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by trimbo 10y ago
> their website is really ugly I don't think it's ugly -- just dated. Isn't it weird that mentally we trust software less if they have a dated website? Shouldn't it be the opposite? (As in: a dated website means this
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by trimbo 10y ago
Other history: Nick Park almost lost Wallace and Gromit in a NYC cab in 1996. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07lost.html
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by trimbo 10y ago
* Rental plants in the office are reclaimed
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by trimbo 10y ago
Exactly. The important thing about this video in retrospect is that NeXT had completely misidentified a viable market (workstation hardware for customer service representatives) and the competition within that market (Sun). Meanwhile, in an
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by trimbo 10y ago
Not sure relative to revenue, but the top lobbying group (US Chamber of Commerce) spent $85MM last year. https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2015&inde...
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by trimbo 10y ago
What similarity do you see? At the time of AOL-TW, both were profitable and it was the largest US merger ever.
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by trimbo 10y ago
And here it is on Google Maps, in 3D https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kirtland+Air+Force+Base/@3...
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ATLAS-I (EMP generator)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by trimbo 10y ago|1 comments
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by trimbo 10y ago
One strategy to fight this is to offer rewards programs and/or credit cards with special perks. Retailers you've pointed out in other comments do this -- Amazon has a credit card[1]. Target has one that gives you 5% off purchases
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by trimbo 10y ago
Soooo... did they do it?
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by trimbo 10y ago
Do any consumer sites have that? Seems like more of an enterprise-SLA type thing.
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by trimbo 10y ago
Mike Markkula was mid level manager at Intel (and Fairchild)
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by trimbo 10y ago
Yes on the two questions, but for as to exactly why the idea failed, I don't know. I'm an outsider to Yahoo, maybe someone who was there at the time has more perspective. [1] I just remember thinking at the time they hired him (an
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by trimbo 10y ago
Haha! Terry Semel is where the "Yahoo is a media company" thing began. http://www.zdnet.com/article/can-terry-semel-yahoo/ http://www.wired.com/2007/02/yahoo-3/ I'm s
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by trimbo 10y ago
When Yahoo bought Geocities, both were public.
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by trimbo 10y ago
Terry Semel
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by trimbo 10y ago
> I remember reading about a hack/leak of, I think around 20,000 people's fingerprint data from the US government Actually it was 5.6 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
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Uber to Raise Up to $2B in Leveraged-Loan Market(wsj.com)
2 points by trimbo 10y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 10y ago
Mike Acton's "Data Oriented Design" talk from CppCon is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
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Regulators Propose Banning Theranos Founder from Blood Testing(wsj.com)
260 points by trimbo 11y ago|193 comments
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by trimbo 11y ago
Plus, for many users, a number of Chrome extensions have access to the data on that web page.
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by trimbo 11y ago
Another idea is to use lua in Nginx itself, and keep it all within nginx. Here's an upload example: https://github.com/jamesmarlowe/lua-resty-s3
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by trimbo 11y ago
I recommend it every time this topic comes up: https://github.com/google/crush-tools "Big" data on the command line.
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by trimbo 11y ago
> Let me know if you can think of any she did have founding interest in. A good manager doesn't have to come up with the idea. Most of the great ideas come from the trenches -- or competitors, frankly (Adwords, meet Overture, Keyhol
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by trimbo 11y ago
Slack is aimed at businesses
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by trimbo 11y ago
That's just the city's spending though. There (edit: is) other money: state and federal, private donations, churches, the VA system, and so on.
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by trimbo 11y ago
Here ya go: http://grail.sourceforge.net/
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by trimbo 11y ago
My understanding is that Retrophin is an M&A company. They did not develop any drugs that they sell.
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by trimbo 11y ago
For more on sociopathy, check out "The Sociopath Next Door": http://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/07...
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by trimbo 11y ago
After doing a number of "coffees" there, I can disclose that Blue Bottle also has a good hot chocolate.

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