shangrila

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by shangrila 14y ago
All of those problems with the Segway could be solved if people were determined enough to use them. The Segway didn't take off because PEOPLE LOOK RIDICULOUS on them. "Wearable" computing has the same issue, and will only take off if it can
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by shangrila 14y ago
Heh, I suppose so. Thing is, I still feel like my initial assessment was right. It was a very poor fit the company I was at, not to mention it was a rather immature service at the time -- it felt like a half-baked Twitter clone and it made
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by shangrila 14y ago
I was at a company a few years ago where the designers and execs were all about using Yammer internally, and I thought it was a joke. A billion dollar joke, turns out.
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by shangrila 14y ago
http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/27/apple-reclaims-no-1-smartphone...
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by shangrila 14y ago
Linux has finally grown up. It's getting DRM!
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by shangrila 14y ago
I recall an interview with him in which he said he sang the theme to the 1989 Batman movie into a tape recorder. The reason was, he thought of it during a commercial airline flight and didn't want to forget it. According to the interview, h
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by shangrila 14y ago
Reminds me of these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_(wireless_carrier) and their TV commercials in which there was always a teenager shouting "it's got MySpace mobile!"
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by shangrila 14y ago
Meanwhile, I saw a TV commercial for IE today. Amazing how things have changed from the days of 90+% market share dominance by IE.
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by shangrila 14y ago
This is why you do not play the IPO game unless you are an insider (underwriter or early investor of the company in question). You will lose. They will see to it. And you will have no recourse, as they are in bed with the regulators.
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by shangrila 14y ago
The flipside of that of course is that they can pass whatever draconian regulations they want in regards to the internet, so long as Facebook gets a free pass and is allowed to keep chugging along. Surprised they didn't do that already for
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by shangrila 14y ago
A P/E ratio of 30-45 would still indicate the market believes in a very high potential for growth. That just doesn't seem reasonable. Their potential user base is already nearly fully saturated (the SEC filings show no growth at all in some
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by shangrila 14y ago
This needs to be higher. This is exactly the reason why what the article calls "Assumption X" is flawed.
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by shangrila 14y ago
Exactly. They took the site down and gave pause to anyone who is thinking of starting a similar site. Mission accomplished!
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by shangrila 14y ago
Aside from degradation, the difference the poster noticed in the display quality between the two different iPads can also be explained by two other phenomena: - "Silent" hardware revs: Apple will frequently rev the hardware to fix issues wi
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by shangrila 15y ago
Yeah, if I were that guy I'd be playing this up for all it's worth. They're demanding that he prove it's not him, and saying that he "sound(s) guilty"? Is that a joke? If they really said that, that law firm just stepped in it big time.
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by shangrila 15y ago
Yeah no kidding. That's one thing people seem to forget about that Joel article ... the new code base he's mocking went on to become the only browser capable of taking on Microsoft's juggernaut for many years. It was faster & better t
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by shangrila 15y ago
The #1 sign we are in a bubble is that people are writing articles saying we are not in a bubble. For reference, compare the following two editions of a book regarding the recent housing bubble. These were written by the chief economist for
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by shangrila 15y ago
Most of the UDID replacement "solutions" proposed so far are just cookies. They generate an identifier and write the data to a location such as the keychain, or a private pasteboard as in the case of SecureUDID. These locations may be somew
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by shangrila 15y ago
They certainly could still add a new API which does something along the lines of what you describe while still deprecating the UDID API. The only real catch is that they'd had have to do it in such a way as to make it difficult to figure ou
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by shangrila 15y ago
FB is indeed probably upset because employers were stupid and started asking applicants for their info directly instead of going behind their backs and asking FB for it instead (which FB would have happily given them ... for a fee, of cours
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by shangrila 15y ago
There are a lot more possibilities than just those six. It could be almost anywhere, really. For example, how about somewhere in Florida? There have been lots of foreclosures there, and it has a large conservative population. Also, the post