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by rehack 14y ago
Looking at it this way, the price difference does look staggering. And I am happy that Hetzner kind of dedicated hosting services will keep EC2 kind of cloud hosting services honest. We moved from a dedicated service to EC2 in 2010. At the
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by rehack 14y ago
Most intriguing read I had in days. I am still thinking whats true and whats not in the text though... Modern day scapegoats e.g. founders are just humiliated (Gates) and fired (Jobs) but not killed compared to earlier times scapegoats, who
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by rehack 14y ago
Okay, looks like we will continue to have difference of opinion on this one. But nice getting to know your thoughts. Hopefully continue later some time ...
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by rehack 14y ago
Replying to both your comments here. Agree on your point that barrier to entry is higher for G+ than FB Search (if it launches). Regarding Search: I would ask, how many people overall use Google search and how many use Facebook in the world
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by rehack 14y ago
I don't logout, but try to open any links from within FB in 'incognito' mode.
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by rehack 14y ago
Yes, that's possible. But then it will be doing something new and different, isn't it? And it has to be more based on the spending power it has. And not related to its social network power. Google put G+ on its home page, with not much succ
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by rehack 14y ago
One's local circle of friends on FB makes for perhaps 1%, in terms of its quality & value, of the overall number of signals(200?), that Google uses for its search. Just like we come to HN for discussions, which our social circle on FB i
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by rehack 14y ago
Agree transactions will make money for somebody. Let me take just take one example of 'movies' from your sentence. Would you think of Youtube or Facebook as a natural choice for watching paid videos/movies? Likewise, IMO, there will be spec
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by rehack 14y ago
>Changes to Facebook are like fluctuations in gas prices though. People grumble and complain, then just go ahead and don't change their habit. IMO, its like this. We spend a lot of time here on HN. Just like a whole lot more people do
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by rehack 14y ago
But I think, its now going to be all the more tough for them to figure out how to improve their ARPU dramatically, as they don't have the benefit of obscurity. For example, even slight change to the feeds, like inserting what vaguely seems
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by rehack 14y ago
The article has a lot of positive points and good that it works for the author. But must point out some important experiences that I had: >I always believed I was one of those people who just needs 9 hours of sleep, but I am now easily
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by rehack 14y ago
> 1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. No it doesn't. Quite the opposite. While the idea that less educated are easier to manipulate is true the item on the list says expresses a different idea. He is actually right, in several
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by rehack 14y ago
>and it still generates $4b p.a and climbing, imagine how good they would be if they actually figured this stuff out Please also consider a counter case, what if $4b revenue i.e. roughly $4 per user per year, is the best you can have
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by rehack 14y ago
I think, if as a business you have not bought your likes, then they do imply something. For example, some of our competitors have around 10 times to 50 times the likes as us. But the difference in reactions to a post we might make is no w
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by rehack 14y ago
Reading this article and giving it some thought, gives me a small "aha" moment. Many people have compared FB Ads to TV Ads. Below are two specifics, I think, that will apply to FB Ads in that context: 1. TV had that kind of control as to in
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by rehack 14y ago
Honestly don't like billion being mentioned too many times on this page (perhaps it is because the article itself says it). I am reminded of what Derek Sivers said sometime after the movie 'Social Network' came out. 'A billion dollars is no
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by rehack 14y ago
I think, the reason to do it is something noble which is difficult to express - its part empathy for people who don't have these riches who may or may not be one's friends, and part a sense of continuity to self, that I am the same person,
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by rehack 14y ago
Sorry to say, that these techniques will work for Enterprisey folks who anyway won't have to scrape. For example you say 'Randomize template output'. Scrapers used a mixture of various techniques. Say, HTML Path does not work (despite sup
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by rehack 14y ago
Using your template: I think it will be 'Facebook bubble 1.0' or 'social bubble 1.0'. In an Internet 1.0 world "Facebook", would have happened via a 'social' protocol on the Internet just like SMTP, and Zuckerberg would have been a hacker i
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by rehack 14y ago
I, intuitively, thought that creation of Air conditioning (especially in the car) has something to do with it. In so many of the old movies you see. A doorman collects a gents overcoat and a hat as he enters a hall full of other people. And
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by rehack 14y ago
I think olalande could have avoided the Indian reference. I too winced a bit when I read it a few hours earlier. I also winced at the overt & embarrassing nationalism of kamaal, good that he just stopped short of singing the national an
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by rehack 14y ago
I remember seeing the story of SJ lying to Wozniak, sometime back. And, I think that along with the 'fathering a child' lie, make up for much bigger lies and actually hurting others much more. The kind of lie which Yahoo CEO made, is much s
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by rehack 14y ago
I just find the idea very powerful - the idea that governments can be replaced by software. Voted it up, just for the title, which conveys that idea ... We folks perhaps don't need to read that article, as can imagine the possibilities.
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by rehack 14y ago
Ditto for me. Or almost the same :-) I have been writing software for over 17 years now, and never got bored of writing code. In fact, in between years where I was sort of pushed into management were stressful. I realized that (hopefully) I
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by rehack 14y ago
I am doing a Startup for around 5 years - doing reasonably well, not very well (drawing less than market salary). Thankfully, was unfazed by the last slow down in 2008. In 2000/2001 I was doing a job. But that burst was very loud, and the f
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by rehack 14y ago
Bad article - drama for some cheap thrills. Common sense stuff coated with shocking statements (your life is over) or grandiose ones ("Be hated"). I am utterly utterly bored of such crap. Tell me something I don't know. Or atleast don't co
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by rehack 14y ago
I like your defense of Blekko. I am often puzzled why blekko is talked off so little, compared to DDG, on Hacker News. Nothing against DDG, but blekko is the only new entrant trying to fight Google heads on. As it does its own crawling, and
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by rehack 14y ago
This guy was a virtual unknown till about a short time back. Billionaire and arguably the richest person of Indian origin in US. Choosing to keep a low profile, but coming out as it was not helping his charity work. Spent 12 years of his li
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Interview with Manoj Bhargava, the 'Billionaire Monk'(ndtv.com)
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by rehack 15y ago
In fact I don't like your poll. As you ask a "leading" question, rather than an "open" question. For example, had you asked the question, as "Do people mind the surveys on HN?", I suspect, you may have got a different response. Particularly

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