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by onewaystreet 10y ago
You can become successful without having to convince critics. See Facebook.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
The post says the exact opposite of the title: > Even as we coordinate more with Facebook in the months ahead, your encrypted messages stay private and no one else can read them. Not WhatsApp, not Facebook, nor anyone else. We won’t post
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This might have felt good but it was probably a waste of time. Success is the best answer to critics.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Pretty much all of the early rocket and space development was the result of WWII and the Cold War.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
It's pretty easy to pick a lock but you don't remove the locks from your house because of it. No one is 100% secure, not even the NSA.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Where are you getting that 50k Rifts number from? Every estimate on Rift sales has it at around 500k.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> Steam game support for games that run on both the Rift and Vive make it stupid to buy games on the Oculus store, but worse than that once you've played with the touch controls and room scale that the Vive offers it's clear th
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> Oculus went from a gamer friendly company to what seems to be something run by a bunch of milquetoast MBA's with zero interest or experience in gaming Oculus isn't a gaming company and Facebook didn't buy it for it to be
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Uber got 20% of Didi when it left China. That's hardly a failure.
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> If they start making money in a given city, a competitor can sweep in and take the city from them. Uber uses their network effect to cut prices and force the competitor out. They have done this in a number of cities. No city has ever b
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
The headline is misleading. Aetna didn't threaten to pullout if their merger wasn't approved, they said that they would be forced to do so because they would be losing too much money. That isn't "attempting to thwart ant
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> React automatically manages UI updates, but this is only true if your UI is extremely basic. The exact opposite is true. The whole point of React is in building complex UIs. > React becomes counterproductive when developing apps tha
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
It doesn't. The data is included with the rendered page. React uses checksums to tell if it needs to rerender.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
It's easy to be against something when you already have that something. All of the activists that defeated Free Basics are not going without internet access today.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Why is it insulting that a company offered people limited internet access for free?
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Read the "Example use cases" section
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> Oculus is order to not become a niche product needs to be sold as part of a console bundle Facebook wants VR to be more than video games. Bundling the Gear with Samsung phones has been a success so far.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
The only benefit Rollup brings over Webpack is tree-shaking, which will be in Webpack 2.0.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
GO has teams (Red, Blue, Yellow). You need to get to level 5 to join a team. Once you join a team you can battle at and take over gyms.
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I used the term "app" but I really meant company. But the important term in the question is "blockbuster". If people are undervaluing and overlooking what's happening elsewhere it's because those things aren&#x
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You're right about that, I forgot that they were LA based. Still, Olscore lumped them in with Silicon Valley companies so the question still stands.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
What's a recent blockbuster app that wasn't released by a Silicon Valley company?
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
Being backed by Valve, if the Vive wasn't winning on Steam something would be seriously wrong.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
The "teenagers are leaving Facebook" meme has mostly been proven wrong. It's more that teenagers are splitting their time with other apps like Snapchat and Instagram, the latter of which Facebook owns.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> Intimacy isn't profitable and there is no money in sharing personal photos. Facebook makes money as long as users continue using its services. It doesn't matter much what they are doing as long as they keep coming back.
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by onewaystreet 10y ago
> The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50? Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramific
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> Especially not with companies like Valve doing the complete opposite giving money to third party devs with no exclusivity deals whatsoever. Valve forces devs that take their money to have their game on Steam until they have paid back t
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Except that the Fortune article has the benefit of being 100% correct.
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The network effects that Facebook enjoys today didn't just happen, how they got there is the story.
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> On a side note Oculus and WhatsApp seem to be some of the dumbest expenditures Facebook could have ever made. 13 billion dollars for a messaging app. Since being acquired by Facebook WhatsApp has doubled its active user base to over a

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