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by phil 15y ago
In contrast, the cheapest honey is mutagenic toxic corn syrup: http://www.grist.org/food-safety/2011-08-18-honey-laundering...
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by phil 15y ago
The operative word is "everywhere," which takes a while.
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by phil 15y ago
Thanks for this (and thanks to 100k, too!) Pretty interesting -- if this goes through it seems like you could experiment with funding models somewhere between normal angel investing and the tiny bites that Kickstarter usually deals in.
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by phil 15y ago
On it's face, it sounds like the bill would also remove the accredited investor requirement in <$1m angel rounds. Anyone who understands this thing have a read on whether that is actually so?
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by phil 15y ago
Really nice site and cover design. This stuff is so much more credible when it's self-exemplifying.
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by phil 15y ago
If only everyone guided their work by those principles. The world of consumer technology would be a much better place.
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by phil 15y ago
Yes. The first version of G+ for iPhone was really appallingly bad. In particular, it often blocked the main (UI) thread while waiting for data from the network, so it would hang for seconds at a time. Not doing that is pretty much applicat
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by phil 15y ago
Jobs made that point even more explicitly: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0f1ocmoGG1qz50x3.png
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by phil 15y ago
Cool post, but I really like this paragraph from his "recovering programmer" page (linked in the sidebar): "Somewhere along the lines, I realized I was looking at everything backward, from an implementation point of view, not from the per
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by phil 15y ago
I don't think it worked this way for Levchin, either. It's obvious that they were so excited about what they were making at PayPal. The PalmPilot thing? All that encryption stuff they did early on? They were just in love with what they were
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by phil 15y ago
That's true of revenue, but as far as I know there's not as much annual cyclicity for margins.
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by phil 15y ago
That makes perfect sense, thanks. I'd be surprised to learn that the iPhone 4 was supply constrained over the last several months -- keep in mind that they're still selling the thing. I think it's been in stock pretty much the entire time
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by phil 15y ago
Gross margin was down 1.5% over last quarter. Anyone want to guess what lower margin products they sold more of? I'd guess Macbook Airs, but there are certainly other contenders.
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by phil 15y ago
Citation, like, needed or whatever.
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by phil 15y ago
That's very clever. Their "reverse hammer" is reminiscent of the climbing world's funkness device: http://books.google.com/books?id=vNyk_tSE2mUC&lpg=PP1&#3...
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by phil 15y ago
We won't see a new OS X naming scheme until there's a major, generational shift in what OS X is, for the same reason that the next phone, as you say, won't be called the iPhone 5. The names wouldn't quite make sense, and a simple and easy t
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by phil 15y ago
Those wacky analysts. They say the darnedest things!
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by phil 15y ago
NSUserDefaults is backed up.
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by phil 15y ago
I'd switch to sonic.net in a heartbeat if they were available in Seattle. Does anyone know if they are thinking of expanding their range?
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by phil 15y ago
Yes, repleceng ell vewels weth the letter E clerle empreves dete qelete ;)
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by phil 15y ago
Being a good investor is basically about "deal flow" and good judgment. Seems like writing for the tech press gives you lots of practice at both.
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by phil 15y ago
This is unfortunate. The rush-to-publish tech blogging format strips away almost personality -- it's just incredibly hard to be fast enough and keep anything. MG was one of a very few writers who could handle the pace and maintain a distinc
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by phil 15y ago
Man, I love everything about this post. Well written, funny title reference, yeah, but in particular it expresses two ideas that I think are extremely important: * Hypercard was pretty much the high water mark as far as normal people contro
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by phil 15y ago
Newer is not always better.
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The Fans Are All Right(blog.pinboard.in)
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by phil 15y ago
Oh, there's definitely some prior art here. Woody Allen (80% of success is showing up) and Pliny the Elder (fortune favors the bold!) come to mind.
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by phil 15y ago
e.g. Samsung makes the iPad's CPU Not for much longer, I think.
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by phil 15y ago
lbrandy has it right here. If your definition of "tracking" is "web server log analysis," then nearly every web site you visit is tracking you. It's really nothing to worry about though, unless Facebook is doing something to de-anonymize th
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by phil 15y ago
That's clever (though it shows how far backward you have to bend to gather that info on iOS). Is the applet released? Can you share the name?
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by phil 15y ago
This is great, but of course they can only do it on Android, because they have to be able to troll through your list of installed apps to generate recommendations.

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