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by ollerac 14y ago
If an experiment works, who cares how rigorous it was? For the example of a society I think a good metric would be: "How many people enjoy living in this particular society and don't want to move away?" We wouldn't need to make any big chan
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by ollerac 14y ago
I know this guy. We meditate together on Tuesday nights at a Shambhala Center. He just graduated from BU last Friday with a PhD in Physics. If you have any pressing questions I could probably pass them along.
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by ollerac 14y ago
That commencement speech was awesome, but I really wish 37s would take a break from blogging for a while. They jumped the shark like 2 years ago when they stopped saying new things.
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by ollerac 14y ago
I agree that most future growth will come from extracting more cash from their current pool of users, but I can imagine a situation in which new sources of revenue would lead to exponential growth. The world economy has never seen anything
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by ollerac 14y ago
Facebook has over 900 million active users as of May 2012. [1] LinkedIn has maybe 23 million active users. [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook [2] http://www.quora.com/LinkedIn/How-many-active-users-does-Lin...
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by ollerac 14y ago
Companies are allowed to carry high P/E ratios because they've recently undergone a period of exponential growth and people believe they can continue to execute at the same pace. Amazon (amzn) is the perfect example of a stock that continua
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by ollerac 14y ago
Facebook is a story stock [1] if I ever saw one. According to the WSJ it's the most traded IPO of all time. I imagine a lot of people who use FB but know nothing about stocks are buying and selling it. I expect it'll take a while before peo
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by ollerac 14y ago
Please don't require credit card information when you advertise a link on that page as "Launch and use Kandan now". And especially not when that credit card information is required as the second step in an initially single-step seeming sign
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by ollerac 14y ago
Do you have some kind of article or source to back up your first comment? I'm interested in reading it.
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by ollerac 14y ago
Don't worry: you salvaged some of it with that comment ;)
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by ollerac 15y ago
this site looks awesome and i'd like to use it, but how do i know you'll be around in a year?
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by ollerac 15y ago
I'm not sure about Meteor, but you may want to look into SocketStream. Last time I checked they were very interested in making web APIs easier to develop.
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by ollerac 15y ago
clearly the U.S. centric propaganda has gotten to you. which 1st world government isn't filled with crackpot thieving crooked perverts?
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by ollerac 15y ago
These are people just like us who are interested in self-preservation. Do you have any idea how many times the U.S. has completely screwed up their economy? The world isn't fair mostly because people can't stop fucking with each other.
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by ollerac 15y ago
are companies only allowed to have one reason for their acquisitions? i assume the complexity of instagram's architecture would reflect the technical prowess of the team and this would be very important to facebook
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by ollerac 15y ago
I bet the first line of the deal was: "Don't fuck with us anymore please."
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by ollerac 15y ago
I actually think part of the problem with Wave was too much marketing. There was a TON of fanfare in the tech world when that was released. I think the main problem with Wave was a crappy product. The tech was amazing and the interface was
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by ollerac 15y ago
I think there's a way around this. For example, YouTube has remained a relatively separate brand from Google so I think things they do wouldn't reflect back on Google as much. One company I think is really good at this is Amazon. IMDB, dp
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by ollerac 15y ago
I think he's arguing that Google has less of an established character because they've put less effort into establishing one than Apple -- they're more a bunch of teams working for the same company than one company. I agree with this point,
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by ollerac 15y ago
Bad news? I think it'd be cool if contributors were encouraged to remove blatant opinions from flame bait headlines. I think this would show more respect to our intelligence and openness as a community. I value the discussions on hacker new
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by ollerac 15y ago
Ya, that part of the pricing page scared me too. I think adding a plan for unlimited users that had a set price would assuage many people's fears.
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by ollerac 15y ago
Thank you so much for making that site. I've never come across such an accurate description of the symptoms of depression. I can relate to a lot of what's written there and it really helps put things into perspective. Meditating, exercising
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by ollerac 15y ago
I think it's only scary if you can see the walled garden. There are a lot of people out there who can barely manage to get pictures off of their digital cameras. I think to some people the Kindle Fire will just make sense. They don't have t
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by ollerac 15y ago
Ya, I hope it doesn't take that long for them to implement. Keep in mind that the interview started out with Erick asking Drew: What do you need to do in the next 18 months months, to not squander this opportunity. So Drew may have just b
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Daniel Kahneman: How cognitive illusions blind us to reason(guardian.co.uk)
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by ollerac 15y ago
I really appreciate your humility. It's obvious you're genuinely looking for something and that's heartening. You might want to check out some interviews with John Lasseter. I enjoyed this video that documents one of his days at Pixar: htt
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by ollerac 15y ago
Yes, this would be key. I have a few friends I'll recommend this service too as soon as this is implemented. Also, how much of a cut of sales do you guys take? Or are you thinking a monthly subscription model?
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by ollerac 15y ago
You can also measure websites in google trends: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=stumbleupon.com&geo=... They don't have the data for Ireland, but there's no uptick here for "All Regions".
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by ollerac 15y ago
Ya, awesome design. I'd change the default font to something more readable, remove the coffee stain from the page, let people flip a few pages ahead (otherwise, why use the notebook paradigm?), and change the "i'm a new user" flow -- the fo
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by ollerac 15y ago
I haven't used Sparks, but I can say this: my primary use for a social network isn't discovering new content. There are already so many awesome ways of doing that. Google Reader or StumbleUpon or Reddit or Delicious seem like better ways of

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