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ajc-sorin

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    Comment #15403527

    A quick glance at Twitter's 2016 Annual report: 2016 Revenue: 2.5B 2015 Revenue: 2.2B 2014 Revenue: 1.4B 2013 Revenue: 660m In the past 2 years, Revenue almost doubled. Over 700m g…

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    Ask HN: How do you compare engineers?

    What metrics do you or your firm use to compare employee productivity/effectiveness? What metrics would you use if you ran a company?

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    Ask HN: How would you fund Firefox while preserving user privacy?

    I saw a lot of disappointment regarding Mozilla's recent proposal to collect user data, but I'm interested in seeing alternative ways for them fund innovation and development in th…

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    Comment #15072364

    I think he's saying that not having an opt-in/out feature would show FF's dedication towards privacy, but if they are going to have an Opt-feature, Opt-in is better than opt-out.

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    Comment #15066663

    I know most people on this aren't a fan of the subreddit /r/The_Donald, but there is a tremendous push on that sub for people to use alternatives to major tech giants. Google, Face…

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    Ask HN: What specs do you have for your Linux PCs, and what distro do you run?

    Feel free to expand on why you chose that specific distro/specifications.

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    Comment #15064379

    It'd be more accurate to state "dozens of industries fail to adapt to the needs of Milennials." Businesses serve consumers - not the other way around. Perhaps if businesses realize…

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    Comment #14745168

    I came here to mention this, but thank you for doing so already - and providing sources! One thing I would suggest you may want to add for clarification: certain agents of corporat…

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    Comment #14736971

    Because it's super easy to buy and hold Bitcoin, if it becomes more popular the value of mining rigs will increase. Right now, there's probably no material difference between buyin…

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    Comment #14721798

    The seemingly lack of intelligence isn't due to them being ineffective, but rather being effective at a task you weren't necessarily evaluating. The key difference between marketin…

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    Comment #14649434

    On a slight tangent, I find it interesting the contrast the author paints between poetry and math. Perhaps it was unintentional, but it saddens me to hear or read people discuss ma…

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    Ask HN: How much 'slower' do ads make the internet?

    Is there a way to measure the speed loss when a website moves from having no ads to having ads?

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    Comment #14563593

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Obvious

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    Comment #14454067

    This is really valuable insight. Thank you for sharing this! If you don't mind me asking, did you apply this approach to specific programming languages? I'm curious which ones you …

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    Comment #14424826

    Unfortunately no. All we have right now is the highest "levels of confidence" from our major intelligence agencies with their belief that Russian-promoted hacking agencies hacked t…

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