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by alabut 13y ago
Me too, but you need to get funded by them to participate :) One important improvement is that it looks like they go the full product release cycle and incorporate the feedback into something testable with real users, so they go from idea g
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by alabut 13y ago
The one on managing a remote team is still my personal favorite, 6 months later: https://zapier.com/blog/how-manage-remote-team/ It's a great primer on workflow in general, not just remote teams. I must'
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by alabut 13y ago
Slow rolling a launch reminds me of how the Facebook mafia tends to roll out their companies in measured and targeted ways, rather than trying to go viral all at once. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/13/inside-t
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by alabut 13y ago
Interesting idea for a service. Not sure if it would've solved my problems when I freelanced though, since the biggest time sink wasn't finding leads, it was all the communication before even starting a project to determine what t
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by alabut 13y ago
Thanks for the writeup! I've done a couple of Startup Weekends and never thought about doing a subscription service, especially not for something I only ever eat on road trips. Since you plan to keep the subscriptions going, I'm c
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by alabut 13y ago
Except it's free.
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by alabut 13y ago
Good post. It's a developer-specific flavor of Imposter Syndrome that I've struggled with too. Must learn all the frameworks! Now! And my designer side wants to master ever style I see on Dribbble until Photoshop stands up and sta
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by alabut 13y ago
Yeah, I miss that game. It ran for a couple of years before everyone moved on but a couple of us are thinking of putting it back together. Ping me at my HN username at gmail and I'll let you know.
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by alabut 13y ago
This happened to me too. My cofounder quit the day we got our email to interview and wouldn't budge no matter how much I tried to reason, cajole, or beg him to change his mind. At the time I played a weekly poker game hosted by a bunch
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by alabut 13y ago
There's similar findings that a hungry stomach can make you more awake and even cure jet lag. It goes back to the 80's - Ronald Reagan used the technique to look fresh when landing across the globe. http://blogs.hbr.org
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by alabut 13y ago
Have you worked on an entire team that worked remote? Or been a remote worker on an otherwise co-located team? Just from personal experience, I've found a huge difference between the two.
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by alabut 13y ago
There's an entire book about why you're right and the OP's approach is generally the wrong one, called So Good They Can't Ignore You . The OP is exhibiting the classic "passion mindset" - you search your soul
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by alabut 13y ago
The millennial thing might be a distraction from the main point about the benefits of remote work. Some of the biggest taskmaster startup CEOs I've worked for were twenty somethings, whereas I have other friends in their 30's that
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by alabut 13y ago
It absolutely is. I took a California Government class in college that blew my mind about how much of bipartisan political scheming is about water, to this day, because there's so much money in it. His oft repeated quote was " whe
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by alabut 13y ago
+1 for Difficult Men. Very in-depth and well written. A head's up though: even though it was published recently, it was written just before the ascendancy of good internet TV (House Of Cards and Seinfeld's web series were nominate
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by alabut 13y ago
It's not exactly spec work - there isn't an explicit understanding that they'll use somebody's work if its good enough; it's not commissioning a one-off project with vague promises of future work - but it's als
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by alabut 13y ago
Can't you just edit the file directly on Github? It's what I did recently with a one word typo I noticed while I was out of town and only had my phone.
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by alabut 13y ago
TLDR: we often rush to building an initial version of a product when we can jump straight to manually creating value for a customer and testing demand by charging for it, then crystalize that learning into a product later. I believe there&#
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by alabut 13y ago
Very cool. The page to sign up is here: http://dribbble.com/teams/soon
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by alabut 13y ago
That's how I've been using Tagg, a competing (and much uglier) device. It lets me know when the walker takes my dogs out, how much exercise they got and where they went. Plus I get the peace of mind that I can trigger a Lost My Phone kind o
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by alabut 13y ago
And Krista!
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by alabut 13y ago
Point #1 is a recent lesson learned for me. I remember seeing Robert De Niro on Inside The Actor's Studio saying essentially the same thing. He can't tell anymore while filming a movie how good it will be based on how the shoot is going, si
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by alabut 13y ago
You just described pre-Google Blogger and everything I loved about it back in the day. I was a huge fan early on in my career of using Blogger for both work and play. It was a really flexible generator of markup files - it didn't have to be
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by alabut 13y ago
I love how crazy fast your site is on my slow browser (chrome on iOS seems to drag when you've got 100+ tabs). I'm starting a blog network as a side project and setting it up as Jekyll for exactly this kind of performance. Also love the hon
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by alabut 13y ago
First the trailer for Gravity comes out and then this happens. It's almost as if real life decided space needed a marketing stunt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsrgE0BYf0
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by alabut 13y ago
That sounds awesome too. One thing you might want to experiment with is the opposite of Rewards - randomly timing perks so that they're unassociated with performance. This approach is shown to work on everything from mice to casino gamblers
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by alabut 13y ago
This is very cool and a problem worth solving. Rypple is first the startup I heard of that focused on making employees feel good rather than simply tracking them but it only handed out compliments. This seems like the next logical step - to
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by alabut 14y ago
It's the same design principle - design each screen first, then abstract out templates as needed - that makes me love Jekyll, since a static website is already a valid Jekyll site and it's up to you how much you want to use Jekyll’s post, m
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by alabut 14y ago
Funny to see two different S12 teams tackling Kickstarter fulfillment in complimentary ways - the other is Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com
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by alabut 14y ago
Reminds me of the Malcolm Gladwell anecdote about how orchestra auditions are usually biased unless they hide the musicians behind a screen, so that the music is judged free from distraction. You can see the same principle at work on a new

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