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I think it's just a holdover in the comp sci biz from the days when COBOL programmers found their COBOL hacking to be obsolete and chose to retire rather than retrain

Truth is, old dogs CAN learn new tricks. But it takes more energy than just repeating their old tricks.
FWIW - You can add FireFox and Opera to that list on OSX.
Thanks for sharing!
Love the style and it's readability. My newbie python code did the trick, but is way harder to read - your code really showed me room for improvement!
http://trails.es is a little too I designed to fill this void. It's unfinished and thus free, but it works and I use to every day. Just dont try to drag tasks from one list to another. It'll light our server on fire (not really, it simply breaks your account until its been manually fixed ;)e Feedback is welcome.
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REWORK: The new business book from 37signals.
But wouldn't the checkbox serve as a cancel option too?
So I just finished reading Rework. I like it very much - there is a lot of common sense here. And we all know the saying - common sense is not very common.

On hiring: I especially like the part about hiring. Where they suggest doing the job yourself first so you clearly understand what it is. We've hired a lot of people and took on a lot of weight/baggage - sometime to fix issues that were systemic. So instead of fixing the issue we through a body at it.

On Meetings: They say meetings are toxic. Of course not all meetings are toxic - but many are. I am going to try a no meetings day at work. People need time to get into a groove. Meetings interrupt that groove.

Ok - now that I've sung the praises here are a few reality checks. 37Signals essentially works for themselves. Of course they have customers, even raving fans of which I am one. But they do not have clients. This is a whole different type of environment, especially when you get into more complex industries like pharma marketing keeping things as simple is very difficult. We have to have policies, compliance officers, deep documentation, security audits etc. Look at basecamp for example - we can't use it. It does not comply with SOX, it does not have time sheets that roll up to functions - all requirements in our industry. Another example is simply prototyping in html as they suggest won't work. We are required to submit technical documentation.

Also - size makes a difference. As far as I know 37 is about 16 people. Simple is simple at that size. When your at 70 people simple is harder. You can do the job before you hire someone to the job for you. I can't be a compliance officer - I wouldn't know how.

All in all I love the book - and hope to run my start up with some of the same mentality. And I'm and avid user of their products. But they are not living in a prototypical situation. Of course they may be very much more profitable than some larger companies so no one can say they are wrong - just not the norm.
That's true, and I agree. I just commented on parent posters litmus test.
My rubber duck is the mailing list. So there is some difficult problem that I can't fix. I start writing an e-mail (or a stackoverflow post) and then as I work through the description of what I have done I see the problem)
Maybe I'm misreading but it sounds like you're saying they have >10,000 paying customers. Getting to even half that number of customers will probably take you years.

I wouldn't bother contacting the competition until you at least pose a credible threat to them. Even then you're better off if they contact you. As somebody said "companies are bought, not sold".
I've done it ruby this way:

text.scan(/(.)(.)(.)(.)(\3)(\2)(\1)/)
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The problem of agency, in scientific research especially, but also in any field where the results of the questions asked have direct effects on businesses, is a hard problem. It will always be the case that those most interested in funding a given field of research will be biased towards a specific class of results. It becomes that much more difficult for lines of enquiry that touch on liability for causing economic harm to others.
I'll be coming, I hope.

The Mobalean guys are awesome BTW.
checking facts... You are correct. I incorrectly assumed they were equivalent to UK and Norwegian customs, where customs and border protection are separate entities.
That suggestion page has an awful lot of similarities to the new Digg sign-up process. Who's came first? I would have to imagine Twitter but I wasn't paying particularly close attention.
can we have the link updated?

when I was linked from my rss reader (just now-ish), it was set to go to: http://localhost/www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.htm...

should be: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html

thanks.
One thing I noticed is that there doesn't seem to be such a thing for mobile browsers yet. Maybe a worthwhile problem to solve? No good idea how to go about it, though. Would emulations be sufficient? Or maybe attach some real phones to a server and make screenshots (scaling?)?

I am not even sure how many mobile browsers there are. Would one have to test on every phone, or would major versions of webkit mobile, opera mobile etc. be sufficient?
I have started http://onlineqrlab.com with no clear idea in my mind (what it will do or how to monetize). I built a nice generator and I'm now improving more the interface.

I would be interested in QrCode ideas as I don't have any. Does anyone think of a small, 1/2 months feasible QrCode project that can be monetized somehow (SaaS like). I'm mainly doing this for learning purposes, so I don't bother if it really works well or not.
If there are still room for me, there will be at least one guy from Kyoto, so not that far :) I think someone else already booked in is from Kansai as well.
"don´t make me think" by steve krug (is a classic)

if you wanna learn about users, the way they think, and which problems they have on the web (eg with forms,..)
just sit by your girlfriend, your mum or everybody you can watch in front of a computer.

the best is to watch them using something you created. so you get a clue of how different problems (than you think) other people have that you might think.

i was yesterday at a customer showing my progress. so he (a trainer for wordpress stuff) registered on the site and asked and did some (for me) weird things.

there´s tons of things to learn from that. :)
not to mention the advertising sales team and contacts they already have.

Even Yahoo surely wouldn't pay $2billion for a domain name and a mailing list, would they?
It should be ok now. FB Groups need a validation before you can comment.
I just pushed up a class I've been using to do this to github. It's a little rough around the edges, but works in Firefox and IE. I've trialed with the AddThis. http://github.com/joshduck/Injector.js
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This article needs to be refactored.
Show HN: Fill-in-the-blanks percentage calculator (ad-free for HN hackers)
A couple of years ago, I created a fill-in-the-blanks percentage calculator for my own personal use, but I put it up on my site in case others might find it useful as well.

With no advertising and very little publicity, it now shows up close to the top of Google's search results for queries like "percent off calculator."

I slapped some (kind of obnoxious) advertising on it ... but for HN users, here's an ad-free version:

http://pressbin.com/tools/percentage_calculator/?HN=

Just make sure to enter something for the HN variable -- your HN username, some random characters, a URL-encoded haiku, etc.
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groups.

create a group by setting it´s name.

join a group by knowing its name.

send messages to everybody in the group.

get contact info of everybody in the group.

create/accept/reject dates/deadlines.

share comments/links/files

this is for people who where at camps, workshops, classes, university, play in bands, work on any type of project together,...

sounds interesting?
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Thanks! Indeed $99 is a bit pricey, but many think it's well worth it, and it's a niche. ViEmu had its 5th anniversary this year, and I'm hoping for the next five, still better years (both for ViEmu and Codekana, http://www.codekana.com).
If any of those reading this are in the business of writing news articles, then, please:

If you want to tell me about a scientist's report being something fake he cooked up (for fame or because someone paid him to say it or whatever), then first tell me what, scientifically, is or might be wrong with the report, and then tell me about his background and financial incentives and stuff.

I believe it's supposed to be good news-article-writing style to put the most important facts and overview first, so that the reader can stop at any part in the article and come away with a good overall picture of whatever the article talks about. The thesis of the article seems to be that there's something wrong with this scientist's study... yet this author seems to have thought it was fine for a reader to walk away having read the ad hominem attacks against the scientist, but not the actual description of what might be wrong with his study. I was rather disconcerted to see this in a major news outlet like CNN; I thought that only happened in Ayn Rand novels.
I'm finding this really useful: in the past I've had to use a service that runs over VNC (crossbrowsertesting.com). Dealing with cross-browser bugs is annoying enough without additional slowness and inconvenience. This feels much, much nicer.
Nope, RoR is a byproduct of building basecamp.
Don't forget your Mama Cass record :)
Amazon micro instances might be a good fit. Can always scale up if required.
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I wish I had time to go into this -- it's a critical issue with our life today. But I don't, so I'll make a couple hopefully pithy and not snarky comments.

First of all, you have to measure things and you have to have somebody accountable for things. This is true no matter what the thing you are talking about. I don't see how much hand-waving and complaining about society's morals and values is going to get you beyond this extremely reasonable requirement.

Second -- and this is ironic -- folks have been complaining about the quality of schools for years. Some of you guys act like this is the first you've heard of it. We've dropped boatloads of money in education. Wake up and see where all this centralized planning, factory-mentality, and unionized system has gotten you. I think it's great people are paying attention. We've missed you. Welcome to the party.

It's a very complicated situation, and I don't see a solution emerging any time soon, unfortunately. I know I called out unions and such in my graph above, but in reality it's a very complex situation. The best I can come up with is that you're better off giving the money to the parents in the form of vouchers and letting various systems compete against each other. Or you can keep trying to make one-size-fits-all solutions. Good luck with that.
personally i think that there are so many sites writing about web apps. so i guess it would be quite difficult to get people to your site.

i had a look at your landing page.
there are lots of links on the page, but i couldn´t find a single one doing anything. as a user i don´t know what´s up. remove links that you dont use.
the go for it button, does it anything?

the text in the center of the page is about your service and the first app in the contest. i´d split that up and try to make the texts as short and simple as possible. many people (including me) will leave the site without reading the text.

hope that helps, martin
Not exactly $400 but in that range, here's what you can get for $600/mo in Saigon: http://www.saigonist.com/content/cost-living-vietnam-its-rea...
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http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/04/vv_show_32_david_sifry_o...

:)
It turns out (just read an article in Russian) that recently there was a huge DDOS attack (100+ Gbit/s) that dropped major providers in Europe, DARPA(.mil), major Russian search engine. 100GBit/s is enough to fill major landlines and backbones (even in US, darpa.mil failed too). That might have been the cause of delays. Nobody is sure whether the attack is over, but major datacenters and DDOS protection providers failed to do anything against it.

Still, making your site independent with async scripts is good idea.
Yes. I've been infatuated with this idea for 3 years now. Specifically, having the groups centered around threaded forum-like discussion. So many times I've wanted to throw up a temporary forum online, and I just could never find an easy enough way to do it that didn't require lengthy registration and administration.

It would be nice if I could just tell someone, go to "foobar.com/<some word>" and we'll discuss it there.

I have a killer domain for the idea, but sadly have always been too busy working on other projects. To tell the truth, I'm a bit intimidated by working on forum software. Last time I tried, I feature-creeped myself to burn-out.
Very cool idea. Like couch surfing.
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That's a pretty big claim to throw out there. What evidence do you have to support it ?
Everyone has opportunity in America - some people are weighed down by past experiences, family and personal. I believe that's the biggest preventer of social mobility.
i´d try to avoid pills. if you have pain, your body tries to tells you something - so don´t ignore it.

i got exactly the some problem as you - and no solution that i stick with.

some months ago i read a lot about this topic. one of the things i learned was that one thing is bad for our body: being in one position for long times. so getting up for something to drink or a short talk is super.
small exercises would be even better, but try that at your office,...

i also read that the solution with the exercise balls is not too good because your spine has to hold the complete weight of the body the whole day, which is too much for it.
so something with armrests is better.

anybody got THE solution?
is there a solution?
Subscribe to the makeleaps RSS feed or send us an email and we'll try to send you an email next time. We do these every month or so, so you'll probably be around for the next one.

You can also just shoot me an email (paul@makeleaps.com) if you want to grab a cup of coffee or a quick drink. I'm only a few stops from shinjuku.
I've got a few freelance gigs I need to finish off, write a fairly complex iPhone app for a boss who doesn't/won't understand that I can't do this as quickly as changing images on a website; and most importantly, start shooting my damned film (which will make all those other hassles worthwhile!)
But you still need to shave around the MO, right?
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It seemed rather apparent to me that something was missing from that other article - like more insight into the underlying causes. Its reaffirming to see that Dr. Jennifer Sass asks the same questions I was asking (which, incidentally I was downvoted for and 'corrected' about here on HN).
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And if you think the folks at unrEVOked aren't doing their damnedest to achieve that goal, then I think you're mistaken.

However, the reason they don't have that toy (and the same reason another random startup won't) is because the process does carry some non-zero risk and complexity when viewed across the spectrum of all devices. It is my opinion that the risk is only going to get worse over time, given the animosity that hardware manufacturers feel toward the hacker community.

Jailbreakme.com is outstanding, but they only had to deal with a small microcosm of hardware/OS tuples (which, if I'm not mistaken, is actually the topic under discussion right now).
Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here we go again: gross oversimplifications from people who make their blogging money by being controversial rather than correct.
There's some serious sour grapes in that thread. I'm disappointed in you, reddit.
It could be very nice for blog posts, and website infos. I'm not a native speaker, I'd love to have an army to fix my mistakes.
I work on enterprise software in a financial company, and IMO, this quote from Zawinski would lead to a dangerous short-term view in that context: "unit tests are not critical. If there’s no unit test the customer isn’t going to complain about that."

When you work in enterprise software, this approach might work on the first project, maybe the second, but eventually a point will arrive where a requirement will take longer to deliver for the simple reason that there are no unit tests. Without unit tests, bugs will be found later in the project life-cycle, possibly even after delivery. If customers have delivered software that is unusable, the fact of delivery becomes a negative pretty quickly..

On the positive side though, the tension between what's essential for the customer, and what developers need to learn to keep their careers alive is an interesting idea, and is something we've been looking recently at where I work. Is it a good idea to introduce a technology just because a programmer feels s/he should learn it? I'm not so sure.
I've just been reading A Deepness in the Sky with its focussed zipheads, who provide human-level automation in the the Slow Zone. Only difference was that that was realtime.

What I'm trying to say is that this is creepy.
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In some sense, this is what TurKit already is:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/turkit/

And I think TurKit is part of the back-end for Soylent.
sorry, HN doesn't let me edit the link.
I agree, a very hateful thread when the guy was just thanking the community for the help and ideas/motivation they gave him.

With that said, I think I agree with the less hateful comments that Google bought the programmers behind the startup, not the product itself (though that was a bonus). Kind of like PG and others focus on the founders themselves as much if not more than their current product idea.
See you guys there.
You have to build something fun, something people can use with no compromise. People need to be looking at your skills, and once you get their attention they'll ask you for your services, this will now be a great opportunity to interact and figure out what they need. Find a solution for a small problem and gradually start offering that to people alike.

I found this article to be very helpful, http://www.smartcompany.com.au/the-digital-bottom-line/20100....
Maybe you can use something like MyGengo and just ask for an english to english translation. ;-)

http://mygengo.com/
Good point but to nitpick the analogy-- Shakespeare's dialogue is actually quite varied. Consider the exchange between Hamlet and Osric, for example. Hamlet mocks him mercilessly for trying to use big words. Contrast Hamlet's tasteful, intelligent, and poetic use of language vs. Polonius's elaborate, convoluted phrases. Even the two gravediggers-- one is clever the other is a bit slow.
It's a good book with a lot of sound advice but I believe it's probably a good idea to not take it as gospel law. When reading these types of books, you'll find a lot of conflicting ideas with other books so I imagine the best thing to do is look for the universal, non-conflicting ideas that people agree on and use them.

I'm guessing, as goodlab said, that what works for one business isn't always going to be completely applicable to another.
Facebook didn't 'trounce' MySpace until relatively late in the game.
No one said memorization of pointless random stuff is easy.
Thanks for organizing this event and promoting doorkeeper. It's still lacking polish, so if anyone tries it out and has any questions or feedback, please let me know!
Thanks Jawaad!
> Is it even working for advertisers?

Some success stories on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371349

> now common knowledge, that one shouldn't start using the Web without AdBlock or NoScript

That's not really known except among techies and the techies' friends. Some Googling suggests only 3-5% of Firefox users block ads.

> So please, tell me, why are we doing it to each other?

Because some small percentage of users do click a lot of ads and buy things from the advertiser. A report from 2007 says that the highest click-through rate is from "middle-aged women from the Midwest": http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArtic...
When I went to canada for 6 months, I started lurking on couchsurfing.com even if I didn't need. Just to meet people. I met one good friend here, and I met her many times over here, and once in my country !

edit:
for Canada I also lurked a LOT on a special french website that is , in fact, like a giant forum with all related stuff to get there and live here. It helped me a lot (sorry I don't remember the website).

For India where I spent a year, I went with guys from my school so, I was not alone but we met people there that we contacted from the net. France (and maybe other people) have 'Alliance Française' in many country. It's a small organization run by France Gov which is here to help french guys abroad and give french lessons for foreigners. Many 'expatriate' blogs and website refer to this alliance française. So mainly I would say, there are like 2/3 major websites for foreigners (in specific countries) and most people meet from these blogs.
It would be useful if Google hooked some info like this into the error message somehow. Can anyone pass it on to the right people at Google?
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My immediate thought is that it looks like a business app - the design isn't unattractive, it just doesn't seem to fit the market.

Ideally, it should be skinnable with default themes loosely based on the most relevant MMORPGs and the ability for guilds to come up with creative designs of their own
I'm also in Shinjuku so feel free to shoot me an email. Mobile Monday is another international tech event that is happening on the 18th (http://momoto.doorkeeper.jp/events/43), so if you are not too jet lagged, maybe we can me there.
That was six months ago, and since then Amazon has put out new, cheaper, wifi kindles.
I'm in. Three startups and a game live by the end of November.
Hint: resist lecturing people as though you own the place when your account is 10 days old.
How many millions must die before a topic stops being funny?
I was more upset when goatse was shut down by the christmas island registry.