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The brain sucks at keeping a todo list. GTD means committing it to paper. When memorized list items start to dissipate, stress and insecurity increases. You remember that you had to do something, but you forgot what that something was. You can't trust the brain to keep a simple todo list, yet the OP tells us to do just that.

Though if you do want to train your brain to memorize objects, I'd try to master the Memory Palace technique. The lazy could even visualize writing down todo items on a simple piece of paper.
Not at all. "Charity is not for the sake of others."
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I'm nearing completion of a usable version of my site. It is not SaaS or even selling anything.. for the most part it is a consumer site like stumble upon. I've been wondering whether I should include live chat to get feedback or answer any questions any potential visitors may have.
A task list should enhance your productivity by offloading bookkeeping. That's it. If you need people to yell at you (as the OP says) to determine priority, you are probably working in a painful and interrupt-driven way.

Here's my method (for writing software):

1) Blank sheet of paper (8am).
2) Figure out one thing to do, and write it down on just one line.
3) Finish that thing.
4) Check that item off, and write down the next task *before you put down your pen*.
5) Goto 3.

This is how I stay focused without trying to forecast too far into the future.
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It's like that in en-US too. I also read it as "twat spire" :)
It is notable that this idea is the exact opposite of GTD - in GTD you write everything down to eliminate stress. Here, you use your stress to help yourself prioritize.
Your site rocks. This is the first time I actually used the Facebook "Like" button to share something I saw.

Here are some ideas to improve engagement on the gallery:

- Comments section under each photo

- Page numbers on top of the page, not just on the bottom

- "See more:" text next to the navigation on the bottom

Good luck!
This is a much better lecture on this topic. Raundy Pausch was an awesome speaker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0
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This wasn't common knowledge? Google has been returning results from Twitter and forums within seconds of the content being posted for a long time now. Their "realtime" search is exactly this. If Twitter lets people buy access to the "firehouse" or what not, it stands to reason that Google would be the first in line for such access.
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Beef TACO (Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out) already does this for Firefox, and the opt-out cookies are persistent through cookie deletion.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/beef-taco-tar...
There's a difference between average and high-end:

Washington D.C. Avg Software Engineer salary: 102k
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Software-Engineer-l-Washingto...

Bay Area Avg Software Engineer salary: 113k
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Software-Engineer-Bay-Area-l-...

Except none of my friends in the bay area make that little. In fact, few of my friends in their late 20s are making under $200k a year in terms of what they write on their tax returns (total compensation package).

Your experience and the "average" typically are not comparable.
Yes, I was surprised this wasn't exactly what they wanted. I would have been delighted with the kind of outcome.

I think he also made a deft mind flip, turning it into an example for his own talk. I'd have thought the entire thing pre-staged, if I'd been in the audience, it's so brilliantly full circle.

I guess it's a good example of human behavior in general: If someone doesn't play how we want them, as "Owner" of an event or product or game, we get pissy. And then, from outside, it just looks sad. Of course the author could simply be an unreliable narrator.
The irony; no support for loading music from Linux.
I may just consider this. FreeBSD is my favorite server operating system.
Let me try again. Suppose I decide to rent out my house. The price I can get for it depends on how much people like it compared to other houses that are available. How is the amount of rent that I can get being gamed upward, in a way that it isn't if, for example, I decide to sell my car? (Unless you believe that used car prices are also inflated across the board.)
> This is objectively untrue for any sensible definition of "most": 67.4% of inhabited housing units in the US are inhabited by the owner.

Are you sure that 67.4% of inhabited housing units in the US are actually inhabited by the owner? If I take out a 30 year loan on a house and then move in, the bank still owns that property. I would expect the number to be significantly lower than 67.4% when you factor in rentals + people living in homes with refinancing or otherwise not-fully-paid-off mortgages. But I don't actually know what the number is or where to find it.
Why don't you guys use performable or unbounce to test demand before building the product?

Do some customer development, see if there's a real need, and see if/what people are willing to pay for what you build.

It's really be a waste of time and resources if your idea isn't something worth building.
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Hi HN,
I have a friend who is starting to blog and who blogs from many different blogging engines. Keeping track of passwords/email/accounts/etc. is turning into the usual headache.

My question: do any of you know of a good "aggregator" that they could log into? I.e. log into one place and see all the different blogs that they work on across twitter/wordpress/blogspot and so on.

Anybody? YC idea? :)
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Saying they have nothing to do with each other is entirely disingenuous. Blogs want comments to be tied to the commenter's identity. Facebook is by far the largest identity provider on the web. Thus, blogs tie comments to Facebook. While some may not like it, it makes an abundant amount of sense.
I'm often very surprised by the amount of bad reviews users provide just because of minor issues or unrealistic user expectations. Developers have no chance to explain those, often unnecessary, reviews.
Of course you have the usual reviewers that couldn't be bothered to rate anything unless they have a problem with the app, but additionally there's such an amount of ignorance that one feels like reading youtube comments.

Right now the official twitter app is being downrated into oblivion here in germany (1,5 stars) due to the introduction of that trend bar. From one of the best twitter clients to One and a half star. Really? You don't have to like that bar and most people certainly don't but does it affect your twitter experience in such a bad way that those one star ratings are justified. I doubt it.

That said, app reviews seem to be used as kind of punishment by users instead of providing helpful feedback.

Therefor i can see that asking users who frequently use your app to rate it makes a lot of sense from a developers perspective. Additionally those developers should have the option to provide highlighted answers to reviews or weigh in on unjustified user statements.
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Andy Grove's opinion made for an interesting, and imho persuasive, argument against this. Taking the laptop battery industry as an example - the outsourced manufacturers first made derivative products. Over time though, they achieved competence and finally mastery of the technology.

By opening the door and improving on what they had, even if it was a clone of something, they understood what had to be improved and finally dominated the market.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b41860483...
Take a look at LuaJIT.

I have some early FFI bindings for OpenCL (and OpenGL, glfw) with some simple demos. Not updated recently, but it's done by using stock luajit (take latest), and not writing a binding code at all (just FFI definitions which LuaJIT understands).

You can't do callbacks (yet). That is - you can't rely on "C" function to call you back at lua land. That's why I chose glfw instead of glut or others. There is way to setup your main loop without callbacks.

http://github.com/malkia/luajit-opencl
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> Still, most libraries are blocking*
> * Which is a funny objection, like being
> mad that most libraries default to using
> decimal numbers rather than octal. It must
> be a conspiracy!

Actually, there _is_ a distinction here: It is ridiculously easy to implement blocking semantics on top of non-blocking semantics - in some pseudo code:

event = do_async();
pause_until_completion_or_error(event)

Whereas implementing non-blocking semantics using an underlying blocking implementation is quite, but not entirely, like banging your head against the wall. repeatedly. Essentially, you cannot avoid threads, shared mutable state, and a lot of other problems.
Replace "tap" with "click" in your post. How is the iPad better than doing the same things with the mouse? I don't dispute that a very nice app could be created, but I question whether the iPad itself enables any of those things.

Further, a finger is a very imprecise input device. For music, precision is very important. Even a mouse is not precise enough for lots of things I do when I use DAW software.

Music notation is one place where I think pen-based input would be useful. It's precise and the input language is tightly scoped enough that the recognition problem is solvable. There's also no existing system that lets you input musical notes in any faster way. Recording-based apps (midi or otherwise) are always at the mercy of the performer. And unless you're superhuman (I'm not), you have to spend a long time quantizing and correcting the transcribed rhythm. It's real bummer. I would much rather scrawl the notes and know that they'll be nicely typeset out the other end.
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-Regarding your product.... On the whole I think mainstream customers expect a whole product.

-Regarding how to move to mainstream customers... one thing that often happens is that influential users start spreading the word and it blows up... At the first consulting firm where I worked, they had a huge win with one of their early customers that gave them lots of momentum. So you might focus on getting good referrals...

-With regards to your situation... What is the reason customers give for not buying? You say margins are tight. Have you considered lowering your prices? You call the customers technophobic. Are the people using the current paper/homegrown solutions putting up resistance? Is there anyway you can disarm them? Maybe a free lunch for a demo/training session?
I don't really understand your comment.

No one's saying that IPC is unique to Node. The OP's criticism was: async i/o is fine, but what if you have some CPU-intensive work to do? Isn't it bad to let that block the whole server? Of course it is. OP's answer is a different server architecture; Nodians' answer is just forward that work to a different process and let Node keep doing the one thing it does well.

Why use Node? Isn't the reason that it lets you write server apps that don't block on i/o, in a high-level language?

From various comments over the last year or so, I gather that you're saying Erlang beats Node hands down at this. That may be true. Still, not everyone's going to use Erlang. What other alternatives are there? (Twisted, EventMachine, ...?)

I can see the attraction of Node's approach. First, it's conceptually simple. Second, yes, it shoves a bunch of things in your face and makes you deal with them - but they are precisely the things that make your program slow. Perhaps you want to deal with them. I can understand why someone would say: I want to manage my program's control flow explicitly so I know it won't block when it shouldn't; it makes some things annoying, but other things easier (at least I don't have to worry about other code interrupting mine); just don't make me write everything in C.

(At risk of being tedious, I'll add that I'm not being polemical. You, silentb and others know a lot more about it than I do. I'd like to get clearer about what the issues are. Also... I'm tempted to reply to the second part -- about writing programs that know how to divide up their computations, and whether this is greenspunning the OS -- but this is long. Maybe we should defer it.)
I use a todo list app (Things) for everything except my work. The post is right that you tend to remember things that you care about, but unfortunately my time cannot be entirely filled with things I care about.
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Incorrect - Things HAVE changed.

India did NOT have the same appreciation for tech 20 years ago. Today it does.

Friends who are 20-25 are coming back here and setting up clones of workable ideas. They are learning what needs to be done and what the opportunity is over here.
They KNOW what good code is, they know what high quality means, and they ARE building it here again.
They will build it from scratch if they have to.

America did NOT compete for talent like it has to now.
Yes the seeds of entrepreneurship will spread far and wide. The topic at hand is to make them bloom in America.
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"Does anyone know of any products launched by big companies (Google, Microsoft etc.) that did go big?"

IE, GMail, iPhone...

Or, restricting to websites: GMail, G cal, G reader
Perhaps you could try python, numpy, twisted, inline callbacks and one of the python opencl packages.

Inline callbacks are syntactic sugar included recent versions of twisted that make your code look synchronous while still running on the event loop.

With python, you get to use a wealth of libraries, but you need to still be mindful of what is blocking.

Wnen something you need to call is blocking, you can try deferToThread.

Don't worry, you won't need to think too much about race conditions and other concurrency issues with threading since there is the GIL in python. Also, Twisted makes it a cinch.

Good luck!
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14 hours of standby battery life? Is this normal for tablets with mobile data?

I feel that having to plug the tablet in every night would seriously limit m usage of it--especially on travels.
One thing I love about my (Wifi-) iPad is that you can just pick it up instantly any time. If it would regularly run out of juice while not being used this would hinder that use case a lot.
Use AWS until you have a reasonable grasp of your dataset and real requirements. Then buy whatever provides the best bang for your buck, in terms of servers. That will probably mean getting 6 mid-range servers, rather than the three servers with the absolute fastest CPU/most memory available. Use either RedHat (CentOS) or Debian, and you'll almost certainly be using Hadoop. Dell servers are fine, although you can sometimes save significantly by going with something like Supermicro servers from Newegg. In terms of cost, you'll want to order the bulk of your servers' memory from a third-party, not have it included in the build.
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I'd say that's exactly what happened.

There's no better App Store marketing that the top lists and on a slow week it will only cost $125 (30% cut to Apple) * whatever number of sales it takes to break the list. Much cheaper than a big ad campaign. Very smart way to game the system.
I have seen the TC authors and the subjects they are writing about directly interacting with readers in the comments. I haven't seen as much of the engaged community conversations that I see on HN, I think TC readers would miss out on a lot if they just removed them.

But I would say that I tend to go to TechCrunch to read the articles, but HackerNews (or Reddit) to see the community reaction.
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> No standard indexing technology could work that quickly. Google has tied their search results directly into the Twitter API

What exactly is standard index indexing technology? Just because the search engine built into your blog software can't do it, doesn't mean it's not doable.

If you have an opinion and want to share, go ahead, but don't sell your assumptions as fact.
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In future, before aggressively going on the attack, I think you should consider the possibility that you may not be as correct as you believe everyone else to be wrong. Let's keep things civilized around here.

I don't see where I went "aggressive". On the contrary I consider it agressive to spread FUD about a vendor based solely on anecdotical evidence.

I'm sure all the SSD vendors have firmware bugs, but my personal choice is not to go with OCZ in future.

Exactly. All vendors hit these bugs from time to time. That's why you should refrain from writing posts "Avoid $FOO" when all you have to contribute is a single datapoint.

"I had bad luck with OCZ" would have been more appropriate.
Also, a bit of noise helps reduce banding in gradients.

Actually, in Firefox if you use a CSS gradient (ie -moz-linear-gradient) and look carefully.. you'll notice Firefox automatically adds noise/dithering to make it look smoother.
Yeah. This was big, public news. Last year within a week, Bing + Google both paid Twitter millions of dollars for "firehose" access.

The reason I remember it pretty well is 1) Lots of people made "...finally making money" jokes, and 2) Both Bing and Google made separate realtime URLs shortly after.
It would be nice if an article about "new cool" ipad app was viewable on the ipad (videos).
One data point: I've had the same fake account with a laughably fake name for more than 2 years and only one friend.
I bought and read this some time ago.

If anyone is interested in the book, I would warn that if you're well versed in language design on an academic level there is nothing new for you here. The book is very focused on "patterns of DSLs", which is nice for a novice, but experienced hackers won't need the in depth treatments of topics like what is an Embedded DSL vs. an interpreted DSL.
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Totally agree with you - I have followed the frauds and underlying issues in our system for a very long time.

I am not some newly enraged random who just saw Inside Job and got upset -- I have been actively using my skills of observation and discernment on the presented reality that is 'the system' for a long time and summarily disgusted/disheartened.
"As a cryptography researcher I've come across numerous cumbersome anonymous reputation systems"

What's the best one you've come across? The only way I was ever able to dream up was basically requiring an iris scan to create a new account, but then not connecting the iris data to the account, just using it to ensure the user couldn't create a second account. This may actually be feasible now that every laptop has a built in camera and the patents have finally expired, but at the time I wanted to create this it wasn't yet possible from a business perspective.
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The author uses the terms API and "indexing technology" imprecisely here. I think what he really means is that they are getting data from Twitter via a push protocol rather than a polling protocol.

Note that while Twitter has a site-specific protocol (the firehouse), any site that wants to enable real time searching and alerts can also just implement PubSubHubbub, which can notify any interested subscriber about updates in near real time.

As far as I know, Google uses PubSubHubbub to update Google Reader feeds in real time - I'm not sure if this integrates into realtime search results as of now.
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>> Google will never "get" social, there is nothing to get.

yeah on Google's every attempt to be social they didn't success well, but UX researcher (Paul Adams) at Google have some good thoughts on online social hubs. seems very interesting. would we ever see such Real Life Social Network from Google or any others?

Link:
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
I have no trouble being as about as honest as I'd like to be on Facebook.

Of course, the fact that I don't use my real name or anything connected to my professional career there makes it easier.

I shudder for those who do use their names - I also harass them on Facebook for doing so.

Being part of a subculture where anonymity is encouraged helps too.

If anything Facebook encourages me to create a more fake but entertaining me. But I don't mind saying that - on Facebook.
I think my characterisation of his overall understanding is perhaps not generous enough. I think I was a bit too incensed at the particular argument of his I was focusing on at the time.

But the particular argument of his I was addressing is extremely poor. Perhaps this is more of a result of a lack of understanding about non-technologically related things like art etc... as opposed to his understanding of tech itself.
I recently added Appirater in an update to one of my apps and I believe has really helped gather positive reviews.

Getting the timing right is a bit tricky - I've opted to prompt the user after ten uses at a point where interaction with the app won't be obstructed by the alert.

As a side note, I think that the alerts should be shown only once. I was using another app that would prompt every other time to rate and the default dismiss button was "Remind me later"...very annoying.