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by brd 14y ago
I agree with everything you've said except "doesn't have a further scalable business model". They've already created an advertising platform, they've already got hooks into websites all over the web, is there any reason they can't expand th
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by brd 14y ago
I think Facebook still has lots of opportunities even if its growth stagnates and its coolness has long since vanished. Considering their size, reach, and engagement its not unreasonable to think that Facebook could dramatically expand its
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by brd 14y ago
I love rule 64 Don't get too good at what you don't like doing. Work will gravitate to the most competent people As an enterprise dev, I'm always weary of being pigeonholed. I've witnessed it on many occasions yet I don't think I've ever
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by brd 15y ago
"Furthermore, you’ll notice that each Project Card displays up to ten people per card. This again is by design, as 10 is the sum of the first three prime numbers (2, 3, 5)." If this didn't let you know it was an April Fool's joke, you sho
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The Freight Train That Is Android (March 2011)(abovethecrowd.com)
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Let’s fill London with startups...(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by brd 15y ago
I think there is a 3rd question that begs to be asked: Are you building yourself as a skilled professional? "Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low
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by brd 15y ago
They may be trying to target a different demographic of users initially but I see no actual differentiator between the two? College campuses are not remote islands so why would I go with beagle - a marketplace with a smaller user base - whe
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by brd 15y ago
Am I missing something or is this just a http://www.taskrabbit.com/ copycat?
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by brd 15y ago
I agree with you on the guilt evoked by the site design. I immediately second guessed whether or not it was worth downloading and ultimately decided I would be willing to pay if it proved valuable. I reviewed the table of contents and saw t
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by brd 15y ago
So instead of giving up on the flawed idea of data caps, they are putting the onus of caps on app makers instead of customers? I can only imagine that this new spin on an old strategy will have all the same problems.
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by brd 15y ago
Notice that they clearly state that the firewall is between the "Android team" and Motorola. Just because the android team and the moto team aren't talking doesn't mean there isn't strategy being driven down from the top to point them in a
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by brd 15y ago
As an enterprise developer (i.e. one of the guys working in the big, non-technical companies) I have been one to advocate and implement parts of agile on various projects. I will fully admit that Agile is mostly hype and that adhering close
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by brd 15y ago
A nice feature would be the inclusion of essays. I think they should be treated as second class citizens on your site but it could add significant value for people browsing by tags. Awesome project by the way, will definitely be using this.
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Privacy still matters - conversion rates with Facebook authentication(navfund.com)
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by brd 15y ago
I could be mistaken here but pushing out negative marketing before you release your product seems like an awfully bad idea for a startup. This isn't the kind of attention you want and you run the risk of completely turning off potential cus
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by brd 15y ago
Reading the comments, theres a lot of disagreement (for some valid reasons) but this list is getting more hate than it deserves. If you consider that the MAJORITY of programmers are essentially corporate code monkeys this is actually a very
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by brd 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Considering they have ~42% of all users (assuming the billion internet user estimate) there is only so much growth available from relying on their current model of acquiring users and serving ads to them. I wo
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by brd 15y ago
85% of revenue is from advertising. So either Zynga controls 80% of all non advertising revenue (aka the remaining 15%) or that 12% figure includes advertisements served on Zynga pages. Is it reasonable to conclude that Zynga constitutes 80
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Facebook IPO To Raise $5B, Filing Wednesday, Morgan Stanley In Lead(techcrunch.com)
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by brd 15y ago
Basically you're asking why someone can bare the responsibility of starting a startup but not manage an existing organization. A startup is basically a entity catapulting itself into the unknown with the goal of eventually creating a viable
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by brd 15y ago
Did her employer pay for the degree? Does she have to stay with the company for a certain amount of time before her education credit gets "vested"? (for lack of a better term) 18% is definitely unreasonable in my opinion. If she is looking
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by brd 15y ago
The higher up the food chain, the more concise you want to be and your article feels verbose to me. The line: "Since I'm a big proponent of public clouds, my definition also includes the use of virtualization, but yours doesn't have to." is
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by brd 15y ago
I did not mean to portray Amazon as some benevolent 3rd party in the industry. Amazon was most certainly milking the publishers for what they were worth but they were doing their best to ensure that the content itself stayed reasonably pric
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by brd 15y ago
Was this response really such low quality that it warranted a downvote? Or are we just not allowed to voice any criticism of Apple on HN anymore?
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by brd 15y ago
I remember when this happened and I remember how pissed I was at Apple for the move they pulled. Amazon was essentially protecting the publishers from themselves (think music industry) and Jobs came in and threw the entire arrangement out t
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by brd 15y ago
Always refreshing to see someone advocating paper prototyping. There is nothing better than starting with an unbiased blank canvas when trying to brain storm the best user experience possible.
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by brd 15y ago
Its really not quite as bad as it looks at first glance. Step 2: "we design an interactive prototype" allows them to get the feedback that really makes more agile methods work. You don't need to constantly iterate during development if you
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by brd 15y ago
Much of it depends on what you'd like to do. SAP's bread and butter is the NetWeaver Application Server (the ABAP based platform that holds together most of the core modules SAP provides). Its by far my main area of focus and its the techno
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by brd 15y ago
Trying to understand SAP processes is an incredibly difficult task to take on, especially as an outsider, and I'm not sure whats available in the form of relevant business modules for a developer edition license which would make it even tou

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