longarm

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How Facebook Gets Away With Being Broken On Purpose(betabeat.com)
101 points by longarm 14y ago|75 comments
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A Smart Investor Would Skip the M.B.A.(online.wsj.com)
9 points by longarm 14y ago|0 comments
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by longarm 14y ago
As far as I know it's more of an editorially curated thing right now.
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by longarm 14y ago
Ahh yes, he killed the infamous stylus suggestion for the iPad
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by longarm 14y ago
And the iPhone is a bigger business than ALL of Microsoft's offerings combined Per Vanity Fair: "Exhibit A: today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft. No, really. One Apple product, something that didn’t exist f
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by longarm 14y ago
Huge only in the sense that a billion dollars is a lot regular people...Apple spends a fraction of what its competitors spend. Plus up until 2011 I think they spent about half of what they spend now.
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by longarm 14y ago
In what way?
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The Dress-Suit Bribe (What do you pay to be paid?)(ryanholiday.net)
1 points by longarm 16y ago|0 comments
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by longarm 16y ago
The problem is that it isn't a craze. Very few PEOPLE are clamoring for them. Unless by people you mean a handful of city and state officials who think it's an awesome way to spend millions of dollars of money they don't really have on smil
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Walking Creates A Thirst For Knowledge(pnas.org)
2 points by longarm 16y ago|1 comments
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by longarm 16y ago
That would be a pretty bad sign. I sure as hell wouldn't invest in a company that's going to turn around and spend the money they raise on ads. They should be building a war chest and their biz dev and legal teams to get some leverage on th
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by longarm 16y ago
Pandora commands higher than average ad rates. Remnant (which is bargin basement inventory) is somewhere around $5cpm and I don't think they sell to networks for display to keep demand high. It's actually hard to get inventory there unless
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by longarm 16y ago
I wonder if they pay lower royalties on live music and that's why they try to jam it into my playlists all the time. In the last year or so I've felt there like there was something just a little off about it some of the song choices and I'd
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by longarm 16y ago
But it is more than that. In my opinion there is kind of a nasty aversion in start up culture to permanence. Think food trucks vs opening a restaurant, outsourcing vs managing in house, renting a space vs building one, tele-commuting vs a v
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by longarm 16y ago
It's because HN doesn't have to show pgview growth to investors or sell it to advertisers that they're able to make a decision like this that ultimately improves the quality of the site (probably at the expense of drives of traffic)
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by longarm 16y ago
It's more impressive when companies add people to their board who add a perspective other than the entrenched (dare I say evil) mindset of their competition. An example: Chipotle adding Bill Niman, an advocate against factory farming, fast