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by komlenic 16y ago
Motivation follows action. I don't know if this is strictly true in the absolute sense, but we're very programmed to think "ok I need to get motivated so I can get something done", when what seems to work far better is thinking "ok I need
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by komlenic 16y ago
While I agree with the simple goal and spirit of this, it is irresponsible to not provide authorization when it would be trivial to implement. I wonder if the author would be so nonchalant about it if someone posted damaging comments using
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by komlenic 16y ago
Under-promise and over-deliver. Never attribute to malice, that which can be attributed to ________. Your true friends are those who care how your life turns out. Genuinely asking someone "How does that make you feel?" or "How do you feel a
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by komlenic 16y ago
First impression: pretty good, I instantly knew what was going on and signing up worked exactly as expected and was painless. The /users/view/ pages are not nearly as good or visually pleasing as the /projects/view/ pages. As a user I want
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by komlenic 16y ago
What would you say if I saw http://www.whosofftoday.com/ and built essentially a clone at http://www.timeoffscheduler.com/ ? I'm sure I'd end up doing many little things differently than you, and maybe even a few bigger things, but I'd
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by komlenic 16y ago
I loved Reader for a while, but have since moved away from it in favor of twitter: Reader is like a dam that keeps backing up... every time you log in you see this unread count and the implication is that you need to "catch up" and skim eve
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by komlenic 16y ago
It is both: if you find yourself abandoning systems after 3 weeks, then something about the way the system fits you is wrong. Perhaps it's too complex. Maybe it isn't flexible enough. Maybe it inherently creates too much guilt so you get
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by komlenic 16y ago
I think your response hits at the intent of my question. It is widely held that "execution matters more than idea", but I personally get tripped up by feeling like something has to come from my own light-bulb epiphany to be authentic or e
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by komlenic 16y ago
I passed, but had to resist the temptation to nab the background image, straighten the horizon, and email it off to the dev.
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by komlenic 16y ago
Good concise advice, and that's certainly a baseline. In my case I am speaking (asking) more about replicating functionality or an idea, which is a lot more difficult to know where to draw a line on.
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Ask HN: When is it ok to copy/steal an idea?
5 points by komlenic 16y ago|15 comments
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by komlenic 16y ago
Great idea with a lot of potential. I'd strongly consider a complete from-the-ground up rethink of the new-user flow. This may sound harsh, but I'd argue that as the site exists now there is no clear new-user flow. There's no concise pat
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by komlenic 16y ago
@angrydeveloper:developers::@clientsfh:designers
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by komlenic 16y ago
Sure: the animation speed itself wasn't very smooth... probably more of an opinion, but the feeling was like "yeah yeah, this is going to require too much effort to watch/grok". It was a tl;dr moment, right when you had me ripe to learn mo
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by komlenic 16y ago
Looks interesting, trying it out now (waiting for the report). Just some quick thoughts: On the "please enjoy our animated story of social media love" page, the animation is choppy and rather hard to follow... I lost interest in it very qu
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by komlenic 16y ago
I can really only speak to the "web/internet" side of this but http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-Main covers some good material.
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by komlenic 16y ago
I agree wholeheartedly, however some of the re-use headaches of using a framework with non-semantic class names can be mitigated if you're using some sort of include/templating layer (see my other post in this thread.) Done well, on a site
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by komlenic 16y ago
Sensible includes/templating with PHP or whatever stack you're building on. This is so useful when done well, but I don't know how many times I've seen otherwise intelligent people sitting there copying the same markup/code into every file
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by komlenic 16y ago
It would be nice if the author would have acknowledged a reason for not sharing more about the product. Readers might get over not knowing WHAT, if they had a little of the WHY explained to them.
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by komlenic 16y ago
This might be neat, but it doesn't work and throws an error in firebug.
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by komlenic 16y ago
The short answer: it depends. For a personal one-off without any chance of profit? $10 (or whatever a 1-yr reg is). For anything else, it would be some spectrum depending on how profitable/viable the idea was, balanced against how importan
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by komlenic 16y ago
Very nice! Displaying the tweets on hover is a nice touch.
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by komlenic 16y ago
What browser are you using? If it helps this behavior is NOT repeatable on windows in FF3.6, IE8, BUT observable in Chrome 9.
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by komlenic 16y ago
Worked as expected. Only thought would be shortening the "shortened" URL? I'm making some assumptions about what you're doing here but having 10 chars, assuming only A-Z, 0-9, (36 possible chars), gives the capacity for an unnecessarily l