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by jlees 17y ago
With reluctance, of late. I tend to click through to showcased items via the twitter @newsycombinator feed or on IRC. Other than that, the website, but I don't visit as much as I used to. I just find less of interest lately.
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by jlees 17y ago
It crossed my mind, but it really doesn't answer the OP's specific need for a recommendation of someone he can happily work with. I've heard it said that Haystack really just shows you the middle quartiles of designers. The top quartile don
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by jlees 17y ago
I actually really like the blogazine concept, but it's very unlikely for me to have the time and the effort to put into creating a unique, story-led layout for a post. On the other hand, doing it for content that really deserves it would ce
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The death of the blog post (and rise of the blogazine)(smashingmagazine.com)
57 points by jlees 17y ago|41 comments
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by jlees 17y ago
People announce stuff relating to technologies I don't use at conventions I don't go to all the time. A quick google suggests that it was more the concept of Azure that was announced, not its point-and-click accessibility (the WebPI). Even
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Social media monitoring - listening is The Future(trendpreneur.com)
13 points by jlees 17y ago|4 comments
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by jlees 17y ago
Guy Kawasaki's books are pretty ace for learning the 'silicon valley' style of business, big picture, etc. I think the first real book I picked up was something more down to earth though like the Beermat Entrepreneur (UK-specific) that outl
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by jlees 17y ago
You could encourage normal people who are using the app (via early-access or whatever) to 'review' it by a twitter, facebook or other social media campaign. Sure these things sound cheesy and old hat even to me now, but they can work. 'Twee
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by jlees 17y ago
Depending on the 'class' of blog, sometimes snail mail seems way too stalkery. If it's a TechCrunch or a VentureBeat, snail mail can really work, but the whois address is a restraining order too far.
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by jlees 17y ago
An idiotproof, point and click cloud solution is definitely what's needed for cloud to go mainstream (i.e. Joe User thinks nothing of putting his wordpress blog on the cloud). I hadn't really seen this coming from Microsoft, but kudos to th
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by jlees 17y ago
I've been reading books, but reading hasn't been doing much for me, since I'm not really absorbing the material. I want to try 'testing' things out...I don't know if that makes sense, but I feel like if I have exercises to do, I will under
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by jlees 17y ago
This is more a lesson on how not to run a Twitter contest. Messages are ephemeral, and people don't check your timeline for other messages around the time that may or may not relate to the contest (such as, er, announcing a winner). When we
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by jlees 17y ago
yup, calling every day was the only way I managed to get past due payment I was owed in the past. If they hedge (oh it's in our internal systems) ask for a day to call them back and call back the day before. For my cases it's usually been s
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by jlees 17y ago
Aye, though it only works when people have actually heard of the name. I had no idea who Don Dodge was.
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by jlees 17y ago
Paper notebook and Remember The Milk (mostly accessed via Gmail gadget).
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The History of the Internet in a Nutshell(sixrevisions.com)
32 points by jlees 17y ago|7 comments
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by jlees 17y ago
I had to double check this was written in 2009. In the last four years I've moved away from having a personal server at home to The Cloud(TM), and life is much, much easier. There's certainly a class of people for whom a personal server a
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by jlees 17y ago
I enjoy interviews with these types of questions because I am nerdy enough to have wasted some of my youth buried up to the nose in logic puzzles and riddles, and sensible enough to research employers and interview tips to find out who asks
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by jlees 17y ago
The bike-for-the-blind question is a totally reasonable type of question, but a stupid example IMO. It could either be a common sense test or a constrained-thinking test, and isn't clear which it should be.
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by jlees 17y ago
I do this sometimes, but it doesn't work that well. My problem is that the sort of people that matter to me, the people I'd tell about these goals, are exactly the sort of people who believe in me and support me and won't actually be that
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by jlees 17y ago
I definitely use the same "big picture" approach to get through some less than fun tasks - and especially to stop doing things, for example, eating healthily (i.e. stopping eating crap) is part of the big picture of a thinner, fitter me.
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by jlees 17y ago
The word 'pitch' is a little overloaded in my experience. Some people use it to mean 'product demo' and others use it to mean 'investor presentation'. I'd say most of these were product/company demos aimed at the press and potential custome
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by jlees 17y ago
I wouldn't really say nightmare per se, although it probably felt like that at the time. She just wasn't very practiced at estimating and making reasonable assumptions. Back when I was in my final year of uni I interviewed for a set of bl
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by jlees 17y ago
For #3, try bookcrossing.com?
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by jlees 17y ago
I am tempted to totally change my life and stop working and create something new that will be challenging and interesting. Create something that I can do from home so that at least I am not a slave to my boss. This is HN, so I'm pretty su
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by jlees 17y ago
I'm not sure where you managed to conflate my use of the word "I" with generalisations about "some users".
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by jlees 17y ago
I've just got back from the States and lived there for a while. I prefer the way the UK does it. (Apart from The Sun .)
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by jlees 17y ago
I wouldn't have said the UK lacked it. Every year when I was a kid I would take part in the Remembrance Sunday parades as a Girl Guide, and there was definitely a massive feeling of respect and admiration for these brave men. I'd always get
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by jlees 17y ago
There's a limit to how much I want to try to read up behind a tutorial when I'm just trying a new framework out. If my natural desire to understand what magic lines of code does causes me to break focus, tab out, google a bit, find some exp
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by jlees 17y ago
The "magic" versus "timesaving" differences of philosophy is a new way of putting it. It encapsulates a gut feeling I had about the two but hadn't put my finger on until now. Especially when starting from scratch, learning RoR is kind of li

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