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by numair 17y ago
You assume he works in the office...
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by numair 17y ago
They need to concentrate on making this work in closed environments where the developer/designer is certain that a compatible browser is being used; it will be many years before someone can use this for a practical application on the "open
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by numair 17y ago
I've been following AdMob's progress since their launch, and am honestly a bit surprised that it took someone this long to acquire them. I thought you guys might enjoy reading the founder's old blog posts to see where it all started. This
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The Life and Times of AdMob, the early days(admob.blogspot.com)
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Source website: http://www.grantthornton.com/portal/site/gtcom/menuitem.8f53... The actual PDF: http://www.grantthornton.com/staticfiles/GTCom/Public%20comp...
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by numair 17y ago
This reads as though it is straight out of a Monty Python sketch: I was having tea with A Company when we heard a lot of shouting and went out to investigate. We found our men and the Germans standing on their respective parapets. Suddenly
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by numair 17y ago
I love how Arrington refers to Slide as the "good guys." You know an ecosystem is unbearably slimy when you have the spammers fighting the scammers for the title of "good guy." Facebook Platform is such a joke. Sad, too, when you know wh
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by numair 17y ago
The funny thing about this is that Facebook leads to the exact opposite of peace among groups of people. There's massive amounts of social anxiety associated with your virtual prominence amongst your friends, even if you see them in-person
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Dude, you'll come up with a better idea tomorrow anyhow. Selling a percentage of your app's revenues in order to gain access to enough capital to survive is a smart move. You've already got a record of sales, so it should be easy to attac
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by numair 17y ago
Signatory Peter Vollmer told AFP news agency he was supporting the proposal because he had inherited "a lot of money I do not need". Um yeah, because a guy who doesn't work for a living knows a lot about sound economic policy...
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by numair 17y ago
I think XBox and gaming-related properties derive a significant amount of value from the underlying operating system and development toolkit; thus, it would make sense to leave them as part of Microsoft. I don't think MSN and XBox are part
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by numair 17y ago
MSN needs a fundamental rethink of its business. No better way to encourage that than to force it to take care of its own P&L. It's really no different than Scripps' spinoff of its newspaper business.
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by numair 17y ago
Here is how I would break up Microsoft: - Office: all productivity software, including Exchange and SQL Server - Microsoft: operating systems and platforms - server, client, mobile, Xbox, developer programs - MSN: all internet pr
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Ask HN: Should Microsoft be broken up?
2 points by numair 17y ago|6 comments
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Does anyone know about the royalty situation for this stuff? Bluetooth would have been far more useful if the rights holders hadn't been so greedy in its early days.
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Dude, you're 18. The more important question is, are you carrying out meaningful social experiences with people your age? Are you making really great friends who have nothing to do with your career? Are you engaging in dramatic, possibly
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by numair 17y ago
This industry has an unhealthy obsession with youth.
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“It turns out there was a bug, a specific bug, that affected search within a specific group,” Google spokeswoman Victoria Katsarou told wired.com late Wednesday. Based on my own Google Usenet searches this past year, this is total nonsen
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Did he remember to patent his recipes? Sorry, couldn't help it.
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From the P-P-P-Powerbook prank website: 3) Finally, and most disturbingly, Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again. All of
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by numair 17y ago
Every employee is rated on a scale from 1 to 5, with five being the highest. No one gets a five. If you get a 1 or a 2, you’re quickly shown the door. Related to that are the steady departures of early founders and executives. Two of them,
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by numair 17y ago
You think a "culture of VC reliance" wasn't the prevalent model in 1999?
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by numair 17y ago
I am always amazed by the lack of historical knowledge among large portions of the HN crowd (not knocking you, just amused). Read up on the story of how eGroups was created (by Larry Page's brother, no less). Everything under the sun's bee
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Newegg files $175m IPO, made $15.9m profit in H1 09(techmeme.com)
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I think the tide has really turned against name-brand institutions, leaving people such as the author in a position where they feel they have to defend themselves and their "prestige." This manifests itself in some peculiar ways, as we can
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by numair 17y ago
This is significantly important for those of us who'd consider an iPhone, but can't buy one because it doesn't work at home. I actually prefer this to a UMA solution, as the model of phone is irrelevant... I fail to understand, however, wh
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by numair 17y ago
Gripe-blogging seems to be reaching epic levels as of late.
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This is actually a pretty major credibility issue within the enterprise space, and one that Apple should move to address quickly. (Not that I think they'll do that, since they are busy selling videogames...)
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If this had some meat on it, it'd be huge. From what I can tell, however, there is not much of a breakup here aside from Telstra's divestment of its cable and pay television assets. I want to see the wholesale and consumer data businesses
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by numair 17y ago
For a privately held entity, how exactly would you like a 3rd party to provide evidence? That's what "audited financials" are all about. You think it's any different for a public company?

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