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by alabut 17y ago
Innovation and theft are two different things. Forget the hardware and architecture patents - I'm sick of design being treated as a commodity that's assumed to be freely copyable, simply because it's a user interface rather than a hardware
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True and not so true - design and engineering do need to work closely together and take turns driving each other to improve, but one is often more important than the other. Guess which one people use to form initial snap judgements about a
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They also acquired Foldershare years ago and it was remarkably similar, even had Windows/OS X integration, although they haven't done much with it since the acquisition. Dropbox feels like the much better designed younger sibling - the Web
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I understood you just fine, didn't take you literally, knew that you didn't mean to offend and still found your comment a bit annoying. Annoying's not so bad, I wouldn't go as far as to say I was offended, although it's more out of repetiti
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No, because you're just extending an olive branch after the inflammatory attention-grabbing part. You lost me at the divisive generalization, even if I personally fall into the camp of "designers who can program".
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" Designers are from Venus and developers are from Mars. And they won’t ever really understand each other. " Utter nonsense. Or maybe it's true at giant enterprise silos more than startups and that's why I shy away from large corporate work
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No limit holdem, the only game worth playing :)
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It depends on what the rest of the site design is as well - it's hard to judge the logo in isolation. It's the same concept as pairing wines with cheese. For example, A is the most neutral and could go well with a modern layout, G is minima
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He mentioned Matt in that context but also said that he was so impressed with how tough he thought Matt was and was glad to see it was true.
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I know I'm not the only poker player on here that loved that Matt Maroon was the first person PG thought of when singling out characteristics of founders. And even better - now it makes our biweekly YC poker game actually feel productive. I
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I came close to joining Eventvue last year and making the big move from SF to Boulder just because I liked these two so much, so I'm bummed to see their baby wind down and know they put a lot of heart into it. Closing their second round dur
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And Khoi Vinh started doing it before JSM in Sept 2007 with a group blog called A Brief Message. It's been dead for about 2 years now but it was being regularly maintained for a while with weekly updates and had interesting guest authors th
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I'm guessing this was added because of the reference in Asana's video of their new programming language: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1097235
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I interviewed with Asana back in October and I got to see an in-person demo of the app Justin shows at the 1:45 mark, a "structured list editor" that he says they use internally to track bugs and projects. It's not just a hello world app th
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I noticed an assumption that he makes that's worth pointing out. All the examples he gives where overly realistic elements are distracting are interactive ones, things you're supposed to click on, switch off, etc. However it can enhance thi
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Yes! That's the point I gravitated towards as well, there really is a similar playful yet polished vibe from several New York startups like Vimeo, Boxee and Tumblr, off the top of my head. As for the main point of the article - couldn't dis
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http://www.performable.com/
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Wow, slow news day.
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Did anyone else get the vibe that Wufoo is a lot like 37signals? It wasn't just the reference to meeting Jason Fried at SXSW, it was Kevin's answers to a lot of varied questions about revenue, company culture, interface approach, dedication
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Ask HN: who's visiting SF for the crunchies?
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I'm glad to see that someone else noticed the last paragraph. It totally hijacks the rest of the article by conflating his excellent rant against security pantomime theater with his proposed solution of doing nothing, mixed in with a bit of
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A good place to start is to read the only four books on the list: * Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People * Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information * Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters * Jessica Livingst
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WARNING, SPOILER BELOW. His description omits one very Silicon Valley-like aspect to the series - this season closed with the principals jumping ship to form their own tiny firm, much like a startup. I found it very inspiring, you don't see
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Awesome, glad I could help. Whitney's got a great sense of community and really does her homework when writing. She interviewed me and a bunch of other designers to put together an article on process vs portfolio. The book I've been referen
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I loved Twitter and signed up super early (summer 06) because it helped me keep in touch with my wife while she finished nursing school in San Diego and I was working my first SF job. Reading the original review reminds me of how much I lik
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Good tips - I also like Ryan Singer's talk on the subject: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1952-i-gave-a-talk-on-ui-fund...
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I think they'd run out of business cards, if I remember correctly. And we were getting kind of drunk by then so I don't remember their app either :) sorry!
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You guys do great work - we were just talking about you at the lean startup event last night with a team from Holland that's in town to interview at YC. I think there was some kind of friend-of-a-friend-married-a-sister type of connection :
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Man, what is with all the snark around here lately? This thing is gorgeous and there's nothing wrong with that. When Dustin or JSM does it, it gets upvotes up the wazoo. It's even praising those authors and acknowledging prior art.
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" But how do you practice answering tough questions? " And how do you handle answering so many of them, fired at you all at once from multiple people in the span of 10 minutes? Every description of the YC interviews says that's the hardest

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