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Yet he did still launch Vision Pro.

If you search for them on LinkedIn, it's a small team of ~5 outside of Silicon Valley (Austin, Spain, Norway). I'm sure they're doing quite well but even if they were doing just ok…

I enjoyed this program a lot as a kid. It had a very strange interface I found inefficient but the documents you could create were animated and fun. Sounds like Microsoft had enoug…

It might be a fad, but the current trend in US public aviation is increasing premium cabins and premium revenue: https://simpleflying.com/why-us-carriers-doubling-down-premi... Thi…

I remember it was controversial and "the beginning of the end" when you no longer had to host at a 4-digit number and could, gasp, use a string for your URL: www.geocities.com/mywe…

Your story reminds me of when Microsoft acquired Hotmail in the '90s and they tried migrating from FreeBSD & Solaris onto Windows NT/IIS. Having the world's largest email service r…

We're well past 2016, but Stratechery had an opinion that Dropbox focused too much on infrastructure projects like this and would have had more success focused on improving product…

Very different from the airline industry which still honors lifetime flight and lounge passes sold decades ago. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/20/mark-cuban-bought-an-america...

The immediate catalyst was the EU, but this is likely what Apple wanted all along by launching ATT and running all its PR about privacy. Users pay instead of advertisers, and Apple…

I interned on Encarta one summer shortly before the fall, and 11 years ago I wrote a Quora answer about why I think it failed, which amusingly still gets upvotes: https://qr.ae/pK2…

The article touches a little on flight costs, but as someone who'd love to visit sometime and never has, it annoys me how flights to Guam work. Given its location most airlines don…

Berkshire's history pre-Warren isn't that noteworthy: Berkshire is known to be one of Warren Buffett's worst investments. The Berkshire textile company agreed to sell to Warren, bu…

Isn't Facebook API access what led directly to Cambridge Analytica?

It's possible the sketchiness is caused by a restaurant's competitors (writing negative reviews, falsely flagging positive reviews, spamming) rather than Yelp proper.

Facebook's North America revenue is around $50 a quarter per user ("ARPU"), which is ~$15/month. You'd have to charge quite a bit to clear that, given most users won't pay. (Plus 3…

Not sure if it's the case with Shopify, but at big companies I've seen agreements with regulatory bodies and court legal holds that require the company certify that it's retained e…

You mean 4? The second kid's name was used for MaxDB, which is used in the SAP world. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius

I've often heard Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore cited as an example. As usual, there's a Wikipedia article listing some others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship

Examples: (1) One reason SVB did well is it understood startups. If your startup just raised a large round and needed a small loan, you were more than good for the money, but most …

While not trivial, the problem of remembering to free everything is slightly simpler when you don't have to worry about exceptions.

I have computer-literate parents and grew up in the PC era, so as a child I typed my elementary school assignments in vi. Accidentally using :X, encrypting one of my school papers,…

I went as a kid and remember it as one of the most fun moments of my life. I remember being able to do whatever I wanted. I was binge-reading some weeks, playing with fun toys with…