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by dangrover 8y ago
This comment resonated with me. I have always felt this way as an engineer, whether it be a startup or a big company. I was always at kids table by virtue of being an engineer. I solved it by becoming a product manager. I miss engineering,
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by dangrover 8y ago
This is always annoying because the only reason I would ever call is if I've exhaustively tried every way to use the website and encountered some sort of roadblock/edge case where they tell you to call in.
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by dangrover 8y ago
I called this like 2 years ago. I am still waiting for better apps. http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps....
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by dangrover 8y ago
I am a bit confused, When you buy from Amazon, isn’t there an explicit indication whether you are buying from Amazon itself vs “marketplace” seller? Shouldn’t stuff direct from Amazon be legit?
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by dangrover 9y ago
I thought targeting by demographic, area, even “friends of” were already supported natively in FB ad targeting. Same goes for the pixel. It is hard to see what special sauce they are bringing here.
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San Francisco Spends $30M Cleaning Feces, Drug Needles(nbcbayarea.com)
26 points by dangrover 9y ago|19 comments
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A ranking of the highest tech salaries in the US, adjusted for cost of living(qz.com)
54 points by dangrover 9y ago|45 comments
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by dangrover 9y ago
There do not seem to be any actual facts cited, only an anecdote from one person who is leaving. What is the rate of people leaving now, and what was it before?
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by dangrover 9y ago
Garbage article with no new information, regurgitating random bits of English-language blog posts about the app, with no "how".
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by dangrover 9y ago
You forgot the last step, which is to respond to every link posted on Hacker News, regardless of what it's about, with a complaint about how the site doesn't function correctly with your unique browser config.
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by dangrover 9y ago
The QQ Browser (QQ浏览器) is also pretty solid. I like its night mode better than UC's, and you can archive pages for offline use. Tencent doesn't seem to be trying to internationalize it as UC is, though.
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by dangrover 9y ago
Needs to surface some recommendations up front. Should broadcast new recipes periodically to keep the user engaged.
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by dangrover 10y ago
Former WeChat PM here. Good analysis. But annoyed that mot western coverage of the app focuses on the breadth of features/platform stuff and belies the many ways that it's an extremely solid messaging app compared to many. The cho
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by dangrover 10y ago
I would be curious to see the bots you've made. Lots of side-projects don't get traction -- whether they're apps, sites, or bots. Would love to see what you've tried and learned along the way.
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by dangrover 10y ago
Fixing this!
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by dangrover 10y ago
These are all ways to reach users in places they already are so that they can discover your bot. People who already have a reason to encounter you are much more likely to use your bot once they discover you have one. Here's what I mean
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by dangrover 10y ago
PM on Messenger Platform here. Great feedback! For discovery, FB Messenger actually has more channels for bot discovery than any other platform, including: - m.me links with referral tracking - Messenger Codes - Several plugins that allow e
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by dangrover 10y ago
I read somewhat that this budget also covers around 9k people in shelters (or housed through some other form of aid). If you consider that, you get about $15K/head/year, which is not entirely ridiculous.
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by dangrover 10y ago
I have always wondered how that store on University can draw enough sales to have such prime real estate, figured it was a front for something else.
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by dangrover 10y ago
I lived in Guangzhou for a couple years, recently moved back to the valley. Passed 5/6 levels of language certification, was enough to communicate with co-workers and deal with my projects and get around. The biggest obstacle I found w
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by dangrover 10y ago
Because cities are places of opportunity and culture where people can come to better their lot. Everyone should have some level of access to them, though not necessarily a luxury flat. There needs to be some basic bottom rung available. And
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by dangrover 10y ago
Xiaomi's Android UI has a "mute all notifications from this app" button after you swipe the notification. Apps in China love them some notifications, so this adaptation happened here first!
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by dangrover 10y ago
Hahaha, when I wrote that sentence, I thought "this is like bullshit a lit major would write", then decided to keep it anyway. Glad someone caught it.
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by dangrover 10y ago
Actually, I think web apps could do it. Some browser could just add a ton of proprietary JS APIs for notification, payment, identity, etc, in the same way that WeChat and Kik have. The Chinese web browsers are beginning to bolt on features
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Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps(dangrover.com)
4 points by dangrover 10y ago|0 comments
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by dangrover 11y ago
An iPhone 4 bought refurbished, then used gingerly for 2-3 years is within reach for many. Seen plenty of waiters and taxi drivers using iOS. It's not like they're all getting maxed out 6 Pluses every year. If anything, one's
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by dangrover 11y ago
I work at a software company in China. Like clockwork, at 1pm, the lights are cut, shades are drawn, then everybody pulls little beds out from their desks and takes a nap. It struck me as quite strange the first time I observed it. The actu
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by dangrover 11y ago
I am an American working in a Chinese tech company, and I was also curious to know where you get this sense of being willing to spend more. Most of the Netflix/Spotify/Dropbox/Hulu equivalents are far cheaper and have far mo
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by dangrover 11y ago
This seems kind of specious. Have been living/working in China for nearly 2 years and studied the language in that time. While individual characters can have many strokes (usually, like, 10 at the most), they're more like words or
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by dangrover 11y ago
Normally, expensive areas would have a proportional amount more to spend. But California's Proposition 13 locked the land values that property taxes are based on to 1978 levels. And in SF specifically, rent control laws lock tenants

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