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andrewkkirk

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Entrepreneurial-Minded Marketer.

Spending fulltime learning to program > http://andrewkkirk.com

Previously founded content marketing agency, Face The Buzz > http://facethebuzz.

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It was wrong to subvert security protocols, but this employee was genius if he could spend 1/5 of salary to outsource his job with no one noticing any change in the level of the code being delivered.

There are literally hundreds of companies that should hire this individual to manage an entire team of outsourced developers.

Cool technology, but not what I really want to see as an audience member.

The 3D, transitions, and movement make me too cognizant of technology involved in the presentation, which serves to detract from the presentation content.

Lorem Pixel 14 years ago

Twitter Bootstrap recently Replaced Placehold.it with Holder.js, a client-side and retina-ready placeholder image tool.

@MrDrone - I hear you. And it took me a while to frame the discussion (@PG's email was sent to me on Oct. 16 & post was created Dec. 5).

I wanted to share the experience, because it would be helpful to others and also uplifting that we can make personal connections on the web. However, I was not proud that I was once banned and I didn't want this post to generate backlash from the community at large.

Ultimately, I decided it was a story worth sharing.

The 5$ SaaS 14 years ago

Most of my paid SaaS plans are closer to the $9-$19 dollar per month range.

Examples: Freshbooks, HootSuite, MailChimp, KISSmetrics, Dropbox

Agreed. This technology looks amazing and sweeps you away.

But, when I think about the implementation, I cringe. I don't want video with more info popping-up.

TV is not better because there is a running feed of "breaking news" or a running stock ticker. In the same regard, I don't more info popping up during video.

Thanks to these metrics, I've cracked the HN code:

We should always publish our content on paulgraham.com

That's the takeaway of these metrics, right?

[dead] 14 years ago

"Correlation does not imply causation"

Yes, need problems in order to have innovative problems. With this theory, third world nations with the worst infrastructure would be booming with innovation.

There is so much more required than problems. America drives innovation because of many factors, including standard of living, capitalistic markets, freedom of choice, and access to educational opportunities.