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by thematt 14y ago
Hard to say at this point, but I'm not the least bit optimistic. At the rate B&N is burning through cash, Microsoft simply extended their runway an extra three quarters. The fundamental problems with Nook and B&N still exist, so unt
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by thematt 14y ago
It's all a short-squeeze. Today's trading has little to do with actual valuation.
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by thematt 14y ago
Does B&N really have those resources though? At their current burn-rate, Microsoft gave B&N a few quarters of extra runway. It's not clear that the underlying fundamentals have changed all that much though.
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by thematt 14y ago
The guy in that article you cited turned out to be a liar. See the follow-up: http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-scammer-hoax-controve...
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Iran says it's building copy of captured US drone(apnews.myway.com)
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by thematt 14y ago
That's mostly because their target customer is big enterprise who feeds on buzzwords they can feed to upper management. It's similar to the websites of SAP, Oracle and Intel, which all have the same qualities: - No up-front pricing, you nee
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by thematt 14y ago
There's over 260 million Gmail users. I understand the outage percent is low but at 2%, that's still 5.2 million people. That's bound to spark some talk on the interwebs.
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by thematt 14y ago
For those that do terminate their citizenship, what is the most common country they choose to live in afterwards? In other words, where is the grass perceived to be greener?
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ShapeCatcher.com - Unicode Character Recognition (shapecatcher.com)
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by thematt 15y ago
Absolutely not, for two reasons: 1. AWS is a far bigger growth opportunity for Amazon than their video service, it wouldn't make sense to sacrifice the former in favor of the latter. 2. Even if Amazon did kick them off, it's not like Netfli
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by thematt 15y ago
Exactly. The fact that the shareholders are private rather than public makes no difference -- it's still a billion dollars.
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by thematt 15y ago
Forget him being from Europe, even if he was American it would be tough to get law enforcement to investigate (presumably FBI). Unofficially, the bar is millions of dollars in loss before the Feds will allocate resources to a hacking crime.
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by thematt 15y ago
I wouldn't worry, if there really is a market for those things you listed somebody else will step up to fill the gap. Especially with enterprise customers who rarely go un-served for very long.
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by thematt 15y ago
Result quality is only one part of the equation. Features is another, which is where DDG seems to be making a land-grab for. Users seem to be responding to this approach.
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by thematt 15y ago
Frye's is a brick and mortar retailer of electronics and they seem to be doing pretty well. Granted, they're in the same boat in terms of customer service, but they've at least found a market for themselves.
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by thematt 15y ago
Maybe it has, but the rich don't have infinite lifespans and the data indicates that their wealth doesn't survive past another generation or two. See both: Beating the Midas Curse and The Millionaire Next Door
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by thematt 15y ago
We use PhoneFactor at work for authenticating VPN access. Great system, very easy to use.
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by thematt 15y ago
Those might even be better, since this appears to need a wall near the corner for the lasers to bounce off in order to function correctly.
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by thematt 15y ago
Instead of a blatant "it's incorrect on a number of facts", I think it would be more constructive to say what those facts are and why they're incorrect so we can have an intelligent discussion.
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by thematt 15y ago
Grooveshark's legality is questionable at best.
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by thematt 15y ago
How will his wage doubtlessly encourage him to engage in illegal behavior? I've worked plenty of overtime and minimum wage jobs and at no point did that ever cause me to consider committing a felony or engaging in illegal behavior. Your f
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by thematt 15y ago
Isn't this data highly dependent upon who signs up for LinkedIn? The busboy at a local restaurant seems less likely to sign up for LinkedIn than a software engineer would -- which seems like it would skew the data.
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by thematt 15y ago
The logo is virtually irrelevant, pour your time into the product instead. Speaking as a potential customer, nobody will notice or care what font you used to create your logo. Of all the things that factor into the decision process of me us
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by thematt 15y ago
Nothing mentioned about Siri. That is surprising, because I thought that inclusion would be a slam-dunk.
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Ask HN: How would you grow and monetize a free image hosting site?
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by thematt 15y ago
As a vendor who's selling a single component, you don't know that and any sane company is not going to reveal to you how much money they're making from a proprietary product.
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by thematt 15y ago
Ha! Thanks man -- will do :)
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by thematt 15y ago
Spot on. As an example of just how ridiculous it gets, we recently drafted an RFP for a solution for licensing our custom-made software to our customers and had a vendor come in with their solution. When it came time to discuss pricing, the
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by thematt 15y ago
Are you the author? Awesome diagram and I'd love to use that for our projects at work, but would probably get some pushback when management saw the "would make a good dictator", "kicks ass", etc. If you are, any chance you could make a vers
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by thematt 15y ago
You say "that companies will...", but the whitehouse.gov version says "that organizations will...". I think that's quite a significant semantic difference. Is the government subjecting themselves to these same rules?

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