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by johnrob 17y ago
In all honesty, the only thing I can think of is a big sale to either Yahoo or MS. Either might want to keep twitter away from google, and there's a good chance that owning the firehose would produce the best 'real time search' product.
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Ask HN: How will twitter make money?
2 points by johnrob 17y ago|6 comments
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by johnrob 17y ago
The U.S. is slowly (and inevitably) becoming Europe, where living with parents while in your 30s is not abnormal.
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Harmonix: How 'horrendous failure' led to Rock Band(money.cnn.com)
6 points by johnrob 17y ago|2 comments
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by johnrob 17y ago
You only know the Snuggie is for watching TV in hindsight - because customers told us. I think it's a tough call when both products are still the idea phase.
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by johnrob 17y ago
This is not apples vs apples. Some of those items are living cows, and some are cooked steaks served with a side of mashed potatoes. I'm sure the cow looks cheap (per pound) until you are tasked with turning it into a steak.
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by johnrob 17y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that they were expecting a profit this year, on revenue in the hundreds of millions. I could be wrong though.
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by johnrob 17y ago
That's the difference between ramen profitable and gourmand profitable!
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by johnrob 17y ago
Probably somewhere on skyline blvd (highway 35). There should be less ambient light up there.
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by johnrob 17y ago
I'm guessing lawsuits that refund the carriers' money?
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by johnrob 17y ago
I don't recall the author claiming he wasn't getting girls. He does, however, seem to be trying to form a logical argument.
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by johnrob 17y ago
Please specify which other cities you are comparing this to.
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by johnrob 17y ago
If you're looking for a wife, it's no more difficult here than anywhere else. If you're looking for a dating scene, you will be disappointed if you're coming from the Midwest or South.
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by johnrob 17y ago
That is spot on. Population-wise, SF men outnumber the women by something like 55%-45%. However, if you tried to estimate that number based on the nightlife scene, you'd arrive at something like 70%-30%. I think the psychological concept
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by johnrob 17y ago
I would think that facebook (and their mobile apps) are a bigger threat than google. They could add a 'share my location with friends' feature that would be competitive.
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by johnrob 17y ago
Not trying to be critical, but any position that is associated with managing revenue tends to have a high correlation with success. What kind of startup hires a CFO? Exactly. I know a controller who has a similar track record.
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by johnrob 17y ago
This strategy clearly lacks some of the benefits of ramen profitability, most obviously the demonstrated ability to get someone to pay for your product. However, I wonder if this approach could serve as a less risky way to pursue ramen pro
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by johnrob 17y ago
Has anyone considered taking a day job that essentially involves loads of free time and no intellectual property constraints? Perhaps some sort of support or attendant role where your primary duty is to monitor and occasionally deal with i
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by johnrob 17y ago
The big winners are the businesses that sold products to these consumers. The losers are the banks and consumers themselves.
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by johnrob 17y ago
If they are better than google and nobody cares, that is a frightening thought.
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by johnrob 17y ago
I'm not the only person who uses this! I wish I knew this had a name when I proposed it; everybody I was working with thought it was strange. I think it's a good mix of performance and query-ability: you can do quite a bit here using LIKE
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by johnrob 17y ago
Guy Kawasaki said it best: Nobody wants your crappy idea, everyone is already working on their own crappy idea.
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Tesla Motors' history, according to Elon Musk(teslamotors.com)
32 points by johnrob 17y ago|22 comments
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by johnrob 18y ago
I think programmers do like to code. This is why the most popular libraries are ones that feel like languages. For example, print urllib.urlopen(' http://news.ycombinator.com/' ).read() feels more like a language statement than a library c
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by johnrob 18y ago
Anyone else find themselves typing this way too often?: awk '{print $2}' Is there a way to achieve this that's easier to type?
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Ask HN: Possible loophole for angel investing net worth restriction?
1 points by johnrob 18y ago|2 comments
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by johnrob 18y ago
Over the years, I've come to realize that the "quality" of urban design can be approximated by the ease at which one can travel while drunk. Mountain View is an epic fail.
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by johnrob 18y ago
The main challenge in building facebook apps is figuring out how to monetize a user base that doesn't pay or click ads. It works for facebook itself because they have an unholy amount of traffic. But your app won't.
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by johnrob 18y ago
Twitter accounts are not domain names. Right now, the hype is all about large follower accounts and how you get them by following followers of existing popular users. However, a follower is not worth as much as a website visitor, because
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by johnrob 18y ago
This is a paradox only because we are allowing infinite winnings. That's not possible in the real world. The solution is to end the game when the 'casino' can no longer pay the amount on the table. In this case, the expected value is simply

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