evanjacobs

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Software developer/manager and entrepreneur.

Currently managing a team in AWS S3 Insights.

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Comment · 8 months ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
My first car was also a 914 that the father of a friend of mine had sitting in his garage. The transmission was shot (no first gear) and the suspension had given out but I bought it anyway for $800 and put about $2000 into fixing it.

It was a really fun car to drive although it also shared many of the same quirks as mentioned in this story.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
"I don’t recommend writing a press release at the start of your project, especially one like that."

So even though Doom was wildly successful and (according to Romero) was the most ambitious game development effort before or since, he doesn't advocate that others follow that path?

It's likely that the team worked so hard and achieved such success at least in part to the fact that they had a very clear goal for what they wanted to achieve and that they had publicly announced this goal.

Interestingly, writing a Press Release is the very first step of the "Working Backwards" product development process at Amazon and it is mandatory part of introducing any new product.

Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
I would have liked to see Twitter become the product that Slack is now for many people: great direct message and group message capabilities, fun interface, great API for enabling bot integration, etc.
Comment · 10 years ago
"why should they know about something so far outisde their specialty"
Comment · 10 years ago
There will continue to be lots of examples of preserving the best of analog technology in the digital world.

One example is an app that I built that lets authors sign ebooks (Authorgraph: http://www.authorgraph.com). This idea was a result of doing more and more reading on my Kindle but missing the experience of meeting authors and having them sign my books.

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
This reminds me of a story I heard as a kid while listening to a baseball game on the radio.

During a game one night, one of the non-starting pitchers was bored in the dugout and started doodling on the baseballs that would be periodically brought out to the umpire (to replace balls that are hit out of play or that are scuffed on the dirt). He happened to know that it was the home plate umpire's birthday that day and so on one ball he wrote "Happy Birthday Dave" (or whatever the umpire's name was). At one point, that ball was brought out to the umpire by the bat boy along with a few other balls and was put into play by the umpire who didn't notice the inscription.

The batter happened to hit that ball foul into the stands where it was caught by a guy named Dave who was also celebrating his birthday that day.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Yep, they mention that it is waterproof in one of the videos on the site. That probably means "splash proof" rather than "submersion proof" however.

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