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by drp 17y ago
You're right. I wonder if this was part of the plan for stack overflow from the beginning. This is an ingenious way to monetize its existing user base while creating incentives for stack overflow users to keep creating valuable content for
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by drp 17y ago
The Watergate is a hotel/office/apartment building. Why do all 'scandals' have to end with -gate?
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by drp 17y ago
Do something that is pressworthy outside of just 'x startup has launched.' Playing off current events is always great, but an even better way to gain mindshare among normal people is to get reporters to cite your company any time they talk
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by drp 17y ago
Really 20 times? That seems completely unreasonable. Do they start paying the interviewees to come in?
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by drp 17y ago
You're not dead yet.
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by drp 17y ago
I handle listing data ingestion and distribution at HotPads.com, so I deal with some of these problems all the time. There hasn't been a single complete game changer in this space yet, and with the way things are currently progessing I thi
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by drp 17y ago
Redfin is great, but it only solves part of this problem. In its current incarnation it still has to play by many MLS rules and does not open the data past users of its own site.
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by drp 17y ago
It isn't hate. HN and reddit have different goals and concentrations. Both have a place.
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by drp 17y ago
> Private API calls are an absolute no-no Could you expand on this a little? Do you mean web service API calls that are unpublished, web service calls in general or native API calls that are somehow forbidden?
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by drp 17y ago
In the spirit of the article, the first real result on http://www.google.com/search?q=A+Constitutional+Case+in+a+Bo... doesn't require registration.
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by drp 17y ago
Is it possible that the dupe-checking gets tricked by a trailing slash?
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by drp 17y ago
Wouldn't any law against at-will employment be tantamount to slavery?
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by drp 17y ago
Gladwell is a journalist, not a scientist.
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by drp 17y ago
I don't see a single mention of long term memory in this article. Cognitive psychology is not a grab bag to use for marketing.
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by drp 17y ago
Serializing articles and novels is a common practice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature) It works the same as TV shows: you can release an installment before the next one is even written.
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by drp 17y ago
Congatulations on the improvements. You're definitely headed down the right path, but I doubt the 25% conversion increase is significant with a $5 a day budget for testing unless you're getting large amounts of traffic and conversions from
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by drp 17y ago
It's hard to define a concrete point where you aren't being pompous by calling yourself a CEO, but having more employees (or at least contractors) than yourself is probably a good start. I find it a little depressing when I'm reviewing the
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by drp 17y ago
In other news, rare space station orbits the Earth. Is 'rare' really the best word for something like this?
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by drp 17y ago
Facebook is cash flow positive ( http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130 ), so the accounting related to the judgments probably has little or no impact on their profitability.
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by drp 17y ago
The best part is that they're pursuing criminal charges against him.
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Facebook Wins $711M Anti-Spam Lawsuit(blog.facebook.com)
12 points by drp 17y ago|9 comments
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Make the Mobile Web Faster(code.google.com)
1 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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Aural CSS(lab.dotjay.co.uk)
2 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Analytics Intelligence(analytics.blogspot.com)
6 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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by drp 17y ago
Are you kidding? Unless you're a breeder it's socially irresponsible not to fix your pets.
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2009 TIGER/Line Shapefiles Released(census.gov)
15 points by drp 17y ago|6 comments
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Computer Vision Networks(numenta.com)
8 points by drp 17y ago|1 comments
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by drp 17y ago
It's always disappointing when you get articles about your company into major news outlets, but they link to your competitors and not your own site.
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Google Replaces Tele Atlas with Street View Data in US(blumenthals.com)
9 points by drp 17y ago|3 comments
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by drp 17y ago
"ls *.c" is not dangerous. The pipe is dangerous.

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