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rmATinnovafy

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About rmATinnovafy

Founder of innovafy.com

I run marathons, and enjoy talking with fellow hackers. Drop me a line.

Skills: [Ruby, Rails, Python, C#, PHP] [copy-writing, general writing, Spanish speaker]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4069954

    Good timing on the pre-release promotion. Now keep us updated in a weekly basic and you will sell a lot of copies here. I'm glad you are writing the book. It seems like a worthy ad…

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    Comment #4068402

    Could somebody tell me what is Facebook's intrinsic value?

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    Comment #4068239

    How do you plan to make money with thise service?

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    Comment #4062516

    Typing in my phone is frustrating. I end up writing differently. It makes me compress ideas into short sentences to avoid the pain of writing with the poor UI. It may seemed like I…

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    Comment #4062415

    The basis of a product is design. But design is not art. Design is engineering. Even UI design, a process commonly thought of as artistic. That is where I disagree with your point.…

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    Comment #4062246

    Just do your best. I'm sure you will do fine. Your attitude towards the intership is very good. I wish you the best of luck. BTW, update me on how it goes. Email in profile.

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    Comment #4062178

    They are neither art nor design. Startups are businesses. And a business exists to profit. Nothing else. Also, a startup does not aim to solve a problem in an industry. That is a c…

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    Comment #4060046

    They fail because they're not losing sleep over how well they execute their sales funnel. As someone who is losing sleep over the same issue, I appreaciate the fact that you unders…

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    Comment #4058837

    Exactly. Maybe the CEO got a not so gentle nudge from the investors to hurry up and hire somebody and you were the one they were interviewing next. Stuff like that happens a lot. T…

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    Comment #4058784

    Oh, I'm not disagreeing on the opportunity available. You are, to quote Hermes from Futurama, technically correct (the best kind). I do think that this problem is up there with wor…

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    Comment #4058654

    I don't have a beef with it. I also think that of you apply to the jobs posted on HN, you will get my point. Sadly, I don't use Paypal. You can make a donation to your local hacker…

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    Comment #4058527

    The problem is not the software. The problem are the employers. Everyone wants the perfect candidate. But no candidate is perfect. Everyone has good skills and bad baggage to carry…

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    Comment #4058399

    I'd like to see software engineers who are part of the hiring process in their company apply for their own position anonymously. Go through the whole enchilada: the phone interview…

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    Comment #4055761

    Same with the 1541 disk drive on my old C64. I could "feel" what it was doing by the sounds coming from it.

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    Comment #4050504

    Its not that people hate receiving mail, they just hate mail that tries to make a quick buck out of them. You should really email your customers and prospects. But don't just send …

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    Comment #4047500

    It is in his biography where it appears. Though it is not talked about a lot.

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    Comment #4046556

    I'm building a digital magazine called !session. It targets the HN crowd, with a touch of marketing. It debuts soon. Keep posted for the announcement.

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    Comment #4046537

    Raise your prices until they leave. Give them a 30 day notice before raising the prices. Enjoy your new found peace. Don't explain anything to them. No tutorials. Nothing. These pe…

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    Comment #4046487

    Buffett was into bodybuilding as a teenager/young adult.

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    Comment #4044020

    Yes to both?

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    Comment #4044017

    Since you are so green (read: young) this will teach you a lot about business. Not the good parts (mostly), though.

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    Comment #4043194

    Aside from the points the author makes, this would also improve Facebook's advertising model a lot. They would have purchasing information from basically every segment/product/nich…

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    Comment #4039758

    May you provide an email address?

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    Comment #4037057

    You make a good point to not be pushover. Some people fall for such tactics because they are just afraid of pointing the client towards someone else. The best way to deal with this…

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    Comment #4037021

    Yes, that is true. Not only the click, but the mechanism to bring out the actual lipstick usually requires more effort.