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by MortenK 14y ago
In 5 minutes I created a zap that creates a text file in my skydrive when a github issue is created. That is absolutely amazing - this is a killer product.
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by MortenK 14y ago
I don't get as much done on my pet projects as I would like either, but I have at least found the following to be helpful: -Focus on one project at a time, picking the one most interesting rather than the potentially most profitable. -I lik
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by MortenK 14y ago
Selling your car at a price above whatever is left of your loan, does not mean you've made a profit!
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by MortenK 14y ago
That argument is actually adressed in the post: "The engineering team, ever mindful of security, argued that being generic about username and password errors makes it harder for bad guys to guess usernames by pounding the form with random w
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by MortenK 14y ago
What happens if the iPhone runs out of battery? The site says it still works if you have "lost power", but I assume this means in the household?
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by MortenK 14y ago
There is always room for one more on the market.
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by MortenK 14y ago
yarn deks
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by MortenK 14y ago
Looks fine here (FF, Windows): http://screencast.com/t/LS2S6mMzi8
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by MortenK 14y ago
I learned about mindmaps after reading one of Tony Buzan's book on the subject many years ago. I find it very effective on paper, but in software mindmapping utils, it is, as you say, often not more than a glorified tree structure. I'd high
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by MortenK 14y ago
And yours?
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by MortenK 14y ago
Lifecycles are either sequential or iterative. But there's a lot of differences in the lifecycles, and many more models than usually assumed. For example spiral development, throwaway prototyping, evolutionary prototyping, staged delivery,
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by MortenK 14y ago
At places like shapeways, they have the big printers. Those can print some sort of metal. I have a sample, it is rock solid.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Fun idea, but it seems extremely sensitive to downswings in the demand for developers.
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by MortenK 14y ago
In the realm of web-apps though, unqualified tyre-kickers i.e. people who just try the demo, have an almost non-existing cost (a bit of traffic and a few system transactions). So I can't see why you would sacrifice more potential customers
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by MortenK 14y ago
You should make it possible to sign up without credit card. It's a big barrier to cross, as the potential customer not only has to leave his comfortable chair or sofa to find his cc details, but also has to remember to unsubscribe if the se
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by MortenK 14y ago
The people inhabiting your part of the world is not everyone.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Yes for communication with humans, but for interacting with a computer? Gestures are imprecise, physically tiring and non-intuitive for the very precise and specific actions we have to do on a PC every day.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Funny and interesting production, I'm sure you'll land something on this :-)
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by MortenK 14y ago
The electricity costs for such a site is probably a couple a bucks a day. It would be very weird if they were really turning of the servers every night just to save a few dollars.
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by MortenK 14y ago
We have a customer only allowing registration for a webshop during working hours(!). In that case, it wasn't about marginal power bills, legislation or anything of the sort. It is just because their system is not fully automated, so wheneve
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by MortenK 14y ago
37 signals is best known for Basecamp, a piece of immensely popular project management software. They also make Campfire which is team chat software, and Highrise, a CRM system for small companies. All of these products have been extremely
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by MortenK 14y ago
Very nice article. I especially like the quote (paraphrased): "Activity is not necessarily progress". It's this common misconception that keeps a lot of us tied to the chairs for 8-12 hours every day, when we could often accomplish the same
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by MortenK 14y ago
Probably old enough to take public transporation, if they are attending a talk on how Pinterest scales their product :-)
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by MortenK 14y ago
Really bad attitude from both the founder, and the Scoutzie employee badmouthing 99 designs. If there's something to learn from this thread, it's how not to reply to criticism.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Indeed, it's a very odd piece. No arguments except opinions ("state is bad", "functions and data shouldn't mix" etc). I fail to see the underlying reasoning for any of his gripes. It just comes of as a frustrated computer scientist / mathem
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by MortenK 14y ago
You can A) Open source it. B) Shut it down. C) Try to find someone still blue-eyed enough to accept only equity for a lot of work. D) Earn money yourself elsewhere and pay a developer to work for you. I imagine this post is an attempt for C
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by MortenK 14y ago
Seems more like a lesson in how to get attention by pandering to the lowest common denominator. This blog post is contentless, arrogant and confrontational sludge.
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by MortenK 14y ago
I really like the "Share to Facebook" button at the end of the post.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Problem is the exit is never guaranteed. Many people end up doing work they hate for many years, never reaching that mythical massive payout.
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by MortenK 14y ago
This is entirely wrong. From personal experience, I've seen one of our forums for a utility app, grow a nice little community with not so much as a single false post. Users started appearing by themselves after having tried out the app, and

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