MehdiEG

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by MehdiEG 14y ago
That sucks. I would have hoped that the university / event organisers would have provided any help possible to at least get his paperwork back in order though. The article makes it sound like he was pretty much left on his own devices after
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
I admit that I'm not intimately familiar with YC's and pg's preaching but my impression of what I've read and seen from pg is that he is very insistent on startups having a solid business model and on them focusing on customer acquisition.
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
What freaks you out? He makes $100 - $150 a day from app sales, which gives him a comfortable financial cushion. App sales put aside, he reckons that he can keep going for several months on savings alone. And he reckons that, should every
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Neat but clicking Reaction on http://see-reaction.appspot.com/index.html prompts me to submit the story to HN when it's obviously already been submitted.
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
I should go back and take a look at the exact wording of the Apple App Store rules but I never had problems submitting apps that use SSL. There's one step of the submission process that asks about the use of cryptography and I've always pic
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Putting aside the issue that much of this data shouldn't have been sent anywhere in the first place, I'll never understand why, in 2012, SSL is still not used by default when sending any sensitive or private data across the network. It's ev
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
QuickOffice was definitely one of Symbian's very few truly great third party software - so congrats for having been a big part part of this!
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
No, it's not a problem per se, why? It's just one of the reason why crappy design still abound, which was the OP's question.
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
"1. Someone in the executives actually likes the site the way it is." That one is probably the main reason why companies stick with awful-looking websites. I'll never cease to be amazed at how many people have no design sense or eye whatsoe
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Another even easier and quicker way to greatly improve UX in many products is better copywriting (possibly by hiring an actual copywriter). Quite frankly, I know I'd be quite puzzled if a message popped up out of nowhere telling me "You mig
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Same here - didn't get it at all at first. When I read "Pick your favorite sites. Take a video. Swipe to share.", I thought that it allowed you to share videos that you found on YouTube or other video sites, which didn't make any sense. I g
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Aren't they a little bit late in the game? The whole ninja / guru non-sense culminated at some point last year but is pretty much gone now.
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
So what you're saying is that you haven't got any experience and haven't got the faintest clue in what you're talking about (VC funding), but you're still giving advice to people and were trying to sell an "e-book" about it? Of course, I kn
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
This is what you say: " This is not your run of the mill E-book – this is content that puts you in the mind of the VCs, allowing you to: Dominate Pitches Understand their perspective Speech their language Get into incumbators " (all spellin
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
If you can fix this problem, you've got a goldmine in your hands. Never mind the map, simply knowing that the flats you're looking at are actually real would completely change the experience (the map is very handy though - keep it of course
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
I looked for a flat in London twice in the past year so I've felt the pain and would love to find something that makes the process easier. I'm not sure you're addressing the true pain points though. What I found to be truly nightmarish when
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Abstraction gone wrong almost always come down to wanting to abstract for the wrong reasons. RPC was all about pretending from the client side that accessing a remote resource was the same as calling a local method. This was and still is no
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
I have to say that I was equally puzzled by this post the first time I read it. Perhaps having some background information about what exactly he's working on might have helped. On a second read, it looks like the meat of the post is about d
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Many people really struggle to type on a keyboard - it's something that geeks often forget (I've been reminded of this again this week when helping my mum setup her new laptop). For them, having to enter their email address twice isn't subo
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
In fairness, I would assume that pg and al. are clued in enough to know that HN's login and registration system is complete bollocks. They just don't care about it (presumably, they consider that there are more important things to work on t
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Am I missing something or is this article devoid of any substance or even content beyond stating the blatantly obvious (Apple is different now than what it was in 1985. Apple execs know they have to keep innovating... Duh!).
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of awards. As you'll find out pretty quickly if you keep going for awards, what happened to you here is nothing more than business as usual. The immense majority of awards out there are 100% bullshit and compl
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by MehdiEG 14y ago
That's what typical response times look like: http://i45.tinypic.com/qq1xmd.png (this measures the total time to download a static Hello World HTML page 325 bytes in size hosted on IIS from an EX 4S server in Hetzner's DC15 data centre).
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by MehdiEG 15y ago
The government most likely. There are several places in this world where startups, and businesses in general, almost drown in free money like this. The downside to this is that in order to get this free money, you first have to go through a
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by MehdiEG 15y ago
IMHO the original posts and many of the comments are mixing up very different and somewhat unrelated issues. Issue #1 The SIM card, as a piece of plastic used to identify your phone number and mobile operator, is indeed pre-historic technol
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by MehdiEG 15y ago
I'm French as well and, quite frankly, I don't see anything special here. It's just business as usual as it has been for the past 5 years. It goes like this: 1) A tragic but isolated incident occurs. 2) Our dear President jumps into action,
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by MehdiEG 15y ago
This is what was discussed a few days ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649828 Joel Spolsky's blog post, mentioned in the discussion, is worth a read too: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie... And
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On solving the wrong problem: why digital business cards don't work(blog.shhmooze.com)
1 points by MehdiEG 15y ago|0 comments
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Produce Dysons, not fart machines (product development lessons from handdryers)(blog.shhmooze.com)
1 points by MehdiEG 15y ago|0 comments