Travis

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by Travis 15y ago
If you sign up for the google DPF (doubleclick for publishers) program, you get the option to tie in other ad networks. AFAIK, google's interface will manage your ad inventory for you. It says it even allows you to sell your own ads, and
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by Travis 15y ago
I agree, but it may be more useful to discuss what else was done to enable the scarcity-driven growth to succeed. Most of the time, if you try to create artificial scarcity around a product, nobody is going to see it to know how much they
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by Travis 15y ago
I'm a little lost, perhaps I'm not explaining my problem too well. I really appreciate your assistance so far, and I'll try not to waste too much more of your time or space in the HN databases. If you have a quick link about your first par
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by Travis 15y ago
I'm not sure I follow your statement. How would you recommend that I encrypt a piece of data to store into a database? It needs to be reversible (encryption, not a hash), but does not need to be reversible on the production system (the fi
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by Travis 15y ago
Why is (B) not ideal? Sounds like you get the usability (recoverable passwords) without the security issues (assuming that you properly separated the keys, etc.) I ask because I am writing an app currently that stores an SSN. The data are
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by Travis 15y ago
I have made money directly from the data. My startup scratched its own itch, and one of the byproducts was a dataset that we sold directly to another company. The price was in the low 5 figures; we estimate that we have approximately 1k t
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by Travis 15y ago
In a startup, if you "know your limits", you almost certainly aren't going to accomplish as much as you can. In an office environment, different roles are much more important. It also means that he was able to learn to code, but not to the
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by Travis 15y ago
I don't believe that someone who is capable of founding a business cannot learn web programming. Flat out don't believe it. Much of the time, you hardly need to write code as much as think logically and build a product. In fact, if it tur
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by Travis 15y ago
I don't disagree with your statements -- their is definitely a spectrum of each type of cofounder. However, out of the spectrum of idea guys, one signal I look for is their desire to pursue their idea. One great way to do that -- teach the
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by Travis 15y ago
Base your stack on the readily available talent to develop in it. If that's you, go with what you know. Any of the major stacks out there, both FOSS and commercial, will be perfectly fine for what you're looking to do.
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by Travis 15y ago
It's a very easy trap to fall into. You've heard of certain bloggers and respect other technologists because you've read their blogs. It only seems natural that someone would read yours in order to find you. However, in my personal experi
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by Travis 15y ago
Why are you writing the blog, again? If it's for accountability, great -- do it, but make it private. If it's public, you are going to spend too much time and effort working on it, when you should be working on paying clients. Additionall
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by Travis 15y ago
My company agreed to let me work 4x10 hour days a few years ago. My salary was under the market rate, and they couldn't afford any additional money (public sector). So I requested the compressed schedule, and have been able to work on my
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by Travis 15y ago
I recently have switched to half time at work so I can push forward with my startup. Worked out well for me (still have some outside income), and for my company (they were dependent on me as a single point of failure, so me leaving over 6
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by Travis 15y ago
I recently purchased 3 sets of AA Energizer brand rechargables. They kept their charge in some of my electronics for all of 24 hours in many cases. They seem like a great idea, but in my recent (last 2 years) experiment, the performance ac
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by Travis 15y ago
I don't think that's necessarily the sensible question. Aamazon built the kindle. It is their to decide what to do with it. You and I have no right to usurp their product because we want to alter the benefit. If you don't like the DRM or
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by Travis 15y ago
To be fair, alcohol (ab)use is highly correlated with depression symptoms. The nervous system depression, however, is not necessarily the same mechanism that causes psychological depression. (lots of available articles on alcohol and depr
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by Travis 15y ago
I'll take more time than I should to respond to your comment. It doesn't deserve to be in this discussion, as it's just a knee-jerk reaction with little substance. In short, I'll just say this: * "media companies" is an unnecessarily broad
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by Travis 15y ago
"Not per se. But it is withdrawal of extra freedoms/features that electronic media and the internet provide e.g. nearly-free copying and distribution and random access." This just means that these attributes (sharing, copying, etc.) are not
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by Travis 15y ago
I'm a little unclear why you are referencing patent law. Anyhow, it seems strange that you feel like you have a right to something produced by someone else. I'm not sure they should be able to make laws making circumvention illegal. But,
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by Travis 15y ago
Have we really lost any freedoms? You can still get any book on paper, and will for the near future. You can still swap books all you like. If people are willing to give up their right to loan books in exchange for the convenience of eBoo
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by Travis 15y ago
Have you actually read that this plan is in the works, or that someone at amazon intends to do it? Otherwise, it sounds an awful lot like a slippery slope fallacy.
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by Travis 15y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I suppose the counterargument would be that you can't lend just one book at a time, or something similar. However, that is as much a consequence of packing all your books into one device as it is amazo
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by Travis 15y ago
Although I don't use it, I think that Bing has forced google to up its game. I doubt the recent Panda update would have been as soon, as widespread (it even had a follow on update), or as publicized if not for bing. Guess that's not really
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by Travis 15y ago
A long and arduous process with a job at the end makes it a long fought battle that you were victorious in. Getting a rejection after that (and all the psychological baggage that comes with a company "rejecting you") makes it a bitter loss.
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by Travis 15y ago
It also allows you to incentivize his participation with compensation. If you really want him to network for you, make his equity based on that. I would also take it as a compliment. It sounds like he just wants a way to participate.
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by Travis 15y ago
Being at the whim of another company potentially places you in a very compromising position. I wouldn't do it. It doesn't sound like there are any technological or product dev advantages to using their framework. Even if that's not what y
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by Travis 15y ago
In my experience, for #1, Google claims to penalize paid links, yet when I look at (my) major competitors, they all utilize paid link networks. Didn't take very much investigation on my part to find it, either -- just ran a backlink checke
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by Travis 15y ago
For me, informed consent is the issue here. If I sign up for your website and then log in, I think it's probably fair game to target things to them. In fact, that's generally the point. My real world analogy is an invisible store employee
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by Travis 15y ago
Given that paypal already has their own credit card, they probably have decent relationships with the current leaders. Seems much more likely to me that they would simply join the credit card cabal, rather than challenging it. Also, mobile

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