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by chaz 13y ago
Check out http://www.airpair.com/ , https://helpouts.google.com , and https://www.liveninja.com/ . I haven't used any of them, but I think potential in this space, especially outside of the t
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by chaz 13y ago
TV still has plenty of life in it. Be careful of those graphs with a non-zero y-axis minimum. But there is a shift happening. The biggest question to me is whether brand advertising dollars are/can/will shift with it. We need new
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by chaz 13y ago
This might provide you some insight: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Slow-Down-Loop.aspx In all seriousness, adding interstitials can provide value. If the login performance has high variance, it's better to s
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How to Create Motion in Still Photographs Using the Parallax Effect(laughingsquid.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
Product Management might be a role worth considering. There simply aren't enough technically-savvy PMs in tech companies.
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by chaz 13y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation in the field of Information Technology, has been awarded nine honorary doctorates from various internation
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Efficiency with Sublime Text and Ruby(thunderboltlabs.com)
1 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
Google's done several commercials, well before any of the recent furor. One of the first was "Parisian Love" which aired during the Superbowl in 2010. The more memorable one was "Dear Sophie" in 2011 which got a lot
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by chaz 13y ago
I use DO and AWS for different projects because they meet different needs. Of course there are going to be places where one is better suited than the other in both performance and price. For example, one of my projects requires 1TB of drive
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by chaz 13y ago
I also find navigating through Google helpful when a company has multiple TLDs for different countries, or different companies in different TLDs own the same name. Google is great at knowing what I want. A variation on this one is when I kn
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by chaz 13y ago
In 2009, when Farmville was the New Hotness, I checked it out to see what all the fuss was. After all, it was rumored to be minting $1 million per day. Soon after, I saw that a lot of my friends were playing. Girlfriends were getting boyfri
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China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Education Through Labor(online.wsj.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
Google Voice for credit cards is ... Google Wallet. Or at least, it was supposed to have been. Page killed it off before this year's I/O. http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/05/google-kills-its-pla.
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Process Earth Science Data on AWS With NASA / NEX Public Data Sets(aws.typepad.com)
1 points by chaz 13y ago|0 comments
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$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes(coindesk.com)
175 points by chaz 13y ago|173 comments
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by chaz 13y ago
Linkbait title aside, it's actually a helpful example for directing a database novice on when to not use a document store. I could have used this post a few times in the past few years.
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by chaz 13y ago
From the WSJ (paywall): The acquisition offers a new sign of consolidation in the market for digital content, where niche Web publishers are expanding their audiences by merging with rivals and buying providers of other genres. Allo
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by chaz 13y ago
Shouldn't you be blaming the site for only giving you only one option? Why didn't they provide a second?
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by chaz 13y ago
The problem is that there's usually not much new to report after a short period time. After 9/11, the broadcast and cable news channels went into non-stop 24/7 coverage with no commercials. After a week, they started doing co
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by chaz 13y ago
The premise that this article is attacking seems weird. Did anyone (except maybe other link-baiting journalists) believe that the Twitter IPO was a valid positive indicator that the US economy was improving at a macro level?
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by chaz 13y ago
Two reasons: people form habits early and young people are hard to reach. The first one is simple: Facebook and other social apps are about network effects and habits: checking daily to see what your friend are up to, while sharing the same
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by chaz 13y ago
I think the Twitter IPO is very good for startups. The wealth event for a lot of employees unlocks a pool of talented employees who are flush with experience, ready to take on new challenges, and armed with a network. A bit of money in the
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Thoughts on the Google Nexus 7 from the perspective of a longtime iOS user (tuaw.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
Cool. How did you find your first customers?
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by chaz 13y ago
I think we agree more than disagree, but I still take issue with your statement of "more efficient IT heads" and that they need to be "weeded out." It's not a type of thinking -- there was a clear business reason. R
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by chaz 13y ago
You might be surprised. Supporting extra stuff can have serious IT costs. When the head of IT says it's going require x dollars, y FTEs, or z weeks in schedule slippage to bring on that support, the CEO turns to the VP and says, &quot
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by chaz 13y ago
NY's own health exchange received 10 million visits by evening of the first day. That seems like a lot of traffic for 20 million residents. As of Oct 28, only 37k people have enrolled in insurance. If the numbers are all true, the traf
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by chaz 13y ago
Braintree and Square, too. Maybe more so than Stripe.
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PayPal processed $44 billion in 2013 Q3 alone. It's miles ahead of everyone else right now. That can obviously change, but when a the slow giant gets a little quicker on it's feet, everyone notices.
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by chaz 13y ago
Great story, but also shows how terrific Brandon is at drawing people's stories out.

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