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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Not a lot when the second benefit they list is not needing to log in to keep your account active...
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Ignoring the technical difficulties others have mentioned, the fundamental flaw to me is that other people set the response times. This is akin to Outlook's priority markers. There's nothing wrong with prioritising, but it needs to be you w
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Right or Wrong, Open Source Needs Opinionated Leaders(problogdesign.com)
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
This list essentially boils down to; create good content. People have been giving that advice for as long as I can remember, but I can't ever remember a list where x SEOs all gave it as their only tip. Kind of a nice turnaround. Also, they'
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I love the signup page on this site. The writing style of the app itself speaking to you is a great twist and kept me scrolling at least. I have to agree with others here that there are a lot of apps in this space, but the interactive demo
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Haha, I actually thought of Typecast when I loaded up this site! (I'm from Belfast, not too many apps of that quality around here! :) ) A little ashamed to say that I haven't used it yet (I'm a developer more than a designer, so just have
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Awesome. Can't say a negative word about shipping early! Congrats :)
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Nicely done, I love how easy it is to flick between fonts instantly. I would second cleverjake's comment that a neat way to see serveral fonts together would be awesome (Especially for a different headline font vs the body copy). Also, a se
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
No, he pointed out how a normally positive gesture (saying "i'll find out") can be an indicator of a more subtle problem (intermediaries). I think its very easy to forget those signs of a more subtle issue and just be glad each question is
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
A well written post and a lot of good lessons. I really liked your 2 tips for spotting expensive middle men in particular. Seems obvious when you think about it, but well worth being conscious of.
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Great summary here, love the 3.2/4.0 side by side examples. I wondered why it hadn't mentioned the new background queue API though, only to find that's been pushed back out of 4.0 now. Just wanted to mention here incase anyone else hadn't s
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I don't think this post really answers the question. It tackles it more from the angle of "If you come across the theme without knowing about Svbtle, is it okay to use the theme?" That's fine of course. You can't be blamed for not knowing a
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Ah I didn't realise that about the timings, that's a great solution. I definitely like the sound of localising that to each blogger. The filtering tools sound great too, it's great to see yous already have plans for that area. Looking forwa
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Congrats on the app launch (To give a different take on someone else's comment; I've been a fan of yours since you introduced my girlfriend to puchi puchis years ago!) I'm curious about how you time all of this. Do the 170 invitations get s
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I always start a new pocket moleskine in each new year, and the first page always has my goals for that year. I generally split it up into 3 or 4 business goals, and 3 or 4 personal ones. I like having them written down somewhere physical b
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
The interactivity here makes this guide a really great resource. People who would normally just scan (Like me) end up clicking the buttons on each step and can then read the sections that sparked an interesting change. Would be nice to see
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
The open source nature of this all is really awesome, especially combined with the community ideas site. Very encouraging to dive in and write a plugin. Great job guys :)
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I get what you're saying about the likelihood of developers having moved on to different projects/companies, but I don't think that issue is specific to this approach in any way. Good software should be written on the assumption that someon
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
From the article at least, it seems like there aren't a whole lot of PMs at Facebook. If an engineer has an idea, they seem to be more encouraged to just find some people to work with, build it, and then roll it out to a very small section
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I really like seeing this approach listed: "resourcing for projects is purely voluntary. A PM lobbies group of engineers, tries to get them excited about their ideas. Engineers decide which ones sound interesting to work on." That sounds ex
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Thanks for the info. I know it's a massive undertaking to write an editor, so it will be good to see what point Vico is at in a few more months. :)
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I think the author is making too big a deal of this video not being promoted by Apple. Sure, to us reading from the author's blog, we know it's an independent video. To most people who would load up iTunes and see a big banner for a Steve J
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Vico sounds good, but in the demo screenshots at least, there's just too much going on for me. Not major differences, but Chocolat seems to get by great without the toolbars along the top, and each screenshot for Vico has too much happening
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Sure thing. It's probably easiest to explain by comparing it with the other options. You could say that Vim is one end of a scale (Hardcore keyboard power usage), and Coda/Espresso are on the other (Very designed, and try to do pretty much
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I've swapped to Chocolat as my full time text editor. I find it to be a really good cross between a plain+powerful text editor like Vim, but still with some of the pleasant UI touches of Espresso and such. Its speed of development is great
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
He has plans for this already: https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch#extras
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
This is great, a really nice way of sharing snippets. It's not the prettiest site, and it's a shame the Gistify button tries to load a popup (Which Chrome blocked), but the idea is really useful. And integrating with Github can only be a pl
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Those sites are great! It's a nuisance finding your way around so many social networks and their different settings pages. Bookmarking your sites, thanks for building them!
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Hard to beat Twitter for finding what annoys people! https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22i%20hate%22
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I want to know more about why they chose to share absolutely nothing in the build-up, launch a gorgeous video today, and then aren't ready to take purchases for 48 more hours? That just seems like a huge mistake to me. Surely the point of b

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