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> And to keep making money in these markets — already a ridiculous $27 in ARPU for the last three months of 2017 — they need us to give more time and attention to them. And that th…

> How was Google making a living before advertising? It wasn't. Every search engine at the time had struggled to make money. It wasn't until Google "borrowed" pay-per-click auction…

BUT the ideas are easy. The problem is market testing each idea to see what works. ProductHunt is going in the right direction - but unfortunately the products are already built wi…

It sounds like Andy Hunt has finally discovered ISO 9000. Plan. Implement. Measure. Review. Improve. The pattern I keep seeing is the IT community's need to re-invent the wheel and…

I usually start by writing comments first in plain English based on a variation of psuedocode. That way I'm focused on process first without distraction. Comments are the plan. Cle…

I'm enjoying the interesting analogies. I rather view the internet as a party where everyone is invited. The social networks are the loud attention seekers yelling "look at how coo…

I ALWAYS quote fixed price projects regardless of scope. Some software engineers would say that's highly risky. For me, it tends to be highly profitable because my estimates are us…

There's been a lot of talk about bitcoin being a bubble. Putting that aside, what I'd like to know is how would you (or we) hack it? From what I understand, the biggest flaw is it'…

Does PickFu allow inplace split testing like Google Analytics? It seems to be more an independent polling service. My idea of split testing is to always be inplace so the user does…

A good tagline is like much most marketing. Lots of experiments with split testing of multiple taglines to see which one the market responds to the most. As for the comments regard…

Google releases maps and their evil behavior is quietly swept under the rug... brilliant timing! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915206

I disagree. If you're using Java properly then your data structures should be similar to that of C++. I've programmed assembly language, byte level machine code, C, C++, Java, C#, …

So Larry and Sergey don't want Google to be evil, but Eric certainly does and wants it known that he's an evil overlord. Now I understand their holy trinity! I think the UK governm…

Definitely search advertising like AdWords + Yahoo + Bing. Capture the people looking what you are offering. Therefore, they will probably search and be willing to pay. Think about…

I should also add, polling is why I'm with the late Steve Jobs on HATING flash. Way too many Flash "designers" have NFC when it comes to good code, so they poll rape the CPU which …

It's usually far more complicated than a choice of language. Most of the problems I see are related to poor technique. Especially related to accessing resources. "Browsers" are a g…

Except it's wrong. It should be... Experiment. Learn. Repeat. There's too much emphasis on failure. If you keep focusing on failure, you keep thinking about failure. I prefer to th…

Is it really worth saving?

holychiz, I'm interested in your experiences as a parent with Bing. Any chance we could meet up to chat? I can be reached on grant@criticalyears.com Thanks in advance!

Agreed. Most companies seem to be oblivious to the reality that they spent money to get people to like them on Facebook and they own nothing as a result. I believe this is called i…

Okay... 2004 and now it's 8 years later. I'm curious to know what PG thinks of great hackers after 500 startups and plenty of exposure to would be hackers. Surely his thoughts have…

Here's some insight which I had with a senior partner at a "big 4 consulting" firm and their attitude to age. The buy up highly educated people in their 20's because they're cheap …

In an iterative industry, I think there is too much emphasis on "launch". From day 1, you should have someone interested in your product/service. If you haven't got at least one ea…

I prefer a hybrid solution. 99designs to weed out a good designer. For me that tends to mean good comprehension, a knowledge of how to use their tools and their unique style (each …