izaidi

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by izaidi 18y ago
I think the threshold is 20.
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by izaidi 18y ago
What would you say those cities' messages are? (I'm especially interested in Amsterdam because I'm thinking about moving there.)
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by izaidi 18y ago
Parent was being too harsh. As a designer, I don't think it looks that bad. It's not amateurish in any serious way, and it avoids the current cliches, which is refreshing to see. To me it kind of looks like cool design from, say, 1997, and
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by izaidi 18y ago
Not that this isn't interesting, but it seems a lot like these folks are doing fairly typical research into social behavior and calling attention to it by piggybacking it onto the buzz about online social networks.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I'm a big fan of Streem ( http://streem.us ), and I swear this has nothing to do with the fact that I made it.
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by izaidi 18y ago
"Maybe a partial explanation is that having a simple shared mental model makes network effects much more powerful. When we think about social software as a user, we don’t just think about the software, we also think about the network of oth
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by izaidi 18y ago
Aesthetics are pretty important to me but I think I'd be more impressed with a startup making creative use of a boring space than one working out of, say, a generically hip loft.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Let's hope finding out he has a broken website isn't what pushes him over the edge.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I meant it solely in the sense of deriving pleasure from the activity, and not at all in the sense of gloating or competition.
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by izaidi 18y ago
This is one of those headlines you want to send back in time to terrify people about the future.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I'm sure the author knows what she's talking about and to some extent I agree with her, but humbleness is a useful quality too, in gifted people especially. Being skeptical about your own innate gifts makes you work harder in applying them,
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by izaidi 18y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. When you keep getting off on knowing you could do something instead of actually doing it, the evidence on which you're basing that knowledge starts to get pretty shaky.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I sympathize with mwmanning, and I don't think it's a matter of humility; I think it's that solving an interesting problem is often a much stronger motivator than the prospect of making money -- that is, running a business, as difficult and
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by izaidi 18y ago
Money doesn't grow on clouds.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I'm honestly a little stunned by the stagnancy of innovation in online interfaces. It's way beyond just laziness or hewing to trends -- it's virtually a total refusal to believe that we can do better. One of my goals right now is to develop
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by izaidi 18y ago
There's a lot of UI terrain we haven't explored yet, and AJAX makes more of that terrain reachable. It seems silly to suggest it's on its way out just because it's no longer the cool new thing.
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by izaidi 18y ago
In my experience what works best is making friends you actually like, and coding stuff that you and your friends want to use. Lots of reward and no alienation.
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by izaidi 18y ago
My site's still pretty small but I've got 1800 registered users, an upper limit of around 300 active ones, and 10 to 15 using the site at peak times.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Usability-wise, it seems fine. I'm not sure how useful it is, though. What's the value of sifting through six different sets of search results, as opposed to just using Google? If I don't see what I'm looking for on the first page of Google
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by izaidi 18y ago
There are scenarios in which she could be the nominee, but they all pretty much involve Obama being dead or in jail. He won this thing a long time ago.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Twitter is well suited to certain kinds of lifestyles, and pretty much useless for others. I don't use it because none of my friends use it, and I find it more cumbersome and limiting than other services, but if you run with a crowd with wh
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by izaidi 18y ago
It's a nice feature but I doubt it'll get used much. For sharing to happen you need to first create a space where people enjoy hanging out with their friends, and that's not really what Google Reader is.
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by izaidi 18y ago
This is basically right but you're wrong in distinguishing programming from other design tasks. There's never a "process" for design; there's only the meta-process of creativity.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Would what you're describing really be much easier than a "Buy this book at Amazon" link? There's also the issue of trust: people know Amazon. They might not be as willing to buy a book from a random website.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Montreal seems like the place to be if you're starting small. Vancouver might have a stronger talent base but their startup culture is a little top-heavy -- it's mostly VCs and angels spinning off their own ideas, whereas in Montreal there'
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by izaidi 19y ago
Yeah, the only really good era for written comedy was the 70s, when the National Lampoon had millions of readers. These days when comedy articles appear in the mainstream they're almost always in the fake news format, which is pretty rigid.
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by izaidi 19y ago
Hey, great idea. As a former comedy writer I think it's really cool you decided to focus on written content instead of the usual YouTube stuff; comedy articles are an underappreciated form these days. I agree with those who've said the desi
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The trouble with FriendFeed(streem.us)
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by izaidi 19y ago
Yeah, exactly. Fake it 'til you make it.
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by izaidi 19y ago
No as well. I'm a single founder and my app's pretty much done already so it wasn't much of a surprise. Looking forward to hearing about some of the ideas they accepted.

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