brianmckenzie

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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   1 GB is more than enough RAM for development, no Mac would even ship with too little. I'm 6'3" and the MacBook keyboard is too small for me, so I bought the iMac and have not looked back. The iMac has a 7200rpm drive as well, together with
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   I find it interesting that he doesn't see much of a future in .tv, .mobi etc. Not sure I agree with him there, but then I'm not a multi-million domain speculator.
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   I'm in agreement with the article. Most of the desktop-mimic web apps I've used just plain suck. They feel like really slow, crappy desktop apps, as if you were running Lotus Notes on a 10-year-old windows machine, only worse. This isn't t
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   I try to spend two weeks out of each year without computers or the internet - usually one week off for every six months on. That may sound like a lot, but in practice it hardly matters because I spend such a huge % of all my other time on h
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   No Flickr, no MySpace, no social bookmarking here. The 37signals apps are the only really 2.0-ish thing I'm into. Geez, I don't even have an RSS reader. By all indications I should be the poster child for this stuff, so it doesn't surprise
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   I am absolutely baffled as to how anyone could see YC as 'clubby', elitist, or whatever peoples' problem seems to be. Can anyone name another angel or VC firm that is more transparent than YC, or contributes more to the web startup world?
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   Make a word replacement filter. If someone is causing problems just word-filter their name into something embarassing. Or take a word they use frequently in their posts and word-filter it into gibberish.
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   Netflix is the first example that springs to mind. They're not purely a web app, but they're the only thing I'm paying for besides 37signals. I might pay one of these domain-name-brainstorming sites that are popping up, not sure yet. Buxfe
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   by brianmckenzie 19y ago

   If you ever get into a situation where your site has over 50k users or so, you will see banned users switch email addresses to circumvent your security measures several times a day. I know I do, and my site only has 300k users. The solution
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    by brianmckenzie 19y ago

    I have the 20in. iMac, maxed out on RAM and HD. It's absolutely killer - the best machine I've ever owned. Next purchase will be a MacBook Pro.
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    by brianmckenzie 19y ago

    I use InkScape for wireframes. It saves everything as SVG so the files are easy to send to people I'm collaborating with, and they can open in Illustrator if that's what they're using. http://inkscape.org
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    by brianmckenzie 19y ago

    So she's outsourced the development and is spamming blogs to get registrations. Doesn't sound like too formidable a competitor to me. If you can code, you can develop your app and launch in less than than the time she's wasting trying to co
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    by brianmckenzie 19y ago

    I wouldn't worry so much about graphics programs - after all, there are no graphics on this site and you use it, right? Start by learning how to do valid markup and get good at CSS. I second the recommendation of http://alistpart.com