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Pitching your product in a social setting(chrysbader.com)
26 points by rantfoil 17y ago|2 comments
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Everyone tries to make lightning strike twice in the same place(garry.posterous.com)
6 points by rantfoil 17y ago|3 comments
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Stanford BASES e-bootcamp for college students (apps due Mar 21)(ebootcamp2010.com)
2 points by rantfoil 17y ago|0 comments
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The Paradox of Perfectionism(robgoodlatte.com)
1 points by rantfoil 17y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Not surprising. I think this is a good stat for open mindedness -- it's simply wise to personally use the best products out there. It blows my mind when I see companies have a dogma that everything they do is the absolute best. While it is
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by rantfoil 17y ago
They do appear to be working (?)
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How to strengthen willpower(inneridea.com)
24 points by rantfoil 17y ago|13 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Facebook and Lala have done this. We added this to the Posterous Manage page, and it reduces page load times and makes that part of the site feel faster, especially when a user is exploring what's there and trying to find a particular setti
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Weird. Is this still happening? Let us know help@posterous.com
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I hear you. We've got some cool concepts on a dashboard coming... we literally just grew the team by 50% people (2 great engineers) in the last couple of weeks, so we hope to be putting out a lot more good stuff for you.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback -- this is helpful. The registration step is part of our security, tough to get around if you look at all the possible cases.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
5-10% is negligible in the face of a 10x or 100x multiple on your potential.
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The Partnerka - The secret behind Blackhat Spam SEO(sophos.com)
1 points by rantfoil 17y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
The constraints of search on a mobile device are considerable in comparison to that of the web. Gabor was brilliant in his execution on mobile optimization.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Besides the point. The product isn't marketed for noncommercial use, and part of the way the entire site is built makes you think "oh man, this is going to cost me down the line," even if it's free now. Plus even look at how buried the prod
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Trying it now, will update later when I get back in the office and setup the other machines =)
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Hamachi: A billion-dollar tech revolution that can still happen if you build it.(garry.posterous.com)
59 points by rantfoil 17y ago|17 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I think the biggest problem most college grads who are applying for jobs face is that they don't really think about what employers need. Getting a job is the first real step into the "real world" where there aren't rote and well-trod paths
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by rantfoil 17y ago
The perceived risk vs reward on a tech startup venture vs. playing the markets is completely different. In hedge funds, earners get their big juicy paychecks when they prove they are earners. The methods by which you make money, while varie
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Loved people in time, money and spirit. And created beautiful software that brought people together. Not sure if order matters, though doing the latter makes the former easier. =)
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Posterous is hiring frontend engineers, designers, and Rails hackers! http://posterous.theresumator.com
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Having done both J2EE (at Sun) and Rails as well -- there is an order of magnitude increase in productivity. No question. Many (not all) java web shops have difficulty putting out functionality at a rate that they need to in order to surv
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by rantfoil 17y ago
teye's comment explains it quite well.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
You're wrong about six months -- Tumblr has been around since early 2007 -- we launched about 16 months later, and grew at a far faster rate last year than Tumblr (10x across every metric actually.)
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Wives of Rockstar's San Diego office are up in arms over engineer treatment(gamasutra.com)
57 points by rantfoil 17y ago|66 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
wince SMO = spam social networks with garbage posts to get better page rank. That's the kind of stuff we have to spend hours and hours banning. sigh
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Posterous - Frontend Design Engineer(posterous.theresumator.com)
44 points by rantfoil 17y ago
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Posterous - Rails Developer(posterous.theresumator.com)
53 points by rantfoil 17y ago
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Posterous - Senior Systems Engineer (Operations Lead)(posterous.theresumator.com)
43 points by rantfoil 17y ago
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Having a car in SF does suck. But you wouldn't think of having a car in NYC would you? Fix: Ride a bike / use public transit / live near work.

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