Maro

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   by Maro 13y ago

   Numbers of registrations is a vanity metric. How many used the core product? How many retained? How many converted to paying? How many told their friends?
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   by Maro 13y ago

   Traffic is a vanity metric.
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   by Maro 13y ago

   What you say sounds cool. I wrote a bunch of Paxos implementations for distributed databases in C++: https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/tree/master/src/Framewo... Can you share your Go code?
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   by Maro 13y ago

   I'd prefer to keep it simple.
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   by Maro 13y ago

   I hypothesize these types of arguments would fail if you quantified them, ie. compared the actual amount spent investing (VC money, people, manhours) in (1) Angry Birds type startups versus (2) training medical researchers, medical research
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   by Maro 13y ago

   I downvoted you because your comment doesn't add to the discussion. Maybe if you explained your position wrt. to the parent in greater detail.
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   by Maro 13y ago

   It'd be nice if the landing page explained how you're different from all the other options!
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   by Maro 13y ago

   But Instagram didn't make money as a company for itself, Instagram itself was sold and made money for the founders/investors. The two are not the same.
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   by Maro 13y ago

   For a company that is doing HR/office/mood stuff very well, like the company I work for (Prezi), these activities could not be outsourced because they are part of delivering the core values and feeling of the company and are instr
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    by Maro 13y ago

    I scanned it and I think it's awesome. I'll go back to it later probably. Having said that I wouldn't recommend anyone to read this. Instead, there's this awesome gem, which I have read multiple times. Don't believe
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    by Maro 13y ago

    I upvoted the OP because I'm curious about the discussion it will generate here on HN.
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    by Maro 13y ago

    Personal qualities matter a lot more than what you say here, so I can't tell. IF you'd be hired, it'd be a junior position.
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    by Maro 13y ago

    Have you tried Prezi? http://prezi.com (I work there.)
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    by Maro 13y ago

    https://github.com/prezi/plotserver
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    Show HN: Plotserver, a node app for plotting simple timeseries and other XY data(engineering.prezi.com)

    3 points by Maro 13y ago|1 comments
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    by Maro 13y ago

    It's built on top of git?
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    by Maro 14y ago

    Thanks!
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    by Maro 14y ago

    Why is this interesting?
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    by Maro 14y ago

    It doesn't necessarily. It's simple to think up of economic models where, just because some people are willing to pay for something, doesn't mean it makes sense for someone to sell it. In this case, it clearly does not. This type of (comple
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    by Maro 14y ago

    I was at their meetup yesterday. What you're implying is definitely _not_ the vibe. I thought Netflix OSS is great. They're opensourcing something like 30 projects, putting on super well organized meetups with expo like rooms where you can
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    by Maro 14y ago

    This is very cool, but I use Evernote for this sort of writing.
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    by Maro 14y ago

    Writing a distributed database is pretty challenging. That's part of the reason I started a NoSQL company some time ago. Unfortunately it failed due to lack of funding, but if you're interested, here's a technical write-up: http://arxiv.or
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    by Maro 14y ago

    Whenever I see demos like this, I wonder why we don't have full-blown WebGL games out there? What are the limiting factors? Can somebody explain the issues?
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    by Maro 14y ago

    Hey, fellow failed entrepreneur here. My startup failed about 6-9 months ago. It was a very difficult time, our business partners went back on their promises and with that 3+ years of my life went down the drain. It was a terrible couple of
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    My dead databae startup's tech post mortem as a paper: ScalienDB...(arxiv.org)

    1 points by Maro 14y ago|0 comments
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    by Maro 14y ago

    Thanks, this looks interesting. Actually I'm developing/maintaining something like this at my job, as part of the Data Services team. Similar to this, it uses Google Charts and is a node.js app. It will be open-sources in a couple of months
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    by Maro 14y ago

    My use of Mathematica is usually reading some data (generated from a simulation, say) from a CSV file and then doing something with it and plotting it. What I dislike is that simple things like aggregation, slicing and dicing the data is ki
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    by Maro 14y ago

    I think R is just as terrible as Matlab. Personally I prefer Mathematica, but I even stopped using that, it's just so painful to use with everything being lists.
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    by Maro 14y ago

    Take me as an example. My Forever Project is Physics. I have a degree in both CS and Physics. I made the decision years ago to work in the industry as a programmer, because it's more fun and pays better than being an academic, especially wh
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    by Maro 14y ago

    If you're interested in watching Physics lectures online, don't miss Susskind's excellent series of lectures from Stanford. http://www.lecture-notes.co.uk/susskind/