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Interview with Jeff Bezos and brother and Mark Bezos(youtube.com)
2 points by staunch 9y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
You can learn far more about Jeff Bezos from watching a few long interviews. He recently did a very interesting interview with his brother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq89wYzOjfs He's very much the kind of person
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by staunch 9y ago
Any company that waits months or years to fire bad hires and unproductive employees could afford to pay it, by definition.
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by staunch 9y ago
Fire quickly but take responsibility! Don't spend months torturing an employee that you know is very unlikely to work out. Fire them quickly and compensate them for the situation you find yourselves in. New hires should be be given 3 m
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by staunch 9y ago
People like Aaron Swartz represent the future of humanity. The people that attacked him represent the dark past. He was one of us, on this very site, and then he wasn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aaronsw
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by staunch 9y ago
This is definitely the best Show HN I've had the pleasure of watching evolve! Dropbox is a cool technology started by a cool person. That's what I like to see succeed. Too bad we didn't have the opportunity to buy some "
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by staunch 9y ago
Apple is great at hardware, software, and hardware-software integration but the software is what actually sets them apart. The proof is that the iPhone is barely differentiated from other smartphone hardware now, and it's still a far s
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by staunch 9y ago
Designing your company so that you share your customer's incentives is a major source of Apple's success. Facebook, Google, and Microsoft don't seem to even grasp the concept.
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Russia says satellite launch failure due to programming error(reuters.com)
35 points by staunch 9y ago|7 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
Russia satellite launch failure recently. Someone configured the launch system with the wrong pad location, apparently. For a foreign power, the cost of infiltrating and sabotaging a $5-10 billion satellite launch is such a bargain that it
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by staunch 9y ago
Amazon has dropped the price of compute power many times for precisely the same reasons I'm describing. https://www.cloudyn.com/blog/analyzing-aws-ec2-price-drops-o... This is exactly what would be happening if Co
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by staunch 9y ago
> It will always cost providers more money to service users saturating their connections ... I don't think it's an accident that so many people believe this myth. It sounds logical enough but it's completely false. Fact
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Juniper and Cisco aren't nearly as important as they used to be and their importance is growing less every day. Networking gear is headed towards commodity pricing. 2. Network technology almost certainly improves by 25%+ per year in
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by staunch 9y ago
You're accepting as fact that rising bandwidth usage = rising costs. This is not how the technology works. A 10 gigabit switch a few years ago used to cost $1,000,000 and now it costs $10,000. CPUs, optics, everything is just printed p
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by staunch 9y ago
Actually, it's a very nice illustration of creative problem solving. Your totally unnecessary commentary added nothing.
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by staunch 9y ago
Then why can't you leave $100 sitting in public unsecured with a note that says it's yours? Taking reasonable measures to secure your property is required in practice. Not legally but definitely practically and sometimes ethically
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by staunch 9y ago
Oddly enough I could argue the opposite. The need for those warnings is an acknowledgement by the owner that they do not intend to properly secure their property, and are instead asking people not to take advantage of that fact. And there&#
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by staunch 9y ago
There's no "mess" with unlimited bandwidth. Bandwidth is not like electricity itself. It's a fundamentally cheap thing to flash LEDs down glass pipes. There's no technical or financial reason why every major America
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Exactly. There are no usage fees associated with a laptop. You don't pay for recharging your battery over a certain number of times per month. They are marketed and sold in a technically optimal way. What country would permit $200 f
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by staunch 9y ago
Comcast and AT&T set data caps at 1 TB per month, knowing that we will all soon be doing much more traffic than that. Every year bandwidth requirements go up and it's accelerating. Home internet access in the US went from unlimited
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by staunch 9y ago
How many nuclear powered vessels would it take to generate and pump in sufficient oxygen?
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by staunch 9y ago
The law distinguishes between petty theft and grand theft for very good reasons. There's an obvious and huge ethical difference between taking one person's very expensive mode of transportation and taking a megacorp's bicycle
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by staunch 9y ago
Of course not, this is about property that is knowingly left unsecured in public.
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by staunch 9y ago
No one is stealing from anyone's wallet. If Larry Page starts watering his lawn with $100 bills, and they fly all over the city, would you judge a hungry person to be a thief for picking one up and using it to buy food? In my judgement
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by staunch 9y ago
It's hard for a sheltered prince like Larry Page to imagine a $100 piece of property having any value at all but that's food for a month if you're poor. People rightly recognize the arrogance those bikes represent and it make
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by staunch 9y ago
They created the Apple II together. Woz did most of the hard engineering but it was Jobs that shaped it into a product for regular people through a thousand technical decisions. You cannot create the company or products that Steve Jobs di
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by staunch 9y ago
No one would look very technical next to Woz. And it's not surprising Jobs farmed out the work to his badass friend. > "At night the two would collaborate on building it at Atari: Wozniak as engineer, Jobs as breadboarder and
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by staunch 9y ago
We know that's not true since I've read most of it multiple times. What is it you think I'm wrong about?
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by staunch 9y ago
Steve Jobs was hacking on electronics in the 1970s and building the most advanced personal computing devices from then until his death. He was not a programmer but he knew more about computers than most programmers do. There's absolute
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by staunch 9y ago
Commentarii de Bello Gallico by Julius Caesar By far my favorite example of any individual human's mental (and often physical) toughness. There's a thousand examples where he displayed herculean mental strength in the face over ov

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