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by thematt 16y ago
It would seem odd that a company who's mission is to organize the world's information is afraid of too many applications.
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Apple Now Owns FaceTime.com(techcrunch.com)
1 points by thematt 16y ago|0 comments
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by thematt 16y ago
Notice the small footnote: Sadly, this app doesn't exist. If you think it should and write cool Mac apps, email me, or message me on Twitter. I'm Moeed, by the way.
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by thematt 16y ago
Probably more like Intel got a bad deal.
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by thematt 16y ago
Private offices still have the potential for in-person interruptions. Working from home usually requires electronic communication to get ahold of somebody, which is much easier to defer if you're in the middle of working.
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by thematt 16y ago
Interesting point about information not being the same commodity is was 50 years ago. It actually seems like information is an even more valuable commodity than it was back then. We seem to be turning into an information based economy where
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by thematt 16y ago
I can see that demotivating your casual attacker, however if somebody like the CIA or NSA has decided they want to spy on you specifically , the cost of doing so is probably not going to stop them.
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by thematt 16y ago
District 9 is available on Netflix as well.
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by thematt 16y ago
I find it surprising that Heroku was the breakeven point. There have been other (what I consider) rather high-profile exits, such as Cloudkick, Reddit, Etherpad, 280 North, etc. These were good companies and were acquired for significant am
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by thematt 16y ago
Except in this case it serves as a bridge to use something other than the Office suite to edit documents, which could be problematic for Microsoft and not necessarily something they want.
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by thematt 16y ago
Netflix is in a difficult position I think. Their infrastructure is becoming commoditized, much of their content is also being licensed to their competitors and their delivery mechanism is no longer unique. What's left for them to different
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by thematt 16y ago
The tech industry drove itself off a very predictable cliff at one point as well, do you have respect for it?
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by thematt 16y ago
Probably, but it will require a new system in which we don't depend on domain names to navigate. I think Google has already envisioned it, as they're starting to de-emphasize the address bar in Chrome.
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by thematt 16y ago
There are lots of things the US can do to support a home grown revolution without directly sending in our military. In fact, we have multiple three letter agencies that specialize in exactly that type of support.
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by thematt 16y ago
free 2 day delivery has won me over I like it too, but it's not really free. It's $79/year for an Amazon Prime membership.
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by thematt 16y ago
This question is probably premature to ask. B&N hasn't tanked...yet. Their future existence is far from guaranteed.
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by thematt 16y ago
They're sold out at the moment, but I bought one here: http://hackertees.com/
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by thematt 16y ago
To put that in perspective even further, that means Wal-Mart constitutes about 1% of the American workforce.
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by thematt 16y ago
Boing clearly sees their future growth market (for this plane at least) as being the Asian countries I just talked to the CEO/President of Boeing the other night and you're absolutely right, that's exactly what their focus is. Not necessa
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by thematt 16y ago
This is usual argument, but it's purely academic in nature. Yes, by law, the government can continue to print money indefinitely. But guess what? At some point people will stop buying that debt. So even though the government has a mandate t
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by thematt 16y ago
This seems foolish from a purely financial standpoint. Often times interest rates are tiered and you can get significantly higher rates with the more money you have in a single account. They should combine them. They could keep pretending t
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by thematt 16y ago
I see a lot of Web 2.0 applications these days that have their own pieces of foam. It's really all the same code on the backend and theoretically it wouldn't cost them anymore to enable all features completely. They purposely disable featur
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by thematt 16y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that it was foiled because of good old police work. An undercover investigation and a sting (plus a large amount of his own stupidity) is what brought the guy in. The embedded RFID stopped the high value ch
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by thematt 16y ago
Just because someone has to provide it doesn't mean it has to be provided for free . It could simply mean that it can't be denied.
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by thematt 16y ago
Amazon just closed an entire distribution center in Texas because Texas wanted to take 6.25% in tax. Apple wants 30%? I doubt this will go un-protested by Amazon.
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by thematt 16y ago
Why did you have to move to San Francisco? I understand the benefits, but I thought YC funds companies based outside CA, so was that a condition of the funding that they made?
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by thematt 16y ago
They could do almost everything (administrator wise) via Powershell if they chose too, they're not necessarily stuck using Remote Desktop.
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Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler(coolhunting.com)
1 points by thematt 16y ago|0 comments
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by thematt 16y ago
Yes, Apple. It worked out well for them when they partnered with Microsoft in '97, whereby they got Office on the Mac and an injection of cash.
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by thematt 16y ago
Make that plural in Nokia's case...at least two operating systems. They had little chance of succeeding on their own with such a fragmented ecosystem.

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