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by spokey 17y ago
I'm not sure I buy it, but Scott Adams has an interesting theory that could explain this at: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/job_satisfaction/ Essentially, he argues that when jobs are plentiful cognitive dissonance forces you to believ
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by spokey 17y ago
I'm starting to think my project seems mundane compared to some on this thread, but I'm bootstrapping a cycling reference site at http://brightspoke.com/ . Our mission is to put more people on bikes by creating informed consumers. We're n
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by spokey 17y ago
This. An interviewer that accepts the "strength-disguised-as-a-weakness" answer is missing the point (or possibly silently counting the answer against you). A good answer to this question from the interviewer's perspective is a genuine weak
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by spokey 17y ago
http://www.gamasutra.com/ might have some relevant content for you.
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by spokey 17y ago
This seems plausible. How could we be sure IBM didn't pitch a similiar idea in isolation? I don't know what the RFP looked like, but it doesn't seem crazy that two teams would come up with similiar solutions to the design constraints, even
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by spokey 17y ago
Are you serious? A written "thank you for the interview" note might be uncommon in the US but it's pretty much conventional interview wisdom. And if it is uncommon that's all the more reason to do it: you'll stand out. Do you truly think a
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by spokey 17y ago
For what it is worth, they seem to be coming back up now, approximately 30 minutes from the first reported outage on Twitter.
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by spokey 17y ago
I have the same problems now but escaped the last one without any issues. (I can ping my server, but that's it.) In a few hours or days that twitter search link will be pointing to other tweets entirely, but I find it fascinating to watch t
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by spokey 17y ago
Thought folks might be interested that Linode, which faired well in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555 seems to be currently experiencing a significant outage at their Dallas data center. By the way, I've been very happy with Lino
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Major linode outage?(search.twitter.com)
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by spokey 17y ago
The purpose of the site as expressed on the about page ("We think choosing courses is hard, and we're here to do something about that.") seems to bear no relation to the purpose expressed on the homepage ("Share your notes. Sell your books.
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by spokey 17y ago
Very nice. I'm not sure what your revenue model is going to be nor how it compares other document sharing platforms like Slideshare or Scribd or whatever is comparable (I don't find myself using that sort of service often), but I really lik
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by spokey 17y ago
I kind of like the name. It's long but memorable and not hard to spell. (And the "super" bit makes me think you mean it a bit tongue in cheek. "Cool School" wouldn't work, but I think "supercool" does.) It may not work for some corporate a
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by spokey 17y ago
Whether or not it has now become reality, I distinctly remember reading a few months after the term was coined and/or popularized that the concept was invented as a marketing gimmick. I'm not able to find a source for that original press, b
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by spokey 17y ago
Hi David. Congrats on the launch. As others have said, this is certainly a competitive space, but I imagine there's still room for innovation. This is a nice technical foundation. If I were you my next step would be to get it in front of re
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by spokey 17y ago
"Review my startup" posts are among my favorite aspects of HN. I generally find them valuable no matter what the submitted site is about. Time permitting I go out of my way to try to comment on them but unfortunately lately it seems that ma
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by spokey 17y ago
Interesting idea. I think the feedback thus far is a little harsh. There's room for improvement but I don't think your average user will be put off by the design. I'd reconsider the "Register Now" post it though--the font feels a bit angry
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by spokey 17y ago
Wait, really? You guys must be using many more modules than I am. I just checked a couple of nearby development boxes with various Drupal projects on them. The smallest had 41 tables. The largest had 92 tables. Most had fewer than 50. (
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by spokey 17y ago
This strikes me as a strange question. What aspects of the Mythical Man Month do you feel no longer apply? (That is, it has been a while since I last read it, but I can't think of anything specific about TMMM that seems out of date as long
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by spokey 17y ago
I hope you're not asserting that Apple makes a better product _because_ Steve Jobs is a jerk to his staff. I'm a strong believer (based on experience) that you'll get more out of people if you treat them with respect. Have high standards,
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by spokey 17y ago
It's hard to get a complete picture of the situation from this little vignette, but your wife might be on to something. There's a difference between "intense" and "toxic". Firing 2 people in 3 months may be a sign of a toxic environment. L
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by spokey 17y ago
At minimum, since you're in a hole, stop digging. If you've got fake names on your website, I second makecheck's advice to use "support@", "sales@", etc. instead. Transitioning out of fake names with customers you have an established rela
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by spokey 17y ago
Yes. Much better, thanks.
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by spokey 17y ago
Fred, this is an interesting post, but I have a bit of an off topic comment for you: I don't know if I'm missing a common font or what but I find your body copy font very difficult to read. On Firefox/Windows the kerning is all slightly off
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by spokey 17y ago
"Sites that pdf your history"? Can you say more about this, I'm not sure what you mean. Sites that export your browser history to a PDF document?
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by spokey 17y ago
For what it's worth, I have also have VPS in Dallas that is running fine right now, and has been up since my last manual reboot (more than 30 days ago).
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by spokey 17y ago
I don't get it. The description on the home page doesn't make the game clear to me, and isn't compelling enough to make me want to hand over my twitter credentials. After poking around a bit I found the "Most Active Games" box, but the page
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by spokey 17y ago
There's a lot of good advice there about asking the right questions of the right people, but I don't think it is fair to assert that because different teams came up with different problems the usablity tests were a failure. Consider the pos
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by spokey 17y ago
Here's another (cheaper, although possibly less realistic) approach to this: I recently did some market research using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and added a lead collection form as a bonus. I put up a simple survey asking users about releva
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by spokey 17y ago
That line jumped out at me too: "I had invested my life savings and I knew there was no turning back," says Mr. Conway, a 2007 graduate. Life savings? 18 months out of college?

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