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by jfarmer 16y ago
You're speaking out of ignorance. First, Facebook can and does police what people pass to third-party ad networks. When the FB platform first launched app developers did what you're describing. In mid-2008 Facebook amended the TOS to preve
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Not might, they can. Don't work on non-work projects on work computers.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
1. No, I'm just saying Facebook reacts very strongly to bad press. Maybe more or less strongly than other companies, but they don't typically take swift action on the platform (e.g., putting a 50-person company out of business overnight) u
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Hmm. This is very interesting. A few facts: 1. When you embed an iframe with fb:iframe, the parameters Facebook passes to your app get passed to the iframe automatically. This includes the Facebook UID. This is the way everyone has alway
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I would. My current company has a great product name. We got the .com domain, but the Twitter name is taken by a person with 1 follower, 1 following, and no tweets. When I showed Twitter our domain and product and asked if we could have t
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by jfarmer 16y ago
His arguments are either valid or they aren't. You should engage them on their merits rather than worrying about ulterior motives. Pretend the person you respect the most wrote that article. How would you critique it, then?
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I'm skeptical that Twitter "lends itself brilliantly to commerce." First, Twitter pulled the plug on their @earlybrid project ( http://twitter.com/earlybird ). I know some companies who ran deals through them and they produced disappointin
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by jfarmer 16y ago
The Etsy API returns the primary color of an image.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Specific ones? It's hard because small businesses are, well, small and not well-publicized. My father operates a small business, though, in the live music industry, while living in a remote part of the country. You have fewer opportunities
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by jfarmer 16y ago
It's often harder to succeed in smaller markets -- lots of hungry dogs fighting over scraps.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I don't think this was Mint's pitch deck, though it is a great case study.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I thought you were saying that business owners would be reluctant to share their data,e.g., for privacy or competitive reasons, versus: 1. The difficulty and expense associated with calling and converting smaller retailers 2. The amount of
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by jfarmer 16y ago
No, the main challenge is calling every mom & pop store and getting them indexed. You are also unlikely to convince a mom & pop store to do any extra work, especially if it involves something they don't understand (computers). Ther
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I lived in Den Haag for three months and I was surprised at how little Dutch was spoken on a day-to-day basis. Everyone defaulted to English all the time, and the only people I met who didn't speak it were immigrants from other countries (
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by jfarmer 16y ago
It's their job to sell it. Push, not pull. I know Matt knows this, but you can't expect anyone to care unless you make them care. Being located in Florida is a liability for VCs and angels, regardless. You're right that their product has a
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by jfarmer 16y ago
No, but it's probably used to sign cookies and other requests, which means one could hijack someone else's session.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I used LFS in high school (8 years ago). It's how I learned 90% of what I now know about administering and troubleshooting Linux servers. If that's your goal, I recommend it.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
The Sony MH907 ear plugs http://www.sonyericsson.com/putyourearsincontrol/ I don't think they ever shipped, though.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
No, you're doing it wrong. You say, "How many people should I test before there's a 95% chance I observe a 10% effect size?" That's your sample size. It's easy to compute up front.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Every time you do a significance calculation and decide whether to stop the test or continue you increase the likelihood of a type I error (i.e., false positive). So, your 99.8% confidence isn't 99.8%. There are a few ways to compensate for
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Human doesn't understand complex rule with counterintuitive corner case. Film at 11.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Ambiguous to a human, vs. a compiler.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
If I had a co-founder with that attitude I'd tell him to sod off. The people at the top have to be willing to do whatever it takes, whether they're "passionate" about it or not.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
"Net worth" does not mean liquid. Sam's equity in Loopt is easily worth more than $1MM.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Sam is probably an accredited investor due to the value of his Loopt stock. Their last round was valued at something like $500MM. From there he can invest whatever he wants -- $1k, $10k, $100k, etc. -- assuming the entrepreneurs agree.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Really you mean, "I think they're idiots because..." There are many reasons someone might want to buy a Rolex, of which quality is just one. Why are they idiots for having reasons you disapprove of?
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by jfarmer 16y ago
The Santa Cruz Mountains are in the way.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
They aren't idiots just because they don't share your values.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
That's a standard byline for an op-ed. It was most likely inserted by whoever runs the website or the editor of the article, rather than the author himself.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Sort of works. I start typing "guests of the ayatollah" and the books appear and vanish and appear and vanish and finally vanish, but by then I've entered the full book name (why isn't it auto-completing? look at how Chrome's auto-complet

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