mikecarroll

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by mikecarroll 14y ago
From the About Us: "PeruThisWeek.com and LivinginPeru.com are part of the Peru Experience family, a company whose goal is to promote Peru all over the world" I think the underlying message in this bit of sensationalist journalism is that fo
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by mikecarroll 14y ago
The big issue here is not that "the public can't even understand a basic chemical formula"--it's that so many people are willing to take something they hear in a morning radio show at face value (and panickedly call up the local utility, ra
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by mikecarroll 14y ago
Seems that a lot of the advantages cited as coming from the co-founders having overlapping skills in this post could just as easily (and better) be explained as deriving from all the experiences of past startup failures the author mentions.
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by mikecarroll 14y ago
This is also a big problem in health tech: the people that are good at identifying the problems (doctors, public health officials, etc.) don't communicate them but instead focus on convincing others to build their vision of the solution (wh
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by mikecarroll 14y ago
Great--another graph that simplifies political discourse into a few vague terms that are, themselves, highly politicized. Even if something like this were somehow representative of the range of political discourse, I struggle to see what re
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by mikecarroll 14y ago
While I agree that URLs should be considered intrinsic to good UI, social media is also undermining the value/importance of semantic URLs. Why put extra work into making your RESTful URL structure more semantic, in other words, if Twitter i
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by mikecarroll 14y ago
Mention it in your cover letter when you apply and pass it off as a strength, not a weakness--show what you, from your experiences with your stammer understand about using web development to communicate with users that other developers just