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by johnrob 15y ago
Great idea - people love their dogs and this is a great way to show them off to others. I'd get rid of the ads for now - they dilute the 'brand' (for lack of a better word), which should be your focus right now along with getting lots of u
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by johnrob 15y ago
This price makes plenty of sense if you think of as "instagram was bought for x% of facebook". I don't know facebook's current valuation, but I could be convinced that instagram is worth something between 2-10% of it (500M users vs 30M use
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by johnrob 15y ago
I had been wondering how a product like Instagram would ever make money. Now we'll never find out. I guess traction really does trump all other business metrics.
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by johnrob 15y ago
People outside the finance world seem to think beta is the same thing as standard deviation, and forget about the market correlation factor. I think the natural conclusion goes like: beta ~= risk ~= potential reward. It's hard to remember
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by johnrob 15y ago
Kudos to instagram for its passionate following. Few startups have users who care so much.
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by johnrob 15y ago
The plan might be the most rational one I've heard regarding Groupon. Not the most moral strategy, but it's one that seems to factor in their vague value proposition.
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by johnrob 15y ago
You're not the first young person to smell a rat and assume that everything is ok because some senior people say so. Your lessons here: 1) gut feelings are usually correct, and 2) many startups are run by delusional idiots with impressive b
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by johnrob 15y ago
I love the mentality behind this effort. More stuff can and should be done in the browser on mobile devices. For this to succeed, the most important problem is not exposing mobile hardware (camera, gps, etc) - it's user input. The corner
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by johnrob 15y ago
Then just stick with the DOM and XHR APIs. Those alone have been consistently crushing most desktop applications since ~2003.
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by johnrob 15y ago
I'm surprised to see swear words in content from cnn.com.
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by johnrob 15y ago
The communist regimes of 50 years ago were more than happy to protect our (American) ideas from foreigners. I suppose that in fighting so hard to undue this, we thought they would buy our products but not clone them.
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by johnrob 15y ago
The line where the original attributes are backed up needs to be a deep copy (otherwise the updates will affect the backed up dictionary): self.orig = self.obj.__dict__ Should be more like: self.orig = self.obj.__dict__.copy()
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by johnrob 15y ago
That whole internet/hyperlink/REST thing that we developed over the last 20 years? That was just a stop gap while we transitioned from mouse pointers to capacitive touch screens. Now that we point with our fingers instead of our hands, we
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by johnrob 15y ago
Definitely a todo item in the near term. Will let you know.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Wow, that is very similar! Will check that out later on.
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by johnrob 15y ago
In theory, each user could see a different set of posts. The posts are sorted by proximity to you. So, there are no locality borders (actually there may be some due to implementation details, but it's no the intention).
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by johnrob 15y ago
working on that... thanks.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Needs a better error page. IP location is an obvious addition as well.
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by johnrob 15y ago
That's a very good idea. It would be nice to have some sense of where a post came from.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Not sure yet. Right now they last forever, although newer stuff will eventually supplant older stuff (and there's no way to 'see older posts' yet).
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by johnrob 15y ago
Hmmm, your browser may not be finding your location properly. You can type in an address manually using the 'change' link in the upper right.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Click the change link on the top right - you can put any address. Thanks!
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by johnrob 15y ago
As far as a few miles away.
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by johnrob 15y ago
I can easily fix issue 1 ;) Thanks!
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by johnrob 15y ago
Thanks for the stacktrace. Using yahoo for geocoding... need to investigate.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Tossing this prototype out there to see if people find it useful. Feedback appreciated!
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Post short messages to people nearby (anonymously).(minipost.me)
25 points by johnrob 15y ago|32 comments
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by johnrob 15y ago
An internet company did something wrong. We'll make them pay by boosting their google page rank.
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by johnrob 15y ago
I am certain that if this thing actually happens, it will spin out companies on par with any accelerator.
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by johnrob 15y ago
The title could just have easily been "Google promptly takes down ads for counterfeit olympics tickets". How could they possibly have known that the ad purchaser was selling fake tickets?

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