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I was blown away when I learned that Groupon actually started life as a simple WordPress install.

http://www.tomloverro.com/2010/08/19/groupon-1-0-started-on-...

These themes aren't well suited for ecommerce, they are really just variations on an iPhone App landing page, but they are nice tools to get something commercial looking up fast.
And doing what Google does best, making it faster (and I think that is why most of us use Chrome).
Seems it'll be one of those 'wait and see' sort of things...
After each search don't you actually open a few
websites and see if they have the information you need?

There's no inherent value in refinement without
inspection. The little snippets of text under each
link are only 20-30 words long. They rarely convey
anything of value.

They are often very useful - I often use the description to determine if the search requires further refinement.
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IMO, send an invoice, not a receipt, that says "You will be auto-debited in a nonrefundable way tomorrow". I get warm tinglies every time I get one of those.
Orszag is referring to deliberate practice (http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...) and it's not hard work, but "hard" practice that makes people better. What that practice should entail is not always obvious though and people will benefit from good tutors and starting early in life. Thus, the author is right that not everyone could become Mozart (or whatever), but that's because they weren't in the right place at the right time, not because of genetics (which I read him as implying, but I may be wrong). Genetics do of course matter (in particular in sports), but the research on deliberate practice seems to indicate they matter less than one might think.

Importantly, for things that are less competitive than world-class sports and music (most jobs say), even moderate amounts of deliberate practice are likely to have significant benefits. So, hard work may not conquer all, but deliberate practice will give things a run for their money at least.
OK, but you still never really answered the question. What's the benefit of having IE available to other platforms? How does say, a Mac user, benefit from having IE9 available for download to them over Safari?
Agree with the above and add in (3) Being known for bad browsers is detrimental to sales of other products
Oh sure I do, especially in cooking. Rather than just repeat the same procedure with cleanup and all, I do all of them then clean up, i.e. chopping peppers, shredding cheese, frying sausage, etc.
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Authentication is an important part of OAuth for me. If you fall back to standard HTTP authentication (Basic/Digest), client-side applications need to know the user passwords. This isn't perfect even when there are passwords, but it doesn't work at all when there are no passwords (like when the site is an OpenID consumer). Isn't that the problem OAuth was trying to solve?
I was under the impression that Microsoft is focusing on standards and web experience now because the last time it used a browser for strategic positioning with the operating systems market it got vilified or sued by basically every country with electricity?
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My wife is far more analytical about most tasks than I am - I drive her crazy by not really being able to explain how I can fix most things, using a process she describes as "fiddling randomly until it works".
On the other hand OS X on the Mac is a relatively robust and usable platform and Windows on the PC still sucks for many users (I'm two days into a Windows rebuild at the moment).

It's swings and roundabouts. Gates and MS made good calls and they made bad calls, Jobs is the same.

For me I think Bill did OK, while I can imagine some using that sort of power in a more altruistic way, I can also see many doing far far worse things with it.
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http://www.canyoucode.com

CanYouCode is a freelancing website, which is different in the following ways:

1. Minimum rate of $35/hr - likely more. (you can't find good freelancers for anything less.)

2. Profiles are reviewed before being allowed to bid - We verify LinkedIn profiles, Open Source contributions, Blog, proper web standards etc.

Basically the idea is to target developers who can't survive on the $10-20/hr at Elance or oDesk. Currently we are accepting signups only from the US and Europe.

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3. Should we apply for YC Winter 2011?

Thank you.
I still feel you're mischaracterizing the point. Perhaps it might be seen as this, using testing you start from a position, create a few obvious alternative, test, iterate, resulting in a > b3 > c2 > d6 > e3 > f4. You then declare f4 is amazing because it beat the gradual iterations that got it there.

But a designer's there to sit down and go, right, what about z. And j. And 77883. And still not test them, but decide on one. And then refine it and then you test it some and refine it some more.

And even better is that the designed product will have a flow, a coherence because it's not about a bunch of tiny improvements and changes, it's about a vision.

It wouldn't necessarily test well against a to begin with. People don't like change, so say here's Ives' search and here's the instant that's almost exactly like the existing google and you've got a lot of initial resistance that will skew the testing.

But people who love new stuff and then evangelize, mavens I think Gladwell called them, will result in more people trying it and it will end up successful. The people who helped push Twitter and Facebook and Google itself. Not that I buy all of tipping point, but there are some good points in it.

Incremental design is not about design at all, it's more about fear. Designing can include A/B testing, but not at the start. It just seems the wrong way to go to me.

As for the tone, I didn't notice it, but then again I realized after reading it I already agreed with it, he was vocalizing something that has been dawning on me.
It's gonna be tough to do a Diaspora hosting startup with it being AGPL-licensed.
Elect.io is a side-project I've been working on for the past few months, and is my attempt at providing a tool for voters in the U.S. to learn more about the candidates that are running for office in their area.

In addition to providing basic candidate bio information, when possible I also provide details on what issues a candidate supports or opposes. I calculate each position programatically using the following data:

- Special Interest Group ratings for this particular candidate. i.e. the NRA may give a candidate a score of 90 out of 100 in the year 2007 for the candidate's position on gun rights issues.

- The bias of the Special Interest Group i.e. the NRA strongly supports issues related to the preserving of Second Amendment privledges.

These ratings are then weighted by year (more recent ratings have greater weight) and run through an algorithm to determine a candidate's calculated "position" for each issue.
Only the MongoDB server is AGPL licensed, all of the official clients are Apache licensed; you're free to use mongo for commercial hosted services without getting a commercial license from 10gen provided that you publicly release any changes that you make to the server codebase - you're never required to release the code of your actual application (provided that you're using one of the official clients).
Sure, but this sounds like a cult of victimhood or differentness, and you'll find that these subcultures remain in the minority, in part because they define themselves as a minority.
Hey all---I'm the original author of the post, and I wanted to thank you for starting a feisty debate. Really thrilled to see both supporters and critics of my view. One thing I do want to point out tho: The post was really meant to show one, alternative way of thinking. I actually believe that the best results come from some kind of blend of the two approaches. That is what I think Apple is really good at -- and not just making pretty boxes for circuit boards.

Also, in the comments I made about a second mattering, it was exactly my point that while seconds are important to engineers, they may or may not be to users. And a focus on actual user stresses is the essence of design.

Anyway, thanks for reading and commenting!
They have done a poor job promoting it. Developers do not see the immediate value of marking up their pages to benefit Facebook. I still don't understand what they mean by "enables any page to have the same functionality as a Facebook page"

When I look at the IMDB examples, all I see is the same 'like' button, and nothing more.

A good example of how to roll out a new markup schematic is the IE9 jumplists and desktop pinning (site specific browsers). The browser was launched earlier today and already numerous sites support this new markup - such as IMDB, CNN, Twitter etc.

Developers can see the clear value proposition with the ms markup, and Microsoft likely spent the beta period approaching high-profile sites and getting them to build support for the new format.

See: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=475e293f-7...

Facebook, on the other hand, just announced a new format and then hoped that the world would just adopt it because they are Facebook.
Any particular build? These don't seem to work right on my stable build on Ubuntu 10.10
Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.
No, not that low. It's usually around 3%.
Is this an American thing - I don't notice humour being used by groupon in the UK ?
The divemaster should have rejigged the buddy pairs so each newbie was with an experienced diver.

A lot of new divemasters are overconfident too, it's possible to go straight from scratch to DM in a summer, but it's like that SCRUM master certificate doesn't make you an expert methodologist by itself, you need experience too.
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To be fair:

"The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data," Mr. Schmidt said. "Failing that, there are other ways to get that information." He declined to be specific.

I doubt he means going to the mall and buying a DVD with a database dump on it...
The story is Tesla visiting Henry Ford to fix some electric motors he had on his production line. The amount of the bill was $10,010. Ford called him up later to ask why ten thousand and ten, when Tesla quipped the famous quote ($10 for the chalk, $10,000 because I knew where to put it).
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Actually, my dive buddy was pretty experienced, and I think that was part of the problem...he was just complacent. You see the same thing with a lot of pilots who have several hundred hours under their belt. They have enough experience to be overconfident because they haven't had the shit scared out of them, and not enough to know what they don't know.
The possibility of negative experiences is the danger of a Patron event too. It's easier for one person to ruin an "exclusive" event with only 9 other people, more likely to generate whining from people that have missed out and easier for the grumpy person to be the only one that actually has a blog. People arbitrarily selected for a hugely lavish "exclusive" event are strangely more likely to object to being treated as a glorified photo opportunity, delays and not liking one of the dishes on the 5* menu than people lured into a moderately exclusive nightspot by the promise of entertainment and selected free drinks if they and their friends can stomach the queues.

You can make more compelling YouTube videos of your branded live music event too.

The reality is that it all ultimately depends on whether you're trying for mass appeal or exclusivity.
From what I've been told, only plan on creating an LLC if you:

1. Want to be able to write a bunch of stuff off as company expense.

2. Don't mind the paperwork.

For liability you need insurance, not protection from an LLC or C-Corp, neither of which will necessarily protect your assets if you are working on your own.

The advantage of a C-Corp primarily is to get business from companies interested in corp-to-corp. If you look on Dice, etc. there are a number of jobs listed as corp-to-corp only. I read that this partially stems from a court decision where contractor employees were able to sue for benefits that weren't even W2, but that if you are under a C-Corp they wouldn't have to worry about that.
> ... IE6 introduced a lot of useful features back then.

Cannot agree more. People tend to forget things like AJAX came from IE.
who have been stuck on the old-school web interface

I've favored the Web interface since day one (in 2006, for me) and it's behind 95% or so of my tweets. It's clean, customizable (with GreaseMonkey), in an app I already have running 24/7 (the browser), and, importantly, non-polling. I've tried lots of clients but none has stuck as well as the Web site (ditto for e-mail). (Tweetdeck came close to converting me but its typography is hideous.)

Nonetheless, I like the look of the #newtwitter. It's not necessarily the feature set I care about, more that it's in my browser and not in yet another app.
Exactly, you have to make sure you ask the correct questions.

For instance, before the iPhone was revealed if you had asked prospective smartphone customers if a hardware keyboard was a mandatory requirement you'd probably get close to 100% agreement.
However most customers do not think through the whole design enough to realise what sort of trade-off that would introduce (e.g. smaller screen to accommodate keyboard or less structural integrity due to the need for a slider mechanism etc).

Once the iPhone has been used for a period of time by a user however, I'd guess that less than 5% of users would say a hardware keyboard is a mandatory requirement.

Therefore in such a case you probably asked the wrong question and need to realise when you shouldn't listen to customers answers.
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I'd like to get some early feedback about my new startup, ShiningPanda: Hosted Continuous Integration for Python.

http://www.shiningpanda.com

The goal is to provide a dead simple web service so that you can build, test and deploy your various Python projects, without having to care about setting up servers, databases, build tools, reporting, etc. This includes of course web projects based on django, web.py, werkzeug, etc., but also the associated functional tests based on Selenium.

We are planning to enter into private beta soon, so if you would like to participate, please let us know. If you feel like telling us about what your dream integration service would be like, let us know too, we really want to hear about what our (future) users want!

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Sounds like a fantastic idea! I could see a combination of CRM, calendar, analytics of voting districts or previous voting data, and a ping.fm-style interface to manage the candidates' presence on multiple social sites.

If I had to manage a campaign, the closest solution I know of would be CiviCRM http://civicrm.org/
Also see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1430135

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677830
"As an aside, it's fascinating that the economics of diamond mining are such that you fly fuel to the mines."

You might be interested to know that in WW2 American B29s operated from Chinese bases where they were supplied by flying supplies (including fuel) over the Himalayas from India. I think it was something like seven supply flights for each combat mission.
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An amusing story from my last dive trip, where the DM had done his training a closed fist meant 0 whereas we'd all been trained that it meant 50. So for the first couple of dives before we'd asked why we were coming up early, he'd thought everyone had 50bar (a quarter-tank, for the non-divers) less than they had...
I love OAuth 1.0 in conjunction with RSA signatures (even though OAuth 1.0 left key exchange unspecified). With RSA, you never need to store a shared secret on either of the three ends and you still get revokable authentication.

I'm always terribly afraid of storing something on the server that needs to be in a form in which it's useful for a malicious party to impersonate other users. Be it a clear text (or reversibly encrypted password), a MD5 hashed password stored for HTTP digest authentication or a HMAC-SHA1 OAuth token.

I know it might seem complicated, but authentication - especially once a third party gets involved is complicated. That's why you read into the issue, learn what you need to know and use pre-build libraries.
I especially recommend these for technical founders who don't have a bone of design sense in their bodies, like myself. I used a spiritually similar WooThemes template (Delegate) to get AppointmentReminder's site ready. It took less than 20 minutes to set up. I added a 99Designs logo and a single custom image from my designer, and it now looks fairly professional relative to the amount of investment. (The service itself isn't near ready yet, but people ask to buy it on strength of the front page and the MVP demo, so that is probably a good sign.)
You can't write anything off unless you have income from that company coming in to offset against.
What is it with Adobe and 64-bit? Were they thinking it was a fad and might go away?

They did the same thing with Acrobat and it took them forever to release a 64-bit compatiable iFilter for it.
Saying it's easy to give when you have Gates' deep pockets negates the effort that it took to fill those pockets. Of all the crimes in the world to call Bill Gates a criminal is to have completely lost the plot. I don't particularly like Microsoft technology either, so I've spent my career (which has been far from boring) working on other technology stacks, and have always had plenty of opportunity to do so. Yet despite that choice, I acknowledge that I owe Gates a great debt for pioneering the business of software, a business which, divorced from hardware, didn't exist prior to 1975, and a business of which I, and I suspect you, have been a major beneficiary.

How does your track record measure up to Gates'? Which companies have you bootstrapped? Which charities have you founded? Or are you just a bitter salaryman complaining from the cheap seats on the sidelines?
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Yeah try password reset. Note that debugging is turned on. Show env dump. View various things like secret_token which are supposed to be secret. Lose.
Ah cool - I had just googled for the origin, and only found a story on a "business jokes" web site (they used 50000$). Didn't know it has a real origin.
"Forgot that air supply runs out faster the deeper you are."

I ran into this one on my certification dive; we were diving on the Madera in Lake Superior in December, I was having trouble keeping my bouyancy which I chalked up to inexperience but later discovered was a leaky BCD. When we went to move to the stern which is in 60 feet of water we all checked our air and I had a quarter of a tank left! Everyone else had at least three quarters of a tank. None the less, the rest of the dive was called off and we had to swim back to shore. I asked why we didn't at least try the deeper dive and he reminded me that you consume much more air in deeper water, pretty much double every 30 feet, that we wouldn't have even made it to the stern before I ran out.
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Use these with caution if your audience is fairly technical. I ran across a SaaS site the other day and liked how it looked, clicked on the "designed by" link and realized it was a template design. This dropped my confidence as anyone can throw up a cheap template design, what kind of attention to detail was put into the rest of the app? Is there even an app or is this just a credit card form and a nice looking template? If you are serious about your business drop the couple thousand to get a nice site designed.
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I hope the irony of including a flash video on the page, to show a video example, is not lost :)
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I agree. But a "couple thousand" are probably not an option if you're bootstrapping. Such templates might just work until you can invest in a custom one.
1. No innovation happens (which is why Apple came up with the smartphone touch UI and Google just copies it)

How do you know that Apple's designers aren't also testing their designs with real world users?

I don't think "design vs real world testing of experiments" is a binary choice.
When will people learn not to believe everything they read on the intranet?
If your main focus will be the online store, I'd definitely suggest going with an e-commerce app to keep things simple, but did you look into Drupal + Ubercart (http://drupal.org/project/ubercart)? If your needs extend beyond just the online store, that may be a good solution.

Also, Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com) has a free community edition and may also work - just adding it to your list of possibilities! :)
Also a good option for someone working on a Launching a website for their MVP, especially if you are someone like myself who is a terrible designer. http://themeforest.net/ has plenty of great themes that would work well for landing page, etc.
The reason to be unhappy about IE9 is that it won't run on XP. That means it is essentially meaningless for 90% of the web developers on the planet for all practical purposes.
1) yes there are people listening on twitter.
2) they organize themselves into communities.
3) If you are interested in a community it is possible to participate in the community and get responses from interesting people.

If you are trying to tweet people who don't reply, Twitter seems like talking into a black hole.

If you do not belong to a community, you don't find tweets from actual people (who reply to tweets).

If you are not interested in any community, you won't find a peer group to communicate with.

What i'd be interested in building (or seeing someone build) is a service that indicates the % likelihood that a particular person will respond to @messages to them.
This material, however, is far from being complete - for example, the tribunal of Cuenca is entirely omitted, because no relaciones de causas from this tribunal has been found, and significant gaps concern some other tribunals (e.g. Valladolid). Many more cases not reported to Suprema are known from the other sources (e.g. no relaciones de causas from Cuenca has been found, but its original records has been preserved), but were not included in Contreras-Hennigsen's statistics for the methodological reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_inquisition#Death_tolls
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