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100%. A lot of these things were set in motion under Ballmer and he tee'd it up for Satya. That doesn't excuse Ballmer's missteps and of course Satya deserves credit for a lot of t…

> Amazon's goal is to kill off traditional retail, as far as I can tell. Then why are they opening up bookstores?

Seems for them the cost (financially and in terms of overhead) of building that team vs. buying a very experienced one was not worth it. They almost have ~$300 billion just sitting…

Doesn't Instagram use the same approach on their Stories Camera on Android? Seems more of an issue with Android Camera performance/APIs than an engineering critique.

>15 years ago he put his hand on a woman's knee? It seems like he has a history of groping women. I'm not sure why anyone should put energy into defending that behavior.

> Also, I'm fairly sure that Apple also sells data. Can you point to a source that shows this? This sounds like a lie to me.

Calculating these metrics at scale is not trivial.

They don't seem to have a teardown of the latest MacBook Pros, but looking at the MacBook, it looks like they are heading in the same direction. https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Retin…

I'm not making that assumption. The only assumption I'm making is that the parent is a male, which is based on Hacker News demographic and the type of person who usually makes thes…

>[As a man], I have zero problems with this and am actually a little salty I spent the time to type this reply about a non-story. Added additional context to your statement. Why is…

I think everyone would agree the leaker should be more cautious, but The Intercept should also know best practices too around printed materials too.

Black Lives Matter isn't a single person.

Charts like this always get brought up, but I'm not sure there is much rigor in creating them.

I still use Gchat over Hangouts because it's nice seeing my contacts list sorted by who is online, as opposed being ordered by recency of last communication. So many of my Gchat co…

You used to (maybe still) couldn't watch Apple Keynote presentations on any other browser than Safari.

From the article >“Amazon wants to be the first thing any consumer thinks of when they need to buy anything,” said Jim Hertel, a senior vice president at marketing technology compa…

> A damning report published by The Information on Thursday revealed that Facebook has been struggling to reverse a 21% decline in “original sharing,” or personal updates, from its…

>I care more about a good story... Which is why I stopped watching Mr. Robot at the beginning of season 2. I just didn't care about the characters or story any more...Personally, i…

>There is no right or wrong way to vote for third parties. Sure, I agree with you. However, if your goal is to make third parties viable long-term in Presidential elections and not…

If you really care about improving the viability of third parties in this country, please do that in local and state elections where it is actually possible to elect third parties.…

Isn't Facebook still growing?

There's probably a lot more changes than you realize. I can only assume given your comments you've never worked on problems like this. There's so many benefits you can get from wri…

Yelp reviews for ethnic food and fine dining are usually pretty poor in my opinion and also have similar issues as food critics. Also why would I care about the masses opinion on f…

Nope, Obama and his DoJ have made criminal justice reform part of their platform.

I think it's more depressing that the people advocating for the rules are looking to disproportionately affect the poor and/or minorities. The goal isn't reduced voter fraud. Its t…