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by gms 15y ago
Agree. I was only using Quicksilver for app-launching before.
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by gms 15y ago
I ditched Quicksilver when Spotlight became fast enough.
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by gms 15y ago
Because I know a lot of people who use Facebook, and next to none of those use Google+ (even though many registered in the beginning). This is the same for many people I know. So I'm taking a guess. As far as I can tell the only people usin
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by gms 15y ago
How do they define 'user', for Google+? Facebook's metric is 'active users' which I believe are people who have visited the site during the past 30 days. If Google+'s definition of 'user' is simply someone who has registered for a Google+ p
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by gms 15y ago
Were you around when Facebook came out? Its early users were not tech types.
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by gms 15y ago
Yeah, but Steve made it sound that that's why Facebook is successful. I was disputing that.
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by gms 15y ago
To the downmodder(s): I'm not trolling. These are honest questions I have.
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by gms 15y ago
What's the motivation for building Google+? What problem does Google think it is solving? What does it think it is contributing to the world with Google+?
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by gms 15y ago
I find it hard to believe that any significant number of people use things made using Facebook Platform. Vast majority of people simply use the product itself.
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by gms 15y ago
I don't get it.
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by gms 15y ago
I was really surprised to learn that this is still an open problem.
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My Bit on Steve Jobs(ghalib.me)
5 points by gms 15y ago|0 comments
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by gms 15y ago
YC is, in a sense, transitioning from being a startup into being a 'big company'.
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by gms 15y ago
It won't.
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by gms 15y ago
So what was the cause of the original error and how did you fix it?
346.
by gms 15y ago
'killing' Facebook? Facebook is hardly dying; rather the opposite.
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by gms 15y ago
The numbers are written left to right, but dates are indeed right to left.
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by gms 15y ago
On second reading, you're right. I'm now trying to decide if I should delete by original comment.
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by gms 15y ago
Yeah, I don't think anyone disagrees with you. It's just that this point was rather hidden beneath a misleading title and content!
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by gms 15y ago
I agree with you, for what it's worth.
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by gms 15y ago
The guy works there, so that's probably how he got hold of the data.
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by gms 15y ago
Multimedia was indeed a huge buzzword at the time, due to CD-ROM drives being commonplace.
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by gms 15y ago
Not a surprise. Anyone who has used a Google TV device will tell you what a pile of garbage it is. For example, the remote for the Sony one is pure comedy: http://devilsworkshop.org/files/2010/10/sony_google_tv_remot...
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by gms 15y ago
As difficult as this is, what I'd really like from Google Scholar is being able to ask it "What is the state of the art on X?" where X could be 'document classification' or whatever, and in return I'd get ranked answers. Ranking by number o
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by gms 15y ago
Depends on how you define 'activations'. The strange wording is a strong hint that it doesn't exactly mean consumer sales.
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by gms 15y ago
Just like the people who bought Android phones specifically because they are Android phones.
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by gms 15y ago
I wonder if they will eventually turn into a dating site.
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by gms 15y ago
Not GWT, but Google Closure.
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by gms 15y ago
Your last paragraph is the approach Spivak takes in his wonderful textbook 'Calculus'. One of the best maths textbooks in existence.
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by gms 15y ago
This is not just the Google method. It is also the Facebook, Twitter, and probably Quora method, where you defer thinking about monetisation in order to first better define your product and gain many users. And in fact it's only obvious in

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