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I guess I found my solution by searching HN. I thought we don't have search anymore since searchyc closed down....and didn't come to HN much in a while.
Anywho....looks like it's a good idea to host the app at shared hosting site first, and then if it does start showing signs of life at all, switch to a VPS or dedicated right away.

I guess the takeaway is always plan for the next n steps, while you are making it happen. Ad esp in case of hosting, always be ready to switch and keep your options open.
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More sample output, from a heftier machine, in case anyone is curious:

Total size Compressed size
All archives 3321059166180 1113881916696
(unique data) 116996664943 27182261608
This archive 13831036740 4855451330
New data 336950399 62343192

(Yes, that's 3.3 TB deduplicated and compressed down to 27 GB.)
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Clearly ObjC programmers are the only ones, who comment their code responsibly.
For this reason, I think it would have been more interesting to ignore the alphabet keys and just heatmap the rest.
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Its not 100% yet but launched a small site for racecracks (my first). Hope the simpel look and feel attracts the 'experts. Feedback on design, faults, features etc. welcome!
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Scribd link is fine for me: http://www.scribd.com/doc/64224686/Untitled?secret_password=...
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At Social Tables - seating charts for events made easy - we picked a very early group of people to market to who could benefit from our app: brides. Today, we have over 1,000 users (we've been quiet for the past 1 month as we contemplate our future). Here's what worked:

1) Guerrilla Marketing - We found real life events that catered toward brides. For example, the Running of the Brides is an annual wedding dress sale hosted by Filene's Basement, so we showed up really early in the morning to talk to brides waiting in line.

Here's the write-up:
http://blog.socialtables.com/post/6147037160/social-tables-f...

2) Social Media Targeting - We monitored specific keywords "wedding & seating chart" and "just got engaged" and replied to each of those users telling them there was an easier way to create seating charts. We also participated in Twitter chats (here's a list of chats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhisaMy5TGiwcnV...) and people got intrigued. Finally, we actively tweeted using conference hashtags during conferences that had our target audience.

I hope these two out of the box approaches help!
You should, yes.
Great paper -- thank you! When is the publish date? 2008/2009?
I think this works well for processed foods and non-perishible items, but I see a real problem with meat and produce.

Shoppers are accustomed to doing their own quality control when shopping for fresh items. In a real grocery store it takes real effort to choose the best meat and produce from what's available, and that decision might just be to not purchase something. Do you intend to provide this as part of your service? If so, what controls will you have in place to guarantee quality?
A security exploit is a common danger when you build a platform that other people and/or companies depend on. The author correctly points out that "we should not have worried about scaring our users and we should’ve probably created a state of panic".

Better said, you need to probably create a "state or urgency" for your users, customers and clients and that is much harder said than done. Anyhow, crises like this company's 3rd-party software exploit are more common nowadays than ever, so you should probably write up a good communication "action plan" before disaster strikes. That way you have something to pull out and adapt quickly to hit the ground running ... you can search Google for "Strategic Action Plan", "communication action plan pr" etc.

Several Resources for making your own plan:
http://www3.niu.edu/newsplace/crisis.html

http://www.instituteforpr.org/topics/crisis-management-and-c...
Thanks for the hint. I don't like the way my registrar name.com screws with NXDOMAIN for non-existent subdomain matches.

For those interested, this seems to be the offer link http://www.namecheap.com/products/freedns.aspx

There's also a non-profit http://freedns.afraid.org/
Though, i don't know how reliable they are.
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Completely agree. I never had a problem with rude checkout staff and I found that this site stressed that very heavily.

The reason I use Grocery Gateway (our local online grocery store w/ delivery) is because I live in a city and don't need a car. So I get all of my non-produce stuff delivered.

It's $8 for delivery vs a $15 taxi + the time it would take for me to get there and back.
Can you make a convincing argument that copyright ought to be transferable in the first place? I'm not certain it shouldn't, but this thread has made me realize I've never heard a good reason for it.
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What is sad about this is a lot of things that were created in the early 1900s will now be lost forever since copies cannot be made and archiving the works on a different medium would infringe copyright. Trying to get the rights for those things is impossible since the owners are dead. So we are going to loose a lot of early music recordings, film and books from that period.
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This just graphically displays what I whine about most of the time. Why does my pinky has to do most the work? My pinky is pretty short and all the pinky movements are awkward. It considerably slows down my code typing speed.

I wonder If there would be another keyboard layout specially made for programmers. If you look at it you'll see that most of it has a similar pattern.
This should be among your first steps: Reach out to the bloggers. Tell them about your app and if they are interested, they'll make your app reach out to several hundred or thousands of people.

P.S.: I'm a blogger as well.
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Seriously? I had no idea it was even the 10th anniversary until your piteous reply.
The competitive advantage I see is rooted in the background of the individual corporations. The user interface involved is the dealbreaker and I generally have little faith in large, culturally non-software companies getting user experience right.
Would like to see a Dvorak version of this.
I think the pricing page is giving you a high ctr % because it's really the only option for a visitor to understand the product.

Perhaps you should work on your template and include a simple features page as well. CTR from features -> pricing would be more meaningful than what you have atm. The very best measure though is email subscribe opt-ins (bonus points for double opt-ins).

Although you should really have a statistically valid number of uniques to qualify the idea (a few k). Keep working on your process and generating more ideas and you'll find something with market fit!
Sure, but I think this article tips the hand that something fantastic is possible in this vein. I think a restructuring of foundation-level software, and the kind of movement mentioned here, together would make an amazing combination.
It already exists in terms of a more logical layout for faster typing of many latin-based languages. Instead of QUERTY keyboard, it's called the Dvorak layout and is really common in certain circles and places - I believe that in OS X you can switch to this alternative layout pretty easily if you're interested in learning a faster way of typing. More info here: http://atmac.org/dvorak-keyboard-layout-switching
I've reached the point where I don't distinguish between programming and writing -- to me they are both people being creative and trying to create scalable things people want.

I do a lot of micro-projects. Sometimes the projects are web apps. Sometimes the projects are simply essays. Lately I've been mixing them up some -- so, for instance, something like a social site for people interested in X, with a freemium model for an app that helps a lot with X.

So my advice is to not think of your webapp as simply a hunk of code that you are trying to get out to people. Instead, think of yourself as on a mission to care about/promote/help fix X, then mix and match various formats to reach out to people who might be interested. As part of reaching out and emotionally engaging with people, you'll promote and sell your webapp. My opinion, for what it's worth.
Great thoughts. Thanks for providing them.

I contend that, outside of a few high-population density areas, grocery delivery will never be a mass-market solution in the United States. It's simply too expensive. While others in the industry continue to beat their heads against that wall, I propose a very simple alternative:

Ernie's reduces the chore of grocery shopping dramatically, while at the same time operating at a fraction of the cost of a traditional grocery.

I'm not trying to compete with a hypothetical grocery store, I'm competing with the supermarket down the street from me (the one so many people complain about).
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I agree so violently I might get ill.

It continuously surprises/annoys me that TechCrunch is one of the most submitted domains here on HN. Nearly every article has a breathless, faux-drama tone about it that's better suited for PerezHilton than a tech blog. And yet their readership appears to be way beyond that of, say, a Mashable or a ReadWriteWeb.

I guess it just proves that human nature persists regardless of one's technical inclinations. 'Valley' gossip, evidently, always has takers.
The George Bernard Shaw quote is wrong. The actual quote is:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107.html
Well, considering it got qwiki funded...
Thank you for your feedback!

Yes, I have to admit that during testing, I have spotted several errors and these may cause financial losses. Because of this, I have even deleted some features which many people consider useful (such as BTC deposit/withdrawal).

Security is a key concern for a financial system. I totally agree with your point.

The Bitcoin market is filled with exactly highly intelligent people. I will definitely pay attention to every single detail.

(If you see any bugs please email me. I will definitely appreciate that!)
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Keep in mind that you are a patron of a niche offering. I'm happy that it works well for you, but grocery shopping still sucks for the vast majority of shoppers in the United States. Ernie's aims to address that need.
Some people are going to feel that due to hoarding, it won't become a currency, and hence it's not a good investment, and will be more likely to spend.

But if I as an individual consumer feel that bitcoin won't become a currency, why would I even be converting my money into bitcoin in the first place?
Square, before anything else. I literally had a startup-gasm after the website was fully loaded.

After that, I'd say SpaceX, for making private-owned space travel a reality, and then Dropbox, for revolutionizing (in a way) the way we synchronize our files between devices.

The last two will (hopefully) be a basis for my future startup(s).
Facebook releases a nice feature. But you gotta opt-in.
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Thank you for your feedback!

It's easy to make tooltips with Twitter Bootstrap. I have written Javascript to enable all the "title" attributes.

I will definitely put more tooltips here and there and launch a new version in probably a few days.
A fresh start is great - clear the decks and boil your life down to what's most important - namely your ideas, hard work, inspiration, friendships, relationships, etc (in no particular order).

In terms of more standard advice for moving things, you can pack your belongings onto a standard pallet and ship the to yourself using your company name.

Shipping a pallet is much less expensive than your other options, but you need to ensure that your things are very-well packed onto the pallet. Obviously furniture doesn't apply here because it's too big or bulky, just smaller or pack-able items like clothes and other things that you place in boxes. It's important to watch a video or two about properly packing a pallet, because the goods can slip/shift a lot if not properly packed.

For furniture, there's a very active furniture-recycling scene in California and you can easily find free, or used furniture for cheap.

Good Luck!
Dear, HN Mods, I can outlast you fucking cocksuckers.
While you're developing your app, keep reading Hacker News for comments on posts related to what you're working on.

For each relevant comment, jot down the comment link, author name and email address (look at their HN profile or links therein) and write a personal response, then and there, referencing their comment (give the link), and why they may be interested in your app, be specific, and also point out where your app differs from what they were talking about (it probably will). Use "Re: Your HN comment" as the subject.

When you launch, you will have a whole lot of personal, relevant emails to send to people who have already expressed interest indirectly. Don't send them all at once. Send them one by one, day by day. You may learn something as you go that you will then be able to incorporate into subsequent emails.
A previous operating system by Andy Valencia is VSTa http://www.vsta.org:8080/. This has been forked and is called FMI/OS http://www.code-unatio.net/wiki/fmios/.
I can't stop being amazed at how powerful those lobbies are.
Besides the simplicity when starting to use a DVCS, i would add the simplicity for setting up a server (At least on Windows). There are a lot of organizations which need a centralized repo. And setting up mercurial for serving is a breeze. That's my 2 cents.
(I'm not a huge fan of posting one's own content, but I think this security issue is relevant for some readers here)
What you describe is largely a Red and Blue ocean issue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
Yeah, I understand your point.

I have never ever used #{} in my code. When I first learned Rails, I know this should be avoided at all cost.

I would prefer

"String 1: " + string1

rather than

"String 1: #{string1}"
Check, check, and check.

Amazon also takes Visa and MasterCard.
If you are into high performance reconfigurable computing you might be interested in some of the work being done by the CHREC group. Here is a list of there recent papers:
http://www.chrec.org/chrecpapers.html
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The login/signup/control panel all used to sit on "control.preyproject.com". I wrote a HTTPS-Everywhere ruleset for it at the time to force it onto https. It seems to have moved to "panel.preyproject.com" now though. https does exist there, but it's not redirected to by default.

Anyway, I've just wrote an update for the HTTPS-Everywhere PreyProject ruleset for this and requested that it is pulled in to the main repo. It's currently sat here:

https://github.com/mikecardwell/https-everywhere/commit/aa9f...

But they're usually quite quick to pull in my rulesets.
On average how much would you pay for a person? $5 or $10, what would be your offer to a person? Just want your honest opinion, because it sounds logical but how are you going to track 1000 people if they are going to buy your product or not? What if they take the money, signup, and leave???
It also means _you_ can trust your music rights will be your music label's own, for most of your life.
There's also some programmer versions of Dvorak, that make the punctuation more accessible too (by demoting numerals to needing the shift-key to be held):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Prog...

Just as Dvorak was based on letter usage, this is based on examining large bodies of code just like the heatmaps in the OP.
> understand how it works

So... care to tell me how EC2 works? :P

The only way you are going to learn how these proprietary systems work are by working at Google or Amazon. What makes the EC2, S3, etc. APIs different from AppEngine or the 100s of other Google APIs there are? They're all just APIs to proprietary systems (well, except when writing apps for Chrome and Android). You are learning "how they work" only in the most superficial meaning of the phrase.
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"Groceries operate at razor-thin margins"

Groceries operate at razor-thin net margins. Ernie's will operate at double-digit net margins.

If you take a look at the books for any supermarket chain, you will see that the vast majority of gross profits gets eaten up by running those large storefronts. Webvan (and other home delivery attempts) simply replaced the large storefront cost with a large logistics cost.

Ernie's eliminates those costs, all while reducing the chore of shopping for the consumer. It's a win-win.
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Hacked together an privacy related extension today. Makes sure some domains always opens in incognito mode. If navigating to a 'protected' domain, moves the tab to a new incognito window and cleans the history.

May also be useful for web- and extension-developers that frequently opens a lot of incognito windows.
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I keep reading SEO, SEO, and more SEO. But what does that really entails? As a web developer, I thought that doing nothing (other than providing quality content) and not trying to skew search results is the best path to go?
Do you really think you can beat the truth?

Plus 2k VMs?
I find it really interesting that people who live in different areas will have wildly different thoughts on "driving to the store".

In Memphis, TN (and much of the US), most people drive to and from work. There's just no alternative for commuting, and I think Ernie's has a great opportunity to allow these people to fit a "stop at the grocery store" into their daily commute.

I'll admit that I often need to do a grocery run on the way home, and it almost always takes an extra 30-60 minutes. I'd love the opportunity to do that shopping online before I leave the office, and just stop to pick up my order on the way home. I can imagine this cutting my "grocery stop" time in half.

Full Disclosure: I know the founder, and I had a chance to "beta test" the idea. I drove a couple of miles out of the way and still got home 30 minutes earlier that I would have, had I stopped at my local grocer.
And it will continue to work for at least 48 hours.

I have more money than you have time, you fucking pussies.
> Yeah, I understand your point.

No, you don't...
Sounds like a good time to consult a pretty knowledgeable lawyer.
Granted, not everyone will want to shop at Ernie's. Our plan is to stay focused on our target market: anyone who values the time-savings, convenience and quality above everything else.

(also, anyone who doesn't relish picking veggies that have been handled, sneezed on and who knows what else by the hundreds of other shoppers that came through the supermarket before you)
For the record, despite the fact that I choose to celebrate my inability to hack my way out of a paper bag with my moniker, I've experimented with both AppEngine and AWS (albeit Heroku-flavoured AWS).

So I'll happily agree that when it comes to hosting web applications, Amazon has a much broader offering and actually attempts customer service, but I pointed out a whole load of other ways Google services empower independent developers. Including building operating systems, browers and other types of platforms which aren't on Amazon's radar.

To deny that Google offers developers much because Amazon's core competency AWS beats AppEngine beta to a bloody pulp is like saying Amazon offers consumers nothing because the experimental public A9 search engine bombed.
Thoughtful responses. I am looking at this from a very UK perspective, so much of what I've said maybe (and indeed sounds like it is) not relevant to the US. Over here UK supermarkets have matured their online businesses very well. It's no more expensive than in-store and delivery is free to cheap depending on how narrow a delievry window you can handle. Plus of course the US is much larger geographically and much more car-focused, so it might be a much more viable business model.

Either way - it's a big project. Good luck!
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[quote]- 40 minutes in a grocery store? You can easily spend this much time online filling up your basket. Personally I've never felt that online ordering has saved me much time. [/quote]

Actually, there is something that I have been saving time with and if Ernie's does this, it would be wonderful.

Amazon started creating the ability to have subscriptions for food items. Basically, stuff that I will go through every month and would have to fight my way through CostCo or Sams to get otherwise. For stuff with comparable prices, I may as well just have it shipped in free under Prime instead.

My grocery list is 90% the same every week/two weeks so if I had a saved template to reorder from, that saves me the half hour of pacing the store to get the same exact stuff for the same price, I'd be all for it.
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I looked at the heatmaps, then looked at my keyboard. The keys with rubbed out labels nearly match his findings 100%. My 'N' isn't (only because the key is slightly larger than my other keys). Other than that, he is spot on.
It's a question of when my algorithms fail.. not when I run out of resources.

Markov chainers beat your fucktardedness.
Interesting to note the difference between C and C++ with regards to the '*' and '&' keys.

I know there is a lot of raw pointer and address usage in C, but I'm surprised at how little these keys show up in C++.

It's good to see that people are taking advantage of smart pointers ;)

(It's subtle though, so I could be reading too much into it).
(or have to ;) )
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Except the fact that it tries to define "open" and not "open source". For me, Mozilla Firefox or Ubuntu are open. All development, the planning etc. can be viewed at at all time. All parts of the full stack are open and free. You can participate if you want.

Android can be forked and inspected, which are the fine things about open source, but it cannot be followed like you can with "open" software.
Google's advice is: design your websites for consumption by humans, not our crawler. This is good general advice, but you can cater to both.
As I've done research for Ernie's, I have been extremely impressed with what the UK grocers have accomplished (led by Tesco). If I had to pick a single grocery supply chain as our "gold standard" to emulate, it would definitely be Tesco.
The most pressed keys are ⌘ (or CTRL), C, and V.
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I don't want to be disrespectful but I can see that in the coming days HN will be overwhelmed with 9/11 stories unless we set the bar high on what's considered relevant to this group.
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