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aarlo
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About aarlo
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Comment #4336966
It's ramadan. People in Cairo are fasting and hungry. So they see an ad for a bagel and click "like". That's all there is to it.
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Comment #4238601
Why are you targeting for "funders" (I think you mean the people getting paid)? In general, getting the money into systems is the hard part. If money is there, people will come - e…
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Comment #4130259
You spent too much time thinking creatively on your own, and not enough time understanding how the world works. If you want to improve the world you have to understand it better. G…
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Comment #3486150
It's all about the anxiety caused by the fear. Deep-down the unresourceful founders are afraid, which causes anxiety that their decisions are wrong, so anything that approaches bei…
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Comment #3417555
You don't think there are any genetic differences between people? The mind is plastic, but there's a strong genetic component too...and this all has been debated soooo much... I fi…
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Comment #3415302
I got it from thinking about it a lot, also reading Carl Jung... Is dev bootcamp new? Looks cool!
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Comment #3414443
This looks like it will be effective. Something to think about...coding well takes a certain type of mind that most people don't have. Code is, as Fred Brooks says, "pure thought-s…
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Comment #3282076
Frustrating. Hard to evaluate as a biz idea without knowing how valuable these things are - much energy/heat they would actually provide. Also, I don't see a reason why it couldn't…
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Comment #3221931
Congrats guys. Very cool product. We've found lots of opportunity to make email marketing more sophisticated, and not enough smart engineers thinking about it. BTW There's a belgia…
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Comment #3209819
If they "click out" and move onto another message, they'll probably never read your email again. So for the marketer it's the same as a delete (and likely is an actual delete). If …
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Comment #3185319
Lie. If it was read for only a couple seconds, it's effectively a delete.
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Comment #3185290
We have a special tracking code that figures it out over the email clients' use of HTTP and with some fancy server-side node/mongodb stuff.
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Comment #3185286
Thanks! Let me know what you think. aarlo@mirapost.com
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Comment #2896184
http://campaignmonitor.com
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Comment #2752257
Low social return. High personal return.
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Comment #2614848
domain spam?
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Comment #2566771
So why does the bitcoin economy reward spending processing power? I guess our economy does too (quant finance)
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Comment #2173142
No, because that's too simple. It only has two variables (money and dollars received). The real-life case has tens of important variables
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Comment #2065487
Cool. You said something about adobe cirrus on the FAQ. Can you explain more how it works?
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Comment #2065439
I've heard this idea before (maybe from myself? haha). I think it's great! Why not just do a smartphone app? Or an RSS feed reader that speaks your feeds? Then you get the GUI from…
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Comment #1978495
What do they use the data for?