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My experience differs - I think it was in fact the rule of thumb in the 90s... until the dotcom gold rush got sufficiently out of hand that hiring people and training them became the only reasonable solution.

"A whole lot of people who had never heard of airbnb have recently heard of it as a tool for burglars to get into your house."

Understandably, the AirBNB guys are trying to change that impression ASAP

Or, you know, sell it to someone else. HTC or Samsung might buy. Nokia probably not so much :)

Very cool. I confess I'm not likely to use it anytime soon, since I am conversant with how Lua works today and not so much with Coffeescript, but I'm glad for the aid to adoption!

I haven't personally. But two close friends have. They both said "it's a good acceleration tool if you already have traction with well known angels". Can spur a lot of fast followers. Your mileage may vary.

Also, have heard very good things about Naval. I've got to meet that guy at some point.

There's a pretty slick Redis implementation at http://antirez.com/post/scripting-branch-released.html - I've been meaning to check it out for some real world usage. Mostly I've seen it in Warcrack.

Arguably this drives up the values of everyone who is otherwise at Facebook's mercy though. Zynga on Google+ and Facebook is less subject to Zuckerberg "cutting off their air supply" - to repurpose a phrase from the 90s bubble.

Great - I expect this will actually raise the bar for both groups and make for some great improvements in the social media space. I feel like Facebook has been the IE 4.0 of social media thus far; it soundly beat the early competitors and then has mostly added things I don't want.

Alternately, when things slow down again, who wins? The people who have the lowest burn rate, the most cash in the bank, and the ability to turn profitable. Saying "well what if things have gone sour when you need to go back out for your next round" disregards the fact that investors will turn the screws on you then regardless of whether you gave them a good deal this time around or not.

Yeah, Google's pretty much required to do this by US law though (the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) - I'll leave the "think of the children" jokes to other folks.

Good lord, about time. Why was incoming bandwidth ever on the list?

There's an obvious one if you're a lawyer :)

Hulu is simply too small to do #1 or #3. They would have to spend phenomenal amounts of money, which they don't have - without an IPO, or perhaps even with one. #2 is doable but not a slam-dunk, it still can be hit or miss.

I find it hard to believe that the keys to Yahoo's turnaround are a better experience in photos, news, branding, and PR. Mobile and social, maybe.

I have fond memories of Digg, at least. Loved the user activism around the HD-DVD key days. That's kind of the last thing I remember was really awesome about that site.

I'd be really curious to see a good analysis or even set of anecdotes about why it went downhill. Seems like basically they ignored their userbase.

It annoys me a bit that people talk about scaling problems as being brand new then. A lot of the first generation of dotcoms had them too (Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, etc).

In general they were solved similarly - build custom middleware and go as distributed as possible.

Now I realize that's a simplistic answer to a very complicated problem but really guys, this isn't unprecedented and the hardware is a lot more capable and cheaper than the 1997 equivalents.

Given the prospect of it going nuclear, I vote "killing half the planet is exceedingly bad for business as well"

I want to say Oracle

Yes, but not a terribly inflated one. It's likely to inflate further as some of these firms actually reach liquidity, though.

I can't be the only one who thinks "This looks like the visualization algorithm is nethack"

You're probably mostly double counting, unless that's $25/year/device - mac users generally have iOS devices and may well have multiple iOS gadgets accumulated over the years. (There are a lot of iPhone users who don't use a mac, but not the other way around.)

Backwards compatibility with linux clients probably isn't the top priority of Skype now that they're being rolled into MS, but I suspect embedded deployments on handheld devices might still keep them from deprecating.

I'm pretty sure he means "can make great things happen" trumps "7 years Java experience on the resume"

...go to Home Depot and buy one then? They make nice, even potentially livable drop-in outbuildings.

No solar panel for tablet computer charging, but really now.

To me this seems very misguided. If Win8 has a tablet-touch mode that is well suited for operation at casual usage and the ability to drill down into a power user full Windows UI, that strikes me as ideal. And from what I'm seeing in these vids, it's pretty well done.

Or to put it another way, this seems to be the proverbial 3.0 version of MS software - if WinCE was 1.0 and TabletXP/Origamiproject was 2.0, this looks like the one that'll get it right. (So far, and from what we see, etc.)

It stops people from selling you used parking tickets?

Also (strangely) carries the assumption that these guys can't be multitasking and looking for other moneymaking opportunities, which might or might not include dealing.

Feedjit

http://www.techstars.org/mentors/mmaunder/

I have the strangest feeling I'm probably feeding the troll, but...

Why would you bother with CPU switching and such when you could just install an old fashioned microphone? If you were actually inclined to eavesdrop, it seems like hardware-subverting your PC is a lot more expensive and fragile than software or a specialty purpose bug elsewhere in the room.

Over ten years that's not stupendously amazing.

And clearly the market seems blase - if you improve your top and bottom line and your valuation gets cut in half, that generally means investors don't think your future is all that bright.