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by zaidf 13y ago
It's not like Google+ does anything remarkably bad. You've inadvertently summed up everything wrong with google and google+. Somewhere google lowered the bar for its products to "don't do something too bad" instea
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by zaidf 13y ago
Machine "reading" the email != humans reading the same thing A machine can't laugh at your embarrassing confession. Nor can a machine talk about your letter to its friends. For either of these things to happen with gmail woul
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by zaidf 13y ago
At least when recruiting offshore, github has been a great filter. People who have github usually end up sharing a bunch of characteristics: they enjoy coding, they know more api integrations, they are continuously improving. I'll add
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by zaidf 13y ago
Aviral has worked for us as a contractor on various projects over the past year. He's sharp as heck and very passionate about any project he undertakes. I'd strongly recommend him!
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by zaidf 13y ago
How do they afford to make it cheaper than a cab?
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by zaidf 13y ago
Uber will never have the user base unless their pricing matches the price for a normal cab ride.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Seems like its easy to find shitty patents. How about we link to ones we think are well-deserved? Are there any well-deserved patents relating to the web?
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by zaidf 13y ago
By your line of argument, tumblr doesn't owe any user anything.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Call me crazy, but I tend to think issues like this ultimately serve, if handled well, to improve a company's public standing. I royally screwed up the embed script testing for our very first customer resulting in their entire site n
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by zaidf 13y ago
100% time means that I choose what to care about, and then dedicate all my energy to making that choice have impact There isn't a lot of difference between 100% time and the concept of 80-20. You are interpreting the 80% time almost
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by zaidf 13y ago
CPA is closely tied to competition.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Groupon's created a ton of actual value with their product. Groupon's issues have less to do with value delivered and more to do with competition and their stock being over-valued.
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by zaidf 13y ago
"Don't keep looking for greener pastures" is something I needed to hear.
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by zaidf 13y ago
You had more luck than me when I launched http://cliffkaplanfraud.com/ I still remain unpaid.
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by zaidf 13y ago
If the content cannot do its job free from embellishment then it is bad content and/or employs bad hierarchy or contrast. That is like saying if a product can't sell itself without marketing, then it is a bad product. Such a claim assumes
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by zaidf 13y ago
Google is a genius at acquisitions IMO. To qualify as a genius you don't need a 100% of acquisitions to work out. You do need a few to work out tremendously. Google has those. Meanwhile, what's the last yahoo acquisition that didn't turn
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by zaidf 13y ago
This makes it pretty simple to judge Marissa Mayer's performance at least in the next year. If Tumblr shows any sign of failure, its pretty much equivalent of Marissa Mayer failing at Yahoo. If tumblr shows signs of progress not seen Pre-ac
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by zaidf 13y ago
What you're arguing for is better parent-child discussion relationship management in Gmail What? No! He just wants to edit the subject . Saying that we need better parent-child discussion relationship management is over complicating a pr
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by zaidf 13y ago
Yes, yes, yes. What the fuck is going on with design/UX at gmail? It just becomes suckier progressively. Yesterday I attached a document 3-4 times during the course of my writing the email because there is no way to know if a document has b
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by zaidf 14y ago
Leading with the words "LevelUp is Down..." is not the smartest choice for a headline.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Thank you, India. Let me tell your my story. I am on a pill called Colchicine that I have to take 3 times a day for life. The pill's formula is hundreds of years old and would cost me pennies. That was until a company convinced FDA to ban t
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by zaidf 14y ago
Why is every TC story taking me to a list of stories instead of the story itself?
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by zaidf 14y ago
Thanks! I got a reply.
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by zaidf 14y ago
This is where a 3rd party helps. It is easy for her to argue that you are getting caught up in emotion and it is hard for you to deliver judgement without some emotion.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Coming from a similar background. I am that guy who thinks about my start-up 24x7, more than my other 2 founders. I've also worked along my cofounder at my last company where not all went well so some of those feelings carry over(and I ha
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by zaidf 14y ago
I reported a fairly minor privacy related leak and was curious how long you guys typically take to respond?
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by zaidf 14y ago
It is natural to have week to week ebb and flow in performance but the first step to fixing it is agreeing to observe it. One solution is getting an independent party, ideally someone you both trust, and get him to review both your perfor
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by zaidf 14y ago
There are dozens of Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org dating back to 2005 that do exactly this and more You answered your own question: this is kind of different because it is not a greasemonkey script and thus targeted at a differe
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by zaidf 14y ago
I wonder if it is easier to go without PMs where you have a focused product with a very specific type of users, often developers. In that case, your developers can more easily relate to the company's customers. On the flip side, imagine a p
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by zaidf 14y ago
Define "tech startups".

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