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by hullo 15y ago
While I don't disagree that Android is certainly popular and growing ever more so, I don't think the methodology in place really justifies making comparisons of "popularity". This is a place where the homogeneity of the iOS platform really
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by hullo 15y ago
Nobody has said Google had to do it. They just.. did. Until.. they didn't. The OP is questioning the hypocrisy, which is of course a common meme. Google wants to have it both ways. I'd wager having drawn attention that this particular decis
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by hullo 15y ago
Nowhere in the article is an investigation mentioned or even inferred.
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by hullo 15y ago
I'm all in favor of disclosure, so bad on the Times here etc. All the same, if we accept that there's an utterly subjective continuum between "appearance of conflict" and "actual full raging conflict impacting journalistic coverage" I would
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by hullo 15y ago
I've been trying to parse this and just kind of failing. Is the implication that of course a naughty secretary wouldn't know anything about MongoDB?
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by hullo 15y ago
I don't know about 'official', but it's highly likely that the Chronicle of Higher Ed/Chronicle of Philanthropy are the most referred to. Here's a list from 2008: http://chronicle.com/stats/big_gifts.htm And here's a searchable database:
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by hullo 15y ago
From the language I'd guess they might be setting up a charitable lead trust or gift annuity, where he'd actually be giving he money now but will continue to draw an income from it over the rest of his life. I'm fairly far removed at this p
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by hullo 15y ago
I'm not sure why so many of these speculation articles don't mention the NOOK Color, which is a 7" Android-based tablet primarily concerned with reading with a secondary focus on media, that has a specialized Android app market. Price: $250
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by hullo 15y ago
It's not a meme, mg invented it out of whole cloth and it's spread from pure tech crunch inertia. I mean, he's even personally reported 'mixed signals' that Apple not only doesn't mind, that in fact they're actively helping...
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by hullo 15y ago
Running a successful deals program in the current (competitive) market requires two things that it seems Facebook isn't much inclined to provide: (1) non-engineer staffing, to find and close deals with merchants and (2) customer service.
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by hullo 15y ago
One interesting number for last quarter, from total sales of $878 million, $341 million or 39% was actually Groupon's. Which definitely seems to be proof that the days of 50/50 splits are over, if any merchant prospects about to talk deal t
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by hullo 15y ago
No, that's just a sideline, a thing people are investigating as to proof to the actual main question, whether or not this is a viral campaign sponsored by Starbucks. He quite firmly denies that.
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by hullo 15y ago
At least one of the items (the only explicitly martial one) appears to have been pulled, #2 as of my viewing, "Military Police Telescopic Tonfa - 21" was up 4,291% to #136, now 404s and doesn't return from search either. Doesn't seem to be
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by hullo 15y ago
Haven't seen mentioned yet that .html files and legacy tools have an extremely lax historical attitude towards whitespace. People of a certain age came to the web understanding that a space is the same as a tab is the same as a line feed, a
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by hullo 15y ago
Well, there's certainly a difference in scale here. If you have a shop where no one knows Erlang and everyone's experienced in Python, and your conversion project can be knocked out in 2 weeks by a fresh intern, well, I think the time savin
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by hullo 15y ago
No, I think it's just sloppy, probably the same incident from this quote (later in the article): Chief Prosecutor Shawn Arthur writes, "[The videos] discussed a past incident tha has already been investigated.. regarding a dating relationsh
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by hullo 15y ago
Yes, true. but: that doesn't matter, at least to the argument in question. a. Google complains that these companies were colluding against them in the Novell deal. b. Microsoft shows that they were not in fact colluding against them in the
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by hullo 15y ago
It's blatantly incorrect to say of Apple (and even Microsoft) that "Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation." Regardless of one's feelings about software patent lawsuits (I'm opposed),
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by hullo 15y ago
I don't even know where to start here. Leaving aside that a huge chunk of Manhattan has a longer commute to Union Square than even New Jersey, 80% of the city doesn't live in Manhattan. If you fan out to the metro area, Manhattan falls to l
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by hullo 15y ago
Terry Hart published a comprehensive exploration of those very issues yesterday, "Is Turntable.fm Legal?": http://www.copyhype.com/?p=303
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by hullo 15y ago
I strongly doubt that "most people" think that Amazon pays 20% of the asking price to the dev. Maybe if you limited your audience to "Android developers very interested in the Amazon App Store", but that's really a pretty limited audience,
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by hullo 15y ago
He knew it was a bad deal, and that it didn't seem to work with their business model, but he did it any way (as pressured by other people in the company, which he admits). There's absolutely no surprises for them in this post, just regret.
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by hullo 15y ago
This is not about taxing the companies, it's about simplifying collection of already-owed taxes from residents of the various states, all of whom are indeed using those services (to whatever varying degree).
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by hullo 15y ago
This piece can't even keep Borders (bankrupt, liquidating) straight from Barnes & Noble (burgeoning digital business). Original reporting here from BGR: http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/28/does-apple-have-any-interest-i...
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by hullo 15y ago
Well, yes and no. For the sake of argument, let's accept that AirBnb is worth $1.3 billion dollars. I can only imagine that a large portion of that valuation is based on the potential upside that would come with becoming a consumer success
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by hullo 15y ago
When we're talking startups or even small established shops, I can't imagine finding the time in the day (let alone the resources) to set up a "strong" internship program to supplement a handful of developers. And then teaching them a full
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by hullo 15y ago
Must as I love ars, given that techPresident is an established brand (strike that: the established brand) for this kind of thing, I'm trying to imagine the oversight that led to the same phrase being used for their coverage. http://techp
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by hullo 15y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect most people not immersed in the proper culture to see this as a "security" issue. They'd agree with "vulnerability" if you suggested it to them, but "bug" is really the first word that comes to mind.
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by hullo 15y ago
A while back (6 months? more?) Facebook tweaked things so that only game players see game updates in their feed. Overall the article dramatically undersells the work that Facebook has done to improve the feed, mainly building off of signals
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What I Do With My iPad Part 1: Storyboarding(prolost.com)
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