umeshunni

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Comment · 2 days ago
Doesn't matter. Google killed Chromebooks.
Comment · 3 days ago
that's about the maturity level the average reporter has
Comment · 4 days ago
Curious if they still do the daily triage and war rooms. I left in 2010 but those practices seemed like a remnant of the 90s era desktop computing paradigm than web or cloud.
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Comment · 15 days ago
Chesterton’s Fence
Comment · 16 days ago
Once you make it hard to build something, the incentives to build the thing goes away. Can you imaging trying to build a factory in California in 2026? Or 2006? The NIMBYs can barely stand building an ice cream store.
Comment · 18 days ago
I did an even simpler thing. I had it connect to gmail MCP and email it to me as an .mp3 file which I then play on my phone.
Comment · 18 days ago
richardttang probably a bot trying to drive traffic to his site.
Comment · 18 days ago
This is a pretty stupid take.

1. DAUs didn't drop, but DAU growth did. You'd think someone posting on HN would know the difference. 2. Insiders always sell RSUs. That's not news.

Comment · 19 days ago
I would expect a refrigerator to work 20+ years. What does a legacy product even mean this situation?
Comment · 23 days ago
Won't that also block anyone who copy-pastes your name? I often copy paste names so that I don't make typos.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Between 1975 and 1998, the share of Americans who gave or attended a monthly dinner party declined by half.

Interesting. I would have assumed the correlation is with the rise of the internt and smartphones, but it looks like the drop precedes that.

Comment · 1 month ago
data point #3 if you include his stint at Symantec 10+ years ago.

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