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by gitah 12y ago
One aspect I haven't seen anyone mentioned is that Uber does not prompt you for tips where as Lyft does. This is a pretty big deal and is why I always choose Uber over Lyft.
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by gitah 12y ago
You're right about ad block. Ad block grew an insane amount (300%) in the past two years: http://i.imgur.com/XIf0JRW.png
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by gitah 12y ago
I am looking forward to the outrage when the Apple Watch gold edition is priced at $5-10k. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/02/24/caldwell-edition
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by gitah 12y ago
This is actually good news for Google. Their current YouTube ad revenues are paying for all the fixed costs right now. Any additional ad revenues for YouTube from now on will go directly to the bottom line as profit without further operatio
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by gitah 12y ago
In my PHP example, I was referring to programming frameworks in general. Not just front-end ones. Many apps have moved away from PHP as developers recognized its weak abstractions which lead to higher maintenance costs. For front-end, you c
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by gitah 12y ago
Choosing a tech stack and framework DOES matter greatly. Some technologies make development a lot easier and maintainable. Otherwise everyone will still be using PHP to write their websites. Abstractions does help greatly and frameworks are
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by gitah 12y ago
Ebay and HP also said the same thing before announcing their split.
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by gitah 12y ago
How is the Starbucks scanner different from a traditional barcode reader? From the looks of it, the Starbucks app + iOS passbook integration uses a regular barcode.
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by gitah 12y ago
Amazon was competing with Dropbox ages ago with Amazon Cloud Drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=cd_def?ie=UTF8&*Ve... It does Desktop folder syncing just like dropbox. I wonder how this new AWS s
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Inside Google’s Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door(recode.net)
4 points by gitah 12y ago|0 comments
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by gitah 12y ago
Most of these points aren't specific to FBA and apply to all 3rd party sellers on Amazon. One big advantage of FBA is prime shipping. I usually pick the items wiht prime shipping over other 3rd party options even if it's 20% more
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by gitah 12y ago
The article mentioned that there was a ton of noise and the researchers had to use customer filters to remove them. I wonder how well this technology would work in the real world. There will be a lot more interference and random, unexpected
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by gitah 12y ago
It's amazing how fast the US expanded. In 60 years, within one life time, the US changed from a small new England colony to an empire larger than the size of Europe. However, the growth of the British Empire was probably faster during
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by gitah 12y ago
Sometimes it's very hard to justify why a project needs to be done especially if it involves back-end refactoring. Additionally, there are many ways to implement a project; the fastest ways usually involves a lot of un-maintanable hack
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by gitah 12y ago
I picked AngularJS because I'm not an expert at Javascript and will probably code myself into a mess if I started out with nothing and had to find third party libraries and structure the code myself. Maybe AngularJS is a bad idea if yo
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by gitah 12y ago
What's preventing another competitor from buying self-driving cars themselves and pushing the margins on automated taxis down to a commodity product? Anything that you need to pay for has a chink in the network effect armor. All a comp
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EBay’s local delivery plans unravel: eBay Now may shut down(venturebeat.com)
3 points by gitah 12y ago|0 comments
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by gitah 12y ago
Also Amazon and Google does a lot of stuff Alibaba does not do. * Self-service warehousing and distribution (Fulfillment by Amazon) * Package Delivery (Google Shopping Express, AmazonFresh) TV setup box (Amazon FireTV) * Search Engine (Goog
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by gitah 12y ago
Silicon Valley loves to portray China as a nation of copycats, but you don't hear as much about the times when the Valley does some fast following of its own — or in this case, slow following I smell a good opportunity here. Many chi
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Life Magazine on the Computer (1970)(books.google.com)
2 points by gitah 12y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Amazon Prime Pantry(youtube.com)
1 points by gitah 12y ago|0 comments
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by gitah 12y ago
At this point, I'm afraid Square is just too expensive to acquire. The company does not have a solid business model: targeting micro-merchants is simply not profitable. And due to all the hype, the acquisition price is going to be very
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The Same-Day War: Amazon, Google And Walmart Race To Bring Your Groceries(forbes.com)
45 points by gitah 12y ago|34 comments
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by gitah 12y ago
Apple and Google gets to act as middle men because their app store provides value to the end user. Users are free to use the mobile browser on their phones but most of the time native apps are a better experience. And guess who develops the
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China’s hi-tech emperors(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by gitah 13y ago|0 comments
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EBay’s Strategy for Taking On Amazon(nytimes.com)
26 points by gitah 13y ago|19 comments
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by gitah 15y ago
Wow great read. I've been having similar thoughts lately and your manifesto puts my thoughts in words perfectly. My frustration is that I want to see things in another perspectives, but I simply can't a lot of the time..
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by gitah 15y ago
Well what you're talking about is the Internet and the TCP/IP stack. The World Wide Web is an application that runs on the Internet. To describe the Internet when someone asks how the web works would be like describing how the iOS works whe
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by gitah 15y ago
The article described old-guard programmers who mastered a technology and then couldn't find work when the technology died off. I have a hard time understanding this: programming skills are extremely transferable and learning the hot langua
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by gitah 15y ago
I'm not sure it's worth all the trouble to go out of the way and adopt a complicated password generation scheme. As long as your password isn't qwery, an attacker brute forcing it seems very unlikely for any competently implemented web app:

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