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by chaz 14y ago
Have you tried Hertz On Demand? I haven't yet, but it sounds very competitive to Zipcar. There are locations throughout cities, no membership fees, similar pricing, and time reservations. I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about
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by chaz 14y ago
The app asked his friends if it was ok, but obviously not him, as he was not a Facebook user at the time.
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by chaz 14y ago
One of the comments explains it -- the mobile app uploads all contacts. So when he entered in his phone number, existing Facebook users using the mobile app were matched because they had his phone number in their contacts.
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by chaz 14y ago
I agree with the direction of your points, but not the magnitudes. Justin Bieber, Kendrick Lamar, Smashing Pumpkins, and Louis CK are already big stars who made it largely through the use of labels, and are thus bad examples. Independent ar
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by chaz 14y ago
Justin Bieber had just 70k YT views [1] before he was discovered by Scooter Braun. He didn't make it big until he was signed with Braun and Usher. 70k views in 2008 wasn't nothing, but I don't think it's reasonable to assume he would have g
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by chaz 14y ago
Agree, but it does debunk the suspicion of artificially constrained supply. Phones are too hot and cycle too quickly to string out sales.
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by chaz 14y ago
I've bought a MBP every year for 6 years. I spend so much time on them that it's absolutely worth it to get increased performance and space. My current rMBP has 16GB RAM and 512 GB SSD -- more than enough. But I'll get the next rMBP for one
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by chaz 14y ago
In addition to bcbrown's comment, trust/security is a factor. Neighbors may allow their kids to play in the hallway or go down to the lobby and check the mail on their own. But if there's a sense that the neighbors aren't known, then parent
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by chaz 14y ago
I agree, but it's an easy thing for Google to do, and takes away a distraction when comparing the two solutions.
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by chaz 14y ago
I disagree. You're concerned about polluting the marketplace when, in fact, the marketplace is already polluted. There are already poor Rails programmers who work for $15/hour -- prob not in the US, but certainly elsewhere. It's not just pr
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by chaz 14y ago
That's somewhat true, but it sounds like one of the goals is to get general feedback on the Android platform and its ecosystem of apps as well. For example, Path does a beautiful job using rich notifications in 4.1 (you see the uploaded pho
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by chaz 14y ago
It's amazing how many people put up with terrible software at work, complain about it, are powerless to do anything about it, and simply plod on. Custom tools with very fixable gaps don't get closed; old versions of licensed software don't
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by chaz 14y ago
There's also the "hero night." It's pulling off an all nighter to accomplish a seemingly impossible task with a hard deadline. This happens about once a year, and it was in April for me this year. The company had 24 hours for an opportunity
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by chaz 14y ago
I don't think this is a marketing technique. I think Google + LG have genuinely screwed this one up through underestimation of demand, manufacturing/supply problems, or both. There's too much competition in phones right now for them to give
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by chaz 14y ago
Terrible is right. And I'm viewing from my Nexus 4.
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by chaz 14y ago
Silicone keyboard skins cut down on typing noise. It's a little weird at first, but I've found them to be helpful at keeping debris out as well as being the guy typing in a meeting without people looking at me. I always bring earbuds with m
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Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet(theverge.com)
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by chaz 14y ago
To be fair to Chernin, he's a board member, not a leadership executive. Most Twitter employees will never meet him and many may not even know who he is (or the other board members). Smaller companies have a board that's much closer to the e
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by chaz 14y ago
I think one of the goals of the project is to seen what develops when bandwidth is increased by 2+ orders of magnitude. The constraints suddenly change and it's hard to predict where it might lead. Think about our connections today and what
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by chaz 14y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but remember that while you may be saying "learn dot," your users/customers are saying "Hey, you should check out learn dot dot com." You can train your team, but you can't train your customers.
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by chaz 14y ago
I had to keep hitting the "Proceed" button dozens of times in order for it to succeed. Finally got the Google Checkout popup to work properly and completed the order. If you see it being marked as sold out, refresh or clear cookies. Apparen
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by chaz 14y ago
Nice work. The success, though, isn't his specific model. It's that Silver was able to market the idea that using statistical models is better than a table full of talking heads at predicting an outcome. And that a "dead heat" doesn't mean
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by chaz 14y ago
The number of possible outcomes is not the same as the probabilities of those outcomes. If I have a weighted coin that shows heads 90% of the time, there are two possible outcomes, but I'm happy to bet you $1 heads each time we flip the coi
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by chaz 14y ago
Here's one from Bluefin Labs: http://thecrowdwire.org/post/35128521367/our-live-social-med...
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by chaz 14y ago
Google Nexus devices didn't ship with Flash preinstalled on the device.
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by chaz 14y ago
AT&T and Verizon both offer shared plans.
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by chaz 14y ago
I wrote this comment on a prior discussion about this: > SD vs HD, is dependent upon who you ask. The CEA, which represents the TV makers, says that anything with at least 720 lines is HDTV, thus enabling 1024x768 to be called HDTV. ATS
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by chaz 14y ago
re: SD vs HD, is dependent upon who you ask. The CEA, which represents the TV makers, says that anything with at least 720 lines is HDTV, thus enabling 1024x768 to be called HDTV. ATSC, which develops broadcast standards, says that HDTV sho
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by chaz 14y ago
Please note that this article was written in 2007.
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by chaz 14y ago
Unfortunately, I don't have concrete data. I should have been more careful to recommend that the author start testing with one post per day, and measure from there. It does depend upon the page, though. If your posts get high engagement, it

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