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The new job board from 37Signals would be a good start: https://weworkremotely.com/ They've been beating this drum for a long time now.

Austin Kleon writes about this a lot, though he calls it chain smoking: http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/39051813256

"Instead of taking a break in between projects and worrying about what’s next, use the end of one project to light up the next one."

There's a company in Austin called Mutual Mobile that got its start in 2009 with a similar app called Hangtime: http://www.texastechpulse.com/interview_with_john_arrow,_mut... They're now 300+ people and build mobile apps for enterprise clients.

So...CarrotPop is off to a good start I guess.

Hey Zynga people, we're based in Austin and hiring for front-end. And our culture is pretty much the anti-Zynga: bootstrapped, slow growth, sane hours, no deadlines, strong design focus, and respect for our team and our customers.

Let's get coffee at the downtown Medici: http://www.paperlesspipeline.com/jobs

Intercom is a company specifically focused on user visualization, communication, and engagement. Worth noting for anyone interested in this product who isn't a current Mixpanel user.

https://www.intercom.io/

Paperless Pipeline - Full-time, Remote - Front-end Designer & Developer

We are a small, boostrapped, profitable, and growing company behind the most friendly real estate transaction software on the market.

We are looking for someone to join our team on a full-time, contract basis to lead front-end design and user experience. Our team currently lives in Austin, Chicago, and New York. You can live and work anywhere.

You code clean. You follow best practices. You comment key areas of your code. You meticulously test for cross-browser compatibility. You have a talent (and obsession) with writing highly responsive, speedy code. You take pride in what you've written, but can set your pride aside when it’s time to debug.

You have a pixel-perfect eye for design, or at least you think you do :). When looking for the color gray, you nudge left and right on your RGB scale until you find the perfect shade. You understand and can implement fluid, grid, and responsive designs. You're not afraid of retina screens, because it doesn't really change the way you design things anyway.

We work from anywhere and believe in your ability to manage your own schedule. This is a contract position that pays competitive rates. If you need to upgrade your gear, we'll pay for it. If you're interested in a coworking space outside the home, we'll pay for that too.

Sound interesting? Learn more at http://www.paperlesspipeline.com/jobs

What classes or groups would you want to see in this space?

I'm guessing many of the existing tech oriented groups (Austin on Rails, Austin.rb, et al) will start meeting there. Many of these groups already met at the OtherInbox offices on the 8th floor. OIB is moving up to this new space—so it's natural that those groups will move up as well.

There are also several (albeit more business-focused) groups like Refresh Austin and Lean Startup Circle that have held meetings at Buffalo Billiards. That space is not really conducive to meetings of any sort (it's loud, dirty, and has few outlets) so I'm guessing those groups will move two blocks to the new space as well.

You are on your own for parking...but there are lots near the Omni available for rent starting around $50 / mo. I believe most of the people working there now rent spaces in the St David's lot a couple blocks away. I personally live downtown and so I'll walk or ride my bike there.

I just got a tour of the space...and I think it's going to be a great thing for Austin startups. The startup scene here has been fragmented over the past few years, with little pockets across the city in smaller coworking places, creative spaces like 501 Studios, and smaller offices in downtown buildings like the Omni. I think this space will really bring people together and gel the Austin community in a way that hasn't happened before.

It occupies the entire 16th floor of the Omni, which is right in the heart of downtown. It's also just a few blocks from the Austin Convention Center where they host SXSW. Right now there are 60 dedicated desks and room for another 100 people for general coworking—and they have plans to expand to about 250 people total when they're fully up to speed.

I'm going to start there on Monday. If anyone has questions or is interested in seeing the space, feel free to get in touch.

I agree that an explanation would be an interesting glimpse into the designer's process. However, the author clearly put more thought into this than simply "rearranging elements around a page."

The "Quickstart" link was removed, a menu was created below the main graphic with various uses described, applications (and their practicality) were featured much more clearly than in the previous design. All the changes I noticed seemed thoughtful and intentional, both from a design as well as a marketing perspective.

So sure, an explanation would certainly add to the post and spur more discussion. However, the author has demonstrated that they know what they're doing and should be spared a lecture on what design is or isn't.

This isn't an either / or decision for a company. It makes sense to create a net if you're early in the lifecycle of a company or product—before it's reached product/market fit. Once a startup has reached product/market fit, however, creating a funnel and A/B testing the hell out of it is probably a good idea.

To use an example from your post, now that you know what people are looking for (and how they're behaving) on your paystub page, you can begin to tweak the design, layout, and flow of that page to optimize whatever it is you want to optimize.

With the above in mind, "make a net, not a funnel" is another way of saying "don't optimize prematurely".

Why show the second figure to the user? They don't need to see the calculation you made to determine the sort.

Just sort the objects in the order determined by this formula and only show the ratings given by users in the interface.

That was the author's assumption, but it's not correct. iMessage requires both the sender and the recipient to have compatible devices with iMessage enabled.

Even putting your iPhone in Airplane Mode will cause you to receive all your text messages via SMS rather than iMessage.

The author had already disabled cell service on the iPhone, which is why disabling WiFi should be a sufficient alternative to stop the phone from receiving iMessages.

I believe the author can just turn off iMessage on the iPhone and it'll solve the problem. In fact, simply turning off the WiFi is probably enough as well.

In other words, this issue only occurs when a user switches away from iPhone as their primary phone but continues to use the iPhone for other purposes.

I use Notifio. And while it still works, it's no longer being worked on and will probably stop working soon.

I agree. Whenever I defend Foursquare to non-users, I use the "friends sometimes come meet me" explanation.

Forecast solves this in a more practical way by providing my friends advanced notice. If I had to choose between the two - I'd much rather keep Forecast.

I think LessAccounting may have beat you to that particular line of branding: http://lessaccounting.com/

I actually use Evernote for this all the time: I have a note with a list of new acquaintances along with descriptions and how we know one another. Like:

  Becky: Friend of Kellie, works at UT. Likes chicken n' waffles.
  At Nau's: Omar is young. Lulu is young. Gilbert is older.

While this method is far from ideal, I don't see Evernote Hello replacing my list anytime soon.

Path, Stripe, Lemon, Outright, Hall.com (Hacker News user) et al.

This is the goal of OpenVBX. It's not as simple as a few clicks, but it is as simple as Wordpress.org circa 2006.

The original Basecamp isn't going anywhere, so those 6000-ish employees won't be out a thing. They'll just need to advance a few IT years to be able to use Basecamp Next.

From the article:

"We know it’s not always easy to upgrade your browser (or force an upgrade on a client), but we believe it’s necessary to offer the best Basecamp we can possibly make. In addition, we’re not going to move the requirements on Basecamp Classic, so that’ll continue to work for people who are unable to use a modern browser."

I thought SEOmoz and Ginzametrics were almost direct competitors.

Does anyone know why you would use Ginzametrics over simply signing up for SEOmoz directly and using that to track SEO progress?

I'd be pretty mad if my friends and neighbors were taking five-gallon buckets of my water, bringing it to an Aquafina factory, and then an Aquafina sales rep was ringing my doorbell trying to sell me $3 bottles of water.

The Alamo Drafthouse in Houston was a franchise location and not run by the same owners. In the past year or two, however, the parent company purchased the franchise locations outright and shut down the franchisee concept.

My guess is Houston will be looking up...

The impact of this article rests with this sentence:

"Try 26.1% – more than five times what you probably thought the significance level was."

That is, if you peek after every observation and stop as soon as you reach 5% significance, there's actually a 26% chance the results are not significant. But that doesn't mean there's a 26% chance the other option is significantly better—just that there's a 26% chance neither is statistically better.

And for most startups, I think that's a fine compromise.

Sometimes I'll launch a new design and test just to make sure it's not terribly worse. If it reaches statistical significance (even if I "peek") then I'm cool with the new design and will make the switch.

And I'll continue to test and tweak the new design immediately after finishing the previous test. The time saved from my lazy statistics means we can move much more quickly.

If we had thousands of "conversions" a day, then it would make sense to be deliberate with our testing methods. But we don't, we have tens of conversions per day. And we can improve much faster using half-assed split-tests and intuition.

Paravel's jQuery plugins that make text and video flexible and responsive are definitely worthy of inclusion:

Lettering.js: http://letteringjs.com/

FitText: http://fittextjs.com/

FitVids.js: http://fitvidsjs.com/

The fact that a product built six years ago is still relevant and effective is testament to just how fantastic their original decisions were.

Path released a dramatically new version of their app on Tuesday: http://blog.path.com/post/13533662902/introducing-path-2-the...

This passage alone was worth the read:

I decided I would offer to write them up on my customer-focused blog in return for a tour of their facility and a short interview. It gave me blog content, a personal chance to add customers, and a way to learn a lot about my prospects. It gave them some traffic, a relevant link, and a blog mention they could point to for social proof.

He contacted people only after doing research and asked if they wanted to be featured on his blog. He gave value first and built connections. This isn't a story about cold calling so much as a story about how relationships, and by extension business, work.