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by markessien 16y ago
Mixpanel is also crazily expensive. I am using mixpanel to track email sends and app opens for iphone apps, and at 1.2 million events a month, this would cost $350 a month. That's just insane for a graph that shows daily opens.
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by markessien 16y ago
I'd assume the recording process cut out all instances where nothing changed on the screen. All the thinking pauses seem cut out.
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by markessien 16y ago
Any company that is really hot will have people offering them money at a cheaper valuation than Yuris offer. Cos the other investors already know the line they have to undercut. So the ones who take up the offer are the ones that don't appe
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by markessien 16y ago
The problem is not javascript, the problem is server round-trips. Local HTML5 is practically indistinguishable from a native client - but that's not what they are doing. They are making a proper server based system.
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by markessien 16y ago
Native apps are faster, easier to use and save time. Web apps are easier to develop for them, that's why they chose them.
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by markessien 16y ago
He's right. Many people bet on the web, there is a lot of legacy on the web, and the web is obviously easier for developers to make. But the customers want native apps (as thick clients to internet services). Native apps work better. They
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by markessien 16y ago
Ruby is difficult to learn compared to learning ASP.net if you went from VB6 to ASP to ASP.net. I'm familiar with those languages. The OP posted that he learned ASP.net as if it proved that he's really good at programming.
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by markessien 16y ago
The original site was in ASP, then he migrated it to ASP.net. I doubt that he paid any attention to the 'framework' part of things. He just did a VB syntax migration.
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by markessien 16y ago
ASP.net is just Visual Basic. It's not the most complicated language to learn, and you don't need to know much about computers to develop in ASP or VB.
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by markessien 16y ago
Frankly, Marcus does not sound like he is very computer Saavy. He sounds like one of these people who knows how to write some PHP scripts, but does not really understand the details of what goes on behind it - so assumes that what this guy
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by markessien 16y ago
Was Tom not working as part of WakeMate?
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by markessien 16y ago
In spite of Obama being a product of such a mixed-race union, he picked 'Black' as his racial categorization in the 2010 census, according to an article linked from there. I think that's backwards. A person equally white and equally black s
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by markessien 16y ago
This is why America remains segregated. Rich neighbourhoods send all their children to the same schools, poor neighbourhoods send their children to the same school. Children should be assigned to schools out of their living zone - then ther
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by markessien 16y ago
Techstars is going to be unhappy about this. After one of their premier companies, SendGrid gets hit by the amazon announcement, YC closes this deal.
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by markessien 16y ago
How about using twisted-pair or some other networking cable? They are rubber coated usually.
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by markessien 16y ago
This is one of the problems with cloud platforms. You know how people proudly announce on twitter that they "fired" a customer? What happens if a cloud platform you are using and depends on decide to "fire" you because you're a complainer o
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by markessien 16y ago
Make a grid of ropes running horizontally and vertically across the roof. They form a mesh across the roof, and split the snow into smaller sub-units. Loop the ropes around pulleys on each side and stack some weight to keep them taut. After
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by markessien 16y ago
These guys are very impressive, and that they are so innovative around video is really nice. The Justin.tv guys really took off after they closed down Kiko. I think that this goes to show that the wrong market and the wrong concept can hold
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by markessien 16y ago
This social captcha is the stupidest idea ever. When I was travelling, I got locked out of facebook so many times and was unable to get back in because I could not figure out who my friends are. People tag themselves wrongly. A lot of my fr
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by markessien 16y ago
Google has this idea in its head that the world should be html and web based. It wants a big server infra-structure and almost non-existent clients, because it IS a big server infrastructure. Google wants to be the platform that everyone is
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by markessien 16y ago
This is just my subjective opinion, but that seems a bit overvalued to me. I have no doubt that hipmunk will be successful, but after raising that amount, the amount of success they must see is going to have to be pretty large. If they had
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by markessien 16y ago
Actually, they won't. Very few people take the initiative to send email. It's one of the highest friction things you can build in.
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by markessien 16y ago
Yes, that's really silly. The first step in the funnel should be easy - putting a roadblock right at the start is not very clever.
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by markessien 16y ago
Sendgrid & other such senders will be shaking in their shoes now. Personally, as soon as I have more time, I'll switch to the amazon service. Also, any new app I make will use Amazons service by default. Sending email out is quite impor
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by markessien 16y ago
When you email people, they are not interested in your passion or anything else. They have a problem. They want someone helpful to fix their problem without trying to sell them anything. That's it. Don't be too chummy, don't be too cold. Ju
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by markessien 16y ago
Come on! You think that someone who needs that software will be deterred by a 10px different in download button size? He found this website somehow, but then can't find the download button because it'S 10px too small?
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by markessien 16y ago
It seems to me that when you ask for feedback here on this site, most answers are about website design and typography and length of text and other unnecessary but very visual stuff. This stuff is unimportant. If a person needs your software
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by markessien 16y ago
Your first point is quite wrong. I've been selling $600 value software for years now, and design of the website has typically had no effect at all on sales. What people care about is "does it work" and "will it be supported"?
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by markessien 16y ago
Dropbox works in china partially. Even though it is blocked, you just need to connect to the VPN shortly, and even if you disconnect, after that it works fine.
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by markessien 16y ago
One important thing in delegation, I find is to not fix things yourselves, even when they would be easy to fix for you. Explain the theory behind it and let them fix it themselves, next time they do it better. Also, if you over-delegate, ma

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