waxman

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   by waxman 16y ago

   Selling a service in a different country/culture than your own is a lot harder than you think. I would strongly recommend that you exhaust your local market (the one that you know and understand infinitely better), before you think about ex
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   by waxman 16y ago

   And in related news, Facebook selling 400 million Facebook accounts
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   by waxman 16y ago

   hands down. jQuery is the simplest and most powerful, and has the biggest community.
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   by waxman 16y ago

   shady oligarchy money. that's their secret sauce.
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   by waxman 16y ago

   Everyone and every company makes mistakes, so it's not a matter of whether or not you screw up (because you will), but rather how will you deal with it when it happens. I think Blippy dealt with it pretty well. Having said that: I think Bli
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   by waxman 16y ago

   And you thought the new Facebook API was intrusive...
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   by waxman 16y ago

   It's about time. The FB API was a nightmare. But there's 400 million people on Facebook, so FB integration is probably good for your site, regardless of was your site does. The new Open Graph protocol actually looks pretty awesome. This cou
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   by waxman 16y ago

   http://freeagentcentral.com/ and http://campaignmonitor.com are both paragons of SaaS UI: beautiful form, and elegant function.
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   by waxman 17y ago

   It depends on the project... For tech-heavy companies, obviously not. But for content plays, sometimes outsourcing makes sense. International outsourcing can be tough, but domestic outsourcing (simply using a third-party firm) often works.
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    by waxman 17y ago

    Awesome!
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    by waxman 17y ago

    Cool site! I like the design. Clean and chic. I would maybe add a rollover or a button-like image to the "Basic translation" and "Freelancer" div/links because it's unclear that you can/should click those...
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    by waxman 17y ago

    I think PG's larger idea here is simply: "build what you know." And that is excellent advice. Either build something that scratches your own itch, or if you're trying to solve somebody else's problem, understand that problem like it's your
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    by waxman 17y ago

    - Don't be afraid to seek out resources at your school (alumni, entrepreneurship programs, professors, fellow students, etc.) - Don't spend too much time planning; think through some basics, then build a prototype, and launch it. From then
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    by waxman 17y ago

    If you're at all interested in this stuff check out Stumbling on Happiness by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert http://bit.ly/cfze2u . For a preview, here's his Ted Talk: http://bit.ly/bRAkXW
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    by waxman 17y ago

    What does this do that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't do better?
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    by waxman 17y ago

    You're incorrectly using the term "ad hominem." An ad hominem argument is when you try to invalidate an idea with an irrelevant personal attack. The problematic incentives facing climate change scientists are certainly relevant to their res
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    by waxman 17y ago

    This graph actually carries a lot of intellectual weight for 2 reasons: 1) it is an apparently unbiased inquiry, which means a lot. The allegations against leading climate change scientists, whether they are valid or not, highlight an inesc