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"Dan Benjamin comes across in this audio clip as a total class act."

He definitely comes across as that, but I'm not sure he is. My gut tells me there was more meaning behind this that none of us are owed, creating public content from it maybe not be the right move; it shows bigger class not to talk about it.
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Leo Laporte is pretty damn classy. But do I agree this was a class-act thing to do for the listeners of 5by5.
I've been expecting this for months, and as I guessed, it's pretty disappointing. I think that SmartGit is a much better GUI for Git on Windows.

Just the fact that it doesn't have keyboard shortcuts is a dealbreaker.
To me it is the sad state of "design" in the valley that means "ux people are figuring out what is not important." To label them and give them a role implies that others in the org should not be thinking about this at all times.

everyone should be aligned, everyone should be focused on the audience they are building for and the needs of those users. that is what differentiates a stripe from a google checkout and, to be cliche, an iphone from a treo.

even the concept of having a "ux guy" means there are others in the org who are "not ux guys"

there is nobody at most of the companies who model "good ux" responsible for that "good ux"
I don't know about that. Just to even get an idea of what you want to edit, you need at least the amount of time it takes for you to review your raw material, which in this case could be over 2 hours sometimes...

(I work with a lot of audio, though no podcasts, so I may still be underestimating a bit)
Very nice! I have a similar app for the iPhone and your UX/UI is much nicer and more intuitive.
Nope, go for it :)
Meanwhile, Facebook is investing in things like Instagram, lol.
I think there will be some things it's great at and some it's terrible at. Here's one for free: how about using this to create the Rosetta Stone of sign language? Or a portable sign-to-speech translator? (These are hard problems for other reasons, but this thing brings you a lot closer.)

Think of it like this: Alan Kay isn't wrong, but you could say the same thing about any input. The mouse is a very bad input device. It takes forever to use it for on-screen typing. The keyboard is a very bad input device. It can't tell how hard you're hitting each key when you do musical typing in GarageBand. The microphone is a very bad input device. Voice control is way slower than just clicking the menu item you want ...

If this thing is real, then within a couple of years there will be a dozen reasons to refuse to buy a computer without one.
Does it allow you to format your commit messages?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
Article author here.

It's true that Apple's App Store design encourages users to vent into reviews because it does not provide a straightforward way to contact the developers or raise a support ticket. This is bad and it really needs fixing.

However, your approach is not neutral. Let's just take a look at the logic (diagram from article):

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/2012...

After a user submits positive feedback, they are invited to leave a review. After a user submits negative feedback, they are not invited to do so - only a highly motivated user would then bother to leave the app, find the entry in the App Store and write a review there. What's more, it's hard to say whether some users will even understand the difference between your internal feedback UI and the Apple App Store review UI. i.e. they might think that your feedback form posts into the App Store reviews area.

For the record, the article does not claim "this is evil" (as kgtm stated earlier). It simply states that the appsfire interface fits the definition of a dark pattern. Whether you think it's ethical or not, you have to agree that the UI is somewhat manipulative.
They can see a list of people that like they page. They can only see the information you've made public on your Facebook profile just like anybody else who is on Facebook but not on your friends list.
Not at all: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-facebook-shorts...
I was trying to say that it is better to invest a bit of time in improving data viewers/editors to present timestamps in a nice form than to waste huge amount of effort on parsing and serializing stuff no human will ever see. Besides, human readable is a relative term -- even ASCII text requires serious machine processing to become human readable pixel pattern.
Zedshaw/Tir
lol, ugly
Very well done. ClickOnce installer; solid UI (rare on Windows, I've found), and even installs git hooks into PowerShell so there's no need to dump the user into bash (unless they want it).

One downside, not entirely obvious how one's supposed to clone a repo with this?
Have you tried something like this? http://www.tweetalarm.com/ It e-mails you alerts when your keyword is mentioned. Then you go to Twitter and talk to them. If too many are coming in for you to handle this way, you'll want something like HootSuite (shows the search activity on your dashboard) or Desk.com (brings the search activity in as new support/sales tickets.)

If you don't know what keywords to use, you need to talk to more customers and listen to the words they use.

If there is no word or phrase to describe the problem your customers have, then you should start writing and blogging about the problem and give it a name.
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I really enjoyed his bit about how listeners become (unidirectional) "friends" with the hosts that they spend so much time listening too. Dan really understands the sense of loss that the fans feel over not being informed, and I am glad he broached that topic. Of course, this doesn't justify some of the showings of massive entitlement on Twitter etc. But I am glad he recognized the emotional investment of the fans.
Facebook is mainly for "fun stuff", you don't go there to think about dull work related products/services. It's no shock that Google Ads are performing better. You grab the users attention by offering ads for what he is/might be looking for at that exact moment. LinkedIn would be a lot more interesting option for them to look at than Facebook.. That's a no-brainer. Facebook is good if you sell women's shoes/fashion items etc...
Good post!

Ad 2.: Ok, that's right but rather a general prerequisite, so I would remove it from the list.

Ad 3.: Yes, this is recommended.

4. and 5. are good steps but optional and should be done in later stages otherwise it's typical premature optimization

6. Optional you could use hosted solution like MongoHQ

7. Just install and use Git??

8. DDOS defense? There's no standard recipe

> I can see why you would want an automated PaaS to take care of all these things for you.

I agree with you that automated hosting is nice but somehow the bizmodel doesn't seem to appeal. But again, compare this to the Rails world: How many automated hosters do you see there? Not many more.
I've posted a few times that when I entered an industry I'd never worked in before, I saw a problem, learned some programming I knew almost nothing about, I managed to make changes that saved the company $2MM/year in about 8 months.

I didn't really have any knowledge that others didn't possess. I just assumed that a lot of things that people were doing manually could be automated, then figured out how. This might not qualify as "revolutionary", but $2MM/year was a pretty big accomplishment for me.
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One of the things I've dreamed of using gestures for is controlling behavior (scrolling, navigation, etc.) in a second monitor without changing focus. I hope somebody implements that.
I'm familiar with the usual "arm-waving sucks" arguments against gesture-based inputs, but I was just wondering -- is there any reason this couldn't just replace the touchpad on laptops, maybe being integrated into the forward edge for a larger field of view?

They do claim sub-mm accuracy; maybe applications in the small are realistic.

So instead of arm-waving, think of rotating your hand just above the touchpad to rotate and object in 3d space, but briefly. And the touchpad would still work like a regular touchpad, but maybe you don't even need to touch it.

Sub-mm accuracy seems to imply that really subtle gestures could work.
Thanks for the info. It looks like you chose to embed Chromium for rendering markdown? What was the reason for not using an embedded IE instance (which is already part of every Windows installation).
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It's quite similar, at least, so it'll blend in with native Windows 8 programs (on the desktop, not in Metro).

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/18/3029547/microsoft-windows-...
Yes Linux is the new old - IRIX had transparent hugepage support in 1993 Linux had it implemented this year.
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After seeing yesterday's Show HN post on Habit List, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3998894, this post really hits home. I have a similar app in the store and their UI/UX is just at a higher level than mine. It's so much easier to focus on the implementation details and not give the UI/UX the attention it deserves. Especially when you're much more confident in your programming knowledge than your design knowledge.
2 normal digital cameras and a uv or infrared dot pattern. I think the glass is a uv filter. I got to play around with one at work.
Relevant: http://excapite.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/facebank-mybank-and...
Agreed. That would be a nice resource :)
1 No, you really can't account that. You can't account for people's eyes as well. You may make a guess (maybe on display resolution) which is not precise at all.

2 Google does an can certainly work with whatever they want, but they should try the big improvements first. Their work with page loading times is great, and that has been shown to correlate with earnings. But trying to tune the shades when there are more important things to be worked is pointless

3 It goes to show they don't understand design. In some aspects they do (like GMaps) but it seems to be declining
shrug - Honestly, I thought the same thing - and then I only realized GitHub was a ClickOnce app after poking around at the shortcut it created on the Desktop. The installation was pretty seamless.
Not without VS integration.
I've only met Mr Moritz once and feel very lucky to have spent a short amount of time one to one with him. I seriously hope that he stays healthy for a long time to come.
> I actually don't think my life would be seriously negatively impacted by being deaf

You couldn't be more wrong! Deafness is far worse a disability than blindness for most people in terms of integrating into and succeeding in society. The reason for this is that human beings are social creatures and deafness isolates people, while blindness doesn't. This is the reason that there is a whole unique deaf culture that tends to stay separate from mainstream culture. Within deaf culture, deaf people are not isolated.

This is the reason that many deaf people are morally opposed to cochlear implants. They feel that it is an attack on their culture--the culture that allows them to belong somewhere and thrive.
*>Just arguing that as an engineer, you should look at other solutions instead of jumping the bandwagon.

That's what I'm doing. I really want a diesel for my next car, but a clean diesel. Just wondering if there are any less expensive options than a new or relatively new Audi.
You're being down voted because you overlooked the fact that the parent poster is unable to open the document at all. We're not talking lost changes here, we're talking about not being able to open the document at all, so not only did he lose the changes since the last save, but he had to go to a backup (git version) and recover the document from there.
Snide allusions indeed. I don't understand why it's so difficult for Gruber to be a little more polite about his response. I'm sure what he is receiving from listeners is definitely not polite, but he has the audience, so I think he should have a higher standard to maintain.
In my opinion, this would've been a good strategy 3-4 years back. But now people are bombarded with tweets and messages they don't care about. So you're not likely to get a good conversion rate with this.
FACEBOOK ADS DOES WORK!

It does take a bit of work to fine tune each campaign & ads.

- test your images. drop those with ctr less than .06%

- test your age groups. look at your customers and decide the groupings.

- use precise interest. think your competitors, brand names, etc.

With $40 per day, if you split test properly, you should be able to find the audience at CPM $0.20, other than PPV, there's not a lot traffic sources than can give you such precise targeting.

PROOF: http://imgur.com/0dFFE - I'm still working on the CTR to .1% ... beside Conversion & Brand is what matter, NOT likes.
Yes, I would like to hear how.
Sounds like he doesn't know anything about online advertising.

"The template tells me I have targeted 178,000 people who within my interest range and selected demographics."

This is much too large of an targeted audience. Finely tuning interests is a must. His first mistake.

"Two! €160 quid for two clicks, each of whom looked at two site pages."

Either he's bidding in a extremely competitive niche (unlikely) or he's paying CPM and not CPC. This was his second mistake. On CPC that would have likely only costed him €1.60.

Facebook handed him the gun and he shot himself in the foot.
Finally an application with a UI which really nicely blends with the Windows 8 look and feel. Microsoft should be pleased.
Hover over the name of the repo and you'll see a clone button.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted -- this was my reaction as well. Particularly the lack of any sort of top or bottom border makes the app feel very cramped. Also, some of the mouse interactions I've become accustomed to in Win7 don't seem to work (such as dragging a maximized window from one screen to another) but I'm not sure what to blame for that.
Interesting. What's the usual cause for complaint?
Why I'm quitting Diet Coke (and why you should, too).
I don't think it's legal for an underwriter to short the price of a security that they're bringing to the market.
Pretty shitty. It comes across to me like they're trying to give a head-start to developers in the US; Not the best way to welcome the international developer community.
I guess GitHub's apps are kind of the hipster git clients on all platforms. I don't really like the Mac version (I'm faster in GitX), but this looks actually pretty decent and also what I was expecting for a Metro app. I'll give it a try later to see how productive I can be with it.
As a technical type, I don't mind ClickOnce. Chrome is another good example of a successful ClickOnce application that a lot of technically savvy types use.

I think maybe ClickOnce's drawbacks are less of a sticking point when the application you're installing is one that needs Internet connectivity to be fully functional anyway.
One of the biggest reasons that I prefer Mac to Windows is that most Mac developers spend a lot more time working on a native look and feel. The common OS shortcuts and UI metaphors go a long way towards making an app easier to use.
Conventions. How do they work?

There is no one right way of doing this. I just went to my magazine shelf and grabbed as many different magazines as I could.

Der Spiegel(1) (Germany’s most widely read news magazine) nearly always puts authors’ names at the end of articles.

brand eins (2, a German business magazine) puts the names of authors, illustrators and photographers right at the start of articles.

11Freunde (3, a German magazine about soccer culture) also puts authors’ names right at the start, as does Slanted (4, a typography magazine) and the German Wired (5).

So bylines are pretty common, but not everyone uses them. Putting names at the end of articles seems perfectly acceptable, also.

—

(1) http://www.spiegel.de

(2) http://www.brandeins.de

(3) http://www.11freunde.de

(4) http://www.slanted.de

(5) http://www.wired.de
I like ClickOnce just because it has a built-in update method that doesn't necessarily require downloading the entire application installer all over again. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404267.aspx

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to mass update ClickOnce applications apt-get style.
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I agree. I came back after reading to upvote it, because I really enjoy the ongoing discussion, but found it removed.
Maybe it's an issue with signing up. I started on Chrome, but moved to Safari and it worked on Safari.
Really cool. Looking forward when it will also will allow me to track Issues there.

One problem that is rendering it unusable for me atm though is that it tells me that files contain changes that have not been touched and if I try to discard those changes it actually has no effect. Wanted to report it but found no way to do so on the GitHub for Windows page.
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Let's Make Mistakes didn't "split off". They paid to be on the 5by5 network and once they established themselves, they moved it to their own network. No funny business there, basically.
Very true and that's an interesting article. The Shuttle Program is a great example of an idea that should have been allowed to fail. At very least (in YC terms), NASA needed to pivot hard much earlier on.

The opportunity cost to mankind only existed because politicians and bureaucrats didn't get their funding and power from success at getting cargo and people into space economically and safely. They got it from overplaying their hands on past successes, diverting dollars to their constituencies and contractors to "bring home the bacon", and plain dumb government spending momentum.

In other words, the incentive model of the Shuttle Program (and of NASA in general) was broken and no one with sufficient power ever did anything about it.
>>The second answer is much more direct: Microsoft is simply trying to save on CPU and GPU cycles, thus making Windows 8 devices faster and more power efficient. <<

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft uses these saved CPU/GPU cycles for some other wasteful processes, resulting in a bloated, processor-intensive OS akin to Vista and Windows 7. I have always had bad experiences using "modern" Windows builds on old hardware.
I understand what you say, even if I don't agree, but does this apply to the Windows 8 desktop? (Optional) transparency and gradients are not more or less digital than solid colors, so far this looks like a skin of Windows 7 to me.
The most common questions/complaints I get are:

- Why can't I find the installation directory? (ClickOnce doesn't use the standard C:/Program Files/ location, it stores program files in C:/Users/<your username>/AppData/Local/Apps/2.0 for security reasons.)

- Why does the installer need a network connection? (ClickOnce downloads the required setup files from the internet.)

The lack of a standard Program Files/.exe deployment also makes it difficult to map filetype associations, which is also a frequent complaint.

I'll likely be going with non-ClickOnce deployments for the future. ClickOnce is great for deploying production software at work, but for a consumer audience, it isn't quite perfect.

(Personally, I really like ClickOnce.)
MetroTwit is the only other app with a great new Metro UI that I've found.
You're behind the times. We jumped the shark seven years ago: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/have_we_jumped_the_shark.....
Precisely. Making the effort is half the game.
It's a similar scenario with mobile apps: far too many Android apps are ported across from iOS without consideration for the different platform (usually by using a tab bar). And it really shows.
It looks great and I am installing it now on Windows 8. I'm curious why you chose to use Caliburn Micro over, say, MVVMLight? Do you plan to share some of the technical decisions made for this product on GitHub's Blog?

Edit for spelling
Thanks for the quick review. I'll be curious to see how the javascript MVC & MVVM patterns come of age when Windows 8 and Metro apps allow for native javascript applications.
Thanks for your comments, specifically on Google Analytics vs KISSmetrics. I've had a somewhat similar experience with Mixpanel: it's a nicer tool than Google Analytics but the UI is limiting. Can you elaborate on how "KissMetrics felt restrictive"?
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A little related: If anyone is interested I've been working on a WYSI-Markdown editor. http://draftbin.com/c3993540679e0a1af4e5704a208b60ceb46d20dc...

Haven't gotten around to a github repo or fixing some pretty annoying bugs. But, there it is.
Yeah, it's interesting to see Microsoft actually moving the UI forward in a real way. The whole "authentically digital" thing might be too high-brow for consumers though. While Apple has consolidated on what works well for them and their users recenty, Microsoft actually seems to be looking to the future. I have to respect that, even if I still like the Apple stuff better than the Metro UI so far.
It doesn't work like that because all of the factors don't scale at the same rate. I'm not an engineer, so unfortunately I can't elaborate with much detail for you, but the general concept is that factors like aerodynamic efficiency and power efficiency can't be scaled up and down independently in a rudimentary way.
My daughter's almost 5 but she's shown a strong interest in programming from early on. I had an XO for a time, and she was absorbed with Turtle from the get-go. Still a little young, I think, for Lua but your experience has got me thinking about it. Cheers.
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele

I always wondered which drug Steele was under when he wrote this, seen that Java is actually is less adaptable than C++. Not to say that I prefer C++ over Java, but it is strictly true that there are situations where you can avoid repeating yourself in C++, while you can't in Java, and not the reverse.
great! i've been waiting for a long time for this.
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The Bottom-up approach.
I've never gotten any of these complaints about shows running "overtime". Personally, the longer the better IMHO. They're podcasts. I listen as much as I can, and then pause them to pick them up later. Short ones are just over quicker and then I have to wait until the next one until there's more to listen to.

PS: (edit) unless its music, I almost always listen to the spoken word at 1.5x or 2x speed.
This really has little to do with Facebook and has everything to do with 'big startups' vs 'small startups'.

Minor point- at what point can we stop calling this organisations 'startups'? Surely there should be no such thing as a "big startup". Facebook is not a startup. Any more.