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by toumhi 15y ago
he Willem, you still work there? First time I see Hyves on first page at HN. I didn't even know they were writing a blog on product development. How's it working? Are you writing articles alone, or are several guys writing on what they are
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by toumhi 15y ago
My comment was to be read in the context of the discussion, as in, it's not as simple as to tell to homeless people to go "develop their moneymaking skills" and it's not simple because of a myriad of factors, not because they're crazy and d
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by toumhi 15y ago
It seems the causation is not (drunk OR crazy) => homeless but more homeless => (drunk OR crazy). The fundamental attribution error says that to explain a behavior, we frequently overlook situational explanations (upbringing, envir
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by toumhi 15y ago
For me 25 minutes are too short - you just get into something and it's time for the pause - especially for programming I think you need longer time periods. When doing the pomodoro technique I usually go for 45 minutes work units + 10 minut
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by toumhi 15y ago
I completely agree with the human aspect. That's why I'm going to go to a coworking space not to work every day at home/the coffee shop :-)
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by toumhi 15y ago
working from hotels for a year? wow, i'm impressed. I did travel/work for 5 months this year (Southeast Asia), and welcomed very much to stay at an apartment for 1 month (in Vietnam). Don't you feel lonely/unmotivated to do it that way? IMO
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by toumhi 15y ago
oh hi Thibaut :-) good point, I'm not targeting big corporations anyways. I guess the problem could be that even 5% could be a problem, as people sharing files would complain their 5% customers cannot see the files... well, we'll see, no co
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by toumhi 15y ago
my logs (for a file sharing solution for businesses in France) show 5.5% for IE6. Maybe because there are more early adopters at the moment? I for sure hope I won't need to spend hundreds of hours supporting IE6...
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by toumhi 15y ago
I would think search queries are getting less diverse now, especially with google suggest giving you autocompletion - I find it very often gives much better results to look at the top domain queries (e.g "online marketing strategies", "onli
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by toumhi 15y ago
Sorry to hear that (I'm French myself, but have worked in US and now in Netherlands). Apart from arrogant bosses, do you have more gripes about french's work culture? I think we are pretty pessimistic in general, especially compared to amer
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by toumhi 15y ago
First Google result is the winner :-) http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/
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by toumhi 15y ago
I've done what you want to do this year and have been in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam (5 months in total). As ehambers pointed out Lombok (or for the same feeling, islands of the Philippines) is nice if you like the beach -
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by toumhi 15y ago
I'm doing web development on a 13" air, with eclipse, a virtualbox ubuntu running as a staging server, and it works like a charm. I didn't notice a loss in productivity as I was afraid of, and I really love the portability. I brought it to
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by toumhi 15y ago
Ok. It's a bit frustrating, and considering the rate freelancers charge, I thought it was only time working on the project . But yeah, she would not install these parts if she didn't need it for my project, so it's a bit blurry... :-) I ha
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Ask HN: What are OK tasks for a freelancer to bill?
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On the importance of routine(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 15y ago
Same here. I tried to engage a conversation with my beta users when they registered, but I got 0 replies (out of 30 signups) and the 1 thing I got was more instant unsubscribes. I guess it depends on the service offered (mine is file sharin
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by toumhi 15y ago
I think most of HN users who fit that description (wanting to self-educate if you lack a formal design education) are programmers. To these i say: learning design is good and valuable, but if you want to learn design because you want your n
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by toumhi 15y ago
True. I'm not denying the fact the risks are different from past risks, the situation is a new one indeed. I was pointing out that there have been risks (of a different type) and there are risks now. I still think investing in yourself by l
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by toumhi 15y ago
I think about it, but I'm not to the point of buying a piece of land and building a basement and growing a vegetable garden... There have always been risks, before it was wars, lately the cold war or terrorism, now peak oil, economic collap
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by toumhi 15y ago
I was there a few months ago. While tourists were swimming, Filipinos were all floating with life jackets. It surprised me that, in a country that is basically a cluster of small islands and where you can only get around by boat, nobody can
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9 reasons why my startup idea won’t work(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 15y ago
What interesting blogging academics do you read? Finding alternative sources online is still left to chance. I like reading the economist but it's not always available everywhere in my country (France).
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by toumhi 15y ago
I've been traveling and trying to start a few web projects for 5 months in Southeast Asia, and I'm not considering starting a real startup in a far-away, 3rd world country because: - it is very lonely. How do you find like-minded people? Ho
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by toumhi 15y ago
Yes, domain-squatting parasites are the worth scum ever. By the way, to french-speaking people: I've bought quite a few nice french-sounding SEO-optimized domain names and am willing to sell some of them for less than $10000 :-)
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by toumhi 15y ago
We need a duplicate story detector around here :-) It's an old HN submission, was posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713716 even though there were no comments at the time, so let's see.
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by toumhi 15y ago
These articles are of very unequal depth. 2 pages for Paris, and only a list of startups for Amsterdam. Not even a mention of recentlylaunched new york times-featured appsterdam: http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2011/06/27/27ven
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by toumhi 15y ago
act professionally != being dull I don't see what's unprofessional in using smileys and an enthusiastic tone, to me it sounds better that way instead of sounding dull and stiff.
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by toumhi 15y ago
coding reference, wikipedia, blog writing, foursquare, skype, one hour HN every day... that's hardly what we can call an Internet diet. What about taking some holidays with no Internet at all? Like 2 or 3 weeks hiking in some remote area -
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by toumhi 15y ago
You should also do some keyword volume research (using adwords keyword tool for example). It will show you which keywords are popular, and then you can tailor your content in consequence. You can also use the list google suggest gives you:

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