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by bradbatt 11y ago
That was amazingly good and informative. Cool site and book!
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by bradbatt 11y ago
“having a bad cofounder is significantly worse than having no cofounder at all” ^^^ This is so true. For anyone thinking of bringing on a business partner, I highly recommend the book “The Partnership Charter” — it does an excellent job of
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by bradbatt 11y ago
Hey thanks :) Was great meeting you and enjoyed the dinner conversations!
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by bradbatt 12y ago
Appreciate an invite if you still have one available. Thanks!
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by bradbatt 12y ago
Totally agree. Why not get rid of some of the extraneous information in the table first? You don’t need MM/DD/YYYY format for every date. You don’t even need the year if you are displaying information for this year, which is proba
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by bradbatt 12y ago
Empathy is probably the greatest thing we could teach children or anyone for that matter. We do a very poor job in general of teaching emotional skills such as these in schools.
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by bradbatt 12y ago
That’s because they aren’t “tactics”. One of the greatest things Carnegie teaches is becoming interested in other people. You can’t fake that. It’s not a tactic to use on people—faking being interested in them—on order to get them to like y
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by bradbatt 12y ago
Really interesting…and well done.
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by bradbatt 12y ago
I have used Divvy in the past, but now use Keyboard Maestro for window management. ( http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/ ) You do have to configure things and set them up a bit, but it can do SO much more than just window managem
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by bradbatt 12y ago
Some of them are cool, especially the shorter ones — like .mom, .music, .wiki But then you have ones like .photography and .international — seems 12+ letters just for the domain name extension seems overboard. And then you have the complete
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by bradbatt 12y ago
Because everyone needs help at some point in their lives and oftentimes a kind gesture from someone is all they need to get started turning things around.
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by bradbatt 12y ago
I don’t think it’s out of bounds at all to assume that these companies would keep as much data as possible—including your messages.
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by bradbatt 12y ago
The problem is that you have to think at all. It should be inherent and automatic for you to navigate where you want to go as a user. If you have to pause to figure out how to use the UI then the designers have failed.
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by bradbatt 12y ago
The main problem is it takes some amount of time to figure out how to navigate. It should just be inherent. The webmaster needs a copy of Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” … http://brad.me/1pot03u
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by bradbatt 12y ago
Web designers need to stop breaking basic browser functionality in their pursuit of creativity.
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I Am Done with Shitty Customers(todayinwebdesign.com)
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by bradbatt 13y ago
“Tell me what the fuck it is EVERY GODDAMNED TIME YOU COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE PRODUCT.” Seriously, so much this. I cannot even count the number of emails I receive along the lines of “We’re happy to let you know that we have launched macaroni
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by bradbatt 13y ago
I’ve used VoiceCloud ( http://www.voicecloud.com/ ) for the last 5+ years. Would not go back to regular must-listen-to-your-3-minutes-of-rambling voicemail for a second!!
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by bradbatt 13y ago
"That's weird, this UPDATE shouldn't have taken so long-oh shit." That right there is one of the worst feelings in the world. I imagine that everyone on HN just felt it with you as they were reading it! Totally agree t
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by bradbatt 13y ago
Thanks for sharing—some good lessons learned in there! I love that you posted this as a comment on HN…it is worthy of it's own blog post.
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by bradbatt 13y ago
What makes Apple's attempt so different from all the others in this area? Because literally with the press of a button you can make the video playing on your iPhone or iPad appear on your HDTV. Because you just plug in the Apple TV a
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by bradbatt 13y ago
It comes down to educating users in a way they understand. Part of the problem is that they simply do not grasp the risks or the issues involved. The problems are either too technical or confusing or they may simply not even know that the i
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by bradbatt 13y ago
FYI, none of the things you mentioned is (in itself) something that a company can (legally) choose to factor into their hiring decision. This is true, but it is something that you can factor into your employment decision. That is, decidin
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by bradbatt 13y ago
It takes a total of maybe 15 seconds to learn how to open a link in a tab. If that's too much effort for someone, then I seriously question what other small things that person has decided to just not learn throughout their life. For
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by bradbatt 13y ago
LOL … that was great. I've always thought this CSI clip was amazing too… “I’ll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic…see if I can track down an IP address.” http://brad.me/1hGJgIk
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by bradbatt 13y ago
Not really imo…they are an automated, set-it-and-forget-it backup service. Not quite the same thing for me to have to remember to go in occasionally and download a full copy of my data versus having a service do it for me once or multiple t
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by bradbatt 13y ago
Does anyone thing that Google isn't keeping a copy of every bit of data they have on everybody that has ever used any of their systems? I cannot imagine they would ever throw data away. Even if they restrict the end user from it doesn&
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by bradbatt 13y ago
My mom couldn't. Nor about 95% of the rest of my friends and family. But clicking export and then download? All of them can do that.
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by bradbatt 13y ago
"You shouldn't use Dropbox because WebDAV is better." "Sure, but that doesn't work with my iPhone." "You shouldn't use an iPhone either."
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by bradbatt 13y ago
Guarantee you that you can do it with Keyboard Maestro somehow... http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ Best program I have bought for OS X in a long time! Amazingly useful and I know I have barely scratched the surface

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