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by rantfoil 19y ago
Congrats on the new release!
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Watch Fitt's law in your design for the icons. The smaller the icon, the harder it is for the user to click on it. Expand/collapse is realllly small -- too small for users to click on, and probably too small to make them want to. The other
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by rantfoil 19y ago
What a terrible situation. One can only wonder how it would have played out if Ahed hadn't destroyed documents. On the one hand I want to applaud him for wanting to create something better, cheaper, faster and escape the clutches of corpora
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From Developer to Technical Manager(aaronlerch.com)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Mic troll was definitely cringeworthy.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
This is a dupe of the article already linked off the ycombinator homepage.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Doesn't work on my mac + firefox. "Play song" doesn't work. Barring that, I am impressed with the clean UI, very iPhone-esque.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Zoho.com has been quite impressive in executing on a strong vision and taking on Silicon Valley directly.
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The Art of Discovering: An Interview with Scott Berkun(aiga.org)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
You should get in touch with BJ Fogg at Stanford. He taught a class recently that was similar. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_stanford_learned_b...
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by rantfoil 19y ago
So true. I spent years reading about entrepreneurship and organizing conferences about entrepreneurship, and that was all just missing the point. Just create something and put it out in the world -- everything else is secondary.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
There are some pretty amazing algorithms at work every day in the financial markets. If you're interested in that, I can personally recommend Palantir Technologies as a great place to thrive doing just that. They're applying real computer s
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by rantfoil 19y ago
This is fantastic for Xobni. Congrats. Hopefully Xobni is able to secure contractual assurances that they'll be able to maintain a level of sovereignty to continue to work on their amazing vision. Microsoft, from experience, is a patchwork
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Thanks for these notes. Very detailed and captured the meaning perfectly. But you just had to be there to see the frenetic energy with which he boils on stage.
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Startup School 2008 - Thanks for a great day, Y Combinator! (photos of the speakers)(posterous.com)
9 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Too many choices -- good or bad -- can be mentally exhausting(physorg.com)
7 points by rantfoil 19y ago|7 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
The article spends more time extolling the virtues of virality than actually speaking to what Ning does.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
This is a challenge to startup founders -- to pare down the feature list to just the essentials. When you're in a meeting and someone says "Wouldn't it be great if..." -- you as a designer must forcefully evaluate whether or not it is valid
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Viral coefficient: What it does and does NOT measure(andrewchen.typepad.com)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Neuron Javascript Workouts(thebungeebook.net)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Product Creation: Sacrifice to Win(feeds.feedburner.com)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Getting Creative with PNG Transparency in Web design(smashingmagazine.com)
8 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Writing a functioning facebook app in 13 lines of Rails code with Frankie(deadprogrammersociety.blogspot.com)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Using Passenger on OSX for Rails development(fngtps.com)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Palestinian girls, dating, and the mobile phone(zephoria.org)
31 points by rantfoil 19y ago|9 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Also note that things might be a bit different for a CS major. Paying attention in those algorithms / theory classes make a difference down the line.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Yes -- mod_rails is awesome for people running lots of small rails sites. I'm definitely going to use it for my personal sites and projects.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Interesting -- sounds like facebook is taking cues from friendfeed. Suggestion - make the subject on posts like this more specific to what is in the content, e.g. Facebook Minifeed adds better import feature.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Pretty interesting study of the somethingawful / 4chan crowd, and how they represent a real danger to online communities.
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Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World(wired.com)
4 points by rantfoil 19y ago|2 comments

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