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by zaidf 14y ago
- user names are a huge part of what makes Twitter interesting, imho it's not meant to be the type of service with real names I am genuinely curious of the use cases where the username adds more value than the name associated with the acc
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by zaidf 14y ago
Pretty sure I signed up on the day it launched because I remember reading the TC story:) Where do you see the sign up date? I either didn't tweet for a year or deleted my tweets at some point or held another account(unlikely since I don't t
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by zaidf 14y ago
An experienced Twitter user would know to add a “.” at the beginning of his message so that his followers would see it. Signed up for twitter on the day it launched(I think) and did not know that. Twitter is a painful product to use. It i
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by zaidf 14y ago
The problem with core-twitter limitation is that twitter's own product sucks and has basic features missing or implemented very poorly...years after launch. This is just shitty all around. Sometimes I wish I could buy 1,000 twitter tokens
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by zaidf 14y ago
Better options would be "x - y times a week". I'd say may be 6-10 times a week. Additionally, after a while you develop a rep or a friend develops a rep for saying he is somewhere but he isn't really there(yet)...how about a service that te
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by zaidf 14y ago
Highly recommend renaming Lifetime account to something else.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Same is also true for facebook notifications. I recently got a notification that said "Blabla has given you a free movie on Flixster." Now, I am actually down to try a service that gives me a free movie rental. But because of my past experi
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by zaidf 14y ago
Boy I can't wait for the day when we look at this screenshot and chuckle that it was even needed. My problem with Siri and others is that if I have to look at the screen after every command, it kills away a huge chunk of the benefit. If S
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by zaidf 14y ago
We're probably just fighting over semantics. What you call opportunity sounds more like a proven idea versus your typical idea that needs proving. Take the many instances when we say something like: "I have an idea: we could try selling b
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by zaidf 14y ago
Last night at 11pm, I stood a block from penn station trying to find a Subway sandwhich store that was still open. Armed with my iphone, it took me a full 15-20 minutes and a half dozen calls before I found one. Sometimes I feel like compan
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What you refer to as market opportunity is also commonly considered to be an idea. For example, lets say you find a group of folks willing to pay $1,000 for widgets that cost pennies because you discovered that (a) they don't know about the
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by zaidf 14y ago
You are talking about Suggestions which is an entirely different feature than auto-refreshing of search(though both use ajax so I could have used a better description in my OP). I personally love Suggests as much as you. What I hate is wh
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by zaidf 14y ago
That is keeping with google's newly found traditions. For example, the ajax-ing of search has mostly broken the back key among others. Shit Case 1: sometimes you do a search, find a new phrase and begin typing it only to see the phrase disa
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by zaidf 14y ago
Native column support will probably satisfy 90% of my objections. Until then, css seems like another hack(perhaps a better one) for a previous hack.
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So I am trying extremely hard to convince myself that these css grids are much better than html tables. Yet, when I see projects like these that make the act of making two columns of arbitrary widths such a big deal, I find it hard to convi
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(3) Facebook does not run nuclear reactors or bank systems. There is a high incentive to switch from buggy bank systems. There is little incentive to switch from buggy social network websites. I'm arguing that facebook wants to run some
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If an engineer at Bank of America said something to this tune, it'd have tremendous negative consequence as it should. Facebook is reaching a point where breaking things should not be okay simply because it opens up the possibility of break
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by zaidf 14y ago
Is it only me or does anyone else have an issue with the name "Bootstrap"? I've now gone through multiple tutorials where the term is used to refer to Bootstrap from twitter or the general idea of bootstrapping an app. Now each time I read
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by zaidf 14y ago
Yes, a hundred times. I have always seen this as a powerful but dangerous pill that you take occasionally when you are in a rut or need to take a scary but important jump. I think the simplicity of the "fuck 'em all" message has its power a
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by zaidf 14y ago
A little OT but I just realized a compromised facebook could do more harm than a compromised bank account. With a compromised bank account, at least you are guaranteed your money back. Who's gonna return broken relationships and undo other
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by zaidf 14y ago
I am in favor of any label that replaces "NoSQL" with something else. NoSQL always rubbed me the wrong way. Besides not being a huge fan of the "No", it really says nothing about what it is (if it isn't SQL).
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by zaidf 14y ago
As much as you'd like to say that is not targeted, most people would agree your example qualifies as targeted advertising. More importantly, the conversion numbers agree. Retargeting is known to get 3-5x more clicks than non-re-targeted ads
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by zaidf 14y ago
Once again, the anecdotal evidence does not conform with the usage numbers released every so often that show facebook users spending massive amounts of time(average of 400 minutes per month per user). A lot of people may whine that they are
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by zaidf 14y ago
We had gopher and we liked it! I take it that you are speaking for your generation, yes? If so, I think much of my generation would not like gopher and does like facebook etc. Re: advertising - you hate on data collection and at the s
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by zaidf 14y ago
If your sample of people that you surveyed was representative of facebook users on the whole, then you wouldn't need 3 years to see the decline of facebook . It should have been happening right now because as you said, 90% of the people yo
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by zaidf 14y ago
Counterpoint: I have some vague idea what hustle tips could be and you have me intrigued and therefore, I will provide you my email.
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by zaidf 14y ago
How many companies can convince you to buy a product you haven't tried or heard the price for? The flip side to this is that the iPhone's lost its marketshare to Android devices largely because of price initially. It gave competitors a ch
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Makes sense for your case - however, keep in mind there is plenty of cases where the innovation is the very ability to offer something for a lower price. This is more true in manufacturing than software though I wouldn't be surprised in t
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by zaidf 14y ago
Seconded. I really like the forgiving and smart inputs of Google maps. Some of the apps take me much longer to input where I need to go while google maps knows exactly what I mean in vast majority of cases.

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