HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

pilap82

18 karma · joined September 29, 2008

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/pilap82; my proof: https://keybase.io/pilap82/sigs/87SLM6iP7JWBAoXKQAw04c8iJaYZekcIkf-x7o0Xzu4 ]
submissionscomments
pilap82··on Ask HN: Any recommendation for a help authoring tool for my web app?
I wonder why I haven't thought about them... thank you!
pilap82··on Peugeot Bets on a Different Kind of Hybrid Car
I had the same "concern" but they say: The energy stored in the nitrogen tank is small — equivalent to only about five teaspoons, or a couple dozen cubic centimeters, of gasoline

So I guess that the explosion of a tank full of "about five teaspoon" should not wreak too much damage :)

pilap82··on Ask HN: is lean startup applicable to B2B?
I agree with you. But i think that beyond scale and state of mind, one key factor in B2B is the tolerance of the organisation (not only the leader) to change and experiments.

It takes a great deal of leadership to bring everyone on board and convince the naysayers. In my case, on of my customer has ~100 users. the problem is not my stakeholder, but a slice of the 99 other users, who have to deal with the change. Some request additional training, some complain...

With all the good will of the leader, i just fear that he eventually grows tired of fighting for each change, regardless the value brought by such change.

So the question about experiment is maybe more a question of overcoming user resistance (and, in a company, the associated cost).

The reactions to UI changes in Facebook are probably a good indicator that it's a tough battle :)

pilap82··on Heroku is down
it's up sometimes :)

Potential Platform Issues 5m+ We have confirmed widespread errors on the platform. Our engineers are continuing to investigate.

this is the message for Production and Development

pilap82··on Your iPhone calendar isn’t private—at least if you use the LinkedIn app
Looks like they've just pushed an update with "calendar improvements"...
pilap82··on ShareJS – Live concurrent editing in your app
After hitting HN, this could be viewed as a text version of chatroulette… you don't know what you'll find, but it's probably not pretty. :o)
pilap82··on Websomtep: combination SMTP / WebSocket server
Great, I'll watch and collect emails.

Very good to target HN demographics :o)

pilap82··on Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
Open Services Innovation from Henry Chesbrough
pilap82··on Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
Funny! If you need funding you can try to pitch it as "Tower defense meets Angry birds" :)
pilap82··on How would you build this twentywords retweeter?
Twitter just released the data of a few millions tweets... That should give a nice sandbox to see if a sample list would be too easy / hard.