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Senior marketing manager at Fab.com.

I also dabble in PHP and make vintage / minimalist gaming shirts at EspadaLimited.com

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www.darkcoin.io 12y ago

Is DarkCoin Legit?

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www.mikeschart.com 12y ago

Show HN: Billboard Top 25 for Mashup Songs

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Fab on track for 300M, Acquisition, and Opens Retail

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betashop.com 13y ago

Emotion vs. Data (In light of Andrew Mason)

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www.fourhourworkweek.com 13y ago

4 Hour Body Tracking with Lift

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betashop.com 13y ago

Mobile vs. Web Sales by Day and Time

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betashop.com 13y ago

Fab.com in Europe

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betashop.com 13y ago

What Young People Don't Know

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www.google.com 14y ago

Do a barrel roll

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Stripe for Sending Payments?

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musicmachinery.com 14y ago

Spelling Auto Correct/Suggest Algorithms for the Music Industry

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andredash.me 15y ago

A positive Groupon post or how Groupon will become like Adwords

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andredash.me 15y ago

How to get the most accurate free market size analysis

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andredash.me 15y ago

Hackers are having too much fun, so I've joined

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www.hypebot.com 15y ago

Google Music service found by hackers (Unlimited Storage)

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michaelplaterii.com 15y ago

Aah, so this is why Google bought ITA..

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Startup Salaries in different cities?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Best online PHP & MySql Tutorials

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www.shifd.com 15y ago

Shifd = Evernote Lite

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www.freebase.com 16y ago

Very Cool Search Engine: Parallax - Watch the Video

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Facebook Connect vs. Own Database

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

ReverbNation is Hiring Engineers

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Tell HN: From unpaid intern to full time as a biz guy in a startup

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Does any company want to hire me?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Pricing Help for Web Application

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: How Far Out into the Future Will Startups Hire?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible?

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silkcharm.blogspot.com 17y ago

Social Media Monetization and Revenue

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Infinite Scalability with Amazon Web Services?

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For a lot of people serious about the gym, they are way past just getting any workout in. They are very specific about what workout, what machine, what day of the week, etc.. Just switching to running is like telling some backend architecture programmer to just switch to Photoshop; to an outsider they're both tech on computers..But in the bubble we all know it's world's of difference.

The narrative you are suggesting is unequivocally false and has been for a while. While the black on black crime rate is at 89% the white on white crime rate is at 83%, not far off and receives very little relative attention.

In addition, according to the Bureau of Justice statistics, while blacks in the absolute cause 50% of the violent crime, when you control for income (white people have 10x the wealth) and location (rural, suburban, urban, etc) white people actually commit about 5% more violent crime i.e. poor urban white people commit more violent crime than poor urban black people.

People need to start understanding these facts, remove old narratives and realize there's more interesting things to focus on than race its self.

This would just be a recipe for increasing inequality among college goers. The families who can pay for the more expensive colleges will continue to do so, while you'd be taking away the opportunities for less privileged kids to go.

I believe the question, "Why college is so expensive" is the right one, but I don't think this is the right solution.

Coin 13 years ago

It deactivates completely when it's been away from your phone for a certain amount of time, which you can set in the settings.

I can understand that, though the excitement and feeling of accomplishment more than makes up for cost and angst of possibly having done it wrong.

As one data point, I spent a while during college and took Turking seriously as a source of income and averaged about $7-$8 an hour over that time period. Not awesome, but not bad either for an always available, willing, form of employment.

Hulu's CPM's are incredibly high, on par with prime time TV. Not that many companies advertise on TV at those rates; even fewer do so online.

Someone should make a new Amiestreet. The business model worked (dynamic pricing) and the company was acquired, then it went away...

Pay for exposure already exists within the app store. Large companies pay around $10-$20K a day depending on the category on crap ad networks (won't name them) that incentivize the users to download the companies app in order to "get to the next level" or something like that. The downloads are incredibly cheap and you get thousands and thousands of them. The app store ranking is almost entirely based on download velocity, so your ranking goes up. Once you get in the top 12ish the organic downloads start pouring in just from being near the top. The value per user of those organic users is so high that it more than off sets the cost for the crap/incentivized downloads. Almost everyone who can do this, does this.

Agreed, it's much more easy for Burbn, in 4th, 5th, 6th? place to say, hey let's try and pivot a bit rather than fight for first in this arena.

Hey, on the marketing team at Fab. Yes, we use Sailthru and thus can track which emails users open over a given period of time. Sailthru has a decent api however this operation was actually done manually with a bulk pull of data from Sailthru and then a query to the database on our end. In the future we'll probably automate this, though for right now our dev cycles are too precious :)

Hey, on the marketing team at Fab. We know that a lot of people love to purely just open our emails because they are pretty visual and there is a huge part of discovery; they might not always see something they like and thus click. We thought the risk of opting out these people outweighed the risk of accidentally leaving in people with clients like Apple Mail.

Hey, on the marketing team at Fab. Honestly for us we never really considered the cost savings or have had to worry about being blacklisted. The decision wasn't almost entirely jump-started by anecdotal evidence from customer service that it would be a good idea. Obviously there are plenty of financial and operational reasons to do this, but ultimately if it's good for the customer then it's good for us and the brand.

Using Silk Road 13 years ago

The first rule of Silk Road is you don't talk about the packaging...or post pictures of it...