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> We haven't been publishing "N beautiful pictures of Y" articles for almost a year now. We are trying to make SmashingMag a high quality publication for designers and developers

Thank you for that. I think you have done a great job overall going in this direction. I loved http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/18/the-beauty-of-typ... posted earlier this year. I understand it's impossible to make every single article aim for perfection but now that you have raised the bar for yourself and we know about it, you have no choice but to meet it every single time.

The first thought in my mind when reading the current article was how the color difference between left and right slides affected my perceptions and hence completely negated the subsequent analysis. For a second I actually thought it would be funny if I made a parody article and switched the left and right slides and justified it with copy-pasted text from your own article.

I love typography and I try to learn more about it any time I get. But unfortunately, despite reading the entire article, I left away feeling like I learnt nothing. It's hard to say exactly why but just compare the current article with The Beauty Of Typography and you'll see what I'm trying to say here.
It sure does look like an Apple III. It's not the US model because it has a >< key (in the modern Backspace location) where the US had a \| key. Actually probably German because it has the M key to the right of L. I'm pretty sure I see an Apple logo on the key to the left of the space bar at 1:38.
If you make a mistake in any of the answers, are you automatically disqualified?
Even the functionality of the drum is iffy. It seems like maybe a quarter of the time it will somehow mysteriously wind up on something other than what you selected.
Maybe both? I like the idea of being able to quickly type out what I need.
Less than 10% of our sales numbers are from the ebook. The ebook was just a side project to see if we could share some information and make some extra money at the same time. You'd be surprised at how much ad revenue these apps make. Check out how much the paper toss guys make with just 5 apps - http://www.develop-online.net/news/36155/Paper-Toss-dev-make...
It's too close to the original to be a clone. I grew up with Apple clones (computers couldn't be imported to Brazil until my college years) and they all looked as different from Apple IIs they could while using the same parts.

Sadly, nobody here made an Apple III clone.
I find it hard to support a closed communications system like Skype that makes it impossible for third parties to develop client applications. I also don't trust the encryption since it's all closed.
"Two chicks at the same time."
not to get too 'cooksource' or bolshy on you but why on earth would you have moral rights? why is this an issue of 'win'? you publicised your content, technology made a million copies of it, people found it useful to them to communicate it from one to another in various (licensed) formats. Your content was useful to society - potentially to thousands. Yet after splashing it all over the internet, you decide it's not worth monetising and so you get to tell everyone to delete it, no matter how useful and culturally important it is? at no gain to yourself but vast loss to society? Where does that come from, except an un-democratically ratified treaty?

As for what was above: I fully accept the issues over orphan works, I was just defending the Reocities iniatiative; by and large, the rebirth of utility in what really were orphan works.
Most copy machines these days are actually scanners, and can do an 11x17 page at 600dpi in about a second.
I think making massive money on crap that enables you to spend time on things you actually do value - be they other apps, a family, hobby or passion to save the world - is a perfectly valid way to live life.

Your post sounds like nothing more than sour grapes.
I've studied judo, karate and kung fu. My favorite was kung fu! Here's the school I attended: http://leungmartialarts.com/

I'd say finding a place to train with students I knew and got along with and an instructor I liked was the most important thing for me. I tried out a few classes at different schools before settling on this particular one. I liked the emphasis on cooperation, incorporation of tai chi practice, and that the leader of the school spent a lot of time with new students like myself, making sure we mastered each technique.
I am totally the same way in minecraft I'm just not content with my house Id have a big house go get wood cone back and go no not good enough and end up making my house bigger and bigger my first house took up a whole natural valley I kept getting lost and it was sorta funny
Seven Xbox Kinect-ready games reviewed
People tend to find bad design jarring, and brand perception suffers as a result. I don't think any site design would survive a mauling like you've described with its credibility intact.
Dropbox.com is pretty much a blank page with a video in the middle and a massive signup button. At the bottom there are links to the blog and whatnot. Is that what you mean?

We technically don't have a blog or any additional info yet, so we can't exactly link to that stuff. A few sentences of additional text we can and will do though.
Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It
Any chance of getting a Vim emulation option? That might be enough to get me regularly using it.
Or, to make it even worse, make it Windows-like instead of Unix-like.
Cleantech’s Netscape Moment May Feel More Like An Intel Moment
How one company games Google News
It is a fine line to tread. I think someone who has the ethical concerns to ask about it, probably will be fine. So don't stress too much about it -- don't let this decision hang you up.

Just ask yourself this question: when the person clicks on the button or link, are they expecting a payment screen? That is, are they aware this feature is a premium, paid-only feature? If not, you may be on the bait-and-switch side.
We're working on exactly that issue for our product (Windsoc). We're working on algorithms that attempt to create social circles, while providing an interface that should make manual adjustment and categorization easy. When someone posts using our service, they'll be able to select specific circles of contacts, or even individuals, to Facebook or other services.

I've noticed that people have started to give up on the idea of contact management across services, which is usually a good indication that it's the perfect time to make it happen.

(If anyone is curious, we'll be starting private beta in December.)
buy a nice house in a nice city
No idea actually, but it was something he mentioned the first day of class. He introduced it as "K, the second difference matrix, and my favorite". That was good enough for us.
Silverlight(RIP) vs Flash vs HTML5 vs (Guess what)
Nice. Yeah, attachments & embeds are going to be cool. So, sounds like for you just linking to an image plus previewing it in the display will be enough?

Sounds like you wouldn't want us to let you upload the image to our site, right?
4% of online Americans use location-based services
Did anyone actually ask them to verify these numbers? Did a third party do so?

Extraordinary claims ($80K a month) require extra-ordinary evidence.

They don't even really seem to know what their revenue is like, but their fairly certain about the large size of the numbers... normally, that's the smell of bullshit.

Tom Vu's girlfriend wants to see the proof of these claims.
And some of us will quietly contemplate the problem to the nth degree, and when we finally ask for help you'd better believe it's very serious and we're about to lose it.
Google Chrome integrates display of PDF into browser
I'm not saying it isn't possible. I'd be interested in seeing how your numbers compare.

They have ~2M daily users and 47M installs, generating 600M monthly impressions. That lines up pretty well with my estimate of about $1 CPM.
Empirically: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=gmail%20slow&cm...

Statistically: http://www.google.com/trends?q=gmail+slow

Personally: browsing from London, UK, mail.google.com resolves to 66.249.92.83 (New york - NY), speed is inversely correlating with standard net usage (extremely slow at day, somewhat faster in the night).
Currently, (1am, GMT+0), measured by stopwatch: (they make you code faster :P )

login: 3 sec (firebug says the last asset has finished loading 8 sec in)

search: 8 sec

search within label: 3 sec

which is by my experience the fastest I've seen it for months. Furthermore, performance does NOT change with the ?labs=0 param, albeit it becomes fast again (~1.5 second searches) in basic HTML mode. Try that before considering switching to a desktop client.

This is by no means within acceptable bounds. At this point in technology, there is no reason whatsoever for any e-mail provider not to perform at sub-second action level. What's even less acceptable, is Google's approach of sorting resolution by descending popularity. If hell-raising becomes a necessary pre-requirement of sorting this out, we ought to raise hell collectively.

Sort that.
I think that puzzle requires a decent baseline in terms of math skills/tech knowledge/research ability to provide a minimal baseline to weed out unsuitable candidates. Also, it's reddit, not the NSA. They're looking to make the application process interesting and unique more than selecting for the best possible programmers. They'll still get dozens of qualified applicants to choose from.
I like to get inspiration from magazines, books, art, music, and photography. Basically trying to get any creative inspiration away from the computer.

Jessica Hische sums it quite appropriately in her latest blog post: http://jessicahische.com/spendstoomuchtimeinternetting/?p=75...
Considering it would make it impossible to apply, then yes.
I've been doing brazilian jiu-jitsu for about 5 years, and would highly recommend it to anyone. I know a wide range of people who practice it, from professional fighters to little kids to a guy in his 60s.

I think it fits especially well for the HN crowd, because there's generally very little mystical bs that goes on, and although this analogy gets abused, it's basically human chess. There's a very analytical approach to learning jiu-jitsu as opposed to most striking arts (I also do muay thai and recommend that as well if the idea if touching people grosses you out) which are largely reflexive.
One of the most important skills for any technical job is being good at googling stuff.
The pyramid Web Framework (inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django)
Also a related interested read: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4184

"... Most archaeologists agree that this particular device was neither unique nor the first of its kind. Two factors contribute to this: First, its design is quite refined, which is not consistent with a prototype. Second, an object as expensive and complex as this would typically be made in a series in order to recover the costs of design. Why, then, are its siblings not found? ..."
No need to defend yourself.. they'll always be doubters.. you guys keep on raking in the bucks!
Well, have fun doing your human exploitation startups. It's not for me, I can't do it.

It's just not in me. It's not sour grapes, it's just utter incomprehension on why anyone would spend their life exploiting others. I just don't understand the motivation behind it.

I actually do not think it's a perfectly valid way of life, I think it's evil and sociopathic. But that's my opinion and you have yours.

Happiness is different for everybody.
Hi durga. Your last question is interesting, because in WorkFlowy there's not really a difference between a list and an item in a list, because both can have infinite items underneath them. It does seem to confuse people, though, so we're going to make the icons at the top level into "document" icons and see if that helps clear things up. Might slightly change the behavior too, unclear.
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Me and a few other people use Things.

I hear Omni has a good business going, as well.

Simplenote, Evernote, & friends seem to be doing alright.

There's always room for something better.
Hi Chris! Thanks so much for the support :)

Search, linking and mobile are all high on our list of things to get done soon. Mobile is definitely the hardest problem so could take the longest, but we're definitely getting on it!
Great post, simple explanation: UX people don't measure profit. That's a huge disconnect that leads to these weird professional silos between UX and marketing/ecommerce. The sooner UX people start measuring profit -- like they should -- the better.
It seems to me the most expeditious way to keep people safe from bomb attacks at the airport would be to have more flights with smaller airplanes that way you reduce the concentration of people and remove the queues. If you have 40 passengers on a plane and 10 of them are terrorists, then that leaves 30+crew to resist them less small children and cripples (so probably, pulling a number out of the air, 15-25 people to resist 10).
Patrick,

3,000 uniques in a single day doesn’t validate an idea, let alone a business model. The influx of visitors you had is equivalent to the traffic any blog receives when one of its post hits the HN front page. Yet, none of them is complaining about not having gotten a lucrative book deal.

That being said, the idea of a torrent of videos is interesting. I’m much less convinced about its implementation. Not to sound rude, but a bunch of links on a wiki, that's it?

Maybe you could look at XSPF? It’s a shareable playlist format. See http://www.xspf.org/quickstart/ for more info. Since you are sharing links to videos, distributing them into a standard format could be a good idea for instance.

Or hook it to the YouTube API, to provide more info about each video.
And most of the time, it takes a while before things get off the ground, so be patient and keep working hard on it.

Good luck.
Cool stuff.

Straight link to code: https://github.com/markandrus/Sonify

You should not link to your blog's homepage unless the title is "Here is the blog of X". The current url/title combination won't make much sense after you write the next post.
You're in FX 3.? It doesn't work in 3.5, but should work in 3.6 and higher.
If you can do this, I'd use the website. Maybe it's a pivot point.

Here's what I'd like to see:

1. A list of every video related to Gary V, Seth Godin, Alexis, etc, on the web. Start with big names and then tag these videos.

2. Now that they are tagged you can start to search for SaaS and I can watch everything ever said about SaaS on the internet.

I like this idea, but the website is less than ideal. You need to focus on a niche and get acceptance there.
My guess is, they will verify the identification information on the application before sending a volley of requests at a single target.
Ah yes, the "wtf??" reaction that happens a few days after a yc rejection. Its one of the 5 stages of coping with a loss. You are now at "anger".
IPhone Fail Becomes iPhone Win At ‘Damn You Auto Correct’
Its already twisting! I'm just suggesting to do so in a different way.

And it took me a bit to connect Excel to finance. I've personally never used it to track money.
IRS Funding Startups?
Use dojo.hash instead of dojo.back
There used to be a tcp/ip stack called winsock. Thanks for the memory.

The d was silent for me when I read that sentence.
If only real-world puzzles were this easy to step through...
I hope you're using "you" in the general sense, since a) as a rule one shouldn't trust people's medical judgments (especially when they don't know you) unless they're a doctor, and even then, get second opinions etc., and b) you're experimentally wrong.
Totally agree. New Blue Belt here and I really appreciate the strategy and analysis it takes to figure out your own game and apply it to different opponents.

A note to those who are interested in starting: It is a highly technical martial art, but it's not going to feel like it at first. Other newbs who are bigger and more athletic are going to beat you most of the time. But if you pay attention, the smaller, less athletic upper belts will have their way with them along with you. Unfortunately, there is a steep learning curve. Stick with it and things get easier!

Programming for 8-10 hours a day can drive me insane, and it's very nice and therapeutic for me to hit the mats a few days a week. I get exercise, have fun, and am still mentally stimulated without thinking about technology or whatnot.
:) Yeah, we've heard that feedback loud and clear. We're going to put up some more descriptive text as soon as traffic dies down. We don't want to mess something up while people are still signing up like crazy.

We're getting amazing conversion rates, though, so most people don't have a problem watching the video.
I've been doing Wing Tsun kung fu for over ten years. If you find a good school, it's a very methodical, highly intelligent and very technical martial art. There's a lot of depth to it, and as you get better, it gets more and more subtle (as well as a lot more effective). Unfortunately, there's also a lot of schools that are not very good (as with any martial art), so your experience may vary. In my experience, the german (Leung Ting) branch of the art is the best at this point. We have a few ex-fencers in our class, and they seem to enjoy it a lot.

The style itself is a soft style, relying on speed and sensitivity to deflect the opponent's attacks and triumph. A lot of the training is partner-training, a lot of it is playing role games. As you get better, we also work on the psychology and tactics of the fight. I've been doing it for a long time, and I have never gotten bored with it - there's always people who are measurably better than you to serve as a reminder of what you're striving for. In many martial arts, once you hit a certain plateau, there's not much difference between someone who trained for five years versus someone who trained for 10 - here, the difference is clear as day.

The other thing I really enjoy about our school is a very well structured curriculum - you always have very specific goals and targets to work on, you get tested every 3 months, and the teacher always keeps track of where you are at and that you're making progress.

If you're in the SF Bay Area, send me an email (my username @ gmail), I can give you an introduction or an invite to class.

Most martial arts schools offer free or discounted introductory lessons. You can attend a class for a month or so to decide whether it's something that suits you.

How WT compares to other martial arts (that I have any familiarity with):

Aikido - softer, more traditional teaching style, so it can take a lot longer to get good at it. Similar concepts in terms of deflection and redirection of opponent's attacks; not as aggressive as WT.

BJJ - focuses on tournament-style fighting with certain rules - great for locks and ground fighting, but there's a reason that most people who take BJJ also take Muay Thai or another striking art at the same time - BJJ doesn't cover those areas well, if at all.

Muay Thai - amazing cardio, amazing for working on your balance, but more brutal and simple, not much technique or sensitivity involved.

Krav Maga - another very physically strenuous workout, but focuses on a set of very simple techniques. Not much depth to it, after six months or so you probably know most of what they have, after that it's just about getting stronger/faster.
Anyone know if they're using the JS-based renderer, or is this C/C++-level code?
Use a Xbox/Wii/PS3 Controller with a Mac
This is good news. And, to think, your title was pepping me for another failed startup write-up.
Just to clarify, you wouldn't want to upload stuff to WorkFlowy, right? You'd basically just want to link to it from another location?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJj9y4t9UnU

It's Eduard Artemyev, by many considered "the Russian Vangelis". His work has been truly defining for a handful of Russian sci-fi masterpieces.
How do you know this? This site needs an about page with links.
The paradox, as is frequently explained, is that many of the most successful sites are those that people spend almost no time on.

Lets say you go to google, find a search result, and click to leave google. If you do all that within a coule seconds, then google was successful even though you spent almost no time on google. This is similar to that.

Remember, too, to paraphrase paul graham for at least the fourth time in this thread, that the yahoo directory started out as jerry yang's personal collection of bookmarks.

jerry yang's multibillion dollar company bought out paul graham's viaweb and made paul graham into a millionaire.

so consider all that, let it all sink in, and then decide whether you want to tell me that my idea is bad.
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It's a smart world
Living in HK and having seen a few Bruce Lee movies I studied Wing Chun when I was young.

The appeal to me was the sifu (Ng Chun Hong) was an older kung fu master who had trained since his childhood. This guy had forearms like iron bars and could easily have kicked my ass with a blindfold and one arm behind his back. The training was old-school tough - my first few weeks were simply 2 hour sessions of squatting to train my leg muscles.
Can be turned off in chrome://plugins - for those who don't like PDF plugins and prefer a proper application like Evince or Skim (or, well, Adobe Reader).

Still no way to disable the annoying download confirmation message, which now also pops up with PDFs.
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'"
How are they scamming people? I got the impressing that many people find their apps useful.
I just want to say thanks for the response. It's really hard to find such information on Wikipedia or something.
UGG Gissella Boots
Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight: Eat More, Weigh Less?
Your wife can probably make up her own mind.
Most of us here are entrepreneurs, we know what it`s like to have a rough patch better than most people. We have all endured weeks, or months with little income. My best suggestion would be to start cold calling, find someone who needs some work done that you can do. I can however guarantee that they won't come to you looking to spend their money, you need to give them a damn good reason to.
"Working hard on it" requires seed money and somebody that believes that the founder just might be able to pull off the idea. You can't work hard on an idea while you're worrying about food and rent.

The point with the ycombinator video page was this: theoretically, if you had 365 lists, each able to generate that much uniques each day, then you'd have over a million uniques a year just with that traffic. A million uniques is a good size of traffic and potential traction.
"Twenty years of real-world experience in various technology-related jobs." It is worrying that you don't have anything to show after such a long time period. Well, all i can say all the best.
Why Developers don't rush to create apps on new hardware/platforms.
I do the opposite, disabling Flash in chrome (about:plugins) and using Safari when I really need Flash to access stubborn websites.

However, no Youtube5-like extension for Chrome seems to work for me.
His chess analogy is the best thing of his you can find on youtube, I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4
I think they are more likely to be scamming advertisers than people. I get what you mean, many many people around here could make these kind of apps if they were so motivated to.

It's the same with online ads, should I just fill my site with mobile phone charging ads because they give me the best CPM or should I put ads there that actually may benefit a user?
..I agree with your suggestions. But algorithms without user intervention and automatic aggregation sound like version 2.0 features. My idea right now is building something that reliably works, basically a version 1.0 product.