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by zaidf 13y ago
Bitcoin was supposed to help fix problems like PayPal holding payments. This seems to make bitcoin vulnerable to it.
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by zaidf 13y ago
When I ask people for feedforward about public speaking and three people tell me I should use humor more, I can figure out they don’t think I’m funny I've had a mixed bag of reactions from this. Just as some can figure out that I don
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Facebook’s shiny object non-problem(zaidfarooqui.com)
1 points by zaidf 13y ago|0 comments
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by zaidf 13y ago
This is a sad, desperate attempt by Google to take on a competitor(facebook). I wish Google showed as much restraint and care in taking on facebook as facebook is showing in taking on google when it comes to search.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Twitter IPO is bad for start ups because its fueled by inexperienced investors who missed out on Facebook. What they don't realize is that twitter is no where near facebook's trajectory on any of the metrics that matter(revenue, p
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by zaidf 13y ago
Twitter still hasn't provided any guidance on profitability. My biggest fear is that over the next few quarters, Twitter will undo much of the goodwill for tech stocks generated by Facebook by not being able to match the bar set by Fac
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by zaidf 13y ago
We operate with this mindset for each of the roles in our org: Sales: assume the product sucks and your job is to convince customers to buy a really shitty product Product: assume that there is no sales and your job is to create a product t
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by zaidf 13y ago
Initially Softlayer. When that became too expensive, we negotiated a deal with an excellent provider called Choopa.com.
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by zaidf 13y ago
What backbones? We had an option to get much cheaper pricing on Cogent. We decided to pay a bit extra for premium. Also, most of our cost was for the hardware(not the bandwidth). We went with top-notch storage with RAID and a bunch of ram.
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by zaidf 13y ago
I can vouch for your numbers. My music start-up was one of Softlayer's early customers. We stayed with them for a while before moving to an even cheaper host. In all, we were pushing over 100TB and paying under $3,000/mo for ever
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by zaidf 13y ago
My hunch is that Everpix's $35,000/mo AWS bill could have been significantly less if they went with their own dedicated servers. When I ran my music start-up, really smart people would look at me funny when I'd tell them it i
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by zaidf 13y ago
Seconded. I used to work at Betterfly which is in the same space and our lack of focus on a vertical ultimately really cost us. To our VC's credit, they always pushed us to pick a vertical-- even if it was something completely random.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Also, google docs has been renamed to google drive, even if no one wants to call it google drive.
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by zaidf 13y ago
His advice to me: Don't be in so much of a rush. Be easier on yourself. If you connect with this idea, you may want to check out the book The Inner Game of Tennis : http://www.amazon.com/The-Inner-Game-Tennis-Perfor
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by zaidf 13y ago
If access tokens were encrypted (which they are now) then this would have been avoided. That answers my question! (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619265 ) Kudos for how you guys handled this during this tough fe
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by zaidf 13y ago
Uber could know with 100% confidence based on past data that a driver passes by a certain address almost daily. For him to deliver a courier to that address would be significantly less work to driving a few miles only to deliver the coiri
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by zaidf 13y ago
Does defensive medicine have no role in doctors opting for aggressive treatment to the conservative alternative?
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by zaidf 13y ago
Two way encryption, yep.
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by zaidf 13y ago
In the US, the risks from bribery outweigh the rewards. In India, if you don't bribe, you may not get your water turned back on. And if you don't accept the bribe, you may not be able to put food on the table because your low sala
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by zaidf 13y ago
We condemn anyone that stores passwords as plaintext. Time to treat access tokens as nothing less than a password.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Those are the exceptions not the rule. And majority of the so-called true 2 bed room are flex twos. See: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/07/10/average-new-york-city...
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by zaidf 13y ago
Finding a decent true 2 bed room apartment in Manhattan will cost you $4,000 too.
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by zaidf 13y ago
How did they store the Facebook Graph tokens in the db? It's akin to a password so here's hoping they used 2-way encryption.
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Comparing sales/marketing spending and product dev cost of public SaaS companies(zaidfarooqui.com)
1 points by zaidf 13y ago|0 comments
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by zaidf 13y ago
No one suggested buttons where links suffice. On the otherhand, if you think a bolded link is a good replacement for an action button like "submit", lets agree to disagree.
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by zaidf 13y ago
There is no design trend I hate more than buttons redesigned to look like normal(not even clickable) text. Simply insane. Flat designs represented by these screenshots are a depressing step back in usability.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Intersection searches are rare No! Intersection searches are the norm, at least in New York City. And the intersection I listed is one block from the Empire State Building. They may not be doing less QA. Just a crappier job.
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by zaidf 13y ago
The issue has more to do with google trying to match each address with a business. They are failing because 34th and 6th is one of the most popular tourist corners in NYC which you'd think would be tested during QA. Moreover most Maps
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by zaidf 13y ago
It worked fine in the previous version. The concept of auto changing street intersections or street address with names of random venues sucks and is inaccurate at so many levels. That it would make it to the product symbolizes an overall fa
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by zaidf 13y ago
Google Maps on iOS has been destroyed. It is incredible how good solid apps commit suicide. For example, I entered "34th and 6th ave ny,ny" for my end destination. Soon as I submit, it renames it to "34th Street Partnership&q

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