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by neworbit 15y ago
Yes. They're great. But don't spend too much time inverted.
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by neworbit 15y ago
That's a bit baffling. It seems like there are at least tens and probably hundreds of millions of people who play flash games every day (Zynga being rather happy about that). They may not be power users but they are everyday consumers. A lo
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by neworbit 15y ago
Probably because you're awake playing Starcraft or doing an all night coding session. Ok, maybe that's just me, but I suspect I can't be the only HN reader who uses his home PC at 3 AM more than he does at 3 PM.
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by neworbit 15y ago
I traditionally use yousendit for this sort of thing, though they've gotten awfully spammy about trying to upsell you on stuff you don't need. Dropload used to do this, but I think they're gone too. For that matter, I used to put stuff in m
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by neworbit 15y ago
My experience differs - I think it was in fact the rule of thumb in the 90s... until the dotcom gold rush got sufficiently out of hand that hiring people and training them became the only reasonable solution.
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by neworbit 15y ago
"A whole lot of people who had never heard of airbnb have recently heard of it as a tool for burglars to get into your house." Understandably, the AirBNB guys are trying to change that impression ASAP
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by neworbit 15y ago
Or, you know, sell it to someone else. HTC or Samsung might buy. Nokia probably not so much :)
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by neworbit 15y ago
Very cool. I confess I'm not likely to use it anytime soon, since I am conversant with how Lua works today and not so much with Coffeescript, but I'm glad for the aid to adoption!
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by neworbit 15y ago
I haven't personally. But two close friends have. They both said "it's a good acceleration tool if you already have traction with well known angels". Can spur a lot of fast followers. Your mileage may vary. Also, have heard very good things
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by neworbit 15y ago
There's a pretty slick Redis implementation at http://antirez.com/post/scripting-branch-released.html - I've been meaning to check it out for some real world usage. Mostly I've seen it in Warcrack.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Arguably this drives up the values of everyone who is otherwise at Facebook's mercy though. Zynga on Google+ and Facebook is less subject to Zuckerberg "cutting off their air supply" - to repurpose a phrase from the 90s bubble.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Great - I expect this will actually raise the bar for both groups and make for some great improvements in the social media space. I feel like Facebook has been the IE 4.0 of social media thus far; it soundly beat the early competitors and t
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by neworbit 15y ago
Alternately, when things slow down again, who wins? The people who have the lowest burn rate, the most cash in the bank, and the ability to turn profitable. Saying "well what if things have gone sour when you need to go back out for your ne
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by neworbit 15y ago
Yeah, Google's pretty much required to do this by US law though (the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) - I'll leave the "think of the children" jokes to other folks.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Good lord, about time. Why was incoming bandwidth ever on the list?
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by neworbit 15y ago
There's an obvious one if you're a lawyer :)
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by neworbit 15y ago
Hulu is simply too small to do #1 or #3. They would have to spend phenomenal amounts of money, which they don't have - without an IPO, or perhaps even with one. #2 is doable but not a slam-dunk, it still can be hit or miss.
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by neworbit 15y ago
I find it hard to believe that the keys to Yahoo's turnaround are a better experience in photos, news, branding, and PR. Mobile and social, maybe.
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by neworbit 15y ago
I have fond memories of Digg, at least. Loved the user activism around the HD-DVD key days. That's kind of the last thing I remember was really awesome about that site. I'd be really curious to see a good analysis or even set of anecdotes a
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by neworbit 15y ago
It annoys me a bit that people talk about scaling problems as being brand new then. A lot of the first generation of dotcoms had them too (Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, etc). In general they were solved similarly - build custom middleware and go as
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by neworbit 15y ago
Given the prospect of it going nuclear, I vote "killing half the planet is exceedingly bad for business as well"
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by neworbit 15y ago
I want to say Oracle
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by neworbit 15y ago
Yes, but not a terribly inflated one. It's likely to inflate further as some of these firms actually reach liquidity, though.
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by neworbit 15y ago
I can't be the only one who thinks "This looks like the visualization algorithm is nethack"
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by neworbit 15y ago
You're probably mostly double counting, unless that's $25/year/device - mac users generally have iOS devices and may well have multiple iOS gadgets accumulated over the years. (There are a lot of iPhone users who don't use a mac, but not th
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by neworbit 15y ago
Backwards compatibility with linux clients probably isn't the top priority of Skype now that they're being rolled into MS, but I suspect embedded deployments on handheld devices might still keep them from deprecating.
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by neworbit 15y ago
I'm pretty sure he means "can make great things happen" trumps "7 years Java experience on the resume"
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by neworbit 15y ago
...go to Home Depot and buy one then? They make nice, even potentially livable drop-in outbuildings. No solar panel for tablet computer charging, but really now.
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by neworbit 15y ago
To me this seems very misguided. If Win8 has a tablet-touch mode that is well suited for operation at casual usage and the ability to drill down into a power user full Windows UI, that strikes me as ideal. And from what I'm seeing in these
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by neworbit 15y ago
It stops people from selling you used parking tickets?

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