gruntled

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by gruntled 2y ago
Maybe, like Schrodinger’s cat, we can all just avoid looking at Google Quantum AI and it will stay in a superposition of dead and alive.
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by gruntled 3y ago
Perl is the only way to go for serious CGI scripts. It’s so powerful, Python is limited and clunky by comparison. And a new language with syntactically important whitespace? Seriously? It will never displace Perl!
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by gruntled 10y ago
Glad I scrolled down far enough to find this comment
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by gruntled 10y ago
If that's the case, if Google could cause massive disruption by pulling out of the EU, they have effectively monopoly power in that market. So if that's the case, the suit is anything but disingenuous.
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by gruntled 11y ago
Misleading headline: most people don't install an app every month, but what about the apps they already have on their phone? Edit: it's misleading because the article actually says 65% of smartphone users download zero apps in an
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by gruntled 11y ago
A PE of 60 is very high. A very rough rule is that the PEG (PE to Growth, where growth is earnings growth in percent) should be about 1.0. So a PE of 60 means the market is expecting very approximately 60% year on year growth.
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by gruntled 11y ago
Maybe they're both overvalued?
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by gruntled 11y ago
Warren Buffett looks for investments with an economic moat around their economic castle. If a startup could get close to doing that much damage to Facebook, maybe Facebook's business isn't very defensible.
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by gruntled 11y ago
I understood the article, thanks. I'm just not convinced. The debate hinges on this: is UX a special basis of competition that can't be disrupted? Will consumers pay a premium for better UX forever? Will the cheaper alternative
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by gruntled 11y ago
But it isn't his money: VC funds raise money from other investors (aka limited partners). It's like asking a banker or hedge fund manager if there's a stock market bubble. They won't say yes because if investors pull
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by gruntled 11y ago
Worse, Facebook makes a lot of mobile advertising money from app install ads. If startup investors cut back the flow of money, that advertising revenue dries up. There will be a glut of unemployed developers just as Facebook starts reporti
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Low-End Disruption in Consumer Markets(tech-thoughts.net)
1 points by gruntled 11y ago|0 comments
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by gruntled 11y ago
That's exactly what you would expect if a "low end disruption" is just getting started. The low-cost disruptor picks off some but not all of the market, and doesn't immediately compete for the most attractive customers
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by gruntled 12y ago
But it rules out other kinds of tricks like storing info in file names. If all the metadata is counted in the length of the tar file, these tricks don't stand a chance. There's way more than 1 byte of overhead per file in the fil
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by gruntled 12y ago
Or insisted it was a single file, tar files allowed.
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by gruntled 12y ago
Luxury isn't necessarily crazy, it can be rational economic signaling: http://www.joshuakennon.com/mental-model-veblen-goods/
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by gruntled 12y ago
If anyone can build a big enough quantum computer (enough qubits) and prevent it decohering (that is, keeping it quantum long enough) to run Shor's algorithm, standard public key crypto like RSA would be broken. That has been known in
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by gruntled 12y ago
Ed! You was lucky to 'ave ed! In my day all we 'ad was a magnetized needle and a very steady hand!