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by com 16y ago
Once when I arrived at JFK, the immigration officer realised it was my birthday and sang "Happy Birthday" to me. Sweet, and embarrassing. Didn't enthuse the thousand people waiting behind me in the queue either. The difference with arriving
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by com 16y ago
Different UI, apps you can download, higher specs for hardware. What else is left? Oh wait, they're both phones! The gp was pointing out that for consumers, for service providers and for MS marketing, these are totally unrelated devices. My
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by com 16y ago
Bill Gates is actually famous for his "Open Letter to Hobbyists", making the case for commercial software in the 1970's. Up until that time, most software was bundled with hardware (a throw-away reference to this is in http://en.wikipedia.
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by com 16y ago
I personally doubt the big, hard problems in enterprise software. I've worked in a few Fortune 100 organisations, and I've got to say that enterprise software doesn't tend to solve hard problems: financial reporting, workflow support, resou
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by com 17y ago
I was shocked years later when I worked with some MSM how amateur they were compared with the fairly "best practice" stuff we invented ourselves for our university paper. Personally, the best learning environments I've ever been in were whe
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by com 17y ago
I'd love to attend, Utrecht is the right location (although I'm in Amsterdam). I'm kinda fluent in Dutch if you can handle brutalised word order and a particularly nasty English accent in Dutch :-)
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by com 17y ago
This is a really great suggestion - many non-profits will go for it; keeps their staff (you) happy, keeps you connected to them, and they can bother you on "freelance days" too. But that's the problem: you've probably already got more on yo
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by com 17y ago
Can you say what you tried and what sort of response you had? Was it pricing model, sales approach or transparency? Was your product aligned with your marketing and sales approach (ie more like consumer-grade software which is a bit shiny a
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by com 17y ago
Much of this resonates with my experience in big organisations - but generally bad memories surface, not good ones. Enterprise software is like toilet paper in centrally-planned economies such as the old eastern bloc: substandard, rationed,
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by com 17y ago
The number USD20/hour comes from the minimum cost to employer - remember that this is a society that has generous unemployment and health provisions: payroll duties, compulsory (employer-paid) social costs are fairly high, up to 100% of the
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by com 17y ago
I took a look, but ... um all I see from the brochureware site is a cartoony interface with low information density, no history or trending (surely that's interesting for your egotistical users?). Without installing it, it looks like all th
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by com 17y ago
"To clarify, add detail". If only more app designers used the style of analysis that Tufte demonstrates in the article to critique their own "chartoon" interfaces. His key insight is that apps can really benefit by removing user interface c
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by com 18y ago
What precisely is transferred depends on the contract and the legal jurisdiction. I have some clients that were gypped for a lot more than USD2.5k - they thought they were getting the IP and instead they were getting a non-transferable lice
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by com 18y ago
Oh, at a technical level (ie. a corporate IT department as you mentioned) this is fairly true. But what unalone was saying, it's not about the under-the-hood technical stuff in marketing, it's about a consistent story. If you can't join the
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by com 18y ago
I like the Information Design site at http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/patterns.p... Click on the "Patterns" tab and select the categories on the left. patternbrowser.org is a bit too busy for my taste, too hard to struct