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In all fairness, Photoshop startup time did get a lot faster at version 10 (CS3), when they changed the type system to load only when needed.

But yes, there is still a long way to go. I don't think we need iOS like hacks such as showing a PNG of the GUI to trick you into thinking loading is done. This solution has its own set of issues (responsiveness, not precisely matching your previous state in case of crash, etc). It's x1000 faster than my phone, we can do better.

Modularizing, as shown above, is hard, but probably the best way to go. As programs grown to the size of a small OS, they should be treated as such.
I think Chrome on Windows has a problem with ClearType or something similar if I remember correctly. Here's what that same section looks like on Chrome for Mac, it looks nicer but it still pretty small font-size wise for my eyes:

http://i.imgur.com/MxuVe.png
Exactly, I just noticed that in terror :) Am working on it... Has to do with the way Backbone.js handles pushState I think,, and the way I handle Backbone's router thingy.
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I'm super curious also.
Right, I mean if this stuff is already happening then what are your options? You're right to not trust the UN. The UN might as well be the fourth branch of the US government - the branch that allows the US to order other countries around while still maintaining plausible deniability.
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I used to hangout with Markus in the old webmasterworld forum. Yes, POF site was a one man show until 2008 but not anymore. The last i heard POF has around 20 employees and generate $30 million revenue!...BTB, POF's initial growth was mainly from SEO especially ranking for 'free dating' related keywords.
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Hmmmm thanks for the screenshot - let me try upping the font-size a little bit.

(I'm the creator of this page, Wesley was nice enough to post it! haha)
My opinion when I got accounts on Convore and Pownce: "This is neat, I guess."

I can't quite articulate what I think they did wrong... but these products just felt too startupy to survive.
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I'm having a hard time reading it too. My eyesight is not the best and I have a hard time reading this on my 21" monitor. I don't think its just the size though, I think the blue background obscures the text for me too, though I can read it fine just a little zoomed in without affecting the design too much.

Having said that, it does look very pretty.
The video game industry has the same issue. Initial bloat screens. A lot.

Skyrim for instance, it takes anywhere from 30 seconds to load the initial screen, which is just the logo of Bethesda. You know what is on the initial screen. A button for me to click that says Start. Once I click that button, then I have to hit Continue for it to load the last save point. Then another 30 seconds to 1 minute to load my game/map point.

So basically, two actions and over a minute later, I am finally in the game. A much easier thing would be to just load my last save/map point. I can turn on the console, and know to come back in a minute. Just have it paused until I am ready to play. If I wanted to say restart the entire game, I could go into the menu system from there.

I find this the case on almost all games. FIFA, Madden, Bad Company, Call of Duty. Just start the game I played last. If I regularly play online, go and find me a server automatically. Auto load my game, unless I hold down the start button or some other button that would then default to the menu.

I don't care that Bethesda or EA made my game, I just want to play.
Frankly, is the default that important? Change it once and it's off. Even if you do that for 40 applications, it's still a very small amount of time in total.

Maybe I'm biased, though; exploring the Settings/Options is usually the first thing I do when I run a new application.
This is such an obvious thing, it shocks me that policy makers don't get it. In Canada, there has been a push to increase the supply of CS PhDs for years. The result? Getting a University job in many regions became ridiculously hard. The next crop of Masters students were smart enough to realize this and got out without continuing to the PhD program.
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This is why in our platform we let you manage your subscriptions and notifications to every stream :)
At first I didn't like it, but I've eventually started to really like this in OSX. Having a ridiculous amount of RAM to "waste" may have helped change my mind. My only gripe is that I wish it were a per application setting.

Some apps, like my browser, mail program, the terminal, Emacs, ... I love having start quickly, even if it's because they were just in the background before.

Other stuff, like Preview, I don't use often enough to care about the load time, and I would probably configure it to exit when the last window closed.
Don't you mean directly proportional? More ability => more reasonable expectation
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Great job overall though, it's definitely one of the better website-as-cover-letter-thingies I've seen in a while, specially now that they're getting pretty popular.
For iPhone users, all app notifications can be changed, except sadly for the App Store. For me, the only pesky red badge that remains on my screen is that of the App Store. And the fact that a few of my apps need to be updated is something I don't want to be notified about.

Personally, I think the pendulum will eventually swing back as users get tired and frustrated with all these services vying for their attention.
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I hate to rain on someone's parade because clearly a lot of creative work has gone into this resume, but from a practical standpoint, how many hiring managers find these kinds of CVs engaging and useful? From my perspective I come away wondering what exactly this person might contribute: are they applying to an HR position? As a programmer? Something else? I get they enjoy Instagram, which is an obvious must for culture fit, but what specific skills are they purporting to offer the company and what roles might these skills best match? Maybe that's why people still submit plain resumes?
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Thank you. (I was thinking of amount of time to accomplish task, not reasonableness.)
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All the time spent talking about caching in Rails avoids the real issue: generating complex html in Ruby/Rails is really slow.

My Rails sites spend 85% of the time generating HTML, the other 15% of the time is spent communicating with the db and other external services. And it's not easy to figure out where the slowness is. When I've ran performance profiles in the past, something like 50% of the time was spent in GC.
I'm using Safari on Mac and it looks good for me. I believe there are some problems with Chrome's font handling on Windows.
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As a newb, I thought clike was an esoteric language I'd never heard of :) The underlines are a good idea for attribution, perhaps make them straight instead of squiggly, and drop the opacity? I'm not sure.

As for the CLI interface, I was just referring to wget/curl on a specific URL to download the file. If you add in passwords on documents, make sure this is supported in your wget/curl implementation. There was another site that I tried this on, and they hadn't considered this despite having access through wget/curl.
Not disagreeing with that, but if you're applying for a job on the basis of your HTML/CSS skills then, well, you should probably have some kind of fallback there.
Agreed. But their "pivot" into Grove is actually really valuable. Chat is pretty essential for teams (ours at least), but it's not that easy to build it yourself without running into major scope creep and other headaches. I'd rather pay a little for reliability rather than distract the team from the main goal to build a chat system.
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How does POF monetize traffic to pof.com?
Thanks - that's a really good point, which is why I didn't want to make a general "Oh hey yall you should hire me I can do anything" sort of page, but tried to make it really, really specific (identifying two roles that I could immediately fit into, both platform + photo development). Is there anything that was confusing about that?

And re your last question: idk, I was bored this weekend and wanted to make something cool, which is why I decided to spend time on this instead of a normal resume. :)
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It amazes me the number of people trying to build consumer internet products that don't get this.
Looks great. It's a shame your live demo is down though.
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The first question (how many hiring managers find these CV's useful) is interesting. I wonder if anyone knows of any people who HAVE been hired at the company they directed these cV's towards... Could be the first one?

Second thing - I think that the content on this particular page shows off exactly what a hiring manager would look for. Past projects, excitement about the company, skill set, etc. I am not a hiring manager though, so I can't speak from experience.
I think she works @ rdio now (beautiful design too!)
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Another Bellevue person on HN? Rare occurence. Email me! wesley.zhao@gmail.com
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It's a market share issue. How many people do you know who use a mobile Internet device that doesn't run iOS or Android? Exactly. If open webOS gets its shit together, maybe we'll have three mobile platforms instead of two.

The point is, they all use WebKit.

Mobile is a trendy thing to talk about, but a lot of people still think of the Web as a desktoppy place to be. If they start testing their apps on mobile as well, they aren't going to start by testing for Opera Mobile - they're going to test what people actually use (iOS and Android).

Opera on both the desktop and mobile and Firefox on mobile are in such a minority that it's not worth the QA time to test them or the developer time to fix them in many cases. This, of course, will continue to support an ecosystem where the only mobile UA that matters is WebKit.
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Looks like they gave it a year: http://eflorenzano.com/blog/2011/02/16/technology-behind-con...

I'm not trying to dance on their grave or anything, but from reading this article it appears a company I worked with last summer had read it as well, and that level of -- let's call it "sophisticated" -- messaging architecture was beyond unwieldy for an early-stage company. I can understand wanting to avoid Michael Arrington calling you "amateur hour" when things fall over under popularity, but there's a such thing as overengineering.

I realize my opinion might be based on a red herring or strawman, but when chat is the "Hello World" of server-side JS I'm just not sure there was enough outside of the architecture to hang a company on.
Heh, I'm the author, and my book, The Information Diet, is very much about the philosophical discussion here. What's happening isn't anyone's fault, really. It's an economic issue. See here for a talk I gave about it:

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/the-information-die...
>does anyone else think the text is small? //

That's how you know they're a "designer" isn't it!?
Notifications themselves aren't a problem, it's the implementation that is, especially "dumb" notifications. A dumb notification is one that gets sent to you from an app that is unaware of the context of the notification.

Apps need to make notifications smart by first adding options for what kind and how often they pop up. Facebook appeased me some time ago but now is back to annoying me. I used to get emails for every little thing that happened on Facebook then I was allowed to set it so I got one consolidated email every so often. Great. Now they end up buzzing my phone with every little comment or Like. That's annoying. If they could let me set it so that I was notified once per post of comments or maybe one notification after X number of actions that would normally trigger a notification that would be awesome but having my pocket buzz every two seconds sucks.

My girlfriend once commented on everything she could on my wall for more than 20 minutes and my phone was literally buzzing the entire time. I had to call to tell her to quit commenting. She burst out laughing because she knew all the notifications would annoy me. It was a super frustrating joke.

As someone who isn't very social to begin with, an overload of notifications can actually be overwhelming and make me less engaged instead of more engaged. Smart use of notifications gets me using your service. Buffer does this right. I get, at most, 2 notifications if I have an empty buffer and it gets me adding more. Mint gives me 2 notifications a week: one if a bank account goes over or under a certain threshold and another with a summary of my finances at the end of the week. That's great. Twitter, Facebook, Livingsocial, Groupon.. They're all annoying.

I guess the point is that "dumb" notifications are like getting a cold call from someone who hasn't done research about you, tries to sell you something you wouldn't ever want and mispronounces your name on top of it. Smart notifications are like good friends that call you up every so often just to see how you're doing and to see if maybe you want to make plans for later.
It's probably a good idea unless you're OK with your opinion appearing uninformed. In general, an opinion is not some magical thing which is exempt from evaluation. "IMO the Earth is flat" may be qualified as an opinion, but it would probably lessen your opinion of the speaker just the same.
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The article states that C++ is no better for the average user. How many people in QF are average?
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What a strange misconception you have..
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Learning is not necessarily something you can speed up. University classes are spaced like that, though, because there is the assumption that you have a lot on your plate. So you have two hours of pottery ... followed by 3 of statistics, 3 of organic chemistry, etc. But you can't just learn a discipline in a weekend simply because becoming comfortable with a field is a function of experience and experimentation. Allowing certain students to say "this is my only class, give me lectures ahead of time" could speed up the formalities, though.

Buying a house could be sped up, though.
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I think you're mistaking "what an advanced user can put up with" for what the best experience should be.
May I add, font-size: 7pt? I genuinely cannot read any of the text on this page. Please just let the user decide the best font size for them.
I don't know how successful they are, but if someone did that for my company I can say for sure that I'd certainly give that person some serious time and consideration.

It's also not really an HR thing, IMO. It's almost a "bypass HR" thing - it's so much better to have the devs/designers/whatever coming in to work and saying "there's this great person we should hire". Impress the people you'd be working with - not the ones who work tangentially near them!

Makes me wish I was in the position to offer roles - just the act of getting off their arse and doing something like this is a great start from anyone.
Thanks!

Are there any other great ones that you've noticed in the past? I've seen a few pop up here and there.

(unrelated but sort of related note: I was in Seattle/Redmond this past summer! Loved the location)
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The person who made and posted this to HN http://khanacade.me/ got a response from @kamens pretty much instantly, pretty sure he got hired.
I always love reading these CV's.

What do you think is the developer / programmer equivalent of CV's like this?
Saves on electricity, and noise. Though suspend to RAM does that, too.
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I agree — yet at the same time we have to recognize that most people (maybe all people, from time to time?) have trouble with this, so it's perhaps an opportunity for designers to help regardless of whether they "should" have to or not.
Point taken. Currently in class, let me run out and fix this.
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I work too darn hard, sir.
This is the only successful one I know of off the top of my head:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557941

The location's fantastic! I'm currently in upstate New York and freezing.
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You know you could just close it from the Dock or application switcher, right?
Totally agree here. This is really more of an experiment in self/organizational discipline more than anything else. We all talk so much about how some new technology is going to increase productivity; sometimes it just comes down to hacking the social dynamics of coding.

To your comment about new flashy modules that don't mesh, banks seem to be the biggest transgressors in this area.
What's wrong about it? It's finding a bunch of C code in this repo: https://api.github.com/repos/williame/GlestNG/languages.

I just realized that it won't take in to account the difference between a repo you created and one you cloned, it counts both equally.
I don't understand Grove. Why would you pay so much for hosted IRC with very limited users? $10/m for 5 users seems crazy high to me.
> you're just saying "this person's opinion is bullshit because of the apparent side they have chosen"

Firstly, that is not what I tried to say. I tried to say, "There's a whole bunch of Apple-apologist-upvoters", and for this...

> you are presenting no argument or evidence

...I did present evidence : the comment is the top comment, which means it was upvoted, eh?

I'm not arguing against Apple, but pointing out the prevalance of fawning brand-loyal upvoters.
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Sure. Before I had an way to hide the footer I set it to small text so as to minimize distractions. Should set it back.
I can be a useful question to see if someone prepared for the job interview. But for the rest it is a pretty shitty question.
First, I'm not speaking to creating a ton of settings that can be customized any which way. I'm simply starting with the belief that interruptions are disrespectful.

iOS has had in it the form of "This application would like to use notification", the first time you start an app, for ages. Maybe it's one of the things I'm very visibly noticing in switching to Android.

It's not a complicated setting.

"Do you want to be notified when there's an update to be had?" The first time the app runs. It's when the attention to that app is the highest, we've just picked it and installed it and want to try it.

It could be a system wide setting; that filters down into all mobile apps, or just be unchecked, or you decide not to.

If notifications are on by default, it's often selfish motive in the design to get higher uptake and stickiness of the app. We all know that most apps overwhelmingly are rarely used after installation despite the notifications defaulting to be on.

I was also, specifically, speaking about apps with notifications, on mobile devices. If you wish to extend that generally to software in general that's fine, fair and your decision, but it's not what I'm speaking to.

Its entirely pragmatic to be able to have a say in how your focus, productivity and attention is interrupted. It's not philosophical. I like getting stuff done, and separating the signal from the noise of what to pay attention to is integral to that.

Most users have enough of an issue handling the information overload they're facing. Instead of technology being an empowering tool it's become quite the opposite when they're not given good examples of not proactively being to make one basic decision, "should I bother you".
"Please switch to Google Chrome to Access the Editor"

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Smart Notifications, all the way. :)
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I interpret Debian's statement as "we will reject all forms of Patent Aggression", and Microsoft, through the Mono project, has been aggressive about patents.
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and re: location - tell me about it, I'm born/raised in Cupertino, CA but am currently freezing in Philadelphia, PA. -_-
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