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by tellarin 14y ago
Usually China is not that much concerned about monopolies. And in this case, there are actually many other e-commerce sites and microbloging services here. Tencent's Weibo has more than 450 million users, for example. And Amazon.cn and JD.c
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by tellarin 14y ago
Alibaba/Taobao are already huge. If they manage to make the account integration with Weibo work OK and can drive users across Weibo and Taobao... Just imagine combining Amazon and Twitter. Another story on the amount of cash Alibaba is movi
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by tellarin 14y ago
Hadn't seen that one. :-/
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by tellarin 14y ago
Being in Beijing it is amazing how many customer focused e-commerce companies there are and the amount of delivery vehicles from them going around everyday. Amazon.cn, Taobao, 360buy (now JD.com)... just to name 3 of the biggest. And the fe
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by tellarin 14y ago
Well, I can remember many times where I didn't have my phone handy and missed some great pictures. But that's not enough to convince me of the usefulness of smart glasses. Nonetheless, I'd love to try one out for a couple weeks and I can se
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by tellarin 14y ago
Discussed about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408767 Lots of interesting comments there.
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I just wore Google's glasses for 2 weeks and I'm never taking them off(businessinsider.com)
33 points by tellarin 14y ago|69 comments
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The Alibaba phenomenon: e-commerce firm on track to reach 1 trillion USD/year(economist.com)
11 points by tellarin 14y ago|1 comments
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The Freight Train That Is Android (2011)(abovethecrowd.com)
2 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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The dangerous seduction of the Lifetime Value profit formula from a customer(abovethecrowd.com)
1 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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How Skynet Might Emerge From Simple Physics(io9.com)
1 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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Chat apps overtake SMS for the first time(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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Iraq unrest prompts TV channel ban(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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by tellarin 14y ago
Same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5618716 Already discussed there. :-/
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Samsung posts record quarterly profit, boosted by its smartphones(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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by tellarin 14y ago
Yeah, the return of the right to the majority was weird. They were exactly those defeated on the last election after the Icelandic economy quite literally crash and burned. :-/
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Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament(falkvinge.net)
162 points by tellarin 14y ago|40 comments
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Controversy on Manning and SF Gay Pride parade reveals political motivations(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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Amazon wakes up to targeted ads business(reuters.com)
1 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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by tellarin 14y ago
The WP mention was a joke. I do agree that the account thing is pushed too much in many cases. My point was that having an ID has too many advantages to both the phone user and the OS company (not that those two sets of advantages have a bi
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by tellarin 14y ago
Between Firefox OS devices and Jolla ( http://jolla.com/ ) Sailfish OS ones, the next months will be pretty interesting. Can't wait to play with both of them. It would be even more awesome if they strongly cooperated somehow, though.
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by tellarin 14y ago
The Windows Phone ones are out there. ;) Now, I get your point, but there are too many useful scenarios where having an online ID helps (and too many benefits for providers if you have an ID too) that I don't think this is very feasible.
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by tellarin 14y ago
Interesting example, as I actually know people at a company that have that kind of leeway. And are actually doing it. :)
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by tellarin 14y ago
While I agree that it doesn't seem to be an adequate response (the whole -0.1 to 2.2 difference looks problematic enough), they claim that their 2012 paper addresses the weighting mechanism. So we'd need to read that paper too to then argue
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Taking the pain out of debugging with live programming(techworld.com.au)
10 points by tellarin 14y ago|3 comments
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Markus 'Notch' Persson Currently Second Most Influential Person(ign.com)
3 points by tellarin 14y ago|1 comments
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by tellarin 14y ago
Yes. There was even a story posted on HN about this some time ago.
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by tellarin 14y ago
The top reason is indeed Knowing Your Code Works. Be it because requirements keep changing, new features are added, many people working on the same code, refactoring, whatever... Having good unit and functional tests catch a huge amount of
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by tellarin 14y ago
Interestly quite a few use 30min and three use 45min, but none uses 15min. I wonder why...
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Web games with in-app purchases get fair trading scrutiny(bbc.com)
1 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments

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