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Why Felicia Day Makes Me (More) Proud of My Startup Job(blog.backupify.com)
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Party survival tips and tricks for geeks with social anxiety(techrepublic.com)
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How 55,000 generations of E. coli show evolution in action(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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Welcome to science(zenpencils.com)
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What is the monetary exchange rate between tweets and Yelp reviews?(blog.backupify.com)
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by jgarmon 15y ago
Vernor Vinge reference?
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by jgarmon 15y ago
I assume this statement means that the advertiser's site does not appear organically on the first page of search results. Thus, buying paid placement on the first page only produces one listing on the first page (the ad) rather than two or
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by jgarmon 15y ago
Far be it from me to impugn the credibility of researchers I don't know, but I have to think there's at least some confirmation bias at work when Google concludes that giving Google money for paid ads is a good thing.
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by jgarmon 15y ago
Related question from a different perspective: HOW DO I MAKE MY CEO TAKE SOME TIME OFF? I'm not a confounder, but the CEO-founder is a friend and hired me on as soon as he cleared his A-round funding. (We've been confounders before on a pro
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by jgarmon 15y ago
Supplementary material: the Onlinesmanship WIki http://onlinemanship.wikia.com/wiki/Onlinemanship Curated by Theresa Neilsen Hayden, who at one time modded comments at BoingBoing. As a former forum mod myself, I can attest that there are
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7 principles for implementing comfortable APIs(blog.backupify.com)
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by jgarmon 15y ago
There's a legal principle call Forum Non Conveniens that is supposed to remedy this, though I don't know if anyone has challenged these seizures on those grounds. Basically, a legal matter is supposed to be tried in the most relevant and ap
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What happens to my Gmail account when I die? | Backupify(blog.backupify.com)
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How is a Gmail outage different than a stroke?(blog.backupify.com)
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by jgarmon 15y ago
1) Self-reported happiness is an EXTREMELY unreliable indicator, as the social pressure to "seem happy" is very real and very different by culture, class and educational level 2) Happiness and income are relational in that we've seen over a
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by jgarmon 15y ago
I don't in general disagree, except to say that the consumerization of IT departments means that enterprises are using consumer-oriented stuff, so you get the best of both headaches these days. And if you think the neterprise is bad, just t
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by jgarmon 15y ago
I would be extremely curious if this holds for content as well as app. We've trained users that content is free, while apps can occasionally cost money. This has led to all kinds of price distortions in music and, most especially, ebooks. A
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Okay, enough with the "meetings are toxic" crap(techrepublic.com)
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by jgarmon 15y ago
We did precisely the same thing at our company about 18 months ago. Our original codebase just couldn't scale. It was a great MVP platform, and we learned a great deal from it, but it simply couldn't handle load, sophisticated billing optio
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by jgarmon 15y ago
WOW, I had NO IDEA that was still out there. I guess nothing ever dies on the internet.
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by jgarmon 15y ago
This isn't about agile. This isn't about methodologies. It's about one basic principle that's true in every industry, for any and every management system: PROCESS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP. No set of rules can compensate for bad ma
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Our startup has product-market fit...Now what?(coconutheadsets.com)
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by jgarmon 15y ago
This is not a new game. "No one gets fired for buying IBM" was born, then later became "No one gets fired for buying Microsoft" on the back of "industry journals" that were more or less the dead-tree version of the rackets Fake Steve is des
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Access does not equal ownership(blog.backupify.com)
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"Start stacking the dimes" - How to save newspapers and healthcare(techcrunch.com)
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by jgarmon 15y ago
Also, not all community members are created equal. I used to be a mod/product lead for a major IT community forum. We had a group of 300 or so hardcore posters (which the ad team referred to as "inventory builders") who we took behind the c
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by jgarmon 15y ago
This true for non-coder creatives, too. I can't count the number of times I've been asked to "look at a design" or "go over some copy" because three other employees had some feedback in some meting I wasn't a part of, but no one can remembe
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by jgarmon 15y ago
The naive assumption here is that the sellout option is the entrepreneur's decision alone. If you've taken VC cash, you're answerable to a board of directors and a group of investors. If the money guys are getting cold feet, and want their
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Archiving is for discovery, backups are for recovery(blog.backupify.com)
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by jgarmon 15y ago
We had a more subtle approach at a forum for IT pros I used to moderate. We called it the Crazy Cafe. Known trolls wouldn't be banned -- they'd just create a new login and start trolling again, leading to a metagame amongst our community of

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