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by fjabre 16y ago
Source blog post: http://playnice.ly/blog/2010/05/28/slides-followup-first-lon...
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PlayNice.ly: Using Redis to store all our data (slides)(slideshare.net)
1 points by fjabre 16y ago|1 comments
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by fjabre 16y ago
What about complementary skill sets? The 2 Steve's of Apple fame or example? I think while it's just fine to have 2 technical cofounders it's also fine to have 2 founders where one is primarily business/design oriented while the other is mo
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by fjabre 16y ago
A good cofounder is not an easy person to locate. Often times the wrong choice can lead to your startup's untimely demise and there are plenty of wrong choices IMO. I've personally found it easier to contract the work out and then if one
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Is Twitter 'mainstream'? It's complicated(econsultancy.com)
3 points by fjabre 16y ago|0 comments
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by fjabre 16y ago
What the market predicts: http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetail...
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by fjabre 16y ago
The data suggests otherwise: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht... If you're going to lobby for prohibition of pot then please also focus your attention on alcohol as well. This is a far worse 'drug' IMO than mar
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by fjabre 16y ago
It's a good question indeed. Obama's drug czar has stated on several occasions he's completely against legalization: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/97101-obama...
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by fjabre 16y ago
Completely agree. The only issue I have is I don't want to see Philip Morris buy up all of NoCal and force everyone out of business. I think good growers will still be able to demand a premium for their marijuana no matter what happens in N
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by fjabre 16y ago
Why? Flag the posting then. It's certainly relevant to the article.
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by fjabre 16y ago
Sales? You mean marketing/branding and users don't you? Is this an ecommerce site or a web app? It's very hard to advise when we don't know what your revenue model is... Is it an ad rev or freemium web app or are you selling tires online fo
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by fjabre 16y ago
I'm sorry but Killerstartups is really lacking. Try searching for Dropbox for example. Nothing there. It's also hard to not click on an ad. I'm all for making money given that they are free but it's very spammy. Also, what's up with their g
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by fjabre 16y ago
Google this: site:news.ycombinator.com "rate my" or site:news.ycombinator.com "review my" I wish there was a better way. Might be nice to have an entirely separate category for new startup posts on HN...
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by fjabre 16y ago
I read the article and signed up. Here's why Hotmail still sucks: Tried importing my 1500+ contacts from gmail and hotmail said it can only accept up to 1500. Also, even though you can 'add people' to your hotmail/msn network using Google's
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by fjabre 16y ago
Well that's what APIs are for. Why release an API and publicize it in that case?
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by fjabre 16y ago
It's the economic exchange we make for not having a big advertising budget. Free customers are the marketing department in the freemium scenario.
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by fjabre 16y ago
We just rewrote our app from a Postgres backend to a Redis backend. The main difference I see with using NoSQL vs traditional SQL is that you massage the data during insert time so when you goto to look it up later it's pretty much already
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by fjabre 16y ago
Wait so are you saying that flat rate is usually better than per-use from a biz perspective or vice-versa? EDIT: I guess it depends. Flat rate seems like an attempt to get more cash upfront to cover costs initially. The problem is you are l
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by fjabre 16y ago
The prediction API looks really interesting. Can anyone think of some interesting use cases and the implications of making something like this available to the masses?
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Ask HN: Gmail IMAP auto-setting your new emails to 'Read'?
1 points by fjabre 16y ago|0 comments
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by fjabre 16y ago
Payments would be tricky I'd think. Take apps like Highrise or Mailchimp for example. They already have their payment backends working just fine. Would they be forced to integrate with a Google pay system if they wanted to get into the stor
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Ask HN: Still holding out for a Chrome OS based netbook?
1 points by fjabre 16y ago|4 comments
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by fjabre 16y ago
The fact of the matter is that your eyes look directly in front of you and your fingers are typing at 90 degrees to that. I don't know from experience but I can only guess how uncomfortable it would be to have to lift my arm up to have mani
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by fjabre 16y ago
I'm still kind of holding out for a Chrome OS based netbook. I have been back and forth to the Apple store playing with the iPad and although I love the UI, I also know it's meant mostly for consumption. I really found the keyboard awkward
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by fjabre 16y ago
Great. We have a similar concept already in there for that. Good to know there is some demand for it.
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by fjabre 16y ago
Yeah I thought about this a lot as well.. I wonder how much demand there is for something like this? I've definitely had a use for it myself on occasion.
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by fjabre 16y ago
I believe it's a 5 or 10 second delay for that labs feature. Something more similar to commenting on HN might be interesting. Allowing someone to edit/delete for up to several minutes before the email is officially sent..
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by fjabre 16y ago
Great idea and easy to implement too. Thanks.
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Ask HN: Features you'd like to see in Gmail?
9 points by fjabre 16y ago|26 comments
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by fjabre 16y ago
" ...for the universe of people using a PDA, 90% of them just want to get the information out. Only 10% want to do major input on this thing. " I love his line of thinking here. He really does have a knack for breaking things down to their

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