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OK, look at this from the opposite perspective from securing a building: pretend you're a terrorist. How do you kill everyone in the hotel? What are your challenges.

Challenge #1: The hotel has hundreds of exits. You have, in the instant case, two men. At best, what, a dozen? Two? If you gave the Secret Service their pick of two dozen men, anybody they want, and ordered them to protect the same entrances, they would say "It can't be done". And preventing egress is every bit as hard.

Challenge #2: It takes high levels of training to hit a moving target by anything but luck. Your men likely don't have it.

Challenge #3: You can't pursue anyone who runs from the scene. You don't have the manpower and it crimps your kill-the-innocents game plan.

Challenge #4: Minutes after the incident starts armed adversaries start arriving. They have effectively infinite reinforcements. And you're totally cut off.

So the question for the terrorist game theoretician: how do you kill someone running from the scene of a terror incident? You don't. Your best bet is to herd, trap as many as you can, and slaughter at a leisurely pace while the cops set up a perimeter outside and wait for someone who knows what the #$'( they are doing to take command.

So if you're ever a civilian caught in a terrorist attack, and your primary objective is getting away: pick a direction, preferably away from other people. Run in a zigzag fashion. Make it behind cover (like another building), change direction, and beat feet -- nobody ever dies more than a block from the scene (except of injuries sustained at the scene).

Now, if you were a civilian whose primary goal was stopping the terror attack rather than individual survival: there are several hundred of you and two of them. They're holding guns, not the Spear of Destiny, and they're busy getting their jihadi high on. Run at the closest bad guy screaming bloody murder, tackle him, and stab him in the eye with your car keys. If there are two of you, split to two angles and do it. Hopefully other folks will follow your example -- if they do, the terrorists will end up with their faces stomped in (guns don't help much when you're on the floor getting kicked by 20 people) and most of the civilians in the building will not.

If you're the first cop on the scene, great, use what they've figured out about school shootings: the priority is NOT to contain the incident. That is the TERRORIST'S priority. YOUR priority is to get in there and start putting as many bullets in his general vicinity as possible, to give him other things to think about rather than "How do I take hostages, secure my position, and turn the inevitable rescue operation into a total bloodbath?" Terrorists who are busy taking cover behind an interior wall to avoid getting their heads blown off are terrorists who are not killing anyone presently. And remember, all you have to do is keep it up a few minutes for the civilians to bug out and the cavalry to arrive.
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Yes, this is definitely out of my area of expertise. Fair criticism. Is there a good resource to understand how the loans are repaid and what enforcement exists? That would be crucial to understanding the degree to which they aren't donations or couldn't be treated as donations even if they weren't.

And, no, I don't think Cameroon is financed by the World Bank. I just wrote that poorly. I was interested in understanding whether the natural incentive to build an economy to increase the scale of possible graft (not my theory, from the article) could be killed by getting outside funding that, perversely, wouldn't result in a more successful economy if it were being hoarded. Perhaps that just doesn't happen.
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What about ClamXAV set to scan periodically (late at night) and watch your "downloads" directory? This won't use an inordinate amount of resources while you are working.
Virtualization may help - even on Windows.
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The embedded Steve Jobs video is worth the price of admission.
In OS≤9 we used Norton, so no big deal. Frankly it's weird that we've been able to get away with not having anti-virus so long.
This is the beginning of one of the essays:

"I love icecream very much. Normally people wuld like to eat icecream in summer, few people were seen eating icecream in winter. But I will, and I found that is very excited to eat icecream in winter."

There are grammatical errors and misspellings all over this.

Here's the Monty Python sketch I'm referring to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao

Maybe the problem is that people are writing essays in the language they are learning instead of in their native language like it suggests on the home page. If that's that case, then this could be a good tool for essay writers to get feedback on their work. It needs to be clear, though, whether people should write essays in their native language or in the language they're learning. Maybe there could be different sections for each type of essay? Then you could also read essays in your native language written by students of the language and give them feedback, or you could read essays written by native speakers of the language you're learning.
Is it possible for anyone to review your application without buying it? If not, then I think it's bad form to ask HN to review it.
Sounds about right.

It's been a while since I last had cause to use the google toolbar but didn't that have a adblocker?

This news doesn't seem all that surprising.

[edit]Just realised I'm mixing pop-up blockers and adblockers. I don't think this makes the parent comment any less valid.
I don't have a highrise account, however looking at the screenshots it looks well done. I like the 'Text Message' option I see there as well.

Did you do a write up anywhere of what your experience was with the app store and all of the process involved in getting in? I'd love to hear more as I've just started working on my first iPhone app myself.

Edit: If you don't mind, would you be willing to give us a hint at sales at some point (not sure how long this has been up... has anyone bought yet?)
A little more information would have been useful. As it is, only those with iTunes installed can review the app.

I hate the way iTunes tries to reinvent the web for their little walled garden
I instead thought "Other browsers will have ad blockers, so there are people who won't use Chrome if it doesn't have one." Implying that Google might consider that market segment and the browser strategy pretty darn important. Just a different take.
Tiredness in the physical sense or the mental sense? I associate burnout with mental fatigue.

Sleep is the best cure for physical tiredness, but mental tiredness is much harder to overcome.

Probably the best way to prevent mental fatigue is to force yourself to do different things on a regular basis. It's all about not getting stuck in a rut. I find that my mind needs to feel a sense of accomplishment to keep me from feeling burnout. Even an "easy win" is better than no win at all.
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That list fails to mention that only the newest iCal (that shipped with Leopard) will work.
I thought it was posted so we could make fun of his scientific ignorance? Did the poster really think this was a good metaphor?

(I'm not saying the marketing advice he gives is bad. In fact, I couldn't even get past his nonsense at the top of the article)
Actually, I've been syncing my Google Calendar with iCal for several months now. The news seems to be a utility to make setting up the URLs for the webdav interface easy for iCal users.
Cool.

So what frameworks did you use to build it? Are you using pure Obj-C sqlite access, or something like fmdb/pldatabase/sqlitepersistentobjects?

What was the most challenging aspect of building it?

How will you market it? The app store is great, but I've found that outside visibility has started to matter even more now that there are tons of apps.

Also, you may want to change your application name in iTunes Connect to "hContacts - Highrise for your iPhone/iPod Touch" or something similar. Just be sure to have "Highrise" in it, so that your app name shows up in the table list when users are searching for the term "highrise" from their devices.

Not to take away from your review, but for those people that use Basecamp I have a native iPhone client here: http://appremix.com/projects/
Maybe they'll decide to unconform by foregoing the descriptive subtitle.
I went to second-string US liberal arts school but I still recognize the three tribes. So the article is interesting but it also has an onion-ish quality. "The rich aren't as happy as you think, news at 11:00".
Here, I just whipped this up...

http://www.ycfeeds.com/feed/submission-title-contains?term=r...
Fact: Religion always tries to put down science that reaches contradictory conclusions than scripture

Fact: Not "always". For the most part, religious people are oblivious to science, and only highly visible matters like heliocentricity (gravity, less so) become contentious. It's clear that he's making an imperfect metaphor and the details aren't especially important.

That is, are you marketing evolution? Even the smart lads believe in evolution because it's fashionable, like the iphone, and not because they followed through all the relevant citations. Rather, merely quoting the full title of "On the origin of species" is enough to put fair weather Darwinists in a tizzy--and the atheists are right in there with the Pope, depending on how you advertise the inquisition. It's a marketing problem and has a marketing solution.
Two questions for people who tried this feature:

1. Does this support syncing multiple Google Calendars? Last I checked, if you have multiple calendars, you had to set up multiple CalDAV connections. CalDAV itself supports multiple calendars easily, but the Google implementation just served up one.

2. Does this sync with an iPhone? BusySync lets me connect iCal to Google Calendar in a way that iPhone calendar edits go back to Google on a sync, i.e., does the right thing. (Setting aside the absurdity of having to connect an Internet-capable phone to a computer to sync to an Internet service.)
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If you are going to charge for the features, you should not make them free, even to begin with. By doing so, you create an initial value in the users' minds of what those features are worth... $0. If anything, charge for the Pro features and gain a good user base (though you might not sell a single Pro account), and then have a one-day special where users can sign up for a month of Pro for free (or something along those lines). This allows them to get a taste of the Pro without eroding the perceived value.

You might also consider making the whole thing free and asking for donations to help you keep the project going and continue improving it and adding features.

As far as building a sustainable business goes, Twitter can't even do that from their own service. It will be difficult at best for you.
> Actually, if America were plunged into a huge depression, and most Americans were suddenly thrust into poverty, banks folded and so on, this 'culture' would change in less than a year.

America has been in a depression before. It has also had recessions, and it wasn't even rich until the twentieth century.

And yet, we still hate corruption.

At the risk of posting something not very Hacker-News friendly, I think the natural thing to credit is widespread Christianity in America. Whether or not you like the whole package, the impact of a huge proportion of the population believing that even if you can entirely get away with it in Earthly terms that there are still consequences for corruption probably can't be understated.

In fact, I suspect that your are more right now about how the culture would change under duress than you would have been fifty years ago, and you will continue to be more right over time. Even if you don't like Christianity, it's hard to deny that there are worse dominant religions or worldviews to live under... it takes some pretty damned enlightened rationalism to resist the temptation to corruption.
I'm not disagreeing with his central thesis, I'm just saying that it is undermined tremendously by his bad examples.

And since he is in marketing he should know better.
Many chain stores end up doing this. Krispy Kreme had a great business because people would drive an hour out of their way to eat there -- but that means that having two locations within an hour of each other is redundant.
It looks like Zoho is not to be underestimated! What a great idea.
Embarrassing story from someone I know: if you write your own billing application, make sure you round numbers correctly, or you could cost yourself hundreds of dollars a month in under-billing clients.
Then move out. After you have made it in another part of the world you can better afford to stand for change.
I don't know if it's "bad form" per se, I mean, part of what people here aim to do is make money off of their work. However, I certainly am not going to pay to help you out with your app. But I don't own an iPhone anyway. I would simply say that you shouldn't expect too much help if you don't provide an 'early access' version to users of this site or something like that.
Did anyone else find the irony in calling a book UnConform and getting it published by a regular publisher, when the previous book was called Getting Real; and David/37s were in large part responsible for technical books being published in various incremental beta stages?
I think the natural thing to credit is widespread Christianity in America.

Exactly the same is true of the British and Dutch colonial/trading empires.
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> if America were plunged into a huge depression, and most Americans were suddenly thrust into poverty, banks folded and so on, this 'culture' would change in less than a year.

I don't think evidence supports this claim. The 30s saw some of the lowest crime rates in America ever. In 1800 median living standards were pretty close to the same all over the world but criminality varied a lot.

Criminality and corruption are driven by culture, and possible genetics.
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Sounds expensive, slow, risky, and inefficient to me.
> Culture is very fluid and changes very quickly

Says who? You can read 200 year old travel diaries and the cultural observations are usually still right on. Culture runs deep.
The IMF loans often come with strings attached.
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I recently launched http://rev.iew.me - a community website reviewing project. Because I have some hardcore fans, I managed to get some excellent post-launch links/publicity and in under 1 month have nearly 500 users.

My 'problem', though, is that all of these users use the same times of website, browse the same type of blogs, etc. How do I attract people from different audiences?

(I don't know if this is worth mentioning, but I don't intend to make my fortune with this site. I am happy in my 9 to 5 job. I have, however, implemented a pro account type feature just to cover bandwidth costs & had 6 sign-ups so far.)
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Haven't used the app, but 2 things:

1. Would be nice to support login via openid.
2. I've been using a Highrise to LDAP proxy with moderate success with Address Book for OSX. I think I'd rather see that sort of integration with the address book than a separate app.
(proxy link: http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2007/5/22/highrise-to-ldap...)
I'd say that's a nice problem to have.. if you're under-rounding by one cent enough times to cost yourself hundreds of dollars, that would mean you're making at least tens of thousands of dollars of sales...
Open Source is a revolution like Ron Paul was a revolution. Yes, it's got some nice features, and it's good to have a viable third alternative, but at the same time there's too much wrong with it to rely on it entirely.

Apple needs a closed environment. They need to make money from selling their computers. They do so because they need to pay their programmers, who are among the best in the world. They have to pay their designers, who are quite possibly the best in the world. (Apple's won more Red Dot design awards than any other company or single designer, and they've won with a ridiculous margin.) Speaking as a consumer, I'm willing to pay money for good service. That's how the economy has worked for centuries, and I think it's a proven workable model.

Apple's open enough for me. I can tweak everything I want, to my heart's content, because it runs on top of perfect Unix. I'm not a hardcore programmer, I don't yet see the point for emacs (though part of me feels that day is coming), but Terminal is enough to give me a keyboard-only environment when I need to do coding. Apple's got an excellent set of universal shortcuts, actually, which I don't recall Ubuntu having when I tried it.

The set-up on a Mac requires me to actively approve any virus on my computer before it launches. That's pretty close to foolproof if I'm cautious about it. Apple recommends it, sure, because that's responsible of them. That doesn't make it absolutely necessary.

On the other hand, when I installed Ubuntu, the graphics and sound cards on my perfectly-normal Dell box wouldn't show things right or play sound, installing third-party applications melted the entire thing, and eventually I had to reinstall Windows as well. The fact that Open Source makes it possible for me to accidentally destroy something (and I wasn't even messing with terminal) makes me think I'll stick with Apple, thanks.
70% or more of Sub-Saharan Africa is devoutly christian. Does not seem to have helped very much.
Russians are Christian and there's a lot of corruption there. Same in South America.
I'd bet they had investors in common (Ron Conway?) who put pressure on SA to let them save some of their balance sheet and some of their face.

As an ancient example, that's how it went with Philip Greenspun's ars Digita and their asset sale to Redhat.
If we could only virtualize the economy.. (Like in a VM for a computer.)
Seth's analogies of gravity and evolution may not be accurate, but his point stands that the theory of gravity is less controversial than the theory of evolution. Its also interesting how he illustrates the power of a story as a marketing device. It is one of the many factors in the the success of evolution vs. gravity.

He goes a step further and provides insights into the kinds of stories that sell (or dont) - long stories and stories that go against the conventional wisdom are harder to communicate.

Obviously, if you have a super-spectacular product like google search or iphone (add in your fav product), you dont need to tell a silly story. But for most folks who are in the business of creating/delivering mundane products/services or who dont have a huge marketing budget, its nice to gain an advantage. I think this is one of the reasons for the success of the Balsalmiq guy - he has a nice product but his story of a totally transparent one-person ISV going it alone is really compelling.
Receiving, as an ebook publisher.
I say it's bad form because it's disguising an advertisement as a community-based request for feedback.
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Jeff Jonas has actually done some pretty cool stuff related to information gathering over time. Worth checking out.

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3470.html
Ah, that's quite a neat idea really. I do think you're going to have to stick to a fixed syntax here though. People are already familiar with the standards of "Re: and Fw:" on the Internet, so it's not that far-fetched for people to learn "Todo:", "Followup:" and "Remind:".

My overall suggestion would be to go with that (you could even tell users to press the "forward" button then replace "fw" with one of three commands). Then you can go with my suggestion of normalising caps, punctuation and even stemming to the first few letters to as to make it as forgiving as possible. e.g., FOL would even match a typo like Fololw-up ;-)

That way, it could expect all subject lines in the form:

Command: Text @ Date

with date being optional perhaps. A standard regex or even just a split() would be fine here. If there's an error at any point, a standard help bounce would be good (think the --help text you get when you misuse a UNIX command).

I really don't think it's unreasonable to expect users to get the command bit right, so the problem really is reduced to getting the date bit parsed correctly for which I've seen two suggestions here already.

p.s. One possible future thing could be to make extensions for things like Thunderbird that actually gives a "Todo", "Remind" and "Follow-up" buttons alongside the "Reply"
and "Forward" buttons ;-)
IMO, hire a graphic/ui designer. No offense, but it's butt ugly.
How is self promotion different than marketing the company you own?
Nothing.

My lifestyle and finances were in order during economic growth. They remain in good standing now.

Life goes on.
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In the particular manifestation of this bug, he was under-charging by much more than one cent. It was thousands of dollars a month, not tens of thousands.
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