freshfunk

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by freshfunk 14y ago
Time to give up Google.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
These worries are true for anything you install on Android. This is just another app, just presente differently.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
If Facebook is ranking content such that that's all you see your feed, then Facebook as a whole would be less appealing anyway, let alone Home. I'm guessing there's more to your feed than babies and food and that othe content is ranked high
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Pretty much spot on for my experience with entrepreneurship.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
The key to hiring females: Have a product that appeals to females. It doesn't seem like rocket science in this case. I don't want to down play hiring female engineers or hiring for diversity. I think both of those are important. I graduated
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by freshfunk 14y ago
A good majority of that is in China where the govt has banned it. Show me a service that's connected more people that hasn't been around for more than 20 years and not named "the Internet." The greatest value FB brings is making it easier t
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Wow that's pretty condescending. Yes, it is a convenience... Much like email is a convenience over snail mail and Face Time is a convenience over meeting in person. Arguably the car is a "convenience" over the horse. Discounting the breakth
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by freshfunk 14y ago
If people didn't think FB was making things more open and connected, then why are they even on the site (and returning frequently)? It may not be YOUR narrow definition of open and connected but clearly they are deriving value from connecti
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by freshfunk 14y ago
1B people disagree with you.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
"I no longer have to complain about the other sleazy, move-the-goalposts, amoral aspects of Facebook Instagram." Yet here you are...
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Of course ANYTHING is possible. The world could end tomorrow. But show me one good example of a widely used Internet service that's owned by a public company that willingly cheated its users when it had the chance? Even Apple and Google hav
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by freshfunk 14y ago
This is a perfect example of how ignorance can lead to fear, uncertainty and doubt. It's also an example of how erroneous media can easily mislead the public. Instagram was never going to "sell your photos." If you read the TOS, they were r
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by freshfunk 14y ago
I thought people stopped writing Assembly a while ago but I recently interviewed at Apple and I interviewed with one group that deals with optimizations for vector mathematics using special hardware on the A4/A5 chips and he said they still
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by freshfunk 14y ago
I grew up in la. My best advice for someone like you is to move to San Francisco. You'll be much happier here.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
I'm guessing the author does not have a family. I've been in both spots. I've quit to work on a startup full time making no money (luckily I had my wife to support me). At the time I didn't have kids. Now I have one kid (and another 2 on th
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by freshfunk 14y ago
I think that part of the issue here (that I haven't really seen mentioned) is that when you're so close to others who've been successful but you aren't as successful as them, then it's easy to feel like a failure of some sort. In short, it'
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by freshfunk 14y ago
This reminds me of an incident I had with a former employer. It was xmas break and I was at home the final week (xmas to new years). I spent about 75% of my time working. When I got back I was accused of taking "10 days off." He counted the
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by freshfunk 14y ago
I haven't used it but I'm guessing that the invites will be tightly integrated with email. The user experience will probably be something like invite users by email. Ones that have gmail/G+ can click through to further integration. Others w
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by freshfunk 14y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
This is the killer app for Google Glasses. Get relevant information in your HUD throughout the day. Awesome.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
This is one thing I've wondered wrt the current FB Apple app. I wonder if they pool/cache their UIWebViews or if they're instantiated each time.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Proof? Is it slower simply because they have to deliver more information (rendered UI in the form of html as opposed to json)?
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by freshfunk 14y ago
It seems like a mistake to compete with Craigslist in its entirety. They had years to grow their community and brand while maintaining a relatively low cost structure. Startups that are concentrating on different pieces of the pie and provi
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Bcrypt is no longer recommended. NIST recommends PBKDF2. In short, it appears that advances in hardware have made it possible such that bcrypt hashes can be efficiently computed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 http://security.stacke
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by freshfunk 14y ago
I would guess that technology caught up with them. With the penetration of smartphones, I bet that that's become a better alternative than web IM for most people.
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by freshfunk 14y ago
#FirstWorldProblems
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by freshfunk 14y ago
A lazy analysis but look at revenue they're getting from payments. From their S-1: Mar 31, 2011: $94MM Mar 31, 2012: $186MM Obviously it's only two data points but payment revenue has grown 100%. Payments revenue only represents 10% of thei
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Social networking is not a fad. If anything it's becoming an underlying utility of the internet much like email, instant messaging and search. Any technology that's so core to the internet starts out as a standalone application (hotmail, AI
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Key fallacy in the argument: Revenue growth is compared to the average IPO. If anything, Facebook is not the average company. It's not the average company that's gone public either. That's not to say they won't have challenges growing reven
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by freshfunk 14y ago
Office space is a fixed cost. Meaning with or without him, they would've paid that amount in rent. The same is true of the internet he used and the couch he slept on. The only variable cost is the food he ate which was probably negligible a

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