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100%. A lot of these things were set in motion under Ballmer and he tee'd it up for Satya. That doesn't excuse Ballmer's missteps and of course Satya deserves credit for a lot of the execution, but I think people like to latch on to the simple narrative of Satya Good, Ballmer Bad.

> Amazon's goal is to kill off traditional retail, as far as I can tell.

Then why are they opening up bookstores?

Seems for them the cost (financially and in terms of overhead) of building that team vs. buying a very experienced one was not worth it. They almost have ~$300 billion just sitting around.

Doesn't Instagram use the same approach on their Stories Camera on Android? Seems more of an issue with Android Camera performance/APIs than an engineering critique.

>15 years ago he put his hand on a woman's knee?

It seems like he has a history of groping women. I'm not sure why anyone should put energy into defending that behavior.

> Also, I'm fairly sure that Apple also sells data.

Can you point to a source that shows this? This sounds like a lie to me.

Calculating these metrics at scale is not trivial.

I'm not making that assumption. The only assumption I'm making is that the parent is a male, which is based on Hacker News demographic and the type of person who usually makes these arguments.

>[As a man], I have zero problems with this and am actually a little salty I spent the time to type this reply about a non-story.

Added additional context to your statement.

Why is the question you are asking is "Why are we getting upset over this?" instead of "Why do people say unnecessarily sexist jokes that aren't actually funny?"?

I think everyone would agree the leaker should be more cautious, but The Intercept should also know best practices too around printed materials too.

Black Lives Matter isn't a single person.

Charts like this always get brought up, but I'm not sure there is much rigor in creating them.

I still use Gchat over Hangouts because it's nice seeing my contacts list sorted by who is online, as opposed being ordered by recency of last communication.

So many of my Gchat conversations have started because of the online status. I've hit up friends that I haven't talked to in over a year and had really great, synchronous, conversations because of it.

You used to (maybe still) couldn't watch Apple Keynote presentations on any other browser than Safari.