tlack

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by tlack 16y ago
Watching this all play out has been an object lesson in management killing innovation.
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by tlack 16y ago
Microsoft should just invest 10% of its revenue in a YC-like fund that produces independently operated but partly MS-owned companies that join their ecosystem. The brain drain over there is ridiculous - how are they ever going to produce an
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by tlack 16y ago
My ping times from my server to Facebook's graph servers went from 40ms at my expensive ThePlanet servers to 2ms at Linode Fresno. I'm really, really happy with Linode, though the prices for bandwidth, disk and ram are ridiculously high. Be
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm in Miami and I go to the art events now and then. I was planning to do an Art Basel Facebook+iPhone app but my time ran out before I could even get the funding together.. C'est la vie
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by tlack 16y ago
I find IAN to be much slower than booking.com or Priceline, but maybe that was just a personal experience of mine and doesn't reflect the usual case.. hmm..
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by tlack 16y ago
I've worked with them as an affiliate and they have a pretty good system. The travel industry as a whole is pretty fast moving.
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by tlack 16y ago
i'd pay for a single unified plugin that manages a project, incorporating automatic ctags (i.e., i don't have to run tags manually - it should automatically update the tags list with any open file), a file browser (like nerdtree), buffer ma
578.
by tlack 16y ago
I'd change the message a bit: "Lend. Buy. Create." should be something like "Patonize. Create." and patronize would contain both elements. The person who wishes to invest in art sees himself as a noble figure and "Loan. Buy." is a bit prosa
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by tlack 16y ago
so cities will only have to find hundreds of millions of dollars to build this over existing routes, and then convince riders to squeeze their fat asses into a claustrophobic little box, permeated by the sweat-stench of so many previous rid
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by tlack 16y ago
Be wary of competition from the well established HARO (Help a Reporter Out) http://www.helpareporter.com/
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by tlack 16y ago
"Refresh this page a couple of times if the above link fails to load the first time." - This gives me great confidence and I can't wait to give them my credit card number.
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by tlack 16y ago
I'd be interested in your service but only if it was cheaper than me spending an hour to do the same thing with a limited selection of blogs/journalists/sources. Perhaps you could make money at both ends of the deal by allowing journalists
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by tlack 16y ago
I think it depends on the nature of your business. If you're licensing something, or another type of venture that requires contracts, you'll need to be incorporated and have a lawyer look over your contracts early on. If you're just providi
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by tlack 16y ago
you'd have to be priced really aggressively since those machines are super low power. add an SSD as an additional differentiator - i can't think of a VPS service doing that, and it would really boost performance.
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm trying to find the article that was going around a month or two ago saying that vertical farms were a sham and the numbers don't make any sense when you study them. Can anyone remember the source?
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by tlack 16y ago
OH SHIT I HOPE THIS DOESN'T MAKE THEM THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE INDUSTRY!
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by tlack 16y ago
Give us edit access!
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by tlack 16y ago
Good idea: November Startup Sprint. Require weekly status reports from all participants and use that as a way for people to help each other out when stuck. Encourage everyone to be totally open about their idea, their research and their pro
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by tlack 16y ago
What a great story. You should put together a "five things I learned" mini post and let us all read it. And tell us more about your biz - do you sell through ThemeForest?
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by tlack 16y ago
The one time I had a huge failure and needed to restore I found Tarsnap amazingly slow. Between that and the overly complicated pricing I'm going to consider something else going forward.
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by tlack 16y ago
Great link, that really sums it up. A note, though: some people report that fb_sig_is_fan does work. Worth at least trying out before you switch to <fb:visible-to-connection>
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by tlack 16y ago
If I were you I'd contact a lot of the smaller startups you hear about on here and see if they need someone to take care of their Google Analytics, especially integrating Facebook Insights data, conversion analysis/funnel, short link campai
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by tlack 16y ago
I am sure you are still busy hacking things: new businesses, new services on top of existing services, new ideas. Just because you aren't installing shit in your cars dashboard doesn't mean you aren't still hacking. We're hacking at a highe
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Any guesses what Facebook is announcing on Wednesday?(allfacebook.com)
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by tlack 16y ago
I saw that but I felt it was a bit too overt and pushy. A regular "Like to interact"-style feature is pretty common on FB and easier for a user to wrap their head around. http://www.facebook.com/oreo to see some examples. Holler if you ne
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by tlack 16y ago
It seems like your app is simple enough to work well inside a fan page tab. Perhaps require the person to LIKE the page in order to use it, generating a viral "discovery story" in their friends' news feeds. We get a lot of requests for that
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by tlack 16y ago
Buy a fairly serious recreation of the Spetznas spade here: http://www.coldsteel.com/spshovel.html Be sure to bring it to your local startup party to impress your investors and mutilate your opponents.
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by tlack 16y ago
I think the author's message is that, yes, Detroit is definitely hurting, but that isn't an excuse for journalists to be lazy or distort the truth. His "make sure you crop out the office park from the photo" comment is hilarious. I can thin
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by tlack 16y ago
I, and many others, get measurably better click through and conversion rates from Facebook because I can target people who are interested in certain topics and likely to buy. A person's search term is not the whole story. Do you really thin
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by tlack 16y ago
I guess I had missed this when they rolled it out. It definitely gives me some new ideas about leasing value-added EC2 instances to others.

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