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by zaidf 14y ago
It is the same concern my sister brought up. I think the first step to making this work is to create an environment that does not treat a "fault" as a negative emotion but rather an opportunity to achieve progress via objectivity.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Hopefully I am wrong but this could become symbolic of self-inflicted pain by a company. Here's my reading: (1) Twitter started off by pissing off its API users. (2) Instagram, a company that is by most means excelling because of a great pr
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by zaidf 14y ago
Why do you need to hire the developer of Python in order to use it at google? Or do you mean they got him to better use python or to have close insight about a core language?
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by zaidf 14y ago
Are you suggesting my non-tech client(a surgeon) should just know how to change his DNS?
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by zaidf 14y ago
One thing GoDaddy does have is rock solid documentation. We recently had a client I had to walk through to make a DNS change. I pretty much read him the steps verbatim from GoDaddy's documentation as we are on the phone and it was spot on.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Google+ is ruining Google's products like a virus. All mega-successful google products such as gmail, search and android didn't need much selling to the consumer. With g+, they are literally shoving it in their users' faces no matter if the
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by zaidf 14y ago
Part of what launching early does is let you realize and attack this question of "how do I get users?" much earlier . It sounds common sense but very smart people spend months building things before even realizing they have no users. At
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by zaidf 14y ago
Great point :)
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by zaidf 14y ago
Woah, no one said anything about lawyers that give poor advice. I was talking about lawyers who give solid advice ... to stubborn clients who choose to go against their lawyer's (solid) advice.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Some might say that it is in the lawyers' interest at some level that their bosses go against legal advice and open themselves up to lawsuits because when that lawsuit comes in, guess which department stays employed? Now, I think most law
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by zaidf 14y ago
Extremely short-sighted move on Facebook's part. This is a move meant as retaliation to Twitter's API insanity but really, all it does is makes you look as evil as twitter in the eyes of the users. The only problem is that twitter itself ha
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by zaidf 14y ago
What are the so-called "substantial losses" that you are talking about? May be you have some insider info that I don't but in my intimate conversations with dozens of fellow YC founders, I haven't run into anyone who wished they didn't do Y
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by zaidf 14y ago
That assumes there is enough juice remaining in manufacturing optimization. After a certain stage in a product's lifetime, you've done the bulk of the optimization and doing manufacturing in-house could bring minimal benefit.
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by zaidf 14y ago
I see a link to http://minviable.com/ . This makes me wonder about the state of your idea. Is this one of those MVP tests to see demand? Are you a mature company? Typically these questions matter less but for the data-critical use cases yo
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by zaidf 14y ago
Oh, our plan is to launch poker in the UK!" Um.. ok, and compete with 10000 other companies that had a decade head start and know all about the online poker business. Good luck with that. I think your reasoning is perfectly logical and ye
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by zaidf 14y ago
They never took my SSN.
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by zaidf 14y ago
I meant payment over a phone call when the rep asks "what's the expiration on your card?" and I go "0814" etc.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Why is my email address under billing? Does it really matter much? It seems like a logical-enough section to place that field under. I can't think of use-cases where a user would be confused about this unless the company using this tool h
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by zaidf 14y ago
The wrong lesson from this would be to immediately try and get your sites' performance to similar numbers. But what isn't explicitly stated in this post is that at the root of it, these guys first figured out which metrics matter for thei
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Square’s scary and impressive identity confirmation screen(zaidfarooqui.com)
7 points by zaidf 14y ago|4 comments
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by zaidf 14y ago
From my reading, you are going from App-first to Browser-first, and less so from mobile-first to web-first. I think it is critical make the subtle distinctions. We are in the business of serving doctors. For most doctors, having a native ap
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by zaidf 14y ago
Generally agree. What we are learning about our own product is that customers will either pay us really nice amount OR not pay us at all. We started out thinking we'd charge $29/mo. Now we are up to $99/mo and so far, we haven't had a singl
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by zaidf 14y ago
At the end, this is what matters: I have great hopes for Windows 9 on mobile and tablets. Just as Windows 7 was “Vista Done Right,” it’s quite likely that the touchscreen version of Windows 9 will be “Windows 8 Done Right.” I’ll stay with
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by zaidf 14y ago
Developers are stingy until: (a) they raise funding (b) or they have some revenue or profitability (c) or they work for BigCo or at funded start-up In situations (a), (b), (c), my observation is that developers are not afraid to fork out $1
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by zaidf 14y ago
She gave me the name of the collections' agency and her own first name.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Few days ago: Caller: I'm calling from blabla collections agency. May I speak with the owner of Acme.com Me: Speaking... Caller: Sir, are you the owner of Acme.com? Me: Yes... Caller: Can you confirm your name? Me: What is this about? Calle
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by zaidf 14y ago
Thanks! Also just found browserstack.com
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by zaidf 14y ago
Looks great. I like that it is big with plenty of spacing. Most date pickers seem to squish together the numbers without any apparent reason. It'd be so helpful if makers of these js elements put screenshots of what the element looks like o
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by zaidf 14y ago
Ah, didn't know. I'll maintain that this is an even more random way of dealing with this and in my case, even worse since bitly links aren't even 20 characters. That there should even be such a thing as a URL tax is crazy.
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by zaidf 14y ago
It is insane twitter is trying to reinvent irc in all the bad ways.

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