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by vtail 16y ago
What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.
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Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison(wolframalpha.com)
120 points by vtail 16y ago|75 comments
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by vtail 16y ago
As always, WolframAlpha is your friend: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3+millilight+seconds 558.8 miles or 899.4 kilometers They even have "comparisons", e.g. for 30 millilight seconds: ~~ 1.4 x Amazon River length (~~ 6400 km )
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by vtail 16y ago
I was specifically referring to their non-enterprise customers. For them, their statement says that "a fraction of our consumer base–home users" [is affected]. Enterprise customers are in a different league: even if individual users are ext
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by vtail 16y ago
I understand. "Fully loaded cost" in my calculation above includes office space, equipment etc. - usually it ~30% on top of annual salary.
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by vtail 16y ago
> I think this is a pretty good example of how "Enterprise Software" will continue to quickly lose favor with customers. My personal opinion is that the "Enterprise Software" market is now more than ever about sales and marketing rather
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by vtail 16y ago
http://bugs.python.org/issue?status=1&@sort=-activity&#3...
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by vtail 16y ago
I think what would certainly help Python community is to have a prioritized list of specific small tasks that could be done to improve Python, grouped by contributor's skill level, e.g. tasks for complete newby, tasks for C hackers, tas
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by vtail 16y ago
Do you suggest that Apple's secrecy policy justifies buying stolen property??
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by vtail 16y ago
He also quotes that there are only 57 websites in the world that have >1bn pageviews/month - anybody has the full list?
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7 Good Tips To Faster Typing on iPad(makeuseof.com)
3 points by vtail 16y ago|0 comments
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Tumblr: Serving 1 billion pageviews per month(avc.com)
1 points by vtail 16y ago|1 comments
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Adobe Gives Up on Flash for iPhone, iPad(wired.com)
3 points by vtail 16y ago|0 comments
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by vtail 16y ago
I have a proposal for HN: replace those triangles with 'Facebook recommend' buttons :)
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by vtail 16y ago
I agree with you that my analogy is poor, and that revenue per employee is an important metric. My point was that showing craigslist there is misleading, for the reasons I listed in my other comment. It still amazing how well Google scale
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by vtail 16y ago
"Dividing revenue by employee gives us a better look at which companies are the most efficient. And that’s what you see in the chart at the top of this post." craigslist's numbers are misleading here. Sure, they're extremely efficient by th
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by vtail 16y ago
Interesting comparison, yet there are so many wrong implications that can be made from it that I don't Even know where to start. Compare to: short guys in glasses earn 100x as much as tall athletic guys. "Proof": compare Warren Buffett an
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by vtail 16y ago
Because grading a work by student you like gives you positive utility :).
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by vtail 16y ago
Yes, as both the title of the article and it's text clearly tell. "He donated the the money to buy the company to Charter School Growth Fund. The acquisition price was not disclosed. He also invested $10 million in DreamBox to expand to mor
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by vtail 16y ago
True, but what worked for Facebook/Zynga will not necessarily work for Joe's homepage/Heyzap. Facebook is a destination for people to socialize and sometimes play with their friends, so games there are complementary goods. Most other sites
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by vtail 16y ago
What a strange idea! "My website is boring, so I'll add something to distract people from my content to make it less so?" Seriously? How is it different from just opening a game in another browser window, and why would users keep coming t
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by vtail 16y ago
Given the audience here, it would be super cool to add Arc in the fifth column for comparison.
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by vtail 16y ago
>> It shows how fundamentally difficult it is to make credible business forecasts in technology. > Becoming a major success is fundamentally hard and predicting the future is fundamentally hard, so it shouldn't be much of a surp
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by vtail 16y ago
I'm wondering whether the outcomes for the Techcrunch 40 are statistically different from the outcomes for a group of 40 randomly selected startups. 4 companies went out of business, 4 were acquired (with only one being a major success),
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by vtail 16y ago
Let's assume that person X applies because she heard about promotion, but wouldn't otherwise. Isn't there an adverse selection here that you would like to avoid?
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by vtail 16y ago
I'm from Russia originally, and current political system doesn't look democratic to me - elections are forged, all TV is state owned/controlled, very few independent newspapers, government is corrupted, one political party is in charge wit
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by vtail 16y ago
Remove the word 'criminal' above - and people living in non-democratic countries, such as Iran, Uzbekistan, Russia, China etc. will be very grateful to you.
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Swirl: some sugar for Tornado (a web server that powers FriendFeed)(code.naeseth.com)
1 points by vtail 16y ago|2 comments
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by vtail 16y ago
It would be interesting to see the absolute numbers i.e. how many unique visitors have come to your blog entry from HN's front page.
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by vtail 16y ago
Assuming both parties are using Mac OS X, you can try iChat screen sharing. It's awesome: you have a voice chat + ability for both parties to share and operate the screen.

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