throwaway40483 | 5 years ago | on: Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started
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throwaway40483 | 7 years ago | on: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
It's even worse. They already have something called Android One. I'm sure this won't cause any confusion.
throwaway40483 | 7 years ago | on: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
This is the reason I think Amazon will end up winning the cloud computing race. Providing support is simply not in Googles DNA.
throwaway40483 | 7 years ago | on: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
Ah yes. The good, old Google we all know and love. Introducing yet another confusing name for an existing product.
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: My first experience with formal methods
Not only is formal methods more effective for HW, the incentives are also more tilted towards HW. If you fuck up the HW design, well..you're fucked. With SW, "you can always push out an update" mentality exists. I'm not saying this to criticize SW, but this is more an example of how you conform to the ecosystem in which you exist.
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: “How Amazon Took Seattle's Soul”
>Sometimes I think people on the west coast seem to think of a city as a place that's supposed to stay the same forever ("forever" being defined as starting at about 1960).
No, forever is defined as "the day after _I_ moved in"
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: We’ve Raised $60M in New Funding
Crazy profitable? They make $7.5M in revenue with 70 engineers (in SF?). Sounds to me like they might actually be losing money.
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
This would make sense if the other entities were actually making, which they don't. Cut the ties to Google and everything else dies.
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: Verizon and AT&T Are Slower After Adding Unlimited Plans
I'm surprised Verizon hasn't "transitioned" these legacy accounts to a "newer, better and faster" (cough) accounts..
I presume there are some legal reason why they haven't done so yet?
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: This is my last story about Travis Kalanick
Just to be clear. Emil Michael never floated the idea about doing oppo research to her face. This was done during a gathering with some journalists where Ben Smith from Buzzfeed was present and reported on it:
"Michael at no point suggested that Uber has actually hired opposition researchers, or that it plans to. He cast it as something that would make sense, that the company would be justified in doing."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-di...
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: Infosys accused of racism
The only people Infosys discriminates against is people who don't like to be underpaid.
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
Adding this kind of friction only discourages people with good intentions. It doesn't stop people with not so noble intentions (who are most likely backed with a lot of money)
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: Amazon Said to Plan Cuts to Shed Whole Foods' Pricey Image
> They are the Walmart of online shopping;
What are you basing this on? Amazon (Prime) customers are way more wealthier than Walmart customers:
https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/screen-sho...
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
To this day, I'm still puzzled by the fact that the wage fixing incident didn't blow up in the press. Amazing..
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: RISC-V Pros and Cons
As the article (and you) point out, the datacenter and mobile space is already lost to Intel and ARM respectively. The only path forward is through the IoT space. It's the only area where you might need something even smaller than ARM.
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: A YEAR OF GOOGLE and APPLE MAPS
This is really a nice visual comparison of Google Maps and Apple Maps over the years.
The gist of the article is that Google has deemphasized roads in favor of showing places, e.g. bars, restaurants, shops, etc.
throwaway40483 | 8 years ago | on: How AWS Cloud is demolishing the cult of youth
I think you're looking at this wrong. It's not that a startup chooses between young/inexperienced/cheap vs old/experienced/expensive. It's that a startup doesn't get to choose because startup life is brutal. It basically requires you to have no family and kids, so only young single people are willing to do it.
throwaway40483 | 9 years ago | on: Comcast/Charter won’t make wireless acquisitions without the other’s permission
IANAL, but how can this be legal? Aren't they effectively agreeing not to compete? Surely this can't be right?
throwaway40483 | 9 years ago | on: Citi lists Netflix, Tesla as potential takeover targets for Apple
Yeah. Their biggest purchase is Beats at $3B, which is astonishing low for a corporate giant like Apple. I'm not sure whether this is due to prudence or just NIH syndrome.
throwaway40483 | 9 years ago | on: Citi lists Netflix, Tesla as potential takeover targets for Apple
To me, Twitter goes against anything stands for. Twitter is like the wild wild west. I really can't imagine how they would fit in with Apples very polished M.O.
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GTFO with that family shit.