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by connortomas 13y ago
Who would you expect to receive a message from? Presumably this happens more often than you think, and the company protocol is to get legal to deal with it. I think you've misinterpreted this as in any way "aggressive" - this
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Show HN: Zeitgeisty Books Bundle
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by connortomas 13y ago
Google has employees. Some of them are gay. If 15.4% of the San Francisco population identifies as GLB ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United... ), we could probably assume that a significant mino
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by connortomas 13y ago
I'm not sure "honest mistake" is really acceptable. This is a multi-million-dollar Triple A game. I think it's reasonable to expect their legal team should have double- and triple-check the rights to all arts assets. Ye,
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by connortomas 13y ago
I explored the possibility of using a bank safe as a replacement symbol in the original piece. A bank safe is very difficult to represent symbolically, particularly at the scale of a small icon, so I think we can probably rule that out. A f
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by connortomas 13y ago
I'd agree with that. But why couldn't the abstraction for "save" be the floppy disk symbol? Just pretend the floppy disk never existed, and that the floppy-save symbol is just a completely abstract symbol. Doesn't it still work? As long as
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What Makes *Your* Web Service Sustainable?(connortomas.com)
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Show HN: Subscribbly, a system to manage creative subscription programs
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by connortomas 14y ago
I'd argue that "better designed" is subjective here. Hacker News is optimised for high content density. Designer News has lower content density, but there's more space between posts (and visual signposts in the form of "badges") which makes
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Avoiding the Medium-Sized Stuff(connortomas.com)
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The Future of Computers as Trucks(connortomas.com)
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by connortomas 14y ago
This seems to have a huge chicken-or-the-egg problem: the site is only valuable to consumers if they know their requests could have some influence, but companies will only listen to requests from Pvsh users if there's a critical mass (say,
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by connortomas 14y ago
From the stats Kickstarter have released previously, situations like this (in which a project just barely doesn't reach its target) seem extremely rare. Kickstarter works because the model is simple: a hard deadline, a hard target, and go.
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by connortomas 14y ago
Agreed in general, though I'd dispute your point that hacking can't do permanent good. Sure, in fifty years, you likely won't care about the web app you built, but maybe that app helped somebody achieve their goals or inspired somebody else
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by connortomas 14y ago
I can see your point, but, taking a longer-term view, what happens when we hit hard limits to global growth? In a world in which every country is developed and wealthy... where in the world does that material wealth come from? I can't conce
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by connortomas 14y ago
I find it hard to get from, "Food, water, and energy shortages, exacerbated by climate change, could lead to instability and violence and the forced migration of hundreds of millions of people in the future" to, “Yet the probability of a mo
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by connortomas 14y ago
37 Signals generally create web apps for small businesses, so I suspect an email client/service would be a little too general for them. Jason Fried also says, "This new product eliminates the hassle of one thing in particular", which sugges
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by connortomas 14y ago
Though this doesn't totally solve your issue, the design is responsive, so if you're on your Mac, you could narrow your browser window to make the body text a little easier to scan. I mean, you shouldn't need to do that, but...
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by connortomas 14y ago
Would there be any reason to use this over, say, a Mailchimp auto-responder? I don't mean that at all in a snarky way, just curious. I'd be interested to give this a go, but can't quite justify shifting my auto-reponders from Mailchimp just
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by connortomas 14y ago
Could it be worth including a few stories or "case studies"? For example, "John has just moved to Melbourne and he'd like to know what hidden gems exist on the way to his new job, so..." If you've already had beta testers, I'm sure a few ha
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by connortomas 14y ago
I think this is an interesting concept. I have a few questions, though, which I suspect could be commonly asked: - What's the incentive for me to use this? Why not simply switch my phone off? It seems as though the core benefit is to answer
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by connortomas 14y ago
I presume one reason (as suggested in the video) is that Maily wants to promote "kid-friendly" email replies. I imagine kids (particularly the very young) would find it more fun to receive a visual reply than a standard email reply.
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by connortomas 14y ago
Well, yeah, noreply emails are useful for the business, and I understand that. They're not very useful for the customer, though. Customers want to feel as though there's a real person they can contact directly. They don't want to feel as th
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by connortomas 14y ago
I tentatively disagree. If the service isn't leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, I think this could be a huge flop. However, if they can actually deliver, I can imagine this generating a huge amount of interest. "The return of MySpac
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by connortomas 14y ago
Let's wait and see. Keep in mind, the video is pretty frenetically cut. The video is designed to provoke awe, but I suspect the interface is less "out there" in practice.
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by connortomas 14y ago
I loved that too. There's a good sense of humour there which was lacking from the last "My______" redesign/rebrand.
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by connortomas 14y ago
I don't think you're the average user. When I temporarily removed sharing buttons from a site I work on, we received a number of support emails complaining that it was "no longer possible" to share the content on Facebook. Many people simpl
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by connortomas 14y ago
I think it's possible to scale a personal approach to support. Maybe, as Quibb grows, Sandi doesn't actually manually send each message. Maybe she sets up an autoresponder with a default welcome message. However, it's still possible to send
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by connortomas 14y ago
The game looks fantastic, and I'd just like to say: I love the idea of MGWU. Coming out of an iOS game development course (aware that you don't offer traditional "courses", but still) with a polished iOS app seems like a great deal - even b
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by connortomas 14y ago
Really? Personally, I think the more people recognise that hard work can actually be enjoyable, the better. I don't think that recognition devalues the achievement of those who accomplish amazing things. At an old job, I used to deal with a

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