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by ballard 13y ago
This is how I imagine this department operates: http://youtu.be/fKRV40LZSuY (Brazil)
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by ballard 13y ago
I don't know, that's why I asked. What is FBA and how are they different from Shipwire?
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by ballard 13y ago
That's an anecdotal example. Amazon is different in that Bezos has enough room to dial back reinvestment and generate more cash or turn up reinvestment to reduce apparent profit. Profit doesn't just magically appear, costs and pr
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by ballard 13y ago
For someone ignorant of physical product businesses, can someone please explain how this is better or different that existing logistics vendors?
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeah, it's closer to a necessity product but not usually an impulse buy (unless say if a woman were pregnant). This makes it less necessary to have it delivered within X minutes.
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by ballard 13y ago
I like that. That's clever.
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by ballard 13y ago
150 tiny orders is like cutting down a forest with a herring. Catering events is where the real cash is at. Large universities like Stanford operate like cities with 100s of autonomous departments free to choose whichever vendor/s th
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. Gotta find a problem and a solution and make money at it. Otherwise, it's not survivable.
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by ballard 13y ago
It depends what net profit % was. Businesses that lose money on every sale are not survivable. They need to track all of their costs and see if it's going to be remotely profitable.
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by ballard 13y ago
I could also get used to delivered deserts. Esp delivered by quadcopter.
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by ballard 13y ago
Is there anything similar in Paris already?
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by ballard 13y ago
Talking to someone in the baked goods manufacturing business might save a whole lot of pain. Some markets aren't occupied for a reason and others just haven't been explored. But if it's at all successful, they're gonna g
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by ballard 13y ago
My hats off to folks that execute on something. What's the end game? It seems like premeditated failure into murderously brutal markets where distribution is painful. If they're going to do it themselves they're going to le
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by ballard 13y ago
Seems like a hard to scale lifestyle brand because delivery and manufacturing are going to hurt (time and $). It's more of a fit for Shark Tank after they've tested that it can generate profit. And if they ask for too much %, jus
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by ballard 13y ago
Adoption can be modeled to depend on ease-of-use driven by apparent need, influenced by a user's risk-appetite. But also popularity, being a differential equation, where it's rate of change is proportional to the number of users.
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by ballard 13y ago
Zerigo DNS is free and solid.
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by ballard 13y ago
GPG in the same boat, and DANE & DTLS.
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by ballard 13y ago
s/app/lib/
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World's fastest table tennis robot vs top human player (kuka-timoboll.com)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Killing off popular products is one way to keep them cool for a comeback.
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#WithSyria – Take a picture of yourself with a red balloon (virgin.com)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. It's configuration management. A setting maybe needed per app, per process, per thread, per class|module, per subclass|include/extended module, per instance or per method call. (Phew.) And that's probably only 90% of
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by ballard 13y ago
Ran an email hosting service and used zimbra. Email migration (through acquiring failed shops that were tech clueless) and replication is nontrivial because of edge cases. Backup, backup, backup and test a zillion times before doing it fo
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by ballard 13y ago
If anyone wants to see the MVVM (MVCP) pattern in Rails 3 action, the diaspora codebase on github is a good place to look. We also add our own standards to Rails: app/clocks/ # clockwork app/hacks/early&#x
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by ballard 13y ago
The Fountain
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by ballard 13y ago
Feedback on this from both sides of the table. Every dev esp. entry level students list the same keywords: Java, Oracle, Apache, ... Zzz. Recent specific accomplishments that furthered tech or business plz. What makes you uniquely relevan
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeah. Depends if the recruiter was retained or contigent.
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by ballard 13y ago
One of 'pg essays is about this. So finding low risk / low investment ways to work with someone solving a real problem cuts through most of the bullshit.
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by ballard 13y ago
SRE
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by ballard 13y ago
Comments that add no value while the hard stuff isn't documented: knowledge hoarding. Over-engineered, massive codebases: job security.

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