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josh33

263 karma · joined May 25, 2009

Love product management, physics, and music
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josh33··on How Trello is different
That was transcendent. That's going in my bookmark bar as something I watch regularly. Thanks!
josh33··on List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations
Yes, but many are not members of congress currently - Romney and Gingrich being 2 specifically.
josh33··on Abstraction makes us stupid at business
Have any good ideas you don't have the time/energy/desire to capitalize on? :-)
josh33··on The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
Each of the following words opens up the door for semantic debate: "Maximizing" - when? In the short term or long term? "Shareholder" - who? People who own actual shares or the broader definition of stakeholders who have a vested interest in the company (employees, the community around the business, owners, etc.)? "Value" - what? Dollar value? Happiness? Customer satisfaction? Employee satisfaction?
josh33··on Billions worth of value created by tech startups with designer co-founders?
Have you seen what you're describing work in a company with multiple software products and more thank 20 people?
josh33··on PHP Fog is Free Forever, and Now Even More Free
I'll be switching from bluehost shortly and paying soon. Thanks!
josh33··on Apple Approves Tethering App For the iPhone
Once a year? Let me guess: Trade Show
josh33··on Show HN: myBalsamiq, the web app version of Balsamiq Mockups
I have a department of 10 project managers who report to me. They all have balsamic licenses and use them regularly. It is out method of choice or communicating interface requirements to our development teams in India and has saves us many times. We now have a 5 full-time UX resources who do more Photoshop interface work, but we still get solid mileage out of your product. Thanks! I'll check this new web app out.
josh33··on Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
I disagree with one point. Priority Inbox tells me which email subjects to skim and which to open every time. For the few important emails that make it into the non-important bucket, skimming the subjects always brings them out. However, EVERY email in my important inbox is important (I haven't had to mark one as unimportant for months). When I sit down to go through email (2-3 times a day) I read everything in the priority inbox because I trust that.
josh33··on Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
I wouldn't change a thing. This is awesome. I will be using this to consistently improve my language. With the amount of content I read online, improving a skill at the same time is an added bonus that I think is awesome. Curious how you will monetize.
josh33··on We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future
This is absolutely right. Average personal savings rates in India and China: 30% and 50% (and that's of their gross income). Average personal savings in the USofA: -2%. We've lived so far beyond our means that it had to catch up to us.

The real scare for me is the potential for another, larger bubble: the "Credit Bubble". A bubble exists when asset price inflation rises beyond what incomes can sustain. A bubble represents people abandoning reason and prudence for hope and greed. (http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-15-bubbles)

The Credit Bubble will pop when the sum total of all of our society's debt prices (read: interest) exceeds our ability to pay. Experts think this could happen anywhere between 2015 and 2020. When that pops, the housing bubble will look minuscule.

The prudent should prepare now. Buy food storage. Become self reliant. And get out of debt!

josh33··on [dead]
A democracy is mob rule where minorities can't win unless they persuade the majority. A republic (we're a democratic republic) elects a moral governing body (congress) to make informed moral decisions. Only part f their decisions are based on the whims of the public. In theory, the rest should be based on expert witnesses from all sides of any issue (hence why people testify in congress). This allows for immoral majorities to be shut down and vice versa.
josh33··on Ask YC: How do you deal with accounting/taxes/book keeping?
Outright.com
josh33··on WakeMate 2.0 - For Real, This Time.
And sleepcycle
josh33··on Hacked Gmail Account
Google voice. It was a little "Inception"-like to set up but has worked flawlessly for me. As long as you take a mobile device with you that is authenticated and you have wifi access you're golden.
josh33··on Why a Startup is Like a Science Experiment
The difference is, if you control all of the other variables in an experiment, you can always predict the outcome after you've proven the hypothesis in a science experiment. However, market behaviors change over time and so the experiment can never control enough variables to be right 100% of the time. That's why I like the business world. Change is fun!
josh33··on If average salaries are 80-100k why does everyone keep getting 40-60k offers?
Industry is important. Pick an industry that actually has money to pay for software. Not all industries are equal.
josh33··on If average salaries are 80-100k why does everyone keep getting 40-60k offers?
I interview quite a bit (hire about 2 people per month to my department) and I always ask where their compensation is currently at (or if they are unemployed, where it was at). This is one of the more important questions I ask because it is usually obvious when someone is lying and it helps me understand how this person's previous employer valued them. As an employer, I want to know they were an asset.

Yes, someone could lie. People lie all of the time. One of my jobs is to feel that out. I screen for integrity. I look for any hint of lying, even if they are joking. You can always tell someone with integrity from someone without it. And we want to work with people of integrity.

josh33··on Show HN: weekend project, +10 Charm. Where should you eat next?
Are you really using my photos to make this decision?
josh33··on Run iPhone Apps Directly From Your Browser With Pieceable Viewer
I have needed this product for months now to demo my company's app for prospective buyers. This will allow our technical sales force (who are on PC's) to share this via GoToMeeting with prospects (we're a B2B in a very relationship-driven industry).
josh33··on MacRuby & Xcode 4: Build a Self-Contained MacRuby Application
Jared Brown, why are you linking to your own site, which only links to the actual article you list in your listing?
josh33··on Pure browser qrcode generation as simple as $('#contain').qrcode('foobar')
Could this be used from an iOS application or is there a better self-contained library for iOS?
josh33··on JRumble: A jQuery Plugin That Rumbles Elements
This is actually a great way to teach someone about mouse states.
josh33··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player
Is an iPhone app against the iOS T's&C's?
josh33··on Parody Color Pitch Deck
It's time's like these I refer back to my favorite HackerNews comment of all time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133161
josh33··on Subject: Airbnb
Seriously, AirBNB should post this comment on the front page of their "List Your Space" page. This is a great value statement.
josh33··on Show HN: My collection of web-apps that I'm finally comfortable in sharing
Man, that excel sheet was so good I'm ashamed of mine. Great work all around. I'm loving Cash Flow so far. QuickenOnline used to have a similar feature, but this is way better. I use "You Need A Budget" to plan and budget, but Cash Flow is way better at forecasting.
josh33··on Show HN: My collection of web-apps that I'm finally comfortable in sharing
You won't want to use "bi-weekly" as it can mean two things: twice-a-week, or every-other week. I don't think you need anything like this since your frequency column makes it very flexible. The term that would be correct is "fort-nightly", although I wouldn't use that either.
josh33··on Bottom just fell out of Nikkei
Careful. Japan's debt level, when compared to GDP, is higher than US: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/03/sovereig...
josh33··on In-N-Out Secret Menu Survival Guide
Didn't realize that animal style including cooking the mustard into the patty
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