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by papa 16y ago
Equally striking is the position of Huffingtonpost on that chart.
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by papa 16y ago
For a sobering look at the impact of dietary sugar in the American diet (particularly fructose), check out this informative lecture by UCSF Professor Dr. Robert H. Lustig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM (argues that current U.
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by papa 16y ago
Yes. I could stomach the ads during the TV programs but the commercial breaks during Hulu-streamed movies really sucked. There's definitely something to be said for the commercial-free programming available via Netflix streaming. The Hulu P
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by papa 16y ago
"Be ready to follow the community; that is, the community might end up in a slightly/vastly different place than you intended. That’s okay; embrace it." Spot on with this one. If you fail to embrace where the community is pulling you, you m
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by papa 16y ago
Assuming Apple can eventually get more of the networks and cable channels to share their content with the AppleTV the remaining big impediment for a consumer like me is live sports. I'd gladly pay for a live and on-demand archive for my fav
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by papa 16y ago
That could be a component. I can't put my finger on the other ones, and it was just a slapdash thought, but I'd just love a scorecard that maybe considered: predictive success, factual error rate/truthyness (e.g. do they make frequent bogus
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by papa 16y ago
It's too bad there's no way to assign a universal "reputation" score to the various pundits out there so that readers can better assess the value of their published predictions. Michael Pachter, for instance, has been wrong on a number of o
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by papa 16y ago
There's so much wrong with this statement I don't even know where to start: "By staging a series of perceived technology innovations and then adding price decoys, reference prices, obscurity, and bundling, Apple makes us willing to pay mor
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by papa 16y ago
For a personal finance "classic" in this vein, I recommend "Your Money or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relations... The book has some interesting things to say about the v
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by papa 16y ago
Sounds like an interesting product, but the oddly shaped case seems to reinforce the fact that this will be a niche product: http://www.boxee.tv/box Might seem like a shallow/trivial thing, but I don't really want that thing atop my pile
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by papa 16y ago
Ah, I thought you had "rolled-your-own" for the verification solution. If you went off the shelf, you can't really leverage it as you say. By the way, here's a hacker news equivalent for internet marketing that I've found useful (since mark
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by papa 16y ago
You're in a bit of a predicament with the verified name aspect. On the one hand it is an interesting idea, on the other it creates a lot of friction with respect to users creating fully-functioning accounts. The process is so onerous (by we
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by papa 16y ago
Correct. The top tier accounts are $995/month and one of the nifty features are the custom domain short names which, I suppose, provide some nice branding (e.g. amazon.com becomes amzn.to/2U08Yn). The analytics tools are probably also of so
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by papa 16y ago
The unlucky point is so true. All kinds of crazy costs and snafus will sneak up and knock you off your feet. Taking care to plan ahead always helps, but having that new server go dead or finding some unexpected legal fees or finding an unan
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by papa 16y ago
This is the big clearing-house site for businesses for sale (it includes offline and online businesses): http://www.bizbuysell.com/ I haven't used it personally, but a friend of mine is always raving about it for idea generation and small
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by papa 16y ago
If you really wanted to show off that you had an iPhone you'd probably at least want to say: "Sent from my White iPhone 4, 32GB with Retina Display" ;-) But seriously, I imagine most people who have this signature in their mobile emails hav
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by papa 16y ago
I've run into problems with hitting a number of limits on Analytics as well and still have no good solution. A couple of solutions I'm aware of: 1) Omniture Site Catalyst: A lot of big sites use this but it will cost you dearly. My site run
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by papa 16y ago
Kotkin definitely has an axe to grind with respect to "traditional urbanism". Among urban studies circles he's often criticized for his "anti-urban" (i.e. pre-automobile/highways urbanity) stance and his pro-suburban views. If you read his
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by papa 16y ago
Well it is possible to work for a tech company and stay in SF. You just need to work with a more restrictive set of job requirements. I got tired of doing the long commute in 2003 and decided to only look at companies within the city limits
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by papa 16y ago
Totally agree. The iPad is my "couch-surfing" computer of choice these days. You really can curl up with this sucker or lie on your back comfortably while reading. I've been using it for most of my reading (newspapers, books, magazines). A
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by papa 17y ago
thank you sir!
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by papa 17y ago
Good strategy. I was expecting the same. There was an interesting link to a public google doc with a load of interesting startup/product ideas a few days back. I forgot to bookmark it and am having trouble locating it via google. Anyone kno
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by papa 17y ago
Filling out paperwork to commit to more bandwidth from our colocation facility as the monthly overages are getting high. Guess you gotta spend money to make money :-|
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by papa 17y ago
So true on Prime for Christmas, they should really advertise that angle much more during the holidays for those averse to crowded malls. I also love the fact that the 2-day shipping often comes in 1 day b/c of the efficiency of Amazon's war
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by papa 17y ago
Re: mobile payments, I'm assuming you've heard of companies like Zong, Paymo and Boku. It's a much better userxp than Paypal and much more accessible payment method for the under-21 crowd.
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by papa 17y ago
Alternately, I wonder if this move will hasten the newspaper's decline. If traditional newspapers/media remove themselves from the Google Index it creates a huge opportunity for new media outlets (huffingtonpost and other online verticals),
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by papa 17y ago
I spent a couple of years at Yodlee. Your comment is spot-on. Not only are there huge headaches around creating the scripts/feeds to grab the data, but once you have the data there's a significant challenge of normalizing it so that you ha
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by papa 17y ago
I agree with you, but imho Yahoo should have made these decisions years ago. Yahoo has clearly made a lot of bets it hasn't been able to follow through on (acquisition bets alone tell a sorry tale: Broadcast, Geocities, Inktomi, Overture).
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by papa 17y ago
"...that the plural of anecdote is data..." Thank you for this most excellent quote. I got a good laugh out of that quip.
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by papa 17y ago
This sounds like my schedule. After the kids are asleep, I usually do the same (though it's more like 10pm-1am). As for sleep. I get about 5-6 hours. I wake up at 7am, at the latest, on weekdays to get the kids to school. On weekends I'll g

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