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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Gold rush is a zero-sum game with unsustainable business model, while startups are not any of these things. I feel that such comparisons are misplaced and do not provide useful abstractions to effeciently reason about startups.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
If by "nailed" you mean "reduced a probability of rational discourse by trolling" then sure, he nailed it.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Do you really want to know why rapgenius needs IPO money or are you just using it as a rhetorical vessel to justify use of such inflamatory lexis as "retarded" and "classic"? I have no hopes on influencing your opinion b
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I am quite happy to be served personalized ads from Google and even Facebook. I regularly get ads for services that interest me greatly, like digitalocean, heroku, cloud66, newrelic, edx, codeschool, teamtreehouse. Thanks, personalized ads!
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Well, you are doing exactly that -- correcting the positioning of an open source project. However I would like to point out that statement "beautiful demonstration of marketing" in a strict subset of English language would evaluat
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
*Desire S
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Just to counter your anecdote, my HTC Desire D which is the same hardware as Nexus S was one of the best phones I had with great battery life, durability and it works well even after I dropped it on the concrete and in the water on several
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I am studying philosphy on my own and I thought transcendentalism meant something else: that all people are inherently good and social structures takes that away.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yeah, perhaps I am not arguing my point effectively. I am not trying to convince you, though. I am trying to convince other HN users that might see our discussion. And I never asserted that web was built on marketing. Marketing is an emerge
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
It is an interesting dilemma really. Should one really try to retain inefficient people as paying customers or will add to customer support and techincal debt later on. Something to think about.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Access to the automated system for distribution of communication materials is NOT equal for selling data. Thats a common misconception. Also extended analytics do not provide any private data that is not available in the general version of
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Any oral or written communication between humans or machines has a probability P to influence thoughts or opinions of human agents engaged in communication or machines that are able to learn. Marketers are increasing P to reach their busine
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
In would favor such solution too but there is none. And all hate for marketers, search and social networks won't create it.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
The right to know is codified in the HTTP spec.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yep, while I have objections to most Google criticisms, I totally agree that killing off search referrers is bonkers. I guess there will be some starttyups springing up that will try to correlate your search rankings and page visits, creati
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
What? How is that possible without JavaScript? And javascript is trivial to switch off or control.Copying and pasting links. That's nearly as hardcore as browsing websites Stallman way.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Ugh. Someone is wrong on the internet and I just can't ignore that. SEO doesn't create value for the society? That is an extremely bold claim. Guest posts, infographics and other form of viral content are a very common tools for s
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Then you are one selfish dude or dudette. I will endure some cognitive noise aka ads if that means more web for everyone. And you know what? 50% of ads I see are from edx,new relic, code school,treehouse, engineyard, heroku and I am very ok
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Not again. If marketers stop using the web there is no web. There is no Google, bing, twitter, Facebook, reddit,stack overflow, hordes of startups that use ads to monetize, plethora of blogs and therefore VC companies and whole startup ecos
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yeah, marketing is bad right? Google is evil unless it takes something from marketers, then its good. The fact that startups use the same data, who cares? Actually, I think it will fuel some interesting innovation on traffic sources attribu
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I get why this tracking system is ridiculous, but I think that this wooboard thing can work in some context. Dont you think so?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
You like Yahoo, but the technical debt of supporting legacy systems is mounting every year. Is that a sustainable strategy? I would rather be inconvenienced by consntant change than risk a decline in the rate of innovation. I want to see si
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old instituti
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
So many orgs and individuals are doing similar data mining under the "collect now, analyze later" strategy. The fact that some of the data is made open-ish is not scary at all.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Vowel stripping is a feature that highly correlates with a tech target audience of a domain. So I'd prefer to see more vowel-stripped domains intended for tech crowd and regular word .com domains for general public.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
That path dependence is really an important concept to consider when reflecting about technical standarts, programming languages and frameworks.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yep, there is quite a problem with that. I've recently was looking for proof that Golden Ratio aesthetical qualities are indeed the global optima for at least some categories of objects. I've found nothing.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Sure it can be quantified using the same instruments growth hackers use daily. You can measure time on page, click through rate, conversion rate and anything else you wish. I am sure that the difference in the metrics for the A/B test
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yeah, I agree thats its not really intuitive but you can back up cloud managed content by converting it in various formats for export. https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/

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