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by awad 11y ago
Do you have any actual data to back up that claim?
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by awad 11y ago
Twitter took RSS as a concept and humanized it
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by awad 11y ago
If it's key to your startup, pay them the money they deserve.
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by awad 11y ago
Companies that don't employ people as talented as you probably are. There are lots of them, and they have plenty of dollars to spend on services that fulfill their needs. Often, technology is not the core strength of these companies.
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by awad 11y ago
I'm not sure that people actually want to do any of that. At least not the average person.
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by awad 11y ago
Precisely why they charter flights. In fact, if I recall correctly, there was a global lockup of all available freight flights out of China going to Apple and no one else during the last iPhone spike. Another competitive advantage for Apple
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by awad 12y ago
Android
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by awad 12y ago
HN entitlement never ceases to amaze me
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by awad 12y ago
This is the real problem. SF is loathe to build out skyscrapers even though it's been proven that dense urban areas are the most efficient way to live. The earthquake argument isn't really a sound one in this day and age so the on
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by awad 12y ago
Millennial is a widely accepted term that means very specific things to marketers. Scott is not at all wrong to say that very many of the (often older) executives of today frankly do not understand millennials and thus a lot of today's
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by awad 12y ago
Was "bish" intentional? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bish
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by awad 12y ago
This is incredibly useful
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by awad 12y ago
Steve Jobs had a good quote on this: "I'm trying to think of a good analogy. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks. But as people moved more towards urban centers, people started to get into cars. I think PCs are g
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by awad 12y ago
> NeXT was a commercial failure. Pixar, however, was not.
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by awad 12y ago
At previous company incorporated in New York (oh, to be young and naive) with just 3 technical co-founders we were slapped with a ~30kish fine for not having worker's compensation. When trying to explain the situation to the state, tha
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by awad 12y ago
I like it, thanks for your input! Btw, big fan of what you're doing at Penflip. Definitely appreciate making Git more accessible to non-developers (which is basically what we're doing with our CMS)
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by awad 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! While I'm not sure of the practicality of the first point (as in the people who care enough about a SaaS site to make improvements also being able to send a pull request), I certainly agree with it in principle
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How we allow anyone to make and publish changes to our site(eng.pixlee.com)
26 points by awad 12y ago|4 comments
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by awad 12y ago
I imagine something like a new airplane design would be approaching that (speaking from ignorance here, I have no idea what that actually looks like for Boeing). Also, what about home loans?
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by awad 12y ago
It's really not that serious.
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by awad 12y ago
We just switched to Statamic and could not be happier. We modified it a bit so that our staging server has the admin panel enabled while still being backed by a git repo. Every save action commits and pushes to master, giving our non-techni
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by awad 12y ago
I think they're competing with https://addy.co A thing to note: while it might seem redundant in the USA...sharing a location with someone in many parts of the world is difficult.
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by awad 12y ago
I used Paypal to pay for something in-store recently and they identified me by matching the selfie that I took in the app (that showed up on their iPad screen tied to my name) to the same one shown on the app on my phone that I held up for
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by awad 12y ago
The lower end of that is perfectly in line with what you'd be paying other providers for commercial services.
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by awad 13y ago
J1 Visa is a breeze and is meant specifically for this
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by awad 13y ago
Similar but nowhere near as intense in Manhattan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Avenue_Viaduct
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Play classic video games in style with OpenEmu for Mac(theverge.com)
2 points by awad 13y ago|0 comments
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by awad 13y ago
Bought the book. His story on Priceonomics was very moving.
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by awad 13y ago
I'm relatively ignorant on BitCoin but would this not be a huge arbitrage opportunity...?
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by awad 13y ago
The personnel costs of a 7 person startup really jumped out at me. Am I the only one that was surprised?

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