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Why is this news?! I can't count the number of times this has come up on HN, let alone reddit, let alone random prominent blogs, let alone from other big names that have had problems with GoDaddy suspending service, locking them out of their control panels and/or siding with law enforcement and acting before asking. Stop using GoDaddy. It's trivial to find other registrars, and not hard to find better ones.

(Examples of better registrars: Gandi, name.com)

Honestly, not a reassuring way to advertise your new company. There first intro blob admits that they knew this was a risk. "Yeah, we knew people have problems with this, but we were lazy and didn't bother taking the 30 minutes to transfer our domains elsewhere."
Yes and no. By design I also mean interaction with the product, animations, etc. Animations that you've written for the first design draft might not make sense anymore with the new design. So new code required. So is for markup and JS code. If new design requires new elements on the page, this may break your JS that relies on certain structure.
No one should ever use GoDaddy for any reason. I thought that was geek 101 by now.

Also, incidentally, you never host a startup on shared hosting. If a day or two of downtime is a big deal than you gotta go VPS at a minimum.
"Having a more complex build system may slightly slow down build performance at development time"

The instant development feedback loop is one of the great appeals of Play...
I assume that the author of post will switch design and work with a UX engineer when the site starts making money. When you have nothing $50.00 for a theme sounds great. Imagine, no one knows about your site so there is no point in building a site from day one which will scale to handle a million users. Launch first, iterate later.
I swore off GoDaddy years ago when I was setting up a website for a friend. It took an entire night to FTP up about 100k worth of files to his account. His website was extremely slow as well, so it wasn't just me.

We're talking about a website that got maybe dozens of hits per day.

He was a paying customer!!!! I've never had such a bad host, even from free ones.

Also, I absentmindedly signed myself up for their WHOIS privacy protection. Holy crap was that a mistake! I can't cancel it because it's actually offered by another company Domains By Proxy, but they won't let me log in because the account was magically setup using some bogus credentials and information which they got from the ether or something. So I can't even migrate that account away without sending them a driver's license, and THAT's assuming they have my correct name on file (which is a real possibility that they don't, since nothing else seems accurate). GoDaddy is no help, I have to call DomainsByProxy (which is GoDaddy, btw). DomainsByProxy is no help either, unless I send them a scan of my driver's license.

It pisses me off so much I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. It's cheaper just to keep paying. Yuck.
Does anyone else think that techcrunch has a lot of drama for no good reason? I used to like reading it a while ago, now I just don't care for it.
I use Dreamhost. $9.95 is reasonable, and it's great for placeholder, static or otherwise low-traffic, low-importance sites (which of course are the majority of domain registrations).
Surely a coder can have a good idea about how to lay out a decent interface

My experience says mostly no. They're different skillsets. Occasionally they overlap in an individual.
My personal domain, registered through GoDaddy is up for renewal soon. Ashamed to say that I was in the dark about them until now. I'd also love to know about legitimate alternatives.
I use gandi.net, for both personal and business domains. They're awesome.

Specifically: they have policies that strongly support the domain owner, they make a point of saying the domain owner owns the domain (not the registrar), they give back to many different Open Source projects, their management software works quite well, and they provide free email service for your domain so you don't have to run a mail server if you don't want to.

Their hosting works quite well too. Not the best for disk performance, but they have good unmetered bandwidth, tons of flexibility, and good management software.
I meant that in the most general sense possible, like in the sense that if you know how to type, you can write.

No offense meant.
Don't worry, we don't expect you to migrate your existing applications to Play 2.0. The Play 1.x versions will continue to be maintained and you don't need to move to Play 2.0. We ourselves have many Play 1.x web applications running and we will of course continue to support them

This sent shivers down my spine. Is it that hard to maintain backwards compatibility? And you would figure that if they did have to break backwards compatibility, there would be a clear migration path instead of this "Don't worry about upgrading. Just continue to use outdated versions of our software forever." attitude they seem to have. It's almost never a good idea to put yourself in the position to have to maintain two diverging versions of the same software if you can avoid it.
A coder will generally have an idea about how to do so in the same way that a designer can understand how to architect and code a 900kloc enterprise app — it will be very superficial. In general, other people's jobs always look easy because you don't realize how much you actually suck at them.
Just on your last point - it may be that usability issues are not simply visual, but relate to fundamental programming design choices. For example you may have decided to use tagging to categorise information, where people find another system easier in that context.
Your average GM is also not Gary Kasparov. The difference between a typical GM and one of the handful of elites is pretty astounding.
You've got it in one. Whilst I understand that designers are, rightfully, proud of their profession, it seems odd that guys starting out like me should be expected to shell out $$$$ before even launching.
Folding@home has proven that embarrassingly parallel problems run well on embarrassingly parallel architectures. Computer chess is not one of those.

Forget about using the GPU for chess. Just getting that to work somewhat decently is a huge achievement - which no-one has succeeded in so far.

Some people, when they see a problem, think: "We'll use the GPU". Now they have 2 problems.
They're not quite the same. Underscore is primarily for working with arrays and index-based collections, not objects. Furthermore, it doesn't normalize common iteration bugs, such as the JScript `[[DontEnum]]` bug, Safari 2 property shadowing bug, and inconsistent enumeration of the `prototype` and `constructor` properties. In short: Underscore is best, and far more efficient, if you're working with arrays; Maddy is best if you're working with objects.
Unfortunately, PHP is still the easiest thing for most people to setup and use, so that's what we went with for a self-hosted option. We are strongly considering a node.js version that would allow a lot more users. Is that something you might be interested in?
That's not true. For low traffic sites, NFSN and Webfaction are more than capable.
By the startup though, not the designer, he's just doing what he thought his job was.
shudder! Suddenly it's not such an attractive thought to invest in a MacBook even for (L)AMP development, and deployment to Cent OS.
My guess was on shell, but I was pleasantly surprised.
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Sure, you don't need a designer from day one to build something, if you are OK with a poorly designed product.
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Luckily JS in the browser does not have the ability to make arbitrary network connections (at least not yet).
Don't. Ever. Use. GoDaddy.

Ever.
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There have been tons of "domain registration" threads on HN. Consider this one, just one day old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2964201.
Here's the list that i post every time someone asks this. There are plenty of other ones, but these are the "tried and true" top list.

* Gandi.net

* Namecheap

* Name.com (Some very sleazy practices, see child)

* Moniker
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Seconding Gandi. I've test driven them with a new account and I'm very pleased with the level of control and no-nonsense control panel. Where GoDaddy's is very messy and tries all kinds of sneaky tricks to make you shop for more, Gandi keeps it clean and straightforward.

Single best feature? Total access to domain zone files. I also like that as an individual you can hide your contact information from being displayed in the whois records.
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I'd be more interested in a classifier that learns which tweets I'm likely to be interested in.
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I love your answer... Couple of questions. 1. When did you hire a designer for your iOS app? 2. Was the designer involved in creating wireframes? 3. Are you self funded? If not, then I think, hiring a designer would have been easy.
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In general, other people's jobs always look easy because you don't realize how much you actually suck at them.

That's an ironically sweeping statement to make. For example, are all UX specialists designers... or does it just seem easy to designers ;-)
I actually listened to this interview on Mixergy (it was really interesting) but didn't hear anything about your new payment gateway, so if that was the goal I'm not sure it worked... although now that I read your story I checked out the gateway and signed up for the beta, so maybe it all works out in the end!
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I'm not sure I agree with that. Instapaper is very successful in spite of having a fairly basic design (I seem to recall Marco saying he had never used a designer). On that small of a form factor, I think usefulness trumps flashy any day.

If you're doing a game, or something graphics-rich, that would be a different story.
I disagree.

Designers are best at finding attractive looks. User Interface design (aka, usability) was a computer science specialty long long before it was a thing people with degrees that have anything to do with photoshop or color have been doing it.

I constantly see designers put out things that are non-standard and unintuitive (I work in the iPhone world). I don't want to hear any "no-true scotsman" about that how they're bad designers, they're not. "Design" people generally come from information display background, not interactivity design background. Interactivity was a discipline that came from ergo and HCI researchers, not design schools.

But usability is different than information display. They throw expensive, non-functional items out there all the time, as well as ridiculous control schemes that work like crap.

For this reason alone, ignoring designers, and at best working with a usability expert, could be productive, but worrying about people who specialize in visual appeal and just try to stick onto interaction design because it sounds good on a resume is a bit rich.

UX as a field sucks because too many people who were taught to make pretty things are putting on airs as if they have an education on making things that work well. Actual usability people (with training and all that) are gems usually. If you don't know how to do a usability study, with controls and all that, you're probably missing a few things to prove yourself as a user interaction designer.
Clever application that mimics flipping through channels on a TV
There are some competing with big companies such as DuckDuckGo vs Google (search engine) and there are others that are tackling big markets but not necessarily with giant leaders in them yet.
Agreed 100%. Shared hosting will take you down - or rather, someone else on the shared host WILL take you down.
Yesterday I stumbled across http://www.cheaplandinamerica.com - among other options you can get 643 acres in TX for $127K. On a related note, sites like http://tinyhouseblog.com/ http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ depict tiny homes at low cost & complexity. Getting 10,000 people signed up to commit $2.5B for a turnkey socialist utopia may be rather optimistic, but a low-entry-cost growth-oriented plan might work. Put in a road, well, and 3G/4G tower and get this project started!
Yahoo Sports is an excellent sports journalism outlet and probably the only serious competitor to the ESPN monopoly. They broke the story on the Miami recruiting scandal, one of the largest NCAA violations in history, after doing extensive in-depth research.
The post does not suggest avoiding designers completely. It is about timing. Of course this depends on the type of startup, but in many cases you can absolutely ignore brand message until you have some level of basic functionality and alpha testing done.
If they can get it scaling decently, it's a good achievement in its own right. Say that JS with a modern JIT is 4 times slower than C/C++. This means the latency of their system will look relatively better by a factor of 4.

If they now find an algorithm that scales to 2000 nodes with an efficiency as low as 20%, this is a breakthrough achievement. It would be portable to a C/C++ based program with "only" a 4 times faster interconnect.

That said, an engine with a primitive search scales better because the tree is more regular and it's easier to predict the real size of workloads. It could end up that the algorithm doesn't actually work for a strong engine.

But anyway, the "mere" 4x factor due to JavaScript is peanuts compared to the rest of the problems.
Since it's based on openstack, I assume it'll be functionally very similar to Rackspace.

The most promising thing about it is that if they have kept the Openstack APIs available and stuck to the standard functionality, this should be the first of many truly interchangeable public clouds.
Why isn't Scala Bazaar (sbaz) actively used and promoted in the Scala community?
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Not to many people would want to punish Jobs in this way but it is the only important question. How would Jobs run Yahoo? Well, he wouldn't have mortgaged the search; he would have demanded that it be the best.
For a graphical grasp of this concept, take a bell curve, and then plot only the top 0.1% of the bell curve. That's the distribution of abilities among people who are any good at all at chess, and it is no longer anything close to a bell curve.
Since OP's subject is becoming a better Unix hacker, I recommend staying away from Bash's more advanced (or just useful) features. The more Unix you touch, the more you realize you can't rely on Bash to work how you expect it across all different systems (if they have Bash installed). You will end up relying more on sed, awk, grep and your shell scripting will become more generic - but more portable.

On the other hand, Perl rarely changes. If you find yourself forced into a Perl 4 system you can still use the basics of Perl 5. IMO, if you have a relatively complex job to perform, Perl is going to be more reliable than Bash.
Why would one want to spend $200 on this instead of using IRC or Jabber?
For any reasonable amount of RAM (say >64M) and a strong engine with a good hash-replacement algorithm: always the CPUs. They are simply not RAM-limited.
It makes me sad that people are reinventing the IRC and XMPP wheel, and doing it poorly. Want your own version of this, with a bit less effort, but free?

1. Install an XMPP server

$ sudo apt-get install prosody

2. Install a web frontent

There are dozens. Here's one for example: http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/

3. Congratulations, you just saved yourself $199.
You simply miss the point.
An interesting excerpt

"In the early 1960s, Mr. Tantlinger prevailed on Mr. McLean to relinquish the patents to the corner fittings and twist-lock, permitting them be used industrywide."

Given some of the discussion on patents I thought this was interesting. I wonder how things would have turned out if this hadn't happened.
my favorite part is the "optional confirmation overlay"
> His point here is not to learn Emacs because it's a good editor,

Without starting a flamewar, I'd like to point out Emacs is a good editor.
This is vastly, vastly more than 10%. Where I work at, hunt & peck is the norm. Now, many hunt & peck typists I see at work type relatively fast, without looking at the keyboard too much.
Professional designers are all about beating up any designer that does spec work on sites like 99designs. They're freaking out (rightly so) about it dropping the value of their work. Just like pro photographers are freaking about microstock sites like iStockphoto and the serious pro-am photographer that's happy to get $100 to shoot a wedding.

Take advantage of that.
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Plastic bottles aside, that was the goal of the libertarian-oriented http://oceania.org/ project.
Animations? Did I miss where every startup is now a game company?

Animations are an unnecessary complexity that get in the way far more often than they enhance UX. If you're doing animation in a first-pass UI, you're doing it wrong.
No, because I know I'm using plain vi :D. I spent a good deal of my life working with plain vi, and the company I work for makes a port of POSIX APIs, UNIX shells and all typical command line utilities for Windows, which includes vanilla vi. So I'm used to it.

I use VIM with only a few extensions (taglist, command-t and snipMate). I also use ctags and cscope, but support for those is built into vim. I really try not to get too dependent on extensions. They are more like convenience rather than something you don't know how to do without. Command+T for example is useful, but you still should know how to get to your files from the command line.
This is a calendar with all relevant events for hackers in cologne. Sorry that it's in german :) .

We need help in adding new features and (obviously) in improving the design :) .

If you know an event that is missing, feel free to send a mail.
Different markets have different design needs. Luxury consumer brands will be different from enterprise products.

I know an entrepreneur who spent about $5,000 on professional branding for a bootstrapped enterprise product. And the design did look very professional and creditable.

Two things went wrong:

1) He needed to build new landing pages, etc., on a regular basis, and these rarely looked as professional as the basic branding. So despite spending a lot of money, his site didn't look ultra-professional—at best, it looked competent. And that's not good enough to justify $5,000 in a bootstrapped startup.

2) He spent the $5,000 before proving that he could actually close sales.

In this case, I'd say that the $5,000 was spent prematurely. He could have purchased a lower-cost logo and spent a day browsing themeforest, and he would have wound up with something 80% as good for under $500. And that would have been enough to start e-mailing his industry contacts and trying to get his first sale. Getting that first sale was his biggest priority, because it would prove he had a real business.

So before deciding whether to hire a designer, ask yourself: Is looking professional the best use of your money right now? And what happens if you need to change your sales pitch significantly, or even pivot? Does your designer understand UX, advertising, copywriting, or do they just make logos and stationary? Can you afford to keep paying them? How bad are your own design skills?
This is fantastically bad advice, unless you're working on a weekend project and don't care about traction.

I would counter that a simple concept executed with design thinking informing the development is both practical and far more likely to succeed than yet another random solo developer's SaaS.

The problem is that there's two issues at play: the visual theme elements and the user experience. Sure, go ahead and buy a $14 theme if that gets you the head start you need to start working on solving a real problem for someone.

Except that's where the hard work begins. It's not your ability to style INPUT elements that is being tested, but your product vision and how people move through a workflow that is easy to understand.

In the early days of a SaaS, design and copy are probably 75% of the hard work in a MVP. Find me a successful startup that wishes they'd spend less energy on design thinking and just written more code and I'll revisit my perspective.

Otherwise I'll make the statement that any idea which doesn't deserve the attention of a design thinker is not likely to get off the ground because it's statistically not solving a hair-on-fire problem anyhow. Put differently: there's projects and there's start-ups. Start-ups are hard. If you're going to start-up, your future users appreciate you thinking about how your product makes them feel.
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Simple improvements in the tree search algorithms to reduce the effective branching factor are enough. Those have exponential effects.

Improving the evaluation function is "merely" a constant improvement.
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True that... It depends on the nature of the app and the audience.
Ah, reminds me of my first site on geocities.com and tripod.com all those years ago!
This may work for the web, but for mobile I would argue a good designer is as important, if not more so, than a good developer. I'm speaking as a developer who has realized this and hired a designer. Best business decision I've ever made.
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Our startup is in GA, and I would say no. There is little vetting of business model to get in GA. In fact, I would not even consider GA an incubator. They don't take equity, nor do they offer advising. It's more like super cool startup friendly paid office space.

The value we've gotten has been being around really smart startups working on cool projects, and being able to share ideas.
Maybe, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. The thing about this article is... you can take almost any prediction(s) from the past, map them onto current day events, stretch logic and semantics in torturous ways, and come up with a seemingly compelling argument that "X was right, see!" You could do it for Nostradamus and have an article that is as enlightening as this article.

Are there issues with our current economic and political situation? Yes. Do we need Marx to fix them? I personally say "no." We need to think hard about what the proper role of government is, create a truly free market, and then allow whatever individuals, organizations, collectives, etc. that emerge, to layer on top of that base and build the social structures that they see fit. IMO, of course.