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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Collect underpants, er portfolio of AI companies ???? (release a self-anointed playbook) Profit!
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Most of these fit into a tweet. You could have asked Tay if it was still around :-)
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
The Microsoft Playbook: * Predicate the commercial viability of your software on the basis of technological illiteracy * Blame the technologically illiterate 'luser user' when things go wrong * Try and profit from it even as you b
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
You could have simply omitted the second paragraph and your argument would actually be more forceful. I agree overall with what you say. I don't think the problem is with how fast Bill Gates' money is increasing or whether the mon
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
America is the most anti-innovation country except for all those other countries that have failed at innovation time and time again...
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> Let's assume the worst of Google and conclude they abused their search monopoly. Innovation in search was stifled. Competitors were damaged and achieved only a fraction of their potential. For instance, Yelp might be worth $15
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Remember when the major studios pulled out of their Netflix streaming contracts at the first possible opportunity? After all, they could have just stayed on Netflix, and it might have been this nice monolithic platform which could have wo
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
These creators are very smart and very good at what they do. But they lack the most basic understanding of why it is such a bad idea to create an entire business around something you cannot control. Yes, there is that risk with anything y
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I don't use Facebook. I still feel miserable for the same reason I feel miserable when I see war. FB is designed to encourage the absolute worst of all our human nature, dressed up as a "tool to reconnect with people". To mak
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
This is really interesting. But it also means if you (GP) don't mind stepping on a few toes, you can turn this in your favor. Start attracting attention by writing articles about "What the big brand bloggers don't tell you ab
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Mark Zuckerberg must be feeling ecstatic. You don't need to outrun the negative PR bear, you only need to outrun your idiot fratbro friend.
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Perhaps it is time to split up companies - FB + WhatsApp, Google + YouTube, Microsoft + LinkedIn and add your own little favorite here. If the tech sector tends to move towards natural monopolies and cannot generate its own competition, the
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
All through history, the feeble voice of economically rational people has been no match for vociferous demagoguery. What I mean is, people will actually identify the source of the problem 50 years too late, and usually when all the primary
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
And just like that, they doubled the marketshare of Bing from 0.0003% to 0.0006%.
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> you can also target people who search for ways to suicide on Google Not that either companies' employees seem to care, of course. Once again, a little reminder about my suggestion to create a public dataset of all employees of
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> During FB's initial worldwide rollout, it was exciting to just "friend" everyone whom you had an acquaintance, because it wasn't yet taboo or uncool to do so. >> ideally this gets worked out in heartfelt c
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
> I guess I just don't see making money from advertisements as an indictment of an organization 5) To protect ad revenue, its changing the nature of the web. Who the fuck is Google to decide whether guest blogging is or is not a goo
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
It is as nuanced as the subject matter deserves and perhaps HN is acknowledging it? While the wisdom of the crowds favors the continued existence and growth of Facebook, the wisdom of a tech heavy audience takes a skeptical stance, and the
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
To all those who supposedly "show they care" by "keeping in touch" with "folks from around the world" (as a reason for explaining why FB provides an important service). Whatever FB's lofty mission statemen
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I wonder if Microsoft is a welcome competitor in those domains where they don't have any monopolistic advantage. They will help you avoid any anti-trust issues, while also being too sluggish/dysfunctional to actually execute.
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
No. He is a billionaire, which obviously means he is a visionary. These characterizations only apply to mere mortals and other dumb fucks such as those who contribute to Facebooks' MAU numbers.
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Actually, the graph theorists at FB solved the problem in a few days, but various government agencies insisted that the code should not unearth anything potentially negative about their operations. Its now been years, and they are still try
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I am not sure I agree with this. If your bank freezes your account based on suspicious activity, do you change banks, or are you (usually) thankful? If FB is so important that it cannot even be unavailable for a few days - which BTW I fin
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Personally, I feel no amount of money can compensate for a basic lack of charisma. However, I wouldn't put it beyond any megacorp today to actually manipulate the flow of information during elections to favor the candidates who are lik
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> which very much benefits the American economy I think the overall effect is going to be a little different than what you imagine. Unless you are imagining a future where people who think a programmer is an "anomalously high-co
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
OTOH, without IKVM, there will be a lot of people who will be forced to come out of the .NET ecosystem when using these libraries, which will end up improving both the libraries and the surrounding ecosystem (e.g. many people dislike Java t
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Imagine if I flipped around your statement and said - don't trust anyone who recommends the superiority of a framework without comparing absolutely every possible framework at their disposal and showing sample code to explain why a cer
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I hadn't heard about that book. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> Six people is often all you need to start seeing some common themes. That's interesting. I am curious how you came up with that number. Getting six people to give you their opinions is much easier than doing any kind of extens
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
If you feel, like I do, that if WhatsApp were not acquired by Facebook a) their growth rate would not have been much smaller b) they would probably have just as much or greater user engagement than what FB has today then the actual question

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