alabut

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by alabut 16y ago
Hey, I work at isocket - thanks for the shoutout! I didn't recognize your username though? To the OP, ping me if you have any questions at alabut at gmail.
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by alabut 16y ago
I don't get the whole kerfuffle - the people that are most likely to get pissed off over the "dying platform" verbiage are the exact opposite of the target demographic anyway. If you're happy with your blogging platform of choice, then you'
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by alabut 16y ago
That's actually pretty huge all by itself - I got a YC interview from making a demo of that feature alone at a startup weekend last year. http://gosnoozemail.com It had a few other features too and I ended up having to defer the interview
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by alabut 16y ago
The video is in the lower right, titled "The Tokyo Electric Taxi Project begins" and it's pretty impressive. Apparently cabs in Tokyo are 2% of the car population but produce 20% of the pollution, so they're attacking a big problem.
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by alabut 16y ago
Easier to stock up on extra batteries at a recharge station, harder to stock up on extra cars. I'm personally thinking of the one use case that keeps me from buying an EV car - driving from SF to LA to see in-laws. And that's only if my wif
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by alabut 16y ago
They're not meant to be replaced by hand - it's an automated process that swaps the batteries after you pull the car into the proper position, sort of like pulling into a car wash.
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by alabut 16y ago
Hey, I remember you from poker! Glad to see you're doing well. I'm assuming zerocater's just for companies in SF at the moment, not someplace nearby like Burlingame?
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by alabut 16y ago
This attacks something that user researcher Steve Portigal calls "solutioneering" and the phrase has stuck in my head since I saw his ixdasf talk last year. He led the audience through an exercise to show a typical client project, where we
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by alabut 16y ago
This is a nice little starter intro to CSS for forms. To be really useful, it'd have to demo some of the harder elements to style, the hardest being inputs for uploading files. I haven't seen a technique yet that doesn't require some javasc
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by alabut 16y ago
I really like this trend of Posterous-inspired web apps that don't require setting up an account, just emailing into a public email address. It's what changed my mind from "eh, looks nice, might try it later when it's more robust" to "oh wh
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by alabut 16y ago
The first example I saw of serving multiple layouts was by Cameron Adams, almost 6 years ago: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/09/21/ He went on to work on as the UX guy on Google Wave in Australia.
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by alabut 16y ago
We've got three of them in the isocket office - you're welcome to visit and get your dog fix anytime. Especially if you stop by after our product launch this week so we can do another usability testing session. It's come a long way since yo
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by alabut 16y ago
" It is extremely easy for developers to provide fallback content when Flash is not availble. " Really? How? I was an actionscripter for years before I dropped Flash from my arsenal and worked at a game company that would've loved to provid
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by alabut 16y ago
This is a great demonstration of why to use CSS3 animations - Flash doesn't support the concept of graceful degradation. This page turns into a static image in Firefox/Mac instead of borking out with a blue lego piece.
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by alabut 16y ago
Their constant battle with vaporware of various stripes isn't with only one company - some of the competitors ship but slip way behind on dates and/or release hurried crappy releases, some don't ship at all and make true vaporware demos, bu
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by alabut 16y ago
" This was months before it shipped. " But it actually shipped. And in months, not years. Plus what they demo tends to match what they ship. Whereas designers like me drooled over the demo videos of the Microsoft Courier dual screen tablet
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by alabut 16y ago
Looks like there's at least one really cool coworking spot though: http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInSanDiego I still miss the coffeeshops down there, especially the 24 hour ones like Lestat's: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=2610
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by alabut 16y ago
Sounds interesting from a technical perspective. What about Lean Startups and other entrepreneurial stuff?
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by alabut 16y ago
Burlingame, just south of SF - isocket is hiring two engineers. We've had real paying customers since before funding and Techcrunch was our first. http://www.isocket.com/jobs/ And we're pretty serious about being a flat and equal team -
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by alabut 16y ago
Thanks for the invite - I'm still up here in SF, just curious about what's going on in my hometown. Cruising through the member list, I only found one startup: http://phonehalo.com Everyone else looks like CS students or researchers, is t
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by alabut 16y ago
I moved to SF from SD in late 05 and there wasn't much of a startup scene outside of biology or wireless hardware. Has that changed much since? Any YC alum down there?
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Book club meeting on Rework, the 37signals business book(groups.google.com)
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by alabut 17y ago
" You risk confusing people who don't know much about your company yet. " Haven't really seen that be a problem at our startup (the same one as the OA). Whether running a couple of usability tests over skype or meeting people at the adtech
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by alabut 17y ago
" A preposition is something you should not end a sentence with. " Reminds me of a joke: A southern belle is on spring break with her friends when a couple of preppy types settle in next to her on the beach. She tries to be friendly to the
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by alabut 17y ago
Awesome. A coworker was walking by just now and he couldn't believe so much thought could go into typography. Or that there's an entire movie about Helvetica.
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by alabut 17y ago
Tim O'Reilly came up with a colorful way to describe the same concept back in 1995: "fishing with strawberries". He explained how he ignored the tired business school cliché about how you should bait your hook with worms, rather than things
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by alabut 17y ago
What companies since IMVU would he consider to be lean startups? And why haven't we heard more breakout stories of companies using the methodology?
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by alabut 17y ago
You just had dinner last night with someone that snapped up two of them :) Hello from the month-old two-person design department at isocket! I'll try to help put the word out for you, love what you're building and how you're doing it.
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by alabut 17y ago
And fried chicken and dirty earbuds!
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by alabut 17y ago
We're definitely hiring! isocket is just south of San Francisco and literally right next to the Burlingame Caltrain station. http://isocket.com/jobs/ We need a web developer and a platform engineer. We're small (6 people), working on some

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