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by rguzman 14y ago
I'm sorry to hear you stopped using iDT. We've heard this same feedback a few times now and we're still trying to figure out how to make it easier for people in your position to get the team interested. Do you have any insight as to why peo
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The Slow Web(blog.jackcheng.com)
205 points by rguzman 14y ago|40 comments
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Crowdsource Your Company’s Bonuses(blog.idonethis.com)
72 points by rguzman 14y ago|49 comments
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by rguzman 14y ago
this is easier said than done, but the key to avoiding analysis paralysis is to worry about building the right abstractions and only that. if the software is abstracted well -- ie it correctly represents the underlying problem at an adequa
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by rguzman 14y ago
how settings.py gets so large is not only a valid problem in of itself, but also symptom of another problem: it is hard (or at least not obvious) to have configuration that can be changed from the admin. i've considered implementing someth
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by rguzman 14y ago
i second the request to elaborate on your setup. a blog post is probably most adequate.
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by rguzman 14y ago
doing ineffective things is not the same as not taking yourself seriously. in general, what sort of physical activity is good for you, how to get started, how to progress, and so on are all pretty well understood. not only that, it is all p
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by rguzman 14y ago
so you don't have to be in the same place.
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by rguzman 14y ago
> Is the coffee you produce somehow more valuable to society than a new facebook feature? This is a slippery slope. Value is abstract. Some people may value the coffee more than facebook having 99.99% uptime. Furthermore, some people ma
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by rguzman 14y ago
> talk is cheap and ideas are cheap, but people are really expensive [...] because the idea will change over time anyway. I largely agree with this sentiment in general. However, all ideas are not created equal. Most successful compani
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by rguzman 14y ago
The crime rate is probably different. But that is not really meaningful to your every day life since your life doesn't happen in the whole city. ie the crime rate is an aggregate. I reckon the "effective" crime rate for the places of SF whe
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by rguzman 14y ago
fair enough. on the other hand, i arrived at this by thinking about the role that pictures play in the lives of my friends & family, and my experience. not by analogy with instagram.
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by rguzman 14y ago
this is very impressive. i'm a little skeptical, however, whether this type of video sharing will get mainstream adoption (like, say, instagram). people like 3 things re:pictures: 1) take them, 2) show them off, and 3) look at them. this h
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Confronting the Brutal Facts of Your Startup’s Reality(blog.idonethis.com)
36 points by rguzman 14y ago|7 comments
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by rguzman 14y ago
current research suggests that the feeling of making constant progress and being appreciated at work are the most important motivator for people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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Show HN: iDoneThis+AwesomenessReminders, Get Work Done, Get Awesomeness(idonethis.com)
28 points by rguzman 14y ago|19 comments
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by rguzman 14y ago
i'm on the minority, but i find that the craigslist UI is pretty good. all the "flows" work pretty well and are well explained. i hope that doesn't change and that all they do is make the site easier to read.
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Mathematical Constraints on Financially Viable Public Policy(arxiv.org)
2 points by rguzman 15y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret(blog.idonethis.com)
221 points by rguzman 15y ago|68 comments
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Write Your Own Story(blog.idonethis.com)
7 points by rguzman 15y ago|0 comments
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by rguzman 15y ago
arguing against what you believe applies to a lot more than just programming. it is a pretty good way of arriving at what you really believe. guess you believe X0, try to argue against it arrive at X1 as a result of the arguments, argue ag
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by rguzman 15y ago
Over the last year we've seen people use idonethis to help achieve personal goals and build habits. With our product for teams we've also seen how groups help each other stay motivated. We're bringing those two together now. To capture the
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Make habits, not resolutions(idonethis.com)
25 points by rguzman 15y ago|6 comments
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by rguzman 15y ago
we have a lot more than a few thousand and ~30% of our users are active.
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by rguzman 15y ago
trying to sell what we prototyped last year to users is likely a bad idea. the freemium will be for businesses. there is a team version of idonethis in its early stages.
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by rguzman 15y ago
email deliverability is a huge can of worms. i didn't know that when we first prototyped it. we noticed that our test emails were going to spam on walter's account as we were getting ready to send out the first bunch of emails. so, we opte
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by rguzman 15y ago
maybe... smartphone apps would scratch a very similar itch and those will happen first.
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A Stupid Idea, 1 Year After Launching on HN(blog.idonethis.com)
149 points by rguzman 15y ago|47 comments
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by rguzman 15y ago
theoretically, you could just use photoshop (or keynote, more realistically) to design interfaces. however, given that from there someone has to take over and implement it using the real technologies, it is easy to miss things and the proc
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by rguzman 15y ago
i don't think designers, per se, are that valuable. this line of thought just stems from the conflation of graphic design and interface design. the skill in demand is the latter. to be good at it one needs to be able to be proficient in htm

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