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Space Matters: Why is Startup Accelerator Space Important?(blog.500startups.com)
4 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
Exactly, thus my comment above about attendees paying $1,000 for a learning experience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959654
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by avk 16y ago
25) Use a thick marker during design since you can only focus on the key things. More info: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/466-sketching-with-a-sharpie
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by avk 16y ago
Maybe these bits are "out of context" or "need fleshing out" because you can't always summarize learning in a series of tweets or a blog post. Maybe that's why the event is $1,000 - you're paying for a learning experience, not just content.
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by avk 16y ago
> If you asked someone to draw the screen of say http://godaddy.com from memory, they'd likely mainly remember the lovely lady wearing a 'godaddy' t-shirt. Is that the most important thing? That's exactly the point. Isn't that somethi
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by avk 16y ago
I asked William Gibson if I could help with the fact that following 87 people is more than he can take in ( http://twitter.com/#!/artvankilmer/status/9127501972381696 ). Just wanted to extend that offer to everyone here as well. I too have
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The New Facebook Messages: A Walkthrough(mashable.com)
3 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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The Two Things about Computer Programming(fishbowl.pastiche.org)
138 points by avk 16y ago|90 comments
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StupidFilter can detect rampant stupidity in written English(stupidfilter.org)
1 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
I loved reading this in Do More Faster but I preferred the original chapter title: "Usage is like oxygen for ideas." If you enjoyed this post, the book is full of similar goodness. This was the best though :) Nice job, photomatt!
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by avk 16y ago
I enjoyed this: "The fastest racecar can’t move if the gas-cap gets stuck; your product is only as good as its worst component." It reminds me of Dave McClure's "something in your product sucks, find it, kill it" (paraphrased).
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by avk 16y ago
Thank you. I was hoping someone would bring attention to this. Complete misuse of "GTD."
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by avk 16y ago
I see your point but single founders aren't completely alone either. I think of hosting my Ruby app on Heroku and letting them do sysadmin, leveraging awesome open source code to get to a product faster, and having great advisors as my equi
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by avk 16y ago
This was great. Especially the end. Definitely worth making it all the way through.
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by avk 16y ago
Interested! And flying back to Berkeley from the east coast today (just in time :). @artvankilmer
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by avk 16y ago
For inspiration: things that reject this same old paradigm: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Desktop-Metaphor-Integrated-Env...
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by avk 16y ago
I prefer SizeUp to Divvy for OS X Window management: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
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by avk 16y ago
Love it. This is the kind of open UX approach I wish more platforms had!
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by avk 16y ago
The original post makes no mention of how a UI "done well" is different from an API "done well." I'm really interested in the omission and think that might be the only flaw in the argument. I've never developed an API but the difference bet
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by avk 16y ago
I'm not sure that API complexity is that different from UI complexity. From the article: "But APIs are different. An API with 60 options makes for longer documentation, certainly. But if the options are well-chosen and well-documented, an A
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by avk 16y ago
Takeaways: 1) "what’s marginal to one user might be core to another" 2) APIs can afford to have more marginal features than UIs because the complexity is largely hidden. Done right, there's more API documentation but the main interactions a
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by avk 16y ago
Do we know why that is?
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by avk 16y ago
George Lakoff's class, "The Mind, Language, and Politics" (Cognitive Science C104) was my absolute favorite class at UC Berkeley. We read plenty of his work and Frank Luntz. I'm glad to see these ideas again!
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by avk 16y ago
"Making sure you impress Paul Graham every week, and other YC co-founders is probably the best way to go about your company." I don't buy it. Can you elaborate?
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The Single Most Important Secret to Success(singlefounder.com)
40 points by avk 16y ago|12 comments
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by avk 16y ago
I'm amazed this has gotten no discussion... are people indifferent to the article? If so, why?
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Ed Weissman on B2B Opportunities for Startups(skmurphy.com)
2 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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Want Better Feedback? Be More “Brain-Friendly”(cindyalvarez.com)
3 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
How many generalizations can this blog post get away with? How about an example or two? Some things I wish were touched upon: - How do angels"investing money because they want even more money back" differ from VCs? - What are some examples
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How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream(mashable.com)
2 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments

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