pragmagic

Re:Lamer News on Sunday October 23, 2011 @03:11PM (#3146951)

I have something very similar somewhere in my project graveyard. I never got round to launching but your comment has motivated me a little. I'll see if I can dig it out.

Some lessons I wish I learned earlier in life

Posted by pragmagic on Friday October 14, 2011 @03:45PM
from the resultsjunkies.com dept.

http://www.resultsjunkies.com/blog/some-lessons-i-wish-i-learned-earlier-in-life/

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Re:Ask HN: What can I sell in Times Square? on Sunday September 25, 2011 @04:40AM (#3035415)

Sell experiences.

I'm not sure if you've heard of Joe Ades. He used to sell potato peelers in NY and has been mentioned on HN a few times:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ades

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/nyregion/03ades.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUct4NlxE0

I don't think it really matters what you sell, especially in this case where you just want to improve your sales technique. The main thing is that you sell an experience, not a product.

The Cult of Done Manifesto

Posted by pragmagic on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @02:37PM
from the brepettis.com dept.

http://brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html

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Re:Show HN: visual search web designers on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:11AM (#3017106)

This is potentially very useful. Some quick feedback:

- As PeterMcCanney said, it needs a link for web designers (maybe even interface designers?). It works fine for me in Chrome however (Linux)

- It looks like all the designers are from odesk? Could you open it up to others too?

- Some sort/filter options would be nice. Just something simple like sort by media budget and filter by country

Ripple: test html5 mobile apps in multiple devices

Posted by pragmagic on Monday September 12, 2011 @08:30AM
from the ripple.tinyhippos.com dept.

http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/

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Re:Twitter Bootstrap on Friday August 19, 2011 @04:08PM (#2904704)

Such a shame. That will rule it out for a lot of developers.

For all your designers and front-end developers: there is a real need for something like this. Have a look through the weekendhacker archives and look at how many developers ask for design help. Templates on sites like themeforest are often only suitable for basic crud/admin apps or require so much customisation it's easier to start from scratch. At the other end of the scale you have a variety of frameworks and boilerplates which are great from a technical perspective but do little to help aesthetically challenged developers like me.

What we need is something in between. A library of pre-styled css 'components' that look good and support the most significant browsers. Similar in principle to Nicole Sullivan's OOCSS but with a greater range of visual styles. I'd pay significantly more than the cost of a themeforest template for a component library that managed all the cross browser issues for me and I'm sure others would too.