hullo

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by hullo 6mo ago
This is a good example of something that sounds true but is actually not. Private equity put Borders out of business (famously). Barnes & Noble is now private but by all reports (still) doing fine. There are more independent bookstore
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AlphaOne: Reasoning Models Thinking Slow and Fast at Test Time(alphaone-project.github.io)
3 points by hullo 1y ago|0 comments
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You Should Take Event Sourcing More Seriously(brianguthrie.com)
2 points by hullo 1y ago|0 comments
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by hullo 2y ago
original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511
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by hullo 2y ago
Have they ever had a public meeting? So basically they had a meeting, and someone is guessing what they may have talked about?
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Monitoring Linux Audit(engineering.teacherspayteachers.com)
4 points by hullo 5y ago|0 comments
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by hullo 5y ago
If true, an interesting move; failing to account for the possibility of the iPad dominating the tablet market essentially sunk Peloton President William Lynch's run at Barnes & Noble when they invested too heavily in the productio
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by hullo 9y ago
I am a tech worker raising my family in Brooklyn and it's quite lovely. Expensive, yes, but lovely. Whether you find it a "rat race" of a lifestyle or not is much more dependent on your internal psychology than the city itsel
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by hullo 9y ago
Snap is not a part of Facebook, they're independent and looking to go public.
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by hullo 10y ago
I would be surprised if the largest affiliates don't have the ability to negotiate fees beyond what is included in the public schedule...
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by hullo 10y ago
I was personally expecting a piece about a baffling resurgence in the use of ICQ.
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by hullo 10y ago
"Hi I just got something for free and I'd like the opportunity to complain about it now." I mean he said there are no plans to shut it down. What timeframe? You want a promise that for X years you'll continue to receiv
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by hullo 10y ago
No, you're limited to the choices the app developer presents to you, and Google Photos presents Always, which you can reject to get Never. I hadn't even known it was an option previously, as they're the only app I have (had i
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by hullo 10y ago
Google Photos for iOS is horrible about this - there are only two location settings, (1) no location services or (2) always on. The sensible default would of course be (3) on while I'm using this app. There's absolutely no reaso
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by hullo 10y ago
Title has been editorialized, there's nothing in the article supporting the idea that hedge funds love Hillary. Yes she & super pacs supporting her have received the most (well-outpaced, collectively, by Trump's rivals), but
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by hullo 10y ago
The level of attention that these stories about Mayer attract is kind of sad, and really not fair. The big jump in the "payday" that the article teases is the possibility that Mayer will sell already-granted stock. i.e. Not new c
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by hullo 10y ago
I think it comes down to how you define "a huge amount in sales". Let's optimistically say they lose 1% of sales over a 4 hour period although it could certainly be much higher. Is 1% of Amazon's sales a huge amount fo
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by hullo 10y ago
I also don't see the warning. Toss your domains into Google webmaster central if you haven't, it'll give you info if it actually arises (and is just generally a good practice.)
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by hullo 10y ago
"With just 3 games, Supercell made $924M in profits on $2.3B in revenue in 2015" http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/09/with-just-3-games-supercel...
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by hullo 10y ago
Completely deliberate. As others pointed out, they've already been doing it, on less popular products that caused no backlash. It's there in the article up top, pre roll-back: UPDATE: Amazon has provided VideoGamer.com with the
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Apple’s Organizational Crossroads(stratechery.com)
176 points by hullo 10y ago|36 comments
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by hullo 10y ago
They are not all that good. As he says himself, not even their other funds are as good as the 2004.
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by hullo 10y ago
if it wasn't explicitly tied to his salary, he could also have income independent of his tenure there, either earned or inherited. it does happen.
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by hullo 11y ago
Not an Amazonian, but everything I've ever read about their comp culture has said that stock is heavily valued/weighted, so there's a selection bias there in that anyone who's seriously considered them should know it goi
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by hullo 11y ago
I think you're not doing the math on the stock (which is currently over $550). e.g. $73k base + $21k bonus + $57k stock = $151k for an engineer in their second year (no info about previous experience). Absent a lot of other context i
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by hullo 11y ago
Literally hundreds of millions of people. McDonalds alone has 62 million followers on Facebook. If half of the people on Facebook or Twitter follow a brand, that's over a half billion.
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What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes(observer.com)
454 points by hullo 11y ago|91 comments
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by hullo 11y ago
Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun) is great and a common recommendation along these lines. Ishiguro's The Buried Giant from last year asks to be described as Literary Fiction with a fantasy setting. But chasing down "If you liked Ge
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by hullo 11y ago
BN hasn't invested in 3D printing. There is one model of cheap 3D printer sold in stores, which is of course not actually produced by BN. Next time you're in ask how many they're holding in inventory, and you'll find it
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by hullo 11y ago
Barnes & Noble is in no danger of going out of business. Even when Borders went kaput there was a long warning, and that was a very differently run kind of business (although eerily on point for this topic, as it was run into the groun

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