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by diego 14y ago
Well, I'm not the one with second thoughts about my payment to app.net. Still, it's a good chance to mention http://www.nothingbutnets.net/
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by diego 14y ago
"By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood. In retrospect, I should’ve donated to a charity." That's a pretty callous way to end a post, Alex. It's not either-or. If you really feel that way, ask fo
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by diego 14y ago
Now you'd have to prove that having passwords stored in a file is worse than massive password leaks. I suspect that it isn't. People already carry laptops with browsers that save passwords automatically. Losing your laptop already implies a
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by diego 14y ago
"widely used by a minority" <- you made my point.
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by diego 14y ago
See all my other comments on this thread. Why does your mother use LastPass? How did she learn about it? How about the other 99% of the people? How do you make them use LastPass? This is not about us.
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by diego 14y ago
Nobody gets the point. The point is that you can't force 99% of the people to use something. What I advocate is enforcement on the part of the browser and / or sites. If the user has the choice to be lazy, no solution works.
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by diego 14y ago
Right, but those people are the one percent. How do we help the vast majority?
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by diego 14y ago
The point is that the mandatory substring is random and unique to you. The problem with using a password manager is that it implies that you're already savvy enough about the issue. Most people have no idea such thing exists. How could you
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by diego 14y ago
If you use a different password for every site, it's a given that you won't be able to remember them. Storing your passwords securely is a different problem.
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by diego 14y ago
Citation? Who are those "most active users" and who asked them? By the way, what users say they would do and what they actually do are very different things. Anyone who ever started charging money for something that used to be free knows th
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by diego 14y ago
It's not just fear of money. In consumer apps, "free" means the potential of having hundreds of millions of users globally. This includes people in relatively poor countries, who would never pay for anything online. Nevertheless, they pad y
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by diego 14y ago
I get the impression that Quora is in a tough spot because of the perceived implosion of the "social bubble" after the FB IPO. They have $61M in funding [1], which means that their investors must be demanding bold moves. I don't personally
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by diego 14y ago
All else being equal, people are more likely to follow people who already have lots of followers: there must be something good about their tweets that makes all those people choose to keep following them. The number of followers is the only
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The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business(barracudalabs.com)
81 points by diego 14y ago|33 comments
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by diego 14y ago
That is standard practice with any acquisition. If Company A acquires company B which has 1000 employees, it almost certainly won't want to retain them all. There will be lots of redundancy, employees who wouldn't be needed at Company A for
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by diego 14y ago
Just run the numbers. For one, there are approximately 3M people with 1k followers or more. If they charged an average of $5/month, many (most) would simply not pay. A significant number of those people are international. Many of them did n
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by diego 14y ago
The problem is that Twitter needs those users. A user with a ton of followers is a hit: Twitter shows those followers to people who sign up and don't know what to do. This is not the only hole in this idea btw. By the way, I'm sure this thr
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by diego 14y ago
I disagree. George Carlin was a master at it, and he was anything but lazy. As for being a marker of casual speech / emotional thinking, sometimes that's exactly what you want to convey.
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by diego 14y ago
I appreciate your assessment of my intelligence based on your knowledge of my history, writing and actions. I fudging appreciate it. Or perhaps you aren't smart enough to use the word "you" correctly.
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by diego 14y ago
Why? "Fuck" is an extremely expressive word when used properly. Entrepreneurs must have a thick skin, and know when to use "fuck" and similar words.
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by diego 14y ago
That's nonsense. There are 20k Starbucks in the world, this is one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks
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by diego 14y ago
Well, perhaps it's already happening. After all, you're voluntarily publishing your location in real-time to the world when you check into Foursquare. I find it interesting that we do this naturally and without thinking twice about it. Ten
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by diego 14y ago
Probably the majority of those check-ins happened in the past year. Also, look at a Starbucks near where I live: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=venues/49f... Over 10k check-ins, and I doubt it has 2 million visitors per
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by diego 14y ago
The good thing is that it's not the only information available, just one more signal. And what's wrong with trying it out only in the Bay Area and New York, for example?
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by diego 14y ago
As long as the "repeat visitors" pattern is the same across business categories, it wouldn't add noise. There are always first-time visitors.
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by diego 14y ago
I guess the more general point I was thinking about is that there are tons of new signals that governments or private groups could use to assess all sorts of activities. For example the government has easy access to cellphone density data f
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by diego 14y ago
It isn't. Techcrunch just needs to keep their homepage moving and it must be a slow morning.
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by diego 14y ago
Gentlemen, this is the Pentagon. Make war, not love.
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The "Taken Username Effect" on Twitter(diegobasch.com)
31 points by diego 14y ago|46 comments
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by diego 14y ago
I'm a lucky pessimist. I've done really well for my standards, and I'll be the first to admit that luck played a huge role. I don't think being naively optimistic is semi-necessary. It may help in not giving up when things are not going you

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