brendino

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What search data tells us about the intensity of America’s political environment(brafton.com)
1 points by brendino 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Are There 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 Rubik's Cube Combinations?(youtube.com)
2 points by brendino 6y ago|0 comments
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by brendino 8y ago
It's related to the Dell - VMWare reverse merger. They have to raise cash to fund the merger.
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Pivotal Software S-1(sec.gov)
301 points by brendino 8y ago|144 comments
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by brendino 14y ago
A flash game I built in high school (about 7 years ago) went from an average of $30 per month on AdSense to $500 the next month, to $3,600 the month after that due to an unexpected surge in traffic for a keyword for which it ranked #1 on Go
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by brendino 14y ago
While the implementation of this would be pretty straightforward, the method signature you're asking for seems convoluted, in my opinion. Here's why: - "add1" is not very descriptive of what the method actually does, since it adds one, but
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by brendino 14y ago
The greenshoe increases the demand. MS placed a 38.00 bid with an enormous size, so if you were to look at the live feed, you would have seen something like: Bid: 38.00 x 9999999 Ask: 38.01 x 1234
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by brendino 15y ago
Update: we ended up second place in the Ann Arbor Hacka2thon. GooseCast (ccgoose.com) took the top honors. Thanks for everyone's feedback so far!
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by brendino 15y ago
For now we're pretty much only targeting the US (hence the zip code thing). We originally had browser geo-location, but disabled that for a few reasons. We will re-enable it soon.
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by brendino 15y ago
Actually, that's already a feature! In the bottom left you can specify a date range.
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by brendino 15y ago
FYI - Please click 'allow' when your browser prompts for geo-location. If you don't see many events around you, log in with Facebook and the system will fetch publicly-available events that are connected to your and your friends.
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by brendino 15y ago
This has huge implications - imagine every "thing" having a freely-available API. Combine that with predictive analytics and we can come really close to predicting the future.
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by brendino 15y ago
What an incredible idea! This can become even more valuable if ifttt can open its platform to enable outside developers to create and distribute custom action blocks and triggers for end users (like an app store of ifttt triggers and action
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by brendino 15y ago
Complex pricing schemes tend to be a sign of a monopoly or oligopoly. The sellers of the market use these complex pricing schemes to skim off as much consumer surplus as possible. In my opinion, the best way to disrupt an oligopoly or mono
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by brendino 15y ago
This concept can even be taken further - rather than testing just a name, use AdWords to test your entire product before even building it. For example, if you are thinking of opening an online business selling widgets, you can build a tes
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by brendino 15y ago
It appears Web Intents has taken the time-tested concept of an enterprise service bus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus ) and used it in a non-enterprise application - namely social networking / bookmarking. Here's a few
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by brendino 15y ago
Here's some validation of the "boring" concept: http://techcrunch.com/enterprise/ It's amazing to see how these M&A transactions pale in comparison to what's going on in the consumer-oriented space.
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by brendino 15y ago
This article seems to make a lot of sweeping negative generalizations about MBA students. I agree with the author's obvious argument that people who lack domain experience and who focus on short-term outcomes should not be in-charge of the
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by brendino 15y ago
This article fails to bring several factors into its economic model. It should be about incentives and demand elasticity here - the "steepness" of the demand curve. According to the article, he recieves $0.35 from a Kindle sale, and ~$2 fro
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by brendino 15y ago
That's a good point - enterprise software is meant to be customized to a business, so maintaining a strong repository of documentation is difficult, if not impossible. However, I've noticed that even some of the core functionality is pretty
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by brendino 15y ago
SAP's lack of openness is a huge problem, and will continue to hinder its development. Not only does the license cost millions of dollars, but then the enterprise that purchases it has to hire dozens to hundreds of expensive consultants to
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by brendino 15y ago
It's funny you say that - there's a lot of Kool-Aid drinking that goes on at Accenture (or any other corporate consulting brand for that matter). Re-reading my post, it does look a bit sales-ish. Regardless, from my experience, there are q
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by brendino 15y ago
As a current Analyst (1 year out of college now) at Accenture, I have a few points to add: Positives: - Accenture greatly helps develop one's people skills and networking skills which can help prepare you for a startup. Building these skil
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by brendino 15y ago
Amazon would be much better-served with a review system that enables users to choose a 5-start rating, AND an overall thumbs up/down recommendation. Then, users will be able to see how good a book is based on how people rate it, and what p
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The Case for Color (How VC's can Justify a $41 million investment)(blueskyopenroad.blogspot.com)
1 points by brendino 15y ago|0 comments
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by brendino 15y ago
This model seems pretty common for content/Adsense-based websites. I've always been somewhat skeptical of the actual ability to produce profit in the long run - how much value are you actually adding to the Internet? I'm definitely interes
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by brendino 16y ago
Check the graphic below the article. It's got most of the numbers.