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by gordonc 15y ago
We at http://views.fm completely agree
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by gordonc 15y ago
Seconded. This book has made me rethink all of my behaviors and professional practices – from the gym, to food, drinking, and my UX design recommendations and reasoning. It provides a framework for how we make decisions, a truly phenomenal
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by gordonc 15y ago
I am hanging out on a team product meeting with peeps in Paris, Philly, NYC, and SF as I type this. For me, this makes G+ 100x more valuable than FB.
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by gordonc 15y ago
Uhh, does anyone know what the location for this is? I RSVPed 'coming' and never got any info on where this is happening.
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by gordonc 15y ago
Dropbox's GUI does need some work for presentation, which is why me and a friend built an app on top of Dropbox precisely for that: views.fm Actually just released a new slideshow feature to present photos!
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by gordonc 15y ago
With every new OSX version update I just assume it's gonna take a solid 8 hours to get rails running properly again...
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by gordonc 15y ago
If Foursquare is a sign of things to come for NYC, I need to get the fuck out of here asap.
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by gordonc 15y ago
Seems like this is gonna be fun competitive space. I've seen http://vhx.tv , http://shelby.tv , and now WatchLater. Am I missing anything?
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by gordonc 15y ago
For designers: good for practice, bad for business For businesses: good for unimportant stuff that needs a bit of design, bad for serious stuff As a designer/business owner, I'm past the point of using this service and since my product is U
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by gordonc 15y ago
Oddly enough, the more I read the more I become convinced that this may actually not be the case. Technology and our ability to effectively process information is growing at an exponential rate – of course, so is the amount of information.
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by gordonc 15y ago
Fuck startup events (and startup "incubators" for that matter.) Everybody wants to 'play startup' these days. Valuable non-programming skills include, in order of immediate product utility: user experience design, visual design, customer su
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by gordonc 15y ago
I dunno, I'm 26 and equally baffled by every new mobile/social fad. I think technology and late stage capitalism does something strange to culture, leaving a void where religion, music, or some sort of dialog traditionally exist, so young p
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by gordonc 15y ago
Hi Cody! Color is the foursquare of photo apps. Which is to say: novel, silly, and, ultimately rather useless. For group photo sharing, which I think is an awesome idea, there's an app/site in private beta called Chute (getchute.com) which
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Review my Project: Views.fm - making filesharing suck less(views.fm)
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by gordonc 16y ago
"Playing startup." Most apt description I've heard of the New York 'tech' scene yet.
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by gordonc 16y ago
This site is a poor copy of flavors.me. I once took the liberty of illustrating that idea: http://grdn.cc/post/1171539069/flavors-me-vs-about-me-in-tod...
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by gordonc 16y ago
Reading this book The Possibility of an Island which postulates the same, though through a more socio-religious angle rather than technological.
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by gordonc 16y ago
The Black Swan (unrelated to the Natalie Portman movie) A great look behind some of the pseudo-science and psychological principles behind decision-making, rationality, and markets.
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by gordonc 16y ago
Finally! Some mainstream tech criticism in contrast to the overwhelming din of cargo-cult social network startups.
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by gordonc 16y ago
When did "startup" become synonymous with social internet site that will take years to make any money? I know I'm on HN; my point is that there are startups in all kinds of fucking fields for which this advice is absolutely useless. That s
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by gordonc 16y ago
The Tao te Ching – Lao Tzu. Classic and calming. Also Design Patterns in Ruby, which is rather entertaining for a programming book.