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Assuming you are referring to graphic design and not product design, this is how I work with a graphic designer friend on all my apps. After many iterations, we've found the method that seems to work best between us is that I code up a functional prototype and then we have frequent intense on-the-spot design sessions with a lot of back and forth. This was initially quite unnatural for my friend, who preferred doing elaborate design explorations on his own, but we now agree this new method works best.

The reason I like to work like this is because until I work out how the software use actually flows, it's pointless to make it look shiny. And working out that flow itself is a rapid iterative process, which changes the UI many times over. I hate to make my friend design stuff which I will then throw away the next day, although some of that is inevitable.

Over time as the design gets clearer, we work out a visual grammar of sorts, which I can then just draw from as I build more features.

See http://giniji.com for an example of a work-in-progress.
And it's also worth mentioning that Instapaper will require iOS 5.0 beginning next update. His active users' OS adoption rate is really astonishing.
According to me there are mainly three kinds of problems young musicians(in India)face -

1) Buying musical instrument is a problem here because there aren't enough physical shops even in Delhi(capital). You can count them on fingers and they aren't conveniently located(too far). Also, they may or may not keep instruments you want. Their margin is also high(30%-40%).

2) Unlike west there are very few music bands here. There are individual musicians and most of them don't take it any further than hobby because they are unable to form a band or they are more interested in bollywood. So, there is a need of good platform for musicians to meet and collaborate.

3) They also need a platform to showcase their talent. They use youtube but it isn't that effective. I believe a combination of video/audio sharing, community voting and rewards for top artists(like producing their first album) may do the trick.
Out of interest, what do you use now instead of Rails?
The record of vastly overstated and false claims of innovation around Apple has become ridiculous. Nobody doubts they have innovated in many areas, but largely they are excellent at integration and polish (which is worthy of praise in its own right). And being a full-stack company they often match their sails to the wind before anyone else, but it doesn't mean they made the wind. It's not all Apple themselves doing this, much of it is bad journalism and fans saying things that the company has no reason to correct. But it's gotten so bad now that I approach any new claim of innovation from Apple or their cheer squads as probably false.

I can't see why Apple enthusiasts can't be like luxury car enthusiasts. Most of the time new luxury cars don't have much innovation in them, but it's the fit and finish, attention to detail and integration which make them great. You don't need to claim some divine spark of innovation to say that something is better, or that you prefer it. To make another analogy a well done dish at a nice restaurant isn't usually innovative, it just takes the best of breed components and presents them well in a good atmosphere with good service. Nothing wrong with that, just don't claim the chef is making vast strides in chemistry or forget that the chef is drawing on tons of home cooking going back a long time which some people have had in their homes well before it appeared on your menu. It's pretty sad that as I click "add comment" I expect this to get vigorously downvoted (even on HN).
I just released my first iPhone app: http://www.wrestlingscorecard.com and priced it at $4.99 ($1 more than the other app on the app store.) I set the price point based on what I thought the app was worth, not on an expectation of sales. I haven't received enough reviews or ratings to show on iTunes, but the feedback I've gotten has been mostly positive. Even the complaints have been extraordinarily polite.
Problems in textbooks that are open-ended by accident or broken in one way or the other are surely a great example for real world problems but usually get the pupil that is spotting the problem into trouble. A lot of teachers face high pressure and often just graduate by comparing the student's results to the supplementary material's results.
A cynical person might say that the student now has learned another lesson: That actual thinking isn't necessarily rewarded in the real world.
An optocoupler will isolate the communications themselves, but perhaps he was referring to the fact that the overvoltage 'crowbar' circuit would need to be software controlled. Overvoltage protection shuts down the power supply when the output voltage rises too high - say if the FET gets stuck on.

OTOH one could put additional protection downstream in the load itself, and the PS would just need a well-known fixed overvoltage. If the "5V" PS started outputting 15V (but still under the PS max), the device would just shut down. However, don't expect manufacturers to do this on their own - as the article says, $1 is "expensive".
Having been on the other side of a similar situation I can only echo jacquesm's comments. You made the choice to take on this fundraising obligation. You didn't ask this man first to see if he would commit to putting in some amount of money. You can't unilaterally obligate him to do so.

In my own situation, which did involve TNT, I found myself rather skeptical, if not cynical, about the Big Cancer Research Establishment. I think it exists primarily as a self-preserving bureaucracy and does precious little actual research. (I could be wrong; I haven't really looked into it.) Under the circumstances, I nonetheless gave an amount which I thought was generous (and which was larger than $10). It was still received as inadequate. This did not dispose me to be generous with similar requests in the future.
This is very similar to what Samasource (http://samasource.org/) does except in a different demographic of poverty (in third world countries). The general idea is that in many places, such as refugee camps, no one has any money and there really aren't any jobs to act as segues to help people rise up out of poverty, if you build computer clusters in these areas, they can do mechanical turk style work, make a lot more money than they could otherwise and be supervised such that quality can be more controlled than a bunch of random people on the internet. Unfortunately they run on a different proprietary alternative to Mechanical Turk (presumably with some tweaks to fit their model).
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I've been sitting here for 10 minutes or so trying to find the right way to critique not just the article, but also the tone of the discussions here. I think the best thing that I can say is that this experiment flies in the face of everything that pg, Steve Blank and the other leaders of Lean Startup methodology are teaching.

If the customer here is a member of the "urban poor" (or what some commenters have decided to call "bums"), then I'd suggest that we start with some customer research. Do the jobless urban poor want to stand at a terminal in the street and perform menial tasks for spare change? Would this solve real problems for them on a daily basis? What happens when it's cold and snowy out? How many of them know how to use a computer, or read?

Buying into this concept as a way to solve urban poverty is no different than some Marketing VP sitting in her 50th floor corner office, thinking that she knows what her customers want from her company's web site without ever asking them. Before you start throwing out solutions to urban poverty, you might want to at least talk to one or two of the people whose problems you are trying to solve.
Usually you can set whatever conditions you like as long as they don't contradict existing laws.

What you can is not necessarily what you should be able to do.

If paying for music is so abusive then why not just make your own music instead?

I never said paying for music is abusive. I said not being able to share stuff you bought - or that someone has voluntarily shared with you - is abusive.
Do many phones in that area come with styluses?
And if they don't want me to share the content they can not sell it to me.
Popularity is indeed a crude proxy for quality, as innumerable examples show. But this makes it hard to upvote this heartfelt short statement: because, what am I going to do -- make it popular? Isn't that what it's speaking against?
"most poor people are not working and are not looking for work. Only 30% or so of poor adults are in the labor force at all. Why would they decide to start working at a mechanical turk station when they seem to have little desire to work anyplace else?"

just because somebody is not looking for a structured job, doesn't mean they won't do tasks for money. think about the homeless guy who wanders around with his shopping cart collecting discarded cans all day. the only social issue i see with a turk kiosk is that it would essentially be a "do things in exchange for drugs" terminal.
There's a market for everything: human organs; hit-jobs. But you know what, I'm not even arguing the merits of the free market. I'm simply amazed at the fact that most comments here simply discuss the efficiency of the process, as if this were an algorithm or a development methodology, rather than something involving real living people, and not any people, but the weakest in society.

I'd like to suggest that instead of building work booths for the poor where machines will pay them money, perhaps the big companies should do everything in their power to make sure these people have a chance at a proper education, so that some day they could have jobs that would give them some dignity. Jobs that the mechanical-turk mega-farmers would wish for their children.
You must talk to Paras Chopra of Visual Website Optimizer. He once built a platform for indie musicians (http://kroomsa.com) and he's based in Delhi too. From what I remember, it didn't really work out for him. He's written about it on his blog - http://paraschopra.com/blog. I'm sure he will have some valuable experiences to share.
I can see the advantage, but I still would argue that just having some DC power standard like USB will always be more economical and practical than trying to build "do it all" supplies to work with all gear despite the absence of a standard.
Tell that to WMG: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/sister-sledge-files...
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I believe that this is intended to preserve the principle of local _control_ over education. I don't see how that would prevent the DoEd from creating a series of reference textbooks, adoption of which would be voluntary.

By way of analogy, the FAA produces an ab initio flight curriculum: students are free to use Cessna's curriculum or Bob Gardner's curriculum, or can use the FAA's curriculum (which is probably free online and available cheap in paperback form).
That's correct. I am a vegetarian by my own choice, but your response stinks of a lack of tolerance or appreciation for other people's choices.

I don't know the actual laws when it comes to labelling of food products, but my initial question was more out of curiousity, not one of demanding that people say to the letter what is in their product. I often have to pass up on produce which should be clearly vegetarian because they don't label it with a "Suitable for" notice.
> The critical difference is once a new version of iOS is released Apple stop distributing the old one

and all supported devices can get the update on release day by clicking a button.
One thing you missed about Windows is the huge amount of effort put into backwards compatibility. You can download the original VisiCalc for the 1981 IBM PC and it still runs. Note that DOS back then didn't even support directories (they were introduced in DOS version 2).

http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

Raymond Chen's blog is full of fantastic stories about Windows and the amount of effort they put in to backwards compatibility. A quote:

"Look at the scenario from the customer's standpoint. You bought programs X, Y and Z. You then upgraded to Windows XP. Your computer now crashes randomly, and program Z doesn't work at all. You're going to tell your friends, "Don't upgrade to Windows XP. It crashes randomly, and it's not compatible with program Z." Are you going to debug your system to determine that program X is causing the crashes, and that program Z doesn't work because it is using undocumented window messags? Of course not. You're going to return the Windows XP box for a refund. (You bought programs X, Y, and Z some months ago. The 30-day return policy no longer applies to them. The only thing you can return is Windows XP.)"

Some random examples:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/06/04/14842...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/23/45481...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/15/55296...
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You just contradicted yourself: "it's hard to say that other companies didn't rip off the 'idea' of the iPhone." and "Of course, the 'idea' of the iPhone wasn't new either". If the idea wasn't new, then other companies weren't ripping off the iPhone's idea.

I'm not attempting to detract from the fact that Apple executed on the iPhone almost perfectly. Realizing that the market was ready, and then providing a product that delivers on that analysis is what Jobs should be known for, not this notion that he invented multitouch devices.
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I'd love to see this open sourced! It'd make a wonderful companion to the great open mapping work being done my Open Street Map and is exactly the kind of thing a community can build on and refine for the good of all.
Finally, some humanity here. Although I see that you've chosen to disguise it in a way "entrepreneurs" would understand. Market research? Alright :)

As long it makes some people think what it's like to grow up poor. Me, I would suggest learning some history and philosophy before the monumental works of the "Lean Startup methodology".
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Do you have any real evidence to back that up? When Lou Gerstner came to IBM he all but said their innovating days were over. Since the 90's IBM hasn't come up with any new products, instead focusing on acquisitions. Their patent flow is full of business process patents.

and their technology products are aimed clearly at tying themselves into large govt/business service contracts (See "smarter cities" stuff).

Watson is a neat tech demo, but not much more. I've built parts of the technology in Watson independently.
Sure, because housing for seniors citizens have a special exemption. That's an exception to the rule.
I'm currently in a similar situation, I want to see how far and how quickly I can take my ideas, in my personal time, while keeping a comfortable day job.

I think there are a lot of variables involved, such as how much you value your current job vs. your passion and belief in the product you're personally trying to develop, as well as how much technical expertise you already have in the problem domain.

There may never come a time when I feel completely comfortable with the thought of losing the day job, but this makes the most sense to me right now.

Good luck!
> If the trash is at the curb and not on your property, they can

cannot agree and would argue. same logic would apply to you while walking on public street -- just because you are in public, doesnt mean people can do whatever they want to do to you. same with your car being in the public.

if someone would want to go against government in a case where gov searched your trash can, one would have to (at least try)

- prove that trash can is your property because you bought it and have receipt or because you pay your property tax, which I may be right or wrong, would say what your obligation/rights towards the trash can. It would be interesting what outcome one would have with approaching your property manager and telling them you gonna use your own trash cans. In this example, it would be a clear to the judge that gov went through your own property, regardless if its your car, your boat or your trashcan. its yours, you bought it, you won it.

- prove to the judge/gov that your current or your property current agreement with utilization company clearly state who owns the trash/trashcan and at which point it is still your property or stops being yours. I would argue, and you could find hundreds of cases where people been convicted for life or put on chair because officials found bead body on the thrash yard that they said was your property []of course there is more into it such as dns checkup etc, if there is a poison tree fruit law applied, same way they wouldnt be able to use your dna found in the trashcan if they didnt have a right to go through it and even if found and i know it sounds crazy, it shouldnt be used as an evidence]. Therefore I would say you owe the trash even if its rotting somewhere on the trash yard. I dont know how far utilization rules/laws go, but one could try calling their utilization company and telling them "i want my trash back". wonder what outcome you will get if you threaten them to sue if they dont giver it back to you (the purpose of doing that would be what utilization company attorney would say).
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There's a simple reason why Apple was often the first one to put something into a product: They could afford to sell high-end products for a high price and know that they still have lots of users who buy their stuff.

Most of the other companies had prototypes using those technologies available, but they didn't build products out of them because (at this point) they would have been too expensive for their target audience.

And even if those other companies built a product before Apple, Apple would still claim that it was first: Two examples: (1) LG Prada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada) was there before the iPhone, yet (AFAIK) Apple claims that basically all the touchscreen phones are a copy of the iPhone. And (2) Netbooks and Subnotebooks have been on the market for nearly a decade now - I've used Thinkpad X-series laptops for years now (which weight about as much as a Macbook Air). Still, as soon as a company announes a new Subnotebook now someone will claim that it is a copy of the Macbook Air.
You are being downvoted because most people on Hacker News disagree with you. Also, because your tone may be perceived as slightly hysterical.

I doubt young age of commenters is the reason for their stance and for many intentions are as good as they pay. Crucially, most people here imagine themselves as (future) bosses and do not empathize with the poor operating mechanical turks. Also consider that many here unconsciously are mechanical turk operators while believing they are entrepreneurs.

There are of course others here as well. But look at the brightness of your comment and you will find out who is the majority.
I believe that captchabot and services alike have already successfully implemented this idea.
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I think you are missing the point xioma, you are focusing on the use of grammar instead of the essence of the entire post. Anyways you make a valid point nonetheless.
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I disagree; this form of welfare is increasingly common here in the states. We call it prison.
> NY police is snooping on people "just" for being Muslim

And what would be your best guess as to why they did that?
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Good work... and from all of us Japanese language students, thanks! I wanted to amplify the comments from @politikus with some additional observations:

- market to children, or really to parents trying to teach their children Japanese (like me!)
- market to young students, themselves, not their parents

The above two user groups may be mutually exclusive. In either way, I would highly recommend you translate your app into Japanese. It's your biggest market, no?

The SRS/SM-2 algorithm you're using might need some tweaking to support leaderboard & scoring like @politkus mentions -- thinking about kids, they love to compete. I would recommend moving more towards more gamification.

Harder to do on Android(1) than iOS, but I would recommend using IAP for additional lessons. With kids, the goal you're shooting for is to have the kids bug their parents to buy more levels (!) or the older kids to brag to their friends.

And finally, why not use Parse.com instead of SyncAdapter? It would give you both an easier path towards iOS as well as potentially a web based dashboard, etc?

Gambatte kudasai!

(1) My opinion only, of course, I'd like to learn more about in-app purchase options on Android.
Go was obviously created in response to the problems with C; I was stating that this exercise in particular isn't demonstrative of those problems.
The problem is designing all this nonsense into the bottom layer in the first place. I've never heard a good argument as to why any of this is better than just starting with raw sockets for an app talking to a server.

Take HATEOAS for example; a completely academic waste of time. Writing a tiny bit of API documentation isn't hard. Caching is an awful thing to be designing in without knowing the specific application. Verbs are a hack bolted on to make hideous form/link driven applications work when the user reloads or moves back/forward.
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Ever since I stopped using Thunderbird and Enigmail, I felt like I was missing something. So today, I finally started to develop my own solution - can't have them read our mails, now can we?
> ... then I'd suggest that we start with some customer research. Do the jobless urban poor want to stand at a terminal in the street and perform menial tasks for spare change?

In SV it's very popular to assume that people are poor because they don't want to work. To the question of what poor people would want to do, the answer is very often "who cares what they want, they're poor!" It's not this blatant -- often it's couched in statements like the ones you see here that assume that people have chosen poverty -- but that's the basic sentiment.

> Buying into this concept as a way to solve urban poverty is no different than some Marketing VP sitting in her 50th floor corner office...

Well, this is at least consistent. If you think that people have merely chosen to be poor, then you simply need to persuade them to make a different choice.

If one acknowledges that they don't know much about the lives of poor people, they should do what they would with any other domain where they lack experience -- find a domain expert. IMO, the best way to start would be to find those members of the urban poor demographic who have the intelligence and the motivation, but not the skills, to solve their own problems. Then, you can help them solve those problems.
I would highly suggest having someone proofread your site. Your about page says you're from Dallas, so it sets the assumption you're American, but the grammar is very poor.