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paolomaffei··on Ask HN: Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?
It's just a part of the "will the company survive" question.

How they behave is another part, competition is another, product quality is yet another... is you're doing great on these 3 and have much more sales than you can manage, why bother with a new website?

paolomaffei··on The frequent fliers who flew too much
Very good point, I was also pretty freaked out by this bit
paolomaffei··on Inflection point: Kickstarter has 3 $1M+ project in 2 weeks
Let me get this straight: can you fund a startup with Kickstarter or not?

I used to think yes but the in the interview someone from their team (?) says no.

paolomaffei··on Hacking Hacker News
Is there any technical difficulty in implementing an overbar on the content to vote the content up or down?

Just like you can do on Reddit.

paolomaffei··on Inbound.org: Community-curated Marketing News
Very good! Two questions

1) How did you build this? Some pre-made system or not?

2) Is there a list of more specific communities like this? Examples: entrepreneurship only, selling only, consulting only.

paolomaffei··on Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
It got first link on front page of reddit BECAUSE he was distributing this way.

This won't happen the next times if this method of distribution becomes the norm.

paolomaffei··on 24 x 7 phone support for all issues and all business customers (Google Apps)
Does this work if you only wait till you have a problem to upgrade to the paid Google Apps version?
paolomaffei··on Introducing Asana: The Modern Way to Work Together
Anyone else using http://www.thymer.com ? Super easy 2d (team members and projects) task list!

Any feature comparison?

paolomaffei··on Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Any good alternatives so?
paolomaffei··on Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets
I fell like I lack a lot of broad context, even after reading all the comments.

Can anyone point me to resources explaining what is going on?

paolomaffei··on Two amusing side channel attacks
yes but HOW?
paolomaffei··on Amit Gupta needs you
Isn't this a bit selfish?
paolomaffei··on Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone
Has anyone tried creating a new account with a phone number they already have on their main FB account to see if this works always?
paolomaffei··on I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
Remember that you connect the dots in retrospect, you can't do it now

[1] I think you know what speech I am refering to.

paolomaffei··on Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
one thing i didnt understand.. this fire thingy has an eink display or not? and what about the digital library of books someone was talking about?
paolomaffei··on Asking for accessibility gets you nothing but grief.
"# Google (for the search engine) – Google Instant crashes Jaws, and the current “solution” is to have a link to turn Instant off. Except it only works for a single pageview at a time, ARRRRGH)."

How is this Google and not Jaws fault?

paolomaffei··on United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
2) I'm pretty sure Western Europe is fine with Russia without US intervention, thanks.
paolomaffei··on [dead]
You forgot a "May" in your title. Please.
paolomaffei··on Noah Kagan and the Faceless Bitch slide
To me this sounds like a delirious rambling about someone who is embarassed to have thrown hot sauce on some people.

I don't know who Noah Kagan is.

paolomaffei··on Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships
This guy clearly never had a company.

We do not pay our interns and still lose money in the process if we don't hire them after because we have lost too much time not just training but also fixing errors people at their first experience will do.

Nevertheless we still invest on internships because that's the only way to snap good talent just out of university.

So please, stop the bullshit. Yeah, and downvote away.

paolomaffei··on Loopt Tries a Groupon in Reverse
This is wrong on so many levels.

The first one is that as a business you are supposed to use deals to bring in new customers, not to let the ones that already know you have a discount

The second one is how it'll be marketed to business owners, I understand that a fool is easily parted with this money but this is borderline stupid

paolomaffei··on Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
"A hash function is any well-defined procedure or mathematical function that converts a large, possibly variable-sized amount of data into a small datum"

Hashify is not really a hash, is it?

paolomaffei··on Unexpected physics engine stability joy
Why are you green?
paolomaffei··on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
how do you know when he'll be done?
paolomaffei··on Ask HN: Recommendations on Learning Photoshop?
themeforest: no, no, no!!

I've made the mistake of using those for some clients sites on a budget. Like 7 of them, so a good sample.

Can you believe on average the bugs in those themes actually made us waste more time than building our own?

WPMU Dev themes also have a low quality level (one didn't even validate...).

I don't know about woothemes or elegantthemes, they might have a good quality and support but there are too much of them around and looking exactly like a site I've already seen is a bad thing in my book.

paolomaffei··on Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?
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paolomaffei··on More screen is better for productivity, studies show
I have a 30' which is digitally split in 4 windows with my 13' MBP on the right below side. This means I get 5 nearly identical 1280x800 screens.

With this big screen I need to have my browser default zoom at 125% (which means 1024 in width which is exactly fine for browsing the web)

I really feel how it's slower to do things with just one window (the MBP one), especially developing.

paolomaffei··on Pick a number from 1 to 10
I hit 5 because it was in the center, I only wanted to see what was next - not choosing a number
paolomaffei··on Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme
The problem with full disclosure is always scriptkiddies a la blackhatworld who'll try to do the same
paolomaffei··on Web developer will work for you for free
I believe it is called an "internship"
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