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by tlianza 14y ago
Here's a perspective that is not from ignorance: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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by tlianza 14y ago
I think it's a fair point. But - what problem are we solving? Do we think there are too few entrepreneurs, and this will help create more? How many is enough, and how much should we spend to create them? The problem Stewart seems to be so
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by tlianza 14y ago
Is it possible that Facebook is indeed The Best way to feel somewhat in touch with a lot of people you may otherwise have lost touch with, and Pinterest is The Best way to discover recipes, craft ideas, and other things that add real value
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by tlianza 14y ago
Seattle, WA | CTO | Company: Zooppa Love Rails? Interested in online video/advertising/distribution? Learn More! http://bit.ly/ZooppaSeniorDev
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by tlianza 14y ago
I use Perl for the Turing completeness.
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A Fancy Business Model(lianza.org)
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by tlianza 14y ago
Seattle, WA - Zooppa.com. Looking for Senior Developer / CTO on a startup that deals in user-submitted videos for contests. Full stack Rails development. More info here: http://bit.ly/ZooppaSeniorDev
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by tlianza 14y ago
I searched the threads and couldn't find anyone asking this question, but this is a red flag to me: > they have a 90% accuracy rating and 60-100 transactions > a day completed. I have 99,6% accuracy If there's no automated system to
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by tlianza 14y ago
I'm not sure why we keep saying things like this. "X MB/TB of resource Y will be plenty for a while" is almost always something we laugh about 2 years later.
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by tlianza 14y ago
> This is a rambling discussion, which Stack Exchange is not really intended for. Right, that's what the Stack Exchange podcast is for. (ducks)
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by tlianza 14y ago
Seems similar to SoapBox... are you familiar? http://soapboxhq.com/
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by tlianza 14y ago
The article makes a good point. But, the title (and comments here) infer that there are a mountain of reasons why people don't use it. Is there a compelling argument against that mountain, or is this just a reminder that Ruby/Python/Closu
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by tlianza 14y ago
This would be great but is, unfortunately, naive. These are exactly the kind of learnings that businesses benefit from by keeping private. Sharing these tips with your competitors, especially in a scenario like this where you'd literally dr
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by tlianza 14y ago
Here's a random example from one of the debates... http://vote4reason.com/2011/12/11/ron-paul-wins-iowa-abc-gop... "In closing, Rick Perry said he has most learned from Ron Paul’s effort to end the Federal Reserve, and why it matters." In
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by tlianza 14y ago
Or that Facebook really wanted to have an impressive-looking Slashdot profile.
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by tlianza 14y ago
If we're still going with the given example, Facebook didn't create anything except a forum where a mom posted a status update. There's no reason for an advertiser to pay to serve an ad for that. The ad was just given away for free. Unles
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by tlianza 14y ago
I think you're looking for something more along the lines of "roll your own affiliate program" - check out http://www.hasoffers.com/ (I have no affiliation with them, other than they're a local Seattle startup)
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by tlianza 14y ago
90 million users is a great datapoint, yes! In my book that's more than respectable. The only other stat that I'm curious about is the total size of the DB. Certainly databases with tens of millions of records can be held completely in RA
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by tlianza 14y ago
I find these kinds of stories interesting, but without some feel for the size of the data, they're not very useful/practical. I've heard of Bump, and used it once or twice, but I don't actually know how big or popular it is. If we're talki
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by tlianza 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Then, if you recall, when they were acquired the "5GB of cloud storage" feature was exactly what Microsoft added and called it "Live Sync." Then they merged it with Mesh, killed Mesh, and called the merge "Li
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by tlianza 14y ago
You may have mis-interpreted the fact that because 1.6% of your users have IE, that means that you're in a space where those customers won't use IE. What it may mean is that you don't have very many customers. If you were mainstream, you'd
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by tlianza 14y ago
FWIW, I wrote that same feature for Wishpot (price alerts) including the infrastructure for scraping thousands of stores that don't have APIs. It's a pretty interesting problem, but to be honest I never could see it as a product in and of i
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by tlianza 14y ago
If you have a method that breaks when an int is passed in, just seems like good defensive programming to call to_s in Ruby. Any other caller could make the same mistake. But, I also understand/agree with fixing the root issue for the sake
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by tlianza 14y ago
I'm interested in the strategy of focusing on customers for whom $29/mo is intimidating. Certainly a lot of them are served (perhaps not well) by the ebay's and etsy's of the world, but in both cases their featuresets have evolved to cater
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by tlianza 14y ago
cool! to me that was the most impactful one - but I still value hard work :)
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by tlianza 14y ago
Why was "don't work too much" rewritten as "don't work too hard"?
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by tlianza 15y ago
The problem is no one has locked you in the closet - just open the door and look around. Heck, you have a whole hour to look around the house and estimate how long it takes to build the thing. You are limited by how long you can spend insp
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by tlianza 15y ago
Anyone ever hit up Linus to add the 'git statsu' command? That would really help me out.
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by tlianza 15y ago
There are so many reasons that looking at an item doesn't mean you're interested in buying it (or, a least not buying it for yourself) that I'm surprised that such minor signals like that still radically alter your recommendations. The sys
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by tlianza 15y ago
What will be interesting to see is how well Microsoft acts as a steward of the project. I can't count how many bugs I've seen on Microsoft Connect sit untouched for years. Assuming they're not being fixed due to lack of development resou

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