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by bloggergirl 15y ago
So true! You hit the nail on the head, chopsueyar.
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by bloggergirl 15y ago
Videos just make people who speak English as a second language feel uncertain. And an unattractive or sloppy-looking person may lose a job... even if they're uber-qualified. I'd say skip the video-thing altogether (unless you want to make i
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by bloggergirl 15y ago
I agree! A major opportunity seems to exist in developing a remote work/telecommuting-specific job board. A good one. Like TheLadders for remote/contract/freelance only.
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by bloggergirl 15y ago
Sorry, fijall, that the number of enslaved people (who are in many cases not guilty of crimes beyond disagreeing with a dictator) is not adequately horrific for you. Perhaps if they were 200,000 people you knew... or even one you knew.
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by bloggergirl 15y ago
Thank you for posting this. A key takeaway from the article is in the final paragraph: "if we allow it, we could live in a world that makes great strides forward, but that can never rid itself of the abhorrent authoritarian tool that is the
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
My partner re-taught himself to code for a hobby site called moodalytics.com. (He used to develop back in the 90s but moved into management and user experience, so he didn't keep those dev skills sharp.) He taught himself to code not becaus
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
The reference to reaching out directly to writers was actually based less on P99T and more on a different startup we used to own, a realtor rating site. In that case, we found a writer for a major newspaper that we wanted to write a story o
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
We went through exactly this at Page99Test.com, a 'micro-critique' writing community. (Well, in fact, I doubt any startup under 3 years doesn't go through the same thing, even those with funding.) Here's what we learned, briefly: DON'T UNDE
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
That's an interesting insight. In my experience, very few meetings produce anything. If a company wants to keep its developers happy but needs to have a few of them in meetings (e.g., to answer questions, comment on process), what to do???
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Why Do Developers Hate Meetings?(quora.com)
9 points by bloggergirl 16y ago|10 comments
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
After reading through all the awesome comments on this thread on Quora, I created a Prezi to summarize it all. I posted it as an answer summary. But some guy named Richard Henry --- Quora Admin --- deleted it. Said it wasn't a summary and w
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
You can't sext if you don't have access to a cell phone. Remind me why we think kids need cell phones, computers in their rooms, access to their parents' cash, relaxed curfews, no chores, better clothes than we ever had... And why, even wit
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
"My lifelong dream is to anchor my self-worth with who I am right now, this second." That is the dream. Imagine if everyone could get there. I so want to get there. ...But then I wonder if I'd still be driven to achieve more, do more, e
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
Well said, ericmsimons ! Pavel commented earlier that "hard work and working up the corporate ladder to some executive position at some big company [will get you rich]"... but most of us were frustrated by or left the corporate world ---
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
That's too bad about MailChimp. We experienced something similar when using MailChimp for Page99Test.com: our pre-launch signup list was not quite as clean as MailChimp (or we) would've liked. It was dirty. Like, pornographic dirty. ;) No
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
I love the large, fresh-feeling tree... but your home page doesn't actually tell me much about your solution. Some questions I had that I would hope you can overcome when you next update your home page: 1. How can I create an estore in 3 c
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
This, with Amazon reporting a $10B quarter! http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/amazon-celebrates-its-fir... Wow. What a difference.
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
I've read this book twice now. More than any other book on persuasion out there (and there are a lot now, including Sway, The Paradox of Choice, Covert Persuasion, Habit), Cialdini's is stellar. The popular Persuasion, Emotion & Trust c
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
Just so you won't have to click through the calendar, the actual 30 Days of Persuasion series begins here: http://persuasiveweb.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
Creative roles? Have you seen the Netflix creative? It was last updated in 2004. I don't think they have creative roles. ;)
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
I've read exactly the same thing about Netflix hundreds of times on Glassdoor ------ almost every review says the same thing: fear for your job. My partner was offered a job there and decided against it after reading some of those reviews.
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
I totally agree. WakeMate is way more cost-effective a solution than any of its competitors... And the 'personal sleep analytics' (or whatever) could really help busy people make better sense of the practical ways to improve their sleep hab
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
"The harder I work, the luckier I get." Given how hard the people in the HN community work, it's little wonder that the concept of the 'luck surface area' resonates so well.
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
Hmm. It's hard to respond to this without getting into the "ly" issue. I guess what rubs me the wrong way about Dashboardly is that it feels like it will be dated quickly... just like anything with the prefix "my" (MySpace) or "i" (every
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
Thanks, malbiniak! I agree that, as interesting as Offer HN could be, the real opportunities to help others will be in continuing to read Ask HN posts and offering your services there, where there's a good match. As someone mentioned alread
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
No, I don't actually have a personal twitter account. I tweet @page99test, if you'd like to follow.
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
I forgot my password the other day (restarted computer and couldn't retrieve it), so I had to login as fireitup. Anyway, good call --- I didn't even think about my username when I commented.
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by bloggergirl 16y ago
I've been writing web copy for 7 years, and, although the advertising guys referenced so far (e.g., Hopkins, Ogilvy) are great, their tricks focus largely on direct response (i.e., long form letters). Use those tricks for writing PPC ad hea