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by physcab 13y ago
I disagree with this. When I was a poor grad student, laundry was the greatest time sink of my life. I spent many Sundays trucking loads of laundry between my apartment and my laundromat a mile away. $20 was definitely a reasonable sum to h
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by physcab 13y ago
I would have loved this service when I was in grad school. I lived a mile from the nearest laundromat, and I would have to put a load in my backpack and truck it over on my bike. Laundry took literally all day to do. Add in bad Florida weat
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Zynga Abandons Real Money Gambling in US(allthingsd.com)
3 points by physcab 13y ago|0 comments
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by physcab 13y ago
> Do you want to give the government free reign on all your data? For some reason, I just don't feel passionately about this issue. I could be in the minority, but to me, our society has become very desensitized by sharing with Face
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by physcab 13y ago
The big secret to programming is that all you need to begin is curiosity. 4 years ago, I didn't know how to program either. In school, I majored in a completely different discipline. You don't need to have a CS degree, unless yo
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by physcab 13y ago
It sounds like you see yourself limited by time, not ability or even money. Since you're a programmer you probably have the intuition to seek out other good programmers. So what you can do is search for a technical partner to create
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by physcab 13y ago
I did my undergraduate in Engineering Physics then went on to do a PhD in Materials Science. After a couple years of graduate coursework and research and passing exams, it was time to pick a dissertation topic. We then had to defend it befo
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by physcab 13y ago
I hadn't thought about the "people from all walks of life" aspect missing from SF before. I find that true as well. I haven't been to many other big cities but I'm curious how SF relates on that aspect to cities suc
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by physcab 13y ago
San Francisco truly is a wonderful city, all things considered. I'm currently traveling throughout Europe and while I'm having a blast seeing how another portion of the world lives, I'm more thankful than ever I can call my h
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by physcab 13y ago
I imagine there will be more people who will buy this because they want to be more connected to their dog (as silly as that sounds) than interested in their health in a fit-bity way. I can see my whole family having this app for our dog.
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by physcab 13y ago
You can live as comfortably as you want (I do) but the catch is that you'll probably have to be without children. Anecdotally, everyone I know with families tends to move outside of SF because for the price of a 2 br apartment, you can get
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by physcab 13y ago
You don't have to be so snarky. Of course I'm aware of issues outside of SF or even within SF for that matter. My point is that getting around in cabs has been made a lot easier. Sure, there are still problems with public transit and whatn
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by physcab 13y ago
Whether you believe in Lyft or not, it's amazing that in just one year transportation in SF is a solved problem. And soon it will be in many other cities as well. I remember waiting on the phone for Yellow Cab to confirm my taxi and it woul
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by physcab 13y ago
I live in San Francisco. Its an awesome city and I love living here, but it is by no means a prerequisite to starting a successful business. People have problems everywhere that need solving.
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by physcab 13y ago
This is pretty marvelous. I have always wanted to create something like this, but the details have always seemed daunting to me. I couldn't think of a way of merging recipes I liked with nutritional facts and then assembling building block
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by physcab 13y ago
> why do so many in the valley do this to 'MBAs'. Because every technical person has a story about: - "Idea people" telling them what to do and taking all the credit. - A non-technical manager setting unreasonable deadlines. - A
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by physcab 13y ago
There is a clear value add for people coming into a city who don't want to rent a normal rental car. But I'm not sure the same value add is there for people renting out their car, unlike Airbnb. If the maximum you can obtain for renting o
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How An Apple Star Lost His Luster At JC Penney(nytimes.com)
34 points by physcab 14y ago|44 comments
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by physcab 14y ago
I don't think Apple will approve an app that blocks a user or slows them down unless they install a 3rd party app. What usually happens is an advert pops up during normal app usage, the user has to exit or let the ad go away, then they can
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by physcab 14y ago
Just to nitpick a little. It's not that those organic users are so valuable that everyone who can promote does just to get them. It's that organic users + incentivized users lowers your eCPI and can make your app (usually a game) profitable
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by physcab 14y ago
Personally, I'm glad you did. I'm a male engineer, but there are two women engineers in my family (mom and sister). They always bring up these situations to me that few seem to notice. And honestly its really difficult for them at times to
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by physcab 14y ago
Can you put your email in your signature? I'd like to ask you more questions about your analytics needs and have you check out a project I'm working on.
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by physcab 14y ago
I imagine that your event feed is going to get pretty unwieldy if you have a thousand events named like the following: div.star.empty button.btn.btn-primary button#nodisturb.muted a.bold-text.text Do you have any ideas how you
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by physcab 14y ago
I'm not sure cheating helps as much as it used to, and even so is a poor tactic and will possibly get you banned. That said, Apple's App Store is an absurdly tough market in the U.S. When your game goes live, it needs to be at its best, and
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by physcab 14y ago
I love your food. I've had it a few times between I think Off the Grid (?) and when you've catered at GREE. Its definitely a long shot, but please feel free to e-mail me (email is in my profile) the best way to contact you and I can put yo
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by physcab 14y ago
The bigger problem is that you don't have any way to measure the success of a daily deal. Yes, of course you are going to lose money when doing the promotion...that is your "cost". If I want people to see my website and I pay an ad-networ
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by physcab 14y ago
That's why I'm curious what sort of questions they are answering with this tool. If the bulk of their questions are a variant of SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT user_id) FROM table, then yes, this would be convenient to have. But if their questions
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by physcab 14y ago
Hey! Always cool when the author responds :) I do agree that PostgreSQL would be nicer for interactive queries. Waiting for a M/R to spin off is a bit of a buzzkill. With regards to your usecases, what sort of questions have you found yours
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by physcab 14y ago
This is pretty cool but I'm struggling to see what the use cases are, atleast for analysis. There might be quite a bit of benefits for running application code that I'm not aware of. With regards to analysis though, their own example quest
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by physcab 14y ago
I like this rant. Seldom do I see the need for a real-time system and sometimes I think engineers and program managers gravitate towards the concept to better answer questions of "why" a problem happens. But analytics problems most of the

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