nashadelic

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by nashadelic 12y ago
I think this is a fallacy and a hard one to fall into. By shipping buggy code, you will end up creating a larger number of incoming bugs. Consequently, the amount of time you spend on incoming bugs will increase from 5% of sprint to 30% to
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by nashadelic 12y ago
Innovative or not, that's not is going to determine the success of this. There has to be the ability to generate mass market adoption with innovation which Facebook is really good at.
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by nashadelic 12y ago
Considering it's almost 2015, I'm surprised Twitter got away this long without this.
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by nashadelic 12y ago
I don't mean apple was the first. Getjar.com was an App Store long before any. Facebook opened their platform for 3rd party apps before apple as well. But Apple, like with most things it does, popularised the idea of apps for your phon
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by nashadelic 12y ago
It's incredible just how naive the author is. If you've ever worked on j2me or even Symbian vs Android or iOS you never want to go back. There's a reason why the apps have blown up thanks to Apple: making apps in the j2me era
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by nashadelic 12y ago
I think this is always the question that everyone asks of founder stakes in their big companies. Noam Wasserman summarized is best in his book "The Founder's Dilemma": it is a conflict between control and wealth. You can&#x27
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by nashadelic 12y ago
Very valid points and I believe Stave Blank addresses these by stating the users decide with their wallets. This is a key part of his strategy on model validation. The early customers have to sign up. He's even against tu I g early cus
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by nashadelic 12y ago
To be fair, all post mortems sound obvious in the end. You can analyse any failure write the reasons down and it'll seem obvious. Why did Microsoft fail on it's pre-iPad TabletPC? Because the Office teams were too politically stro
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by nashadelic 12y ago
+1 for VoiceOver. I'm not visually challenged but I find that listening to books, articles and emails makes me understand them better. I use VoiceOver+Instapaper while driving and plough through articles quickly. I use VoiceOver contro
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by nashadelic 12y ago
Reminds of an interesting debate around using the mini-map in games like GTA that ruin gameplay vs learning the city itself to enjoy the game more. You're forced to remember landmarks and know your war around a bustling sity. See: htt
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by nashadelic 12y ago
Folks, I'm from Pakistan and even our local news reported on this three days before hacker news. What gives?
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by nashadelic 12y ago
> there are millions if not billions of people who are on the cusp of becoming your target market My favorite quote in this regard is by William Gibson: "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed"
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by nashadelic 12y ago
Can't agree more. Developers are the _least_ rockstar-like people. In fact they are the polar opposite. The greatest developers I know have long beards, quiet, humble and do it for the love of the craft. Rockstar often conjures up an i
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by nashadelic 13y ago
A knowledge assimilator: it crawls the web and other knowledge sources and summarizes facts about any topic. The system is thus able to auto-generate a wikipedia-like page for the topic. If employed in an corporate/enterprise environme
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by nashadelic 13y ago
I have a 3 year old and he's too young to make lego city sets from the instructions but he loves playing with them and watching me make a set and helping. However, when I leave him with the bricks, he plays on his own, makes funky look
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by nashadelic 13y ago
A lot of successful people and a number of religions place high value on our ephemerality as a way of focusing on the important things. In practice, I've found this rather hard to do and a lot of times a putdown as well. I think the co
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by nashadelic 13y ago
Thanks for taking the time out and putting in all the notes. Very helpful and I'm sure, time taking for you. Much appreciated!
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by nashadelic 13y ago
Building a startup is hard enough. Adding another rather large dimension of an unknown language/technology is increasing risks significantly. Untested/unfamiliar technology is one of the top 5 risks which cause software budget and
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by nashadelic 13y ago
This statement is deep realization and the fact that everything is ephemeral is hard and painful. But there's gotta be more to life than moving from one distraction to the next. I guess it's a religious thing; a greater sense of p
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by nashadelic 13y ago
All of a sudden this video is password protected. Anyone has the password?
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by nashadelic 14y ago
We're an SMS-first startup in Pakistan since 2009 doing a billion+ SMS every month (pringit.com). Supporting SMS is key considering 120M cellphone users and 25M internet users. The blogpost is well meaning but its certainly wrong/naive abou
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by nashadelic 14y ago
> Was Adria's reaction, to this as an isolated event, out of hand? Yes. No. Someone said something sexist in public. She put it out on Twitter. If you don't like that. You better watch what you say in public. We should back up people wh
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by nashadelic 14y ago
We are now going to penalize people for standing up for themselves? She faced sexist remarks, she shamed them. Good on her. I'm an outside observer and I've never been to the valley but SendGrid comes off as irresponsible and not backing up
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by nashadelic 14y ago
> Charge celebrities and companies for the capability of having huge numbers of followers. You can't. Servies like these grow because of celebrities and their fans. Taxing the celebs will stop their own growth. Also, there are lots of w
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by nashadelic 14y ago
Initially I thought that the secrecy was only to shield information from flowing outside of the company but if you dig deeper there is a much more useful side-affect. If you are part of a 4 member team that is working in a 10,000+ employee
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by nashadelic 14y ago
I don't know what is your skillset so I can't really say where to look or what to do. Generally: Pick a problem. The world is plagued with large problems from power to food, from access to information to clean water. Each problem is begging