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by smugma 4y ago
Very similar story with iOS as well. Adware and InApp is the standard. One way around it is Arcade, which has lots of quality games with no ads nor in apps.
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by smugma 4y ago
I had never heard of Zeloof. Wikipedia calls him an autodidact but I guess he chose to go to college (CMU). This Wired feature gives a bit more color (mostly just wowing over his home lab): https://www.wired.com/story/2
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by smugma 4y ago
They all had founders in their 20s (technically, Gates and Zuckerberg were 19).
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by smugma 4y ago
If you weight by market cap, Apple, Microsoft, and Google (Meta to a lesser extent) make it really hard to beat. And if you’re a VC, weighing by market share makes sense.
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by smugma 4y ago
I started with: “How many unicorns were founded by people in their 30s? The biggest example I can think of is Larry Ellison” but it was easy to come up with so many more examples: Benioff, Reed Hastings, Bezos, Reid Hoffman. Of course there
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by smugma 4y ago
I actually got a few thousand dollar settlement from a settlement around 2005-2006. So… I stand corrected. Netflix plays its own game, and is the exception to the rule?
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by smugma 4y ago
There’s no evidence that “all the top tech companies” are trying to push down salaries. I’ve neither seen nor heard any evidence of this at Netflix or Apple. Google? Salary ranges for open positions in California are public.
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by smugma 4y ago
Apple removed flags from macOS 12.4 Monterey, replacing them with ISO2A characters
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by smugma 4y ago
Low interest rates also mean it’s practical to hold real estate and drip-feed the units. Much harder to do when you’re paying 10% interest on a construction loan.
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by smugma 4y ago
I had three minutes, clicked tutorial and got a modal asking me to sign up. Left the page.
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by smugma 4y ago
At least at Apple, Amazon, and Google, most execs have been there 10+ years. One of the challenges is people often think “where’s my growth going to be if my Senior Director/VP isn’t going anywhere for 5 years?”
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Top law firm A&O announces exclusive launch partnership with OpenAI-based Harvey(allenovery.com)
3 points by smugma 4y ago|1 comments
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by smugma 4y ago
Is this one of the first large scale deployments of OpenAI/any AI? “Harvey will empower more than 3,500 of A&O’s lawyers across 43 offices” “Harvey is a platform that uses natural language processing, machine learning and data anal
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by smugma 4y ago
Why do you think the Feds view is erroneous? High employment led to a buyers market for labor, and total comp in tech (and every other field) higher. What do you see as primarily driving inflation? Supply chain, China, Ukraine?
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by smugma 4y ago
In contrast, FAANGM’s have had an average of <2 CEO’s in the past 20+ years.
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by smugma 4y ago
Apple and Microsoft both run by CEO’s with MBA’s, but you could argue that they are not “MBA types”, which is fair enough, but then we’re really talking about an straw man MBA.
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Do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song?(2019)(theredhandfiles.com)
3 points by smugma 4y ago|3 comments
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by smugma 4y ago
“ that what we are actually listening to is a withdrawn and alienated young man’s journey out of the small American town of Aberdeen – a young man who by any measure was a walking bundle of dysfunction and human limitation – a young man who
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by smugma 4y ago
In addition to motivation, you’re now re-learning it. As you said, some of it stayed in your head, so it’s not fair to say you learned more.
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by smugma 4y ago
My brother in law is a Pepsi truck driver (has been for almost 25 years). He’s always bragged that he gets paid the same pay and benefits as those in a union, but doesn’t have to deal with dues “etc.”. Recently he had to go on medical leave
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by smugma 4y ago
That’s a concise summary, thank you!
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by smugma 4y ago
I got C’s in college math but was a little clever when I was younger. I came up with my own method for estimating square roots, which was not bad (but not nearly as good as Heron’s method). Find the biggest whole number less than the square
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by smugma 4y ago
I was wondering why it was done in Airtable. Great product demo!
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by smugma 4y ago
Patterson was very well liked when I was at Berkeley. Maybe a little eccentric but not in a bad way. He famously would buy his students pizza at the end of the semester, saying he used royalties from the textbook that he wrote and taught fr
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by smugma 4y ago
If I were Netflix, I’d first block simultaneous streaming in multiple locations. So many comments below talk about giving parents/siblings access and they barely use it (I fall in this camp). If that’s true, you’ll almost never notice
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by smugma 4y ago
Millions will cancel. Their hope is more will join. If it doesn’t work, they will roll back (and apologize), as they did with Flixter/Quikster/DVDs a decade+ ago.
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by smugma 4y ago
Unlikely given their goal is to promote splitting of accounts into more paying customers, not merging into fewer.
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by smugma 4y ago
If a movie rental is $6 and you watch one movie a month, it’s maybe worth it if 3 people are watching 1 movie a month (plus a little extra). But not worth $20 for 1 movie or show a month. Better off just renting stuff or buying shows. Or fo
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by smugma 4y ago
I have three kids and enjoyed the article, and forwarded to the few other parents I know (except one, who still keeps her house crazy clean because she has lots of professional help) with three kids. The spirit was “Even Marie Kondo can’t k
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by smugma 4y ago
In Jan 2021, I filled out a survey (got $10 WF GC) asking me about my preferences. If a fee were charged, would I use the service less and where would I go? Would I prefer a higher fee but one hour delivery, free delivery for off peak hours

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