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> I don't understand your position.

That's fully understandable. I based my comment on several misunderstandings.

So, with my newfangled knowledge, I might say that "self publishing of epub books" would become awesome if it were more common. Instead, however, I will refrain from digging myself deeper into this hole :)
We at spottiness.com are very interested in this line of work. I can see the appeal of the simplicity of the solution you propose. On the other hand, in many cases the invitees would prefer to not have their emails associated with their comments anywhere (your service would have that information internally). That is an interesting problem.
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Is there a grid at all? It make it hard to line things up. I was trying to select more than one object, to try aligning, but I couldn't figure out how. No shift click or option click or command click.
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I know. I meant it somewhat ironically. ;P
This actually brings up a question for me as a chemistry grad student...how can I find people like the OP that are looking for freelancers? Sounds like an opportunity for a website here.
Good article.

While I don't follow the app market that closely, it seems as if all of the new apps I see aim to enhance very specific functions of human life. Five years from now, with a mature market, seemingly just about every moment of my day could be enhanced by the use of a mobile application.

When this time comes, how am I suppose to organize and manage all of these applications? I have enough going on in my life without having 500 different applications to manage. Are any companies working toward aggregating related applications to create "definitive" applications?

For example, I play guitar. I don't want to have 50 different apps for tuning, techniques, music theory, etc. I just want a single "definitive guitar app" that covers everything. The same principle could be applied to daily functions across the board.

Who's doing this?
Careful with that validates? function. Your OTP only changes every 30 seconds by default. At six digits, you're at non-trivial risk of just getting hit by exhaustive search in that interval. Additionally, since the == method on strings short circuits in Ruby, if they wanted to get really tricky they could possibly even get local network access and do a timing attack on you. (At 30 seconds a go and only 10^6 possibilities it would probably be easier to exhaustively search, though.)
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It would be fun if this approach was also used for the Google+ Circles, so you could have anonymous conversations within a circle.
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Agreed, when I am approached to create a game or app for someone the idea is just dead on arrival. The worst part is, the people coming to me are friends, and it's terribly hard when I have to break their hearts. Usually it's not me being mean, it's me saying, hey, let's go to the App Store and see what else is out there like this - and usually, there are 10 pages of similar apps that nobody has ever downloaded.

People have game ideas all the time too - but they want to make MONEY with their game, and to do that, you need a strategy more than just a concept.
How else should we determine market capitalization then? If that were in the article it would have been worth a read.
Not much to add but to say it's great to read about people with both knowledge and a solid passion in what they do. I wonder how we can seek out these kinds of "big" problems and push energy their way rather than trying to create just more social fluff..
The last transaction is a reasonable way to access market cap when a reasonable number of the shares are out in the open for free trading. 2/3s of Google shares are floating, so what the last trades happened at determine the worth to a reasonable approximation. When just a tiny, tiny sliver of the shares are floating freely, these transactions are a terrible way to access the grand worth of the company.

You don't need to extrapolate much further from the 0.01% of the shares bought in this transaction to see how ridiculous that is. That's how 37signals became a $100B company with a $1 investment following the same template.
One of the co-founders here; we entirely agree that the concept works better in large numbers. We're particularly interested in how the site could be used for those larger classroom or office discussions, as a way to increase productivity and generate more innovative ideas. It could be really useful for social circles as well, but the group would likely have to be more than 10 people.
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Presuming you're using WordPress, this will help: http://thingsthatarebrown.com/blog/2010/05/dont-get-fireball...
As is often reiterated on Hacker News:

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Implementation is everything.
@cschmidt - Thank you for trying it out
The grid is there under the container section http://www.mockuptiger.com/how-to-build-table-grids

You can use the rubberband to select multiple and then use the align buttons in the top toolbar.

You can use ctrl+click. Shift click is not supported.
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If I understand right it means that SSL compression is disabled by early OpenSSL versions so they are disabling it in node (presumably for compatibility?)

I may have misunderstood. I can't actually think of a better way to word that.
The existing pens are intended only for minor PCB repairs. They are terribly expensive, as in $100/oz, have high resistance, and cannot be drawn with smoothly (like a pen). They are also not intended for the kind of flexing that you see on a piece of paper.

Example (0.3oz for $30): http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000B5YDT8

Historically, you've been better off using conductive silver thread for flexible and on-the-fly circuits. Still expensive and resistive, but tolerably so.

Example (82 ohms/ft, $5/yd): http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8544
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Facebook makes advertising money through user profiling and only from within their site. Google makes advertising money just from the fact that you're using the web. Google is able to do more though profiling, but they have the flexibility and hindsight to do it less intrusively. Remember, Google's properties are more spread out than Facebook's (and AdSense is almost everywhere). So with Google you don't even have to be logged in for them to advertise to you.
Yup, it's in the Apache incubator.
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You will be able to change the font. I just set the initial font but never got to change it. sorry about that
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Thank you for trying it out The grid is there under the container section http://www.mockuptiger.com/how-to-build-table-grids
You can use the rubberband to select multiple and then use the align buttons in the top toolbar.
You can use ctrl+click. Shift click is not supported.
Perhaps you can try translating the message to another language and back. Then present the resulting text to the user for corrections. The resulting grammar and punctuation could be very different than the original.
From my experience, for B2C to work you need social influence or lots of cash to promote your product. Critical mass is a must and don't expect revenue until you reach it. Being good at raising funds is also extremely important in B2C.

B2B on the other hand, can start turning revenue with your first customer. Also, the benefit of not necessarily needing that critical mass is very helpful. You can sell your product to your first customer, with B2C good luck even giving it away unless the hype machines are talking about it.
High barrier to entry and costs are part of the cause of the problem: If more people were allowed to qualify to practice, lowering rates and expanding the search for a better business model, the legal industry would be more flexible, cheaper, and accessible for the public.
just to clarify, we don't associate emails with individual comments even in our backend. Emails of those invited appear at the top of the discussion page. Each comment can be posted independently of whatever email is up there.
It's quite the opposite actually. Taxes are crucial to fund health care, education, law, police, army, etc. all things that make people's liberty. As unexciting as it might sound, taxes are fundamental to any organized society which provides the infrastructure for contractual business.
Perhaps you could run each message through Google translate or something similar (e.g. English -> French -> English) to obfuscate the writing style. Otherwise, as others have already pointed out, it is very indicative of who the author is.
But the participant would have to take your statement at face value.
I don't think it looks bad; it helps to maintain the integrity of the tournament, encouraging fair contestants.
very nice idea. I had an idea similar to this but it didn't involve the anonymous aspect you bring in.

It would be good if you included markdown
This is sweet. Too bad I don't know rails...it's on my todo list though. Would love to get this same functionality setup for my site, nicestperson.com but sadly this is written in PHP (which apparently was the language that cave men coded in). I love the name auto fill functionality too. Works really fast. Great job!
This could easily mangle the original meaning of the message, as www.translationparty.com gracefully demonstrates.

I suppose that the user could take a second to approve the recycled message before sending it though.
As a non-admin user, I haven't really noticed. Not because I still get a lot of spam but because it hasn't been a problem for me for a few years now and it continues to be not-a-problem.

With that in mind it makes sense that the levels are dropping... spam filters have gotten good enough to make spamming not worth the trouble in terms of effort/return (especially given the increased risk of a successful anti-spam lawsuit against you as a spammer), so the levels drop, mostly invisibly to the users who weren't seeing the majority of the spam in the first place.
I also mentioned that idea below :)
As someone who hasn't tried Google+:

Is it implemented as a UI of Gmail, or is it its own site?
And I just saw it as somebody having fun at the beach, which I think goes along with what the book is trying to say (you can have fun building what you want).
I think the social circle aspect might be overrated. How often do you need to speak anonymously within a group of friends, unless you're trying to stage an intervention or something?
True, and yes, marketing is always a problem. If you need any help, feel free to contact me through the site or by leaving a comment there.
Thanks for the reminder, I totally forgot I have his book Infinite Intensity lying around, been wanting to look into that for quite some time now.
The title's a little suggestive. It was an 'enhancement' bug request, and the response was that it should be implemented as an extension. Then it was marked WONTFIX. The assignee thought it sounded cool.
To lend some credence to the "it's easy to tell who's writing what", we recently used Rypple as a team review aid for team members to anonymously ask for feedback from the rest of the team.

It was immediately obvious who was writing what. Granted, we had a relatively low population of people writing feedback (5), but I'd imagine it wouldn't change much until you had at least twice as many people.
I foresee this having hilarious unintended consequences.
This was certainly the right decision. Mozilla and Google have much different goals, and it would have been silly for Mozilla to commit the necessary resources to this idea when the benefits to Mozilla and the customer are not guaranteed. Implementing this properly could take over a year and the end result may not even improve the product.

Google decided to go forward with this project because the corporation will greatly benefit if it succeeds. Mozilla does not have the correct payoff to take the risk.
The user would have to correct the resulting text anyways.
Out of curiosity, why short FB?

To me, shorting a single equity seems really risky. Even if you think the current Facebook product and business is overvalued, Mark Zuckerberg and company have an incredible track record of making smart pivots and growing the company.

Betting against the current business might be somewhat smart, but betting against that team? That sounds really risky to me. They could take the company anywhere and are clearly committed to doing just that. I'd put them in the same league as Jobs, Bezos, et cetera. And shorting Amazon or Apple anytime in the past decade would have proved disastrous.
You don't need to extrapolate much further from the 0.01% of the shares bought in this transaction to see how ridiculous that is. That's how 37signals became a $100B company with a $1 investment following the same template

Extrapolating to the one-dollar case is extrapolating too far. Whoever bought 0.01% of facebook, they were investing real money which they didn't want to lose.

... or were they? If the buyer were already a big facebook shareholder I suppose they might just be trying to build up the company's on-paper valuation prior to the float. Does GSV own a chunk of facebook already?
This seems to be about concrete language (as it says) rather than about programmers' habit of being 'painfully articulate', ie being really, to the point of overly, clear. I wonder though whether /that/ also makes you more credible.

Along similar lines, using E Prime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime) helps clarity and avoids /one/ source of conceptual fuzziness.
This looks really cool, I like the layout. I have been working on something similar, (http://mobilethread.com), which lets you setup/join anonymous chat threads and is designed to run in a smartphone web browser. I got around the emails issue by creating a unique URL for each thread which you can then email/SMS/embed in a QR code. When joining, a user automatically gets a random name or they can set their own. Finally, anything you post gets removed after four hours, inactive threads get removed after a week. I decided against Captcha but did implement thread creation/message flood limits.
Music that puts your brain into flow[1] - I have a special playlist for that. The Tron soundtrack fits well if you omit the parts of Jeff Bridges talking - background talk is extremely distracting.

Exit email - I check it mornings, lunch and half an hour before stopping work. Omit mornings if you're already motivated to get right into your actual work.

Get a quiet, distraction-free environment. If you don't have an office with a door, claim a meeting room. Put a "don't disturb or I'll cut you" sign on the door. Be prepared to cut invaders until they learn. Tell them to email you and expect to wait half a day for a response. Tell your manager how important it is not to be disturbed and get them on your side (assuming they want you to get stuff done, that shouldn't be too hard), so they protect you from invaders instead of being one. Working from home can work, if you don't have family or other distractions around.

Staying late works, but your brain is probably not at it's best performance near the end of a working day.

Keep a to-do list[2] and go over it once a day, prioritising important tasks and breaking items that are too complex ("write LDAP authentication plugin") down into simpler steps ("find python module for LDAP support", "figure out our LDAp server's hostname", ...).

Take breaks. If you're stumped on something, go take a quick break (I make myself a cup of tea), but keep the problem in mind and don't interact with others during your break if possible. You will sometimes find that a great solution comes to you without thinking about it (because the non-dominant part of your brain will submit solutions).[3]

If you're really stumped, worked on another part of the problem and come back later. You might come up with a good solution while sleeping on it or working on the other part.

Phones are an evil relic of the past, when people thought they had a right to intrude on other peoples time whenever they pleased. Turn it off. If you're writing code for a living, only your boss and your SO should have your phone number and they should damn well know to not use it unless there's a real emergency that requires your immediate attention.

And last but not least: Make sure you're working on something you WANT to work on. Otherwise you will procrastinate, no matter the consequences. If you are working on something you don't give a shit about, or worse, you actively hate your work, think about why and go fix it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

[2] http://culturedcode.com/things/ (Mac) or http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ (Web) are nice

[3] can't find this article: How the classic concept of brain hemispheres is wrong, but we still have dominant and subordinate "halves" and how most techies are logical dominated and the non-dominant "half" will only get a word in if the dominant part shuts up for a moment (which is why you have good ideas whilst going for a walk, taking a shower or making a cup of tea)
As I remember it (and it is a long time ago), one of the key promises of Longhorn was it was to make .Net a peer of Win32.

I don't recall that, and I don't think it would make sense (although I'm not saying it wasn't the case). Win32 provides so many services it would be foolish to reimplement them. And .NET and Win32 come from the same company. If there was a feature that the .NET team needed exposed, it would probably be easier to get them from the Windows team than to plumb it themselves in a subsystem.
In my experience, Crossfit trainers are good at coaching form. Their top priority is getting you to do the movement and get a good workout, but when somebody has bad form, they coach them a lot and make sure they use light weights or no weights at all until their form is good enough to lift safely. I always had terrible deadlift form and wasn't able to correct it until I got some coaching at Crossfit. They fixed me up quickly, got on my ass when I got sloppy, and within two months of starting, I was lifting more than my previous deadlift PR -- 45 times in a single workout. (Granted, my deadlift form was atrocious. I was squatting 40% more than I deadlifted and had basically given up on it before I went to Crossfit.)

The better your form, the more you can safely lift, and the more you can lift, the higher the work rate you can achieve. That's the logic that drives the Crossfit trainers I've worked with. Crossfit isn't consistent from location to location, though, so what you say may be true.
Auto spellcheck + auto grammar adjust would help some, but you'd still have troubles because of habitual use of colloquialisms.
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It is often used to show that something took a long time to do, although rarely do you see so many occurrences in one sentence!
I'd love to see this done in South Central Los Angeles.
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I think it is actually a good point. Because there is very little liquidity for facebook stock at the moment and no way to short the stock, it is very easy for 2 or 3 investors to collude and just for $6.5 million, increase the stake of other investors by billions of dollars.

This is also what happens in real estate markets in some cities in India. 2 or 3 property brokers (real estate agents) will come together to buy a plot of land at double the existing price and create a lot of hype in newspapers around that. And with a small investment they increase the value of their portfolio many fold. Something like this can be happening here also as FB is still not public.
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For a counter argument to the "Locavore" movement, I recommend reading "Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly" by Jame E McWilliams.[1]

As others more knowledgeable on the subject than me have stated (in various places), eating less red meat greatly improves the environment and your health. An example of eating less red meat would be treat it as a side dish instead of the main dish.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Just-Food-Where-Locavores-Responsibly/...
[If] Microsoft were serious about the cloud, it would have released a true Web-based version of Office.

So, by the same token, Apple isn't serious about the cloud either?
The practice of using a "shelf" corporation to convince customers that a newly-formed company has existed for several years hardly seems "100% legit" to me. It may be technically legal, but it's definitely deceptive to one's customers.
They have a kind of loose definition of what they call beta. Consider how long GMail was in "beta" when in reality it was pretty much a finished project.

It's true that the invite system worked for gmail, but it's a bit different because gmail still has fundamental value if you are on it and literally none of your friends are.
Tracking your source of traffic is definitely one of the more credible and consistent strategies from this article. Similar methods have been used successfully for measuring the effectiveness of online ads to determine where your viewers originate. Understanding the nature and location of discovery of your app is crucial.
I already do. I prefer Pidgin's UI anyways. (Also, the chats are logged by gmail anyways, so if I want to use Google's search for the logs over grep, I still have that option)