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I'd prefer this as well. The richest competitive ecosystem is always preferable. What I was addressing was the assertion that all players "needed" to be balanced. Necessity is not equivalent to preference. I'd prefer that all players be roughly equivalent, but in order to avoid a monopoly I'll settle for two major dominant competitors.
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I wonder where LiveScribe fits into people's personal productivity system. Is anyone using it successfully?
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/apple-fan... is quite interesting in this regard. I know its focused on Apple users, but I wouldn't be surprised if you get similar results by putting evangelists for different platforms through the experiment.
I was going to ask "why 'unfortunately'?" and then I realized that you mean a fork of pypy, not of psycopg2. Unfortunately indeed...
That's my point. They are not selling "design inspirations". They are selling designer products, and it would be nice if they specified the types of products they are selling.

"Design" is so generic, it can mean many things - a desktop wallpaper, a skin for Firefox, a knitting pattern.
As a resident of Waterloo and student at UWaterloo, I can tell you this does not represent the opinion of the student body. It is true, UW has got a lot of benefit from RIM and we are very grateful, but half of us have also interned there, so know from experience that the company has a lot of problems they need to work out.

I use an iPhone. Most of my friends have a Nexus S or other androids.
tl;dr the author attended MicroConf2011, enjoyed the overall experience, but disagreed with (aspects of) Noah Kagan's presentation and ended up throwing a bottle of hot sauce at the presenter.

The rambling, ranting writing style removed all of the author's credibility in my eyes. The writing focused on the author's actions and feelings, rather than the facts of the day. The fact that the author threw a bottle of hot sauce does not help portray a level-headed narrator either. The author may be providing a legitimate case and outcry against sexism, but when the author reduces it to matter of their own ego and hurt feelings, I do not give it any credence.
If RIM wants to survive it should do what other hi-tech businesses faced by both higher quality and more agile overseas competitors do.

Lobby it's friends in Ottawa to require all cell phones in Canada to be made by a Canadian owned company.
I'm... so confused. This doesn't actually seem to have anything to do with android and everything to do with AdSense.
That doesn't mean that the two largest parties remain the most powerful forever. That's what makes it a theory.

For instance, look at state of the Canadian Parliament. For the longest time, the Conservative and Liberal parties were the two largest parties generally swapping power every couple of years. Now we see the Liberals have severely dropped in the power with the rise of the NDP to become the Official Opposition and being the second most voted party in Parliament. Even the Conservatives, who the hold, only garnered 40% of Canadian votes.

Again, what you're saying is a theory and it isn't even always the case.
sorry... grids float, no?
I shal try this out. Will post response here.
That's actually quite awesome -- I am amazed that I went on for this long needing something like this yet not getting the idea to write it.

Not strictly related to the project, but I think it would be a good idea if posts that introduced some javascript project/tool automatically loaded it into the page. This way developers could just open the browser's console and play around with it instantly.
While I enjoy using MongoDB where appropriate, this example provided is somewhat of a straw man fallacy because it's missing the part of the transaction which decrements from the total number of each item available.

Edit: To address the issue of the total number decrement needed above, there is the two-phase commit, but then you're getting into something that isn't a transaction, by definition, and is more along the lines of eventual consistency.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/two-phase+commit
jQAPI is indeed a much better choice. The jQuery API browser linked to (which is also horribly out of date) has been "superseded" by http://api.jquery.com/
Those slides just apply his "best practices" using the tips in his presentation.
For more info on what Microconf was about (and some good take-aways) check out this podcast here: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-46-mi...
I use it on each and every Facebook post. Not sure how people live without it.
An open foundation could work. Imagine Apache Android. Sure there would be fragmentation, but at the moment the need for apps is pushing them together. If web apps win then the APIs look a bit different, with more scope for UX differences.

Not that this will happen.
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Perhaps 'balanced' was the wrong choice of words. Rather, I'd like to see the momentum shift periodically such that we increase the level of innovation from all players instead of the most powerful.
There's a reason this subject is news: so many have moved away from it for good reason that it's now a novelty.

Maybe we'll have a subsequent thread about assembler being highly effective.
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Why would anyone want to be on the cutting edge of a very uncertain technology development.

I would believe the "It's 20 years away" figure if, 20 years ago, the same folks would have said we were 40 years away, instead of 20. I heard the 20 number a lot and I have seen very little actual progress beyond successive discoveries that the problem was much harder than they thought.

Why not try to be on the leading edge of something with practical applications 5 years down the road (like the thorium cycle, for instance)?
Wish this prototype wasn't Sony hardware. I might have bought one.
The major advantage of fusion is that it can be sustained for a long, long, long time, after any terrestrial source of uranium or thorium will have run dry. Deuterium is an effectively inexhaustible resource, and as long as there are neutron fluxes there will be a source of tritium as well.

Neutrons are not really more penetrating than other sorts of radiation, just differently penetrating, as they are blocked not electrostatically (by metals, as in the case of alpha/beta/gamma radiation) but by nuclear interactions (i.e. absorbed by atomic nuclei) requiring the use of different sorts of materials to block them (aka neutron modulators). It is largely a solved problem.

>It's technically true, but the process is very expensive

Well... yes, heavy water costs a good $600 / kg for the super-pure sort used in nuclear reactors. Still, this isn't really more expensive than plutonium or enriched uranium -- I can't get cost figures mostly because civilians like me can't buy plutonium, surprisingly. Tritium is a lot more expensive mostly due to a current lack of production and use, but it can be produced easily from lithium-6 or potentially from heavy water itself.

Fusion, however, has a few significant advantages:

The only radioactive product is tritium itself: a beta emitter with a short half-life which, unlike radioactive strontium and iodine, has zero potential to accumulate in biological systems and the environment is already full of the stuff thanks to cosmic rays.

The reaction is not a runaway -- if the confinement somehow fails, fusion stops instantly. This is not great to harp on because nuclear fission is still one of the safest sources of energy, statistically speaking.

The fuel is ubiquitous -- there are no terrorists selling heavy water a la Back to the Future; both deuterium and lithium are recovered from seawater, and doing so is far easier than recovering uranium from seawater. This means far less trade issues and no Iraq War type stuff in the interest of securing the Earth's supply of heavy water. Uranium, by contrast, is distributed unfairly throughout the Earth.

The fuel is inexhaustible -- at last count, if producing tritium from deuterium can be achieved, the Earth's supply of heavy water will last for several million years. Even the most starry-eyed predictions from thorium only have around a 10000-year supply prediction. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_development#Nuclear is the source here -- Wiki claims 150 billion for deuterium alone, but I'm assuming our energy usage will keep increasing)
It won't. You guys have the good karma.
Awesome, excited to hear what you think, good or bad.
It didn't sum anything up to me. Actually, I didn't have any idea what "daily design inspirations" might be. I still wasn't quite clear about it after reading the first paragraphs of the about page (after which I concluded it can't be anything I'm interested in). Perhaps the problem is just me being a foreigner, but I hope people would start adding a "About in plain english" page on their sites ;)
I guess it has different appeal for different people. I immediately understood it and signed up. Sort of a Cool Hunting with a purchase button. Right up my alley.
It's also a popular myth that innovation only comes from small businesses and entrepreneurs. A huge amount of true innovation actually comes out of well-funded universities, businesses, and government projects.
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If the client is expecting fancy visuals, I think it is obvious that lynx support is not needed. Whether the same goes for IE6 and other antiquities/exotics - that depends entirely on site's demographics. But that's off the point.

The point is that designing for optional rounded corners makes no sense IF the site design is considered an essential part of product marketing (and it obvious should be). Showing "degraded" version to IE users is not too dissimilar to selling unpainted cars in a poorer part of the town. People there are used to crappy experience after all, why bother.
think this has gone way up in recent years with ppl with old hotmail whatever accts fed up of spam,more people on gServices etc....more exposure to gApps via android etc (not to mention being forced into using a gAccount/gMail for android things...)
My slide decks are always in PowerPoint because I usually need to make some complex technical animations that are impossible to do in Latex. So then I just use PowerPoint's shapes, etc. to do it.

(I can't wait for some web-based presentation software so I can finally ditch Powerpoint, but right now, with the extremely limited palette of animation ability on all of them, I'm forced to stick with PowerPoint.)

For papers, posters, and other static media, I use Inkscape, which I love. And every once in a while, for a system architecture diagram that I need to crank out really fast, I'll use Dia, which is much less flexible, but ideal for that task.
Come on man, ballpark? :)
I agree. They are apparently doing very well on word of mouth alone. I didn't even see the about link, I was just staring at this big signup form and some pictures of needle point.

I must say, since I was expecting things like plastic injection, aluminum milling, and circuit board construction, the needle point definitely was effective at resetting my expectations! Still, I was confused by the tag line, as I still had it in my mind that it was a place for designers (albeit, now they're needle point designers in my head) to hang out, not for people to go and buy things.

EDIT: Now I see that it's not needle point, just regular paper art. The signup banner projects dots over much of the background, making me think it was needle point.
Okay, this just started to blow my mind.

Regarding the iPod Touch:

a data enabled device, with no subscription, that is capable of cross-device messaging, voice and video calls via FaceTime and gives the user the ability to walk away at any time and switch to another carrier.

Now think about it this way: What if such a device was just called an iPhone?

I think Apple, ever since getting rebuffed on the SIM-free iPhone, has been plotting an end run around the carriers, but first had to get them hooked on subscription-free income from iPad users. Brilliant.
"A lot of people get anxious to see these very frequent bumps because major x releases are associated with add-ons not working, bloat, etc."

The fast release cycles make me less anxious... I like the fast release cycles... I think extension writers get lazy with long release cycles. The move from 3.6 to 4.0 was brutal.
Was start date of the renewal term synced to the end date of the expiring term? If so it doesn't sound so shady to me. It seems logical that they would notify you and confirm your desire for a renewal prior to the end of the previous term rather than wait until the absolute last moment, especially with something like an SSL cert.

I'm not saying GoDaddy isn't shady. And they certainly are aggressive with their auto-renew policies. Heck how do you think they afford Superbowl ads and Danica Patrick at the prices they charge :) But the experience you described doesn't sound like a scam to me.
Not many people will see a problem in this as other people's money usually rank below one's own.
You might be interested to know they're even cheaper when purchased through a reseller, e.g.: http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/geotrust-ssl-certi...

I suppose they think that since you're visiting their site directly, you wouldn't think (or know) to visit one of their reseller partners instead.
It really depends on how you measure conversions. If you measure actual sales, that's the way to go.

If you just measure signups, I can come up with a page that will convert 100X better in a second. "Get $1000 when you sign up".
There's a number of major memory usage bugs that have been fixed in Firefox 7 -- both leaks and issues with garbage collection and fragmentation.

For example:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666058#c31

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656120#c44

The second bug specifically should help resolve the "Firefox has been open for two days and now it eats my entire system" problem.
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Never liked GoDaddy's service. There are several reasons why. So moved to namecheap.

But the point here is GoDaddy by default puts all your services on auto-renewal. I am a bit paranoid over what goes on in my accounts ( especially PayPal) so i had disabled the auto renew when i saw it.

Talking about price hike, thats a marketing strategy. You usually don't get coupon codes for renewals ( if you do get, those are usually for bulk renewals ).
These service providers always lure you to register at special prices so you stick with them forever and in this case it auto renewed :\

About the cert. expiration, that seems a bit odd but better talk to GoDaddy Support, they would help you out.
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I'm playing devil advocate here: You should do research before you buy things. And it seems that the author knew Godaddy is notorious for shady practices.
Can you be a bit more specific? What is sterile about describing a person in opprobrious terms without using the word "bitch?"

What realms of human experience and observation are we ignoring? I suggest the opposite: Slurs like "bitch" are lazy, they ignore the myriad of subtle colours and shades of human behavior and replace them with a catch-all that means roughly "we disapprove of you."

I am certain that a man can damn his ex with far more wounding intent by expanding his vocabulary and unleashing his inner poet. Such insults would hardly be sterile, they would be fecund.
Indeed. That tends to happen on HN. It seems to me, though, that there are now more posts from people who actually do get it. It's too bad we can't see the voting to know the relative popularity of the various posts...
People said the same things when Chrome switched to their similar 6-week release cycle in July 2010, but about twelve months later the choice of version numbers has not caused any important problems that I've seen.
> So IE doesn't give them rounded corners, gradients and decent drop shadows... (snip)... They're already used to a crappy web experience anyways.

Of course IE gives them rounded corners, gradients and drop shadows, and - no - they are not used to a crappy web experience unless they happen to run into a site designed with the same attitude as yours, which is far less common than you would like to think.
it seems like similar to Groupon, they monetized an existing audience.

Seems like the recipe for success is to start off with an existing audience that you can market to.

Similar to how Zuckerberg had all those emails prior to launching facebook.
Begin the off-base analogies.

Is the government's whole case dependent on the hypothetical contents of her laptop?

I have to disagree with the Obama adminsitration's stance on this, and other "electronic" civil liberty positions.
Thanks. Appreciate the comments.

We agree that the social nature of the design community has really helped spur our growth. Our viral coefficient is off the charts for an e-commerce site. A lot of that has to do with people loving to share their latest design inspiration/find.

We think this will scale up nicely because everyone aspires to have good design. Not everyone is a design junky but everyone likes to have some design in their life. Apple is a great example of a brand that has capitalized on that. Also Target, Ikea, etc.

For many, design is a lifestyle. That will always be our core audience. But for the mass consumer, making design objects approachable and affordable is a huge market.
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Actually, no. We only have had less than 5000 our of former social network members sign up for the new Fab.com design site.
Really can't help but think that their sales and conversion data is stronger evidence than your hunch.
I still have that problem with Moleskines. I bought some cheaper Piccadilly notebooks. That made it easier to mark them up. I also recycle old calendar/planner Moleskines from previous years, so I feel free to just abuse them with anything I feel like writing or drawing.
It occurs to me that OP might be more upset about receiving the bottle of hot sauce than she was about the images. Sure, the writhing woman and the bitch slide were offensive, but it wasn't until Kagan ostensibly attempted to marginalize her by rewarding her with the hot sauce that she really got angry.

Money quote: "What I should have done was stand up, walk the bottle of hot sauce back up to the stage, point out to Noah Kagan that he had not earned the right to give ME a token of recognition..."

That's really what this is all about: "boys being boys" and not acknowledging that there's anything wrong with it, despite obvious indications (like an audience member taking a photo of your offensive slide) that there is indeed something wrong with it.
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This advice from mdasen last year helped me (I wouldn't have known about the cheaper pricing through resellers otherwise): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1318340
Nice UI touch there, Project Noah.

Here's another interesting app: http://leafsnap.com/ Leaf snap, click a photo of a leaf and you get ID suggestions. Both apps are very cool!
Sorry to sound like a chime here but I too was unable to determine what it is you were offering. Having not heard of Fab.com, I assumed association with the laundry detergent sold in the US. After seeing the landing page, then I assumed design as in web pages or Wordpress Themes. I apparently am wrong on both accounts.

I say this as a business owner who actually has includes the word "Design" in the name of my legal entity.

I did not bother to look for an About page. I gave you the free minute I had at the time. You do have a nice looking layout though.
> Really, you don't see a problem with their "better ask forgiveness than permission" tactic?

uh, isn't that what PG and all the other people here constantly say is what you should do in business?
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Isn't the conflict - of - interest here just enormous? The best interests of the company, and in particular the employees, is the funding round with the least onerous terms. If all a VC needs to do to get a board to accept worse terms is to kick back some money to a few strategic board members, where does that leave everyone else? And while I'm sure Rand Fishkin (who I do not know from Adam) is not jacking up his company in this case, what about appearances?
The part about making ad directories to kill Google is probably the stupidest things I've ever heard. Also, RIM should embrace Android. They can't fight it. Certainly not with their own OS, and theirs alone. At best, they might have a fighting chance adopting HP's WebOS, together with Samsung and a few others.

Together they could easily make a much more successful OS than WP7, and a worthy competitor to Android. Alone, they don't stand a chance. Nobody does, except Apple, because Apple has a lot of other advantages besides just an OS. The problem is they think the only way to be as successful as Apple is to have your own OS. And that's not nearly enough at this point.
How on earth did you get the word out to that many people? Virality? Please explain...
It's not about 'stable' or 'unstable', there are degrees of stable-ness. And founding a company is riskier than working for a bank, a few outlier notwithstanding. What's the point of this article?
Does it matter? Governments are bullies.

http://www.vvsss.com/grid/xkcd-on-crypto.gif

Here in the UK, we already have to hand over our keys or be chucked in jail.
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That's interesting. However, in the design community fab.com seems to be spreading by word of mouth, so in my own case, I signed up eagerly on a recommendation and I don't recall spending any time reading what the landing page said. Is there any way to account for that sort of signup?
I've always thought this is the way I'd like to go with a startup if it became successful.

Sure not having money is a great motivator, but the time spent doing other things just to save money often costs you more. As an example, I've spent a lot of time writing a script for a product overview video for my startup. I could be spending this time on more valuable tasks, like product dev or sales, if I had the money to go with another company.
The most interesting (and possibly neglected) piece of information that I've found when analyzing the economics & business of the App Store is just how many apps are a slightly different take on an app that was popular a few years ago.

Each month, millions of people are getting an iOS device and opening the App Store for the first time and are unfamiliar with the apps that were popular 6 months ago, let alone 1-2 years ago. Doodle Jump is popular but it's actually extremely similar to Super PapiJump, an iPhone game that was huge a few years ago. Same exact mechanics, slightly different graphics & execution.

The mentality that you need an original, unique idea to succeed in the App Store is rubbish. A common algorithm for succeeding in the App Store is take Popular App A from 2009 and re-implement it with new graphics and perhaps an additional gameplay mechanic and release it as Hopeful Popular App B in 2011. Apps that were entertaining and popular (but have fallen off the charts due to lack of updates) were based on game mechanics that are probably still alluring to new audiences in 2011.
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