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> The damn text box I am using in this browser to enter this comment is far more user-friendly than VIM.

Either you're a terrible Vim user or you have a pretty awesome browser text box. I had to install a third party browser extension just to make the damn thing resizeable - woe is me if I want to do search/replace, indent anything, or do anything but the most trivial undo/redo operation. And who hasn't permanently lost stuff they've written into a form by hitting the wrong key?
the thing with marketplaces, is that the ui itself doesn't matter...what matters is having buyers.

sellers will post where the buyers are, and it doesn't matter if UI is crap. So craigslist wins on that by a huge margin. Add the fact that it's free, means that they have a pretty entrenched position.

To me, eBay and Craigslist have an insurmountable first mover advantage. They are already established in our culture as the place for auctions/classifieds, you can't undermine that with some flashy UI or a few extra features. And since you need people to sell/buy, you don't have the same viral effect that allowed Facebook to take out Myspace.

The only way I see going at them, is thru incredible service. Rent a huge warehouse. Hire a few drivers.

Charge a fee for someone to come to my house to collect all my spare stuff, take good professional photos. Then list them for sale. Charge a % for all items that sell. Let buyers pick up the stuff at the warehouse instead of having to deal with shady sellers. Offer to ship to buyers. Offer credit card processing etc. Send a check to the seller.

Sure it's a bit more effort than slapping together a website. You'll need to go state by state, renting warehouses and hiring a lot of people to do the legwork and will need to spend the money on marketing. So your profit margins will be closer to a real business than a website(franchising might work for something like this). But if you want to crack the Craigslist nut...you need to put in the extra effort...otherwise you are just one of the hundreds of people who think they are the ones to beat Craigslits
There is a few reasons. Pick your favorite:

1) All the features we wanted are in.

2) We need to catch up on Chrome 19.

3) Team was thirsty and needed a good excuse to have beer party.
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I had a similar issue in one of my sites. It's an unnecessary dependency and should be corrected. Maybe not a bug, but a problem.
You mean like http://archive.org ?
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That is the immediate reaction of most decent people that read the story or watch the video. The problem with commenting about how horrifying it is is that it's not a unique observation and therefore not that interesting.

I am really interested in your third point about preventing this sort of behavior. Contrary to what most parents will say, almost all teenagers are capable of this sort of behavior given the right (or wrong) sequence of events paired with peer pressure. The job for us as parents is to teach our children to be aware of negative influences from peers so that they can either avoid or stand out against things like this.

How do we do teach them? Not sure. But we MUST figure it out before they find themselves in situations like this.
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That's literally the most awesome thing I've read today, for all intensive purposes!
Twitter Says Service Outage Resolved
To get ROI, you need to also know the value of a customer. If each customer pays 2 x Customer Acquisition cost in the first month, then the ROI is 2 in the first month. If it's a subscription, and 100% stay for a year, then it's 24 (or 2400%) in the first year.

Pro-ROI calculations take into account the time-value of money and taxes.
How many other companies follow a similar model?
It's not entirely different, but those were the rules everyone was playing by then. So in that sense it's very different. We haven't agreed to these new rules yet. I don't think we should. Hopefully that's not too subtle.
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This is what happens when Twitter goes down...
Amazing presentation (well done there). Terrible idea.
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I have never figured out how to build a community from scratch. But I have belonged to several communities over the years which were built from scratch, without "seeding" it. I also have a track record of tremendously increasing traffic and membership for established sites. Since I have done that, both as a moderator and as a member, I suspect that statements like yours fall in the category of "I do not know how, therefore I think no one knows how and I also think it cannot be figured out by anyone." Maybe you can't figure it out. But since forums do exist which were developed from scratch, I don't think that means no one can figure it out.
How long are your shoelaces?
"The point is not to mindlessly cheerlead because a person has some attribute, whether it's two X chromosomes, or a last name ending in a vowel, etc."

Well said! Every time I show up at a tech event and someone shouts "Yay! There's a girl here!", it just makes me want to leave.
Is this it? http://stream.mcohen.me/entry/dropbox-t-shirt---back-22-173.... -- this is great because it almost begs anyone who sees it to ask you what it means.
> * The cheapest adjustable standing desks are around $800 (geekdesk)

Some seem to be available for a lot less: http://www.amazon.com/Safco-1929CY-Adjustable-Stand-Up-Works... (Or am I missing something here?)
I don't think my photos are going to be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine. I dont mean that in a "fck you it's art" but that I'm not only following my own style, but within certain limitations.

I don't disagree with you on how those particular photos are blown out, but those were candid shots in irregular lighting. To make a conventional shot, you would set up lights and possibly do significant post processing. I chose to emphasize as much of the area that I wanted even as details are lost at the other end.

The main point of the book is that there are options in the first place and it's important to be aware of them to properly adjust...rather than just snapping a photo and wondering why it turned out so off.

It's difficult for me to show what the choices were, granted, because I didn't shoot those scenes with thhe intention of demonstrating a decision tree for the final shot. Being able to show more direct comparisons, between the exposure options, is my intention as I add new examples to the book

As far as the metering section, I think you're right that it's confusing...I decided to split off the chapter with doing touchscreen exposure and never fully fleshed out standard metering. That is something I'll work on
Webinar: http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2012/05/wso2-product-releas...
It would probably work like an IRC network. A network might involve hundreds of servers, but you only notice which server another person is using when there's a netsplit. Split users can reconnect using another server and rejoin the channel with only a slight interruption.

An IRC-styled Twitter would need some sort of synchronization service to handle twitsplits.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm having trouble envisioning why a transparent phone would be useful. It would certainly be "cool", but that's really about it.

The keyboard projection part of the video game me an idea though: it would be really awesome if the iPhones could have built-in miniature projectors. That way, whenever you wanted to show something on your phone to a group of people, you could simply project the screen to the nearest wall or floor. It would have a real use case and make content more shareable.
So problem solved? (BTW I liked your lightening talk at Pycon)
That's not evidence, that's just a claim from Microsoft's marketing. The code-sharing doesn't apply to any current desktop applications - it only applies to the hypothetical future Metro-based desktop apps. And it's irrelevant anyways.

You can't expect a user to stick with an incomplete platform when there is viable competition, based solely on promises that the situation will improve. In fact, since Microsoft has announced that current Windows Phone 7 hardware will not run Windows Phone 8, anybody who was counting on their phone getting more useful over time has been proven to be a sucker.
"Not so sure about Amazon buying .amazon, because it also is the name of a rainforest in South America, and .apple could be a problem for growers and lovers of the fruit."

Seems like I covered the Apple case.
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Was Kickstarter the first crowdfunding website or did they do something different to go viral? It seems like there is a new startup based on a tweak of the Kickstarter announced every day.
Because in those companies, a BA needs in-depth knowledge of the domain that is as hard and slow for a programmer to acquire as it is for a non-programmer to learn programming.
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I'm sure there are plenty of good ideas and lessons from reading the bible. Doesn't mean you have to live up to every word of it without common sense.
The euro crisis, in one picture
Thanks...not at this point...one of my main motivations was to get used to doing things with Jekyll/octopress and markdown,mso I haven't figured out the workflow from that to other formats. But I guess this would be a great chance to try that out. If I were to ever charge, I'd rather it be for a print book, but who knows
Has email ever been down, like, everywhere?
The birds finally dropped the whale
You are right and wrong.

In the beginning the UI doesn't matter. But with time it begins to matter as more and more items become available.

Its nearly impossible on the Apple Store to get any sense off what is good or bad there.

The reviews are not really that useful.

All design systems have a limit to how much they scale. Apple should have been re-designing theirs a long time ago.

http://www.crosswa.lk is at least an attempt to fix some of it.
Working on something like that too, but it's a rough work in progress:

http://gitify.me

I'm planning on adding filters so that I can get notifications for only pull requests and files I care about etc. Also planning on adding a chrome extension to make setting up alerts easy and notifications via Google Talk and SMS.

Very early stages right now. And don't click on any of the billing stuff because it will bill but doesn't do anything else.
Teacher Ka Kaam Taleem Dena.
Like Netflix, Facebook is boosting its edge network
"We haven't agreed to these new rules yet."

Who's "we" sucka?

(Sorry - see 2:17 in on the following had to crack a rare joke):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXDzsuqXFg

"the rules everyone was playing by then"

The rules are clearly laid out now. The difference is that you need to be able to pay real money to play now. Some of that is greed and some is practical. You need to limit the applicants to organizations with the financial wherewithal to be able to provide the stability needed (that said they do have some kind of program for less financially worth non-profits).

"I don't think we should."

To late for this now. The time to do that was many years ago when comments were invited and there were meetings etc.

By the way there are many parts to the ICANN process that are exclusionary. To get to one of their meetings you have to be able to afford to get in an airplane and fly to an exotic (and sometimes) unsafe location. Nothing fair about that. But that is the way things are (in Washington as well).
Wasn't there an RFC entitled "IP datagram transport via avian carriers", or something similar?
I don't know how the internet could easily transition out of this mess, but I think it would probably be good to eventually get rid of as many TLDs other than .com as possible. Does it add any real value to users to have to try and remember and differentiate between .com, .org, .net, .info, .me, .ly, .tv, all the others I'm forgetting about, and now .shoes and .pants and whatever else companies come up with?

It just creates more and more opportunities for phishing attacks to have essentially unlimited TLDs created where it makes it harder for anybody to easily figure out what is the actual home of any company.

Also, I'm not worried about Amazon or Google or Facebook or Microsoft, but for smaller businesses, they're going to be faced with costly and unnecessary legal battles and challenges over all kinds of trademarks. It's such a waste of effort. It's bad enough when there were just a handful of TLDs that were relevant, but now that we have essentially unlimited domain names all sorts of additional costly conflicts will emerge.

If these new TLDs have to exist, one potential way to minimize confusion and minimize disputes would be for all .com owners to automatically be assigned that respective TLD, so you always automatically know that "icloud.apple" is owned by Apple.com and that "books.amazon" is owned by Amazon.com and if you went and bought "xyz12345.com" you would also automatically own the xyz12345 TLD so these disputes would mostly be already settled. But that's not going to happen because there would be no extra money in that.
.... except that it's much faster to digest a talk + speaker notes than an endless video. (I'm not saying post notes instead. Ideally, post both)
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The feedback is but his superior tone is unwarranted.
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Excuse my ignorance, but what's a bus monitor?
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That's a great point...my inclination was to do "interesting" photos even if they were mundane (most of them were taken during walks or sites that I frequent)...but I think taking photos in new York gives you a huge advantage over most other plans, and that's not really fair of me to exploit that so much
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And these will continue to exist even if Amazon.com the company secures .amazon the TLD.

I think Dave's mistake is that he believes that TLDs represent anything canonical. Originally they were meant to, but only a few do anymore[1]. In almost every case, they're just a few extra characters at the end.

[1]gov and mil

edit: formatting
"Twitter is down" means something very different from "Some people are having trouble accessing Twitter." My own traceroute results during the outage pointed to network problems, and I saw people saying they could access it.

It was unavailable to many people, not down.
Not necessarily op could be someone who resolves s\he to she. Not realizing that someone would take it literally, or knowing that there is only one she there.
My last company, which is used to having lifers working for them, operated under the assumption that if they kept an employee for the first five years out of college, they usually had them permanently. They assumed people like me[0] were rare. This attitude persists in spite of their issues with college hire retention over the past decade. Its possible the management at your first company had a similar attitude.

[0] I left 5 months shy of my 10th service anniversary
Please Twitter, Can I Have a Premium Account?
Ask HN: What's the business model for a Tumblelog?
Hey HN, I run EatSleepDraw.com, the largest user submitted blog on Tumblr.

We receive over 1,000 art submissions per week and currently have over 200,000 followers. I would love to one day turn my blog into a full time job.

We're hooked up with a ad network ( http://carbonads.com ) , and sell some merch in our shop ( http://shop.eatsleepdraw.com ), and we just started selling memberships ( http://eatsleepdraw.com/membership )

HN, What am I missing? What should I be doing differently? What's the business model for a Tumblelog?

- Lee
cofounder of EatSleepDraw.com & Tumblr user #7 (story here: http://tmblr.co/Zi4ybyJU4uT9 )
I've seen it argued -- from people that seem to know much more than I do on this -- that HR knows most people will grumble and not leave.
I'd argue the opposite. I think "thanks for sticking with it" is patronizing. Contrary to popular belief, women are not feeble and weak and incapable of living in the real world. And they don't all feel victimized by some oppressive system of sexism.
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Couldn't agree more, this had nothing to do with Linux.
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The kids are probably in even greater need of compassion than the lady they were harassing is, because they probably learned this attitude at the core of this behavior from their parents.
I think that's okay. He said Many, not Everyone. Right?
I think you have to use WP7 to get past the "unicorn poop" look.

To you, looking at the screenshots, you see a mess of a UI. My me, looking at the home screen my my WP7 I see my Fiance, my brother, my Mother and my Best friend and it toggles between their picture and their latest Facebook updates.

My phone doesn't look like "unicorn poop" to me. It might to you, though.

I imagine Microsoft has data about what people like/dislike about Metro, and they are doubling down on it so the data is probably leaning in the "good" direction.
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This chrome extension https://github.com/dforsyth/gh-girdle is a phenomenal way to clean up your Github News Feed - much better than this.
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Dropbox Rolls Out Auto-Uploading Photos To Its iOS App
This was submitted on another thread, but this one seems to be getting more traction, so I'm reposting my comment here to add to this discussion:

"The app is set up so you can easily cross-post your item on Craigslist, too."

I find that statement extremely interesting. The problem with apps like this is they're only as good the volume of people that use them. YardSale sounds to me like a more beautiful, mobile centered Craigslist. But YardSale is only as good as the number of people who have it installed an use it.

I'm in the process of moving and we're getting rid of a bunch of random furniture. Where did we post it?

Craigslist of course. Because when you need to find something, you go to Craigslist.

I don't envy YardSale. Craigslist has a not-so-pretty interface and it's not exactly the most intuitive.

But when it comes to selling/buying things, Craigslist simply works. Really well.
I haven't seen any that weren't stolen from somewhere else and weren't no-brainers to begin with.
That doesn't really answer the question, does it? The other poster made an assertion about VIM being more efficient. I would like to get a list from him (or her).
Oh come on - I don't care how thick the bag is, no-one would mistake a cat for a pig. That is obviously not where the sayings come from.
You seem to have completely ignored any parts of my comment that didn't directly agree with you, and then attempted to reimpose the analogy that I spent the entire comment systematically rejecting. Specifically, I made the point that the rationale for copying data has nothing to do with its zero cost to copy, and even with a non-zero copying cost the rationale still applies. That rationale depends on the differences between a bag of M&Ms and a piece of music (or other data), which you dismissed as not "addressing the economic question"; you said that you "understand that an M&M is different from an A minor chord voicing", but then you reimposed an analogy that assumes you can treat them identically. I addressed the economic question quite plainly: a copier does not inherently owe anything to the author of the copied data. Anyone currently in possession of a piece of data can let anyone else copy it (on whatever terms they see fit), and the author has no inherent right to get involved in that transaction. They currently have an artificial right to get involved in that transaction, hence this discussion.

To further abuse analogies for a moment (note that I used "candy" rather than "M&Ms" to avoid confusing the copying analogy with trademark issues): if I open up a stand across the street from the candy vendor and start giving away free bags of candy, I haven't "deprived the vendor of the right to sell their candy at the price they determined". They have no such right; they have the right to try to sell it. (They might even successfully sell a few bags to people who don't want to cross the street.) Fundamentally, I've done nothing wrong and I owe the candy vendor nothing. I certainly don't owe them the cost basis of a bag of candy, and implying otherwise would make no sense. Even if I created those bags of candy by purchasing a bag from the vendor and analyzing it so I could precisely duplicate it, I still owe the vendor nothing beyond the original price I paid for that one bag of candy. Do you see anything particularly wrong with that analogy? (If you'd like to complain that I've suggested giving away something that costs a non-zero amount to produce, consider that people routinely provide free downloads even though they pay for bandwidth.)
> I'm not really sure what barriers there are for anyone, apart from the barriers they impose on themselves.

So this is a really hard idea to get out to someone, and is the core of a lot of the issues here: a lot of issues women face in technology are issues that men have never experienced. They usually aren't aware that these issues even exist, and probably couldn't brainstorm them if prodded.

Here is a thought experiment. You're writing a unit test framework, and the output of your test is like so: http://i.imgur.com/jIsR8.png (sorry for the non-terminalness)

You pass this off to your friend to see what he thinks. "How do you tell if the test passed?" he asks. "What do you mean?" "I can't see if a test passed or failed. I don't get it." "What? All the information you need is right there!"

Turns out your friend is colorblind. Chances are, you didn't intentionally make this hard for colorblind people. It simply wasn't on your radar. Assuming you aren't colorblind, you go through your whole life discerning the difference between green and red and simply assume everyone else does too! The difference is that when someone brings this up, you don't go "nuh uh! We all see exactly the same way! I don't see what barriers there are for anyone to tell the difference between red and green." Yet this is exactly the response you gave above. (Don't worry, we all do this to a degree).

The point is, there are lots of subtle differences that people with different backgrounds view the world through. It's unrealistic to accommodate all of them, but in order to be a better human being you have to stop and listen when someone tells you something that is outside of your experience. So when you say you're 'not really sure what barriers there are for anyone,' well, there are a lot. Especially for women. That's why we need sites like this.

If you're interested in a long but very well written piece, I highly recommend Ellen Spertus' MIT AI Technical Report on this subject: http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html
Don't hold back! They remind me a lot of me and my brother. At the ripe old age of 7 and 5, we started programming with MicroWorlds, and spent hours teaching ourselves from the manual so we could make simple 8-bit DOS games.

Once a month or so, we would also make a trip to the local thrift store and we would each get to pick out 1 electronic gadget (<$5 unless it was particularly compelling) to take apart. I hacked up everything from keyboards to handbag-sized cell phones. Exploring programming and electronics as a kid was a big part of my success as an adult. For a lot of people, technology is scary/magical, but it doesn't have to be that way.