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by s3r3nity 13y ago
This. The Chrome store is ridden with lame and/or spammy apps that haven't met the bar I was expecting, and therefore you pretty much _have_ to use Google Apps for everything. For most individual use cases it seems ok, but enterpr
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Thank you -- I wanted to write a post regarding that article for the past week, but couldn't do it as well or as eloquently. "The nature of progress is to move incrementally. The great leaps are exceedingly few and far between.&qu
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Hmmm a few years ago a friend who worked there told me they experimented with having two tabs: one with their machine learning algorithm, and one that was like Twitter and just had 'everything, by everyone, in chronological order.&#x27
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
To be fair, Facebook has had this for close to a year now (albeit on on an iPod, but other cellular devices.)
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Search is based upon machine learning algorithms that use stored data as signals. Google is not only REALLY good at what they do BECAUSE of the amount of data they have on the individual doing the searching, but the benefits of machine lear
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Well you answered your own question -- paywalls limit the distribution of information. It's what frustrates me whenever I see comments supporting Adblock extensions but then won't pay the fee for sites like semiaccurate...as if pe
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Yes and there were many people very confident that the world would end last year. The amount of confidence you have doesn't prove anything, especially if you have no basis for that confidence outside of a few anecdotes. Hmmm I love get
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
eh -- anecdotal evidence != real data though
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
By this logic, you can to toss all of Silicon Valley under the bus -- might as well dump my Hacker News account as well!
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
This is of a large enough magnitude that I'm suspicious it could be something created out of the Project Loon announcement in terms of timing. Also, given that Facebook's mission is to "Make the world more open and connected,
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
1) These people who will be accessing the internet from these channels are going to bring in ~$0 revenue. You think advertisers are want to target these low-income areas?! This is a specious argument at best -- attempting to create this lam
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Agreed - basic internet marketing could've helped them. You can't just build a product and hope that word-of-mouth scales you.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Didn't this article topic come up a few years ago? Weren't people saying there was a limit on the number of people you could get into a single social network (like 250k or something like that?) and would never surpass Myspace? Wer
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Perhaps -- maybe it's not Apple style crazy innovation. However I'm intrigued at tech that makes it easy for those in the developing world to access the internet and connect with others in the social graph. And when you really thi
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
To some extent I agree -- but I think that's because I'm a spoiled white moderately wealthy tech worker (and I'm guessing you fall into at least one of those adjectives if you're on HN.) It would sound incredibly naive t
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I disagree -- really good health/dental/etc. insurance + 401k matching + daycare + maternity/paternity leave + etc. can go FAR in maintaining good retention rates and/or recruiting new talent...though I don't have d
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Basic Google search: Graph Search, Site Re-design on all platforms, Newsfeed algorithm changes that increased engagement, Significant growth and mobile penetration in international markets (now over 1.1+ BILLION people) -- i.e. making it ea
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
This is neither productive or substantive - so will Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. If we keep saying "the sky is going to fall - just you wait" with no data/analysis to back this up, eventually we all will be proven right. Bu
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
As a data scientist, the lack of error bars hurts me deep inside (i.e. are these statistically significant drops?) Nevertheless very insightful, and I appreciate the use of data as opposed to many of the anecdotal reviews of Gmail's ne
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
<dropping knowledge> What many people don't know is that the motto never was intended to be "move fast & break things." Rather, it's "move fast and don't be afraid to break things." Slightly less
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I think it's a good time to buy -- the re-org underway will be intriguing, and I'm very bullish on Windows (especially after 8.1) I think they don't get enough credit for what they do really well (Windows Phone is phenomenal;
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I've been using Facebook with all posts set to "Only Me" privacy as my journal -- this will probably will kill my karma, but this app seems like essentially a Path clone that you pay for, with a Day One business model to boot
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
I don't really care either -- it's a free service that I'm able to access on pretty much any web-accessible device on the planet. Sometimes maintaining a service like that requires a way to pay the bills (FastMail is a paid s
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Reddit in the Red...still...(businessinsider.com)
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
It's not REALLY an alternative, as it uses Bing's technology
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Coincidence that the link is down?
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
This year has seen really interesting competitive threats to Gmail in the form of an improved Yahoo Mail and hotmail 2.0 (aka Outlook.com) I'm glad others are noticing as well -- competition is good =)
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Agreed -- I love the fact that it just works. However their social experiment with integrating Google+ and search has always been a lousy experience for me.
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
"...[P]ut a good deal of work into ensuring their ads behave better than most." It's more like they have a lot more data and scale to target better ads at individuals. And when you have many many ads competing for X amount of
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Yeah but CPM (cost per impression metric) is not a scalable business model alone -- CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per acquisition) metrics have arisen because sites will spam impressions to people in Malaysia who will never buy anything

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