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interg12··on Introducing Hello
Mass market users don't seem to prioritize these kind of values when making software decisions.
interg12··on No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does
Could you give an example something Amazon would have a challenge doing due to its scale?
interg12··on Is prison contagious?
Because someone needs to say it: We should all be highly skeptical of a single model's results.
interg12··on The Supreme Court doesn't understand software
I hadn't thought about TBL that way before. Do you have other examples to help make that point? I'm curious...
interg12··on Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
I like the idea. It could shake up the whole lurker pool of users or fail miserably. Wouldn't it be interesting to have a community of users that are 100% engaged?
interg12··on Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
You don't think they're building things that matter? have you seen their app install ad network?
interg12··on TaskRabbit is blowing up its business model and becoming the Uber for everything
What did you always suspect was the core flaw?
interg12··on Our Skulls Didn’t Evolve to be Punched
I worked at an oral surgeons office for a few years. Everytime we performed jaw surgery on someone who was in a fight, 9/10 times they also had a broken hand.

The hand wasn't designed for punching either.

interg12··on Twitter stops using Helevetica Neue in favour of Gotham
Is anybody else bothered by the amount of news this is causing?
interg12··on Why is San Francisco public transportation so bad?
Thank republicans who block infrastructure spending every chance they get.
interg12··on Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
What's wrong with BitTorrent Sync? The fact that it's a company?
interg12··on Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries
Edge cases.
interg12··on Engineering All Hands Support
We do all hands support at Aarki for our rich media product. We have the support tab located inside the dashboard of our product.

It's really helped out product team discover pain points of customers and find usability issues.

With only one person on support, that person tends to filter information to the team. This is a great working strategy.

interg12··on Apple Rejecting Apps For Not Showing Ads
Apple wants to create a monopoly for advertising across the entire Apple product ecosystem. If they're the only company with install attribution across apps and devices, they can serve (re)targeted advertising to you on the Apple TV, your iPad, your iPhone, and Safari, all through the cross-platform iAD.
interg12··on Apple Rejecting Apps For Not Showing Ads
Agreed - app advertisers are playing a performance marketing game with their install ads. This change is going to make user acquisition more tedious in several ways: - some networks will become straight CPC, which will be a pain in the ass to arbitrage to a CPI - there will be a lot of campaign monitoring required - other methods of install attribution simply aren't as reliable. This will affect the eCPMs of in-app advertising that consisted of app-install demand.
interg12··on Apple Rejecting Apps For Not Showing Ads
Whats wrong with using the highly reliable IDFA for install attribution? 1) Allows the advertiser to know exactly which publisher provided the install, thus allowing for fair billing. 2) Allows advertisers to study users on a app-level to see which sources provide the high quality users. 3) Ultimately helps ad networks target more relevant ads to users, providing a better user experience and higher eCPMs for publishers.

You won't see any ad units that you don't like disappear - the transaction point for the advertiser will just be the click rather than the install.

This is only going to push the industry away from the heavily favored CPI pricing to CPC pricing.

interg12··on Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help
No organization fully funds a pension 75 years out.
interg12··on Workplace Equality Is Good for Business
It took the government to intervene into a very long running and prosperous "free market" to bring an end to discrimination, and nobody was making a economic case for it.
interg12··on The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95%
Your job - because the group would be more competitive in the labor force.
interg12··on iOS 7's Design is Confused
What's confusing about crowded speech bubbles?
interg12··on How $96,000 can buy you a top 10 ranking in the U.S. app store
Everybody who matters can put that kind of money up. Remember, the more expensive it gets, the more the ad space is worth for publishers and the more they can earn. As advertising gets more expensive, publishers earn more and can ultimately do more.
interg12··on 37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million
Disqus is worth way more than $40 million. It's going to become one of the largest ad networks on the web with its insane publisher base.
interg12··on Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?
THere is no reason why the first screen of the iphone on your home page should show the Login screen. Its not relevant to the product, and everyone who wants to use it will understand that you have a log in. Remove it!
interg12··on Show HN: Hospice.io – Vagrant configurations generator
terrible name
interg12··on Bitcoin: A call-to-arms for technologists
Let's not pretend bitcoin is based on "deep computer science" - it's based on fundamental macroeconomics and our understanding of how currency works.
interg12··on Python.org Redesign Preview
responsive.
interg12··on Show HN: A faster, minimal YouTube interface built on Angular.js and Foundation
Very fast. I would prefer bigger video squares and smaller text.
interg12··on Ask HN: Who were you before you were a silicon "valley-type techie"?
A community organizer in Minnesota democratic politics.
interg12··on Marketing hacks to boost your startup
Can we stop calling everything that worked for someone a "hack" ?
interg12··on Rules for Work: The Zaarly Employee Handbook
My takeaway from this book: Zaarly is very unstructured. It's great that they have an order of priorities for doing things but I didn't see a real framework here that deviated from "how to be a basic employee 101." It reads like a layer of abstraction one step away from even high level values. There's very little to point to in the book that will adress/solve any actual workplace situations/conflicts.

That being said, it looks very pretty.

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