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Yup, the marginal convenience advantages to web apps are so minimal compared to the ability to write legitimate native mobile apps.

Vue.js and Angular are complete non-starters for me since they don't have native counterparts.

Yes, like a Tequila company founded by George Clooney getting bought for $1b today

This article mentions that Google Plus had a staff of greater than 1,000:

> Plus, by comparison, had upwards of 1,000 [people on staff], sucked up from divisions across the company.

http://mashable.com/2015/08/02/google-plus-history/

Over 1000 Googlers were cranking on Google Plus, which at the time was a Facebook copy cat.

What makes Facebook so threatening to Snapchat is the aggressive cloning in tandem with it's pre-existing, larger network.

By the time Google decided to clone Facebook, the Facebook Graph was already more powerful than the GMail graph (which is what Google Plus was built on).

Facebook at least had incredible growth.

This report shows Snapchat missing on that mark too.

The fundamental challenge is that of having hand-delivered paper newspapers be the centralized hub of information.

Any manifestation of the Internet makes that obsolete - but the specific method of obsoletion may be different by country.

Maybe phrasing it another way could be useful: with or without Facebook, the journalism industry would be heavily declining.

Yes, Facebook is how many people use the Internet - but it's a mistake to therefore conclude Facebook is responsible for journalism's decline.

This chart (https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/778260618914652164) suggests that Facebook should not a lone scapegoat for journalism's decline - the internet as a whole is a more reasonable target.

How many of the top 100 websites are open source? Sure, it's not zero, but large open source production products are rare to begin with.

What does this mean for Twitter Digits? Will their free SMS authentications continue?

It would be a perfect fit if they phased in Twitter Digits as a Firebase authentication provider - I suspect many developers (including myself) already use these 2 services in tandem.

Assuming the bot can communicate with other players, what's stopping it from being smart enough to negotiate it's own collusion schemes?

I think that might not be possible with AirPods. One of it's features is that it stops playing music when you take out one of the ears.

I don't think gift cards are a big conspiracy from the retail industry that primarily perpetuated the idea that cash is a bad gift.

It seems more likely that cash became unpopular independently. And for good reason! Trading cash during holidays really ruins the fun!

Perhaps the retail industry was just responding to demand - the market may just want gift cards!

On the other hand, it often seems like news coverage is biased in the direction of a horse race. As in, the media is incentivized to make it seem like a close race with a lot of action, because that is engaging.

> Postmates raised $141 million in a financing round led by Founders Fund. The San Francisco VC firm, co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel

So much for the Silicon Valley boycott of Peter Thiel.

I wonder if they would have raised from Thiel if they were in a position of strength, and had other options.

Bundles are often great deals for consumers. The TV bundle is the result of decades of scale, iteration, and the free market.

TV has a lot of weaknesses, but I don't think its bundle economics are one of them.

The most successful alternatives to TV are also bundles, and the bundling is a critical part of their success. Imagine instead of paying $10/month for Netflix, you had to pay for each show a la carte (like iTunes). That would be worse for consumers - and creators.

They are learning the hard way the drawbacks of being uncompromising in the belief of antiracism.

> Working on Atlas at Stripe has that potential for impact and you get to work with awesome founders

Same with countless other jobs, such as working at Facebook, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, etc

That proportion is not too relevant for this graph. The graph is relative.

Even if a only a small percentage of Twitch users use Google search to access Twitch, the graph would be somewhat indicative of it's growth.

The graph is relative.

The idea is that Twitch viewership is correlated with Google searches - not that Google search is responsible for all Twitch traffic.

It's worth noting that in the 2 year period since Amazon bought Twitch, their search interest via Google has been stagnant.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2014-08-25%202016...

There was a time when Heroku seemed just as foreign to me as Docker does in this article.

- So shared webhosting is dead, apparently Heroku is the future?

- Why Ruby, why not just PHP?

- Wait, what's Rails? Is that different from Ruby?

- What's MVC, why do I need that for my simple website?

- Ok, so I need to install RubyGems? What's a Gemfile.lock? None of these commands work on Windows.

- I don't like this new text editor. Why can't I just use Dreamweaver?

- You keep talking about Git. Do I need that even if I'm working alone?

- I have to use command line to update my site? Why can't I just use FTP?

- So Github is separate from Git? And my code is stored on Github, not Heroku?

- Wait, I need to install both PGSql and SQLite? Why is this better than MySQL?

- Migrations? Huh?

Pokemon Go has shattered every record (downloads, engagement, revenue, etc). It's not just downloads.

I remember going to Apple Camp as a kid (around 2006). At the time, they had different sessions teaching kids how to "edit movies", "make music", "build websites" etc. They were showing us how to use iMovie, GarageBand, and iWeb.

After attending those camps, I so badly wanted a Mac.

If it's ever clear that eliminating certain types of deals (eg exclusive) is beneficial from a revenue standpoint, studios would likely do so.

Why is ESPN an exception?

Their price is a reflection of how much people want it. ESPN (and sports as a whole) are a big driver of cable subscriptions, which helps all cable channels.

Still requires an external Laptop/PC, you would not be able to install custom software using only the device itself.

Would be useful if they put up a simple site with an image uploader that demos the search

"Put ourselves first" (the opposite of #2) is kind of similar to "Make this a great place to work for employees" (#3).

Apple not supporting Flash was a crucial part of it's demise, though. Without that, we might be running Flash on mobile today, even though it was terrible.