janeglendale

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by janeglendale 13y ago
Nice site. Well done!
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by janeglendale 13y ago
I'm really not liking the new feel. The dark background images make reading the content way too hard -- and I can only assume their goal is to replace the background with large ads for site takeovers once in a while.
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by janeglendale 13y ago
To be fair, it looks blurry on non-retina screens, too. The pixelated typeface they use seems like it should have straight edges, but is blurry for some reason. It makes the whole site hard to look at.
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by janeglendale 13y ago
This seems incredibly anecdotal. A box of thirty items from one store in one unknown city picked by an analyst trying to prove something, and all of a sudden Amazon is dead? On top of that... they didn't factor in time, gas costs, conv
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by janeglendale 13y ago
Privacy issues aside, you'd think Facebook/Twitter/etc Connect would help. But it just makes it worse -- now you have to remember if you used FB Connect, Twitter Login, or a custom password.
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by janeglendale 13y ago
Definitely check out http://voicebunny.com -- it's amazing how much higher quality anything sounds with a professional voiceover. If you don't care about the specific voice (and just that it's professional-soundin
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by janeglendale 13y ago
Really freakin' cool, however it feels weird on mobile since there's no momentum scrolling with it. I just stops (and has the jelly effect).
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by janeglendale 13y ago
It's not perfect, but it's definitely an improvement.
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by janeglendale 13y ago
Don't worry, this has nothing to do with the "10 Things I Hate About SF" lists :)
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Silicon Valley Burnout(medium.com)
1 points by janeglendale 13y ago|1 comments
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by janeglendale 13y ago
One side effect of this is people feeling like the have to work on a side project. People who otherwise would be happy working for their company find themselves spending hours and hours on something on the side. This cuts into hours that
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by janeglendale 13y ago
Revenue divided by minutes a naïve way to look at it. They of course lose money, but not nearly as much as you'd think -- people simply just come back later. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5147461
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by janeglendale 13y ago
You didn't mention much about the founder. Is he someone with a different background that just doesn't understand what's happening? Is he too busy with other things to see this? Does he actually think everything is going well
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by janeglendale 13y ago
For anyone looking to learn, definitely check out The Bastards Book of Photography: http://photography.bastardsbook.com/
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by janeglendale 13y ago
This process is much easier if you're working with a "mentor". If there's someone there who knows the language already and can do code reviews, it's a much more realistic option. Without a safety net, it's so e
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by janeglendale 13y ago
I just ordered Moo cards for my consulting business. Cheap prices, amazing experience and the packaging+presentation when I got them literally made me smile. I'm sure their Moo for Business is just as good. Their online editor is great