nickoakland | 8 years ago | on: American Equity
Many top corporate executives in Norway & Sweden will evade this by "living" in Switzerland for >183 days a year.
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nickoakland | 8 years ago | on: Why Ageism Never Gets Old
First encountered this concept in Reid Hoffman's book Startup of You
nickoakland | 8 years ago | on: Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others
The literary version of "Disregard" is called "The anxiety of influence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence
nickoakland | 9 years ago | on: TV Advertising
How is this still true in 2016? Understand it was the case in 2011, but now? Still? Really?
nickoakland | 9 years ago | on: US government conducted airflow tests on NYC subway to understand bioterror risk
Can confirm that similar tests were run in the DC Metro as early as 2003.
nickoakland | 10 years ago | on: Future Screens Are Mostly Blue
Computer blue.
nickoakland | 10 years ago | on: Regulators Propose Banning Theranos Founder from Blood Testing
Bill Frist is/was actually a highly regarded heart and lung transplant surgeon.
nickoakland | 10 years ago | on: No U.S. tech company went public in Q1 2016
FT writers are such free market fundamentalists they make WSJ writers look like Bernie Sanders supporters.
nickoakland | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How are enterprise tier SaaS products deployed?
Enterprises have recently been accelerating adoption of hybrid-cloud models for certain types of SaaS products.
With enterprise cloud server backup, for example, customers deploy Zetta.net's agents on their servers, and it backs up data to our offsite cloud data centers, and to the customers own local storage.
nickoakland | 14 years ago | on: Ending the Infographic Plague
With great respect to the well informed comments here, anyone working at a B2C startup should at least consider the benefits in traffic and brand equity that regularly producing attractive and digestible infographics can provide.
Even without meeting HN level quality standards, many users appreciate these types of visualizations.
nickoakland | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How would you proxy for sales conversion rates?
If you're doing some kind of discretionary consumer product, than you could proxy sales conversions based on the amount of traffic your landing page receives. Something on the order of 1-2% of total visits will become orders. If you take email addresses on your landing page, then assume a 15-20% open rate for your future newsletter, and a higher amount, maybe 2-5% conversion to sale from those clicks.
Additionally, depending on what type of product it is, you can usually expect your average order size to be around 150% of the cost of one item. For example if you sell t-shirts for $25, your average order size will be around $37, since most customers will by 1 or 2 items.
nickoakland | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (April 2011)
SEEKING FREELANCER
We are located in Oakland, CA and prefer a bay-based front-end PHP Web Developer for exciting local apparel company
We are currently looking for an experienced PHP Web Developer. This is an exciting opportunity in Oakland for a new apparel company that uses Magento and Wordpress for our two main sites.
This is for part-time, contract-based work best suited for freelance developers near the Bay Area with availability to occasionally come in for meetings in Oakland (most, if not all, work can be done remotely). Weekly hours will vary depending on projects/tweaks. Quick turn-around is highly important.
Must able to communicate effectively and be able to work well with art/creative director from sketches, PSD comps, wireframes or sometimes (though not often) merely telephone conversations.
This is a great on-going opportunity for those with other clients and looking for an extra boost of work here and there.
Pay hourly or project-based.
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