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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
I've come across plenty of companies that have no idea what it means to do "best practices". Companies can be notoriously bad at very important parts of their own business. Just look how many companies outsource accounting. They literally d
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
Judging by her bio, she looks amazingly well qualified. I don't think that being a former VP at Goldman Sachs means it's "more of the same". If anything, when taken into context, it just means she'd understand the industry at a greater leve
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
From his own numbers his conversion rate is coming in at 1.6%. Quick Google search suggests that 1.7% is average for referral programs, so his ad wasn't exactly a failure. The failure happens when we take into account Amazon's referral fee.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
From the article's conclusion: The preceding rant is to be taken merely as a preface to something shorter and more aphoristic I wanted to say about commentary on the U.S. election. It has to do with the comparison that is made, usually by i
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
Am I to understand that this article's point is that Barack Obama is dumber than Sarah Palin because she's self taught and he went to an Ivy League school? This is still HN right?
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
I'm pretty sure we gave it to ourselves when we were feeling surly during the 90s.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
True, but it does keep the irrelevant conversation out of the way of discussion of the actual news item.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
Current business plan (apparently only slightly facetious): 1. Get everybody on Facebook 2. Create a huge map detailing how everybody relates to everybody else. 3. ???? 4. Profit I always figured that there were smarter people than me worki
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
Just because somebody can get a program to compile and run doesn't mean that it was done right. Keep in mind, I don't really disagree with what you're saying, cause it's the mentality lots of coders have. I also think that the discipline is
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
I read all the answers, and I'm now convinced that there's nothing keeping this site from eventually going down that same path. Death. Taxes. Gentrification.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
I'm not sure how the "Runner Ups" in this piece work. Digg is a runner up to Stumble Upon when it should probably be compared to Reddit. And then the whole thing is numbered, but not ranked and then grouped, which is easy enough to figure o
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by foulmouthboy 19y ago
Summary for this: Be open minded because close minded people are assholes.
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by foulmouthboy 19y ago
Reach is overrated. Others have alluded to it, but reaching potential customers is just scratching the surface. There needs to be the engagement and conversion to dollars. Here's an analogy that I'm almost positive won't make sense: A panh
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by foulmouthboy 19y ago
To answer your question with a question, where do you want to go? You don't really specify where your interests lie or what type of "news" you're looking for. I could tell you where I go, but unless you're into the exact same things that I'
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by foulmouthboy 19y ago
Measuring success that way is really just turning the class into a seminar on viral marketing in facebook. If the class were for credit and one were the competitive sort, it would be "easy" enough to send out spam mails and to advertise the