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by hullo 15y ago
Seems fairly inevitable: if I sat by the window of my house, talking to anyone who walked by about having a large cache of money, which it was clear was also in my house... well, I would probably want to do one or all of: (a) invest in some
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by hullo 15y ago
To play devil's advocate, the original policy was nearly* unambiguously good for users of Apple devices: same content, same price or cheaper, without having to give your payment information to a 3rd party. *with the very large caveat that i
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by hullo 15y ago
well, maybe it's actually all about timing, the article implies he's grossed in the neighborhood of $500k so far (minus the impact of "sales")
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by hullo 15y ago
In middle school, with library books; first something about text adventures in basic on an XT clone (wish I could find the actual title, it was in the kids' section), moving on to Turbo Pascal on a 386sx/33, probably high-school time frame
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by hullo 15y ago
Drilling into his specifics, one issue is that they didn't actually keep the team together (and may well not have wanted to, given the comp package the new COO at least got), the COO and CTO both left in March. http://money.cnn.com/2011/0
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by hullo 15y ago
as this is only several hours old I don't think the evidence is in place to really give an informed judgment on whether it will languish or not
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by hullo 15y ago
I can't really support it, but it also just feels right that Apple would buy Square before they'd compete with them. So I'd wager on either Apple not going after POS or a targeted acquisition.
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by hullo 15y ago
As a self-described loyal reader of TechCrunch, I think it's reasonable to believe that the author of the post does not "expect" Arrington to do anything based on his open letter. He'd just prefer him not to invest in start-ups because he d
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by hullo 15y ago
He actually does: http://www.instapaper.com/publishers
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by hullo 16y ago
I liked it, and prompted me to finally get around to registering, so the win is clear for HN as well.