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Don’t Brake for Fonts(medium.com)
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Disagreeing with Jason Calacanis about Platforms(medium.com)
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Disagreeing with Jason Calacanis about Platforms(medium.com)
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Don’t Brake for Fonts: 3 web performance techniques to show content quickly(medium.com)
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by firasd 10y ago
I understand the issues with comments but I feel publishers are making a mistake. NPR recently said their comments are non-representative of their total listeners and are annoying to users and take time to moderate, so… they’ll remove them
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by firasd 10y ago
Brilliant. Thanks. (For the uninitiated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12538640 )
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by firasd 10y ago
Okay. So I’m no UX expert, just a developer and I’ve also worked in product management. I think at some point, if you work in this field, you have to develop instincts around the design and experience of things. A modal (i.e. app-locking)
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by firasd 10y ago
I think the heart is new while the star-ratings have always been there.
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by firasd 10y ago
Are you saying on OS X I wouldn't have gotten the inscrutable dialog saying, "You are about to start playback. Do you want to clear the 2 songs previously added to Up Next?" (I guess, all these years later, I kinda get it? Bu
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by firasd 10y ago
Hmm… I’m not spiteful, I just don’t have any hope for improvement. iTunes has been chronically bad, I could find thousands of other articles and testimonials about that. At this point the issue is clearly endemic to the product. Constructiv
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iTunes will never work well(medium.com)
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by firasd 10y ago
Great points. I don't know about the 90s, but in this era, you either want founder-level equity or market salaries. There's too much uncertainty about the outcome, too many circumstances that can affect it, and too long a time win
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by firasd 10y ago
I think he says something about spending time with his kids, etc in this Recode interview (don't remember clearly though) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsixsRI-Sz4
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by firasd 10y ago
Great, works here, thanks! (In case anyone wants the SC profile link: https://soundcloud.com/ycombinator )
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by firasd 10y ago
While we're at it, these are great interviews and I'm glad they're being created and published, and I'd appreciate if the series was available as a podcast... I only noticed this new interview because I happened to be on
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by firasd 10y ago
A few things. I'm not American (I'm from India) and I think that fact, plus your point about Yelp, gets to the flipside: that American social media giants' standards are actually more relaxed than the media of many countries,
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by firasd 10y ago
It's true that Facebook (and Twitter, Youtube, etc.) are expressing the point of view of the platform creators as to 'acceptable content' and it's worth pointing out. On the other hand, if I made a product that hosted us
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by firasd 10y ago
Low carb is like magic for my health, fitness, and mental acuity. Reasons it's hard for me to stay on the bandwagon (1) it's more expensive to eat only meat, vegetables, eggs and fats v.s. eating stuff together with bread, rice et
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by firasd 10y ago
I think there's at least two reasons. With Twitter or Facebook the problem is that they're dependent on network effects so asking for payments from users is out of the question, they would never get to 100s of millions of users th
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by firasd 10y ago
Got the Show info from iTunes charts feeds, then parsed the Show feeds for Episode info :)
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by firasd 10y ago
You're kind of suggesting people go in reverse. Ratings were the initial way these things worked but then they moved to more implicit signals. Netflix used to be all about star ratings back in the day; now they want to measure what you
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by firasd 10y ago
I've been making a podcast discovery app, it's not live yet but the latest home page screenshot is http://imgur.com/a/Bkn7Y (basically: Trending topics, Recommendations (based on social media profile and list
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by firasd 10y ago
Keep in mind that the systems required depend on the actual tasks, not just whether you can fit the data on a disk. I don't think the FB Newsfeed (show more photos from your cousin because you liked their text post last week...) can be
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by firasd 10y ago
The whole 'made employees cry' thing is also reminiscent of former Apple exec Tony Fadell who was ousted from Nest.
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by firasd 10y ago
I think it can definitely be a challenge sometimes: go to youtube.com and look at their search input (says "Search" in a placeholder). There's no way they can put the label above the search box, it would almost double the siz
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by firasd 10y ago
It's useful from a minimal design perspective but I've started to avoid using placeholders after seeing this article[1], instead trying to put the field name, example text or caption, etc outside the input. [1] https://
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by firasd 10y ago
Yeah. It's odd how often otherwise-serious businesspeople have this weird "recency bias" for feedback, even from non-board members.
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by firasd 10y ago
Good thoughts. That's exactly what I thought when I saw the tweet as well. VCs are pontificating on SnapChat about what kind of team you should build at the seed stage because they are doing content marketing. Like all content marketin
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by firasd 10y ago
Yes. The best way is probably to physically/temporally separate the phase of working on the design and product from the phase of working on the code. This has some conceptual benefits (thinking more freely when you don't have your
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by firasd 10y ago
You are right that PHP can do the feed checking part but I wanted to use something with easy async/concurrency out of the box (and wanted to learn Elixir instead of using Node.) One hard tech limit is that with 50k podcasts, 4million+

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