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811.
by robk 15y ago
They've had outages before and it doesn't seem to change anyone's opinion of them. That keyboard is like crack for some people - no matter how bad the rest of the offering is, they keep coming back for that keyboard.
812.
by robk 15y ago
Word from some Googlers is this will be mostly used for sales rather than engineering.
813.
by robk 15y ago
What's the harm of just a soundex? If you name is on the card anyways, it's not that secretive.
814.
by robk 15y ago
This guy takes way too much credit for his time at Google. It leaves me with a really bad taste in my mouth reading all his claims of things he did.
815.
by robk 15y ago
I don't see it as a shame at all. US acquirers typically are able to pay higher multiples and are more acquisitive in general. And in most acquisition cases, it's not like the companies up and leave Europe. In larger acquisitions, it's r
816.
by robk 15y ago
I'm kind of impressed the actual HTML isn't sloppier than it is.
817.
World's most annoying website?(arngren.net)
2 points by robk 15y ago|2 comments
818.
by robk 16y ago
I think this will be a really good move for Google and has been a long time coming. Up until now, the SVPs all had quite a bit of autonomy but were still burdened by their reporting structure and the friction caused occasionally when team
819.
by robk 16y ago
Trends for Websites is much better for actual site traffic estimates. http://trends.google.com/websites?q=quora.com&geo=all&#3...
820.
by robk 16y ago
The noncommercial nature of wikipedia at least makes it somewhat more trustworthy than other sites with likely commercial motives.
821.
by robk 16y ago
Interesting as word inside the company was that it was more Sergey and that pretty much stopped, at least outside eng, in 2008.
822.
by robk 16y ago
On what basis do you say that?
823.
by robk 16y ago
Bing does this too with the ip: operator.
824.
by robk 16y ago
Google had enabled for a while a XMPP in/out gateway but they seem to have disabled it. It's still working on my account though and pbxes.org has a nice support for it built in, so it seems imminent they'll re-add this feature at some poin
825.
by robk 16y ago
There are a handful of internal users w/ UK numbers but cost has been the concern since it's significantly more expensive to acquire numbers in the UK vs. the US.
826.
by robk 16y ago
For a HTPC, you have to do a one-time organize to get your files in order. For movies, it's helpful to add the year to the title. For TV, it's helpful to organize so that the season/ep is in a standard format like S0XEXX. Once you do tha
827.
by robk 16y ago
Tufte's in person presentations are pretty disappointing IMO. Better to spend your money on one of his books and read it aloud to yourself in the mirror, which is about the same level of engagement you'd get from sitting through his course
828.
by robk 16y ago
It seems inevitable to see massive burn outs though at the later stage rounds in a year or two. Surely even the hedge funds will see the failure to gain traction soon enough when these companies need another $10M for a Series N+1 in 12-18
829.
by robk 16y ago
Google had the same issues with AdSense in the early days but was able to tune the product to normalize value to an acceptable rate. For example, at the network level you can apply discounters per site depending on the ROI of ads on this s
830.
by robk 16y ago
The "get on a plane" advice is crucial. Product managers lead acquisitions at Google and are the hardest to reach. If you get any interest expressed from them, try to get in person w/ them within a couple weeks max, even if just for coffe
831.
by robk 16y ago
The attractiveness here is not the store, IMO, but the eReader access to their deep back catalog of books they've scanned. Amazon and B&N keep their catalogs full of paid content. Google's seems like it will have a great depth of thei
832.
by robk 16y ago
4 filed != gone public yet :) I'd say probably only 10% of companies I hear about that are "getting ready to IPO" actually do it given the hurdles to making it happen. That said, if this were true, it's got to be primarily driven by his/her
833.
Cool diagrams and pics of damage on Qantas A380(blogs.crikey.com.au)
2 points by robk 16y ago|0 comments
834.
by robk 16y ago
But very very few people would get 1/10 of 1% these days at FB. More like a tenth of that. Nothing to sneeze at, but it's a long way to that $100B valuation still.
835.
by robk 16y ago
I especially hate this when I'm forced to use the Blackberry browser. It makes me feel the pain of every unnecessary kb!
836.
by robk 16y ago
It's sad/embarrassing they don't have a Chrome plugin for this but do offer Firefox.
837.
by robk 16y ago
"Don't be evil" != "do no evil" Many people confuse the latter for the original statement, when it was in fact the former.
838.
by robk 16y ago
Adsense for Content is exceptionally profitable. Gmail pulls its weight.
839.
by robk 16y ago
I find the call quality the same as Sipdroid, if not a little worse. Sipdroid is far too complex to get going but works fantastically once you have it setup.
840.
by robk 16y ago
Yep "probably not enough for a VC-backed startup" is the key here. This would have been a nice bootstrapped business. For them taking VC put them on a road that unfortunately wasn't the right one for them and forced them to swing for a bi

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