evanjacobs

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The Highly Diversified Entrepreneur(readwritehack.com)
1 points by evanjacobs 16y ago|0 comments
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
I was curious why Amazon let Heroku be acquired by Salesforce late last year. Now I know it's because they were already working on Beanstalk.
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
I wonder if this will cause average users to begin understanding and using the "tab complete" interaction. That could open up interesting uses in all kinds of apps.
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
That's what I'm trying to figure out. If my service is successful with a less perfect domain I might be able to come back and purchase this domain at some multiple of today's price. However, if I spend too much money on the domain then I ma
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
As a back-up plan I've been collecting variations of my "perfect" domain at standard registration rates. The cost is approaching $10k now but I don't know what the final value might be. There is less than a day left for the auction.
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
It's hard to say since an A/B experiment would only be possible if I owned the "perfect" domain and could test it against a less perfect one.
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Ask HN: How much would you pay for the perfect domain?
1 points by evanjacobs 16y ago|8 comments
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Making Twitter More Useful (blog.programmableweb.com)
1 points by evanjacobs 16y ago|0 comments
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
Where are you located?
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
"The worst problem was that they hired bad programmers." Can you provide any specific examples of how bad programmers hurt Yahoo?
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
Ideas aren't worthless. Ideas are plentiful. Ideas are made valuable by extraction and refinement of the key elements.
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
You should try to tell the story of Storyteller using the product itself instead of the video.
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by evanjacobs 17y ago
It's also worth noting that people can move between 0, 1 and N passionate things during their lifetimes.
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by evanjacobs 17y ago
I'm going to start a business to sell services to the US government. Even if I only capture 1% of the market that's $36 billion per year!
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by evanjacobs 17y ago
Hey, after this we only need to publicly publish the frequency and variety of our sexual intercourse and we will have finally opened up every last previously taboo subject.
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by evanjacobs 17y ago
There are several considerations that a rowing coach must make when deciding the rig of the boat as well as which rowers should occupy each seat. These considerations may vary for each rower and include: 1. arc length (i.e. the distance tra
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by evanjacobs 17y ago
This is part of the reason for the explosion of Twitter and Facebook apps. Developers are taking advantage of the fact that millions of users are already using these platforms and that there are easy and powerful APIs that allow application
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by evanjacobs 17y ago
As far as the (stock) markets are concerned, Mackey's opinion piece doesn't seem to have affected the value of WFMI. After a brief dip, the value of WFMI has steadily increased during the past week: http://bit.ly/4BCUjh
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by evanjacobs 18y ago
http://twitter.com/evanjacobs
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by evanjacobs 18y ago
The predicament presented is not new since there has always (in my geek lifetime at least) been a division between "computing" devices and "gaming" devices. Yes, I too learned programming on my TI99/4A and Aquarius and Laser 128 but then I
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by evanjacobs 18y ago
Imagine an airplane whose ceiling opened up to reveal a completely empty cabin. These planes could be parked underneath their gates at airports. At the gate itself would be the entire cabin (seats, overhead storage, etc.) as a complete unit
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by evanjacobs 18y ago
I see the acquisition of skills as a side effect of building cool and useful applications (or platforms). Therefore I would refine the second motivating factor to be: "I want to build something cool and useful that scales to meet the demand