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First of all, don't give up yet!

I was watching the video tutorial and it helped explain the concept. I think videos are overdone these days, but this is a case where a live demo helps clarify how much time you save by not typing or clicking on different browser pages to search.

I want to play with the site and features to fully understand the benefit of the bookmarklet before providing feedback.

In the meantime, here are a couple questions for you:

What made you create this bookmarklet?

What type of person would most benefit from this tool?
(Target market)

When you explain the concept to people, at what point do they start getting confused?
(Maybe you just need to improve a certain part of the message, not the whole thing.)

Where are these 1000 visitors from and why don't they use the tool?
(You could be attracting the wrong people, or finding the right people but talking to them in the wrong way.)

Of the 2 people who use the tool regularly, what made them decide to use it and why do they like it?
(Analyzing successes provides insight for what to continue/repeat in the future.)

Why do you think screenshots would be more effective than a video?
I admire your stamina, but I do like the OPs approach better. Time is relative.

I know I can't work 16 hours a day - I can perhaps sit at a desk that long - or in an emergency production server fix meeting, which has happened - but not get good work done. At least not if it's every day. One thing or another is going to suffer - the day job, the family, or the startup.
"This is absolutely what I think HN gives them too little credit for."

You think a company that got $200k in startup funding and accepted tons of media attentions via interviews before even writing a single line of code should get more credit?

No. I see tons of far more experienced developers here on HN putting their efforts in their projects with far less to start off with and absolutely no media attention on their side. I'm willing to be extremely lenient on any shortcomings in such scenarios because of what they are up against.

But Diaspora was in control of how much hype they got and they got some serious leg ups that few people ever get in their lifetime. They accepted the NYTimes piece. They got accepted at Kickstarter (a feat which I have said before, is a serious aberration in terms of the projects they allow) and subsequently received tons of funding despite having such little work experience.

So considering the resources, I don't think it's out of the ordinary for developers and casual observers to expect a well thought out development.
Why can't VLC change their license to something that works with Apple's App Store license agreement. Clearly the VLC developers wanted Apple to distribute their Application because why was it otherwise created and put up on the App Store in the first place?

</devils advocate>
Cool story. That might not have worked out at all considering that would be a hell of a lot of alpha males in one company. Schmidt did not mind sharing power in the beginning, I don't think Jobs would have accepted that.
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An additional problem with subsidies is the detrimant to international trade.

For example, massive subsidies make corn in America TOO cheap, that everyone in Mexico City buys American corn! Yet comparative advantage would say Mexico, with a higher proportion of unskilled laborers, should be able to put corn on the marketplace in their own country cheaper, and build up their economy.

Subsidizing exportable domestic goods has similar negative effects to tariffing imports.
Use AGPL.
That mailing list issue only covers the user terms, ie the terms applying to the person who downloads an app via the App Store.

The more relevant terms are those applying to the submission of applications to the App Store. Like, the part where you agree not to submit an app that can't be distributed under the terms of the App Store.
What we need, then, is a dedicated civil disobedience campaign against it. If just one person does it, it ruins their day, week, or even several months dealing with the court battles. If 100 people do an act of civil disobedience, it becomes a movement; it might make some more significant news, attract some more significant attention.

If a thousand, or ten thousand people engage in civil disobedience, it starts to put a real strain on the system. It overwhelms the TSA. The court costs become prohibitive.

Why do we have so many people going to a rally in DC that won't really do anything (rallys almost never do)? And most of them will likely meekly go through security, without a fuss, on their way there. Why don't we instead organize 10,000 people to take a flight on the same day, and all wear aluminum jock straps and bras, or strip nude as they go through security? This would demonstrate how ridiculous the system is; this would help overburden an already overly expensive system to the point of breaking.

But of course, it's easy to talk tough on the internet, and a lot harder to get people to actually do anything. We all have our jobs to do, families to support. We have rallies for "truthiness" to go to. Or some of us don't even know where to start; don't know how to assemble such a group, and get them to follow through with it.

But perhaps we should put all that aside for freedom's sake, and go out, and disobey authority in a civil manner; it's our country, and we need to take it back.
I can understand why storing state on the DOM would quickly start to suck if you're building a single-page application, but I've found it works really well for applications that work without JavaScript using progressive enhancement.
Kidnapping and ransom are not fabulously profitable the way that the drug monopoly is. The drug trade is one of the world's largest import/export markets.
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I was a driver for a big pizza firm. We were paid bonuses depending on how fast we delivered.

Unfortunately for me, I wasn't close friends with the manager of the store. He gave all the shortest runs to all his mates, making it nigh on impossible to get a bonus unless you suffered his patronage.
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If only we could discover a series of rules that would explain how perfectly self-interested robots behaved in a fictional market with no government/community interference in business on behalf of workers, where capital could be employed as a wealth-yielding instrument purely in and of itself, and where property gained from the proceeds of such was protected by the threat of violence. Surely then we could use those fundamental rules to help us predict how an ideal society should function. And I say ideal because clearly my preferred set of premises were definitely not chosen as a convenient rationalization for maintaining a pre-existing social structure that enabled the effective subjugation of most of society by a minority owner class.
Does crowdsourcing work for investing?
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I would liken it more to elaborate geocentric models of the solar system. Sure, they can explain the data. And they can make accurate predictions within a certain margin of error.

But then there are the cases they can't explain or predict accurately. Not to mention they keep getting more complex and more uncomfortable to believe. At the end of the day it's just the completely wrong idea tortured to give the right answers. The solar system was heliocentric all along.

That's the kind of place I think traditional economic models are in right now. We're steps away from proving out the planets orbit the Sun, but there are still a lot of smart people writing elaborate dissertations about the Sun orbiting the Earth.
"The meaning of the statement was that NoSQL systems (really the various map-reduce systems) are lacking a standard model for describing and querying and that developing one should be a high priority task for them."

I don't see why the relational model (or some subset thereof) won't work for most NoSQL databases.

Key-Value store? It's essentially just a relational database where tables can have one primary key and one other column.

Document store? Essentially just a dynamically typed relational database.

Graph database? You probably would have to add to the relational model a bit, but Codd did write a bit about recursive queries.
I was surprised Amsterdam seemed to maintain a clean, moderate, respectable attitude during daylight hours. I noticed the city is an insanely wealthy and beautiful place. I would guess they are making a ton of money off tourists.
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I said couchDB because it also uses REST and already has an web-based administration interface with "futon"
Developers who use bit.ly don't see this as a problem - they like bit.ly because it can give them some intelligence into who uses their products and what they are linking to.

Publishers would like people to use their shortener, but that doesn't give developers anything.

Most consumers don't care. Some do, and prefer bit.ly because they trust it (and they like the intelligence it gives them)
yes, I have heard that one of the reasons why there are 99 cent cheeseburgers in all of the major fast food chains here in the US is because of the subsidies. Essentially all the ingredients that go into those burgers are subsidized. When you think about an actual market economy it would seem that some kind of rice and beans with mixed vegetables would be what would cost 99 cents.
Right on. The drug war is a huge waste of money and lives and foreign policy capital. It needs to end.

I really feel drug rules (not laws) need to be set at the neighborhood level by simple majority vote.

That way you can live where the limits suit you and you don't need to try to control what the whole country does.

Freedom is not just about allowing everyone to do anything. Its also about people being able to make the living arrangements that suit them without having to impose their choices upon others.

Its too much work anyway, always fighting these battles. Lets call a truce and go our separate ways together.
I recall a related fact from simple statistical mechanics: the volume of high-dimensional sphere is concentrated almost exclusively near its surface. This fact allowed some nasty calculation of volume in state space to be approximated by the area of the hypersphere.

IIRC, the basic notion is that volume is like r^n and area like n * r^(n-1). Quite different when n = 2, 3, ... and not so much at n = 10^23. I never thought of them as spikey but I get the picture now.
No.

Did you notice the part where some idiot smuggled plastic explosives on board a plane in his underwear? Security failed in this situation.
As a major VLC developer, I have to say that the FSF is pushing bad faith and FUD.

The matter is way more complex, and it seems that the latest Apple Store terms are indeed compatible with the GPLv2 if you use a few precautions.

See http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#APPS "LICENSE OF APP STORE PRODUCTS" part

"You agree that the terms of the Licensed Application End User License Agreement will apply to each Apple Product and to each Third-Party Product that you license through the App Store Service, unless the App Store Product is covered by a valid end user license agreement entered into between you and the licensor of the App Store Product (the “Licensor”), in which case the Licensor’s end user license agreement will apply to that App Store Product."

Read the unless part...

Oh, of course, it is better to make a political statement that doesn't even read the AppStore terms... Not to mention that VLC is GPLv2 not GPLv3...
You dont base your principles and stands on winning or losing, you base them on what is the right thing to do.
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Why would Americans be enraged about that? The U.S. has a long history of distrusting people who leave the country. Sticking it to emigrants (i.e. people who "abandoned the USA") would be popular among both the left and right, and among many social classes. Emigrants aren't very well liked among populists in either the Republican or Democratic parties, sometimes even seen as approaching a mild form of treason, whether they left for draft-dodging reasons (Candada during Vietnam), tax-dodging reasons (BVI & co.), or political reasons (communists who emigrated to Russia). People don't mean "love it or leave it" in the sense that both are legitimate choices!

I say this as someone about to start a job in Europe myself; it's somewhat of a sore point with many people ("America not good enough for you?"). The current economy being bad is really the only thing that makes it relatively easy to smooth over, because I can fall back on, "well nobody in the U.S. was hiring in my area and this opportunity in Europe came up", and people sorta understand because everyone's willing to believe that the U.S. job market is bad right now.

Mostly I can't think of the constituency that would support lowering taxes on emigrants. Republicans are usually the enthusiastic tax-cutters, but emigrants are even less popular among Republicans than among Democrats, partly due to heartland-patriotism type of culture, and partly because the expat vote is skewed Democratic.
Jeremy, first of all. Thanks for Backbone! You guys rock.

I'm glad you liked my post.

Regarding "keeping models simple". Perhaps I wasn't so clear. My point here was mainly just that when I first started trying to build a model layer separate from the DOM (pre-backbone). I was very explicitly defining what attributes each model has and then also doing the corresponding DOM manipulations in my setters and getters. That got messy pretty quickly.

So, my point was not that you shouldn't add methods to your Backbone.Model's, but rather that you should keep view and controller logic out of your model layer.
I'm guessing it'll end by 7.30 - will head over to Match after.
Which kinda makes sense, given Facebook is pre-IPO.
Vicodin (another form of heroin) is legal

If you're using Vicodins legal status (requires prescription) as a comparison then pot and cocaine are already legal.
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Speaking of ESRB ratings, how is this going to get on the iOs devices? Aren't the app store rules against the following:

"This is the perfect setup for a quintessential first person shooter game play experience — you pick your targets, aim your shots, time your reloads, dodge the bad guys, and try and make it through to the end of the level with a better score than last time. Beyond basic survival, there are pickups, head shots, and hit streak multipliers to add more options to the gameplay, and there is a broad range of skill levels available from keep-hitting-fire-and-you-should-make-it to almost-impossible." -JC

(off to go look...)

Sure enough, part 15 should prevent this app from ever getting to the public (see http://photos.appleinsider.com/App%20Store%20Review%20Guidel... ). I doubt Apple has the eggs to tell Carmack no. Time to see if Jobs' moral views outweigh his greed. (edit: BTW, I think his greed will win)
The idea is to keep the information open, free, and interchangeable as information is what these sites add. We've had public VCS repos and web interfaces for ages.
Note the structural bias: RAND provides research focused on national security; they have a direct financial incentive for justifying the size of the security apparatus of the state.
It's unlikely that the removal of agricultural subsidies would create a significantly large market for locally grown produce and meats.

In fact, it would probably do precisely the opposite, as food could be outsourced just like the rest of our industry to areas with minimal labor laws to hamper cheap food production.
Yeah, so it's more addictive than alcohol. But if you can get a clean, dependable supply for relatively little money, the risks are not that bad. Certainly not enough to completely ban it or describe it with the hyperbole that you do.
OK, so I'm totally ignorant of workings of trackpad (or its potential to work in ways additional to its current use), but might it not be possible for Apple to add the capability (via software) to enable tapping on left/right edge of track pad to have trigger events that are triggered by touch to left/right side of an iPhone/iPad screen?
Don't you mean Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)? That is what our corporate war pigs named their little genocide... all while laughing directly in our faces.

What more proof do people need that the war on terror is a complete fabrication? Once again we have thwarted "terrorist" attacks right before a midterm election. The CIA/Mossad boys are up to their old tricks again.

We are sheep being led into the slaughter. Will you do anything to stop it or will you sit back and allow your children to be sold into servitude?
And a pony.

I want a pony.

Edit: Give those guys a break. They're struggling just to get the fundamentals right. This is not the time for scope creep.
It's rewarding when your work is used by 500 million people.
Thank god. Finally a startup role model I really can aspire to.

As father to two cute toddlers, This overtime ramen stuff is totally unobtainable.

Thanks!
What makes you think that I'm being hyperbolic, rather than merely descriptive?
To be totally frank ... Zuckerberg just helped out one of his friends. Sam Lessin lived in the same dorm as Zuck and they were friends (despite the fact that the Social Network movie suggests he only had one, he had a few).

Sam helped him out and now he's repaying the favor. If it was $10M+ that's nothing when Zuck's a billionaire on paper. Additionally, it doesn't matter what the investors think as he still has complete control of the company. I don't think it's fair to compare Hot Potato and drop.io as there's a history with the founder that wasn't there before.

If I'm sitting on a runaway success, you better be damn sure that I'm going to help my genius friend (Sam's a crazy smart guy) out and bring him on whenever I can. He's only going to add value and when Facebook is expected to be worth $100 billion eventually (pure speculation right now but it's in that direction), there's nothing wrong with holding out a golden hand.
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Thanks for your input. As you probably realized, my post was more about a strategy for apps that feel more like desktop apps, where once you're logged in, you're not really moving around from page to page at all. In my case it was a chat app where the whole app was useless without JS.

It's an interesting thought, though. However, I don't know if I'd see the need for something like backbone on any site where I was trying to support non-js browsers.
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Having full time child care available from a live in caretaker is not really the same as having to raise 3 kids on your own

I'm puzzled by your comment, because the author doesn't suggest those things are the same. It sounds like you're projecting onto him, since he's writing about what works for him.
Good.

DNA is just a sequence of bits, software is too.

Genetics has turned into a minefield because of patents.

Cross-licensing crap worse than even software.

It will probably take another decade if this ever changes, but I'm hopeful!
Hm, it seems to me it's very difficult to reuse the BSD code that underlies iOS. Yeah, you can use the code that Apple gives you, but as far as making modifications Apple actively makes it so you run into problems.

In other words, talking about reuse is changing the subject. The important thing is freedom to modify the code you're using.
> Because Apple has nothing better to do than to deal with developers submitting apps with all kinds of idiosyncratic hoops for Apple to jump through.

And how would those nasty developers like it if Apple suddenly introduced all kinds of idiosyncratic hoops to the app submission process for the developers to jump through?

Why, they'd have no grounds to complain, that's for sure!
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More than making a living off iOS applications.

And there's probably a lot of overlap in fact. If iOS is the client, I think it's a pretty good bet Linux is the server.
Oh I'm sorry, didn't know we were playing word games. The above poster complained about having to declare the types of his variables as if that was a bad thing. I simply pointed why it was in fact a good thing - you don't now need to do tests to ensure that your function that expects an INT always gets an INT, the type system takes care of it for you.

Discussions at this level presuppose a certain amount of background knowledge. Do try to keep up.
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> Exceptions don't just add an overhead when they're thrown, they add overhead for every function call. How else would the exception-handling runtime know to unwind the stack to the correct addresses?

With unwind descriptors/exception handling tables, which can be stored in a read-only segment of the executable and don't need to be paged in until an exception occurs. They have no runtime performance cost until an exception is thrown.

Unwind tables are the default exception model on most modern gcc C++ targets. They're also the default exception model in Visual C++ x64, at least.

c.f.:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318383/exception-handling...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1eyas8tf(VS.80).aspx
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The way I play, I always have a game under development while a previous game is on the market.

So it's like an endless loop - I'm focused on the dev process of the current game, and then when I finish, I want to see how well it performs in sales. But I'm not going to leave my studio doing nothing in the meantime, so I start a new game. And then I want to know how well that game does...

It's pretty slick.
> Unwinding the call stack in a game is a no-no.

For the most part, I agree, which is why I said they're probably only appropriate in games when used judiciously, e.g., for fatal errors.