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by phil 16y ago
Justin captures the main thing I remember from seeing these guys early on. It wasn't entirely clear what they were doing, but they were just having so much fun, you knew they would figure it out.
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by phil 16y ago
>they all seem to suck in some fundamental way. FWIW, in Postbox it seems to be speed. That's because Postbox is based on Thunderbird, which is not a path to creating a fast, lightweight mail app. I can only think of a handful of deskto
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by phil 16y ago
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468516/0001193125102... $244.8m in subscription revenue for q3 last year, but falling fast (as people figure out they're still signed up, I guess).
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by phil 16y ago
That building looks less like EMP or Guggenheim Bilbao style Gehry and more like LA public library style Gehry.
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by phil 16y ago
Yeah, but come on -- we're talking about Kayak here, not General Motors or something. They're only 6 years old themselves!
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by phil 16y ago
Q/Q iPhone growth isn't that meaningful because they've been supply constrained. What you're actually seeing in that growth figure is how fast they've been able to grow iPhone production.
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by phil 16y ago
If you have a small pool of people, doesn't that mean you haven't worked with very many people? They're not going to be able to manufacture co-workers for you to rate.
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by phil 16y ago
Archive.org has some stuff for steamtunnels.net, but it's pretty thin for 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://steamtunnels.net http://web.archive.org/web/20110112002443/http://www.steamtu... Too bad - it would have been fun to exp
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by phil 16y ago
That's not "basically full employment" -- it's the highest unemployment rate among college grads in the last 2 decades. Here's a BLS report that shows that more clearly: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?request_...
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by phil 16y ago
This is one of several articles that expand on an essay written by SF restaurateur Mark Pastore and published in the SFGate and on his site. The original is also well worth reading: http://incanto.biz/2010/10/22/is-opentable-worth-it/
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by phil 16y ago
I wouldn't worry too much. In order for the Mac to continue to serve as a development platform, it can't be completely locked down. They're making it clear these days that they care a lot about the app ecosystem, so there will have to be a
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by phil 16y ago
Thanks! We've been working for a while now on this at Urbanspoon. There's more press on our reservation efforts here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870369180457525... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/urbanspoon-squ
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The first step to fixing the Android Marketplace(fury.com)
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by phil 16y ago
Will that defeat Flash storage and the PNG caching trick, too?
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by phil 16y ago
Seems like this will be pretty effective even if widely known, since clearing one of these 'cookies' will require deleting a lot of info, including some you were probably using. You'll be simultaneously clearing history and cache, logging y
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by phil 16y ago
"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong."
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by phil 16y ago
Sometimes it cuts the other way though. Take Flickr: bought for just a bit more than Dopplr by a company with significant problems, today the #2 photo site in the world (after Facebook) and more relevant and vibrant than ever.
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by phil 16y ago
Why does that seem unlikely? That's 500k copies, which is a reasonably high bar, but not at all hard to imagine.
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by phil 16y ago
If you enjoy reading about this kind of thing, check out Black Diamond's QC Lab blog, which has lots of interesting posts about climbing gear strength from their head of quality control. Here's a post on the strengths of three knots commonl
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by phil 16y ago
Congratulations! 1 Put "as featured in the New York Times!" with the best quote about you from the article at the top of your app store description. 2 Consider temporarily dropping your price and trying to convert more of the people that ch
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by phil 16y ago
Turns out <audio> elements work on the iPad: the music keeps playing when you've switched to other tabs (though the javascript to set up the next song doesn't fire until you switch back). But, I'm finding starting a song buggy: I ha
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by phil 16y ago
Yeah, too bad you didn't go with Android, because it's totally open and Froyo is gonna run great on your G1 and -- oh wait, that's not true at all.
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by phil 16y ago
That's an interesting point, but don't two year wireless contracts and locked phones pretty much kill the commoditizing effect of being on every carrier?
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by phil 16y ago
But imagine a hypothetical world where there was no Android, or where Android was utterly unsuccessful in the market. In that world, Apple would be in a much stronger position against Verizon — in that world, Verizon would need the iPhone.
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by phil 16y ago
We've been doing a lot of container gardening lately, and have been thinking about making a system like this. The 'air lift' water delivery system looks particularly inteesting, but kind of Rube Goldberg-ish. I'd be very interested to hear
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by phil 16y ago
Yeah, but you wouldn't have those dollars in 1997, you would have them now, after the stock has appreciated. Inflation is rolled in to the stock price in this comparison.
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by phil 17y ago
No, but I have coworkers that do. They're nice machines, but they're still a collection of plastic components, and don't have the tight tolerances and clever case design that one sees in recent MacBooks.
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by phil 17y ago
Their hardware is decent (not excellent, but decent) on the quality factor Who builds better quality hardware than Apple?
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by phil 17y ago
This reminds me of this blog post: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram... A few extra keystrokes is a good trade to get predictability.
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by phil 17y ago
Non linkjacked version: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/85481-wh...

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