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by flinty 9y ago
It's interesting how Facebook has such a keen eye to spot the next pivot and move their giant ship inch by inch methodically in the right direction. They did it with newsfeed for the main site, main site to mobile transition(albeit wit
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by flinty 9y ago
There's likely a bunch of factors that go into it. Might even be a score that is updated based on your purchase, return history, length of having a prime membership, amount spent on amazon etc.
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by flinty 9y ago
especially the disconnected last line thrown in
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by flinty 9y ago
yep, marketing turns a commodity into something cherished and desired. Literally everything is a commodity unless marketing has put gloss on it
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by flinty 9y ago
All about leverage points. Being the middleman is a great leverage point on the internet - fb, amazon, google.
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by flinty 9y ago
Its sad how very few if any news orgs will mention his recent loss of his mother and serious injuries to his father in a boat accident as a potential cause for taking a leave of absence.
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by flinty 9y ago
http://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpr... Another notch in the history of Chinese/foreign labor doing great things to improve american lives :) >Winter 1866-1867: One of the hars
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by flinty 9y ago
The verge usually does a 10 minute summary video covering the big announcements minus the annoying attempts at humor and banter
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by flinty 9y ago
Shots for each time they said platform in the keynote will get you alcohol poisoning
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by flinty 9y ago
Nope, they made a box
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by flinty 9y ago
Isn't he the guy from the hello internet podcast?
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by flinty 10y ago
Is this in response to the bloomberg article on how the new CFO over the past year has been cutting moonshots?
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by flinty 10y ago
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. Short(shorter than usualy for Google) term financial motives kill any far fetched ideas from ever having a chance. Wall Street demands up and to the right movement every 3 months. Companies like Microsoft
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by flinty 10y ago
any inspiration from hypercard for the original name?
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by flinty 10y ago
i would love it if he writes more :D
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by flinty 10y ago
you are forgetting by the time this becomes a reality we would have all become perfect human beings with perfect ethics and morals and social responsibility just the way silicon valley has always intended and designed every product for
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by flinty 10y ago
Walmartification continues, except with Amazon. Amazonification I guess
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by flinty 10y ago
welcome to costco, i love you
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by flinty 10y ago
This sounds conceptually similar to how teaching CS or teaching programming to some one later in life focusses on algorithms data structures and other "inside baseball" concepts rather than asking them what is something you would
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by flinty 10y ago
I have a similar situation. I had created an account just for a specific client to share files via google drive. Don't remember the password any more and can't access those files. No recourse.
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by flinty 10y ago
So if you were to build a time machine and go back to 2004 and told some one the following, which do you think they will believe: Microsoft joins Linux foundation and has a seat on the board Google joins .NET foundation Trump is president o
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by flinty 10y ago
Any good sources to read and learn more about this form of advertising? Thanks
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by flinty 10y ago
The music to code by series from the dotnetrocks guys is real good too
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by flinty 10y ago
feel strangely emotional about the end of the mission :(
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by flinty 10y ago
Agreed 100%. Same was the case with Google maps download for offline use. They added that feature after a lot of feet dragging.
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by flinty 10y ago
Interesting. I see the same thing on safari. Another interesting thing is most of the ads are also in the top 10 of the organic results.
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by flinty 10y ago
Good points. I think the author of the article makes similar points to yours towards the end of the article.
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by flinty 10y ago
Empathizing, giving people the benefit of doubt and assuming good intentions.
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by flinty 10y ago
The author isn't in an engineering role. The tools listed in the article seem more centered around collaboration between a project/product manager and engineers versus between an engineering team. Hence no mention of git/sour
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by flinty 10y ago
What city? Thinking about moving from the northeast. Trying to figure out some options.

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