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QuantumCUBE (( by Surrogate Self ))
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“Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made. However, to make good software, requires lots of thought, trial and error, evaluation, iteration, trying the ideas out on other users, learning, thinking, more trial and error, and on and on. At some point you say it ain’t perfect, but it’s useful, so let’s ship. That process, if the software is to be any good, doesn’t happen in 24 hours. Sometimes it takes years, if the idea is new enough.” —
Instead of doing a hackathon, do a regularly scheduled Code Jam. Get a bunch of developers together to show each other what new idea they have and for that day do something on that new idea in 24 hour. For a hackathon, this stop when the event stop. With a Code Jam, get together again in 1 or 2 week and show the same people again what progress you have made and what problem you solved during that period. Do this regularly, and keep progressing on the idea, or work with a new idea. This kind of event would be great for a platform because people can deliver a real finished product and build the knowledge together.
Dailysocial brought this up, whether Android user should be concerned about contact list abuse. The problem with asking permission first when installing the apps, like Android did, is that most people will just plainly ignore the written text and install the apps anyway. Just like nobody ever read a text put into Setup Wizard on Windows.
The correct way, I think, to handle permission is to asked it when the data is accessed, the way location services on iOS handle it. Because user will be more aware about what kind of permission the application is asking and can respond to it right then and there.
“Apapun persepsi kita atas cinta, tak ada salahnya bersiap untuk senantiasa berubah. Jika hidup ini cair maka wadah hanyalah cara kita untuk memahami yang tak terpahami. Banyak cara untuk mewadahi air, finit mencoba merangkul infinit, tapi wadah bukan segalanya. Pelajaran yang dikandungnyalah yang tak berbatas dan selamanya tak bertuan, yang satu saat menghanyutkan dan melumerkan carik-carik selebaran yang kita puja. Siap tak siap, rela tak rela.” — Dee Idea: Cinta Tak Bertuan
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What Joel Spolsky wrote on http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-joel-spolsky.html I think is applicable to all company. The point that needed to be paid attention is
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We mistake dumb luck for a machine that produces success. We rely on induction when we should rely on deduction, and then, having realized our mistake, we lean on “data-driven decisions” in lieu of common sense. We chase patterns that aren’t there and miss eager markets right in front of us. All this while projecting the confidence, real or manufactured, that’s necessary to play the game.
I don’t know what makes a good business. It seems like it helps to have a good idea, great people, the willingness to work hard, and an absolute shit-ton of luck. Being certain about much beyond that seems, well, a bit crazy to me.
” —Alex Payne — On Business Madness
I’m not a business person too, but all in all, working harder and smarter from everyone else always brings the best result.
“Adele is not rock-’n’-roll. She is not self-consciously retro. She does not shimmy or shake. Hers is a plant-the-feet-and-belt delivery that has all but disappeared from the pop landscape. It should be deeply uncool. And yet, there is something startlingly refreshing about her youthful elegance and commanding presence—especially because she is a 23-year-old Cockney girl from Tottenham.”
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