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U.S. Election on YouTube (youtube-global.blogspot.com)
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by niketdesai 14y ago
The 9gag team is solid.I first met them at 500Startups early last year. At the time they were working on a number of products, but they truly had a mastery in understanding the creation and sharing process of people between 15-30. It showed
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by niketdesai 14y ago
They have a lot to ship, still. It seems that being a CTO and moving down the chain to program more is a precarious road to traverse. Most people seem to leave their respective companies and hang on as advisors. Maybe it's just too awkward?
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by niketdesai 14y ago
It's a disappointment this writer is covering this topic. Self-driving cars can be great because of the shear impact on utility for vehicles and safety implications. I'm quite excited about the advent of self-driving cars and the underling
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by niketdesai 14y ago
One option to reduce convoy risk is have cars attach to one another such that no single car can cause a failure in the overall system (similar to trains). We shouldn't think of automated cars as independent as we do. They are in fact simply
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by niketdesai 14y ago
Yep, even with it closed the tip dries and I have to wet it a bit / scratch a bunch to get it flowing. Not sure there's a fix that is reliable.
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by niketdesai 14y ago
There was definitely some entitlement among the community, but I don't think that should silence the call for better services (and API enforcement) from these providers (or, hopefully alternatives all together). If there is API access it sh
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by niketdesai 14y ago
I appreciate the Author's attempt to empathize with the founders/team on the acquisition results. It's not an obligation for customers to consider anything beyond what they were promised and pay for - so kudos there. That said, the differen
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by niketdesai 14y ago
"Facebook's biggest threat is a loss of meaning through noise, not users using an alternative app to capture their media." This is true of any data aggregator and visualizer. I'd argue they, probably next to Twitter, are the best at attempt
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by niketdesai 14y ago
This. Two things people do that FB wants channeled through their systems: Photos & Chat. Replacing your camera app with FBs means that all photos go to Facebook, which also represents the most important content on Facebook. If your phot
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by niketdesai 14y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a highly naive point of view. You could have had an iPhone in 2005 for an amount of money you probably wouldn't be able to part with. These products still have to be produced in quantity and therefore supply chain inn
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by niketdesai 14y ago
This is beyond awesome for a few reasons. Historically, learning a new language was hard because it generally wasn't interesting. This extensions allows you to browse the internet and specifically your interests while immersing you to a lan
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by niketdesai 15y ago
I think you're right here. This is a non-issue. Google's core value proposition to users is search. If that can be improved by gathering content from the + network, they will (and should do it). If Google could have access to FB/Twitter con
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by niketdesai 15y ago
Yes this is true, and that is what the HFT developers say to themselves as well. Just a point of data.
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by niketdesai 15y ago
That's a fair goal, and I believe the answer breaks down like this: You can work for a big company that serves billions of people, claiming that you are making an impact on the world, while in reality doing nothing. On the other hand you ca
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by niketdesai 15y ago
I noticed this as well, but I was able to see the team over on their Jobs page (and get a little bit of information about them too). I don't mean for this to be a solution to what you have brought up, but if you want to see something about
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by niketdesai 15y ago
You're right here. Every person that sees the money flowing and focuses on that will lose out on actually making something people want. It's easy to look at a startup space and see which companies get it, and which are there because the pro
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by niketdesai 15y ago
That's definitely an option, but from a usability standpoint for business owners it's a nightmare (as they have to keep track of many things already). Seems easy enough, user study showed it was a pain point. I agree current implementation
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by niketdesai 15y ago
Generally at a larger company with a more defined process the people that make acquisitions will be at least a piece of the corporate development team along with a product head. It seems like a person, or group, inside the company becomes a
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by niketdesai 15y ago
On the matter of paying a little extra for better service shouldn't we consider the option of "tipping" our flight attendants then? I know this won't fly in general, especially outside the US where tipping is not nearly as customary, but th
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by niketdesai 15y ago
Uhhhh. I'd look at turntable.fm and see their "version" of what you're talking about. Their "rooms" are effectively channels, and they have heavy integration with music collections (and I think they'll make uploaded music available to a mor
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by niketdesai 15y ago
Did you get the in your pants thing from the Punchd pitch by chance? :) See below @26:53 http://www.livestream.com/500startups/video?clipId=pla_71863...
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by niketdesai 16y ago
I think part of the reason he doesn't do that is so he can pop in his two cents when he has time. Consistently blogging well is such an underrated and difficult job. Agreed though - his stuff is quite awesome and at the very least stirs a g
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by niketdesai 16y ago
It's pretty amazing to be part of two incredibly successful companies. If anything this is simply proof that you can get it done. I'm sure it's tough to maintain control when companies become (or are acquired into) behemoths. I can't imagin
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by niketdesai 16y ago
I am interested in finding out how many people decided not to choose a number at all, and if that fact could help mitigate the experiment's inherent bias. As for people making multiple entries into the experiment, a simple IP filter could h
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by niketdesai 16y ago
I am pretty much doing the same thing, and I've found good success using Ruby Koans, Rails for Zombies and then Rails Tutorial as dustinchilson points out. The order helped me out though. I started with Ruby Koans which taught me the fundam
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by niketdesai 16y ago
Yeah I agree with you on the material bit. Since there's always a lot of talk about incubators etc. I just wasn't sure what a good alternative would have been to get this parody to this specific group.
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by niketdesai 16y ago
It's up to SF to manage their city accordingly. If anything the city has been blessed by the types of organizations that keep it afloat. They can definitely tax, but they should look to make it competitive. For instance...the projected numb
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by niketdesai 16y ago
One reason I can think of is high volume small transactions. Since the fee is flat percentage companies could get around the flat rate. This is problematic in settings where you are selling items for 1 or 2 dollars and the 15/30 cent fees e
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by niketdesai 16y ago
Oh wow, I totally blanked on that - yeah agree. I'll edit that in because it blows my argument. I suspect, however, that the cc terms will be nicer since, in theory, Square is opening up the market more than it's cannibalising it.

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