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by waleedka 16y ago
Interesting. Although, it doesn't strike me as a scalable business. At least not to the point of justifying such big investment.
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by waleedka 16y ago
Anyone knows how they make (or plan to make) money? They don't put ads, and I don't see premium services offered at sign up?
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Have I fallen in love with Python because she is beautiful?(quora.com)
10 points by waleedka 16y ago|0 comments
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by waleedka 16y ago
Same here. I learned Python out of curiosity, but started using it for real work only after the Google App Engine launched. I hear similar anecdotes from others as well.
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by waleedka 16y ago
You should say a few things about yourself as well, not only the things you want in your co-founder. Try to show why you're a good catch.
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by waleedka 16y ago
The concept itself is actually a good one; it's just named wrong. Had they called it "follow" or "subscribe", or even the old name "become a fan", it would have been much clearer.
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by waleedka 16y ago
Good point. Maybe jasonlbaptiste's next article would be a list BIG problems still waiting for good solutions. Here are a few I can think of: - Email 2.0 (Wave was a good experiment but we need more) - Online Dating (still broken) - Online
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by waleedka 16y ago
Twitter (and the Facebook stream) are both a convenient way to casually follow updates from your friends. To understand the need they fill think of what would be the alternative if they didn't exist. Email, chat, and RSS don't really fill t
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by waleedka 16y ago
Do you monetize newsletters with ads only, or are there other ways? Also, what kind of ads can you use? I don't think AdSense can be used in emails.
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by waleedka 16y ago
I've been using an app called Infinity on the iPhone to track and optimize my time, and I learned a few things that surprised me. For example: - I was spending almost 2 hours a day on chit-chat with friends at work. This time is usually cou
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by waleedka 16y ago
There is a way to test if it's an autoimmune disease which involves taking medication for a week that depresses the immune system temporarily. If the symptoms subside then you know it's an autoimmune disease and you can dig deeper from ther
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by waleedka 16y ago
+1 I tested a lot of compare utilities for Mac and finally settled on running a virtual box with Windows on it so I can run BeyondCompare. This app looks promising, though. For me, a killer missing feature is the folder compare view.
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by waleedka 16y ago
I like the simple UI. Here are a few ideas that came to mind while trying it: - Ask me to choose a few categories before I start so you can do better news targeting and get me more engaged right from the beginning. - Going through stories n
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by waleedka 16y ago
I posted about this game to HN a few months ago when the game was close to launching[1] and it got a lot of attention so here is an update. The game was a big success and made it to the Top 25 of the Apple store charts in it's category in a
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Remember Babylonian Twins? It's now on Apple's top suggested games for iPad(apple.com)
23 points by waleedka 16y ago|8 comments
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by waleedka 17y ago
A couple questions: - Can it capture full pages as well? - Can you detect the width of the page automatically and adjust the shot to that?
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by waleedka 17y ago
Their site says: "Qt double-escapes % characters in addresses, meaning those cannot be loaded". That sounds like a major issue, isn't? Using % in a URL is very common.
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by waleedka 17y ago
Can someone recommend a similar tool that runs on Linux and can render flash?
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by waleedka 17y ago
I use app engine for several projects, a couple of which have decent load. My biggest one is networkedblogs.com, which I started on php/mysql and recently migrated big parts of it's back-end to the app engine. My experience with it has been
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by waleedka 17y ago
Very nice. It doesn't work, though, when you open the website inside an iframe. You might be referring to the top window in your code rather than the current window object.
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by waleedka 17y ago
Yes, it was a side project that ended up becoming the only project.
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by waleedka 17y ago
1) Since Feb. 2008. 2) Applied 3 times. Didn't get in. 3) Didn't take VC money (yet). Received funds from fbFund and an angel investor. 4) http://facebook.com/networkedblogs
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Use Chrome, Stay Focused: New Plugin Limits Frivolous Browsing(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by waleedka 17y ago|0 comments
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by waleedka 17y ago
Background story: this game was built for the Amiga by my friend, Rabah, when we were in college in Iraq. He brought together a team of a graphics designer and a music composer and they built an amazing product, but they couldn't sell it du
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Babylonian Twins: game built in Iraq 16 years ago finally about to be released(toucharcade.com)
89 points by waleedka 17y ago|17 comments
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by waleedka 17y ago
and http://runthere.com/
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by waleedka 17y ago
Why don't they find a way to monetize it and stop begging for donations? Even a non-profit needs money to survive. I can live with non-obtrusive ads if that ensures Wikipedia's survival. It might even be less obtrusive than the huge banner
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by waleedka 17y ago
What surprised me was that parsing javascript took much longer than downloading is, even on a mobile phone connection! Anyone knows why after all these years we still don't have a way to download pre-compiled javascript?
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by waleedka 17y ago
Does that image look like the Chrome logo, or it just me? :)
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by waleedka 17y ago
Agreed. However, I'd use a different example to emphasize the point considering that Twitter's fail whale stories are legendary. I'd stick with NYSE.

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