Isaac Hepworth

area charts showing population density - Isaac Hepworth

Nice visualization. Without the green you'd completely miss this correlation. - Isaac Hepworth

i used to work at Dresdner. When they were looking into merging with Deutsche Bank we joked that the merged entity would have a merged name: the "Deutsche" from Deutsche Bank and the "Bank" from Dresdner Bank. - Isaac Hepworth

so well-put: "the internal ecosystem is so rich that it’s easy to forget there is a world outside it–ironic given Google’s enormous role in the world outside it" - Isaac Hepworth

"many retailers promise to match any competitor’s advertised price. Consumers view these guarantees as conducive to lower prices. But in fact offering a price-matching guarantee should make it less likely that competitors will slash prices" - Isaac Hepworth

"Warning: Use this door for entering and exiting only" - Isaac Hepworth

"Three baseball umpires are having lunch together. The first umpire says "Well, a lot of them are balls, and a lot of them are strikes, but I always calls 'em as I sees 'em." The second umpire says "Hmph. I calls 'em as they are." The third umpire slowly looks at his two colleagues and declares "They ain't nothin' until I calls 'em."" - Isaac Hepworth

"Three baseball umpires are having lunch together. The first umpire says "Well, a lot of them are balls, and a lot of them are strikes, but I always calls 'em as I sees 'em." The second umpire says "Hmph. I calls 'em as they are." The third umpire slowly looks at his two colleagues and declares "They ain't nothin' until I calls 'em."" - Isaac Hepworth

"Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn’t work out. – Gizmo5’s SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary P2P back end. After the Skype settlement, though, Gizmo5’s strategic value to Skype sort of plummeted. In the meantime, Google bought them, say multiple sources with knowledge of the deal, for around $30 million in cash" - Isaac Hepworth

gak - Isaac Hepworth