Shant

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Why Second Life Failed: The Milkshake Test(slate.com)
6 points by Shant 15y ago|0 comments
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by Shant 15y ago
Same things you'd do to find a developer: 1) Ask them what they've done before. 2) Test them. Ask them what they specifically would do for you/your product now. Taken a step further if you have the resources: narrow down a few candidates, p
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by Shant 15y ago
Steve Jobs had a technical partner (Woz). If he didn't, he probably wouldn't have gotten funding (he wouldn't have had anything to necessitate funding). What this article should have said is that there needs to be a better way to connect cr
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Why email is crucial to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo(royal.pingdom.com)
25 points by Shant 15y ago|3 comments
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by Shant 15y ago
Agreed. Another good way of looking at it is that managing your spending should be like managing any other finite resource, like time. No one really thinks it makes sense to save your time by not spending time on anything at all. You want t
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by Shant 15y ago
Yes, that is what I mean. But I think this is less a text/copy problem than a design/layout problem. You should probably make the articles the front page, like Hacker News/Reddit/Digg. There's a reason that's the standard. Burying the artic
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by Shant 15y ago
I think the video does a fine job (music is a bit jarring, perhaps). But I actually think the video is the least of your concerns. Right now, when I visit your site, I get no impression of what your site actually is -- a news aggregation si