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by jdrock 16y ago
I found our best contractors on HN itself. Posted an "80legs is hiring" and got a handful of quality applicants that were available on an as-needed basis at good rates, given the quality of their work.
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Ask HN: Quantcast/Compete-like website(s) for international domains?
1 points by jdrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 16y ago
Looks like cool technology, but Swype still is faster and provides a better interface.
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Ask HN: Which ISPs use metered bandwidth pricing?
2 points by jdrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 16y ago
My 2 cents: 1. Mint was viral to a degree. The service itself wasn't, but their blog was. They put a lot of effort into building a community around their blog - posting tips and guides on managing your finances, and so on. 2. I wonder if
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by jdrock 16y ago
Great name, but 0 impact on their success.
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by jdrock 16y ago
Interesting. Your response is enough to make me unsubscribe from your blog.
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by jdrock 16y ago
That's all well and good, but we'd still prefer some more data backing up your claims. The claims made in your article on how people read text were refuted by a paper linked here on HN. That alone makes your future articles and the claims
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by jdrock 16y ago
Same for me. It also loads more slowly than going to the web page directly.
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by jdrock 16y ago
I call BS on the test. Interesting. You state that Casey Jones should divert the train, yet this will cause the death of the person trapped on the railway siding. This seems to be inconsistent with your belief that it is always wrong to ca
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by jdrock 16y ago
This is pretty awesome... assuming you have the budget for it, and it's a good idea for members of your community to feel exclusive. EDIT: I'd be interested in reading examples of technology community building, particularly for niche servic
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by jdrock 16y ago
A major point made in the article is that the standard big data stack does not fit all big data needs . There's a growing assumption that this stack is sort of all that's needed, and that's just not the case.
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by jdrock 16y ago
Ha - fair enough point. Perhaps this will help young burgeoning startups give more thought to their options, though.
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Why a Do it Yourself Big Data Stack Is a Better Option(cloud.gigaom.com)
27 points by jdrock 16y ago|12 comments
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by jdrock 16y ago
A very good comment. It's interesting to think that the Internet lynch mobs of today are not entirely different than the lynch mobs from several decades ago. Sure, the motivations are different, but both groups consist of people falling pr
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Where Founders Come From(cbinsights.com)
1 points by jdrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 16y ago
While Stacey (the author) isn't an engineer, she's probably talked to and gotten the perspectives of many more people in this space than most of us here.
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by jdrock 16y ago
I feel like you're trivializing the barriers to first match basic services provided by ISP giants and then provide competitive differences on top of that. One of the reasons people are clamoring for net neutrality legislation is that the r
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Reddit Ad by the Numbers for B2B Services(80legs.wordpress.com)
7 points by jdrock 16y ago|0 comments
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The Almighty API, Crawling and the Programmable Web(readwriteweb.com)
4 points by jdrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 16y ago
It's all or mostly technical stuff. I guess he doesn't read Calvin & Hobbes or anything non-work-related?
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by jdrock 16y ago
You can use some of the crawl packages at 80legs to do this. We regularly do crawls of company directory listings like yellowpage sites and provide an ongoing feed for you to collect. http://www.80legs.com/use-crawl-package.html
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by jdrock 16y ago
There are many things fundamentally different between men and women. Sure, some women have traits similar to men and the converse holds as well. Personally, I don't think there is anything actually stopping women from being successful entr
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Extractiv launches "Semantics as a Service"(readwriteweb.com)
6 points by jdrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 16y ago
Hobbies are a good thing. They help exercise your mind and keep you stimulated and motivated. Put it this way: if your company requires you to be working constantly to be successful, you are probably running things inefficiently.
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by jdrock 16y ago
I find it more impressive they were able to manage a culture full of alpha dogs and make a productive business out of it. I wouldn't consider this type of culture as one to implement in my own company.
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by jdrock 16y ago
Getting a response back from an executive is super-awesome. I'm a little concerned about how we (80legs) fit into Facebook's permission form, though. We're not using or selling the data ourselves, but we can sell access to an already-setup
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by jdrock 16y ago
What will happen is that they will send a cease and desist letter to you (like they did to Pete). At that point, you have basically given notice and it becomes much riskier to continue doing what you're doing. That's not to say their C&#38
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by jdrock 16y ago
It's not Facebook's data. It's the users' data.
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by jdrock 16y ago
In my personal opinion, the Facebook employee's response shows that he doesn't understand the company's high-level business goals. Their developers may think they are building an open web, but it's very clear the company is only interested

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