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throwaway40483
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Comment #23872990
I give you labour. You give me money. GTFO with that family shit.
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Comment #17067453
It's even worse. They already have something called Android One. I'm sure this won't cause any confusion.
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Comment #17067442
This is the reason I think Amazon will end up winning the cloud computing race. Providing support is simply not in Googles DNA.
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Comment #17067421
Ah yes. The good, old Google we all know and love. Introducing yet another confusing name for an existing product.
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Comment #15522096
Not only is formal methods more effective for HW, the incentives are also more tilted towards HW. If you fuck up the HW design, well..you're fucked. With SW, "you can always push o…
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Comment #15520881
>Sometimes I think people on the west coast seem to think of a city as a place that's supposed to stay the same forever ("forever" being defined as starting at about 1960). No, for…
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Comment #15286863
Crazy profitable? They make $7.5M in revenue with 70 engineers (in SF?). Sounds to me like they might actually be losing money.
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Comment #15154882
This would make sense if the other entities were actually making, which they don't. Cut the ties to Google and everything else dies.
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Comment #15065858
The original source can be found at: https://www.paysa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Disrup...
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Comment #14920203
I'm surprised Verizon hasn't "transitioned" these legacy accounts to a "newer, better and faster" ( cough ) accounts.. I presume there are some legal reason why they haven't done s…
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Comment #14612258
Just to be clear. Emil Michael never floated the idea about doing oppo research to her face. This was done during a gathering with some journalists where Ben Smith from Buzzfeed wa…
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Comment #14602490
The only people Infosys discriminates against is people who don't like to be underpaid.
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Comment #14588591
Adding this kind of friction only discourages people with good intentions. It doesn't stop people with not so noble intentions (who are most likely backed with a lot of money)
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Comment #14582069
> They are the Walmart of online shopping; What are you basing this on? Amazon (Prime) customers are way more wealthier than Walmart customers: https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpres…
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Comment #14571296
To this day, I'm still puzzled by the fact that the wage fixing incident didn't blow up in the press. Amazing..
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Comment #14454483
As the article (and you) point out, the datacenter and mobile space is already lost to Intel and ARM respectively. The only path forward is through the IoT space. It's the only are…
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Comment #14429631
This is really a nice visual comparison of Google Maps and Apple Maps over the years. The gist of the article is that Google has deemphasized roads in favor of showing places, e.g.…
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Comment #14418349
I think you're looking at this wrong. It's not that a startup chooses between young/inexperienced/cheap vs old/experienced/expensive. It's that a startup doesn't get to choose beca…
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Comment #14291686
IANAL, but how can this be legal? Aren't they effectively agreeing not to compete? Surely this can't be right?
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Comment #14274772
Yeah. Their biggest purchase is Beats at $3B, which is astonishing low for a corporate giant like Apple. I'm not sure whether this is due to prudence or just NIH syndrome.
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Comment #14274734
To me, Twitter goes against anything stands for. Twitter is like the wild wild west. I really can't imagine how they would fit in with Apples very polished M.O.
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Comment #14239065
There is a word for "right, but too early": wrong
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Comment #14176582
Looks very nice. Too bad there isn't a C API.
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Comment #14113201
No way a foreign company will be allowed to buy Toshiba due to national security concerns. One of domestic players will be to chip in and be partial owner.