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by guyzero 8y ago
Zoning can be an issue - there's an abandoned mall in Cupertino that's probably half a mile from the new Apple HQ. And to say it's prime land is an understatement - the entire area is desperate for new housing. Current propos
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by guyzero 8y ago
I was interviewed in 2007 and I got an entire phone screen full of them. Thankfully I had gone through "How to Move Mt Fuji" and already knew all but one of the questions the interviewer gave me.
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by guyzero 8y ago
This is a five-year old article about something Google stopped doing in about 2010. But on the off chance you're 8 years behind the times, it turns out that those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring at Google.
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by guyzero 8y ago
The single largest app used across all smart speakers is Spotify, so it's not surprising that the lack of third-party streaming service support hampers HomePod.
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by guyzero 8y ago
The crux of his thesis is this: "Nothing tied to a user’s identity should be used to serve them a particular message." But is pseudonymous behavioural data the same as a user's identity? Google can make a guess about your gen
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by guyzero 8y ago
We can create methane but I'm not sure if "exhale" is the right word.
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by guyzero 8y ago
I feel like this is an article that could only be written by someone who has never owned a car. One, because it's clearly about Uber. But two because rating inflation has been going on at car dealerships for over a decade. For those wh
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by guyzero 9y ago
I think the outdoor advertising arm has been sold off from iHeartRadio. https://www.iheartmedia.com/press/clear-channel-outdoor-hold...
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by guyzero 9y ago
iHeartRadio makes billions of dollars in revenue every year, they just can't keep up with their debt payments from the leveraged buyout. Radio ads make plenty of money and stations aren't really that expensive to run. edit: to be
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by guyzero 9y ago
No, Bain Capital wanted their fees and after the buyout servicing the deb wasn't their problem. I'm not the best person to explain LBOs really.
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by guyzero 9y ago
Nothing. They never had it. It was a leveraged buyout run by Bain.
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by guyzero 9y ago
So in case you're wondering how a bunch of radio stations got $20B in debt (yes, that's twenty billion US dollars) - the answer as always is a leveraged buyout. From https://www.forbes.com/2008/05/14&#x2F
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by guyzero 9y ago
Possibly DRM requirement to comply with promises Spotify has made to labels.
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by guyzero 9y ago
I hope to someday read a comprehensive post-mortem but I doubt there's anyone involved who can/would write one without a lot of bias against the other parties involved. This will go down in an annals of massive software project fa
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by guyzero 9y ago
So you're saying people have been discriminated against in SFBA tech companies for believing in strict immigration policies? This seems like a pretty strong claim and I'm curious what examples you have other than it being somethin
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by guyzero 9y ago
My point is that discrimination against conservative viewpoints is not a significant phenomenon in SFBA tech, unless by "conservative" you mean sexist or racist. I'm really curious what conservative viewpoints people espouse
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by guyzero 9y ago
"if you believe that these are all just advertising companies." I'm not the one calling Google an all-advertising company, I'm just saying that if it is, it's by far the biggest.
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by guyzero 9y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/financials?p=GOOGL $110B total revenue for 2017
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by guyzero 9y ago
Omnicom: $15B revenue annually, $17B market cap WPP: $18B revenue, $23B market cap Google: $110B revenue, $750B market cap Seems like a good argument that being tech-forward provides a multiplier on value versus doing the same old thing, if
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by guyzero 9y ago
You don't wear skates while curling? I'm not sure where your analogy is going
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by guyzero 9y ago
Advertising as a business is nearly 200 years old. Seems pretty future-proof.
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by guyzero 9y ago
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,
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by guyzero 9y ago
What possible penalty could one city impose on another?
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by guyzero 9y ago
"The size of the tax cut was certainly enough to significantly affect the economics of a datacenter investment." So without a tax cut Apple would have just let users suffer? Hardly. Users drive DC investments, not tax policy. Ther
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by guyzero 9y ago
It's not that much of a campus: "The new facility is at 520 Evans Avenue. It's a lot that has been vacant for many years until Apple purchased it to build the new 27,000-square-foot facility. An Apple employee tells KOLO 8 th
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by guyzero 9y ago
The $1B Reno datacenter expansion was announced in May of 2017. So it has nothing to do with cash repatriation really. http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2017/05/10/breaking-apple-anno...
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by guyzero 9y ago
"I've worked with people in their sixties, and they're sweet people." Survivorship bias.
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by guyzero 9y ago
People used to complain how a desktop PC had a 24 month lifespan and now that a 4 year-old Mac Mini still works fine people think it's too old.
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by guyzero 9y ago
And the reason they used to give is that "Chromecast doesn't support Amazon Prime Video and that's confusing for users" - well guess whose decision that was?
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by guyzero 9y ago
Having attended Waterloo, this isn't very surprising at all. The CS department is part of the Math Faculty.

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