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by thesash 13y ago
I'd like to see the data that the NHTSA used to conclude that the risk of a malfunction is higher than the risk of human error. Millions of crashes each year result in tens of thousands of deaths [1]. Humans drive while tired, drunk, or sim
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by thesash 13y ago
Why can't people know what they don't know?
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by thesash 13y ago
One of the things I think about on long runs while training for a marathon is precisely how not fun running often is while training. Running through pain, heat, cold, rain exhaustion, etc. is not fun and certainly not easy, but it's pre
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by thesash 13y ago
When making art, there is tremendous value in doing what has been done before. It's called practice, and the value is having the experience of having done something yourself. This is so true, and so often overlooked
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Why Your Product Isn't As Simple As You Think (m.techcrunch.com)
2 points by thesash 13y ago|0 comments
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Everything I knew about food was wrong(medium.com)
19 points by thesash 13y ago|8 comments
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by thesash 13y ago
I'd like to suggest that all the lessons learned here are precisely what Lean Startup teaches-- with techniques that are meant to prevent you from spending two years in a death spiral. Segue to edit of my standard rant on this subject: (o
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by thesash 14y ago
It depends. Are you looking for fulltime or freelance? Do you have a budget to pay a competitive rate, or are you looking to cut corners? If you have the budget to pay a competitive rate: Fulltime - http://www.angel.co - A great platfor
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by thesash 14y ago
I think we're at the tipping point for a new era of long-form content that's designed natively for the web, and I, for one, am very, very excited about it. There's a whole crop of sites and apps (Svbtle, Medium, Quartz, The Magazine) that w
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by thesash 14y ago
Fab.com built their initial user base almost exclusively through Facebook ads and Facebook shares. They are still one of facebook's biggest advertisers, and even use demographic and interest data from their Facebook users to determine when
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by thesash 14y ago
One of the things we like to think about in ux design is how we can design at the intersection of user goals and business goals. In this case the business model is to drive a high volume of impressions to a broad audience. Therefore this i
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by thesash 14y ago
Tradesy is hiring developers and designers for web and mobile, full-time and interns, in Santa Monica or remote. We're building a peer to peer online marketplace that facilitates sticking points in the transaction that prevent people from b
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by thesash 14y ago
Or that google isn't an auto manufacturer...
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by thesash 14y ago
My stock comment on the subject originally posted on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429906 1) MVP != half assed, cheap, shitty product. It is exactly what it says: a minimum viable product, key word being viable. An MVP for a missio
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by thesash 14y ago
The invisible UI is such a wonderful and logical pattern, especially when constrained by a mobile platform. As touch interfaces reach maturity and users are more comfortable with the general paradigm, I think we'll be seeing a lot more appl
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Great Design is Great Writing(layervault.tumblr.com)
4 points by thesash 14y ago|0 comments
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by thesash 14y ago
I just tried 2 searches. My current address, and my current city. Both failed. Google maps handles them no problem. They could have the best data and nicest maps, but if their search sucks, what's the point?
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by thesash 14y ago
https://grouptalent.com/main/employers/
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by thesash 14y ago
If the market opportunity here is defragmentation of social networking, then Yahoo should acquire Buffer[1], and get themselves a dead simple product that "just works." IFTTT and Yahoo Pipes are awesome for technically savvy folks, but it's
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Quartz - the new online-only publication from The Atlantic(qz.com)
2 points by thesash 14y ago|0 comments
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by thesash 14y ago
Obligatory reference to Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1] Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no' AirBnB & Twitter each had three founders. VMWare had five founders[2], and they've don
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by thesash 14y ago
Data or it didn't happen. There is 0 data to back up any of these points. If you're basing your design decisions on generalizations in 2012, you're doing it wrong.
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by thesash 14y ago
Ansolutely! I used to carry a Thomas Brothers guide to San Diego in my car. When I got lost it would take me 5 minutes just to figure out where the hell I was. The first time I drove to LA for my college orientation I had a map of Californi
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by thesash 14y ago
Everyday I face problems that I've never solved before. I can query a nearly complete repository of human knowledge and find solutions nearly instantly.[1] When I'm exploring a new city I have satellite maps of the entire world tied to a se
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by thesash 14y ago
This is utter bullshit. Warren Ellis's excelent "How to see the future"[1], addresses why we're perpetually bored by the times we live in, and are always nostalgic about some bygone golden age: ...We look at the present day through
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Warren Ellis: How To See The Future(warrenellis.com)
2 points by thesash 14y ago|0 comments
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Exploit beamed via NFC to hack Samsung Galaxy S3(zdnet.com)
1 points by thesash 14y ago|0 comments
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by thesash 14y ago
Thats my point though-- it seems like there are too many unknown unknowns here to make any sort of predictions. We're still several massive leaps removed from where we would need to be in order to really get started.
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by thesash 14y ago
My thoughts exactly-- if we don't understand how organic consciousness works, how can we hope to replicate it artificially?
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by thesash 14y ago
Exactly, 2x people != 2x productivity, it simply doesn't work that way.

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