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I firmly disagree about changing the name - you want people having visceral reactions to your brand name, which means being different than everyone else. The fact that people DISLIKE Duck Duck Go is a good sign. The logo though? That might be worth changing maybe. I love the name though. (Well, actually, I initially disliked the name, but I remembered it - hence I like the name from a business branding perspective)
Either say "no bullshit" properly or drop it. You can definitely get away with that line in many arenas now - if you are targeting the "indie"/liberal types it will hold sway (so long as you hold up to it!). However outside that it might put people off.

I'd work a little more on the app design; space it all out more and go for a "clean" look so that your screenshot can appear less busy (it draws the eye a little too much on the landing page).

The app itself is a little confusing (but looks a good start nonetheless).

First the colours are not to my personal taste; you have too many on the page for a start (stick with 3 colors and 5 shades if possible). More importantly they are all pastels - which becomes hard on the eye. I recommend spending some time on http://www.colourlovers.com and pick a palette with the proper ratio of bold/highlight/background colours

As to the app - it's a little difficult to navigate initially; it was a bit unintuitive adding "partners" especially as it is not clear what a partner is (this isn't typical terminology in most places - it sounds perhaps law centric?).

I quite like your landing page though; apart from the screenshot it is pretty solid. As pointed out you should clarify what mini means (possibly just scrap that terminology for the moment - I guess you plan to add paid-for plans later so you can always bring that in at a later stage). Maybe call it beta for now.
I like the comments from the Japanese wikipedia on this:

日本語の過労死がそのまま使われるのはこれが日本特異の現象であるとの認識を示す。またKAROSHIは英語の辞書や他言語の辞書にも掲載されている。先進国であるはずの日本の封建的な労働状況を象徴する言葉として認知されるようになる。

My rough translation: The use of the Japanese word "karoshi" [in English] suggests that this is a peculiarly Japanese afflication. It has appeared in English and other foreign language dictionaries. "Karoshi" is an expression representing the belief that Japan, despite being a developed country, has feudalistic working conditions.

Incidentally, I'm inclined to believe that karoshi is overreported in Japan and underreported elsewhere, and to the extent it is overreported here, it is too bloody useful to criticize as yellow journalism.
Gruber has chosen to ignore the side of Apple that sometimes has flops (TV, Mac Mini, Hi-Fi) but Apple is quite prudent about not marketing these to death when they see luke-warm response.

In addition to incremental advances for their blockbusters, Apple is very prudent at reading market adoption and tuning the marketing to be in step.
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I got a big, used HP LaserJet for cheap and I love it. One cartridge will last 10K-15K pages, prints 24 ppm, and it prints duplex, even on A3 paper.
The easiest arbitrage opportunities are always illegal...
Even worse, if you've got multiple Google accounts, you can't use them at the same time. So if you've got a separate junk email throwaway account, you can't be logged into there and Adwords or Docs at the same time. You can skirt this a little bit with Google Apps and have an email + other Google services open, but kind of a pain in the neck, especially if you manage a couple different businesses/projects/whatever that should have their own email addresses.
B&W laser printers are very good for small business. I use one myself and I haven't replaced the toner since I bought the printer - 2 years ago. I don't print much, but it's still better than inkjet.
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Seems odd to conclude that slower phones won't get an update, when the key feature of the update is faster speed. I'm not saying his conclusion (that only a subset of phones will get official update support to 2.2) is necessarily wrong. It just lacks internal logic.
People are stupid - but not all of them. Look at the comments around you :)
1Password can handle multiple accounts for the same site, if that's what you're asking

oh, and the 1Password/DropBox combination is brilliant
I only found out about the term today after a reference in a dutch publication, it is really interesting that in Japan they have actually identified this as a direct cause to the point that they came up with a work for it.

Makes you wonder not just how much it is over-reported in Japan but definitely how much it is under-reported in the rest of the world (which would seem to be the bigger problem). I'm pretty sure employers would rather not know about this.

In the current economic climate there is a lot of pressure on the employees remaining at companies after lay-offs to pull just that little bit harder to make up for the workers that have left the company, it might push a few of them past the breaking point.
Yeah I think the other comments in this thread are extremely optimistic about the nature of academic research. The incentives just don't line up to do great work, its not that its absolutely impossible though. I miss teaching, though I was only never an academic as such, just did a PhD.
It would surprise some to find "JEHOVA" in our DNA.
We all use e-mail for password reset e-mails, order confirmations e-mails, etc. For communicating with friends, we just use it for one-on-one communication that wouldn't fit into a text message.

We tend not to share e-mail addresses. Different people use different services (LiveJournal/DreamWidth, Facebook, Twitter, Monochrome, etc) to different extents. Parties get organised on LiveJournal, Facebook or Monochrome.

I don't use e-mail socially because it's a terrible medium for group conversation.
Hi,

1. First. I agree with you and I intended to iterate to more serious/assuring tag-line with time. I am sort of testing love/hate vs. indifference with it in a sense "let's see what happens". I certainly like it more than some typical tag-lines but I understand it might be bad idea to general public. Your feedback about this is certainly appreciated.

2. Huh. I tried to make a clear/minimal page, but I guess I didn't succeed that well. Do you have anything specific that is confusing. About screenshot, I like the (hopefully) "effective" looks of it in same way I like looks of gmail. I will further work on this. Thanks for bringing it out.

3. mini as in minimal :). I will think about more appropriate terms. I talk about "mini" version because there will also be "not-mini".

Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Thanks :) I didn't notice them but now I do.
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This depends on your situation. I'm doing a post doc right now, while looking for something else. But I was 24 when I got my PhD, and through the post doc position got the chance to go and live in Japan, China, Germany and Switzerland. I set my own hours, work on whatever I want within reason and get a lot of shiny toys to play with.

I probably don't want to become a lecturer because I see it as a service job - you're dealing with members of the public. But doing a post doc has paid as much as I'd get in industry, but with a lot more freedom.

If I could find an interesting startup I'd probably leave though.
I couldn't give away my dog :(
AuthSMTP (www.authsmtp.com) seems to be the canonical recommendation for this.
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That's probably the entrepreneurship opportunity right there: bring in your dying relatives to try and get some cash out of them.

I guess the problem is that old people generally don't leave much usable stuff.

IIRC I think Iran has a functioning market for (some) body parts. There's an argument to be had for the creation of a regulated market, especially in kidneys. Because the black market is going to happen anyway.
Some common sense advice about business plan making by Seth Godin. Nothing new on the list really. Maybe it is his POV from marketing world the he sees a need for more realism. I have a feeling that people reading HN are very down to earth and doing their risk analysis carefully, so maybe advice about hyping your product would be more useful here. YMMV.
Great, thanks for the explanation. (I was indeed being dense - should have remembered the distinction between plugin and extension!)
Another solution might be to set the sourcing of JavaScript in a timeout, e.g. setTimeout(_sourceJavascript, 300). I think this will bypass the blocking nature. This is only based on my intuition thought - it isn't tested.

--

It's also important to note that window.onload will only fire when everything is loaded (including scripts and large images). To bypass this problem you should use something like jQuery.ready(document) or Dean Edwards onload hack ( http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2005/09/busted/ ).
It was a hard choice to make. :-/ But she'll be much better off with someone at home more often, with a backyard and a more active lifestyle/running with her. She was mainly black lab with some chow and pitbull so I took her to the dog park for a good 90 minutes every other day to keep her energy levels in check and not destroy the apartment too much haha.
what OS are you using now?
Very clever of Dell to release in Europe first where you still can't buy ipads from Apple.

Also nice of them to put voice in there right away, that alone makes it a much more useful device. Screen size is significantly smaller though, so it is definitely aimed at the phone market, not as an ipad competitor, though it could very well benefit from the tablet hype.

One thing apple does a lot better than dell here though is that when they announce something you can go and buy it. The streak, though announced is not for sale on their website.
It's okay that you're not using OpenID. It's a pain in the ass to use. It's one of the reasons I don't like using StackOverflow, for instance.
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It's too bad you're using a .ly domain. The mere association with Libya, and the fact that you're dealing with invoicing, makes me very uncomfortable.
I moved from Atlanta (I'm also a tech grad) to SF as well. I had to move back down to the south bay where it was at warm at least once a year. Since I landed a job before I went, they paid for the move, which in retrospect was a bad decision because I just ended up moving everything instead of selling/trashing the stuff I rarely use.
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You can use gmail's SMTP to send from any From: address. It'll add your gmail address into a Sender: field, though, which you might not want.
So now, not only do we have to worry about our own mistakes, we have to worry that 1 + 1 might be 3, while programming?
Great.
ha - ok already done :) (Edit: obviously)
I went to University and had a great time, but the seven years since I graduated have been far better. At University, it's easy to coast academically and socially and politically and creatively because good options are laid out in front of you. Outside University, you have to find everything yourself, and so you are much more likely to find the stuff that you really love.
yes but my ISP wont allow me to use any other SMTP server...
Too bad that most RSS feeds only contain the last ten items, not the whole archive.
Not to mention that it's a pretty lame trend that's bound to be over soon, and then it'll just look out of touch.
The last one in Tokyo went exceptionally well with "Show up, mingle, we'll do a round of self introductions, mingle while eating, mingle while at bar"
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"Many also stop you from using your own SMTP server (altho I don't understand why)."

Spam countermeasures, they usually block the port.

If you do follow up with this idea you will also have to find ways to prevent spam. Very troublesome.
I've never used a single-site browser, but I generally do make sure that my email is the only thing open when I'm visiting it (and clear private data to avoid anything weird in the cache beforehand).

Between that and noscript (and enough savvy to spot even slightly-wrong websites), I haven't had any problems. I don't think this attack would work on me because I've long kept email segregated from normal web browsing due to other attacks, which rely on you clicking malicious links while logged into the site they want to get your information from. So I would, if anything, just think I'd clicked on the wrong shortcut and close out of it rather than logging in. Score one for paranoia? I've never been infected by spyware/viruses/etc.
No.

You can't inject data in to a system using the power connector unless it is explicitly designed to do so because the first barrier you hit is the conditioning circuitry that will stabilize the voltage and will strip any data that you are trying to super-impose on top of the supply line in to the system. In other words you'd have to make a non-trivial modification to the iphone first. I'm using the words 'powerline' here in a bit of a weird way, because normally when you talk about powerline transmission you mean the household circuitry, not the lower voltage line in to the device, but strictly speaking that is also a 'power line'. More accurate would be the charging voltage or supply voltage.

And even if you got past that it would still be pretty much impossible to get a reliable effect from manipulating the input voltage to the various chips at a high rate, most likely if you managed to bypass the filtering circuitry all you'd manage to do by the time the voltage swing on the power line would be high enough would be to either damage or crash the phone.

'Real' powerline modems work by having a capacitive or inductive coupling with the powerline to retrieve the superimposed signal that was placed on the wire with a similar circuit, and will use a separate channel to transfer this information to some other device. You could integrate all that in to a single box but it would make it much harder to get approval for a device (because it would be connected to the mains voltage directly).

So if a device is not explicitly designed with this in mind you can't do it without modification.
Here is the research project that VoltDB is based on: http://db.cs.yale.edu/hstore/
Unfortunately collectively means that if you are the only one intelligent around stupid people, then your group is still considered stupid.
> If anything, Makefiles are too powerful and too close to turing complete.

"Close to"? Not a formal proof of Turing-completeness (and may only work with GNU make, not sure), but...

[me@host: ~]% cat fibo.mk
dec = $(patsubst .%,%,$1)

not = $(if $1,,.)

lteq = $(if $1,$(if $(findstring $1,$2),.,),.)
gteq = $(if $2,$(if $(findstring $2,$1),.,),.)
eq = $(and $(call lteq,$1,$2),$(call gteq,$1,$2))
lt = $(and $(call lteq,$1,$2),$(call not,$(call gteq,$1,$2)))

add = $1$2
sub = $(if $(call not,$2),$1,$(call sub,$(call dec,$1),$(call dec,$2)))

fibo = $(if $(call lt,$1,..),$1,$(call add,$(call fibo,$(call dec,$1)),$(call fibo,$(call sub,$1,..))))

numeral = $(words $(subst .,. ,$1))

go = $(or $(info $(call numeral,$(call fibo,$1))),$(call go,.$1))

_ := $(call go,)
[me@host: ~]% make -f fibo.mk
0
1
1
2
3
5
8
13
21
34
55
89
144
233
377
610
987
1597
^C
if its paid-for, with a monthly massage cap for example, this would be effective spam prevention no?
Well. invoice.xy where xy is anything that makes the whole domain pronounceable is hard to find. So I thought it was a good catch. I am aware that something.ly is a trend that will be over yes.
I've found the public-transit comparison decidedly more mixed than a clear "SF wins". Admittedly, I lived in midtown in Atlanta, and mostly went to other places that have good subway service: Decatur, downtown, Buckhead, the airport, etc. To get to other places, the buses are kind of lame, but I wouldn't say they're any more lame than Muni's terrible buses. I did have a car, but I rarely drove; probably once every few weeks, mostly to visit friends who lived in the suburbs. In SF, meanwhile, the city is geographically tiny and yet still somehow cannot run a decent public-transit system. I can jog from the Richmond or Sunset to Caltrain faster than Muni can get me there.

I will say that the Bay Area as a whole does suburban commuter rail better, because of BART and Caltrain. MARTA has a little of it, but it doesn't extend nearly as far outside the urban core as BART and Caltrain do. Though do note that if you plan to visit the Valley, there are plenty of places that aren't that easy to get to via Caltrain.
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Great article.

The prices of printers and other electronic products are constantly dropping, so the companies need to make a buck in other ways

Just as a point of note; this isn't a new phenomena like that line appears to suggest. This has been their business model for a goodly number of years now. Any cash they make on the printers has been, for the most part, a bonus.
In the general case, this sounds dubious. My parents ran a series of businesses together and spent the rest of their lives married; the old saying "mom and pop store" didn't come from nowhere. It may be different with a startup than with a small business, though.
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I agree, even as a super technology addict, I find OpenID to be super annoying, and I even have a friend who use to be the OpenID advocate. Heaven forbid I should tell him that though :)
Im not sure anyone will really make the association with Libya (I, for example, didn't know off hand that was where it was for).

I think you're right it is a current fad - and one that will end soon (all these fads are driven from the lack of available "good" domains I guess). But I am not sure it is a fatal choice; of course .ly is going to be lower performing than .com/.org/etc but I doubt by much - it also has the advantage of being quite "natural" to add/type.
> Either say "no bullshit" properly or drop it.

Or, you know, say "BS Free invoicing".
The question is, where to move next? Google Buzz?

There is identi.ca/status.net, but I think there were some issues. It should have synced with Twitter more (let me read my Twitter followers).

Personally I am still hoping for a world where everybody can host and own their own stuff, even if it seems unlikely at the moment.
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It's somewhat a joke "no bull*" and then a fox on the right. It might also have additional meanings :) bull invoicing vs fox invoicing

As I said to the paraschopra, this is sort of a test/joke and it will change according also to the feedback of people like you. So your comment is appreciated and will be part of the equation.

about app design. Thanks, we will try to improve it / make it less busy (although I don't like the Basecamp "template"). I want more focus on "effective" / aka gmail and similar apps. We will also iterate on color usage. Thanks for the link.

About "partners" , you notice a bug in screenshot that I missed. That is the old screenshot. App now uses term "Clients". I am fixing the screenshot imediatelly. THANKS!

About front page. You are right about mini, there will be not-mini :). I will try to make that part less consfusing.

Thanks a lot for very constructive feedback!
hehe :) haven't thought of that. I also like the form of the sentence better than what I used.
Well, somebody has to go the other way. If you haven't looked at Slackware lately, give it a shot. The advances in the kernel and KDE and XFCE make it a really nice environment now. Yes, it still has an ncurses installer, and yes, it still boots (at least the first time) to a command prompt. But the installer really is easy, and it takes changing one number in one file to boot to a log-in screen.

Once you're in your desktop environment, the biggest difference you'll see is that Slackware is more responsive and more stable. KDE 4.4 in particular has the non-technical user covered. XFCE is easy too, but you might want to add some packages (which Robby Workman always seems to compile and have available on his site). Oh, and you should install WICD from the extra folder on the DVD if you use wireless.

Slackware also has slackpkg in by default now. You have to do it at the command line, but it updates the official packages with two simple commands.

Updating to a new release is still not as easy as a lot of other distros, but that's one of the bullets that most probably should bite and reinstall from scratch once a year or so. And if you don't want to I'm sure a Slackware install will continue working at least as long as the Ubuntu LTS version.

The thing is, Slackware still gives you vanilla packages, but the advances throughout the system have made vanilla a whole lot richer.
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Normally they really shouldn't, but if you have a problem writing test cases (which probably means you have a problem programming to begin with) then you may not be testing with enough variation in your input to detect corner cases, tests that should come up false etc.

An example:

int fun(int a, int b) {
if (a >= b) {
return 1;
}
return 0;
}

now you could test this by saying:

fun(4,3) should give '1' as the output

and

fun(3,4) should give '0' as the output

But you'd miss to test for equality, with

fun(3,3) which should *also* give 1 as output

So you'd need an extra test for the '=' part of the condition. Replacing '>=' with '>' will still pass the first two tests, so if you forgot about the third you will not even realize something is wrong until your code starts breaking in mysterious ways.

Unit tests have to be just as good as the code you wrote.
Well, "it's just a name" :)

servers are in US and I am in EU if that makes you feel any better.
3. Basic/Starter are for example much more clear than mini.
Same here, Epson EPL-5800 for £150 about 8-9 years ago. Best investment ever. The toner is just about done, and I suspect that the drum is almost reaching its last few pages. I did replace the toner once in the past.

I'm just going to get another laser printer once its on its last legs.
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> About "partners" , you notice a bug in screenshot that I missed. That is the old screenshot. App now uses term "Clients". I am fixing the screenshot imediatelly. THANKS!

Ah, that makes more sense (the app still has the odd "partner" used in it btw)
I agree, and this is what happened when I last resigned from a job. I wanted to move abroad, so sat down with my boss and had a nice conversation about it. We set a rough timeline for five months, and then went about hiring my replacement and getting him trained up. I walked away with everything nicely in place, and I think it's been the best way I've left a job ever, no worries, bitterness, just things being the way they should be.
One trick the article didn't mention is that you can often get your payment a little faster by offering a small discount for early payment. They don't have to know that you price it in by adding a penalty fee for anyone who waits until the last second to pay you.