alexophile

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by alexophile 10y ago
Many long before. Prior to Bernie, the classic stereotype of a redditor was a Ron Paul supporter and I'm sure it would still be skewing much more conservative if western conservatism hadn't completely degraded into nonsense. The d
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by alexophile 10y ago
The demographics of reddit users probably do lean towards a more liberal/libertarian group, but r/politics certainly has no problem with bashing Democratic party members, employees, or appointees. A quick search proves this out: t
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by alexophile 10y ago
But there's nothing about this tactic that prevents future action against AT&T. If anything, gp now has more advantageous legal standing as a customer and denied them the added revenue which was the point of the monopoly in the fir
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by alexophile 10y ago
I don't think opportunity is actually that difficult to describe, it seems to mostly be a product of labor markets. Either there's an untapped well of excess labor (like the post-war boom in Phoenix, AZ) or there are jobs in a hig
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by alexophile 10y ago
Obligatory "Wrestling Isn't Wrestling" plug - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvMOf3hsGA You should really watch the video because it's amazing, but the tl;dw is that WWE is a live-filmed TV show with s
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by alexophile 10y ago
If they were going to buy just a streaming service they should have bought Rdio. But–and this was kind of the focus of the article–Apple has an internal bias towards hardware. They saw a music-y hardware play with a huge markup and a ton of
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by alexophile 10y ago
Nope they bought Beats Music too https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/05/28Apple-to-Acquire-...
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by alexophile 11y ago
I'm still having trouble nailing down the timeline on this, but it seems like, at some point there were two companies, both with access to the mosaic source and both rebuilding it from scratch. One of those companies had licensed it, t
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by alexophile 11y ago
Actually the point was precisely the opposite. If you give marketing creative control of your transactional emails, you don't have to blast your users constantly to maintain their attention.
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by alexophile 11y ago
Yeah we like NPS a lot. Not only can you segment and specifically reach out to 9s and 10s, but you can dynamically fill your emails. So for example your standard footer could say "share for x bonus" if they're a 8-10, but &qu
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Using DynamoDB in Production(blog.sendwithus.com)
3 points by alexophile 11y ago|1 comments
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by alexophile 11y ago
He's not really deconstructing the word hacker in the sort of semiotic tradition that Derrida did in that he doesn't seem too concerned with what "hacker" itself actually means (or what meaning even is, etc), more so who
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Applying to Startup Jobs(medium.com)
2 points by alexophile 11y ago|0 comments
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Where Would 11.7M Displaced Syrians Fit? [interactive Map](projects.aljazeera.com)
2 points by alexophile 11y ago|0 comments
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by alexophile 11y ago
I don't think human curation is "back" per se. There's just a difference in expectations. When I listen to a radio show or a new playlist from a friend, I have a general understanding of their tastes and the taste of the
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Getting Started With, and Subsequently Breaking, Schema for Gmail(blog.sendwithus.com)
1 points by alexophile 11y ago|0 comments
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Let's Talk About Your Referral Program(blog.sendwithus.com)
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How to Send Email Like Uber(blog.sendwithus.com)
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by alexophile 11y ago
So I strongly believe in public schooling and the importance of education access for everyone, but I think this piece glosses over a few important links in the chain of events that lead to his success. 1) His father has a phd from MIT and f
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Outgrowing Postgres and Migrating to DynamoDB(blog.sendwithus.com)
4 points by alexophile 11y ago|0 comments
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by alexophile 11y ago
> But one executive involved in the negotiations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deals were private, said that participating artists were being granted shares in exchange for their good-faith efforts to supply exclus
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Our Favorite Tools for Powering Happiness and Transparency(blog.sendwithus.com)
2 points by alexophile 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexophile 12y ago
Hi there, I helped put this guide together and this is totally something we have in mind pretty much all the time (when you tell people you work for an email startup, you're kind of forced to.) But this is actually the kind of email we
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How to Send Email Like a Startup: Chapter 1(sendwithus.com)
10 points by alexophile 12y ago|1 comments
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No Newsletter Is Good Newsletter(blog.sendwithus.com)
3 points by alexophile 12y ago|0 comments
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Hacking Together a NetPromoter Score Survey with Wufoo + Email Templates(blog.sendwithus.com)
2 points by alexophile 12y ago|0 comments
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Don't Start a Drip Campaign(blog.sendwithus.com)
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Sendwithus (YC W14) Announces $2.3M to Humanize Transactional Email(techcrunch.com)
51 points by alexophile 12y ago|16 comments
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by alexophile 14y ago
Something worth noting: if you have good content, the placement is super easy, so if you find a good writer, get more than 1 story from them. Maybe a press release, an interview-with-the-founders kind of thing, and a top-howevermany things
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by alexophile 14y ago
This sounds like a good idea until you think about where that money goes. The reason PACs need money is for media buys. I would be much more comfortable with a 10k ad buy to oppose Lamar Smith if the mechanism for turning that money into in

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