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by alabut 18y ago
From the Ycombinator FAQ: "Don't incorporate, though, if you can avoid it. Especially as an LLC. It's much more complicated for us to deal with existing paperwork than to start from scratch." And as a personal note, I've found the same logi
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by alabut 18y ago
Related: Steven Levitt's TED talk, "Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?" shows some real world stats about drug dealers. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_levitt_analyzes_cr... As for the BBC article, I found it inspi
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by alabut 18y ago
This is very true, even for someone in a relationship and bringing in steady income. I freelanced all of 2005 and had both, yet some of my fondest memories come from working at a cheese shop the second half of the year. I figured it'd get m
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by alabut 18y ago
That's a very narrow definition of vector vs raster, the end result looks very different from a photograph. Vector-based drawings have a certain swoopy hand-drawn style to them, vs the realism of altering and recombining photorealistic imag
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by alabut 18y ago
There's a similar design pattern that I like better - rather than showing a sample of what a filled out page looks like, offer a short tutorial on what the expected actions are. For example, 37signals does this well. After creating a Baseca
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by alabut 18y ago
Absolutely, it's as vague as it gets. Is it for zsaqa.com, something else, what?
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by alabut 18y ago
Awesome, thanks pg - now I'm looking forward to getting the app in shape for applying. Side note: I'm impressed with the speed and helpfulness of the answers on HN - I asked the same question on linkedin, twitter and facebook and got vague
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Ask HN: does raising convertible debt preclude applying to YC?
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by alabut 18y ago
This is great progress! Signup form at google for notifications when Mac Chrome goes live: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/mac.html
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by alabut 18y ago
Interesting idea but it's still basically grid paper and I have a beef with those types of journals - the ink color for the grids is too dark and overpowers whatever you're trying to sketch. I used to buy "ghost grid" notebooks from Edward
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by alabut 18y ago
Sorry, google's giving me no love either and I tried digging through my delicious bookmarks too.
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by alabut 18y ago
Studying body language reveals really interesting things during group tasks. It reminds me of a study on how perceived authority makes people jerks, even when leaders are picked out of thin air. Researchers did something similar to the stud
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by alabut 18y ago
Interesting rant about being misinformed, considering the assumptions you make about both my experience with the frameworks as well as my "professional" working experience. How about the fact that I've worked exclusively at two different Dj
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by alabut 18y ago
Just in my own experiences at work and with friends, I've found the opposite to be true - people pick up the language to use the framework and haven't met anyone that knew either language before choosing which one to use. Plus both framewor
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by alabut 18y ago
Oh christ on a bike, not another one of these. It's not even well-written - I wish I could downvote this thing just for the giant chunk of writing completely in italics . Here's my problem with all of these articles with the rails versus
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by alabut 18y ago
Sure, I made two simultaneous changes in the last year and a half, with each one helping to make the other happen: went from a jack-of-all-trades front end dev to a usability-focused designer, and from never having been at a startup to focu
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by alabut 18y ago
Classic article by Shirky - I still see data-centric programmers making this fundamental underlying mistake all the time.
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by alabut 18y ago
I heard a good description years ago (from juxtinteractive maybe? or maybe eric from 2advanced) on why movie websites were a really good proving ground for experimental web design - it's one of the few website projects you can land with bot
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by alabut 18y ago
A big assumption underlying the article is that Google's Latitude will take off - that's definitely not a given. Just because it's made by Google and free isn't necessarily enough to overcome switching costs, a lot of people have their loca
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by alabut 18y ago
One could argue that OS X already has a basic implementation of this with Exposé - work down at the single window level, then zoom up to the all-windows view, zoom back down, etc. It even combines with Spaces well - you can trigger both Spa
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by alabut 18y ago
Direct link to the video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_424YskAfew The thing that makes it watchable is the speech bubbles above the actors' heads point out the subtext of the conversations at each step in the bureaucracy. Not surprisingly,
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by alabut 18y ago
My pithy one line take on the article: try to keep interfaces and interactions fun, not just easy to use.
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by alabut 18y ago
Their definition of career women is overly simplistic and seems to only focus on alpha types that are hell-bent on their jobs and on outearning their husbands. Who'd want to be with someone like that, of either gender? My definition is a bi
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by alabut 18y ago
The results of one of the studies in that article has been stuck in my head for the year or so since I read it and has definitely made an impact in my life. The idea that just splitting up kids in a class and praising them either for innate
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by alabut 18y ago
This definitely isn't a problem just for technology, it's a broader symptom of modern society and culture. For example, I've heard New York is one of the worst places to get lonely or to be new to the city because it feels even more disorie
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by alabut 18y ago
I've met a couple of techstars companies in the last year and haven't heard any negatives yet - are you being intentionally vague to cover up for a friend or can you get more specific with your complaints?
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by alabut 18y ago
I left out portfolios in my meta-answer below, it feels like the first thing designers concentrate on and typically procrastinate on forever because they build it up in their heads to something that needs to be perfect before it can be unve
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by alabut 18y ago
Well, the lighter text does punish the original poster, indirectly. It lowers the likelihood of engagement by an audience and I like that subtle approach more than heavy-handed alert warnings. Sites that have that kind of approach feel like
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by alabut 18y ago
No problem, I like the rough idea. It'd be great (for example) to revisit the same topic with the same screenshots and focus in on a specific UI element, like maybe the one sentence tagline that was there on the initial version and then cam
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by alabut 18y ago
It depends - are you prototyping by making wireframes in an image editor or prototyping by coding up a rough working copy? If you're a designer and prefer mocking stuff up in Fireworks or Photoshop, then you should have the chops to build u

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