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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from August 2010

iPhone brings back sanity to Chase bank UI design

Do you hate your bank’s website? I do. I use Chase and even though I’ve seen much more evil from other bank websites, they all have *way too much* going on. It’s cumbersome to execute the most common tasks, and the website is unnecessarily cluttered with irrelevant crap. Do I need a gigantic blinking banner [...]


Paypal freezes nonprofit art project funds

After 5 months of accepting donations for the Flux Foundation, builders of the Temple of Flux art project for Burning Man, Paypal has frozen the account on the grounds that the project’s nonprofit status is still pending. Legally, the foundation is allowed to accept donations as long as they inform benefactors of their pending nonprofit [...]


Photon Infotech – why spamming customers is a stupid way to earn their business

For several months now, I get phone calls two to four times a month from a company called Photon Infotech, an Indian outsourcing company. Regardless of the fact that numerous times I have told them not to call me, take me off their list, asked them if they understand the concept of the Do Not [...]