aarlo

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by aarlo 14y ago
It's ramadan. People in Cairo are fasting and hungry. So they see an ad for a bagel and click "like". That's all there is to it.
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by aarlo 14y ago
Why are you targeting for "funders" (I think you mean the people getting paid)? In general, getting the money into systems is the hard part. If money is there, people will come - easy! Getting people to give money - whether to a company o
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Something doesn't add up: Psychology of Discounting(economist.com)
2 points by aarlo 14y ago|0 comments
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by aarlo 14y ago
You spent too much time thinking creatively on your own, and not enough time understanding how the world works. If you want to improve the world you have to understand it better. Go understand whether you can design a business process (in
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by aarlo 15y ago
It's all about the anxiety caused by the fear. Deep-down the unresourceful founders are afraid, which causes anxiety that their decisions are wrong, so anything that approaches being wrong causes the anxiety to repress and get in the way of
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by aarlo 15y ago
You don't think there are any genetic differences between people? The mind is plastic, but there's a strong genetic component too...and this all has been debated soooo much... I find it natural - not hard at all - to think in the abstract f
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by aarlo 15y ago
I got it from thinking about it a lot, also reading Carl Jung... Is dev bootcamp new? Looks cool!
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by aarlo 15y ago
This looks like it will be effective. Something to think about...coding well takes a certain type of mind that most people don't have. Code is, as Fred Brooks says, "pure thought-stuff." You need to be able to build and understand multi
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by aarlo 15y ago
Frustrating. Hard to evaluate as a biz idea without knowing how valuable these things are - much energy/heat they would actually provide. Also, I don't see a reason why it couldn't do realtime stuff as well... And if this was at microsoft
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by aarlo 15y ago
Congrats guys. Very cool product. We've found lots of opportunity to make email marketing more sophisticated, and not enough smart engineers thinking about it. BTW There's a belgian company called 8seconds ( http://www.8seconds.net/ ) wit
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by aarlo 15y ago
If they "click out" and move onto another message, they'll probably never read your email again. So for the marketer it's the same as a delete (and likely is an actual delete). If they click on a link inside the message, that shouldn't get
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by aarlo 15y ago
Lie. If it was read for only a couple seconds, it's effectively a delete.
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by aarlo 15y ago
We have a special tracking code that figures it out over the email clients' use of HTTP and with some fancy server-side node/mongodb stuff.
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by aarlo 15y ago
Thanks! Let me know what you think. aarlo@mirapost.com
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Show HN: Email open rates are stupid.(mirapost.com)
24 points by aarlo 15y ago|31 comments
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by aarlo 15y ago
http://campaignmonitor.com
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by aarlo 15y ago
Low social return. High personal return.
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by aarlo 15y ago
domain spam?
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by aarlo 15y ago
So why does the bitcoin economy reward spending processing power? I guess our economy does too (quant finance)
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by aarlo 16y ago
No, because that's too simple. It only has two variables (money and dollars received). The real-life case has tens of important variables
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by aarlo 16y ago
Cool. You said something about adobe cirrus on the FAQ. Can you explain more how it works?
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by aarlo 16y ago
I've heard this idea before (maybe from myself? haha). I think it's great! Why not just do a smartphone app? Or an RSS feed reader that speaks your feeds? Then you get the GUI from the smartphone too. Or could be an all-voice interface f
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by aarlo 16y ago
What do they use the data for?
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by aarlo 16y ago
A lot of the talk is from people who (should) have low confidence in their predictions. Meaning, there's a 80% chance this is bullshit, but hear my out anyways. Yes, many of the facts are wrong. The conclusions are wrong. So why should we s
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by aarlo 16y ago
Yeah! This interview is great. Get to know bill gates and his take on microsoft strategy in the 80s and 90s.
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by aarlo 16y ago
so what is kayak's actual valuation?
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by aarlo 16y ago
Come for the "gay bar", stay for the slides
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by aarlo 16y ago
Nice summing up of past MS strategy.
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by aarlo 16y ago
just like any big company
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by aarlo 16y ago
Nice essay. I agree with pretty much all of it. It's rare for good engineers to have an entrepreneurial/business mind - thinking about, and being aware of, the business world outside of code (business strategy); understanding people (sales

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