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Actually, if I'm not completely mistaken this is a rather cool site function, so correct me if I'm wrong, but does this site scrape the sites listed on the main page for the tags you search for then produce a results page?

I think that's what it's doing, and if so that's pretty neat. It's a great way if you're doing a research project for example to gather social data in one location based on tags instead of going to each individual website finding what you're looking for.

As far as critique goes:

I can't say much by way of development since I'm the design ninja on my team. We'll start there:

On the front page I'd make the search function much more prominent since that is the central component to the reason your site exists. For the most part, the idea is great but the execution lacks in placement of your design elements. For example, again on the front page instead of listing all of the sites being scraped, put them on an about page or somewhere out of the way, but still easily accessible so users will know where data is coming from. Your banner should go up top, in tried and tested results from many other sites similar to this.

Secondly, on the search results, I wouldn't overemphasize the ability to refine the search results by way of a tag cloud. perhaps using a secondary form element so users can define themselves what details they want to disseminate, and making the tag cloud a secondary matter. But most importantly, on the matter of search results: those should be obvious; don't make the user scroll after rendering the data they've searched for. This is both redundant and pointless.

Thirdly I'm noticing you're making extraneous use of line-height properties. Don't overdo it. I know your copytext is a little sparse, and that's fine but don't sacrifice real estate on the page that could be used on it's own page just to make a point.

Overall, I would reduce the front page to maybe just the banner, and the search form (just like Google and even the Twitter search App Summize), with links at the bottom to your blog, contact and about pages, as you have now. Make your results page more readable and more relevant to the information being presented, and utilize screen space more effectively by reconsidering where some of your content elements are.

But, for what it's worth I think this is a great idea for a site, the design isn't bad. I can see you know how to do it, now just work on how to make it work for the user. Just because you know how to navigate doesn't mean the rest of us do.

:) Good luck, and keep reading this thread. There have been some great suggestions so far from the rest of the community.
Why not put each browser window or tab in a separate process? There's probably a reason, but none come to mind at the moment.
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Tell him, "For the Quadrupillionth time, go clean your room!"
Cool idea but not for me. There's something about voluntarily following a Gantt chart for something I consider a hobby and an outlet for creativity that spooks me.
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Agreed, as a number it's not terribly useful, and in fact counterproductive for the reasons xlnt describes. Obviously you probably don't want to tell your son that, but as gojomo cautions, you might not want to praise him for it, either. (Edit: That is, if you do offer praise/encouragement, you'll want to do so in a way that avoids giving him false hopes that his number will become the next googol.)

The thing is, simply naming a number isn't a great achievement, not even on the part of the mathematician's nephew who came up with 'googol'. It makes for an interesting story, but the thought processes involved are about as relevant to thinking mathematically as naming a pet dog is to understanding canine biology. But the initiative to name things is certainly valuable, and well worth reinforcing.

The trick here is to lead your son towards an interest in the properties of numbers and away from any potential delusions of grandeur dependent on being the next 'googol' kid. Alternatively, or in concert with emphasizing the properties of numbers, you could also interest him in the properties of language and word construction, which he seems to have an aptitude for. Granted, your six year old would be pretty exceptional if you could get him interested in either!
Maybe you will not want my feedback.

I don't like the design on the front page. You need to redesign the front page by starting completely from scratch and thinking minimal. This site looks like it was a barge where you just kept piling on whatever would fit wherever until you had a full page to launch. Don't show 5 new member photos on the front page when members don't add photos. I really don't like the hyperlink blue color that is on text that isn't hyperlinked.

Look. I'm sorry. It looks like you worked hard on it. And I love reading. But, it's 2008. We're almost a decade into the 21st century. I want to be able to take a batch of picture of my books bar codes and upload them and have it generate the list of my books automatically. Then, I want to be able to rate my books, easily, like on netflix, and get new recommendations based on that, and a list of local friends that might have the same taste in books. I want to say what books I would loan out, and be able to trade and loan books locally with other people who like similar books. I want it to suggest people and reading for book clubs automatically and well. Like "There are 20 people in your area we think would like reading The Cat in the Hat. Would you be interested in joining with some of them to read this as a book club?" You just don't have anything that seems compelling to me.

This just seems like something out of the 20st century. It's the 21st century. Go eat some psychedelic mushrooms and lie back and absorb that we're a decade into the 21st century. Vision, people. Is this really the best you can bring to the 21st century? All human history happened so you could create the 20 things on that front page that distract each other for my divided attention? Where is the vision?
37 signals are getting a little bit arrogant...just, just a little bit.
However I think we should applaud the lad for taking such a keen interest in mathematics at such an age, and having a willingness to expand his mind by way of creativity.

Usefulness or not, he's showing the signs of a thinking man in the works.
Maybe you will not want my feedback. Not sure what page you want it on either.

I don't like the design on the front page. You need to redesign the front page by starting completely from scratch and thinking minimal. This site looks like it was a barge where you just kept piling on whatever would fit wherever until you had a full page to launch. Don't show 5 new member photos on the front page when members don't add photos. I really don't like the hyperlink blue color that is on text that isn't hyperlinked.

Look. I'm sorry. It looks like you worked hard on it. And I love reading. But, it's 2008. We're almost a decade into the 21st century. I want to be able to take a batch of picture of my books bar codes and upload them and have it generate the list of my books automatically. Then, I want to be able to rate my books, easily, like on netflix, and get new recommendations based on that, and a list of local friends that might have the same taste in books. I want to say what books I would loan out, and be able to trade and loan books locally with other people who like similar books. I want it to suggest people and reading for book clubs automatically and well. Like "There are 20 people in your area we think would like reading The Cat in the Hat. Would you be interested in joining with some of them to read this as a book club?" You just don't have anything that seems compelling to me.

This just seems like something out of the 20st century. It's the 21st century. Go eat some psychedelic mushrooms and lie back and absorb that we're a decade into the 21st century. Vision, people. Is this really the best you can bring to the 21st century? All human history happened so you could create the 20 things on that front page that distract each other for my divided attention? Where is the vision?
>I think a culture where people aggressively argue their views is better.

I disagree (but I upmodded you).
>But, people need to not identify too much with their ideas. They need to be able to say "switch" and start arguing the other side with the same intensity.

Yes - that is informed debate - but I don't think that is what people are arguing against - its more the silly stuff that every other forum ever created seems to degrade to.

>The majority of people are idiots happy with good enough. :)

Well thats just mean ;) And certainly not something you would say to a "happy idiot" in person. Not if you want to achieve anything other then a punch in the face anyway ;)
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"And certainly not something you would say to a "happy idiot" in person."

You obviously haven't met me.
make a way for users to avoid seeing books that they already read. For me at least Amazon recommendation is pretty useless now, since for Science Fiction I already read all of the books that they recommend.

Go deeper into the categories. Amazon for example stops at Space Opera. But that's still a very large genre. Let users tell you what kind of features the specific space opera has. i.e. Alternate Reality? Space Battles? Technical Technology descriptions? You know REALLY research the book genres so that you can improve your recommendation system. Someone who likes light sci-fi will probably HATE technical sci-fi that spends 4 pages describing how a certain thing works.

Spend a few books to have nicer images made. I mean those 3 images really make the site look cheap.
I emailed you info, we're getting too far off topic here.
When my Sprint phone died, about five months ago, I switched to AT&T rather than buy another Sprint phone, with plans to eventually swap my AT&T phone for an iPhone. (I didn't worry about the "upgrade eligibility" requirements, because the last iPhone wasn't subsidized anyway.) If this article bears any relationship to reality, it looks like the joke is on me.

I guess I could try to look on the bright side: I probably still won't be out as much money as I would have been if I'd bought an unsubsidized iPhone for $400 three months ago and then tried to sell it on eBay when the 3G came out. Still, if the much-ballyhooed $199/299 phone deal turns out to be a bait-and-switch for certain people (e.g. me) I'm going to be pretty annoyed.

This does threaten to change my answer to the classic question: "Should I go 3G or buy a 2G phone on eBay?"
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sorry thought the name was a cheap shot at other users, instead of the obvious of what it was, good 2nd point.
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You are very wrong about this xlnt. You should understand more about child development.

It's a useful number because it gets a kid playing with math. Encourage them to teach themselves more about it, to play with it, but, for Christ's sake, do not give the child a terse answer more appropriate for a college student then a damn 6 year old.

Your attitude is at the root of why the entire edifice of mathematics education to children is completely soul numbing.
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Yes.

If I had an idea, and someone explained to my why it's no good, I'd be very pleased. I'd be glad they replied and told me something I didn't know. I'd consider it a reward; and a much more useful one than applause. I think that's the most sensible way to feel: applause is OK, but serious replies are even nicer.
I agree. That is why I want to use screen-map/xml definition to define the screen properties.
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In this particular recipe I'd say its a mistake to fry the garlic first. It burns a lot more quickly than onion. As a general template to order in which to cook veges and meat (especially in a Mediterranean style) this Emeril recipe is unbeatable: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9...
That was the first thing I tried. But Google was of not much help. Maybe I was searching wrong..

Can you explain how you achieved the mutable views in the UI?
Not in a six year old.

It's called child development. Heard of it? Because if the child isn't old enough to gain reason and judgement you are just killing creativity, for no benefit. What age do reason and judgement hone to the right degree?

Not 6, thats for damn sure. This is depressing.

I could just see jraines and xlnt with a toddler. xlnt: "Now, Joey, it's Da-dee, not da-da. It's important to pronounce things preciesly" jraines: "I think you can impart precision without killing the kids language skills"
Seen more than once where a site was blocked by a filter because someone cursed in the comments. Page looked perfectly clean otherwise.
I wasn't speaking to a child. I spoke about the content of the issue. What form to present it in, and which content the child would be interested to hear, is not my affair; it depends on the details of their situation and personalities. I cannot hope to comment accurately about that. Nor can you.

In the future I would strongly encourage you to leave out remarks such as, "You should understand more about child development." I don't mind if you state that I'm wrong, for clarity, but you don't know anything about how many years I've spent learning about child development, or how much I know about it, so it's not wise to comment on that.

PS I upmodded you back to 1. I don't think you intended to be hostile.
I bought the game. Not just because it's a product of News.YC members, but because it's really fun.

After beating it, I think it would be more fun if...

1. later versions of each gun is more or less equal in power, but each have different perks. That way if someone loves their shotguns, they can effectively keep using shotguns throughout the whole game rather than being forced to replace them for a gun that will actually give them a fighting chance to win.

2. Bosses.Be it a really fast unit that is annoyingly hard to aim at or the big enormous monster that somehow never seems to die, the game needs some things to curse at... I mean.. make it hard and to build anticipation. Bosses are also great for continuing the story in a possible sequel. ;P

3. An upgrade you can buy that lets you jump. That would be really cool and make the game way more dynamic, especially if you make it so the grenade launchers have a little arc to them where you can sit on a safe spot and shoot ground units down with them.

4. Perhaps skills? Regeneration or added weapon/upgrades slots? The possibilities are really endless.

That's all I've got for now. I may play through again tomorrow and write another reply in here. :)
There are certainly counterexamples to the "excise high school references". Consider for example one of the NYC magnet high schools such as Bronx Science (or Stuyvesant), which on paper at least have a track record of producing 1 physics Nobel Laureate and 1 Turing award winner each per decade (on average). In such a school, a characterization of where one was on the continuum of creative intelligence can be a pretty strong statement.

(granted most High Schools aren't that magical on paper, so the parent post has a valid point in principle)
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"But the main thing is at work, or when practicing your hobby, you're not expecting to be bugged very often by people probing for a relationship..."

Thats silly, for many folks (for good or for ill), it is through work or their hobbies that they meet new people.
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really depends on what your app does and what market it targets. there are tons of specialized ad networks that work to maximize revenue based on what you're doing.

or you could go down the route of obtaining sponsors/advertisers yourself, and managing ads on your own. cut out the middleman, get a bigger profit, but have to deal with the overhead of it yourself.
Get him some good interesting math books. A few suggestions:

One, Two, Three, Infinity by George Gamow.
The World of Mathematics [4 volume set] edited by James Newman
and, perhaps in a few years,
What Is Mathematics, by Courant and Robbins
and
Symbolic Logic, by Suzanne Langer

all books that I remember from my own childhood with great fondness.
Pretty stupid post if you ask me.
Now that is the funniest thing I've seen in ages. At least I hope you mean it that way.
When I was 4 I liked chess. By the time I was 6 I reasonably often beat my parents at chess, and had improved quite a lot. Doesn't chess require reason and judgment?
(kissing more of my karma away for saying true things)

That's textbook autistic thinking. Almost verbatim, that's the difference between autistic and non autistic responses to praise. You are completely justified in thinking that way about yourself (and I think the same thing).

But you also have to realize most people's brains aren't wired that way. Especially children who are also engaged in things like spontaneous sharing.
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This reminds me of a question that a university lecturer of mine asked.. "Tell me the biggest number you can think of"

Just try it. :)

It's actually not that easy, since there are always more numbers that are bigger. The challenge is around describing these large numbers using the minimum amount of information possible.

He went on to talk about the 'Busy Beaver' problem which is all about turing machines and all kinds of interesting stuff.

Has anyone here studied Busy Beavers before?
You are worrying about the wrong things cog....

What you need to be worrying about is whether or not your product will attract any customers.

Once you focus on that you should be able to relate to what Spartacus did and said before he marched off into his last battle. After killing his horse in front of a group of his soldiers he declared that if the battle is lost the horse will not be needed anymore. If the battle is won than there will be a bounty of Roman horses to choose from.

It's kind of the same way with startups. If your product attracts customers and the money is flowing in just go to an accountant and have him work it all out. If the product flops then it doesn't matter what the heck the rules are. You don't get the play the game anyways.
Why is autism called a mental illness if rational thinking is a textbook example?

Anyhow, I agree that you should make personality-appropriate comments that the child will appreciate.

(I upvoted all your comments in this thread now. Please don't worry about karma.)
Another textbook autistic trait.

This kid isn't wired like you. Normal children do not have those reasoning abilities at that age. You can't reasonably project from your experience to his, but are more likely to, because that's how people with autistic traits relate.
By your logic, one could have seriously hampered your self confidence by suggesting that your reasoning about this is faulty, and the only reason you beat your parents at chess was because they werent very good at it.

I dont mean to be coming across as rude, but I believe the better way to handle the six year old is to encourage the process of creativity and imagination. There are enough people in his life (at least a Quadrupillion!!) that will try to tell him that hes being impractical and unrealistic, no need to add to that count.
The original poster did not say how this child is wired.

I think that parental expectations of children to dislike criticism is a large factor in why they usually grow up to dislike it.
Where's your data?
Because autism involves (most likely) a deficiency in the mirror neurons which do not allow the children to learn from mimicking the social interaction of others. It's theorized that sometimes these deficient mirror neurons get replaced by other skills and pre-sensory processing, like logic, music, perfect pitch, etc, in the same way that some blind people have phenomenal hearing.

Also it's debilitating for a lot of people, many of whom lack so many mirror neurons they never learn how to communicate.
it does spread damage of course. I found several situations where I'd equip multiple shotguns and sit in a corner and let all the bugs come at me. :D
No but I have met many like you. Well not many, but some. And its not common.
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As I understand it, "mirror neurons" are a silly idea. Researchers noticed that people, for example, running, and people observing running, have similar brain activity. Why might that be? Well, they say that certain neurons somehow mimic what one observes. They imply these neurons are somewhat autonomous.

But there's another rather obvious possibility: the person running, and the person watching running, were both thinking about running. Their brain activity was similar because they were thinking about the same thing.
Not quite. You're socializing (including taking on new hobbies) to meet new people, yes. But you're not passioned by your hobby (say History or computers) because you want to socialize ... And if you're into say long distance running that's not to have all the guys -who otherwise might have run faster- start slowing down just to look at your butt ...
why doesnt "Yes", exactly!" do?
OK, every word processor these days can check your spelling for you. You don't even need to do anything; it will underline words it doesn't know by magic. Given that big a shove in the right direction PLUS the manual proof-reading that ought to be done, it is incomprehensible that typos get through. It can only be carelessness. This isn't an IRC conversation; it's a professional document.

Clumsy use of English from someone for whom it isn't their native language is a completely different matter, I don't care about that.
The original poster indicated the child was engaged in spontaneous sharing, which indicates the child isn't on the spectrum. (Spontaneous sharing requires an ability to model the reaction of the person you share with, which requires the mirror neurons thought to be deficient in the autistic spectrum)

Again, (and I don't mean any of this to sound harsh) your thoughts are not too relevant, because you can't use your kind of reasoning here.

My dad (who is on the spectrum) ended up being horribly abusive to me throughout my childhood and teenage years because of thinking a lot like this. I don't want to conflate you and him, just to warn you that there is a really big trap it's easy for people with your personality traits to fall into around being overly logical, the projection that people with deficient mirror neurons have to resort to for relating to people, and how to treat and raise kids.

You should recognize that you need the help of a person who doesn't share your mind-blindness to make appropriate judgements about children and how to relate to them. You absolutely cannot figure out how to treat kids on your own if you are on the spectrum. Using your logic, you should recognize it doesn't apply, and that you need a tool that isn't in your toolbox. Either a person who does have that skill who you listen to, or enough study of child psychology to reason your way to the right way to treat neurotypical kids.
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