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by sachinag 17y ago
You're at a non-profit? OK, let me be clear: if you leave, your NP is fucked. If market is more than the ED makes, and you want to make anywhere near market, you have to leave. They're dramatically underpaying market, and have to for stru
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by sachinag 17y ago
This happened to me; something weird was going on, so PG blocked my IP. E-mail him with your IP address and username and let him know what's up.
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by sachinag 17y ago
You see the list of angels, angel groups, and seed firms? They're all in the Valley. You can do your startup elsewhere and succeed, but hey, if it's possible, probably worth moving.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I wonder how much GM's badge engineering hurt/help them - no individual model is on the top 10 seller list, but they sold more new vehicles than anyone aside Toyota: more than Ford or Honda.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Isn't Wolfram|Alpha the first step along the way here?
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by sachinag 17y ago
Wasn't this the whole point of Dash Navigation? I love how old companies can totally obliterate new startups' differentiation with a quick, single stroke. Now, Google Maps needs to be better integrated with turn-by-turn directions (like D
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by sachinag 17y ago
Well, Yahoo doesn't have PayDirect any more, they don't do search tech internally any more, and they don't do MMO game development internally either. It would be really bizarre for them to buy stuff - even if it's high growing - that they
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by sachinag 17y ago
See, I fundamentally disagree that mandating data formats in un-American or a violation of market principles. We had an Interstate Commerce Commission (the first independent commission) because interstate markets fail sometimes. And it's n
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by sachinag 17y ago
For fuck's sake, the code is out there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvista/ EDIT: apparently the main project is at WorldVista now: http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista/ There are for-profit companies selling install/suppo
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm not advocating tossing all the other stuff out the window. Whatever mechanism they use now to stop spam accounts, keep it. I'm suggesting a different way to aportion the ability to make lasting changes to the site's content.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I like Neil, but there was no reason to use "fuck" when "forget" would work just as well.
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by sachinag 17y ago
You know what Wikipedia needs? Game mechanics. Give every registered user x number of commits/edits/reversions. Jack up x based on participation and commits/edits/reversions that "stick". This way, new people can still add stuff (becaus
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by sachinag 17y ago
The issue is that the "good" angel groups are so concentrated in SV, NYC, Boston, and LA (generally) that groups outside those areas can get away with this. To me, the bigger issue is what Brad points out - how few people/groups actually c
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by sachinag 17y ago
It is also expensive, but it is less expensive than doing that AND stemming. They just decided that stemming was a line where the benefit (add'l users, more use of Gmail, more AdSense revenue, whatever metric) wasn't worth the (developme
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'll tell you why: Google Checkout is doing the same PCI kludge that we do at Dawdle. We only do the $1 authorization charges, and we get people screaming at us all the time. Users hate being "charged" for stuff that they didn't purchas
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by sachinag 17y ago
Dammit, and Ford's doing it too: http://www.fordurban.com/ You know what, I'm not going to compile all of these out there. But if you're surprised by this, you might be an engineer (and not a marketer). /That's right, I went Foxworthy on
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by sachinag 17y ago
They only have 310,000 active registered users? (6,200/.02) Wow. EDIT: sigh My surprise is that it's not higher. It's an incredibly well designed experience. (Come on guys, at the very least it would be bad business for me to badmouth
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by sachinag 17y ago
If your website isn't crystal clear about what you offer, when you offer it, what your prices are, and how to hire you, it doesn't matter how many leads you get. Your conversion will suck. If your site does all those things, your (first an
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by sachinag 17y ago
Code from Google: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-location-servi...
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by sachinag 17y ago
If Apple was so damned worried about Google controlling so much on their default user experience, maybe they should have thrown Yahoo a bone past just the Weather app. Or given AOL/Mapquest the Maps app. Apple has only itself to blame for
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by sachinag 17y ago
And he can't put it into CDs because of liquidity risk. PayPal's first business plan was to make money on the float. That didn't work, so they started charging (ever higher) fees. In the history of the world, I don't think anyone's ever ma
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by sachinag 17y ago
I know nothing about Creighton (other than I am obligated to hate the school with a passion as a born-and-bred but non-attending Saluki), but it's also in the city.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Engadget has AT&T and Google's responses as well as quick commentary from their in-house lawyer: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/21/atandt-tells-the-fcc-it-h...
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm entirely convinced that Wolfram Research only hires UX people from SAP. EDIT: And this thought made me send my resume to them. Alpha is the sort of project that people seem to root for - unlike, say, Cuil - and I think it's because peo
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by sachinag 17y ago
They may charge you, and it may take a while, but they are legally obligated (in the States) to provide a patient with her own medical records.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I love that Esther Dyson beat Chris Anderson to "free" by a good 13 years.
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by sachinag 17y ago
God, I hope they shut it down. It was immediately populated by SEO freaks who kept looking at PR flowing from a google.com domain. And it made me feel like I had to do it, and I hate doing shit purely for SEO reasons.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I see a lot more grouped results by domain and at least one very heterogeneous result from the domain. Example: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/#hl=en&q=dawdle However, this does makes it clear that Google sees http://www.dawdle.com
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by sachinag 17y ago
Blame all you want, but it's been invaluable to us. We have a Help link on every page, which goes to Contact Us (i.e. an extra step), but for whatever reason, the signal on UserVoice feedback is much higher than messages sent via our Conta
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by sachinag 17y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure the UserVoice folks started it. When we added it to Dawdle (still there), the GS folks didn't offer one.

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