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by baberuth 16y ago
Amazon seems to be quietly sniping markets from what are largely considered Apple/Google territory. I've been very happy with buying TV episodes and renting movies on Amazon for a while now and it didn't strike me as odd until I read this p
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by baberuth 16y ago
stu, i got it when trying to click through the HN link. 8:07am: tried it again because i saw your response and it worked. the upside: nice tight 3 min window to check your apache logs?
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by baberuth 16y ago
8:04am EST: Slight problem... Something is wrong with the database, please bear with us. Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings.
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by baberuth 16y ago
A great email indeed, but 500 perfect emails would be overwhelming. If its the perfect email for him, great, but for most busy people the perfect email is something like 3 sentences long.
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by baberuth 16y ago
That was unclear on my part. What I meant is that Color's valuation doesn't affect Amazon's business (obviously a simplification and subject to some overlapping macroeconomic factors). i.e. Who cares if some investments are bubbly, so lo
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by baberuth 16y ago
Don't build bubbly products. Startup/VC bubble seems to be a very popular topic in hacker circles, as if all web businesses might get wiped out when the bubble "bursts". It's wrong to think of all startups as being susceptible to the same s
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by baberuth 16y ago
Pick a small project you want to work on, then start trying to make it real. Ask for help from people around you. People like helping other people, especially if 1. you make it easy for them, 2. you seem to be putting in a genuine effort.
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by baberuth 16y ago
Love the idea. Rails Rumble a few years ago produced this: http://tablesurfing.com/ which never actually launched, but I was really hoping it would have. Comments: Without the "airbnb for food" tagline on the site, nobody would have any
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by baberuth 16y ago
to save everyone the trouble of watching a very slow video, the basic insight is: if you are working the mobile space, you need to code. there are teams of 2-4 dedicated hackers working on your idea, so if you're outsourcing deve
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by baberuth 16y ago
that was my point. the part you quoted from my comment was an idea from the original post.
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by baberuth 16y ago
Your point then that Adsense is "significantly different" seems to rely on the notion that it creates value (aiding the discovery process) rather than "merely redistribut[ing] the benefits of the trade". You've basically already pointed o
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by baberuth 16y ago
Correct pg, though for the record, I do also avoid murder whenever possible. A criticising B is not a problem. A preventing B from doing something is sinister (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness).
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by baberuth 16y ago
No, its not meaningless -- A lot of good comes from discourse, but its my opinion that HFT takes a disproportionate amount of flak for their real market impact. The financial sector at large is massive [1], and people seem to think that HFT
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by baberuth 16y ago
A lot of good points in there, but it seems to be a little bit on the "developer centric fantasy" side of things, particularly on the Traction section. Non tech cofounders that are getting 30 users before trying to find a technical cofoun
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by baberuth 16y ago
I find the "talented people not fulfilling their potential" argument terrible. That's often cited as one of the costs of HFT, but its really true of a lot of human pursuits. It just so happens that the prevailing sentiment is that finance,
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by baberuth 16y ago
If its going to sound like he's reading, I'd rather just read the it. Delivering a fully written out speech word for word in a compelling manner is really hard, so I don't mean that as a criticism, but it was a little hard to listen to.
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by baberuth 16y ago
Hi, I've been in NYC and I'm hacking obsessively and around the clock. My biggest problem has been finding a place where I can seriously plunk down and work without distraction. Would LOVE to be in a space with like minded people trying to
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by baberuth 16y ago
Reduced friction for adding places is a plausible reason for why 4square might have more venues, but what I was getting at is the order of magnitude of the difference. 10 MILLION places is a ton. Like I said above, thats like 250 NYC's. Eve
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by baberuth 16y ago
or happier.
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by baberuth 16y ago
Very cool. 10M venues is a lot, and a really hard to believe number. For example, Yelp lists ~13k restaurants in NYC (3.5k in Chicago, 4.5k in SF) In the top 10 categories for venues, Yelp NYC has 40k VENUES (restaurants, shopping, food, h
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by baberuth 16y ago
Tomato, tomato. Just splitting hairs about what people call a hustler. this post is just as easily titled "I've met a bunch of shitty hustlers". Plenty of good "business guy"/"hustler"/"business-minded, action-oriented cofounder"s have jus
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Starbucks: 20k gallons of coffee/day (and 500k in revenue)(baberuth.posterous.com)
1 points by baberuth 16y ago|0 comments
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by baberuth 16y ago
What I love about this pitch from a non-technical co-founder -- he tells us: 1. What he brings to the table, that he can/will hustle and is committed. 2. What he has already accomplished/shows that he can and will hustle. He is actively tr
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by baberuth 16y ago
very cool, worked exactly as expected. great landing page and demo, value proposition is very clear and the demo works exactly as expected. thoughts: 1. that title bar takes up a LOT of valuable screen real estate, pushing some of informati
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First 2 weeks of funemployment(baberuth.posterous.com)
1 points by baberuth 16y ago|0 comments
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by baberuth 16y ago
i'm curious exactly what this entails as well...it sounds to me like "please build me something in exchange for some equity". if there are indeed developers interested in this, I am interested in working with these developers. One thing I'
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Why eating Italian food out sucks(baberuth.posterous.com)
1 points by baberuth 16y ago|0 comments
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by baberuth 16y ago
A post about 60 second meditation exercises that drew me in with "naked girls" in the anchor text. What actually speaks to me here is the persistence and level of dedication a young James altucher applied to a cause (to be fair, naked girls
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by baberuth 16y ago
i got one of the easier ones and was confused about why this would be difficult for machines to beat. http://random.irb.hr/latexrender/pictures/bba40bf17043b0ced7...
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by baberuth 16y ago
i want to make the same bet with ed cooke.

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