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I really meant it looks like a prank. So I don't see what the point of taking out the etiquette guidelines does in this case. The whole premise of managing twitter, facebook, tumbler, etc. all in one place sounds like a joke to me. What's next? Browse in IE, Firefox and Chrome all at the same time from one convenient location. Every single social app currently has the option of blasting every single thing you post on them to all the other ones and that kind of setup doesn't sound like a feature it sounds more like a bug.
I am working on an MVP for a staff scheduling application to help small-to-medium businesses schedule and communicate with their employees and I am looking for a collaborator or cofounder

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417022
When you do figure it out, it would be great to have this kind of info collected online somewhere.

From what I've read so far though, the usual way is to get an immigration lawyer in the US, not in your home country, as you seem to be doing.
UIs like this are not for power users. They use xmonad or awesome or dwm or ratpoison or ...

This is for someone who turns on their computer, does some work, and then stops using their computer. They do not want to bother themselves with a lot of learning. Simple actions that can be easily learned and improve speed (like keyboard shortcuts) are in reach. But more "confusing" concepts like virtual desktops without visual cues are not what they go for, even though pressing M-1 is much faster than moving your mouse to some picture of window.

The idea is "how can we make computing accessible to the average person", not "how can we make demetris not feel stress on his 2560x1600 screen". Once you reach a certain level of interest in optimizing everything, you have to use tools to build your own desktop environment, because you are a unique flower, and only you can decide what you want. You've reached this point, so GNOME is not for you.
I feel bad for your kids
My Mom was a Montessori teacher. For a couple of years when I was a kid, we rented a house from a Waldorf teacher who lived in the basement. The clash of pedagogical philosophies was epic.
Amazon gave a tech talk at my school.

EC2 sprang from the problem that Amazon had to buy a bunch of servers to handle the load around the holidays and these servers went underutilized during the rest of the year. So they decided to lease those resources.

When asked about what happens to EC2 during the holidays, the engineer basically replied that Amazon has priority.
Wow, this is an interesting spin on a lot of previously-disconnected ideas. I really like the branding and name. The intro screencast was well done.

I'm looking forward to hearing how well this takes off, especially with the pricing plans currently in place. I have an idea for a political action campaign, but I'm kinda on the fence with your lowest tier price.
Does anyone else find the tagline "Made of Easy" to be a bit silly and poorly thought out?
Uh...

The standard, minimal approach is to keep secure hash of each password and throw away the password itself. This has the same effect but doesn't require the average, unsophisticated user to have a public keep.

But that's just the bare minimum approach - from there, you add a "salt" and other things. Done well enough, you should have a system where downloading your entire system shouldn't compromise your users passwords. But that's only if this is done really well - the write-up for how hbgarey got hacked actually is a great intro to this kind of thing.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-sp...
I have a hunch (definitely not an assertion) that even if there are effects from Montessori school early on, they wash out over time, and the major factors afterward are socioeconomic status and habits of parents, and subsequent education (K-12). I guess I'm paraphrasing Freakonomics.
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DropZap 3 has the best gameplay and I want the focus to be on DropZap 3 gameplay.
The whole premise of managing twitter, facebook, tumbler, etc. all in one place sounds like a joke to me.

I'm sure Facebook didn't think it was a joke when they paid $50 million for FriendFeed, which did exactly that.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfee...
I most important memory for me is that Montessori allowed me to excel. It was exceptional at getting out of the way and letting me learn if I was interested, and I most certainly was.

What I remember most from my Montessori education in my early years (preschool through elementary) was that we were allowed to progress at our own pace. Our teacher(s) set up various tracks of things to complete, for example we had math cards you could study and then do some problems on and eventually take a test to move on to the next set, or we had a series of books and you needed to select one from the set and answer some questions before moving on to one from the next set. About half of our time was allowing us to work on whatever we wanted. If you got ahead in a subject, the teacher would find more for you to do on it. If you got behind, the teacher would try to help you get over whatever hurdle of understanding you had.

As a result, I was a few years ahead of myself in math. Every time the teacher got a new set of math cards I would do them all as quickly as I could and I prided myself on being a few years ahead. However, my reading was a bit behind because I never really cared to do the in-school reading as I preferred sci-fi. There were other children who were just the opposite.

The benefit was that I didn't have to sit in a class room doing the exact same boring lessons as the rest of the class. If I could figure something out in 5 minutes I didn't have to sit through a 1-hour lecture on the subject.
Or even worse, when some emergent AI suddenly wants all the cycles, all the time.

(Will the first sign of a runaway AI be skyrocketing AWS spot prices?)
Thanks for the feedback. We definitely struggled with the overall positioning at launch. Our initial target is political campaigns and non-profits, mostly because they know they need this kind of a tool, and the current options are ridiculously expensive. For them, it's all about coordinating volunteers and engaging people in every channel possible.

But we also think, based on our background using political organizing to distribute documentaries, that there is a big market potential for independent creators as well, a market that will get very large. Authors, filmmakers, musicians, comedians, YouTubers, bloggers, etc.

The first few questions in the FAQ talk about this: http://nationbuilder.com/faq

We're definitely gonna play around with the main language on the website, thank you.
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There are other implementations of this concept that have been around for years that are a bit more practical for most people, like the ones that use your smartphone's proximity to the desktop/laptop as the locking trigger.
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Or you could just talk to them.
Yeah, what's actually rational cannot all be put into a spreadsheet.
I'm working on an iphone/ipad app for kids. It's a silly thing just a coloring book but we're trying to make it better than anything else out there interface-wise and we're experimenting with in-app purchases and a bunch of other ios features. It's my first app that i've worked on from concept to execution so its pretty exciting to me.
And how many people still use FriendFeed? It is now overrun by auto quote bots and viagra spam. Also, I don't see how facebook approving of something makes the idea any less idiotic.
This has a lot of potential.

Only problem I see is the pricing. You should be doing 4x what you currently have.
That is an excellent talk. The dude is hilarious.
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Jealous? I think that's a great idea.
Does anyone else think people would be more likely to sign up and try it if a credit card wasn't required for the 14 day trial? I was going to sign up to to see what it was like, but then decided not to when I found out that a credit card is required.
Great conversation with some amazing insight
Indeed, a scheme like hashing-in-the-browser to keep a plaintext password "off the air" is essentially a homebrewed effort to replicate a secure connection.

IE, doing this is a mistake because you may be smart but you probably haven't put your secure connection through everything that SSL has been put through.
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Hurry up and complete PA, I worked at a dealer for 2 years and can try to get you worked into the system there.
I just looked through my wallet and Amex, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover all have the same date format, and for MasterCard three are from separate issuing banks, one of which is a debit card.

Not questioning you, but what's the rule? Do you have any examples? Is it a function of the processor or the bank?
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I feel that this discovery is too important not to have a discussion here. (I submitted my blog post yesterday during peak NH hours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2412122 - but it fell through the cracks, so I'm reposting).

Summary: You can take advantage of more than 4GB of physical RAM on a 32-bit OS (WinXP in my case) by putting your paging (swap) file on a RAMdisk.

I feel that this is important for the world to know because the move to 64-bit systems has been largely influenced by the memory limit imposed by 32-bits.
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I have to agree, but my gut tells me the claim is likely to be true.

I am interested in what companies and technologies this leads to because so goes the fate of nations.
I saw this post the other day, then came across Pulley. Is there a difference? http://pulleyapp.com/
I think it's a good thing that a potential employee of Jason's can read his blog and be warned or at least aware of what kind of company he's running and potential future careers there. Personally as a developer I'm looking forward to gaining more managerial experience as I can see how you can make bigger more exciting things as you have more people contributing.
Incidentally I work for a company twice as big as 37 signals although growing quite fast in comparison and I can see that the people in the nontechnical roles quite enjoy the possibilities (and realities) of progressing to different and managerial roles. It makes me happy that they can stick around and don't have to leave when they might otherwise stagnate.
Nice work!

Looks like there's an errant "Edit this page" link under the sidebar here:
http://nationbuilder.com/features
Yup. I thought it was one of those nation web games.
Jealous? Of what? Another half-ass workaround for fixing the ADD problem of the voting populace?
Who cares about gnome? I mean really. To first, second, and third order approximations, nobody will ever use it. The ipad2 sold over 2 million units the first month out. The next billion users of the internet will interact with it over their cell phone. Might as well publish an article about somebody who is making a nice set of switches for the front panel of a pdp-11 using mahogany wood or something.
LINPACK is about as useful of a benchmark as BogoMips.

""". Genentech benefited from the high number of cores because its calculations were "embarrassingly parallel," with no communication between nodes, so performance stats "scaled linearly with the number of cores," Corn said."""

That is a direct quote from the article.
Not that I think it entirely bursts your internet tough guy rant, but amazon does offer [cluster computing instances](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/) for exactly this purpose. Granted, they only have 10 Gigabit ethernet, but it's not exactly like this is some failure cluster running all over a busy datacenter on 10M ether.
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Allow me to click forward and backward through the slideshow.
I really like gnome3, but I'ts kind of sad to realize the main video on the frontpage (for a wonderful new desktop experience) shows only two desktop applications: gedit editing an html file, and firefox with firebug to fix that same code. And a fake IM session with a loremipsum in it.

I understand the gnome desktop may not have many shiny artisty apps as OSX, but this feels a tad too nerdy.
No. The new reactors under construction are mostly very conservative and traditional Gen III+ PWR designs, with some added safety features. The reactors that can survive complete loss of cooling are all Gen IV designs, that are currently under discussion, not construction.
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What is the least salary you would take to work at $co and for how long would you work there at that salary?

What probability do you put on $startup being acquired?

What is the least salary $startup could pay you to be satisfied with working there without the prospect of an acquisition?
"Richard Revell had hoped to launch his cola and lemonade milk soda at the National Fieldays in Hamilton in New Zealand, which attracts about 140,000 farmers." "But instead of being on show, he has been banned from selling his drink because it constitutes competition for Coca-Cola."

[Fizzy milk maker takes on Coca-Cola](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/13/2925765.htm)

They 'own' small players more than you realise.
I find the pricing somewhat confusing too. What exactly does 10,000 people entail? What if a person is just signed up to the email list? The addons for text messaging and email blasting make calculating what the real price is, difficult.
"Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets."

Damn, the oversimplifiers got to http://redis.io/ too!

Are you saying that the key types in Redis make it special? Slightly-more-than-simple-types do not sound too special. What's it got going on?
It's playful, it clearly and strongly communicates a single underlying concept. I think it's good.
At least you admitted it fixes a problem.
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We are now witnessing a similar dynamic, but the battlefield has shifted from search to social. Just as Google had early dominance in lighting up a portion of the web, Facebook has early dominance in lighting up a portion of the world’s social graph. But much like the Dark Web, there exists network upon network not yet graphed by Facebook, waiting to be mapped, organized, and optimized for communication.

This is the unlit social graph, and this is where Facebook is vulnerable.
Wow. Compared to what a lot of people are calling startups these days, this is practically General Electric.

Looks great to me, although I have not tried it (since it's 100% integration work, devil is in the details). Seems that you've done this before and built the app you would have wanted.
Wow. Gnome 3 looks worse than Gnome 2 did. I say that with love and kindness in my heart though, as I'm a hardcore openbox user. openbox+tint2+nitrogen.

(edit: Okay, Gnome3 and E17 are "Almost" looking alike: They're shiney and don't do much more than that.)
I wouldn't say that, it could just be your application was so clear that they could easily extract all the information they needed.

That being said, we had to answer a follow-up question since we made a lot of outlandish claims for what our technology could do without explaining how. In our case, the how is not obvious at all, hence the follow-up, but if yours is, than I wouldn't read into it.

Best of luck!
Will Gnome 3 still be in Ubuntu?

I'm unclear on how the changes relating to the desktop will actually change the experience.

Congratulations to the Gnome team though! It does look great.
You are being incredibly rude and attacking. This is a real pain for some people, and the OP has built a solution to solve that. Having a dozen distributed communication mediums that you have to manage and stay on top of may not be your pain, but that doesn't me its no one's pain.
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This guy sounds like an asshole. If he is so concerned about the current state of affairs he should write an application and show the world real problem solving concepts. Instead he rages about something and in the end pretends to be smarter than he actually is.
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I agree with the comments about more content. Overall the idea is great and I'd use the site often. Currently the way the route is provided it feels like a "push" to take the route, there's nothing "pulling me down the road". It would be fantastic if the route results would offer categories of information such as:
- Bike friendly stops
- Sites to see
- Grub (ie - unusual places to eat)
- Things to find (a little geocaching anyone?)
- Join (or start) a group ride for this route

and so on.

Looking forward to using this tool frequently!

Thanks!
It seems no one here has actually tried using GNOME 3 for any period of time. I gave it a couple of days and switched over to XFCE. I found it incredibly annoying as a developer desktop (perhaps a minority user these days?). It's very hard to switch between applications, virtual desktops are basically broken, you can't have shortcuts for launching apps/programs, no focus-follows-mouse, and the GNOME developers don't give a damn.
Because the internet at large is not going to do that 5 minutes of work - just like with web standards, it's up to browsers to support the decade-of-html that was produced before anyone gave a crap about the w3c.
The Kinesis Advantage is a bit like that: although they're not a usual spacebar shape, space is under the right thumb, and backspace is under the left thumb.
EC2 has never been spare capacity: http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo...
Its just released, so give us sometime to get our pitchforks out.
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He compares himself to Paul Revere: "Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say, 'I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.'"
Web applications tend to be tightly coupled to specific reporting tools, such as JasperReports. This is due to vendor examples showing simple integrations (the least amount of effort for working code), which developers then copy and waste.

Design patterns such as Bridge, Abstract Factory, and Adapter can completely eliminate the tight coupling between web applications and reporting frameworks.

This is my contribution to help achieve that goal.
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I might be in the minority, but I understood what it was for pretty quickly. Tagline could use a bit of tweaking maybe.

The city-in-a-box icon meant nothing to me. My brain keeps seeing a joystick for some reason.
And you wouldn't love a new set of PDP-11 switches?
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I find it odd that they're forming a connection between the picture and the click-throughs, and not the abnormal link description. How many people have clicked on the button here?: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=9644 How many have clicked on it because it tells them to not do so? And how many clicked on it because it's red and round?

People are drawn to things they shouldn't do, especially when there's no immediately-visible reason they shouldn't. As the saying goes, the fastest way to get your kids to do something is to forbid them from doing it.
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> Wow. Compared to what a lot of people are calling startups these days, this is practically General Electric.

This made me chuckle a lot.

Anyway, this definitely looks like an idea that could take off/has potential. As others have said, it might be better if you did not have to sign up for the 14 day trial with a credit card. However, every trial I've ever signed up for worth paying for later has asked for my credit card information.

And for what it's worth, I understood what it was about without really doing anything.
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I would just add to this, don't keep battery at 100% (unplug it when it's done charging)
I think you'll find the size of the market, measured by number of customers, to be much smaller than you think. I say this because your pricing seems very low. This is obviously a very comprehensive solution and complex software. The individual components from 3rd parties would be much more expensive if they were used separately, (e.g. MailChimp, CRM, etc.) so I think you should price based on what the cost of all the items would be.

Another commenter said 4x, I'd say 10x plus an upfront fee.

However, I could be wrong, please correct me if you've done trials and found this to be the best price :)
In fact I think it does the opposite. This doesn't fix anything. It makes the problem worse. In our current politics there is absolutely no real dialog between the politicians and people. Blasting twitter updates and facebook status updates to your followers is the shallowest kind of follower engagement because even though everyone can retweet and comment on those status updates no one really does any real communicating in those mediums. For a guy who claims to want to fix the political landscape this is clearly a step in the wrong direction.
That's the point- he only wants people that are seriously interested in using his service to sign up. Since giving him your credit card chased you away, you probably wouldn't have ever paid for the service. Be honest, are you his target demographic?
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No doubt.

The interesting thing here is that the accouterments of the ad can play a bigger role than the ad itself. So perhaps making it "Don't click this!" will help you more than trying to A/B test out some MVP statement

To me that makes it a possible game-changer, depending on the nature of your startup. (You'd have to follow through each test to see if the leads from the "BS" version qualified and converted at the same rate as the others, and that's outside the scope of the piece)
This is a bit disingenuous. As mentioned in a previous comment, there is a method to Montessori. It's not "let the kids do whatever they want". It is a form of "formal" education and took years of research to come up with.

While parents can certainly homeschool, you can't claim it's an equal substitute for Montessori education.
When I read this title I get hopeful for the following which probably won't happen
-Buy a car, get 3 years unlimited free 3G internet for your car
-Hot spot capabilities
-Access to TV (for the back seat) and Radio apps (Pandora in the car!)

Although technically only the first one is necessary since most people get the second two plus many more from having a smart phone with a data plan.
The FriendFeed team all joined Facebook. I'd imagine less people would use FriendFeed as it became much less actively developed.
I didn't say it's not a pain. I just think if you're trying to engage users then blasting them with updates on all fronts is the wrong approach and doesn't change anything about the current political setup.
Seems that Facebook just became an email service
My suggestion would be to strictly target one niche, and it looks like it should be civic leaders. You'll find each market has unique needs with each of your features, and trying to build a solution that satisfies everyone will result in being mediocre to everyone. If you disagree, read Crossing the Chasm :)
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