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by jeremyt 14y ago
My experience has been this is a recipe for becoming an admirably open, yet unlikable person. I'm actually in the process of heading in the other direction. In fact, I think that I recently lost a budding friendship because of a heated poli
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by jeremyt 14y ago
First, I want to say thanks for putting yourself out there. However, I think there's one thing that needs to be reiterated, for everybody who's reading hacker news and thinking about starting a company: The world probably does not need yet
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by jeremyt 14y ago
Looks like I was wrong on this one. However, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they will come to the taxpayer looking for a bailout soon.
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by jeremyt 14y ago
Anyone can run a "pretty good service" with massive shovelfuls of taxpayer dollars propping them up every year. The US should remove all the mandates from the Postal Service and all of the subsidies and open up mail delivery for competition
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by jeremyt 14y ago
Here's some stuff to get you started. Wrote this a little while ago: http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/books-on-user-experience-...
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Usability lessons from neuroscience(jeremytunnell.com)
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by jeremyt 14y ago
The posts are excruciatingly long, but fascinating and thought-provoking whether you agree or not: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/12/gold-an...
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by jeremyt 14y ago
I'm just going to fess up and say that I didn't read the linked post, just the comments.
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by jeremyt 14y ago
I've read those, which are good, but I think this one is better than all of them put together: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...
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by jeremyt 14y ago
Sorry, I was incorrect, it turns out they raised $1 billion, most of which went to the existing investors. Of course, reasonable people can disagree on this, but I think the questionable accounting standards (see: adjusted consolidated segm
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by jeremyt 14y ago
If I recall correctly, groupon raised something like $100 million immediately after they rejected Google's offer. At the time, I remember reading that almost the entirety of the investment went to buy out early investors. So it looks like M
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by jeremyt 14y ago
As a huge Balsamiq user, I'm definitely pulling for you guys because I'm not completely happy with them. The basic functionality is great, but having the ability to make clickable online demos where I could send links to people would be a k
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by jeremyt 14y ago
Unfortunately, "exciting", "yuppie", and "vibrant" aren't economic terms. It sounds like you're justifying rent control on the basis of aesthetics.
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by jeremyt 14y ago
Just a quick couple of thoughts about your UX and landing page: * There's not enough information on your homepage for me to figure out what you do * The information I need is between one and three clicks away ("learn more", and then "more"
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by jeremyt 15y ago
My first instinct is to treat this as what it is: a ridiculously transparent political piece that has no business on hacker news. However, since I see these things coming up all the time, and there doesn't seem to be any great movement agai
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by jeremyt 15y ago
Tell me, then, is writing a blog post speech? Okay, what if I were to take several blog posts and put them together, have them published, and pay for the publishing myself. Is that speech? What if I were to make a video and pay for the pro
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by jeremyt 15y ago
Genius link bait.