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by far33d 16y ago
Rough anecdotal polling from my experience on the Boston-area commuter rail in from the suburbs: I see more iPhones than Kindles, but way more Kindles than iPads. People on iPhones are often playing games, not reading. Kindles are surprisin
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by far33d 16y ago
I don't - I just find it frustrating when people confuse scalable startups with other businesses and try to apply the advice of one to the other. They are different beasts and have different rules. Talking about one vs. the other is like ar
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by far33d 16y ago
Did white college kids actively flee MySpace, or were they never on MySpace? Targeting college campuses could very likely have had the effect of attracting a lot of users who had never used social networks before. Flight implies presence in
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by far33d 16y ago
Facebook connect is essential to the overall utility of quora. It isn't he same without identity.
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by far33d 16y ago
Only if you are able to sell 200 units a day at that price (which is unlikely for most apps).
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by far33d 16y ago
This is the second time this week I've seen a blog post here on news.yc that was based 100% on a Quora answer.
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by far33d 16y ago
I absolutely LOVE this whole campaign (one service a day with auto-switching imports). It's good, creative PR and will probably get them as many new users as it converts from other services. [edit: one service a day, not week]
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by far33d 16y ago
I thought the point of erlang was that it was easier to code for distributed systems, not that it was necessarily faster as a language for simple benchmarks.
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by far33d 16y ago
Get a job on Wall Street. If wealth is the only goal, that's the easiest way.
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by far33d 16y ago
If you want to know how to run a good meeting, read Andy Grove's book, High Output Management. It's the best of the business books I've read. It's hard work to make meetings useful but the book lays out the groundwork.
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by far33d 16y ago
Pete Docter is one of the nicest guys alive. I am in no way surprised that he took the time to write back a handwritten note.
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by far33d 16y ago
I use Araxis Merge. It's expensive but it's hands-down, the best merge / diff utility I've ever used. All the rest look and feel like toys in comparison.
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by far33d 16y ago
"Bold explorations should remain inside the company and university research laboratories and not be inflicted on any customers until those recruited to participate in user research have validated the approach." So much for innovation.
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by far33d 16y ago
Wow. I had no idea Saddam Hussein was responsible for 2 of the top 5 worst oil spills.
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by far33d 16y ago
When you add new features for your customers, do you default them off?
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by far33d 16y ago
This makes me think that I should just place limit orders for every S+P 500 company at $.10. Chances are the orders will never be filled but if this happens again I'll get rich.
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by far33d 16y ago
The spelled out tutorials are a necessary consequence of a free-to-play model with lots of competition. If I pay $50-100 for a game, I will spend the time to learn it. If a free game on facebook is complicated or confusing there are 100s of
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by far33d 16y ago
Ah how times have changed. Two of those top stories were submitted by me (albeit, not very interesting ones). I haven't submitted a front page story in ages.
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by far33d 16y ago
I believe that the Pixar happy meal deal w/ McDonalds was over by the time Wall-E was released.
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by far33d 17y ago
I hate posting about Pixar stories because the Steve Jobs omerta still lives strong in me... but what the hell. I couldn't watch the video because I'm on a train - however, I worked at Pixar from 2002 - 2008, so I'm pretty sure I know exact
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by far33d 17y ago
Call me crazy, but I read this as "The Marijuana Trench To Scale"
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by far33d 17y ago
With 75m monthly actives, I'm pretty sure almost every demographic is covered.
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by far33d 17y ago
This is also the philosophy @ Pixar - you can't release a movie twice, so it had better be right the first time. You achieve this by having 1000's of internal reviews, checkpoints, and pivots along the way where you trust your employees to
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by far33d 17y ago
This would be really cool if it used Power instead of speed....
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by far33d 17y ago
I'm not really sure how this has existed for 16 years and I haven't read it. This is the best argument I've ever heard against software patents.
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by far33d 17y ago
Online retail has already been changed by private-sale companies like Rue La La and Gilt Group. This is just another one, but for baby gear.
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by far33d 17y ago
RockYou was a widget company - they probably still have usernames and passwords for myspace users.
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by far33d 17y ago
Yah - the morgue is the archives. This is what newspapers call it too.
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by far33d 17y ago
The only fake profiles I ever see are from other developers testing their facebook apps.
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by far33d 17y ago
Cool - it was just a "thought". Would love to contribute to something already started.

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