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I am missing two things on the front page:

* a video demonstrating the product (here's your chance to tell the world what's so great about your product!)

* an easier way to test drive the product. I don't want to sign up or any of that, I want a big button that I can click and get immediate access to a demo account.

Is the "Why SidekickCRM" button really necessary? You can place a summarized version of the "Why SidekickCRM" page on the front page itself; there's plenty of space and there are no other products or services that's competition for attention. You could also add a text link to the "Why SidekickCRM?" page.

Is the screenshot thumbnail on the front page supposed to be clickable? Nothing happens when I click on it. I think you should redesign it so it looks like a video player and, on click, launch a demo video.

/register: Why have you named one of your plans "Superhero"? Because I don't see how it fits the rest of the branding and it sound unprofessional. Also, I'm interested in why your plans are free and Superhero, i.e. what you base your pricing on and why you have a freemium option. Also, you should add Support as one of the comparison factors: free should only have self-support whereas the paying option has better support channels.
6. Static typing
7. Large codebase organization

At least those are my two primary reasons for using GWT instead of JS natively.
Unlike NerdsCentral, I am for the most part an MS fanboy, but I have to disagree with most of the reasons given here.

1) Excel might be great, but I doubt it will be great on a tablet. The people who live in Excel and use the power which NC talks about aren't going to do those things on the tablet, they'll continue to use laptops for the 'business analysis'. Displaying the output of the 'business analysis' in graph form, and minor manipulations of that data for display on the other hand could be very promising.

2) It is being assumed that tablets need to interact with IT departments in more ways than just getting e-mail and access to web services. As more companies build web-based enterprise systems, this becomes less and less important I think.

3) The 'power' bit is I suspect a bit misleading, and I doubt it would take Android or iOS much to be competitive in the 'power', though I think he is really talking about 'speed'. People are likely not doing 'power' intense computing by today's standards on a tablet.

4) Though I agree that SJ is an amazing presenter and the reality distortion factor is real. However, SJ has built such a powerful tie to the company, that I suspect that over the next 20 years, the 'reality distortion field' will slowly weaken, rather than disappear overnight. Tim Cook's ability to lock-up massive amounts of the top hardware bits goes a long way to making the Apple appear to be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. If they can regularly pull of a the thunderbolt type exclusivity, the perception of Apple being the leader may continue.
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I was pretty skeptical after my hate-hate affair with FogBugz but Trello's design, marketing and OOBE are far and away the best in the category. I need to use it more but it just doesn't have whatever Pivotal has that scares away non-devs at first glance. Joel, this is definitely my favorite Fog Creek product yet.
I don't think it's possible to make an "objective, static measure" of whether or not someone is poor, since "poor" is relative.

My point is simple: the details of poverty have changed (and will keep changing), and because of this, comparing "how many people were poor" to "how many people are poor" is not really a sensible comparison. 1959 poor and 2009 poor are different, not just in minor details, but in significant ways.

The poor in 2009 are, in many ways and overall, better off than the poor in 1959 or 1970. That doesn't make them "not poor", it just makes them "better off" on average, and therefore not directly numbers-to-numbers comparable.
The trick was about giving free licenses to big and popular open Java projects, such as Spring, Hibernate or JBoss. That was a million dollar idea.
Not necessarily in Canada's north or in areas where it's too costly to build transportation infrastructure.
I went the other way around.

I was a long-time Vim user (around 10 years or so) and switched to Emacs in order to use Lisp + Slime in order to win an argument about Lisp. What's important is that I lost that argument, like Lisp, and use Emacs as my primary editor now.

However, the Vim keybindings are still etched upon my soul so I still find myself popping it open for quick-and-dirty edits.

They're both good editors and I like the conclusion of this article.
I'm curious: is lbs/kWh the limiting metric for electric car development? Or is it more about chassis or motor design?
Here: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/09/hands-on-with-...

Windows 8 has the metro UI, as well as a win7 like UI to use with mice, and keyboard.
Don't like the Metro UI, just run the regular windows-looking desktop
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While I was watching, it felt slightly too fast.

I think editing less, leaving it at a steady pace (say 1 second per week, regardless of the amount of changes) would have given it another dimension.
A data-dense rhythm.
Maybe they don't support Apps accounts because they know they can't enforce the Real Name policy on it.

Scenario: George Kibble from ABC Company has an Apps account from his company. He signs up for Plus, but puts in 'The Duke of Perl' as his 'real name'. Google cancels his account... Including his email! Now George not only can't use Plus, but all his correspondance for the company is lost, forever!

It would take only a few of those incidents to start a business riot.
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> the Falcon series has blown up more than it hasn't.

No, it hasn't.

Falcon 1 has launched 5 times. The first three failed -- in likely-survivable ways. None just "blew up". The next two were successful.[1]

Falcon 9 has flown twice, both successful.[2]

7 launches, 4 successes, 3 survivable failures. Your statement is objectively false.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_1_launches

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Launches_and_scheduled...
If it can be hacked, it will be hacked. Just because it's built in means nothing. In fact, I bet it makes it a bigger target.
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Likewise. I very, very seldom find myself using repetitions. I mostly use simple commands or text objects, and when those don't cover some weird case I fall back to visual mode.

Occasionally I know I want to delete just 2 words and so use d2w or something, but that's so rare I really notice when it happens.
The only similarities between Vim and Emacs are their ages and the fantastic communities

- both require a large investment to achieve mastery.

- both deliver excellent return on that investment. Proficient use "looks like magic."

- both include (seriously underrated) tutorial software to get new users up and running.

- both are still described as "hard to learn" by people who don't use them.

- both have more popular competitors that are less capable but easier to pick up and use without thinking about it (various IDEs for Emacs, pico/nano for vim).

I don't know what your problem is here, but you'd do better stating it outright. As it is, you're just embarrassing yourself. If age and community are the only similarities between Vim and and Emacs, the one of them is not a Unix text editor.
Reminds me of this:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html/b2hd-trr11....

Looks like he's redesigned his homepage since I got my degree, so I can't immediately find the animations he used to have to illustrate the method.
> Or you can wait a little until the standard goes through and the syntaxes are unified.

The trouble is, the current standardisation processes are far too slow to be practically useful, while the breakneck pace of experimental feature development is too fast to keep up, so there is no useful definition of "a little" in your suggestion that we can use for planning new web projects and making decisions about which technologies we will rely on.

> There are philosophically and commercially opposed interests involved there.

It also doesn't help that both sides throw out FUD as if it's going out of fashion, and that some of the (acknowledged) patent encumbered formats are technically far superior to the (possibly) unencumbered ones. That means until either the software patent madness is fixed or organisations like Mozilla start putting up hard cash, their integrated video functionality will never be as good as what you can get in something like IE (or, apparently, Chrome, since Google seem to have quietly dropped their policy of discontinuing support for H.264).

> Could you cite or give examples of these [font bugs in Firefox]?

On Windows systems, the kerning is very odd in a lot of fonts since they moved to the new rendering engine a while back. The spacing following a capital T is usually way too tight, and in some fonts there are a few other examples as well. This can render pages completely illegible at typical body text sizes.

Also, take a Windows 7 computer with a few Adobe professional OpenType fonts installed locally -- probably some that come with Creative Suite would do -- and just try selecting those fonts using CSS in recent versions of Firefox. It simply doesn't work and falls back to the next font family in the list, though the same page will find the fonts and render quite happily in other browsers on Windows 7, or in the same version of Firefox on Windows XP for that matter.

Most currently available web fonts also seem to look terrible (poorly hinted, terrible aliasing) on Windows XP in Firefox, but since they don't look great in other browsers either and they look better in Firefox on Windows 7, I'm inclined to point the finger more at Windows XP than Firefox in that case.
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You too, huh? I thought the companies were ok...for "TC Mediocre". Disruptive technologies, they were not...just recycling things that we have seen before with some twist, but generally the same. Not to say that the founders did not put a lot of time, sweat and tears into their companies - I'm sure they did and I applaude them. But if the bar for mediocrity is such, then venues such TC Disrupt will see many more startups like these - they set the precedence (but it's not entirely their fault), and the upcoming startups will continue to look more like the ones the year before. I wonder what would happen if they didnt fund any one of startups...would we get more innovative entries the next round or no startups at all? Just a thought. As for Shaker, it's a take from Cyworld - a Korean social media in the early 2000's. They didn't make it because, unlike Shaker, Cyworld did not have a social media platform like FB to work from for their contacts and links. I think Shaker is a very cool alternative for social interactions...hope they make it.
I have little sympathy for Angela.

In this story, you had a 21 year-old work for a company for three years. That company invested time in a green worker. After three months, maybe after two years, she actually started producing for the company.

After she is trained and producing for her company, she quits and gets another job in the same field (but not a direct competitor).

She quits that and tried to work for a competitor of her original employer and is let go.

She is collecting unemployment (possibly at the combined expense of employers 1, 2, & 3 and the people of Massachusetts).

I don't see what the inequity here is.
I find it irksome when founders talk about culture and firing people like its some kind of sublime process. Like this guy is some kind of pariah that wouldn't get canned or treated marginally by the next doofus manager who felt he/she didn't like him.
Google continues to leverage its power to provide a better experience for their users as they click on links they find through search. This is one example, and First Click Free is another.

The flip side of this is that publishers are now offering an inferior experience to users who navigate directly to their sites. If I type in NYTimes.com and start browsing through articles because I'm a big fan of The New York Times, I'm treated worse (I have to deal with an article limit and pagination) than if I stumble on their articles through Google. Google is giving more and more value to brands, while creating an atmosphere that rewards people who have no brand loyalty (except to Google).

Google has been strong-arming publishers for a long time. Generally it has made the Internet a better place, but it still makes me nervous (especially as a publisher). Google seems to be pushing to eliminate more and more tactics that are profitable for publishers (and generally bad for users). I doubt that Google will kill the goose that laid the golden egg, but you have to think that publishers are going to start to push back if it goes much further.
Some very interesting interaction design work too. Can I ask who did it?
No employee should ever ask for a password. The way is see it is that it's not a matter of corruption, or people eavesdropping on the connection (what a targeted attack that would be, targeting a specific, short, rarely occurring chat session). The point is that if your employees never require a password, you can put in big letters OUR EMPLOYEES WILL NEVER ASK FOR YOUR PASSWORD, and attackers imitating your employees are SOL, because they can't ask for the password without it being obvious that they're not real employees.

Surely you can just give relevant employees admin powers so they don't need the password.

If you don't trust them enough for that, it's relatively simple to set up a proof that the person has the right password without actually transferring the password itself, so that the employee can't change things about the account without express customer permission.
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I like your website, but I was looking for a features/benefits page that would show me why I should pick SidekickCRM instead of the other tools out there.

I skimmed the video and I noticed this bit:
http://i.imgur.com/tLJdT.png

Those bullet points listed under "What Sets Sidekick Apart" could be applied to most CRM products.

A small business owner won't say , "We should go with Sidekick because it's powerful and robust!". You want them to say, "We should go with Sidekick, it has a great reporting tool for opportunities and we can easily assign leads to sales people".

Keep iterating and refining your benefits. Good luck! It looks like you put a ton of work in to it and you should show off what really makes it powerful.
I'm not sure if it's their policy or just the support person.
So at full power (800kW), the motors can drain the fully-charged battery in less than 7 minutes... not bad!
Good insight.

I've run afoul of this myself, and the only thing I have to blame is my own pride.
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Yep - I don't think that I said that particularly eloquently. And it was related to a point (that I can't remember) that had been brought up earlier in the conference.

But my overarching belief about product design:
- build stuff you are passionate about because you use it
- listen to customers, but don't do what they say

The reason that products all start to look the same is that customer's only experience of 'better' is a competitors product. That's why you have Audi's advertising about their safety record, and Volkswagon's advertising about their performance features.

A great read on this topic is Youngme Moon's book different:
http://www.amazon.com/Different-Escaping-Competitive-Youngme...
I setup a posterous years ago because it was the easiest way to share pics I took from my phone. It worked on my blackberry and android devices when the app markets were tiny. Now that wordpress has apps for all devices it is easy to share and post via the app if I want to put up a sunset picture and have it be tweeted out.
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Your control-command-F shortcut conflicts with the native "Enter Full Screen" shortcut on OS X 10.7; I can't see how to create a new document without remapping the default key binding.
Terrible comparison. A dick move maybe but not a scandal.

Google App Engine:

* Not the dominant hosting platform. Not even close to being the dominant.

* Maybe a million dollar product. Certainly not a billion dollar product.

* In beta/preview until just now with developers knowing pricing had not been set or could be changed.

* Optimizing your application properly can negate most if not all of the pricing increase.

* Open source alternative framework available if you want to keep using the same APIs.

Apple App Store:

* Dominant market position with only the Android Market coming close.

* Billion dollar product.

* Existed as fully launched for several years.

* Set percentage. You can't change it other then making your app free.

* No open source alternative that supports the same APIs.

Beta/preview products can and will change.
I'm not sure I agree with the article. I feel neutral.

I'm talking about some sort of middle ground. A concrete subset of a more capable ontology.

Imagine if we had a Smalltalk OS/platform and something like Scratch was a seamlessly integrated interface for example.

http://scratch.mit.edu/
As a .NET dev, I have to kind of agree with you. While I have been quite pleased with the evolution of C# over the years and am stoked about F#, MS's involvement in Node.js, ASP.NET MVC, etc., I can't say that about the .NET developer community.

For the most part, the .NET devs I know just don't care to be involved in community open source projects and/or use those projects as much as you see with other stacks. I do see that changing quickly though.

However, it is nice to see this new respect for MS I'm seeing from non-MS developers lately. Just a few years ago it was pretty depressing, but that seems to be changing.
IANAL but wouldn't these Terms of Service be unenforceable? It doesn't seem like Sony is offering anything extra in consideration, rather just limiting your rights. If they change their ToS to limit your rights, wouldn't they have to offer some consideration for this type of contract to be enforceable?
Yes contracts do have to be equitable to be valid, but the definition of equitable is vague.
Safari (which leverages Readability for its Reader functionality) also does that. It seems to try and detect links at the end of an article that look like pagination links which sometimes leads to interesting failures. Being able to do that more reliable for more websites would definitely be a plus.
Wasn't the ROI of the S&P 500 over the past decade roughly 0?
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For what it's worth - we have a huge new release of Confluence coming out in 4 days time. We've also released an infographic about the history of collaboration (and I'm still not able to find the easter egg):
http://www.atlassian.com/en/communication-through-the-ages-i...

Confluence 4 has a completely rebuilt rich-text editor with autocomplete - the ease of use of a WYSIWYG editor with the speed of an IDE. Love your thoughts on it when it ships.
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The return of airships would be amazing and insanely safe. To bad public opinion of airships still reflects late 1930's. With today's technology why wouldn't it be safe?
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A few of points:

1) Perhaps you don't use .NET a lot so maybe you're not as aware of all the great tools that are available (open or commercial).

2) .NET developers are more likely to be commercially minded. In other words, their tools aren't always free.

3) There really are a lot of great tools. Check out RedGate, JetBrains, Telerik or DevExpress .NET tools among others. CodeSmith. CruiseControl.NET. See also http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ .
My employer asked me for my password once, for some site. I forget why - someone needed superadmin access, and this was the fastest way to give it to them.

I gave in, and promptly changed my passwords across all sites (this was back when I just had the Three Passwords) - and changed all of my work-related passwords to something stupidly simple, fighting off the urge to change them all to "fuckyou" and "shitslapbananamonkey".
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This has pretty serious implications for Adobe (captain obvious). Adobe isn't stupid though. The recent "HTML5 gallery" shows that they're serious about making tools that work with new standards-based web technology, but the big variable will be timing. Can they move quickly enough to stay ahead of it? There is no Adobe product that is the "de facto standard" for HTML5/JS/CSS3 authoring like Flash became in the nineties.
Depending on what you do, it can be rather hard to work for a company that isn't a competitor. For instance, the hair dresser mentioned in the article. He couldn't work for a competing salon. Short of relocation, where can a hairdresser work that's not a competitor.
I'm in the process of moving my site to pure html/css/js. I wanted to eliminate dependencies completely and go back to a simpler time. I looked into Jekyll/Octopress but that's too much of a dependency as well. Not a framework like Wordpress, and you can easily just keep the generated pages and move on with your life, but I just want something simpler, without templates or settings files or anything like that.

Do you really need a framework/compiler for your page? I think they're a bit overused. With HTML5 tags you can create a basic template in seconds with a header, navigation, sections, asides, and articles. Then just style those tags -- without any need for classes -- in your main css file.

Part of going pure html/css/js is giving up the idea that every page on your site looks identical. You can make them look the same through a common css file, but if you decide to add/remove something from your template those changes won't carry over (I plan on versioning my css files). I think this encourages a more minimalist site, which I'm all for.
I've been using it for only few days, but I think evil and Emacs makes a really nice enviroment. I finally managed to get capslock to be the key for evil-normal-state (default is ESC) and the world is a better place now. I recommend giving it a shot :-).
i'm not sure what you mean by the 'spirit' of Big-O; i find the question fascinating because it is relatively easy to understand the concepts involved, yet it's been 40+ years since we understood enough to be able to ask the question, and we still don't know the answer. when you couple that with the fact that the prevailing wisdom that our inability to find an algorithm implies that it can't exist, the contrarian in me goes nuts: the academic attitude is always "we're so smart, if we can't find it, it must not exist," and i get a kick out of arguing for more humility on their part.

even though a polynomial-time algorithm with a massive polynomial would still be computationally intractable, even a proof that such an algorithm exists, but is too complicated to express using all the atoms in the universe as bits would probably open the doors to all kinds of proofs and techniques we cant' even imagine.
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