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Boy, this is exactly what I have been thinking! Quora gets all the press (and it is a great service), but Stack Overflow/Exchange have been so much more helpful to me because of its specificity. Plus, Stack's game mechanics really work on me and encourage me to want to write good answers and help people.
> Imagine if this 70% didn’t exist or it was converted to regular paying customers!

Imagine whatever you want, but most of the people are probably using it because it's free. This is why the numbers touted by the anti-piracy industries are so ridiculous.
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One of the things I've seen people consistently screw up in rewrites is perf.

I was in the unfortunate seat more than a decade ago of having MY code up for rewriting. It worked just fine, but people argued that I was the only one who could work on it (not true, but it could have been cleaner, no doubt).

Anyways a small team dedicated six months to rewriting my server code. Six months later they scrapped the rewrite. It ran at something like 20% my sustained throughput. I used to joke that their code was, "copies all the way down". And sure my code made a lot of use inline asm and some nasty tricks, but it flew.

Would I write it the same way again, probably not. But when you're doing a rewrite people have something to compare you against.
That depends... do you already have a chainsaw or will we need to provide you with one?

These trees aren't going to lumberjack themselves!
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That's pretty clever actually! Is this a real product?

If so how does it compare for number of insertions versus 'regular' USB plugs?

Is this a large enough advantage to justify the additional costs?
Yes, I noticed lack of statistical significance. If the developer is reading this, I would seriously recommend adding statistical significance. It should be quite easy to implement. I had made on excel sheet for calculating statistical significance so you can use those formulas directly: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-test...

That said, I commend the team in bringing easy to use split testing solution for Wordpress!
Or you could use meaningful button labels:

<format> <cancel>

(or something like that)

It's both intuitive and simple. Universally every HIG[1] that exists advocates that. Personally, I'd make the button red as well.

[1] Human Interface Guidelines.

For example, here's relevant section in KDE's HIG: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Messages#Conf...

EDIT: To clarify I didn't suspected this to be a revelation to anyone. I just wanted to put it here, since it's a very relevant audience and I was just surprised nobody have mentioned it already.
One day I hope to see a company like this advertise for a technology ethicist. :-)

edit: okay, perhaps I should explain: not because I'm looking for a job (I'm happily employed!) but because it would suggest a desire to actually be proactive about social and ethical issues, which, sadly, so many companies are not (or deliberately avoid).
Any chance of Google opening more offices across Europe? Not everyone wants to emigrate for a job, no matter how sweet it is.
Free is the price, not the cost. It's easy to burn through $1000 in lost productivity - with a team of three it will take less than a day.
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That's a more irresponsible stance to take - witholding tools and knowledge because you fear people are ignorant is a sure fire way to keep those people ignorant.

Part of our goal with this plugin is to educate users about these things - look for much more of that coming in the future.
I've often backed out of installing an OAuth app because of the overwhelming amount of info it says it wants read/write access to. I'd like to be able to choose what to give the app and I'd be willing to accept less functionality in some cases if necessary. Giving an app all your data could become the equivalent of a 'Pro' account.
Why. Why are we doing this? Why do people go and write this stuff when there is already the web. That doesn’t require an app store. It can use the same code as the actual website (imagine that).

Why are we running so fast in the wrong direction?
Everyone gets the same directions to show up somewhere at the same time => flash mob under one man's control?
Perfect, that will make it into the next release.
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What is interesting is how entrepreneurial and "start-upy" this post is. He is basically trying to appeal to all the engineering candidates who would be qualified to work for Google and not any of the other opportunities that are available to them.

Is this part of the change in leadership-think at Google with Larry taking the reins? I know that Wall Street had a huge allergic reaction to the numbers Google had been posting in r&d/hiring/talent. And I think Google backed off for a while on all that to their detriment. Now with new leadership perhaps we will see a renewed vigor to solidify talent.

Talent, by definition, is scarce. Time will tell.
A lot of them really don't seem to be things you want to be doing, so wouldn't it be more of a shameful thing than something you would brag about? I know achievements do a similar thing, but that's for a game type scenario, while this is actual productivity. Of course maybe I'm just taking this too seriously.
I use openid not to have a single signon to 37signals apps. I use to to have a single signon period. Not just 37signals but a ton of other apps use it as well (and I wish all of them did).

Every time I see a web app supporting openid Im glad that I don't have to invent yet another user/password combo. again.

As to failing openid providers I have a good suggestion - use OpenId delegation to have a single openid that you can reroute to any openid provider you want. all it takes is a domain name and a very small file hosted on S3 (for example). Then you can switch providers at will.
I'm even more confused now.

Your tagline is "Create Landing Pages, collect Beta Signups and receive great Feedback so you can start your next venture with confidence."

Why do you think name, homepage design, A/B testing are not part of idea validation? If you are not A/B testing your landing pages then you may not be evaluating your idea properly.

You need to show a clear example of how one will use your app and how it is better than what people are already doing.
"If a one-person company is going to build a product, it can’t have any of those huge time-sink features."

"I built Instapaper...with a custom high-performance MVC framework"

I'm confused: how does he square 'use mature tools that are widely used, and 'as a one-person shop, only build one or two features of moderate complexity' with 'write your own custom web framework and ORM'?
Yes, that's the only right way to do it. But unfortunately even the largest companies still get this sort of thing wrong with alarming regularity.

Another pet peeve of mine is error messages that list multiple possible causes when clearly the underlying software must know exactly which one was the 'real' cause. So then you have to go and investigate a bunch of stuff just on the off chance that that was what caused the issue.
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The problem is lots of calls in the Android API have side-effects or can be used for a variety of reasons. Anytime you have ads for instance, you need internet access. If the app can be moved to the SD card, you need write access to that, and so on and so forth. They're little things but require opening up lots of possibilities.
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Maybe you can't comment/it isn't appropriate to comment slewis but my experience is that Googlers who leave with just their regular option grant don't really walk away with anything spectacular in terms of wealth from the stock. Also factor in that salary tends to market-rate and rarely more.

However, it is known for engineers working on successful teams and products to obtain additional grants that can lead to them leaving Google with several $million worth of stock.

I'm not sure if slewis's 'absolutely' answer is based on something like the latter - in which case you have to make sure you are working on high-value projects that are going somewhere.
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That doesn't excuse it. You can make the same argument about Microsoft, who apparently thought it would be more profitable to engage in illegal monopolistic practices and then fight the ensuing legal battles than to operate legally.

Now I concede that I may not understand defensive patents very well, but if any company is able to document an "invention" in order to demonstrate prior art and drive away patent trolls it would be Google. And they could set a nice precedent by taking exactly that tack.

Just because you are able to do something doesn't mean that you should do it. And when you do bad things just because you are able, you are evil.

I'm hoping someone sheds some light on more than meets the eye here.
Exactly as well as OpenID, only it's a much better understood problem and avoids a ton of confusion?
(arguably offtopic) What made you choose SendGrid over competing services like AuthSMTP?
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"Don't build something nobody wants."

vs.

"Build something people want"
The quora item looks like a leak to me, it confirms that a userid is valid before the credentials have been entered.
Here's the blog post explaining the impetus for it: http://alphalist.posterous.com/introducing-alphalist

This was hacked together as part of University of Michigan's Startup Weekend this past weekend (1/21 - 1/23). I'm really proud of the high quality of alpha users we already have on the platform. If you don't have a startup idea you want to get feedback on, HNers would be ideal alpha users as well!
Are you trying to say it is better to have A/B testing without statistical significant as compared no A/B testing at all?

I'd disagree with you completely and since you are taking this stance, I am actually worried now about recommending the plugin. Not caring about statistical significance is equivalent to taking decisions at random. You may better flip a coin, why bother A/B testing? You are letting your users take decisions not knowing if those are real or just random.
I think we should do some A/B testing on this for efficacy.
I speak for all developers, VBA is an abomination.

At least, I speak for all developers that have used it.
Very nice. My favourite of the apps so far and a first use makes me think I'll keep this for more than a day (unlike many of the others).

Particularly: the positioning of the voting buttons and the simple main screen that is easy to intuit.

I was actually unlikely to grab my phone and try this but the huge QR code at the top of your page made it too easy to miss. A nice little touch that I wish every app maker would use.
That's what he's attempting, and he convinced one skeptic that it might work.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083774
http://www.curated.by/splaice/zed-shaw--dan-kaminsky-talk-ab...
One reason is that if you load the web page, you have to download the UI every single page load. With an app, the downloaded data should be quite a bit more stripped down... but to be honest I couldn't say how the app gets its data.
It might be scraping downloaded pages. In that case, I'd tend to agree with you about an HN app as it doesn't contain anything that requires a fluid interface.
Correct - that doesn't disagree with my point. The technical details of the look of the font are why it looks like a comics font.
It is a custom font based on his own handwriting.

http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/larry-go...

If you're looking for comic book fonts, Blambot has some nice ones, used throughout the industry.
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Not really. This is partly a reaction piece to what I posted yesterday, but it is not "hate" or "envy" to analyze a company's product, its technical basis (or lack thereof), and discuss it logically. Qwiki has no defensible business model, no compelling technology, yet gets massively funded anyway. We can all learn from exploring this.
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OAuth has some advantages over storing passwords, firstly you're not giving your password away. Password reuse is very common, if you give one site your Facebook password, they probably have your email password.

It also easier to revoke access to just on app, previously you had to change your password and then update all the other apps
No. Any well written web page can cache itself for offline use, and use AJAX to load all data after the first page. This is how iUI works, and therefore most iPhone-specific web apps.
I am absolutely not suggesting you withhold tools and knowledge, but that you should give them more tools tools that fully inform them. When you show "Improvement: 25%" after say, 20 page views - that is simply inaccurate.
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The web still sucks for phones. The formatting is better in apps and it runs faster than the browser. I don't have to double tap text to bring it to human readable size or deal with lag when scrolling. Until phone browsers and/or web sites catch up, apps such as this provide a lot of relief.
Considering the cuts are coming from the Marketing team (at least according to the article) I can't feel any sort of sympathy.
Since you are focused mainly on video you could check Impossible Software , their demo in DLD 2011 was quite impressive . http://www.dld-conference.com/articles/article/dld11-live_ai...
Do we really want moderators killing +68 points in 1 hour posts?
I understand the point of a moderator is to control what crowd sourcing fails to do; but is killing something after it's been up for an hour and generated 20+ comments really appropriate?

I like HN the way it is; I am willing to give up some democracy in this case for higher content, even if that means it is some times my post that gets killed.

However, I really think killing this post was innappropriate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2139617
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It was really confusing to understand what I was looking at until I read the blog post. I'd recommend screenshots and/or a "how-it-works" diagram explaining what you do. I'm hesitant to "sign up" without knowing what I'm getting into. I like the concept though.
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Oh, I fully agree that it's evil, it's just that the whole bloody industry pretty much engages in this.

And that isn't an excuse by any stretch of the imagination, it's just that if they didn't they'd be buried in patent lawsuits and they'd have nothing to strike back with except for endless litigation. Typically the big guys cross license and everybody pretends it's fine. Business as usual, sad as it is.

The losers are the smaller innovators.
>In theory that's all very nice, in practice the power available for acceleration decreases as the cube of the distance.

This is why any solar sail intended to move very quickly will open up somewhere closer to Mercury.
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I'm a friend of Ed's, and his approach to memory & perception have made a hilarious difference to my mental world.

But he hasn't yet come up with a way to stop his keys & wallet from falling out of his pockets on the train.
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That is strange. I worked on the NPAC (Number Portability Administration Center) software. I also worked on WLNP. There isn't a technical reason why this won't work. Full number portability is supported in the US and Canada. Wireless porting simplified the process and eased the requirements to port numbers. My best guess is that, they would be able to port land lines in the not too distant future, once they meet the requirements for land line porting.
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Keep in mind that this is just step one of many we'd like to take with this plugin. It's not that we don't care about statistical significance - it just didn't make it into this version, so we'll work to get that in there soon.

We will also be adding more in the FAQ tab that talks about these sorts of issues where users could possibly make decisions too soon instead of letting the tests gather more data.
While the idea sounds fantastic - the one major hesitation I have is how difficult will it be to get customer support from Google? I've been waiting for this feature for quite sometime, but now I'm seriously reconsidering. Despite the gripes anyone might have with their existing wireless carrier's customer service.. you can get someone on the other end of phone 100% of the time to help you resolve problems. Let's face it, your mobile number these days is probably significantly more involved in your day to day life than your landline (if you even still have one of those). I think twice before placing my mobile number on any provider.
Lets just hope it doesn't fall over like that other one.

That said, it does remind me an awful lot of Total Annihilation when you get about fifty construction vehicles to make things damn near instantly.
Oh, yeah. Tie it to email addresses; let any domain publish an SRV record pointing to its ID server. Then all you have to know is your email address, not your OpenID URL.
Stack Overflow poll about this very subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689/recommended-fonts-fo...

I've been using Inconsolata recently and so far so good.
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Actually Preview lets you do a lot of the things you'd want to do with an image editor and -- unlike MS Paint -- what it does, it does very well.

It's a much better PDF and image editor than, for example, TextEdit is a text editor.
I agree that we can learn from this, but then again Twitter doesn't really have a defensible business model, yet it is a wonderful product. I do find the technology to be potentially compelling, as there are many audio-favoring learners in the world who would much prefer a visual representation. With work, it could become something more than a picture aggregator and Wikipedia regurgitator.
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I think IE8 did something like this, w.r.t content not served over https during an https session. It was a yes/no box worded like "Do you want to view the content only served over https?" assuming the users would generally click "yes" thinking it was the more permissive option.
I've been chasing internships and jobs at Google on and off for the past two years or so. I'm still in college, and I met a recruiter for SREs at a conference. After talking to her on the phone, I decided it wasn't worth the stress, and called off any further interviews. I suck at interviewing (I get nervous pretty easily), so I've tried to do various things on the side where the pressure isn't so high (competitions, side projects, etc.) but companies still don't seem to care. So I think I'd be happiest working for myself, on something that I'm passionate about :)
I'm not so sure about that. Its pretty hard to predict the past too.

Anyone doing serious research into this, will first partition the past data into training and test sets. (And sometimes other validation sets).

So the idea would be to fit a model on one set of past data (the 'training' set), check it works, and then, in the final evaluation, run it on the never seen before, never used, never thought about, 'test' data.

If you have a model trained on 2009, and it also does a great job the first time you run it on the Q1 2010 data that you've never looked at before, I'm now interested, even though every data point is in the past.

I imagine they had to do something like this to pass review.
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There are several reasons one may decide to use jekyll, but I think speed is the least important one. First, this is a solution for small websites and blogs. I don't see how a large scale website would be generated from static pages, anyway. Second, there are simple methods to cache wordpress content without resorting to static pages.
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I was interested but as you note registration is required and one doesn't even get an explanation or a screenshot without signing up.

Also, supermarkets move all their stuff around every few months in order purposefully to disorientate shoppers. I'm surprised that any want to sign up and would be inclined to think that the data is likely to be wrong quite a lot.
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. When I say it overwhelms the user, I meant that in a positive way. People go on Facebook because it's always updating, it's always giving new information to users. I didn't mean to paint a picture of people ripping their hair out because of the updating stream.

I was merely pointing out that the idea of something that is constantly updating is not a good model for education, because students want to feel like they've completed the day's work rather than feeling like they need to go back constantly to finish.
Hello there,

I would have to agree with symmet, you need both. This way if a user doesn't have a recent version of Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera you can have jQuery to fall back on.

-You can use browser detection to conditionally enable jQuery scripts on page load. You can use Javascript/jQuery or a server-side script to detect exactly which browser is loading the page.

-You can also check out http://www.modernizr.com/. It adds classes to the html element which allow you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

Let me know if you need any help with that,

Good luck!

Karl
There was a lot of discussion about that one. That's also one of the purposes of my blog, to stimulate dialogue around these kind of details.

In this case, some answers on the topic can be found here I think: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/415/decode-email-address-...