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Thank you for your questions. Here are my answers:

1)-getharvest.com
-mint.com
-box.net
-dropbox.com
-basecamphq.com
-xero.com

As you may have noticed, these are all web application using one major color to make things a little more appealing. They all use pixel perfect attention to detail. From a first impression perspective, a solid design really counts for most users.

2)Google Calendar integration, Google Apps addon, Custom branding(which is on your todo list), online payment processing.

3)I meant exporting the appointments into a Google Calendar. Like you have mentioned, you can use the API to add the appointments into the calendar. Maybe even add an alert.

4)Custom fields would be a great idea. Very useful.

5)I agree, but there's no harm in having a look. Try www.domai.nr. It will abbreviate or remove vowels to make your url shorter. It will also show you different TLD domains you could use.

6)Great idea. If you want, you can add a small light colored link below the main box that links back to reservv.com.

7)Even better. That way you won't have to deal with any refunds. Good idea.

If you have any more questions or you would like my opinion, let me know. Good luck with your application!

Karl
What Apple can learn from Walt Disney
Because Iwork mainly in Python, I just checked out the offerings you mentioned for Python that aren't GAE. Both Djangy and Djangozoom are in private beta still, so I can't imagine they're that far along. Eldarion doesn't look self serve, although maybe that's just their site.

It seems likely that, not only can Amazon compete, but could probably dominate. Heroku is a big outlier and really the first to demonstrate that the need/power of a PaaS. It doesn't look like there's anything nearly as mature for Python. Don't know about other languages/frameworks, but if it's like Python, Amazon has a big opportunity here.
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Have you heard back from Amazon? We've got a similar incident going on, which I reported last Friday (3 business days ago), but haven't yet seen any acknowledgment from them.
Ah, just like the old days where companies were happy to virtually pay customers to make a purchase.

Then again, cost per acquisition via ads is inching up to $10 anyway. That, and with that company they're always in the shadow of having a $200+ valuation per user, it sorta kinda makes sense.

But if you're looking for a "the bubble is back" indicator, this is as good as any.
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I just noticed the hilarious(ly atrocious) redundancy this causes: Go to the [W3C HTML5 logo thread](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115551) and see how many times the "Autobot" joke is made.

I've counted at least four instances. (I'm even a part of one of the branches, as oblivious as I was to the new system and similar discussions.)

I wonder if this comment will show above or below the fold. Flip a coin, I guess.
I obviously* like Backbone.js+jQuery, although colleagues are using Sproutcore on a "Rich Internet Application." I'm a big fan of applications that use the web model, so now that Backbone.js has added Controllers and History for route support, I give it five out of five stars.

* http://github.com/unspace/faux
oh yay, more dishonest attempts at marketing sign me up! -vomit-
Tried on v0.3.5 - works fine after I added a "partials" parameter to boil config on maptail.js line 39.

Otherwise boil.js fails to normalize the path because it's passing an undefined value and path.normalize tries to access "charAt" function of the string.
I understand this from a standpoint of just general trust, but I don't see it as a problem from technological trust. Had someone else done this, and you came about it, you would probably never go to that site again. The trust layers in the SemWeb stack are just like HTTPS, but anything beyond that is a valid philosophical argument outlined by Cory Doctorow's Metacrap piece. Arguably this is also the open world vs. closed world problem, too, and the concept of authority is purely a technical one.
Ask HN: Will Google remain a "search company" for a long time?
I think Google wont remain a search company for a long time. It'll move from search to Cloud OS and Services. Facebook/Twitter will be the search.
I've been using backbone exclusively for my project and I'm not sure anymore if I made the right choice.

The "best" thing about backbone is that it forces you to smartly separate your code logic. However, I don't agree with everyone about how lightweight it is. I find myself more and more simply writing the logic/view in different files without using backbone at all. (I do use a lot of underscore thought).

The problem is that, for really simple models/view, backbone is way too verbose. And for complicated use, you need to hack backbone hard to make it do what you want. So, in my opinion (and experience with backbone), it really shines for medium use.

I wish there was a little library built on top of backbone that make it easier for small/complicated use.

I'll give you an example of what I mean: If you have a models that contains other models. At first, I thought that would be builtin, but it is not. So, if you want to do that the backbone way, you really need to hack it so change in inner models propagate to outside models. This behaviour is the kind of thing that a little library could do "for free" on top of backbone.

On a last note, I need to say that I don't like that much the backbone documentation. Don't get me wrong, each function is well explained and after reading all of it you get a good grasp of what backbone can do for you. The problem is that you need to read all of it. I much prefere a small tutorial to get you started and help you understand the philosophy of backbone with a high level of models, collections and controllers. And only then, after I started using it, I would read in depth the function I need.

It's a little bit like if you wanted to learn python by reading all function in the standard. It takes a lot of time and you might not totally get what python is. It's better to follow a simple tutorial which explain the big lines of python, and then, dig deeper in the function you really want.

So, I'm not saying backbone is bad.. in fact, it's probably the best library out there for simple MVC use. I have huge respect for jashkenas and the job is has done.
I did't know about it, but edited the title to correct it. It is still remarkable since OneNote is part of MS Office, maybe there is more to come?
The article predates Learn Python the Hard Way.
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May be thats why they are trying to hide what they do
Right now, I'm just using qunit + sinon.js. I'm not super happy with it (I'd really like to get to the point where all my development is done via. writing unit tests), but so far it works. Honestly, one of the big advantages of backbone is that because of the structure it forces on your code, unit testing is easier.

Everything ends up being in a small testable chunk that you can stub out the interfaces for and test (see sinon.js, can't say enough good stuff about that). I've also got a small Backbone.sync implementation that just loads test fixtures and returns data from that, allowing me to have a db to test against that's fake and synchronous. With couchdb, all I have to do is take a DB dump of what I want to test, put it into a file in my test directory and I've got instant fixtures.
Sweet thanx guys!
what'd i miss? i didn't see it before it was deleted :(

(also i just noticed i misspelled Amy Chua's name 3 times)
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Wattvision (YC W09): On Sustainable Thinking
Thank you, we have only raised funding from Georgia Tech's incubator so we are seed stage.

I am a python hacker and since our part time marketing guy just left I have the temporary privilege of claiming that every person at RideCell is a python hacker.

We are applying python to a fairly non-traditional domain of automating transportation. We use Django and, amongst other things, a highly customized version, of munkres[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/munkres/1.0.5.2] to find the best vehicle to service a request based on the location of the vehicle and the requester. We have a handful of customers but they include U.C. Berkeley, University of Alabama, Duke and Georgia Tech.
That's a different issue than what is described in the article. What AT&T seems to be asking for is a "freedom from embarrassment", rather than a protection of trade secrets.
That's pretty much exactly what Scalzi's post wasn't.
If you have a models that contains other models. At first, I thought that would be builtin, but it is not. So, if you want to do that the backbone way, you really need to hack it so change in inner models propagate to outside models.

Can you expound on this requirement, perhaps give an example? I'm very interested in what you want to accomplish.
Don't worry, by the time you'll be so big that you scale out of RDS, you'll be able to build your own datastore.
I don't really see Disney as the shining example of successfully replacing a creative genius. Merchandising and re-releasing library content is just standard business school thinking. In fact, the only way Disney has stayed on top of the creative heap is by buying Pixar from, oh yea, Steve Jobs. Unless Apple can do a better job of replacing Steve (and design by committee is NOT the answer) Apple could be in big trouble after his departure.

Anniversary edition iPod classic anyone?
The browsers that do support it run on the platform by the same vendor. IE9 runs only on Vista/7, where MS provides H.264 decoder. Safari runs only with Quicktime, where Apple provides H.264 decoder. So although the browsers do not come with decoders, they use their vendor's decoder and nothing else.

On the other hand, if Mozilla/Opera/Chrome used third party decoder, that would be support nightmare ("It works on my computer, but not on friend's! Please fix it!").
ISO leads something to be desired: witness the glacial pace of C++0x (now C++1x). I'd prefer some standardization of VP8 - don't get me wrong - but going through ISO would likely be a mistake.
I hadn't seen that previous thread; no, this a complete different set of actors.

Rate limiting is difficult, because our legitimate users are frequently Fortune 50 companies coming through a proxy. It's hard to differentiate that heuristically. Based on the fingerprints we've observed, we might be able to hard-code something, but if the bad guys change the factors we've picked out, it would become whack-a-mole again. Also, at this level, the fact that we've got multiple servers in a farm works against recognition.

The kind of crawling they're doing isn't going to be helped by caching. They're looking for product pricing, and we have customized pricing for every customer (Fortune 500 customers want their own specific contracts), so we wouldn't be getting any cache hits.
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Gruber stays in my RSS feed because he can be incredibly insightful at times, but when he decides to go off on one of these insane lines of thought, he really goes for it.

The last one I remember was when he spent weeks snarking about how Google was somehow being dishonest about not using private APIs in Android. The reality was Gruber hadn't spent 5 minutes looking at the intro to the Android SDK document, and fundamentally misunderstood how Android is architected. What really made it ridiculous is that he kept on with it after having been corrected on the matter, with one of those corrections coming from no less than Tim Bray.

Basically, Gruber is great when he sticks to Apple analysis; when he strays into discussing the competition he tends to enthusiastically dig himself a hole.

EDIT:

Here's that response from Tim Bray I was referring to:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/05/06/Private-AP...

Gruber was conflating internal datastores with private APIs. The official Android SMS app uses public APIs and then stores messages in its own internal datastore. Bray was cautioning app developers that they shouldn't access that store because the SMS app is not part of the core framework, can be replaced by other applications, and is not guaranteed to be there on all devices as a result.

Gruber managed to turn that into constant snarking about Google lying about only using public APIs.
Could you expand on why you feel like building a UI in JS is a regression? Is this a popular sentiment? I really prefer working on layouts without manipulating markup, so I'm curious to why others feel different.
Thanks!
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I'm more on the mechanical side of CAE and would kill for a professional FEA package for the Mac (eg. Ansys, MSC, Abaqus et al).
The sequel of 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source.

http://paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquer...
To head face-first into the storm when everyone is telling you to stay indoors.
> A Microsoft exec once described the GPL as "viral' [1] and it's a fair point.

It's not. Plain old copyright is viral. A derived work's copying can only be done with permission of original and deriving author. If you use a commercial library, the license you paid for is that permission. If someone then creates a new work from yours, permission is needed from all three authors unless the original library came with those particular redistribution rights.
5 Outlandish Things Apple's Tim Cook Said Yesterday
And by quite a while, in fact!

Disappointing, nonetheless. Ah, well... Back to Land of Lisp!
We're working on that, but we were caught a bit by surprise here. It will be available shortly. We're also working on google not demanding access to your contacts upon login or registration (although we don't import any contacts automatically -- only on explicit user interaction).
Er, I can answer all of them.

Looks like spam to me. If it's not, perhaps you'd like to share the technology you used to build the site, the problems you've had and how you've solved them, how you're trying to get customers, your intended model for making money, and your growth so far.

Or are these questions about your enterprise that you can't answer?
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I know the goal is to run lean and all, but there are these principles called "cost of doing business" and "not chiseling your customers to the point they feel cheated". The problem is they're hard to quantify, so businesses with more spreadsheets than soul are doomed to go down this road.

I'm a software developer and I've built a Linux kernel my share of times. I don't know anything about Android though. But it seems to me we're talking about porting a kernel and some device drivers that you already have working to a new version.

If a new version of Android such a big deal to you then maybe you shouldn't be in the smart phone business? Just sayin.

Like I said, I don't know Android, so someone could 'spain it to me.
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guts desire and passion, wow how insightful.
Interesting that it didn't mention Hudson undergoing a community-driven fork due to Oracle's heavy-handed meddling:

http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/hudsons-future
Not really, just checked in FF and Chrome, it runs nicely. But there are bugs. Hard refresh or try another browser.
I want full-page photo ads to die.
This issue will be addressed shortly with a more verbose landing page.
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Ask HN: Topic Ranking Algorithms (a-la hackernews)
I'm working on a ranking algorithm to weight posts on a particular page (a-la hackernews or facebook top news). i'd like to weight a post on the user's "karma" and the number of up-votes the post receives over time. does anyone have any insight on how to accurately go about handling something like this?
> it would be really easy for Apple to include webm support

And Matroska support. Building container parsers that are resilient to fuzzing attacks is non-trivial. Can I assume you'd like trick play (ffw, rew, scrub), too?
This observation hit me like a two-by-four:

"The Immigration Act of 1965... created preference categories for science, math and engineering-trained immigrants to come over. [Asian countries] were producing a surplus of college-educated adults but lacked a sufficiently developed domestic economy to adequately absorb them. The 1965 Immigration Act, in trying to bolster America's own domestic needs, inadvertently helped absorb that surplus [and] influenced the American perception that Asians were somehow naturally gifted in math and science because there was a disproportionate number of immigrants coming from Asia with those skills."
I would love to be in a position when I had to learn Lisp for my job. I struggle to learn it because I never find a good use case for it at work or in fun projects.
Good post, It is true that most of the influential people on twitter either have some software tweeting for them, or are paying someone to sit down all day and do it. The later is obviously much less cost effective. But I think you hit a good point that tweeting often is not enough. It's a the kind of spray gun attack we have come to frown upon by email marketers. Tweeting something important to your followers and keeping it simple, is far more effective than just tweeting. It only becomes really powerful when you combine the two.
Shouldn't text be judged on its own merits, rather than who the author is?

And who is the author? I have no idea. But I do know from reading the article that he sounds bitter/jealous and a little bit clueless.
The content is all in h.264 because it works in 99.9999% of places. You can make every browser support webM tomorrow and that still wouldn't be a compelling reason for publishers to add WebM in favour of the status quo.

The only thing that could achieve such a thing would be a device with iOS levels of popularity that a) doesn't support h.264 b) doesn't support Flash. Who is going to make such a device? A: Nobody, because it won't support any web video at all apart from maybe YouTube.

You can grouse about open principles all you want, but the big video producers don't care; they will not be a factor. Audience demand is the only thing that matters, and they won't demand WebM when h.264 is already working "fine".
i would have signed up, but then you asked for access to my google contacts. no thanks.
Will IBM's meta-patent fix a broken system?
okay, suppose your son is like most smart teenagers: he loves hanging out with his friends on social networks and talking on the phone, video games, and talking with other smart people who share his interests. he hates going to the doctor and the dentist and thinks that most lawyers don't add a lot to society. he likes all his classes: math, science, english. what would you recommend to him?

> it starts to be very difficult to hold the position that women are somehow losing out by choosing professions over grad programs in CS/Eng.

but that's not what this article was about. we're talking choices at 16 years old, long before people have chosen a specialty.
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http://arclanguage.org/ contains the source code for HN, less some of the secret bits (and bytes).
Fascinating look at the abandoned remains of the Soviet Space program
I think backbone.js would have a much greater draw if there were re-usable widgets (views/apps/collections).

I would beg to differ. The power of backbone.js comes from being agnostic towards widget implementations. People are adapting it to work with all sorts of widgets. There are scores of widgets in jquery ecosystem. Why limit the backbone MVC goodness to only a few widgets ?
This can be seen pretty easily on Linux builds of Chrome/Chromium where it links to libflashplayer.so. In fact, when Flash crashes on Linux, Chrome pops up with an infobar telling you that libflashplayer.so has crashed. :)
Exactly, which for many apps will be quite a while or will never happen.
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I've thought a lot about this subject. I have come to conclusion that asian parents hating comes from internalized self-hatred of being yellow and yet at the same, being unable to express one's Asian values in a Western society.

Almost everything against the Asian parents are against how their values are different from typical "American" parents: strict vs. lenient, off-putting vs. dotting. "I have to sit at home doing SAT practice sets and violin lessons while other kids are going to Chemical Romance concerts." A lot of anger comes from if my parents didn't prevent me from doing X (electric guitar) or forced me to do Y (volin), I could have been Z (football quarterback/rockstar/kissing the prom queen). These reasons may be true, but it's irresponsible to put all your shortcomings on your parents and it's dangerous because I know people who are in their late 20's, 30's long after they have moved out their parents house still playing the blame game.

On the other hand, American culture is so different than Asian culture and no matter how Americanized you get, you still have some Asian influences. For instance, when I'm out with my Asian friends, we interact like we are kindergarten teachers, always very attentive to others' egos and emotions whereas with my American friends, we interact like we are in prison, joking and bustin' each other balls and never showing vulnerabilities. Sometimes I get frustrated at the "games" you have to play chasing American chicks or "bromance," where you have to put a "confidence" facade instead of expressing yourself as is.

But I have come to accept Asian parents for what they are. I'm grateful for what mine has taught me and not grateful for their old ingrained concepts that runs counterproductive to living in a Western society. But one thing is constant always however, you can't teach old dogs new tricks. I could bang my head against the wall to try to explain to my parents American values and they won't understand (because maybe I myself and really anyone else don't even comprehend what American values are). But it's more practical and beneficial for me to accept responsibility for my own issues and work on them myself.
Lead developer implies a lot more work. I'm sure they'd be happy to get a lead developer, but at minimum they need someone to just let the patches flow, dig through bug reports, and put out releases at the right time.
Some of the personalities who appear in that thread are mentioned in this list of "Mad people of comp.lang.lisp":

http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html
Google switches youtube to WebM and people will want WebM in their browser, they may even be prepared to switch to chrome if it's the only thing that can view WebM easily.

When Google decides to take the internet TV business away from people like Netflix - remember they are an advertising company - they want their own codec to avoid any arguments.
A post that contains comments. Say you have:

{ id: 3, text: 'test', comments: [{ cid:4, bleh:5}, {c id:6, bleh:4}] }

You give that to a model. It won't automatically create a collection with comments.

The idea behind backbone is that I could insert a new comment in the page by simply .add() something to the comments collection. Automatically, that would trigger a add/change event so that my view could update itself. However, it was really quite complicated to obtain that behavior.

I know it's a simple example but the more I used backbone, the more "simple" things like that happened where I had to dig into things I shouldn't have to.

I feel that simple cases should be simple while I would understand that complicated case might be more complicated. However, with backbone.js, I really feel that simple cases aren't that simple.
thanks - i thought this was out there - i'll check it out.