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Thanks Jason - a great look into doing business in Japan and relevant for large as well as small businesses IMO. Especially interesting are the methods you used to break out of the no-users-without-social-proof vicious circle. Another option is to hold instructional events or seminars which could help potential customers feel more comfortable, both in terms of seeing others in the same position and being reassured of who they'd be buying from.
> I have a genetic disease that shows up in 4/100k people, so rare, but not that rare. Any sizable town has at least a few dozen people with my disease.

If one in 25k people has the disease, you need a 1 million+ population for city to have a 40 (a lowball "few dozen") incidences of the disease, assuming random distribution. There's only 10 cities in the United States that fit that description* and only London is big enough in the UK. There will be only 100 or so the medium sized states of say Utah or Nevada

Takes a lot more than a medium sized town and that sounds extremely rare condition to me.

I come from a medium sized town. Given your numbers, there's a good chance there is no one in the town has this disease and i wouldn't expect any of the doctors to be knowledgeable about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_United_Kingdom...
Get vim/emacs and learn it inside out so you do a minimum of mousing and keystrokes. Also learn to code in your head as much as possible and only sit down at the computer to dictate your design. This is surprisingly effective once you get the hang of it. I spend about 60% less time in front of the computer now and I'm way more productive. Also get something like StayFocusd for your browser and add in all your distraction sites. If you have downtime while compiling or whatever, get away from the computer and rest your eyes/hands.
I've been programming with NowJs and could you point me to the "Boiler plate" stuff you're talking about? I don't get it. It is very clean.
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Might be a little hard if you've never worked in .NET before, but the author has recommendations on what to do in that scenario.

I found it to be incredibly helpful.
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> Basecamp and their suite of software scalable business?

Basecamp is a scalable business considering what it is but I doubt that 37signals makes tons of $$ with Basecamp (check their Alexa traffic, it's an aged product and overrated, popularity still comes from Rails, most that I know switched years ago to other tools).

> I don't think DHH gives a shit about Pinterest, Quora or Instagram

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3177-all-the-oxygen-trapped-i...
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I suggest building some muscle in your arms. It's amazing how much strength does to combat the physical horror of sitting at a keyboard all day. Wrist curl, reverse wrist curl, overhead press, bench press, deadlift, pull-up. All these helped me immensely.

PS: steve8918 is right about the mouse. Build some strength, and stop flicking your wrist sideways to reach the mouse. A laptop's trackpad is a huge improvement.
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As a Dutch resident (British citizen), who's working on a file sharing startup, this news really makes me happy. Hopefully other countries will follow
Yet another data point. I coded full time at work for 14 years without having any problems at all (an therefore not paying any attention to ergonomics either).

Then in 2005 I started having problems with my arms. It got so bad I thought I had to quit programming all together, but I managed to sort it out, and today I can work without problems.

The most important part of the solution for my was to start using a break program to force me to take regular breaks (preventing the problem in the first place instead of treating the symptoms). I also started to use a split keyboard without a numerical pad, and using a penclic pen-mouse.

I wrote about it at http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/ and it was dicussed here at HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3635692
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IIRC, the correct protocol with network testing is to prompt the user first that it's going to connect to another host, so they can skip the tests if there's something wrong with their network (or the site on the other end).

The other way to do it is to start an HTTP server locally and use that (which is what WWW::Mechanize does)
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This reedit thread has the answer
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This will be buried but I'll throw it out there anyway.

In the UK it's actually illegal to specify a minimum number of years of experience. The issue is that no-one enforces the rule unless someone kicks up a stink. In the UK, if you are rejected for a position implicitly because you didn't have the minimum number of years of experience you can claim compensation through the employment tribunal on the grounds of age discrimination.

UK law is black and white about the issue and I'm personally sick and tired of seeing employers and recruiters blatantly and ignorantly flouting the law.
Only solution I found (after trying almost everything else) was installing AntiRSI/WorkRave. They are intensely irritating, forcing you to stop typing every three minutes. But, you get used to it, and, it saved my wrists.
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I agree that you need to keep a direction for SE, but there is one type of open-ended conversation starters that often works really well there - the list. E.g "What feature would you like to see in C++15 (or whatever the next one will be called)?", "What is your favourite bit twiddling trick?", "What is your favourite language outside the TIOBE top-20 and why?", etc. With one list item per answer and the help of the voting structure, those tend to produce interesting reading.
Wow, you convinced me...

Sarcasm aside, I've also experienced all of these issues with real world testing and would be interested in hearing your argument as to why you think this is not the case.
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Unfortunately though, a lot of the papers that turn up in Google Scholar are behind paywalls. It is very expensive to get hold of academic papers if you don't work/study somewhere with an institutional licence (anything from $10 upwards per paper).
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Why (to me) sortofolio is a bad investment for a buyer:

1) They made a big deal about the sell. "We are selling it within x days and if no one buys we will be shutting it down" because apparently its not worth their time; but at the same time, according to them it takes zero involvement from their part. Doesn't sell it in x days but makes it available at flippa.

2) Doesn't answer any important questions regarding the sale on flippa. Either its not worth their time or they are not telling the whole story.

3) As someone who would use sortfolio this looks like a complete lack of confidence on the business/platform by their owners and has unstable future as a product, so why bother using the service?

4) Sortfolio almost definitely exist as a platform and makes money simply because of its association with 37singnals. The product is nether impressive or unique.

To me the whole "will shut it down in x, if not sold" not only leaves a bad taste towards sortfolio but also its parent company 37signal. I am not sure exactly why.
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This is what worked for me too. Natural keyboard, moving mouse position, seating position, etc. all helped a bit, but after a day or two in gym my wrists simply stopped hurting and felt "healthier". When I stopped gym for 2 months and the pain returned, once I resumed my gym routine the pain stopped again within one or two sessions.
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> (An objection to this might be the increased difficulty of maintaining two product lines, but there's a simple answer to that -- just stop updating FeedDemon. Eventually the power users who appreciate the simplicity will get the message and switch over to SimpleDemon, and those who ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE radio button #7,131 on the preferences screen can sit on their complicated, orphaned version for life.)

OR, you can delegate development to that power users community
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That may be, but the problem is that that's a losing battle. It's the same, relatively easy strategy that everyone else is doing, and thus a losing proposition.

I really don't see how what you suggest is significantly different from keyword stuffing. You're not stuffing the page, you're stuffing the links between the pages: the blog post and your site (and the fact that you're suggesting

Search engines, including Google, have an interest in leading users to useful pages. A shill blog post stuffed with keyboards and backlinks to your target content is not useful. It's not useful by definition that you didn't add or create any useful content, instead you are working on gaming the search engine. If legitimately useful pages, that users want to see, are not appearing at the top of search results, the (legitimate) search engines will figure out a way to detect those and put them there, since that's what users want. Meanwhile, you'll be doing the same thing everyone else is doing (link stuffing and low-content search engine food blog posts), so your site becomes indistinguishable from the millions of other cheap attempt search engine spamming sites.

Instead, build a useful product or site with useful information that's engaging to users. Of course this seems like the harder thing to do, but, duh, TANSTAAFL.

It's worth pointing out that the OP is talking about how to tell google your site exists, how to detect duplicate content, and a bunch of other stuff that if I list it here I'll be repeating it, not how to game it. Saying one should write a fluff blog post for the link juice is attempting to game it.
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I'm not sure laptops account for a lot of the choice, when designing games, to be honest. Consoles, sure, there's a market and a reason to take them into account.

But you don't really have many AAA devs planning on running their game on laptops.
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Ah, great! Thank you very much. Looks exactly like what I needed. He does include a link to a book on .NET basics for C/C++ programmers, too!
waffle_ss: Counsyl is a group of computer scientists working on literally this exact problem. We've already put a big dent in the issue with our v1 assay. We are now working on our v2, which is optimized for detecting mutations of the kind that Prof. Might and his wife carried. Take a look at the job description here for more info:

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I applied many months ago and haven't got an invitation, but I also have barely any experience in game dev (no finished games). They might be handing 'em out to qualified game devs only right now?
It's things like these that makes it hard for me to ignore that the U.S. is heading down the wrong path and most of its governmental arms are controlled by corporations. Let the people decide on something for once.
>Japanese consumers favour websites with very dense content, and little whitespace.

It's not just websites, all their software is like that.

Japanese sites just seem poorly put together in both design and implementation to me. Confusing layout (and I base this on watching Japanese use them, not just from using them myself), takes 20 clicks to do anything, shitty back-end tech, search results always seem to be awful, etc. Do they favor it? Or do they just put up with it? I suspect it's the former myself, as well, but if you've looked into it a bit I'd certainly like to hear about it.

It might be similar to what happened with cell phones here where for a long time the accepted wisdom was that the Japanese market demanded all kinds of quirky hardware bullshit that no one else in the world would care about, so you had to design phones especially for it. I guess you saved money on making the software because it was always terrible and an afterthought for those phones. Then Apple and Softbank came along and ate their lunch.

The Japanese consumer might be starting to become ever so dimly aware that software is important, too. There might be hope that the days of the shitty Japanese landing page are numbered.
I think a suggestion box app would be perfect. Just make it so simple and well designed that people want to use it in their company.

My personal preference in copy would not to use ellipses, but I have to admit is a long way from my area of expertise. The typography is probably the area of the design that most needs improvement.
Of course aged websites have an advantage against the short-term thinker with a 3 month old site, and that's how it should be. The chances that an established site that has a record of being regularly updated with fresh, relevant content has more useful content than a new, 3 month old site, is higher (but not guaranteed). This is as it should be: those who put in more work to create useful content should win for higher, more relevant placement.
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> "I think you might be hanging around the wrong people..."

Or the wrong areas.

There's a reason why startups have taken off in a huge way in the Bay Area where it hasn't elsewhere, despite the massive amount of capital flowing into aspiring startup hubs like NYC and Boston.

In SF you're one of the cool kids for doing your own startup (to a detrimental extent, actually), in many other places you can expect to run into a lot of the GP's experiences...
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Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040485
In Q3, it was more the way jumping impacted your movement speed which was a discovery. Another example would be the Tribes series, with skiing which was also an abuse of the game physics (and taken as the main movement mechanic in the latest game, Tribes Ascend).

It's nice to see such parts of gameplay emerging from simple bugs. I would argue that it's much more rare nowadays, with games which aim to be always more realistic, and blocking your movement.
Well, in hindsight I might have been a bit unclear but it was in that context that I made my comment(s). I sure recognize Amazon as a company (and eagerly await the day I have a project that is suited for EC2).
recursive, marcusf, bp_: thanks for clearing that out for me.
Right - that's a really good idea. We've been getting approached by people running these kinds of seminars who are interested to promote us, which is nice.

Doing our own seminars (online and offline) is big on our radar as well though.
Generally speaking, many English learners aren't able or willing to communicate in English, and that's especially true in Japan (I suppose you are not in Japan?).

Note that most English-learning products in Japan are marketed using Japanese, and more often than not the content itself (navigation, explanations, commentary, etc) is heavily in Japanese. For instance, this is Yahoo Japan's site for English learners:

http://stepup.yahoo.co.jp/english/

This isn't unusual. Look at the language section at a typical bookstore and you'll see lots of books for learning English... written in 90% Japanese.

I'm not in any way a specialist in that field but if you throw me an email I'd be happy to provide you feedback on your product.
Good news to start off the day. I hope many will follow.
I agree. Selling on Flippa effectively kills any brand goodwill Sortfolio had. Worse yet, not responding to the questions being asked will ensure the site won't be sold.
Solid advice, thanks!
That is interesting. Thanks!
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How strong are these "observes" and "requests"? Why not "requires"?
You also have to take the rest of the sentence into account too. English has a lot of words which mean different things depending on how they're pronounced (or, from the other side, that you can't know which way to pronounce until you already know the meaning), e.g. bass, close, desert, does, dove, familiar, have, intimate, invalid, lead, lives, number, object, present, produce, read, refuse, sewer, sow, subject, tear, wind, wound.
Yes, it's always struck me that many 37signals posts are lathered in passive-aggressive envy regarding other businesses rather than just getting on with their own. The only good 37signals post I can remember that wasn't of that kind, or just trite advice, was the nice photos of their office environments. It constantly amazes me how much coverage they get on HN. But I guess a lot of people use RoR as a breadwinner and have a connection in that way to them.

If you look at another "builder of tools the community uses" like, say, Linus it's different. His blog doesn't really make it onto HN, as it's often personal, whereas his G+ posts sometimes do. His G+ posts are usually about something specific though rather than recycled trash from popular business / personal wealth books - not looking at anyone in particular - with some added passive-aggressive venom towards the more successful.
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The way Sortfolio works is that designers and agencies pay to be listed on the site. But if you build a good following on Dribbble, you'll start receiving new job offers every week. So why would you pay $99 a month for Sortfolio?

This means Sortfolio doesn't include the best designers, since they don't need the service it provides. There are still some good design agencies on there (because they can afford the price), but I'm not sure how long that will remain a viable market.

The bottom line is that if your barrier to entry is money instead of talent, it'll be hard to reach the best people.
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re #1,

could this be solved with an exponential decay?

aka, saying that a click from 1 month ago is less valuable than someone clicking today.

By tweaking the decay you could change how quickly the algorithm will sway when the conversion rate changes.

EDIT: I just saw that rauljara suggested this below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040230
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A lot of that could be described as "lessons I have learned on recent projects". I wish I had read (and grokked) this post 18 months ago.
+1 to mice being evil. I'm not convinced by ergonomic mice despite having used one for the past 4-5 years. They are less painful to use but I find they just hide the problem. Using any normal mouse these days becomes painful within a couple of hours for me.

Instead I use a Trackpoint basically all the time now. I have ThinkPads at home and a MacBook Pro with one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Travel-Keyboard-Trac... at work. The best features are less waving my arms around and a much more convenient location for note paper to live that doesn't require stretching or sliding things around when I need to write stuff.

Sadly (due to what I assume is a patent issue) there aren't very many hardware options for static pointing stick devices and they are all either ex-IBM hardware or current Lenovo hardware.
Ok... I'll play the waiting game then. Hate the waiting game :-/.
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He was referring to the inflation rate. What he was saying was (as far as I understood it), if you safe e.g. $10k now, in e.g. 10years you could not buy as much with it as you could at the time you earned the money. Therefore, you "lose" money (or rather purchasing power) by not using it.
Sigh. Of course I think about page weight and a 100 other aspects of my craft. Listening to other people's thoughts is valuable in weighing up all the different priorities that compete for my attention.