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by mlinsey 17y ago
Looks nifty, but can anyone who is color-blind comment on the "select destination" page? I feel it may be difficult to tell which stop is in which region.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I actually suspect that the majority of those are incremental sales (to use the article's terminology, where "incremental" means ebook sales which aren't cannibalizing book sales). I suspect this based just on my own anecdotal experience, b
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Malcolm Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath(newyorker.com)
116 points by mlinsey 17y ago|36 comments
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I use my Kindle 2's keyboard fairly infrequently, but I'm certainly glad to have it when I do. The thing is, the e-ink screen is far and away the biggest cost on the device. It's certainly far more expensive than the keyboard. So you could
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Monsters, Inc.(newyorker.com)
1 points by mlinsey 17y ago|0 comments
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Judging by how frequently they make the front page, people on HN really, really like to talk about them as well. Their perspective is intriguing, even if it isn't generalizable.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
The recession was caused by netbook manufacturers and price-cutters?
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Nice jujitsu there. You previously wrote "steve jobs never said that web apps were a replacement for real third-party apps." jacobolus pointed out several places where Jobs unambiguously drew comparisons between web apps and native apps.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I don't know why they're singling out Stanford. Probably just because it's the SF Gate (same reason the only comparison made was to Berkeley).
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by mlinsey 18y ago
A $200 gift card going for the equivalent of $2.60 (and zero of that 2.60 going to Apple)? I would expect that right there is higher than the profit margin of an iPod.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I don't know of any that explicitly mention hair color, but there are broader laws where hair color would probably fit in. For example, Title VII of the Civil Rights act prohibits discrimination on traits "associated" with certain racial or
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by mlinsey 18y ago
lutorm should have said "federal and state non-discrimination laws", not "constitutional rights", but the result is the same. This is the same reason private business in the South are no longer allowed to be Whites-only.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I'm reposting my comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459211 ) from the previous submission on this topic : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459017 Note that this article compares the costs of printing all copies of the New Y
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Even the Taliban love their iPhones (scroll down to Feb 7th)(english.aljazeera.net)
4 points by mlinsey 18y ago|0 comments
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I think this fear is overblown. You already see educational institutions and individuals paying different prices for box software compared to business users. Large and medium-sized businesses also probably wouldn't cheat the fee system. A
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Why should Universities feel bound to fulfill your second task? Do you also think that Universities are similarly bound to not allow students to major in fields that aren't useful for functioning in the workforce? It is, of course, the Uni
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Cringley's argument rests upon the idea that Microsoft is driven too much by technology and not enough by usability. He says this is because features are owned by PM's who are technical, but I'm not going to engage that particular claim be
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by mlinsey 18y ago
FriendFeed?
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You can see example final projects for this course here... http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/projects2007.html The midterm for CS 229 was probably the hardest exam I took in college.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
The best thing about that part is that the labels should have been very accustomed to the divide between suppliers and distributors...but they were accustomed to finding themselves on the other side.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I think this may have been meant as an "ironic" joke. Then again, that kind of humor is also one of the common things on other sites that I'm thankful to not see rewarded here.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Note that this article compares the costs of printing all copies of the New York Times to sending only subscribers free Kindles. I started this post expecting to explain how this made the NYT's printing costs sound a bit more reasonable
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by mlinsey 18y ago
"Extrapolating from Gates’s implication of about a $12B-per-year burn rate, MSFT’s cash reserve gives it about 20 months of burn time at this point...I'm pretty certain from their recent behavior that Microsoft’s own planners aren’t giving
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Agreed with the design criticisms; disagree strongly about 2 and 3. It sounds like you might not be in the target audience for these sorts of games. I absolutely loved games like Theme Hospital, Sim Tower, Roller Coaster Tycoon - all game
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I feel that #1 usually happens not necessarily because a developer is trying to show off but because #2 and #3 aren't working well. If the process for coming to design decisions is too cumbersome and slowing down development too much, deve
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by mlinsey 18y ago
That answers the question of "How can Microsoft get by with so many more layoffs" but not the question of why it would be a good idea. Specifically, the author identifies Microsoft's real long-term problem as the growing irrelevance of the
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Yes, there was lots of fuss when they changed from the uppercase G in a box to the lowercase g.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Furthermore, even if you buy that at 12:00 Bush and Cheney's terms had ended but Biden and Obama's had not begun, wouldn't the proper order of succession made Nancy Pelosi the president? I'm having trouble envisioning any interpretation whi
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You have too much faith in the efficiency of the market in a field with: a) lots of players making decisions based on very imperfect and very incomplete information. b) very large consequences for random events. Yes, there are many importan
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by mlinsey 18y ago
It may not be a technically impressive feature for an e-reader, but if public shaming like this causes authors to adjust their writing style, that's pretty interesting. I'm not really sure if it will (do the kind of people who read these bo

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