earl

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by earl 14y ago
Another stupid post about fb and their business without mentioning the fb ad exchange? I'm having trouble understanding how Dalton isn't misinforming his audience. Read this for why I think fb has a great future in ads. http://news.ycombi
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by earl 14y ago
You can go far in life by following a very successful boss. And there may well be more promotion opportunities / more responsibility available at yahoo under Marissa than staying at Google. Or perhaps they've already made a million or so
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by earl 14y ago
He could pay a pound extra to see if his algorithm is correct...
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by earl 14y ago
I bet your prediction is wrong. I've expanded on it elsewhere, but fb is sitting on a couple enormous businesses. 1 - they can launch the first serious adsense ($10B/year pre tac) competitor because they see most people move about the inte
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by earl 14y ago
.02 from someone who does data analysis / ML and has an undergrad in math: A math undergrad is a nearly total waste of time. If you want to do data analysis, learn to do data analysis. Real analysis and proofs and abstract algebra and dif
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by earl 14y ago
Plus externally monetized by the hardware you have to buy.
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by earl 14y ago
It's worse than that; it's not just no recurring revenue. Sparrow is stupid cheap. Comparable software such as eudora cost $50 - $100 in the late 90s. Compare to $7 for the mac app or $2.10 for the ios app. And they're pinched between a
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by earl 14y ago
The app store for ios has exerted massive negative price pressure on apps, including creating a norm of free or $1 apps. I know it's basic psychology, but it still amazes me that tons of people using a $200 phone that costs on the order of
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by earl 14y ago
Worse yet, say someone looked at sparrow dying and wanted to clone it, because it looks like there's a business there. Now they'll be pinched by people being cheap as shit on the upside and google migrating some of the best features into t
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by earl 14y ago
Remember that msft sold Avenue A/Razorfish [1] to Publicis for $530mm, plus IIRC something on the order of a billion dollars of guaranteed purchases of msft display inventory ([2] mentions but doesn't know the amount), though I could be way
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by earl 14y ago
Dude, whatever you think of Ballmer, he started as the first business manager at msft in 1980 and worked there in roles of increasing responsibility until he was made ceo in 2000. There's not many people with that track record of experienc
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by earl 14y ago
That must be part of the reason apple built iwork. And there would probably be antitrust issues if ms used their near monopoly in office productivity software to aid their declining near monopoly is OS software.
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by earl 14y ago
on-demand doesn't matter. If lots of your infrastructure is in ec2, you may need a good db server inside ec2 that is used constantly. eg if you have a read heavy cassandra workload, you need ssds.
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by earl 14y ago
431 words without the word "probability" or "likelihood". And his examples of getting rich as an employee are ... ballmer and marissa mayer. I can't believe he forgot the employees at Instagram -- they're good examples too! I'm stupider f
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by earl 14y ago
yeah, unless the app is only useful in canada somehow, what about revenue from other countries?
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by earl 14y ago
I misunderstood. In that case, yes, I totally agree. I'd suggest whole disk encryption but users will hate it, since if they forget their password the data is really gone. For reals.
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by earl 14y ago
You can easily exclude folders or disks from spotlight indexing. System Preferences -> Spotlight -> privacy tab to overwrite then delete the spotlight indices, disable spotlight then overwrite and delete: $ sudo srm --simple -r
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by earl 14y ago
I tend to agree with you, but you can do things to change this. Take up snowboarding as a hobby; it seems to require a decent amount of income but you'll learn there's a leisure class on either end of the income spectrum. Go in on a ski h
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by earl 14y ago
Their product is sandwiched between instapaper, readability, and evernote. Evernote premium is only $45/year which is a tough price ceiling for a service which seemed to do much less.
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by earl 14y ago
I wonder if this was due to criticism, or cities and companies that have epeat requirements for purchasing. San Francisco officials told the Journal this week that "they are moving to block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops,
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by earl 14y ago
Apparently implicitly lying to your viewers and directing them to a site that benefits you without mentioning that is ethical to you. In contrast, I view it as unethical. Ethical: check out this cool site I built. Unethical: here's a cool
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by earl 14y ago
Are you unaware that digg was a startup and that employees were given options / equity as compensation? It doesn't bother you that someone in particular got a return on that (supposedly equal) equity while regular employees didn't? Charac
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by earl 14y ago
Yeah, but reddit appears to have been staffed with employees who worked all hours of the night and day for a salary; see blog posts from before reddit gold. That's not sustainable and unless you have a line on a set of really smart suckers
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by earl 14y ago
I understand what it is. I understand why investors do it. I reiterate my point: it's unseemly when founders earn millions and everyone else, particularly the employees, goes home with nothing.
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by earl 14y ago
Don't worry, Kevin took plenty of money. It's just the regular employees that don't get shit. edit: nobody knows the number for sure, but he had enough to do angel investments in foursquare and twitter. See also crunchbase [1]. There was
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by earl 14y ago
I think this is yavo's second failed startup post quigo, the ad network. He did tracked first, then hashable. I'd bet he'll do well in mobile ads though given how well he understands the space. And never underestimate the power of the ri
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by earl 14y ago
They show the seller, kind of, but say the seller is rightguard. Is it the deodorant brand or is someone camping the name?
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by earl 14y ago
Also, amazon is kind of skeevy; I'm very leery of buying food, cosmetics, or toiletries from them because they make it really hard to tell from whom you're buying stuff. I'm happy to buy eg usb cables from the cheapest vendor, but I don't
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by earl 14y ago
tl;dr: In 2011, Netflix raised prices for their combined dvd + streaming service, then shortly thereafter decided to split dvd off as a company named qwikster. Subscribers didn't like the price hike or the inconvenience of split companies
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by earl 14y ago
No, you're exactly wrong. People who don't support health care for all need the outcome of their preferred policy position rubbed in their face as often as possible. And it's this: a man is begging over the internet for enough money to liv

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