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Apple's Billion Users
Apple有十亿的付费用户,远超所有其它互联网公司。而且Apple可以每年从这十亿用户身上赚钱
200 million people spending an average of $25 per year (people in the gray market).
620 million people spending an average $260 per year (includes 400M iPhone-only users upgrading every four years).
180 million people spending an average $500 per year (Apple’s core users in the U.S. and a handful of other countries buying a number of Apple products and paying for various services and subscriptions).
Why I doubted Facebook could build a billion dollar business, and what I learned from being horribly wrong
作者错过了只有12名员工时的facebook,认为它不可能成为十亿美金生意的公司。原因在于低估了facebook的发展规模,当时最大的互联网公司也只做到万亿页面访问量/每月,作者不相信靠大学生,只在校园社交网络中能有这么大的规模, 但facebook做到了。
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
在十周年之际,创始人讲述了他心中的 Stack Overflow 是怎样的。Stack Overflow 是面向程序员的wiki百科,他们通过 问题-回答的方式建立资料库,帮助程序员提高效率。
What's Salesforce?
Salesforce是一款客户关系管理工具,财富500企业中有83%使用Salesforce。这篇文章介绍了早期客户关系管理的方法及弊端,而Salesforce提供了更为灵活、高效的方式来管理客户。同时它还把自己变成了平台,鼓励其它人将各自的软件服务集成到Salesforce中。
When and why to clean up your code: now, later, never
代码是需要不断的迭代的,升级依赖包、重构、清理代码,但要在什么时候才做这些事呢?作者在文章中给出了五种情况下的应对策略。
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Prototyping 原型实验
- Updating: never.
- Refactoring: now if you’re trying to prototype an API or abstraction, otherwise never.
- Miscellaneous Cleanups: never.
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A new project
- Updating: now.
- Refactoring: now.
- Miscellaneous Cleanups: now.
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An emergency bugfix,你可能需要多次修复,所以不用急于更新代码
- Updating: later.
- Refactoring: later.
- Miscellaneous Cleanups: later.
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新的功能或小bug修复
- Updating: now, for code you’re touching.
- Refactoring: now, for code you’re touching.
- Miscellaneous Cleanups: now, for code you’re touching.
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处在日常维护状态的项目
- updating: 现在,升级依赖的库
- Refactoring: never.
- Miscellaneous Cleanups: never.
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