dreamux

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Video of tsunami wave/destruction in Japan.(youtube.com)
1 points by dreamux 16y ago|0 comments
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by dreamux 16y ago
Actually, I'm not sure if they cross-reference credit card numbers with itunes accounts or if its done through the credit card company; but I think this should be a service that credit card companies offer merchants... perhaps to help justi
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by dreamux 16y ago
The Apple stores (in Canada, at least) have the ability to email receipts to the email address associated with your credit card instead of printing one. By the time I walk out the door my phone buzzes with a copy of my receipt coming into
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by dreamux 16y ago
Don't worry, the Flying Spaghetti Monster loves startups.
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by dreamux 16y ago
I once had an internship in University where I was solely responsible for a $250k contract (which took 3 months to complete). Furthermore, that contract was a gating feature to a larger ($4M) contract for the company. The only way to appr
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by dreamux 16y ago
The comparison isn't really fair, since they sell the game and make money - a different model than flash games (advertising, free distribution). The problem with launching these apps is the amount of noise you need to break through in the a
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by dreamux 16y ago
Unfortunately, this isn't very rigorous - the dataset can easily be gamed by instagram.
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by dreamux 16y ago
"Bullying used to be considered a part of growing up..." This sentence really bothers me.
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by dreamux 16y ago
I think both of these are in good humor, not meant to deride each other.
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by dreamux 16y ago
With 12,000 views it looks like a far more engaging campaign... and probably cheaper. Curiously, what were your landing page/sales rates from this?
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by dreamux 16y ago
No offense, but if you're reaching out to that many people and getting zero engagement it's probably just not an interesting campaign. Young people (twitter user demographics) are awesome at filtering out ads, they don't process things unl
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by dreamux 16y ago
I don't think Woz needs to prove anything to anybody.
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by dreamux 16y ago
Not for software financing, almost all of the funds I'm applying to are in the valley - and I live in Canada... the place still has pull.
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by dreamux 16y ago
Good call, I'll try this near the end of the month and post the results if I can get a big enough data set.
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by dreamux 16y ago
Please give as much notice as possible, last minute plane tickets are prohibitively expensive.
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by dreamux 16y ago
Other data points that might be interesting if you could track them down: 1. How long it took companies to exit. 2. Financing raised (also against age of the company, so average individual rounds raised and average time between rounds). 3
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by dreamux 16y ago
This is discouraging.
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by dreamux 16y ago
This secondary market is far from liquid, take the crazy valuations with a grain of salt.
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by dreamux 16y ago
The problem is enterprises, not consumers.
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by dreamux 16y ago
I blame customers for poor adoption, not developers. Its obvious that MSFT would prefer all of their customers update to the newest versions of their software.
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by dreamux 16y ago
Thanks, I'd never heard of this visa but it sounds like exactly what I need!
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Ask HN: Work visas for US startups.
5 points by dreamux 16y ago|6 comments
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by dreamux 16y ago
Simple access to well indexed/searchable information through the internet was a very positive and disruptive change to education, but didn't really change the way education was delivered. I think education-on-demand and open textbooks are
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by dreamux 16y ago
Apple pioneered a new sales and marketing pipeline, and gave it extremely low barriers to adoption for both consumers and developers. None of apple's competitors have been able to produce a competing service (based on community size), and
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by dreamux 16y ago
I remember the stories coming out of Rowanda, Bosnia, and more recently Darfur were well publicized without much intervention. While I think facebook and twitter are tools of political change, I sadly don't think we've seen the end of geno
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by dreamux 16y ago
I agree with you and @jrwoodruff that management also deserves blame; their focus on short term metrics stops them from negotiating reasonable contracts (if they don't strike this quarter I get my bonus, etc.) As for the assemblers preventi
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by dreamux 16y ago
Your best bet might be to register your trademark with doubleclick, then lodge a complaint against your competitor using your product/company name in their advertisements. Try here: http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&
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by dreamux 16y ago
I'm slightly biased here because I will almost certainly never need a union to protect my job or interests (I'm well educated, with in-demand skills, and I'm mobile). But it really bothers me how unions produce such inefficiencies in speci
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by dreamux 16y ago
There are a surplus of qualified teachers, in Canada at least I know of several people with teaching degrees and none of them can find work because the only time a spot opens up is if someone dies or retires. The software industry is in de
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by dreamux 16y ago
The reason that enterprises have IT departments is so that they can control everything in house. The saas model (dropbox and similar remotely hosted services) doesn't really fit here because it separates IT from the services that it is s

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