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by pytrin 14y ago
If the Apple persecution of Samsung succeeds, we should all be worried that next NFL teams will start patenting their strategies and suing each other.
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by pytrin 14y ago
We have a staging server which is a carbon copy of the production server, and is auto-updated via post-commit hook (SVN). Everybody tests on that server until no more issues are found, and then it is pushed manually to production. If the pu
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by pytrin 14y ago
The article describes how for real growth you need polarize your audience. The painful part comes from those who hate your product, but is complemented by those who love it. I know from experience that this is a fact.
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by pytrin 14y ago
So opinion pieces are not allowed now on HN? it seems like every second post on the front page is like this.
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by pytrin 14y ago
A growth hacker is a trendy (and some say useless) name for a marketer who focuses on user growth, who can also write code. Growth hacking usually involves "hacking" existing systems or data for high-impact user growth actions (example: wha
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by pytrin 14y ago
Right, forgot about that completely. Their API usage did grow considerably since then. I would love to find some data on what were the results for that licensing experiment
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by pytrin 14y ago
As far as I know, Twitter has yet to explore (in practice) monetizing their API. Do you know anything about any experiments they've done in that space? it seems to me like ads are just a default monetization strategy to those companies
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by pytrin 14y ago
So you've specifically asked someone in a position to make those decisions at twitter, whether they'd considered taxing their API? and they told you explicitly "No, we want to cap API usage regardless if it can be a profitable channel or no
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by pytrin 14y ago
According to this article, they made $140M in 2011 from ads. Of course, they project to make 3 times as much by 2014, but that remains to be seen. I think they can make much more by leveraging their API usage, which is larger than all the o
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by pytrin 14y ago
Glad to hear this was never a discussion. You should've just stated originally that you know exactly what twitter wants, and left it there.
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by pytrin 14y ago
My argument is that they'd make much more revenue by taxing API than they hope to make with ads. Their API usage is obscene and growing rapidly, while ads don't really fit their users usage patterns.
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by pytrin 14y ago
I think you missed the point of the article. Right now, Twitter has rigid limits in place - you don't think it'd be better for developers to at least know in advance they can go past that limit, even if it means they have to pay? There are
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Suggestion to Twitter: Here’s how you monetize without ruining your ecosystem(techfounder.net)
26 points by pytrin 14y ago|21 comments
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by pytrin 14y ago
Great stuff there, make sure to vote! A couple of early favorites: Dream http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=926479... Fly'n http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929250... Recruits http://steamcommuni
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SQL Antipatterns strike back(slideshare.net)
1 points by pytrin 14y ago|0 comments
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by pytrin 14y ago
It's easier to just run a couple of surveys and pick the stats that make your case stick.
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by pytrin 14y ago
This article makes the common mistake of confusing correlation with causation. Some data points might correlate but that doesn't imply they cause each other.
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by pytrin 14y ago
I really don't understand what you're saying. Are you denying how crucial the apps to the sales of the devices? do you think they could sell without the apps? in addition, do you think apple doesn't care about 500M$ in profits? Also, are yo
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by pytrin 14y ago
No, it's much more simple than that. Developers can simply cut their apps from the ecosystem for a short while. Or move to another platform in large numbers. Just the threat of each action should cause those companies to consider some conce
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by pytrin 14y ago
I said professions, not professionals.
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by pytrin 14y ago
I don't want to get bogged by the semantics of a labor union since that is really not what I meant (and I think you know that). I'm talking a body representing developers in ecosystems where they are a part of, regardless of what semantic n
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by pytrin 14y ago
I'm not sure what is the 3rd party you are referring to. There are two sides here - individual developers or small dev companies, and giant tech companies - who should be working together to create a healthy ecosystem, but when one is in co
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by pytrin 14y ago
Completely agree. Web development is simple, but it's not that simple. Relationships between tables, and the ability to normalize and aggregate data are very useful, even for web development.
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by pytrin 14y ago
Perhaps "union" is too loaded of a word. My intentions was for a body that can collectively bargain on behalf of developers against companies that right now are treating them as they will since as individuals they have no leverage or recour
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by pytrin 14y ago
A union doesn't have to necessarily regulate wages - just be a source for developer grievance against companies that generate value from their work. Also consider that you don't have to be a part of the union if you don't agree with its pri
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by pytrin 14y ago
A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized high educational training (Wikipedia). For example, you can have a doctor union - it doesn't mean that every doctor is a member in it.
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by pytrin 14y ago
I didn't offer any easy solutions, only the concept of a body that can represent many developers in order to have actual leverage against those companies. Twitter is just one example.
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by pytrin 14y ago
That's exactly what a union does, just on a full time basis. So you have an organization you can appeal to every time there's need for action.
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by pytrin 14y ago
Noted, and updated the article :) Not a big history buff myself, always interesting to learn new things
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by pytrin 14y ago
Not sure what you refer to as not true - most professions in the U.S have a union. I didn't say most workers are a part of it.

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