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by ruddct 10y ago
That's how it's pitched, but I'm not sure if I buy it. AIM had over 50% US marketshare and had a ton of bots almost 10 years ago, and tech-y messaging services have dominated Asia for years.
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by ruddct 10y ago
Putting aside the nomenclature differences between 'bots' in today's media and bots in this article (defined, broadly, as a kind of helpful software), can someone tell me why entrepreneur/VC types are investing heavily i
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by ruddct 10y ago
This should surprise no one. Do you purchase things? Amazon's goal is to sell you them. Then, after it figures out how you buy them, they'll work their way up and down the supply chain to improve their margins. Done. Disclaimer: F
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by ruddct 10y ago
A thousand times this. The concepts in the article are great, and the examples helpful/interesting. But it seems foolish to use these principles to try and 'call the top' of some technology. Technology improves over time. New
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by ruddct 11y ago
Reminds me of recent Instacart news. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-11/instacart-... Here's the money quote: "[Instacart] said 40% of the company's volume is profitable - meanin
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by ruddct 11y ago
You are correct, though it's worth noting that advertising spend as a % of (American) GDP has been constant for a long, long time [0]. FB and Google are probably still competing for money that was previously spent on TV/Radio&#x2F
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by ruddct 11y ago
Serious question (though, honestly, one I likely won't act on): How might someone short the unicorns?
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by ruddct 11y ago
A lot of folks to thank at Apple right now, can't wait until all of this propagates so we can take a look at what's new in Swift 3. Two thoughts: - VERY happy to see the open sourcing of much of the Foundation libraries (which inc
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by ruddct 11y ago
Not to get into a tangent about social security and how the program manages money, but this isn't quite an applicable comparison. Gov't sponsored 'ponzi schemes' can pretty safely be assumed to exist for about as long as
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by ruddct 11y ago
Swift, especially with its recent developments, is a hugely promising language for building servers. Type safety? Check, with great type inference. Like functional programming? Functions are first class citizens. Immutable data structures?
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by ruddct 11y ago
iMessage doesn't require you to figure out if the other user has an iPhone. Do an OS update and all of a sudden messages just start turning blue for some people (along with other UX bonuses that are superior to the vanilla SMS experien
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by ruddct 11y ago
Can someone explain how Jet's business model isn't just selling (or rather, dropshipping) dollars for $0.90?
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by ruddct 11y ago
It's a brand I've never understood at a valuation that seems completely insane. Generic designs that are more expensive (relative to the fast fashion bunch) and more difficult to buy (relative to comparable B&M chains). Seriou
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by ruddct 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what were you battling with? I've been using them for some time now and have only had good things to say, so curious about your pain points. Ability to plug in custom queries, sensible defaults with options to overrid
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by ruddct 11y ago
NYC-specific comment: Taxi drivers don't typically own their medallions. Medallions are typically owned by medallion holding companies, which lease out their cars to drivers. Very low interest rates fueled medallion companies to push t
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by ruddct 11y ago
Anyone have any evidence of traction for equity crowdfunding products? My ignorance over anything, but I wasn't under the impression that these had significant penetration (or penetration anywhere close to that of the tech stocks in th
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by ruddct 11y ago
Fabulous article, elegant design. Nice touch with the NYT logo and a little hiring message console.log'ed: "NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf()"
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by ruddct 12y ago
Awesome, the ability to unwrap multiple optionals on one line should be bolded, underlined and all caps at the top of this article. Seriously though, this is an everyday pain point that happens all the time when writing Swift. Glad Apple is
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by ruddct 13y ago
I recently built passwordless, email-based authentication into the iOS app I develop ( http://varka.la ). Still tweaking how it's messaged, though, as folks seem to be a little confused about how it's different than a n