JS_startup

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by JS_startup 15y ago
An analogous question: Would you marry someone who doesn't floss? I mean, otherwise they're great, but there's all this hype around flossing and I thought everyone did it.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Word is that Grooveshark could become the next MegaUpload. A thought for anyone looking for a weekend project: An app that could export a Grooveshark playlist (not download the songs, just export artists and titles) would be really popular
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I once wrote a clone of Microsoft Word for a company looking to move away from Office dependency - I think you're really understating the complexity of something like Word when you call it a glorified textbox or say it should load as quickl
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I don't understand what he's angry about. Photoshop, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, these are all enormously complicated programs that require resources to load. That doesn't make them bloatware and it doesn't make the programmers lazy. His
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by JS_startup 15y ago
8 months for this? I thought that was the average length of a sentence given to murderers in the UK.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
>"Office runs into tens of millions of lines of code." I am aware of that - my father doesn't give a shit. He wants "to download Office" Unquestioningly bend to the capricious whims and desires of non-technical users, a winning strategy
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by JS_startup 15y ago
You're suggesting that Microsoft has brainwashed the global business community into thinking they need a single suite to perform those tasks? I'd say it's more plausible that they arrived at that conclusion on their own since it just works
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by JS_startup 15y ago
It's a little thing but the disembodied child's head on the landing page was a little creepy
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Wow, I'm actually stunned. The general consensus seemed to be that Iran would pardon him at the last minute and just have him exiled. Maybe that will still be the case?
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by JS_startup 15y ago
There might be a few, but I'd be willing to speculate that there are many MANY more examples where it did not work and the company either went under or had to perform a complete reversal like this one. I'm not saying freemium will never wor
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I personally can't wait until the freemium model finally dies. It is extraordinarily difficult to pull off despite how popular it is and creates desperate decisions like this.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
The correct way to transition from a freemium to paid service is to grandfather previous users in, not classlessly pull the rug out from under them and demand money or a backlink (seriously? $20M in venture capital and you're begging users
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Calling it: the OP is Victor Frankl
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I'm speculating as well. From the article it sounds like he is second generation Korean or Chinese.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
This sounds like a culture clash. Asian cultures (Korean and Chinese specifically) have a really unique family dynamic which you could describe as boundaryless; I worked for a Korean entrepreneur for a while and he said it's a foregone conc
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I went through the sales processes for AdWords and Bing adCenter simultaneously and the difference was night and day. I could tell from the start that Google had zero interest in customer service and if something went wrong I'd be SOL.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Dropbox wouldn't have made the 10GB/affiliate deal if the trade off of more free storage for more users wasn't profitable. I doubt they care.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Another victim of the HN echo chamber. Here's the scoop: no one outside of these forums cares what framework you use. Your users won't, investors won't..it's about getting things done and bringing a product to market. The fact that your fra
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by JS_startup 15y ago
7) Commit seppuku
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I would want the CEO to: 1) Immediately delete all of the non-user data 2) Send an apology e-mail to each Path user explaining the situation 3) Write, by hand, a corresponding apology letter for each Path user 4) Hold a townhall-style meeti
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I've always found a lot of correlations between Anonymous and Al Qaeda. Not because of terrorism or exploding vans but because both are relatively unorganized collectives who appear much scarier than they are because independent operators/c
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by JS_startup 15y ago
A couple of notes: In Chrome if I expand the window past its max-width the area to the right of the "Create" button on the dashboard is not colored properly. I wasn't sure how to view my task index; maybe something more obvious than clickin
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Horror!
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Agreed. Only at a huge scale is a custom made e-mail solution time or cost effective. Obviously the blog post was only talking about how effective it is for 37signals, but I fear many young startups will misinterpret it and waste a ton of t
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted; any business <$1M annual revenue that has to send loads of e-mail shouldn't be wasting time rolling their own solutions
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by JS_startup 15y ago
You wouldn't lose anything, but enterprise and B2B software is an entirely different world than consumer software with some very different expectations. Often times the reason screenshots aren't shown is because the application is so comple
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by JS_startup 15y ago
If you haven't already, read up on the tragedy surrounding Edwin Howard Armstrong ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong ) Edwin invented FM radio which RCA saw as a threat to its AM empire (much like Edison saw Tesla's AC me
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by JS_startup 15y ago
A UX lesson I learned long ago: If you have to have an option for it then it's a poor design
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Deck chairs..Titanic..
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Way too late. RIM has very little in the pipeline and still seems determined to try and make the PlayBook work. Rumors are that they're shopping the company around but asking too much.

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