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by ljd 13y ago
Companies can take themselves private. BestBuy is in the process of doing it right now. The owners? The stockholders. They just aren't trading their shares on NASDAQ anymore. MaysonL's explanation is incorrect.
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by ljd 13y ago
I understand Hulu and Netflix but I have a hard time understanding why Amazon wouldn't support SSL. It does put a heavier processing load on web servers but you would think that if someone wants to encrypt their shopping traffic Amazon wo
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by ljd 13y ago
While I can not verify concretely whether or not airlines change prices tied to cookies, I know that it's outcome is suboptimal. Changing prices over a hunch that people will perceive the price as going up or down does not actually conve
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by ljd 14y ago
This is not dynamic pricing. This is subtracting a dollar after every sale. Companies like this make it very hard to explain what we do which is use machine learning to maximize profits.
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by ljd 14y ago
$11b to destroy a media and internet distribution monopoly? Owning the distribution can allow them to enter markets that don't seem so crazy when you consider that google could do offer a YouTube user an upgrade to publish their channel to
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by ljd 14y ago
I just want to add that sites like hotels, cruises and airlines have demand based models that consider time which makes finding the right price a bit more complex that standard a standard revenue curve. We[0] solved this problem for ecommer
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by ljd 14y ago
You would indeed have a rough draft of price optimization software. Also, you could use our[0] more refined SAAS Pricing Software that takes more factors like time into consideration. I know the HN crowd will like to know that the entire pr
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by ljd 14y ago
"But it’s been confined to enterprises like airlines, car rental companies, and hotels implementing crap like Teradata and Oracle. This field has not been democratized, so it’s kindof gone unnoticed in the big data conversation." This is
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by ljd 14y ago
From an evolutionary perspective, all these side projects represent mutations in technology. Environmental pressures are acting on these mutations to select the project that is a best fit for the masses and reward that best fit by reproduc
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by ljd 14y ago
I had to read that twice... did a petition actually work? Regarding: "Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in research and development expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research
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by ljd 14y ago
You should never send primary account numbers[0] over unencrypted protocol or to any system that will store it unencrypted. While most email systems communicate over encrypted protocols, very few encrypt their data store. For security's sak
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by ljd 14y ago
I think I have a tough time as both a software developer and a consumer getting behind "the world should be built on free software." I will gladly pay for the best fit for me, it's how resources are transacted in an economy. You pay for th
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by ljd 14y ago
"To that end, Aaron returned the data he had in his possession and JSTOR settled any civil claims we might have had against him in June 2011." Reminds me of that spider drawing comic [0]. [0] http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html
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by ljd 14y ago
What an interesting reflection on who we are as a species. We build systems to organize who we are (urbandictionary) but hate it when the systems use that information tell us who we are (watson). It feels so much like the emperor isn't wear
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by ljd 14y ago
patio11's idea is pretty dead-on. I would probably start there. But for variety, I'll give you an alternative to the advertising route. You could do a procured tour that changes every week. Even long-time residents might find that inter
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by ljd 14y ago
Apple is a retail business and they can deliver tech support at scale by doubling their retail locations into support centers. It's unfair to compare a retail company's availability to a SaaS provider such as a Google. It would be wise fo
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by ljd 14y ago
You can't have both free (or extremely cheap) services and have highly available tech support. I'm not sure if you've ever been part of a company building a call center for tech support in the US but it is a nightmare. It can easily be o
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by ljd 14y ago
What actionable results would someone who doesn't pay for the service be able to gain by this litigation? Can a free user actually receive financial compensation from a lawsuit like this? How would a company's liability even be measured i
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by ljd 14y ago
I don't understand, who outside of the investor is supposed to gain value from a public trade? Aren't all public security transactions valueless outside of the investor?
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by ljd 14y ago
No, actually he can't anonymize that data. High variation might as well be a signature for a short list (under 1000) of companies. Also, his company has spent time and money to gain access to data that should help him pick emerging comp
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by ljd 14y ago
I can't agree more. In fact, they would rather just have whatever functionality you are selling them in whatever software they currently have. Ideally, they want to use your product in their Salesforce/SAP. It might not sound pleasant bu
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by ljd 14y ago
Wouldn't there be some significant issues with patenting a skeuomorphic design? Couldn't a physical book be used as a form of prior art? If this is not the case and anything that exists outside of the realm of computing can now be patent
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by ljd 14y ago
I get that's his play. I still want to discourage people from writing this way. George Carlin's cutting humor was profound. It's my humble opinion that unless you intend to write as well as George Carlin, you should be less adversarial
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by ljd 14y ago
I have a hard time taking opinion pieces like this blog seriously. The verbiage is so strongly connected to his disdain that I can't hear anything through the noise. If you want to be hypercritical of companies using Kickstarter for the
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by ljd 14y ago
Or make the title of the article a time stamp.
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by ljd 14y ago
Our product is just a REST API, so you could use it with anything. We have been building out integrations with shopping carts but I think Gumroad would be a perfect application for it.
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by ljd 14y ago
This is something I would spend money on. Does anyone know if such an Exchange/Gmail plugin exists?
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by ljd 14y ago
Just a head's up, that link is broken. I think you may have meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorp%27s_Price_Sensit... Also, I just want to mention that if you have the ability to change your price rapidly then using a dynami
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by ljd 14y ago
If it helps, I can share a bit about that. Our API has gone from several hundred hits to several million, while its no Twitter API we are closing out our "0 - 1" phase as Peter Thiel would put it. Probably the most important thing for a bu
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by ljd 14y ago
I apologize if my response came off as "blaming the computer." I'm unsure of what the 1990 references is about but I just want to help anyone that wants to understand how this works. I'll be more clear, our dynamic pricing algorithms are j

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