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robertp | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?

Also the lightweight and tight form factor.

I have travelled a ton with it and its help up the whole way for 14 months and 36+ flights domestic and international.

robertp | 7 years ago | on: Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud the way your application experiences it

I think you have to hand it to Google, that is really next level deep analytics. I feel it would be hard for most companies without huge investment to do this (or maybe not).

It is like the reverse of a "customer survey" that instead of asking and getting an arbitrary number, instead of really detailed level of service performance.

robertp | 10 years ago | on: Palantir acquires Kimono

me too

robertp | 10 years ago | on: Palantir acquires Kimono

ohhhhh man that stinks. I love Kimono and have been using for 6+ months. Hopefully it works out okay for the Kimono team.

There is not a download function on the desktop page, what is the direct download link? https://www.kimonolabs.com/desktop

robertp | 10 years ago | on: Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers

I have driven by Amazon warehouses before and never seen this happen once. Do you have examples?

robertp | 10 years ago | on: Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts

6% is pathetic increase and stronger sign how little people engage on the platform.

The engagement ratio of Instagram to Twitter is several orders of magnitude off.

You look are Redbull on both platforms. Twitter they have average of 40 retweets and 150 likes/faves, plus some replies. Instagram they have 50-80k likes and 100 to 1k comments.

Even if twitter had 1000% increase that would not help the platform where there is so little active engagement.

robertp | 11 years ago | on: Use Stress to Your Advantage

Other example is being present if a close friend has something deeply emotional going on. Ideally you should try to stay present with the emotions both with the other person and yourself. If you kept feeling, "lets move on with this", that would not be supportive.

robertp | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Linkurious, the first data visualization platform for graph databases

Do you have a partial trial to try using it first, or require a one year commitment? I do lots of instagram & linking data for bloggers. This looks interesting.

robertp | 12 years ago | on: New pagination and crawling features

Great work. Big innovation in taking a clunky method of crawling info and turning it into something extremely elegant with how its outputted and someone can work with it.

robertp | 13 years ago | on: Reasons not to buy from Amazon

UPS and robots do shipping now. That article he cited is old.

robertp | 13 years ago | on: If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This

Ive been working with a personal coach recently and at the start of each session we start with a guided 2-3 minutes of mediation practice. One way to do on your own is with mp3's and doing on your own. Really from my personal experience thats not expert driven at all, even doing 5 minutes a day before you day starts is a great way to start for weeks or months on end. Just those 5 minutes of calm and awareness can do a lot, it has for me.

robertp | 13 years ago | on: Streak brings CRM to the inbox with Google Cloud Platform

I will have to give it a try again. It sounded like a great fit for what I do but couldn't get the boxes and filters to work as I thought they did.

robertp | 13 years ago | on: Mike Arrington: Turning the drama down on Y Combinator v. Google Ventures

so instead of addressing the points you talk about drama?

and <i>he</i> is the one to blame?

robertp | 13 years ago | on: A $1 billion idea...that I know I'm not ready for

yes, and they are expanding it into https://www.x.com/

robertp | 14 years ago | on: How SEO Killed Online Reviews

"query deserves freshness" is part of Google's algorithm so it knows to rank the newest articles at the top. It works great for news driven sites, works bad for e-commerce type sites that restock older items but they get outranked by a news site.

robertp | 14 years ago | on: In Pictures: The World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant

I went past the construction site on my way to vegas last week. It looks like all 3 towers are at the full height.

It looks really crazy from the highway with the large towers and circles below.

robertp | 14 years ago | on: Larry Page on Charlie Rose

I can't believe Page didn't know the name of the companies they have acquired so far in 2012.

They bought Milk (Kevin Rose) & TxVia (some type of mobile payment company)

robertp | 14 years ago | on: SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry

I have been a paying customer for 6+ months, and I don't think they are the best service. But when open site explorer has recent data, it is extremely helpful.

robertp | 14 years ago | on: SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry

Interesting, I will give this a try tomorrow when I have company CC #

robertp | 14 years ago | on: SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry

I currently use the $100 plan on Authority Labs and their delayed reporting is incredibly frustrating. When it works it great to get detailed and exact ranking stats on keywords. When I can't get reports and keyword data is delayed 1+ days, it sucks.

I will give those other services a try.