catone

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Black Friday/Cyber Monday email trends from 4.1M emails sent last week(jilt.com)
2 points by catone 7y ago|0 comments
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by catone 8y ago
Hey hnnh44, Good eye. I should have caught that one. I've updated the post to indicate the correct numbers (which was more like ~35 million units in 2017) and added an editor's note about the mistake. Thanks!
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by catone 15y ago
For Mashable's Follow introduction video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLazF5KxUc ), we used Epipheo: http://www.epipheostudios.com/
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by catone 15y ago
That's a good point. My brother -- who until recently ran a small non-profit -- last year had a grant to build a new website and put out a RFP to a bunch of local and national design firms. I think at times he was overwhelmed with the res
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by catone 15y ago
Clickable link: http://coderswhocare.org
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by catone 15y ago
It's admirable to attempt to collect free resources and organize them in a way that provides a natural progression for subject matter mastery, but essays and lectures does not a college education make. For that you need teachers and peers
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by catone 16y ago
Whether the term is semantically correct or not, "group buying" is how most people have been referring to those types of sites (either that, or "daily deal site" -- though even that, one could argue, is incorrect, since many of these sites
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Hootsuite Co-Founder on Building a Successful Startup(mashable.com)
3 points by catone 16y ago|0 comments
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by catone 16y ago
It seems to me that all of those arguments could be applied to Woot, which did quite well before Groupon. They're at least following a once-proven model. (Woot has always had a tacked on community, but so does Groupon.)
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by catone 16y ago
Brilliant! And fitting, since baby carrots are already the sort of "junk food of the carrot world." At least, insofar as that they're the lazy alternative to buying and cutting your own damn carrots. (Baby carrots are just big carrots tha
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by catone 16y ago
I don't think I'd say my premise was that this was "simply" a budget problem. I was just saying that calling it a teacher shortage is a poor choice of words to describe the current problem -- we don't have a shortage of qualified teacher c
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by catone 16y ago
Shortage doesn't seem like the right word. That implies that there are more job openings than applicants, which simply isn't true. According to the New York Times, this is one of the weakest job markets for teachers in decades: http://ww
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by catone 16y ago
If 7 female founder is reflective of the Y Combinator applicant pool, and the only thing YC is doing to structurally to "keep women out" is to favor founders who have coding skills, then the issue appears to be that there aren't enough comp
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How to pick a name for your startup(mashable.com)
2 points by catone 16y ago|0 comments
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by catone 16y ago
The article is flawed, but his profile still doesn't seem to play by the rules. When I go to facebook.com/zuck there is no option for me to request adding him as a friend. In normal privacy settings you can specific that either everyone c
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How Venture Capitalists are Using Social Media(mashable.com)
1 points by catone 16y ago|0 comments
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by catone 16y ago
I think it's probably naive to think that just because it exists, people will flee Facebook for this new alternative. Diaspora may have garnered some geek attention and raised an impressive amount of money... but it has 3700 backers. Let's
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by catone 16y ago
I like it, but two thoughts. 1. Though the effect of panning along the picture is cool, its also somewhat jarring. 2. You're covering up faces on a couple of the staff pages with the content box... might want to flip the images (so the face
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Why New App Stores are Embracing Open Development(mashable.com)
1 points by catone 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Mass SMS text message services?
3 points by catone 17y ago|3 comments
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by catone 17y ago
Or how about, "If I get this position, what sort of budget can I expect to be working with and what will I be expected to produce with that budget?"
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by catone 17y ago
I like your footnote idea, though I think it seems fairly unnatural for casual communication. To me, short URLs seem like the more user-friendly solution. I'm also still not sold on the dead link problem for two reasons. 1. You're already
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by catone 17y ago
I disagree with that statement. Even before the rise of microblogging, URL shorteners were helpful in certain situations. Which URL would you rather paste in an email for readability's sake: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&#
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by catone 17y ago
Actually, here's what MG gets wrong. The Twitter story was this: "BULLETIN — REPORT: FAMED GOLFER TIGER WOODS SERIOUSLY INJURED AFTER CRASH NEAR FLORIDA HOME." And the CNN story (30-45 min later), was this: "(CNN) — Golfer Tiger Woods was i
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by catone 17y ago
Prototype vertical farms. It's my new obsession. The UN projects that arable land will decline to 1/3 acre per person by 2050 (down from 1 acre/person in 1970). I'd buy up a few old mill buildings (they're all over New England, where I li
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by catone 17y ago
The real question is: Why are we getting vaccines for this flu? It's a lot less deadly than previous seasonal flus. Why the concern? If that were true (and I'm not sure it is), we have vaccines for the seasonal flu every year...
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by catone 17y ago
I'll grant you the second point, though I think you developed it further in once sentence here than Carr did in his piece. (By which I mean to say, the correlation between that observed phenomena and the rise in emphasis on citizen journali
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by catone 17y ago
The problems with Carr's piece are: 1. That he points out a problem with mainstream journalism (failing to vet sources), not one with citizen journalism, as he says. (Note: citizen journalism has that problem too, but not here.) 2. His defi
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by catone 17y ago
Actually, that's $60k-120k/yr ;) But it is an encouraging way to look at it: if you're a one person team, and you can keep your expenses pretty low (storage, bandwidth, credit card processing, etc. + cost of living), ramen profitability can
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by catone 17y ago
This seems like someone being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. Kevin Kelly never said getting to the level of true fans necessary to earn a living was easy. He also said that 1,000 and $100 were oversimplifications for the sake

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