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Concern couldn't have been the case this time, though, because people found out about the kid's illness by randomly checking Facebook.

In conclusion, I find my one sentence analysis to be largely accurate.
There seems to be a big trend to try to expose 37signals as actually some sort of evil company or to diminish their image. Which makes sense due to their popularity and claims of excellence (which I think are, in this case, valid).
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like passed it through myself. good article
Not surprising; on the whole, women aren't keen on bleeding edge technology.
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Honeycomb adds the equivalent of the "up" button you're describing here. The convention is that in the upper left corner of a screen there's a button that takes you to your "home within the app" (e.g. the inbox for Gmail). I expect that this will filter into phone UIs with Ice Cream Sandwich.
My thought upon reading that (having recently relocated to SF): They have an office in the most expensive corner of SOMA... and yet they're expecting you to ramen it? That better come with one FAT piece of equity.

When you tell people to take a 6-figure salary cut and starting "$5 subs like it's going out of style" the next line should be about the top-notch equity package they're offering.

Also, expecting people to act like it's a garage-ramen startup when you have an office in the most expensive corner of startup-town is a bit of a non-sequitor.
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Ah, I obviously mentally filtered the "/2i" from the URL so I thought I was already on the home page. :)

Your additional "create your own" link makes this clearer.

It would be nice if it was more obvious that the URL is referring to a specific location--perhaps provide the option to "name" the location? This would enable you to be more verbose with "How far away are you from _a seller in San Francisco_?" for example.

Even changing the wording/layout to something like might help:

Heading: How far away are you [from]?
far.to/2i
Enter your address and you can find out how many miles and how long it would take to drive to this location.
You may be joking (I can't tell), but it's true that early adopters skew sharply male. Some estimates on various projects put the male/female ratio at 10:1 or even higher. If Google gets better than 30% female in this early beta period, I will be very impressed with their making-tech-attractive-to-women skillz.
I have seen crashed ESX servers with unreadable error messages while no information or support except PR and forums full of new users trying to convince themselves they did right choice. (post-purchase rationalizations).
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Oops! I totally meant that Spotify doesn't have those bands. Rdio definitely does.

You guys have a fantastic product. It's easy to stick with it.
Since a Visa for H1B is a defined to be a 3-year, temporary permit, then the purpose of this legislation is to take U.S. investments and export it to foreign countries. Either that or to expedite creating a bubble in the manner of the dot-com era.
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Accident my ass, this comes just in time for the rumors, thrill, and "social need" to combat the with the release of Google+
What can irritate me about the menu button is that you don't know whether there's anything available unless you press it. It is particularly annoying when you think options should be available and they're not (or they're not where you think they should be).

Honeycomb cleans this up with the action bar. The action bar is on top of the screen and contains whatever actions are currently available. If there are more actions available than what can be fit in the bar, then they get put in a visible overflow menu. The key improvement here is that the action bar is (almost) always visible, so you can quickly glance at it to see what actions are possible (rather than the more complex menu-button flow).
You forgot:

"Sure, I'll be happy to recommend friends who know how to write iOS apps to you...if you give me a cut of your take."
Dartmouth does this as well, and I agree the interface sucks in browsers. Especially since most browsers will gladly show expired certificates for you to choose so you have to manually prune your list.
That sounds like such an obvious and fairly simple solution. Thanks for the explanation!
I always tell them to check the local user group(s). Great range of talent and willing to hear a one min pitch.

Talented people network for themselves. They know the shops, the recruiters, the heavies, and up-and-coming...
Look for local user group(s) on http://meetup.com

Bay Area Android & iOS groups have 50-300 attendees each month.
I wonder if socl.com was available or bought for $s!!! Mostly bought, because thats too cliche a name to be left lurking.
The main thing to do after this is leverage this and get written up again and again.

You can google search for "How to contact a journalist/blogger." Basically, you want to appear everywhere within two months of the first major news story.
What is this, Google people rank for users' attention span on a given topic?
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The more niche you are, the more effective Adwords will be. High volume/low margin rarely makes sense on Adwords, because you'll face death by a thousand cuts by people who can target better, make bigger margins, bid higher and get better QS.

For businesses that can best exploit Adwords targeting, it can be breathtakingly effective. I've dealt with specialist contractors who saw 25000% ROI on their Adwords spend. Search terms like "loan consolidation" and "car insurance" cost tens of dollars per click and are absolutely worth that much.
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over 40% of the top users listed on both sites cited by the article don't work as a software engineer. The majority of people I have in my circles are not software engineers. Assuming I am the average person then my own experience conflicts with that.

However that wasn't my point, neither of the sources they cite (findpeopleonplus.com, socialstatistics.com) back up this assertion. If you look at findpeopleonplus, it says out of the 947,996 people it has that 65,733 are an engineer/developer type. That's less than 10%.
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You doing what?

Yes, there are many this or that, but in general, Open Source model works just because it is community driven. That means if your project or some critical part of it (scheduler or implementation of TCP) is really important to users it will receive almost constant code reviews ans quality improvements. This was the story behind nginx, openssh and thousands more.

Of course, some parts of project might be considered less relevant and users are satisfied with code that just works.

One can achieve better code quality than fanatics, nerds or very experienced programmers could show only by hiring such people for doing what they like to do. Mediocre wage-workers can't produce anything near it. Look at nginx's or openbsd's or postfix sources.

Please, try to imagine number of installations of both products. mySQL runs on almost every crappy hosting in the world. And on Facebook. ^_^

I don't way to say that mySQL is great product. What I want to say is that it is good enough and stable enough. Otherwise there will be no usage of it.

btw, outsourcing is all about cost reduction, not quality increase. ^_^
These are the kind of ideas that I say to myself, "I wish I thought of that."

Simple idea, simple execution, easy to understand, markets itself... It's great. Can't wait to try it out!
I'll probably be working on it most of saturday afternoon in Peets in Berkeley, if anyone is interested.
Former recruiter here: recruiters get paid based on the fact that they submitted the candidate first. They do not get paid if the candidate came to them previous. I once got someone multiple rounds of interviews at a hedge fund, only to find out that he'd applied and been rejected three months earlier (apparently luck plus a good cover letter radically improves your odds).

The recruiting fee on a software developer is likely to be $20K+. Half or so would be the recruiter's bonus.

How often do you put a stranger in a position where he or she can casually cost you $10,000 with no repercussions?

I can totally understand where the average developer is coming from, here. But most recruiters run the numbers and decide they'd rather work with the folks who don't need to know the company name. There's room for people who do both, but the behavior this letter decries is normal for a reason.
tulalip? that had better be a codename.
Companies won't pay 15m for HR acquisitions. Try 3-5.

But yes, statistically, even 15m exits don't affect our returns much.

(Your hypothetical case is also off, because you forget dilution and operating expenses. A 15m acquisition would fund less than a third of a batch.)
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If you just compare to companies in the semiconductor industry or other various "behind the scenes" players, practically all of them have billions of dollars in revenue.

So Google earning $9 Billion isn't as big of a deal as everyone thinks it is when you put it in context of the whole high tech industry.
"I don’t mind hosting in SF.. we could seat about 10 (with chairs) or 15-20 (if 10 people don’t mind taking the floor…"

mochaleaf.com posted in the comments that they are hosting one in SF.
Completely anecdotal counter-response:

In many of the social circles I move in (including the preponderance of my college friends, an extended music crowd here in LA, friends from high school when my focus was primarily sports, etc.) I either am or have often felt like a (the?) nerd among normals.

I enjoyed the opportunity to observe as a large group of people—regardless of their personal affinity for technology—attempted to determine how they were going to make Facebook a part of their lives when it went live my freshman year of college.

I joined Twitter during sxsw 2007 when its first big buzz (among us geeks) happened, then waited for the better part of two years before almost anyone I know IRL joined.

I've been watching closely the adoption rates on G+ within the confines of my unscientifically generated social network, and it's been interesting. No real observations yet, but in terms of raw numbers:

I've currently got over 100 people in circles, but less a cadre of internet personalities, there are 58 whom I know personally. 34 men. 24 women.

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It's probably codenamed after Tulalip Bay in Washington state.
"Kimo's high expectations set a new pace for me. He taught me the standard pace is for chumps - that the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you're more driven than just anyone - you can do so much more than anyone expects. And this applies to ALL of life - not just school".

I wish someone had told me this while I was in school.
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As usual, flat wrong for my subset of Google+ Circles. Almost everywhere but on Hacker News (on Facebook too), my circle of online friends consists of married women with children, because a big part of my online communicating is about educating children, and that is a subject that skews to having more women than men follow it. I am seeing an exploding community of homeschoolers and teachers and parents whose children are in organizations for gifted children swelling my Google+ network.

I will agree that my networks, like most online networks, include more computer industry professionals by percentage than I regularly encounter in daily life in my neighborhood. It's not surprising that modes of communication that involve computers are more comfortable for people--male or female--who use computers to make a living.
i would add a link to this book http://goo.gl/w6BQp by Joel Spolsky.
it gives great insight into what makes developers tick. Recruiters would benefit greatly from understanding that good developers are rare, and in high demand, and they are not going to respond to your email just because you've named some technologies that they've worked with.

Most job descriptions make no effort in enticing good talent. it's the here-is-what-you-MUST-know laundry list along with vague generic write up on the company. And most recruiters just forward this garbage to everyone on their list that somewhat matches the skill set.
A shotgun or a rifle, both are pointed at targets. But yes, some would prefer a cleaner kill. What I'm saying is those who Target their customers better help mostly just themselves and there is no need to lie about it. At least for the publics benefit.
I think this is an interesting poll since I've wondered of the make-up of hacker news visitors too..though I am pretty sure there was a similar type of poll already done in the past.
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Okay. I understand what you meant now. I see this mostly as a consequence of tagging: since all the messages are in the same store, it makes sense to get messages from the same thread no matter the choice of tags you're viewing. I think it's true that Gmail was the first to do that.

[By the way, people are still busy porting these features back to native clients for power users. See http://sup.rubyforge.org/ and http://notmuchmail.org/.]
I have enormous respect for designers, and I know full well that I, a programmer, can't do what you do and that anything I might produce that puts pixels on a screen benefits immensely from a qualified designer's input. That said, those are poor arguments.

1. Tough? Learn to think better. What would we tell a programmer who doesn't want to use recursion because they "think in loops"? What would you tell a carpenter who didn't want use screws to put your new furniture together because he "thinks in glue"? Units of measure are a tool, and your facility (or lack thereof) with a tool doesn't affect how good it is.

2. I actually admit to some ignorance about browser scaling algorithms, so you may be entirely right here. In any case, I think it's the least important of the issues at play.

3. I submit that it's more important to make sure that your users can use your websites in a way that's comfortable to them, rather than that they should be able to bask in the glow of your unsullied brilliance. I don't mean that I should be able to randomly change fonts around because today I like Georgia and tomorrow I'm going to like Chicago. I'm wondering what happens when your site suddenly starts getting traffic from Israel, and all your new users are using Google Translate to turn it into Hebrew. Not only do your font choices go out the window, but all your ragged right just became ragged left, and some page elements may have have spontaneously rearranged themselves. (See http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h..., for example.) Or what if some of your users are colorblind or elderly or dyslexic, or just have trouble reading your type selection for any of a myriad of reasons? Is it more important that your design should remain just how you like it, or that they should be allowed to read it? Before you answer, read this: http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/07/14/harry-potter-and-the-oh-... It's not about web accessibility, but the major themes are still there.

One of the incredible things about the web is that not only do we have the power to make the content we're producing available to an extraordinarily diverse population, we have the power to make it so that they can all read it in a format that works for them, as individuals. When you have to design a poster that's going to get sent to a printer and plastered over bus stops, everyone waiting all over town is going to see the same poster. When you design a web page, everyone who sees it gets a separate stream of bytes and a separate display to see it on. Why not let each user find the best web page for them, instead of forcing them all to see the best web page for you?
BrowserID is a good first step, but ultimately as a website owner I'd much rather authenticate with Twitter/Facebook, since it makes it easier for me to figure out who the user is/ask them to share with friends.

Identity is cool, but Facebook is winning the 3rd party connect game right now because it offers websites syndication, which is more valuable than just authentication.

I'd love to see a BrowserID that can also grant permissions to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
It's also about making git not error-prone, which the current timestamp approach seems to do.
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Just like the people who bought Android phones specifically because they are Android phones.
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NPR.org still uses it. And it's a great example of MT's potential.
Why should I believe that "The Smartest Man in Europe" is anything other than a sock puppet talking up Blackstone's book?
Different was the wrong word. How is it any better(for the targeted) is the question. The assumption that " I know you'll like this" is at best a horrible guess and a lie at worst. I question the belief that tracking a few purchases gives one the ability to have insight into anothers desire to buy your shit.
Ah! I knew I was going to stumble upon Linus' signature "that's total and utter bullshit" somewhere: http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg161348.html
Last month Microsoft likely acquired Social.com for $2.6 million[1], then this domain Socl.com through the same company. Suddenly this domain has a social site on it (still in Google Cache) and they claim it's just a MSR project? Not a chance.

1: http://fusible.com/2011/07/rumor-microsoft-to-launch-its-own...
BrowserID only fixes those issues if it ends up as the only game in town. Otherwise, it's simply going to be tacked onto the end of a daunting list of other OpenID / BrowserID providers that users will have to choose from.
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New versions of git will actually go back and generate this information for old commits. This will lead to git being slightly slower when in old repositories until all the commits contain the generation information, but that should happen fairly quickly.
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Thanks everyone for the comments. Found a relating discussion on Stack Overflow too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1690197/what-does-google-...
I never said that there wasn't a problem. I'm simply saying that the solutions we've come up with so far have not yielded a net gain. If anything, the site owners that I know who have incorporated OpenID / Facebook Connect / etc. into their sign up / login forms have said that they have to answer more questions from users having login issues than ever before.
It is pronounced two-lay-lip, if that makes it seem less insane.
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yeah, was already planning to pass along the mashable story to other industry specific writers and ask 'em "did you catch our mashable writeup?" and hopefully it could snowball from there.

i know when lifehacker picked us up out of the blue a year ago, a number of random smaller stories resulted from the domino effect.

i'm mainly concerned with how we can make sure the story is just spread across as many channels as possible as it's still fresh.

any message boards or communities that would help spread? (obv HN could be a great source...)
Here is how I understand the problem.

At the moment, each commit stores a reference to the parent tree. By parsing that tree and reading the entire history you can obtain a hierarchy of commits. Because you need to order commits in many situations, reading the entire history is extremely inefficient, so git uses timestamps to determine the ordering of commits. This of course fails if the system clock on a given machine is off. With a generation number, you can get an ordering locally from the latest commits, without having to rely on timestamps or read the entire tree.

When you have a commit with generation n, any later commits that include it wound have generation >n, so to tell the relation between commits, you only need look as far back as n, and you can immediately get the order of any intermediate commits. It has nothing to do with "easy to remember". It's about making git more efficient and robust.
Still, an interesting read nonetheless.
Yup. The only thing I know about Tulalip is there's a casino there with a really annoying jingle they play on ads in Vancouver.
Don't forget, when Apple gave it that name, there were no additional app screens, nor a search screen. Home was screen 1; there was no other option
I was talking about the case where the timestamps are off. I don't think there is any way to fix that.
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Suppose my salary consists of base, bonuses, social (retirement and savings funds, medical insurance), and stocks. Which do you count to get to this number?
It's their traditional "don't commit your efforts to our competitor - our product is just around the corner".
I concur. We operate a boring retail operation, but there are still plenty of technical challenges, from automating warehouse operations to building elegant and generic conflict resolution systems for promotions, taxation, etc.

At risk of offending the HN echo chamber, I would argue that boring enterprises often offer greater technical challenge than "yet another photo sharing app" startups do. Of course, as Twitter demonstrates, the simplest application becomes a technical challenge at scale.
It's especially annoying 'cause they're borderline invading my business idea that I'm implementing. Come'n, gamification should be the next big thing.. but let it be the next big thing 2 years from now, NOT now =)
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The rest will stay where they are.
For all you social types, are you weary yet? I guess I am finally being rewarded for being somewhat introverted...one less website to sign up for.
Maybe, in the same sense that Volkswagen is a clone of Ford. Adapting a successful idea to a new market is interesting and hard, and often results in new ideas.
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