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by fratis 14y ago
Your comment reminds me of a segment of Urbanized, the documentary [1], in which a young woman, Candy Chang [2], creates a simple system for enabling citizens to voice their opinions on what should be done with vacant buildings in varying s
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by fratis 14y ago
Any chance you'd consider making book sales a smaller part of what your store does in favor of other sources of revenue? One of the few things brick-and-mortar shops can do that Amazon still can't is bring people together, to Be A Place. Yo
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by fratis 14y ago
When I was doing IT consulting before starting my company, we used to contract a great Florida-based company called AppRiver for hosted exchange (plus IMAP and POP, naturally) for some of our clients. The service was excellent, and their cu
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by fratis 14y ago
This is really well done. :) Textbook hierarchical explanation. I had a conversation with some family members recently in which I explained (in much less detail) how the web works, and I found that they were having trouble grasping exactly
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by fratis 14y ago
When I worked in a mall, I'd get accosted by these guys on a daily basis (on my way to lunch). I developed the perfect response to their inevitable "Hello, sir! How are you?" "I'm doing great! So well, in fact, that even Dead Sea products c
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by fratis 14y ago
I respect what the Bootstrap developers have built. It is robust, it looks good, it is opinionated, and it seems to just work . And it's EVERYWHERE. And that's my problem with it: I feel as though every new web application I visit is built
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by fratis 14y ago
When I was doing research on this for my startup a few months ago, we found that Braintree easily beat Stripe on price. This is just icing on the cake. Braintree's not as glamorous (I think), but if you're doing a large number of transactio
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by fratis 14y ago
Ah. Fair enough. Thanks for the tip.
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by fratis 14y ago
Folks who've used tour things like this: how do you detect if it's the first time your users are using your app? Do you make a db query every time they log in? Do you use cookies? Cookies seem unreliable and a flag in the database seems a w
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by fratis 14y ago
Right off the bat: why use Silverlight instead of non-proprietary technology?
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Craigslist is Hiring a UX Dev(craigslist.org)
5 points by fratis 14y ago|1 comments
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by fratis 14y ago
It's a cool idea. Think of it as Study Abroad for hackers: you're doing what you'd be doing at home, but in a new place with new people, enriching yourself personally and — because there'd be other hackers there too — professionally as well
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On the Price of the Upcoming iPad
1 points by fratis 14y ago|0 comments
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by fratis 14y ago
I built http://ipsum.me , an ipsum generator for web developers, with placeholder functionality for those dozen <li> tags in your mockup that you'd like to fill with a list of names.
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by fratis 14y ago
Did your grandfather set it up himself?
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by fratis 14y ago
I disagree. Nobody outside the tech community knows that Google Voice exists, let alone how to use it. This has solid branding (esp. the name) and good messaging. The price might be a little high for what it's doing, but if the idea is to e
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by fratis 14y ago
This article is barely readable. The block quotes throughout don't make sense. They are extremely confusing. Further, not only does the article NOT describe strategies contrary to those "wandering on the internet," it trots out trite platit
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by fratis 14y ago
This is a sensible list of new rules. This is a quintessential exercise in changing user expectations and behavior. This is great UX, especially in a platform-type environment in which the platform managers aren’t always able to curate the
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by fratis 14y ago
Ope. Looks like I was actually off by a fair bit. :P Here's the actual list, from http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/155631525 : Pickled garlic. Cottage cheese. Peat-smoked salmon. 6 bottles of white wine. 3 pairs of socks. 3 hula hoops.
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by fratis 14y ago
I read this book well over a year ago, and I still remember nearly the entire list of items he used as an example in the book. The techniques described really work, though the book is more of a memoir than a guide. Here's what I remember, f
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by fratis 14y ago
This is cool, but I'd like to be able to fork one of my own lists. Consider this use case: I'm a freelance web developer, for example, and there are twenty things I need to do on every project. I could create a master list of things that ne
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Blog Wars(frank.is)
3 points by fratis 14y ago|0 comments
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by fratis 14y ago
Agreed. I use them as well, and they've been great from day one. Short anecdote: I have an Icelandic (.is) domain. Iceland's NIC has very strict rules regarding DNS records associated with an Icelandic domain. dnsimple's support team got th
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Africa is poor and 5 other myths (TEDx talk)(youtube.com)
1 points by fratis 14y ago|0 comments
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Americans Think "The Cloud" is a Real Cloud(loopinsight.com)
2 points by fratis 14y ago|0 comments
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by fratis 14y ago
As much as I just loathe saying "I told you so," I direct your attention to this prediction 55 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4174622
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by fratis 14y ago
Totally. :)
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by fratis 14y ago
Ahh, yikes. Sorry. I should've been clearer. I didn't mean (though it certainly sounded that way) that it's necessary for the reader to know your gender. Looking back, in fact, I realize that I weakened my position by even mentioning it (es
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by fratis 14y ago
A tip for people writing on corporate blogs: let us know who you are up front. Whether there's a byline under the title or a short intro sentence/paragraph preceding the article, knowing who you are gives the reader a way to frame what your
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by fratis 14y ago
That's just wrong. According to a test – admittedly somewhat unscientific, but good enough for our purposes – done by developer Benjamin Mayo and vetted by TNW, third-party apps only contribute to ~25% of twitter's activity. Tweetbot is in

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