flinty

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by flinty 13y ago
Its easy to say the right things from the outside but when you enter the sausage factory you see how the sausage is made and realize how hard/impossible it is to really change things
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by flinty 13y ago
Yeah. This planet money podcast covers the same issues in a bit more detail http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
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by flinty 13y ago
There literally is a law in every state that prevents direct sales. Check out this planet money podcast about this very topic http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
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by flinty 14y ago
CL offered them a mobile license and Padmapper is primarily a web only application. Besides this trying to search for an apartment on mobile would be incredibly tedious. And this is likely why CL is willing to offer a mobile license.
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by flinty 14y ago
why isn't craigslist doing that then instead of suing someone who found a way to attract users and media attention?
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by flinty 14y ago
But that is where the source of the problem is - CL has the largest user base for listing and classifieds on the internet and since they have the monopoly on this they have never felt the need to improve the experience on their site. Now th
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by flinty 14y ago
So eventually this comes down to CL trying to protect it's monopoly as the listing site of the internet
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by flinty 14y ago
yes and in addition our new overlords are more affable generally than the old ones, atleast till the status quo changes again.
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by flinty 15y ago
Can you elaborate on the last line you wrote?
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by flinty 15y ago
How does that vary much from what Etsy did with their gift recommendations application based on your/friend's facebook profile
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by flinty 15y ago
I wonder if Google was in on the action for Hunch.
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WTH is this page on Google plus - The Hacker News(plus.google.com)
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by flinty 15y ago
Hi msg, Since you worked on SOA projects what book/resource would you recommend to build an app from the ground up to be service oriented. Thanks