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by rudiger 16y ago
Incredible. Who could have anticipated this small game would make tens of millions of dollars (more than any single app in the iOS app store)?
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by rudiger 16y ago
This wasn't in the WSJ proper; it's on one of their blogs. There's a considerable difference, although articles promoting books, people, startups, and even entire industries do get PR ("fluff" pieces) in every major newspaper and magazine
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by rudiger 16y ago
Programmer; it's the modern-day carpenter. http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master...
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by rudiger 16y ago
Why are the parentheses in such an awkward place (Shift+8, Shift+9, or Shift+0)? I don't program Lisp, but why don't Lisp keyboards put parentheses in a more convenient place? Also, there are quite a few modifier keys ("Function", "Super",
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by rudiger 16y ago
Thinking about users in powers of ten is useful when designing a scalable Internet architecture. Each order-of-magnitude change in the number of users generally requires a redesign of some part of your product's architecture. Don't worry ab
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by rudiger 16y ago
Sweeney described conventional game consoles as seeing "a 10-20x leap in performance every 7-8 years," compared to the 9x leap Apple claimed for the iPad 2 in just one annual refresh. This is true, but it's not "astonishing". Conventional
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by rudiger 16y ago
Is this the evaporative cooling effect[1] in action? [1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665
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by rudiger 16y ago
Generally, this is how most sites work. For each successive wave of popularity, they'll experience a spike followed by a decline, but the decline is to a higher level than it was pre-spike.
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by rudiger 16y ago
For "high degree of certainty", a median or percentile figure would be a better predictor than a mean.
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by rudiger 16y ago
The top 1 percent of American income-earners account for ~25% of the nation’s total income every year. The top 1 percent of American wealth-holders account for ~40% of the total wealth. I hear statistics like this all the time but I never u
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by rudiger 16y ago
A lot of restaurants have a bar where you can sit and eat, and it'll be less awkward than an empty table.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Someone should make a better Hacker News. Even if the quality of user comments isn't declining, the site is lacking in many technical and design features (like this one).
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by rudiger 16y ago
The person who starts a company may not be the best person to lead it when it's worth billions. I admire people like Craig Newmark of Craigslist for stepping out of the way, and people like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook for continuing to le
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by rudiger 16y ago
The best developer you can follow on github is yourself .
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I can think of at least one business model for that.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Outsourcing is slower than in-house development, but it scales a bit more. It's a lot faster to outsource the development of multiple iOS apps than to develop them yourself.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Clarium Capital has been performing terribly for years. However, I agree with your general point (that it is possible for one person to focus on two large projects).
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by rudiger 16y ago
Whatever. I can't blame them for not supporting XHTML for so long; it's a useless standard if you ask me.
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by rudiger 16y ago
GDrive is the Duke Nukem Forever of online backup and file syncing, except it hasn't even been announced.
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by rudiger 16y ago
I think he meant tagging people's photos (with their names), not del.icio.us-style tagging.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Not necessarily. I say this because Microsoft and their ecosystem are exceedingly good at making money from selling software. If Microsoft didn't exist, the ecosystem might be built around many more fragmented platforms. They make $8.70 for
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by rudiger 16y ago
I highly doubt that real "startup people" are that socialist (ie. we should distribute Seqouia et al.'s $41M among many 2-3 person startups vs. a single team of ~30 people).
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by rudiger 16y ago
Until dumb money and pension funds can get in on the action, the transfer of wealth (and the bubble) will not be complete.
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by rudiger 16y ago
It's meaningless to compare the market caps of those 24 public companies from 1999 (that had IPOs within that year) to the valuations of those 5 private companies from 2011. Companies are doing their IPOs much larger and later than back the
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by rudiger 16y ago
Considering the article hand-picked them from "the height of the dot-com boom", many of those 24 companies didn't do too badly. TD Waterhouse - $76 billion priceline.com - $24 billion Juniper Networks - $22 billion Agilent - $15 billion Red
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by rudiger 16y ago
This isn't 50% of all tweets, it's 50% of all tweet impressions. That is, multiply each user's tweet by the number of users following them when they tweeted, and you'll find that 20K users (likely, people with more than a million followers
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by rudiger 16y ago
I'm surprised this many people upvoted the parent and downvoted me. The Web is about a secure platform for rapid application development and world-wide distribution. It is not about distributed computing. Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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by rudiger 16y ago
Fallacies of Distributed Computing has nothing to do with webapps.
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by rudiger 16y ago
The problem isn't with the Web, it's with current Web standards. The concept of a secure platform for rapid application development and world-wide distribution is great, but Web standards (HTML5 + CSS3 + JavaScript) are really failing to de
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by rudiger 16y ago
What makes a Microsoft technology stack a poor choice? Any site at the scale of MySpace is going to have hundreds of hacks to make it scale that no one wants to touch. MySpace was able to launch their 1.0 in days and become the leading so

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