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by prs 16y ago
Unless you are running a site that has to convey a strong sense of exclusiveness or security you can usually get away with a logo that is considered ugly by many. Same applies to page layouts as long as the value for the user is there.
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by prs 16y ago
Logos evolve over time - If it is not right the very first time, it can be improved gradually. Unfortunately, it works the other way round as well. Bad to Good - Apple: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_fir... Good
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by prs 16y ago
Production capacity for gold exceeds 100 tonnes per year according to http://www.preciousmetals.umicore.com/metals_products/precio...
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by prs 16y ago
"I have a degree in economics. I studied this at Oxford University, and have as good a grasp as anyone." This provides a great theoretical foundation for his argument. Now all I want to see is a more practical one.
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by prs 16y ago
The quote is spot-on. Almost every investment in oneself will generate a healthy ROI in the long run in my opinion. Minor footnote: Maybe it is just a pet peeve of mine but I cannot count how many times I have seen the name of Warren Buffet
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by prs 16y ago
If the urge to pursue one's dreams is strong enough, a person will find ways to take action towards them. In many cases an inner cocktail of fear, laziness and other areas of higher personal importance will prevent a person from taking the
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by prs 16y ago
The headline makes me revisit http://sivers.org/multiply . Execution is in (almost) all cases the hard part of the equation.
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Cool URIs Don't Change(w3.org)
6 points by prs 16y ago|1 comments
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by prs 16y ago
"Google To Buy Dropbox For An Undisclosed Amount" does not sound far-fetched to me given this announcement. From a strategic viewpoint it makes perfect sense. It would provide their new storage service with the necessary intial momentum at
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by prs 16y ago
"Starting a Bank for Fun and Profit" has become more popular topic in recent years (See: http://ma.tt/2009/08/starting-a-bank/ ). Starting a bank from scratch is not impossible but will certainly be no easy feat. I wish Alex Payne and the
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by prs 16y ago
You might want to rethink the color choice for the 'next' button as well. In this setting I associate "green" with _like_ and "red" with _dislike_. Maybe a more neutral color choice can avoid possible misunderstandings.
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by prs 16y ago
Related to this: http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp Summary: "Software company hiddes a message in their End-user license agreement (EULA) that promises a prize to anyone who actually reads it. Only after 3000 downloads the prize
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Google Reports Quarterly Net Income of $1.96 billion(nytimes.com)
5 points by prs 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple Rolls Out Their New MacBook Pro Series(apple.com)
15 points by prs 16y ago|23 comments
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by prs 17y ago
You fail to mention that Apple had a net loss of $816 million in 1996 and in 1997 it even went further down into the red. I wonder if you can back up the 'a few billion in cash' statement with a source?
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by prs 17y ago
In recent months the quality of the posts on the SVN blog seems to have deteriorated quite dramatically. I can remember times when I enjoyed almost every single blog post from the 37signals guys. This blog entry seems to have taken one of t
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by prs 17y ago
Truth be told: On various occasions the site: operator on Google came in handy for me to dig out some nugget of information from the archives of HN. I can't await to hear the reason behind that decision.