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by s3r3nity 13y ago
One other way to possibly interpret this is the substitutability going on: maybe Chrome users are switching to Firefox (or hell even Safari); also Win 8 is growing pretty rapidly. Sidebar: I find IE 11 pretty usable these days -- give it a
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Hmmm until you're presented with multiple $billions (BILLIONS!) of dollars, probably money many of us will never see, and you have to make a choice between your product or probably an early retirement, it's impossible for us to ju
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
>"Facebook creeps me out." So you lose out on an audience of 1.2Bn people for Minecraft and comment on the situation on Twitter -- a social network that does pretty much all the same things Facebook does.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
There could be multiple interpretations: 1) People hate Facebook in the same way I hate cheesecake: Facebook does such a good job at hooking me in and spending so much time reading content that it's a delicious evil. I hate how cheesec
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
>"Facebook creeps me out" While he says this on Twitter - many of whom are ex-FB employees doing essentially the same things.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I don't understand this logic -- simply being a part of a successful public company reduces your opportunities or chances of making a splash? That's preposterous. Yes, there are checks and balances -- however I am hard to believe
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
>Facebook is the only competitor to Google at this point I wouldn't discount some of the recent moves my Microsoft and its new CEO -- they seem like they're moving fast and trying to become the old MSFT we used to love (or at l
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
> More people avoid Facebook for privacy reasons, etc. The fact that you admit deep deep use of Google and trust them with all your data tells me that there's a bit of naïveté in terms of Google & privacy (as if you're gett
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I don't work for FB so I don't know the full details of all their acquisitions, but I would look to the success of a company like, say, Parse for what potential could lie here.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Hmmm that's not quite how Facebook works -- not everything needs final approval from the C-level suite (hell, that's their selling point to new hires.) And having some structure isn't always a bad thing - as long as it's
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
> bottom-of-the-ethical-barrel Again, this is silly sensationalist thinking -- companies aren't people capable of "good" or "evil" choices. If they were, I'd note that Facebook was one of the only companies
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
>I am shattered right now. Oh come on -- this is just ridiculous. They (Oculus) now have many many more times the resources at their disposal than before to make countless imaginative projects. I know i'll get down votes for saying
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Where are the calls for boycotting Google for doing something blatantly "evil" and illegal? Kudos for Facebook for doing the right thing here. I'm just curious what ramifications this has, if any.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
The real issue here is creating an algorithm that optimizes what you like best: friend content, page content, and/or games/apps/etc. I would guess the majority of the population has higher engagement with friend content then
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
To be fair, you get a lot more storage with OneDrive (I currently have 28 Gb.)
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
"shared Dropbox folder" is still the cloud, just not Microsoft's.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Lulz -- can't wait to see how the Google fanboi circles come out and spin this one.
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Introducing Codename Oslo(blogs.office.com)
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I've been following this for a bit and I'm satisfied at the outcome. I don't "hate" Google by any means, but they get away with a lot of sketchy behavior simply because of their brand and with a cult hacker followin
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Not sure why this was up-voted as a productive comment, but I'll bite. Why is this ridiculous? I mean when you hold almost 99% of the search market (in Europe at least...in the US there's a bit more competition) you can't pul
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
MIT has a new President at the time of this writing vs. the Swartz case. Could be a key driver.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
"Google says Plus has 540 million monthly active users, but almost half do not visit the social network." So it sounds like the "active" user count is much smaller -- where does the 540 million "monthly actives&quot
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
So all the machine learning Amazon does in suggesting products I might want or like is "bad?" Give me a break -- I know there are a lot of Google Fan-folk on HN, but to say there's a "Good" | "Bad" adverti
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Box is HIPA compliant -- Dropbox is not. Generally Box is well known for its security, whereas Dropbox accomplishes a solution to its problem but I wouldn't trust confidential files on it.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I really really want to like this app more -- I love the journaling implications, and the design just makes me smile every time I open it -- but its vision will be its downfall: 1) The "smaller, tighter" social network just dimini
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I am not an industry expert, but it seems like a lifetime value play: even if a customer only stays with T-Mobile for one contract term @ 2 years, and assume the cost per month is $50, the total value gained would be the 24 * $50 = $1,200.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Well Chrome does this too, and uses that data, combined with your Gmail and Google Drive info, to provide "better" Google results. I don't really care either way, but let's be a bit level-headed here and accept that the
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
This. I think people get caught up too much in the small fraction of queries that are facts of the universe ("What's the universal gravitational constant to 3 decimal places?") versus the much much larger fraction that depend
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Hmmm but DDG will never be quite as good as Bing or Google simply because DDG doesn't keep any histories or track any other activity. Really good search engines get quality and relevance from all those things that DDG purports NOT to t
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
"I use Google for #1, Facebook for #2, and several other sites for #3." I think this is the crux of the issue, not that Google thinks social is the end-all answer to everything -- similarly, something like Wolfram Alpha isn't

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