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Hi,
I'm also new to this, but I found the following useful (apologies for the weird formatting):

Books
Web design
Steve Krugman - Don't Make Me Think (and the sequel)

Presenting information
Edward Tuftes - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
Highly useful books about presenting statistics and information visually

Websites
Personally, I find Smashing Magazine good for articles that give you a lot of examples e.g. "50 examples of dark websites.. " I guess it's more for picking up tips and tricks.

I find that the articles on these websites focus more on the basics.
A List Apart - http://www.alistapart.com/
Design Shack - http://designshack.co.uk/

Resources
You might find these useful for generating ideas
http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2010/04/10/design-with...

Photography
It would be good to pick up some photography (even with a point and shoot), if only for the simple reason to provide some photos in your blog/marketing materials.

Inspiration
Carbonmade.com
Deviantart
Flickr
http://dribbble.com/
http://forrst.com/
http://lookslikegooddesign.com/

Other related topics
You might also read up on User Interface Design (UX, UI..).

This quote might be useful
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Amusing response on the thread to this same proposal - "The cynic in me suspects that the net profit they make from allowing fraudulent transactions to go ahead exceeds the costs associated with preemptive cancellation, particularly since they try to make the merchants eat the costs of fraud as much as possible."

Obviously this is just cynicism. I assume the main reasons are 1) imagine justifying that to shareholders, 2) it creates a market.

Having said that, the banks could offer a "reward" system for anyone who manages to report a stolen credit card number.
A much better piece about the same issues:

http://www.janisian.com/reading/internet.php
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness ...
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I agree. Hunter S Thompson was quite the druggie and managed ok.
When I had to make my first (reasonably) professional looking CV while applying for undergrad Co-Op jobs last Winter, I chose to do it Latex and tweaked the moderncv template (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...).

Since nearly everyone else's resume is written in Word or some other word processor, every employer noted that it was exceptionally well done.

Time well spent : ).
If you want a really free Java, Apache's Harmony is a great starting place. The very liberal license means you can use it for basically whatever you want, proprietary or open.
You know the only other place I've seen where someone uses 14 different type styles for emphasis is the Time Cube guy and other similar nutjobs.
I'm at a complete loss as to why presumably intelligent people pay attention to technophobes like miek Arrington. It was obvious to me many years ago that lacked integrity.

McClure and Paul Graham, for instance, are people who I disagree with on at least one subject, but they have integrity. I cannot say the same for Arrington. He seems to be pathological to me.
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Democratic.ly lets you run preferential polls.

http://democratic.ly
That's exactly what I will try to do next! However, the soft will be no more than some tips for pre-selection purposes only. Yet the final stage should be manual anyway.
I saw this in MRR, though it's only one part of a longer piece from The Baffler published around the same time.

The Baffler version had more ranting on the aesthetic side (rather than business side). Lots on production/producers and vintage microphones (alluded to in this part where he uses "punchy" and "warm").

EDIT: found a link to the whole thing: http://www.mercenary.com/probwitmusby.html
http://democratic.ly/poll/23
Thanks!=) I'll look in that... Did not know there were so many options available.
And a huge dose of entitlement.
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Or perhaps:

kill -s HUP <pid>
> What's the last major thing to ever use Optima?

> Some of these faces seem terribly out of fashion (Optima, Rotis).

The 2008 McCain/Palin campaign used Optima.
I hope you're right. I think you're probably right. But there is a hell of a lot more money behind blocking leaked screeners then there was behind blocking child porn.

As far as telling them how technology works, please don't. I think the main thing that's saved the internet so far is that the people with the biggest interest in stopping it have no idea how to even begin.
Concerted action can take as many forms as human imagination and ingenuity permit and does not require a formal agreement. And parallel action, coupled with other evidence of collusion (e.g., secret meetings or other suspicious conduct) can be the basis of an antitrust violation.

That said, normally, the mere fact of parallel action is not problematic unless there is more to show suspicious activities. The venture financing industry has many customs and patterns of long-standing, and its participants will happen to conform to them for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with collusion aimed at suppressing competition.
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I'm as guilty as anyone else on the team for pushing forward to Avalon/WPF. The truth is that much of the team was just exhausted an wanted to do something else. It was people higher in the chain that dropped the ball on IE completely.

The funny thing is that HTML5 does much of the stuff we originally wanted to do with Avalon. We just didn't have the structure, people or support to do it within the standards process. Also the W3C was a different force then and I suspect fast innovation driven by Microsoft wouldn't have been accepted. (Karma's a bitch.)

Anyway when much of this became clear I moved on to google. :)

(hi Fil! When can we get you on board?)
Impeccable timing, Wallstreet 2 comes out in 2 days
Of course though it's fairly unnecessary.

If all you want to do is track users, it's far easier to use UserAgent/screensize/plugins/etc to uniquely identify users.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

You can then store anything heavier server side.
It's not the meeting that's important, but what it implies about SV deal flow. There's something wrong with it.

http://www.victusspiritus.com/2010/05/12/epic-the-end-of-ema...

That's great news to me as I live several thousand miles away.
In any meeting of people/businesses with similar interests, there will be talk of 'working together', 'sharing information', 'making deals', etc. Such is mostly just talk, showing each other goodwill and courtesy and generally playing around with ideas that sound good in theory, but won't work that way in practice. Usually nothing comes of it and if it does, it's a severely watered down version, well withing the law and adhering to ethical considerations. When it's not watered down, it usually starts with a few of them sealing the deal in secrecy, with others perhaps joining in later.

The story is too much like you hear in the movies and too little like stuff happens in reality.
If 110k is way too low, how much is typical for the positions of his description? I just do wonder. What goes into the fair ballpark figure? 150k?
This is pure rant, not much content.

But at least McClure is coming out and identifying himself as one of the people attended the meeting.

I wonder where and how this battle is going to end, both sides are equally powerful players.
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How will the PNG caching work if you have asked your browser to delete all local files?
To be fair, Dave would reply with a similar defensive, arrogant, immature rant if you said 'hello' to him. That's just his style, and he seems to get off on it.
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The patents pledge doesn't extend to Harmony since AFAIK it hasn't passed the TCK yet, and even if it did, supersets/subsets aren't allowed.
Also just to add to this, with your experience you'd be able to apply in the EB2 category for a Green Card and since your British, you should be able to get it in 2 years or less.

And once you have a visa, you can work for anyone here in the US by just transferring it. Transferring a visa is much much simpler a process than getting a new one.

I think this is a great opportunity to get to the states and work in a great environment. Some of my friends came to the states with $40K starting salary and now they earn about $100K base + bonus(Denver,CO).
Ramanujan, you would be surprised even more if I tell you that during last 2 hours I even wasn't online: my Internet provider had some problems and cut off Internet for me during recent hours.
I've agreed with the good lady that I will work in the evenings between Monday and Thursday, which normally gives me three-four hours a night, after the kids have gone to bed. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are for the family with the odd exception, which has the added benefit of giving me some thinking time. I have 30 days holiday a year and use 10 of those days for working on my own stuff; effectively a working holiday but its very useful.
What battle? To me it's all smoke an 0 fire.
Seriously, not snarkily: case in point. Their visual identity was ridiculed during the campaign (Obama's campaign famously used HF+J Gotham, which has since become a design cliche because of overuse by designers).
Thanks! That is indeed useful...
> It just shows that "Clear cookies" button is no longer an effective privacy tool.

It has never been. the vast majority (90%+) of browsers are uniquely identifiable simply from useragent, plugins, capabilities etc.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
You caught Ye Olde Merry England from that mess? It sounded like a wanksta (want-to-be gangster) to me.

I mean tongue firmly implanted in cheek or whatever, but if this is what lies outside of YCombinator and TechStars, then everyone not in those programs should just bootstrap, because I would get a headache having to hear all that talk from an investor.
The numbers we're getting are slightly south of that, too.
Another thing is that I have a clear separation of work and home life. When I leave the office then I don't think about it until I arrive the next day and can generally wind down very quickly. I am probably fortunate that my work does not demand too much overtime.
It's moments like these that I deeply, humbly and profoundly love and appreciate the internet and everything and everyone that makes it work.
Some of the more creative literary figures have taken great liberties with language, as a whole, and convention specifically.

You might not like it, but I think the juxtaposition of hard-nodes business insight and MySpace typography is jarring, in a positive sense. He routinely craps all over the industry.

But what do I know. I am a 30 year old with a mohawk.
"Why would a designer ever use "Avant Garde"?"

I worked on a web project recently that used Avant Garde in the branding. I have never had so much difficulty trying to make body type hang with branding. Anyway, I came across this quote:

"The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde …" http://www.thinkingforaliving.org/archives/147
In addition, how much further can this story really develop? If there was illegal activity going on, why would any of the parties involved admit to it? Whatever happened, this would have been a huge warning.

I doubt we'll see anything exciting develop, like some people may be expecting.
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Just ask yourself a question: do you want to live in US for reason other than working for Google? If yes, go for it - $110k for a start is a good salary (I started from $60k in NJ few years back, single). Given that you'll be in a Valley, have your visa transferred to someone else, if you don't like it at Google, would not be a problem.

A caution: I hope you have at least master's degree, because in this case you'll be able to start EB-2 GC process, which is way faster than EB-3.
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It's interesting - but nobody saw anyone like Apple or MySpace coming along and getting involved in it all. The future back in 2000 looked very fuzzy indeed for all involved in music. They knew it as changing, but had no idea how.

However, you'd have to bet against the record industry going forwards. They no longer have an iron grip over the distribution, which was their great monopoly.
That first link is great! I kind of hate the look of Computer Modern, but like LaTeX, so I've been using Hoefler Text (and before that, Baskerville) in my resume for the last five years.
Let's turn that around for a second and look at it as though it is true:

A bunch of 'angels' (for want of a better term, none of them were sprouting wings) get together in a bar but omit one of the regulars.

They discuss in great detail the way in which they are going to 'corner the market' and convince each other that nobody will invest in any start-up over a certain price point.

How long do you think that would fly in the real world. Before they'd been out of the door someone would have already decided to break the arrangement, it's the nature of the beast you're dealing with here, and besides, most if not all of the dealings between angels and their investment targets are confidential so you'd never know anyway.

I wasn't agreeing with Arringtons view on this when I read it, I just interpreted it as 'wow, you take being marginalized quite badly', and this post pretty much confirms that that may be all there is to it.

Hell hath no fury like a 'blogger' scorned it seems.

It's not as though people need Arringtons permission to meet, and it's not as though every meeting that he isn't in on is automatically grounds for suspecting a cartel being formed.
Why would he be sore about not being invited? He's not an investor. He's a journalist/blogger.
Agreed. If Mike's story has any real effect, it will happen behind closed doors, where even/especially Mike won't see it.
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I quite like FontShop.de’s list of best fonts (http://www.100besteschriften.de/), it has much more diversity and interesting background information for every font that made the list.

Sales numbers (40%), history (30%) and aesthetics (30%) were criteria, the usual limitation of those kinds of lists apply and FontShop is obviously a commercial operation. Oh, and it seems like the list is still only available in German which is unfortunate. Last I heard (three years ago) FontShop.com was supposed to put a translated version up but it seems they never have. They have the domain (http://100bestfonts.com/) so it might still happen.
The boy cried wolf. Even if it is true, who would believe that guy?
Ego. He wasn't just not invited, but not even welcome for a drink. Normal people wouldn't have tried to crash in the first place, but Mike isn't normal.
Thiel seems like a clear thinker, but almost anybody can gradually drift in the wrong direction--especially if, as grellas says above, it probably wasn't quite illegal.
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How exactly will a bank make money on a fraudulent transaction? I had my accounts emptied and had the bank give me back everything that was stolen. I fail to see how thousands of dollars being reimbursed is a profitable model.
You would use? Seems "simple": crawl webpages, remove html tags from source, wrap blocks of newlines around <p>s, style accordingly (good, readable font and generous white spacing).

Depending on the execution, this could be characterized as stealing other people's content, but anyway, are the above mentioned "features" what you want?
just add a unique-constraint to your phone-number-column and it should be fine.
Oracle suing the Apache Foundation? That is even worse press than their suing Google.
I'm in the same situation as you. First off, my business is my hobby, so instead of watching TV or playing video games, I try to get something done on my application.

I choose small pieces of work to do that can fit in about an hour. My wife does writing/school in the evenings, so we often sit together and work. If I don't have the mental attention to write code, I work on other things.

Funny enough, I've been very productive while taking my oldest kid to karate. I've built a surprising amount of my application at the dojo :)

I start my day job early (at the office around 7) so that I can get back home and spend more time with the family until bedtime.

I've also learned to accept that my progress might be slow some weeks because I've made the decision to put my family first.
Whenever I read these SEO articles, I get a little depressed at how people try to game the search engines.

This article, was a nice contrast. Good to see some solid, basic tips, with no crap / gaming.
Thank you, Lukeqsee! The execution is just in early ALPHA stage. I even run it on a cheapest shared web account (more powerful dedicated server and search soft are to be in October only).
As for what minimal page is, I would tell you I've seen a LOT of websites that call themselves Galleries (Top Lists, or whatever) for MINIMAL Webpages, where only few of their links point to really minimal ones. No matter what the name for the Minimal pages could be, I see them as SMALL and FAST ONLY!
Mr McClure's defensive, arrogant, immature rant indicates that a sore spot has been touched.

No it doesn't. That's how McClure always comes off in writing. Arrogant and immature, but never defensive. Probably not just in writing ..

Don't take my word for it, just navigate to another page on his blog and you will see the same thing.

IMO, McClure is to Arrington what Ali G is to Darth Vader. One of them is nasty but fun, the other ..
Problem is, they still have the right patents and the right attitude to kill forks, and as other pointed out it is debatable if the patents grant applies to derivates of OpenJDK.

What the world needs to do is to start from scratch, with a new VM, new specs, a new base class library, plus a compiler that converts Java bytecode to this new VM ... something like .NET / Android, but more cross-platform and less tied to Java's standard library.
Well, the battle between media accusation of 'colluding' and super angels asserting they are doing good for the valley.

Arrington definitely burned lots of bridges here to post this story out. While I'm not sure how credible his sources are, I envy his courage.
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But for what it's worth, that's a totally different kind of list. Optima and Gill Sans (but definitely not Eurostile and Rotis) probably are two of the greatest typefaces of all time, but that doesn't mean a design that relies on them won't look terribly dated and tired.

Some faces (Helvetica Univers) are probably timeless. Others, like Futura, speak clearly to a different era, and manage to be evocative without being retro. But a lot of these typefaces are neither of those good things.
Arrington has said that many who attended this event were friends of his. I'd think it wouldn't be too difficult to sense a strange vibe and that something unusual was going down. I've seen Arrington make some big claims (last.fm handing over records to the RIAA (unsure if that was resolved)), but these are pretty damaging accusations, and you've got to realize that more than just page views, there are a few other things riding on this recent piece -- like the friendships of those he's accused of colluding, general respect among the angel/vc community and beyond. That coupled with this post, with a tl;dr of HE's WrONg ANd I WanT TO BE AbraSIVE AnD NOT PROviDE REASONABle LEVel-heaDED ARGumEnTS, makes me side with Arrington for now, although Fred Wilson's post does make a lot of sense.
Assuming the meeting had an illegal purpose (which is a major assumption at this point), one might infer that anyone present was complicit in that illegal purpose. In my view, that by itself would not normally be enough to subject someone to liability, especially if the participant disclaims affiliation with the group and thereafter does not act in concert with it.
When people try too hard to sound cool, they actually come off sounding like dorks. Of course, McClure has FU money, so his likely response to me would be "_________." (short answer quiz).
Fair enough. Can't say I read his blog. However, he does come across as incredibly manic in writing, which makes it difficult for me to trust him. But I don't know the man at all. Bad blog first impressions.
Your mistake is in assuming the bank is who reimburses their account holders for stolen funds. It's not. Every store your card/account was used at was forced to return those funds to your bank, even if they already provided the products or services that were purchased. They also each had to pay a chargeback fee (usually $15-20).

Say your credit card is stolen, and used to purchase 5 items from 5 stores. Each of those 5 stores will be forced to return all of the money they charged, no matter how impossible it might be for them to know the credit card was stolen. They will also collectively pay $100 in chargeback fees to your bank, which is likely more than it cost to move the couple pieces of paper it took to handle the situation and inform the customer.

The bank has now made a profit.

Each store that accepted the stolen credit card has lost:

- The payment they accepted

- The transaction fees paid on the payment they accepted

- The product they shipped, potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars

- The chargeback fee

And if chargebacks ever amount to more than about 1% of any of those store's transactions, their processing fees can go up, they can have their cash flow abruptly cut as a reserve fund is created to hold their future charges for some time, or they can lose their ability to accept credit cards entirely.
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This is a bit better, but still a real pain. What about sending email?
Corin, I'm afraid you're jumping too fast: I wrote that article two years ago, and it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the Mini-WWW project!
There was a hack to see what pages someone visited. I see that they actually link to a page about that. The problem with that approach would seem to be that it is a cross-domain vulnerability so other domains could detect the history thus ever-cookie data.

Not sure if they have some other mechanism for preventing this problem. I actually thought this problem had been resolved in some manner in many browsers but that doesn't appear to be the case.