kromodor

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by kromodor 12y ago
Hello, It looks good as a style. I like that. I think the style fits the audience. But I am a sucky graphic designer. However it's not immediately known that what you offer is a book (at least in the medium of a book). If people visit
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by kromodor 12y ago
Thank you good Sir for sparing the time to give feedback!
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Ask HN: If you are going to outsource web, what will you look for in a company?
1 points by kromodor 12y ago|2 comments
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by kromodor 12y ago
In a way it leaves the impression that they know it. They put the export option there.
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by kromodor 12y ago
There are days in which I ponder what made LinkedIn a success. It was obviously not their UX.
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by kromodor 12y ago
Design: paper; mockup app; .psd; html; whiteboard Docs: github wiki; word docs (for smaller pieces) There are too many tools. One can drown in tools and still not do anything. We try to keep as simple as possible, until it is not enough. Th
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by kromodor 12y ago
Long term probably. I've read tents of studies on the topic and books on similar topic. Junk food has long term effects, non of which are good. They can affect various things, some of which, directly or indirectly, affect higher order
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by kromodor 12y ago
Unfortunately there is a psychological barrier that people must pass before having the understanding of their lack of experience and the need to face reality. Only informing them about this, in some cases, is not enough. It would really be
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by kromodor 12y ago
This man speaks wise. It will inevitably take A LOT OF work to do one campaign than most people anticipate. Don't underestimate the work of promoting and handling it.
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by kromodor 12y ago
I have no experience with this, but a few of my current colleagues have similar experience with their former manager. He didn't fake it, but had unrealistic vision of how things are working irl, thus were hyping them constantly. Millio
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by kromodor 12y ago
In terms of search engine services. Probably won't suffer much. Will be over bing. It gives satisfying results and is (still) not much saturated by ads. Over google maps will be tougher as bing maps are not that much developer in this
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by kromodor 12y ago
I am personally getting it from: * /r/science (reddit) * richard dawkins foundation (although there is much crap news there) * Discover magazine rss * Scientific american rss * Ars Technica (not science but they are pretty deep an
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by kromodor 12y ago
$10k? This is too much. You can train yourself to induce OOB experience (as lucid dreaming) and have experience in first hand. Without paying anything.
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by kromodor 12y ago
- Solving logical problems - Sorting things out - Gaining understanding in things - Working together with others, as a coordinated team Both are not limited to certain industry or area. For me is rather simple, but it took me a lot of time
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by kromodor 12y ago
I use excel, due the fact we issue invoices few times a month (agency). http://theanchorapp.com/ - this is a self-hosted free app. (not affiliated)
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by kromodor 12y ago
Depends on the idea. If the idea is based on real world data, strong feedback and statistics - then, why not. Otherwise is a complete zero. I personally have ideas for 10 lifetimes of work and that is just the top which I don't scrape
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by kromodor 12y ago
I have this "travel" setup of a: - Omni 10 HP tablet (mid-class) - Bluetooth KBD - Pen You can really do some work in various of places. I personally write a lot, thus it helps. Not to mention it can open all websites without a pr
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by kromodor 12y ago
This started into a realm I had some knowledge and ended into a realm with zero knowledge from my part. I can't help with cracking the reader. Keep in mind, while it has a benefit of not reflecting sun light with a glare, it still is n
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by kromodor 12y ago
Works for me. Yet I also start with a lot of questions. We've tried something similar with one of our sites for digital marketing advice. Yet, maybe because of our delivery, but we didn't provoke engagement.
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Survivorship bias and how it affects your Startup(blog.hobbyearth.com)
3 points by kromodor 12y ago|0 comments
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by kromodor 12y ago
This! also, we've had clients who wanted to know the payments so they can budget accordingly i.e. send them the invoices, but they might not be prepared to pay all 3 of them at once.
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by kromodor 12y ago
When I was younger and didn't had models of the world, my fist one was one of a workaholic - 10+ hours per day in the office; working weekdays. Everyone around me was following this model, so naturally, I thought the normal way is this
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by kromodor 12y ago
A great community = high engagement; quality contributed content; friendly and mature audience I really hope the conversion ratio will be good. FB is a distraction built social network, where people are constantly bombarded with useless inf
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by kromodor 12y ago
Considering it doesn't crash or having game-breaking bugs - ship this bi*ch. As to the time - depends on the situation. The more severe, annoying or disabling the bug, the more rapid solutions one must apply. I personally, can't g
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by kromodor 12y ago
When I read GURU, I automatically add "scam" to it. It is biased of course, yet my past experience made me very wary of "gurus".
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by kromodor 12y ago
Every big software company knows how this thing works and usually they respect their developers. (By every I mean every major I have information about, which is rather not every.) It depends on the purpose and type of software you are inter
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by kromodor 12y ago
I see your point, Sir. I have similar feelings about the fake motivational success crap. Yes indeed - 99% of those are written by people on payroll who are not actually an example of financial independence. It is in the nature of humans to
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by kromodor 12y ago
I vote for quality, clarity and objectivity, regardless of match to my opinion. Unfortunately sometimes the first come - first claim creates biases as you might have something very good to say, but I starts with 1, far below the other numbe
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by kromodor 12y ago
I am not sure if this fits but recent "close this window" = you like something on FB and until you see it and delete it, some of your friends follow the link. The link, of course, is especially designed to capture attention using
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by kromodor 12y ago
Show a portfolio or have a credible referral. Usually skill does not go unnoticed when you work with people.

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