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I don't know if I'll be downvoted for this, but - no. When I design, I build it for one person and one person alone - myself. I add the features that I want to have access to. I make the layout one that I find attractive and usable. I consider myself to be my product's first user. While I can see market research helping out a lot, I've always felt that the smartest thing to do is to make it for yourself and take feedback only after you're entirely satisfied with it.

It's a process that I think helps a lot if you're working with a really original concept. The user doesn't always know best. If you're doing it right, chances are you know exactly what you want, and that is something that you ought to follow first and foremost.

When I first conceptualized my site, I took the idea and told writers (the target audience) all about it. Most of the time, they couldn't visualize it whatsoever. When I asked them what DIDN'T work in sites today, they would say either that they had no clue, that there WAS no good solution, or that things were satisfactory as they were.

Last month, I demoed the concept HTML page to those same people for the first time, and you could absolutely feel the minds shifting. People abruptly understood the concept behind the page. The design of the page worked perfectly for them as it had been originally conceived.

I understand doing market research if you're going out and just stumbling upon an idea, looking for something that will work. But if you've got an idea, something that's never been done, then you take it and you push it and you wait until after it's done to see how people react to it. The result is a much more honest and effective site that way.

I'm sure other people disagree with me, so feel free to debate this point back at me.
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Great comparison of the most recent features and versions. It's nice to see PostGres get some kudos in the speed department. And, it's nice to hear about the upcoming developments of the Falcon and Maria engines.
his #1 option is sitepoint....the few times I looked at that site most of the "jobs" were huge ass projects for $500
When a couple of months work can be saved by doing a few phone calls or some "fake selling", prototypes are by far the worst way of doing things. Understanding whether your customers will pay is critical for business success, and can often be done a priori
Yes, I remember reading that benefits of cardio go away a few hours, while one's body continues to benefit from weightlifting through to the next day or two, both in building muscle and burning calories. Likewise, this is easily noticeable.

You also touched upon another benefit--that lifting weights makes one's brain and body feel good. In addition, anecdotally, the more muscle one has, the warmer the muscle will be during weight training as many muscles work together, and certain routines will start feeling like one is getting a massage in the shoulders, back, legs, and chest.
I prefer my first amendment rights just as they are, thank you very much.
his #1 option is sitepoint

Presumably that's because this is the SitePoint blog. It looks like they found 19 examples just so they could make a top 20 list with SitePoint first. Lame.
I'm a developer and I too feel a certain intensity to just get coding. If you don't look and see what's out there in the way of your market, you might just be pissing in the wind. Research first, code later.
Thank you, but what is the definition of a big application? FaceBook? what if you were building something along FogBugz and the like? or maybe even something like BaseCamp? would SQLite fit those types of applications?
OK Teddy, we get it. You hate Arrington and his website. Get over it and find better ways to spend your time than slinging vitriol.
It is very important to be in good cardiovascular shape. Weight lifting puts stress on the heart and the cardiovascular system as whole. That's why doctors advise cardiovascular exercises to the population (such as walking or jogging)--one will eventually be in better shape, as well as improve their cardiovascular system at the same time.

Of course, having a lot more muscle due to weightlifting will also help one burn more calories, but in order to keep up with the body's progression, and challenge the body with more and more weights as it becomes ready, one needs to have a solid cardiovascular system (for safety.) Also, running would be the best type of cardio (for 30 minutes at a time) as it helps build bone mass in legs, knees, and maybe the back, which also will help prevent injury.
Yes, his search engine failed spectacularly. Back to trampling other people's ideas.
Sorry but the credit card advice is un-wise. If you are in fact a guy in a basement, use cash. Screw debt. Use only what you have; what is real. Credit is garbage. Make your startup cashflow positive by keeping away from indentured servitude. Cash is king, especially in this economy.
I think your approach would be the optimum balance. Build something rather quickly that fits your problem domain. You don't have to build something perfect, just something that is usable and is relevant to the problem your attacking (use common sense).

Release something to your target audience and see what they think of it. Then you can iterate from there mixing in your academic market research and your real life market research.

Oh before I forget, build something that you yourself will definitely use. And don't forget to have fun in the process!
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If you are on your third revamp of a product and you don't know what your "market fit" is, you have a serious problem. Why do you have a product with no understanding of your market? Maybe you don't have a market. But, wait, you have a product. Hmm. Looks like the cart before the horse.
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ORMs are a case of "good enough for most," however, I have seen ridiculously dramatic increases in performance when dealing with millions of DB rows by using SQL and stored procedures. By design, it's pretty much impossible for an ORM to ever reach such levels of performance since they need to be generic enough to work across various RDMS systems and so forth.
I agree on both counts. I love postgre, but it took me a long time to learn the real differences from MySQL, what situations it's better in, etc. Wish this was around a long time ago...
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Current business plan (apparently only slightly facetious):

1. Get everybody on Facebook
2. Create a huge map detailing how everybody relates to everybody else.
3. ????
4. Profit

I always figured that there were smarter people than me working on step 3, but maybe there weren't.

Maps of the non-social kind are useful because they can be bought and used to get to places you've never been to. Maps of the social kind are apparently useless because everybody wants their privacy and you're basically left with a map telling you where you are and what's within two steps walking distance.
Not to worry, the system runs out of resources and halts in short order. I've heard that memory (and other things) leak as well.
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would love to see this algorithm in reverse
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Sort of... Honestly I don't have a particularly charitable opinion of the iPhone: you can't touch type on it, which makes it effectively consume-only for email, and it's also consume-only for video (and recorded audio for that matter).

The iPhone is a shot across the bow for Blackberry and Windows Mobile, in my opinion. Always present, capable of doing text composition in a pinch, and a pacifier or Game Boy for (near-)adults.

I believe that the netbook segment represents the future of notebook computing, in that they're for task oriented ("I'm sitting down to write a chapter of a novel at the coffee shop", or "I'm checking up on my myspace and facebook accounts"; contrast with "I'm bored and have a second and would like to see if someone responded to me on facebook" in the mobile case) use. They're big enough to touch type on, and they generally can accept USB devices, so you can create content on them.

From my POV the Asus Eee PC stands for everything that the Apple notebooks do, it's just a little smaller, as sexy, and a lot cheaper. It's obviously not as gratuitously sexy as the MB Air, but at $2500 that's not even on the radar of the vast majority of the computing public.

Since OS X and the Bondi Blue iMacs Apple has had a really weak foe in the Windows hardware vendors. Sony had the engineering prowess but no cohesive design language, IBM had the design language, but it was ugly as sin (I say this as a ThinkPad fanboy). There was nothing that integrated well enough with Windows to make it feel monolithic or whole.

Asus has a game changer on their hands with the Eee in that they have full control of both the hardware and the UI, and the price point is substantially below typical laptop prices. This, combined with downward price pressure from conventional laptops means that a response from Apple is inevitable.

Apple could well ride it out for another two years, but like any other business they do better when they stake their claim (integrated iPod + iTunes + store, best served on an iMac) as opposed to reacting to a market trend (Newton, back in the PDA days, or the megahertz wars).
I survived the last economic downturn. I left my first startup which didn't survive the telecom bubble and eventually restart my career in 2003. In the first presidential debate, John McCain uttered the words "this is the end of the beginning" as if the $700B bailout signified the worst of the financial ruin and we should start to work on the recovery. This might be true for the general economy (I doubt it) but it is clearly not true for startups. My advise to startup CEO's is that this is just the "beginning of the beginning". Whatever you do, don't be an optimist. This will get a lot worse for a lot longer. If you don't have enough cash to sustain burnrate for at least two years, you will die. Unfortunately, right now your cash is your most valuable asset, not your employees. Cutting headcount is the only way to conserve cash. Don't rely on the VC's to save your company. They are the wrong people to turn to in a downturn.

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The flexibility is great, but only if grouped with consistency. No foreign keys on MyISAM but yes on InnoDB? Thanks but no, thanks.
I'm going to call it right here right now: Facebook will be irrelevant 3 years from now.
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Given enough faces to average, and you end up with a nearly iconic human image (http://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28.1). And I shudder to think of what Hollywood would do with this technology.
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Next time link directly to the WIRED article. Stephen Levy is an excellent writer and I don't need Cory Doctorow's useless comments.
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This could be at least a 15-year downward cycle

Huh?
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Ditto. Fancy doing a blog post and submitting it? Admittedly, I'd still tend towards using a designer that we know, but when trying to hook something up on the cheap as a stop-gap it seems like it might be a good solution.
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Wow, so Sleep.FM, which was demoed here, got funded. Either I am not that sharp in spotting new markets, or DreamIt is... um, what are they doing?
I like his idea of a 7-year waiting period on executive bonuses. Anything that gets us out of the quarter to quarter short-term mind set would be an improvement.
I like Uncov. What I like is that Ted's putting himself in the same space as Arrington, VWag, RWW, ArsTechnica, etc, except he gets into the technical details a bit more, because he can.

And you know, it's true that trashing other people's stuff is easy......so long as you do it anonymously.

Ted's putting his name on this stuff...there's nothing easy about that. Respect that at least.
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Interesting read, but where does he support the assertion that it's a solvency rather than a liquidity problem.

That may be true, as a number of assets (particularly mortgage-backed) have dropped in price dramatically, thus potentially making some banks which relied on them insolvent, but it may only be so in the short term, as the price for those securities is unrealistically low at the moment.

In any case, I'm always one for supporting the point that I make in the title, somewhere in the article.
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SQLite is a lot faster than than the 'real' RDBMSes on single queries - so this lock on writing is not that painful as it might seem. I think SQLite is really eating into that quick-and-dirty db segment occupied by MySQL - while PostgreSQL is still ahead in the standard-compliant-robust-and-lot's-of-features department.
Hmmm.... i am not sure if that is a fair statement to make. Most startups spend lots of time developing their product, and do not find a market at the end.

We know there is definitely a market - the problem is that it is not easy to build a product for it, hence we are trying to re-iterate to the right product-market fit.
Hey Eries, thanks! Do you have any examples (whether it is yourself or someone else) with this experience?
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Sleep.fm gets a lot of guff but I think it's pretty darn cool. Voice + twitter + devices is pretty nifty.

Add: What's important here is that he's managed to build a system to push content to multiple mobile devices. Think about that. The application of his system can change as time goes on, but it can be really successful if he can scale it or monetize it.

PS: Maybe you're not that sharp.

PPS: That was mean, your site's freakin' awesome!
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That's horrible analysis, eBay is not even close to struggling. They slashed 1000 jobs not because they're hurting, but because they're shifting. They're repositioning as the complete ecommerce solutions provider for small to big businesses. PayPal DOMINATES fund transfers and with their purchase of Verisign they have a big chunk of merchant accounts processing. Toss in Skype, recently BillPoint, expansion to international markets... That's not struggling.

Taking on eBay is outlandish.
once things are extrapolated, vision is clearer, and it isnt made out to be goofy itll do well. it does have use to it, something a good portion of startups cant easily say.
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Why do you say that? Do you think people are going to lose interest in the things they do on Facebook, or do you think a new competitor is going to provide a product sufficiently better than Facebook to take over the market?
Why? Zuckerberg has done what a lot of us want to: write code that is used by millions of people and earns us billions of dollars.
Wow, that reporter sure is attractive.
No disk backed storage with heap tables but yes on InnoDB? Thanks but no, thanks.

Uh, the definition of flexibility is lack of consistency between the options. Otherwise, it's a false choice.
Reminds me of those guys who have thought out every aspect of what they're going to do in a zombie apocalypse.
So, why the h-word in the title?
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I don't read TC because the signal/noise ratio is not good for me, sometimes there is some interesting article but most of the things are rumors, startups with no relevancy covered, and so on. I guess there is space for the Ars Technica of the web...

I know this is more a news site about development startups but I bet that one of the best kind of startups one can build today is content startups. The internet is big and full of users but good stuff to read are rare.
I don't understand that kind of thing. Shouldn't a company be allowed to be whomever they want however much they want? If not, why not? I know about the incentives for risk taking, but what would be the point of creating a law about it? If banks figure out that a particular "bonus construct" is harmful in the long run, they can change it by themselves.
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A bit different when you're hearing it from a guy living in the zombie apocalypse.
I expect to see Britain PLC on Ebay soon too.
Or, we're facing a far larger economic calamity than that of the Great Depression itself.
The problem is that it is not necessarily harmful to them, but harmful to others (and encourages behavior to that effect.)
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Well, he says that the government shouldn't be setting these sorts of conditions, but that one way or another (shareholder pressure, hopefully), something like this ought to happen, to provide better incentives for management to take a long-term look at things, rather than just trying to jack up profits in the short term.
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Because they only care about short term wins? But wouldn't that still damage the companies who employ them? And should it be illegal to seek short term wins?
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I was wondering if I were the only one that wasn't terribly concerned. Certain assets that were overvalued are readjusting to a reasonable valuation. Even the stock market's average P/E could look reasonable again. We'll have a short period of slow growth in economic aggregate statistics, then the singularity will hit and we'll do just fine.
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I thought the same, so I clicked through to the project page, where the results are more convincing:

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Because "hack" has come to mean "method" to a lot of people.
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I find most exercise to be utterly boring. Painfully boring. I eat when I'm hungry and generally keep the same weight, but I have a little bit of pudge that I wouldn't mind getting rid of.

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I've lost a good 4 inches on my belt in about the same amount of months. I look and feel a lot better, and I accomplished it without the sheer boredom that is most exercise.

Another thing I've been doing is juggling 3 hacky sacks while bouncing them around with my feet. Freaking fun.
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It's a pretty good listen, but if you don't want to take 75 min, the transcript should be done in a couple days.