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by idoh 12y ago
A really interesting question. I think that artificial ideas are the way to go, provided that you can find a way to develop a strong interest in the subject somehow. In my personal life I tend towards minimalism, but in my professional life
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by idoh 12y ago
I'm working on an iOS Postcard app, so I tried them out. lob.com is a really great service, very easy to set up and get started. Do note that in my test it took over ten business days from ordering the card to deliver, so it is good fo
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by idoh 12y ago
I really enjoy what I'm doing, it is definitely achievable. You weren't brought into the world to toil at a job you don't like. Having a job isn't like school, it is much more open ended. If you are motivated, opportunis
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by idoh 12y ago
I still use email, it is a core part of my workflow. I start my day trying to hit inbox 0, that works well. I vastly prefer email and other async methods of communication to anything else. That being said, I also use (because of people on m
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by idoh 12y ago
non-paywall link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal...
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by idoh 12y ago
Let's see: - passwords (terrible, I know) - funnel analytics - list of SDKs in apps
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by idoh 12y ago
I got my foot in the door doing QA for a tech company, and then transitioned into Product Management (which I've been doing for about 8 years). If you really shine in QA then you'll probably find some doors open up for you too.
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by idoh 13y ago
Do it professional and straight up. See this clip from Moneyball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXEtOPMW2hM
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by idoh 13y ago
Getting burned out sucks. I'm a PM and I've been there. What helped drag me out was to focus on the process and not the results so much. I spent some time soul searching and landed on what I think is a philosophically sound way to
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by idoh 13y ago
Happens all the time, unfortunately. Now, whenever I work on a project, the very first thing I think about is how the distribution is going to work, and then build the app around that. The interesting thing I've found is that in the su
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by idoh 13y ago
Hard to say, timing the market is hard. There are reasons it could continue to go up (if the economy continues to improve, limited housing stock, lots of high income tech workers). There are reasons it could go down / level off (it is
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by idoh 13y ago
I have a lot of experience with outsourced development, my last couple projects have been like that and it has worked out really well (as in, profitable apps with a lot of users). So I know it's possible. For concern about rights &#x2F
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by idoh 13y ago
The app / app server / web server are written in arc. Arc runs on top of Racket. There's source code for an old version of HN over at arclanguage.com
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by idoh 13y ago
I like your comment, but I think it creates a false dichotomy between a deterministic universe or one with a higher power. What about a middle option, where there is no higher power but the universe isn't deterministic? If the laws of
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by idoh 13y ago
Hey Rob, distribution is key. Facebook, Pinterest & Instagram are some of the most engaging and sticky platforms out there. If your target market does not even use those, then what chance do you have of that market finding and using wha
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by idoh 13y ago
I could see it as an option for sign up, but you won't get much action from people manually posting things.
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by idoh 13y ago
The value add for using FB connect is that if you do it right you can grow an app from nothing to millions of users a day, and have a top 10 (in their category) iOS & Android app without spending a dime on paid user acquisition. The cav
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by idoh 13y ago
It's 40MM or more. There are some significant outliers, like Dropbox and AirBnB.
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by idoh 13y ago
iOS is really hot right now. Maybe parlay your C++ skills into learning Objective C and make some demo iOS apps.
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Scheduling Major League Baseball(mat.tepper.cmu.edu)
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by idoh 13y ago
Hey Tony - nice to see that you've bounced back after GraphMuse! I was the PM for Bingo and GraphMuse really did help with the #'s, and Facebook really did shut the whole thing down with no notice. The lesson with FB is more nuanc
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by idoh 13y ago
You are right - I saw this on a regular screen and it was awesome, but I'm seriously considering watching it again on a 3D Imax.
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by idoh 13y ago
I worked on Horoscopes for Facebook and Birthday Cards for Facebook. Both are apps that span iOS, Android, Facebook canvas and Facebook mobile web. Simple apps but lots of great virals and both are really big with small teams.
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by idoh 13y ago
On the $ side, I've worked on a couple lifestyle apps - there is money there but they have to be really huge (lucky for me they did in fact become huge). On the marketing side, the key for the stuff I work on is that the app is about 1
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by idoh 13y ago
It's interesting that the fetch lands are rated higher than the dual lands. With Deathrite / Brainstorm / Tarmogoyf etc are they actually better?
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by idoh 13y ago
Congrats! A bit of meta-advice: - as you may have already found out there is no shortage of opinions and advice, so the challenge is picking out the right advice - what worked for my family was to ID role model parents, e.g. parents that we
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by idoh 13y ago
I've been trying to learn Racket macros but articles like this make me feel like I should just give up. For example, in arc a macro looks like this: (mac awhen (expr . body) `(let it ,expr (if it (do ,@body)))) I can underst
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by idoh 13y ago
Sort of going against the grain here, I've done two mobile apps that are doing well. I was able to grow them because I know Facebook virals really well, and we iterate like crazy, do lots of split testing, and they are in verticals that are
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by idoh 13y ago
I've a similar story - I donated the car to KQED. Car gets picked up, get receipt, end of story right? A month later an insurance company calls me, says that my car was involved in a hit and run accident and I'm the registered owner still.
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by idoh 13y ago
I'm a University of Iowa College of Law graduate (enrolled in 2002, graduated in 2005). When I was there the grading system was quite odd - if I remember correctly the average grade was a 78, and getting something like an 82 would put you i

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