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by padobson 14y ago
I actually like this idea. Don't just let it become Vaporware. There's probably others like it, but this could actually be useful to various online communities where conversations like the ones with your brother take place.
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by padobson 14y ago
The point of the article is not that she's incompetent or bad at her job. The point of the article is that once Facebook hired her to help them come up with a business model, ads were a foregone conclusion. She led the charge on the monetiz
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by padobson 14y ago
Even if I asked them to imagine that a pill had been invented to slow aging down by one-half, allowing a person who is, say, 60 years old to have the body of a 30-year-old, only about 10 percent of audiences switched to favoring a life spa
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by padobson 14y ago
Google could absolutely use more creativity in their executives. The graveyard of failed Google products is vast, and its only because they indeed did choose the best business model in advertising for their search service that they have bee
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by padobson 14y ago
This probably a better articulation of what I mean, though I'm not convinced it's different.
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by padobson 14y ago
This is why I get so amped up about this entire discussion. One of the things that's so great about an API-centered business model is that there are a ton of creative decisions that have to be made in order to monetize it. Do you sell per r
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by padobson 14y ago
You make a good point. There's a lot of things that are unanswerable about what-ifs in the early days of Facebook. The biggest what-if I'm wondering about is this: what if Facebook focused on becoming the first large social media company to
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by padobson 14y ago
1. I thought that the Dalton Caldwell quote I used explained that: If you are building an advertising/media business, it would then follow that you need to own all of the screen real-estate that users see. The next logical step would be to
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by padobson 14y ago
I'll have to apologize if I came off as sexist. I'm not even completely anti-Sandberg. I had hoped this bit would cover that: At Google she had excelled at selling online advertisements and growing Google into a cash gushing behemoth. Any
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Facebook Should Fire Sheryl Sandberg(pdobson.com)
38 points by padobson 14y ago|29 comments
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4 Possible Cures for TV Interface Paralysis(projectfarnsworth.org)
1 points by padobson 14y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 14y ago
I found the analysis of the importance of smartphones over vehicles to be very interesting. I pay $150 month for my family talk, text, and data plan, plus another $50 for high speed internet into my house. The payment on my car is $207 a mo
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by padobson 14y ago
"But people raised to believe that physicists are more reliable than Hindu priests will prefer molasses to milk. For those who cannot follow the mathematics, belief in the Higgs is an act of faith, not of rationality." This reminds me of th
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by padobson 14y ago
I don't see how it could calculate what my tax burden would be based on my income alone. It's not asking me if I'm self employed or if I have dependents. Consultants like myself have to pay the payroll taxes (SSI, Medicare) for themselves a
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by padobson 14y ago
Did anyone notice that the industries described are dominated by players who hate their customers? Banks and insurance companies treat their customers as adversaries, and the only reason they can do it is because they all do it Before we ta
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by padobson 14y ago
Numerous third party studios were getting stuck into PlayStation game production, and a string of classic titles began to emerge. This is the biggest reason Sony won. Its the oldest lesson in our business. You can have the greatest hardwa
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by padobson 14y ago
Sounds like its time to pivot. Some ideas on how to do that: -Attempt to submit to iTunes anyhow, and handle the rejection if and when it comes. -Create a web app with your videos embedded into it. Provide your free videos for free and your
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by padobson 14y ago
The only thing I use Vim for is coding. I use gedit for taking notes and logging my hours. I use OpenOffice/LibreOffice for documents, spreadsheets, invoices, etc. I use the web for most every type of communication from blogging to email to
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by padobson 14y ago
So, building a bridge is an engineering endeavor. Does this mean that drawing blueprints for the bridge is not engineering? What about working a crane? Laying brick? Sealing pavement? Sweeping the bridge? Could you say that an AWS datacente
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Sol Republic, Maker of Michael Phelps's Headphones, Is Down(isup.me)
1 points by padobson 14y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 14y ago
This Facebook promotional campaign (events + targeted ads) was successful, questionable accounting or no.
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by padobson 14y ago
So me and my partner bust these two guys on a B&E on the wrong side of the train tracks and haul their butts downtown to get confessions. We separate 'em into to different rooms and really put the screws to 'em. We musta questioned 'em
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by padobson 14y ago
Plus one for the least geeky application, and the most marketable I've seen so far in this post.
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by padobson 14y ago
This is the most applicable advice I've gotten. I really appreciate it.
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by padobson 14y ago
This is profound. I think there might be a difference between enjoying a discipline and needing its produce. I definitely code for the latter purpose and envy those who have both.
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by padobson 14y ago
It made me want to see if they were hiring. Excellent blog post.
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by padobson 14y ago
It seems like your advice is to go through my various Job seeking profiles (GitHub, LinkedIn, Indeed.com, Monster, Dice.com) and re-word them with metrics to show what I can do in a more quantitative way. In my case, none of the startups I'
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by padobson 14y ago
Another idea I had was to spend the month honing my iPhone and Android app abilities, and then launch 2 apps for each device by the end of the month that would show off my skills as a developer. I think it would take a good chunk of time to
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by padobson 14y ago
One of my own ideas was to build a website for my consultancy. It would have three sections, one for Programming, one for SEO, and one for business analytics. I would build the site using Django and Twitter bootstrap and deploy it on AWS. I
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Ask HN: How should I land my next consulting gig(s)?
9 points by padobson 14y ago|9 comments

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