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Leah Culver talks about Convore on twit.tv

axod — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:11:12 +0000

Article URL: http://twit.tv/natn191

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279276

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New comment by axod in "Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:19:08 +0000

If ever there was proof needed to show just how far HN has fallen...

Perhaps time for me to move on.

New comment by axod in "Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:40:15 +0000

Am I the only one who absolutely detests cats?

They're evil irritating virmin IMHO.

New comment by axod in "How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:22:26 +0000

Riding on top of the bubble for as long as they can I believe.

New comment by axod in "How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet product?"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:57:14 +0000

I've always found B2C advertising supported relatively easy. Perhaps I'm just lucky at it :/ Perhaps I'm just very bad at B2B.

However, I'd much rather have a million customers paying me $1 each, than have 10 customers paying me $100k each.

But I agree with your last point. Depends what gets you excited. For me personally, B2B is as soul destroying as it gets.

New comment by axod in "Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:21:16 +0000

The UK health system is absolutely fantastic FWIW.

New comment by axod in "How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet product?"

axod — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:18:16 +0000

One of the things I dislike about B2B is the lack of fine grain control.

With B2C, your revenue grows over time as you grow your userbase. It's pretty predictable, and not too risky.

With B2B, it's more binary. You might go months with 0 revenue, then get some deal and suddenly be profitable. But then there's added risk, as losing a single client can have a massive impact on your bottom line.

New comment by axod in "DuckDuckGo FOSS Donations 2010"

axod — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:33:49 +0000

A company on the stock market owes it to investors to make them a return.

Donating 10% of revenue away, wouldn't go down too well with average Joes pension scheme.

Also I'm not sure any big company 'completely depends' on FOSS. Yes it's an awesome thing, but big companies would survive just fine without it.

New comment by axod in "Which websites dropped the most in the latest Google algorithm change?"

axod — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:25:09 +0000

Went to look at their stats on quantcast. They've hidden them! Wonder why...

http://quantcast.com/mahalo.com

New comment by axod in "DuckDuckGo FOSS Donations 2010"

axod — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:06:59 +0000

Presumably it's the sudden jump on Jan 3rd onward here? If so seems like money well spent indeed.

http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

New comment by axod in "DuckDuckGo FOSS Donations 2010"

axod — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:50:39 +0000

I'm pretty sure hundreds of large companies make donations, allow employees time to work on FOSS, and so on.

Still awesome to see duckduckgo do it of course.

New comment by axod in "LSE Halts"

axod — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:24:26 +0000

GC isn't a problem for realtime systems, if configured correctly. For example, have the GC running incrementally in a separate thread.

New comment by axod in "JQuery Waypoints - execute a function whenever you scroll to an element"

axod — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:20:41 +0000

so the page looks broken or like its still loading? Yah great usability

New comment by axod in "JQuery Waypoints - execute a function whenever you scroll to an element"

axod — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:26:13 +0000

Attaching code to scroll events will never be a good idea. Infinite scroll will never be a good idea.

New comment by axod in "What's it like getting your DNA results back from 23andMe"

axod — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:25:10 +0000

> In any case, I intend to take a printout to my next medical visit.

I'm sure doctors hate this. I'm of the opinion we should leave trained professionals to do their job.

New comment by axod in "JQuery Waypoints - execute a function whenever you scroll to an element"

axod — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:19:42 +0000

Fits right in with jquery. Then in the next version they can announce it's 2000% faster.

New comment by axod in "What's it like getting your DNA results back from 23andMe"

axod — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:03:22 +0000

Few reasons...

  * I don't think the tech is mature enough to be 100% reliable
  * It'll probably just worry people more than anything.
  * Doctors are trained. Some guy getting this thing isn't.

I think it's a hypercondriacs dream.

New comment by axod in "DrChrono (YC W11) Makes The iPad A Doctor’s Best Friend In The Exam Room"

axod — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:59:58 +0000

Back turned? :/ Over here (UK) there's a desk, in a corner, with a chair next to it. The doc sits at the desk, using the computer, facing you sitting on the chair to the side.

Works pretty well for doctors surgeries anyway.

But I have no idea how things work in the US so maybe it's completely different.

New comment by axod in "DrChrono (YC W11) Makes The iPad A Doctor’s Best Friend In The Exam Room"

axod — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:03:22 +0000

how is this better than the existing computer systems doctors use? (It's on a iPad doesn't cut it IMHO)

New comment by axod in "What's it like getting your DNA results back from 23andMe"

axod — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:28:32 +0000

Never understood why people pay money for this. It seems crazy to me.