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Definitely a novel idea. From the feedback, your idea seems to have passed the test. There are some people interested in it, but they seem to be put off by the "creepy" design and lack of information.

The uniqueness of your site will be your strongest selling point... at least it's very possible it will grab you a ton of traffic. However, as it stands right now, that's more of a risk. Forgive me for being blunt: the site looks crappy.

I highly suggest taking it offline and cleaning it up a bit. List your features, the benefits, the options you have -- do any of these things -- before releasing it into the wild. You want to make the first wave of virality as advantageous as possible.

As far as the idea -- it's quick, easy, and instantly profitable. It's recurring. It (tries to) make people feel good. The idea "feels" right for this moment of time in the internet -- it's something I feel would be blogged about and gazed at because it's both absurd and potentially useful. All-in-all, really a stellar project to make some quick money.

Please, clean the site up before going any further. Since it's just 1 page, why not pay a designer? You can definitely find one that would be excited to work on this. Just do something to improve the appearance. I want to see this succeed.

Edit: And, personally, I think that stock photo kicks ass. It's the right tone - absurd, yet promising to be fun and exciting.
some of whom

I hope you meant some of which.
> If there's one program that is a performance and memory hog, it's a program that consumes a lot of memory and CPU.

If we're getting into this dumb meme, then FTFY.
Only true techies use 4square anyway. How many people do you know that actually use it? And if you live on the west coast, don't raise your hand.

I can also see this taking over Yelps as well. They have the same thing as 4square but probably not as popular.
Personally, I think it's brilliant. Even love the hokiness (assuming that's on purpose). It'll get passed around for fun, and a certain amount of people will try it.
Zack,

I am a fan, but your recent rash of "sites" is worrisome. You launched: HipHopGoblin (<1 year, down), CustomerFind (1< year ago), NYC-Chicago-Bus (49 days ago), EndAnts (23 days ag), CompassionPit (5 days ago!) and now this, AwesomenessReminders.

When do you even have time to improve, even promote, projects if you're tossing them on a weekly basis? It takes time to make anything monetizable, at least you need to create it first.

I think you're just an small sample of a generation of people who are coming to see businesses as just "idea + landing page". Sell, then build. A/B test today and build when the money piles up. etc. etc.

Slow down, for your own sake. Maybe even work on something you actually care about.

HipHopGoblin had a lot of potential, I used to listen to it; so you're at least capable of discovering and executing good ideas. You just need patience, and maybe someone to ask you "how's it coming?". Perhaps .. ProgressReminder?
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Signed up! I would be away at school most likely, but keen to be in the loop.
"Cash only" is pretty common in Southern Europe. The local first division soccer team is cash only and strangely, its hard to find solid numbers on how many folks were at the games.

From the cafes to big business to retirees who are collecting their meagre pensions but still working (and not paying tax on that income) its a huge issue; not just for the lack of tax dollars but also the fact that things would become very dark and difficult if it was all legit.
It sounds like there is some back-room drama, the kind of thing that 10 years down the road might help explain what's going on.

This said, I think Skype could still be quite successful in their IPO efforts. Market difficulties are unfortunate, but doesn't mean that 100% of IPOs are going to end badly.
What, no quick sort? And no heap sort?
I don't understand this at all. This seems kind of messed up in the same way that paying someone to be your friend violates the tenets of friendship.

However, the fact that this idea is being so well received makes me feel really awesome about my ideas. So thanks -- I guess your site is working.
This isn't about society asking about anything. First off, it's not asking if it's compulsory - it's forced. Second, it's not society it's a few people who are in control -- people who the majority of society things are doing a poor job, as evidenced by congress's approval numbers. These programs are always aimed at the young who have no political voice -- we don't hear about programs to force the elderly or those entering their forties to put their lives on hold so that can give back to society for a year or two -- there'd be outrage, yet when someone is young most don't think at all about the rights of those they are "asking to volunteer."

What does national service to for the nation? It robs people of productive time that could be spent pursuing an education or career. Things that improve the world around them.

Furthermore you second thought is fundamentally flawed, you do not lay a claim on anyone by merely being nice to them. How would you like it if I swept you sidewalk, raked your leaves, etc because I enjoyed the way it made the neighborhood looked and then came to you 10 years later and demanded payment for all the help I gave to you. Your parents, your environment, etc are all the responsibility of individuals carrying out their own will - they do it because it's what they want to do; they may not enjoy it, but they still want it done.

No one owes anyone anything when they did not enter into a formal agreement, the likes of which cannot be entered into by a child. This does not mean that you shouldn't help your neighbor, volunteer your time, donate money, etc - because you want to. But to lay claim, to demand that someone pay debts they did not incur on the threat of violence is a dangerous and unjust claim.

PS if any of this sounds inflammatory, please disregard -- all is intended as a polite philosophical discussion.
With the twilio API,and a small shell-script tucked into your /etc/cron.d, you can tell mom you love her several times a minute.
Yep. Large donors also like to only pay for constructing buildings, not maintaining them.
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I might soon take the plunge and start working on a few startup ideas full-time (bit of saved money), and I was wondering whether I should do this from another country. Being European, moving around there doesn't cause any big legal complications. I live in Bavaria, Germany, and while it's a really nice place (especially after spending quite some time in New Jersey recently), it ain't exactly cheap. Going east and/or south would probably make for cheaper rents and a generally lower cost of living. As I still could aim my business (and possibly small contract jobs) at higher-paying economies, this seems like a good way to stretch my savings and thus give me more time to focus.

Still, I wonder whether getting accustomed to a new country, learning the language etc. won't distract too much.

So it would be great if anyone has some experiences about that, or has some nice cities/countries to recommend…
What are some good articles on why X loves Clojure?
>Your response is more misleading than the article

Well maybe, but i feel like you are purposedly misunderstanding me. This was not a rant about clojure, but about the article, yet you take my quotes out of their original context and make it seem like so.

> Not if you have a GIL.

Ok, fair point. But that's not the question. The OP was claiming functionnal programming made parallelization a breeze, which is a very stereotypical position you hear a lot lately. Well, the kind of parallelization which is made a breeze by FP is also the kind that is very easy, not in any language, but in any language claiming to have parallelization features, cf. delirium's answer.

> Yet far less tedious and simpler than writing a C module, or a C library binding

Okay, i was merely reacting to the claim that "anything you can do in java you can do in clojure". Which, for taking your comparison, would be like saying "anything you can do in C you can do in Python". Okay not exactly like that, but the fact remains. The impression the OP gives in this regard is that , since there is this java interop, the library problem is solved. Well no, it is not, and very far from it. If this kind of bullshit marketing talk went away, you'd see less newbies complaining in #clojure or on the group about how it's hard to do X.

> Uncle Bob taps into a community that's quite different from the language enthusiast crowd of HN.

But i'm commenting on HN, not on his blog. This is for a reason. I'm judging the interrest of the article relatively to the crowd here.

On a side note, i did not even notice it was Uncle Bob. If i had, my rant would have been even worse, or i would not had written it maybe. It does indeed exhibit the same emptyness i feel from every of his articles. Maybe it's a good article, and i'm overly critical, and i should probably try and write my own article about why i love clojure, to realize it's not necessarily that easy. But i have a very bad reaction to marketing talk.
What happened with domains over the last 20 years (landrush) happened with property hundreds of years ago. Governments basically gave it away to ex-convicts (in Sydney, Australia for example) to own and do with as they please. Over time, the land was bought and sold and now modern day Sydney sits on that land. This will happen with domains over time. And, unlike land we can create new tlds like .jobs .travel etc.
not struggling with it, just hating it. if you think about it, small teams that communicate well do not need to have formal daily meetings and story boards. therefore agile is a crutch. this is analogous to how people who have social adjustment problems resort to drugs like a crutch - its a structured externalized way of coping with ones deficiencies.

also real software engineers use waterfall. imagine for a moment, engineers on the joint strike fighter project creating user stories and attending standup meeting every day to discuss their progress.

i dont know. in the good old days, we called meeting in real time, and huddled in a conference room when needed. this is how its always worked, and if the team is not made of dysfunctional developers it works wonderfully.
"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country."

Seems to still hold true... the countries in question just might be different.
There was a link to the heapsort at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXAjiDQbPSw
Low taxes might be better; you can certainly make that case. However, what he's saying is that a large amount of people don't pay low taxes because that's the sort of system they put in place through due political process. They pay low taxes because they are cheating the system. That has a lot of very unpleasant effects: shifting more of the tax burden to those the state can collect from, creating tension and mistrust between different groups of people, and creating a general sense of disregard for the rule of law.
Not even that. It gives you the right to say most anything you want without retribution from the government. It doesn't compel your employer, a private entity, to do anything.
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"Zeal to promote the common good, whether it be by devising anything ourselves, or revising that which hath been laboured by others, deserveth certainly much respect and esteem, but yet findeth but cold entertainment in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion instead of love, and with emulation instead of thanks: and if there be any hole left for cavil to enter, (and cavil, if it do not find a hole, will make one) it is sure to be misconstrued, and in danger to be condemned."
It's a cliched rhetorical device, not a meme.
I went to a Startup Camp run by Bart Jellema a couple of years ago and was quite impressed by his skills especially on the networking/organisational side of things. This is promising as much of what makes ycombinator great is the exposure and contacts being involved creates.

Looking forward to seeing the first batch come through!
I once ran a grep on my personal postfix mailserver's logs. Turns out I would constantly 550 bounce spam for email addresses that didn't exist for my domains. Thousands of connections a day, all looking for adam@, barry@, charles@... and down an alphabetical list.

That, on top of the relay requests, would fill up a single day's logfile 5 times faster than authorized traffic.
I live in one of countries with the highest taxing (The Netherlands). And we are doing fine, really. I know of no one who lost their jobs. Yes, unemployment rate went up a bit, but not that much compared to other countries. In daily live, crisis was barely noticeable.

We had a welfare system since the second world war, and it works well for us. I went to the USA many times, the first I was really surprised to see a lot of poor people. Then I realized how good it is to be a Western-European citizen.
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I personally still find it easier to focus on work and eliminate distractions when I'm at the office. That, and the ability to quickly discuss a problem with colleague or bounce a solution off him or her exposing flaws is great. No high typing speed can replace live human interaction, IMO.
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I actually like the overall idea but the general site layout needs a lot of work. Here's a few quick things that came to mind for me -

1) I would not trust your site with my phone number in its current state. Consider emphasizing the fact that phone numbers will only be used for the sake of these calls and not resold (way too many of those ringtone sites resell phone numbers and consumers are now wary of any similar looking services).

2) consider adding some sample calls for people to listen to, I think this may boost your conversion rate.

3) Can I request to be called at a certain time or timeframe? I wouldn't want to be woken up

4) I could see a lot of people opting for a one time payment to get a single phone call to test the service out, you may want to consider adding that as an option.
My incandescent bulbs are nearly 100% efficient for about 75% of the year here. Heat is not always a waste byproduct.
> The welfare programs in Germany have worked for some time (started around 1900, IIRC).

I'd say Germany 1900 to 1950 is a pretty compelling argument against government authority and managing of the economy and welfare of the people.
The guy seems a bit like the Indian version of Doug Nassaur.
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This reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGYYRr6DOSo , but with real people!
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That is by far the coolest sounding of the bunch.
Could be... we don't know.

The lack of transparency and the potential downside is concerning, no?
Can you explain pt.3 ? I thought it is otherwise. People on work visa (after grad degree from US and not imported directly from bodyshops) work a lot better and do not display qualities you mentioned. Am I mistaken?
What do you imagine would determine frequency?
The '+' addresses just allow you to trace the who spilled the beans about your email address. Chances are that if NewEgg.com sells an email list to a spammer (or their customer database is hacked), that the spammer won't give two shits about stripping out the '+' part of the email addresses. It's no skin off the spammer's back if you now know that NewEgg.com leaked your email.
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iOS Safari stops displaying images after 6.5MB. This limitation is just one of the many reasons I don't see HTML5 taking over from native apps any time soon. If it is an artificial limit, I wonder if Apple are deliberately limiting the browser so "serious" browser based apps are forced to go through the app store.

I have been able to replicate the problem on the iPhone and iPad browser versions of Google Maps, so it doesn't look like some sites are getting preferential treatment. I've logged the problem as a bug with Apple so hopefully they get around to fixing it soon.
That was really cool. Is the speed indicative of the speed of the sort?
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I think they were well aware of this. The goal of the management is to remove the sun culture and replace it with Oracle culture as soon as possible.

The hardcore believers who are leaving simply helps Oracle.
Daniel, thanks for the great post and abundance of quality video footage.
No would only happen if they started to print currency (which they can't even do).

Greece debt may be denominated in Euros, but that is the only thing it would have in common with German debt.
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> Greece is going to have to learn to rely more on itself, which means stripping down government expenses.

I never understand this logic. I'll agree that building an economy on payments from the EU is bad. But now that that damage has been done, how exactly do you then make the jump to the concept that government expenses are an instance of not relying on yourself?

You're right, inflating the currency would help (if they weren't on the euro) but if you have high nationwide unemployment, the private sector isn't employing people, and they need to be employed to have health insurance, then the government should start paying these people to dig holes and fill them in again.
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It's in threads like this that I really miss being able to collapse an entire comment thread.
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The article said this was done by Janet Napolitano's staff. Napolitano is the former Democratic governor of Arizona who was put in place by Obama, so I think it's fair to criticize him here.

Bush did have issues with FOIA, though, but they were quite different from investigating the politics of people making requests. Specifically, under Bush, agencies were supposed to deny as many requests as possible. I don't believe Bush ever had the DHS looking into who was requesting what (at least, not that we know of). After all, the DHS had no permanent leadership until Obama appointed Napolitano.
And even more efficient yet if people throw out their trash. The point is that people don't hire workers to clean up trash where I see all of it.
How did this get upvoted?
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There's a lot of effort been put in to this, I like it.

I love that you can hear the bubbling in bubble sort :D
The ability to sort by "Agony" is damn funny. I have to say their visual representation of all of the flights available from takeoff to touchdown, while being entirely unique (looks like a Gantt chart), is incredibly intuitive.
After serious searching, I found that the 1005PE and 1005PR are good models. The 1005PE has a '14 hours' battery life, and the 1005PR has '11 hours' battery live, but with increased screen resolution and a built-in HD decoder chip (allowing it to play 1080p). [The only issue with the 1005PR was that a lot of people were complaining about getting products with the HD chip missing or non-functional out-of-the-box.] I'm typing this on a 1005PE now. My only complaint is that I couldn't upgrade to 4GB of RAM (which I'm not necessarily hugely upset about).
>"You have to make a choice - you can be somebody or you can do something."

Can you clarify what this means? Both "I'm going to be a somebody" and "I'm going to do something about it" seem affirmative.
I'm dying to know if anyone has actually signed up for this service. Are you seeing any revenue? How many people?!
I second the parent's comments. I'm living in Greece at the moment (am actually on a ferry to the islands typing this right now) and the country, which of course has seen better days, is still humming along strongly. The cafes are packed, the hotels are booked, and people are living, I assure you, a spectacularly fortunate life. One of the primary disconnects is that the economy has traditionally been cash based, and to an extent still is. This means much of the money coming in and out of the country is not declared, making accurate statistics of the country's financial health difficult at best.

People are anxious and have been through a lot, no doubt, but the exaggeration by the media is extraordinary. Though, I have to admit, I don't blame the ship owners for repairing in other ports. The bureaucracy and union strikes are maddening drains on productivity.
My biggest complaint is that no one is designing a netbook with TrackPoint rather than a trackpad. (Lenovo doesn't count, b/c their netbook offerings have been horrid.)
I can respect both ways - I left home at 16, but I once got to know an Australian guy who was still living at home when he got a job in finance, lived on a ramen-and-no-fun budget even while making $60k per year, and invested it all into real estate and became quite wealthy.

I used to think people who don't move out are lame or scared, but then I came to Asia. It's normal here - you don't move out until you get married, but you save the money for a house, kids, whatever. Someone who lives at home and then blows their cash on junk is in the worst of both worlds.
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"The biggest risk in a startup is not whether someone will steal your idea or if you can build a product but rather that no one will care"

a lot of people will obsess over NDA's and the like, thinking that people will care SO much as to steal their idea. when in reality what's quoted above is so true, the greatest risk being that people won't actually care enough about the product.
This is great to see. There are some pretty good people involved with the program too, which gives me hope that companies going though this will actually get something useful from it.
Sadly no; I suspect that if he's lowering the bar here, he has to unreasonably raise it somewhere else to make him look like he's doing his job. Considering the infamous reasons apps have been rejected, I'm not sure I'm wrong on this.
Nope, no user scripts or plug-ins. This is the second time this has happened in the past few days. Once it happens it'll be consistently like that for all my searches in that browser for the hours following. I inspected the source a bit and it definitely seems like an intentional structure. I was shocked too..
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I don't really get how this became a big deal at any point in the process. Yarlagadda should know to ignore random anonymous negative comments on something completely unrelated. And the Skype executives should know to ignore that too, and also ignore Yarlagadda's plea for positive testimonials. While Yarlagadda obviously got too involved over the comments, I don't see how it could or should lead to leaving Skype; it's understandable that someone would want friends to counteract a lot of negative press. Seems Yarlagadda's mistake was bringing too many soft acquaintances into the loop.

But I still don't get what any of it has to do with anything. If he spent all day at Skype browsing that thread trying to counteract or report or drown out that thread instead of doing any work, then I can see it, but so what if he took a comment thread on the internet a little personally? It happens to the best of us every now and again.
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You've answered your own question: Use ARM and install a reasonable Linux Netbook distro (not the lame rubbish they install at the moment).