billpatrianakos

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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
The article has it spot on but it can be simplified into two very important ideas: 1. Keep asking questions until you hit a nerve and find something you have in common with the person. It also works the opposite way. You can find a point of
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I hate start meta discussions about HN but I think the negativity has a lot to do with the community changing a bit around here. The thread about DuckDuckGo a few days back exemplifies this and there was a discussion of it just yesterday. B
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I waffle back and forth between agreeing with you and disagreeing with you as I've asked myself that same question time and time again. Right now I agree with the one caveat being that awful design can only pass when the information present
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Wow, as of this writing the vast majority of comments are just so negative! Do we have to hate on everything? I like it! It looks way less tacky than their old watermark. In fact, it actually makes the photos look better compared to the old
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Amen. I bitch constantly and I'm a dude.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
The thing about criticism, especially negative criticism, is that you actually shouldn't always listen to it. Everyone's got their complaints but not all criticism is created equal. You have to strike a balance between pleasing your custo
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You won't read their free book that you would have otherwise liked to have read because they don't distribute it in your preferred format but instead in 2 very ubiquitous formats that are easily converted? Really? This is not a personal att
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I can't argue with you. It's not what you actually said, it's how it was perceived. What we say and what others hear in their heads as they read are often out of sync. I really wouldn't worry about it though. Despite that minor issue some h
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I'm right there with you, man but what got people riled up is the way you mentioned PHP and MySQL. It came off a lot like a lot of posts by people who just really enjoy insulting anyone who doesn't use Ruby/Python and Postges/Any NoSQL DB.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You're right about that first sentence but wrong on the rest. Editing files on the servers is pure idiocy even if you're using the system Panic does with an exact clone of the production server for dev changes and script that syncs them. Ev
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Though the page might not be effective as a landing page, only 12 click throughs is still underwhelming for a promoted tweet. Now Notwerk has 12,000 new followers. So now I'm curious to see what would happen if the landing page was reworked
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I totally believe you but I also have a feeling you're part of that very small minority who it works for. There are just some industries that lend themselves better to this kind of marketing than others. Ecommerce sites are in this category
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I regret mentioning HIV. I just thought stigma and that's what popped in my head first. And yeah, I do wish to respect that privacy and if he's not going to say it then I wouldn't press him. But it is natural to really wonder when you read
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
It really looks like social media marketing is just a whole lot of hype. It's great for brand awareness but it's rare to see anyone report a boost in sales from it. I've been working in web development, focusing primarily on small to medium
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Any clue what that condition may be? I hate to be that nosey guy but it's just human nature to wonder when someone drops a bomb like that but doesn't give you much else to go on. Do you think it'll be disclosed later? That's really shocking
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
True but most businesses are small business without the time or resources to really do the research. Every unemployed twenty-something is now becoming a "Social Media Marketer" and telling small business owners they have to get on Facebook
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I thought the same thing then I really thought about it and I suppose you can say it seems like its trying real hard to be Google. I could be way off base but this is how I tried to understand the criticism of the name Bing and how it could
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Further up the line ubiquitous hosting was mentioned. Even so, it's still yet another way to judge its usefulness.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I think design is the most important thing. It's your first impression and you have to make it a good one. If there were a website that cured cancer but it looked ugly upon first glance people probably wouldn't stay on it long enough to fig
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I don't care how overdone to-do lists are, I never get sick of them. Putting this together in 3 weeks is impressive considering your background. The UI is really what makes it. Todo lists are really straightforward from an under-the-hood pe
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Amen to that. The minute someone utters PHP someone else inevitably goes out of their way to let you know it sucks even if it's not at all relevant to anything you're talking about like in this case. Guess what? Every language, framework, t
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Not really. The standard "it depends" answer usually doesn't take personal preference and choice of language into account though. I'm used to seeing the Apache or Nginx question framed in a way that's all about performance but performance i
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Don't be so sure. I used to think I never compared myself with others and then I really thought about my frustrations one day and realized I was trying to keep up with or out-do my family and friends. It's far easier to be honest in our opi
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
This is so true. Everyone wants to say we're not trying hard enough but we really are the guys with the awesome grades, extra-curriculars, part time jobs, and involved in sports plus finding time to be social. The silver lining is that if y
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Well it might not be technically okay or PC to say this but if you listen to the guy's talk I'm sure you'll get the egotistical tone. Egotistical is too strong a word but he very much seemed to like calling attention to himself. Specificall
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Not exactly your main point but I have to agree that there's nothing stopping Facebook from being the next MySpace. Seriously. Not a thing. I think at this point the massive user base and their investment (their friends, photos, life in gen
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
My mistake on not seeing the previous comments but even if the original work (not the TNW version) offered little extra value at least it was written from scratch using the authors own words. His outrage was minor, Zee's outrage is seriousl
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Regardless TNW took his article almost entirely word for word! Only two or three words were added/removed in TNW's version. This isn't about facts, it's about copy-pasting someone else's words and then sending 6 incredibly defensive and dic
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Very cool. There were a lot of parallels to a handful of different things. I loved it but if you're looking for so,e feedback I'd suggest maybe a bit more focus on any one subject. If I didn't know better I'd guess this was inspired by Vani
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I resent the implication that I'm a troll first off. Secondly, after reading a lot of the responses to what I wrote I feel like I've been vindicated. I have to admit that I was wrong about Microsoft arbitrarily applying policies unfairly. I

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