dforeman

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by dforeman 15y ago
As someone with consumer electronics experience and a 94-year-old grandmother, I actually think #4 is brilliant. She will never understand how to maneuver to email on her iPad, and the abstract 'reply' and 'send' symbols we all take for gra
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by dforeman 15y ago
I think it's interesting how the Yelp model might work for business services, but breaks down for service providers. We're not doing lawyers, but I think lawyers are a good example of why the Yelp UX model is wrong for the "relationship" bu
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by dforeman 15y ago
I think that question was included ironically- I.e., he's only been asked a handful of times. His sample size reflects the dearth of "learning how to program to build a viable webapp" stories and comments here. I don't even know if noob que
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by dforeman 15y ago
The treasury's argument is fatally flawed. "The baseline in which discretionary spending grows with nominal GDP is substantially higher because CBO assumes that nominal GDP grows by just under 5 percent a year on average, while inflation is
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by dforeman 15y ago
I'm not proud to say I know someone who has made tens of millions of dollars providing loans to contractors so they can drive a rig. The drivers rarely know what truly terrible terms they're getting, yet they're stuck since they lose their
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by dforeman 15y ago
My guess how a fail like this happens- Executive team has an investor relations (PR) firm on retainer. IR firm sees "Open Letter" as a PR crisis, pulls page from crisis management playbook and opts to respond immediately. Responds in invest
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by dforeman 15y ago
I just don't think Skype is a 8.5 billion dollar feature, especially any MS implementation. It's not like Skype was a closed platform- they have an API and their policy is to let the market decide which UX will win. I'm sure MS could have b