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vpdnon My company: 5 months work from home, one month work in a 5 star hotel

I wonder what kind of business generates 40k a month with three people remotely scattered around the globe. Sounds like a pretty awesome model. Care to share?

vpdnon All you need are 1,000 true fans

"...the point of this strategy is to say that you don't need a hit to survive. You don't need to aim for the short head of best-sellerdom to escape the long tail. There is a place in the middle, that is not very far away from the tail, where you can at least make a living [..] It's a much saner destination to hope for."

vpdnon Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations

Another reason this could happen: Your friends have allowed facebook to scan their accounts and facebook remembered that your friend sent you an email before to the address you're now using to sign up. No scanning of your account required.

I'm pretty sure they do save email data of non registered "users" because I was invited to facebook a few times. There was nothing strange on the first invite, but every consecutive invite had other additional friends of mine, who are too "waiting for me" to join.

vpdnon Evidence Based Scheduling

This post is a bit old, but still one of my favourites. Way too many projects are planned this way: http://twitpic.com/tsb9f

Has anyone tried Joel's approach in their own project? Would love to hear how well it works in real life.

In a current project, we're again struggeling with an unrealistic schedule, combined with an 'agile', iterative approach where all product features are fixed in a 3000 pages long specification.

vpdnon Ask HN: Moving balls to the wall on a fantastic idea?

This is only true if you have

a) a cure for cancer b) a solution for world peace

For any other idea, there's execution.

vpdnon NeXT logo by Paul Rand - Interview with Steve Jobs

Here's a good interview with Paul Rand where he talks about his design decisions and reflects on the value of his own trade:

"I've been thinking about this for many years [..] I concluded that we are not very important."

"A good designer who understands his business can make things memorable, make them easy to recall and improve the general quality of life, which is the only reason for our existence."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta4ef1xBeMA

Great designers leave their ego at home and build things for a purpose. Or how Paul Rand put's it: "Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good."