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by tybris 15y ago
I now own over a dozen books that are more expensive than a Kindle.
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by tybris 15y ago
Yep. They're betting on Facebook and that might cost them. Business is about taking risks and the job of the people at the top is to assess those risks, and they're usually in a better position to do so than anyone else.
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by tybris 15y ago
In the businesses that I've worked for we always took rational decisions based on the numbers, feedback from customers, our capacities, deals, etc. If you know those things, the vast majority of business decisions that companies take are re
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by tybris 15y ago
The problem with going up against Google is that they offer a superior product to end-users for free . I have no doubt that the iPad will remain a superior product to the Amazon Tablet. However, I also have no doubt it will keep costing mo
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by tybris 15y ago
Did you look that up on Excite or on Altavista?
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by tybris 15y ago
Why? I don't see the precedent. Android phones are overtaking iPhones. Why wouldn't Android tablets?
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by tybris 15y ago
50 million very, very quiet users.
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by tybris 15y ago
By that logic, you would have to open every single port on your firewall if you wanted to set up a web server. Fortunately, your OS just looks at the client IP/port to distinguish multiple TCP streams.
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by tybris 15y ago
> it's about proving something people need and want, and getting them to pay for it. HP sells more stuff that people want than almost any other company (printers, desktops, etc.). Yet they're failing. Successful technology companies (A
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by tybris 15y ago
Whatever happened, there is one thing we can be sure about: No laws of nature were violated in this experiment.
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by tybris 15y ago
Because the board in older companies usually consists of people with MBAs from expensive schools who just don't get technology (hint: it's not about cutting costs, it's about building technology).
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by tybris 15y ago
Meh, this is just about wording.
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by tybris 15y ago
I fully expect this to be another Java decade, for the following reasons: 1. Android Java now serves the full stack for mobile apps. The world's largest Internet company, the world's largest on-line retailer, and the world's largest compute
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by tybris 15y ago
The collapse of Lehman brothers was an event that threatened the stability of the global financial system. The default of Greece is a minor nuisance that is mainly relevant because of fear that Italy and Spain might be next.
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by tybris 15y ago
Actually, 0.39 Lehmans. Greek debt is around $240 billion and Lehman assets were around $613 billion. Of course, that number does not even consider that countries only partially and temporarily default, instead of fully and permanently like
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by tybris 15y ago
It means they're bankrupt.
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by tybris 15y ago
Interesting, nice foresight. Remind me of my college days when I could design stuff like DDoS resilient distributed voting systems without the burden of having to build and test it (although I would not have gotten away with that in my MSc
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by tybris 15y ago
Seems like a fair price for a small IT company with a single product and an unpopular subscription model, but in today's market Dropbox should be able to get a better deal.
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by tybris 15y ago
Why? Most of the contents of these papers have made their way into books and programming languages. There's nothing wrong with getting it from a secondary source.
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by tybris 15y ago
Apart from whether or not this is fair, I really hate the EU taking any part in this. I know their authority is not well-defined, but in my view they are overreaching. I've flipped from pro-EU to anti-EU on my voting agenda.
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by tybris 15y ago
Do you mean that in a "he's clearly just promoting S3" or a "woah, the CTO of Amazon has time to code neat tools" kind of way?
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by tybris 15y ago
I learned the same. I was quite disappointed later to find that, while all the sewage here goes through treatment, it does not get directly pumped back into the water pipes, but instead gets pumped back into the rivers. Although pragmatical
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by tybris 15y ago
I've switched back to Windows from Ubuntu. I found one of the big reasons for me to use Linux was how much easier it was to move around / manage files between my desktop and other machines using the command-line. With Dropbox, that has beco
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by tybris 15y ago
You don't actually have to build something to file a patent. You just imagine what it might look like. You can do that pretty quickly.
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by tybris 15y ago
At least it's too awkward to be fake.
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by tybris 15y ago
Are you trying to turn this into an intelligent design argument? Human life is short, so instead of going through lengthy trial-and-error, like nature does, our brains evolved to make complex predictions about our environment based on past
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by tybris 15y ago
"As part of our efforts to continually improve our Rackspace Cloud offerings, we will be performing maintenance on our Cloud Servers environment. The maintenance window has been rescheduled and will now occur on Friday November 12th, 2010 f
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by tybris 15y ago
I was thinking flying cars and stuff. I didn't know the future was going to be this awesome.
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by tybris 15y ago
Dig a hole and fill it up. Our economy is saved! What the government needs to get better at is extract money from the economy in a way that creates, rather than destroys economic value. This is what almost every business does, why can't the
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by tybris 15y ago
If you are starting up, where are you going to get the capital, expertise, and people to operate and maintain those systems? You have better things to do.

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