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by alabut 15y ago
So far, I don't see anyone suggesting an IMAP-based solution. Good! Because that's what we interviewed at the last YC for. What's cool about that is then you can use any client, browser, email provider, whatever. Time for a plug - http://s
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by alabut 15y ago
An amendment to make it more accurate: "...trying to get countries (not companies) to legislatively promote venture capital as the preferred vector for starting scalable startups (one of the 6 types he outlined in the article and not jus
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Show HN: Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback?(messagify.com)
26 points by alabut 15y ago|4 comments
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by alabut 15y ago
AppStores, in San Francisco, right by Union Square, need a marketing and community management intern, but you can make the roll as developery as you want. A developer evangelist would be hot. We're a white label application store platform.
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Dead Man's Switch - version 2(deadmansswitch.net)
7 points by alabut 15y ago|1 comments
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by alabut 15y ago
That screenshot makes it look like there's no text folding arrows for Sublime, is that true? I wouldn't even try it out if it's missing that feature because I use it in Textmate dozens of times a day.
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by alabut 15y ago
Slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/joestump/starting-your-startup
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by alabut 15y ago
It's probably not an intentional ripoff but more like an intellectual cul-de-sac - following certain typographic rules to their logical conclusion leads to the same design. The designer Garrett Dimon had a similar design for a long time (an
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by alabut 15y ago
I agree that we shouldn't turn this into a sports flame thread, so let's just compromise and say that it's a team-based sport and that individual talent matters, not one or the other (unlike the OP). After all, the same argument about sup
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by alabut 15y ago
" Also, his case examples are not coding related. " Nor are they even correct. In fact they can easily be made to prove the opposite of what he claims. Only someone completely ignorant of soccer/football would claim that this year's FC Bar
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by alabut 15y ago
I heard that's because MealSnap is a ripoff of another app that uses AI and applied to YC for this session, but didn't get in because a cofounder bailed. I wish I could remember the app's name - the main dude is still going and a super shar
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by alabut 15y ago
" I don't even think you have to go to "extreme" cases of people who are disabled in some way, and use FB to communicate. " My family's found that to be true. I grew up in San Diego but all the rest of my extended family lives abroad and FB
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by alabut 15y ago
We're building an IMAP-based tool focused on solving #4 - "the power of follow-up" - tracking which you're emails you're waiting on for replies: http://stacyplease.com There's other startups that do something similar, usually as a plugin
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by alabut 15y ago
Jessica Livingston: "I spent 13 years in corporate America, mostly because I didn't understand what my other options were. I was hypnotized by the security of an established, respected company." http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2008/
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by alabut 15y ago
Haha, quoting my own about page against me, love it :) Yeah, design includes style but isn't just style, that's what we're both saying I think.
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by alabut 15y ago
Your definition of design includes style, since style can (and often is) a solution to a problem as well. Not everything is wireframes and usability, and this is coming from someone who's first book on the job was Jakob Nielsen's. Ever read
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by alabut 15y ago
False dichotomy - good designers would read these books and put the concepts into practice by examining existing well-designed sites.
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by alabut 15y ago
Everyone has to start somewhere. And unfortunately a lot of design lists end up making the topic more unapproachable than it has to be, considering there are some fundamental skills that everyone can build on.
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by alabut 15y ago
Yeah, and?
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by alabut 15y ago
Yeah, it is. See my response to rglover below and feel free to ping me offline if you need more tips.
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by alabut 15y ago
Completely leaves out visual design. Maybe because polish is harder to encapsulate with a single book or because it's so easy to pick up by cruising Dribbble for inspiration, but it's still worth mentioning. Otherwise you get the average st
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by alabut 15y ago
Summary: PG said during YC to not waste time on conferences and trade shows, but he went to two and got a lot of value out of them, so how to reconcile the advice? * they're a waste of time if you don't have a finished product yet. " A year
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by alabut 15y ago
" it's not a bad deal but you're completely missing the point of taking money from american or european 'bootstrap' companies " Maybe. But they're not mutually exclusive and maybe the Chilean fund even helps with the startup incubators, bec
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by alabut 15y ago
And that the current crop of plugged-in youngins are the only ones that can do it. An interesting role reversal from when PG first started writing his essays - that young people needed to apprentice at larger boring companies first and that
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by alabut 15y ago
I like it the same way that I liked the promise of Powerset when I first heard of it. I'm not sure how often I look for information that structured though and whether google doesn't still solve those queries.
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by alabut 15y ago
I've got a similar setup and it got me thinking about buying a used mac pro tower to max out the 4 HD slots with SSDs and RAID them across. Anyone try that or know if the speed boost would be noticeable?
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by alabut 15y ago
There's a Flash slideshow about the boneyard that was pretty popular when it first came out a decade ago, back when I was a wee web designer fresh out of college: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/sleepingGiants/ It holds up really
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by alabut 16y ago
This is a great article on why designers should seek visual inspiration from pre-existing work and I know exactly one on how to do it: http://cameronmoll.com/archives/000016.html Cameron Moll calls it "nodes of inspiration" and this w
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by alabut 16y ago
Enrique = he. And he is cool - he's the designer-in-residence at 500 Startups and a very chill guy to talk to.
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by alabut 16y ago
I agree that a simple increase in framerate isn't enough of a wow factor. It might be if it's also accompanied by a massive increase in resolution? Either way, I'm looking forward to any improvement that doesn't involve 3D. Ebert's other gu

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