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When I click on the read more link I get a page not found?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/twitter-for-ipad/Adventures...
From one of the links: "... financial characteristics and servicing information related to the underlying student loan assets...."

The student loans themselves are assets (the fit the above definition), my point is that they themselves are not asset based like a house or car loan.

Sallie Mae's use of the term "asset" here might be slightly misleading, but being essentially part of the government they can get away with it.
Congrats to the WPS7 team...it's been a long journey.

I'm stuck with my iPhone contract for another year, and I'm hoping that by then the WPS7 OS/ecosystem will have matured to the point that I can feel good about making the switch.
Consider using http://shapado.com/ to build a stack overflow like site
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Why not simply mix some 'new' randomly into the front page at some ratio? If one or two of the stories in the front page were (different) new stories for each visitor, you'd solve the "front page or bust" problem.

You'd sacrifice a bit of "quality" from the front page, at the gain of a more variety and more exposure for new stories - entirely tunable by the ratio.
I don't think the being a monopoly is as much a factor here as being really big is. And of course being big is why you do business with them, they bring many clients/$ too.
That's awesome. Market it like crazy, it should do well.
Write a lot, as other commenters have recommended; but go beyond that and have skilled writers critique your writing. Good writing is good in large part because it avoids poor techniques. A competent editor can point out the passages in which your own writing goes awry so that you can cut them out or otherwise reform them.

It may seem backwards to suggest that good writing amounts mostly to writing with the bad stuff subtracted; but in my experience the inverse idea - that good writing amounts mostly to writing with good stuff added - leads to an overreliance on tricks and contrivances, i.e. preciousness.

There's maybe one writer in a thousand with the talent to succeed at preciousness. (Margaret Atwood comes to mind; I tend to read her books with a dictionary close at hand.) For the rest of us, the straightest path to good writing is to stop trying so hard and just aim for good structure, clarity and brevity.

That means you need to develop a thick skin, by which I mean a willingness to let go of the stuff that doesn't work. Few contemporary critics would regard Stephen King as a literary giant, but he clearly knows how to get the words onto the paper and into the hands of readers. His most salient writing advice? "Kill your darlings."
Nobody cares what tools you use
You can set things up so that easy_install installs into a special root. And you nearly always should.

The closest to an exception I can come up with is when you rely on image-based installs instead of package-by-package upgrades. And even then I can't manage to convince myself.

No exceptions at all for individual developers' machines.
Why using packages makes sense
30 minutes Lisp in Ruby (direct link)
Your comment should be on Twitter's welcome screen. It hadn't occurred to me to movie noisy people into lists.
Love the idea. Using Gantt charts to plan a meal has never occurred to me, but the idea is brilliant. I'm going to have to try doing that some time. I do have two questions though. From the page it's unclear if I can easily enter my own recipes and also can it handle preparing several different recipes (soup, starter, main course, side dishes and desert) in parallel? If it can't, the app would be pretty useless to me as it stands. Still love the idea and hope you develop it further.
I've been trying all sorts of ways to "speed" it up. Logging in/out of gmail, different browsers, going through the blog link, etc. I guess you just get it when you get it, like the phone feature last week.
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There's a fine line between a couple dozen guys on IRC with similar interests and an actual voting ring. I'm not sure where one concept stops and another starts. I guess if you demanded money for voting, that'd obviously be bad. But if you IM'ed a couple dozen friends about a cool new link you saw? It gets fuzzier.

I have noticed voting trends by time of day on HN. I've also noticed what appears to be auto upvoting and downvoting based on the submitter. But I'm just an outsider, so what do I know? Up until recently, I have always assumed such activity to be more demographically-based. I am slowly beginning to have my doubts, though.

The interesting point about HN is, at the end of the day, this is PGs site. Maybe he decides he wants articles about squirrels. So we get articles about squirrels. Maybe he decides site X is trollish. So we get no stuff from site X.

It's been called a "benign dictatorship". Meh. Sounds a bit like "jumbo shrimp" to me. Even though HN isn't what it used to be, I still visit.
(early vision of the internet) not (the movie), presumably.
Your presentation is fantastic. That could be enough to get people interested, finding a way to build a large database of quality recipes that is easy to navigate is what will keep them there.
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I am very interested in the Google Cloud print one. I love the ability to have printers all work with my phone, laptop, ipad whatever around my house without having to have a networked printer setup and the correct drivers, etc.
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I didn't know that and that's actually incredibly useful. Thanks!
In the terms of the classic trinity - Innovators, Imitators, Idiots, the term bubble could be defined as a rush of third ones. Blogs, SEO, and community-created-content sites already in that stage.
TweetDeck on iPhone is the same.
The multi account feature was what won me over in the first place. I liked it as I could use it for managing both my personal and websites twitter account. Unfortunately that's broken right now. The issue is mentioned on their support forums, but no one at TweetDeck seem to have picked up.

The only other issue I have is a minor UI gripe. When you click on the run in background button, the progress bar and cancel button for the background tweet covers the back button on the main part of the app. It’s odd that they did that.
For me, I know it's a bubble when everyone from my neighbors, mom, coworkers, etc. start talking about investing in it or when there are "reality" shows and late night infomercials about it. That's when it's time to get out.
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We'll have to see where things are in a year or so. Microsoft does have a few areas where they may be able to pick up iPhone users:

1) iPhone fatigue. I know a number of people who are tired of their iPhones for one reason or another and either have switched (generally to Android) or will be switching when they can. Obviously Android will get a lot of these, but not necessarily all of them.

2) If gaming works well, and there's integration with XBox Live, they could start to pick up gamers. --I doubt anyone really expected Microsoft to be able to rival Nintendo or Sony when the XBox first came out, but it happened.

3) Business users. Granted, many business people love RIM, but if Microsoft is able to provide a fuller experience around business, they'll be able to attract users.

I'm not going to try to predict the success or failure of Windows Phone OS, but I'm certainly not going to write them off before the phones are in the wild.
More of a dogg's breakfast than a lunch.
I'd love to see a Google Voice API lab. I'm tired of the Android App not working for crap. Depending on how you left the application when it paused, you get dropped in some seemingly random activity, where the back button usually won't take you back to inbox but rather takes you backwards in the conversation (literally starts erasing the last sent/received messages), or just takes you back to the home screen.

Google should be embarrassed that the app for their own product is so miserably bad. It's not even fixed in the latest version that was leaked from the G2 rom.
I'm curious as to why no mac people are using SizeUp. Looks like everyone is manually dragging the windows about?
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And yet nothing changes.
>he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics

The laws of Physics then, how were they created.

Seriously with all respect to Hawkings great achievements in Physics/Cosmology this is not a question that can be answered by Physics.

When we talk about creation within our universe we're always talking about transformative action on existing matter/energy never on ex nihilo creation (I don't consider particle-antip pairs, like in Hawking radiation to be ex nihilo). There is no example in science of creation from nothing except the supposed big bang (for which there are many dissenting and conflicting theories, some of which - brane theory say - are quite handy looking).

The final quote is weak, "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going", and doesn't address the question.

It's not necessary that there was a watch factory that created my watch but it's as close to certain as one can get that that is how it was created.

Aside: I wonder, quite cynically, if Hawking has done his time, made his [massive] contribution and now is clawing for attention. Certainly these 2 last stories - God and aliens - appear to be rather out on a limb.
Nice idea, but I would be concerned about using my iPhone in the kitchen - how do I avoid it getting greasy.
Well, I came in here to say exactly that: the paper is based on a survey of people self-reporting their past history with sleeping. Not a very good way to control the results.
Looks lovely. This works really well - I've been doing the same thing on paper for years. I do find however, that you need to make the recipe a few times from the long winded version which will often have tips or extra info which can't be crammed into the diagrammatic version.

TBH it would seem more natural as a web app though. Easier to expand content too buf of course it's more difficult to monetize.
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Great presentation of a "why didn't anyone think of this?" idea.

Would be good as a web app, especially if you could find a way to let people add their own recipes and have them automagically turn into useful charts.

You could then host those recipes or share them with others (think of Mom telling her son at uni how to make a roast).

ETA: Problems like 'how to create the workflow' may have already been solved by large scale manufacturers. This is simply the kitchen-based equivalent.

Even publishers might be interested if there was a way of taking the bland text input and then having a chart as the output since it would make recipes more readable. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, an iPad version would also be great.
Thank you, that was truly worth the read.
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ITunes and the logic of bundling
You should always tip the free drink. When you are in a bar or restaurant, you're receiving two things: the product and the service. When the product is free, you should still pay for the service.
Or display both in two columns. Frontpage on the left. New on the right.
Android phones look to expand app offerings
Know that at times things will get in the way and prevent you from working on your project, even for weeks at a time, don't give up.

You can't do everything but being a single founder you will, so do it as you need to.

At times your progress will creep along, if at all, take no mind of "Oh here's an app I built over lunch have a looky" posts.

Just keep going, don't give up.
I can't access the article right now, but my site: Like.fm basically is the same thing as Ping except it actually reports and keeps track of songs as you play them. It's also a web app and doesn't base itself around driving iTunes sales.

I was a little unnerved to see apple do practically my exact idea after 3 months of hardcore dedication to Like.fm, but it's ultimately validated my idea and glad to see Pings initial response isn't so good.
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There are also FDA "allowable" levels of insect parts and rodent hairs in food.
On a side note, this is one of the most well-formatted blogs that I've seen from Microsoft. I usually find MS blog posts very hard to read, and usually end up not doing so.
I was at Maker's Faire in May. Microsoft was there demoing Sync ( mobile apps )for Ford automobiles.

They had a guy who had built a aiming mechanism for a t shirt cannon by using the tilt controls on the Win 7 phone. He was using the .Net api's from the phone to control the t-shirt cannon via Microsoft's Robotics studio api. I was rather impressed.
I'm going to recommend that you don't read this link, then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy
Kudos to Amazon for continually following through on their promise of passing savings on to their users.
In all of that writing I didn't pick up anything that was particularly special about that particular city. What I did notice was the frequent mention of very good friends. The type that let you stay in their place while they are away. She seemed to have plenty of good friends and plenty of parties to attend. I think any city would seem wonderful in that situation.
This is a pretty big flaw.

I would highly recommend the developer add a simple voice recognition functionality. Even something as simple as "next" & "back" which scrolls the screen would improve the usefulness of this app.
Both Castro and Pinochet were military dictators that killed and tortured a lot of people.

To compare how good or bad they were by comparing how prosperous the countries are is silly, one of the reasons being the external influences.

Pinochet's junta "disappeared" over two thousand people and tortured over 30,000 (people with names, not estimates). I don't see any credible source stating that Castro killed 20,000.

I actually see this type of Castro/Pinochet comparison as a test for Human Rights and checking if someone is inconsistent because of their right/left wing preconceptions. I find most people dislike or hate one while justifying more or less the other when they are both basically the same.
Something like this is required as part of the recently enacted CARD act (in the US):

"Credit card issuers must disclose to cardholders the consequences of making only minimum payments each month, namely how long it would take to pay off the entire balance if users only made the minimum monthly payment. Issuers must also provide information on how much users must pay each month if they want to pay off their balances in 36 months, including the amount of interest." (http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/help/what-the-ne...)
>>Of course, we then heard that every term he gives that recruiting talk and every time his wife calls right in the middle...

>You have no reason to suppose he was being manipulative.

Did you miss that bit?
YouTube is still monetised by advertising... still making profit, though I guess its more upfront.
Who designed your site? I like it? What kind of marketing are you doing?
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Is there a version for iPad?
Do you mean the last 15% to bring to 50% ownership?

Without knowing the specifics I would think the best idea is to vest incrementally every week or so. Also make sure you've got accelerated vesting upon sale or IPO. (That's a nice thing to give your employees too.) And consider a right to buy back shares at cost upon for-cause termination.

I've never seen or heard of vesting upon profitability. I don't know if that's something that is done, but I would be hesitant to be on either side of that deal.
And in laymans terms?...

Sorry but I'm even more confused now. What are we proving?

"The result is most of the requests "look like" a desire to serve up viruses or spam."

I have no idea what you mean by that.

HTTP is a trivial grammar. The parser is the simple bit. What you do with the headers and how you respond to them is the more interesting bit.

Why would rejecting invalid requests be desirable? Why not just serve up what we think they want? (Of course there's levels of 'invalid'. Reject the crazies, but allow some).
It's also what made K5 in to a huge echo chamber.
You should tailor this for the iPad, particularly in portrait mode. I very often follow Epicurious recipes on my iPad by standing it in the dock. The big difficulty is trying to read and parse the cooking instructions into a workflow. This could reduce that pain.
Wasn't there a dutch tulip bubble once? Also baseball cards were kind of a bubble in the 80s/90s, right?
Exactly, in the age of cell phones with caller ID this is simple to solve.

We have a similar situation worked out during work hours. If it is unimportant, text. If it is slightly more important, call. If it is an emergency call and leave a voicemail. If I have a voicemail or two calls in a row I'm leaving wherever I am no matter what. If I have a missed call I'm calling back when its done and nobody in the room is any wiser that I wasn't 100% focused on them.
The bubble has already burst, as evidenced by the lack of value-generating apps (run once and never touched again) and the bottom falling out on prices. Apps are either free or 99 cents, with the exception a few proprietary platforms (or protocols) that won't easily allow competition (Slingbox, etc).
Yeah, I'm waiting for my family to start talking about buying gold so I can short it :-)
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Pretty good post, but I think it is generalizing possibly a bit too much and could be misinterpreted:

1. 'ask yourself “is this going to make me deliver the product faster?”. If the answer is no, don’t do it'

While on a whole it's true, but some aspects of process (change control, QA, etc.) can:

a. make the delivery of the product go more smoothly,
b. increase the quality of the product,
c. decrease time needed to fix bugs, fix data, or eat crow after product launch, and
d. decrease chaos, confusion, and late hours spent trying to figure out what part of several issues caused some other issue.

2. 'nobody cares what tools you use'

Not true. Some shops hate (insert anything here) with a vengeance or have something in place that prohibits what you could use or how you could do something.

At the same time, I agree for the most part that users, on the whole, don't care how it is implemented.

That said, I certainly agree with the notes on Cucumber, etc. being something that seems good to the developer but that the business becomes less interested in as time goes on.

I really enjoyed doing full-on XP before with index cards, etc. Luckily we did that with our manager representing the customer. Whenever there has actually been a customer truly involved in the process directly, no matter what you do with wireframes, showing them results at end of iteration, etc., the customer (whether it be one or many) always has a personality and thought and work processes that affect the development process. You can slap Jira and workflow, etc. on it, but it doesn't matter. You have to work with the customer- there is no choice.
The Cooking For Engineers guy (http://cookingforengineers.com) has been using a similar format for his recipes, but in a table format. I think this is a great improvement.

Are the timers integrated with the recipe? For example, if the recipe says "bake for 30 minutes" could tapping that start a 30 minute timer?

I think this is a great app! Try to get it in the hands of places like Bon Appetit and chowhound.com.
That would help to some extent but because of the different traffic ratios it would also significantly increase the pay-off for a spammer.
At current state it is just minimum viable product, therefore not much functionality.

Based on the feedback we have for the first day since realease, we will definitely keep developing the app further. Thanks.
inDinero may have "launched" 2 months ago, but its been around since 2007 if I recall correctly.
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." - Orwell.

Which reminds me to add: read Orwell's essays. If I were going to prescribe a list of people that one should learn to write like it would be topped by Orwell and Nabokov.
This is a fantastic idea. I can't count the number of times I read through a recipe while preparing, only to have my timing still be off.
One of the most useful mental habits I know I learned from Michael Rabin: that the best way to solve a problem is often to redefine it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
Guess we are making iPad version as soon as possible :)
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With respect, I think a small English department would not be a bad idea.
I guess the timer integration is first on the list, thanks for the suggestion.
Take a step back and look the inconsistency in this statement and the original post.

A startup founder has to rely on people other than themselves. They rely on at least their customers. Many, including Chrometa, rely on partners and employees as well.

The difference is that you have successfully sold the promise of the company to your current customers and your partners and employees. With the other partners or aides, you have not made a compelling offer.

There are two major reasons why this could happen.

1. Sell side. Your pitch was not sufficiently compelling, or you were not ready to deliver on your promise.

2. Buy side. You're not selling it to the right person at the right time.

The overarching reason is that you were unable to establish an exchange of value. That happens. It will get easier once you build your company up. Eventually your company becomes 'magnetic.' It will attract interest rather than you having to persuade others.

But yes, you will have to hustle.
Love your graphic style. Very cute, reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons. Warm, fuzzy feeling. However, the icon is a little too cluttered and does not represent your app well in a first-impression sense.

How are you representing the critical path?

Some minor issues. 1) Since the Food Gantt chart is displayed landscape, not intuitive that you have to swipe left to go back to the main recipe list. 2) If you are scrolled way down on a Food Gantt chart and go back to the main recipe list and choose another one - the newly selected recipe is at the same scroll offset as the previous (e.g. already scrolled way down).

Suggestions. 1) Show the timer on the Gantt charts - e.g. simple moving forward animation (blink the time remaining for the X cooking step). 2) The standalone timer is a little hard to use and maybe too cutesy - a standard digital timer might work better but might not fit with your aesthetics 3) Social. If you can work out a deal with a cooking website (structure it as win/win - they get an iPhone app, you get the recipes) - you can seed your database in a hurry (I assume the custom graphics for ingredients would max out or could be genericized for the time being). 4) Judging solely on the app size (14.2mb), it appears that you may not be rendering the Gantt charts (e.g. they are drawn by hand? which is why you don't have timer integration). If this is true, this is your critical path - you need to render the Gantt charts as soon as possible.
I really like your point about making it as short as possible. Short=dense=clear.

As an attorney I'm always running up against court-imposed page limits. Nothing clarifies an argument quite like having to cut it in half.