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I'm a pretty tense (high-strung) guy when it comes to being in one place for a long time. To help with the slouching, and also with the Restless Leg Syndrome (http://www.rls.org ...yes, we have our own damn foundation!), I have to use a chair which feels optimally comfortable when sitting back and IN the chair (with each part of your back and posterior being supported by the chair). There's the initial investment of testing several chairs to find the one which fits your shape and comfort, but pressing myself into a chair which is comfortable to sit in and supports how I sit was 90% of the battle.
I'm not THAT good. I'm not a salesman, I never made so many sales. All I know is what causes you to lose sales.

The process is like this:

1. Approach your customer with a solution to a problem he has. Focus in the start ONLY to get him to reply your email. Don't sell yet! Make sure he replies, and half your task is done

2. When he replies, be honest about what your product can do for him, and if he needs it.

3. Allow him test it, or give him some special access, making sure to back off completely at this point. If he feels under pressure, he'll disappear. He has to impale himself on your stake, you don't drive it into him

4. After that, if he indicates interest to buy, make it easy and painless for him

It's really all about honesty and solving peoples problem, the rest is just about not fucking up. It's like meeting a girl who likes you (customer that needs your product).

It's all about you just not fucking up the process, that's it. Just guide the person to the sales page gently, without being overeager or annoying. If he does not want it, he does not, if he wants it, he'll buy it you don't need to really sell it.
I had to hold up a piece of letter sized paper to my iPad to verify this. Funny, I think of the iPad as more like 80% of the size of a piece of paper, but in actuality, you're right: it's more like 50%.
Yeah, but I can't think of two similar actions where it would be difficult to define the expected behavior: sometimes you just take one bud out momentarily to be able to listen to something external and you don't really want the music to stop. The other one is common in teens, when they share one bud with a friend to listen to some track together and the music should be stopped while that bud is not put.
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If you have a lot of time on your hands, and you like experimenting - give it a go: you'll learn a lot (and more than likely, you will also lose some hair).

However, you can learn linux pretty darn well without ever building a system from scratch. You don't need to do that to become a "Power User" (though, for some, it helps).

The thing is, a system can work in many wildly different ways: just look at the system init procedure: there's file-rc, traditional sysvinit, various paralellizations, dependancy based init, systemd, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

There's also distributions which do not follow the FHS, for one reason or the other, and those work differently from the ones that do.

And so on, and so forth...

But anyway, if you have a lot of time, and you think it would be useful for you - go ahead.

Myself, I never found it neccessary to indulge in building a system from scratch.
Before and at the time of purchase most people don't think about the EULA or it's consequences. It's merely part of the shrink wrap that needs to be removed to enjoy the shiny new product.

Perhaps if it were something consequential instead of something to click through it would actually affect peoples habits.
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I like not writing my ideas down, because it acts as a simple filter.

If an idea is actually compelling, then it will stay with me even if I don't write it down (and I'll continue to think about it, expand upon it, tinker with it, etc.). If I don't remember it, then it probably wasn't that interesting to begin with.
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I read an article supporting this as well. The basic idea was that sitting in a slouched position was closer to standing up.

The article was called "Get Off Your Ass" and ran in Bicycle magazine probably about two years ago. I'll see if I can find it when I get home this evening so you can decide how credible you think it is.
Put something moderately sharp (but rather blunt still) on the edge of your desk? So leaning on it is uncomfortable but not damaging to your clothes?

Also, tell your optometrist about this. It really sounds like something is wrong with your vision.
Thanks! That's really insightful and even eases the burden on a sales wimp like me.
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Are there other services like this for php or more python ones? I'd though GAE was really the only one in its type.
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It should also be mentioned that if you are going to be doing some rebasing that you should look into enabling git rerere. What isn't mentioned in his article if you do multiple rebases to the same branch you will have to resolve the same conflicts over and over without rerere enabled.

git config --global rerere.enabled 1
In-ear headphones that automatically pause music when removed.

Sony Ericsson has already implemented this!
http://www.sonyericsson.com/putyourearsincontrol/
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I found it surprising how little experience he seems to have with the iPad — he even says he hasn't played any games on one. If I were in his position I'd have dabbled with every major genre of app at least a little bit to get a feel for what this new category of devices is like and what the possibilities/strengths/weaknesses are... hell, I've done that and I'm just a consumer/pretend-iPad-developer.
Use a Swiss ball for a desk chair.

Squat, deadlift.
Summary: Technology demo wherein the author takes a Javascript game, runs it as an App (no browser) using OpenGL instead of <canvas> and the Javascript interpreter already in the iPhone for the drawing and gets 60fps.

• The Javascript interpreter interface used is considered private and thus the app can not be distributed in the store.

• There is a history of private to public interface transitions, so perhaps…

• It suggests you could have all the game code be common between a web and a higher performance app version of a game.

• No word in the article about what percent speedup this represents.
Since I started a company with him I think it's fair to assume I like his work. ;)
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I use rebase often: I develop on a feature branch, experiment there a lot, and before I push it, I rebase it to squash the thing into more managable and straightforward pieces. (I push my branches public when they're ready, and when I won't rebase them anymore)

For example, there's this project where the test environment is on another system, and I hardly ever test locally. So when I break something, there's a good chance I won't notice that until the test runs. At that point, I make a small commit to fix it.

I could push that all out, and merge the whole thing onto my master branch, but that would be a lot of useless clutter: development mixed with random fixes. I prefer my development line reasonably clean, so I rebase & squash things together before making them public.

This doesn't mean that my whole feature development will be one big patch, no. But it will be a series of clean changes, as it should be. Easier for everyone to understand later.

One line of development will look like a smooth, linear progression, but there can be many similar feature branches, which get merged to master at various points, and that line will not look all that linear. Smooth - hopefully, but not linear.
I use awesome, it's ... awesome. Try and get away from any floating windows at all, when it's set up correctly there's no need. Also get away from the mouse if you can, mouse free working with Awesome WM is where it shines.
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I think it is worth considering how this applies to Hacker News? Hacker News is somewhat niche, although not particularly, and does not have particularly arduous requirements for joining or participating. Aside from the leaderboard and some informal recognition of really stellar contributors (pg, patio11, ...), it's a fairly flat system without rewards for status.
Per the parent poster, 99% of apps with a config file and an initscript mention the config file in their 'getting started' docs. M2's doc doesn't do this (but has time for inline rants). Zed's not great at writing docs, which is fine, but he doesn't really seem to want any feedback about said docs either - his normal response if anyone doesn't get anything from reading his docs, or suggests anything, is to get angry at them.

Edit: actually I see, 2 months post abuse, the Getting Started guide now has less rants, and a config file. Cheers Zed. That wan't so hard was it?
I always thought the test involved probes or electrodes attached to your head to get a reading.

I did not go to one.
Pretty interesting article.
With your pricing, you can't do direct sales or 1-to-1 email marketing effectively... But it might be worth doing to test out the viability of your product. You'll need to find scalable customer acquisition strategies-- SEM, other advertising, channel sales, etc. You don't build sales by building "hype".

Related: "Online Rehabilitation Exercise and Client Management Software" is descriptive, but is a pretty weak marketing headline. I'd suggest spending a week or two reading voraciously about online ad copy and landing pages. If your business succeeds you'll either have to be amazing at that or you'll have to raise your prices dramatically.
I started here at Google NYC not too long ago, and was surprised to find Craig inconspicuously sitting at a desk across the room, tapping away at his keyboard. Some folks around here don't even know who he is.
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I thought my wastefulness comment was clearly tied to the duplication of work you have to do. Sorry if that was not clear.
the article is at http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/10/11/microsoft-launches-wi...
A good list: jumping in too fast, issuing too much equity, not imposing vesting restrictions, and not requiring the execution of employment documents.
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I think the biggest trouble with this kind of idea is to think that you can get rich just by saving. It is true that you need to save in order to have lots of money, but producing value is what makes you rich.

If you save money during your whole life you will be millionaire when you're 60. By then, 1 million will be more like 100k, and you be still unsure about your future.

It is far better to think about creating value using equity on your own business or real estate, for example.
The greater lesson in here is to stay on top of the times, to differentiate yoursef:

> The obvious problem is that every new startup on Earth says exactly these things. Nowadays the "strategy" above sounds the same as:

>> "We'll have a website so people can read about us."

>> "We'll have an email address so people can communicate with us without picking up the phone."

> Yes, you're going to do those things, but since millions of other people are doing that too, you're still invisible. Visibility-fail. Anyone-gives-a-crap-fail.

I've certainly been guilty of thinking this way, but that example certainly casts such 'strategies' in a different light...
Had a great conversation with a fellow entrepreneur a few days ago; so I figured it might be nice to have a 'channel' on BlurryPeople that allows you to talk to fellow HN'ers.

Let me know what you think!
Hey - nicely done v1! Really Nice!

FYI - I have a ton of experience marketing/educating to Health Care Professionals, patients etc. Give me a shout via email of you want to discuss further.

OUTREACH - Get a list from your local Medicare office:
Get a few small wins by focusing on local therapists. Visit their offices. Drop off a postcard, talk with them in person. You can also get a list from your local Medicare office - they will tell you who in your area accepts medicare for Physical Therapy.

I can also query a database of HCPs for you - reach out to me.

OUTREACH-
Blog marketing is time consuming. I am not saying don't do it but it is time consuming. I have had more success with twitter. It is more immediate - and you end up meeting the bloggers anyway.

OUTREACH - Set up an affiliate program
Your product seems like a great fit for an affiliate program. Make one before starting you twitter work.

Website:
I agree with some of the comments below. The site needs to get to the Aha moment quicker for therapists. As you described yourself, patients often complete these exercises incorrectly. Helping therapists avoid that seems to be the real benefit here. The other things, like email , tracking patients etc are cool but they require work. SO the real benefit is the increased likely hood that patients will do their exercises correctly.

Another idea:
Have you considered licensing those videos out as standalone components. If you have rights maybe this could be another revenue stream. At least this way you could capture revenue from the offices that don't want to go through all the work of using the full app. And in the opposite direction - it may be a ice-breaker product. I mean that you get in the door with that - then up sell to the full app. You'd have to think this through - I am just spurting out ideas.

Shoot - just noticed you are the UK. My database query only contains US so it may not help out much unless your marketing here as well.
It took me five years to figure out (a) I needed a story and (b) what the story was. It's hard. But one story beats a pile of AdWords A/B tests.

I have found that there are 2 kinds of stories: classes and instances...

Class: "X can solve problem Y using our product."

Instances:

"Acme saved $30,000 per month by figuring out how to better load their trucks using our optimization software."

"The Smith family had their first ever reunion when John and Linda Smith realized how easy our family organizing software was."

"Jones Gifts doubled their sales in 3 months using our bolt-on e-commerce solution."

The class is good. The instance is better. People love stories and the instance is a real story, while the class is the framework for a potential story. The class is a commercial; the instance is a testimonial. Also, an example cuts through all the clutter right to the reader's reptilian brain. Naturally, the closer the instance is to the reader's situation, the better.

OP's story was a class. I would have loved to hear a few instances of that class: some real stories about people who got real benefit from his product. People naturally want to know about other people.
It can't help that your page title on google is "PacPacs | Signups Closed".

I have a relative who's a physical therapist. I sent her the link and asked for feedback. Where can I forward her response?
This is the same false perspective as the RIAA believing a pirated copy equals a lost sale though, and we've seen how well that has worked out.
By the way, the technique of rebasing every once a week to keep merge/rebase-conflicts manageabable, can of course also be applied virtually: Suppose you have a year old branch; instead of doing one mega merge, you can do 52 small merges.

If the merge conflicts really grow faster than linear, divide-and-conquer will save you time.
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this will be a good place to hang out & see if the person hacking your home system has funny things to say to ya. the call is coming from inside the chatroom!
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I'm sorry to say, that is so off, "it's not even wrong" as they say. Prof. Pippin's piece is against pompous intellectualism that is currently reigning supreme in English Departments. I suggest you read about the Sokal Affair referenced in the essay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair) and, if you're interested, take it it from there.

The correct was to spell is "naïve", BTW. Open a MS Word document and type "naive". It will correct it to the above form. Now, MS is pompous but I don't think it is in general intellectually pompous :-) Here's a discussion about the topic: http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=61217. Here's the link to the ultimate authority on the subject, The Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/access/intercept.epl?pat..., alas it's not free.
I've completely stopped using my laptop at home in favor of the iPad. Tablet is for casual browsing and eBooks, the laptop is for "real work". This distinction helps quite a bit with the work-life balance.

Now tablets are obviously quite a new form factor, and so I'm waiting with interest on when there will be actual "work apps" for one of them. I've already done a bit of on-device software development with my N900 phone (there is even Git available there!), but the input devices can be limited for this. Maybe a win for "special character -free" languages like Python and Genie ;-)
Absolutely. If you have any desire to really understand what makes up a base working linux system then going LFS is for you. It not only gives you special insight into what goes into making a full-fledged distro but also teaches you some excellent problem solving skills.

Personally, I would start with a target "result" in mind. Maybe you want to create a minimal "server" layout or "lean desktop". Once you hit that point and have documented what it took to get there, throw it away and start again. Think about how to automate some aspects of the process.

I'm actually doing this right now with my OH SO COPIOUS free time. Building a VM-only target distro that's designed to be minimal and run only in a VM. The rest is expected to be managed entirely from tools like Chef or Puppet.

It's sort of a "put up or shut up" to this blog post:
http://goo.gl/rML9
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What I've read lately is that you can sit basically in any position as long as you change it frequently.
It is a native app: it uses JavaScriptCore and all Canvas calls are rendered using OpenGL. The implications are that if you write a game for Impact engine you can generate an iOS native app.
Perhaps it's setting things up for the future, but the carrier in question here, T Mobile, is notable for its openness in not blocking tethering or voip.
A minor correction: People know what the establishment tells them is nutritious, and then don't follow that. There is much debate over whether that is actually nutritious.
I would say that your problems were not caused by a long-running branch per se, but rather were caused by the intern not pulling from production often enough. Linus talked about this in one of his Git talks. Responsibility for merging should lie with the team working on the new feature in the side branch, not some other team that knows nothing about it.
I do this (Ontario, Canada), but I don't know if I've ever actually seen it done by anyone else. Our 400-series highways tend to have very good forward visibility, though—there isn't really such thing as a jam just over the crest of a hill.
This looks like a good support ("an extra muscle"), but it's important to train your own muscles.

Rowing is great for strengthening the core and for stretching the back. I "row with Xeno" http://www.row2go.us/

"Belly button to the spine, chest up, shoulders down."
For home sharing some sort of accounts support would be great for a tablet. Contractually I'm not allowed to have even family members accessing my calendar, email, browser passwords etc.
I have been thinking of doing this for a while, but in corporate america it is hard to convince people that sitting on a bouncy ball is actually beneficial. That and I am not sure I can stop myself from bouncing all day...

I do sit on one when I am home though. If not, I find myself almost laying down in my chair reading the internets.
Yes, you need to drop the query string from such URL's. This has been the case with at least one other recent Mercury News post.
But but but, you apparently didn't understand the answer. It doesn't matter what the representation of -1 is. The C standard defines the cast of a negative number to an unsigned int as the (UINT_MAX + 1) modulo of the number. By definition,

unsigned int foo = -1;

will set foo to 0xFFFF..., automatically setting all bits to 1 regardless of the number of bits in int types and without respect to the representation of negative numbers.
Remy Sharp's Storage pollyfiller[1].

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[1]: http://gist.github.com/350433

[2]: http://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/
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What's the point in staying in a company where you are not happy (in this case because of cofounder). You can either resolve the issue or separate and start something of your own.
A "bad", or perhaps more accurately "marginal" or "nifty but unprofitable" can still help the creative process leading to "good" ideas. The marginal one may end up as a feature of the killer app you build later, or the unprofitable one may see some future profit potential as other factors change.

I track all mine, good or bad, and when I'm feeling uninspired or burned out on what I'm working on, I like to go back and at least have a laugh at all the old ideas.
No Silverlight at work, can someone post if there is a Flash version or HTML5?
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It's not quite that simple, though, from the sound of it - the author said he had to 'reimplement' all the canvas calls to use OGL. Fine if you're familiar with it, but for those people who just want to bash out a Javascript game without having to worry about the engine, they might have trouble.
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Should we add upvoting to wibba?
Wibba allows you to discover and share products quickly and easily.

It's a simple app developed in django.

Open an account or sign in with twitter - add links to products you like. Others can follow you and vice versa.

We allow others to like products, but don't aggregate them into top product lists.

Should we?

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Both are solved by only pausing when both buds are removed (which is the most polite thing to do anyway).
I feel like I would absolutely hate standing for any extended period of time. Doesn't this tire you out?
What sucks about gconf? I like it for precisely the reasons you describe: I can use vi, the command line, or a GUI app just as effectively.
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Great initiative! Is it be possible to get topic specific hashtags as well? A notification about the selected channel would be nice to have as well (on the frontpage).

Good luck,

T.