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Ask HN: Anyone ever use OpenPR for press releases?
1 points by kapauldo 17y ago|1 comments
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The best open source CRM you'll find
11 points by kapauldo 17y ago|2 comments
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by kapauldo 17y ago
hmmmm - good point, i hadn't thought of that, so you're saying the first impression should be more dense with stories. users can either "thin slice" and vote with their gut, or they can click the link and read the story, then vote (most lin
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Ask HN: Review my site: Pikk.com
3 points by kapauldo 17y ago|3 comments
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by kapauldo 17y ago
print is fantastically underrated. i LOVE my inc mag in print. it allows physical comfort while reading.
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by kapauldo 17y ago
Inc. is great, inspiring and tons of useful stuff. Fast Company is good, too full of cultural and art stuff, very similar to Wired. Entrepreneur is for fast food franchisees and ebay businesses, really not much for tech startups.
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by kapauldo 17y ago
knowledge, definitely close to 20% but capacity, depth of understanding, abstraction, 80%.
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by kapauldo 17y ago
yeah, this is right. you don't need any college if you just want to be a programmer, but if you want to cool stuff that provably optimal, you need a degree for that. the theoretical foundation for anything (and especially CS) is wondeful
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by kapauldo 17y ago
polldaddy and sodahead both allow voting without logins. i think it's a probability game. yes, occasionally you get someone going overboard to cheat, but you make up for it in non-annoyed one time spontaneous voters.
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by kapauldo 17y ago
yeah i've heard this, i thought it was finnish, but maybe it's the same language? i'm not planning on doing much PR in norway :-)
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by kapauldo 17y ago
to me, the point at which someone is willing to invest the effort to do this is the point at which you're popular enough to be able to shut down voting without logging in, but you're absolutely right, this is a vulnerability.
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by kapauldo 17y ago
yeah but at least this requires work. at least you're putting the barrier up of having to login over and over. if you do detect login abuse voting, you simply ban the IP and throw up a message saying "you've been banned for..." my experie
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by kapauldo 17y ago
that is a drawback, but all you have to do is create a login and the problem is solved. it's a compromise for sure but the problem is, one bad apple ruins the whole system, and as soon as you launch, one bad apple will come along and vote
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Digg caught red handed faking ad votes?(catalyticnarrative.blogspot.com)
6 points by kapauldo 17y ago|14 comments
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by kapauldo 17y ago
i've done this on Pikk, what i do is set a cookie as an identifier and then without login, forbid double ip-addressed based voting. upon login, if there is a cookie set, i go and harvest the votes and convert them to the logged in user. s
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Ask HN: Do press releases get traffic?
6 points by kapauldo 17y ago|1 comments
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by kapauldo 17y ago
real time search is useful and probably monetizeable, but extremely niche. i have heard plenty of examples, like some described above, where i've felt "yeah, ok, i could see that." but those times when it might be useful might occur twic
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by kapauldo 17y ago
my negative perception is partially rooted in experiences with incubators, but more so with academics in general. academics would do far better (and so would everyone) if they just licensed their IP for a small percent (like 1-5%) and then
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by kapauldo 17y ago
The answer is no, sadly. There are no good university affiliated incubators. They are all inevitably run by professors and academic administrators who have no understanding of startups (financial and time crises, for example). I have a l
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by kapauldo 17y ago
also, if you're working for no pay, then you need to consider the value of your hours as a cash equivalent investment. if you're bringing $50,000 of services to the table, and not getting paid for it, you're creeping toward a 50/50 split, m
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by kapauldo 17y ago
First of all, your house if flippin' beautiful. And your blog is awesome. I think this is a great idea, and I think you should ignore all of the reasons not to do it. There are only a couple of things you need to be fairly certain of- 1)
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Ask HN: How do you recruit a few hundred closed beta testers?
2 points by kapauldo 17y ago|3 comments