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I've never had such a sudden swing in opinion about a product. Previously, I can remember real panic in seeing your logo pop up: this was about to be a waste of 20 seconds of browsing.

Now I'm reading PDFs on my iPad in an experience that very nearly beats some of the native apps.

You guys listened, pulled a herculean engineering job, and absolutely hit aces. 1 day into it I can't say how I'll use your site, but I'm now excited to find out. Fantastic job!
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You should know that there are tools such as NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com) that do take into account the evolution and architecture of the web and do gracefully degrade, and are SEO readable. You can also fully use your CSS with your objects if you like, though you don't need to. See: http://dev.noloh.com/#/articles/NOLOH-and-CSS/.

Furthermore, these concepts can in fact be represented in an IDE, once you have the sort of unification NOLOH provides, unfortunately I can't really say much more at the moment.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH.
I want to try it out but there doesn't seem to be a way of signing up without inputting my Paypal info.

The most annoying criticism people often have is "Why can't I do this in a spreadsheet" and right now the front page only conveys enough features such that one could say "Why can't I do this in notepad". Perhaps more engaging and unique features should be the highlight of the frontpage.
You could argue that the main problem with domains is their exposure to end users; they are essentially an implementation detail of a protocol. Since they are relatively simple to type on desktop computers, they've worked well for a long time. Now, finally, with touch displays, they may be called out for being too cumbersome.

The problem to solve is not the look of domain names, but authentication. How do you know that you've reached the "real" web site for a product or service or group? If you could know that in some other way, you wouldn't necessarily need to see an ugly domain name.

I could imagine something much more interactive. For instance, an app that lets you first specify your favorite products and services, that can then pop up a grid of touchable corporate logos to bring you directly to the correct web sites (no URLs needed). The existing DNS registry could be used to either figure out what you need, or give you a short list of choices. In time, apps like these would become so standard that you wouldn't "need" to register all permutations of a trademark, because they would already be choosing the correct one.
The reason the new design is so much worse is that it uses the most valuable space on the screen, the left side (since we read left to right), for stuff users don't care much about. What users care about most on a page of search results is the search results. Those should get priority. Instead the prime space is given to stuff that's boilerplate, or only tangentially relevant, or both.

I'm surprised Google would make a mistake of such magnitude. Anyone who's read Tufte would know not to do this. They've effectively reduced the data-ink ratio of the page, when you weight each pixel by its proximity to the upper left corner.

http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Data-Ink_Ratio

http://inspiredimpressions.files.wordpress.com/2006/04/Googl...

Oddly enough, it would actually be better if the left bar were entirely boilerplate, because that would make it easier to tune it out.

http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/eyetracking_corporate_site_...

Then the new design would merely waste space. Filling the left side of the page not merely with crap, but with changing crap, is the worst case scenario.
I wonder if the Macintosh developers conference will break away from the iPhone+iPad developers conference in the near future.

The lack of a Macintosh Apple Design Award this year hints towards this becoming (or already being) an iPhone+iPad conference.

Could a split be on the way?

Or, does this hint at Apple only caring about the user experience on its mobile devices from now on and the Macintosh becoming just the tools with which to create content and Apps for its mobile "consumer" (or "consumption") devices.

If so, where does that leave developers of tools and "Professional" Macintosh Apps?
No kidding. I only hope those Rorschach tests were a joke but I'm not so sure.
> The more accustomed you are to the road, the more difficult it is for you to imagine disaster. And so it is with LaBar. His eyes stop scanning, his attention withdraws, his response time drops from around 450 milliseconds to about 1,300.

I noticed this in my own driving a year or two ago and I've since trained myself to become more alert as I get to intersections near my home. It's really amazing how alert I get. Unfortunately this training makes it difficult to fall asleep quickly after driving home. :)

>You're About to Rear-End the Car in Front of You

>The instinct: Brake hard

>The right response: Brake even harder

This is very dangerous if your brakes aren't in good condition. I did this last week with the SUV I normally drive. I applied the brake at full force to stop at a light.* I slammed on my brakes and on a flat, dry road surface my vehicle skipped 1/4 of the way into the intersect. I should have stopped before it.

Now I had known my brakes were acting a little weird but my dad replaced them today and I found out about 50% of the rotor surface was gone in large patches. Had I known just how bad my brakes were (I don't know anything about cars) I would have had them fixed sooner.

* I was driving the speed limit, not five over. I wasn't distracted. I did see the light change to yellow and started braking. Then the light quickly turned red. The light was way too fast for the intersection. (It's an odd intersect, there are two lights in a row and the traffic is usually heavy enough that you can't get up to 35mph to the second light during that time of day but I had a clear lane through the first intersection)
Er, I meant some "retail investors too".
barry schwartz has a TED talk about the paradox of choice!!!
And I should note that's the split going to Microsoft and the publisher, not Microsoft and the developer. The studio is almost certainly not even getting 50% of that 60%, the way most such things work.
Wow, that's a late start.
Are there other Dallas incubators? I've heard good things about Austin but I didn't know Dallas had much of a startup scene. With Dallas' FiOS it seems like a great place to be.
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That's a retention technique in the same way that, "Don't break up with me! I Love You!" is a relationship reparation technique.
Janet (the UK's academic network) used to have an addressing based on country first.

Just like phone numbers it's easier to route global->local order
Recently, I started another side business. One of my cousins who knows almost nothing about technology came to me and said, "Let me tell you something. I know how you can get your business started and I want to tell you about it."

At this point, I was already skeptical, but she continued... "There's this thing on the internet called Facebook and millions of people use it and you can make millions of dollars there..."

Oh no, I thought.

Another negative indicator for FB: I've also had some of my more tech-savvy friends tell me "I don't really use Facebook much anymore, I've switched over to Twitter".

I'd suggest that "losing early adopters" might be an even better indicator of decay than having random laypersons tell you about a company.
I was kind of hoping for something along the lines of LyX. Where you always see and edit a rough approximation of the document (jsMath might be useful for math display).
The author is reiterating the complaints that major trademark holders raised over a decade ago during the initial generic TLD (gTLD) expansion process in the mid-1990s (see Milton Mueller's book "Ruling The Root" for details). More gTLDs meant the need to purchase one's trademark in each new gTLD in order to protect that trademark. The power that trademark holders/WIPO had in this process lead to "sunrise" periods where established trademarks were allowed to be registered before the registry opened generally, and I've heard claims that the dispute resolution process can tend to favor trademark holders too, though I can't vouch for that.

The problem with the claim that trademark interests trump all others in domain name disputes is that non-domain-name trademarks must be distinctive and are typically for a specific market. To use the example already given in the comments, Apple Inc. the computer manufacturer and Apple Records the music label can coexist because they aren't really in the same market and won't confuse consumers as such. However, domain names don't allow for this level of subtlety, and so whoever registers apple.com first with good-faith intent "wins", despite justified interest from computer, music, and fruit companies.

While this attitude towards new gTLDs makes sense from the perspective of existing second-level domain/trademark holders, what about those who aren't established yet. Is the person searching for a short or meaningful domain name out of luck because trademark holders are sick of new TLDs? There appears to be demand for new TLDs, and it's been shown that the root zone will scale, so it would seem to make sense to allow new TLDs for those whose needs aren't met by .com et al.

The deeper problem in all of this is that we interpret meaning in these unique identifiers, and use that meaning as part of branding and to judge authenticity of a site. If (for example) websites were identified by the public key of the certificate that signed its contents, and if we navigated the web using a directory system instead of typing domain names into browser URL bars, we wouldn't have this problem.
Is there a vacuum URL for HTML5?
The Dow Jones is made up of only 30 stocks. A $20 move in P&G would have a large instantaneous impact on the index which could then trigger the algorithms to go nuts.
Well...that's not really what this whole crisis is about. The deal with the European Central Bank (ECB) and Greek Bonds is that, basically the ECB is the bank of last resort to European banks. European banks can borrow from the ECB, but they have to post collateral for the loans. Kinda like when you go to buy a house, you have to put down 20% or 30%. Or if you are getting some other loan you have to put some security (like the title of a house or car) to 'secure' the loan. Well, the banks have to do the same thing.

The issue with Greek bonds is that the ECB requires the collateral for the assets that banks are allowed to use, to have a certain rating level or above.

This article has a nice explanation of what happened:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3797c8d8-37f9-11df-9e8e-00144feabd...

So, basically the ECB knew that Greek bonds were in jeopardy, and in an effort to continue accepting them as collateral from the banks they had to relax their standards. Basically saying you can give us crap in exchange for cash, rather than giving us gold for cash.

Hope that makes sense.
Nice resource
You make a good point about trying it out, although it seems that the trend is to require payment first. Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks fnid2 for taking the bet! To clarify the terms of the bet though, I only want to bet on traffic rankings in the USA. It wouldn't surprise me if some Chinese website/s outcompete Facebook in world traffic rankings by then, but that's not really fair because the Chinese government bans Facebook. Is that acceptable to you?

Can you contact me (email address in my HN profile) so I have your email address?

If I win, I'll choose whatever GiveWell ranks as the most cost-effective charity at saving lives in 2015 (http://www.givewell.net/charities/top-charities).

If Alexa closes in the next five years, I suggest that the default action is to cancel the bet, unless we both agree on a new metric.

I'm going to use the email reminder service 3mindme.com to remind me about this bet in 2015, and also add it to my "todo" file in case 3mindme.com doesn't exist in five years.

I'm open to making additional bets with others too, so if you're reading this and want to bet, it's not too late.
Some Japanese iPhone apps do pretty well. But they still don't have international marketing skills. Most of the successful products are on the gaming markets, where there's no language and cultural barrier.

Relying too much on gaming and anime isn't sustainable. Japanese have good technical skills, but they don't survive for the next 50 years without strong international, multi-lingual marketing and sales skills.

The economy of lucky Japanese App Store millionaires will end soon. If the world doesn't come to Japan, Japan goes to the world.
He is Okasaki, not Osaka.
Awesome project. I wish had the real time collaboration like google docs though.
I've been using it, and I think the reason people like it is because of its obvious portability and accessibility. Internet is nice and all, but it is being able to watch netflix at the gym, kindle during the commute and have all my files through dropbox that really cut it for me.
I am just hooked to TED talks. I was pointed to it by a friend from Design school. They indeed are inspiring. But the problem surely is they are not properly categorized. Sure they have philosophical themes but it would be better if they had a tagging system so we can have tags like robotics, brain and evolution. That would really make my day.
Font rendering issues on my HTC incredible. The navigation bar doesn't work either, it just hangs out all the way on the bottom of the screen.
I just love the talks from Robert Full. That guy has some really nice ideas about robot locomotion. Also if you are interested in robotics in general try Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot
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I know your point is actually about novelty and I fully agree with that however the bread maker analogy is kind of funny because a bread maker actually takes a simple task, obtaining bread, and makes it more complex than the alternative of buying bread someone else has baked. They even slice it for you. Making your own bread has a lot of advantages -- freshness, customization, variety. Yet most people just buy bread because it's easier.
Is ICMP allowed? I remember an old colleague writing a steganographic file transfer agent that transfered files slowly with ping packets. An ICMP ECHO_REQUEST of 56 bytes was a zero. And an ICMP ECHO_REQUEST of 64 bytes was a one. ICMP ECHO_REPLY was confirmation of receipt! Would that be slow enough? :P
Does anyone know how to get rid of this new left bar?
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Migraine medicine + iPad keyboard + long paragraphs = total failure. Don't get an iPad, I prefer to be alone in my shame.
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> "Because eventually we will have the canvas [of the web] in good quality and we'll have the toolsets to use that canvas in the quality but in the foreseeable future, 18 months or so, Flash is not going away and it is critical."

What? Canvas of the web? Use it in the quality? Is this regarding <canvas>?
Training people to wait isn't that much of a negative. New people who don't know to wait always show up, and the people you train to wait ensure you have a heavy secondary market (see Trade Paperback books, second run movie theaters, etc.)
I use ClickToFlash for Safari and I miss A Lot...

of ads.

Well, not really miss :)
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Technical considerations aside, I think a key question here is whether readers expect just-the-facts stats-based reporting of what happened in the game, or a narrative constructed from the game.

If it's the former, then "sportswriting" about any given game is really just another data delivery/presentation format and should be automated (that, or readers should gravitate towards more efficient data formats, like box scores).

If it's the latter, then a writing program will have to fake creating a narrative, which sounds like a much more difficult job to do. Local sportswriters often know the players, making it far easier to construct narratives around the personalities involved in the games.

My guess is that readers want the latter, but perhaps not enough to pay more, so techniques like those employed by Narrative Science will probably become increasingly common.

Personally, I think the best place for this is in business writing, because I think that eliminating "narratives" from reporting market movements would lead to far more accurate articles.
In FireFox 3.0.19, it fails to render images or fonts, throws two javascript exceptions, then pegs the CPU at 100% until you kill the process.

Nice in Chrome though.
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Yup, some of Andersen's reps back during that time was responsible for disbanding my alma mater's chapter of ACM. We invited them to have a talk to CS students about IT careers and they were offended by how our chapter advertised the talk. (I felt partly responsible, I normally copywrote signage for the club, but due to class pressures somebody else took over just before this incident.) The reps complained, and we had to write a letter of apology and disband because of some words on a sign. (The wording wasn't even offensive or in slang, they just were uptight about how their organisation was presented.)
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> So basically, it looks petty and unprofessional to say...

True. That would be very poor spin by your marketing dept.

I'm not in marketing, but I'll bet a half-trained spin-doctor could come up with something more flattering like,

"Our site takes advantage of the latest, user-friendly web capabilities. To experience the full ease and power of Web X.0 on our site (and many others), we invite you to download a free copy of a world-class browser [... insert links to Chrome, FF, Safari, whatever ...]"
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How are you handling the legal issues around the fonts? My understanding of most foundries' rules is that pdf/flash embedding is ok but eot/otf embedding is not. I can see by playing with font families in firebug that you're subsetting heavily on your html5 example. is that all that's necessary?
You can easily tell AD (at least in 03) to store passwords in plain text (for backwards compatibility).
I'm in roughly the same boat. The only person here who likes it is my 3 year old daughter - the rest of us just find it painful to use. Safari is so cumbersome and slow, it's just tedious compared to a real browser. Email seems to get overwhelming quickly (maybe I have too much of it). Any time you have to type things it's exasperating.

Things it is good for: games, watching videos solo (as long as you have somewhere to prop it up - holding it is a pain). The instant-on is handy for extremely brief uses. Showing photos is great (except it ruins the quality of them with stupid downsampling and having to sync them with iTunes is unbearably annoying).

Everything else - get the laptop.
I've coded a few things in 24 hours or so. It's really fun. But that doesn't mean you've got an interesting product on your hands.

My thoughts:

I would use this as a native app on BB or iPhone if it were very, very easy to use. I see the use case being you whip it out after you make a purchase and update it. That means it would have to load fast independently of network conditions. I don't really want a webapp for that. At best that would be browser -> bookmark -> login? Ouch.

If you're targeting budget minded people, which of those would tolerate a recurring fee? I would probably pay 10$ once for the software (if the UI was really good), but I can't imagine paying $120 a year for something that's supposed to save me money.

To put it in perspective, you can get basic quickbooks for $120 a year. No, it's not simple, but will buttercamp do my taxes? It would have to have real utility to charge that much.
Network! Be sure to check out your college's alum networking nights, join a professional organization. It's amazing how much you can uncover by just taking a second to talk someone at a networking event.

I've found that a creative business card, dressing nicely, and a good smile can do wonders (but of course, as long as you have the chops to back your talk, go forth and conquer :-)
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Brake full force anyway. There is no way that braking full force will cause it to take longer to slow down unless your tires skid.

What does "skipped 1/4 of the way" mean?

What does "50% of the rotor surface was gone in large patches" mean? Have you ever seen a brake rotor? Are you implying you had big holes in your rotor? The rotor does not have a special surface, it's just bare metal. The only way the surface could be gone is if you have a hole in it.
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Thanks. We'll definitely look into this.
Dammit Google, why didn't you have this out when I was trying to take notes in Google Docs during a bazillion math classes?
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