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by ForrestN 14y ago
I came here just to write exactly the same thing. I'd add that in this case, I personally don't find the product beautiful at all. It's not ugly, I don't find it visually offensive, but it's fairly generic and uses too many cliches for me t
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Indeed! That's exactly what happens in the movie.
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The main character does this to great effect in Punch Drunk Love, which also happens to be a beautiful film that I highly recommend. He purchases pudding to earn frequent flier miles.
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It might be tedious because you don't live in Germany. For me, the potential for major products used by millions of people to be banned seems quite important. To make it more relevant, imagine that a major consumer product might be totally
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I agree. My partner is about to start A/B testing for his small business, and a robust discussion of these issues would be quite helpful!
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I was hoping something like this would come about! My job is at a small non-profit, and there's always an endless pile of work to do. It becomes really difficult to get everything done, and so some projects that would be really helpful to u
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by ForrestN 14y ago
The best episode yet, in my opinion! Simple, well-reasoned analysis, generally better than the comment threads in my opinion, which seems like the test. I think the idea of Amazon purchasing dropbox is quite interesting. Didn't occur to me,
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Who said they want to add those things? The website hasn't been changed in a long time, and it does resemble designs more common several years ago. I think there are lots of ways an update could worsen craig's list, but there are also a lot
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I don't understand. Why would improving the UX necessitate the quality of content going down?
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I'm very curious what these principles are optimizing for. If they successfully produce the certain kind of life pg desires, how is that life qualified? It seems like this method optimizes for happiness, as well as some kind of self determi
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by ForrestN 15y ago
Seriously! This must be the worst website I've encountered in a long time. Despite the inspiring content in the article, I leave with a mixed experience. Just goes to show how much design matters.
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Definitely an improvement! Great job.
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by ForrestN 15y ago
I'm concerned about how the IKEA brand will work for electronics. Either this will elevate the brand, and do wonders for our impressions of their furniture, or people will worry that this TV will be a cheap, temporary solution that needs to
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by ForrestN 15y ago
I think the kickstarter page could be improved. More details about the money and why you need it, what our donation will accomplish aside from the vague message about how more people get things done faster. How much are you paying yourself?
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by ForrestN 15y ago
I said specifically I'm not intending to undercut their motives. Even if that's true, I think it's worth understanding how it impacts then strategically.
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by ForrestN 15y ago
I like that Google is working on both sides of the car traffic analogy.
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by ForrestN 15y ago
It's a very interesting move. I guess the calculation (apart from real benevolence, which I don't mean to undercut) would be that the good will and good press, affection from idealistic engineers and the resulting hiring and retention advan
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by ForrestN 15y ago
Another idea: marketplace for independent musicians? Seems like with a little tweaking it could be a great way to find studio musicians, wedding bands or even teachers. AirBnB for musician rentals?
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by ForrestN 15y ago
That all makes sense. It may not work in this case, but in general I like businesses where the customer is clear. I tend to think there's always a tension when the user, the musicians, aren't also the customer, guitar companies for example.
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by ForrestN 15y ago
Perhaps there should be an 18+ section that can be blocked by parents with a password? If you have an out-of-the-box iPhone you can get any manner of porn within Safari. Why shouldn't you be able to get real porn with a better experience vi
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by ForrestN 15y ago
What about sponsored content? Pay a per-day fee to get promoted in the listings and therefor be a more visible part of the network?
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by ForrestN 15y ago
I think this is a great idea. One suggestion would be a process for nominating or voting on speakers from the HN community. If you send someone an email saying you've got 100 people who've said they would love to hear them do a podcast, tha
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by ForrestN 15y ago
More than whether or not they "should" or shouldn't need on-call programmers, I am curious what causes the majority of errors that are encountered. Is it mistakes the programmers have made? Unpredictable interactions that are caused by the
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by ForrestN 15y ago
I think you are probably right that most aren't proposing changing the actual protocol. However, I think part of what the post is reacting to is the marketing around the ideas for new clients, or the perceived need for new clients. I haven'
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by ForrestN 15y ago
Well, as one piece of data, I certainly mean the system, rather than any one client, when I say "email." When I say "email me," I don't mean "make something show up in gmail ," I mean, send me a message over the email protocol. I don't use
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by ForrestN 15y ago
Some of us can't get married.
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by ForrestN 15y ago
Reading this just reminds me how awful the state of copyright is. We need a new way for producers of images (and any other digital art for that matter) to make money.
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by ForrestN 15y ago
As someone else pointed out, a lot of that news if it pertains to current events (as opposed to, for example, startup news) either comes from the NYT or from press releases or PR people. Again, not claiming Facebook isn't very important, no
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by ForrestN 15y ago
Didn't say it wouldn't matter. The NYT isn't a vehicle for conveying news. That aspect of what they do is replaceable. They are, moreso, a discoverer of news, and also an editor of both news and culture. I both roles, they are incredibly in
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by ForrestN 15y ago
It looks like as of May 2011, Facebook accounted for about 6% of NYT web traffic. That obviously doesn't include people reading the paper. I'm not saying Facebook isn't hugely important, it is. But I think Facebook is less important than th

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