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Go to www.owl.com and you get AOL.com with an Owl background(owl.com)
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
It's brutal and tedious to add non Google things to track to their Tag Manager. Feels like an engineering written tool, Segment.io's "flip the switches" is way better for the people that use these types of tools, ie marketers.
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Yep, that's definitely part of it. Also government funded systems are still built by private companies, but instead of figuring out the best way to save money (as they would do if self-funded) they pad their margins and make the systems in
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
We were talking about a US city (my fault for bringing in London), so yes, I'm not sure you can compare the type of government owned organizations that are common in Asia to how our governments and infrastructure work.
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When people compare public transit systems, one thing to keep in mind. The ones you usually compare as world class: NYC, Chicago, London were all originally built by private companies (and later made public), while the crappier ones out th
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
And labour costs.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
You're missing the point. The gross numbers haven't increased, but the things that actually matter (what you can buy for your money) have decreased. The key point being: "spending by households on many of modern life's "basics"—food at ho
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
Try running for office in a city with a platform of "cutting the police budget" and see how far you get...
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
Most people I knew had 56k modems by 98 (by '99 I had a cable modem), 128kbs compression was the standard you'd find, and getting a song for free by just waiting 15 minutes was still magic Edit almost forgot about Ethernet in the dorms.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
Do you have experience distributing apps? While the pure numbers are massively Android, my personal experience is iOS will get you far more downloads, so either Android people are not downloading apps, the Android numbers are inflated by d
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I didn't edit for the record.
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From a random "Show HN" a few weeks ago to what seems like a polished company that's been around for years, I just wanted to say you guys are absolutely killing it (and making a joke of all the dev power that probably went into Google's own
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
Developers go where the users go (and pay). Until the Windows and Android stores start bringing devs the same type of money, it's still always worth it to "take the risk" of Apple's store. The only way I see this changing is if users thems
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
This is somewhat misleading, because the primary thing that allows these accelerated numbers is an extremely low spending rate. IE you can retire in 2 years if you save 95% because somehow you are able to live on only 5% of your take home
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
The example in the article was people who liked the Facebook page "Porn films". Presumably there are people who liked specific actresses, etc... so yes it's still people who are not concerned enough with this being part of their Facebook p
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
It's half warmth, half social services/laws. You see way more homeless people in Seattle and San Francisco then you'll see in Houston or Jacksonville. The social services and laws for homeless people are way more generous on the west coas
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
I've had this same experience several times when doing cross platform app dev. Even though Android supposedly has a majority marketshare now, iOS downloads/users are usually at least 2:1, if not a more crushing 8:1 or 12:1. It's unclear to
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
For what it's worth, the Costco Amex is a charge card, not a credit card, so you have to pay it off every month and it has no annual or other fees, but I totally understand how it can be hard for some people to manage the cash flow.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
>Google personalizes results for users and also sometime >integrates social aspects Right, except this doesn't actually work unless all of your friends work at Google.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
If this is your game, you should consider making all purchases on a charge card that pays 1-5% on all purchases, the Costco Amex is the one I use.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
Just out of curiosity what's the big deal? I received an invite was reluctant to signup because there is an "inactivity fee". As far as I can tell it's just an online bank?
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I've always wondered, what happened to that $1 BILLION of infrastructure that Webvan setup?
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So use one a week and chuck it, wasteful, but still cheaper then dollar shave's similar model. edit I thought you meant "leave the razor a week" but I think you mean leave your beard a week on second reading.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
This is partly why I didn't "get" Dollar Shave Club. I buy a pack of 52 disposable razors from Costco, really decent ones: http://www2.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11093041&#... and it's $30 for basically one razor per week for
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
Hah yes, that's why I started switching to saying "Co-Founder", most non business people assuming you are a couple when you are two guys (or even a girl and a guy) and introduce the other as your partner.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
"Often I've asked, who is Dustin Curtis? Why is he telling me the important things about building a startup?" As someone who is neither in the hater not fan category, this is what I've been trying to figure out. I have no clue who he is an
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
Another practical limit, I tried to register a 60ish character URL, and neither GoDaddy nor NameCheap would allow it.
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by ry0ohki 14y ago
One of the reasons to be very wary of taking funding... you may be forced to turn down $500M because your investors aren't going to take a simple 2X multiple.
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I wanted to vote for this, but 10 years seems kind of short. Maybe something between 10 and the current "life plus 70". I think 28 years seems pretty fair.
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Just a simple measure like forcing all government signs to use metric would go a long way.

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