dcurtis

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721.
by dcurtis 18y ago
I was in the same position. And eventually, partially because of the mirror-every-morning trick he talked about, I did quit.
722.
by dcurtis 18y ago
Three. The first is from a YC founder. I don't remember who, but he said "Always say yes." I tried that out for a while, and it has worked pretty well. A lot of where I am in my life is because I just said yes when I normally would have shr
723.
by dcurtis 18y ago
Tried. He either ignored it, or it got lost in his inbox. I figured if the community agrees, he might be more inclined.
724.
by dcurtis 18y ago
They have a ton of social networks. Yahoo Answers, Flickr, etc... Or would those be classified as "communities"?
725.
by dcurtis 18y ago
Being the curious type, I don't think I would have let such an interesting switch sit idly by for a year like this guy did. Why didn't he investigate it further after first making the discovery? Such a great story though.
726.
by dcurtis 18y ago
That sounds like a recipe for failure. A new search engine marketed with Apple's style, while building hardware and converting apps to search/ads?
727.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Twitter has millions of dollars.
728.
by dcurtis 19y ago
In San Francisco, 1400 dollars will barely get you a studio (in the interesting parts of the city).
729.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Are any of them profitable, in the DHH sense?
730.
by dcurtis 19y ago
There are "smart" content management systems like Movable Type that let you type into a text area using "bold" and "italic" buttons like Word. When you submit, it automatically converts it to HTML. The NYTimes designers, apparently, type ev
731.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Right, there are always exceptions. But you shouldn't give advice based on exceptional cases.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
I can see the reason for this. If you hire a terrible employee, it's harder to fire them than it is to cut off an outsourcing agency. Early employees define the culture of the company. On the other hand, you'll never get the quality of work
733.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I wonder how much electricity Facebook uses, in total, for all of these servers.
734.
by dcurtis 19y ago
The problem is, if you have standards this high, you'll never find someone. The good programmers you talk about are extremely rare.
735.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I call myself an interface designer. But I don't consider what I do purely visual at all. I find that it's hard to describe. How do you describe to someone the feeling you get when you put your tongue on a lemon? Or how it feels to click th
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Making Long-Distance Business Partnerships Work(nytimes.com)
17 points by dcurtis 19y ago|4 comments
737.
by dcurtis 19y ago
You are awesome. Seriously. Users are fucking awesome, but people like you, people who understand users and are completely transparent about their process are even more awesome. Thank you for the inspiration.
738.
by dcurtis 19y ago
uservoice.com (which was just techcrunched)
739.
by dcurtis 19y ago
rememberthemilk.com kind of goes halfway, with a freemium model. In some ways, that seems more sane to me than DHH's pay-only ideology.
740.
by dcurtis 19y ago
To point out one startup using cool math: Powerset. Google may use cool math, but be careful calling it the "only" at anything. There are tons of companies you probably haven't heard of doing awesome things. Everyone knows about Google, tho
741.
by dcurtis 19y ago
You gave an angel 60% of your company? You don't know if you will be taxed on your 40% contribution, and yet you already went through with the deal? Your advisors are unable to answer your fairly simple questions? Something is wrong here...
742.
by dcurtis 19y ago
You admire Microsoft's ability to "leverage their monopolistic position" through marketing? Isn't that the complete opposite of the very idea of marketing? Most of their marketing is terrible, anyway. Vista did not make me say "Wow."
743.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Can you explain why you're creating a craigslist competitor? I'm having a hard time understanding why so many people are doing this. What problem are you solving?
744.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I couldn't make out anything interesting. There was a Word document called "FINAL draft FINAL final" though, which I chuckled at.
745.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Oh, I'm not offended in any way. Sorry if it came off that way. I just think the power of his speech was lost in translation. The notes are really good, actually.
746.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Wow, this typed version destroyed the power of his talk. Please wait until you can see the video (on justin.tv?); his presence is huge. It has been the best talk by far.
747.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Hmm. I submitted this yesterday. I thought the dupe preventer was better than this... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164592 Edit: Oh, I see, this one uses the "print" link. I wonder how this can be prevented in the future.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
You mean, you'd either pay and spend as much (or more) time on them, or you'd never visit them again and not subscribe. Sadly, there's no middle ground.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
This isn't a housing application-- discrimination is completely legal. In fact, the application is designed to discriminate against people who would be bad founders.
750.
by dcurtis 19y ago
There's a difference between "fancy boxes" and a reputable website design. You think the current website is sufficient for the company to gain significant online purchases? It's not. They don't have to overdo it, just make it usable.

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