alabut

35 ms·

301.
by alabut 17y ago
I'd love to see it in action because I was considering doing the same thing for 14gears, especially if we make it into the ycombinator session after the interview in a few weeks. I've often wondered about the nuts and bolts of YC and it doe
302.
by alabut 17y ago
I was thinking the same thing, except with Evernote - I started using it a few weeks ago and have already built up a sizable switching cost. Maybe it'd help to hear more about import options as well as competitive differences?
303.
by alabut 17y ago
And when your capital city has a unique geography that makes it both difficult to attack and guaranteed to be a center of commerce. I love all the giant old stone walls in Istanbul, the place is filthy with them. The people are totally used
304.
by alabut 17y ago
I love that the sliding meter shows tick marks for your previous rankings of other teas - the UI reflects that your judgement of a particular tea is relative to your other experiences.
305.
by alabut 17y ago
One nitpick on an otherwise fabulous article - Mark links to the HTML5 enabling script in order to add IE support but I don't see any reason not to use Modernizr instead, since you'll get CSS3 support as well. http://www.modernizr.com/
306.
by alabut 17y ago
" because he built Carbonmade for himself originally rather than for anyone else " That works pretty well for a v1, Tim O'Reilly had the colorful phrase "fishing with strawberries" to explain why it works so well: http://www.oreillynet.com
307.
by alabut 17y ago
One thing I'm curious about - I don't see user research on the list, the closest ones to it are the customer support and maybe the market research as well. Does your designer cofounder run usability tests? Or do you all take the 37signals a
308.
by alabut 17y ago
Thanks, we maxed out at the 120 word limit in our answer there already but I'll see if we can trim or put it elsewhere. I couldn't help but notice that your contact page is a perfect description of the problem we're trying to solve :)
309.
Tell PG: technical issue with W10 application form
7 points by alabut 17y ago|4 comments
310.
by alabut 17y ago
NASA and the ability for a government program to be startup-like, as well as my impression that test pilots were selected only for bravado. I'm reading Carrying The Fire, a book by the Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins. I was tota
311.
by alabut 17y ago
You can be separated by distance and still easily use paper to quickly iterate through ideas. 37signals themselves do this - they're geographically distributed yet use Sharpies to think through rough interface ideas: http://37signals.com/s
312.
by alabut 17y ago
The article references this survey at digg: http://blog.digg.com/?p=878 " This goes directly to why most folks use IE6: they don’t have a choice. Three out of four IE6 users on Digg said they can’t upgrade due to some technical or workpla
313.
by alabut 17y ago
Original link: http://bobulate.com/post/205253518/on-thank-you-or-why-socra...
314.
by alabut 17y ago
To keep the logic going (that Dustin may have been implying) - why meet face-to-face and pay thousands for travel expenses?
315.
by alabut 17y ago
This is the opposite of readable, for me. Even assuming that you're using the shorthand notation to compact the properties vertically and that you're listing out each one here because they need to have different properties, grouping the rel
316.
by alabut 17y ago
I don't know about the rest of the rules - #2 would drive me nuts - but I read #1 years ago and it's helped me keep my sanity ever since. Something as simple as alphabetizing properties gave me a sort of muscle memory for where certain thin
317.
by alabut 17y ago
You can already do this with the Modernizr javascript library, it works just like the blog post described: http://modernizr.com/ It's a good approach - target only supported features through CSS inheritance. It's what I used to make my fi
318.
by alabut 17y ago
" In most cases, if the person doing the PM role for you tells you he can't do anything else because the PM role takes too much time, you're probably getting rolled. " Ugh, I've experienced this and it's terrible. It's not just that they're
319.
by alabut 17y ago
" Most non-technical PMs I know were former founders at startups of their own " That's one way, another is to grow into it from a related role: programmer, designer, etc.
320.
by alabut 17y ago
Kohana looks promising, never heard of it before. From Wikipedia: "The principal reason for the fork was to create a more community-based web application framework as many users were frustrated with CodeIgniter's lack of bug fixes and inclu
321.
by alabut 17y ago
Maybe a better title would've been - How To Stay A Design Genius. I didn't see a lot of connection between his post-sabbatical projects and the year that he spent off, which is fine - the main benefit seemed to be a rejuvenation of his love
322.
by alabut 17y ago
That's great advice, Sean. I'd also add going to local groups like the one you host, Bootstrapper's Breakfasts. I went to one last year when I started a side project with a friend and got a lot of great feedback. Semi-regular meetups are th
323.
by alabut 17y ago
Fine, I'll say it if no one else will - the actor portraying Ajay looks funny and acts hilariously pompous, even in such a short ad. "A decade ago, he would have been reduced to caricature" and the same thing happened now, so who knows wh
324.
by alabut 17y ago
The article has a lot of references to 37signals and is in the same spirit of advocating simplicity. The one link that got overlooked is the one that offers the most concrete advice on how to make a simpler interface - design from the ins
325.
by alabut 17y ago
I'd rather blame people that took his advice to extremes and tried to shove everything above the fold, which isn't what he advocated, just to add the most important stuff up top: "Is all key information visible above the fold so users ca
326.
by alabut 17y ago
For those in the bay area, that's one of the books we're going to cover at the UX Book Club. The next one is Mental Models, then the Maeda book. http://groups.google.com/group/ux-book-club-san-francisco (for more info) http://www.faceboo
327.
by alabut 17y ago
I learned a similar corollary in constitutional law class in college - that Supreme Court justices already have their opinions on issues and their related cases, then go crawling through the previous cases to construct the precedents that s
328.
by alabut 17y ago
Dang, you got that page early - it's a stub page and I'm in the middle of design sessions for a relaunch, which should include more information like pricing.
329.
by alabut 17y ago
Looks like you can target the user agent: "Google Chrome Frame reports that it is available by extending the host's User-Agent header to add the string chromeframe. You can use server-side detection to look for this token and determine whe
330.
by alabut 17y ago
Platform wasn't sold that way initially, in fact they bragged about how something as core as Photos or Gifts could be replaced by a superior version created by 3rd party developers. I found the difference now - it's in the description of th

More ›