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by fookyong 16y ago
hiding controls results in less people seeing them. it's not rocket science.
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by fookyong 16y ago
The disadvantage of this is that there is no visual cue to the user that additional controls will appear. Not every user will spend time hovering over your entire UI, searching for controls that you've hidden away. This is a one-dimensional
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by fookyong 16y ago
Phenomenally useful. Contrary to one of the other posters here, I didn't find the tone obnoxious. I found it made for a more interesting podcast because the guy is obviously opinionated, but for a reason - he's knowledgable. Keep it up, I
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by fookyong 16y ago
Anyone know a way to use any of these on OS X? e.g. in Photoshop? I googled but only found the .exe for hq3x
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by fookyong 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but by the time .htaccess is processed to see where to route the user to, you're already using Apache resources. So while you can run the two together like this, Node.JS will ultimately be confined to the same scale
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by fookyong 16y ago
until now when there is so little of it on my Newsfeed I forget there are apps Recently I thought of trying out a few facebook games, just to see how things have progressed. I literally could not figure out how to find the games. I have
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by fookyong 16y ago
Biolab http://playbiolab.com runs so smoothly on a mobile web browser it's worth $99 just to see how it's done. Purchased a license immediately :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
I would also add that it's possible for this dynamic to change as a company grows. I speak from personal experience - successful e-commerce startup where I am director of web. Year 1 was about fast growth. We built a home-grown e-commerce
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by fookyong 16y ago
because it's not hurting their user acquisition by giving users the option to directly invite people, even if it's open for all.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Posted something similar a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580396
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by fookyong 16y ago
Free is a fast path to widespread adoption. With widespread adoption brings the potential for ROI in various ways that would be impossible with a smaller userbase - not least the classic "get big, get bought" strategy. Turning a widely adop
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by fookyong 16y ago
it's self-perpetuating in the same way as school bullying, too. anyone with authority who rallies against the Anon community would likely make themselves a target also.
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by fookyong 16y ago
The quote came from a press release. He's not talking to developers, he's talking to journalists and shareholders. What would you call it?
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by fookyong 16y ago
I had no idea colourlovers is a YC startup. I love the site and show it to designer friends all the time for colour inspiration.
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by fookyong 16y ago
"Get 5 tip emails on how to use Skritter" is very hard to place a value on, to a customer who hasn't even used Skritter yet (they are still at the registration stage!). why not "Get our Secret Tips to Language Learning free course (5 em
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by fookyong 16y ago
doesn't 15% less time in gmail = 15% less ad clicks for google from gmail? ok it's not a 1:1 correlation, but I'm sure there's some kind of relationship. there's an intrinsic conflict of interest - the more you make the app convenient to th
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by fookyong 16y ago
"There are a number of reasons: I get to work at a museum where I can go and look at amazing fish, lizards, and butterflies every day" This gave me goosebumps. If there was a way I could work this into my current office environment, I'd be
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by fookyong 16y ago
to get covered by TV you don't just have to be a big organization, you have to have a story. as another commenter said, "this is just a redesign that acts as a suitably rich metaphor for highlighting what the "new social web" is all about"
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by fookyong 16y ago
By 9pm most people were out the door apart from most of the department managers who usually stayed until 10pm-ish. Coming from Japan, I felt this was fairly normal. Long working hours are part of the culture.
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by fookyong 16y ago
"60 Minutes overplayed a purely cosmetic change" It's a purely cosmetic change that affects half a billion people. Does every web startup deserve news coverage when they redesign? No. Does facebook? Yup. The impact is larger. Pretty s
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by fookyong 16y ago
I spent 2 months last year working in China consulting for "the Facebook of China" (not actually Facebook). One thing that I loved about the office - every day at 6pm, caterers would come round with lunch boxes for everyone. Plus soup, plu
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by fookyong 16y ago
Thanks for submitting! this is my project :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
* which they don't even have to buy/manage/warehouse/distribute!)* This really is key. Coming from a traditional e-commerce background that includes all of the above, I am quietly envious of the groupon business model. You don't really und
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by fookyong 16y ago
If you've had no experience in E-commerce it's often overlooked just how hard it is to get people to come to your site and open their wallets. This is part analytical, part marketing and part secret sauce. Groupon has figured it out and
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by fookyong 16y ago
Do you have a web app?
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by fookyong 16y ago
no discredit to your developer friend, but the level of visual complexity that the OP refers to is far in advance the game you linked. Here's a video of the Aves engine in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo As someone buil
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by fookyong 16y ago
looks amazing! would love to drop by next time I'm in Beijing. I was there last year for 2 months and had a great time.
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by fookyong 16y ago
They are putting up $1 million. They are entitled to something out of it! This is great move by Mailchimp. It's beneficial to the ecosystem (helping hackers to build stuff) and beneficial to them.
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by fookyong 16y ago
you've confused "launching a product" with "success". as many of us here who have built multiple products / services, building it is about 10% of the battle :) not everyone launches under the TechCrunch umbrella - surely you can see that th
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by fookyong 16y ago
I use GeoCerts https://www.geocerts.com I've bought and installed about a dozen different certificates from them, even some of the high-ticket ones that need a background check during the application stage. Interface is good, price is rig

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