ahoyhere

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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   I see that the majority of the business world has pathetic technical vision, but a lot more money. Careful. They may have more money in aggregate, but a lot of them don't buy tech solutions, don't want to change, aren't actually business-
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   Jarrod's point in writing this essay was to question and counterpoint Sascha's original claim about the "perfect price."
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   This theory is called "penetration pricing," and most research shows that it works very rarely, and only in specific circumstance. It's intuitive, and mostly wrong. Which is why I recommended the book Pricing with Confidence to Sascha when
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   Hi. That's what I'm here for. Why "Uh oh"? I'm not the boogeyman ;)
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   Quite a few "desktop" apps have hybrid models - Evernote, Dropbox, CRM software, iCloud, etc, no doubt there are more which I can't think of at the moment.
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   Not many have made it to that point - 3 years - however. This is true, but there are only 2 reasons I see: 1. Choosing the utterly wrong product. Smart people like us are drawn like moths to the flame of "great ideas," rather than "things
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   As somebody who makes quite a bit of money off infoproducts (ebooks etc) -- and who has a lot of friends who do it as well -- I can assure you, there are support costs for ebooks. :) People lose download links, you have to reissue. People
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   Thanks for the link :) That graph is nice but this is the real graph you want to see: https://img.skitch.com/20120331-ft3faju2jpqseq3ucff1fgi31h.p... That's the "estimated" (all open trials) revenue growth for Freckle over its whole life
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   by ahoyhere 15y ago

   If he had donated $1000 to a fund opposing inter-racial marriage… Bravo. This is exactly the argument we should make. If he had donated to pass an anti-miscegenation law, we would all know it was wrong. You're free to believe whatever you
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    I totally agree with you about the importance of perspective and deep thinking. I hammer on about those, myself. But that has to be a fire you already have, something you seek on your own, or all the clever, insightful, Robin Williams-Oh Ca
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    As the woman, I've been the only person in the group asked to put together a pot luck (presumably, this work is beneath the males). I've been the only one asked to take notes in a meeting... even if I'm the one who's presenting (because my
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Thanks for your feedback. We'll look into how we can make the links copy & pasteable without that annoying side effect.
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Question: Why did the title of this post change? Was it the original submitter who changed it? If no, who? https://img.skitch.com/20120321-81k4yxffg161n1rh9f2dc4kf56.p...
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Yeah, you said their work was "light enough" that distractions don't matter. That was condescension. If you want to backpedal, you actually have to take the pedals and run them backwards. Otherwise it's not effective.
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    …maybe designers and people whose job is to sling HTML or javascript don't need to have "Flow"… Maybe the jobs for these people are light enough that there is no context switching cost… Typical HN narcissism: it must be trivial if it's no
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Totally agree with you. You can customize the displayed cities on the iPhone/iPad version, and that'll be on the "desktop" version RSN.
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out, it used to work, think maybe Thomas introduced a bug when he totally reimplemented it last week :)
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Thomas added this to the mobile version of the app first (last week). It'll be on the "full" version soon.
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Looks like Thomas hacked it in this morning. Click the "link to this page" in the top right. It doesn't add it to your clipboard or anything but you can c&p from the address bar.
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Glad you guys like it. I designed it, my husband Thomas Fuchs built it. I designed it this way because none of the time zone tools out there reflect the actual nature of time (zones): simultaneous, overlapping lines thru time. ETZ doesn't j
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Here are my thoughts: Reading your comment is a totally superior experience to reading pg's essay. You explained your viewpoint. You reasoned it out. You backed up your views. You didn't make seemingly unconnected bald statements with a sin
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Nothing at all. It's just that when you see comments like these -- "I noticed that" or "me too" -- you so rarely see "and then I wondered why, and here's what I found…" as a follow-up. The conversation is poorer because "I noticed" is where
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Yup, I do, but conditionally. But, like I said, that doesn't matter. What's at issue is not what I believe, but what you fail to demonstrate, argue, or prove. You asked for statements I believed to be false. I took this to mean statements
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    I never claimed to be driven by a disinterested search for truth. I said I am intellectually galled. I find lazy thinking to be extremely irritating.
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    For 1. See my comment later when pg asks me to lay out some points and I do so. For 2. Yes, citations can make you look more authoritative. But here's the thing. I believe pg is falling into a trap that most of us smart people fall into: we
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    The burden of proof is on you. It's your essay. Furthermore, I didn't state that I disagreed… I merely asked you to explain your reasoning. Argument isn't a case of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." You either have a case to ma
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    PG once wrote: "I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it" Her
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Laughter is social lubricant. There is lots of research on this: people laugh more in groups; inferiors laugh more than superiors; nervous people laugh at themselves, and laughing at yourself is also kind of way to efface yourself and show
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Not enmity. I am intellectually galled by the laziness of many of pg's arguments. I agree with a lot of what he writes about creating things people want, on the other hand, and wish he would stick to writing about things he's good at -- or
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    by ahoyhere 15y ago

    Here are some: "Having good ideas is most of writing well." How did you come to this conclusion? Evidence? Citations? Reasoning? "… how much less ideas mattered in speaking than writing" Is this based off just the ONE other speaker you