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by piotr_krzyzek 11y ago
It's the tone and response that annoyed me. Not that the SaaS didn't have said feature.
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by piotr_krzyzek 11y ago
Yup, missed a word. Will commit lyrical seppuku as penance.
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Never tell a developer it's not possible (rant)
4 points by piotr_krzyzek 11y ago|8 comments
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by piotr_krzyzek 13y ago
The most important thing to learn/know is the mindset of the buyer. Applies to pretty much any industry, but for freelance development it's even more important. Business owners, project managers and the like hire experts who fit their needs
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by piotr_krzyzek 13y ago
A good chunk of my core business is web development and have been doing this for quite some time now. There are many factors that go into the buyers decision making process. A large part of that is perception. Most buyers do not see website
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
I blame this 'issue' on the op. True there are many potential paths that the Chrome/chromium developers can take with this, but they've chosen a different path from Firefox and others and as a user of Chrome that's what we have to stick wit
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Ask HN: Why aren't there more centralized app repo's for Win/osx?
1 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|2 comments
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
I was originally thinking something along those same lines. There must be a cost factor in there somewhere! Though I also do not mean cost just in terms of money. Cost in terms of: time spent, energy used, will power needed to get it done,
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Ask HN: Is it better for modern technology to specialize or generalize?
4 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|4 comments
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
Call me wrong on this one, but if you really are interested in the code for HN why not create your own? From what I've seen so far, HN is great n' all but the logic behind it seems pretty trivial (excluding the whole anti-spam module &
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
If anyone has any invites left, we'd all sure appreciate it :) peterk @ chykalophiagroup.com Wonder if this works alright in the suburbs ...
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
This is eerily similar to the show H+. Not on the same scale of course, but that's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post.
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
One of the best points in the whole post, I think this point should have been front-and-center: blogging isn't for everyone. Well that, and 'why are you writing'? My wife writes and publishes content, for example, because she loves designs
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
That aren't too many places that accept the US dollar directly outside of the America's. In most places in Europe and Asia you'll be hard pressed to pay with the US Dollar. In major tourist cities, maybe ... but outside of that (and even in
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
So I may come off as a grumpy old man, and I do sympathize with the op ... but in this day in age, it's only that much more important to keep manual backups of serial numbers, passwords, installers ... I trust Apple, Windows and Linux eno
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Ask HN: Why are there more Windows exploits and vulnerabilities?
1 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|2 comments
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How I got Spotify Linux to play nice with Gnome media keys(piotrkrzyzek.com)
1 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|0 comments
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
Angular as in circles, rounded corners, spheres and generally not grid based designs? Originally the idea came out of necessity. Computers cannot do circles. They can just do many-MANY-edged 'things' that appear as circles to us. If you dra
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Personal Story Of Why Not Accepting A Client Contract Was A Good Thing(piotrkrzyzek.com)
1 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|0 comments
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Preferably in Chicago NW Suburbs or Milwaukee Natural born computer nerd who likes python, php, online development and user experience consulting. Moonlighting as the president of a LLC-S and a C-corp (currently seeking fundi
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
I've been working on an in-house Django project and all I've used so far is the Django Tutorial on their site and their documentation. Believe it or not it's actually rather comprehensive. For everything else, I have searched google for "&#
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Ask HN: Pro's and con's of Joomla with quantifiable data/information?
2 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|3 comments
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
100% agree with this statement, though my followup question to that is: do we have to stick with mediocrity? Or can/should better design/quality outpace and outperform the current drivel?
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
Let's take the case of my soon to be car purchase. I'm picking a certain car company because of the cars looks. Since it's at a level where pretty much price, performance and features are equal throughout other companies ... I'm going with
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
I've not bought items from retails with poor image online and offline. I'm very cautious around eCommerce sites that look horrid. I trust the better (looking) ones more. In the 'real world', if I have to pick between Company A and Company B
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
I remember this one. The problem is the statement and his design is that it also changed his sales funnel. There was too much of a change to tell exactly where things fell apart or why specifically sales did not increase. Was it the initial
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
This is the core of my question and puzzle. As a consultant, I can see the 'image' value for the company. Let's say Company X is currently making 1M in clean profit, and their overall image is low-end (business cards are cheap, website is c
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by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago
"to what degree should I apply aesthetics to prevent losing potential customers." ... that is a very good question indeed to ask one-self.
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Ask HN: Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?
48 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|49 comments
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The SEO Rat Race ... Avoid it like the plague(piotrkrzyzek.com)
2 points by piotr_krzyzek 14y ago|0 comments

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