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by joshdickson 10y ago
Gruber has done more to get high-level Apple people talking publicly answering unscripted questions than maybe anyone else in the media. Read him, learn from him, and like him or not, that's up to you, but at least respect what the guy
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by joshdickson 10y ago
"Daring Fireball does it" has to be the worst possible comparison imaginable. Gruber has super differentiated, high editorial value content that folks will pay a premium to put their message next to. Imgur is about as far away fro
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by joshdickson 10y ago
I'm going to have to assume it's using some form of Node's clustering support, which will let you run up to X instances where X is the maximum number of supported instances for the number of cores you have. Otherwise, you&#x2
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Formerly of the NYTimes, he's now full time at Vanity Fair. This is the guy who wrote the book (literally) on Twitter. Quite legit.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
There are really only two viable options, both plugins. The first is Flash, but the problem here is that you need a Flash media server on the back end. Twilio Client release branch 1.2 implements this. The second is the Temasys plugin which
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by joshdickson 10y ago
PSA time: The new way to get around the WSJ paywall is to add /amp before /article... which will show you the complete Accelerated Mobile Page (which, frankly, looks way better anyway)
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Yes, my bad, you're right. Do so little iPad dev that I forgot about that :)
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Apple has traditionally locked down mobile Safari to a far greater extent than desktop Safari when it feels there is a compelling UX or security reason. For instance non-fullscreen video is not possible on mobile Safari, but easily doable i
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by joshdickson 10y ago
This is correct. This is not new, it's been "in development" for months and it's been reflected in Webkit's public commit history for even longer. Tweet from February from Google's WebRTC Project Director citin
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by joshdickson 11y ago
Tim Geithner has not been Treasury Sec in years. Jack Lew is the current head.
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by joshdickson 11y ago
That's not how an acquisition works. It's not about Apple shareholders wanting to hold Tesla stock, it's about Apple potentially wanting to own the company, and that results in Tesla shareholders receiving Apple stock at what
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by joshdickson 11y ago
It is used in both situations, but it very clearly only means the former and the latter is incorrect. "Begs the question" is almost always used incorrectly; that doesn't mean its definition has changed.
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by joshdickson 11y ago
No. The goal of M&A is to increase shareholder value, if the data said acquisitions generally do not do that, we would not have M&A. Your links simply show that some M&A scenarios (major acquisitions, acquisitions that are ove
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by joshdickson 11y ago
That's not the law of large numbers.
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by joshdickson 11y ago
This is right. Though it's not that there is nowhere to spend the money, it's that the company believes there is nowhere that would generate a better return than just buying back part of the company and the money earns nothing in
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by joshdickson 11y ago
> For everyone wondering why the large cash balances on company books, this is why. You have that backwards. Companies are generating vast amounts of cash and don't see investments that they want to make (hiring and expanding into n
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by joshdickson 11y ago
Spotify did not ditch Taylor Swift, you have it backwards. She has been quite outspoken in pulling her content off Spotify, not the other way around. Same reason why Adele's 25 is not there. The ROI is not negative for major artists. M
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by joshdickson 11y ago
Music is different in that a number of folks (Spotify, Apple, Google, now SoundCloud, etc) are all licensing most of the same music from the same distributors for similar prices. Sure, there are some exclusives on particular platforms, bu
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by joshdickson 11y ago
Ah, I misread what you were saying. You're right, that really makes it hard to narrow down. You should have tried cold emailing them all at the same time to see if anyone replied positively!
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by joshdickson 11y ago
This was one of the weaknesses that was fixed. You might have noticed that at the time of my post, if you had pulled this list again, @pt ceased following @StartupLJackson.
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by joshdickson 11y ago
See here: https://twitter.com/joshdickson40/status/710567574354968577
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by joshdickson 11y ago
It might have, but I don't think it would have been the right type of attention. I think outing would have been wrong, and even if I didn't feel that way, I think a lot of tech folks would have really come down hard on me in the f
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by joshdickson 11y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised by how many people still ask me this. There's proof in the piece, but I also write long so I don't blame you if you missed it :)
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by joshdickson 11y ago
The story is missing a few steps.
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by joshdickson 11y ago
I am not talking my own book here because I was looking into it for other reasons mentioned in the linked piece - but, you can absolutely make the case that because the account's influence had grown so large, there was significant pote
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by joshdickson 11y ago
I tried sending you an email, but it bounced.
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by joshdickson 11y ago
great article! ;)
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by joshdickson 11y ago
Look this is a pet project, we're experimenting with different things, I happen to like it the way it is. Last time we were on the top of HN earlier this month our font was too light; I liked it as is, but I was wrong. It changed. If w
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by joshdickson 11y ago
It's not him.
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by joshdickson 11y ago
Everything that we used is now completely gone.

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