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by gjolund 10y ago
It requires product research, but it is not impossible or illegal.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Not a surprise. Most of the "my mom used to do this for me" service startups are destined for failure. If you can afford washio, you can afford a maid.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Use unique passwords ffs.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Lol and nations do? You can always choose not to buy a product.
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by gjolund 10y ago
This is all over the news like something is actually going to come of this. What can Ireland/EU actually do? Apple is a bigger player in the world economy than Ireland.
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by gjolund 10y ago
This happened to me after attending NA. I got friend recommendations from FB for other members of the support group.
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by gjolund 10y ago
You could always just not tip.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Bitcoin is dead and the blockchain has been coopted.
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by gjolund 10y ago
So less people driving leads to less traffic, what a surprise. I think that LA takes pride in its traffic, like some kind of shared struggle. It is the only city I have lived in that has an implied 30 minute allowance for traffic delays. Ev
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by gjolund 10y ago
LA traffic defies reason. I've hit gridlock at 3am on the 101 before. The whole city feels like it was designed to be some elaborate torture device for commuters.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Elm has the best error messages of any language I have ever used. I have dreams about it one day replacing JS as the front end language of choice.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Great response. Out of the box I agree with you, GCE is much more capable than AWS. However in my experience AWS is just as capable and much more flexible once it has been setup. Also AWS Lambda functions give you the ability to "deplo
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by gjolund 10y ago
I have. Both high burst scale after Super Bowl ads and long running massively multiplayer games. I am not saying that building services that operate at a massive scale is easy, but there is a wealth of talent and tools out there to help you
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by gjolund 10y ago
Maybe. Which is also sad.
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by gjolund 10y ago
If you have the money to play the odds like that then more power to you. I just don't like the acknowledgement that most of their investments will fail.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Your opinion would change if someone you cared about needed a new liver.
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by gjolund 10y ago
I find conversations on snapchat annoy me in the same way as conversations with a needy attention seeking girlfriend. All the person wants is confirmation of existence, and most of the time they are not actually interested in a real convers
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by gjolund 10y ago
This just reinforces my belief that scale is a very solved problem. It takes minimal effort to scale infrastructure these days, which is fantastic. It also reinforces that there is nothing special about snapchat besides its user base, which
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by gjolund 10y ago
I noticed you left Twitter out, which is odd because it is the app that most closely resembles snapchat. FB acquired Instagram for its user base. Amazon acquired Twitch for its user base. Google acquired Youtube for its user base. How many
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by gjolund 10y ago
This is actually really bad for employees. It is just more people that snapchat has to pay back after an exit before they pay their employees. Snapchat employees around 200 people, that works out to 9m per employee for this round.
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by gjolund 10y ago
"The beauty of Snapchat is that you don't need to think about what you are posting" Exactly why it holds no value at all for me.
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by gjolund 10y ago
If you have something to contribute I would like to hear it.
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by gjolund 10y ago
As a business they might be less profitable, but as a society we benefit more from their existence.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Really solid reply, and a great explanation. I completely understand that from a shareholder perspective companies like facebook and snapchat are huge wins. However my argument is that as a society these companies have very little value. I
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by gjolund 10y ago
Exactly. All the data showed that Twitter wasn't monetizable, yet people still threw huge valuations at it. There is nothing wrong with building apps and platforms that don't have clear paths to monetization, I just don't see
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by gjolund 10y ago
Just as plausible, if not more so. I just view the constantly aging 18-24 year old demographic as the main driver of viral growth these days. As that demographic ages out a new flavor of the week will emerge.
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by gjolund 10y ago
They store all the photos internally. This was confirmed to me by several snapchat employees while interviewing.
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by gjolund 10y ago
I don't think anyone is debating the popularity of Snapchat. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "I think there is legitimate reason to be doubtful about the appeal of these products because they have nothing to do
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by gjolund 10y ago
Or lack thereof.
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by gjolund 10y ago
Bingo. The numbers just don't add up. You would think people would be a little more skeptical after watching the twitter downward spiral.

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