alphamale3000's comments

alphamale3000 | 12 years ago | on: MasterCard's Simplify Commerce

Yes! We'll save 0.05%! That's 500$ for every million in sales. You must have huge sales to justify a switch.

alphamale3000 | 12 years ago | on: Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays

1 million plays on Pandora is like one play on FM radio with an audience of 1 million, or 10 plays with an audience of 100,000. Either way, their royalties are more expensive than ones of radio stations.

Pandora just bought an FM radio station in an effort to reduce its royalty rates. http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/11/pandora-buys-fm-radio-sta...

alphamale3000 | 13 years ago | on: Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer

It's called a Chromebook with Ubuntu on it.

alphamale3000 | 13 years ago | on: Bootstrap Designer – Generate Bootstrap Templates

How would you go about watermarking html & css?

alphamale3000 | 13 years ago | on: Build RESTful web services with Java technology

What's better than news? Old news!

alphamale3000 | 13 years ago | on: Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

Happy you're earning 1 million dollars per MONTH in salary. You didn't do the math, did you?

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Google I/O 2012

Google tax! Hail to our new Google overlords.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: 25 bucks from Google for your search data

I'd say 99.99%.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery

Maybe AWS is a Google competitor?

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery

Cool. Then if you use their findings published in this blog post, they will publicly shame you and your investors.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery

Funny how Amazon AWS newsletter gets flagged as spam by gmail each and every time. Even if I tell it 'not spam' each and every month. Something tells me Amazon SES will not get a better gmail treatment.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Why You Shouldn't Use Twitter Bootstrap

The Googlebot doesn't value design. You need content above the fold. Sorry but my startup needs organic growth, as I don't have millions to flush down the AdWords rabbit hole.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50.

Mailinator, anyone?

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Dear Tech Community, We Have A Communication Problem

Most start-ups are permanently hiring because: a- they available workforce doesn't fulfill their needs b- they don't pay market salaries

I think we shouldn't overestimate our job creation factor. Jobs yes, but what jobs? For 20-30 y.o. men? These are not the people that are jobless this time around.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: No New Accounts Today

Do you own shares in Reddit? Then I get it, as HN has no direct revenues. Else, what's the point?

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Google's Kenyan ripoff?

Of course, they have 20% of their work-time to invest in astroturfing HN ;-)

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

Since when is 80k / year "high-paying"? Hopefully the per diems were high enough to compensate the salary level.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Torture your data long enough and it'll tell you anything

The core idea is true and should be spread around, but their examples lack refinement and subtlety.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Earning Money as an Amazon Affiliate, A Small Experiment

Because pure hackers create profit, but don't collect it. We need Business Hacker News. We need to educate them so they can get rid of the suits.

alphamale3000 | 14 years ago | on: Joel Spolsky On Tech Hiring: Beware the Exploding Offer

Old news. It's 3 years old. I love when the media digs out seasonal stuff. Sigh...