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by chaz 14y ago
I don't like the amount of clock management that's in football or basketball. Baseball can drag on forever with all of the pitching changes, and is best watched with something else to do. But when getting together with friends to watch an e
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by chaz 14y ago
Hmm, oops -- late night edit fail. Originally had "Golden Globes" in there instead of Sandy. "Engaging" is probably the more appropriate word.
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by chaz 14y ago
I won't argue that it cost them precisely $0. But the marginal cost of this tweet was pretty close to free. Let's be realistic -- there's no way they had 15 FTEs fully dedicated to social media. Instead, it's 15 people from Customer Service
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by chaz 14y ago
Earned media is a part of any successful marketing strategy.
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by chaz 14y ago
The title is admittedly overcooked. But Super Bowl commercials cost $4mm but the tweet was free ...
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by chaz 14y ago
Let me offer a counterpoint to HN's cynicism. I watched the Super Bowl with tweets streaming through, it was fun and engaging to see reactions and wit to everything from plays, Beyonce, and commercials -- within seconds. If I scroll through
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by chaz 14y ago
> Amazon also promised to spend $50 million to build a facility at an unspecified site and create hundreds of jobs. With their tax advantage disappearing, Farhad Manjoo's comment about Amazon's strategy to open same-day delivery centers
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by chaz 14y ago
Some of their best stuff is in their features section: http://www.theverge.com/features/ Each one is built like its own long-form magazine article. Most other sites just lay this stuff into their standard template, but many of The Verge's
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by chaz 14y ago
Critiquing these particular lines of code or the pull request is unimportant. My takeaway was that it's hugely valuable to simply make your code available and have other people look at it. Not only can it improve your own code, but you can
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The Disappearing Sounds of Computing(chaz.me)
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by chaz 14y ago
PornHub.com also submitted an offer to buy a Super Bowl ad, but was rejected by CBS. Without a doubt, they knew it would be rejected, and were hoping for the free publicity. Based on the proposed ad, I think they got their money's worth. h
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by chaz 14y ago
If you don't have fixed demand, you may want to consider spot instances. The upside is that they can be much cheaper, but the downside is that they can disappear at any second. If you design your app around high availability, it may work fo
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by chaz 14y ago
A business can't go to the founder as its own piggybank to get out of bad decisions. It's not only a legal and accounting nightmare, but it's bad for the business, too.
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Chinese hackers infiltrate The New York Times, Wall Street Journal(poynter.org)
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by chaz 14y ago
eBay's outage in 1999 was for 22 hours [1]. That painful experience completely changed their entire internal engineering process. [1] http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/137251/Cost+...
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by chaz 14y ago
> That's less than I expected! That's still a huge amount of money ... $7mm an hour?
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by chaz 14y ago
This is a huge factor. When most people are in the office, the means of communication becomes different, in tons of little ways. For example, brainstorming sessions end with scribbles on whiteboards, and a fleet of Post-Its that say "Do Not
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by chaz 14y ago
I'm tired of pogo-sticking in and out of the various apps to get one thing done. For example, if I get an email asking if I'm ok to meet at 3pm on Friday at Joey's Cafe. Today, I need to jump to my calendar app, see if I'm available at that
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by chaz 14y ago
> A 2% increase isn't very good IMO. I'd rather look for other efficiencies that won't cost me more money. A 2% improvement is a week's worth of effort in a year at a full time job. Even a small improvement will be worth it unless there
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by chaz 14y ago
The author was speaking more about SaaS (like Google Apps), and not just IaaS hosting (like EC2) or PaaS (like Heroku). EC2 and Heroku don't compete primarily on price, but on the flexibility to scale up/down as needed. If you can offer mor
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by chaz 14y ago
Agree about social networking -- it was around in early forms, soon after the web launched: PlanetAll.com (1996; acq by Amazon for $100mm in 1998) and SixDegrees.com (1997; acq for $125mm in 2000).
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by chaz 14y ago
You can sample, too. Cookie the user with a random number, like 0-1023. If you want a ~1% sample, wrap the analytics call in a Javascript if() statement where it's executed iff n < 10. You can do this server-side, too. Record all of the
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by chaz 14y ago
There's a good thread on Quora about the price of lawyers. Without logging in, the first answer is available here: http://www.quora.com/Attorneys/Why-are-lawyers-so-expensive-... The second answer, which is also helpful, uses graphs from
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by chaz 14y ago
You can always send him an email: hal at MIT dot edu
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Hal Abelson's Letter to the MIT Community about Aaron Swartz(tech.mit.edu)
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by chaz 14y ago
Per his own LinkedIn [1], Michael Picket, the Secret Service agent, is a member of the New England Electronic Crimes Task Force Forensic Laboratory. Their website [2] has long role for the lab, but it a) supports local law enforcement (like
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by chaz 14y ago
I think EC2 is almost always going to be more expensive than bare metal servers, unless you are taking advantage of the ability to pay by the hour, or leveraging flexible pricing. Reserved instances will save quite a bit of money, but spot
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by chaz 14y ago
EC2 micro instances throttle down very heavily if you use CPU for more than a few seconds at a time. Other instances allow you to burn 100% CPU all day, but not the micros. http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instan...
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by chaz 14y ago
It appears to me that Google is simply sponsoring the deployment, and did not build and will not actively manage the installation. According to the coverage map [1], technical support is provided by Sky Packets, a company that plans, builds
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by chaz 14y ago
I wanted an app to do this, and just let me know when it was going to take less than x minutes to get to work/home. The simplest workaround was to bookmark Google Maps directions, so a single click would tell me the expected time with traff

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