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Its 2012 and we still embrace high Pageviews and architectures to handle them but ignore revenue.

Its high time everypost about insane pageviews and servers be coupled with solid revenue numbers.

Re:Ask HN: Will you buy Facebook shares when it goes IPO? on Saturday February 04, 2012 @08:20AM (#3550979)
No. I dont care if there is 850 Million or 1 Billion using it, what counts is how much money are those people spending on facebook.
Pity one can't pay using paypal.
Re:Ask HN: My Startup didn't go viral- what now? on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @12:19PM (#3534165)
7 years ago,who would have though that tell your friends ''Whats on your mind''So who know maybe dude is on to something.
Re:Ask HN: My Startup didn't go viral- what now? on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @05:34AM (#3532659)
One of the key ingriedients to virality for sites, is Anonymity. If you can incorporate that element into the site ,your chances of going viral will increase drastically. If things stay the way they are than you going to have to do things the old fashion way ie beat the chicken egg problem ,gain users over a long period of time and let the network effect kick in.
Re:Ritalin Gone Wrong on Monday January 30, 2012 @05:20AM (#3528139)
What i never understood over the years was, why Ritalin was given to kids with ADD and ADHD.All though those two disorders are related,they do not have the same effect on a person.

People with ADD tend to be tooo calm and appear to be slow ,on the other hand those with ADHD (including me) tend to be too Hyper , our minds are at full speed all the time which affects concerntrating on things we do not enjoy.I found out that Ritalin works well for me by relaxing the pace of my thoughts ,which in turn allows me to focus on a BORING thing like a volumous book.

So now how can you give a person with ADD (Slow thoughts) a drug that will make them more slow and expect results.

My conclusion is that Ritalin works better for people who have ADHD then those with ADD,and the reason why results on the improvement that Ritalin has ,have varied time and again is because a drug that work for one group (ADHD) was also given to those (ADD) it does not work for.In such a situation results will never be consistant.