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The Software Defined Hype Cycle(citizentekk.com)
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by josh2600 13y ago
So, shitty real answer: It's not profitable for T-Mobile to sell you that device at $404 if they can get someone else to pay $1200. Yes, that's shitty, but from an economic perspective it doesn't make sense for them to sell t
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by josh2600 13y ago
Great post. I wanted to pass along the tool rapportive, which is a built-in email address validator for Gmail with social feeds. It's a killer free tool that no sales team should omit. Chrome web store link: https://chrome.g
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by josh2600 13y ago
Yes. It's as if companies don't waste money on R&D when there's no competition. That's how most of industrial America (and the world) works. Competition breeds innovation, or something like that.
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by josh2600 13y ago
How much was the palm? $199 on contract? It certainly wasn't $499... Those companies had their own OS but their content, schema and layouts were dictated by carriers. Only phones that were sold outside of carrier shops enjoyed true ind
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by josh2600 13y ago
Some thoughts. 1) The ecosystem did not spring into life with the iPhone; a lot of vendors were unsure initially but there was obviously tremendous benefit to Apple due to the iPod industry. 2) Danger would not have been able to launch the
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by josh2600 13y ago
Normally, I'd agree, but in the case of the iPhone, the disruption was more profound than simple off-the-shelf components. I can go into detail, but the standard ideas for Disruption tend to be technical in nature whereas the iPhone wa
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by josh2600 13y ago
I wish I could find the quote but there's a long discussion by a former-RIM employee about the inability of management to come to consensus. To my mind, that's also incredibly ironic because RIM had the dual-CEOs for specifically
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by josh2600 13y ago
How can you innovate when the standard for your product is Java 1.3? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959705
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by josh2600 13y ago
A better product is one the public can imagine. A disruptive product is one that the public cannot conceive of, such that its introduction alters the standards in an industry. A better product is the HTC8525[0] over the HTC8500. A disruptiv
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by josh2600 13y ago
This was state of the art around the time the iPhone hit: HTC8525 [0]. That is not a phone, that is a ridiculously small screen welded to a slow computer with terrible battery life; and it was $299 on contract at the time. The disruption in
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by josh2600 13y ago
Example: DuckDuckGo has placed some excellent ads on 4chan over the years and eat24 did a great blog post on advertising on porn sites. Alternative channels have crazy low CPM and CPC.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Did they ever take money beyond the YC seed check before they sold to Conde Nast? Reddit was a massive community before the acquisition and 100k is hardly oodles of venture money, right?
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Amdahl's Law and Parallel Computing(blog.2600hz.com)
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by josh2600 13y ago
NSA.gov is down. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/nsa.gov
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by josh2600 13y ago
Handango did not have as large a distribution as pre-loads... Pre-loads were multi-platform. You're talking about this from a consumer viewpoint, I'm talking about it from the commercial viewpoint. In aggregate the pre-loads marke
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by josh2600 13y ago
I'm a bit of a phone nerd and was working at AT&T/Cingular when the iPhone dropped. There were a combination of social and political forces that made the phone a success beyond its obvious technical prowess. Many people don&#x
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by josh2600 13y ago
I <3 TechCrunch, but it's true that HackerNews did the Journalism here. Maybe they deserve credit for this scoop, but I don't think so, IMHO of course. I think AOL impressed me by buying TechCrunch, BTW, and that wasn't 16
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by josh2600 13y ago
The difference is: you are the product for google and not the customer. Trust me, google doesn't treat advertisers the same way it treats free gmail users.
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by josh2600 13y ago
https://gist.github.com/dhh/1285068
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by josh2600 13y ago
Just in case this isn't clear, this is OP. Now, can a lawyer come in and discuss whether or not this can serve as authorization such that DO can't be sued?
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by josh2600 13y ago
Well, I work at 2600hz, so we're building stuff like this but for big operators and Fortune100 companies. I'm just curious about what tools you have at your disposal when it comes to building complex applications. I'm a big f
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by josh2600 13y ago
Hey Tim, big phone geek here. I'm assuming this is a quasi-call center environment. Have you thought about how you're going to implement manager eavesdrop and other things of that nature? What you've done is cool, I'm cu
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by josh2600 13y ago
Please... No more HL3 fake launch announcements. Please. If HL3 comes out as a SteamOS exclusive; well that would be quite the coup.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Jeez, how old do you think the iPhone is? The real threat to Nokia started in 2007 with the introduction of the 3G. They, like Blackberry, couldn't see the iPhones brilliance, BUT Nokia had other non-smartphone divisions that were prod
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by josh2600 13y ago
Some day someone is going to do the HBR case study on the burning platform memo. I think you don't understand the magnitude of Stephen's actions. The day after that memo went out, I know personally that a global operator called No
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by josh2600 13y ago
I wanted to go so bad!!! We're over at TC3 today, but I think Shells from our sales team is out there. If you can, you should corner her! She's awesome. Congratulations on this feature. You and I both know how ridiculously hard th
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by josh2600 13y ago
Where's Rob Spectre at when you need him!! So many questions. 1) Does Twilio own an MMSC? How did access happen? This is no easy feat. 2) How does signaling work? MMS is an incredibly rich format and can do a ton of stuff SMS can'
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by josh2600 13y ago
You do realize, and I don't know if this is still true, but at one time the barbarians were, by far, the dominant class in D3? They do ungodly amounts of damage and they're super Tanky. There's an 8 second Azmodan kill on Inf
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by josh2600 13y ago
It does if the rewards aren't monetizable because of their ability to break the game. People grind for hats in TF2 all day, and by getting a hat you don't break the game. The problem is when you reward people with things that brea

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