jrbapna

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by jrbapna 8y ago
Chuckled a bit at this. The other way to interpret it is everything matters The doodle is a net win, because it makes people happy (and they can skip it if it doesn’t). The latency makes everybody sad. You increased net happiness in the w
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by jrbapna 8y ago
"Now you can do stuff that you could already do before, but you can do it with your phone. What it takes to make that work is incredible—venture capitalists have poured $672 million combined into Wag and Rover!—but the consumer impact
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by jrbapna 9y ago
Trove Apps | Lead Developer | ATLANTA, GA OR REMOTE | North America timezone We’re a small team building SaaS products across various platforms. Our team of 11 is distributed in North America, Europe, and Asia. I’m the founder. I bootstrapp
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by jrbapna 9y ago
Trove, Inc. | Full Stack Software Eng. | Atlanta, GA or REMOTE Seeking Mid-to-Senior level Rails and React Developer. Must be able to work on both front and back end of the stack. We build various micro-saas products, and move very quickly.
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by jrbapna 10y ago
A quick look at humanities progress, and its fairly obvious where we're headed. there will be a day where many people won't have to work to survive. There will be an extreme amount of abundance in the economy due to technology and
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by jrbapna 10y ago
This also begs the question, why don't companies hire more part-time programmers? In my experience it's literally an order of magnitude easier to find a quality full time gig than a part time gig. As many of us enjoy working on si
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Can these stock photos be used commercially? Can they be resold?
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Many great companies can be started in 2016 as a solo founder. Not every company needs to be the next Google to be massively successful and rewarding. Look at the Forbes 400 list. There are literally hundreds of solo founders who are the we
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Hi, unfortunately I've stopped Facebook advertising altogether and have not been active in it for a while. The key takeaway I learned with marketing/advertising is that its equally an art as it is a science. It's a different
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by jrbapna 10y ago
I'm uncertain if this is true. The market is the market is the market. The value of a company is what investors believe it to be. In tech, unlike an industry like lets say, Automobiles, this "worth" is very difficult to quant
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Investors, especially those of public companies, are known to be short sighted. Typical investors would never call it a "bubble" if they felt the pop wasn't for another decade, let alone a century. Perhaps both the magnitude
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Be careful with Facebook advertising. If you're not, you'll waste a lot of money very quickly. Some guidelines: 1) Change your targeting to reduce fraud clicks. As an example, you can choose to target only users of your audience w
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by jrbapna 10y ago
As the rate of innovation continues to increase exponentially, these so called "bubbles" will only grow bigger. The future will have A LOT MORE companies valued at 1000x revenue, not less. Think about all the new industries poised
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by jrbapna 10y ago
But the term bubble, at least when used by the media, also seems to have a connotation of bursting in the near future. If someone told me tech was in a bubble, but the pop wouldn't be for another century, I would not define it as a bub
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by jrbapna 10y ago
If a bubble lasts over 10 years, is it really a bubble?
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by jrbapna 10y ago
You would think, but the internet speeds are an issue, which severly limits their ability to make them community spaces. At many starbucks in my neighborhood back home you can barely get a website to load. Those few that offer internet by G
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by jrbapna 10y ago
SEEKING WORK: San Francisco and Remote Mid-to-expert level Ruby on Rails developer (7+ years of experience). Currently in between my own startup projects, and looking for part time consulting work. Lots of e-com experience, including buildi
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by jrbapna 10y ago
As a rails / startup guy, I can run circles around developers who are using Node/Angular/React/etc. The huge open source community with the infinite number of gems and massive volume of documentation accumulated over yea
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Health Care Disrupted(gomerblog.com)
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Facebook didn't capture "everyone" until many years after it launched. It was limited to college campuses, and popular amongst college students. Whatsapp replicated this growth and captured an even wider net. Especially outsi
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by jrbapna 10y ago
I'm curious as to why you think this is the case. For one, users are fickle and attention greatly shifts every time some new social network comes out from complete left field. Facebook got Instagram, but they lost big on Snapchat. Addi
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Thanks
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by jrbapna 10y ago
I was excited when I saw the headline but the phone teathering is a deal breaker. I removed whatsapp from my phone precisely because it took up too much space, with all the photos and videos being shared daily. It's a shame really.. a
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Good executors do whatever it takes to get them where they need to go. If the right social network is important to their success they make it happen. There are many exceptions to this rule that make this difficult (born into poverty or thir
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by jrbapna 10y ago
The banks did exactly this before the financial crisis, and most of them came out of it just fine. The reason this works in practice is because when a company becomes that big, it's impossible to place blame. Any repercussions against
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by jrbapna 10y ago
Grit is just one quality of a good executer. Grit with poor execution doesn't yield results. Grit is not the secret to success, execution is.
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by jrbapna 10y ago
What strikes me is when the clients know this to be true, but don't actually care. They have a budget and they need to spend it! Looking forward to the day when the market catches up to them.
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by jrbapna 10y ago
I'm looking forward to the day when the other half of the world gets "on the grid" so to speak. The rise of other economies will greatly benefit humanity as a whole. Great experiment. Very excited to see where this goes.
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by jrbapna 10y ago
It's actually quite possible that AI and machine's will replace a lot jobs by then and there'll be a basic income guarantee for all. See https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income
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by jrbapna 10y ago
As the pace of innovation in healthcare continues to increase exponentially, 40 will be the new 30 and eventually the new 20. People who are 40 now might live to 120. Am I being too optimistic? Probably. But I wouldn't be surprised if

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