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by mckilljoy 14y ago
lol I came here to post that. Upvotes for you!
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
This is an industry that has plenty of room to grow, so I appreciate their work. Their software doesn't really look like a "competitor" to Alibaba though. It looks more like something you'd use in tandem with the Alibaba marketplace to bett
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
I don't use GoDaddy, nor do I particularly like them, so this doesn't really affect me or my business directly. But I got a call earlier today from my less tech-savvy buddy who was freaking out because his GoDaddy website was down. Yea it i
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
Those 'single transactions' start to be a lot more important the closer you get to your bill deadlines! People tend to be a lot more generous after the 1st of the month has past :-)
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
I'd disagree, I think it is a lot easier to create a virus that wantonly destroys life than it is to create a cure that puts everything back together. I could email out a script that just executes "sudo rm -rf /" on everyone's computer, and
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
Hah, I agree, but when did "cloud" become synonymous with "outsourced services"? That's kind of an abuse of the term :-)
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
I like how this summarized the state of the industry, but I feel like "the cloud" angle was a bit forced for a lot of those companies. Most of these companies had nothing to do with the internet / cloud.
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
I didn't realize YC was investing in bio companies now. Is that a recent development?
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
I remember that as well -- bloggers got it right, analysts got it wrong. This morning I read "somewhere on the internet" that bloggers were predicting ~$10 while analysts where predicting ~$12. If I didn't just imagine that, this would rema
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
As impressive as this is, it is below analyst consensus, and the stock is down 5% afterhours :-(
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Menu Labeling Requirements Lead to Healthier Options at Chain Restaurants(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by mckilljoy 14y ago|0 comments
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
Microsoft has one of its best quarters ever -- revenue is up and growing on all their major devisions -- but end up taking an accounting loss (and tax credit, I assume?). Kudos to the accounting team for that one!
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
Yea I'd agree the ideal is to get rid of sucky managers before they can crush too many people's careers. Microsoft isn't so good at actively firing bad people though, and that probably compounds the injustices of the stack rank system.
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
I'd have to agree, I honestly never saw the stack ranking system screw anyone over the way it is being made out to seem. It is true that ultimately your manager has to make a case for what bonus/raise/promotion you deserve, and rankings wil
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Anybots Names Former Cisco Exec David Rogan CEO(techcrunch.com)
3 points by mckilljoy 14y ago|0 comments
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Last 15 minutes to get a gTar(kickstarter.com)
1 points by mckilljoy 14y ago|0 comments
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
You can get one of those LED kit to put on your guitar, which would work if you don't want any of the other functionality.
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
I always liked Mandrake's user friendliness and Live CD, but I feel like Ubuntu is pretty much the standard these days. It is tough to compete with that.
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
By definition, if there is negative expected value, simply changing your betting strategy won't help. Any short term fluctuations would be from "luck". The famous MIT black jack team was able to 'take down the casino' by counting cards and
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
Yes, Martingale's doesn't raise your expected value above zero/negative for any games of chance. Towards infinity, it won't change your outcome -- you will still eventually loose all your money. If you factor in the times the player went ba
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
No game can last for ever, and for WoW to last nearly a decade is pretty impressive. Blizzard has plenty of games in the pipeline for the next five years. SC2:HOTS, SC2:LOTV, Diablo III, and the presumed Diablo III expansion pack. Plus 'Tit
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
I have the korean QSENN DT-35 keyboard. The first time I opened up the cmd, I couldn't find the '\' and had to click random keys until I found the ₩ key :-D
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
This seems like it has a lot of potential to disrupt the current Angel investing landscape, much as Angels disrupted the VC investing landscape over the past 5-10 years. Unaccredited investors, friends, and family could invest into a pre-an
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Zynga plans secondary stock offering(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mckilljoy 15y ago|0 comments
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Yelp Shares Pop Over 60 Percent In Early Trading; Valued At $1.3 Billion (techcrunch.com)
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
In principle I agree that C is a more appropriate choice in many situations, but I think his pure hatred for C++ is kind of funny.
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
The last time I moved apartments, I bought something from Amazon for $1 just to make sure my new address was routing correctly.
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
Facebook's PE ratio is around 100 last time I checked. If a 'good' valuation is in the 10-15 range (e.g. Microsoft, Apple, Google), then either Facebook's profits earned needs to increase by 10x, or it's share price needs to fall by 10x. If
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
I'm sure most of those 94 minutes per day are playing Angry Birds and other mobile games. I don't expect we are going to see any new billion-dollar companies being founded over the next 10 years that primarily sell mobile games. There is pl
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by mckilljoy 15y ago
If the killing the movie industry is anything like the dead software industry, I predict another 10 years of billions in profits before they.. keep making billions in profits?.. http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

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