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by pinaceae 13y ago
did you check the declaration of independence for errors as well? jefferson spelt british with two TTs in there. the US constitution? "pensylvania". so complete bullshit then as well, right? your horse is so high you shit into spa
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by pinaceae 13y ago
back in 2006 i started a bet with a friend, i wagered that within 10 years the russian army would enter ukrainian soil. the excuse being restoring order/peace. it's a 100 eur bet. i'd hate to win actually, but fuck, it's
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by pinaceae 13y ago
i like how nobody here talks about the real losers - the picnik user/customers. these exits practically always kill your original product, which is the ultimate fuck you to the user base that got you there to begin with. that's wh
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by pinaceae 13y ago
"Your margin is my opportunity" - Jeff Bezos Such is life when competing against anything Amazon. Price is feature of their product, just like UI, etc. If they find a way to make it cheaper - they will.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
http://www.google.com/appsstatus had gmail green for a long time, right now half orange. clearly not fully dynamic.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
hmm, I follow a different model which was explained here recently by Des Traynor in a brilliant, short talk: http://vimeo.com/81544164 map any feature in a graph that has people on the x axis and time on the y axis. farther
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by pinaceae 13y ago
and yet it is completely tasteless designwise. what an ugly, ugly car. tesla is doing it right, the fiat500e is beautiful - why is it so hard to understand that design matters? the new BMW i3 is not exactly beautiful as well.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
As long as they do not solve a problem for either the carriers or the consumers that is not solved by iOS or Android, they have no chance. Carriers and manufacturers love Android because they get it from Google for free. Cosumers love it be
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by pinaceae 13y ago
"Europe" as an entity does not exist in the sense the USA does. The EU is trying, but from a company perspective, there is not single market when it comes to marketing and selling a product. It's all individual target groups,
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Failure as well. You can't fail if you don't try. Sounds stupid, but not every opportunity is worth it. Risk can and will bite. You don't get an INC cover story by ruining your personal life though. More drastically, use the
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by pinaceae 13y ago
The biggest fuckup here is that the NSA allowed this kind of info about their core work, which is fully in line with their defined agenda, to leak out into the open. The damage through the Snowden leaks is massive, he did not concentrate on
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by pinaceae 13y ago
The Motorola deal happened due to the loss of the Nortel patents to the Rockstar consortium. Defensive patent move by Google.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
well, but for a moment it seemed that fadell really wanted to build something great and lasting, building his own vision. turns out it's just another boring let's get rich story.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
that's launch, in a rushed way. political decision. but as you see, highly visible. some new business site/app does not fall under the same public and governmental scrutiny. the ones that do with the same scope as this site - cost
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by pinaceae 13y ago
nope. this is highly sensitive data, you can't treat it like a private business does, say like Target. this needs to survive countless audits, from code, to docs, to various accessiblity and other norms. a large number of data interfac
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by pinaceae 13y ago
well, stick in a fork in Nest then. wonder how bad their financials were when they're already selling. fucking SnapChat refused a FB offer, but Nest just rolls over and dies.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
thanks for posting the source, a lot of these tweets and posts about #yearslost don't reference it.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
This had an adverse affect on the Austrian SSN number scheme. The number was your birthday plus 4 digits. In a country with less than 8million people and a functioning healthcare system this works nicely, generates a unique identifier. a lo
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by pinaceae 13y ago
as a non-US citizen this won't change anything for me. "free society" here should be really re-worded to "free US society". as long as there is a intelligence apparatus in the US at all, spying on the rest of the wo
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by pinaceae 13y ago
it is absolutely practical. these guys are supposed to be working outside, on top of roofs, etc. the bellbottoms protect you from stuff falling into your boots. sawdust, nails, water, etc. the hat protects you from sun, etc. this uniform is
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by pinaceae 13y ago
the core issue is that a lot of very young people are now starting to debate this shit that only remember 9/11. we just had the 25 year anniversary of Lockerbie. that bomb not only killed all on board the plane, but a lot of people on
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by pinaceae 13y ago
and again, why is this bad? marketing 101, price shapes the perceived value of a product. lots of examples here on HN were elasticity, etc have been discussed. locking down re-sellers should be perfectly fine.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
you mean a hardware vendor like Apple not allowing mobile carriers to set any price for its own handsets? why exactly is this bad?
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by pinaceae 13y ago
and yet another single, young man post about productivity. get a wife, a kid, then talk about organising a life. your only constraint is yourself. nothing remotely challenging. boring HN navel gazing.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
absolutely. case in point: automated call centers. so much better than a human being. instant recognition of what i need, how to help me - simply awesome. i can see it now - press 1 if you're stomach hurts, 2 if your leg hurts ... OPER
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by pinaceae 13y ago
i fully agree with your last statement and please spread this mindset far and wide. it really should be engineers making all product designs/decisions. from UI and complex business workflow coverage to all the nice roadmap conversation
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Complicated topic on a global scale. The rest of the world is very grateful for the US pharmaceutical market. Its unregulated and "free" nature, like consumer advertising for prescription drugs - something completely unheard of in
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Thank you for sharing, it is indeed a great talk.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
airport security is not built to prevent evil geniuses to act out a brilliant act of terror macguyver style. airport security is there to prevent someone to walk onto a plane carrying a boxcutter knife - which they failed to prevent at 9&#x
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Android is so widespread due its nature as the QNX of the mobile world. A manufacturer gets it for free and then can add shit on to it. The vast majority of users chose a cheap smartphone, not Android explicitly. Samsung and others do not e

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