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by tworats 14y ago
I think you're making my argument for me: if anyone has stats on the total number of adsense ads served vs adwords ads served, we can derive the value of adsense vs adwords ads. There are many more adsense ads displayed than adwords - it's
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by tworats 14y ago
I hope he's not actually putting his retirement money on the line here. It's not about the quality of the ads, which he argues will get better with more data. It's about intent. When I search on Google, my natural next action is to click a
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by tworats 14y ago
I started with an early version of Titanium, made a lot of progress very quickly, but ended up hitting many bugs and performance and memory issues. Each new version of Titanium made steady progress, but didn't really make for a crisp, respo
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by tworats 14y ago
I haven't directly experimented with JQM in a WebView, but based on my experience with JQM on PhoneGap and Titanium in general I would not recommend that path. JQM is slow enough on its own, and Titanium has its own performance issues, so t
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by tworats 14y ago
This is conflating so many unrelated things. Leaving work at 5:01 is great - leaving work whenever you need to is great. But spending your life working at "just a job" is a waste. If you're only doing your job to make money you're doing you
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by tworats 15y ago
Putting aside the morality of this particular case, I'd point out that this type of copying will discourage early sharing of concepts / projects on HN, which is not a good thing.
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by tworats 15y ago
Some details (perhaps a writeup) on this would be appreciated, I'd love to learn more.
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by tworats 15y ago
Hackathons are the opposite of "how marketing people think software is made". They are the essence of the process of development with the decoration removed. Dave must not have been to a good hackathon. I've personally been involved in hack
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by tworats 15y ago
The issue is that the Privacy Policy is (or certainly can be viewed as) a legal document. Therefore I'm strongly inclined to believe you're better off with a lawyer approved document. I'd love to have our privacy policy be "we will not do a
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by tworats 15y ago
For a very early stage startup caring about privacy does not immediately translate to displaying a privacy policy. For us it was a day 1 decision: we will not do anything remotely creepy with your data. We will guard what you give us carefu
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by tworats 15y ago
As a bit of background, Joe was founder of SimpleGeo, which raised $9.81M and was sold for $3.5M (according to TechCrunch). They were doing great stuff, but I kept wondering how they were going to generate enough value to justify a $10M rai
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by tworats 15y ago
Are there any good guides on how to combat a DDOS? I'm curious how a team of good technical people without past experience in the area could react.
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by tworats 15y ago
Looks interesting, would be great to see screenshots/video of the actual product.
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by tworats 15y ago
While it's fun to point out downtime of hosted services, you have to balance it against downtime you'd have had if you hosted the service yourself. I've found non-critical services I administer and host myself always suffer worse downtime t
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by tworats 15y ago
Very interesting. I wonder if it allows interaction with existing Android libraries / capabilities (eg. for building UIs) or if it's separate. Also, would be great if there was a sample app to download and try so one can get a sense of what
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by tworats 15y ago
I was rooting for HTML5 / jQuery mobile approach to work, but watching it develop (I know clemesha) it became clear that it wasn't going be a very good result. The native app, by comparison, is clearly significantly superior. I wish it wasn
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by tworats 15y ago
Interesting twitter thread on this between @davemclure, @pkedrosky, @msuster, and others, part of which is here: http://twitter.com/#!/pkedrosky/status/124323109032574976 (how do you capture a series of related tweets, btw?) Summary seems
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by tworats 15y ago
It's important to note that the VC is not objecting to the founders taking cash off the table. He's objecting to the method (dividends as opposed to a secondary sale). His arguments are convincing to me - and I'm a founder so my bias is nat
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by tworats 15y ago
The WhatsApp guys are very sharp ex-Yahoo guys who've had tremendous experience with scaling systems. Rick Reed is fairly legendary. Yahoo was a long time FreeBSD shop, so it's not surprising they went with that. I hope they publish how the
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by tworats 15y ago
Well, that sucked. Go through the whole process then ask for an email address? Waste of time.
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by tworats 15y ago
The author misses the goal of A/B testing: it's to improve a measurable business objective (signups, retention, etc), not to pick a more aesthetic design. A/B testing may tell you to pick a "worse" design that results in better business. Th
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by tworats 15y ago
I felt absolutely the same way, but once we started using redis (for other reasons) I finally took the plunge. We've been quite happy with it so far. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you buy into the way it does things suddenly a
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by tworats 15y ago
Epipheo does good stuff, but they are a bit pricey: http://www.epipheostudios.com/
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by tworats 15y ago
Whereabouts in SoCal are you moving to? If you're in San Diego let me know and I'll get you connected with folks.
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by tworats 15y ago
SD Tech Scene has a pretty list, and Brant Cooper has a San Diego Startup list email that goes out on Mondays. http://www.sdtechscene.org/
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by tworats 15y ago
San Diego has an active and growing community, and there's been a lot of growth in events, meetups, and venues recently. Even the funding community is starting to get its act together.
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by tworats 15y ago
Would love to learn more about the SMPP server and your setup, is there a writeup or pointers to more info anywhere?
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by tworats 15y ago
It is awesome that Khan Academy has attracted so much top talent. Has the potential to make a real difference in world education and thus in human potential. Goes to show how much effect a relatively small investment can make when joined wi
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by tworats 16y ago
Absolutely, but I don't want that setting for all sites. I'm sure I could configure just HN to open in new tabs using an extension or similar technique, but I'm guessing everyone always uses new window/tab with HN, hence the suggestion.
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Suggest HN: Links should open in new tabs
3 points by tworats 16y ago|6 comments

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