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It's important, but not enough. I don't think it's important enough, to buy a super-powerful (future) iphone, for just that, for enough people. Consider PCs: also used for gaming, …

And yet, people buy SSDs even though they could get more memory in a HDD. Because they value speed over capacity. "The Innovator's Dilemma" traces back the disk drive industry, and…

Apple has the technology headroom to keep making more powerful iphones for several more generations... but will it reach a point where people don't need a more powerful phone? (tha…

really like the loading spinner, a fun extrapolation

also: swim, cycle

> 'Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat.' I mean, that just pretty much summarizes anybody who makes something artistic. > "The joy of it is, there was nothing there, and…

I feel we're approaching a resolution. "Dead" is misleading hyperbole - pg emphasises that MS is "highly profitable". His data point is that MS, in his and startups' experience, is…

Also adwords (the product that is actually sold). Brilliant idea: users only see ads relevant to their interests; advertisers get qualified users, and instant feedback and adjustme…

> I already know what the reaction to this essay will be. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that I should be more careful abou…

Why the downvotes? If you look at the stock price over the MAX range, you can see exponential growth until 2000 - then it went sideways. Stock price represents the opinion of inves…

To clarify, I meant stopped growing at its previous rate. I can't find any data further than 10 years old ATM (which is within its mature growth period), but have a look at its sto…

I'm guessing that if the balloon was often scraping ground, and they let gas out, it would be even worse. But the article could have clarified this, and at least spent a little mor…

Astrology is obviously nonsense, but it seems plausible that the season of birth could have a personality effect: the cold dead of winter, with little fresh food vs spring etc, als…

"which has been huge" is the key. Businesses typically grow, mature then decline. Microsoft's revenues had stopped growing. The very basis (PC) of their core franchines (Windows an…

A related way to learn is from git's initial source, which was quite small. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8650483 Warning: the file format has changed slightly.

There was a fad a while back, less popular now, that you need to assert dominance, in raising all dogs. Sounds like it's been nuanced to wolf-like dogs. At least the study shows a …

> TL;DR http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw > This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > …

Yes. Make sure it has a definite end, so the end is in sight. The key is you'll gain a lot of information by doing this: from the work, from the obstacles, from things you notice a…

This reads like science fiction, even unto the name, Trans Time .

Because of the distance involved, it seems satellite phones will always require a much larger battery than cell-tower phones. The other idea, of cheap cell-towers to intermediate t…

I like the traffic lights example, because it demonstrates civil obedience; cooperation with their fellows in society, in general, regardless of their relationship, or agreement on…

The excessive certainly combined with ellipses was meant to imply irony. Essay Time. But DDG + NSA is interesting. Google was attractive to users because it gave them what they wan…

In the big picture, mutually beneficial cooperation works. That's what civilization is, and why we still have it. What we consider sociopathic is often highly cooperative, in an ab…

What will they use the money for? If they're not expanding, and are profitable (and so don't need to cover running costs), I can only guess at retiring founder debt.