shingen

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by shingen 15y ago
Douche much? Looking over your comments on HN, that latest comment seems to be the peak of your contribution here. In over two years you've picked up 394 karma points. I'm going with the assumption that all of those karma points are from be
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by shingen 15y ago
Softlayer is a lot more expensive than most hosts these days. They're closer to being in Rackspace territory now. You can get a dual E5-2609 with 32gb of ram + bandwidth from a good host like WebNX for $369 / month. And if you wanted to spe
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by shingen 15y ago
Maybe it's just me, but watching all those robots move with purpose across the inventory floors is pretty damn sexy. lol
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by shingen 15y ago
Google decided to kill Firefox. Not by lack of financial support, but by giving their own browser radically more financial support (the homepage marketing alone is worth an astronomical sum). There was never going to be enough room in the m
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by shingen 15y ago
Yep, should probably be the headline
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by shingen 15y ago
Google understands that its goose might be cooked if the DMCA's safe harbor rules are trashed any time soon. All the things Google would plausibly be legally responsible for would add up to a very big liability risk. It's nice when one of t
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by shingen 15y ago
I wonder if Amazon is going to try to do in fulfillment / logistics / etc. what they've done in web services. Perfect a highly efficient system, then charge others for access to the same technology. Or if this is just a play to keep the KIV
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by shingen 15y ago
The fiasco is the losing $10 to $15 billion in taxpayer funds part, according to the latest update by the Treasury on expected outcomes to that deal.
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by shingen 15y ago
HP, Dell, Facebook, ARM Holdings, TXI, Cisco, Google, Amazon, Oracle, Intel, AT&T, Verizon. Apple could buy any one of them, either through friendly or hostile means. Not a single one of those would make it through anti-trust. Sharehold
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by shingen 15y ago
They're now accumulating $40 billion per year in cash (for likely fiscal 2012 numbers). So they'll continue to add to the stock pile of cash most likely. By 2015, under this plan, they'll have perhaps $135 to $150 billion in cash, unless th
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by shingen 15y ago
As the world's largest corporation, they are now under intense scrutiny by the US Government, which prefers to leash all massive corporations. Apple is not allowed to spend its $100 billion buying companies, even if it wanted to. For exampl
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by shingen 15y ago
It's the least they could do for making it so radically expensive to start a new car company in the first place. Not to mention the Feds were giving massive loans to the other manufacturers under the same umbrella (DOE). Fortunately I doubt
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by shingen 15y ago
You're not wrong.
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by shingen 15y ago
Nobody deserves it more than Elon. After PayPal the guy could have just done what so many others do, lay down and casually invest, chill on a beach, and let others do the hard work. Instead he's killing himself running multiple ground break
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by shingen 15y ago
Bank of America == US Government
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by shingen 15y ago
For a modest down payment I know a guy that launches small objects into space using the world's largest trebuchet.
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by shingen 15y ago
The title doesn't exaggerate
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by shingen 15y ago
Nope, not that guy at all. To clarify for your benefit, I wasn't complaining about Google's optimization or lack-thereof (spammy vs not spammy). I think it's hilarious, watching the endless dance that Google is going through because their f
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by shingen 15y ago
The Google guys are so smart, with enough time they'll get all their algorithms so optimized they'll eventually exclude every site from ranking on the first page of results. It'll just be a blank white page, the ultimate in minimalism and s
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by shingen 15y ago
I hadn't bothered to look at Spotify, in terms of using the service (I was familiar with the company et al). I've used iTunes with locally stored music for a really long time. So I went to spotify.com, read over their product and informatio
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by shingen 15y ago
If we're talking zero to crazy scale: Formspring. They went from zero to 70 million daily pageviews in 90 days. The domain Formspring.me was registered Nov 12, 2009. They hit 69 million pageviews on February 11, 2010. They did 1.8 billion p
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by shingen 15y ago
They're worth a hundred billion... three or four years post IPO, and if they don't screw it all up. As an investor, they're not worth buying at a hundred billion. There's little to no value upside over the next five years (value, not price;
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by shingen 15y ago
I agree on the added value. Their offerings are incredible. I've used their Cloudfront at various times for example. If they get their prices down further, I'd love to make use of a lot more of their services.
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by shingen 15y ago
It's bound to happen given the collapse of industrial America (blue collar unemployment among men has skyrocketed). Not to mention the way that women are out-graduating men in almost every respect (high school and college). Women dominate j
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by shingen 15y ago
When these guys get within 25% +/- of dedicated hosting on price for what you get (specifically ram, bandwidth, processor), I'll switch immediately. They have a long ways to go. Microsoft makes about as much in profit every 12 days as Amazo
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by shingen 15y ago
I hadn't visited Mashable in some time. I wonder if they can possibly load any more crap on one page. Or do you suppose they're at their absolute crap loading limit, explaining why there isn't even more crap on that page?
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by shingen 15y ago
Am I the only one that judges HN stories on an 'I regret wasting my time on this' scale? As in: Outcome A) working, take a break, visit HN, read linked post, regret wasting my time on terrible blog post, immediately think: I should be worki
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by shingen 15y ago
Tap -> Acquire -> Store -> Manipulate -> Analyze -> Supply
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by shingen 15y ago
They've already long since taken your privacy.
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by shingen 15y ago
Extortion, you're doing it right.

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