Hacker News: jaybobzin

New comment by jaybobzin in "I don't code. Here's my project: Notepeep.com"

jaybobzin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:00:02 +0000

Nice work mathewsi. This is exactly what I would want to see out of a "business" guy with an idea. Do what you can, evangelize your idea.

Definitely one of the better ways to inspire a developer. And, as a developer, we're also better able to understand what the site COULD be than the average person you're showing it to. Bravo, keep at it!

Ask HN: (Audio)book recommendations / community

jaybobzin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:03:41 +0000

I've got a new credit to spend on Audible, and I was thinking of asking people for recommendations. I realized, all the people I wanted to ask were HNers. Then, I thought, HN would actually be the exact community I would want to turn to for book recommendations.

I'm curious if an HN book community exists anywhere? If not, would people be interested in one? Know of any other communities with a similar center of gravity of systems design and small business?

Also, please actually suggest a good audiobook if you've got one in mind that's outside the mainstream that a HN minded person would enjoy.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647547

Points: 1

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New comment by jaybobzin in "Google Kills Wave"

jaybobzin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:06:33 +0000

The sad thing here is that Google did the polite thing, and turned off email notifications by default. It actually took some searching to figure out how to turn it on.

Contrast this with Buzz, where they dropped it right in the middle of your inbox. Quite the opposite strategy.

I suppose the solution I favor is to ask the user if they want notifications when they sign up. Or at the very least making it very obvious how to turn on notifications if you want them.

The notification messages were also not very well thought out, it was often confusing what had changed, requiring you to log in to Wave just to read a new message that could have easily been read via email.

New comment by jaybobzin in "Coding Gracefully (RE: Beautiful Code)"

jaybobzin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:41:23 +0000

Took this down to clean some things up.

Coding Gracefully (RE: Beautiful Code)

jaybobzin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:52:22 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jaybobzin.com/coding-gracefully

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111078

Points: 4

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