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by ruswick 13y ago
I don't want to subsidize other people's consumption of content. I want to pay for what I use; everyone else can do the same.
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by ruswick 13y ago
The things that you mentioned, though perhaps relevant to the goal of the service, are outrageous from a usability standpoint. I really abhor the tendency for sites to gamify their services or erect gimmicks that impede my ability to intera
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by ruswick 13y ago
I agree. It was filled with platitudes and self-aggrandizing, vacuous anecdotes, but never offered any indication as to how one increases their income or reduces their time commitments. I can soundly say that those first few chapters are li
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by ruswick 13y ago
This design is visually abrasive. I would suggest getting rid of the the purple accents and changing your typography.
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by ruswick 13y ago
The other issue is that he is not recommending that this be used for research. He is recommending that he can discreetly rent out my own computer to entities that are anonymous to me and with whom I have absolutely no contact, all for his p
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by ruswick 13y ago
Your comment presumes that "negativity" has no place in a "civilized discussion," which is outrageous. Honestly, the discourse here is pretty civil and all of the points are valid. When did it become "uncivilized&qu
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by ruswick 13y ago
That's irrelevant. It's evident that, based on the ridiculous ads that some sites employ (auto-playing videos, those absurd scroll-by ads, etc.) that a lot of companies are willing to drastically degrade their user experience to p
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by ruswick 13y ago
This practice is deplorable. It presumes that individuals have infinite electrical and computational resources, which is utterly false. This sort of computation is inherently going to degrade the functionality of computers, and will severel
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by ruswick 13y ago
I don't believe that I've ever clicked on a text ad. (That is to say, I had never clicked on one prior to starting using an ad blocker two years ago.) If I'm attempting to research a product or product category, I'll go
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Being In Motion vs. Taking Action(blog.bufferapp.com)
4 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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Product Strategy Means Saying No(insideintercom.io)
166 points by ruswick 13y ago|39 comments
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The Golden Age of RSS(dashes.com)
3 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 13y ago
This product appears to be decently-executed, but the same can be said about most RSS readers. Frankly, this looks identical in both aesthetic and functionality to the dozens of other services that are attempting to supplant Reader. Feedly
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How to launch anything(smashingmagazine.com)
3 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 13y ago
That's because game pricing operates under the cartel model.
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by ruswick 13y ago
This is because the market standard was and is $50. It's of no surprise that developers are reticent to pay inflated prices that aren't in line with comparable products. If everyone else in town is selling coffee for $4 per cup, e
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by ruswick 13y ago
This is my thought exactly, and made me immediately suspicious of the article's analysis.
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by ruswick 13y ago
This sort of incoherence really isn't unexpected, considering that Lorem Ipsum is not a piece of coherent text, but rather a series of sentence fragments and even fragments of words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo
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by ruswick 13y ago
It was discussed in The Secret Life of Pronouns by James Pennebaker (Although I only read about his finding in an interview in HBR). A few of his most salient points are explained in this article: http://www.psychologytoday.com&#
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by ruswick 13y ago
There is a positive correlation between frequency of use of personal pronouns and of insecurity and inferiority. This sort of inferiority can manifest itself structurally, eg. an army private vs. a captain, or individually, eg. insecurity a
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by ruswick 13y ago
If self-employment is merely a "new boss," then why isn't self-sufficiency? Instead of relying upon the highly-developed apparatuses that society has created that enable one to achieve homeostasis and proceed through life, he
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by ruswick 13y ago
While this sort of exploitation is egregious, I think that part of the responsibility lies with the employee. At the end of the day, the company is simply using the employee's labor to further its own ends and enrich its shareholders.
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by ruswick 13y ago
> risk-seeking, ambitious, 19-year old The article isn't explicitly directed at "risk-seekers," but merely at ambitious people. It's incorrect to conflate the two. Ambition can just easily manifest itself as a desire
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by ruswick 13y ago
Besides merely being an offhanded dismissal of Microsoft employees, it operates under the presumption 1) salary is a factor that can be disregarded by people and 2) high salary is negatively correlated with exposure to smart people. In the
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There are no Small Changes(insideintercom.io)
6 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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Snowden on the run, seeks asylum in Ecuador(cnn.com)
5 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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What is the Best Predictor of Unhappiness?(priceonomics.com)
2 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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Proactive Support(insideintercom.io)
1 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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App Sleeping on Heroku(blog.heroku.com)
3 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 13y ago
Am I the only one who sees a linguistic significance between "buy in the app store" and "download in the app store?" I've always felt as though the latter implied that the product was free. The act of downloading do

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