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by rscale 14y ago
Maybe they'll surprise you by having a bar empty out after CloudCo's North Virginia datacenter has an outage.
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by rscale 14y ago
You might be interested in your local chapters of SCORE or the Chamber of Commerce. They often have events featuring that sort of down-to-earth advice, and are also a good way to meet other small businesspeople.
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by rscale 14y ago
This list may contain errors, but UsabilitySciences, BugPub, Testlio, UserTesting, UserZoom, RemoteResearch, and uTest all look to offer related value propositions. Craigslist, CrowdFlower, ClickWorker, CloudCrowd, Reddit's /r/forhire and A
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by rscale 14y ago
In such a situation, I'd figure out what I'd do if (best developer) got hit by a bus, and proceed from there.
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by rscale 14y ago
I find it very, very strange that his first stop wasn't an employment lawyer. He has an employee with a demonstrated willingness to lie about the most important of things, to cause massive distraction and disruption, and to do so with litt
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by rscale 14y ago
I found myself thinking of the apocryphal Mark Twain saying: "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
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by rscale 14y ago
They're not in a position of power. They're offering a commodity service, and they're positioning themselves as "the option with poor customer service." I don't think that's going to attract much in the way of customers, or investment. I d
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by rscale 14y ago
Danielle Morille had a troubling encounter with them, as documented here: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/01/why-i-wont-be-using-b... As of 25 minutes ago, they were still publicly trashing her in Twitter.
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by rscale 14y ago
There's an old saying about advertising frequency: The first time people look at any given ad, they don't even see it. The second time, they don't notice it. The third time, they are aware that it is there. The fourth time
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by rscale 14y ago
I switched to Route 53 (from TinyDNS with custom RoR/Postgres frontend) and I'm completely satisfied. The bills are tiny, the service has been reliable, the console lets me make all our desired records without a lot of hoop-jumping, and so
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by rscale 14y ago
You might be right, but it's hard to comment without even knowing what their business model is. If, for example, they plan to generate revenue by selling leads based on individual's browsing histories, then they need view-only users to have
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by rscale 14y ago
I don't think this service attempts to fight spam. It seems like a market research tool, or a lead-gen service; a middleman that connects companies with consumers who are willing to be solicited. That said, it's unclear what problem they're
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by rscale 14y ago
Not just poor countries. It's increasingly common for lower-income individuals in the US use a phone as their only computer. Phones aren't phones anymore. They're pocketable computers with a phone app.
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by rscale 14y ago
I wound up taking two screenshots, one showing the top, one showing the bottom. It kinda worked, but it was the only kludgy part of the experience.
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by rscale 14y ago
trackalyzer.com, perhaps
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by rscale 14y ago
Very nice. I just used it to buy some basketball tickets, and it was a very smooth experience. I'm not sure how or if to address this, but after ordering I got to a receipt page, and the confirmation took a few minutes to arrive. I found
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by rscale 14y ago
And from a payer perspective, it's problematic if a sizable population secretly learns that they are at meaningfully greater risk of health problems. Those individuals could then adversely select against the payers by buying Cadillac healt
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by rscale 14y ago
The only appropriate charge is the one that was agreed upon for the services rendered.
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by rscale 14y ago
The allegation is that FedEx established contracts with customers with a rate schedule that included surcharges for residential and extended-range delivery, then improperly charged those surcharges on deliveries to commercial/government loc
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by rscale 14y ago
I was going to try it, but the T&C gives Conduit fairly broad marketing/promotional rights. And strangely, it only grants me license to the output for 12 months. I'm not comfortable with that.
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by rscale 14y ago
Scientific consensus isn't "we believe"; it's "the results of widespread, independent, carefully executed, controlled experiments show." Further, it doesn't mean that it "must be true" but rather that it is more likely to true.
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by rscale 14y ago
Typically 'acquihire' means the company was purchased solely for the talent. If the company had investors, it means they'll get some of their money back. If it didn't, it might be done anyway to let the founders take their windfall as cap
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by rscale 14y ago
NO consumer would want to replace a PC with an iPad because there is a LOT of utility attached with a PC that it would be a blunder to replace it with a tablet like an iPad. This is an innovator's dilemma situation, where the incumbent te
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Finding Brad Feld's Finest Thoughts(kevinway.com)
2 points by rscale 14y ago|0 comments
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by rscale 14y ago
Gangnam Style is a poignant example of a world-wide entertainment trend that wasn't started in America. Most of the world doesn't even know what the lyrics mean, but that didn't keep it from sweeping the globe. It did so without advertisi
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by rscale 14y ago
You're correct, it stands for 'Cost per mille', and indicates the revenue received for a thousand views.
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by rscale 14y ago
That gave me such huge respect for the team. I've seen so many startups that took customer money even when they knew they probably wouldn't deliver the anticipated value. It's wonderful to see somebody who winds down a business with such c
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by rscale 14y ago
This is why I like Twitter, but not FB. FB is an amalgamation of everyone the user has met. Twitter is a collection of people who interest the user.
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Apple and HTC resolve global lawsuits, end patent disputes
1 points by rscale 14y ago|0 comments
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by rscale 14y ago
This is exactly the application I considered upon seeing this article. I'm planning to loop back and investigate how restoration would work, but it seems like a potentially great way to have another layer of backup.

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