joshdickson

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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   I am by no means an expert, in fact, it was really that having no expertise led me to dismiss it from what I ended up doing. I still wanted to mention it because (1) it's super interesting, (2) I think that it's not well known abo
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   Author here. I'm not sure it's directly a sense of entitlement, though you could certainly argue that it's in play whether or not the author seems to notice. There's a sense that you found out the truth, and people want
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   lol it was wrong in drafts!
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   Thanks, the last part was the hardest to write, by far. I revised it a number of times. The goal there was really to sort of draw a comparison with the Gawker post, which I found abhorrent when it happened, and getting caught up in your own
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   it's a joke (a bad one?)
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   I wrote the post and made the site it's on. There are really people who don't have either of those? But really, we just don't have everything done yet, I wrote everything on my own. We'll fix it in an upcoming update, so
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   yes our hosting provider is having problems with them, and when we get them mounted it kills the site. when traffic dies down a little they'll go back up. unfortunately #4 on HN is a little late to make a site arch change lol
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   thank you for noticing! we are currently back on HN with the Startup L. Jackson post so this was weird timing
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   by joshdickson 11y ago

   thank you for linking this!!!
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    i'm on the lookout
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    I wrote the entire code base; I look at it, use it, and read posts every day.
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    I understand the sentiment (and we'll be improving the overall contrast issue), but just saying the font should be black doesn't help anyone. White is still the overwhelmingly most popular background color for text online, and nob
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    We're in beta and weren't expecting the post to be widely read, so we are still tweaking things. Appreciate the feedback.
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    Ha, completely fair and appreciate the feedback. I happen to like it the way it is, but the general consensus does not agree with me, so we'll fix it soon.
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    Hey, author here. The comparison of Evernote to Google Docs was primarily on an enterprise/business level. While you're right, and the products aren't completely similar, Google has done well with market penetration for Googl
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    Didn't know RSS worked at all, actually, as I definitely haven't written any code to support it. Thanks for the info.
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    I know, I'm the worst :( Thanks for the feedback :)
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    The post is not about them going out of business; in fact, numerous times I suggest that that is not likely to happen. The post concerns the $1B valuation's validity. It's possible to have a very nice, profitable company making a
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    I'm the author of the post and I wrote the entire site's codebase (syrah.co), and I did all the design, so it's all on me. You're right, we will be fixing this in an update soon. Syrah is still in beta and we weren'
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    Yeah, weird wording - apologies. I'm trying to make the exact opposite point, in that you can go 10 mins in any direction and be at another large tech co. If you check Glassdoor, though, you actually will see people complaining about t
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    The money was not raised to build a note taking app, they had already done that (in the US at least). Much of it was for international expansion (which they've done, particularly in China) and new things. Some of those new things (like
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    Hey, author here. You're right, this could be more clear. The takeaway is supposed to be that it's not as though HQ is in Cleveland or Cincinnati where there's a lot less competition for tech jobs - but I can see how the word
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    by joshdickson 11y ago

    Hey, author here. You're right, there's some question about Fab, and I could have added that to the post. I tend to believe the later story, which was that they didn't get there, but didn't mind all the press thinking th