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by a4agarwal 16y ago
those are examples, not absolutes. You can't spend your whole life using commodity products and then think you can build a better one by adding a feature. Audi and VW are essentially the same company. Have you driven an Audi? The polish and
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
My dad owns two Lexus's. I've driven them extensively. I agree the attention to detail and quality are high. In my opinion, Lexus does fall into the "great experience" category. I guess your "german cars suck" comment got me riled up. Windo
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
The exact quote was, "Until you use an iPhone, a Mac, drive a BMW or Audi, you don't even realize how great the experience can be" I never said that you can't use Windows, an Android, or drive another car. But at some point you need to us
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
Maybe Windows 7 is better than OS X. But to get there, I'm sure the Windows team used OS X extensively to see what it does well, what it does poorly. Someone who hasn't even tried the best has no way to build something better.
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
For the record, original author is not allowing my comment on his blog (identical to comment above). And he has approved a comment that was entered after mine.
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
by that logic, i could get away with not paying my credit card bill by simply not paying it.
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
"If the best practice for a merchant is to suspend an account when someone doesn't pay" no it's not!!! i prefer that my credit card stays active if i'm late. I prefer that my health care is active if my payment is late. I love that my cell
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
you can make your own assumptions about acceptable ways of canceling a monthly service. you can also read the terms of service and abide by what you said ok to. personally, it seems like a lot of people are trying to whine their way out of
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
This doesn't seem so terrible to me. You entered a contract with Zipcar where you pay them an annual fee for their services. Failing to pay the fee doesn't automatically break that contract. Think of this way: what if you could simply stop
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Bringing fairness to the New York rental market(apartmenthero.com)
2 points by a4agarwal 16y ago|0 comments
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Wannabe angels: Watch the video of every speech from AngelConf(venturebeat.com)
14 points by a4agarwal 16y ago|0 comments
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Make a great product, gain a user. Have great support, earn a fan(sachin.posterous.com)
49 points by a4agarwal 16y ago|9 comments
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
"You can't say that coding in objective-c is as enjoyable as coding in ruby" Really? I thought I was allowed to voice my opinions on my blog. Can you call something "trolling" if it's on your own blog?
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
Maybe there needs to be "Rails gems app store" where we only allow gems that have gone through an approval process :). (j/k :) )
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
Thank you, I agree 100% and this is basically the gist of my post. That's why there is so much fragmentation in ruby gems. When one gem fails to do something, a developer thinks, "well I can just do this myself and do it better!" And do you
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
Mark, in no way did i trash on the Rails framework. I basically said that I find 3rd party frameworks to be less reliable than I have seen on other platforms. I also said that being on Rails has still helped Posterous tremendously and I'm a
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
The funny thing here is that I'm Garry's cofounder, and I don't live in any of the neighborhoods he recommends. Maybe he's trying to tell me to move :) When Garry and I moved to SF to start Posterous, we moved to SOMA since apartments are a
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
On the internet, there are few barriers to entry. It's incredibly cheap and easy to build most startups these days. That's not where the value is. The value is that you think you can do it bigger and better than anyone else. Except for mayb
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
while i agree you can raise money with no beer drinking and pure mechanics, my whole point is you're optimizing for the money and not the person. for me, grabbing dinner with investors, getting to know them, getting them to know me, is much
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If you can't buy your investor a beer, don't take their money(sachin.posterous.com)
133 points by a4agarwal 16y ago|57 comments
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
thanks! well said.
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
Ok here you go: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/posterous-importer/ There's information and a direct link to a plugin that lets you export your site out of Posterous to Wordpress. We think we're a better service than they are, but
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
and what will a normal user do with that text file? We find it much more effective to have an API that other people (like you) can use to write an exporter to whatever other service they wish. Maybe you should just write a Posterous exporte
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
techtruth, we do offer your data in standard formats: XML through our API. See: http://posterous.com/api/reading What exactly are you looking for? We're open to suggestions and will gladly expand our API to keep Posterous open and flexibl
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
1. I hope we add this soon 2. I'm going to take my chances among the HN community and say: I think this is low priority because i. Most other services don't even offer import. Posterous offers import from (soon to be) 15+ services. this is
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
I wouldn't even call them "Tumblr themes." These were just blog themes, owned by a third party, who licensed them to us for use on Posterous. They just happened to be on Tumblr first, but don't have any other affiliation to that service.
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Posterous Targets Ning In Massive Switching Campaign. Who Is Next?(techcrunch.com)
40 points by a4agarwal 16y ago|17 comments
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Don't let being the CEO get in your way of working on the product(sachin.posterous.com)
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
Hey guys. I'm the cofounder of Posterous. Yes, someone did figure out how to post to Dustin's site today. This security hole is now fixed. We had a specific problem with the way we dealt with SPF records. Dustin didn't set any up, and there
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by a4agarwal 16y ago
Hey guys. I'm the cofounder of Posterous. Yes, someone did figure out how to post to Dustin's site today. This security hole is now fixed. We had a specific problem with the way we dealt with SPF records. Dustin didn't set any up, and there

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