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again with this? jobs was never ceo of pixar...
Hm, Pixar wiki says this: Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios. A business magnate and inventor, he was the former CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios.
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# wc -m Last I checked; thought leaders don't convey their thoughts in 140 characters or less. Nothing of really value is that short. Sorry. 133
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EDIT: It appears to be part of POSIX wc.
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As a non-twitter-using software engineer, when I land on a twitter page, I still find it fairly intimidating and requiring special knowledge. For example, why is there a dot before the @ in your example? (I actually know the answer to that because I looked it up once, but it's totally not obvious.) What's with all the slashes in numbered lists? Because of the character limit, people use a lot of abbreviations and sho…
I agree that the @ at the beginning or the @ in the middle is a problem. here is my opinion Jack if you are reading. Every tweet needs some extra field when you are creating them. * to: field like email. A list of people or "everybody" * body: 140 characters. * tags: relevant tags so that your tween can be found by non followers interested in a specific topic. * url: seperate url so as not to use up your 140 chars. N…
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> The problem that you need a unique app to interact with every single service out there. This is not an actual problem. And to the extent that it is 140 characters of text doesn't come close to fixing it. And in the unlikely event that it did why wouldn't SMS do the same thing without having to bring some random third party company into the mix and have both parties at their mercy for zero value added?
This is not an actual problem. We disagree there. It's annoyance waiting to be solved. Here's a hypothetical, realistic interaction, and as a bonus, one that isn't any less useful due to the length limit: >>@friend: Want to catch lunch today? @friend: Sure, I'll set that up. Cya there! @restaurant Reserve a table for 2 at noon for Karunamon >>@restaurant: Confirmed, we'll see you at noon! @traffic: How's the traffic…
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"because i'm so special i'll only work 6 hours a day, 4 days a week, 1 week a month" generally curious, where did you read about Dorsey having this mindset?
There have been lots of articles mentioning Dorsey taking sewing classes, sketching classes, going sailing, etc while running Twitter. (And in moments that outsiders consider crises, and employees were working longer hours to hit deadlines). The 6/4/1 is an exaggeration, but still...
Dorsey often tried to act as if he were in control, posturing that his actions were all part of a bigger plan, but employees saw him frequently pacing in frustration around South Park. He also habitually left around 6 p.m. for drawing classes, hot yoga sessions and a course at a local fashion school. (He wanted to learn to make an A-line skirt and, eventually, jeans.)
I think using twitter as a platform for ordering things etc. would be something he could do to make money. They should open it up to developers and charge them for cool apps.
What if you created a website that no matter how hard you try, you can never make enough money to justify it's insane valuation? You hire the guy that created it. If that fails years down the road, hire a blonde.
Chaikovsky is a great musician/composer/genius, but people prefer M. Cyrus obviously!
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The original comment expressly states a "non-scaling" version of twitter...what is so hard about that? this sub=thread then clearly illustrates what "non-scaling" means and doesn't mean. smh
The poster was stating that writing Twitter was easy, anyone can do it, the only thing Twitter really has going for it are the network effects of having a huge user base and lots of visibility. I do think that Twitter's biggest asset are the network effects that it currently enjoys, but I don't think that it would be trivial to recreate what they've done in order to create a Twitter competitor. It's not insurmountabl…
I fail to see where I am dismissing the accomplishments of the Twitter engineers in pointing out that creating, what is essentially, a RSS feed with a 140 character limit over a weekend would be difficult.
I believe you are complaining over something no one has stated.
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This is not an actual problem. We disagree there. It's annoyance waiting to be solved. Here's a hypothetical, realistic interaction, and as a bonus, one that isn't any less useful due to the length limit: >>@friend: Want to catch lunch today? @friend: Sure, I'll set that up. Cya there! @restaurant Reserve a table for 2 at noon for Karunamon >>@restaurant: Confirmed, we'll see you at noon! @traffic: How's the traffic…
You've just described the future of Siri, not the future of Twitter.