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by roasm 6y ago
If you can share, what was the dishonesty you're writing about? I can't tell if you're saying it was fraudulent dishonesty or self-delusion (where you think you're in a better position than you really are). And do you kn
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by roasm 6y ago
In my experience, I agree the core functionality (variant management, remote config, etc.) is relatively small amount of effort compared to the interfaces to make it accessible to those non-technical orgs, like you mention. However, we foun
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by roasm 6y ago
They used to, but they ended it a few years ago. They consciously moved higher market, higher touch, higher cost. Ultimately, i believe they got squeezed between smaller companies using free or cheaper offerings and larger companies probabl
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by roasm 6y ago
A few years ago, we were a monthly customer of Optimizely for a few hundred dollars a month. Reasonable for a startup. Then they went to the annual cost of $30K+ upfront and ended all monthly options. They had to move to high cost, high tou
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by roasm 7y ago
Not me. I had a whole bunch of girls lined up in high school. To get me to help them with their math homework.
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by roasm 7y ago
The publisher Metropolitan Books looks like it's part of Macmillan so they're likely a traditional publisher, which suggests he got a pretty healthy advance on the book because of his fame. I would also guess that even if he sold
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by roasm 7y ago
Sometimes, my kids will say they're bored. My response to them is that my job is not to entertain them. They totally get it, though sometimes they're still bored...
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by roasm 7y ago
My daughter invented one version with regenerating pawns. I play regular chess on my side, and on her side, she has the king, queen, and 8 pawns. On her turn, she can choose to move a piece as normal or put a pawn on any square on her half,
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AI learns to solve a Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds(engadget.com)
1 points by roasm 7y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 7y ago
This seems like a great area for disruption. You can imagine a property manager for a homeowner who you call for anything. They can charge a monthly fee plus a percentage on top of any (vetted) subs they use. A single person can probably ju
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by roasm 7y ago
I believe what I really want is this to be a feature of Slack. Or an integrated 3rd party product.
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by roasm 8y ago
Does that matter? I would think it would have to do with market share more than any licensing. iOS has ~28% share in the EU. http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
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by roasm 8y ago
Non-European here. Does iOS have to do the same thing?
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by roasm 8y ago
Wow, I don't know if the negativity is warranted here, but for me (and my kids walk to school), getting the kids ready involves making sure the young kids get properly dressed, breakfasted, lunch packed, etc... Transportation is not al
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Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down(techcrunch.com)
2 points by roasm 8y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 8y ago
I'm sure it would cause outrage, but I can definitely imagine a negotiation happening. It's in both Apple and Netflix's best interest to stay together. The rest is just negotiating a percentage that works. Of course, there is
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by roasm 8y ago
We have a couple apps and there really is no "discovery" through the App Store. You have to pay for ads, whether in the stores directly or in the many ad networks that put you in other apps or other advertising. Unless you're
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Making a living scamming the scammers(engadget.com)
1 points by roasm 8y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 8y ago
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Why Take Uber or Lyft if you can hitchhike?(wsj.com)
1 points by roasm 10y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 10y ago
Another possible reason: you can price something higher with the intention of discounting it to drive sales later (especially after the early adopters pay full price). Generally, in consumer products at least, something for list $649 on sal
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by roasm 10y ago
I'm not defending Roundup at all, but the kicker here is the antibacterial chemicals don't do anything. If they did prove more effective in cleaning hands, I'd guess the FDA would probably look the other way on the side effec
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by roasm 10y ago
Right. There are still more "successful" companies that are _not_ YC than those that are. While there are some advantages to YC, there are advantages to other incubators, or other angels, or completely bootstrapping, etc.
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by roasm 10y ago
You can also click on the "web" link at the top of this page just under the title of the article. That does a Google search for the article and that lets you in.
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by roasm 10y ago
With the ease of services like AWS, we never installed a database server. Pick a database flavor, version, click, click and you're up. I suppose designing the schema take a little effort, but I find it much easier than properly archite
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by roasm 10y ago
I back up to a local external drive, and also to BackBlaze. External drives are so cheap these days that the ease of handling your restore yourself is worth it to me. BackBlaze is just an offsite back up so when the house is burning down, I
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by roasm 10y ago
You're right. If she was already on a dated and documented PIP before the report, then you're probably OK. It would be worse if you were just about to put her on a PIP.
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by roasm 10y ago
A valid reason to give to the victim is that you're not just protecting her but any other current or potential victims (using nicer language than this). That will help her feel good about coming forth with the information; she's n
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Thank you, Bill Campbell(roasm.com)
1 points by roasm 10y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 10y ago
How do we know that this isn't what Amazon is doing? Maybe they're not doing it with the specific product in the original post, but they're not directly manufacturing all the products under their brand. They're going to

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