hansef

10 ms·

31.
by hansef 14y ago
Display and and media placement are all about demographic targeting. My take is that Facebook's revenue breakthrough occurs when they figure out how to get all that money going to media buys to flow through them based on their ability to mi
32.
by hansef 14y ago
In my opinion, anything on a product backlog which exceeds a 2-3 iteration horizon should be spun into a product roadmap document instead - as a general rule of thumb, if you don't have enough information about a story to sit down and writ
33.
by hansef 14y ago
Yep, which just adds to the implausibility of this person existing on-hand in an organization. But if we can't find product owners in the wild reliably, how do we as consultants help nurture them in the projects we are engaged in, and help
34.
by hansef 14y ago
I've experienced this in my own 7-year practice as CTO of an agile rails consulting shop, growing from 2 to 20 people while working with dozens of clients ranging from government agencies to VC-funded startups and self-funded single founder
35.
by hansef 14y ago
Brand and product simplicity, elegance of implementation. What is Dropbox's competitive advantage, or Instagram's?
36.
by hansef 14y ago
Nice! What are you guys using for encoding and transport?
37.
by hansef 15y ago
I'm also working on a Chrome and Firefox extension which uses Craigslist as a data source, and this is my understanding as well I think that rich client-side js apps packaged as browser extensions offer some interesting opportunities in gen
38.
by hansef 15y ago
Social streaming creates white noise, while curated social sharing provides meaning. Having the devices in a hundred friends' pockets passively alert their social profile that they ate at a burger joint is meaningless. Having my friend twee
39.
by hansef 15y ago
What did you read/study? Do you have a finance background? I've heard of people getting pretty burnt in options trading as well. :)
40.
by hansef 15y ago
Hired over a dozen engineers in the last couple years - swearing is a cultural signifier for me. It's a (small) cue that you might be a good team fit. If you say "fuck" while interviewing with me, I'm slightly more likely to hire you.
41.
by hansef 15y ago
+1 - I love your guys' model, just looking forward to seeing some bigger course projects!
42.
by hansef 15y ago
I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat-post-worthy jQuery lessons take about 3 minutes to go through ( http://www.codecademy.c
43.
by hansef 15y ago
c.f. also non-work-related internet use in general, bathroom breaks, staring out the window and thinking, and other productivity-killing pursuits on "company time" ;)
44.
by hansef 16y ago
Orly? Granted, compete data is far far far from reliable, but: http://grab.by/grabs/70bf6fda125dad336eaadd829f2739f3.png Look like vrbo has (and has been retaining) about a 10x multiple in traffic over airbnb. Granted, this isn't (again)
45.
by hansef 16y ago
yep. we've been doing this for five years, as we've grown from 3 people to 20. haven't had an issue yet. work with people you like and trust - everything else will follow smoothly.
46.
by hansef 16y ago
Sure, but at the same time I think it's worth also taking a moment to think about this number. 10% of the world's population has an active Facebook account. That's staggering. The best number I can find for MySpace is 100 million active u
47.
by hansef 16y ago
The naysayers below aren't part of your target audience. As someone who is, I think it's brilliant.
48.
by hansef 16y ago
Wow the writing in this piece is atrocious. "Let's be very clear, the competition is Apple (AAPL), but those hardware companies who would take on the gang from Cupertino, HP among them, have one huge disadvantage, they don't really do so
49.
by hansef 16y ago
This is what you get when you spend millions of dollars on an enterprise CMS + integration once every 8 years or so.
50.
by hansef 16y ago
Damnit, you beat me to my bitching.
51.
by hansef 16y ago
> People are naturally predisposed to upvote cotton-candy content, and if you start letting any of it in, eventually it will overwhelm whatever nutritional content used to be there. Totally. That's a very valid point. It's much easier t
52.
by hansef 16y ago
Oh c'mon, have you looked at the front page of reddit lately? Hacker News is hardly in danger of becoming indistinguishable. We come here to interact with a group of people with some sort of shared ethos and sensibility, submitting and voti
53.
by hansef 16y ago
Everyone sounds more nebbish when translated through a reporter.
54.
by hansef 16y ago
In Portland, yes, nearly every bar. Although you probably can't pull off a beer and dinner for $1 anymore most places.
55.
by hansef 16y ago
I think this might be a bit harsh. ;) However I do agree it would be much better to set up user expectations for the benefit of linking their account: explain to me why you need this information in a simple, preferably visual way. Also, wou
56.
by hansef 16y ago
The guy who founded the company, and with whom I've been working closely for over 5 years, is technical with a design background, but also happens to be a bizdev god. He's in SV (I'm in Portland, along with several of our other employees),
57.
by hansef 16y ago
How have you had success finding larger corporate clients? I've been working at 20 person agency as Director of Engineering for 5 years, but we generally run $500k+ year long webapp builds in Rails, not $12k corporate sites. I'm trying to c
58.
by hansef 16y ago
Totally offtopic, but m company did the site for Third Way earlier this year and I love the S3 CNAME'ing I added at the last minute before launch: http://content.thirdway.org/publications/335/Third_Way_Idea_... Always fun to see a project
59.
by hansef 16y ago
I've met a few talented web designers who don't grok html, javascript and css, but (so far) no product ux designers. Depending on the type of product you're building, someone like this may be exactly who you really need. Working with a good
60.
by hansef 16y ago
Alternatively, Google says "net neutrality is is great for everybody else, bitches." "Don't be evil" is officially dead at the hands of a lust for control. Compare to Google in 2006: "Today the Internet is an information highway where anybo

More ›