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by shawnreilly 12y ago
I call it Namestorming (play on Brainstorming). I'll come up with some key words that convey what the product does in 1 word. These will be the root words. Then I'll look up all the synonyms, and any related prefixes or suffixes.
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
Every design I do is different, so I wouldn't have any specific rule of thumb. But there are some common things I do related to the process of designing; I guess you could call it my own personal best practices. The first thing I'
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
Privacy is hard to quantify from a good/bad perspective because it relates to personal preference. One person might demand it, while another person might not care at all. Because of this, I don't see the issue as cut-and-dry as be
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
I would not agree that previous iterations have failed to do anything meaningful. It is very hard to gauge the success of a non-assertion pledge or defensive patent pool. For example, if you take Google's Pledge of MapReduce related pa
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
The underlying concepts and the approach are very similar. The idea of a non-assertion pledge (or defensive patent pool) is a refreshing example of forward thinking Businesses and Organizations that recognize the adverse effects that Patent
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
At the last Startup Weekend Honolulu 2014, I introduced my approach towards solving this problem; The Open Patent Foundation (Non-Profit). Similar to concepts such as Creative Commons, and Open Source Software Licenses, the idea is to creat
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
Rackspace is another company that stands up to fight Patent Trolls. And they run OpenStack. (Double the Awesome)
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
I think it's possible, but it's rare. The HTML5/CSS3 Based App I'm working on right now does feel like a Native App, but it's because it was designed specifically to mitigate some of the "issues" with HTML
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
In some cases, research does relate to identifying Security Threats. This mostly relates to layer 7, which is much more complex than ports and protocol based detection. The idea is; if you don't know what you're looking for (presu
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by shawnreilly 12y ago
I think this comment is quite misleading. Your average IT Security Group within an organization is not a 'miniature NSA group'. The difference is where Data is collected and monitored. Your average IT Security Group is focused on
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
From my understanding (which may be limited), treble damages only apply when someone willingly infringes on a patent. So this would be a scenario where someone identifies a patent that relates to what they're building, but they build i
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
There are a few different reasons I do not agree with this comment. For one, I refuse to subscribe to the idea that it's OK to run away from the problem and let patent trolls win by default. I'm the kind of person that stands up f
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
Here is the original twitter dev blog post if anyone wants to see it [1]. I hope this does not come off an condescending and negative, but my honest reaction is "What took so long"?? It blows my mind that it took 7 years to realiz
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Coin, Kicking Credit Cards To The Curb, Answers A Few Questions(techcrunch.com)
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
Another thing to consider is what constitutes a karma point. I don't have any statistics to validate, but it seems that posting new submissions rewards more karma points than responding to submissions. Maybe the Admins/Mods could
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I think it starts with support/backing from stakeholders, perhaps the founders or someone in a position to dictate/enforce policy. Once the stakeholders are on board, then I think the next step is to decide if you want to implemen
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I am always paranoid when it comes to technology and money, and this will be no exception. BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) has been around for 2-3 years now, but I still consider it to be in it's infancy. This is especially true when it com
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
Systems / Network Engineer
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
The Open Patent Foundation, a 501(c) Non-Profit with 2 specific Goals. 1. A Community Driven approach towards creating 'Open Patent Licenses' similar to existing Open Source Software Licenses (likely a multitude of different licen
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I didn't realize they were still working on it, saw no E-mail so I deleted the Video without looking at the stats. Oops!
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you're envisioning, but I've been working (on and off) a side project that sounds very similar. The name I have is InfoStream (not Trademarked), and the domain is infostre.am (not currently in use).
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
Understood. Hiring is a two way street, it needs to work for both sides. It's unfortunate how this turned out. But hey, everything happens for a reason right? Maybe it was not meant to be because something else awesome is right around
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I can tell you're frustrated with this Project, but I still think you deserve some congrats. Good job! It's not easy to build something and get that much traffic. I think the frustration stems from the platform it's built on,
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I completely agree. Using option 3 has its own set of con's, and this is one of them. Many Users have been misused/tricked in the past and don't like the idea of associating a new (aka unknown) App with their Social Media Acc
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I had a completely different experience. I've been in contact with Facebook about potentially working there (Engineering Side) and I would describe my experience as pleasant, respectful, and interesting. I've learned a lot about h
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I have two alternating schedules because I work an Industry Job in addition to my Project(s). The first half of the week (3-4 days alternating) is dedicated to my Project(s). I work 10 Hour Days from Home, Lunch Break and all. The last half
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
Great Article, thank you for sharing. It's interesting to follow a Product Launch and see what works / what doesn't work. I like how you've integrated a specific UX into the Product. Right now the Signup is probably one
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but here's my thoughts on it; I have Solaris and Oracle experience in large enterprise environments, but it's not something I would consider at a Startup stage. And I'm not anti-Oracle by a
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
I agree with lots of the replies here; Something else to consider is your product itself and how it's distributed. For example, releasing a Mobile Web App would probably make the domain name more important than releasing a Native Mobil
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by shawnreilly 13y ago
First off, Congrats on starting your own Co-Working space. That's no easy task, and I commend you for building the startup ecosystem in your area. I see where you're coming from, you want to protect all the people that use your co

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