gave me the job originally advertised. Then the
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by gamble 15y ago
Those prices are only available on two year contracts.
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by gamble 15y ago
Should be an awesome feature when combined with a handsfree car kit. The existing iPhone 4 voice recognition is very limited, but it still saves me from getting $200 tickets when I need to make calls on the road.
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by gamble 15y ago
Restrictive covenants were not rare, especially in the post-war suburbs. The first modern suburb, Levittown, NY, was racially segregated. It wasn't called 'white flight' because the people fleeing the inner city wanted to live with blacks.
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by gamble 15y ago
The problem is that American cities are structured to keep the poor and minorities in nominally independent cities or suburbs that are geographically indistinguishable from the richer areas, but just independent enough to ensure that proper
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm not surprised that they decided not to launch the Fire tablet outside the US. At $199 they have to be selling near cost in the US, hoping to make their profit on media sales. Amazon's media stores are minimal at best outside the US. The
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by gamble 15y ago
Flying a UAV for commercial purposes is already illegal. However, mounting a gun on there would raise his chances of being prosecuted substantially.
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by gamble 15y ago
Also worth a look are the ARM Cortex-M3 chips. They're competitive with AVR in the $3-10 range, have even better tool support, and are much more powerful.
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by gamble 15y ago
If it's hard to find good QA guys when there's a career path, it's even harder when there's a wall between dev and QA. QA is considered entry level in most companies because the jobs are entry level. Most companies barely value the monkeys-
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Netflix CEO on Qwikster: "Blame Canada"(theglobeandmail.com)
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