AmitinLA

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by AmitinLA 16y ago
You're right, this is strictly an attempt at prevention, not a cure. But it might be interesting to attack a problem like this on multiple fronts. Right now, however, most of the focus seems to be on the "cure" side of things. What I'm curi
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I'm relatively new to this community, but I've thought for a while that the problem with any points-based system is the inherent competitive nature. One of the interesting things I've learned in improv classes is the "Yes, and..." structure
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
This is a logical, well-thought out argument that I largely agree with. The one thing I wonder is if, as brand advertising is increasingly transferred to the internet and those dollars are spent on sites like Facebook, we see overall spendi
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I'm not a coder/hacker/tech person and largely ignorant of the issues that are being discussed in this post. But, I'm curious: is some of this similar to the (mostly light-hearted) tension I've seen in my personal life between physicists an
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I don't know what OS you're using, but I believe this is possible with Fluid, an SSB app generator for Mac OS X that uses Webkit. I quit FB a while ago, but use it for other sites in a similar fashion. http://fluidapp.com/
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I'd like to highly recommend the Rhodia Meeting Book[1]. The front side of each page is broken up asymmetrically into three sections: a general date/description field, a notes section and an actions section. The back side of each page just
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
This is possibly the single best blog post about entrepreneurship I've read in the last...I can't even remember. Thanks.
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Ask HN: Where do I find metrics about the social gaming industry?
3 points by AmitinLA 16y ago|1 comments
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I'm currently using this to learn programming and couldn't agree more.
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
It's not just more access. This is a case where FB has, for some reason, signalled that they want to work with YC companies, and specifically YC companies. As some people pointed out already, maybe this is them outsourcing R&D. So let's
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
What I find interesting is how this is going to change the types of YC companies that will be funded, especially in the short term. One of the things I've noticed about past YC companies is how diverse they've been in terms of the markets/i
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
Snow Crash and In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson both introduced me to tech culture in different ways with the same result: it got me more excited about tech than anything else and made me realize that I had to work i
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
A few things: 1) The intro video is amateurish and uncompelling -- nobody wants to see a deck poorly animated with black bars on the side. 2) The web design needs some work. I'd recommend hiring someone with more modern sensibilities/tastes
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
And yet the $70 a month you spent was funding shows like Mad Men. Advertising is such a small part of revenues but since it's the only side the consumer sees (well, DVD sales) we see these things as game changers. The real problem to solve
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
1. DON'T write it down 2. Think about it for weeks and months and years. 3. Tell my various entrepreneurial friends about it and bask in the glow of their compliments. 4. Congratulate myself on being smart. 5. Dream about making so much mon
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution has an interesting real-world analogue when he has to deal with q&a during his public speaking event. He believes that people are behaving in status-seeking ways and so forces people who want to ask qu
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
A bunch of cash from the conference. They're making a ton off these events.
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I agree from what I have heard from people working with similar YT stars. What is surprising is the incredible amount of cross promotion done between seemingly unaffiliated stars in an effort to gain subscribers/viewers. From the rough desc
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
...there isn't anything fundamentally wrong about this form" I think the only way to definitively prove either of my points is with A/B testing, etc. But one way I can try to make my argument is to look at forms from other successful comp
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
Interesting. I'm somewhat inclined to agree with you w/r/t HN, because the UX of HN is great, though at this point we may be disagreeing definitionally over "design." As for the trucking website, I would completely disagree for the followin
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
Ha, yeah I completely agree. I wish I'd picked a different example.
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I should have been more clear. My point is not that it's a bad design per se; as you point out HN isn't the best designed site in the world either. My point is more that these industries are old, established industries that haven't yet buil
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
Consumer packaged goods.
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
I come from a similar situation and faced similar challenges, especially after trying to launch a web startup with no financing and no developers on board. It failed. I'm determined to stay in tech, so here's some of my (occasionally confl
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
So one of the major cake mix companies spent millions of dollars developing a no-mix no-stir cake mix product that, though a great product, ended up being a terrible failure largely because buyers of the mix felt like they weren't doing eno
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
The problem with this strategy is that it is impossible to engage in a high-risk/high-reward strategy like entrepreneurship where your effort has to be 100% committed to the business, especially in the first couple years and especially if y
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
Semi OT: Most of my browsing time is in Reader, and I got initially excited about this post since I thought what this was doing was something similar to Fever ( http://feedafever.com/ ), but maybe more powerful. What I really am looking for
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by AmitinLA 16y ago
Kensington Microsaver Security Cable ( http://amzn.to/bkV7Jd ). Coils neatly for easy backpack storage. I work almost every day out of coffeeshops and lock it to a chair and will walk away for sometimes an hour at a time with absolutely no