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by benohear 15y ago
That's roughly spotify's business model, isn't it? For movies, I think that an ad supported channel could work, especially if it would use the same level of personalization as online advertising. Even cooler would be personalized product pl
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by benohear 15y ago
I find the ownership of the right to produce food by eg Monsanto way more terrifying.
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by benohear 15y ago
I've found this is the biggest productivity gain of working in pairs (designing or programming) - it avoids a lot of rabbit hole-ing, Yak shaving, gold plating, etc
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by benohear 15y ago
Not quite the same. Finding an extension was not blocking his main task, whereas in Seth Godin's story it is a chain of dependencies. By the way, what is the solution for Yak shaving? Seth Godin's advice is "don't go to home depot", but in
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by benohear 15y ago
Any idea why they went for that over Postgres?
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by benohear 15y ago
Dunno. The idea of have of newspaper advertisers are big ticket companies like BMW. I'm struggling a bit to imagine that they've shifted their newspaper budget to Google ads, or that their overall spending has diminuished _that_ much, but I
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by benohear 15y ago
So if it's neither online nor print, where does the ad spend previously allocated to newspapers now go?
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by benohear 15y ago
That annoyed me too. I can see the point of decreasing the bugs introduced (eg by working less hours and better testing methods), but at some point your team will be at full capacity so you will need to expand. It seems that the only soluti
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by benohear 15y ago
I heard an interview of a writer who said that he writes by allowing himself to either write or do nothing. He usually starts by doing nothing and then gets bored so he starts writing. I've found that approach to be quite effective. In the
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by benohear 15y ago
Asking for something like 30% up front is a very good way to filter out problematic clients. I regularly don't even bother to collect the up front payment once they've accepted it, but if the client refuses then it's a red flag. Often it's
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by benohear 15y ago
The way I tend to look at it is "paying for education".
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by benohear 15y ago
Doesn't match my experience: I have several small clients who pay within a couple of hours of receiving a bill. However they are profitable small clients (and very nice people).
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by benohear 15y ago
If you want a much more interesting take on designer-client communication, check out this project by Brighten the Corners: http://brightenthecorners.com/page.php?jumpTo=56#i56 They took samples from 10 years worth of email received and sp
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by benohear 15y ago
Disappointing. I was hoping to get some insight into this designer's creative process. Instead it is just a series of hackneyed statements about how clients don't value design and Macs are better than PCs.
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by benohear 15y ago
I'm not sure if this is the point you were making, but I'm really skeptical of the value of learning Latin as a route to learning modern Latin languages. It seems to me that if you want to learn, for example, Spanish, then you are considera
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Ask HN: How do you A/B test infrequent events?
1 points by benohear 15y ago|0 comments
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by benohear 15y ago
I was recently thinking that they should introduce driving simulators as part of the training, in order to expose drivers to dangerous situations like they do with pilots. Incidentally go-karting is a pretty good way to get some "on the edg
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by benohear 15y ago
Do you think there would be a market for rapidly produced lo-fi infographics? I'm thinking it might be possible approaching it somewhat like XKCD does with comics.
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Proof that Google Panda imposes site-wide penalties(luigime.com)
2 points by benohear 16y ago|0 comments
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by benohear 16y ago
Brilliant article. I have written to the UK Guardian and Independent encouraging them to syndicate it.
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by benohear 16y ago
Very true! I hadn't read the comments.
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by benohear 16y ago
You're right. For them it was an absolute tragedy. I wasn't implying otherwise. But the premise of the OP was some Australians that were freaking out because of the events in Japan. It's a similar situation.
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by benohear 16y ago
My high school class in Switzerland was chosen for the yearly measurement of radioactivity in the population. The graphs they showed us as intro were interesting. Basically they start in the mid-60's and were going down. The level then flat
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by benohear 16y ago
To take on the Vietnam points: I recommend you read the Pentagon papers (hardly a lefty account) - the distinct sensation you get was that the war was unwinnable, for the simple reason that they did not have the people on their side. The So
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by benohear 16y ago
Python aside, could you give us a couple of examples where a development would be made complicated by Drupal but would be easy on Armstrong?
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by benohear 16y ago
As long as website owners are aware of the consequences, it seems to me to be up to them to use this or not. I'm guessing the main attraction is to have the comments automatically propagated to the commentator's Facebook friends (that IS ho
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by benohear 16y ago
That's especially true about humor. I can't remember the source, but "you can joke about anything, only not with everyone" rings true to me.
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by benohear 16y ago
There is often a disconnect. At the time when Apple were parading busted teenagers in order to promote iTunes, this friend was going "hmmmm, yes, but they DID break the law. So they kind of deserve it". Yet the same person sends yearly comp
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by benohear 16y ago
Snap :-)
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by benohear 16y ago
Switzerland

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