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If it breeds misunderstanding or has to be explained to people who aren't in the target demographic, that's neither here nor there. They don't strictly need you to understand any more than they need cocker spaniels to. From what I can tell, the people they're trying to reach are British educators and education policy-makers, and if you're not one of them, I feel pretty sure their relationship with Latin is very different from yours.
Building a product is composed of two (blurry) stages: creating something that solves a problem, and adapting that solution to suit the person who will be using it.

Arguably, without design, there is no product - by making decisions that are necessary to take something from paper into reality, you are going through a process of design.

Design is most acknowledged in consumer goods, but it is present everywhere. Imagine you are building a widget that forms part of the internal mechanism of a space probe. It will likely only be seen or touched by a few technical people, it probably doesn't need visual appeal, but you must still design it to be feasible to manufacture and convenient to handle during assembly.

You will have to make decisions above and beyond its basic function - does the form fit the assembly worker's perceived model of what it does? Can it be held in human hands safely and without risking damage? Would any damage or incorrect installation be visually evident?

There is a false dichotomy between engineering and design. Modern technology is closing the conceptual gap. Whilst we need a certain degree of specialization, I strongly believe there should be no such thing as a 'pure' engineer or designer. If we want to create usable tools, we all need to know a little of both.
Using Dragonfly in Opera makes my life pretty darn easy. It would be very difficult to convince me to switch to either FF or Chrome at this point.
That is completely false. There have been hundreds of accounts hellbanned for bad behavior. Here's a random sampling:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gilesgoatboy
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sharkfish
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Arrington

if you turn on showdead in your profile, you'll see that all of these people tried to comment past their bannings, but they were silenced.
Long time lurker here, finally got an account to comment on this item.

I agree with Andrew's take on the new advertising paradigms, but I can't agree with his premise that display advertising on the Internet does not work. It works, and not only that, in some cases it works brilliantly. Not to say that it works for every audience (like HNers), or every product for that matter.

His point about low CTR is accurate but not entirely relevant. The user who asked in the comments "What is the CTR of the magazine ads?" hit the nail on the head. It's not always about CTR, but also brand impressions, reach and frequency.

Case in point: I did a campaign for a new brand in another country, which included display advertising. CTR was low, and initial conversions were low too. But over time, many would search for the brand after the visit, returning to the page and they converted! In so many other campaigns I would combine display with social media, email marketing and other stuff and get great results. Yes, I said email marketing. That still works too, and with some audiences, it is literally reeling them in. (No, I'm not talking about spam).

In short, Andrew is writing with an either/or mentality with advertising, when one needs to be thinking of and'ing: of all the tools available, which ones are going to work best together? Take a layered approach. Display advertising may be a hammer, but not every problem is a screw.
It's pretty startling how some traditionally B&M institutions will neglect the UX of their online products. Banks, for instance, will spend lots of money and attention to their physical customer touch-points, but banks' online banking is woefully without character and lacking in usability.

I think things are improving, but the fact that design is still a strong competitive advantage (in many types of businesses, not just startups) shows how lacking it is. Companies understand the importance of their brand, but they seem to undervalue how the digital experience affects the brand.
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As an additional supplement - here's a pile of links I've collected that might apply: http://jessenoller.com/good-to-great-python-reads/
The Kindle fire has two processors, which most of the $199 tablets don't have. Adding a camera can be a lot cheaper than adding a second CPU. A cheap camera chip can be $0.17.
According to the post to which I was responding, it is not. At least that's what he said, and that's what I am questioning.
Writing skills are always relevant. The lack of them in this article made me stop reading before getting to any actual content.
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I like the download bar, but I'd go for a change like that. Or make it expose on mouseover.
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This is important.

We are all different. Human life is full of tradeoffs, and some of those tradeoffs lead to exclusions, and some of those exclusions may be untenable to some, etc.

I like and use Apple, Emacs, etc, but I can certainly see why others might choose not to use them. They aren't wrong. They're just different.
You should probably use symbols after an "in plain english" description. I'm not too sure what the solution is, but the content was good once I decided to actually read it.
> For instance, Provigil is great stuff; it fulfills a role of addressing wakefulness. But it also makes a person feel really good.

I don't think that is true in general. At least, the research literature reports euphoria and addiction pretty rarely: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#tolerance
The suicide bit is cute. Indeed.
I'm not sure that steelworkers were ever "the hot thing to do." The downfall of the steel industry in the US is multifaceted, but mainly boils down to the fact that importing steel from outside US is cheaper than producing it in the US and technological improvements in building with steel has greatly reduced the number of people needed to construct things with steel.

Take from that what you will about the software industry, but just remember that everyone either gets replaced by someone cheaper or technology takes their job away.
What version of Android is the Archos tablet running: 1.6? Even 2.2 is clunky compared to 3.0, and 4.0 looks wonderful.

More to the point, none of the Archos tablets (that I'm aware of) come with the "full Google/Android" experience either. They use appslib.com to distribute apps, which has less coverage than the Amazon AppStore, and it comes with none of the other Google apps either.

So you're comparing the Fire, a non-Google experience, with the Archos, another non-Google experience. Not relevant.
There is a growing body of science that indicates talent matters a great deal less than hard work.

Certainly I consider myself relatively slow, but with enough perseverance, I get told I am smart. :)
I remember implementing the precursor to this idea by Aza Raskin (http://code.google.com/p/humanmsg/), and users hated it. "Get that giant box out of my face" was by far the top complaint.
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How does this invalidate my point?

The link title includes "Dojo" and I was stating my opinion. I see the Dojo fanbois have downvoted me.
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Man. That's one hell of a collections. Thanks for sharing
Indeed, and I'm not demanding that people be novelists or anything, you just have to master basic punctuation and spelling to make the reader's life easier.
> Well, I have read about Nazis putting fluoride in their death camp water on numerous occasions. Do you think they did that for the betterment of health and improving lives?

The Nazis were also interested in getting rid of parasites on their prisoners and stopping epidemics.

Wait - are you saying public health efforts aimed at stopping communicable diseases are Nazi-approved?! I can't believe I approved of Nazis! Quick, tell the anti-vaxxers!

(http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelli...)
The point is that it's important to realise that not everyone has the same priorities, or the same constraints, as you do. Marco says he's happy to relinquish some control in order to have things work the way they're supposed to, but he recognises that other people may not have the freedom or the desire to make the same trade-off.

This recognition is called empathy, and it's a useful trait for people involved in product design, online discussions &c.
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As a company director in the UK, I am legally responsible for making sure that the company meets its legal and regulatory obligations. Some of those obligations involve filing regular returns with HM Revenue & Customs, Companies House, etc. Some of those filings must now be made using on-line systems.

As a citizen in the UK, I am also legally responsible for providing various information to government departments and renewing various statutory services and licences from time to time: filing a personal tax return, driving licence, TV licence, electoral registration, etc. Once again, much of this is now done on-line, though I don't think any of the above are on-line only yet.

I'm not sure I'd go as far as putting Internet access on the level of "fundamental human right". As someone concerned about the recent erosion of far too many genuinely fundamental rights in far too many places, that seems like a loss of perspective. But you can't be asking people to file legal stuff on-line one minute, evangelising about high-speed nationwide broadband as an engine for getting the economy moving again the next minute, and then threatening to cut people off from the Internet based on... less than robust arguments made in some extra-judicial process, let's say. That just doesn't make any sense at all.
The idea is to follow the updates of an entity, where Google I/O is going to be run by more than one person, all of which could and should provide updates for the single entity. Would you rather follow the updates of otherwise disconnected employees of Google who happen to have updates for Google I/O? Who's to say the updates are even from Google employees and not out-sourced organizer? Should we really request the organizers to use their personal accounts to give updates for the event, while disinterested followers -- friends, family, or otherwise -- are inundated with Google I/O updates?

You can grind your Facebook axe elsewhere, but unless you have a useful solution to add to your problem, can you grind your unrelated axe elsewhere?
Could there be a patent in play perhaps?
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Well, after 6 years of professional software engineering after finishing my BS in CS, the only things on that list that I've came anywhere close to using are the natural join and Demorgan's laws.

I think this is a pretty silly post, to be honest. CS covers so much, and everytime I see a list of "things you should know", I have to resist the urge to roll my eyes and ignore it. But then I read it, and inevitably roll my eyes anyway.
Ooh neat - when the bubble pops, this could be a fun thing to remember the stupidity of the bubble by. Kind of like pets.com of the first one.
It's very hard to tell when design or functionality makes or breaks a site. I think we shouldn't be asking that question at all. The whole thing is completely situational.

For Craigslist the function is most important and credit should go to the back end guys. Something like Twitter would give it to the front end guys. I'm leaving scaling out of the equation for now and assuming all sites will perform the same under any load.

A site that is ugly doesn't get used. People always judge a book by its cover especially these days. But if the pretty site doesn't work then you're also screwed. I really hate this debate over who is more important: front or back end. You need both. Period.

I also hate the whole "design is easy" / "no, programming is easy" argument. Neither one is easy. They're different animals. The way you approach the front end and back end are totally different. I'm a generalist but lean toward design. I'm in awe of the back end guys but then some are in awe of me. We have totally different goals in mind when working. The back end guys are concerned with functionality. Security, scaling. The front end is all about beauty, load times, SEO, user experience. At one point in our work we do end up in the middle. That middle is when we're both thinking about the the front end is interacting with the back end and how will we code everything so that A) we can easily connect the two and B) we can efficiently extend the front end to accommodate new back end features and vice versa.

I understand the article wasn't exactly pitting programmers against designers but there's always that subtext and people always start thinking about it. It's a shame that the designers haven't gotten as much credit until recently but at the same time, even as a designer, I must give huge props to the back end guys as I understand the pains they go through.

But can we put the whole front vs. back debate to rest already? You just can't have one without the other. Period.
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Well, moral and ethical choices aren't really the topic of the article, development of skills is, so that seems like a separate subject.

However, it doesn't seem to me that praising someone for not stealing every day is a good idea either. You should not steal because it's wrong, not because you get praised for it.

I don't know how you interpret the Dweck research as implying that results are unimportant. Why would you expend effort trying to accomplish something that is unimportant? Besides, the research shows that results improve when you encourage a growth mindset, regardless of your philosophical feelings about this.
Yes, but if you buy one coffee a day at $4 that is $1,460/yr so buying one app a day is half that (well for $2 apps) or only $750/yr.

Before World of Warcraft came out, I budgeted $50/month on computer games. In the sense the budget was 'committed' in that I had already taken into account spending it, and treated it like an entertainment expense. So spending up to my budget in any given month (with up to one month carry over) I found one could 'impulse' buy without a lot of guilt while not losing control of ones budget. Worked pretty well.

Of course now I don't have a system to play those Win98 games :-(
If you suck at math, you SHOULD get a math heavy degree if the subject interests you. That's what I did, with my EE degree. To be fair, it isn't that I sucked at math so much as I didn't know very much of it.

Still, I think you should look at college as a way to learn what you don't know and get better where you suck, rather than bolster your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. For example, I wrote really well in high school and at one point wanted to get an English degree. Then I thought, "I already know how to write, let's put that tuition money to better use" and started considering math and science heavy options.
We just call a car service since we're close to a couple of airports; while proximity and being dropped at the terminal save time, even if all goes well we're still talking at least two hours.
Andrew's thesis is very interesting, but he's a little too quick to throw out various babies with their bathwater. Take his dismissal of psychological approaches to advertising, for instance. Why? Why are sociology and psychology no longer relevant? Maybe they're irrelevant in the old-school, Don Draperesque sense of their use (i.e., people sitting around in a boardroom and telling narratives about What People Want, and so forth). But then again, no one's done advertising or marketing like that in 50-odd years.

Psychology is as relevant to digital advertising as it ever was in analog advertising, and it'll be massively more important in social advertising. Understanding how the human mind works, why it chooses what it chooses, and how people are influenced and, in turn, influence others -- these things are still the bedrock of advertising. Media types may rise and fall, but the human brain is still the human brain. Group behavior is still group behavior. Psychology and sociology will be increasingly important tools in the marketer's arsenal as we move into the media of the future.

It's not an either/or proposition between psychological theory and real-time data analysis. Savvy marketers should combine the two. Both have their place. (As you've pointed out, the piece tends toward too many "either/or" implications that needn't be).
I'd go for a free approach and get the critical mass and feedback to start with.

Then build in more features for the paid version.

Only my advice when you have a competitor who's been around for some time. I get the impression your target user isn't going to be bothered about price.
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Seriously? Do you think Google I/O is inanimate or simply a marketing tool? If so, you can ignore the page, this thread, and anything labeled as such. Seeing as you are here, and assuming you have an interest in Google I/O, be assured that the Google I/O page is run by real people and their collective thoughts. Do you really expect to follow otherwise random organizers and for them to use their personal accounts to update us with Google I/O information?

Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3287147
I agree with the fact that it's not really about the $2 or even how many competitors there are -- it just happens to be that the apps are currently priced about the same as a coffee.

My hypothesis is that the bigger question is really one of expectation -- whether the app accomplishes exactly what the user expects it to do (not what the app markets itself to do). The more complex the expected result (ie. coffee -> coffee hit, fart app -> laughs, conversion calculator -> converts stuff, your nifty social app -> ?) the more doubt people have in just throwing down money (regardless of how "small" the amount).
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And I'd buy it more if his actions followed his words. I listened to his podcast once, and the Android/Google bashing was so pervasive it continued even to the point they were making fun of it during an ad that mentioned a company had an Android app (something to the effect of "They even have an Android app, if you are stuck with an Android"). An ad! People paid money to his show to have their work/customers belittled.
What you describe is implemented in these libraries:
libduma (http://duma.sourceforge.net/) and efence (http://linux.die.net/man/3/efence)

They also have buffer underflow protection (either overflow or underflow at a time).

But in 32 bit systems, for applications that heavily use memory, you may run out of address space
I dont think you need to restrict it into mobile. Its appalling to me that Apple hasnt released Safari with payments in it (or Google/Chrome). This is arguably the biggest barrier to microtransactions on the web/mobile web IMO.

Doesnt have to be at 30% fees either . . . thats completely artificial (and hopefully will come down over time)
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Yeah, same here. If he meant that design was integral to Apple's ability to break into the market and gain a few early successes then it makes sense. But I thought along e same lines as you. Apple can be considered an example of how design didn't matter, the competition mopped the floor with them back then. I think they were only marginally successful for a few years in the 80's and didn't become really relevant again until 2001.
Ask HN: Will Apple/Google/FB ever reduce the 30% fee off their payment gateways?
he doesn't mean Dojo as a framework
The people who realize that this isn't Dojo, the JS framework, and is instead Dojo, the Ruby Deployment Tool... they're the ones who downvoted you.
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There's a difference between evangelizing a setup to someone for selfish reasons (to bring more users hoping developers follow, to make it easier to troubleshoot), and for reasons the other person just doesn't know or grasp yet (using POP instead of IMAP is causing your phone and pc to be out of sync)
Yeah, I don't understand why firefox handles $.each() + regex and chrome+safari choke so badly. The same command in ff takes under a second, meanwhile in chrome+safari it grinds to a halt. I'm puzzled because I thought chrome would be the fastest.
"There is, however, a shortage of good startup designers, at least when it comes to people who have both interaction and product design experience and skill sets."

As a design/product guy I'd love to work at your startup IF the problem you're trying to solve is compelling. A good number of startups fail that litmus test for me.

If your idea is awesome, I'm in.
These aren't errors that would be caused my manipulating your data. If you were manipulating your data, you'd have made sure that your results were significant with the correct tests. These are errors where people didn't use the proper test.

At the worst, you could only claim that people only submitted the results of the test that made their research look better than it otherwise would have been (with the correct test).

In this case, I think it is more of an issue with the reviewers catching the problems than the authors deliberately misleading.
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It seems obvious to me that this would be how to implement this. When I read his initial code, I immediately wondered why he wasn't returning self.

Maybe this familiarity comes with having spent enough time reading through the jQuery internals. Speaking of which, if you like this article, the classic "10 things I learned from the jQuery source" is great reading:

http://paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquer...
Not that I know. Most start ups in Mexico are in bigger cities, but in any case we still lack an entrepreneurial culture.
Yeah, that's good, as is: http://dailyjs.com/

Back in the day, Ajaxian was the necessary read, but no longer...
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I'm running the non-CM AOSP build of ICS on my Nexus S and frankly it's amazing. The phone got FASTER with it.

The biggest difference seems to be that scrolling is now GPU accelerated everywhere, which is particularly noticeable in the browser. The browser itself also seems much faster. It's no problem to load 5/6 tabs in the background quickly and let them render while continuing to browse in the current tab stutter-free. It makes browsing on the phone much more like a laptop/desktop.

This is all on 18-month-old hardware.

They've also made sure that the rest of the OS is much more polished. I still think the widget desktop/app panel division makes the whole OS seem more complicated than necessary, but Android has come a long way. It's finally an iOS competitor on user experience.
Another possibility is that they want Moxie to work on Convergence full-time.

This could represent Twitter and Google ganging up on the CAB Forum to clean up their act for the good of the internet. Alternatively, it may be that Twitter plans to match Google's scheme to be an end user identity provider by moving some of the publishing directly onto the handset, and for this they might want a more decentralized server authentication environment.