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Your entire post seems to be a rant on google testing designs that would be "obvious" for most designers. I am a designer I don't think I agree that some of the things you say are obvious are that obvious. I also believe that line of attack completely ignores all the gold google runs into in the form of non-obvious optimal solutions. So while a majority of tests might return the obvious solution as the optimal one, a minority may return non-obvious optimal solutions. You completely ignore that possibility.

With that said, I agree, I hate google Instant. It's a shiny object that may have limited shelf-life.
I read a book by Focault in which he said similar things about the evolution of efficiency in the military. There was a correlation between the number of precise movements of the armies and its efficacy. This was before modern wars.
Do you have a reason to guess that it isn't "these people are suckers" or something similar?
Have a look at the data structures in "How to roll your own Window manager" (http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/roll-your-own-window...) for a nice example.
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When you run a corporation you have a fiduciary responsibility to it. He would be doing something immoral if
he didn't do what was best for Microsoft.

This is a meme that desperately needs to die. I don't care how true it is legally. If the law says that then the law is an ass. Some moral principles override legal requirements. If you're in a position in which you can't do what's morally right within the bounds of the law then you shouldn't be in that position in the first place.
partner with a re-targeting company or a behavioural-targeting network that lets them place a cookie.

this way no ad needs to be shown, you can work on some annual deal with the partner for the first year, and your audiences see more relevant content/ads as they leave your widget since the network knows a little bit more about what the visitors interests are courtesy of your widget. also since this is not personally non identifiable data - there's no harm to users also.

i could give you more gyan, if you could contact me personally @bosky101

~B
I just patched Diaspora to work on Heroku, if anyone wants to do that: http://github.com/jarinudom/diaspora/

I submitted a pull request but I think they are asleep :)
You got your javascript widget and your noscript tag. You could even stick some regular HTML with a link (possibly an image instead of text) below those. Your users will copy-paste the widget along with your link.

This is a pretty strong SEO technique. You should be doing that already. You don't need to stick unrelated links there, just link back to your Twitter-themed site.
Thats called the uncanny valley
I don't know. I think Google Chrome has the best default UX of any browser I've used. And I wouldn't say anything about that was incremental...
Oracle will work with the OpenJDK code base and the OpenJDK community like Sun did.

That means ignoring the community?

For example:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6351276
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Read the email, it's obvious when you see it in context.

Very tired and pegatron is giving me problem again. Threaten to stop project again for reasons that they the payment to be early. Really sucker, these people, anyways, still got to deal with them.."

He's clearly tired of dealing with these people who suck. Nothing in the email says in any way that he is suckering the people in.

Just remove the 'er' and it's clear what he is saying:

Very tired and pegatron is giving me problem again. Threaten to stop project again for reasons that they the payment to be early. Really suck, these people, anyways, still got to deal with them.."

The other techcrunch interpretation makes little sense in the context of this email.
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Web based political campaign management-why no major players yet?
why aren't there major players for a dedicated web based political campaign management platform?

Not for dearth of capital/ monetization risks .. if it were proved benficial, then politicians would be pumping money into the same.

For the last few years, social networking has tailored to a particular niche..

Linkedin- Jobs/career
Ning -private social networks
academia.edu - Social networking for Researchers
and so on.
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Our partner, Fusion Garage, had inexplicably decided to simply terminate the partnership over “nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.”

Michael Arrington is simply quoting himself from the previous article about CrunchPad:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/
How about: "Save", "Go back to editing", "Leave without saving". "Cancel" may just be too ambiguous.
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> When will the MSM learn to just cover the facts & then STFU?

The moment people will pay for facts in stead of for entertainment. Advertisers will pay for eyeballs, if you don't have eyeballs you can have all the facts you want it isn't going to make a business.
You would be an innovator. Whether assassinations are within the rules is a question I am not qualified to answer. It IS within the rules in some places and not others, I suspect that evolves over time.
Minor nitpick: There's no such thing as a two-way hash.
But why require a username, then?
Visit /r/DepthHub and its subreddits or even /r/TrueReddit. It's not bad if you don't visit the most popular parts of the site.
It's because they are obliged to ask these questions anyway, because someone has an idea that it'd maximize the sales.
Anyone have another link to the video? It's loading really slow for me.
How about getting rid of the button and just making the first example part of the starting page?
I think this quote is an open license to spider googles search results in return.

Google should not want to have data that people protect using something as simple as their robots.txt file, the fact that Schmidt would go on the record to suggest that he would go around means google has just lost a lot of goodwill points when it comes to people abusing google.
Stick with PHP since you are already comfortable with it.

I've tried using Drupal but it's too damn complicated to get going. CodeIgniter is still based on PHP4. If you think that's a good idea, I guess CI is an option. There's also Kohana which started as a PHP5 fork of CI. I've used it a little bit and while I don't love it, it's not awful either.

Wordpress has plenty of flaws but it's probably the best option if you want to get your store up and running soon. There is a plugin for anything you might want to do. Specifically there is the WP eCommerce plugin which has grown a lot and there's plenty of people to provide paid support when needed.

Link: http://getshopped.org/

Besides making a completely WP-based store, you can run it on Magento, osCommerce, hosted solutions, etc and you can bet there's a plugin or a guide to help you integrate those with WP.

So, should you use a framework or a CMS? It comes down to whether you want to implement everything yourself, or use an already proven eCommerce platform.

If no platforms fulfill your requirements, it's a choice between hacking other people's code or building it mostly from scratch. Sometimes it's just as hard to do the latter as it is to figure out how someone else's tangled spaghetti code works.

In conclusion, go RTFM and see if there's something that will do the job out of the box.
How about: Have one big button for Quick Start, like you do, and either adding some buttons for "Wedding Quick Start", "Company" etc below that button.

Or on the page you land on after hitting "Start Now" keep your editable page, but also add those more specific buttons at the top (and also one with "Nah, leave me alone." to get rid of them).

You can also get rid of the "Start Now" button and just allow people to get started on the front page. (Have your invariable welcome section at the top, but put the edit area below. And of course you will need a good idea for how to get the URL of the newly created temporary page to your users.)
I would love to see Go on GAE, and yes I generally love to make obvious statements that have been made countless times before ;-)
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I could probably build something like that on top of ronniers API, not sure because I haven't had a chance to look at it and the api page is not loading for me at the moment.
What is the point of Go? What niche does it fill? Is it easy to start working with Go and integrate existing C libraries with it?
nice feature but Go is available online at http://ideone.com since several months
I agree. I have come to the same conclusion that going with a PHP based solutions is the best option. In fact, right now, I don't have the time to learn a new platform as well.

That said, I've started thinking on a different line since I posted this question. Instead of going with a CMS or a framework, I think it will be much easier and quicker to go with a dedicated E-Commerce application like Opencart, ZenCart etc.
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>> "what do you think?"

until now i thought there were only 3 stages of startups. thanks for introducing me to the fourth kind.

.stages of a startup.

if you do nothing at all, you might start at a -1 index. you will fail because you're not in the market.
if you get some traction you're up on 0. you're not making a difference yet but you're in the market and there will be competition and whoever executes best, wins. which brings me to index 1 if you're really crushing it, and finally becoming a success.

you just put yourself at -2, because you don't need either your competitiors, or the market or timing to fail. you just need yourself.

the defaults right now are that you're not obligated to get past your creative integrations choices, which basically puts yourself and your teammates at -2 in my book.

i'd love it if you 'do' get across and prove me wrong though. i possibly would have been in your place 3 years back when my team & I were all roughly 23. it's safe to say that i'm now older, bruised, but more pumped & wiser and have a more clarity of purpose in my hacking.

~B
Unfortunately that is. My intended use is as a simple content management system for a friends business website. The interface is perfect, however they have paid for a website design(couple of sample pages) with the correct branding etc. Without being able to apply the branding we can't make use of your service. It's worth noting that I'd happily pay $20/month for your service if that was a possibility. The simplicity really is a strong selling point.
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1948 BR was formed from the Big Four [1] but they themselves were formed from the merging of many smaller operators over the preceding 50 years or so (if I remember correctly)

TBH BR performed reasonably well given investment until they were sold off into the private sector where productivity of staff and reliability slowly started to decline. This was matched be an increase in use so it's hard to see if the sell off caused the problems.

In the 1970's BR designed and prototyped a high speed leaning train but government funding was withdrawn because of fears that 'britain can't manufacture anymore'. The start of the end IMHO.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_British_railway_compan...
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The money saved by not paying for software is not just sitting around waiting to be collected. It's being used for other things, quite likely generating a similar amount of economic activity.

"Reducing the UK’s rate by 10 percentage points by 2013 would generate £5.4 billion ($8.3 billion) in economic activity, raise £1.5 billion in taxes, and create 13,000 high-tech jobs, with 87 percent of the benefits staying in the local economy, the study reckons."

I think reducing piracy is also likely to increase open source software adoption, so it might not be all bad if they decide to intensify their anti-piracy efforts using the economic crisis as a straw man.
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I think a really important thing that many people realise is that Maths is not just numbers. Arguably most of Computer Science is a kind of Maths, really Maths is just an abstract notation for describing systems.

For Programmers in particularly, I think Mathematical Functions[1] and Set theory[2] are some important areas that you should look at.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(mathematics)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
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These loan 'aid' is very common, although thankfully is becoming (too slowly) less common. This is what landed many 3rd world countries in major problems in that the money given didn't stimulate their economy (for reasons we won't go into) enough to cover repayments.

India on the other hand has a fast growing economy, which means it can more easily afford the loan payments. So for a country like India these 'loan aids' are likely much less harmful than for a country like Sudan.
The foreign office, treasury and overseas development ministries have been hinting for 6 months or so it was going to go.

Given the mess we've helped create/worsen in Afghanistan and the destabilising effect that has had on the already shaky Pakistan a retargeting of aid did make sense. It benefits India as well as a more stable Afghanistan/Pakistan will lower their security/military costs.

The recent delegation to India spoke of swapping aid for trade, something both countries need. They need our luxury goods (whiskey) and high tech engineering (satellites) and we need cheap manufactured plastic crap and indian students to go to our universities.
Questions like this degrade the professionalism of the field. Better programmers than any of us have to tried to cover the topic so generally, and they still came up with whole books that barely scratched the surface. If you want to know how to be a programmer, do some tutorials, then go to college for a few years, then work underneath an experienced professional for a few more years.

Can you imagine how silly it would sound applied to other fields?

"Hey guys, I decided to be a nuclear engineer/attorney/pilot/paramedic. What are the main things I need to know? I'll figure out the rest as I go along."
For certain aspects, this is true. For others, like entertainment, this couldn't be more wrong. There's more about living in a city than where you work.

I used to live in a very rural town. Everything 'fun' was an hour away, minimum. I knew people who had never left the county, and that meant they had never been to a movie theatre.

Now I live on the edge of a very large city and there is MUCH more choice for entertainment, dinner, everything.

And of course, there are more -people- in large cities. Look up some rural city with 3000 people and see how many meetup groups you find within 25 miles of there. Now look up a major city like Miami or Los Angeles and see how many you find.
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The last company I worked for paid me market rate as a Rails dev, but they made almost zero money. They had a monthly burn of £50,000. In other words burning through VC money. This equation is not a magic bullet.
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IE for other platforms? No Please. There are at least a few niche mac/linux websites which you can build without worrying about cross-browser issues. You introduce IE and the whole echo-system lags behind.

Further, there may be reasons why IE is not so portable to other platforms. Considering the fact that IE9 is not currently (and probably will never be) available for even Windows XP, I don't think that a cross-platform version is a realistic expectation.

IIRC, IE is an integral part of the Windows OS (for whatever business/architectural reasons) and this means that producing a Linux/Mac version may be more work that you think it is.
I don't know why I bothered reading a Huffpo article. -sigh-

As usual, the title is different than the content, and even that is questionable.

They're -trying- to say that you need more than a resume to get attention. You should be using social media to promote yourself long before you apply for a job.

While those things aren't bad, a resume is still the only way to get your foot in the door. Without one, you can't get a job in any normal business. (I've gotten a job without a resume before... Can you guess how well that job worked out?)

Artists and developers already know they need a portfolio. Anyone else that could benefit from a portfolio probably knows its benefit already as well.
This isn't an Africa-only thing either. The Canadian diamond mines routinely fly staff in and out, and on occasion materials too. However, the Canadian mines have the somewhat luxury of being accessible by ice roads for a portion of the year.

Desert doesn't suddenly become hard enough to support a tractor-trailer, but water does.
Yeah, getting a merchant account is a royal PITA in the UK. I first applied over six weeks ago now and I won't get one for another 2 week minimum. This was mainly due to my ignorance of the process and the glacial pace at which some of these institutions move.

There's probably a blog post in this but I'm taking 2 approaches simultaneously, both will use Recurly to handle the subscription billing and the onerous part of PCI compliance and both use SagePay as my payment gateway as they face off to Recurly:

1. Applying for a merchant account with Elavon. This was initially rejected as I was taking payments in USD and they had some problem settling to a GBP business account (no idea why). So I've opened a USD business account with my bank, this has just come through so I now need to go through the application process with Elavon again.

2. Applying for a merchant account with Lloyds TSB Cardnet. They initially declined as the underwriters saw too much risk in the fact that I'm taking a recurring monthly payment, said they would only consider that sort of arrangement if I'd been taking regular cc payments with them for 12 months(!). I asked them whether they would reconsider if they could hold to the money for 60 or even 90 days... they reconsidered, and 2 weeks ago they set up a meeting for yesterday (15th), so 2 weeks of no progress. I got a phone call yesterday morning telling me the account manager was sick but we could do it all over email anyway (a pointless 2 weeks of no progress then). They have all my stuff, I'm going to chase them this afternoon.

We need something like Braintree in the UK, or at least someone to come in and disrupt the market a little.
Agile doesn't mean blindly feeling around until you figure it out for yourself. It means using the best practices you find or invent to achieve the manifesto. If this book has some good insights, it's a worthwhile read.

Does it, though? I dunno. I didn't read it. When I see a book with words like 'ninja' and 'samurai' and it doesn't involve martial arts, I generally just ignore it because it seems childish.
Hmm; I like your thinking. It makes me wonder whether integrating all this stuff into OS X would make OS X more attractive as an overall user experience when compared to Windows. "If you use Windows you get the old iTunes interface, but OS X has iOS synchronisation baked in."
Well all these wonderful technologies were probably really expensive. Microsoft managed to make the cheap PCs usable, that is why they won. As for OS 2, I don't know why they failed, but I suspect it is not because of Microsoft.
I think it is perfectly okay for people to use obsolete software that does the job. You can always drop support for browser versions you don't want to support, but I think it's bad business and also a bit rude to try to dictate what software potential customers will use.

IE6 is still perfectly serviceable for the vast majority of the tasks web browsers are put to.