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by shazow 13y ago
How do you mean? My target customer audience? Right now it falls into two groups across two dimensions: 1a. Small-medium businesses 1b. Individuals with many web projects 2a. Already use the Google Analytics frontend regularly but feel that
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by shazow 13y ago
For Briefmetrics[0], first 10 users were basically the people I was building the product for. About half of those immediately and enthusiastically converted to paying customers. The next 100 were friends, people who follow me on Twitter&#x2
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by shazow 13y ago
Very yes. Me as well. I got my first unsupervised access to my grandparents' computer at age 7, but with no Internet. Then at age 10-11 some foundation for underprivileged kids gifted me my own computer with free unlimited dialup and a
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by shazow 13y ago
Very cool, I'd love to see this published as a standalone tool, ideally with configurable blacklist IP ranges.
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by shazow 13y ago
As many others in this discussion, I'm not sure whether this will be net positive or not, but I would try it if I could make the payments per merged pull request. Additionally, I would like to provide bonuses for each checked-off item
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Activision Is Preventing A Game From Coming To Linux(phoronix.com)
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I'd love to see this, but also including exchanges across different currencies (e.g. CNY) and normalized. Kind of like http://bitcoinaverage.com/ does, but with a nice chart like http://bitcoinindex.es/
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by shazow 13y ago
> But their marketing is incautious and might need to be tuned up. You're probably right. Unfortunately it's too easy to create a gap between the public-facing marketing messaging and the real spirit of the product. I can think
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by shazow 13y ago
Here is a company who is trying to make genetics more accessible, approachable, and comprehensible. > It would be better if 23AM presented medical genomic information in a neutral way, with external links to descriptions of genomic varia
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by shazow 13y ago
Just found this: http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/ Basically a mailing list of merchants who accept Bitcoin and are doing special Black Friday sales end of this month. Probably of interest to people in this thread.
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by shazow 13y ago
+1, I ordered dinner using Bitcoin from a nice Greek place via lieferservice.de when I was staying in Berlin—perfect experience.
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That was my experience as well. Happy to help! :)
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I implemented some of these blending modes in JavaScript once upon a time, if anyone is curious: https://github.com/shazow/colorlib/blob/master/colorlib.js#L... Based on the source code of GIMP and a bit
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by shazow 13y ago
The strength of something like this becomes evident in the optimistic future when governments (or at least accountants) decide to help opted-in users to report their taxes from Bitcoin-related transactions. As others mentioned, it's no
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by shazow 13y ago
Fun to imagine this comment in the context of building a startup. <Too unfair, ran out of money after 4-5 weeks, gave up. The whole experience is a joke. If you like it, good for you. Go get a real job, it's easier.>
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One scenario I ran into is building a generic function call caching solution. Coming from Python, there tons of great libraries for memoizing and caching [0][1][2]. Even the Python 3 standard library has a simple one built in [3]. But build
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by shazow 13y ago
The bathroom is indeed a shower, per this photo: http://www.nomadmicrohomes.com/uploads/3/2/7/6/3276237/51529... via http://www.nomadmicrohomes.com/gallery.html
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by shazow 13y ago
Video summary: - Lavabit + Silent Circle are starting a non-profit called the Dark Mail Alliance. - Planning to release an open source protocol for end-to-end encrypted email, along with some open source implementations. Expecting feedback
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The next logical step is to expand the scope of the TSA's security—put full body scanners at the airport entrances rather than boarding gates. In the distant future, we can look forward to having periodic security checkpoints when we g
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by shazow 13y ago
Maybe better yet, EncMail.
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FMail has a cute ring to it. The next version after EMail.
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I have no internal knowledge about this, but influenced by this Twitter thread[0] I would speculate that Greenwald and friends gave Google (and whoever else) advance notice and the opportunity to react to it before publishing. Responsible d
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by shazow 13y ago
I added a note to ping you as soon as the multi-site stuff is ready for testing. I'm probably going to start with individual reports per-site, and then add summary reports for multiple sites. If you have any requests for the kinds of d
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by shazow 13y ago
Aiming to release multiple site support in a few weeks. I'm planning to stick to email for delivery though, so real-time won't really work. :/
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by shazow 13y ago
Everyone I speak with who uses GA almost never checks their stats, so I wrote a service to bring your stats to you. :) Happy to answer any questions! I think my main target audience is small business owners with websites, or publishers who
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Show HN: Weekly Google Analytics summaries in your inbox(briefmetrics.com)
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> You are insisting on your own definition of tainted here. How do you figure? > Your parent comment is using a definition where coins that pass through a mixer with tainted coins themselves become tainted. [...] 1. The aggressive pa
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by shazow 13y ago
"Tainted Bitcoins" can be trivially laundered and mixed in with normal Bitcoins. This will only become easier in the future, and conceivably make it into the protocol itself with something like ZeroCoin. It's funny but there
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While we're speculating about trust and such, the video mentions that it's a browser extension which connects to a trusted peer and uses the peer as a proxy. This leads me to believe that, 1. Since it's a normal browser exten
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by shazow 13y ago
> Its not just Gmail, they started doing this with other products too. Whenever I access Google Analytics, ... For what it's worth, Google Analytics had this since forever ago (quite possibly since the acquisition of Urchin). It is

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