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by jwegan 16y ago
Do you have the emails of the users? Why not just ask them directly? Sure only a small percent will respond, but it might be able to give you some direct insight into why people aren't using it more rather than you trying to guess. A lot of
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by jwegan 16y ago
Get a book on PHP, Python or whatever language your mobile platform of choice uses. Learn the language and try actually doing the examples in the book and getting them to work. Once you've done that start making things. It doesn't need to b
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by jwegan 16y ago
I would hardly call this a mistake. He choose taking smaller option package that would be more likely to be in the money than sticking with his larger option package that would only become valuable if Apple's stock skyrocketed.
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Ask HN: How to improve odds when applying as a single founder?
7 points by jwegan 16y ago|2 comments
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by jwegan 16y ago
This is hardly a blunder. He decided to go with the less risky option of taking the smaller share of options instead of betting that Apple stock was going to skyrocket over the next 5 years which seems like a sane choice to me.
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by jwegan 16y ago
Concept is good and I think it is definitely useful. 1) The interface should guide you through the process of creating a search and adding item. Maybe do that if they don't have any saved searches. 2) You should be able to add comments for
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by jwegan 16y ago
Still its absurd to assume someone is going to make your entire idea for you for free in exchange for vague promises of compensation if it becomes big.
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by jwegan 16y ago
Just don't get one from East Bay. 415 = San Francisco, this one is pretty good 650 = Palo Alto, also very good 408 = San Jose, which is decent
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by jwegan 16y ago
In their evaluation it appears they are comparing their server written in C or C++ (since they call OS functions like poll) to SEDA which is written in Java. In the original SEDA paper, if I remember correctly, the authors noted SEDA wasn't
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by jwegan 16y ago
I think they use Cassandra as there database so they already have.
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by jwegan 16y ago
Option 4 should be more like assume any interaction you have with Facebook (be it through what you post or clicking like buttons or what sites you login to using Facebook Connect) is public knowledge. If you don't want something to get out
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by jwegan 16y ago
I plan to :), but I just started working on it. I figured I would solicit feedback from HN when I finish in a week or two once I have an initial version.
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by jwegan 16y ago
The reason I said free is better is due to this blog post from OkCupid http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/04/07/why-you-should-... in which they say a lot of the profiles in pay sites were created for free or are expired which means a
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by jwegan 16y ago
One example is online dating which is a very competitive market. The free product (such as OkCupid or PlentyOfFish) are arguably better than the paid product but a large segment still uses the paid product. eHarmony markets itself as being
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by jwegan 16y ago
Thanks, looks very promising!
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by jwegan 16y ago
Their idea could use a little work. Of all the days in the year they could pick, they choose a national holiday when most people are going to be out and about and not at home using the internet.
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Ask HN: How to search your site without using Google?
1 points by jwegan 16y ago|3 comments
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by jwegan 16y ago
Well the product does have a need. It is a replacement for something I've been doing in an ad-hoc way for a while now. I would use what I'm planning on making even if it never took off, but I figured it would be pretty cool if I could get
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by jwegan 16y ago
Ya i have that enabled, but it only works for a few seconds. Also if I click another link after clicking send (which I usually do, I usually go to inbox) I lose the chance to edit it. I think it would be useful to have the ability to edit t
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by jwegan 16y ago
Delay actually sending a email by a few minutes so you have a chance to go back and edit it or 'unsend' if you need to. (And have a method to force it to send immediately if you're sure you won't want to edit it).
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by jwegan 16y ago
It is possible with PayPal. You can set it up so they input whatever price they want (or select from a dropdown of set prices) and then get a notification once they paid.
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by jwegan 16y ago
Actually I found that link useful. I hadn't read that post. I was referring more to his book on getting traction from which he has links to a bunch of interviews. Link I'm referring to so the original commenter doesn't have to re-edit: htt
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by jwegan 16y ago
I think it is also about the fact people already feel their email is secure enough. To get to your email a hacker would already have to break into gmail or your network (or one of the servers your email passes through). Also email has been
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Ask HN: How to get traction?
10 points by jwegan 16y ago|10 comments
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by jwegan 16y ago
I believe they said they have a mockup
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by jwegan 16y ago
Since the users can record the sound on your site I think this is a good candidate for using mechanical turk. You can review the work users submit and accept (thus paying them) or reject (deny them pay). Obviously if you deny a lot of peopl
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by jwegan 16y ago
Amazon Mechanical Turk. Easy to setup and fairly cheap. You can have people do anything you want. I've seen tasks like take a picture of yourself holding up a sign that says "I love <some website>.com" or to write a review of a prod
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by jwegan 16y ago
Not all embedded programming really requires you to do hardware stuff. My current position is described as "embedded" programming since the code I write runs on Linux in a device we manufacture. However, the most hardware thing I've done to
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by jwegan 16y ago
Here are a few problems I see with Diaspora (although I may be wrong, feel free to correct me). 1) They propose a mesh network, but haven't addressed scalability. If I have 1000 friends, presumably I'll have to open connections to all 1000
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by jwegan 16y ago
Said this on the other post about this. I find it suspicious that this IM conversation that took place over 6 years ago and hasn't been mentioned before, suddenly "surfaces" when Facebook is facing questions about privacy.

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