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by Poiesis 16y ago
If a clone proceeds to take all your business, I would suggest that perhaps your business model was not sustainable.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
The article gets it right in defining the classic problem: buyers are not generally users. And when they are, they're not qualified to make informed decisions about design. Where the article gets it wrong is the solution. At least in my lim
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by Poiesis 16y ago
No modding needed with the recently released, cheesily named Sturmey-Archer S3X. It's an internally-geared three speed fixed gear hub: http://www.sturmey-archer.com/products/hubs/cid/3/id/47 .
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Is the title here incorrect? From the article: Our combined income exceeds the $250,000 threshold for the super rich (but not by that much), and the president plans on raising my taxes. As for the author's premise, it all depends on what
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by Poiesis 16y ago
My 8 year old son LOVES the hardy boys, though he's mostly reading stuff a bit older now. I wonder sometimes about the...cheesiness and some of the less-than-PC content in this series and others, but I figure if I turned out OK he could too
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Their CTO, Chad Dickerson, seems a standup guy from everything I've read. Used to love his stuff at InfoWorld. (Note, the post does not appear to be from Chad).
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Our pediatrician recommends spacing the vaccinations. It turns out that when you give them very early, many require a booster later because the infant immune response isn't as strong. If you give it a bit later, no booster needed. So then i
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by Poiesis 16y ago
First of all, don't assume the domains are unused. You have no way of knowing this. I have domains that are critical to my infrastructure but don't necessarily have a web site (or even public DNS records). I'll never sell them. How does t
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I had someone call me up for a domain our company wasn't using any more. He asked, and I simply transferred ownership. It had been made clear to me earlier that the domain was not at all desired by the company.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Call me insane then. I bought an iPad instead of a laptop, which is slightly different from what you said. Why? It's a family computer. Great for kids. Portable.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I (male) will sometimes subtly bring it up. It's a bit of a gamble. If the company has a huge problem with the fact I need to occasionally take kids to appointments, etc., then I'd rather not get hired and save the trouble. Most of the time
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by Poiesis 16y ago
"But, no, when you ask someone whether they're really going to be able to take care of their kids and handle the demands of the job you're interviewing them for, you're clearly not being an equal-opportunity douchebag." Funny enough, I'm at
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I've seen that before, PearBudget is the site I remember the most. I get that you're trying to get me through the funnel, but if the funnel is the only thing there and there's nothing there to tell me how gong the funnel is or why I shoul
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Unless I'm missing something, this needs an obvious hook of why it's easier, right up front. I see a number of attractive screenshots, but nothing to excite a user into "Wow! This is simple!". I mean, everyone says their software is simpl
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by Poiesis 16y ago
This reminds me of the trouble I have with "African-American". I often have no idea where someone's cultural, racial, or national background is, and I believe it would be rude of me to presuppose a particular country. Anyway, the problem us
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Leaderboards are an anti pattern in community design because they turn 99% of your customers into losers and losing is not fun. Of course. I've always wondered about that. Do you have a source for this info? I'm not trying to lay on the
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by Poiesis 16y ago
No, no--what's coming first is farmville/foursquare style workouts and tracking. "Poiesis is King of the elliptical trainer!" "Achievement unlocked: 200 pound club" "New badge: Power Hour" "Most consecutive workout days: Poesis (42)" Add an
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I had no idea there were so many people unfamiliar with secure networks. Anyone who is anywhere near U.S. govt classified networks knows that if they hook up their device up to one of them, they will be lucky to get their equipment sans sto
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by Poiesis 16y ago
To provide another example, there's reddit. Pop-up lightbox style. I've always appreciated it not taking me from what I was reading.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Don't assume things. When you're developing, there are a thousand little decisions to be made. Don't assume that the server will be up before the client. Don't assume that the file you open will be writeable. Don't assume that the databa
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by Poiesis 16y ago
In my experience, private offices foster increased communication because a small gropu can get together and talk without having to get a conference room or pissing everyone else off.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Those Japanese characters are faster to write than their corresponding english words? That's counterintuitive, at least to me.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
History repeats itself: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_Act
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I'm sure you are familiar with the idea that family members often don't know your schedule, so they can't/don't, say, decide not to call just to shoot the breeze in the middle of your presentation. Do you handle this by letting every call f
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Summary: Cageface: the old guys better watch out because there's lots of hungry smart young guys. Patio11: anyone regardless of age needs to understand how they create value and aggressively point this out unambiguously. And creating value
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by Poiesis 16y ago
> Most of the examples you gave are applications. They require considering things external to the a core problem, such as user interaction and network communication. "Core problem" to me means solving a problem a user has. Things like
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Actually, this question was addressed by the best line in the story: The Navy did not describe the scene inside the ground station as operators sought to re-establish control with the drone.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
What it does do is create incentives for people to remodel extensively--keeping just a fraction of the house intact so it's legally not new construction--rather than move.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I don't want a new car. It's 25 years old, and I wouldn't mind replacing the ratty, decaying upholstery. My house is great, but could use some repairs. I've got a wife and four kids, and if I didn't have to work I wouldn't have this ten hou
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by Poiesis 16y ago
In California, Proposition 13 limits (among other things) reassessments to when the property changes hands or when there is new construction. Opinions vary on whether it's a good seal for the state. It's a great deal for me, though.

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