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by benohear 15y ago
Fair enough, though it depends a bit how you define achievement. Writing is in my opinion excluded almost by definition in this debate, otherwise the question of "what have Curtis / Gruber achieved?" is a bit moot. ARC is great, I'm sure, b
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by benohear 15y ago
Why? SVN was pretty big before they launched Basecamp. I seem to remember even they saying it was instrumental to their success. Granted, Paul Graham is a bit more of a stretch given that he's had a successful exit. But unlike YC, Yahoo Sto
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by benohear 15y ago
Actually fame followed by action is a fairly well trodden route. Jeff Atwood and 37Signals come to mind straight away. And to some extent Paul Graham. Granted, he successfully sold a startup during the dotcom years, but it's only with YCom
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by benohear 15y ago
And honestly, if I wanted to program Java, I’d use Java. I had a similar reaction when reading the intro to Symfony this morning. One of the first things you come accross is: "Namespace X", "Use Y", "request->query(...)" Which looks
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by benohear 15y ago
Maybe there's a series to be made here, a little like Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way", only it would be "Explain Y to an arsehole".
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by benohear 15y ago
My biggest problem is that the joke wasn't particularly funny. I grew up on Hara-Kiri, Reiser, Vuillemin and co, and later Derek and Clive. They are all way, way more offensive, but they are really funny and also quite aware that they ar
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by benohear 15y ago
Damn! However it was my wife's birthday, so I probably would not have made it.
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by benohear 15y ago
Any such thing happening in Munich?
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by benohear 15y ago
So in summary: When you have a great idea, translate your intended statement of "we can improve things by doing X instead of Y" to the question "why are you doing Y?". And again: Paper prototyping. Sticking an interactive bit of paper in fr
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by benohear 15y ago
I would personally not put up with a spreadsheet where the GOTO cell function is rather awkardly hidden on function key number seven.
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by benohear 15y ago
What are the practical issues you're concerned about? Dev time? performance / reliability?
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by benohear 15y ago
Refresh does have a bit of an "implementation model of yesteryear" feel to it. On the other hand I've never observed it to be a massive pain point for users and removing it would need to be done very carefully so as not to create more probl
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by benohear 15y ago
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: Paper protoyping. Even if it's for yourself, it never feels the same to interact with a product than you think it will. This holds even more true when it's for other people. For internal project
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by benohear 15y ago
What else would they use? Oracle? Axapta? Some custom-built system? Anyone from SAP care to chime in?
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by benohear 15y ago
Point taken, though I meant minimal feature set, not buggy. Also, 2000 and later Office and Windows are hardly the worst offenders in terms of "software that sucks"
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by benohear 15y ago
Software tends to suck when either you build the wrong thing or you bit off more than you could chew and the implementation of a good thing ends in disaster. Or both. Generally the "lean startup" credo holds true here: Build an MVP fast, ge
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by benohear 15y ago
As long as you can boot / wake up your machine with it, fingerprint scanning feels pretty much like not having a password, since it's about the same effort as pressing the on button
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by benohear 15y ago
However you might not be able to wish more funding into existence. In that situation, the approach "we've got X money and we need Y runway so we're going to adjust our salaries accordingly" seems sensible. As per my other comment, totally a
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by benohear 15y ago
Doubling your runway with part-time work only helps if it doesn't reduce your velocity by two or more, which it carries a high risk of doing. That being the case, you're better off with the shorter runway in almost every respect (salary, ti
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by benohear 15y ago
I have a similar problem with Google - all my analytics accounts are linked to my pro email address, and my gmail is with, er, my gmail address. So I spend the day logging in and out. Would love to be able to consolidate the two.
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by benohear 15y ago
I have no idea what Facebook is actually worth, but the author is completely missing the point, which is that Facebook has the potential to increase the effectiveness of all advertising (except search engine advertising) by an order of magn
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by benohear 15y ago
Nice, but beware that this kind of thing can be quite resource intensive (the triple chart demo takes over 60% of CPU on Chrome running on a netbook). I was also wondering why this is done with canvas rather than SVG.
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by benohear 15y ago
The problem with big ideas is that they are usually fantasies. And the problem with fantasies is two-fold: First, dreaming about them will largely satisfy you and reduce your urge to actually make it happen. Secondly, you will be more easil
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by benohear 15y ago
There could be some value of filling in the questionnaire beforehand, namely to make you aware of certain restrictions ahead of time. Like the fact that you shouldn't be a genocidal terro ... OK, there really is no justification for THAT ki
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by benohear 15y ago
The title made me think this would be a framework to help people come up with their brand, rather than which assets and manuals they should prepare to make sure that their brand is implemented correctly. Still, great advice. Using "vector-i
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by benohear 15y ago
But they do. For example: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by benohear 15y ago
As I understand it, it's not only about watching the lectures but actually taking the course (with assignments and all). For that to work, it makes sense to be on the same schedule as the "real" students. That said, I'd quite like to just w
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by benohear 15y ago
MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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by benohear 15y ago
That's precisely what makes the landlord metaphor so effective.
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by benohear 15y ago
Maybe, but you're really pushing water uphill there. Literally everyone I know has several illegal copies of something, and don't think twice about it. The idea of sharing content is pretty deeply ingrained. Just think of lending books or a

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