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by iampims 16y ago
Do you think that the increase in latency for fetching new emails is correlated to the increase in labels used in gmail?
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by iampims 16y ago
Patrick, 3,000 uniques in a single day doesn’t validate an idea, let alone a business model. The influx of visitors you had is equivalent to the traffic any blog receives when one of its post hits the HN front page. Yet, none of them is c
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by iampims 16y ago
“Checking for mail…” on my iPhone takes forever , on 3G or edge[1] but works mostly fine when on Wifi. In comparison, while waiting for new emails to be downloaded, I can download unread articles from Instapaper and fetching 200 new tweets
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by iampims 16y ago
In particular, I’m starting to devote my free cycles at lunch into thinking about scalable content generation strategies for organic SEO, which is the form of marketing that I’ve had the best results with in the past. For
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by iampims 16y ago
If that is really the case, I can’t wait for the deluge of lawsuits… TSA is ridiculous.
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by iampims 16y ago
Build your webapp in a way where migrating parts of it to better suited technologies isn't impossible, and if/when you feel the need to migrate from PHP/MySQL, you'll be able to do so.
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by iampims 16y ago
Regarding the Incentive system actively promotes bad behavior on slide 7, Dan Pink gave a very interesting talk on Motivation at TED — with surprising results: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
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by iampims 16y ago
It took Google App Engine two years to add the option to specify a custom error page for server errors and over quota errors. Hopefully that'll come soon for Heroku as well…
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by iampims 16y ago
Do pageviews really matter on a community site? I'd say that it's more about quality than quantity, and the overall quality of comments/members on HN is not as diluted as it is on digg or even reddit. That's mostly why I've stopped spending
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by iampims 16y ago
wasn't it Basecamp instead of Campfire?
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by iampims 16y ago
Why 7 litres? You could be damaging your kidneys if you drink too much.
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by iampims 16y ago
I just bought Trainyard to thank you for having written such an interesting blog post.
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by iampims 16y ago
One fact I'll give to Google about being open, is the applications marketplace. You can install any app you fancy. The Appstore is a different story. But so far, I haven't found any compelling reason to give up on the integrated, user-frie
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by iampims 16y ago
But when we render the Comment back to you in that same request we need the ID that the comment will have, but we don't know the ID until we write it out. Wouldn't something like Snowflake help for this particular case? Snowfl
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by iampims 16y ago
Paris, France. (not the suburbs, in USD) - rent: $650/month for a small apt(215 sq ft) - food: $70/week - utilities: $40/month (High-speed internet, TV + landline phone) - transport: $80/month for unlimited rides in the city - cellphone pla
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by iampims 16y ago
Wouldn't that be half of 999 in 1,000 — assuming that 50% are shown v1 and 50% v2 ? That doesn't change your advice. Once you've reached a certain confidence, it's time to make the change.
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by iampims 16y ago
C: Redis http://github.com/antirez/redis
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by iampims 16y ago
Mint uses Yodlee [1] for website scraping. Wesabe built their own and apparently inferior scraper, and this could be one of the reasons of why they lost to Mint.[2] [1] http://www.yodlee.com/ [2] http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lo
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by iampims 16y ago
Can you give a description of your service? "Put yourself on the map" doesn't really explain the concept of your service.
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by iampims 16y ago
I'm afraid I won't be able to accurately formulate the difference between both. I'll refer you to the wikipedia entry of User Experience Design [1] which will do a much better job than I could. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experie
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by iampims 16y ago
If you're building a search engine, better get a UX guy. If you're building a photo sharing site, better get a UX guy. If you're building a social app, then hell yes, get a UX guy AND a designer.
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by iampims 16y ago
That could be an idea for a webapp. Anybody who volunteers for beta-testing MVP, receives a notification when a new project matches at least of of his criteria. Feedback would be integrated as well. Who's in for this?
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by iampims 16y ago
What prevents you from doing so? HN has an unofficial API[1], fetch the content and roll your own HN. [1] http://api.ihackernews.com/
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by iampims 16y ago
It could well be that "only" $200M in profits is the result of spending $$$ on R&D and product development (FB Questions, FB Places, FB Credits), which could lead to a massive amount of cash flowing in shortly. They've massively investe
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by iampims 16y ago
I think you underestimate the "social" value that FB brings to the table. For the last 10 years, every time you were looking for some information regarding places you should visit, things you should buy, you were going to Google, typed your
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by iampims 16y ago
Thanks for the reply. Do you think another hosting environment (factoring in the administration costs and all) would have been cheaper?
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by iampims 16y ago
Github hosts open source software. You can browse through all kind of projects written in a wide variety of languages. One way of approaching this, would be to pick one language, read about it, and then look for other projects on Github wri
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by iampims 16y ago
Let github be your mentor and try to find someone to write/share/debug/review code with.
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by iampims 16y ago
That'd be great if you could elaborate a bit on how appengine wasn't fit or too expensive for your use case? Was performance an issue, or just costs? Thanks.
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by iampims 16y ago
Great idea. The bookmarklet is just a bit big IMO.

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