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I'm just getting into Ruby and converting to vim as my primary editor, and I didn't even know that this is a "hip" thing to do. All of a sudden I feel trashy for making logical choices.

I think the author misjudged why people like me choose Ruby and vim -- choices that have nothing to do with each other, btw.

I'm a fan of terseness and readability. Ruby has a reputation for both. I've never heard the following phrases spoken: "Perl is great for writing DSL's." "Perl is very readable."

The most amazing experience has been going on GitHub on day one, reading the Rails, Haml, Sinatra, Tilt, you name it, code and being able to understand virtually any part of it. This is not only a testament to the language, but also a testament to the quality of the frameworks and the API's that are being produced with it. Show me a web framework written in Perl that I can dig into and understand with zero Perl experience.

Vim, on the other hand, is a sour-sweet topic. Here is the only reason I'm using vim: everything else sucks ___. Vim also sucks ____ because in 2011 it is still a text editor that can't copy paste using the "normal people" shortcuts. I'm looking forward to the day I finally customize vim enough to match Notepad in usability.

As much as vim usability sucks, I know that I can spend a year customizing it (and it will take a year) and be able to rely on it for the rest of my life. In contrast, there is no such incentive to invest into the monstrosities riding over the JVM (not calling names).

Also, screencasts are great because I read all day and its tiring, physically tiring. Sitting back, relaxing my eyes and being educated while I sip on a coffee and have a cookie is my idea of fun. Screencasts are free, bite sized, training. By the author's logic Khan Academy is worthless as an educational tool because most of it is written somewhere.
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Make the homepage more focused. Have a primary call to action.

Fake user content, for now, to breathe life into your site. Several respected people on HN have noted this works well.

Issues:

* I'm not exactly sure what I'm getting for clicking on "sign up." Is it only a travel blog platform or is there more?

* I don't care "what's happening right now" on some map. That is prime homepage real estate that is being wasted. Perhaps leave that for when I'm logged in on a "news feed" page; and then only show my friends (via Facebook or Twitter connections); also, you could show other site users in whatever town I'm now in (if I'm traveling now).

* The Hot News and Travel Deals columns are competing for my attention. And I am repulsed from bothering to read them. It's the 50-50 column widths. And there's too many (10); try showing only the top 1 or 2 of each.

* You ask the user "are you a QT?" I don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something.

Credibility: I like to travel, I blog about my travels on my own Wordpress blog, and I read a lot of other people's travel blogs and travel-lifestyle blogs.

I hope that helps.
Corrupting the OS's memory is rarely a problem. It's corrupting your application's memory that's a major problem, and that's still very easy to do on modern hardware with "modern" development techniques.

People in the finance industry treat C++ like they were abandoned as children in the woods, and C++ brought them to its home, fed them, raised them, and sent them to college. Someone I work with claims that Stroustrup is God.

If you're an exchange or some other data source and you want to compromise a shit-ton of machines, start sending invalid messages to the banks. You will have a botnet in about three nanoseconds.
His graphs don't have the same Y-axis, and are over multiple years in 1 graph. This seems a better comparison:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=31&q=json%2Cx...
XML in decline, but still a lot bigger than JSON.
I don't think drunkpotato is disagreeing with that at all. He's supporting someone that states that wealth disparity is not a good thing.
I'm not sure there's as much to learn from failure as various self-help business books would suggest. When you remove the specifics all startup advice is trite at best and dangerous at worst.
yeah they are racing on a Porsche Carrera GT, nice car :)
do you think this post is newly written and that blog is really his?
Haha. No, I didn't miss that bit. I had it pretty well drummed into me as a kid in good old catholic Ireland. I'm no theologian but I was told he died for our sins which was awfully nice of him. I'm sure everything was roses post-mortem.

I was merely bringing the thought experiment to its logical utilitarian conclusion and showing that in doing so it has some mythical/biblical/primordial resonances.
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If only we can figure out the same for the iPhone.
Don't create fake data all by yourself - it will have your hand obvious, rather pay people to create content how only they can do it. You can give them the brief instructions of course.
If you just focused on providing people with clear information about embassies and visa applications, that would be a HUGE help.

From my personal experience as an Indian with an Indian passport and lots of friends who don't have American or European passports, visas, even for holidays, are the biggest travelling pain. Suffice to say, I travel less because I hate applying for visas, not least because finding the correct information is really hard. If you took some of the pain out of that problem, you will get a lot of users.

I know it's not as sexy as making a social network for travellers who can check in to cool places around the world.

But, it's a real problem and will really help people.
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I think Japanese people prefer to use Japanese companies when possible, just like Americans prefer American products over made-in-China products. "Loyalty" aside, the user experience ends up being better, because the users and developers are the same people.
Huh? I never said it couldn't be I said it wasn't.

But again it's not simply a question about identification as in per the right username/password/license plate.

I can log in and pretend to be anyone, in fact I can have multiple different accounts and be multiple different people.

But when you add social proofing on top of it you have created a verification mechanism that is much stronger since it includes my very existence, my friends, what I do etc. Things that can't as easily be faked.
You definitely need some sort of a mobile app - people usually don't think about their travel much before they actually go. But once on the road they will be more inclined to check your info.
An additional meta thought: one key reason for the huge success of social networks is that they've accelerated the flow of information between people all around the world.

So, one heuristic for a good way forward is to look in places where information flow is still slow and broken. Embassies are a good example of that.
It was really easy to erase or damage files, completely destroy the data on a disk and, on an Apple II, cause misalignment of the Disk II disk by repeatedly crashing the head against the drive armature. On a PC with an CGA/MDA you could damage the monitor power supply by putting the CRTC in a mode incompatible with the video input. Legend says you could make smoke go out of an MDA monitor.

At that time, it was also much harder for viruses to propagate - they would have to infect files and disks. Also, most IIs were booted from the application floppy and were thus completely stateless: whatever the virus did in the last session would have no effect on the next one.
As a startup founder in the internet space i can relate to this very well. For a founder with a technical background like me its hard to sometimes get the thinking off of the details of implementation. I like to think and work on architecture, under-the-hood features, scalability etc, but in the end it wont matter if noone uses the product. Users dont see and dont care for any of that, they want to you improve what they deal with everyday. So you have to find a good balance between that to make your product better but still work on the overall technical structure to keep things smoothly.
Also marketing probably is much more important than the quality of your code or even app.
I would disagree here. The top 1% don't do most of the "work". They might own most of the stocks of big companies, or they might be our greatest "innovators", but they don't do most of the work. We have a TON of small business in the United States. You mean to tell me that those small business owners aren't doing a lot of work? They are certainly more than 1% of the population.

Of course success isn't and couldn't be uniformly distributed amongst the entire population. And I agree, those who are successful should be rewarded for their efforts. But I wouldn't go throwing your garbage man under the bus because he isn't in the top 1% of society. Take your own garbage to the land fill each week and see how useful he is. You can get off your high horse any time and come back to the realities of society. Money doesn't equal success. And by only looking at money, you short those people who are underpaid for the work they do to keep your cushy life so sweet.

By the way, I agree with your last statements as well.
Perhaps the point I was trying to make wasn't clear.

Certain enterprise customers will always want to work with what they know, (i.e. typically Windows XP and Microsoft Office currently.) So this will be the long tail that Microsoft will coast along, if/when consumers migrate their personal computing to other platforms. Granted, there are certain situations when using an older technology such as mainframes makes complete sense, and there is little benefit to risk a major system upgrade; but there are many other situations where not upgrading seems lunacy (e.g. in an era when people want to have much of their banking online, the old mainframes in the background struggle to cope with the demand.)

As an aside, I interned at a bank where one of the tasks I did was adding HTML tags to predefined paragraphs that were in plain English. I did this in Excel, manually, line by line, on a PC sporting Windows XP and a 15" monitor. This could have been done in seconds with a shell script if anyone there had a clue. This kind of ignorance is a godsend to Microsoft who will continue to sell software licences to clueless companies for the foreseeable future.
Hi Matt, that's really useful, thanks.

Glad you can see there might be a niche for this kind of product. I'll take your pricing guidelines into account, and I may well reduce the pro account to be more in line with the users' expectations.

Sharing/ease of use is exactly my selling point, and it's one which not many similar apps out there have.

Cheers
I think an excellent way to have multiple projects would to have a set of tabs above the task list just like a browser with a plus symbol on the end. That way a single url can manage them all and it would hopefully maintain it's brilliant simplicity and intuitive-ness.
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Well what would you say that an entrepreneur needs to keep in mind regardless of what the self-help books say?
Sounds slightly more like an argument against dumb education (and I couldn't agree more) rather than streaming.

Personally, I would have preferred to have been working between 13 and 18 - except for maths class, and possibly science and physics, technical drawing, French, art, could have skipped Irish, but would have replaced English with a more modern curriculum, ... okay... school was not as bad as I remember.
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I've been working as a web dev for a marketing firm for years and this has never occurred to me before. Damnit.

Even if the OP doesn't use this tip, I will. Thanks!
Will get this sorted, thanks.
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Thank you; I sure appreciate the insight. It's heartening to know that if you try to do the right thing and mind your own business (as long as you document) then you stand a reasonable chance of being safe (so the system's not completely broken).
I just relived the first good bit of Pokemon Red in my browser.

At nearly 100% of a core, but still.

Mad props.
Oh I will!
Sorry, but how on earth did this get on the first page of HN?

What is this supposed to show exactly? Google trends is not an accurate description of the popularity of these formats.
I've seen places where I can get services. I think it was Odesk.com and I think there are some others. But yes, getting disenfranchised with a project usually involves doing a lot of work yourself!
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It's worse than that. Asymco has this "modular"/"integrated" split, which they refer to in this post as well, though reversed from their usual position as you note, but they happily admit that Nokia and RIM are "integrated" but in trouble while downplaying HTC and Samsung's success (and Motorola's miraculous reversal) on the "modular" side. They leave these inconsistencies dangling as long as they can massage the data enough to conclude that Apple is great and so are the people who buy Apple products. It's blatantly pandering sophistry masquerading as overwrought analysis.
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For me the main raison holding back is that I don't like to register to new websites. I like for example Hacker News' Clickpass authentication, because it's easy to use and I don't have to remember another password. But on your site Facebook connect would be even better, because it opens a lot of possibilites.

Another thing is that I don't know how the blog looks like because I can't find a link to it. So a Tour or Help would be nice, or a link to active blogs from the main page.

Other ideas:

Make a contest for newly registered users for a prize of something cool, e.g. iPhone4. Also make a mobile optimized version of the site, or an iPhone app, where the users can find, comment, upload images based on GPS coordinates.
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What ends are good in consequentialism? De-ontological morals to one degree or another are necessary to avoid moral relativism. If you agree moral relativism is bad, you agree consequentialism is bad.
Capitalism, and the income inequality it causes, has proven itself time and again as the most efficient organizing principle to create wealth. You may not like that but I don't think there is any way around that fact.

If you want to go to a less efficient organizing principle you will have to accept that there will be less wealth. If history is any guide the people who will suffer the most from there being less wealth will be the ones at the bottom, not those at the top. Be careful what you wish for.
I love the site. Am already using it.

However, is it possible to make it real-time? E.g. I check a task, but to see it on the other window, I have to refresh it.
Deontological ethics are hierarchical. Greater goods take precedence over lesser goods. But, killing someone for a greater good doesn't making killing good, i.e. it isn't justified.
* I'm not exactly sure what I'm getting for clicking on "sign up." Is it only a travel blog platform or is there more?

Travel blog that scoops up recommendations to populate travel guides

* I don't care "what's happening right now" on some map. That is prime homepage real estate that is being wasted. Perhaps leave that for when I'm logged in on a "news feed" page; and then only show my friends (via Facebook or Twitter connections); also, you could show other site users in whatever town I'm now in (if I'm traveling now).

Brilliant ideas! I was already thinking of removing that section and was going to add search functions for the items on the left, but I like your suggestions a lot more!

* The Hot News and Travel Deals columns are competing for my attention. And I am repulsed from bothering to read them. It's the 50-50 column widths. And there's too many (10); try showing only the top 1 or 2 of each.

I was going to eliminate the Hot Deals section as it does get a lot of attention. I mainly threw it in there as a way to post deals via aff links and make money, but so far I haven't made a dime.

* You ask the user "are you a QT?" I don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something.

That was before I had any idea on call-to-actions and a poor attempt at viral. I am going to get all of these suggestions and redesign the home page.

Thank you!

On a side note, if you checked out the travel blog section, what would entice you to drop your blog and join this community?
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Well, you need to have population growth for that. It is not the case for many countries (e.g. Europe).
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It's both. A long-running, high-bandwidth stream will cause short-lived, low-bandwidth streams to be squeezed out, because the TCP congestion isn't being managed properly. The first stream will see relatively good speed but shonky latency, while the later streams will see bad speed as well, when they should share the bandwidth equally.
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I feel an iphone app may be too much time/money spent when I don't have the base of the site fully functioning or very usable. Resources are tight now, so I would want to focus on the usability of the main site vs iphone app.

Same things goes for the mobile version. I've had this conversation with many people and it always ends up in the chicken vs egg debate. Some people argue that having a mobile/smartphone add will increase user base, others agree to focus on the main site and have those as addons after I complete certain milestones

the header Travelers section has the blog info, but I will probably populate the homepage with them as suggested elsewhere
What about technical stuff? Also on the Kindle?
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You could (in fact, should) put the egress filter in the router.

Given that there isn't a practical solution for 99% of cases, this is worth considering.
I think what he is suggesting is making a new Internet. Long term this will have to be done at some point. We will have to create a peer-to-peer based net that is not connected (or at least doesn't rely on) the current one.
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I'm puzzled by #31, I can only interpret it as iterative development not working.

What would be the intended interpretation?
What do you mean by external representations?
When that money is used to fund something you love to do outside of work, it can be an extremely good motivator. Not everyone requires that their job be the most fulfilling aspect of their life. Plenty of people live for a hobby, a local sports team, travel, raising their children, etc.
Surely a sufficiently advanced AI would simply send a warning signal to the train driver to "hit the brakes quick". Next problem please.
I've never transferred my contact info over infra-red. I do however have an enormous pile of meishi (business cards). You are right that many more people in Japan use their phone provided email address rather than a service like google or yahoo. I've had that "your phone email address and your personal email address don't have to be the same" talk with many, many people.
As I understand it, it's caused by failures not happening when they should, so that TCP can't do its flow control properly.
IMAGE is a wrapper for Skippy, and I somehow thought it was just a bitmaped version of Vecto with convenience utils.

Now i see all three are adequate for my uses: experimenting with 2D collision detection.
Partly this is learning curve, and partly adapting and generalizing JSON (aka reinventing). Still, adaption will continue for some time, partly due to the rise and rise of JavaScript.

eg. JSON doesn't support non-tree references: cyclic references, and multiple references (more than one reference to the same object). The JavaScript/ECMAScript standard doesn't support it either, but Mozilla's version does, with "sharp variables". https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Sharp_variables_in_JavaScri...

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One of the biggest differences between mixi and Facebook is that on mixi the trend is to stay relatively anonymous, i.e. with a nickname that your friends would recognize but someone googling your name would miss. It's possible that this might have an effect on facebooks uptake in Japan.

Also, an easy way to link your mixi account would be an obvious way to get people to cross over.
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Thanks for the feedback.

Checking the tasks is currently just used for archiving & deleting tasks, and will eventually be used for downloading and forwarding tasks as well.

All changes should update in real-time (assuming you have separate sessions open), if it's the same session you probably won't see any changes. Can you confirm if this works?

Thanks
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This is the third time that this happens to me, in a period of two years.

This weekend I copied a Facebook application that it has been growing pretty fast since sunday (2000 users in 36 hours and counting).

The motivation of copying the application, was mainly to include something in portfolio, and learn some techs that I am interesting in, but also because most of my friends and relatives are non English speakers, so there are many of them will never use it if the application is not their native language.

The UI is not the same, and obviously the source code is completely mine, but the idea its the same.

I feel like I am kind of cheating, specially cheating to my self. What do you think? It is legit to copy other ideas to target different markets. Do you think is a good idea as business model to copy "successful" ideas to target other markets.
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So, you've a direct connect to the One?
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Actually, a typical browser session tends to be more resource-hungry (in both memory and processor) than a typical Emacs session these days.
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Fixed, a CTRL+F5 should get this working. Thanks.
I would add, even better is to start with the delivery channel. If you've got ways to reach a market which spends money, you're yet another step ahead.
Interesting. Can you elaborate what you mean by delivery channel?