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That's funny because I'm also building a web-based Excel/database hybrid, and I'm also a bit concerned about demand. But your story doesn't deter me at all, for two reasons: one, because I'm crazy; two because of La Femme Nikita. Let me explain.

People talk about ideas as being worthless, etc. No, they're not. You can't get an oak tree with a mustard seed. But there's a big difference between even oak trees. Idea and execution are the same thing, just two ends of a continuous line.

The films La Femme Nikita and Point of No Return have nearly the exact same plot. The former is one of the greatest action films ever made; the latter is one of the worst.

That whole "build something people want" is only for people who want to make money. And honestly, if what you want is to make money, be a dentist.

People waant Facebook and Twitter and Farmville. But they need core technological innovation. They need better ways to work with data. You did the right thing, Andrew. It wasn't a waste of time. And I won't stop either, because the world has far too much of what it wants and far too little of what it needs.
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It is oauth for all intents and purposes— a third party (your email server) authenticates you as the owner of the email address and passes you a secure token.

It's worse in some ways (control, usability, security) and better in others (simpler technologically, everyone has it).
I like the concept of knobs on stoves. But there doesn't seem to be any sort of standard so when one breaks or goes missing you're on the hunt for a replacement. Not so bad for a fairly new one, but when you have a 50 year old gas stove.... I'm sure visegrips makes good money on people that need pliers for their hobs.
Never had that problem with Gandi but buying digital goods from Facebook froze my card. Apparently they were a hive for credit card thief testing at that point in time because of the low value of virtual gifts (1 US cent?).
I also had my details leaks via the MtGox.com hack. Fortunately I have been using a password manager for years (Keepass) and don't share passwords site-to-site. So I don't fuck around with security, or try not to.

But, you do. It's hindsight, sure, but if you read HN you definitely know better, yet you did it anyway. You've learned your lesson, and hopefully the next time a service you frequent is hacked your exposure will be minimal. But it took something like this for that to happen. I'm thinking a lot of sites have had shitty security for years like Hover et al and are only now, with all the publicity surrounding recent breaches of security, beginning to realize they can't get away with it for much longer.

So just like anyone can cut you some slack, I can cut organizations some slack, for now, especially in cases like this where it looks like someone without the requisite technical expertise was given too much control over technical decisions (i.e. not the engineers' fault). That kind of shit happens all the time even if it ideally shouldn't. But, things have changed and security concerns have gained enough publicity that even clueless middle managers should have some inkling that it's important, so IMVHO if you haven't gotten your shit together security-wise as an organization by the end of this year, you're probably inept enough that I shouldn't be doing business with you.

In the meantime I'll practice the security diligence I preach.
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I didn't use the HTC phone that you mention, but it would be interesting to know if the feature was implemented as well as it is in the iPhone. This feature has literally never failed for me in 2 years of using my iPhone (it sometimes gets false positives when the phone is in my hand, but it's not too bothersome).
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What a horribly wrong comment.

First off, nobody chooses their domain registrar because it provides plain text lost passwords instead of something more secure. That is such a silly claim that I would hope you don't actually believe it. However, people will certainly leave a domain registrar based on an insecure password policy. This is especially true of the people who frequent domain registrar services.

Second, you claim the market is failing. It's doing exactly the opposite. You are commenting on a widely read post with hundreds of comments and many thousands of views that is in the process of putting a black mark on this stupid company as we speak. They will get a nontrivial number of emails and cancellations referring to this post, and I guarantee they change their policy within the month. This is exactly how the market is supposed to work.
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Your comment is wrong on so many levels:

• It's not even on topic. This post is not about general memory usage; it's about fragmentation in the javascript VM – i.e. that a system object existing in a general memory page precludes that page from being garbage collected / deallocated even though the lifetime of system objects is very different. This is not a trivial matter for which the only explanation is laziness.

• It's spoken like someone who's never seriously worked on a large open source project. Memory profiling and leak tracking is done widely and often (using valgrind, mostly).

• You speak as if you know how much memory a web browser should use. How do you know? Have you worked on modern web browsers? Or are you just, as I assume, by fiat deciding that 500 MB is too much?

• There's very often a speed / memory usage tradeoff. At present, especially for web browsers, users tend to prefer speed. (i.e. how many rendered pages do you cache per tab so that clicking the back button is next to instant?)

• The right time to profile and optimize is usually later in the development process. We all know the famous quote. Optimizing early tends to lead to ugly code that, amusingly, is harder to optimize later.
Would love to hear about them. Mind emailing me?
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Do people really need an alternative to Excel? I would suggest that as soon as someone has gotten to the limits of Excel, then they would start looking at a programming language as an alternative, not at a "more better Excel".
I believe that there are also some information-theoretical limits on the efficiency of garbage collection and memory allocation. Don't quote me on that, though.
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How about Apple? They have access or the potential to access a whole bunch of info through that little touch screen life portal everyone clings to on a daily basis. Add in iCloud and their Nuance partnership and you have something pretty interesting.

"Hey iPhone, is there anything fun to do after work?"

It grabs your location, sees you have a late meeting blocked off from 6-7, sees you were watching Transformers 3 trailers a few days ago, sees your buddy Mike tweeted "Transformers 3 looks pretty rad, I definitely want to see that".

It now has an approximate time and location, a pretty good idea of what you're interested in (both long term and short term) based on app data, and can see if any of this aligns with your social graph...

Would you be interested in seeing Transformers 3 at 7:30 with Mike?

"Yes, send him an invitation." iMessage sent with all the details, when you get a yes from him, Fandango launches and you buy your ticket, it gets added to your calendar so you get a reminder after your meeting, maps out directions, etc.

It's a stretch but if anyone can make harvesting that much of your personal info look appealing, it's definitely Apple.
It's worse in law school.
> Some of the books are enormous A lot of people I know get their books cut into smaller pieces and rebound because the books are so heavy.
> Annotating the books is a necessity for many people because there is a lot of difficult reading and you need to find ways to focus on the important bits.

I, for one, would welcome the digitization of as many law schools books as possible.
That reminds me of The Point. Have you seen this talk by Andrew Mason of Groupon? - http://www.justin.tv/c3oorg/b/272030648

I think your marketing problem will be solved if you stop thinking so much about your product and brand and instead start thinking more about your users and their problems.

Have you thought of starting by focusing on one specific type of social problem? What if you helped people all over a city or state report and rally against garbage dumping near their house? If you just focused on that, you might get some momentum and actually change things, which will then give you the credibility and userbase to do other things.

But I'm still not clear how technology helps here.
Luckely, the number is much lower than 15%, and is at about 6.5% based on the usage stats: http://wordpress.org/about/stats/

of those, about half are on PHP4, which you cant expect any major application to support for much longer, the rest are PHP 5.1, which whilst standard with many distro's, what's the point with droping PHP4 support if you don't choose a decent PHP5 version to start with?
I presume that most people who have lots of tabs open, like I do, use addons that make finding tabs fast. I use Tab Kit to organize the tabs in trees, and Pentadactyl to give me fast search that is activated by pressing b. I can't imagine using a browser which doesn't have either or both of these features.
Way to show a total lack of empathy and cold blooded capitalism. There are implied controls and services when offering a product, and Google's downright hostile attitude towards users when they experience problems Google create or helped to create is indefensible.
I don't think you have to worry about getting stuck due to the cold, I don't think the phone will get cold enough for that to happen.
Mail me when its ready to show, I'm interested andrew.stuart at supercoders.com.au

I think I understand your point. AltaVista is nowhere and google is.....

I am also a fan of the original (the french version) Nikita - great shootouts.
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I think you're jumping the gun. He may be talking about benchmarks that represent the user experience. In which case he's guilty at most for using 'benchmark performance' instead of 'user experience'.
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I think if it was built by a small, low cost team it might still be around today. Maybe?
I'm not the most social person to begin with, so I gave it a lot of time, but I just totally failed to make any non-work friends because of stuff like that. I've been here for ~4 years and am so ready to get out West. Of course, it's never as easy to move that far as you'd want it to be.

I remember in Cambridge I could swing downstairs to the neighborhood bar, find a stranger, and strike up a conversation. Maybe it didn't work half as well as I am recalling, but even then, it was better than DC, where it always turns to "where do you work?" And "a startup" has only slightly more cachet than "I'm unemployed."

From a professional standpoint moving here has been great, but from a personal point of view, I think it's the biggest I've made.
Great tutorial if you want to create buttons form scratch in photoshop with and use css sprites.

What I would like to see, is a simple javascript api on top to generate all the nitty gritty css in the browser. That's excatly what sproutcore and sencha touch does.
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What exactly is a "security-critical code path"?

Considering that a pointer mistake in code that you didn't think was security critical might allow execution of arbitrary code, aren't all code paths that might execute, security critical?
I appreciate why people build things like this, but I think that with mobile applications you either need to go truly native (using UIKit), or do something that is distinctly different from the rest of the OS.

Tools like this which kind of, almost, imitate the iOS UI just end up frustrating users when they find that things that work one way everywhere else on their phone work differently here, despite looking like the same thing.
It's easy to look at the problem with Craigslist and think that to challenge it you should build something which does everything that Craigslist does.

AirBNB is a competitor to Craigslist in that it is helping to take it apart piece by piece. Hopefully other YC companies will take on other categories / pieces
He's zooming in so you can see the pixels. He obviously isn't talking about putting giant, stretched-out buttons on an actual site.
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I remember sometime back probably around 2004. There was a lot of noise regarding memory leak in FF. And the expert sounding ones started to claim that there was no memory leak and the very large memory usage in FF was because of browser history and cache storage. Then one year later they all accepted that FF was actually leaking memory.

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My Samsung monitor is like that. Navigating its on-screen menu is an ordeal. I have to look back and forth between the menu and the bottom right of the bezel, where the 'buttons' are, carefully placing my finger for each 'key press'. Forget about trying to do this in low light conditions. But - it was cheap.
I am currently building/have built a web-based spreadsheet with a really unique approach - something that Excel does not and can not do.

I will be presenting this at the Seedcamp in London later in the year. I am really exciting about the project, so I wont be giving anything away here! Unless PG wants to get in touch directly...
The firefox awesome bar has an awesome (haha) feature for that: if you type an address, it will detect wether you have matching tabs open and give you the option to switch instead. It works over multiple tab groups and windows. So: locating a tab is quicker and it keeps the state of the page.
> people need to keep dying or the population increase caused by them not dying is going to make the standard of living for everyone very low

It's very kind of you to offer to make more space for the rest of us. You're welcome to refuse/object-to life extension on moral grounds. Somehow, though, when push comes to shove, I don't think you would.
Which is not what I'm talking about either. I'm just saying it's a bit ironic to need to zoom in on a button to even distinguish any quality differences and then giving the quality award to the method that isn't suitable for scaling.
The problem with image buttons like the ones shown are that they visually break when zoomed in (tested in Chrome). When I zoom in, the right side of the buttons does no longer fit perfectly with the rest of the button: it get moved by some 2 pixels up, while the rest of the button remains in place.

I've experienced this problem on many websites, that's why I try to avoid composite image buttons whenever possible. Either I create a button of only one image(which often can't be reused) or I create if with CSS3 (some compatibility issues).
And what would the corresponding statement have been if they had been cut off from Twitter against their will?

Exactly the same. The quotes offer no evidence as to the motivation.
A couple things here:

1) I simply don't believe your claim that the number of stolen emails is so high that sending password retrieval links via email is unfeasible. This isn't a new problem that is just faced by hover.com, and most solve it without resorting to plain text passwords.

2) You aren't taking a wide enough view here. By storing and sending plaintext passwords you are doing more than making someone's hover.com account insecure. You are creating a weak link that may reveal a user's password that is used in any number of places. If I were to use hover.com, and someone got access to your DB, they would get my 2nd tier PW and instantly have access to my Facebook account and a number of other things that could cause havoc in my life. This seems obvious, but there is little to no acknowledgement of this fact in the post above.

3) Trust has been lost, as account security is clearly not a priority among your engineers. You may change things, but those changes will be made by someone who thought storing plain text passwords and sending those passwords in email is OK. Even after passwords are no longer sent around via email, who knows what kinds of other security flaws will remain that aren't clearly explained on the corporate blog?

With all this being said, it's great that you came here to acknowledge fault. Best of luck to you, but I have to say that I won't ever be a customer.
Andrew, have you ever worked in a business environment? People get scared for some humble sql, how the hell are you going to convince them to learn programming (also vba is a problem)? Plus, what about cost/opportunity? Would you prefer to pay 10/20$ per month per person to improve their excel efficiency or either paying custom code or coding training?

Point is, there must be a market out there for some functionalities that Excel does not have, it also should not be that difficult to build such a solution (call it a hunch, but I think with nosql that should be really easy to do). But the whole thing requires stopping thinking logically (of course excel makes no sense) and start thinking business(ly) (how do I get people to understand and use my solution).
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Experts are sometimes wrong. That doesn't change the fact that they're right vastly more often than non-experts.
Good question. Perhaps web forms are thought of as a kind of CAPTCHA, the idea being that any ol' bot can send e-mail, but it takes a human -- or a bot specifically written for the site by a human -- to fill out a form.

Note: I'm not endorsing this thought; I'm just trying to get inside the heads of the people who make these awful things.

EDIT: Another possibility is that they want a way to easily tell how to route a communication from a customer. And web forms can contain those menus that tell the reason for the communication. (Tragically, those menus rarely work for me; my reason is not usually not on the list.)
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No problem, when I have time I send you an email. I would like to discuss this myself to see if there are cheances to build something in this direction.
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Of course no. After being founder and owner of few companies for the last ±5 yrs, i cant imagine myself working for ANY COMPANY i dont own(significant part of at least)
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They're competing with a specific part of Craigslist, namely short-term accommodations.

Other companies are competing with other parts of Craigslist (e.g. StubHub)
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> But if I'm going to take over an adequately maintained code base, I'd rather it be in a static language, because more of the intent is explicit

Out of interest would you feel the same if both codebases had adequate test coverage?

In the post one of the reasons given was that with a static language you can pretty much guarantee that a dataflow is going to work, that you won't be caught out by getting the wrong type. I'd see this being most useful at the edges of the system, and in those cases incoming data would normally go through some validation anyway (including through a schema in many cases) which would normally make clear the types involved.

Having said that I do think in those cases being able to specify types can makes things slightly easier for newcomers, I'm just surprised its seen as a big enough advantage to be one of the key motivators to switching language.
I find it hard to believe that some kind of agreement won't be reached, whether it'll be a sensible one or not, but it's certainly fair to say that there's a chance of disaster, and that a US default would be an awful lot worse than a Greek one.