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Amazon is experiencing tons of growth right now, the last thing they want to do is keep having to rehire associate workers. If you are good, there is no reason why they should fire…

I also learned Eric is a smarmy liar who dresses up what's good for him (and his pocketbook) in ludicrous claims that he's doing it for me, and the good of the people! And because …

Another stupid post about fb and their business without mentioning the fb ad exchange? I'm having trouble understanding how Dalton isn't misinforming his audience. Read this for wh…

You can go far in life by following a very successful boss. And there may well be more promotion opportunities / more responsibility available at yahoo under Marissa than staying a…

He could pay a pound extra to see if his algorithm is correct...

I bet your prediction is wrong. I've expanded on it elsewhere, but fb is sitting on a couple enormous businesses. 1 - they can launch the first serious adsense ($10B/year pre tac) …

.02 from someone who does data analysis / ML and has an undergrad in math: A math undergrad is a nearly total waste of time. If you want to do data analysis, learn to do data analy…

Plus externally monetized by the hardware you have to buy.

It's worse than that; it's not just no recurring revenue. Sparrow is stupid cheap. Comparable software such as eudora cost $50 - $100 in the late 90s. Compare to $7 for the mac app…

The app store for ios has exerted massive negative price pressure on apps, including creating a norm of free or $1 apps. I know it's basic psychology, but it still amazes me that t…

Worse yet, say someone looked at sparrow dying and wanted to clone it, because it looks like there's a business there. Now they'll be pinched by people being cheap as shit on the u…

Remember that msft sold Avenue A/Razorfish [1] to Publicis for $530mm, plus IIRC something on the order of a billion dollars of guaranteed purchases of msft display inventory ([2] …

Dude, whatever you think of Ballmer, he started as the first business manager at msft in 1980 and worked there in roles of increasing responsibility until he was made ceo in 2000. …

That must be part of the reason apple built iwork. And there would probably be antitrust issues if ms used their near monopoly in office productivity software to aid their declinin…

on-demand doesn't matter. If lots of your infrastructure is in ec2, you may need a good db server inside ec2 that is used constantly. eg if you have a read heavy cassandra workload…

431 words without the word "probability" or "likelihood". And his examples of getting rich as an employee are ... ballmer and marissa mayer. I can't believe he forgot the employees…

yeah, unless the app is only useful in canada somehow, what about revenue from other countries?

I misunderstood. In that case, yes, I totally agree. I'd suggest whole disk encryption but users will hate it, since if they forget their password the data is really gone. For real…

You can easily exclude folders or disks from spotlight indexing. System Preferences -> Spotlight -> privacy tab to overwrite then delete the spotlight indices, disable spotlight th…

I tend to agree with you, but you can do things to change this. Take up snowboarding as a hobby; it seems to require a decent amount of income but you'll learn there's a leisure cl…

Their product is sandwiched between instapaper, readability, and evernote. Evernote premium is only $45/year which is a tough price ceiling for a service which seemed to do much le…

I wonder if this was due to criticism, or cities and companies that have epeat requirements for purchasing. San Francisco officials told the Journal this week that "they are moving…

Apparently implicitly lying to your viewers and directing them to a site that benefits you without mentioning that is ethical to you. In contrast, I view it as unethical. Ethical: …

Are you unaware that digg was a startup and that employees were given options / equity as compensation? It doesn't bother you that someone in particular got a return on that (suppo…