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by josh2600 13y ago
Ok, I have something to add here for the following reasons: * I build big call centers for a living * I'm a really big Telecom Nerd You might be wondering why something as important as 911 is not automated or accessible via any other m
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by josh2600 13y ago
I feel like the topics Priceonomics covers have been getting less interesting over time. I suppose that's natural for a content engine, but this piece left me feeling sort of disenchanted. I'm used to graphs and visualizations on
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by josh2600 13y ago
You make a number of excellent points, but the distinction you're drawing is actually more broad than just justification of liberty. Anytime one makes a differentiation between two things, beauty and ugliness, skill and stupidity, ligh
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by josh2600 13y ago
Sigh, I would agree with you except this is kind of the third time he's done this... Support.com, massive lawsuit for "computer checkup ads" Tribe.net, The community that owns the "island of lost toys". Basically a
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by josh2600 13y ago
Just pointing this out, Telecom is part of the info sector and they've been lobbying forever. I would say that google, Facebook, Microsoft and apple (prop 8) all lobby in some form. I mean Marissa Mayer had Obama over for dinner during
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by josh2600 13y ago
This is really cool, but does it scale? I tend to think of Watsi as sort of a one-off, at least right now. Do you think it will become easier to make philanthropic ventures if funding them becomes similar to funding Venture companies? I mea
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An Open Letter To Embrace AWS And What It Says About OpenStack(techcrunch.com)
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by josh2600 13y ago
IMHO, if you poke around in the Nexus 7K gear, it looks like RHEL or CentOS underneath. Cisco's always been very private about the kind of Linux they're running on their gear, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was modified RH
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by josh2600 13y ago
Yeah, I bought one. The fundamental problem I'm trying to solve with this device is streaming youtube to my parents TV. I want something low-tech that they can invoke from their Computer/Android/iOS device and I don't wa
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by josh2600 13y ago
To me, this isn't so much the problem as the realities of producing a phone with a Bill of Materials like the one they're intending. I can't imagine that spec sheet, at the end of 2013/beginning of 2014, is going to be c
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by josh2600 13y ago
That's cool, but what I want to know is: when's Cisco gonna buy RedHat? I think that's a blockbuster acquisition that would make a ton of sense for Cisco. I think it's a question of price and whether RedHat would sell. T
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by josh2600 13y ago
Chances are, with a volume of less than 100k units, and with the Bill of Materials they're generating, I would be surprised if the cost of the phone were under $600. It's possible, but unlikely. I would wager that they can't
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by josh2600 13y ago
Personally, I don't think Ubuntu actually wants the $32M. Remember, Mark specifically says that most manufacturers won't take you seriously unless you order 100,000 units. At $600 per phone, that's only 53k units (the volumes
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by josh2600 13y ago
Echoing other comments below, here's my feedback: Visually it looks awesome, but what it really comes down to is the quality of the code. Most WYSIWYG editors leave a lot to be desired. Second, I am always wary of amazing tools with un
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by josh2600 13y ago
Don't ever mention anyone's ethnicity on the Internet. Lesson learned. Nothing I said was inaccurate, the folks on HN just didn't like how I said it.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Again, I'm not trying to open a can of worms, but I don't think noting a recent news piece makes me tantamount to a homophobic person. Is it not accurate that the last piece of security news from Turkey was about the SSL issue? Yo
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by josh2600 13y ago
Look I don't want to open a can of worms but my original comment is dead or I'd edit it. I did not mean that because one Turkish company did something untoward it automatically colors all Turkish people. I only meant that the most
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by josh2600 13y ago
I agree. Everything about this stinks. Further, I'm not one to put folks into stereotypes based upon where they're from, but I do note the exceptional security violation earlier this year related to the Google Certificate being co
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by josh2600 13y ago
I enjoyed reading this piece a lot. I felt like there were several pieces of advice in here that apply to Startups and it's a nice window into what raising a fund looks like. Thanks for sharing.
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by josh2600 13y ago
I would say that while you're correct about Google being faster the reasons are probably less obvious. Whereas Google is going for absolute fastest delivery of content, Apple is trying to deliver a full ACID database system with guaran
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by josh2600 13y ago
Thanks very much for the contribution to the discussion. I appreciate the insight. When they talk about software being counted as part of the billing do you have any idea what they might mean? I believe it was described as software to build
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by josh2600 13y ago
I adore Nate Silvers work and the presentation for the NYTimes during the Presidential Elections was outstanding. I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized worl
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by josh2600 13y ago
You know what. I read that Bloomberg article multiple times and I've never seen it anywhere else on the Internet. As I googled to make sure I wasn't making a grave error, the term "Azure $1B Revenue" has quite a few hits
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by josh2600 13y ago
You are misreading the punchline of that Article. It says $1B in Sales, not $1B in revenue. There's nothing in that article that says that's revenue, only sales. There's also nothing in that article that says it doesn't
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by josh2600 13y ago
It's a monopoly game with a power-law distribution. If you're not playing for first place, eventually Amazon's Zero margin business will subsume all of the smaller players. I articulated this point in a blog post for our site
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by josh2600 13y ago
You think Windows is great. I don't. You think you can tell me my comment is worthless despite the many years I've spent deeply entrenched in Microsoft culture. The past has relevance. Well is relative with respect to the Surface
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by josh2600 13y ago
Win8 is bollocks and has very low Enterprise adoption rates. I'm not a consumer guy so I can't speak there, but I don't think it's performing at all well in Business. Office 365 is a decent product, I don't have any
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by josh2600 13y ago
I second all of these conclusions and have a few anecdotes of my own to add. WinXP is still the dominant Enterprise Operating system (crazy I know). Exchange email is seen as a relic of a time gone by for new companies and something that ad
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by josh2600 13y ago
Our experience: We run BigCouch for Database and BrainTree for processing. We're using DTH Software for our rating engine at the moment. I don't believe any of these technologies have any failsafes built-in related to credit card
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by josh2600 13y ago
Congrats to Twilio on a textbook example on how to handle a billing outage. While I hope to never to through this I do admire a team that can execute like this. Cheers, from one telco nerd to your team of hackers.

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