jhermsmeyer

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by jhermsmeyer 10y ago
Labrador OmniMedia | Rails Developer/Devops Engineer | Sonoma County, California | Remote Labrador creates software for the hospitality industry. Our flagship product, Slate, is an iOS app (think iPad wine lists) with a Ruby on Rails b
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by jhermsmeyer 13y ago
Agreed. The sample is very likely tainted by factors that made success much more likely than average if we believe that NFL coaches are both conservative (they forgo punts only when the odds are much in their favor) and rational (they are w
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by jhermsmeyer 13y ago
I'd say the answer provided is so simplistic that it has very little explanatory power. Commenters have already mentioned Uber and Groupon, but I'd go further and add YC love child Airbnb as well. They famously sold cereal to stay
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by jhermsmeyer 13y ago
My favorite slide from Greenwald's article was the justification field from the Search Email Addresses Query [1]. It's a one line field. With an addition one line field for "Additional Justification". This press release
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by jhermsmeyer 13y ago
To paraphrase (or is it a direct quote?) Jacob Applebaum, "Quiet, please. Adults are talking." This is staggering, and to chide others for being staggered is the worst kind of truculence. More relevant, and useful: What are we goi
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
This is a huge deal for folks stuck in Salesforce. I've already had our team of 6 regional sales managers begin using the app.
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
Right to anonymity? Convicted felons lose their right to own a gun. Some might never use one to commit a crime, but they still lose that right. This is no different. It is not reasonable to call this a slippery slope. These people were conv
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
"It will include a plethora of innovations to come that will further make it clear that big things are on the road ahead." All Things D's writing, and hence credibility, is one butter patty away from the big dirt nap. I've attempted to unpa
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
> I've got to say, I don't understand why people keep mentioning drop shadows, though. Drop shadows seem fairly uncommon. Even Google only uses them for mouseover. Put your cursor in the search field. More shadowy goodness there. Click
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
I think we are splitting hairs here, but I agree that what we are talking about is affordance. The reason why I use the term skeuomorphic in this context is because there are those who believe that what you and I believe is affordance is ac
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
The two most prominent buttons on the home page have subtle drop shadows and gradients. Google is actually a great example of restrained skeuomorphic design. If I had to advocate for just one aesthetic (which is silly on its face), I suppos
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
You are in good company: "According to various reports, when someone suggested to include a touch-typing tutorial in this intro as well, since many people did not know how to use a keyboard, steve Jobs simply said not to bother as those peo
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
If your audience is developers and designers, a pure flat design is great and will likely work well. But normal people need their hand held as to what a button is. Subtle drop shadows and gradients are the best way to instantly get someone
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
Agreed. There are low tech ways to achieve a similar result. But operators, servers and managers absolutely loathe anything that changes their steps of service. The winning solution will be completely transparent to their current workflow,
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
If this attempt at price discrimination does indeed become popular it will be via digital menus that update their pricing automatically, not via fiddly coupons. We are quite aways away from this still due to hardware costs and the sheer num
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IOS dev wanted to re-invent alcoholic beverage sales
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
Honestly one of the more impenetrable articles I've read lately. Just not very clear or well written. I'm not even entirely sure there is anything news worthy here. Just some dire need on Swisher's part to make a connection between PB and J
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
You kinda did gloss over, well, everything that makes this letter good. The letter is powerful because of how it said what it wanted to say. The examples and imagery are vivid; the message consistent. What you wrote: "The real reason that m
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by jhermsmeyer 14y ago
I have talked to directors of Bay Area charities that tell me that Jobs was a generous donator personally. In fact this just happened 2 weeks ago, and the person defended him vehemently. So there's one anecdotal data point for you.
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
I use Assistly for one of our CS portals and due to sporadic downtime was interested to see what Groove had to offer after reading this post. In terms of marketing, this is exactly what you want to have happen. And after all the talk of mee
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
My goodness. This type of thinking is going to shackle you from ever doing something new and untried. That's the most important lesson you don't learn in college: how to do something completely novel. And it's the most important lesson one
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
So poorly written, I find it hard to take seriously. tl;dr Make fun games, not pretty ones. The problem is that it is never obvious when mechanics make a game great, and when art direction does. See Bioshock for the latter. See something li
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
Those that are driven to make things will be inspired by what the post-pc landscape has to offer, not dissuaded. I don't want to completely discount this short post, but the FUD here seems misplaced. Many more people are being attracted t
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
I agree. If you feel what you have to say is important enough for other people to read, put some time into shining it up, and making it readable. Otherwise you leave yourself open to criticisms like: "If he can't execute on the small things
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
Interference can be a problem, to be sure. But you can't create a successful business without feedback of all kinds, including technical. It's just that it has to be done thoughtfully, with respect for your talent and opinions. You could be
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
You make some solid points. My net-net or tl;dr of it all is this: For anyone you work with to respect you, you must show that you at least have tried to do they work you hired them to do, and done it competently. The longer version: As a
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
My only comment: AeroFS is an objectively horrible name if you ever want wider consumer adoption. Even if you want to cater to the techie slice of the market it's still not ideal. Pretty important to get the name right.
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
It's a great post and I think your/Valves observations about letting designers design are spot on. Thanks for the follow up on your reasons for leaving.
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
Wait, if no one ever leaves Valve then why is Garrett for hire? Would be interesting to see him address that...
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by jhermsmeyer 15y ago
Ironically the meaning of "there’s room for innovation in how businesses measure success and more meaningful definitions of ambition" is not at all obvious. Arab spring and Twitter connection aside, are they going to measure success in rain

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