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by psbp 13y ago
The "first party" bit is the scathing, indicative part..
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by psbp 13y ago
There's no doubt that Nokia has been buoyed by Microsoft leading up to this acquisition. The lack of android devices would have been completely illogical if this wasn't the long game.
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by psbp 13y ago
Khan describes his approach as "flipping the classroom" where kids would watch Khan's lectures at home or during lecture time at school, and then have a teacher who implemented activities and clarified any confusion with the
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by psbp 13y ago
It's not about volume, but concentration. We can't have adversarial countries attracting or retaining any talent, or at least a paying student body to utilize that talent.
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by psbp 13y ago
I'm still convinced that MOOCS are a scheme to keep research dollars in premier western universities.
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by psbp 13y ago
I've been reading these comments about DDG for what feels like years now. Was it so terrible to begin with or is considerable an overstatement? It can't be improving so quickly and still pretty shitty for such a long period of tim
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by psbp 13y ago
In America, repression is freedom.
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by psbp 13y ago
So who from google is going to try to assuage our concerns and tell us that it's all misdirection that they, and thus we, shouldn't fall prey to? Or is anyone from the company not compromised by a candy-coated exterior?
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by psbp 13y ago
I guess google is everyone's scapegoat. But hey, they're free and easy. They were just begging for it.
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by psbp 13y ago
It's going to be a herculean effort to simulate google's (and other's) services fast enough to attract loyal users. All these big tech companies' services are extremely valuable and it's hard to convince the general
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by psbp 13y ago
Apparently the board didn't either. I guess they just get a much longer review cycle.
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by psbp 13y ago
This is an angel investment. Google is bolstering Uber, not competing directly.
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by psbp 13y ago
Yep, it's immediately what I thought of when we saw the Google Glass Field trip app released earlier this week. Google could offer an invaluable service to businesses and consumers alike if they could orchestrate the relationship betwe
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by psbp 13y ago
It's more than that. Google is interested in the movement of goods and services and how they can make those transactions more efficient. Google can umbrella commerce in general and just take a small google tax. It's like amazon&#x
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by psbp 13y ago
Now they have a quarter million more in leverage.
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by psbp 13y ago
A big piece of google's continued growth is going to be in mobile commerce. Take offers, maps, search and self-driving cars and put them into an amalgamated new product. Google's future is an ecological approach.
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by psbp 13y ago
It isn't a huge barrier if the courses are as legitimate as actual university courses. As for the pricing question, the price of a can of coca-cola isn't the same in the U.S. as it is in Sudan. Once these MOOCS establish a brand,
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by psbp 13y ago
They're probably trying to find as many ways as possible to embed themselves into relevant industries before they aggressively monetize. I bet the end goal (for all these MOOCS) is to become the de facto source for web based courses of
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by psbp 13y ago
Their only current source of revenue is through a signature track tier where you get a certificate that is verifiable with your identity. I doubt it will stay that way indefinitely, but for now the course material is provided without charge
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by psbp 13y ago
The quality and volume is truly incredible. There are at least 4 classes that I'm interested in at any given time, and that's on coursera alone (not including udacity, edx, etc.). I wonder how much longer these services are going
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by psbp 13y ago
That was my conclusion as well. I visited yahoo for the first time in years to reaffirm my account name (and hopefully grab some other ones).
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by psbp 13y ago
I don't use Yahoo, but I do like that the site is useful for casual information junkies. There's a very pleasant inundation of news in various media that you don't get from sources like google news or newspaper sites.
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by psbp 13y ago
Could this possibly be the reason? http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/52805929240/yourname-yahoo-com-... I went to yahoo for the first time in 3 years because of this opportunity.
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by psbp 13y ago
Maybe because of this? http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/52805929240/yourname-yahoo-com-...
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by psbp 13y ago
It's on the page.
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by psbp 13y ago
Facebook isn't giving me useful implementations of my data. It's holding relationships hostage. It being the de facto source for internet services for large populations is only going to make things worse.
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by psbp 13y ago
We're stuck with facebook for the rest of our lives. Aren't we?
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by psbp 13y ago
Does your education extend to existentialism?
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by psbp 13y ago
I bet if she threw in some awkward Homeric references (instead of the boyfriend one), and wrote it a bit overly analytical and detached, then HN would be satisfied.
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by psbp 13y ago
I think its relevance to google is that a position at google is perceived to be a peak in achievement and fulfillment, which the author obviously didn't find.

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