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by ftio 8y ago
I come bearing anecdata! At my previous company, we did a minor visual design refresh of our ancient software because our sales data showed that one of the top objections cited by prospects was that the software looked old. Although the vis
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by ftio 8y ago
Excellent, thank you! This really clears it up. One of the comments on the top answer added an example that unlocked it for me intuitively: “in VMWare you can have a virtualized CD drive which is connected to the real physical CD drive, or
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by ftio 8y ago
Missed an opportunity to render it like this: prEvious On a more serious note, what's the difference between a project like this and virtualization? Is there one? Once this is completed, could it be run in virtualization software, or i
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by ftio 8y ago
Diversity and Inclusion.
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by ftio 8y ago
This is the kind of thing I come to HN for. I’ll never use it, but I love the creativity and the drive and the spirit that went into this. Just building a beautiful thing because it’s fun and beautiful. Love it.
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by ftio 8y ago
One of my favorite episodes of my favorite podcast (Reply All by Gimlet) is about Minitel: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/french-connection Well worth a listen.
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by ftio 8y ago
If you're just building a website — i.e., not a highly interactive web application — here's what I'd recommend. I've been building websites since 1998, FWIW, although I'm now a stupid product manager, so take this w
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by ftio 8y ago
Check out Uniqlo! I have extreme aversion toward advertising a brand on my body. Uniqlo has nice basic clothes with zero logos on them.
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by ftio 8y ago
The aim is not to document performance generally. The aim is to counteract the natural tendencies of managers to soften their critiques in conversation and of employees to underestimate their poor performance by memorializing feedback in wr
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by ftio 8y ago
As a corollary to #32, not only should you have difficult conversations early (i.e., even when a problem feels 'small') so that you give people time and space and feedback to improve, you should document those conversations via em
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by ftio 8y ago
I used Moleskines in college but haven’t looked back since finding Leuchtterm (almost 10 years ago). I love the numbered pages and softer covers, but the best part is that the lines are MUCH lighter. You won’t regret switching.
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by ftio 8y ago
Love this. I too have had a passion for stationery for most of my life. To give you a sense of the kind of kid I was: Staples was my favorite store from ages 9-12. I've been through gel pens and rollerballs and felt tips and every vari
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by ftio 9y ago
This is a great technique. 1. Ask if they have 30 seconds to chat. 2. If they say no, ask for another time that works better. People are polite, so many will not say no. Schedule this time immediately and have them confirm on the calendar r
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by ftio 9y ago
Bring em to your neighborhood pizza shop. They've got nice, hot ovens. Just don't burn your socks.
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by ftio 10y ago
Sounds like a modern day Ship of Theseus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus ). I wonder how many parts have been untouched since they were installed on Day 1.
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by ftio 10y ago
For the hockey fans in the room, this feels similar to the New Jersey Devils' infamous 'offside trap' strategy that made them so successful in the 90s and early 2000s. It's been called everything from 'boring'
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by ftio 10y ago
I wear one of the same few models of black shirt (I have 5-10 each of a tshirt, a sweater, and a polo) and one of the same few models of jeans every day (I have one or two each of those). For me, it's less about the decision making pro
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by ftio 10y ago
As the saying goes, Revenue Solves Everything.
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by ftio 10y ago
Tangent: I just typed `xkcd/927` in Safari and it took me directly to the XKCD page. Is this some kind of Safari easter egg? It doesn't work in Chrome or Firefox. I want this to be true.
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by ftio 10y ago
New Domino's tagline: "Any way you slice it, Domino's is a...killer app!"
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by ftio 10y ago
I think this is a dangerous and fruitless line of reasoning. It halts the conversation. It makes it harder for management to be introspective. If you look at critical or creative thinking as an inherent skill [1] rather than as a measurable
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Megaprocessor, a micro-processor built large. Very large(megaprocessor.com)
6 points by ftio 10y ago|1 comments
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by ftio 10y ago
Not if the olympics aren't held.
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by ftio 11y ago
Google hasn't forgotten anything. Anecdotally, most users do not know the difference between paid results and organic results, and the top paid result is usually what the user wants anyway. Do you think Google didn't test this on
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by ftio 11y ago
Definitely. Writing software : writing software to test software as writing software : cleaning the floors.
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Microsoft Launches PowerApps, Makes Building Business Apps Easier(techcrunch.com)
5 points by ftio 11y ago|0 comments
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by ftio 11y ago
Discovered that I hadn't setup DKIM for my Google Apps domains, nor had I realized how easy it is to do it: https://support.google.com/a/answer/174124?hl=en
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Steve Jobs’ management legacy at Apple can be glimpsed in recent SEC letters(venturebeat.com)
2 points by ftio 11y ago|0 comments
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by ftio 11y ago
We share the same goal, but I'm not a fan of TrackPoint. Moved from a side-by-side monitor setup (laptop + external display) with external keyboard and mouse to an over-under configuration with my external (main) display elevated to e
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by ftio 11y ago
The bit about financials slides mattering most because investors spend more time reading them seems misleading, especially in light of the evidence that "only 57 percent of successful decks have this section." Investors spend more

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