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Some small observations :

In Firefox 3.0 (Javascript off) the drop-down menus do not sit next to their labels properly. Perhaps if you get it to pass W3C validation http://validator.w3.org/
it will look better.

It would be nice to browse the bicycles as well as search them.

I didn't really know what information I was searching until I had looked at the results. Is this a bicycle shop, or a portal to other shops, or a second-hand market place?
People google for Yahoo. Now thats just dumb.
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This is kind of the point of Google's Go language (and many languages before it...). Most things are asynchronous calls hidden behind synchronous ones. Get the advantages of async with the development ease of synchronous.
Thank you. Fixed. The other version is relatively frequently cited online, but this is a much better phrasing anyway.
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He seems to really hate the idea of agile development, though he takes pains to deny that. It makes sense that he wouldn't really understand it in his world though.

One thing is for sure... the author got a high score on the verbal portion of the SATs. I got kind of bored half way through, but the words were entertaining.
For simple exercises, though, I can easily imagine spurious collisions if the comparison routine looks too deeply.
I'm a big cyclist so definitely in your target market.

The big problem I see right now: What is your site about? I opened the link with a bit of excitedness and literally I spent a few seconds confused as to what this site is and what it does for me. Some specific points:

Your tag line "We love bikes", yes great, so? Tell me in a nutshell what this site is about.

Have a big heading that explains the site, a starting point for the eye if you will. Right now the only real text you have is a quote about poets and cycling, which is not relevant to me. It doesn't explain anything about the site, and it suggests that the site may be for poets who don't cycle and want to convince them otherwise.

Are you helping me understand how to buy a bike or are you selling me a bike?

The search bar at the top is almost invisible, and the hint that it should be by name is even harder to read (yellow on blue in an odd typeface).

So the key message is: I don't know what the site is about, and even a few seconds later I still didn't know. Now that I've played with it a bit, read the about page, I kinda get it, but I'm not sure. This confusion means I won't remember it.

Great name by the way. I love it.
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37 signals already hits this same key for a long time in their 'getting real' book: 'make half a product, not a half ass product'.
Thank you. This is great feedback. I've been thinking along some of these lines as well. In fact you've hit on two things that my customer discover research suggests as the right route to go down.

But there are a lot of basic community/forum sites in the cycling world. I've been trying to focus on a putting something new into the world. Do you think community features are a base requirement?
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I think the drop downs should give totals of the number under that selection

The colours clash and there a too many different fonts used.

The Left hand side rounded corners on the white box don't look right.
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Could you remind me what dynamic scoping is? Thanks!
I don't see how this invalidates the point that bashing every non-agile method as waterfall and thus bad is wrong and that planning and establishing processes are not entirely evil but might even be beneficial if they are not overdone.
This sort of sums up why I care: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to...
Good pointers, yes Andrew Ng seems really amazing that way, I had actually seen his videos too, forgot to post that link..
Thanks guys for these suggestions.
I do it all the time. It's a lot more convenient than fiddling with domain names, top-level domains, typing errors, etc. (ctrl-k)hacker news(enter) is a lot easier to type than (ctrl-l)news.y(enter) in my opinion given that the latter requires me to press shift and > (thats a . on a UK keyboard) the same time which is a bit of a hassle.
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Could you point to frameworks you consider superior or more promising? I'd be interested..
> Just an intuitive understanding that if we decrease infant mortality we will net the human race many more years of life than anti-aging research. Spare a few cents for a vaccine anyone? As opposed to dumping a bunch of money into theoretical anti-aging efforts.

I will most likely never be an infant in Africa, but am very probable to eventually become an old person in the industrialized world.

It might sounds cold-hearted, but for me infant mortality in the third world is someone else's problem.
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Ok to everything but the "tasteful" part. Where exactly do all the fart apps and the jiggle girl apps fit into the "tasteful" aesthetic of Steve Jobs?

My point being that the App Store's actual decisions seem far more random than you would expect if you assumed pure greed or pure Type A control freak issues or pure Bauhaus aesthetics were running the show.
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>A mini-blog for everyone is a need, apparently. Only Twitter is doing it.

Facebook hits that need too (and adds a lot of other things which obfuscate the public take up of your miniblogged "wisdom").
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Good stuff. I switched from a long time C# guy at MS (pre .net 1.0) to Ruby / Mac about 5 years ago. Haven't regretted it, but still love to see what the team comes out with. Microsoft pumps a ton of money into their dev tools, and they produce a ridiculous amount of stuff at every release. And every once in a while, some technical gems break through.

Sounds like F# might be that thing this year. But will need to fire up the VMWare and get things installed to see.
Your assumption is that a product takes off because it meets a need. When you say, "a mini-blog for everyone is a need, apparently" you're reiterating that assumption, not supporting it.
Since I am not very familiar with the english defintions for the handlebars I decided to click the 'Understanding Handlebars' link. Sadly there is an awful lot of text there but no images of the different types of handlebars.
Thanks. That explains most of it. Tom Körner uses the subject to introduce some simple mathematics.

He also mentions the benefit of something invisible: In WWII the allies had to relearn the U-Boat lesson. Some people were arguing that the limited planes they have should be used to bomb more German sites, because they rarely spotted an U-Boat. However --- that was part of their effect: They forced the U-Boats to remain submerged for longer. (Those WWII-style U-Boats were essentially unchanged from WWI. Think of them as submergable normal ships, not as modern submarines. Their speed was severely reduced while submerged. The battery technology of the time was crappy and atom-powered submarines were a long way off. Surfaced they were somewhat faster than most merchant ships.)

Of course in WWII the breaking of the Enigma is closely related to the U-Boat war. And it's also in Tom Körner's book. With stories about Turing and Bletchley Park.

Edit: You can also tell an interesting story about Bayesian reasoning from the anecdote that when the aircraft crews reprogrammed the depth-charges to explode not where the U-Boat was most likely to be, but where the expected value of damage was maximized. And that meant closer to the surface: Most submerging U-Boats where already deeper by the time the charge hit, but those that weren't were mostly destroyed.

The end of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic_(1939%E2...) also has some things to say about convoys.
It's a focus on the core functions. With the iPad, Apple looked at what most people did with their computers most of the time - music, video, games, social networking - and concentrated on that, ignoring all the other stuff. The furore and the criticism has shown that this kind of thinking is rather uncommon amongst geeks, the endless "what about x" arguments, but most people don't care about x. The mass market is remarkably consistent in it's desires.

Google were the first big player to just do search. They didn't aspire to be a directory or a gateway or a hub, just a search box on a page. All the other major search providers had (and most still have) a page cluttered with all sorts of crap. They were obsessed with adding features and increasing revenue at the cost of their core product. A page with nothing but search is a convincing marketing message about how confident Google are in their search technology.

Gmail focussed on how people used email to communicate and organise their lives. Google realised that if you had emails going back and forth in a conversation, it made sense to put it on one page. They realised that having a memory limit was a convenience for the provider that inconvenienced the user. They realised that most people struggled to find and organise things in their inbox.

I don't think any of this stuff is particularly difficult or radical, it just requires a monomaniacal focus on the user's needs. Most businesses think from the inside out and do what is convenient or logical for them, rather than thinking from the outside in and thinking about what the user wants. The conversation on HN seems to make this clear to me - we spend endless time discussing new technologies, new methods, about profit and marketing and the latest buzzword, but when was the last time you read a thread about users?
Funny I said the same thing earlier :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077119
I think the paradigm you're looking for is CSP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces...

described in 1978 by C.A.R. Haore in the now eBook
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At mines in the upper midwest, the diesel fuel used in (expensive, famous-name) heavy equipment wouldn't flow when its temperature got far below zero. At that time, they had to let the engines idle all night because they had no other (engineered) way to keep the fuel warm.

Yet there are obvious solutions to problems like these. So it's not a "windmill fail" like this newbie journalist is painting it. That they often put out less than their "peak" power is a self-evident part of windpower, and matters nothing so long as the plant is cost-effective. Unlike nuclear.
Well it's not that bad on android. You don't have root but everything you mentioned is "allowed."

Although not having access to root annoys me in principle, I haven't needed root for anything, so I haven't bothere rooting the phone even though it's fairly trivial.
Thanks for explaining this. I knew there had to be more to it than the author's free-market ideology.
A couple of days ago there was a story about a guy in a coma for I think about 11 years (from 11 to 22, or thereabouts). He was conscious and described on his awaking how a day when a fly landed on the ceiling within his gaze was a good day as there was something more interesting than normal. Frightening.

Watson, google that for me there's a good chap.
Indeed. I'm sorry to disappoint you. That's a work in progress. The stem version - http://www.brightspoke.com/c/understanding/stems.html - is more complete and may be more in line with what you were expecting.
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It's about the total lifetime of the battery, not a single charge.

That might be interesting for use in cars, but it has nothing to do with the "super fast charging and longer-lasting batteries that will liberate using of mobile devices" that the article starts with.
States have passed laws over this?

(Or are these just general property laws applied to rings rather than laws specifically for rings?)
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The "Understanding Handlebars" page should have pictures, not just a wall of text.
I was at GT during the period described (2002-2005) and I was reported for academic misconduct (cheating.) I didn't do it on purpose but a buddy and I had discussed a homework assignment over dinner and when we went back to the dorms and completed it, apparently our code was similar enough to raise flags so we both had to take the equivalent of a drivers ed course for academic conduct.

I was really steamed about it for a while. I appealed up to the dean but the fact we had dared discuss a problem though our actual work was independent qualified as cheating in the class since we are supposed to act independently.

Clearly the work independently is meant to protect the system from students skating by, but man was it upsetting and frustrating for someone who genuinely had found a group of friends where the sum was greater than our individual parts.
"Our mission is to put more people on bikes by creating informed consumers."

As someone who uses a bike as his main transportation (or maybe because dutch bike-culture is completetly different from american bike culture) I cannot understand how this website will put more people on a bike.

If you want to put more people on a bike, here's a few questions your website should answer:

- Why would I want a bike? (Cheap transportation? Faster than walking for short distances? 'Green' way of transportation?)

- For what distances would I prefer a bike vs. a car? (I use a bike for all distances < 10 km (that would be 6 miles), mostly urban traffic.)
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From memory flickr was born from a project to create a photo sharing site for photos of the game the founder were developing. So this isn't surprising. I think I got that from Founders at Work.
Actually, Fennec was the development name. The release is branded Mobile Firefox or Firefox for Mobile. Mozilla only puts the Firefox brand on finished releases.
Yes, but there are relatively very few of these huge products. While there are lots of people working on these huge projects, there are few managing them and even fewer with the seniority to decide on methodology.

If software is anything like the broader business world, then the overwhelming majority of software shops will be small shops. It stands to reason therefore that the overwhelming majority of people managing a software project will be managing a very small number of developers.

My statement about bicycle mechanics learning from NASA stands - there just aren't many people managing big projects. Game development has practically no relevance to practically all managers. I certainly can't imagine that many people reading HN are managing the development of an operating system or a DBMS.

If you happen to be building the pyramids of Giza, linear development is a good approach. For the rest of us, iteration is the only rational way of doing it.
Have to agree with jeroen's comment but the battery thing is certainly a hot topic. A paradigm changing topic depending on advancements.
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My favorite saying about SAP:

"If SAP was the answer, what in god's name was the question?"
Yeah, same with Swirl for Tornado:

http://code.naeseth.com/swirl/

However, if your async call actually happens somewhere in a library function, you have to yield also calling that function - it's not transparent for the caller whether the library function is synchronous or not.
seem like a new 'sink technology task' for Energy Lobby
Also, the article says nothing about the energy capacity of the battery. It merely states

Eamex says it will ship a battery with about 10,000W of power per kilogram

yeah... for how long?
From the front page, it's not really clear to me what the purpose of filling out the "Discover Bikes" form is. Am I going to be shown search results of bikes to buy? Or just general information about different models?
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web browsing, email, media (videos, photos), reading?

I'm not sure in what order or even if those are right. I think the iPad gets a slight break though since others in its "category" have many more features and because it is in some ways and iphone/ipod successor, not a brand new product.
A true story: a CS professor promotes Java widely and even writes undergraduate textbooks on Java.

Goes off on sabatical with Microsoft Research, and becomes a .NET evangelist. Stops writing Java books and starts writing .NET books.

Is there a quid quo pro? Probably not. But it does illustrate another purpose for Microsoft having a research organisation: winning over academics, and, by proxy, their students.
Also interesting: she doesn't campaign for re-election any more. She files the paperwork to be a candidate, and that's it. She refuses to accept any donations (saying instead people should donate to charity), does effectively no campaign events, and gets re-elected with 90%+ each time.
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I have a dream that one day books will be just a single, easily readable, html file with all the resources embedded in it (data:uri). (ms and mozilla attempts are close but not closer)

ePub is closer to that dream but still has many files compressed in a zip file, which I think could be part of the html file itself.
Girls don't "need" anything except food, water and shelter, but a man who gives her only that won't last very long. A blanket statement like "I would never buy you a diamond" implies "I will vet all your purchases." It's the most un-romantic thing one could possibly say. It sets the tone of the relationship, something like "What you want has to make sense to me before I give it to you."

It sounds quaint and old-fashioned, but a man should give everything to a woman he hopes to marry, and demand nothing in return, without worrying about whether or not it's sensible. It doesn't make sense until you realize that she only wants to do the same for you. She will commit to unconditional satisfaction of your wants, but you have to commit to hers as well, and saying "I would never buy you a diamond" sets up some major conditions.

It's not about the diamond. You can debate the diamond specifically (and btw, the showing-it-off part is where most of the worth lies) and you might win. It's about the debate, about having to discuss her wants in order to decide if they make sense. That is unromance.
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If you want to put more people on a bike, your startup should be a tool that enables citizens to create local advocacy groups for bike lane networks.
I'm a redditor too; but don't you think that the questions here would be a different nature than the ones you see on reddit? Especially if it was someone like the author of this AMA; I get the feeling there would be a lot more advice seeking questions here (and far less begging for money).
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Since Yahoo is (also) a portal, not nearly as dumb as the other way around!
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I gotta say, there are a lot of adsense sites and affiliate marketing that isn't spammy...for example, a large portion of ehow articles, amazon affiliate links, etc. Just because some people do micro niche blogging and profit unrespectably doesn't mean every one does, I do some made for adsense sites but they are written to be high quality, useful, and ad-click generating.
What about robots who talk and feel like humans, but are made of metal? Are they life originating from earth?
I like your thinking, but I believe this would be more effectively approached from a position of greater leverage. One person's $10M helps LE research, but we could do a hundred times more if we instead collected $10 from 100M people. Why do most people not care about this and other important issues?

If we are to invest in basic science, it seems like more could be accomplished by understanding how beliefs are formed, and how beliefs map to behavior. With this understanding, we could shape society so that people grow up to be more rational and altruistic, and thus far more interested in spending $10 on life extension than on lottery tickets.

From another angle, most premature death in the US occurs from diseases of behavior. We could extend a lot of lives if we understood why most people pick short term payoffs (McDonalds, TV) instead of long term payoffs (vegetables, exercise).
one thing I've noticed is that I spend more time browsing the web from my iPhone than from my laptop

can't say I agree with that. The iPhone has a great browser - considering - but a laptop is orders of magnitude superior for my usage. I bet he didn't type that blog post on his iPhone, for example.
The same critique applies to all the disciplines that are currently taught at the undergraduate level in all universities and the part about smart students becoming cynical especially rings true.
>This is aimed at helping bike newbies become bike experts

In that case, you seem to be going at it exactly backwards. Take the search bar - if I already know the make and model to search for, I'm definitely not a newbie.

Instead, the form could be something like this:

1. Why do you want a bike (check all that apply)?
- Commute
- Recreation
- Exercise
- Environment

2. How much money do you want to spend?
- [low end]
- [high end]

3. Where do you live?
[type city and country or click location on a map]

Then return a list of bikes that meet the criteria you selected in order by fit, with links to places where you can buy the bike.
You don't get points from the judges for degree of difficulty.

Well, in most cases you'd have a "judge" you actually do. But I think the point you were trying to make - that normal people don't care if you made a really good effort and the task was really hard, they just care about the final taste, is 100% correct.
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The way I see it it's not the mobile industry being resistant to change, but users being overly needy.
How self-entitled does one feel to think they could get a $500 phone and pay half-price, enter into a 2 year contract and then, 2 weeks later, cancel everything and keep the phone for free.

What Google did looked very logic to me (including those restocking fees, etc) but then all this storm of getting actual support was started. It almost looks as if someone looked at what Google wasn't providing and then pointed the media towards this and repeated ad nauseum... Which basically tells me that perhaps one should buy this phone and see what all the fuss is all about.