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Could you explain what you do when you do TM? What's the main focus? The TM.org website just seems to want to sell the method.
> It is not clear that we're allowing restaurants to create a mobile version of their website?

It isn't. The biggest text you have up there is 'Mobile websites for Restaurants'. That might mean you do contract work for restaurants looking to create mobile websites. Which you aren't. May be interpreted both ways - I think your explanation in the post above was clearer.
I set something like this up myself with a Safari plugin. One thing I learned rather quickly:

nobody searches with capital letters, so hitting the shift key to make a ":" is a pretty big cost. Just use "g <search>", and detect prefixes you know; it's much faster and less awkward to use.
I'm surprised not to see anybody mention Nozbe.

It's been around quite a while as a web app, and does a great job of balancing simplicity with functionality and features. The web interface is excellent for just letting you get on with what you want to do - i.e. things work just as you'd expect, and there are no frustrating UI punishments for doing things 'the wrong way'. The iPhone counterpart has recently had a major overhaul and is now just as slick and easy to use.

It's pretty hacker friendly, too - for example, you can export all your task info to a plaintext file, edit it however you like, and later re-import. There's a simple syntax for adding new tasks with metadata by email or Twitter.

I'd highly recommend giving it a try.
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> "It's impossible that it's nonsense. To be nonsense, it would require a conspiracy among the field's thousands of practitioners and most of their students and admirers."

This doesn't follow. There are many other ways it could be nonsense, as demonstrated by countless erudite groups from Nebuchadnezzar's astrologers to the Inquisition. None wants to be the one who "doesn't get it".

Moreover, the participants you list--practitioners, students, admirers--are hardly impartial.

Their interests in the emperor's clothes are well vested.
I think their bad communication just makes things works (as far as I see).
Swimming is so fundamental to a persons survival that, according to Judaism, it is one of the four obligations a father owes his children:

“Teach them Torah, teach them a trade, teach them to swim and find them a wife.”
Hmm. good idea. Maybe I'll try this.
Worse is when you find those dead ends while working for somebody who doesn't understand software. I've seen consultants stiffed for weeks of billable hours for researching technologies they were specifically asked to research.

"In the end, it was faster to roll our own than integrate X, and we'll be able to move quicker in the future."

"Then why did you waste all that time playing with X???"
FWIW, these were used quite a bit back in the dark-ages.

Always thought of them as a halfway point between pure CSS and Netscape's idea of implementing stylesheets in Javascript.
Assuming you've looked into it, how impossible is it to license all of a school's admission data (i.e. every applicant's GPA, SAT, and admission status) in some anonymous format?

I would have loved a tool that that would let me enter a GPA and SAT score and then using actual data could tell me that 500 students with comparable stats (like +/- 0.1 for GPA and +/- 50 for SAT) applied to school X last year and 380 were admitted.
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Explain it to us.
It was interesting to see MS buy up several location-based companies in the early 2000s. They always seem to be so ahead of the curve on concept, just not on execution.
You're talking about two bombs on relatively unimportant targets, specifically because they wanted relatively untouched cities to erase as a demonstration. That won't kill as many people as years-long bombing campaigns on more populous cities. They were staged demonstrations, not attempts to kill massive amounts of people.

If Japan didn't surrender after the first two atom bombs, the next half dozen would have undoubtedly caused much, much more damage.
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I had no idea they grew Cabernet grapes in Japan. Certainly something to check out!
Agree with Spuz - it's hard to recognize the screenshots as a 'website' (as the lines between app and website are a bit blurry on mobile devices). Let's say a restaurant has a normal website, and a potential customers google's them on his phone and browses to the normal website on his phone. How is he going to get on to the mobile version? Should the restaurant set up detection and a redirect?
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Hey, I remember you from poker! Glad to see you're doing well. I'm assuming zerocater's just for companies in SF at the moment, not someplace nearby like Burlingame?
We spent months on an in depth analytics tool for our users.

Most of them don't have an idea what the data means. It's over their heads, so we missed the mark audience wise.
Clickable Ledger link:
http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger/

People who use ledger seem to universally swear by it. It's been on my list of things to play with but I haven't gotten to it yet.

I wonder if you couldn't build a server and web front-end for it, in the same vein as GitHub for git. They even identify the problem begging to be solved:

"Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. This may put off some users, as there is no flashy UI, but for those who want unparalleled reporting access to their data, there really is no alternative."
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Why not! Youtube did so knowingly, according to court documents, and look how it worked for that Google division.
I got the message that you were offering to create mobile sites for restaurants, but maybe it's because I'm already used to the idea. I think you may be overestimating how many people have and understand smartphones, though. According to slide 62 of the Morgan Stanley “The Mobile Internet Report Setup” you link on the front page, there's only a 25% percent penetration (est 40% by the end of the year). After a quick skim through the presentation, I don't see your 42% anywhere, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking for.

Anyways, the point is that you're not marketing to the smartphone users. You're marketing to people that probably don't have a smartphone, and may not know how people would use one to discover their site. Showing the different paths in a video or chart would be a good idea. Better might be to set something up with an existing customer with a horrible, flash-filled, pdf-menu'd main site. Get them to agree to let you post a video of what it was like before they got you, and how unusable the site is, even if you somehow get a direct link to the pdf menu.

Disclaimer: I'm not a businessperson or a restaurant owner.
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1) Yes!

2) Both, I guess. For users not familiar with GAAP, you could ask them to choose the type of transaction - Receipt, Payment, Bank Transfer etc., and receive the entry in a single-entry form.

Power users would prefer double entry. IMHO, the data should always be internally represented as double entry so that you can extract proper accounting reports.

I'd built a DOS based software 4 years back that followed my idea of what a simple accounting software should look like. I'd thought on building the web version of it many times, but stopped short of taking the plunge.

If you're interested I'll share the code - you can run it on DOSBox. My mail id jasim dot ab at gmail com
Don't get impatient: For me, there was a delay of several minutes between HTTP-request and its response.
Ask HN: Simple web app marketing
One-liner: What are the best ways to go about marketing a web app?

Long version: I've perused various HN posts via searchyc, and have found some gems, such as the post from Balsamiq: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=267639

However, it seems like it's pretty hard to get buzz or coverage about any random web app in a grassroots fashion. All the big tech blogs have channels for submitting tips, but it's more like sending something into the ether and hoping it sticks. People have mentioned e-mailing bloggers/journalists directly, big and small alike, but I'm unsure of how to start compiling a list of names. It's hard enough trying to attract users, and it's even harder to get taken seriously enough to get some coverage without a userbase. Chicken-and-the-egg problem indeed.

I guess posting about the web app to HN or Reddit is a start, but where does one go from there? I've blanketed various small and mid-level web app directories/blogs and experimented with AdWords, but I feel like there's got to be more.
The multiplayer mode of my Android game "Laska". There are just not enough active players to make it work.

But I like the feature because its based on AppEngine and XMPP, so it doesn't have any costs and will probably be available forever. (forever on the internet means sth. like 2-5 years)
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Spot on. I'm sorry to hear about your story but it really nails the point home. I was also a lifeguard and a competitive swimmer in my youth, and realized after some time that the single best training I ever had for escaping an active drowning victim was playing water polo! You really have to think of the victim as an adversary, keep a firm grip, and have practiced being extremely stable in the water to manage it.
Thanks, guys! I don't know why I hadn't even seriously considered Amazon for this. FPS Marketplace seems to have all the pieces I'm looking for. It does seem to involve a few more steps than Paypal. barmstrong's point about people not thinking of Amazon as a third-party payment service also seems valid.

Thanks for pointing me to Amazon though. I'll look into it some more.
Recovering philosopher here.

> Philosophical arguments about objects in “reality” having a certain metaphysical essence are somewhat dubious. Does wood really have a wood-ness? (No, but certain types of wood have certain properties, especially when examined through human instruments.)

I don't think anyone right now (in anglophone analytical philosophy) conflates predication with identity.

But there is an interesting and far-reaching debate about so-called natural kinds (typically water, gold etc.). In fact a widespread view is that, after Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, water does indeed have an essential wateriness beyond its surface characteristics. This has interesting consequences in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds).

> Do I really have a fundamental me-ness? (No, my behavior and personalities are situation-dependent and have little to do with Zachary Burt the human being.)

I've never met you, but I'm sure that your behaviour and personality has _something_ to do with you the human-being. Doesn't your body behave?!

You may also be interested to know that many people have very different intuitions from yours. One in particular from John Perry, is roughly that first-person indexicals cannot be parsed out in terms of other descrptions (the essential indexical).

> Indeed, any description of something has to be argued in such a way that it can be understood or articulated through the faculties of the Homo sapiens.

In what way are descriptions argued?
Make it an iPad app?
We all knew this was coming. Nevertheless, when asked, Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman recommended:

"...that users whose accounts had been misused dispute the charges with their card companies..."

Aha. So Apple's technology is misused and the onus to fix any monetary liabilities lies with the consumer.

Nice.

This kinda dovetails with the whole the-feds-need-to-enact-civil-digital-protection-laws that blanket protect people from this kinda crap regardless of what any one companies ToS may or may not say.
I pretty much agree with everything this user said. We were rejected by BrainTree as well. We didn't want to use Amazon because the user experience wouldn't have been all that great. Requiring users to go offsite and have an Amazon account was a deal breaker for us.

We did find a merchant that worked with us. Contact me via email (jaisen(at)textbookrevolt.com) and I can get you in touch with the account rep we worked with.
What a great news, thank you. I've been waiting for this feature for a long time and Things is really great, in terms of UI and features and GTD experience, more user-friendly than remember the milk IMO.
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Please do, I'd owe myself a try without docs. I've tried everything too.
If someone can say no, they do not need the Heimlich -- at worst, they have a partially occluded airway, in which case using a finger to try to sweep the object out, or turning the person face down so the object falls out, is the correct course of action. (of course, if someone is non-verbally communicating no, then what you say applies, but I'd still be getting into position, and gesturing either sweep the mouth themselves, or use a convenient chair to do it.)
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Konqueror has this feature since ages.
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And thats the most awesome feature ever.
As noted, HN doesn't ask for your real name (and I would never write anything of substance if it did). Yet it doesn't decay to /b/ because pg included tools to promote signal vs. noise and sometimes even steps in to moderate, and because it still has a critical mass of people who want to maintain its tone. There are workable steps short of making people unemployable.
Although no quantum physicist by any stretch, I have read enough to know that you can't just throw a word like quantum psychology around.

The question is not whether I have heard of it but whether such a breakthrough discovery has been made that we can talk about Quantum Psychology.

Let me remind you that with regards to quantum mechanics there are three areas that need to be covered.

The mathematical part (which is relatively easy and proven)
The experimental part (which is also proven (Bells theorem))
And the philosophical part (i.e. what does this all mean)

The latter is by no measurement proven or done with yet.

There are several competing interpretations from the Copenhagen interpretation to M-Theory/Many Worlds/Minds theory.

None of them have successfully been able to create a consistent theory that embed both the classical local world view and the quantum mechanical world non-local world view.

So excuse me for not just jumping on the wagon of a cool sounding theory but fundamentally unsupported theory from a non physicist.

But you where right in your interpretation of what I said. Quantum Psychology does sound like bullshit. Not because I haven't heard of it but because there is no basis to claim it on. There might be with time who knows, but right now, you will be hard pressed to find any well respected physicists who would support such a concept.
You should checkout Xero.com and Saasu.com and see what room there is in the market for what you're proposing.
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I also recommend setting up the tracking code on a dev environment to get used to the interface & how it reports :)
I've got that as a feature in friendbinder and no one uses it.
Then you could just create a new account!
Right now about a quarter of respondents have 1TB or more, so while I'm not in the majority, it seems I'm in good company. 47% of respondents seem to be in the 100GB-1TB bracket as of right now.

Here's the breakdown of my data (largish categories only)

==BUSINESS CRITICAL==

* 5GB of codebases I've committed to in the last 3 years.

* 50GB worth of software. Mostly development tools. Five different versions of XCode, I actually use most of them every day (scary, I know…)

* 50GB of VM images I use for development. I could rebuild them, but I really don't want to.

* 80GB on my boot volume. Stuff I would backup if and only if I want a live, bootable backup. Save me a lot of time during a restore.

* 5GB in ebooks; primarily used for reference / searching

* 20GB in music

* 20GB in scanned documents, mostly financial and legal paperwork, contracts, etc.

* 15GB of e-mail

==OTHER THINGS AVAILABLE NOWHERE ELSE==

* 250GB of samples/patches/instruments that I've built over the years and songs I've written (I play keyboards for fun). Not business critical, but I'd be sad if I lost it.

* 20GB of backups from computers I used to own growing up. The nostalgia of that game I was coding in middle-school, etc.

* 100GB in learning resources I've collected over the years that are out of print or otherwise unavailable anywhere else. Not useful to me (anymore), but sharing them with others is valuable to both me and them.

* 20GB of home video

* 13GB in personal photos

==THINGS I DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD AGAIN==

* 375GB of Apple Development videos. I refer to these fairly regularly. I typically watch a few each day to keep up-to-date.

* 20GB of Steam games

Looking at this list, sure, I could live without some of it. But a lot of it is pretty important, and it would be nice to back up most of it.
Don't think of this as lifeguard training,but you've basically got to get them over one shoulder or under an arm, then across the torso, while using your hip and a strong kick to basically pin them against your side so they have the least possible leverage to twist around and hug/climb you. Then you have to figure out how to swim them back with one arm. Sometimes it takes a couple tries. While a passive victim is closer to death the situation is usually safer for the rescuer, especially if inexperienced or untrained.
"But there is an interesting and far-reaching debate about so-called natural kinds (typically water, gold etc.). In fact a widespread view is that, after Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, water does indeed have an essential wateriness beyond its surface characteristics. This has interesting consequences in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind "

I have a hard time understanding what this characteristic would be that isn't emerging from our interpretation of reality rather than reality as such.

Or am I missing something?
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My dad fought in WWII, at Okinawa. His unit had a 120% casualty rate or so--the entire unit, plus 20% of the replacements. According to him, one of the reasons we had so few Japanese prisoners is because the Marines weren't especially interested in taking prisoners. The intelligence officers were quite displeased at that.
I was under the impression that you were taught to ask if they wanted help to determine if they were legitimately choking to death or not. Is it possible for someone who is truly choking to respond to a question about if they want help or not?
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It was long suspected--no less by the Soviets--that another motive for the atomic bombings was to warn off Stalin. (Of course, there were enough idealistic traitors in the Manhattan Project that Stalin knew all about it and got his very own atomic bombs a few years later, so the joke was on us.)
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Dynamic/compiled should be orthogonal, but rarely have been in practice. Witness PHP, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Python.
Considering the fate of the parts of Europe which ended up occupied by the Russians, it's probably good for Japan that they ended up surrendering the way they did.
I assume you are using git to manage your home directory.
I use gibak[1] for the same(built on top of git). Out of curiosity, what is your setup like?

[1] http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction
And importantly, learn to recognise a rip so that you never get in one. As I remember as a kid growing up in Australia, you can tell a rip when you can see the curl and break of a wave on either side of a part of a wave, but not in the middle. This is caused by the water that is flowing from the beach back out to sea.

Also, if you get tired don't fight the rip because you will risk drowning. Float on your back and wait for help.
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I'm surprised how much I agree. Werkzeug, Jinja2, and SQLAlchemy are fantastic pieces of software and a great foundation for any web app.
The TC article is a bit childish, but I laughed pretty hard when they reproduced the entire AP oil spill article.
Startups - Is all press good press?
Have been lucky enough for my new startup Shoply (social commerce platform) to have been featured on a few major blogs recently.

The features were positive and I am super grateful for them, but they contained factual errors regarding our feature set and competitive landscape etc which as a result erroneously bought into question facets of our strategy.

We provided the blogs with information prior to their posts which obviously contained the correct information and tried to ensure the journalists were well informed prior to posting.

If you've had similar occurrences in the past, how have you dealt with them?

1 - Contact the journalist and risk being a pain and jeopardising a future relationship by asking for the post to be put straight?

2 - Policing the comments and trying to get the correct story across there?

3 - Just let things be. And live by the motto "all press is good press"?