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by whopa 16y ago
There's a lot of CPAN activity, but my impression is that a lot of it seems confined to only a handful of problem domains. There's tons of choice with date libraries, or OO frameworks, or unit test frameworks, but other languages have solut
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by whopa 16y ago
One success could mean you got lucky, more than one is meaningful. Blogger is Evan Williams' only business success; if Twitter actually makes enough money to justify the amount of money invested, that would be meaningful. I think it's too e
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by whopa 16y ago
They also raised $200M in May 2009.
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by whopa 16y ago
In the past few years, the vast majority of commits to core browser code is by Mozilla paid staff. They mostly ignore outside contributors at that level.
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by whopa 16y ago
Tabs aren't threaded in Mozilla. All tabs are managed by a single thread, and are cooperatively multitasked. And it sucks, since for example, one webpage doing a frequent setTimeout can adversely affect others. They've talked about moving t
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by whopa 16y ago
Don't fall for the Mozilla marketing. Mozilla has >200 people on staff, and the vast majority of actual browser development is done by Mozilla staff. Getting Mozilla to actually respond to any external development community questions an
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by whopa 16y ago
So the legal ramifications of using GrooveShark are still unknown for the most part, contrary to what iamdave said.
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by whopa 16y ago
I feel like you missed listing a big change: with the rise of UGC sites, the boosting of results of anything on an "important" domain doesn't seem valid anymore. Just because something is on twitter.com doesn't mean it's highly relevant, si
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by whopa 16y ago
Where's the source for the other labels doing a deal? The source you linked only talks about EMI, and a cursory glance around the web doesn't find anything to corroborate other labels doing any deals.
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by whopa 16y ago
Brand advertising efficacy is notoriously hard to measure. Where does the data come from to support the notion that FB excels at it?
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by whopa 17y ago
No, they were not better than the closed source alternatives for most businesses. They were cheaper. Cheaper trumps better often. Cheaper drove adoption.
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by whopa 17y ago
> I don't recall either gaining any traction until they were better in some way, either for developers or implementors. No, when they got traction was before they were better, but after they were good enough, which means you could run y
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by whopa 17y ago
Gruber ignoring cost when it's often one of the strongest benefits that fall out of openness strikes me as disingenuous. And yeah, cheap doesn't always win if it really sucks. You could make an argument that Theora sucks that bad, especiall
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by whopa 17y ago
As the parent said, e.g. MySQL and Linux weren't as good or better than the closed alternatives when they gained traction. They were however cheaper, and open often has the quality of cheaper, since it's often simply free. Cheaper often w
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by whopa 17y ago
All but the last 3 can't be used during take off and landing, and the last 3 all existed before airline magazines. There's still an audience there.
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by whopa 17y ago
To a point. It never hit the mainstream in a big way.
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by whopa 17y ago
Rapper mentions and urban demographics didn't save the T-Mobile Sidekick. I don't think it's a meaningful indicator of larger things.
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by whopa 17y ago
> The iPhone already supports that kind of multitasking (Phone app, iPod app, Voice Memo app) but only Apple can use it. I see no reason why they wouldn’t extend that to all developers sooner or later. I see a reason. Apple may want to
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by whopa 17y ago
In my experience, Yelp's open hours data is inaccurate often enough to be entirely untrustworthy.
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by whopa 17y ago
Bing being merely as good as Google means the Bing team haven't done enough. That means they have to compete on brand, and that's really hard since Google has a stronger brand. Yahoo's search results have been on par with Google for most pe
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by whopa 17y ago
That's raw API traffic, not user numbers. An app that polls Twitter every minute is of course going to generate a lot of requests. But if only 10% of Twitter users use 3rd party apps, the web metrics are still more meaningful than API use.
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by whopa 17y ago
Google developed Chrome because making the web as a viable application platform is in their best interest. They tried working with Mozilla for Firefox 2 development, but realized that Mozilla is a dysfunctional project with questionable lea
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by whopa 17y ago
Where is there concrete evidence that a significant chunk of Twitter users use 3rd party apps? Desktop apps have horrible conversion rates, and I don't see why Twitter apps in particular have any reason to buck this trend. Whenever there ar
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by whopa 17y ago
But you reinforced lukifer's point instead of rebutting it. In the 80s and 90s (pre-OS X), Macs had crappy market share, and when they improved them (OS X timeframe), you saw much more developer interest.
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by whopa 17y ago
They have the Blackberry App World. It's horrible because the platform views the web as an afterthought, so there are no modern APIs for dealing with it. The Java version is ancient as well, and you have ridiculously small system limitation
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by whopa 17y ago
OS X didn't exist in the 80s and 90s.
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by whopa 17y ago
Blackberry is the #1 smartphone, yet the app ecosystem there is pretty dismal. Clearly there is another dynamic at work there, and pure installed base isn't as compelling a factor as it seems. One reason could be that the Blackberry platfor
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by whopa 17y ago
Taco Bell is also pretty successful, and that contradicts the article. Other contradictory examples are Olive Garden and The Cheesecake Factory, both of which have extensive menus and are wildly succesful, the latter also having the same sc
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by whopa 17y ago
> But every In-N-Out I've ever been to has a line out the door. That could also be explained by the fact that there are far less In-N-Out locations than Taco Bell, so one store has to handle demand from over a larger area than Taco Bell
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by whopa 17y ago
Facebook is in the same space as Twitter, but is bigger than Twitter. Why does Twitter deserve more respect than Facebook? Twitter is entirely unproven. It's a big mystery what Twitter's actual user engagement numbers are, so nobody really

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