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by tomkit 13y ago
> "Why don't we sell ads" There's nothing preventing them from data-mining messages and stripping out identifiable information (like what Google does w/ Gmail) to better target ads in other services.
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SoftBank Buys 51% of Finnish Mobile Game Maker for $1.5 Billion(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by tomkit 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomkit 13y ago
Photos allow you to discriminate which moment in time you want to convey to people. You can take and retake photos until you distill it to the right scene. Dead simple postprocess editing, e.g. filters, allowed you to enhance that even furt
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by tomkit 13y ago
The vast majority of that 1m+ employees are low-skilled wage laborers. Finding 3000 high-skill engineers is definitely a monstrous task. Twitter is 7+ years old and they're only at ~1600 employees about half of which are engineers.
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Waze for weather(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tomkit 13y ago|0 comments
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China Retakes Supercomputing Crown With a Lot of American Chips(allthingsd.com)
1 points by tomkit 13y ago|0 comments
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Leaker's Ties to China Probed(online.wsj.com)
3 points by tomkit 13y ago|1 comments
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by tomkit 13y ago
We use Backbone as our frontend framework at my startup. A few months ago we evaluated guided-tour libraries such as Joyride, Bootstrap Tour and others. We liked Joyride at the time because it was declarative with some simple global setup a
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by tomkit 14y ago
I loved Ang Lee's own words: http://whatshihsaid.com/2013/02/26/ang-lee-a-never-ending-dr... (which is a link within this article).
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Learnings From a Stealth Startup's TechCrunch Funding Announcement(blog.thomaschen.me)
1 points by tomkit 14y ago|0 comments
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by tomkit 14y ago
I love the PR spin on appdata.com's frontpage: "In an effort to improve and enhance our services, we are launching new site features..."
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by tomkit 14y ago
I think it's been about a year since he gave his Python talk at Dropbox. I suppose they also used that opportunity to begin to recruit him.
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by tomkit 14y ago
Seems like Apple hasn't mastered video streaming compression as well as OnLive. OnLive seemed pretty playable to me when I tried it.
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by tomkit 14y ago
I haven't tried AppleTV's Airplay, but I think it just mirrors your desktop correct? So theoretically you could just run Steam's Big Picture Mode off of a Mac and use AirPlay to stream it to your TV?
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by tomkit 14y ago
Who is liable for the security of the package at these stations? In a normal exchange, it is the merchant up until delivery to a residence/office (or signature). In this case, is the station operator liable for stolen/lost goods? For the Ge
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by tomkit 14y ago
I actually think the app is pretty well made; I didn't notice too many of the problems that the other people are critiquing when viewed on my iPhone 5. Having said that, the bigger question is: why do all that custom work when you can make
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by tomkit 14y ago
I think it's an A/B test as well. I saw $49, $149 and $299.
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by tomkit 14y ago
I guess Bezos is really serious when he tells shareholders his company is willing to not maximize profit in the short term for long term investments.
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Behind Mark Pincus's Bid to Save Zynga(online.wsj.com)
33 points by tomkit 14y ago|44 comments
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by tomkit 14y ago
Totally agree. It shows more of the author's initial failings and then trying to generate buzz with hot HN keywords like 'backbone'. One file with 8500 lines could have easily been avoided with the module pattern either by handrolling it or
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by tomkit 14y ago
I tried this game out when it was in pre-beta too. I found it novel and refreshing that there was an MMO aspect to a flash-based game, but I didn't find myself going back to the game. I have no recollection of what the aspiration was suppos
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by tomkit 14y ago
I also found Teavana's teas to be adulterated with unnecessary flavors and ingredients that aren't natural to the tea. I instead prefer to go to their cousin store, Lupicia, which are usually located in the same malls. The difference is tha
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by tomkit 14y ago
It looks like Amazon Lockers are available in SF as well. What differentiates BufferBox from Lockers?
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Hidden Fortunes of Chinese Leaders(nytimes.com)
139 points by tomkit 14y ago|81 comments
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by tomkit 14y ago
For the first 12 minutes, Tim Cook sounds like he's trying really hard to mimic Jobs's style, albeit unsuccessfully.
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by tomkit 14y ago
Given that some people think YC is starting to see scaling problems, I wonder if they will continue the trend of growing each class size or try to keep it around the same (or maybe even try to scale it down?).
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by tomkit 14y ago
I have the same work flow. In addition, these "OK/Yes", "OK/(auto enabled toggle)", "YES-only" dialogs are not unique to Zynga and not unique to Farmville 2; it's been around for a while. I suppose the author of the blog was only recently c
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by tomkit 14y ago
In Steve's latest bio it seemed to suggest the next iPhone would have a revolutionary design. It seems to be pretty iterative to me.
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by tomkit 14y ago
+1. Super smart + humble.
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by tomkit 14y ago
I was going to comment along these lines, but you summed it up very well. This could possibly be A/B tested, i.e. have one job that's described as looking for 'awesome' vs 'good' developers for the same job and see what type of candidates i

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