3stripe

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   by 3stripe 13y ago

   Awful that what? I didn't even make it to the end of your c
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   by 3stripe 13y ago

   Great story. I'm off to find me some index cards!
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   by 3stripe 13y ago

   Accountability can be a great thing, agreed. I used a kind of accountability hack to get a lot of writing done last year — basically by setting a £100 penalty for any day that I didn't write 1,000 words.
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   by 3stripe 13y ago

   Are you building something that other people actually want? Or something that you think they want? If the former, how do you know that?
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   by 3stripe 13y ago

   I think that's just the bit I run through often. My main project (CycleLive) is approaching two years old now, and I've got a small but loyal audience which I'm nurturing. Actually I think CycleLove has a different problem —
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   I never finish anyth(greig.cc)

   334 points by 3stripe 13y ago|103 comments
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   Kids Can't Compute - And That's A Problem(forbes.com)

   1 points by 3stripe 13y ago|0 comments
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   Zapp — a new way to pay using your mobile phone and existing bank account(zapp.co.uk)

   1 points by 3stripe 13y ago|0 comments
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   by 3stripe 13y ago

   Check out the Leanpub bookstore for some ideas about what is selling well... https://leanpub.com/c/software
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    Write & Sell Your Damn Book (Paul Jarvis)(mydamnbook.com)

    33 points by 3stripe 13y ago|15 comments
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    "Fear is lucrative. Fear is big business". Now that's actually a quote from a presentation about bike helmets and the culture of fear around cycling ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9UhHf7GsQ ) but I think eq
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    Fifty coffees in London(peterjthomson.com)

    1 points by 3stripe 13y ago|0 comments
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    My parents have the book at home. Loved reading it when I was a kid. In another career...
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Smart thinking, I have lost a couple of old websites by failing to archive them somewhere.
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Haha, that bad?
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    I think mine is starting what was the biggest fail blog at the time, and then failing to sell it to Ben Huh... ( http://www.shipmentoffail.com/ )
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    Ask HN: what's your Internet claim to fame?

    8 points by 3stripe 13y ago|5 comments
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    I would love to see some of the design principles from this article applied to Hacker News.
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    I've considered building something alongside these lines before. Imagine a minimal Google-esque homepage or app.... Where can I get _________ in __________ ? With questions recently asked near your geolocation shown below. Maybe
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    On the about page: To seed the community with thoughtful discussion and quality content, Product Hunt is limited to a few select contributors while in beta. Invites will become available as the product and community mature.
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Really interesting to see behind the scenes in terms of connecting with the press. But this seems more like a minimum viable community than a minimum viable product to me. "No matter how useful your product might be, it isn't
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    So by your description, if it was really about how Daft Punk 'created' that sample, the article would just be a description of how they plugged a record player into a sampler and pressed the record button. Which it clearly isn&#x2
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Agreed, so the sample is taken/used to create something new. I'm not saying that sampling is not creative, and I've done it myself on plenty of tracks. But a sample only becomes creative after it is taken. You can't &#
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Why was this downvoted?
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Funny headline... you don't create samples, you take samples
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Notice the use of the word 'caught', as if we can judge dolphins by human standards. Naughty dolphins.
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Well, that is a different kind of designer/developer hybrid. I gave it this title to make it clear that I was not entering into this discussion: it is for people who design websites in Photoshop, whether by choice or because it is the
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    How to design websites in Photoshop like a pro(greig.cc)

    3 points by 3stripe 13y ago|3 comments
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Photoshop remains the industry standard program for web/interface design, for now. Yes, there are alternatives approaching maturity, but if you are hired to design a website by a client or third party, they will most likely expect th
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    by 3stripe 13y ago

    Self-taxing money.