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this has been the case with all of us, and what is even worse, the google has developed a steady habit of screwing things up, and it does not even consider the risks involved., the risks here being the user adoption/retention/abandonment. cough barely anyone cares for users anyway, these days.

But from a business point of view it's dire mistake, but it's kind of outrageous too in some way, when you would promise one thing and do another.

anyway fuck users, what about the competitors, Google perhaps is the most alienated enterprise of its size anyway too. Not because they were totally unreasonable, just because google have no respect for any of them.

Eventually, whenever you become an employer. You would probably and most probably get the NDA signed. Esp., if you are a small business, because you are more at risk from your employees than competitors.

Although I am not in a sofware business, but what would it take a lead software developer to open up his own shop? Nothing a few bucks and the clients of his/her ex company.

In our times, being good at things is not enough anymore. You have to be a 'specialist' and in some cases, chief specialist, and you can only be one, if you have dedicated yourself to it 'solely'.

Jack of all trades and master of none. will only leave you among the mediocre. It is easy to be good at multiple things, but as I said, almost everyone is good at a lot things. But a Few are the real class.

Computer. Tv. Phone. Camera. Radio. Internet. Car. Bike.

Wheel and computer and camera are wholly new ones. Among many others.

It's awesome, design and animations need little tweaks. But another issue is. HN API Health? It's pretty bleak time to time.

Jesus! it's perfect. and because MS got it right. compared to apple or pebble. in short, 'band form factor' is the one I was hoping, when apple introduced its watch. I was bit shocked when it was actually rounded-square shape. with this form, you get more with less.

I asked, because I would keep saying (li) is lee. and my teacher was like what? So I felt little awkward, but believe me i can never pronounce it like ... eel iee. like my teacher did. So I asked everyone just uses 'standard' pronunciation or just 'hacked' like me. For me it's easier to remember.

damn speaking of wordpress (WP) i am a really awkward kid in the class because I always pronounce vp i.e vp super cache.

This could be because, robots don't have ego or feel proud in giving an order., they don't have emotions too. So for human this is just a message received to act upon. than the 'order' given by a human in a tone which varies depending on his emotions. For instance if someone gives an order in an angry tone, it could be humiliating to his subordinate., so let these robots give orders in a rude tone and see the consequences for yourself :)

This is beyond stupid and this is not even untrue.

at the risk of being stupid, which I am, 'aint they beating the dead horse' i'd love someone to enlighten me, if it was really worth it and why?

They tried hard to build an 'elite' club of rich twitter users, and it wasn't clearly going to work. Because rich people can not listen to each other.

PS: i happen to be rich twitter user myself haha! i did pay them $29 and spent like a week there and quitted., because no one'd listen to me. ;)

spoiler: never use linkedin when logged in.

http://longr.co (a longer tweet web app) brand new. it supports markdown, the post i wrote couple of days back. http://longr.co/1h34Wk I am primarily using it now as my blog. but sole problem here is i love it so much, that instead of selling it (unless you are gates cough) i am more inclined to use it as my blog :)

btw should i open source it in the event i can not sell it? would it be worth to open source?

But hands down, it's one of the most refined web app of its sort.

It's not only me, just about everyone. and there is no resolution.

I just can not keep quite. even worse, i end up exchanging cell numbers. And the experience is like, I am on my college bus, traveling with my fellow mates for a picnic trip. where everyone would secretly wish that the journey just does not come to an end and we keep having fun.

I am baffled they needed a 'scientific' research to figure this out.

>it was too far ahead of its time

I would never get this phrase, does it mean, it is of no use at the moment? If yes, why not say it so.

>infrastructure

To run an ecommerce business, you need IT, Warehousing, Logistics, (funding obviously just like any other biz) If you can generate tons of turnovers, vendors will lay down before you. What sort of infrastructure you were referring to., which other can not save on?

>That is when the money will really be earned.

That time is never going to come, others are not sitting idly either. :) - since I am not american I don't know the precise terms to define such situation. But as we would say 'more clients, more profits' but in the end, you start losing customers, when you charge even pennies more, and you become a victim of your own.

>They are competitive on EVERY product

This is the misconception, they are not being competitive at all. :) they are only being arsehole :) as I would call such competitor in my own industry.

Being competitive means, they quote prices which has profit, however they blow away the competition by virtue of either their skills or costs.

As a Sales Director, I would often tell my guys, a six-month old can capture the market., if you would eliminate your profit. But that is not what you are hired for. or in our local phrase 'neither we will play nor we let any'. I love Amazon as a consumer, but as a sales person myself I know, what they are. They offer 40% wholesale margin to a retail customer for books. How many wholesalers and retailers they brought to death? but the even more tragic part is, they didn't earn any money themselves. They obviously succeeded in capturing the entire market, but so could my six month old too.

My experience tells me which is no brainer, death (exit) of such a company is only matter of time, and when such a vendor dies, rest of the market lives on as they were living before this episode.

Google+ is to Facebook, what Bing is to Google Search.

It wasn't really going to work, much like the Bing. There were simply too late to the party as were Microsoft or Yahoo to 'modern' search engine.

I only hold Vic responsible for messing too much with the web design of Google+. Jesus, no one changes underwear so often as they would UI.

In the end, the failure of missing the social bandwagon solely relies on Eric. Because Vic was working on the mobile side (I think) when Facebook was kicking in.

Where ever greed is involved, it must be administrated. Otherwise it would be as chaotic as sadly things are shaping up in the bitcoin world.

I will try to search for ARS article on butterfly, which went into depth about mining, actually it was my first time, I had completely known what is bitcoin mining. Now When I read 'butterfly' I was in a complete shock and awe.....

here it is. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-...

They actually don't want to do anything with them. And I don't even get, how they would keep grabbing their rivals without triggering anti-trust investigation.

As soon as any social startup rises to the sky, they would grab it. Since the social itself is worthless in terms of making money, so anyone would easily get acquired, because they don't have any other choice, and definitely acquisition by Facebook, Apple, Google or Microsoft is and was their only business model.

If they really wanted to compete with Apple Inc in terms of branding. They should rather have renamed Microsoft to Nokia. It's not only catchy, but also Nokia is essentially a hardware vendor brand much like the Apple Inc.

Just do not watch gravity movie tonight. on a serious note, it's friggi' amazing and makes me feel proud of our race every single day.

I rather gave an example of chimp which is not only our relative but also i guess the most intelligent animal other than us.

But something is evidently clear, i am not talking in religious terms, rather layman. I am not the sort of animal as other are. Why is it so. Lets figure it out. But when we do, we will have to look beyond the basics of evolution theory, Evolution theory itself, is not completely wrong. But if you instead start analyzing that Nedenethals were actually the prototype for the end product 'homo sapiens'. It may solve all the mysterious that surround the evolution theory. And the final part was, I am not willing to believe 'life' sparks at its own as says Evolution theory, It was sparked. If it did spark at its own, what is keeping it from on mars., as I was of the view, self-starting life can begin at its own, according to the atmosphere of its planet.

On the other hand, if when someone say 02 and h202 are the standard for life. don't you think it proves the religion point, a standard was intentionally set so that life could not take place on other planets. as we are the only 'visible' intelligent, there are two other intelligent species other than us according to religion. angels, and jinns but both are invisible according to the religion.

I wonder since religion says Jinn are as intelligent as humans beings are and were created zillions ago than human being, what they have been cooking up, if they really exist, when I tell they are the alien, everyone would dismiss me as being a lunatic. :) But if you can believe in aliens why not in jinn being the alien which religions validates too, and there is no validity of any kind for aliens most people talk about. :)

do we have to redefine intelligence and technology :) or should we stick to the definition we all know :)

All I could make of your comment, other animals are like us, but they are not nerds. :)

Technology is result of our wisdom, if one does not uses technology, that does not mean, that human is not intelligent,. The topic was intelligence and our physical body that apparently is perfect to support the intelligence we have.

So you are saying chimps or dogs can make their own space shuttle let's say in next 50,000 years? or for that matter any other species of animal.

by intelligence i meant, reaching to mars, moon. even a dog is pretty intelligent, so is chimp. but as we know, chimp haven't invented a wheel or bicycle as yet, at their own.

it's 3am, here. up from 10am. so i'd request pardon my language, i was being bit lazy, and obviously english is not my first lang.

It's interesting., other guys have agreements and disagreements over it, since science wasn't my major, so until now, i used to believe it's only me. and sometimes too scared to ask it at the risk of for being too stupid.

I can't believe, if we had a physical body like snake, elephants, we could ever had come thus far. at best we hv had an advanced jungle but nothing more than that. perhaps I could be wrong, but this just doesn't settle with me.

As for the 2nd part, why we look anywhere else, Why we don't have life on lets say Mars. If we can understand the 'essence' or whatever, of Evolution theory, then we must have our martians cousins too no?.

you are biased because you created HTML? s/

Markdown was and is for html moms. Whereas, I would often type <h2>heading</h2> in the .doc files. never-mind.