niallsmart

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by niallsmart 16y ago
Independent of the product's merits; it's fascinating to see a large corporation experiment with the concept of "MVP".
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by niallsmart 16y ago
Go for it. Just make sure and use Facebook Connect for auth.
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by niallsmart 16y ago
SauceLabs do something like this, but for Selenium scripts.
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by niallsmart 16y ago
My approach was to find some designs I really admired and then recreate them in Photoshop from the ground up. That's a great way to learn PS itself, but more importantly in the process of (re-)creation many subtle design choices in the ori
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by niallsmart 16y ago
That's exactly what I thought. As a clunky non-flying biped, I for one welcome our new quadrotor overlords.
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by niallsmart 16y ago
Tim - he says "avoid long-term or illiquid investments, though it's fine to put a few percent into random things such as starups, but understand that you'll probably lose that money, so consider it an educational expense."
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by niallsmart 16y ago
Anyone interested in this topic shouldn't miss this either: http://evhead.com/2007/12/how-to-evaluate-new-product-idea.a... .
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Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas(tonywright.com)
58 points by niallsmart 16y ago|12 comments
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by niallsmart 16y ago
Ironic that this makes the homepage the same day as an article bashing unit tests :)
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by niallsmart 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that beard will need a trim by 3010.
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by niallsmart 16y ago
Don't let the complete lack of detail in the original article hold you back from making some giant extrapolations there.
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by niallsmart 17y ago
Can anyone who uses an adjustable height desk comment on the impact it has (if any) on their productivity? For some reason, it sounds hard to procrastinate standing up :)
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by niallsmart 17y ago
Great artists sue?
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by niallsmart 17y ago
About time someone brought some serious design chops to the table. Pretty much every major photo sharing site (bar MobileMe) rocks the web like it was 1999.
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by niallsmart 17y ago
I've lived in both US/Europe and believe the kcal/100g is an important part of the nutrition label for two reasons: 1) Calorific density is much more important then calories per portion. If the majority of your food intake is in the 300-500
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Lightweight web based outliner(thinklinkr.com)
5 points by niallsmart 17y ago|3 comments
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by niallsmart 17y ago
I don't understand all the negativity about etherpad being killed in this thread. Sounds like an opportunity to me...if you reckon it's so useful, and google are going to kill it, then go build etherpadv2 and charge for it. :)
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by niallsmart 17y ago
I don't get it, why would you want to tweet your credit card number?
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by niallsmart 17y ago
A fairly classic case of the Streisand effect. If Comcast and Cox already agreed to the disclosure, why bother raising further attention to it?
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by niallsmart 17y ago
No fresh veggies? Facebook scams? Smells fishy.
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by niallsmart 17y ago
What's the lesson here? :) (you should work on theirs too?)
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by niallsmart 17y ago
One difficulty is that qualified co-founders are probably already looking for _their_ idea's co-founder :) Quoting a @venturehacks idea for solving this: get them to work part-time on your startup until you win them over!
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by niallsmart 17y ago
Happy hacking :) Hopefully you're more productive as a result.
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by niallsmart 17y ago
Figuring out why their conversion is 0.01%.
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by niallsmart 17y ago
Here's a Spotify collaborative playlist with some suggestions from the above... spotify:user:niallsmart:playlist:2Y7iDJaEoozuBDj4Npbm7L
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Castanaut: Automate your screencasts (in Ruby)(gadgets.inventivelabs.com.au)
1 points by niallsmart 17y ago|0 comments