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by idoh 14y ago
$10 an hour for a nanny share in San Francisco
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by idoh 14y ago
This is the best HN comeback of all time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by idoh 14y ago
As far as I know they don't have any special deals. They use the open graph "watch" action, and when you install the app you give it permission to post this action (it is the publish_actions permission). What you are seeing on the feed are
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by idoh 14y ago
It's hard to judge the project because it's just a LaunchRock landing page.
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by idoh 14y ago
I know a great team of devs in Romania. They were really good and really moved my project forward. Send me an email if you want an introduction (I have no stake in it, I just like them and want to help them get good projects).
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by idoh 15y ago
Yes (for some value of significant). There are lots of lisps out there - I know that Scheme / Racket / Arc have some nice features that make them good for rapid prototyping, such as continuations, macros, and powerful REPL. Having said that
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by idoh 15y ago
I use arc and Racket for rapid web development. I use them because I like coding in lisp. Having said that, it's only fast if you've got experience with it, otherwise it is a long slog. Basically, the ecosystem just isn't as good. There is
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by idoh 15y ago
I don't know much about using that, because I mainly play in the FB app space. It certainly works for some people, I think pinterest is the poster child for that. On the other hand there is something to be said for letting users use as much
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by idoh 15y ago
The plan on how to market the app should come before building the app, it isn't something that works best bolted on at the end. If the product is already built, then the time is build out the user acquisition part, which is just as much of
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by idoh 15y ago
User Acquisition isn't the only thing, but it should be the first thing. Once you figure out how to get users, then you do need to build a good product to retain them. First figure out a strategy to get people to use something, and then bui
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by idoh 15y ago
Sending these emails drive down your domain's mail open rate and CTR[1], so it probably makes sense not to send those from that perspective. 1: My best guess is that if a user unsubscribes from a list, they aren't likely to open the subsequ
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by idoh 15y ago
This experiment was done in Israel - I wonder what would other countries would look like. Israelis seem to be more aggressive and creative in getting what they want than, say, Southern Californians.
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by idoh 15y ago
I work in Facebook app monetization and mobile ads, it is almost all CPC and CPI. The ad ecosystem is diverse enough that different pricing models apply in different situations.
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by idoh 15y ago
Is this the book? http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
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by idoh 15y ago
tmux is something that I've been meaning to take a look at. It's hard once something gets muscle-memoried in though, you know what I mean?
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by idoh 15y ago
I use vim-slime every day and am mainly happy with it. It is a little annoying to have to set up screen for it, I wish I knew how to script screen better but the docs are pretty opaque.
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by idoh 15y ago
It's not too hard to find reasonable PHP / JS devs for Facebook apps at around $50 an hour.
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by idoh 15y ago
By law many federal agencies have to give research grants to small businesses. My mom runs a physics research company and that's how they stay in business. You check out SBIR grants - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Innovation_
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by idoh 15y ago
Mixpanel looks great, but by my calculations it seems really expensive. It looks like their CPMs are on the order of $0.30 to $0.08. If I've got a Facebook app, maybe I make on the order of $0.30 CPM per impression through ads or purchases.
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by idoh 15y ago
I work on viral FB apps, it is a numbers game. Without an auth flow the 2nd day retention is maybe 1-2%. With an auth flow + wall posts, it is true that 60-80% won't auth the app, but we get enough people who do and come back the second day
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by idoh 15y ago
Kottke used to occasionally open up posts to comments but hasn't done it in a long time. http://kottke.org/plus/misc/opencomments.html
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by idoh 15y ago
At the end of the movie he was offered millions, but he turned it down to stay close to his family. The lesson from the movie (that deals with putting a price on everything) is that some things are priceless.
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by idoh 15y ago
HN stores everything as files in certain directories. A directory is sort of like a table, and each file is sort of like a row in that table. I think there is a directory for profiles, stories, and votes. I forget how cookie-user mappings a
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by idoh 15y ago
I was reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and he wrote about philosophy in a broader sense. The context I remember is that he was hoping that a philosopher would take on the challenge of figuring out how best to shape and rig a sailbo
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by idoh 15y ago
A very interesting post. I'm a product manager that isn't great at coding, but I'm really good at dealing with remote teams / contractors. I've often wondered if this is a route I could take, it looks promising.
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by idoh 15y ago
If you define a startup as a business that has the capability of scaling well, but hasn't scaled yet, then this fits.
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by idoh 15y ago
It's too bad that no one is trying to disrupt education (except for Khan Academy, Coursera, Udemy, Lumosity, Knewton, Skillshare, CourseHorse, Inkling, Edufire ...)
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by idoh 15y ago
Re: coming late to the party, have you considered that maybe you are suffering from some kind of reverse-surviver bias? In other words, that you only get brought on to failed outsource projects. If the outsource project works well then you
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by idoh 15y ago
As a product manager for the last 6 years, I've had the opportunity to work for outsourced teams in India, Romania, and Ukraine. I've become really good at managing remote teams, and it can work out really really well. What I write below is
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by idoh 15y ago
My app's referrers from the timeline have grown from a really really small # to only a really small #, so I think it is in fact gradually being rolled out, but I'm not sure.

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