MMXII

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by MMXII 13y ago
Why does it matter what the majority of people think?
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by MMXII 13y ago
One of the biggest strengths of gchat is the integration with gmail, and why they have so much traction. It makes less sense to chat on a free service that no one is using, but maybe some people will use it if there were a DDG email service
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by MMXII 13y ago
Seems to me that the kid has connections if you look at investors and business partners. Maybe those partners wouldn't have wanted to collaborate with Yahoo, but now they'd consider it for 30M.
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by MMXII 14y ago
Efficiency only makes sense as a concept if you establish the context it's measured in. Geeks tend to fixate on efficiency in the time/cost dimension, but there are many other dimensions in which something can be efficient. And efficiency i
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by MMXII 14y ago
I can't imagine wealthy bike owners actually riding them in the cities for health reasons. The air condition in the cities is extremely poor, and riding a bike would probably do more harm than good to your body.
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by MMXII 14y ago
I think the idea of looking for a leader is poorly constructed. Different tasks can be approached with different structures, which also depends on the composition of the group. The kind of person to lead (or not to lead) the group effective
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by MMXII 14y ago
Have you worked through the entire context of this approach? There was little reason for an 3rd party developer to spend resources to produce a Mac/Linux port during Windows' heyday. Except as a labor of love. But Apple doesn't own 90% mar
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by MMXII 14y ago
No, this is price discrimination. There are _some_ people willing to pay more to have it. It doesn't represent that the aggregate demand is at this price.
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by MMXII 14y ago
The reality of things is that there are no rules.
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by MMXII 14y ago
That's exactly what I mean by slip through their fingers. It would be like Valve not picking CS. With Blizzard's considerable resources and, as they claim, freedom, they should have gone after hiring Icefrog and getting DOTA. If it's not in
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by MMXII 14y ago
It's an incredible marketing message that may or may not be in line with what actually goes on internally. Is it believable that they have more freedom to scrap, or extend projects? Certainly. But are there are also external forces to devel