cpayne

6 ms·

1.
by cpayne 9y ago
I really don't understand this community sometimes. If you are going to downvote a comment, why not explain why? Is there a perceived laziness? Or have I missed something??? At least let me know what is / isn't appropriate
2.
by cpayne 10y ago
2x games: SuperHot and Onward. Both just totally blew my mind! Google them if you've never heard of them before. And Onward really shows the power of an Indie Dev.
3.
by cpayne 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I find the people that work on this stuff fascinating!! To have that much precision (with 15 seconds left, left just stop). I can right-click and deploy some changes to a production server or run a database script that
4.
by cpayne 10y ago
I travel with my wife and 2 kids. I have NOTHING! And yet, I am hyper aware of how I might be perceived. It's one thing to fight the good fight! And its another to poke the bear. I don't agree with your "maximum laziness&q
5.
by cpayne 10y ago
I'll take horrible graphics over awesome gameplay any day. Take a look at 'Onward' - just shows how simple can equal awesome!
6.
by cpayne 10y ago
A "Finding Dory ad" doesn't sound right. Did that really happen without installing something dodgy??
7.
by cpayne 10y ago
I never really understand why comments like this get downvoted. There seems to be love for the free market. That is until the free market goes against what I want. Then the free market sucks! What if FARK was another type of business. Sa
8.
by cpayne 10y ago
> Always show up in court if you are being sued THIS! If nothing else, its a sign of respect. The judge doesn't know the history, doesn't know the background. He knows there are two parties that don't agree. He sees one s
9.
by cpayne 10y ago
They are all Netflix shows. As others have said. Pablo & Marco Polo. Piper Chapman from Orange is the New Black and Mike Wheeler from Stranger Things. (Won't make sense if you haven't seen the shows)
10.
by cpayne 10y ago
The end user (my mother, sister etc.) definately wouldn't know that. I remember when Youtube came out, and all the nerds said "I could write that easily, not that big a deal". This is why knowing who your customer is (and wha
11.
by cpayne 10y ago
Lol - welcome to the club! (the confidence) find yourself a good business coach. You may burn through a few but that's all part of it. I can relate to your comments, I was there about 18 months ago. You would be surprised just how many
12.
by cpayne 10y ago
I'd never heard of the Oric before. The Wikipedia article seems incredibly biased. What software would you run on it?
13.
by cpayne 10y ago
>Eh, I'm going to question her ability to identify the difference between a Strad and non-Strad based on this double blind study lol! That is a brave statement. As @dcsommer said, sample size is tiny. When you audition for an Oper
14.
by cpayne 10y ago
My wife is a professional violinist. (In Australia at least) if you've watched the news or a recent Australia movie, you would have heard her play. She says you can ALWAYS tell the difference. But she also says, "better" depe
15.
by cpayne 10y ago
(for me) it's your last two points: "well-tested", and "maintainable". It's one thing to get the feature / bug fix in the current branch, its another know what well-tested means and to be able to do wel
16.
by cpayne 10y ago
See the Product Hunt example. It's not that dashboards are bad, they should immediately be obvious what the user should do. The eBay example is good too - just wtf is going on there?
17.
by cpayne 10y ago
Dropbox and Youtube always spring to mind. There were Dropbox solutions for YEARS before they came around. Even Microsoft had one (well before OneDrive) they gave away for free - still, Dropbox came to the top. And Youtube and a bunch of c
18.
by cpayne 10y ago
Yes, go out and have a coffee with every business owner you can find! Hairdressers, Accountants, Financial Advisers - ask them what they did! Go find a business coach! Look at their marketing, pay attention to what marketing works for you
19.
by cpayne 10y ago
1) Yes, a couple of times. But in the long run, we were so much better for it. (For me at least!) I overestimated how obvious my product idea was. You see this all the time! The marketing effort becomes two-fold. You have this pain p
20.
by cpayne 10y ago
I agree - you very much need to learn the rules first, before you go and break them
21.
by cpayne 10y ago
Hmm... I'm not too sure about that. Any examples? Show file extensions is disabled by default. I'll always go in and change that. But I can't think of a time where I've had to go into a system file before.
22.
by cpayne 10y ago
Makes for a good story. I mean, how many would they have made? 2,000? They know they can do a second run before Christmas. By then they would know if they should make 20,000 or 200,000...
23.
by cpayne 10y ago
The Nokia N95 was VERY similar to first iPhones. Heck, Steve Jobs is even quoted (quoting Picasso) as saying "Good artists copy; great artists steal"[1] [1] https://www.cnet.com/au/news/what-steve-jobs-
24.
by cpayne 10y ago
This is why the whole startup space drives me mad! You can do a whole lot of naval gazing, and then what are you left with? First movers are hard, because (as you've described) you have to educate the market, and then give a reason to
25.
by cpayne 10y ago
> If we were to pick a single moment in history that lead to their undoing I always find these sorts of comments interesting. Microsoft is a very different business than say other failures who you could point to a single event (Kodak, W
26.
by cpayne 10y ago
I agree. There has to be an MBA case study in there somewhere. As others have said, they clearly is it as a profit centre (not cost centre).
27.
by cpayne 10y ago
The problem is - what's the alternative? Was it a sackable offence? Very unlikely! Google have shareholders/ investors to keep on side. As others have already have said, you can see through the marketing talk to see what is really
28.
by cpayne 10y ago
I can't figure out if that is awesome or absolutely terrifying... Imagine what is the equivalent today.
29.
by cpayne 10y ago
Dam I loved that game as a child! (Game A / Game B was how you started the game on the original)
30.
by cpayne 10y ago
This depends very much on how you measure success. Remember, News Corp valued MySpace for an $580 million. I think both (Quora and Stack Exchange) have plateaued to some level. Neither see the insane growth they originally had.

More ›