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by tg3 14y ago
And yet almost all businesses/organizations that facilitate human social activity extract some sort of profit: the postal service, telephone companies, ISPs, bars/pubs, and churches (for the cynic), to name a few.
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by tg3 14y ago
would be interesting if G+ ended up being a Yammer competitor instead of a Facebook competitor.
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by tg3 14y ago
Myspace never went public, it was acquired by News Corp for around $600m.
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by tg3 14y ago
"is somewhat less likely to generate a lot of value for customers" - based on what exactly? This sounds very arbitrary and you don't cite any reasons for this belief. "success...is much more sensitive to engineering talent" - again, is that
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by tg3 14y ago
Unfortunately you not noticing any change in the content doesn't make for very reliable or convincing statistical results. Thus the suggestions for making the experiment blind to you by choosing whether or not to CC after you compose the
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by tg3 14y ago
IBM also makes a large amount of money servicing and implementing other company's technology products, specifically SAP and Oracle (and probably a lot of Microsoft too). To me, they are a technology services company providing consulting, im
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by tg3 14y ago
Because it mentions it directly in the link that this discussion is about. "Since Sortfolio is hooked up to our centralized billing system, you’ll need to write your own code to charge customers."
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Why Do Our Best and Brightest End Up in Silicon Valley and Not D.C.?(m.theatlantic.com)
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by tg3 14y ago
I always take predictions like "no one will be using SMS in 10 years" with a grain of salt. Time has shown that experts are basically clueless when it comes to predicting that far in the future. 10 years from now, no one knows what we'll be
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by tg3 14y ago
Chicago, IL (right now, may be moving to the Bay Area) / Remote / Full-time and Intern Wikify.me is a recently-funded (angel) company looking for our first big engineering hires. We are one engineer and one business guy building the 3rd per
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by tg3 14y ago
And based on the recent decision to start selling advertising, it sounds like it's related to his inability to produce a top-line, or perhaps his aversion to the prevailing winds at the board about the timeline and methods to produce revenu
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by tg3 14y ago
The Era of Warring States...covers the Iron Age period from about 475 BC to the reunification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC. [1] The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th ce
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by tg3 14y ago
It appears that SketchUp was one of the thousand flowers that Google let bloom that isn't making it into Larry Page's bouquet. [1] It's a good move for companies to shed products that aren't their core competency. Resources, and more import
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by tg3 15y ago
Actually, it's another product. We're still in a very early beta, so I haven't talked too much about it publicly, but I'm hoping to do so very soon.
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My first real product launch: Sweat, tears, and viral growth(tgriff3.tumblr.com)
2 points by tg3 15y ago|4 comments
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by tg3 15y ago
You're right, I probably shouldn't have lumped them together. My question is probably more applicable to Firebase since they explicitly state that a goal is to eliminate servers (or at least make them optional).
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by tg3 15y ago
I guess the long form of the question I'm asking is, "Can Meteor/Firebase be secure without adding back in a lot of the server-side effort that they were built to avoid." Avoiding the server-side seems to be a central part of Firebase's pit
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Can Firebase/Meteor ever be secure?(tgriff3.tumblr.com)
82 points by tg3 15y ago|58 comments
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by tg3 15y ago
This is quite the stretch. I don't think anyone could reasonably argue influence on TAL editorial decisions by Bill Gates. Yes, his foundation is a donor to NPR which runs on many of the same stations, but anything done by TAL shouldn't hav
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by tg3 15y ago
That assumes that the most important thing to a college is present earnings and not potential future earnings. Colleges regularly compete for top students (at a loss via scholarships) in order to pump up their stats and increase their prest
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by tg3 15y ago
You can, but you lose the ability to see when the other person is typing when they don't have an iPhone.
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by tg3 15y ago
It seems to me that the Programmer is also much better in the "Good one" scenario. Maybe not all the blame for a problematic relationship lies on one side?
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by tg3 15y ago
It replies via SMS or MMS to every phone number in the conversation, regardless of whether it is an iPhone or not. I can see your point about not having this capability on other smartphones, but why not build an android/bb app that does exa
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by tg3 15y ago
the Group MMS feature on the iPhone (reply all) works as of iOS4, before iMessage.
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by tg3 15y ago
I still don't really understand the benefit of this over the native SMS app. On iPhones (and I imagine, other smartphones) reply all is available. And you can send pictures in the conversation. I'm pretty sure you can send map locations t
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by tg3 15y ago
"Zynga makes games that create no value." - I don't think that's true. They create games that I don't particularly enjoy, but some people do. And according to an earlier article, they do extract a pretty significant amount of revenue from t
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Empirically Validating The Lean Startup(tgriff3.tumblr.com)
1 points by tg3 15y ago|0 comments
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by tg3 15y ago
I made http://www.newsfeedy.com to provide context for trending topics at a glance. Born of my desire to know what breaking news/trends were, while being too lazy to google the Twitter trending topics. Started writing (semi) regularly on
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by tg3 15y ago
I seem to recall some pretty clear-headed comments on this site and others questioning late stage venture funds buying into these "frothy valuations" and whether they would be able to get the returns that venture partners expect. It seems
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by tg3 15y ago
I think the author is trying to illustrate that showing up/networking is a necessary condition for success. The point is that no matter what else you do, unless you are in a place where you can meet supermodels, you will never date one. Sho

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