petervidani

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by petervidani 16y ago
I've worked for David for two years. I can honestly say he is the nicest person I've ever met. Genuinely kind and thoughtful, and wants the best for the site and the people that use it.
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by petervidani 17y ago
Yes. If you're worried about someone else using your startpage, you can make it private in Settings. I'll tell you though, the startpages aren't indexed by any search engines, and personally, this has never been a problem for me.
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by petervidani 17y ago
E-mail addresses are for password recovery, unless you have a safe place for us to send our carrier pigeon to :)
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by petervidani 17y ago
Hey all. I'm the other dev on this site. We were actually pretty surprised to see users sharing their startpages on their blogs and such. At first we didn't really get it; I mean the only reason we made them public was so that you could a
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by petervidani 18y ago
My thought exactly. Who, of all the users on IE, has even heard of a different browser? And then of these users, they decide that IE is still better? Is this like some .001% that I can't find anywhere?
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by petervidani 18y ago
Thinking Strategically is one of my favorites. It spends each chapter analyzing techniques of competition, trend, and innovation. It reads quite easily and offers outside examples ranging from sports, large corporations, and world wars. W
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by petervidani 18y ago
oh yeah I forgot about the part where there was absolutely no conflict in any of the novels
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by petervidani 18y ago
It's essential that you complete Isaac Asimov's I, Robot for a thorough understanding of how badly things can get out of control.
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by petervidani 18y ago
What he's saying, is that beyond our tiny sub culture of internet nerds, the average person won't be leaving SMS any time soon. The mainstream market has started getting used to that medium in the last few years and has no intention of usi
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by petervidani 18y ago
You make a homepage (it's easy) with your bookmarks, and then you get notified on the homepage when a link has an update.
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by petervidani 18y ago
I run a homepage manager with my friend and we look at 2 very concrete statistics: signups and clicks (on the homepages). We wanted to see if we could increase our adoption rate, so we revamped our splash page. We pushed it live just earlie
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We're trying out a splash page.(phome.us)
4 points by petervidani 18y ago|10 comments
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by petervidani 18y ago
There's Hollywood films and then there's 60-second Youtube spots. Both formats can reach a million people, easy.
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by petervidani 18y ago
Awesome, I love to see developers using some of their time for the small stuff like this. Let's just be glad it doesn't distribute independent music. Nice work, it looks really clean.
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by petervidani 18y ago
Who's to say that your personal criticism couldn't be compared to the same criticism many companies began receiving in the 90's when they moved the sale of their products to the internet? Remember that the internet is still so young, and i
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by petervidani 18y ago
My personal favorite comes from designer Philippe Starck: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197 Very inspiration for designers and engineers alike.
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by petervidani 18y ago
I think that if a friend really wanted to suggest a request to me, I'd rather see it in a more personal medium. Otherwise, why haven't I already thought to add them?
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by petervidani 18y ago
I agree. I think, like it's been said, that 37Signals is a special case. I believe in the field we all work in, it is wise to assume a graphic mockup as a step in the progress and then carefully decide whether or not it's a neutral step b
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by petervidani 18y ago
I could maybe see this argument holding up a few years prior, but I think CS3 has had a remarkable influence on my workflow (compared to say, CS2). Having run the last 2 versions on the same Intel machine, there was immediate differences t
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Why We Don't Skip Photoshop(jeffcroft.com)
59 points by petervidani 18y ago|36 comments
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by petervidani 18y ago
eBay is still much more than an auctioning service. It's a lightweight platform for anyone-- store owner or housewife-- to sell absolutely anything. The structure itself is fine, it's the community that's been poisoned. eBay needs strict
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by petervidani 18y ago
The reasoning behind the separation in these steps is for 2 reasons: To save time on both halves. That is, the designer is designing his/her piece without worry of the difficulty, and the programmer is designing the framework without worry