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by shazow 12y ago
I worked on Google Analytics until a year and a half ago, and my impression is that the focus has increasingly been towards sophisticated power users, especially Premium Customers[1] who pay for Google Analytics. I suspect this creates a da
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by shazow 12y ago
If anybody wants to see how this played out in 2010-2011, search for "Witcoin": https://www.google.com/search?q=witcoin At the peak it was a neat site, and some folks made a bit of money. If I recall correctly, th
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by shazow 12y ago
Even if you're not using Bitcoin, having a Bitcoin honeypot on your machine may be a great way to early-detect intrusion. It's such a tempting target for viruses and blackhats these days, I'm happy to sacrifice a few dollars
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by shazow 12y ago
There was a Planet Money podcast episode[1] which mentions that Americans are far less likely to wear a seatbelt, at least compared to Germans but also probably Scandinavian countries as well. According to Wikipedia[2], the US is definitely
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by shazow 12y ago
It depends on what the chain is storing and whether there is value in archiving the full history. There are really two parts to the Blockchain: 1. Header, which includes the hash of the contents and other metadata like the previous node in
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by shazow 12y ago
You're absolutely right about the pricing. Right now it's still in the "throw a number down on the front page and see if it sticks" stage of pricing. I'm still banging my head against the wall to find a better prici
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by shazow 12y ago
Hi Thomas! My sincere apologies for letting you down with SocialGrapple. :( Unfortunately not much happened with it. I joined Google to work on an in-house social analytics product, but most of it never launched. I've since left Google
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by shazow 12y ago
Ha, thanks Chris! I hope you become the developer you think I am someday, and more. :)
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by shazow 12y ago
Nope. I feel Flippa is better for high-value domains and highly-ranked content sites. I don't feel that web applications get valued appropriately.
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by shazow 12y ago
Thanks! The fundamental product I wanted to build is done, so it basically runs itself while I do business development and sales. Eventually I'll need to dive back into the code to add more features I have on the roadmap, but I work be
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by shazow 12y ago
It's all front-end JavaScript running on the free AppEngine tier. Basically just static file hosting.
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by shazow 12y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I have a few more projects in the pipeline that I've been reluctant to publicize, but now I'm suddenly feeling more motivated, ha. :)
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by shazow 12y ago
It's free to run, requires 0% maintenance or effort, and brings in money every month. Send me an email with a tempting offer and we'll talk. :)
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by shazow 12y ago
I have a bunch of projects I built up which I consider "done" as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time they're basically free to run (AppEngine in the free tier) so I'm always reluctant to sell... I do wish the
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by shazow 13y ago
If you can come to some agreement with the CEO/CTO, it's possible to accelerate a portion of your vesting for your departure. Or, since you said they want to wait until the company raises funding, you could negotiate some other ki
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by shazow 13y ago
Heartbleed is not super descriptive to layfolk but it's certainly catchy, I'll give you that. Having a dot-com domain with said simple name was great, too. But the content? A loud reminder indeed. As a member of the dev community,
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by shazow 13y ago
Thanks Chris! I'm looking forward to that. :)
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by shazow 13y ago
I had a similar issue with the verifying process. I opened an issue requesting better documentation on the signing command so that people can write their own clients: https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issue
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ASICs catching up with Scrypt, and why this could be the end of new altcoins(medium.com)
1 points by shazow 13y ago|0 comments
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by shazow 13y ago
While I did see at least a dozen threads of people claiming to abandon various Oculus-related projects, you're probably right that they may have been just overreacting or trying to make this seem like a bigger deal. I didn't make
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by shazow 13y ago
TL;DR: Community felt betrayed and this damaged the ecosystem. Wish I had more advice for how to make acquisitions more successful, but this is a huge challenge every acquirer faces which remains largely unsolved (success rates are not very
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by shazow 13y ago
My biggest worry is the destructive effect the acquisition had on the community. Many developers feel that their expectations were betrayed. And of course, the unnoticeably slow corruption through bureaucracy and politics which inevitably s
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Re: Facebook acquires Oculus, a letter of concern(medium.com)
67 points by shazow 13y ago|41 comments
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by shazow 13y ago
http://bitcoinaverage.com/ does currency-adjusted price averages across many exchanges around the world. You should be able to get a yearly average from the API but I worry this would not be what the IRS had in mind, but ra
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by shazow 13y ago
If you're looking for something lower-commitment, urllib3 could use an extra pair of eyes or two for code reviews. urllib3 is probably one of Python's most-installed third-party packages. It powers the core of pip, requests, and m
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by shazow 13y ago
Er, I take back about the Flash and playing music thing. No flash = no music.
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by shazow 13y ago
Because I can revoke Application-specific passwords and they are more limited in that there are a set of settings that they can't change (can't change my email address, change my password, setup forwarding, add more application-
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by shazow 13y ago
Very cool, I've been looking for something like this. I wish I could use an Application-specific Password rather than my full Google password + OTP. But I don't suppose that would be feasible with a Safari wrapper. Also when I fir
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by shazow 13y ago
Hah very crafty. I'll consider it. :) Thanks for the outside-of-the-box suggestion. Btw, I liked your LinkedIn suggestion in the other thread, going to try that too.
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by shazow 13y ago
Digital Point is a great lead, thanks! Why do you think Flippa? I imagine people looking to get rid of their property for money are less likely to pay to monitor its analytics? Then again, it could be a good audience for people who own mult

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