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I'm going to give you honest feedback here.

Your main problem is also what you are trying to sell - your simplicity. The site looks bad -- as in, it looks like the Rails 15 minute blog tutorial with a few extra things. This isnt simplicity - this is bare-bones. Simplicity is easy to use, easy to understand, and beautiful to look at. After I signed up I was immediately thrown into writing a blog post. What? What is this? Am I supposed to write a post? Is it private? Who can see it? You've thrown me into the water when I don't know how to swim, because you assume the life preserver is getting in my way.

I don't have a tumblr, but I tried them out today. I was up an running faster than your site - and they don't charge money! They didn't ask for my first or last name, all they asked for was email, password, URL -- all on one page as well.

Finally, the fact that your site is so bare-bones, but yet charges money, will cause problems. What's to stop me from building a site very similar to this in a weekend and charging $5/month? Or nothing? I feel it will be extremely hard to have a good business plan with "we have less features".
i think there's a cultural element to it. as a software developer, i've been in certain countries where people were mortified to provide feedback.

the one country where they'll always tell you what they think: South Africa. unbelievably straightforward.
"please be a free member for a month, for a blogging system that features you're not gonna see until you use it."

I think that's asking too much for a blogging system where it has free and wastly used alternatives. You guys need to put up a video and/or a presentation, some visual candy so that people would know what they are about to get.

the example in the main page does not show anything that is being backed up by a blogging system. it's just text and a hyperlink.
Yes you are, I'm at 130k and looking for more.
Some comments on the other posts here: I often find people to be most interesting and potentially valuable to communicate with when I don't totally agree with them. I don't agree with some of Richard's positions but acknowledge his huge contributions. I believe that he deserves some positive karma every time I use Emacs, gcc toolchain, various GNU utilities, and software and services built using GNU software (Google, Twitter, many libraries and applications, etc.) His knowledge, talent, and works are broad and deep in scope. It is interesting to hear so much dislike for the guy, but people have the rights to their opinions.
Where do people get the idea that if you GPL something it suddenly becomes immune from patent lawsuits?
Don't forget that Sartre supported Stalin (and that Orwell despised him for that).

The more I live, the more I realize that old men without or with messed up sex lives are not to be trusted as gurus or guides in life.

It's the Pied Piper of Hamelin all over again.
I agree with #1. Perhaps the better strategy is to create a blogging platform for 1 niche. Such as blogs for teachers, or blogs for weight loss.
What is SETT? It doesn't have a Wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sett_%28disambiguation%29
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Two-factor authentication is a big feature for me. I don't have to worry about anyone logging into my account without my cell phone.
Step by step guide?

Get something you want to program.
Get a reference.
Program.

I am actually happy that someone told me pretty much this. It took a while until I realized how true this was. Just get something you want to do and keep that in mind when reading the reference. I know most people will start making tons of mistakes and writing really crappy code, but that's exactly what learning is about. Starting out with nothing and getting better. One learns from mistakes. Somehow people tend to forget this. Lots of people seem to be embarrassed making a mistake, causing them to don't do anything at all or not giving in that they are making mistakes. One can't learn that way.

I think the article sums it up pretty well and every programmer I know did it that way, well other than learning programming in school, which I myself don't really consider "learning to program", because I never met any person that actually learned programming ins school, meaning if they did they didn't ever program again.
SPDY may be technically sound but...

My objection to this turn of events is almost entirely related to the behavior of Google and their search deal with Mozilla. Mozilla has compromised their principles again and again for Google and it is accelerating.

I'm tired of Google's doublespeak and lies about "Open Web" and open standards. If SPDY takes off, we will all have to think about supporting it and if it's built correctly that will be fine. I seriously have my doubts.

It would have been much less suspicious if the second browser to adopt SPDY was Safari or IE. Right now, it looks like Google is essentially bribing an "independent" browser vendor to implement their half-baked standards so they can turn around and claim "it's a web standard!".

It's like 1999 but now with corporate protectorates!
Or maybe they understood you and thought that your hate mongering vitriol doesn't belong here. No one brought up evolution or creationism here but you.
This is really cool, but im not sure - how is it supposed to be used in games? Reality cant possibly be a better playground than specifically tailored VR.

I always saw AR as a convenient way to provide additional data on surroundings. Point out landmarks using a HUD in a car. A nice way to present information on a product (like an artificial "the company making this product supports SOPA" sticker :) ).

But I am really at a loss as to how this would be used in games. Virtual Pets maybe? but whats the fun of having to look at it through a 4 inch screen ? Hell, even his dancing foxes (or whatever they are) dont fit in tht ipad screen. The user sees the space right next to the ipad window, where they should be. And there's nothing there. Thats a huge immersion killer to me. Its not the same as with VR, as VR doesnt have to pretend the illusion is actually right behind the screen window. AR with full goggles ought to make up for that - but the hardware isnt nearly there yet.

This is technologically very impressive - but what can we really make of it?
Plug servers. Google it. Marvell ARM chips mostly. I have been thinking about trying to build a little turnkey linux OS to run on those things that can provide similar functionality to what you are talking about.

Alas the technology does not seem to be quite there yet and the work required to get basically a full personally hosted webapp suite is not trivial. That said, I think in the future we will see a lot more 'appliances' that run as VMs or on low cost low power all ways on hardware. Backed by a business model something like wordpress. Meaning that there is a dot com where you can get it remotely hosted for you, and there is a dot org where you can download and host the app yourself.

Plus stuff like the personal router project http://pr.lcs.mit.edu/ would make a pretty interesting paradigm change.
Does he have the same moral reservations for other devices in his life?

Do you have perfect moral consistency in everything you do? I don't. I'd guess that it's not even possible, let alone human nature.
I'd rather spend my $9 per month on a subscription to the NY Times and use a free blogging platform with more features.
Yes, I'm sure. While looking up references for my previous post, I read about that. Coltan is another matter entirely, although it shares that particular characteristic of being the reason for much spilled blood.
>But can you not at least understand that many people don't understand why those four Freedoms have to be assumed as given?

No, I can't. I fundamentally don't understand why you would keep source code secret, why you would deny me the right to change it or to redistribute copies. It's utterly incomprehensible to me.

On the contrary, I believe the burden of proof as to why we should deny people these Freedoms lies on the side of the advocates or proprietary software, and thus far I haven't seen any compelling argument.
Can you provide the curious with a link? A google search for "sett blog" does not make it obvious.
That was the problem, regular sand doesn't contain as much silica as is required for the process. Special sand is required.

Isn't it funny we can't find anything about where that sand comes from?
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Very cool, but I'd like a simple library which gives the basics of tap, touch and hold, touch and move, or something that easily recreates the general click functions.
Nice job. Don't sweat the flack about your pricing model. I think it's got potential. You'll just have to work hard and find who your market is. And test different price levels along the way. Goodluck.
I signed up and chose "www.brytter.com" for my blog subdomain as a joke. Brytter may have given me the ability to edit "blog.brytter.com" See http://i.imgur.com/efXdt.png

I have logged out of my account since I do not want to cause any harm. Please fix.
awesome, awesome awesome. Burn is so much better than youtube for music!! Is there an Android app? I will use this when I go jogging
Ah, but he said "learn", not "learn how to learn". Also, I would argue that learning how to use computers is a vital component of learning how to learn, not only for acquiring information, but for making sense of the information once you have it (think models, spreadsheets, graphs, databases, outlining tools...).
The username part matters a lot more than the domain. ladykilla69@gmail.com isn't a particularly professional email, even if it does have a well known domain.
Here are two reasons: it is convenient and it is easy to always have an up to date copy of GMail and other Google services data on my laptop which I then backup locally.
The claim: "Refuses to compromise"

My response: "Is forced to compromise in the following cases"

I don't know how you managed to form your bizarre interpretation of what I said. I like the guy. I admire his ideals and approach and agree with his goals.
I'd like to be off of Gmail, but I don't know of a good alternative. I'd pay a couple bucks a months for a viable Gmail replacement if I really trusted its security and reliability, and if the UI, keyboard shortcuts, feature-set etc. were just as good.
That was my thought. I curl requests like this all the time. This is like a tire obstacle course, not a high jump bar.
Life Happens.
You have to change perspective: Why don’t have I a right to keep my source code secret?

When I open an ice cream parlor you don’t have a right to know my recipe†. Why does that change with software?

Your argumentative work has to start there. You can’t just steamroll critics by saying “But the Freedoms are and should be Freedoms”.

—

† That right is of course limited: My right to keep the recipe secret is not absolute. I have to adhere to certain health and safety regulations, being able to keep the recipe secret does not override those regulations.
Thanks for posting these!

I just launched my first 2 apps in the Android Market today (a DJ application called DJPad, currently only for tablets, free and paid versions). DJPad's been in the WebOS app store for about a month so I was planning on doing a similar income report for my first month (spoiler: not great ;) )

Have you looked at all at Airpush's advertising platform? I google'd Admob and it came up as an ad on the search results. It was easier for me to implement Airpush at this point since my app is 100% NDK with just a Java wrapper for launching it. Integrating Airpush was just adding the airpush library and launching the service in my onCreate().

They offer some interesting advertising verticals like ads showing up on the notification screen or home page instead of in the app. Kinda spammy but probably effective if you want to advertise and your app does not get long engagement.
well, i don't. spamassassin works fine. mairix on ssd searches as fast as google. mutt is an excellent reader; it can be used remotely via ssh.

none of this is hard. it doesn't require huge amounts of maintenance. and i own my own data.

before this, when leaving gmail, i looked around for an alternative webmail provider and almost went with runbox http://www.runbox.com/ - they seemed to be the best of the bunch, avoiding many of the issues with gmail (being based in norway). but in the end it seemed easier to just do it myself.
> Adhering to conviction is the easy way out.

Sounds legit.
There is a lot of interesting tech that goes into IC manufacturing, part of EE school was going through the design of a simple IC all the way to manufacturing which involved visiting National Semiconductor and having them fab it.

One of the things I found most interesting is that large sections of the manufacturing sections of the building sit on isolated vibration controlled platforms and there are 'Earthquake" sensors all over the place that can shutdown the plant if too much movement is detected. You can imagine that any vibration causes issues at such small scales. Some of the control platforms/benches are active, meaning they sense any vibration and counteract it using various kinds of actuators.

There are also a lot of really nasty chemicals that go into this. When they say 'Etch' they really mean 'melt it away with a really strong acid'. The materials used for donor doping, usually phosphorous or arsenic are really quite toxic chemicals not helped by the fact that these are often used in gaseous form for implantation and are colorless/oderless. The acceptor dopants are at least pretty harmless most of the time (gallium or boron). Many types of photoresist can also be really dangerous from a safety standpoint. Its pretty impressive that semiconductor plants operate as safely as do, choked up primarily to heavy automation.
Your distinctions in reality are pretty meaningless, you can be an open source guy using the GPL (look at Linus) or a free software guy using BSD. Both movements overlap enourmously, and the differences between them are very small compared to the rest of the software ecosystem. I wish we could stop all the silly infighting and see that we are all heading in the same direction.
In fact, to equate cars and computers in this manner is to commit a Category Error. They simply don't share very many properties (save that they are both sold for money).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake
Stallman reminds me more of Steve Jobs than anyone else does:

- 70's wunderkind
- simple, clear belief about what computing should be
- realized his vision, creating permanent improvement enjoyed directly or indirectly by every computer user
- uncompromising in his determination to control his environment

Personally I believe he has some major blind spots -- so did Jobs. The failure of this community to hold him in comparable regard is just that, a failure.
Hacker News comment threads are notorious for this. A number of times I have been the brutally honest one when I shouldn't have to be. People are very unwilling to criticize the development efforts of others. That's OK to an extent, but it's frustratingly unhelpful when you are trying to solicit genuine feedback on something you plan to devote your life (or part of your life) to.

Sometimes the worst people to get feedback from on an app is other developers. They focus on the wrong things and overlook important stuff. They provide a type of useful feedback, but their suggestions and your instinct can easily run contrary to what a user expects and needs.
That's quite the extrapolation. When did I ever say I don't mind those things? I mind them very much. I also mind being forced to do something. I can make a proprietary fork and still give back; when are those two things mutually exclusive?

In your quest for "freedom", you're endorsing a license that forces people to do something. Isn't that the very antithesis of freedom?
salad recipes, what Bill Murray is doing, and lolcats don't really gratify one's intellectual curiosity though:)
No mobile version yet. Planning to experiment with jQuery Mobile for that....
Yes, absolutely.

I just moved to Sweden and immediately noticed the lack of "dishonestly niceness" that I took for granted in the US. It's quite refreshing actually and communication is more efficient.

Edit: In a US workplace you can't tell someone directly "that's wrong" or "I don't like that". You have to politely get to the point in an indirect fashion so as not to offend. It's an especially acute problem when giving that kind of feedback to superiors or other people in power.
I only started this yesterday, but I do intend to build those kinds of functionalities into this library later.
I think not only twitter, facebook, etc, etc... - but the whole sphere of entertainment in internet is like a drug! because what is drugs ??? - substances that give us the opportunity to provide endorphins - happy hormones. And we live for this.
1) "205 participants between the ages of 18 and 85 with BlackBerry devices in and around the German city of Würtzburg" -- ridiculous selection bias.

2) "the participants were asked to message whether they were experiencing a desire at that moment or had experienced one within the last 30 minutes, what type it was, the strength of it, whether it conflicted with other desires, and whether they resisted or went along with it." -- volunteer bias (the desires and outcomes reported are exactly that: reported).

It looks to me like a case of a researcher using a heavily-biased study to project their views onto society at large, using a small sample and totally untrustworthy data.
I think the story at the end about speaking to your child with conviction and the right tone is spot on.

I have a 20 month old daughter. I constantly struggle with this because I want to be nice even when saying 'no', but it doesn't take long to realize that being stern without being scary is the best balance. I realized that my 'no' when she opens the pantry door is totally without conviction and she doesn't respond at all. But my 'no' when she strays off the sidewalk and near the street is obviously much more stern and she knows I'm serious. The most difficult thing is saying 'no' with conviction when you just don't really care that much (like the pantry door).
http://tynan.com/wrongwithblogging

http://sett.com/
Original post, without the blogspam: http://chrome.blogspot.in/2012/02/german-federal-office-of-i...
deliverability.

I can't post to W3C administered mailing lists from my real email account because my domain gets bounced.

I've lost out on business deals because mail from business account gets blocked at the firewall in some places.

You can avoid all that with gmail.
Off-topic: I'm in the south of Sweden. Hit me up if you wanna meet or something.
Of course, but from my experience opening a CLI is completely unnatural to Windows users, much more than even Mac users.
I'm a red meat eating Texan, and I've been a vegetarian for almost a month now. I love it.
For that to be true for Facebook they would have to end up at $1 trillion valuation.
Maybe I'm weird, but I don't remember ever having had any trouble pronouncing those. Now that you mention it, though, I'm less sure about them existing in English.
Don't blame me for his bad analogy.
If the companies that made games like that went bankrupt, that's probably why.
Indeed.

One should also remember that in the infinite wisdom of the Congress and whoever was President at the time, any cash salary over $1 million gets an extra tax on top of normal income taxes. Better to pay for his security in before tax dollars.
This point can't be made often enough. I can't say that I think there are "too many" (or even "an increasing number") of posts on HN that seem to assume that everyone here has precisely the same set of (often extreme) values, but these kinds of presumptuous, somewhat self-righteous postings do pop up from time to time, and this is precisely the reaction I always have. The definition of "self-respecting hacker" does, after all, probably very between self-respecting hackers.
Sorry, when I just throw two links in, but the people who like GMail for the way you handle your emails with it there are at least two interesting projects.

http://sup.rubyforge.org/

http://notmuchmail.org/
Can someone who's down-voted me on the parent message and other messages in this thread (-10 points total) please let me know why you've downvoted me? My position places a premium on personal agency even in the face of mismanagement and I'd argue it is principled, if unpopular. This entire thread is a matter of opinion, up to and including the OP, and I didn't realize that offering a dissenting opinion would occasion penalization. Or is downvoting a method of indicating disagreement?
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I only have meetings like that when working somewhere which has a discrete marketing department.
>The iOS example was just to name one of many limitations of using GPL code.

Why do you consider this a limitation of GPL, rather than of iOS?

> No, for developers themselves. Dynamic vs. static linking mess etc.

Can you explain this? It is the nature of closed-source libraries that deny us the freedom to modify them to our own ends or link them into GPL applications.
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Ok that's 2 customers who are also HNers. I think you'd need to do better than that. We are hardly a representative of the general consumer.

There is another problem, US govt' need to get access all these messages. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail, people seemed to have signed up, but Hushmail was forced to provide plaintext messages to US govt upon request. So they sort of compromised their main selling point.

That is probably the largest problem, you'd be stuck between a rock and a hard place. You either please your security conscious customers or please Uncle Sam. You can't please both.
So... why don't you buy something like Rackspace email, which costs $2/mo?
Yes. A step-by-step guide. It can be done. I'll prove it.
If you match half the qualifications, ignore that and apply. You probably have lots of unlisted skills they are looking for, too, and you can probably pick up new things if nobody is filling the role.

They are looking to meet a bunch of needs. You have an idea what the needs are and think you can meet many of them. So apply. It's unlikely to be set in stone that the needs have to be met by hiring the exact roles listed in the job posting.
To focus on restaurant behavior, I'd be curious to know how much time the average French person spends at the table in a day, compared with the average American. I'm sure it varies a lot from family to family, but it seems like Americans (and I'm no exception) rush through their meals, while the French linger and socialize while eating. Maybe that has something to do with French kids being more well behaved in restaurants.