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by riffer 16y ago
There's something about human nature where we definitely prefer to make recurring payments. Think about 40 bucks a month for an alarm system, or 60 bucks for the gym. That's roughly 5-7k over a ten year time span, and even if you adjust fo
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by riffer 16y ago
This is pretty much spot on: when you go this route, a lot of people assume that you're unemployed involuntarily. To them, working is a subset of having a job. They couldn't imagine themselves choosing to not have a job before retirement,
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by riffer 16y ago
I don't think there are sites that do this currently, but the idea is definitely in the air, so there are probably guys working on it. For example, it seemed something like 3 of the 5 guys from the Google IO VC panel from late last week tal
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by riffer 16y ago
This is an excellent outline of hiring best practices, each of these bullet points belongs here. And yet, for every firm that does this, there are at least 10 that don't. That means that there is a rich market for what reg is proposing,
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by riffer 16y ago
First off, I want to congratulate you, reg, on coming up with such a fantastic idea. With Joel's post, and the no-job-hoppers-wanted fracas from several weeks ago, this is something that was in the air, and you were able to pick up on that
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by riffer 16y ago
I've been watching the car industry for a few years now, and I'm still waiting for an "Apple" to emerge. Give Tesla a few years
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by riffer 16y ago
It appears he throws out the highest rated comment when computing the average. I assume that's because of what you're getting at: the distribution of comment scores tend to look like a power law, so the arithmetic mean of all the scores isn
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by riffer 16y ago
It's not a bad idea; might be tough to monetize
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by riffer 16y ago
This is the main study on the onion futures question. Just be careful, others subsequently came to more mixed conclusions. http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=...
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How Craig McCaw Built a 4G Network on the Cheap (businessweek.com)
32 points by riffer 16y ago|5 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Not a problem, just require firms that have the potential to inflict substantial costs on the rest of society to carry insurance against such a catastrophe. The pricing mechanism on the insurance will act as an incentive to minimize the re
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by riffer 16y ago
Mega creepy ads may work for selling certain products and services, but nobody wants to trust a creepy lawyer
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by riffer 16y ago
The new idea that caught my eye here: Facebook could hire a firm to audit their privacy processes. They wouldn't have to give up any flexibility in their privacy policy updating practices, the review could just be of their processes, and it
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Twitter RT Test Results(gabrielweinberg.com)
31 points by riffer 16y ago|13 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Recommendations is an 11-figure business. Seriously. This is a pretty reasonable angle of approach, so I can understand that part. What I have trouble with is what chaosmachine points out: the recommendations are not that good. At least fr
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by riffer 16y ago
Would you tell Facebook where you are right now ?
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by riffer 16y ago
I'm not sure that's how designers think about things
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Social Networks in a Nutshell(twitter.com)
3 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Yeah, that's the right answer. We just stepped out to grab lunch, were talking about your idea, and decided to basically build what you're suggesting here in this second message. If you want us to let you know when we have something togethe
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by riffer 16y ago
That's a really interesting idea. When we got started on this 6 weeks ago, we were actually thinking about going down a path very similar to that, of putting it all into a desktop application, rather than building a web app. It does potenti
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by riffer 16y ago
Have you ever spent half an hour searching for something, not really found what you were looking for, and then a few days later realized that one of the pages you saw when you were searching was really exactly what you were looking for? But
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BitCrumb - Shine a Spotlight Through Your Searches(bitcrumb.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|5 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Right, but if they get those snazzy Facebook Like buttons on a third of the Top 100 sites on the Web, now they know where you go. And what you do while you there. Hmm.
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by riffer 16y ago
Much better. I strongly recommend you continue to focus on user experience in the short run. Objective no. 1 has to be getting folks to keep coming back, and if there's some small improvement to how the site behaves each time a user visits,
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by riffer 16y ago
That's a great idea, it would be an elegant solution to the screen real estate issue. Thanks!
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by riffer 16y ago
Thanks Mike, we wanted to take advantage of some functionality that is available only in the newest versions, and then in the very near future get it also working for older versions. You make a good point about Google, YouTube and other sit
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by riffer 16y ago
If you are like us, you do a ton of searches across different sites, and you don't bookmark the searches, and your broswer history just captures them chronologically. That kind of works, but we are moving towards a world where people need t
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Please Review Our App: Manage Your Searches(bitcrumb.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|8 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
It is a useful view on which threads currently have active discussion. That's nice b/c if you're the last person to comment on the thread, you get to voice your opinion but that's about it. You want to participate on active threads. Also, s
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Privacy: Sharing Secrets and Putting Them to Good Use(bitcrumb.com)
3 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments

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