When I come to HN I ofter scan through the top page and middle click on seemingly interesting links. That means that after 5 secs I have around 10 tabs open. If you post something which has some auto-playing stuff it will be disturbing for me because I have to search through all of the tabs and switch it off. Please refrain from this in the future. It also mixes up with the music one might listening to and ends up in a grating cacophony.
It's a parody, of course -- but that quote isn't necessarily bad. Tomas Jefferson is attributed with a similar one: "If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."
A lot of the innovative companies we know did things that defied common sense. (And of course, there's a lot of companies we'll never hear of because they ignored common sense.) So, it's a case-by-case thing.
Improperly attributed quotations are a bit of pet peeve of mine. I don't want to beat anybody up if they just read it on the web somewhere. But the problem is, anybody even slightly familiar with Jefferson would know he would never say anything like that.
Apparently Thomas Jefferson never said anything notable to popular sensibilities. I don't often encounter a quote that goes unchallenged. He seems to be a composite phantom made of misattributed quotations.
However, I think there may be some truth to it. There are plenty of good ideas that aren't in anyway new, but for some reason have been forgotten or ignored. Sometimes, it is because the technology wasn't ready, but there can be a myriad of reasons. It is often worth perusing old magazines and journals for new insights.
Indeed. If you're using sense that is common to everyone, then 7 billion other people will have potentially thought of it before you. Original ideas imply uncommon sense.
Also, you can innovate using _loads_ of common sense, uncommon loads, to the point that something evident and simple, wasn't created before by anybody.
Also, I would like to point, that it's not the same "common sense" what a developer, who is some years in a university and techie environment, specialised on a few difficult technologies, than the "common sense" of a "final user" which does not care about technology quirks, code conventions, pre-existing tools, related news feeds, etc.
Well, you innovate by ignoring common sense, but by keeping by your senses. There was a time when people believed that the human body wasn't designed to go faster than 20 miles per hour. Some crazy people disproved them. We're still on the side of those crazy people, and we're doing even crazier speeds than they proposed.
Er, I may or may know somebody who has done some work under a name inspired by one of their company names. It's one of those things that seemed a hell of a lot funnier at the time, until you're trying to pitch work with a straight face.
I'll be honest -- when I read the title and the domain I was worried someone submitted a Vooza video out of earnestness.
These videos are hilarious but also useful. Whenever you try out a new pitch (and "pitch" in this sense isn't necessarily related to VC/startupland -- think of it as an answer to "how do you spend your time?") consider these clips.
A Youtube video would allow downloading and watching it offline or in a secure manner.
They should at least tell what 3rd party JS domains are required to watch the video. Allowing vooza + wistia still shows a black window instead of a video.
The other 3rd party domains, are evil facebook, google analytics, twitter and optimizely, and do not sound as if they are required for watching the video.
It looks as an other example of JS done wrong.
And yes - i've tried it in my only browser where I allow flash.
