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by imp 16y ago
I usually find it easier to start with a project I want to build, and then learn whatever it takes to make it happen. There's so much to learn that it really is a personal preference.
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by imp 16y ago
Would you mind commenting on my website, Curious Reef, which is aiming to help people learn new things? I would love to hear if you think it's a solution to that problem. http://curiousreef.com/
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by imp 16y ago
Oops, I meant that I disagree with marcamillion about the ship sailing thing...
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by imp 16y ago
Is the solution better software or smarter managers? I mean, you know that enterprise software sucks, but do the people who pay for it know that it sucks? How would you tackle that problem?
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by imp 16y ago
What kind of tech news? XBox games? OSS? VC funding announcements? Right now, what would the top 5 headlines be on your ideal news site? I disagree with linkfrek that the ship has sailed. Online communities will always exist and evolve.
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by imp 16y ago
I think you're asking the right question, but I don't have any idea of what the answer is. It doesn't seem like answering that question is something you can crowdsource to us. You need a vision of what you think a great news site will loo
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by imp 16y ago
It seems like a cool idea. I remember when I was in high school applying for scholarships, there was a scholarship website that had something similar. I had to browse around their website looking for coins or something like that. When I
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by imp 16y ago
At 1,000 karma, pg mails you an autographed copy of On Lisp.
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by imp 16y ago
If your email has something interesting to say, then absolutely it's still worthwhile. It seems to be a growing area, at least from my perspective. It probably depends on the product, but most likely you'll get some value out of an email
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by imp 16y ago
Same here with only eight buckets and a couple hundred total objects. Maybe they're just overwhelmed right now...
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by imp 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that all of those (plus mint.com, which started as mymint.com) had VC backing to help pay for the domain. If you want to go with that kind of domain name, it seems like getting VC is going to be a requirement.
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by imp 16y ago
I also got the same reaction here in the midwest. Although people would be supportive, there was frequently a tone of sympathy as well. It was surprising to see how people reacted, especially those who are more indoctrinated into the corp
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by imp 16y ago
My theory about alt text showing as correlated to higher ranking is that it's a result of people optimizing their pages. SEOs have been saying to add alt text for a while, and it's easy to do compared to changing URLs or a domain name. I
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by imp 16y ago
works for me
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by imp 16y ago
I can't tell if he's joking or not. He has a section titled "Don't Have Kids," yet he has two himself: http://www.kenrockwell.com/about.htm So he obviously isn't taking his own advice. Maybe he could have posted tips on how to raise chi
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by imp 16y ago
I really liked the article, and I think the Maximum Viable Product is a great concept. From reading some people's descriptions of MVP it seems like they expect their users to tell them exactly what to do. However, comparing user feedback
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by imp 16y ago
I've been slowly getting better with my bash skills by organizing it as a class on my learning website: http://curiousreef.com/class/bash-scripting/ It's useful because it helps me stay on track. I can take off a few days or weeks even an
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by imp 16y ago
Some people have been working through this class together on Curious Reef. It's loosely organized, with people posting questions and ideas in the class forum: http://curiousreef.com/class/stanford-cs229-machine-learning... Might be a us
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by imp 16y ago
I don't have experience with this, but you've reminded me to rotate the password to my Gmail account :)
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by imp 16y ago
I agree you should launch sooner rather than later. Also, not to be rude, but if you do start a blog, you may want to have someone proofread your posts. A lot of typos like you have here won't instill confidence in your users.
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by imp 16y ago
Thanks, there's over 1200 registered users, but I wouldn't quote that as active users. The site got redditted when it launched and there's some people who signed up initially and haven't been back. I don't have a number for active users of
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by imp 16y ago
I've built a website to do that! It's called Curious Reef http://curiousreef.com/ and I launched it a few months ago. People have been steadily learning a variety of subjects together since then. The most active class so far is MIT's OC
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by imp 16y ago
I've used MailChimp and I think it's great. No issues with spam. I use their RSS-to-email feature a lot, and it saves me tons of time. Haven't tried any other delivery services.
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by imp 16y ago
I love this quote: No matter what your audience size, you ought to write as if your readership consisted of paid subscribers whose subscriptions were perpetually about to expire.
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by imp 16y ago
minimotivation.com (it's a random saying every time you refresh)
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by imp 16y ago
Cool, sounds like you have a lot of features there. I didn't know about the parsing part. What I would love is if you would poll those sites daily and then alert me whenever a car of a certain model is listed for a specific mileage and pr
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by imp 16y ago
I may be in the minority (not incredibly small though), but if someone isn't comfortable using a spreadsheet, they're probably not going to be comfortable using a web app either. Spreadsheets are pretty ubiquitous.
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by imp 16y ago
I'm not sure who your target audience is. I've searched for apartments, a car, and a house. Every time I used a spreadsheet to keep track of those things and it worked great. From my quick look at your site, that's all you really seem
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by imp 16y ago
Or "don't drink and text." It looks like he may have been trying to text a friend instead of tweeting.
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by imp 16y ago
Patents are completely separate from trademarks though.

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