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by sah2ed 9y ago
I would think that Upstart will evolve into a marketplace type of business where the onus is on the business (buyer) to do their due diligence before shelling out money to a newsletter (seller) in the hope of increasing their reach. Of cour
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Scale is a nice problem to have but I think it is premature to be asking about that now when the business is just trying to get off the ground. The project was previously featured under the name Mailman on HN [0]. [0] https://n
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> There's a ton of Stupid Computer Shit we all know, mostly from messing around on our own time, that makes programming or doing anything else with computers much easier. Thanks for clearly articulating this in 6 words: "Stupid
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Would love to know the whole story behind this. He actually did an interview with Rolling Stone [0] where he told his "story". [0] http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-flight-of-the-b...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
What's your firm's name?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I'm not sure about Brin and Page, ... Larry Page was incredibly ambitious even while he was a PhD student. He naively intended to work on 3 projects. Luckily he listened to the good advice of his advisor, Terry Winograd, who asked
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> As a side note, is Microsoft still considered a company on its way to oblivion? I personally think they reinvented themselves in the new era. Am I mistaken in my view? You are not mistaken but back in 2012 when the article was written
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Email in profile. I don't see any email in your profile.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> ... as she is obviously inexperienced/mentally weak Unless you can read mental states from behind an internet comment, there was no need to resort to ad hominem to characterize the OP.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
For a lot of people, Facebook as addictive as watching TV so I don't think they'll be disappearing anytime soon. In fact this is how I think of them and their business interests; they are nothing more than merchants of human atten
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You are forgetting an important demographic of many households who do not yet have personal phones but are perfectly capable of communicating verbally: small children. Amazon is betting on these children growing up with an Echo in the home
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GitHub website appears to have stopped working on Firefox(forum.palemoon.org)
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Perhaps they meant to write "We're [in] YC [currently]".
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Prof. Michael Jensen's higly-cited 1976 paper [0] identified the principal-agent problem [1] then argued that a company's sole purpose is to maximize shareholder value. This thinking is what gradually led to the now widespread obs
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Solar Power Generation in Denmark(euronews.com)
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Never knew of that keyboard shortcut for GitHub. Thanks for sharing.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> not an investment performance measurement need. Can you please expand on this? Genuinely curious as to what the metrics are in this case.
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Subscribe with Amazon(subscribewithamazon.com)
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Nice list! You really should consider merging yours with the ones mentioned in the NYT article and contributing it to Wikipedia [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadable_aircraft
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Neat idea. Is there a way you can link to the source of your information regarding the List Size, Average Clicks and Sponsor Rate?
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by sah2ed 10y ago
You observation was already covered in the very first sentence: > Patreon has a rather large problem for poorer people .
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> I'm not cashing out and doing something else. I get that the cash infusion from Stripe allows you to not have to worry about sponsorships but if you are not "cashing out" in some way, why go the acquisition route? I thin
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> At the current state I have a hard time seeing anyone would pay for it. You'll never know for certain until you try. You need to ask put a dollar sign and see how current users respond. Of course only a handful of users will pay,
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Another possible explanation is that Google's search engine is exhibiting, due to the lack of a better term, a form of "transference" [0]. Google engineers are huge fans of XKCD as is evident from Randall Monroe's well a
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Would have bookmarked your link :) except that it doesn't seem to index xkcd comics. I tried "xkcd duty call" and it gave no results [0] while Google lists the comic as the first result for the same keywords. [0] http:/
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Seems like you posted in the wrong thread.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Wow. A Topcoder powered contest at Sun's JavaOne is indeed a blast from the past. Then came Google CodeJam.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Agreed. Lingscars.com is arguably the worst money-making website on the Internet [0]. [0] http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/15/welcome-to-lingscars-quite-pos...
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by sah2ed 10y ago
He does actually. His business cards are hilarious :D http://getcoleman.com/work/joe-coleman/
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by sah2ed 10y ago
There's an Indian equivalent called Zerodha [0]. They also offer an API they call Kite Connect [1]. [0] https://zerodha.com/ [1] https://kite.trade/

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