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by andymism 17y ago
I second that on the 37Signals influence. I was actually confused at first and thought I had some how landed on the Highrise site at first--they're remarkably similar.
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by andymism 17y ago
I've got to point out too that wrapped up in those 10 hours per week were 1000 lines of a little web framework in Ruby.
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by andymism 17y ago
I read just fine for long periods on my iPhone, especially in apps like Instapaper, Stanza, or the Kindle app. It's hit or miss with web content, however, but is overall a good experience.
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by andymism 17y ago
> The better CEOs I've seen are able to compartmentalize this ability: they can be likeable, loyal friends, and restrict their ruthlessness to their business relationships. I've been thinking about an idea in this vein a lot recently du
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by andymism 17y ago
No, the Kindle is just black and white. I owned a Kindle for about 4 months before I bought an iPhone, and I rarely pick up my Kindle anymore. I like my Kindle when I'm at home on the couch, but my iPhone is my main reading device, winning
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by andymism 17y ago
Most people don't really want privacy anymore I agree on that one. Even though large groups of users scream about and sign petitions regarding Facebook's changing privacy policies, I'm convinced most users don't really care about how publ
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by andymism 17y ago
I'm in SB and would love to meet up. Email: alchemistae-at-gmail
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by andymism 17y ago
The value of very long practice sessions probably depends at lot on the skill you're trying to acquire. If it's a mechanical/physical skill, then the muscle groups involved would be a big limiting factor, especially for novices. Playing gui
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by andymism 17y ago
That's a good question. My reservations mostly have to do with this: Of the emails captured, how many participated in the beta and eventually became paying users? Which is really asking: Will those users really come back after you've brok
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by andymism 17y ago
Instead of asking for the credit card information (which does sound illegal), I've heard of others who have placed a "Buy Now"-type button on the landing page or fill out form fields just up to the credit card fields (say, for a multistep p
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by andymism 17y ago
I'd definitely choose 1M in cash over living and owning a home worth 1M. The home is both illiquid and necessary: when you sell your home and cash in on the million, you've still got to find a new place to live. Given that you want to live
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by andymism 17y ago
Also, deciding the bottom 10% is not always as straightforward as it seems. That's exactly right and the biggest problem with a rank and fire policy is that there are so many pitfalls in quantitatively judging relative performance. In the
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by andymism 17y ago
I don't think this story and the post you're referencing contradict each other. The difference between the magazine's audience and a band's audience at a show is relevance . At a live show, you're selling to a group of potential buyers (wh
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by andymism 17y ago
Yes, software we use should make smart suggestions based on our basic usage patterns, but not decisions . Good point. Bernstein misunderstands Seth's calendar example: defaulting to PM when I select 2 o'clock is definitely not the sa
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by andymism 17y ago
This is true for me. My Kindle2 has been gathering dust since I bought an iPhone. I wouldn't be surprised if others behaved the same way.
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by andymism 17y ago
Jacques makes a good point that you should be careful with customers seeing started but not completed transactions. Any confusion on the customer's part is bad news. If you're going to go the route of authorization only then capture, then I
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by andymism 17y ago
One thing you can try is to submit the credit card information as an Authorization Only transaction first. Most gateways will respond with a transaction id that you could then resubmit after confirmation from the user as a Prior Authorizati
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by andymism 17y ago
I agree that both positions are ridiculous. I also want to add that all businesses are "lifestyle businesses." But it's how you define your lifestyle that makes the difference. I'd rather run a small shop that allows me to pay myself to b
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by andymism 17y ago
Thanks for the rec! The first thing I'm going to be using Mnemosyne for is scheduling guitar practice. I often forget the number of songs and scales that I actually know. Eventually, they get dusty enough that I won't remember them at all.
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by andymism 17y ago
I'm curious why you want to be interrupted while coding to test be tested. That kind of task switching would be horrible for me and is the reason why I have email turned off during coding sessions.
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by andymism 17y ago
Ah, you're talking about the "geek goggles". Of course there's always Leah Culver, who's just plain hot no matter how you slice it.
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by andymism 17y ago
A reference/link to focus training would be much appreciated. As for your experiments with getting less sleep vs better focus, I think that stuffing more hours in the day is only more effective for tedious work, where you don't have to thin
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by andymism 17y ago
The WSJ op-eds seems to be full of articles like this lately. Writers like this forget that these patterns repeat themselves. Grammophones, swing, big band music, rock and roll, TV, rap music, and now iPhones. Who's next in line to suck up
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by andymism 17y ago
Absolutely. I've been freelancing for two years and found that even little things like not gelling my hair or not shaving can throw me off for an entire morning. Environmental triggers like having a cup of tea or coffee ready, music playing
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by andymism 17y ago
That's not true in my experience. I've been partner dancing for about 6 years and that's where I met my girlfriend of the past 5 years. We still dance every chance we get (we have a portable dance floor in our apartment). It's absolutely wo
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by andymism 17y ago
I agree. I've been practicing judo for 14 years (I'm an assistant coach at the nearby college) and BJJ for 4. And would pretty much everone I know would avoid a street fight. You learn pretty fast in the dojo that you really have no idea wh
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by andymism 17y ago
Seems to me that if you're solving a real problem for a real audience and put in the doing the market schlep, then it would be easy enough for you to reach your customers in the 5,000,000. No one publishes a list of the Fortune 5,000,000. B
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by andymism 17y ago
OmniGraffle and Balsamiq are great for higher fidelity prototyping, but I find that the precision it allows and the care I end up taking pushing my mouse gets in the way of getting ideas down. I usually stick to a fat pen and paper or white
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by andymism 17y ago
I don't necessarily think these two contradict each other--they're really about different things. Sivers' article is concerned with the psychology behind motivation while this article and discussion is about the fear of idea stealing. I'm f
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by andymism 17y ago
Blows my mind that someone thought asking for money like that would work. Reads like a Nigerian phishing scam. Hilarious.

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