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by tomasien 14y ago
And it is. You can set all sorts of defaults. Facebook has just chosen the default default that tends to maximize engagement, THEN built a monetization platform on top of it.
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by tomasien 14y ago
That's because nobody who uses Twitter meaningfully follows 1150 people. Or at least it's not the norm.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Plus, nerds and design nerds both love 3D printing. That's a powerful combination.
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by tomasien 14y ago
The problem with nerds and their hobbies is so many of them (or better stated, us) have hobbies that will NEVER be used in the mainstream. So which ones will? Right now my guess is 3d printing is going to be massive in some way or another.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Exceptions: while driving
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by tomasien 14y ago
Wow this works really well! Love it. By the way, this really demonstrates why I don't have much confidence in speech based applications. I started playing this in my living room, and my sister immediately was like "why are you doing that?"
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by tomasien 14y ago
Really crappy feeling realizing that people got offended enough by how mediocre your blog was to flag and get it banned. My apologies HNers, I'll try to do better next time.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Sorry it got upvotes. I wanted to keep it short, but I thought it was interesting that we thought we should release the social version, didn't, were proven right by feedback BUT got valuable users because of some luck that shipping brought
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This is why you ship(tommy.authpad.com)
25 points by tomasien 14y ago|9 comments
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by tomasien 14y ago
Agreed. The fact that I could be a programmer clicked for me only because I made pretty complex TI-89 calculator programs and games in HS. I thought I was just dicking around, but later I was like "wait, this is programming? I've done this
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by tomasien 14y ago
Kids don't need to learn C or parsing XML. In fact nobody needs to learn to parse XML because either put that data in JSON or GTFO. But seriously, no it's not concepts like that that matter. That's syntax and strategy. It's "here's how to t
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by tomasien 14y ago
Did you even look at the resources on Khan Academy they have? They're STUPID simple and really useful. Heck, I learned some stuff!
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by tomasien 14y ago
I've realized that I'm in a weird time in my life where I've been a few years out of college, am not an early adopter (more second wave adopter), and therefore no longer have an innate sense for what is about to take off. But I do not belie
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by tomasien 14y ago
Email me: tommy@shockoe.com Doing something now that could easily be hurt by this. God patent trolls suck, they're making me really nervous.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Finding the bottom doesn't matter, that's impossible so don't even think about that. Just say "the market doesn't seem to be operating rationally today, I'll bet against it"
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by tomasien 14y ago
Oh I don't mean try to find the bottom! I mean try to find when something seems to be happening purely out of emotion, as in a stock going down for no discernible reason short of a weird investment environment I.E. FB and all its bad press
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by tomasien 14y ago
The absolute best way to buy stocks is to wait until something happens in the market that seems to be based on emotions and then bet the other way. 2 best examples I can remember where I noticed this was when Citi was at $1 despite the fac
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by tomasien 14y ago
http://thecityswig.com/ , but you emailed me so I'm assuming you figured that out!
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by tomasien 14y ago
Too many of our deals are out of date, but soon that's fixed on the re-launch.
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by tomasien 14y ago
The only, repeat the ONLY thing that matters, is cost to acquire a customer and the value of that customer to you in the term for which you can afford to measure. Daily Deals RARELY put you in the positive for that metric unless your conver
951.
by tomasien 14y ago
Yes and yes. Wish we were doing more with it, but we are doing a re-launch soon and are launching native apps.
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by tomasien 14y ago
"Daily Deals" are just one format for solving the physical businesses initial distribution problem. It's a one-size-fits-all solution that actually only works for high margin businesses. For us, we solved this problem for bars, who have thi
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by tomasien 14y ago
I know some of Living Social's original investors, and I approached them for an investment in my startup about 8 months ago. Part of our pitch was that daily deals solve and amazingly valuable problem in an inherently not-valuable way, and
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by tomasien 14y ago
Did anyone else's pulse race when they saw the phrase "encodes other information"?
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by tomasien 14y ago
Start the "no, it should be insert my preferred language here debate". Yes, it should be Javascript, and probably starting with some basic jQuery stuff. Yes, Javascript syntax sucks, but if you 1. Set up a basic text document correctly 2.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Oh thanks, that's a good point! Didn't think of that.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Why do you have to refresh the page to change the header image? Wired can hit me up any time, I can fix that for them.
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by tomasien 14y ago
I know this is a crap answer to this question, but for me what is "cool" is what can easily do things that I think are awesome. For me, that's Angular.js. http://angularjs.org/ Angular UI is amazing http://angular-ui.github.com/ And Ang
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by tomasien 14y ago
It's Friday night. My favorite band ( http://www.theanatomyoffrank.com/music ) is playing a house show in my town, which is the best kind of show because it's BYOB. Then, my best friend from Texas is in town for the night, and we're meeting
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by tomasien 14y ago
Crazy to see someone talking about PG in 2004 that way (see comments section). I assumed that comment must have come from an HR'er in 2004, but nope. Apparently it was just someone talking about PG and LISP on the Stevey's blog in 2004. Wei

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