redorb

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   by redorb 16y ago

   I worked for him out of high school; building the add-on to his house... Then in his factory building the product we sell for 2 years (very hard work, bending metal around a bender 3-4k times a day) ~ then he helped me land my first compute
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   by redorb 16y ago

   I remember reading in a book that playboy had spent a few million on a social network that was losing its ass. I think it even used ning http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/22/new-playboy-social-network-... The article says at that point in tim
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   by redorb 16y ago

   I would have guessed with 90% "assurance" that they have; guess it goes to show how much I think they've done without any funding. Very Impressive.
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   by redorb 16y ago

   If a VC trashes my idea cause it came from my gmail; thats his loss.
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   by redorb 16y ago

   I looked at the video; was really impressed... then went outside; saw a dragon fly... simply amazing.
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   by redorb 16y ago

   give me some context; how many meters per a person are we at currently? / Then give me some focus; what will it be at in my life span... 50 years?
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   by redorb 16y ago

   since doing a startup isn't a zero-sum game; the market for startups has been growing since the crash was 10 years ago; I would hope we would have fully recovered to previous levels and then exceeded by now * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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   by redorb 16y ago

   yes there has been that "Carrot and Stick" TED talk posted here twice in the last 2 weeks; that basically helped me understand that if you can... "Take money off the table, pay people enough to not have to think about money" ~ thats when th
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   by redorb 16y ago

   reevaluate your situation often to make sure that you are getting paid per your value / not per the hour or age or need. It's important to make sure that you know your value.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    what a shit ass blog post.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    http://bu.mp/apideveloper.html is giving me a 500 internal error; its not a nice break either. spewing some errors instead of a generic page.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    I agree campaignMonitor has some great analytics / at the link below you can view a good screen shot of the analytics page.. http://imgur.com/uq9zn
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    by redorb 17y ago

    my fav quote from his about http://www.rainfall-daffinson.com/about/ What is the Best Moment of the Day? It's a Monday after you spend whole weekend canal digging at friends farm. Web design is for pussies.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    I think he had atleast a year earn-out for most of it; but it was good timing as google hit like $560 within that time frame.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    I see too many of the 'entrenched' at my work.. We have a secretary that refuses to be called anything but 'office administrator' and has been here 10 years (Down to 3-4 hour days now) ~ of course the owner thinks 'she runs this company' ..
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    by redorb 17y ago

    I think the poor designs will fall to the bottom, but if they can double their 'great templates' from 80 to 160 (+80) then its only $125 a design...
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    by redorb 17y ago

    Same here, Readability from Arc90 http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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    by redorb 17y ago

    https://thejoojoo.com/ still shows the tablet with a blue-hue... wonder why they can't get a better shot.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    My guess is that he is hoping that the job is really that interesting.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    I hope they got millions for that Blackberry AD at Techcrunch.com/welcome // the 'skip this ad' button doesn't work in fact it just reloads the ad (chrome 4.) <on topic> If the device is a good size, why not have a keyboard (touc
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    by redorb 17y ago

    I think like any good idea, its about execution / I would start with the low hanging fruit and 5-10 websites then re-invest those profits (if any) into other websites.... ~ how about getting the database into a "indie -pandora" so each site
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    by redorb 17y ago

    Sounds like great negotiating tactics even if a little heavy handed. Really; just imagine the value of the visitors from google and other search channels is to the AP.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    yeah my friend and I recently cancelled a $80/mo cable bill to switch to a $9/mo Netflix account / We get 1 dvd out at a time and use our PS3 to stream a ton of history channel and other stuff ~ so far its not too bad :)
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    by redorb 17y ago

    Except that those trillion pages have little incoming links ~ so they have no "juice" or "pageRank" to pass. Target has 267k incoming links then redistributes that via internal links / a while ago people started "link sculpting" using 'no-
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    by redorb 17y ago

    https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.ta... is a better source, it shows 3.1mm incoming links... https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.ta... Shows that only 267k are from outside sources. Target i
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    by redorb 17y ago

    If you look at the source, you can see about 500-1000 words that aren't displayed on the page / doesn't sit well with my "good intentions" meter.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    my point exactly / sorry for confusion.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    on a limb: I would say the overlap of no-script to wolframalpha users is minimal / WolframAlpha has other bigger problems to fix first.
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    by redorb 17y ago

    I wasn't aware of the sub-domain; but here is the archive.org showing a few pages in 99,01,03 then steady from 2007-Dec 15th 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://starwars.yahoo.com ~ seems this was developed first (in 2007) as a way t
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    by redorb 17y ago

    yeah no worries http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:imdb.com&a... shows 50mm 600k imdb.com webpages indexed / its their spam blog that did it / It immediately fired away with a audio ad that auto plays :( good riddance.