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Love the concept, could see myself using this. Might recommend a different color scheme (I associate those with Microsoft and XP) and perhaps more polish in general on the design side. Otherwise, very nice.
The service itself looks very well done. I'd be a little leery of using it on an internal admin page since you're crawling the content and I wouldn't want to leak any info to your servers.

The marketing portion of the web site looks like a work in progress. There's too many nav points (every corner). I would simplify that. The video could use some polish but it gets the point across. I would shorten the part where you're recording a session to get to the playback quicker since that's the selling point.

Overall though, very impressive work.
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Should have said too that some folks in Newbury have cable. We're literally one mile off the main road, and five miles from I-89 (a major highway). and don't.
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I wonder if the car that best fits the constraints is always the same (i.e : do we see the same car, or each user sees a different car) ?
Social news is another way to advertise. I think there is room for new methods.
For about 9 months, I lived in a trailer with a few buddies and my girlfriend. Our provider was "Cable America", and it was almost impossible to get a decent ping time while using their service. Latency was almost always at least a half second (500+ milliseconds). This made it extremely hard to prototype my game, because the game relies on a low-latency connection to be playable. Worse, Cable America is the only option at that location. Other providers (like Charter) refused to service the location because "it is Cable America's territory".

So yes, there is a problem, and that problem can hamper innovation in certain circumstances. It should be fixed.
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The screencast is great - I might use this for a project I'm working on. The demo is very useful as well to see exactly what it does and doesn't capture (selecting text).

In the pricing table, does "users per hour" mean the number of sessions that are captured? That's what I took it to mean but I'm not sure.

You should probably put some answers to your FAQs :-)
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Ah yes. We call that technique "redlining." Compliments of your lobbyists representing AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. Special thanks goes to HR 5252.
Had a 12-person seminar with the founder of Genetic Algorithms, John Holland. Read about him here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Holland

In my opinion, this is his most accessible book (for the topic that is) about GA's:

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Order-Adaptation-Builds-Complex...

Professor Holland is sharp as hell, insistent about expanding interdisciplinary studies, and a very nice guy.
if the only reason to embraced objective-j is its support for an (apparently) more "natural" means of OO programming, then to me that isn't a reason at all. how many people are modelling client software these days strictly by virtue of OO techniques? i'd go as far as to say OO is dead. i much prefer something like jQuery which doesn't get hung up on methodologies, instead looking to adapt better to the specific task at hand.

my guess is that objective-j is DOA. the pool of objective-c programmers is not a motivating factor...i'm not even sure there are many people who really love objective-c. indeed i would offer that the "leaky abstraction" is that which tries to graft one so-so language on top of another so-so language. just man up and use javascript for what it is.
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well, the design bites.
But aside from that, it's ok.

Not sure that we really need another recipes site. Aiming at the student market might be nice, but wouldn't it be better to go for good food that's easy to cook rather than this is just crap food that is easy to cook?

Not sure how you are differentiating in the space.

The first thing I would do would be to spend some time on design. It's fine from a usability perspective, but all the colors, and the large pictures of ugly food is really disturbing.

Just way to busy to look at. too many colors, seems like there was very little thought to alignment.
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i've never seen a poll on the topic of immigration that shows anything under 85% of americans being against loosening borders further. even the libertarian party figured this out...look at their election 08 platforms and you will see that even they threw in the towel on open borders. this issue is DOA, political suicide.
So if one of my user logins, you get their login + password? What about CC info?

This being said, it look super useful. Can we get the option to record say, a user out of 100?
Sigh, does anyone really believe that internet access is going to make a serious difference in the lives of those children...

Me. I do. Maybe not all of them. Maybe not even most. But some, certainly.

I never was much for the argument that we shouldn't give poor people X because they won't know how to use it. Perhaps we shouldn't help them with the electric bill either because they're just gonna sit around and watch "Spongebob".

Sure, some will waste the opportunity, but as government help programs go, this one is cheap. Lets let them decide what to do with that opportunity.
Very cool idea. I would definitely use something like this. I only noticed 1 small issue: it seems tabbing between input fields doesn't register. As soon as I entered text on the first input, I tabbed to the second textarea and entered text. The video didn't register the second textarea text until I had clicked one of the radio buttons (using Safari 3.1.2 on Leopard 10.5.5)

Perhaps you could also work in goals somehow. This is one of the best things about usability tests--giving users a set of goals to complete and watching how they respond. Maybe offering certain users a chance to take place in the study with X reward?

Also, CrazyEgg (another site for visualizing clicks but implemented as a heatmap) lets you run campaigns, which is extremely useful. Considering you generally want to run tests like this after you've made changes, having a set limit is a good idea (10 hours, 100 users, etc...).

One small critique, I got bored with the video and went straight for the demo. I'd suggest making the video shorter or somehow showing "the goods" up-front.

Very nice idea and good implementation.
Just because 99% of children are "in a wasteland of social networking sites" doesn't mean everyone is, or will be. The internet is a vast, valuable resource. It is the only reason I am as competent a programmer as I am today. I'm entirely self-taught, thanks to the internet. As I was growing up, I usually skipped school activities (and sometimes school) in favor of learning programming on the internet.

So please don't deny people like me the opportunity just because most people around us misuse it.
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Due to the naïveté of the model I would say it's pretty unlikely that there are many different car-combinations with high fitness.
Did you have a cold or something? I suggest you to clear out your nasal passages before demo'ing. Unless the sniffing sound is for effect ;) Overall, very nice work. Keep it up.
That's exactly right. One user per hour means a single session. And, that seems like a good candidate for the first FAQ :)

Thank you!
Yeah, sure, but why is broadband one of those things?

Is it broadband to rural areas that only the Government would do, because there is no profit in it? If so, I'm not convinced that's the best use of taxpayer money.
One of the big 3 did build the smart car. Sorta. If you count Daimler AG ( previous owner of Chrysler, and current owner of Smart) as the maker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_AG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)

I'll take this opportunity to note that bailing out companies originally founded by Americans in such a globalized market is arbitrary and harmful.
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I assume it doesn't work well with Flash apps, right?
In the case of building a platform, trusting someone with your data is the most crucial thing. So, this a barrier that will limit this only to non-profesional applications, e.g. create simple forms? Something they can already do using Google spreadsheets.

Far from that advanced applications need not-only a storage system.
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I'm surprised you of all people aren't more partial to them
This is amazing! Seriously, this looks like an extremely valuable web app for people to remotely study real users.
I'm not sure where you draw the line between Union Square, First Round, etc. vs. Sequoia, KPCB, Khosla.
Is that Non-Valley VC's vs Valley VC's?
Or is it more smaller VC shops vs. larger?

Is there really that big of a difference among any of these as long as the point of contact VC has direct start-up experience and isn't just a finance person?
I feel like throwing a red Voit dodgeball at the author's face, to see if he falls out of his ivory tower.
but anyone in useability will tell you that you ruin the experiment if the user knows that someone/software is looking "over their shoulder". any software installed or testing environment introduced will produce different results in users. this is why larger sites settle with coarser-grained analytics derived from tracking cookies and js beacons (which can measure abandonement). indeed cookies+beacons are a superior technique because you can randomize or exclude parts of your test body at will, or even other metrics (geolocation etc) to add/remove people to tests at will. indeed, everyone reading this has unwittingly been in a test for a major website at some point without knowing it (which means your data is actually valid!)
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If we want to be more precise, this type of optimization is called simulated annealing (population = 1, no cross-over, just mutations):

"At each step, the SA heuristic considers some neighbour s' of the current state s, and probabilistically decides between moving the system to state s' or staying in state s. The probabilities are chosen so that the system ultimately tends to move to states of lower energy. Typically this step is repeated until the system reaches a state that is good enough for the application, or until a given computation budget has been exhausted."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
Thanks for the feedback. Your idea about offering certain users a chance to take place in the study is dead on to what we think is the next logical step. Connecting an actual user with actionable contact information could help companies close the loop with an actual user, and interact with them in the same way they do in paid usability studies.
"They estimated that each billion dollars spent would create up to 40,000 jobs."

Not sure who is doing the math here, but if you divide a billion by 40k, you get $25k per person... and nothing left over to spend on materials. So the workers will either get significantly less than $25k a year for these jobs, or the concrete and bulldozers will be free.

Far more likely, I'd guess, is that the 40k jobs figure was pulled out of somebody's backside.
Open another instance in a second window and you'll quickly see the answer.

Only one car would best fit the constraints (that's by definition). However, it's probably not the car you are seeing, because the algorithm tends to get stuck on local maxima. After about 2 hours of running, the thing has flatlined as each window I opened has 20 copies of pretty much the same car (although they differ between windows), and they are not getting that far.
This is really neat. Love the idea. I'm not looking for an estimate, but can you give a general idea of pricing?
Really nice visualization of GAs
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I can't help but feel you did not read this post. Simply saying Obj-J is a "leaky abstraction" is meaningless, and yet you offer no examples of how the abstraction leaks (or why its actually problematic).

On top of that, you seem dedicated to the argument that Objective-C is a bad language, and that Objective-J is silly for wanting to re-implement it. Of course, as mentioned in the post, that was in no way the goal of Objective-J. The actual language isn't the point.

Separately, Objective-C is a great language, and plenty of people love it. More every day thanks to the iPhone. Can you give me three reasons why you don't like it?

Finally, claiming OO programming is dead is nonsensical. Java is by far the world's most popular programming language. Right below it you'll find C++ and C#. Three strictly OO languages. Not to mention the fact that two of the three most popular JavaScript libraries build in classical inheritance.
I like the customer development stuff, but that's really totally different. It's not an alternative to sales/marketing (but it is something you should do first, and in an ongoing way). If you do it right, lead gen and sales gets a LOT easier. But it doesn't get so easy that you don't need to do it. Salesforce.com spends 60-70% of their topline on sales/marketing. PG had a salesguy with Viaweb. Sales works, and for any B2B company, you have to do it (unless you're 37signals).

At the end of the day, you need to get buyers and only a tiny percentage of buyers is overtly hunting for what you have-- meaning that the vast majority of your buyers are receptive but not seeking you out. Enter, sales.

If you have a product that you're selling to businesses this means that someone actually hits the pavement to go fill a sales pipeline (lead gen), works to convert that pipeline to customers (sales), and works to upsell current customers to bigger and better things. This can be one person or several, more specialized people.
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Neat idea.. my only worry would be scalability on the end-user side. I.e., it might be difficult to get an aggregate understanding of user behavior without going through tons of videos.
Using CAPTCHAs to get more followers on twitter.
Such a service could work like this:

* you submit a selection of your tweets that you are particularly proud of

* you also submit a CAPTCHA to check whether someone looking at your selection really looked at it carefully

Example: such a CAPTCHA might ask the user to select the tweet in your selection that satisfies a particular criterion

Your tweet selection will be shown to k people provided that you correctly answer the CAPTCHAs in ~ k selections.

You could have people use tags to facilitate search/browsing of tweet selections.
For one, GNOME is usually compared with Mac OS X. I find your comparison with Windows pretty funny. Secondly, look at the gnome-shell discussion on planet.gnome.org. Further, just because Windows has things looking like GNOME doesn't mean one copied from the other. Especially not that GNOME copied from Windows. Click e.g. on the clock in GNOME. IIRC that is now in Vista.
I certainly agree with the "man up" sentiment. That's my complaint about GWT and Pyjamas. But jquery and YUI and prototype all add these OOP features in different ways. Objective-j is still javascript. It's not compiled, it's just uniquely funny-looking. (Note: there are advantages to a single-language stack, and compilation is not the end of the world.)

As it happens, the javascript language is incredibly flexible and expressive. Maybe we in the js community should man up and accept that there are many ways to skin the DOM cat. They may look rather different from one another, but they're all javascript.
The author is against language features implemented as a library. However, the drawbacks he points to are really a lack of community programming conventions. If there were an agreed on standard Javascript way to do things like traditional OO class based inheritance, then there wouldn't be the problems he cites. Having such conventions encoded as syntax would reduce some of the power of Javascript. The fact that you can implement your own domain-specific mini-language is very powerful.

This is really pointing back to the old "Cathedral vs. Bazaar" dichotomy.
It's worth remembering that Fabienne reacted the way she did because that's what Quentin Tarrintino wanted her to do.
I find that followers(/users) that you have to trick into staying aren't worth it and will probably not stay.
There's no trick here. They have final say on whether to follow you.
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this is really a great idea, and i can see how useful it is fro qa purposes
To answer your first question, we don't actively capture username/passwords. However, in order to follow a user into an authenticated site, we have to either setup some type of proxy (which requires some work on the client's side), or we do some simple cookie capturing (which requires no work on the client's side) to see what the user sees. Obviously, cookies might contain sensitive information, which is why we're offering this as an optional premium service only.

As for your second question, we can certainly setup the service such that it captures a certain percentage of users, and it's certainly a route we would consider depending on the size of the client.
McCain and Obama were in fundamental agreement on the issue, viz, that the borders should be opened and all illegals should receive amnesty. And thus they never discussed it.

So strange to see seeming anti-establishment nuts (randians) suggesting the government do what it's already been doing for decades. The only people who benefit from immigration are asset-holders, so needless to say, people with a combination of amorality and asset wealth want as much as possible.
Two companies trading customers back and forth isn't exactly vigorous competition.

The nature of the last-mile problem means that the only way you are going to get more than one cable company and more than one phone company to compete is to treat them like electrical utilities and either regulate their rates or force them to share their lines with competitors.

Wireless broadband solutions don't have this last mile problem, so don't need to be regulated in the same way. Their Achilles Heel will always be latency, which is why I don't think they are a long-term replacement for wired connections.
encfs + Dropbox works quite well. I have my dropbox set to sync ~/.dropbox and I mount an encfs on top of it as ~/Dropbox.

Since encfs is transparent and stores its results as plain old files, Dropbox only has to sync individual updates.
I think you're mistaking the word "competition" for "oligopoly." Let me introduce you to 99% of the broadband market, their names are Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T.

By the way, they don't let municipalities build their own infrastructures. It's "anti-competitive." Any company that is profitable enough is acquired, otherwise they will charge you an arm and leg just to use their cables.

The focus on "wealthy" neighborhoods is called redlining. These three guys I just introduced you to don't care about poor people. They only want to charge as high a price as possible for the people who can afford it. They're not too worried about actually building a good network (ie fiber optics, instead of their 100-year old coaxial cables designed for telephones).

Just thought I'd chime in and clarify that.
Exactly. Most of the hardcore Randians that I have come in contact with are not even true Objectivists, at least as far as my understanding of it goes.

And it is very frustrating hearing so many people saying our present mess is a result of policies advocated by Rand, when they are anything but. Banks were lending out money that did not belong to them, and cutting themselves huge profits, with no risk. Anyone who says this is the type of person Rand admired has obviously read nothing written by her, they have most likely read someone attributing this to her, but it was exactly this type of behaviour that she condemned.

Why do I care? Because if people don't figure out right from wrong soon, we will be in REALLY serious trouble. Actions do have consequences.
Good site, that video is great. Got it straight away and seems a very exciting and useful tool.

Wonder if it works with Flex/Flash apps... I imagine not...

Pricing-wise, I think you should make the free version more than 1 user session and per-day rather than per-hour... 10 user sessions per day sounds and feels better than 1 user session per hour, somehow.

20 user sessions per day would sound pretty good.
There is also the issue that implementing things like method_missing and import are prohibitively difficult without new syntax.

Objective-J's code importer is one of the more complex pieces (as it manages to do so completely asynchronously).
All the approaches that use a simple JavaScript function to grab code, like grab_and_eval("file.js") are forced to happen synchronously (since you have to guarantee that the code is evaled before the next line). Without some sort of lexing support, its really not possible to both grab files asynchronously and also be able to continue executing.

Also, as stated in the article, you can't intercept JavaScript method calls, so if you want something like method missing you're forced to do something like:

call_method_or_send_method_missing(object, "method_name")

And again, since Objective-J is a proper superset of JavaScript, it doesn't lose any of its powerful features.
If you live in NYC, every airplane looks like a problem.

Or at least, I imagine that is the fucked up rationale behind that particular kill switch. While it could conceivably drop a hijacked plane before it nails a building, I can't help but wonder how long it will take before some clever antagonists start broadcasting kill signals to drop the planes remotely. Why dirty your hands in a messy hijacking when you can just press a button from a rooftop adjacent to an airport?
"Big country, hard to get it to everyone, we're doing fine."

I'm really glad you pointed out that logic for me. I almost could not have made the assumption on my own. I would encourage you to study the topic of broadband penetration and network neutrality just a little bit more. It's a little embarrassing that you're participating in this discussion and approach it with such a watered-down argument like that.
That's only if you want an OS that's not windows but acts like windows in most manners of using. If you want something different, it still takes more then an hour or two to set up.
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Separately, Objective-C is a great language, and plenty of people love it

so much so that its almost impossible to find it being put to use outside of places apple forces it. and before you say "gnustep"...no one uses that

Can you give me three reasons why you don't like it?

1. goofy/eyes-bleed syntax

2. i don't care about OO

3. i'll think of something later

Finally, claiming OO programming is dead is nonsensical. Java is by far the world's most popular programming language.

java is a ployglot language. they're busy now trying to turn it into a hybrid-functional language...just like c#, the other kitchen-sink language

and c++ was designed from the ground-up to be multi-paradigm, this is all over everything stroustrup says about it
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Thanks for the heads up. This is VERY invasive in terms of online privacy expectations. Welcome to my AdBlock list.

Very sleek implementation though. Perhaps you should consider licensing productized version of the same idea.
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