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I, too, have lost two close friends. It is not a founder thing or startup thing. It was always about a certain someone in the startup community.

But...love won out. He was always so patient and giving and eventually I was able to get over all these issues and really be in a position where I could love somebody...and I basically woke up one morning and realized that I was in love with him, and he was the man I would marry. So, I took him to the pier we launched canoes from, and told him how I had overcome all these issues and wasn't scared to let him in anymore and that I was so glad he failed in all his initial plans after college, because it meant we were together in Silicon Valley.
I was more pointing out that there are maintenance tasks that lean less towards something that would seem to be fun (for most people), such as keeping track of finances. These boring but necessary things are a part of life are simple things to do, but in the spirit with the article, the people who live well don't ignore these boring but necessary tasks.
Strangely, I didn't like seeing the "We don't spam." I didn't even suspect it with a cell number.

I understand it's a small website and all, but perhaps a tiny privacy policy would be better?

More thoughts:

It occured to me that a lot of my friends probably don't have unlimited SMS, which is fine, but you might want a way to blacklist a number? Everything is all fun till money gets involved, after all =\
I'm going to wager that the choice of a single button on the iPhone is bad design, esp having experienced both single button and multi-button designs (Android phones).

I've designed apps for iPhone and Android and what ends up happening on iPhone apps is that you have to put additional buttons in your app to compensate for the lack of buttons on the iPhone.

Take the virtually omnipresent back button in iPhone apps. Most applications need a back button. Hence on the iPhone, they draw this button on the top left corner. I much prefer the Android phones' hard back button, not only because it makes single-handed operation possible, but also because sometimes soft back buttons don't cut it - what do you do when you want to switch to the last app or what if your app lost focus to another app because of some unsolicited event and you want to go back? Same for search button.

Now I'm not saying Android got all things right. In fact Android UI, UX is nowhere as pleasant as iPhone's. But, I don't agree that a single button on iPhone was a good decision. I'd like to know if there have been any real-life studies or empirical data on this.
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Looks good, but I'd like too know more about how it works on the homepage. A few things:

1. Do you text a specific number, and then it broadcasts it to the entire network? If not, I think that'd be great, because when replying to the message, things get hard again.

2. Does it work internationally (e.g. Australia, Canada, UK)? If not, specify on the homepage!

Keep it up!
I don't see a code anywhere. It's obviously a special landing page but the registration form still asks for a code. If you submitted text with your link, it's gone.
45 million dead in four years. Yep, that's about right for the Holodomor times four.

Of course, Stalin and Mao still aren't as synonymous with ultimate evil as Hitler was, and won't be, despite killing quite a few million more people. For decades Western leftists even praised them. It probably has to do something with not being utterly defeated in the biggest war of all time. History is written by the winners and all that, and Stalin was a winner of WWII. (Mao wasn't in power yet.)
My first reaction as well. If that's true though, how do we explain that Stack Overflow itself has done so well? People are at least as tribal about languages.
iOS4 actually has great support for gmail finally. You can enable archive instead of delete in the options now (may have to re-add the account). In iOS 4.1 they even changed the icon away from the trash can when you have this enabled.

That being said, I miss support for priority inbox already.
Yes good questions.

So MagCloud was introduced to me by the founder of JPGMag (Derek Powazek) and I've been with them since they were beta. They've grown and have become a much better service for the 1.5 years I've been with them. They now have perfect binding and international shipping which they didn't have for quite a while. I used to ship the copies international myself and act as sort of a middle man. There quality is amazing, especially since we run a photograph magazine quality is of the utmost importance. I would recommend them for sure. Lulu.com is another option I considered, but I found them to be too complicated. MagCloud was simple, one size, one size bleed, etc. Lulu provided too many options which I didn't like, plus the MagCloud magazine dimensions are pretty good.

So actually the price of the mag includes a $1.00 charge for perfect binding so the profit is $0.50 which is more of a counter in how many magazines I've sold. This obviously is a no profit situation. And really a loss when considering all the effort put into it. But the magazine promotes fotoblur, our online community. Our biggest part of the business is the community and the interactions that happen there. We follow a freemium model and it is through the site that we earn real revenue.

However, we are looking into making an offering digitally at a price, and we offer our premium members a Digital Edition as part of their upgrade.

You're right about the advertising, the magazine distribution numbers are low so advertisers aren't knocking on our door. MagCloud started an iPod app and were were being downloaded 2-300 times a day. This in turn got us a spike in web traffic, more members joining per day, and with 3% converting to Premium numbers of registered members add up to eventual revenue.

For the magazine we don't want ads. I've designed it to be minimalistic and focused on the artwork. The newstands photography magazines eventually have turned into pimps for new camera equipment and top ten lists on how to take the best photo ever. We are more grassroots and focused on the artwork. We find that our target readers are the photographers themselves who then want to join the community and become contributors themselves. The website offers lots of ways to have fun like ratings, favorites, followers/friends (twitter-sh), we have community run groups etc. The community aspects are fun and I do love creating the magazine as its a nice break from writing code.

By the way, we did publish in the iPad app, but since I offered the digital editions as a premium member only offering there was an obvious conflict. I've since been researching other ways to distribute digitally since this is obviously the future of the publishing industry. With future iPads getting retinal display it will start to rival 300 dpi prints. So I feel that we should be looking into digital distribution channels and not giving that away to push the print.

Great reply, I'd love to know what you're working on and I may be able to assist you or answer more questions. You can email me at fotoblur [@] gmail .c0m

Cheers
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Thanks for the suggestions. I agree the explanation copy could use some work. I was worried "group texting" might sound like one person being able to blast a message out to a group, but I'm not sure.

Thanks for pointing out friendspod, I hadn't seen that. Agreed, a bit awkward.
Dude, that is sick
Looks like it's founded by one of the founders of YouNoodle, which had similar foundations in big data crunching. Is this a rebrand? A new company based on similar technology?
Thanks!

1. Yeah, it sends everyone a specific number to add to their contacts. Everyone in the friendpod sends and receives texts from that number. (If you make a second friendpod you get a second number.)

2. Ah, good point. Twilio SMS only works in US for now.
You're talking to the support team. I may have 5-10 support issues per day. Much of it is automated at this point. I wouldn't think that outsourcing that is worth loosing the chance to connect with members personally. Many of these support issues led to ideas and features that helped build a better service. I'd suggest in early stages or even further to keep your support system in-house, its your lifeline to your customer.

Cheers
It will cost 1/10 the price in 10-12 years and be a lot more functional. So goes progress.
Mmm, no, it's not a colophon.

The page is titled "the quid story". If the best you can do there is some branding drivel, then that's a huge red flag. The quid story should tell us something about the company, what it's goals are, why it was started. Not why some branding consultant chose a god damn font.
Why would he even care? It's only in some confused fantasies that this project, of all projects, would be THE ONE to actually challenge Facebook. It might, it might not. No more likely Diaspora than some project cooked up by a pair of 16 year olds in Brazil.
Good points, but I'm being misread in a few places to make your points.

My point wasn't that writers don't have value, but that veteran journalists have an understanding of their value that doesn't sync up with how their output is valued in the context of today's media world.

I have an extremely high opinion of veteran journalists. I went into debt so I could attend graduate journalism school and learn at their feet for a year.

However, my great respect for their skills as researchers and reporters does not change my belief that they have an overinflated idea of the value of the actual product they were putting out with those skills. Great content has limited value unless you have the ability to distribute it to a lot of people. Great veteran journalists can make wonderful stuff but lack the ability to put it in front of a lot of people.

Sincerely, A fellow writer. Glad to see more of us on HN.
I think the one thing that was harder to deal with since we store photos was, as we grew, the problems of file storage increased very quickly, so even with slow, steady growth these issues would eventually crop up. As the site has grown though its actually started to work better since many of the features are based on user interactions (promotions, comments, etc). So as I saw how users were using the site I started to see lots of potential for new features and new ways to display data.

Cheers
I use http://dailydiary.com. It uses email to help you keep track of personal metrics (either numeric or free-form text). It doesn't have a native iPhone app though (yet).
Interesting article, and a great concept. I'd imagine that reporters / journos would be quite adept with technology, but I wonder if a lot of them have the ability to be good hackers / programmers. It sounds like their professor has two very complimentary skills.
This same logic could apply to everyone; everyone should be hackers.

I really believe we should be educating middle and high school kids about how to use computers for more than the internet and document processing. Given the way computers and the internet are everywhere and are used for so much, computer use / programming / scripting should be a required class like history and science are.
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Can a ballgame be copyrighted? I would assume that only a particular recording of it could be, and since you recorded this it would make you the owner. Apparently what makes FIFA the "owner" of the video is that they are a "Partner" ( http://www.youtube.com/t/partnerships_faq ). You have to meet some criteria, such as popularity and exclusively "owning" content you upload, to become a partner.
The partner system appears to be stacked in favor of large entities, regardless of whether they truly "own" the content.

Let's say you had a popular channel though, and you submitted the homemade clip. Depending how YouTube's system works, it could have been FIFA's video that was flagged instead of, or in addition to, yours.

Edit: The logic's a bit circular isn't it? You have to own the content to be a partner, and you have to be a partner to own the content.
Guess what? Reddit outdid us on this one. james_hart in particular, but also a series of smaller clarifying comments. Look at this one:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/df72k/quite_ser...

The HN thread consists basically of knee-jerking about "those waskly sekuwity wesearchers" and blatantly overtly false statements from people who had no business giving guidance about a flaw they knew literally nothing about.
Why not? Search has a very low barrier to customer switching. If I want to switch to a new search engine that provides better answer than google I only need to change one setting in my browser - it's easier than picking a new desktop color
Awesome. Only comment I have is that some way to tell how many images there are and where you are in the sequence would be useful.
100 billion documents on 100 machines

I think Cuil should sell their index as a service. Over which businesses can implement PageRank and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank#See_also type of algorithms.
Totally agree, it would enhance all other classes; being able to create maths applications, filtering through historical data, the list is pretty much endless.
Where did the voicemail logo on our phones come from?
I was reading an article on telephony, and I noticed a blown up version of the voicemail symbol from phones (you know, the one with the two circles on the end, connected by a line) - does anyone know where this logo originated from? And who may have come up with?
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Ah, so that was you? Kudos for picking the second most hilarious project name I've ever seen (after Rinda). I hear the build tool is nice too :)
There still needs to be proper architecture for web based application.

I mean for example, data binding that works would be a plus. Anyone know how to do this today, without being locked down into bad frameworks?

That's when we will start seeing some real improvements in web app development.
This is awesome stuff, great job.

However, I dragged an image ( but did not have any extension) - and it mentioned that the file is not an image.

I know this is a rare case ( heck what are the odds of me selecting me 1 pic which does not have an extension!)
Anyways, good stuff.
I'm footing the bill, and yes it could easily get expensive. I'm waiting to see if/how people use it before figuring that out.
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I program professionally in Ruby, Javascript, Erlang, and some Java. Add in the pieces of each, HAML, JQuery, GWT, and the languages I like reading about, such as Haskell and Lua, and thats a good % of SO. It would be much more annoying if it was separate sites.

Also, lots of info about most languages is useful, even to other languages. I imagine its much less so for CMSs.
Cuil theory reminds me of the pataphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataphor#.27Pataphor
The rule of 72 for me is a classic that comes to my mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72
Yes as a single founder you get to wear a lot of hats...but most of those things tend to be one offs. The rest are routine, which are easy to manage by making a to-do list the day before.
For those of you who are interested in a future-proof file drop plugin based on FileReader(), here you go:

http://github.com/weixiyen/jquery-filedrop
I assume this means that each transistor is simulated digitally, as a pure switch, and not as an analog component, which I imagine would be near impossible to do in Javascript on current hardware.

Thought this for the longest time, too, but reality can't be simulated on a computer. Only a simplified model can.
I had a teacher tell me that math classes in the future will not contain more math, but instead computer classes to learn how to get computers to do the math for us.
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There's always a dark side to every argument which is why we see so many companies simply deciding to abandon everything as the easiest solution.
that's BTW why fonts look bit off in new Chrome

Hey, I'm struggling with that right now. Simple calls to Canvas fillText produce text that is way too heavy in Chrome. (The same calls work ok in FF.) I must be doing something wrong because Bespin uses Canvas and their text looks normal. Any guesses as to what it might be?
The graphs don't start at zero, so the differences are exaggerated, at least visually.
Does this leave Blekko as the last standing independent Google-killer? (DDG doesn't count to me because yegg isn't (yet) indexing the web himself.)
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Quoth the article: People used the left elevator more than the right one

This makes me wonder: Did people choose the left elevator; or was there a single-elevator-call button which they pressed, upon which the elevator-control program preferentially dispatched the left elevator? I wouldn't be surprised if the elevator-control program always handled the situation with two equally close available elevators by dispatching elevator #1 rather than elevator #2.

Is anyone here familiar with the Tisch School of the Arts?
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It's a reel to reel tape symbol - the first answering machines recorded onto tape.
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HTML rendering itself is already "fast enough." [...] rendering is already pretty much instantaneous on all modern browsers

Strongly disagree. HTML rendering is terribly slow at certain things (especially in Firefox). Unfortunately they're the things our app's usability depends on, so we've had many struggles in this department. Anyone who's ever innocently accessed a DOM element's offsetLeft and wondered why their code got 100x slower will know what I mean.

DOM rendering is so far from instantaneous that it's scandalous. But optimizing Javascript implementations for benchmarks is easier, sexier, and more fun, so that's where the energy has mostly been going. I'd say it's actually the JS's that are "fast enough" at this point, but of course different apps have different needs. Thank goodness Google have been pushing the envelope in every department with Chrome and not just one.
Pro-tip: do not add random sleeps to your error pages in the hopes that this will prevent attackers from timing your responses. Your sleeps, no matter how cryptographically random, will be no match for the awesome powers of Excel's =Average function.
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IMO its pretty useless. Especially for iPhone users, like your example images - because i've texted my normal bunch of mates as a group before, the iphone keeps that message together with the group, and every week if i want to send them a text i just find the last message i sent to them as a group, and their numbers are still there.

i suppose it makes sense if you don't have this feature on your phone, but its likely most phones will follow apple and have this feature in the near future.

also, more importantly i think, with no details on your homepage about costs, there is no way i'd sign up for something like this. For all i know it could rebill at $9.99 a week or something.
It might be educationally useful to be able to show propagation delay for the gates graphically -- actually show the signal "flowing" through the circuit. It would make it easy to demonstrate where glitches in a clocked circuit come from, which is hard to internalize by just staring at a diagram.
This question made me feel old, and I'm definitely not.
With friendpod, when someone replies it acts like a Reply All, which is what makes this useful in my opinion. You can also add the group to your contacts. It doesn't charge you.
I'm fairly sure that SoundHound does not match hummed or sung queries with album recordings, but with other hummed melodies submitted by users and labeled with the song ID.

I would imagine the algorithm is different, since the Shazam algorithm is designed to find exact matches corrupted by noise, EQ, etc., and two hummed versions of the same melody may vary in key, tempo, and timbre, and have small rhythmic differences.
Start with 1, backup to S3 or EBS.
Figure out how to overload that server.
Once you have over 10,000 users start worrying about backups etc. If you server dies and nukes all their data just start over no one will even notice. (Yes, your users may but if you have 10,000 users, its 10,000 out of 300 million accounts, just get new users)
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As far as I know, DDG isn't paying for access. But I might be wrong about that. Maybe they are they paying for Bing, but not Yahoo?
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Likewise, but the symbol is very simplified and pretty far removed from its original meaning at this point, so I can see how it would cause confusion. Plus, there have certainly been times when I've overlooked something that seems pretty obvious once someone points it out!
Once again, you are not the customer, you are the product. Search engine customers (advertisers) gravitate to the largest player because it provides a larger inventory of users/searches to select from. Search advertising is a winner-takes-all market and it would take a huge shift in inventory to change this momentum. Once it starts shifting it is hard to stop and the changing economic factors make it easier for the insurgent to capitalize on whatever mis-steps the incumbent made, but there is a lot of inertia to overcome to get this ball rolling.

A far more likely scenario for a major change in this sector would be for social search to eclipse the crawl it and rank it model that is currently dominant.
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One nontrivial part is transforming the spectrogram into some representation that is robust to the things that can affect the query audio, like background noise. Another nontrivial part is figuring out, given this representation, how to quickly match the query with a song or database of songs.
Impressive.

Still I'd have loved to see this robot actually do something beyond, well, light aerobics.
"IMHO DDG's success stems from the fact that yegg listens to the users"

I once contacted Cuil about some worthless search results, and got a standard reply asking me to be patient since they were a small company. But there wasn't any hint in the email that they would actually address the issue, so drastically reduced my use of them and never bothered to contact them again. Listening to users would have probably helped if my experience indicates a pattern.
It's like they're falling victim to the "Fire and Motion" idea that Spolsky talked about: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
I am certainly sure that If I was given 10% of cuil 33M I would have end up with something 10 times more useful and profitable
I'm on Chrome 6 on Ubuntu. It's telling me that my browser isn't supported.

(Reason #101 why I hate browser sniffing, no one ever gets it right).

Beyond that, I wish you the best of luck, it sounds like something I can use.