István Ignácz

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A few weeks ago @napszemuvegbe posted a tool that uses the Tumblr API to scrape blogs it deems to be Hungarian ones, and then convert the result using graphviz to image files.

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New support for Node.js debuggability landed in Node.js master in May. You can see it in action in the DevTools Google I/O talk. Or you can try it out yourself, right now. Let’s go… The node-nightly package automates downloading the nightly.

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Your data model has started to stabilize and you're in a position to create a public API for your web app. You realize it's hard to make significant changes to your API once it's released and want to get as much right as possible up front. Now, the internet has no shortage on opinions on API design.

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I created isitbrunchtimeyet.com a few years ago as a joke[1]. It has since been used mostly as a funny and/or slightly passive aggressive way to ask people to brunch. When I created it I arbitrarily set the brunch time to be 10:15am to 11:45am.

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The goal of interviewing users is to learn about everything that might influence how the users might use what you’re creating. Good interviewing is a skill you develop with practice. The great myth is that you need to be a good talker. Conducting a good interview is actually about shutting up.

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There are so many features you may want to add to your product, but there never seems to be enough time, am I right? Product management for startups is still an open issue. Why is that? There are at least two reasons to explain it: 2. It’s difficult to identify when to add those features.

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(For more on Customer Discovery, take a look at my book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development.

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Product management is one of the hardest jobs to define in any organization, partially because it’s different in every company. I’ve had several recent conversations about “what is a product manager?” with friends who are taking their first product jobs or advancing in their product careers.

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Marketers in the high-tech world who use phrases such as “social media marketing,” “Facebook marketing” and “content marketing” do not understand the basic difference between marketing strategies, marketing channels and marketing content. And Google Analytics is to blame.

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Figuring out how long things take isn’t easy. In the worst circumstances it can lead to conflict and bad feeling between people. The ancient problem. A question people have been asking since the dawn of the cybernet. Not an entirely unreasonable one either.