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by notauser 19y ago
Picking up on an earlier article, I really like the way you (don't) do user accounts. Well worth a look by others who want to see how this _should_ work. I wouldn't have bothered looking at it if I had to log in , but this was just easy. An
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by notauser 19y ago
I wonder which is really harder, becoming a good enough coder, or becoming a good enough $specialty. Computers are, lets face it, logical things. How much programming skill do you _really_ need to build a prototype? The ability to logically
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by notauser 19y ago
It would depend on your product. I think the key UI principle to remember is that if user work is not saved, make it obvious that this is the case. They way they can decide when they want to keep their data enough to save it. If the data is
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by notauser 19y ago
I do wonder about the demo. All is well and good if it works with no glitches, but what if a spectacular bug catches you out when you don't expect it and the whole thing blows up in your face? By limiting the scope (rather than the maturity
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by notauser 19y ago
My degrees are in systems engineering, but I have to agree about point 3. University is not vocational training, if you want that there are plenty of (much cheaper!) places that offer career focused qualifications. As for engineering being
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by notauser 19y ago
I'm also a sole founder. I don't feel _that_ disadvantaged because I have a mixed business/tech background, but in terms of applying to YC it's clear that being on your own is a major mark down. It could be fairly interesting to see if a co
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by notauser 19y ago
I like my regular f/t job as well, especially since I get moved within the company ever six to twelve months. It has given me a lot of freedom to do things that won't show a profit instantly like write and get some accounting qualifications
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by notauser 19y ago
A data point in point: I'm working for a very big company at the moment. The biggest span of control (direct reports) is 12. The number of people with an indirect span of control of greater than 200 people is about 100. ...mind you, that 10
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by notauser 19y ago
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by notauser 19y ago
A lot of these issues were just bootstrap ones; starting a good internet requires shopping service lots of users, which are attracted by... good internet shopping. Oops. Not many people in 1995 had an appreciation of just how large the inte
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by notauser 19y ago
Part of the reason this is true is because a big company can afford to make bigger mistakes without going under, so they are a really great place to observe systemic errors that you can identify and learn to avoid. Some examples - indecisiv