jeffdechambeau

Absolutely, but we need a critical mass of votes to figure out what each offense is worth.

We'll start by directly sharing the feedback with the submitter and eventually letting visitors "browse morality" across a bunch of issues.

It's desperate but it's also the right move. If I were them I'd give devs 100% or revenue from apps too. Anything to get market share at this point.

Not only is this a several year old feature, this reads like a press release.

More top-notch 'journalism' from TC.

There's a difference between being honest and saying: "we fucked up, here's what we've done to prevent this from happening in the future, here's a credit for some free stuff" and posting pictures of yourself at the verge of tears. We're past diminishing returns and into theatrics.

I don't know anything about balsamiq or their product, but this seems to be another instance of "authentic apologies" becoming a standard startup tactic. In terms of one-upsmanship this is a pretty pointless arena. Don't do shitty stuff. If your product breaks, explain it and move on.

Stuff's always going to go wrong and break, it happens. Their site went down for 3 hours on a random tuesday and now this guy is throwing himself to the wolves. Come on.

There seems to be this idea that you can get away with anything, accidental or not, and so long as your rake yourself over the coals harder than the last guy everything will be okay.

This is broken thinking.

The iPad is for content consumption. So what? So are books. We survived them just fine. We survived TV, too.

Making content consumption easier is not a problem. You're just repeating the same hysterics we've heard time and time again.

More than ever before in history, people are empowered to create and share content. It stands to reason that it should have gotten even easier to sift through and consume this content. And it has.

They've come up with an economic way to homogenize the behaviour of community, this makes it really easy for people to fit in and feel at home. more here: http://jeffdechambeau.com/redditing-to-the-mean.html

You got my number bro.

Alternate submission wording was "Capitalism rewards understanding: Why your business needs Philosophers." But yeah, I thought I might capitalize on the CS worldview ;)

This guy has completely missed the point.

Shareholders like high margins. Amazon made some moves last year that depressed their margins, specifically releasing the kindle fire, which they're selling at a loss, and price-beating brick and mortar stores with gift cards over the holidays to lure away customers. These moves have nothing to do with a loss of efficiency in their EGM business, but they do produce the smaller profits we see.

What the author mistakenly sees as a loss of efficiency is actually amazon future-proofing their business. Knowing that the market would punish them for taking all this profit and reinvesting it in growth, they went all in and took all the punishment at once.

Amazon has bright days ahead.

This is an outstanding product. I can easily see it letting non-technical teachers have their own Kahn Academy.

Any plans to let teachers share or sell lessons/lectures with one another?

I experienced some bugginess submitting forms with the unit name clearing my entry.

Is it possible to embed videos on external sites?

Only thing I dislike is how dull and drab the sample lesson is. I'd actually use it to teach (or re-teach) some concept that the audience is likely to remember.

Fantastic job.

"One thing they could do is buy their way into Hollywood. Think about it for a second."

If only the author did, then maybe he wouldn't have written this post.

Why would anyone want to buy an industry in self-imposed decline when they can sit on their hands, wait for them to wither, then push them around with whatever terms they like.

People need to stop reading TechCrunch.

Real life is pretty hard too. We let so many people into university that difficulty almost necessarily has to drop in order to keep enrollment numbers up.

Did your school push you nearly hard enough?

More than that. Make it feel like I'm accomplishing something.

Outstanding job, the interface is as simple as it could be.

Something needs to happen when you fill the bar, otherwise, why is it changing?

Finally.

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