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by zaidf 6y ago
...because they didn't have a killer app that could focus their efforts This is easy to assume but a far more common reason companies go broad is that it makes it much easier to sell big vision and big dreams. Most investors in mag
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by zaidf 6y ago
Excess supply gave the world AWS (abt 15 years ago)
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by zaidf 6y ago
Stanford should completely retract that study. It has produced far more misleading interpretations than anything useful.
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by zaidf 6y ago
To be fair, shelter at home not appearing impactful earlier on had as much to do with testing capacity ramping up + delayed results. If you’re massively undertesting, even if new infections are decreasing, you’ll likely see growing rate of
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by zaidf 6y ago
I believe California has done an amazing job so far on the whole; “fair” would be a gross understatement. So I think we are in agreement there. That said, I do think as new casualties and hospitalizations are on the decline, test reporting
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by zaidf 6y ago
For everyone who has tracked California’s response over the past month (the good and the bad), the #1 problem is obvious: a) California’s testing and reporting infrastructure is absolutely abysmal, arguably the worst in the country b) the
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by zaidf 7y ago
Yeah the narrative that it will peak in the Bay Area in June makes very little sense to me. Even ppl on the front lines are saying otherwise: https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1245536549757841409?s...
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by zaidf 7y ago
I think QC 35s are better than 700s. The 700s are less portable (can’t fold and put it in my jacket) and contrary to how Bose positions it (that they’re more modern), they look more like call center headphones.
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by zaidf 7y ago
“one sick per household and they infect the whole house“ This happened repeatedly in China; in fact, the nature of a lockdown sort of encourages this. But an infected household of 5 ppl is significantly easier to contain than 1 infected per
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by zaidf 7y ago
I’d expect amazon to email you a receipt with an easy way to dispute payments. I realize this is not the same as seeing the aggregate cost at the time of purchase but I’m skeptical this alone will create lots of friction in ppl adopting thi
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by zaidf 7y ago
“We're letting billionaires buy the election“ If anything, I think Bloomberg may prove you can’t literally buy an election.
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by zaidf 7y ago
A typical independent podcast with small-medium viewership really struggles to monetize. It’s great if things in the German podcast scene are different than rest of the world, enabling German podcasts to make more from donations than Spotif
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by zaidf 7y ago
My middle school (late 90s) in Savannah, GA required clear backpacks though I think the main concern was students concealing drugs.
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by zaidf 7y ago
When Microsoft got busted for being anti-competitive, you could still download Netscape Navigator and use it.
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by zaidf 7y ago
I’ve been thinking that SaaS companies that provide JS code to embed could work around this by letting you attach a subdomain; so instead Of the js pointing to say adroll.com, it would point to ads.adrollcustomer.com (with dns set up to got
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by zaidf 7y ago
Also: Apple.
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by zaidf 8y ago
But the difference is both of them can be circumvented by competitors If the App Store could be circumvented as easily, Spotify probably wouldn't be raising this issue to begin with.
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by zaidf 8y ago
> Spotify wouldn’t be the business they are today without the App Store ecosystem, Apple makes Microsoft look like an angel. Using this argument, Microsoft could claim they could have made hundreds of billions if they got a cut out of ev
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by zaidf 8y ago
I think Apple is going to find itself standing alone by the time the dust settles on this issue. Their 30% tax is a disservice to its own customers, not just app publishers. Apple tries to counter that the problem is Spotify . It's S
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by zaidf 8y ago
Underneath the rhetoric, Spotify’s aim is to make more money off others’ work. Wow. It is astonishing to read this from a company being widely accused of an unfair 30% tax. Correction: the revenue share is 15%, it was originally 30%
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by zaidf 8y ago
Lots of SaaS companies have a “sign up with google” button which gives them access to the employee directory assuming your org uses google suite. It’s unfortunate yesteryear’s shit growth hack for consumer apps is reappearing in a worse way
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by zaidf 8y ago
I’d just be happy if Google made it harder for third parties implementing “login with google” to not get access to your entire org’s user list (when the org uses gsuite.)
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by zaidf 8y ago
I don't think this is intentional but fake reviews could be helping amazon's ad business (one of the fastest growing units within amazon). Here's what I've observed: 1. Mom-and-mom brand buys fake reviews 2. Mom-and-mom
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by zaidf 8y ago
This is horrible reporting if by “record” they mean “log meta data like swipe coordinates and recreate it.” That is not the same as record.
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by zaidf 8y ago
Suggestion: in your example, clearly show what you’re inputting (including contents of the input file/folder), then in the end, clearly show what is outputted with a link to the output file.
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by zaidf 8y ago
When I do my deduction, you don't see me trying to make it look like going to the restaurant with my kids is a business expense. It would be possible to argue... In your example, while you can certainly argue that, I’d say there’s a
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by zaidf 8y ago
I could not disagree more. It requires 5+ taps and just as many obscure screens to cancel a subscription to an iOS app. If Apple were really serious, they would have an app called Subscriptions.
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by zaidf 8y ago
This needs to goto the Supreme Court, hopefully sooner rather than later.
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by zaidf 8y ago
I don't hear this argument against other forms of entertainment. No one says "Lebron James makes millions by wasting billions of hours of ppl's time watching him play on TV."
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by zaidf 8y ago
Little known fact: a lot of the Apple Connect was outsourced to Infosys in India. That is how important Apple thinks developers are to them.

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