tidon12

I've always thought iMessage is more of a retention strategy than an attraction strategy. Makes me wonder if there is a good way to get data on why consumer stay with iPhone.

I find these restrictions relatively frustrating because they push governments into an adversarial relationship with shareholders in a way that is unnecessary.

We may not like it much, but government equity purchases are a much more aligned way to pursue a bailout. World governments (and by proxy taxpayers) should be gaining ownership or preferred rights in these deals. Then shareholders could be free to do whatever ridiculous dividend / buyback policy they want. Putting time limited bans on corporate payouts doesn't fix the incentives that lead to high payout rates in the first place. Shareholders losing 80% of their equity in a bailout would.

This is the real point. The idea that somehow the catering business serving startups or the kitchen workers in cafes are somehow less worthy of support than owners of restaurants

Hm, The best answer as I see it is that the game allows you to set both the size of the galaxy (map) and the number of civilizations in it (competitors). If you are concerned with not seeing competition soon enough, you can always tweak those settings to ensure you do, although I personally have never had that issue.

Seems like a cool way to further increase the "stickiness" of AWS

Love this quote:

"It took one engineer six months to get the tear-away channel just right: It had to be easy to tear, but it couldn’t inadvertently come apart. Meanwhile, the readers had to be intuitive enough for people to instantly know how to use them"

It's amazing the kind of effort true product excellence really takes.

I wonder how much this is the impact of uber/lyft/sidecar etc though. Like many things posted on hn, this is highly anecdotal, but when I first moved to SF almost four years ago it was difficult to find an available cab. I often waited 20 minutes or more on nights when I went out.

Now I have a similar experience to you as open cabs seem more available, but I wonder how much of this is the ridesharing services siphoning off demand.

Insert row is: 1) Shift + space (highlight current row) 2) alt + I (open insert menu) 3) r (insert row above)

vs Excel which is: 1) Shift + space (highlight current row) 2) ctrl + shift + "+" (insert row above)

Slightly different key pattern, but it does exist. Difference probably exist b/c ctrl + "+" is reserved in the browser for zoom.