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by cloudbrain 15y ago
Just say "We only send you clean clothes in great condition." Saying you donate the crap that no one wants is offensive.
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Facts: 1) GoDaddy has been doing crazy stunts forever (see rejected Super Bowl ads) 2) GoDaddy is the largest registrar, with 31% market share ( http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global ) Given the above, I would say: 1)
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Quote of the day: "If your software miscalculates the path of a space probe, you can't finesse your way out of trouble by saying that your code is patriotic, or avant-garde, or any of the other dodges people use in nontechnical fields."
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Interesting that completely missing from this conversation is: -- Their website design -- Their code (Rails? Jquery?) -- Their hosting / scalability / "cloud" strategy -- Source control methods, dev environment, tools -- APIs, "ecosystem",
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
I would buy that in a heartbeat. My two year old loves too watch movies and look at pictures on the iPad but can't help herself from pushing the Home button. The iPad would be great for car trips with the right case - and the home button i
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Techmeme, like Google, is a great and valuable resource. However, the debate is whether or not these aggregators sites should show up in search results instead of the original source. I use Techmeme all day long, but don't expect it to ever
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Malcolm Gladwell defined talent as "the love of practicing". That's the best definition I've heard.
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
The other way to look at it is what if Google HAD NOT bought YouTube. What if it had gone to Microsoft? Or Comcast? Sometimes keeping something away from your competitors is enough of a reason.
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
It is worth remembering how airlines price tickets: Pricing is not based on how much it costs the airline to get you to your destination (i.e. distance and fuel). Airlines long ago figured out how to extract the most money for various flig
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
All very true. Also a very good, practical and easy read: "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060007737/
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Google wants more people to use that Internet more often. That's it. The more users (web, mobile, tv, whatever) the more money they make (in the big picture). If they can help the carriers get more people using smart phones, they are happy.
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Best advice I've ever heard: "End the fight as fast as possible." This isn't the movies. There are no "cool moves". If you have never done it before, striking another person is emotionally difficult. Your biggest problems are fear, self-dou
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
My wife always tells me when I'm "programming with my eyes". She says my eyes get this look and she can tell that, even though we are having dinner or a discussion, that in my head I'm looking at code. She's almost always right.
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Disclaimer: Everything I know about Hollywood I learned from watching Entourage... A big difference between breaking in to the script writing world and breaking in to the web app / internet startup world is the amount of effort required to
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
This is why I withdraw all funds from PayPal every weekday morning. PayPal has been the sole payment solution for my software company for more than 5 years. 99% of all of my money, my families money and my employees salaries goes through P
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
User's are terrified that an app will spam their friends. The users that aren't are pre-teens that don't care or older adults that don't know what spam is. On one of our apps, we improved FB connnect usage by 50% by adding the disc
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by cloudbrain 16y ago
Seriously? Who wiped your butt when you crapped your pants? Who taught you to ride a bike and held you when you skinned your knees? Who bought you your first computer and fed you and drove you to school and held you when you were scared a