Dartanion7

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App discovery is broken. Can Product Hunt fix it?(medium.com)
1 points by Dartanion7 12y ago|0 comments
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by Dartanion7 12y ago
Sure, but I'm talking more about people that live in eg. Jersey Village, Champions, the Woodlands, Sugarland, etc. -- either they drive into the entertainment districts (because cabs won't come get them / drop them off) or th
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by Dartanion7 12y ago
I agree with this for the most part; another problem is the vast distances (30+ minutes) many people travel to and from the entertainment districts. Very few people live within a 10-minute drive of, say, Washington Street, so taking a cab i
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by Dartanion7 12y ago
Would you say that Tunisia is safer than Morocco? I visited Morocco a few years back and loved it; I wanted to extend my trip to Tunisia, but I was told by a few people that I wouldn't be as safe there as the larger cities aren't
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by Dartanion7 12y ago
My guess as to the grey / blackhat tactics they used to gain initial traction were: 1) Fake "sell-side" accounts to provide marketplace liquidity 2) Manipulating app store chart ranking through bot downloads or download servi
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by Dartanion7 12y ago
I think the people doing the 2-year-hop are the ones with a lot of inbound interest. The last two jobs I've had (including my current job) came to me through a direct inquiry from someone at the company (not a recruiter / headhunt
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by Dartanion7 12y ago
The model is not statistically sound. An R squared of < 50% implies very little explanation of variance.
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Emerging ad formats in mobile user acquisition(mobiledevmemo.com)
1 points by Dartanion7 12y ago|0 comments
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
This is verifiably not the case; for example, see the positive reviews of Candy Crush Saga and any number of other F2P titles. It's pretty clear that consumers prefer the freemium model, it's just a vocal minority that continues t
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
This is absolutely insane. Why not out Fredo publicly?
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
> If freemium were generally just a demo for a better game It's not, and no one ever said it was. The demo analogy isn't valid; a free-to-play game is a fully functional game. IAPs may unlock additional functionality, or help b
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
I recently wrote a book about Freemium, in part, because I think it is vilified unfairly within the context of gaming. Before moving to gaming, I worked at Skype. No one ever accused Skype of exploiting people, or of facilitating addiction,
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Facebook’s ad network and the evolution of mobile app distribution(mobiledevmemo.com)
1 points by Dartanion7 13y ago|0 comments
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
I don't agree with this, because even if you determine the generalist to be less efficient than a specialist for a given task, you still have to hire the specialist for that position, which takes time. So unless the generalist is simpl
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
Exactly. I know precisely what I'm worth because I poll the market frequently. I don't need my employer to push mandatory transparency to know what I'm worth; in fact, I feel the informational asymmetry actually benefits me
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BlackBerry’s strategy shift: messaging and device management(mobiledevmemo.com)
1 points by Dartanion7 13y ago|0 comments
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
I'm also curious what inputs they use to evaluate the founder. Surely there's some objectivity to that element of the decision tree beyond "great guy, articulate, firm handshake" --- I'm thinking probably quality of
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
Gotcha, thanks.
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by Dartanion7 13y ago
This is really cool, but what about adding interactivity with the charts? My first thought when I saw the headline was that this python library just generates D3 code, but it seems to be generating some sort of a static SVG object.