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by thematt 15y ago
The bonuses are huge because the numbers are huge and not everybody can do it. The so-called "marginal value to society" is relative. I might not think your job at the electronic trading shop provided much value to society, but that doesn't
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by thematt 15y ago
That would be a huge distraction. If they're already profitable (according to Forbes) with the current model, they should focus on the product and customer acquisition, not cost-cutting.
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They could make a land grab for enterprise users. There's tons of stuff you could do with that money to make Dropbox attractive to corporations.
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by thematt 15y ago
Who said they're not? Also, if there is any business that benefits from economies of scale, it's this one. Storage (and it's associated cost) scales very well as your user base skyrockets.
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by thematt 15y ago
There absolutely are always opportunities, but those opportunities are not always available to those that won't or can't treat the investments as a full time job. Perhaps, but more often than not I hear this excuse given by people who don
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by thematt 15y ago
Saying that real estate and stock markets are "done" is ridiculous. I don't know where you got the 2-3% return expectation from, but outperforming professional investors need not be the goal. Independent (retail) investors can generate suff
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by thematt 15y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but in order for Woz to get an iPhone he has to stand in line at an Apple store? Am I understanding that right...or is it just for publicity sake? I would've thought he would have enough connections inside to get a phone
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Why Windows 8 Might Fail(pcmag.com)
1 points by thematt 15y ago|1 comments
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by thematt 15y ago
If you made it smaller (size of tennis ball?), you could give them to soldiers and instantly have a great intel gathering tool.
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by thematt 15y ago
Why is that less good? Let the market decide whether it's an effective alternative or not. If somebody can learn just as well from that medium then let them. Eliminating an entire department isn't a bad thing -- education is about the stude
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by thematt 15y ago
The lectures may be online, but he's not getting credit for learning from them. Have you ever sat in a lecture with a couple hundred other students? It's not like the teaching is the least bit personal, so what does the medium matter at tha
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by thematt 15y ago
That said, seeing an exclusion from organic based on an AdWords suspension is extremely alarming. That may be exactly what the DoJ is looking for in terms of violations by Google. According to Matt Cutts, it was the exact opposite: he got
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by thematt 15y ago
I thought everybody had to use Metro starting with Windows 8.
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The other cloud providers have similar offerings. It has nothing to do with Google.
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Here are the actual instructions: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Speed-Vest/1344/1
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How-To: Speed Vest for Night Cycling(blog.makezine.com)
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Why Apple’s CEO Doesn’t Care What You Hoped to See(mashable.com)
1 points by thematt 15y ago|0 comments
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by thematt 15y ago
Not that I necessarily agree, but I think his point is that they have overlapping use cases and that people aren't avoiding Voice Control because it sucks, they're not using it because they don't have a huge need to.
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by thematt 15y ago
It's completely fair. It's one thing to simply not use a product (Google+), it's entirely different to actively use a competitors product (Blackberry). I bet there would be hell to pay if Apple execs were walking around using Blackberries a
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by thematt 15y ago
Anybody else getting "Access Denied"? You don't have permission to access " http://www.apple.com/ on this server. Reference #18.770d50c0.1317755591.9fc5eb4
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by thematt 15y ago
Anybody else getting "Access Denied"? You don't have permission to access " http://www.apple.com/ on this server. Reference #18.770d50c0.1317755591.9fc5eb4
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by thematt 15y ago
It's not that they're unable to pay -- they choose not to. I see so many companies that want something for nothing. They want the automation and savings from the systems that developers are building, they're just not willing to pay for it.
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by thematt 15y ago
I'm confused by this. I was never under the impression people were paying protection money voluntarily -- I thought it was always so that groups like Yakuza wouldn't come back and break your legs or kill your family. This threat probably wo
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by thematt 15y ago
Please stop promoting this nonsense that our current level of taxation is needed because of infrastructure needs. Transportation accounts for a measly 4% of the federal budget. Most of our tax dollars go towards military and paying for the
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by thematt 15y ago
People choose them because the big banks have historically offered a much larger range of financial services. Additionally, there are many people who still need to (or like) going to a bank in-person. The big banks offer many more branches
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by thematt 15y ago
Both companies are full of super-smart people, but they're too busy building cool things. This kind of stuff is what happens when you let the MBA's take over.
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by thematt 15y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect the process to define how a team should confront the problems found in a retrospective. Those project and team specific problems are likely to be unique and giving the team the framework to choose t
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by thematt 15y ago
If you're an individual retail investor, your broker won't let you leverage up that high and will likely require assets/cash as collateral against the margin account.
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I feel no guilt. Google's main revenue stream is advertisements, which I will never click on. Yet, I still use Google continuously. Does that mean I'm stealing? Either way I'm getting something for free and not contributing to their revenue
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by thematt 15y ago
I'd like the full touchscreen for more screen real-estate without the necessity of increasing the size of the form-factor.

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