veyron

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1. 661.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   a sort of birthday arbitrage? I wonder, do you have numbers on what percentage of your real friends are tripped up by this (wishing happy birthday on a fake day)?
2. 662.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   I was going to opine that the stupid facebook firewalls (you have to login to use a service) were the worst things I've seen, but definitely marital pressure takes the cake
3. 663.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   "Let me add one carveout: for those who work at startups that write facebook apps, that time is NOT counted." I specifically added that to make sure that people voted based on personal use. I suspect a lot of people work at startups or job
4. 664.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   I'm surprised and somewhat saddened to hear that most of your friends only communicate through facebook. In my case, we still mostly contact via phone calls, resorting to text messages for less urgent messages and email for longer and more
5. 665.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   I'd like to hope people continue to respond into the work week, so we'd get a better pool of people. Should I just ask again later on?
6. 666.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   I figure its worth asking: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034871
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   Poll: Facebook usage

   70 points by veyron 15y ago|107 comments
8. 668.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   Facebook is an integral part of my life, and I spend every waking moment on it
9. 669.▲
   by veyron 15y ago

   I spend at least an hour a day, but generally its controlled
10. 670.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I spend at least an hour a week, but there are days that I don't check
11. 671.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I spend at least an hour a month, but there are weeks that I don't check
12. 672.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I spend maybe a few hours a year, just to check in on my birthday or christmas or exceptional days
13. 673.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I don't have facebook, or I haven't checked in over a year ...
14. 674.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I'm sorry, but I feel I need to ask: am I alone in not using Facebook since graduating college? Every time I see an article, every time I watch the news, I get the impression that Facebook has somehow weaved itself into our daily lives, ye
15. 675.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I'm guessing the target audience isnt particularly sophisticated, given that their "in-depth" howto on the linux kernel consists of menuconfig: http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/in-depth-howto-on-linux-kernel...
16. 676.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I seriously question the quality of nanex infrastructure in general ... they may have had a clock shift (if they left NTP running)
17. 677.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I agree, but it should be noted that a recruiter gets commission if you use a recruiter to hire an employee ...
18. 678.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    This is not exclusive to the government: most large companies pay contractors double the employee salary for the equivalent job
19. 679.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    Every time i read something like this, I think about the fred wilson quote about being someone's bitch. Anyone have that direct link?
20. 680.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    That's when they will start charging for access ... gateway to your family history
21. 681.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    Is there any concern about any of these music companies becoming, as Fred Wilson would probably call it, "facebook's bitch"?
22. 682.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    True credit card arbitrage, which is what helped me bootstrap, involves real accretion of money In my case, it was playing the us mint. They sell 250 $1 coins for 250 with free shipping. Fidelity Amex card gives 2% cash back. So I would or
23. 683.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    makes sense, but I thought w1ntermute was distributing using a non-JB channel
24. 684.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I thought the terms of service were changed so that you can't sell directly ... How does it work? Do you just send ipa files that the user is expected to import into itunes?
25. 685.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    easier said than done. How do you distribute apps to people outside the app store?
26. 686.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    I'm genuinely surprised to see webos people. Are you still developing for webos or did you stop after the announcement?
27. 687.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    The question isn't about quantity, but rather about quality. People are willing to pay for HBO because a lot of their shows are really good. What will most likely happen is that the stronger studios are going to run their own services, an
28. 688.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    1 is definitely not true. There are many types of trades (for example, convertible arbitrage) which fundamentally require billions of dollars to get access to opportunities. It's not that the opportunities have a large fixed cost, but rat
29. 689.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    most HFTs can usually get very favorable leverage terms because they don't hold naked overnight positions (either they are hedged or just flatten at the end of the day), artificially boosting return numbers. There was a similar conversation
30. 690.▲
    by veyron 15y ago

    "But facebook certainly isn't dispensable" Facebook can be replaced by a new social network. For the moment, however, there is no compelling new vision for social networking (and I fully agree that facebook will not be replaced by facebook