Hacker News: rodericksilva

New comment by rodericksilva in "How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment"

rodericksilva — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:58:49 +0000

It was educational and informative. It wasn't until you mentioned it as being an ad that I went back to see who actually wrote the article. You increased it's effectiveness by focusing on it...and now even further. ;)

New comment by rodericksilva in "Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria"

rodericksilva — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:52:12 +0000

So, sick people will have more storage space?

New comment by rodericksilva in "Steal This Presentation"

rodericksilva — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:55:01 +0000

I went through them all and posted earlier. Maybe you had less patience because you were getting upset ablutions the wordy slides?

New comment by rodericksilva in "Steal This Presentation"

rodericksilva — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:13:16 +0000

and practice, practice, practice.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Ask HN: What would you give up for The Killer Domain?"

rodericksilva — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:45:13 +0000

Google didn't need search.com. 37Signals didn't need basecamp.com. If mint.com were mintybooks.com you would have found it anyway.

The owners of schoolbinder.com wanted a ridiculous amount. We went with myschoolbinder.com. People are finding us. Were making money.

I wouldn't spend much on it. Find another catchy name.

New comment by rodericksilva in "The One Thousand Hour Rule"

rodericksilva — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:31:26 +0000

It is 2010. I'm sure there are apps that were a success after 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, and some after a year or two of pivoting.

If its an innovative and useful idea users "get it" almost immediately.

If it's not as innovative and you're building an app that is improving another idea it will take more time for users to see it, try it, and switch.

I don't think there is a magic number.

New comment by rodericksilva in "OnLive Launches Cloud Video Game Console"

rodericksilva — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:25:15 +0000

Interesting. I'd like to see videos of the gameplay and stats on performance, load times, lag etc.

The Netflix of gaming consoles?

New comment by rodericksilva in "Brave New World banned from High School curriculum"

rodericksilva — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:14:14 +0000

I guess this makes us HN readers savages!

New comment by rodericksilva in "Hell Freezes Over As MySpace Fully Surrenders To Facebook"

rodericksilva — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:05:14 +0000

I personally think they should focos on bands, musicians, and teenagers.

Regardless of whether or not its a good move by MySpace, i think its a little low class of FB not to send their CEO. Yes we all know the almighty FB is king and the MySpace is now officially making it known that they are riding 'bitch.' It's almost like they are proving a point.

I personally don't like it.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Google Hotpot"

rodericksilva — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:58:51 +0000

GREAT point. I thought that was just with my users.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Google Hotpot"

rodericksilva — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:30:14 +0000

Pavs, I totally agree with you. Gmail, Chrome, Search and iOS were late. I was all over them when they came out too.

I was all over Wave and still think they should have slowly integrated its features into Gmail.

I was excited to get my hands on those first releases but I'm just not feeling any of their new stuff.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Facebook Messaging: scorned by nerds, built for teens like candy-covered crack"

rodericksilva — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:31:13 +0000

Great point on this article. FB is starting to remind me of AOL. AOL users didn't care that you could run IE outside of AOL WWW or that you could use Thunderbird instead of AOL mail. Just make it simple and keep it simple. Good job.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Google Hotpot"

rodericksilva — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:21:46 +0000

I guess everyone has to have one of these too :/

Is it just me or is anyone else sick of seeing the same features being developed on different platforms? Can't google and Facebook fill different spaces?

Buzz was late. Hotpot is late. Where is the innovation Google? Slept on Gmail unification. Wave was awesome but released the wrong way.

Google is starting to make the same mistakes Netscape made. They should stop trying to be another Facebook and continue doing what they do best.

I already have Facebook and Twitter. Give me a better online office app and keep kicking ass with Gmail and Search!

I'm just saying ;)

New comment by rodericksilva in "Did you know: In NYC, yellow cabs are required to take you anywhere in NYC."

rodericksilva — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:20:29 +0000

Everyone is saying that they might be on their way back to the garage and I agree except that the driver should have the off-duty light on at that point. They should pull over and explain "Hey I'm on my way back to the garage but I can take you if its close"

Note On the cabby's behalf: If you rent and drive a yellow cab it cost you $150 to get in it. You have to fuel it up at the end of the shift so thats another $30-40 per shift.

At $5-10 per ride and assuming you can average 2 or 3 rides in an hour...it explains why they drive like maniacs and look to hustle.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Did you know: In NYC, yellow cabs are required to take you anywhere in NYC."

rodericksilva — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:00:43 +0000

Agreed. My mother-in-law owns a NYC cab. They get hit with complaints all the time...even when its not them and the person had the wrong cab number.

Cab drivers are guilty till proven innocent.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Ask PG: How much did the lunch with you sell for?"

rodericksilva — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:53:46 +0000

I thought he was just being funny on a Sunday morning.

I was going to guess something like $10K for a PG breakfast.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich?"

rodericksilva — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:34:59 +0000

Making $500K per year at Bank of America and earning $20K a year with your side s-corp does not make you a small business owner that can help unemployment with a Bush tax cut.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Google and Facebook battle for the ads sales: who controls the net?"

rodericksilva — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:27:12 +0000

Facebook has an advantage for two reasons:

1. Facebook ads point to other Facebook pages. 2. More people fill out their FB profiles than their Google profiles.

New comment by rodericksilva in "Do the Right Thing: A lesson by Netflix"

rodericksilva — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:44:52 +0000

What you guys did deserves recognition because it was a gift to those who did not even notice the outage.

We should also give credit to Netflix and those who at least choose to notify their members. It is almost like the "honor system."

New comment by rodericksilva in "Do the Right Thing: A lesson by Netflix"

rodericksilva — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:26:39 +0000

I never noticed so I didn't claim. I figured they should get "paid" for their honesty.