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by aasarava 18y ago
I'm with you on this one. It's way too complicated. We know that Web users have little patience for forms with too many fields, pages that take a second too long to load, text that runs more than a couple sentences, and so on. Try to mak
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by aasarava 18y ago
It's interesting to hear that some parts of Craigslist are 90% spam now. You'd think that under a traditional parasite-host model, the spammers wouldn't want to completely kill off the message boards / classified sections where they direct
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by aasarava 18y ago
We are so far away from an actually usable interface it's disgusting. Tech interfaces are usable -- they're just not intuitive to those who didn't grow up using computers. Ironically, part of the problem is that the metaphors and shortcu
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by aasarava 18y ago
Not sure where you're located and whether hiring laws apply to internships at startups, but you should consider posting the qualifications you'd like in the ideal candidate and see who shows up -- regardless of age and gender. Who knows, y
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by aasarava 18y ago
Congrats to the Standard for at least acknowledging that iPhone coverage has been all-consuming these past few days.
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by aasarava 18y ago
For Windows, you can get WinSCP pretty easily. It supports SFTP and, obviously, SCP.
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by aasarava 18y ago
I've been blogging on and off since 1999 and I've seen a lot of friends and other good bloggers stop maintaining their sites over the years for various reasons. Some got married and didn't have their single-person adventures to write about
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by aasarava 18y ago
The problem about discrimination is what happens after this step: a man is unable to multitask. A giraffe is unable to eat food that is not in trees. We are in agreement, and I give you credit for explaining the point better than I did. I
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by aasarava 18y ago
While that makes for a neatly packaged Darwinian theory, it's important to remember that genetic selection is not the only force that affects our decisions. Medicine, culture, technology, and many other factors affect, and even override,
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by aasarava 18y ago
I don't think there's a single culprit. Now, I'm not a sociologist, and I'm simplifying here, but it seems to me that it starts in childhood with the selection of toys and judgments on character that parents and family members apply. Boys
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by aasarava 18y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of those "let's talk about improving the company" retreats do end up being historic wastes of time -- but not necessarily because the meeting itself happened, but because nothing happened afterward. Or more specificall
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by aasarava 18y ago
Aren't community papers essentially already "hyperlocal" (think SF Bay Guardian, East Bay Express, etc.)? Even at the city paper level for most small- and mid-sized cities, the local section is a big part of why people subscribe (think SF
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by aasarava 18y ago
Very, very interesting. Though it does have the drawback of not allowing any bottom-of-page content (Ads / About / ToS / Contact links, etc.) It also brings up the question of how much data you can fit into one browser window. (Anyone kno
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by aasarava 18y ago
You can try going to industry events (check upcoming.org for startup related events in your town.) I found my first real contracting gig by meeting and chatting with the CEO of a startup at such an event. I later checked the company's Web
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by aasarava 18y ago
Craigslist -- ok, just kidding. My advice on how to find a job that energizes you rather than saps your energy? It's similar to advice you've heard before, though in a different context: Keep iterating. Try something new or someplace new,
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by aasarava 18y ago
Do you like your job? Do you like the people you work with? Do you respect your boss? Do you feel like you're learning new things there on a regular basis? The reason I ask is because some jobs -- ok, many jobs -- drain the energy out of
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by aasarava 18y ago
Absolutely agree with you about needing a well defined scope and how that can reduce the chance of an overrun. Likewise, laying the hammer down simply because an arbitrary deadline is on the calendar isn't good project management. But I st
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by aasarava 18y ago
From the article: Projects on which the boss applied no schedule pressure whatsoever ("Just wake me up when you're done.") had the highest productivity of all. I'd love to meet that team... In my own experience, development projects that
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by aasarava 18y ago
Anyone else notice that advice on PR these days is all starting to echo the same Catch-22: "Have a bunch of users and you'll have no trouble getting great PR!" You might as well say, "Be popular and you'll get more popular!" While the stat
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by aasarava 18y ago
Even if you disagree on the exact number of people you need to test with, the key point here is that you don't need to have access to an expensive usability lab to get good feedback on your product. Just looking over someone's shoulder as
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by aasarava 18y ago
The best reference to the magazine will be when they announce your title and affiliation (and possibly print the title/affiliation at the bottom of the screen), so make sure they know clearly that you're the "Editor of WindyCitizen.com" (or
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by aasarava 18y ago
But Evite is way close to "invite" -- and Evite is going to have a pretty hard time showing that it has ownership over all derivations of the word.
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by aasarava 18y ago
On the consumer Internet sites I have worked on in the past year, the stats have shown roughly 30% of users still have IE6. For the services that 37Signals provides, it's quite likely that this drops to just a few percent -- after all, the
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by aasarava 18y ago
I think that currently you have a blog, not a startup business. :) That's not to say that a blog can't be a business, but it seems like you have a lot of work yet to do to form some sort of product offering (which could be content) and a bu
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by aasarava 18y ago
Don't forget that companies like US Web / CKS, Razorfish, and Organic grew quite large during the dot-com boom, when there was plenty of Web dev and design work to go around. (Sure, these companies had major downfalls, but I'd argue that t
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by aasarava 18y ago
Agreed. You get paid what the market will bear. There are fewer CFOs with experience managing the finances of $Billion+ companies than there are engineers who have developed high performance apps. Given this scarcity, and that the CFO (a
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by aasarava 18y ago
By the way, the comment from Aaron G on the original article is right on: Don't think you've got better security than Mensa if you're using MD5 to hash your users' password -- you should be using something along the lines of bcrypt. http:/
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by aasarava 18y ago
From the site: " * Will only crawls up to 1500 pages * Does not support sites requiring authentication * Does not perform Blind SQL injection * Cannot retrieve database contents * Does not support JavaScript or flash parsi
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by aasarava 18y ago
It seems like there could be some performance benefits in pre-compiling or "pre-parsing" PHP. For instance, the compiler could copy specific functions or classes from an include file and save them right into the script where they're actual
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by aasarava 18y ago
Granted, the large corporation in question may truly have inefficiencies and other problems. But let's be fair: A prototype is not equal to a multi-million dollar corporation. That's like comparing a seed to an orange.

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