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Not the tools I'd pin down, but in particular I am majorly against prefab themes like themeforest, and crowdsourced work like 99designs or crowdspring. You get what you pay for, and it's crap. I think both are a major insult to originality and craft that comes with quality design work - the exploitation of the latter, crowdsourced design work, just makes me flat out nauseous.

that said, WordPress, from that list, is indeed the best!
That wasn't intentional, but if a few sales came from it I can't complain about that. I made the page more explicit to point this out though, near the end. Thanks for checking it out.
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Oh, I don't think he was saying that wasn't the case. I believe what he meant (perhaps I am projecting here) that because it continues to exist, and exist successfully, the idea of free software wins.

The mere continued existence of free software/open source validates the ideology behind it.

As a libertarian/dyed in the wool capitalist, I love the success myself.
How to Pitch Investors - Jeff Ready http://www.mcstartup.com/blog/2009/4/28/how-to-pitch-investo...
With hard drives, the easiest thing to do is use the circuit board from a different drive of the same make and model. Of course, if you don't have another circuit board, then you're in deeper trouble.
www.serverstaff.com is an awesome tool! I always use it when I eat out at restaurants. I have a couple favorite servers that always treat me great and I use the site to make sure they are working to ensure awesome service!
Sounds good- thanks.
Hence 'possibly' - they thought it relevant enough to share, even in its unconfirmed state. Sorry if I made that more ambiguous than it should've been...

CM seem to be pretty good at taking a long term view of how to do email marketing given a lot of their own marketing targets white label types (small agencies, etc.)... Often the same people managing websites. That said, there must be a slight conflict in their desire to keep list sizes up (check out http://www.campaignmonitor.com/pricing/ for why) in the short term.

Why wouldn't Google use data they have to improve quality? I'm not convinced they're doing it as the post reports, and there are probably privacy ramifications (like, oh my gosh, Google actually read my email I host with them for more than targeted ads?), but it doesn't take a lot of mental gymnastics to arrive at what the post suggests as yet-another-metric for page ranking.

In terms of its relative value, though, to what extent could Google Apps/Gmail users be deemed "typical" searchers if this were occurring?
Not with Lion.

The only way to get Lion right now is from the Mac Dev Program. It is a beta OS. It runs beta versions of Xcode. Apps built with beta versions of Xcode (4.1) will fail to validate when you try and submit them to the App Store. If you try and install Xcode 3.x or Xcode 4.0.x, Installer.app will fail and complain about the OS being unsupported.

Just get a secondhand mini somewhere. They're cheap — much more so than your time.
I use my Flip for this. Photos good, video better. Also a great idea for when working on cars. I'm thinking of getting a gopro sd hero so that I can track my attention as well. For only $100 why shouldn't I document all of my repairs?
At my company in NYC (Intent Media) the founders specifically spent time writing a clause into our standard employment agreement granting everyone the rights to their side projects.

I'm not sure how common this is, but it seems like something that everyone should look at before signing on with a company, especially with the battle for talent that's going on right now.
Ask HN: What kind of spam/SEO gaming is this?
Link to the account (requires login): http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000838258266&sk=wall

Some screenshots (in case you don't want to log in):
http://imgur.com/a/wGuVN

There's literally thousands and thousands of posts. They don't actually make any sense, but they're spot-on grammatically, and a lot of WWII-era jargon. Google turns up nothing except people wondering what she is saying.

So what's going on here? Spies communicating? Some type of spam/SEO gaming? Rabbit hole for an ARG? Testing some kind of FB bot software?

I can't work out who would be incentivized to create this and what sort of purpose it could serve.
Shark Tank is American remake of Dragon's Den.

I highly recommend BBC version ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/ ) as it deals quite a bit with valuation and is more serious. After success of BBC Dragons Den there have been few BBC offshots: Dragons Den Online (shorter pitches); Dragons Den - What happened later (recap of pitches and where entrepreneurs are year later); Dragons Den Around the world (recap of how other tv stations do Dragons Den). Less than half of the pitches get any traction.

After watching the UK I found Canadian edition (available to watch at cbc.ca) a bit over the top. The valuation and money exchanged were much higher. The cool think in Canadian edition is Bret, who is either a VC or philanthropist depending on his mood. CBC also produced couple episodes showing how dragons grew to the riches that they have now. What were their roots, and where did they start. Less than half of the pitches get any traction.

Shark Tank in comparison is crazy as it tries to show: American Dream can be made with a little help of Seed money. Most pitches are good, no fumbles, no crazy valuations, no crazy people. As if 75% to 100% of pitches were made to deals.

I can't say much on Irish or Australian Dragon's Den, those are quite tricky to find. I saw parts of Australian Dragon's Den on a special BBC edition of Dragon's Den around the world.

Being of Slavic origins I tried watching the Czech edition (called 'd den' http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/program/dend click videoarchive) but found business terms tricker to grasp. The new season comes with subtitles so I will renew an attempt to watch it.

Poland started doing own dragons den this spring. There are clips of it on youtube as part of original marketing. From what I read, the show was a hit, and they want another season within next 6 months.
I'm not so sure it's like that. Consumer electronics have gotten more and more integrated, and the bits that are assembled rather than integrated are assembled with a higher and higher density. The point is, the time spent finding faulty components and fixing and / or replacing them (or jerry-rigging something like the article here), multiplied by the hourly cost of a person with sufficient training to do that job, at this point usually exceeds the cost of replacing the complete component.
Nothing in the GPL states that the source has to be posted online at the time you release a binary, what it states is that you must provide it to customers (people who have/use your binaries) at their request.
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Is this your marketing byline?
Interesting you brought up that entry. I just looked it over. What is your issue with it precisely?
I don't like cities either. Who tells us that we need to live there? We tell it to ourselves, and probably we fail. We are not coming from a world of traffic noise, air pollution, overproduction, overarousal by all kinds of sensual stimulus. And I am sure that this life can destroy the human species on the long run. HOW do we know if we are made for this life, for this artificial Lebenswelt that we create for ourselves? Evolution is running slowly. This is the problem of tech: that we can totally adapt the environment to us. But what are we? We are living creatures that needed to adapt to the environment in the past. Never the other way round! How will we look like after many generations of as we live today. We are NOT going to look as we look today, and one thing is sure: Living in a world where every ressource is just some steps away, we will not live healthier. The huge thirst for energy is corresponding to this lifestyle, that Stanley Kubrick wants to critizise in "A Clockwork Orange".
So your view of disgusting cities - for me it's totally justified! And so your comment is less off-topic than one could think, because needing less energy to live will mean that we surround ourselves more with an environment that is healthy for us and the future generations. This goes hand in hand.
Actually, if you're using a higher level language you stand a chance of implementing a much faster algorithm which would trump any of these O(1) speed-ups.
Ever heard of premature optimization? Doing things like concatenating images into sprites and using css to display them is overkill for pretty much anything except Google's doodles. I also find it to be very inelegant.

Best practices is one thing. Overkill is another.
While I agree with this statement very much, and I know various different source control programs, I still from where I am standing feel like Git is something that new startups and people in generally work with.

It is one of the first features touted when a newer service comes to town (sometimes alongside Mercurial, but generally support for Mercurial comes after git).

I personally really enjoy git, I love what it has to offer, and honestly it has a better community aspect to it, Github is simply amazing, with Gitorious a close second and yes BitBucket exists, but it is not even close. It doesn't have the same community feel, pull requests are practically non-existent, the online tools are not that great (the wiki being a mercurial repo is actually pretty nice), and overall it just seems to have stagnated since being bought by Atlassian.

As for the corporate world, if you want in house solutions either has some choices. You can go with straight Git/Hg without a web front-end, you can use their built-in web front-ends or you can get something like Kiln and Gitorious (being open source is kinda nice really, low barrier to entry).

Where Git still lacks is on the Windows side of things, someone really should come along and write a Git compliant client that is more windows centric and runs correctly rather than having to have MingW installed and a whole range of other tools and utilities. The version also lacks behind somewhat so sometimes you may run into a bug that you can't replicate using a newer version (had a nasty merge that caused that issue, worked fine on my Mac, no so much on Windows).

Mercurial since it is entirely written in Python will work great on Windows. The TortoiseHg and TortoiseGit will always leave something to be desired but at least they exist and can make it somewhat easier, other than the fact that Git's terminology doesn't match up with Subversion or CVS (what most devs have used before).
This guy has a very different definition of 'good' than I do -OR- this is funny.
I'm not sure on that. Brian would have to comment if he's lurking, although not sure he'd know either since the company is separate. They still operate a web site.
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This is why I will always prefer a desktop PC.

Modular components and hardware standards with many third party manufactures. Laptops will always hold second computer status for me.
I've been involved in projects that used 99designs.

I would not use 99designs for, say, a whole website.

I would be very wary of design submissions that are stolen or plagiarized from other sources.

But for simple transactional work, like a new logo or wordmark, I think it's the way to go. The fact is, most tech startups probably don't benefit that much from "focused attention" to small graphical flourishes. You are probably not Twitter, and the birdie probably isn't going to make or break you.

Also: how'd you end up needing your money back? Don't you have to accept a design to end up spending money?
This kind of technical view is religious but is usually not called religion. Of course it is OK and important - especially for the poorer countries - to make power cheaper. But NEVER at all costs. The problem with renewable energies is that they need itself rare materials that will not be available for all times. We need a circular flow of recycable materials. The way companies are looking for cheap energy is predisposed to come to a dead-end, because they exploit materials that can be exhausted and so will cause new - global - conflicts.
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Just a point of clarification, you don't use the backside?
Sorry Matt, just approved it then. Thanks for weighing in on this thread, it's really appreciated.
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Personally I have found craigslist the best way to find non-hotel accomidations.
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I think the strongest resume / cover letter is when you're able to say "Google me" and have it be enough.
I'm a big fan of being able to use a stylus with my iPad. The biggest issue is that the app won't let me rest my palm on the screen when I'm writing.
Cool Idea. Heres a couple of things I'd like to see:
- A metro style wp7 theme such as http://www.4thandmayor.com/ (I've got some wp7 apps)
- Some way to embed the app details into an existing page. Say if I wanted a nice way to list my apps on my blog.
Funding People, Not Projects?
Could not possibly disagree more strongly about Themeforest.

Take the top 20 admin themes from Themeforest and compare them to the UI/UX of 20 randomly selected YC companies. Not the front page; the actual UI.

Reasonable people will disagree which one wins.

But what's crazy about that is that the Themeforest stuff costs twelve dollars†, and is available instantly.

Desktop software developers don't have inferiority complexes about how samey their apps look. In fact, refined sameyness is a point of pride among Cocoa devs! But for some reason, every web app needs to be designed by Shepard Fairey and Khoi Vinh to launch.

By all means, contract Fairey and Vinh. But do it after you launch the product and start making money. Your initial users do not give a fuck about this issue. If you are not a natural, fluent designer, you will lose tens of thousands of dollars of your time (and, worse, money) just so you don't look like someone else's CMS skin... which none of your real customers will notice.

† Admittedly more if you need an all-purpose license, but still 1/10th what a designer costs.
India is definitely a country to watch. With China's one-child-per-family rule, it could very well be India that becomes the new super power in the next 20-50 years...
Did you see Kubrick's "2001"? Probably no other film gives a better example of the fact that education will be more important than technical progress (especially how it is today: at all costs) at any time.
No human being wants to live on a star after he/she has lived there for some generations. Wanna bet?
What's wrong with craigslist's vacation rentals??
Start a startup? I am an undergrad student.
I am Computer Engineering student in 3rd year from south asia. I am very energized to getting up an running a startup and take some height. As now we have to do a minor project to submit, I don't want to make it just a project of 3 months rather I think of taking this project to some height to solve real world problem and I am quite serious about it. I wish you guys help me giving some guidelines where and how to start and what I should consider at this moment or provide me some useful links. Like how I chose my partners to start this project, what things should I consider, even money, location. I am thinking of doing project based on internet/web specially. I am confident and have energy to give my all 24 hours a day for this. I am really excited. Suggest me somethings.
We CANNOT overcome our animal urges. NEVER. Don't try it. Which does not imply that we cannot be intelligent and civilized. But the animal in us wants to live and no technology can change that fact.
I'm a bit surprised that Github would allow one of their employees to behave that way without firing them. Love Zed or hate Zed, he's still a user, and you're still a company providing a service; show some professionalism.

Zed: I'm on your side here, but please stop rising to these assholes' attacks. You're not going to convince them to change their ways, and getting into a pissing match with them gives them what they're looking for. You won this one, but your time is worth more than this.
I feel like any of these compilation articles are just meant to generate discussion because people will disagree. Start up founders need to focus on making a good product with the tools they have available to them
The most entertaining thing about all this is that you can merge against nonexistent branches in git.

I think my eyes just crossed.
Yet another reason why some of us fear getting too close to the Ruby hipsters.
An alternative to 99designs that I've used successfully in the past is BrandStack.com; you can only choose from ready-made designs, but they are high quality and the designers usually are willing to adapt for your branding. They also have Upstack.com which is a similar service to 99designs but you get a little bit more of a warm fuzzy feeling since it's not "on-spec".
Nothing quite like it :)
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He could do a lot worse than provide the rest of us free entertainment. I saw this fifteen minutes ago and I'm still chuckling.
Don’t get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.

- Bart Decrem (@bartd)

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> What happens when I send you dozens of wireframes for a complex web app that would realistically take an experienced programmer a month to prototype well?

An experienced programmer working with slow tools will work slowly. That's why languages like Clojure were invented - Rich Hickey is an experienced C++, Java dev.

> Your clients pay you; you're not doing them any favors.

Clients pick you because you bring something to the table they can't get anywhere else. If you're as good as you say you are, you are doing the client a favor.

> If the client isn't willing to invest in Clojure and you're (likely) gone after $5,000 and 2 weeks, where does that leave the client?

With their money's worth of a prototype that demonstrates whether the idea is or isn't total shit.

You don't see the value proposition. Somebody else will. If Chris is as talented as he says he is, your loss.
Great call on Themeforest. The added benefit of using a prefab admin skin is that you can actually build your entire concept before you need to think about paying a designer. Many of the themes have a built-in grid system (if they aren't using 966 outright) so that you can build UI workflows after creating mockups. I have made this mistake in the past but would now never hire designer if I hadn't already built a working prototype of every screen, and for that I use ThemeForest HTML5 skins.
So by that logic Iran could justifiably attack the western nations that created Stuxnet.
It's a hybrid. MPG wasn't my primary consideration although it was definitely something I partially considered. That said, I wasn't really looking at diesel cars. Wasn't really shopping around for different types of cars either actually. A few of my friends have the Prius and I enjoyed it and thought it was roomy when the seats was down. So just thought it was worth getting. I didn't spend too much time thinking it over.
Ballmer says India, not China, better Microsoft bet
Zed, you gave me a hearty laugh.

But please take a minute to think about starting a mud-slinging contest with a pig. Think about how you repeatedly stated that you didn't understand the motivation to show you the peni, where you direct your limited attention and time, etc.

If you are considering all that already, well rock on :)
You make some fair, though invalid, assumptions.

1) It's true, I cannot magically produce an entire photo-editing app in two weeks, but this makes the assumption that I won't be very frank with what I will deliver. It also makes the assumption that I can't work with people multiple times. The point here is to define a unit of work. My unit of work in this endeavor is two weeks at a fixed cost. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I'm not here to prey on clients and if what I offer isn't a good fit for them, they'll know in our first conversation.

2) This makes two assumptions: that I am doing this to build a client-based business and that I'm in this primarily for the money. I'm not really trying to build a client-based business that works for everyone. I've been a part of such businesses and I really disliked my time there. As such, I don't mind my frankness being a filter for who I do or do not hear from. Which brings me to the second assumption; I'm doing this for the fun of working with other people to bring ideas to life, not to make money. So while my clients pay me, they're getting a good deal and it really is up to me whether or not I wish to continue working on their project. That's not me expressing attitude, that's me being honest right up front. :) Moreover, I believe service is exemplified in action and while you seem to think otherwise, if I take someone on, I'm there to help them the best I can.

3) This hits the same point I made before, if the idea changes, there's no reason I can't work something out with my clients. There's also no reason that we can't set up another two week iteration.

While I understand your points, they seem tinted by negative experiences and though it may sound trite, part of why I'm doing this is because of my own poor experiences in client work.
Time for Github to start banning people
I don't think that Nick Martini guy is a GitHub employee.
As multiple designers will attest, I am more than happy to pay for design work (nothing we have up publicly came from Themeforest or 99designs). But unless your concept absolutely depends on graphical experience --- and look how shitty Pitchfork's site was for years and years and years in the trendiest most superficial demographic imaginable --- graphic designers are a terrible thing to block your project on.

Rather than wrack my brain and carefully come up with a scoping document laying out all the pages and functionality in my next application --- a document that will be out of date exactly one customer meeting after I write it --- I'm just going to point my next designer at a $12 Themeforest theme and say "do this, but way better".

I don't mind that it costs $5-10,000 to get "better than Themeforest", but I do mind losing weeks of release time sweating whether it's time to pull the trigger on a designer and what exactly to have them do.

99designs is a different story. I don't have the designer's moral problem with spec!work but the misgivings people have about quality and IP infringements are based on real issues. I still think it's a good tool, but I can see why some would avoid it.

Avoiding Themeforest though seems crazy.
Yeah, what works for one doesn't work for another. I hate people dwelling on my mistakes. It is not like I can't see those, and need to be told every time I make one. I would want my partner to believe that I am as aware and I am working towards being better. Nobody wants to remain clumsy!
They have in the past.
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