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by paul_f 12y ago
Google pushes things to me all the time. Mail, weather, sports scores, traffic, etc. To suggest Google is a laggard in this domain is rubbish.
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by paul_f 12y ago
This was a bit of a let down. I didn't see anything "major" about this at all.
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by paul_f 12y ago
For comparison, the market leader, First Data, processes about 50x that. $5B per day. Still, not bad.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Anyone living on planets orbiting those stars would not see many other stars at all, right?
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by paul_f 12y ago
The iPhone is a camera that makes phone call. There's a lot of camera lenses to make.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Mailchimp is another fantastic bootstrap success story. Hugely successful, but not talked about much because (1) they're not in the Valley (2) didn't raise boatloads of VC cash. Oh, and the founders still own almost the entire bus
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by paul_f 12y ago
The iPhone only seems affordable because it is tied to a 2-year contract. Otherwise it would be $800 and Apple wouldn't sell anywhere near as many as they do. At $350, I don't see how Apple Watch is going to crack the volume marke
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by paul_f 12y ago
This is not true. The Hobbit demonstration showed why 24fps is superior for Hollywood storytelling and movies will likely stay that way, possibly for decades.
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by paul_f 12y ago
I'm curious as well. Can someone give a succinct answer?
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by paul_f 12y ago
No. This earthquake was 11km below the surface.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Has any other corporate CEO generated more profits during his watch than Steve Ballmer? Not sure if this true but I suspect it might be.
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by paul_f 12y ago
This is a great reminder that at one time Hitler was not the caricature of pure evil that he is now. He was real and nobody knew what the future held. Amazing snapshot into that time.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Awesome concept! I am not a lawyer, but it seems one could easily argue that an "idiot in a hurry" might confuse this for youtube. Which is sort of what the threshold is for this sort of thing nowadays. So, yea, start thinking abo
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by paul_f 12y ago
Here is anther service to consider if you're trying to create screenshots for marketing purposes: https://placeit.net/
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by paul_f 12y ago
Surely I'm not the only one who instantly thought of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsRuurcTTSk
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by paul_f 12y ago
Well said. Most of the major reasons people are attracted to the suburbs is due to having children. People with children want a larger home, great schools and low crime. Until these "new urban" environs offer that, it will be diff
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by paul_f 12y ago
Planned obsolescence is easily accomplished by "not worrying so much about the performance on older devices"
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by paul_f 12y ago
The article clearly says this is not the case. The searches for "iPhone slow" come when the new version of iOS is released, not when it is announced. Second, we do studies like this so that one data point (yours) is not used to ma
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by paul_f 12y ago
This is terrific news and long overdue.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Good grief that was a waste of time. This entire concept only works if time travel is possible and will be discovered in the future. It isn't, and it won't be.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Usually for someone to lose their future vesting, they have to walk away, or be removed "for cause." A disagreement between founders is insufficient. Forming a company with partners is like a marriage. You can't dabble in it.
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by paul_f 12y ago
What problem does this solve, exactly?
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by paul_f 12y ago
Did you really mean to suggest that telling people how many children they can have is good? This is an odd definition of good.
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by paul_f 12y ago
This looks scary for authors, and maybe it should. Like digital music and movies, the marginal cost of an ebook is pretty much zero. If you are an author, you need to rethink how to make money from your work. It won't be from selling $
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by paul_f 12y ago
It is well understood that exercise does not generally lead to weight loss and can even be counter-productive. This has well documented by Gary Taubes. Caloric restriction does work, but it is quite difficult to track and maintain. This wee
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by paul_f 12y ago
Last I checked, GOOG is a public company that answers to a board of directors and shareholders. Not a private company with a megalomaniac potentate heading it up.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Cities were built on the flat land and suburbs on the hilly parts. This created the unusual road layouts of many suburbs.
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by paul_f 12y ago
"Who wants to live in a big house in the middle of nowhere and have to drive everywhere?" I do. Keep in mind, not everyone shares the same idea of nirvana.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Great article. This is forcing me to ask myself why I would ever need to separate first and last names. Maybe it is time to stop.
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by paul_f 12y ago
Is it luck, or is it timing? Why should you launch THIS business NOW? What technology or market discontinuity is enabling your new thing to thrive?

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