RickS

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by RickS 11y ago
"The CEO is the only one who will change it, and clearly doesn't have interest in that, so give up or move on" feels at first like a bleak and defeatist answer. I have found that it is entirely true. A company I worked at bef
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by RickS 11y ago
This is an important distinction. Simple's API is not secret, but it's also not stable, or versioned, or anything close to that. Tools have been written to extract data from simple's API, but those endpoints have mostly been
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by RickS 11y ago
Karmic Labs | SF ONSITE Front End Engineers, UI Engineers, Visual/Marketing Design We're making scriptable debit cards to give business owners the ability to move money between team members in real time. We're hiring front en
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by RickS 11y ago
Barring some strong marketing leading up to launch, that's not realistic, which is the point of the quote. Instagram's first day performance was in the "so good you'd sound like a joke for suggesting it was possible&quot
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by RickS 11y ago
It's a fine line between "minimal and designery" and "understyled". I think this falls slightly to the wrong side. Also, the icon thing encourages people to check the most number of boxes, even if they're not s
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by RickS 11y ago
"But $Company_X is evil!" is about as bad as "Ugh I hate paywalls" in terms of distracting meta-commentary on links. Preaching to the choir.
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by RickS 11y ago
Traffic: relatively low, and still specialized around a few industries, meaning not only is there a small number of people, but they're more mature than a random sampling of internet users. Culture: There's a "this is not red
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by RickS 11y ago
The ellipses scattered through that quote hint that it's been sliced together from a larger statement to make the guy look more tone deaf.
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by RickS 11y ago
Are ensure et al nutritionally complete? As in - you can live off ensure and nothing else? My understanding is that soylent (and clones) are able to be full replacements for food in general, whereas ensure, muscle milk, etc, are meant to be
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by RickS 11y ago
Yes. Sufficiently large American cities will have enough mentally ill homeless people to make an unlocked bathroom a big liability. Even if they're a very small fraction of the population, you only have to find the walls smeared with s
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by RickS 11y ago
I'd be happy to help with this, and I'm surely not the only one. Then again, I'm sure that lack of bandwidth isn't the reason.
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by RickS 11y ago
DB Notes is clearly a spiritual continuation, and some things are directly continued (fonts, limited styling, minimal composition area), but it's also got features that are distinct from the original HackPad, like sidebar comment threa
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by RickS 11y ago
3rd party reviews are seen as more useful than reviews in seller-owned platforms because they're impartial. The moment you monetize, that impartiality is gone. There's a perverse incentive to make the product look more attractive
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by RickS 11y ago
Why are conversions low? Because these look like alibaba sample pictures with the prices 5X'd. I bought one of these couches from china for about $450 through a service like yours, which is the dictionary definition of a "middlema
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by RickS 11y ago
Did you make it to the end of the article? While I agree that's not a stunning insight, I don't think the author should be punished for stating the clearest conclusion of a graph before talking more about it.
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by RickS 11y ago
I did for the 2 months, recently had a few and broke the streak. No kind of problem at all, although that's where everyone's mind goes when you say you quit cold turkey. Findings didn't change that much, but the break itself
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by RickS 11y ago
Quit altogether for 2 months as a diet experiment, with 2 expectations: 1) it would be socially frictive 2) I would lose some weight. Both were wrong. 1) Quitting had basically no social consequences. The friction of ordering a non-alcoholi
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by RickS 11y ago
> I usually like girls that fit the mental image of the kind of girl I want to be with (or at least think I want to be with). That's very much a two way street. Are you cultivating yourself to be the person that women (at least the
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by RickS 11y ago
KARMIC LABS - SF (SOMA) - ON SITE UI/Visual Designer We believe your debit card should work more like an app, and we're building the software to make that a reality. Programmable limits, auto reload, data visualization, etc. We re
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by RickS 11y ago
I hoped this would be an article about how Q bridges the gap between traditionally high-value employees and less glamorous roles. Disappointing that the TL;DR is "They've got W2s! It's great, trust us!" Reads more like a
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by RickS 11y ago
Microsoft could be skype
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by RickS 11y ago
If they had a dropdown for a few beer brands on the booking site, and rolled it into room price at a 30% margin, I'd totally go for it, and it'd be good as a cheeky marketing stunt too. Imagine it - which 6 pack would you like to
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by RickS 11y ago
It's definitely a divisive technique. I found myself trying to scroll down as well, and when I realized I couldn't, the second wave of animations snapped my attention back to the top, and I said "well, let's see what thi
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by RickS 12y ago
The author of that book has a decent Coursera course as well. https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~326
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by RickS 12y ago
When your product is a solution without a real problem (which all the listed companies are, IMO), no amount of "design" will get you there. There isn't enough problem surface area to eliminate, which is where the value gets c
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by RickS 12y ago
>Husting thought Sylianteng’s design was a good concept to run with (Sylianteng wasn’t paid for the project) Wow. That's a shame, to say the least, unless she chose specifically to do this out of charity.
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by RickS 12y ago
Iteration cycle speed.
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by RickS 12y ago
Info in my profile, happy to meet up.
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by RickS 12y ago
A cursory google search didn't turn up anything about this... anywhere I can read more?
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by RickS 12y ago
You can place these devices without a warrant. Likely not true of the cell phone.

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