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* the url box at the top ... I assumed that added websites to the boxes below (it takes you to the url)

Yeah, it takes you to the url and then adds it to your list of starts.

* the text in said url box doesn't empty on focus

Really? Which browser are you using?

* the problem with putting focus on url box automagically means I can't "launch" into your websites #1 - #6 via my keyboard without changing focus away from url box. Catch 22.

* I made an account .. how do I add websites to the quick launch things?

Well, the idea is you would type in the url to go to the site, and next time you're there it will be presented on your list of starts. I think you make a good point: I need to decide that the url bar does either/or.

* I'm not making a recommendation - I'm sending a recommendation. I thought "make" would generate a list of recommendations for /me/.

Yeah, this feature was to send things to your friends. I should probably do a better job marking it up and making it clear what things do.

* Kudos on not requiring email verification :)

Thanks! I actually put a substantial amount of effort into letting people use the site without even having to register.

Thanks for the comments -- I really appreciate it.
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This is, however jaded it sounds, is basically correct. Read Greenspan's book (Age of Turbulence) to get it in his own words. While he was running the fed he was definitely not a libertarian.

In fact, I'd argue that that you can't be a member of the fed and be a libertarian, their entire purpose is to artificially manipulate the economy through government... or quasi-governmental intervention.
Jose

First, I am choosing to live in New York to exactly the same degree that those immigrant workers are choosing to live in LA, second, I am an immigrant worker myself, and third, as I pointed out, cost of living in LA is very similar to NY.

If you want to argue on facts, let's hear something other than "you are spoiled and don't know what you are talking about".
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Truth. Though, seeing as everything is done "Steve's way," it's hard to imagine what Apple would be like without Jobs, which will probably happen within the next 15 years (he's 53 now).

I personally hope Windows does well. Buying or building a PC and installing windows is usually a lot cheaper than buying a Mac with equivalent specs. Therefore if Windows makes a good product, I won't have to spend more to get the same stability.

Though, I'm mainly a Linux user. I don't see Windows as a threat to Linux. Many Linux users use Windows on one level or another, either in a virtual machine or in a dual boot. It's not a zero-sum game; they can coexist.
I have zero faith in IP-based login reputation. Within the next couple years, the Internet will have a constant ambient stream of dictionary attempts on every web app that anybody knows about; that attack tool is very easy to write, and has a high payout (every Last.fm password is 60% likely to yield a gmail or ymail account). The dumbest attackers on the Internet are already smart enough to spread attacks over hundreds of IP addresses.

The sites that are going to get targeted are the ones that don't do lockout. The ones that do will be worthless, except to get your bots killed.

What are you really accomplishing by trying to make this seamless backoff system?
The existence of botnets does complicate matters, though, as you note. In general, I don't agree that this is a matter for site designers; the more we try to protect the users from themselves, the more it will be our liability when we ultimately fail (and we will fail in the end).
With all due respect, compared to 90% of the world's population, Danes are pretty prosperous IMHO.
Frankly the remote guys are probably a lot less frightening than the ones on the spot.
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"Bland and tasteless"? What exactly are you expecting from a T-shirt? I appreciate that there is a manufacturer of cotton casualwear which does not feature logos. I don't want to pay for the privilege of wearing a billboard.

And on the "make something good" tip -- AA makes the highest quality and best-fitting T-shirts I have ever found. MILES ahead of the crap on sale at Walmart. And they do it in America, so they've earned the right to put it in their name.

Company politics and alleged lechery aside: they make a damn fine product, without cutting corners.
Some things and people should be torn down.
One thing that got in the way with the registry for me was that there's only 1 of them. You can't install 2 variants of anything that uses the registry, unless that thing uses the registry in a multi-tenant way (and a lot of things didn't).
American Apparel's just marketing towards the people who hate outsourcing and think buying "Made in America" is important. Most people fall for it; some do not.

A better question: why is an American more entitled to a job than someone living in another country? The problem with most of the outsourcing arguments I've heard is that they come down to value judgments.
1. PCs are cheaper than Macs, hardware wise, so if you compare them at price-point, Windows will probably still come out on top. 2gb ram on a PC is probably cheaper than 1gb ram on a Mac.

2. There's a "Classic View" option on the side of the control panel that allows you to see "Add/Remove Programs"

Microsoft does have a bit of an analogy to the American car industry - viruses are like the autoworkers unions. Microsoft users need to run antivirus software most of the time (though it's changing because of beefed up security within windows and windows finally not running everything as root), and it's like how American car companies pay $3000 more per car because American workers are more expensive.
who is _why ?
> accept you're going to f*ck up to some extent, then rework it.

Oh, I'm totally with you.

My app is far from finished. The settings area still sux. And we use lightbox-style overlays in a few places and I hate those suckers. And there's a lot more that I want to do with it, like, NOW.

But we did ship on the day we said we would. :)

The main reason we were able to do that was to first identify which missing "killer features" would not be apparent to people other than us. We, of course, had the perfect 2-years-down-the-road mental image of our project. We could never ship that.

But other people, coming to the app as newbs, would not know that we managed not to include <killer feature here>.

Then we ruthlessly qualified things as "good enough." I can't tell you how many times I said "Eh, fuck. Just ship it. We can make it better later."

I just wouldn't compromise on data entry. That's the whole point of the app. Then again, we didn't compromise on what we had, BUT we did leave out the other entry mode (still working on the design, a month later). So...
I guess I'd argue that people aren't entitled to a certain wage. The biggest problem is: switching jobs isn't as easy and transparent as it should be.
I have to say I admire your productivity. Bob Walsh (47hats.com) has an eBook called "Micro ISV Sites that Sell" that's gotten some good reviews that you may want to have a look at. Good luck with the sites!
Who's the lazy one that lounges on the sofa? ;)
Well, security is all I do, and I think the superior security of the Unix config model is a huge myth. And again: I'm a Unix person.

First, there are just as many places to backdoor on a Unix desktop (of comparable functionality) as there are in Windows. The difference is that there's one place to monitor and scan in Win32, and a zillion in Unix --- you literally can't know everything (or even 80%) of what you need to monitor in Unix.

Second, it's not as if the Unix permissions model is any more flexible than the Win32 model. If you can edit files in /etc, you own the box. If you can edit files in ~, you own the user. It's the same scenario in Win32.

Third, the reasons there are "cleaners" and "doctors" for Windows are twofold:

---- (1) Windows users have been sold the bill of goods that they need to keep their registries swept. Unix users don't give a shit. I have Evolution config files from 2000 in my homedir, on my Macbook.

---- (2) Windows users get a disproportionate share of all viruses and trojans, because Windows desktops are more than 90% of the outstanding population of hosts, and are nowhere near tapped out for attackers yet.

As for the rest of it:

* show me a registry subtree on Windows that you think is a bad example of sane, automatable, declarative configuration, and I'll find a comparably bad Unix configuration file.

* every enterprise in the world has a standard Win32 build/replication system that covers the registry, and most of the ones I've seen are homebrew, so all my evidence is that this is a solved problem. On the other hand, a lot of my clients don't have a well-managed automated Solaris build.
"cool, calm, collected, and charitable discourse" will always only exist in the right environments. At no time in history has there been a society that was completely rational. It's just not human nature.
i think this is cooler

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/01/iosafe_solo_flo.php
http://poignantguide.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff

A developer and Ruby advocate who's written one of the earlier and more popular guides.

...you don't know how much restraint it took to avoid the Abbot and Costello routine there.
http://hackety.org/, creator of a ruby gui toolkit and a bunch of comic book tutorials about ruby.
Having a logo or not has nothing to do with the fact AA looks ugly as hell. Many great clothing brands do not show their logos on some of their clothes.

"I don't want to pay for the privilege of wearing a billboard."

Your are paying $20 for a plain grey t-shirt. You don't think you are paying for the AA billboards that are everywhere??
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I've been thinking of swapping the sofa for a hammock actually... ;-)
I did not mean to imply otherwise.

But yes, I should have been clear: rich people and rich organizations.
Linux doesn't run on Arm either.

...well, it does. The kernel does, and so do the desktop environments. And indeed so do most of the applications. But there is no Flash, no Skype, upgrading is a nightmare, support will probably end early and you will be very lucky if Java works well.

Every sub notebook and portable device I owned before my current (Atom based) Eee 1000 was a disaster because the system images for them were universally junk and/or crippled.

The default Linux image for the Eee is _also_ junk, but it doesn't matter because it takes five minutes to throw Ubuntu onto one. This should remain the case for at least the next two to four years as, being standard hardware, new software will keep on being made available for it.

By comparison mainstream support for running Linux on my G4 PowerBook never really began.
Having a logo or not has nothing to do with the fact AA looks ugly as hell.

Again, I am not sure what you want from a T-shirt. AA shirts fit me great -- better than any other manufacturer. What is ugly about a T-shirt that fits?
Oh, I see. How religiously apropos.
I hope he gets to keep the BB. We can't have a system that keeps technology away from our leaders. I did an interview with political consultants who told me their clients in congress had to fight to get access to Twitter. Our representatives shouldn't have to fight to stay in touch with the world.
Good call. Make sure you remember to have a minion fanning you with a palm leaf for good measure.
And other nations would be licking their chops.
You are trying to get into the ethics of global trade. I am sure glad I can get a plain t-shirt for $6 instead of $20 for AA. But that is a long debate.

Checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_%28clothing%29
They are a Spanish company that do not outsource their manufacturing. They are able to keep their costs down and deliver the most trendy clothes to their customers. AA on the other hand made clothes that look like 1970s gym clothes.
Congrats Trevor and everyone at Anybots - I can't wait to see one of these in person.
http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1999
GOP leadership candidates say they needs more internets in order to win
I've found a leaked photo of the next version of QA from Anybots, code-named 'Maria':

http://www.jeffbots.com/maria-large.jpg

(Compare to Anybots QA: http://bluwiki.com/images/thumb/7/7b/Anybots-QA.jpg/250px-An... )

Somebody warn the workers!
CISCO is working hard on telepresence and no robots are involved.

On the plus side, this is mobile, but on the down side, it has the connectivity CISCO is working on as prerequisite.

I'm wondering who needs a rolling tv screen?

I have no such wonders with the roomba and the its hardwood and linoleum cleaning cousins, those little bots are damn helpful.
I'm not blaming the app creators. I think Twitter and other sites need to learn from FriendFeed.
It's a nice idea, particularly considering that it would apply to any web browser used.

Though on Mac OS X I prefer OmniWeb, which has these filters as well as the ones that GlimmerBlocker says it doesn't have (i.e. control over cookies, JavaScript, etc.).
More than 50% of people in working age in Denmark work for the government or make their living through some sort of welfare program. This means more than half the population of Denmark is prosperous exclusively because of income taken from the productive part of population.

Denmark and most of the rest of Scandinavia used to have a very classically liberal (~libertarian) mind set. It is the work ethic that has maintained much of the prosperity. Many of Denmarks large successful export businesses come out of this period.

As I like to say. Denmark is prosperous despite their welfare state and not because of it.
I'm not sure if this is what you were saying, but you should NEVER have 2 sets of actual accounting books. The numbers are the numbers, the truth is the truth.

You can create and present a document that shows your expectations and assumptions, but you can't say you made X amount of sales and Y amount of profit when the real numbers are different.

In reality though, the data you show and present should be realistic and perhaps slightly cautious. This is what you are going to be measured against. Being "incredibly optimistic" when you do not believe this to be true is really kind of fraudulent.

Set expectations for what can reasonably happen with the resources/constraints you are working with. Internally, manage your capital as if it were your last dollar. If you do not meet the expectations set, determine why.
"I know lots of people who got funding with no business plan"

I don't dispute your experience but would caution that 2005-2008 may not be a guide for 2009-2012
I've been typing Dvorak for years. I made the switch concurrently with changing to a TypeMatrix keyboard (http://typematrix.com/). TypeMatrix keyboards aren't radically different (cf. DataHand), but they are radically better. They don't stagger the keys, and they place #\Newline and #\Backspace in the center of the keyboard so you aren't contorting your pinky finger for these common keys (the source of an unbelievable amount of typing pain).

Once you type for a few minutes on a TypeMatrix (Qwerty or Dvorak), you come to understand the gross insanity of continuing to stagger the keys on a modern keyboard.

The TypeMatrix keyboards are switchable (via hardware) between Qwerty and Dvorak with a function key. I use X/loadkeys mapping most of the time anyway, but this is quite useful for boot prompts, BIOSes, and new installations.

As for learning Dvorak if you're already a fast typist, I like to say that it feels similar to how people describe quitting cigarette smoking (I've never had to do that personally). That is, for the first few weeks typing is a conscious process, and painfully slow (I got up to 20 wpm after just a couple days, but getting back up to 100+ wpm takes awhile). So what happens is that things come up, you have to send an email out quickly, or you need to debug some pressing problem, and you'll feel a powerful, visceral urge to switch back, just temporarily, so you can bang out the email or solve the problem. But you know you can't do that; you'll fall off the wagon.
TicketStumbler is my third business and the closest thing I've ever done to a business plan is the YC application form. Know what problem you're solving, why you're solving it, who has this problem, how you're going to solve it and (maybe) monetization options.

I think a business plan could be important if you're looking to take gobs of money, but your query makes it sound like the investors are angels. Maybe providing more details would help everyone provide further feedback?
It's telling that the designer likes to think of human power in watt-minutes instead of kilowatt-hours: They sound (1000/60) times more impressive. A fit human has the cardiorespiratory wherewithal to propel a 10lb bicycle to 20mph for sustained periods. The "human" part of the equation driving a 550lb vehicle is gimmicky at best.
iRobot made something similar called the "coworker". It was a spectacular failure. It was shorter and ( i think ) a bit smarter about remote obstacle avoidance. They asked around $5K.

They never answered the question: why is this better than a conference call? This is doubly important considering it has no arms.

I'm certain there is a market for this or a similar kind of robot. It needs to have compelling remote presence, and it needs to be cheaper than $5K.

Adding up motors, computers, cameras, the chassis, plastic modling, etc. can get expensive fast, especially if you haven't ramped up production somewhere fast & cheap like China.
I suppose it's a preference by some, but I've always found it perfectly fine to just run "vim" in a terminal. It seems to me that an editor doesn't need to provide features that a terminal already has: I can set the terminal colors any way I want, or have buffers open in multiple windows or tabs, etc. And when the terminal handles this, I have the same power and flexibility over any program, not just the editor.
Yeah, my example wasn't the greatest. I'd have said SUSv03, but I didn't think as many people would be familiar. Also, my desire for POSIX extends beyond command line to basic programming APIs. The deficiency of Windows just seems most readily apparent on the command line.
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sorry to say this, but I think their API is great. They are innovating, and innovating requires breaking something. If the devs can't keep up, they shouldn't be creating extensions in the first place. Same could be said of iPhone development as well... it just so happens that the cool platforms tend to have more underlying changes than static platforms aka windows. (and even under windows, development can be shaky if you're doing stuff in .net)

EDIT: I'd also like to add that this version of Firebug actually does work in FF3.1. It's only that in their install.rdf file, they specified 3.0.*. I changed it to 3.1b2pre and re-built the extension and it seems to work great under Minefield. I think they put the version restriction to prevent people from reporting bugs for the still beta FF3.1.
I was looking to get my thumb more involved in the action, which is what led me to the Kinesis Advantage. After seeing the built in Dvorak support and the natural contour, I was sold. 6 months in, I love it, and am considering buying a second for my home setup.

I remapped a LOT of the keys however. Caps -> Ctrl is crucial, put escape on an elevated thumb button... all the navigation keys to the "4th row"... basically I sat down and thought about where i wanted my control keys to be for easy access, and remapped them there. That solved all of my initial control key problems.

If you're the kind of person who's interested in learning Dvorak, and shelling out $200 for a keyboard, that's not much of a stretch.
Followup: From coding whore to opinionated developer?
There are other opinionated developers out there ...
Also by definition we are at liberty to believe whatever we want. Kind of by definition we don't have any leaders to define what we think, even though many of us read lots of stuff by Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, Rand etc.

Me I am definitely a libertarian, classical liberal, randian, anarcho-capitalist and several other labels that I might invent.

But in reality we all have our different ideas of whats important and what isn't. And we do laugh at ourselves about this.

Check out Peter Bagge's great comic about what happen when Libertarians gather...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/28655.html
For what it's worth, when I first stepped of the plane from Europe,
one of the things about America, that was most obvious, was the highly nonsexual atmosphere.

I've since grown completely accustomed to it, and now don't even notice it, except when I go back to Europe.
Which by the way, is fully-documented here:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
Forcing sexual relationships on people who work for you (or forcing a reporter to watch you have sex and masturbate) is hardly "overly-sexual".

You said yourself that AA workers could not get the same money anywhere else... surely you don't think it's acceptable for Charney to ask his employees for sex in a situation where (according to you) he has so much power?

In general, I think good/legal vs. bad/illegal behavior is not just a simple sum of its parts where, say, 3 good deeds outweigh 1 rotten deed by 2. After all, when your neighbor turns out to be a child predator, are you going to say, oh well, that's ok because he's been a good church-going fella for the past 30 years?
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eee netbook is about 1 kg, this is 635 grams; and it has a built-in cell phone. http://www.obsessable.com/laptop/sony-vaio-p/specs/

Not sure on the price-point, but I think there's a market need for netbooks in the direction of these specs.
I tried a similar sort of architecture at one point, the issue is that if you share blocking calls in a thread, at some point something will block that you don't expect to.

It's also just far far simpler to go with a single networking thread. Then pass off any cpu intensive, or long running tasks, or blocking tasks, to other threads.
Why better than a conference call? It has to be it's mobility. (Although, didn't they mention it needed to be tethered? It has to be because it lacks batteries.)

I think that in situations where data needs to be sucked up in a mobile way but not in a way that the environment needs to be manipulated (no arms), it'll work. Well, when it gets batteries, it would.
The networking thread shouldn't be using hardly any CPU. If it is, then somethings badly wrong. It's better to have a single networking thread, trawling through the connections, moving data around, and have it talking to other threads that handle long jobs, cpu intensive tasks, or anything that might block.
They helped get funding for two companies I started :-)

I've found that it's really hard to write business plans for other people, and for companies you aren't directly involved in. It's probably a bit like when biz types ask a programmer to write what it says in their business plan - they haven't really thought about a lot of the underlying assumptions and how much work it is to do right. It works the other way around too.

I just wrote a somewhat related blogentry here: http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/01/business-plans-for-hacke...
I already have one, although it took me a little while to even remember that fact.