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people still use vga ports?

I would get a lawyer in the US. They might think that you're laundering money, until you can prove your id.

they're not replacing existing models, they're adding another option.

How about an experiment. Subject a group of people to violent video games and knives. Give another group of people automatic assault weapons. Create tension in the group over the course of a year, and see how many people get killed.

does any major consumer service use SOAP?

lol, I thought it was strange when I read "Linux, a 10-year-old clone of the Unix operating system".

I'm sure the fun and novelty wears off quickly....for the user as well as the ice cream truck.

I'll wait to see what the feedback is, but my first thought, at least for nyc, is that why would anyone want to use this? Unless the truck is a couple of blocks away, it'll take a while for the truck to get to the user requested location. In NYC, there is a drug store every other block. So it'll take 5 minutes for anyone who wants an ice cream to go to one and buy one, instead of waiting for a truck. And how much is uber going to make on selling ice cream (I imagine that if something like this is successful, they'll expand to other products too..)

it's really amazing that chrome has gained so much traction. It wasn't too long ago that most people thought firefox had pretty much the market for browsers, with internet explorer being legacy software. Even though chrome has a very spartan interface (where the hell is the bookmark button??), every version of firefox became more and more bloated than the last, until it became unusable. Chrome by contrast was lightning fast, and used very little resources.

wouldn't that be the case with any sort of group project? i.e. hard sciences

that's true for any task that is mostly bound by intellect rather than something else. The cab driver can only drive so much faster / better than everyone else because he is constrained by the traffic and the car. In the case of pure intellectual pursuits like writing a novel, or painting, there is a vast difference between the masters and the average person. Same thing for programming, it's part art, part science, mostly constrained by intellect.

now when is zynga going to writedown 180mm for OMGPOP.

this is google's answer to the $99 apple tv??

the problem is, even if it is a great steamer, how many of your friends would have android phones or tablets?

another view of the objective of the 15% tax is that Blizzard want to encourage people to leave money in the game, and not use the game as a money making machine. Sure, it doesn't stop farmers from making money off of the game, but if they want to cash out, they get taxed.

when you can't beat them, join them.

you can also download the movie directly from the movie website, DRM free, so it's not tied to Steam.

http://buy.indiegamethemovie.com/

a notepad app company that's worth 1bn...hmmm.

oh right, I'm sure Kevin Systrom had a hard time deciding on taking the offer because of the price. Considering that he just had valuation of 500mm, and no current revenues. It's hard to see how anyone can justify a high probable scenario where they will do an IPO in the future for much higher valuation than what they just got.

I'm curious, if you do you something like adsense, what kind of revenue can you expect?

the layout of this page makes me nauseous

the nytimes article pointed out that they created 35 games, most of which I assume aren't close to being as popular and successful as draw something. Also, there were already a couple of pictionary games on the app store, charadium and depict that are quite similar. So this just feel like a fluke. The developers themselves were surprised at the success.

If this is a fluke, why would anyone expect the developers to be able to replicate the success on other games in the future? I think I read somewhere the current run-rate revenue of draw is around 100k a day. But you would expect that to tail off when it reaches saturation. Probably most of that comes from the initial purchase, rather than in game purchases. So you're looking at more than 6x of current revenue which will decrease over time, just to break even on the purchase, and not counting expenses.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the developers are talented, and they deserve getting paid. The only people losing are the shareholders of Zynga, and less the management, since they've been dumping the stock. I think Zynga is probably under a lot of pressure to diversify it's revenue away from Facebook, as well as grow the revenue to justify it's valuation.

Comparing acq of OMGPOP to Youtube is just silly.

it's not a bubble, it's not a bubble...

Can anyone make a case that paying 180mm for a drawing game makes rational financial sense? Of course, Zynga probably paid with it's overinflated stock, so it's more like AOL buying Time Warner at the peak

it might not be amazing, but Apple is the first manufacture to put the screen into a real product. That is an accomplishment by itself. How long will it take android tabs to come out with similar screens? It's interesting that samsung is the manufacture of the screen, yet it's on an apple product, instead of samsung tablets!

the best aspect of the andrew ng course was the homeworks using octave. Yes, it's watered down and not as mathematically rigorous as the real course, but you learn a lot of the essentials from the experience of coding machine learning algorithms, that I can't imagine learning as easily from doing non-programming homework.

I think he has some valid points. The emergence of mobile and web 2.0 industries since the article supports rather than weakens his main argument.

just look at the evidence,

-founders of the most successful startups are always in their 20s or 30s. They don't have 20 years of programming experience.

-ruby, python, objective C are all fairly new

It means that a 50 year old programmer with 20 years of programming experience doesn't have too many advantages in learning these new languages / environments compared to a fresh college grad. In addition the 50 year old probably has a family and kids and other social obligations that reduces the amount of time he has to learn.

In other industries where the innovation isn't as fast, and the entire environment changes every 10 years, there is more value in seniority and experience.

doesn't seem to work on the ipad