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by tomasien 14y ago
Whooaaa I just realized, unless I'm mistaken, this isn't actually a functional menu. If you add actual href's to the menu items, they don't take you anywhere because as soon as they're clicked the focus is removed, so the href does nothing.
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by tomasien 14y ago
It's amazing the economic value Ana created by posting this. It's gorgeous, and every single web designer can (and where appropriate, should) now use this to make themselves look SO much better. I wonder if the people who have posted the fl
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by tomasien 14y ago
Danielle, have you heard about what Paul Singh is doing with dashboard.io? He basically has made a product out of diagnosing this shit realllllly in depth.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Mailto: links are a hair-on-fire problem for most people. I didn't even know that I could set them to open my Gmail, and I'm a web developer. As long as the pop up also told me what the email was so I could do it in my client if I wanted, t
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by tomasien 14y ago
As an avid Sherlock Holmes fan, this analogy is extremely apt. Holmes would literally starve to death without Watson.
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by tomasien 14y ago
As I understand it, even though they haven't Mirandized him, all that means is if he confesses that confession still won't be admissible. They probably didn't Mirandize him because they don't care 1 bit about getting confession, they want
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by tomasien 14y ago
Agreed
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by tomasien 14y ago
Read my subsequent comment. Maybe I should make it an edit because it's really important, but I don't ACTUALLY give a shit, and in fact am actually really happy to see Google seeing the same opportunity as me and my partners/clients. They a
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by tomasien 14y ago
A solid idea! I'm pretty dedicated to not having a job and I'm pretty good at it, but if it was anyone but me (or something like that) I'd do it for sure.
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by tomasien 14y ago
In all seriousness, it's pretty cool to see this small bit of validation for what I'm doing. It's not my project (freelance work that I chose bc I liked it), not on the same platform, and not EXACTLY the same, so this is really nothing but
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by tomasien 14y ago
Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.
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by tomasien 14y ago
I said that very badly, to the point of counteracting my meaning. My father would be so ashamed, nobody tell him.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Yeah I mean I was just making my anecdotal observation. I wouldn't say my community is more than 100 people, and I probably interact with 40-50 on Twitter regularly (in a month). Not a huge sample, just what I can see from my small window i
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by tomasien 14y ago
My fault y'all: many have replaced TEXTING with Twitter.
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by tomasien 14y ago
qz.com? I personally really loathe it but whatever. I'd rather read almost any tech site (design-wise) than QZ.
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by tomasien 14y ago
I don't know how old you are or your profession, but as a 24 year old in the creative community, literally every single person I know is an active Twitter user, and many have replaced it with texting. I live in Richmond, VA so not exactly a
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by tomasien 14y ago
It's going to get harder and harder to get into YC (as has been the trend) which means getting rejected is going to mean less and less. It used to be an "oh we make mistakes, but mostly we find the right founders" and now it's "we find a lo
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by tomasien 14y ago
Yelp is definitely the thought share leader in that category, and I would GUESS the user and revenue leader as well.
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by tomasien 14y ago
Some good points made, but in this instance I think voice and perspective matter, and I'd greatly prefer to see a piece like this written by a woman. A man's voice just does nothing for me in this instance. We could have the "words vs. word
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by tomasien 14y ago
I don't understand why this shouldn't be said without irony. If SRI says he built some part of the original app, perhaps without their engine to power it and really make it awesome, doesn't he deserve some credit? I think he does. Plus Summ
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by tomasien 14y ago
You can argue about which kind of traction is better, revenue or traffic, but there is no doubt the traffic and users == traction.
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by tomasien 14y ago
No, that is not a truism. It is a falsism if it is any kind of ism. Instagram has yet to make a single dollar, for an extreme example, and yet nobody would argue it has gained insane amounts of traction since in the mobile photo sharing spa
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by tomasien 14y ago
Since everyone else seems to be finding a reason to be critical, I'll just say: I found this really interesting, and I'm glad you presented the data this way so that I could make my own analysis. It wasn't to say that #1 on the list had mad
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by tomasien 14y ago
Traction relates to financials - citation needed
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by tomasien 14y ago
That, by the way, is why catering has been so puzzling in this equation. I don't want to organize catering myself for the very reasons you mentioned. I want to have 1 set of sales people: people selling to businesses to offer perks, and the
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by tomasien 14y ago
Yep, we're working on something similar to BetterWorks. I don't want to say publicly what I think about the way that company was run, but their failure is more validation for me (in that they were able to get the model to work at some scale
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by tomasien 14y ago
Actually THIS is why I love HN, because it gives me access to data like this comment, which while anecdotal, helps me validate my idea. My guess is that most perks businesses offer mean NOTHING to their employees but that there are perks ou
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by tomasien 14y ago
It occurred to me as I was writing another comment about how much I love ZeroCater that they might be the perfect fit for what I'm trying to build right now. I've started validating and getting Beta customers for a personalized perks progra
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by tomasien 14y ago
Thank you all for your thoughtful responses! I really hope I did a good job conveying that I seriously did want feedback on this question, and my counter-arguments to Perl were simply to alert you to my biases going into the discussion. Any
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by tomasien 14y ago
I have not at all made a decision, I'm seriously soliciting feedback while explaining the biases I have coming in.

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