rwhitman

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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   SEEKING WORK - NYC & Remote I've most recently been a fulltime Product Manager, but have put together remote contract design and engineering teams for early stage startups as well as 10 years experience of doing freelance frontend engin
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   Zoom in on London and you'll find a bunch of landmarks
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   Well, you are in the unfortunate position of having a name that would be easily confused for an attempt at SQL injection. I wonder if folks named "Insert", "And", "Where", "Not" etc would have similar problems...
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   It seems like they are hedging against allowing the mega gaming companies (EA etc) from getting too much of a foothold in the mobile / social space.
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   So you can drop a half million dollars and spend 2 years of your life in a tiny compartment millions of miles from home to visit a dead, cold, rusty rock without a breathable atmosphere? Does that sound unappealing to anyone else?
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   Very cool. For those of us who already know how to code, I think this would be fantastic way to learn new languages and platforms. I hope more of the advanced courses are on the horizon.
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   Having been raised in the Philly area I've heard this story from non-natives a number of times, so its pretty common. That said I think the flaw in this from a positioning perspective is it shouldn't be an alarm that says "Danger, get out n
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   Another tip - always set default profile gender to "Female". Women are less prone to feeling alienated by gender, but guys typically get uncomfortable with being labeled as a woman and will change it
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   by rwhitman 15y ago

   Bad defaults is one of my favorite user incentive tricks. Can't get users to upload their photo? Give them a super ugly picture as the default. They'll change it immediately out of disgust
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I hope that the author can take their thoughts to a wider audience than a comment on metafilter. This is a moving and thoughtful article that really needs to be published...
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I think the biggest difference between a first time coffeeshop entrepreneur and a seasoned entrepreneur comes down to the stamina to withstand multiple pivots both psychologically & financially.
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    Depending on how much money your company has lost from this, I'd say its the foundation for some substantial lawsuits
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    Definitely needs an availability map. That said this would be a huge deal in Los Angeles, where hoses are in short supply, street parked cars are in abundance, and the dry air and smog leaves a visible layer of dirt on your car within a wee
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    Are there any notable success stories surrounding companies that began as a geographically distributed team?
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I'd really like to hear more about your experience with the success and failure of remote team configurations.
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    There are far more elegant, insidious ways to destroy SOPA using the powers that SOPA opponents possess than something as cheap as a blackout. I do like the idea of PR hype surrounding the threat of blackout though. Just publicizing the pot
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I worked in an independent bookstore while in college for about 3 years, shortly after the rise of Amazon as an ubiquitous force in bookselling. The independent bookstores that are still operating today are survivors. They've somehow surviv
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I concur. I made a leap from developer to fulltime Product Manager about 6 months ago, thinking it would be some sort of 'vacation' that would allow me more time to code in my free time... I quickly discovered product work is so, so much mo
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    "Social travel" is kind of a startup black hole. That was a bad direction for a pivot.
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    Landing page optimization is an art, and it takes a long time before you get the wording & design just right. I think its asking a lot for any new product launch to have a perfect landing page out the gate
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    Things we use at work that I wished this plugged into: Jira, Github, Basecamp, Google apps
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disord...
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I never see posts on HN from the perspective of "I'm a technical founder with an idea and a product, and I need a non-technical co-founder who can pitch, market and sell it".
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I was under the impression that most programmers hired these days get paid more than managers and analysts with comparable experience, often by a good margin. Evidence: http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-analyst/q_1-sof... I'm s
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    Continuing the generalizations depicted in this post - I would say that the politely disingenuous "this is awesome" response is actually endemic to the West Coast. I've found folks in the Bay Area in particular have a strong aversion to "ne
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    I was just thinking today about this. Working w/ both Mixpanel & GA and wishing increasingly that they were one in the same.
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    More documentation, up to date and better organized. I know you have made strides, but please don't slack. You should be sending all developers weekly email blasts about upcoming changes, recent changes and known bugs. I'm pretty sure my co
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    So I definitely got partly scammed in NYC a few months ago by a friendly-seeming girl who found an apartment for the weekend on AirBnB and then promptly turned around and posted it for sublet on Craigslist as her own, raking in thousands in
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    LA has tons of tax breaks for new and small businesses. As a new business or one making less than $100k you pay no city taxes at all. I have actually been quite surprised by how accommodating such a large city was in facilitating tax breaks
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    by rwhitman 15y ago

    Right now, is it more beneficial for you to be solving big problems or little problems?