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I'm biased, but entrepreneur to entrepreneur, here's my honest personal opinion. I won't pay for bookmarking. It's too easy for me to cobble together my own solution, and besides, there is already a lot of bookmarking apps that are free.

I think there are certain things in life that the market is not willing to pay for. Bookmarking may be one of them. On a related note, I'm looking around at all the all the micropayment solutions out there on the web. Supposedly the idea was that you can read a blog post, and if you like it so much, you can tip a penny if you want. I haven't heard too much success in that regard .. but I suspect that people aren't willing to pay. And as an entrepreneur, it's tough to change the market (impossible?)

To be able to charge, your value proposition has to be not just incrementally, but way waaaay significantly "above the rest" such that it's just such a disadvantage for me _not_ to give you my money to use your product. Use Delicious as your baseline. Delicious is free. So anything you offer that is also offered by Delicious, you can't really charge for it. What do you offer on top of that that is worth people opening up their wallets?

If so, I'd be interested to hear what you have.
Workday -- I can tell you, knowing some people on the inside -- is indeed poised to do well. Duffield is a beloved figure in the Bay Area and in the industry.
Or restarting the browser, as recommended by Google. Even with some of IE's _native_ settings, it is required to restart the browser; I would not twice about restarting a browser, if I were so paranoid about Google "tracking" "sensitive" data -- I'd even use an incognito window.
First thoughts: Looks like digg.com, calling votes 'bites' instead of 'diggs'. Oh, and there are 'slices' too...

After reading the help menu, I understand that tweeted bookmarks are the things in the list (aka 'slice'?).

I think the most important feedback I can give is to either include more help on the landing page (what are bites and slices?), or change the terms to be more obvious at first glance.
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One 30" FTW with two displays you have to twist your neck more, also, if you're using video out from a laptop, it's easier to deal with one display.
Advertise much?
Ask HN: Predictions for Apple's event tomorrow
Will we see a divided App store? One for iPhones only and one for the new Tablet?

Will Apple get into the music subscription business? What about video?

What will the tablet cost and will it be subsidized through deals with major carriers?

Is the Kindle's destruction imminent?

How the hell would one type on it if you're on the go?

Will it have some kick ass speech rec and/or TTS to make interfacing it easier?

Camera in the front for skype calls?

Battery life/screen size/OLED..?
A lot of my favorites don't post very regularly but, hey, that's what the archives are for. (It seems a lot of my professional peers are too busy running their companies to blog about it. There might be a conclusion in there somewh... oh look a kitten!)

http://www.alwinhoogerdijk.com/ <-- smallish European software company

http://thefloggingwillcontinue.com/ <-- CEO of Three Rings.

http://www.lietcam.com/blog/ <-- metrics + MMORPGs = hotness

http://microisvcentral.com/ <-- autocollected meta-feed of a bunch of small software companies (disclaimer: I'm in it.)

P.S. When I think "technically interesting" I think "useful for software businesses" not necessarily "related to producing computer code." If you're looking for Erlang tutorials and Audrino hacking skip this post.
I'm not sure why you expect to spend so much. You can get two Dell 24"ers for $600 or so easy. If you're happy with a pair of smaller monitors I'd go for the pair of larger ones, rather than a single huge one. You'll get more resolution and you're already used to the dual-panel look.

Some monitor models can swivel to a vertical (portrait) alignment for a small extra cost. You might find this better for code listings and so on than a super-wide desktop; I have a friend with 2 x 24" models of which one is portrait, off to the side for debugging etc., and one is landscape, in the middle; and although it looks weird, when I've actually sat down with it it's quite pleasant to work with.
I agree that it is a lesser evil right now, but it is not an that's why I think Gruber's "open web" argument is hypocrite at least.
What about it? Most of us don't work in the military. And the companies that are run like militaries aren't that pleasant or creative to be in.

I'm not promoting a habit of taking your problems to your bosses boss. But often in enormous corporations many of us find ourselves in, or even a small one, your boss is merely a manager. Not your parent. Not god. Many of them would respect a bit more opinions sent their way. And many things have nothing to do with their job or purview anyways, and need to be discussed in another department or job function.
Please read http://blog.bruceabernethy.com/post/Unskilled-and-Unaware-of... before you do that.
viewsonic 23" LCD's are < $200, the Dell ultrasharp 24" i want is ~ $600. I can code on any decent monitor driven off a macbook, but for video, gaming, photoshop, you need better.

I believe in costco sourcing to extent possible: you can run down and grab as many Princeton, Samsung, viewsonic or other leading mfr's 22-24" monitors as you need anytime. If you don't like them a month later (90 days, actually), return in original packaging.
Mor elike the oppsoite. Ireland is the whole island and Eire is the Republic of Ireland. It also depends on one's politics. Londonderry or Derry ? My t-shirt says "People's Republic of Derry", though round here it gets mis-read as "People's Republic of Derby" which is a neighbouring city!
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I agree. I think it was good decision as well.
The design is unpolished, especially those big rectangle buttons.

I also cannot easily find any information about your company anywhere on the site. I wouldn't sign up for service with a company that I know nothing about.
the site seems to have errors now... or is it just me?
Not that it really matters at this point, but I didn't come here from Andrew's site to comment on this link specifically, but I had watched it earlier in the day and came across it here completely randomly.
You might want to make sure they're safe for work. I would hate to pull a random image into my demo that was not appropriate...
Thanks for this! Just installed on my Droid.
And that one points to an explanation of the method, with diagrams and the partial pictures used:

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/3d-meninas-explained/
I know nothing of Botox. Please explain why this fearmongering is clueless. This article [http://www.aahealth.org/physicianslink/bioterrorism_botulism...] found via wikipedia claims that 270 ng of botox is enough to kill if inhaled. That makes the 80 mg claimed by the article quite believable.

Is the existence of black markets much harder to swallow?
The reason is one wouldn't be able to distinguish, at least as easily as in his visualizations, single data points.

It's a clever way to automatically create visual classifications of random-sized collections of data points. The goals are not contradictory, they just constraint each other.
Here's one source: http://gigliwood.com/abcd/
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+1.. errors here too
Apart from the question of photographs of teen nudity, how can they be prosecuted for being photographed in a bra? Is there really a law against that kind of thing? Or for appearing "coy" - soon the only way to be save is to only go outside hidden behind a veil?
Link to the actual article: http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/19305
Clearly, we need a better way to judge insights than the age of the person who has them.
Can't anyone with a fridge full of bad meat manufacture botulism?
I've had 9 and 10 running on linux for years without a single problem, always fast and pixel to pixel identical with windows and mac? Maybe the problem is not the VM but the manner in which it is installed?
This site has awesome written in its future. Don't let the suggestions on formatting/copy get you down (but don't ignore them either). I'll definitely use this in my day to day!
isn't there the NYC meetup thing every monrth?
I think you ahve a point there. I am from Argentina, and from what I read about other countries, talent distribution is geographically fair, and globalization makes people act similarly in different countries. What is different, though, is that some pepole go to Latin America, Eastern Europe and India looking for lower costs, and end up buying cheap labor (low hourly rates), which might not be the same. Offshoring work does not mean that you have to look for low hourly rates disregarding productivity, ability to communicate, infrastructure and people care - you shouldn't do that in your home country, why do it overseas?
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Hilariously I worked at one of the most well known semweb companies working on a flash client for 3 years :] I'm not talking about using flash design to make stuff, I'm talking about AS3 which runs in the new VM 9+ which is actually a full featured programming language.
I predict that the OS will have far more features than people are expecting, and will perhaps be closer to Snow Leopard in terms of functionality than to the iPhone OS. I can't imagine Steve Jobs being "really proud of" a giant iPod touch--there's got to be something more to it than that.
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Sorry, we redeployed it just now with corrected content on 'About' Page.
It's Hacker News if your cloud app is suddenly carrying what courts would consider child porn because your under-17 demographic is upping nude pics of themselves to it.
Right---the core problem here is "can't disable"; there is a secondary problem of "it looks like I've disabled but I haven't", but nearly all the criticism in the article stands even if the X is none of Google's doing.
I'm all for alternate solutions. Adobe and flash are not going anywhere, good luck to anyone that chooses to compete with them. It's all going to merge soon enough, I think.
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Hi coffeemug, that was a mistake. We have corrected about page with the introduction now.
Just off the bat, $9.95 seems too low a price. SEPRs move the needle for businesses right? It seems like you should charge more.

UI notes:

- Ditch the "reset" button.

- Only search Google US by default. Other options should be hidden away.

- Lose the numbers next to the search terms. They don't add value, and I'm fully capable of counting to 5.

- It needs overall polish. And I'm not referring to making your buttons glossy.

- Nearly every major link has an icon next to it. Most of those can go, and in some cases can be replaced by a simple button & text.
That's a very interesting model. Iran is another country that would benefit from this.

Everyone from the traffic cop, health ministry inspectors, the 'bill' collector all the way up to the courts system can be bought for the right price.

It is so accepted and deeply rooted into the current system that as a foreigner you will not get anything done, because you simply don't speak the same lingo or understand the hints. Apparently when the traffic cop pulls you over for speeding and asks for a 'light'.. thats signal to give him money and have a good day. (I was a passenger in this car)

It's a shame because good people get sucked into it as well. no body wants to be left behind when the only way to progress is to pay 'dues'.
I thought the article was very giving, well written and raised a very disturbing issue in today's society. There's some good discussion going already. Why do you want to throw it away so badly? Because the topic doesn't fit your image of hacker news?
My employer provides solutions for electronic patient reported outcomes for clinical drug trials, and Motion is our provider for tablets for use in clinical settings. We are anxiously awaiting information about the Apple device, and the HP device shown at CES, as the Motion tablets can be a bit overkill for some applications.

Our industry, at least, is very much ready for more/better tablets.
Nope. Turns out I'm using GD's imageCreate function -> http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreate.php
Claiming to be "leading" when you just entered the competition? You're still in beta.
Speaking of being in beta, you should probably mention that on your registration and/or terms of service. Also, incentives to sign up during this period could be a good thing.
I like my 30" over my 24" for its greater height. It provides a little more context when coding.

I haven't used multiple monitors for years though. I let my monitoring displays peek out around the edges of my windows and use virtual desktops for task switching.
>> "at a time that could not anticipate the production of content by teenagers themselves."

At what point in the history of the universe did teenagers and kids not naturally play around with each other :/
Hmmm, ignoring the school part, have you found some "software architects" worthy of the title? I know you say that implicitly, but I wanted to make sure and perhaps have you elaborate a bit on what distinguishes them.
I think he means that the first sentence on the about page should actually be on the front page.

I felt the same. The worst part was that I actually think your product is useful, even though I'm not a twitter user.

Don't hide your best selling point on some other page!
No, I haven't! Thank you!
The MagSafe socket (not the plug) on all MacBooks made since 2006 is magnetized also. If we still had floppy disks this might be a problem but I don't think it is in this age of CD/DVD and USB key media.
The terms tongue-in-cheek and irony come to mind...
Design is nice, but the UI/information architecture is confusing - lot of information that I don't understand, and the nomenclature is awkward. I would suggest showing less information, i.e. you don't need to show who submitted the links on every "slice," considering that all the slices on a page are inherently connected to one person. I think you could get rid of the "see original tweet" text as well, and maybe just show the bird somewhere if you really need that feature (although I think it can be removed).
Site never loaded the results of my input.
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It's hard to take these companies seriously when every claim of their success is couched in language like "rumour has it" and "I hear".

The reason you never hear about these companies is because they have apparently not officially said how well they're doing. They could well be excellent, but it's not like it's a mystery or unfair that we've not heard of them.
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Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
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heard of all 5 of them.
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In addition to the analytical faults, the notion of "pulling their weight" has all sorts of moral imperative baggage which is more typically used in the context of the free-rider problem from game-theory.

At the very least you'd have to make a strong argument that any nation has an obligation (which is what "pulling their weight" refers to) to help.
I think this was an accident. The true homepage to this site is: http://www.birdpie.com/ and the submitted link is http://www.birdpie.com/railsbob which points to a user's page. The only way to truly fix this submission would be to edit the URL.
That's difficult - because it depends on the classification of "indecent". Which is subjective.

There are usually a few levels of "indecent image". Here in the UK we use the Copine scale which has 5 levels. Level 1 includes non/semi nudes but in an overtly sexual pose OR nudes but in a non-sexual pose.

Im not sure of the exact classification system used in the states but I think they do it similarly. The difference here is that if you only have a few level 1 images then you wont get prosecuted - i.e. these people wouldn't be prosecuted here. (based on that I am assuming that the US system is a bit more lenient about what is classed as indecent)
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Usability testing, by the author of "Don't Make Me Think"
I found "Don't make me think" a wonderfully concise look at interface design. With any luck, Steve Krug will have done a similarly nice job walking us through testing that interface.
Source on American charitable contributions:
"Americans gave, per capita, three and a half times as much to causes and charities as the French, seven times as much as the Germans, and 14 times as much as the Italians. Similarly, in 1998, Americans were 15 percent more likely to volunteer their time than the Dutch, 21 percent more likely than the Swiss, and 32 percent more likely than the Germans." [1]

So yes, the data is heavily skewed if it does not include private donations, although the OP does indicate that the graph was just a rough draft. But it's also important to note that America has a vested interest in ensuring Haiti's stability, whereas most of the other countries aren't as nearly invested in the country's future. We don't want a Somalia in the Western hemisphere (they're actually not that far from each other from a PPP standpoint - Haiti is ranked 203 vs Somalia's 225 [2])

The potential effect of this could be observable through the 2004 Tsunami, wherein many of the listed countries were much more geopolitically connected to the affected countries than the US. If these countries made sizably larger donations, I would think it's because of this factor.

1: http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-co...
2: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
We do exactly this at work. The great benefit which is not mentioned in the article is SEO - Google will love you for it.
Yep. And I'm not advising people take an air of knowing it all when doing something like this. Sharing an opinion doesn't mean preaching an opinion.

This was an interesting article to find above this one:
http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/07/if-you-arent-embarr...

Most of your opinions and ideas are the same way. If you don't get them out there to be acted on and dented and molded and "bought", you don't get the feedback you need.

You should probably be a bit embarrassed by ideas and opinions you have constantly. But iterating on them with others in the wild, like software, is a good way to improve them.
Two notes- 1, your app doesn't set a default bookmark name, defaulting to "Untitled"; 2, I don't really feel comfortable handing over my google username/password to you- No offense intended, it's just bad policy. Can you do this via OAuth?
Normally I do do that, but the comment was already at +3 when I downmodded it, so that threw me a bit.
Our favorite was the one-way telephone, which still lives as a meme at YC. http://store.yahoo.com/acme/phone.html
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If the clock was turned back and I was suddenly 16 years old in 2010

Maybe if someone in your family made a point of freaking you out about it, but for the most part I don't think most 16-year olds are concerning themselves with this issue, they're just not wired that way. By comparison all I do at my age (31) is worry.
I learned by printing out the keyboard layout, sticking it about my keyboard and just typing stuff that I'd have to type anyway. (Granted this is a slow method of learning so may not work for those who are pressed for time).
The absence of private contributions makes the chart rather meaningless. Take for example The Netherlands: a pledge of 4.3 million dollars according to the data. This was an initial pledge by the government shortly after the disaster. In the mean time over 42 million euros in private contributions have been donated to relief organizations and the Dutch government will double that amount.
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I have a PC with a 24" monitor right next to a Mac Pro with a 24" monitor; I share a keyboard and mouse using Synergy.

I'm going to be moving to Mac only pretty soon and plan on upgrading to a single 30" monitor.

2x24 is nice, but there ends up being a lot of side-to-side head motion which gets tiring after a few days; and the most premium screen real estate (straight in the middle) is taken up by the bezels of the monitors.
The app store, like the music store, makes a little over breakeven. All Jobs really cares about is selling more phones -- the rest is just to support this primary goal.
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The problem with this approach is that most people don't try new music because they're into, say, Brazilian chill. There's a need for a trusted reference -- a friend's suggestion, a review piques your interest, whatever. So just setting up a domain for people who like that genre isn't necessarily going to go far. Most of the music would probably be crap, and not worth my time -- hence that need for reference. I won't assume that a domain name means good music, but I do, for instance, take Anji Bee's (http://www.anjibee.com/category/podcast/chillcast/) suggestions because she has a proven track record of finding and playing excellent chill.
Never, but they didn't commonly transmit evidence of it before the last decade.
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It's certainly convenient.

But the Django admin is only an optional application. Your apps may use whatever makes sense for them
That is a genuinely good question.
Thanks for the tips! The username and password is stored on your phone via sqlite, which is then sent to my server where I keep an open connection between with google voice, I don't store the actual username and password anywhere. I understand your concern about credentials, I was thinking about releasing the code to my server.
Personally I like one large monitor, because I find it fits my workflow better. If you're using two monitors and don't like needing to swivel your head back and forth, have you considering orienting them vertically? For writing code, the extra vertical space is often more valuable anyway.
Were it CPU intensive it would be so on the client side and have no affect on the server, and fwiw, scrolling back and forth quickly I saw no cpu spike (fairly new MBP, granted).

It's more likely that the site has been taken down by being posted on sites like HN/reddit/digg/etc (it was easier when we could just say it was "the /. effect").
Just for a point of clarity, I was merely making the argument that both Apple and IBM have figured out how to leverage open source in their respective business models in a coherent way. I'm not necessarily claiming that either of them are religious, RMS-style open source boosters. They each have figured out ways they can use open source to benefit their bottom line.

IBM is basically a services company for the most part. The more they can do to reduce the amount of money a customer is paying in software licensing (sometimes to other companies), the more they can charge for their own services on a project. It is to their benefit for there to be as much free (as in beer) software out there as possible so a higher percentage of a project's overall budget goes to IBM.

Apple is primarily a hardware company. It is in their interest to make use of whatever community software is out there so that they don't have to re-invent the wheel for everything. They look to open source software as a way to augment what they can do internally without having to acquire tons of software companies just to get basic software technology in-house. This frees up cash for hardware R&D and aquisitions (PA Semi, Fingerworks, etc...).

Sun has suffered from an identity crisis in recent years. Were they a software company? A hardware company? Both? They don't appear to have been able to answer that question themselves. It's hard to have an open source strategy (or any other kind of strategy for that matter) when you don't even know what business you're in.
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