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by alabut 16y ago
" Hopefully they haven't burned through too much of the $250,000 that they started with. " They mention at least two large cost items - luxr (basically consulting by Janice Fraser, it says around $10k on the company page) and pivotal labs.
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" You would need > 100 of these buildings (ignoring all the other issues for now) to be able to replace one major farm. " So what if it didn't replace one major farm and just a small local one? And what if the vertical farm and office b
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The writer rambles on with setup and indirect arguments for a couple of paragraphs before even mentioning what he's attacking, but he raises some excellent points once he actually gets going. This bit was witty: " The only crop which could
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by alabut 16y ago
So would you consider designers as non-technical people, in a similar role as product managers? Or take the Steve Blank view and lump them in with engineers as the "solution team"?
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" He espouses that you should build a minimal product based on your idea. Then iterate over the following points seeking traction and revenue. " No, he doesn't. He really really doesn't. In fact, that's the exact opposite of what he adv
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by alabut 16y ago
Tl;dr summary - it's a bunch of background info on why this designer at Microsoft tweeted out that WPF and Silverlight are dead, since IE will embrace and extend HTML5 instead. He links to this article in the register that sums it up more
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by alabut 16y ago
What would've been great is if instead of just pointing out the flaws in testing methodologies, the OP picked out a few publications that do run the tests accurately. That way we could judge how seriously to take some of the claims of the X
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by alabut 16y ago
Reminds me of an article I read about an American airline pilot that keeps a small house in Germany just to store a Porsche that he cruises the autobahn with. Having been both on the autobahn (when I was 12, in a pokey Toyota van) and in Po
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by alabut 16y ago
" In the pursuit of self-discovery, Kelley suggests keeping a laboratory notebook tracking the happiest moments in life to discover our own true passions. " Smart idea - we often assume we know ourselves and motivations better than we actua
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by alabut 16y ago
" The only reason to do a PhD is because you love doing research. " Can't stress this enough. A lot of people do grad school just because they didn't like a string of jobs they had, think they need more training to switch to a certain speci
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by alabut 16y ago
One thing I'll never stop patting myself on the back about is that I never got into farmville, purely because I saw exactly how addictive it was for friends and decided I didn't want to sacrifice the neurons. It was like a modern day Nancy
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by alabut 16y ago
He's pushing a false dichotomy in business models - subscriptions versus advertising - when the real world is made of both. I'm all for bootstrapping and charging customers directly for providing real value and all that 37signals rah rah r
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by alabut 16y ago
How is it so intrusive to have 2 fields on a page? Depends on the design, goals and intended audience. Form fields are harder to ignore than most page elements and have a sort of gravitational pull on the eyeballs, so you can easily imagi
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by alabut 16y ago
" But it's probably not the processor that accounts for most of the speed increase I've seen in my machine. The main help, I think, comes from the hard drive. " He's totally right about using an SSD as the boot disk, I can't overstate how m
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by alabut 16y ago
I live in California and had the same fraying cable problem with three pairs of Shures, so it's not the cold winters that cause it. As amazing as their sound quality and replacement policy are, I gave up and switched to a Chinese knockoff t
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by alabut 16y ago
EDIT: they would have made the switch. Stupid iPhone.
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by alabut 16y ago
You covered Windows and Linux - don't forget Apple's switch to OS X. They wouldn't done a wholesale switch at some point even if they hadn't gone with something unix-based because the other alternative was Copeland, the internal project to
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by alabut 16y ago
He wrote an excellent book Carrying The Fire that's widely considered to be the best written by any astronaut. It gives a broader overview than just the Apollo missions and covers the Gemini and Mercury programs that prepared for the moon
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" A whole lot of memories came rushing back " Me too, and it was made even more powerful because coincidentally, the running character reminded me of when I used to be on my high school cross country team and would go for runs around the ne
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by alabut 16y ago
Worked just fine in Safari.
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by alabut 16y ago
I love the idea of this, but I'd have to tweak the execution of the desktop version to make it work on commercial projects. The massive width and low number of columns would only allow for chunky and unsubtle layouts. Fine for a couple of m
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by alabut 16y ago
I like #11 but I'd fork it - python/django for a content-centric site or ruby/rails/heroku for a task-centric app - and throw in some jquery for either type. That'll pretty much cover 90% of web app ideas.
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by alabut 16y ago
Art & Copy does a great job at explaining why the Mad Men era was important - there was a shift in the 60's from large corporate sales-driven organizations to smaller ones where art directors and other "creatives" were in charge. The pa
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by alabut 16y ago
That's a pretty good description of the mindset and the focus on the user's intentions also explains why adwords does so well. You intend to find something when you're searching and are receptive to ads that help you do that, whereas you
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I've heard similar descriptions of the aboriginal people of Australia - they only have their tribal grounds in the bush because the prime real estate they used to inhabit is taken.
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It's the same answer that Ev Williams gave about an early critical review of Twitter: "how useful is ice cream?" Just because there's people that use Groupon-like utilitarian services doesn't mean that they won't have fun with other stuff t
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by alabut 16y ago
Sweet, glad you're in. And definitely let either of us know if have any feedback. We've even been running occasional batches of usability tests, if you're open to going through the onboarding process with one of us.
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by alabut 16y ago
Yeah, isocket can do pretty much all of that (disclaimer: I work there), including that it looks professional (disclaimer: I'm a designer). Techcrunch was our first customer, check out an example of how you can request to buy a leaderboard:
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by alabut 16y ago
I work at isocket - ping me at my HN username at gmail and I'll bump you to the front of the queue.
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by alabut 16y ago
Hmm, I'm getting a "Invalid or expired invitation code" error - did you cap the number of new accounts?

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