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Having just seen this it at work for a startup we helped launch, I strongly recommend (without giving too much away):

5) Makes sense for other companies to promote to their customers. Ideally ones with lots of customers.

Bonus points: your product fits in to their customer acquisition process (i.e. helps generate more revenue for them).

Triple bonus points: you have access to a large number of these companies through a small number of entry points. For instance a trade association or a friend that will introduce you.

You wouldn't believe how easy it is to get your product out there in the above situation. PR is the last thing you worry about.
And the ability to turn that idea into an actual product, lest we forget.
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Wouldn't that be the fact for any low tax corporation structure?
Find a designer you like, and ask them for a job. Failing that, offer to do some work for them for free.
Is SEO actually detrimental to the web?
SEO is driving site and web structure and limiting how some aspects of what is on the web actually evolves. URL's are now sentences. In an effort to satisfy the SEO (mostly Google) gods everything is looking the same.

Is this good in the long run?

Your thoughts?
>>no copy-paste until early 2011

2010 is almost over!
This doesn't look like much now, but neither did Cello or Mosaic at first. My gut says this will be red hot.
When I read comments like yours, I just want to point at a Terminal.app prompt. Or Bootcamp. You can do anything you want to with a Mac, and there’s no actual indication that’s changing; just FUD.
Disagree strongly with ZunePhone as a name. People who've actually owned a Zune seem to quite like them, but the general buzz is pretty negative (a bit like Vista?)

WP7 isn't great, but it doesn't have the negative connotations 'Zune' has. It may remind people of Windows Mobile 6 however, but I think so many years have passed that most of us have been able to repress those memories
Title and timing are everything - two versions of this story submitted previously, each to complete indifference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1814905

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810568

Why has this story suddenly sprung to life in the media?
Not directly related to the speed of news but interesting reading is "Don't believe it! How lies become news" by Kitty Alexander, who was also involved with the fantastic documentary "Outfoxed".

It's my impression that people lump news and doctors into the same bunch: they are somehow infallible. Somehow they are always doing the right thing.

Well "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scrubs" pretty much ruined the medical industry for me :) I guess maybe Season 5 of "The Wire" does the same for mass media?
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Everyone should watch that video! Just submitted it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1818819
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37Signals have an ok product. What makes it truly successful is their incredible marketing machine. From highly popular blogs to podcasts, videocasts to books, super-optimised A/B tested websites to entire, hugely popular web development frameworks associated with them... they've got their marketing to a level that takes a decade of intelligence, opportunities and hard work to achieve.
You do know "dork" originally meant "penis", yes?
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dork
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I don't remember why Zune has a bad name, but I suppose the early models weren't as good. The 2nd gen Zune that I owned was a great mp3-player, definitely up to par to the iPod. And if WP7 has a Zune-player built in then that is a selling point.
Found the second half of this paragraph quite amusing (from page 16)

When the phone is locked, the camera button still works. This is by design: it's so you can take a quick snapshot of something that's exciting without having to unlock the phone. It's certainly a sound idea—after all, I don't have to unlock my DSLR if I want to take a photo. Unfortunately, it also resulted in me taking a bunch of pictures of the inside of my pocket and some random dude on the bus, as I happened to sit in such a way as to trigger camera mode. And because I configured the phone to upload pictures automatically, they got sent to Facebook. It's like a whole new kind of pocket dialling; pocket photographing
I'm a bit confused about how this article fits in with the previously posted article about the company (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1817631). There, they are harvesting PII data (e-mail) and re-selling access to related information. In this article, they explain a machine-learning-type algorithm to anonymize data to contain no PII. I don't really see how the two fit together. What's their deal?
Hah. I'm from Toronto too (looked at your Twitter).

I'm a designer (though not kick-ass) so here is my input.

Design school is very different from one another. Some design schools focus on style while others are focus on conceptual development. Neither is inherently better than the other.

While you can be self-taught, I would say school was great for making important connections in my career and in exposing me to different subjects that would add to my creative arsenal (namely photography).

If you have a good eye, that's a great start. Having a sense of style is supremely important as a designer since having a creative vision is one of the core responsibilities.

I think some of the best resources are books that deal with some of the principles. Josef Muller Brockmann Grid System in Graphic Design is certainly one of the Holy Grail books of grids. Reading about Typography is also of utmost importance if you indeed to do web design, as it plays such a central role.

But I think some of the most important things are: doing a huge volume of work and getting critiques from designers who you respect. Both of these will help you get a feel of what is right and wrong.

And if you can, intern or work for an agency/studio for a bit. You'll learn TONS.
Zune has a bad name because it sold poorly. Even from day 1 it was a good MP3 player. But it got a name as being an MS device that sold poorly compared to the iPod. It was a market failure, but for people that used it was/is a great device.

It's the Amiga (in the 80s) of MP3 players.
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I think the transition from "p" to "d" is clumsy. DorkApps would be better imho.
Compelling. I've used several userstyles on Firefox's XUL interface before, such as coloring the progress bar and combining the stop and reload buttons. I welcome this latest increase in flexibility.
>It is the openness of Android that has helped it to attain a large market share and I feel that MS by using a semi-open strategy will soon land Windows Phone 7 into the deadpool.

I agree with until this part. I actually think that MS is trying to get the best of both worlds (the controlled user experience of iOS with the choice/variety of Android) and as far as I can tell, it's working.
I think this comment is spot on. Their own bespoke XWin was replaced by X.Org in 10.5 - well strictly by XQuartz. The Apple Java runtime has already been moving closer to the standard Sun one (i.e. default renderer was switched over to Sun's a couple of versions ago).

My guess is that we'll either see Oracle take back support for shipping a version, or Apple contributing to OpenJDK (like they do with X.Org) - having A version of Java available on OS X is necessary - but for the most part it is as a web server for developers, not for native GUI development - and it is the latter point where the differences are.

(Also doesn't SWT use a different approach to the same native look-and-feel end?)
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Looks like he sold $70 worth of cheap peelers in 6 minutes. I know lawyers that make less than that!
You don't buy them because they're cheap, you buy them because they're good and they work. The potato peeler IS a great product, and who doesn't need one?!?
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Let me echo the sentiments that TC isn't worth jack shit. I am at a startup now that has been slogging it out for 3 years, slowly meeting people in the industry, doing deals, and building traction with the product one day at a time. We've received a lot of press in various forms, the only ones that generated any lasting traffic were partnerships with big names. The general news coverage (blog and print) was pretty worthless, with TC ranking near the bottom. That might not be true for tech-centric products like Twitter where the service itself is disproportionately useful to tech bloggers like Arrington and Scoble, and thus they gush all over the product for months on end with utter disregard for the uselessness of the product outside their own niche, but it's true for most products. The bottom line is there are lots of ways to get the word out about your product, and media coverage is not anywhere near the best one.

The first thing you need to do is make your product compelling. There is a reason for all the talk about rapid iteration, minimum viable product, and the lean startup; creating a compelling product is hard. There is no formula for it, and customers are infuriatingly fickle. It's hard enough with established markets for things people really need (eg. food, toiletries, houses, cell phones), but when you're creating something brand new there's this huge hurdle to get people to understand how it fits into their life. There's no telling what will make something compelling, so you need to just put something out and iterate on it. Get 5 customers, get 10 customers. If these people find your product compelling and can give you real world feedback and evangelize the product, that is worth more than 50,000 visits from bored TCers who spend 5 minutes then jump to the next story.
Rio & Napster killed the CD, and then then the iTunes store did, and then torrents did. The icon did not. <sigh>
18 friggin pages? what am I? Some kind of safari reader user?
beyond that threshold prokaryotes could not maintain membrane potential homeostasis unless additional genomes are co-localized with the membranes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmids
Developers, the future of mobile computing is in your hands. Code across platforms, sell across platforms, and don't let anybody corner you into supporting just their platform.

Plurality, my friends.

Support WP7, Android, iOS and Symbian. And if you still have time, others as well.

Screw the segregationists.
Was looking for it too, found it: http://www.pagerduty.com/docs/api/api-documentation took a while, though -- in my opinion, a link to the API documentation is important enough to put in the footer, maybe next to or under "integration guides".
People that "just wanna get rich" are predators and parasites. They don't deserve any respect.
Why? There's a whole kingdom of really bizzare life, called Archae.
Also, the notion that prokarya are simple and uncomplex is totally bunk. There's a whole genus of prokarya - actinomycetes - that have such a complex lifecycle, and stage through single-celled spores, and multicellular superstructured colonies, that for many many years, scientists thought they were fungi.
It didn’t help that Zune was released in — pardon me — _poop brown._
I think MT is failing because they only allow busiless in the US, which is a tiny market for jobs that pay pennies/hour. But if Amazon managed to open up say, India or China, there would be a much richer ecosystem in place.

An interesting finding is that it costs about $5K-10K to open a US bank account from overseas, post 9/11. Pre 9/11 it was probably around $100.

Although you can use MT credit to buy stuff out of the Amazon store.
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Hydrogenosomes. Hydrogen fixation. Nitrogenosomes. (as in annamoxa). These energy requirements exist. There are really wonky bacteria out there that have developed all sorts of interesting additions to themselves.
If your product is easily substituted then you should be spending time differentiating through value, not perception of value.
Personally Identifying Information (PII) is defined as data which can uniquely identify an individual--name, social security number, facebook ID. Rapleaf's personalization service--which is designed to let websites personalize based on who is viewing the website--does not serve PII. Instead, it serves targeting data like "Age 40-50" and "Interests Basketball".

The idea behind the Anonymouse project is that a person should not be able to be personally identified based on the targeting information served about them. Only sets of targeting data which cannot be traced back to a unique individual is stored in the personalization cookie.

For example, it would be okay to serve a targeting cookie about a person which contained "Male, Wealthy, looking to buy a Ferrari", because thousands of people fit that description, and the ad network or website cannot identify the person with any reasonable specificity.

It would not be okay, however, to target a person as "52 year old Male, makes $256,000, lives in Sometown OH, and was born on April 12th", because in all likelihood, only one or two people fit that description, and the data would effectively serve as PII, and this would be no better than dropping a facebook ID in the cookie.

Let me know if anything's unclear, or if you want more details. From a CS perspective, it's a really cool/hard problem, and something we've spent a lot of time on. We're planning on writing an update blog post on where we are... as soon as we're done coding : )
On the other hand, if you care about this sort of thing (personally I don't see this as all that big of a plus): effectively zero CO2 emission. Any CO2 that comes out of it was recently taken from the atmosphere when the wood was grown.
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Let me tell you this - Django is one of the worst frameworks to hire people for. Difficult to find devs to maintain it and expensive. If you are outsourcing, go with PHP.

Just like me, you'll regret going with a niche like python/django when outsourcing.
Generally I like the idea.

I wonder, though, whether the Mac App Store will eventually become the only way to install apps on a Mac. (I.e. you'd have to jail break your Mac to install alternative apps).

This seems far fetched now, but as PC and mobile device continue to become more and more alike.

If history is any measure here, that is probably what Apple wants in order to assure a unified user experience.
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This class at UW, teaches all that. Here is the website: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse190m/10su/

They have some great resources there.
My sister-in-law and father-in-law both pay $10/mn to Netflix and never rent movies. They use it for streaming only. I have a feeling that there are a lot of these kinds of Netflix customers that pad the company's profits.

I'm not entirely surprised that most streaming is 8-10pm, but in my family, it's all from 8am to 10am. The kids just have to watch the same Thomas and Caillou over and over again.
Designing beautiful icons requires a fundamental understanding of figure, lighting, perspective and technique.

Designing a website requires an understanding of visual architecture.

Designing an app-interface requires an understanding of user-behavior and interaction.

I have been designing since I was about 15 (25 now) and mostly everything I have learned has been through inspiration, trial and error. The design school that I attended was mostly focused on design theory and visual communication as a whole. We were taught to build a concept first, then learn the technical aspects of how to achieve it on our own.

I would suggest; first understand the purpose of what you are designing, who is going to be looking at it and who is going to be interacting with it.

Once you understand what you are designing, the inspiration of other great designs that you have seen in the past will come through.

Then, it is just a matter of diving in and trying to create your vision. There are plenty of resources online to research and problem-solve along the way.

A resource that really helps with inspiration and will save you time designing on large-scale projects (websites) is http://www.graphicriver.net - I would check out the whole Envato marketplace system.

Being a great designer takes lots of time, practice and patience. If it is something that you are truly inspired and motivated by, just dive in and enjoy the learning process.
But you're focusing on individuals when, in reality, any one personality is far less harmful than the typical organization.

You could focus on shaming Al Gore into buying solar panels, or you could focus on some $100 billion energy company where you could actually make a measurable difference. It's about priorities.

The media likes personalities because individuals are a lot more salient than statistics, and offending an individual never alienated an advertising customer.
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Considering the kind of people who have engineers on call, I wonder if all prices aren't low by an order of magnitude or so.
yeah I was a little put off by that too. But then I figured it was pretty cheap anyway. I haven't bought it yet, I'm going to re-read chapter one and then buy the pdf I think.
There are many instances of overlap. An Amazon user will use that and an GAE user will choose GAE for essentially the same projects a user of neither may consider both. "Toy projects" will often be in the last category. The parent is saying that subsequent projects might be in the first categories.
The most striking for me when Jobs announced move to Intel was the bit where he told that they had OS X builds for Intel since the very first version of OS X.
Who knows what are they cooking in their secret kitchens.
Yeah, sometimes your information gets published to the web in unexpected ways. Like the first time I responded via google groups, google snuck my gmail address on the post (without indicating that it would), or how Amazon Web Services published my real name as a Developer Profile because I had to give a real name and credit card to try out S3.
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I kind of discover these kinds of recipes myself from time to time, and am always delighted. Is there a good recipe book of practical applications of chained unix commands?
One of my roommates has an Xbox 360 solely for streaming Netflix on his big TV in lieu of cable.
I love this quote -
"We talked a lot about how perception leads reality and how if you are going to create a reality, you have to be able to create the perception."

It sounds like the concept of the reality distortion field.
I am curious, how do you know that they used WebObjects?
This is pretty fascinating. I was expecting another cover-your-ass blog post, but this is a pile of interesting data work which is new to me.
I don't want to get all wishy-washy philosophical on you here but in Joe's case I would argue that he IS the product.

To wit, regarding the OP's main point:

- selling potato peelers is not a "fucking great idea" by any means.

- selling potato peelers in a $1000 suit, in manhattan, as a chirpy english gentlemen IS a fucking great idea.

it's an idea that sells itself, you basically touched on the same point as the OP. He did something so simple and strange and wonderful that people would buy a fistful of his peelers, just so they could tell their friends about this little Englishman they saw in Union Square. You have to be a little crazy, be a little disruptive, and that's going to get you your audience.
I knew a half-dozen people with doctorates in machine learning at Google. None of them were research scientists.
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I'm writing this on my 3rd Macbook. I don't have any reason to spread FUD against Apple. I think dropping Java (there isn't currently a real alternative to Apple's) is a strong indication. The App Store policies are a strong indicator, and restricting iPhone/iPad development environments is a strong indicator.

You may be able to do what you want on your own machine given enough knowledge/time. The issue arises when a business based on a Mac Java app becomes redundant when Apple feels like it, or when it will become very hard to make a living selling an app Apple doesn't feel is right for the Store.

Once upon a time there was a company called Microsoft who controlled a popular OS. People who called themselves "hackers" generally didn't like it, since they asserted this power to control the product space as well, changing APIs or bundling software to eliminate competition. Apple has gone beyond Microsoft's wildest dreams, and are on track become comparably widespread - I don't think they get a pass just because the standby light has the same frequency as a human heartbeat.
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I do not mind living on an Internet where blog post links last beyond the next update, URLs hint at content, StackOverflow crushes archived mailing lists on programming questions, the top result for "biology bingo" is not a blank page (it was in 2006), and content is created for demographics which are not content creators themselves. Hug a SEO, they're half the reason Google works these days (particularly at the fringes where the link graph is sparse and hence classic PageRank isn't oracular).
Oracle will provide the JVM, if steve's email is any indication.
Love it. This is the kind of open UX approach I wish more platforms had!
It used to be the case that Java had serious performance problems on the ARM. I don't know if that's still true.
I don't know how long it takes to finish a doctorate in machine learning, but if you claim to be able to finish in 5 years, I'll just wish you luck. Took me 5 1/2 to finish a doctorate in Algorithms and Data Structures (Theory), and I was very lucky with my problems and papers.

If you go to grad school, you are going to need to TA or teach, this will be good for you. You'll probably also need to grade homework, tests, etc. This will also be good for you.

If you pay attention, work hard, and have fun, grad school can be even better than undergrad. Depending on your workload, you may even have time to do contracting work to help pay for school, and/or earn some experience along the way. Be careful though, I knew a lot of people who dropped out to join companies, and who will never finish.

Most of the advice I've been giving out over the years I've written out here: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jcarlson/gradschool.html

Good luck, whatever you decide.
Would be against the TOS. Only "safe" apps will be on the app store, nothing that allows other apps to gain root access.
I hate it, so given my relationship to the cultural norm you will probably make a million bucks.