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One thing that is broken in most cases: email signatures. I can appreciate that they serve as a practical branding opportunity like a business card or letterhead, but no one needs to see their own in a chain of replies.

I recently converted from Outlook to Gmail and end up with email tails that consist of a stack of signatures. I'd rather easily insert a signature (easy shortcut in Outlook) in the first contact with a client than have to delete one that is automatically appended to a sequence of replies. I suppose my best bet is some tweak/add-on that allows quickly choosing a canned response?

Wish there was a concise signature format that combined fixed data pairs (Phone = 1234 5678, etc), branding chances, and a maximum size+. Then (as some mail clients or web apps do) show this info as a 'card' in a right sidebar, and stack those cards in the event that multiple people are in the conversation.

+ And automatic stripping of those "Keep it green, read on screen" messages. If someone's going to print an email, they'll print the email.
I feel bad for piggybacking like that, but I'm planning a trip (probably WAW-BKK) and this kind of insight would help me a lot. If you could copy me on that email at notabing --at-- gmail.com, I'd be mighty grateful. :)
As I say, I think much of the issue here is that he's generalising based on tech books which have higher costs (they're bigger, cost more to print, store and ship), sell in smaller volumes and go out of date faster (leading to far higher numbers of returns).

Full breakdown here but the publisher is basically getting about 50% of the list price so your $30 is already down to $15 by the time it gets there:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_the_costs_of_publishing_...

He's probably right that tech books are broken but I think it's important to distinguish between technical books and other books which don't share the same model.
Welcome to Sweden, 30 days of paid vacation days and 12% extra salary during your vacation because vacation is always more expensive. As above, no-one would dare to contact someone on vacation here unless it is a complete emergency.
I don't think any such system can work in isolation. We would need to integrate it with existing email system and SMS and may be also HN/Twitter/G+/etc if we consider reading all these as a to-do item.

One solution that comes to mind is to let users integrate their existing email accounts by allowing them to periodically fetch email through POP and converting it into to-do items. We can also add "Reply as email" and "Forward as email" actions to implement outgoing email functionality.
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At the outset, let me be straight and upfront to say that it is nearly impossible to kill or replace emails. The idea may be frighteningly ambitious, but from where things seem to be one cannot possibly replace email by creating yet another (so what if better) - mail service.

Current level of email, its provisions, functionality, simplicity and pervasiveness are enough to keep the user coming back in and keep him/her satisfied too. Probably the thinking of having an evolved protocol, that provides for more control on who can/cannot write is also not ambitious enough. At least not so much as the idea itself is.

What I mean to say is that the approach to execute a disruption of this level one has to think on a bit on radical lines. Answering 15 regular questions on a HN post may help but not let you get away from reality. Think deeper, perhaps.

Fifteen years ago emails nearly killed physical letters (yes they do exist even today) with its convenience, simplicity and for being completely free. At that time the need to be able to write to anyone with something as simple as a form hit at the bottom of one's hierarchy of needs.

Now this is not the case. The need to move to something higher or better is not at the bottom of my need-pyramid. I believe this is true for many users out there. One cannot just service, iterate and evolve from the existing to be able to disrupt/replace. That's what my thoughts are.
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Exactly, the problem with e-mail is that it is not RESTful. Nothing is hyperlinked by default. Sending a huge binary to a group of 100 people results in 100 send messages including the huge binary, even though maybe 50 people actually did something with the binary attachment. But the same problem is sending a mail to a large group of users. For example if Amazon sends an e-mail to its user the complete content is transmitted N times. If with a RESTful architecture they only had to transmit the URL to that message with a subject. Users that are interested would open the message.
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This was the problem with google wave. It tried to solve the distribution problem, but that's easy and solved. The real problem is the opposite, signal-to-noise and information overload.

Also, there is the general problem of keeping information up to date. If every new participant to a conversation has to follow all the convolutions of the original email thread (some of which may be missing because face-to-face meetings probably happened at one point) then that's a huge waste. Figure out how to create a system which naturally encourages people to sum up the current state of the discussion (perhaps with automated aids) and you'll be ahead of the game.
I don't get this.

People install their program, contribute the power of their computers for free and Gridspot takes money.

Why would anyone do this? Why would anyone contribute their computer resource for other people to make money from that? I would rather, I don't know, mine bitcoins or set up a Tor proxy.
They explicitly said that the prices will not change.
IMO the core problem is that we're trying to use asynchronous service with poorly linked messages (email) for conversation between people which is synchronous, strongly linked and subject-oriented by nature.
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I doubt it will come to that apart from maybe in southern italy and spain. The rest of europe and the US actually know that taxes serve a purpose.
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"My plan to solve this is to open-source my tools/libraries"

Quick advice: Don't. You'll make it worse.

You're already undermining your thing in that first sentence ("switch it to X so that other people will understand it"). Turning an in-house framework into a "ready for the real world" framework is a ton of work and will invariably need to dull down the sharp edges and general case a bunch of things.

The thing is, those sharp edges are what make it such a good tool. You want sharp edges on your tools. Dull tools might not hurt anybody else but they won't be as good at doing what they do.

You've got something that works really well for you. Chances are it's so focused towards your workflow and way of thinking about the world that it just won't be all that useful to anybody but you. That's just fine.

Trying to make it useful for everybody else will only succeed in making it less useful for you.
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>the whole team may consider going together for a week or two of company-sponsored paid vacation.

That can be okay, and sometimes even really great, with the right team, but it can also be boring to painful, with the wrong team. There seems to be this idea of 'cultural fit' whereby people that work together need to be able to be great friends outside of work. I mean, sometimes this works well, and sometimes it doesn't. Usually (but not always) it means your team won't be able to handle introverts or the socially unskilled quite as well. Depending on the crowd, this can also mean that you end up with something of a cultural monoculture, which, if nothing else, drives up costs and drives down average quality of your developers.

I mean, of the people I know, I probably mingle my work and my personal lives more than anyone else, but even for me? I act differently around people at work than I do around friends. There are certain... appearances that must be kept up, you know? and not all of us are extroverts.

And really? often the vacation I need most is a vacation from someone I work with. Sometimes, even someone else going on vacation improves things; I know there have been cases where I wasn't getting on with someone; they took a long vacation, and upon return we were able to make something of a fresh start, and ended up working together, I mean, not perfectly, but well enough.
Well it does solve a problem for me; I want my sensitive files to be backed up as well. How often do I read stories of people who have EVERYTHING backed up in the cloud but their sensitive files and at first disaster they are screwed, because well, they have everything in the cloud besides the files they ACTUALLY needed for day to day work. And encryption is strong enough to do this.

Where do you put your sensitive files as backup? Harddrive? CD/DVD? USB stick. Problem is that that's not very safe :) I have been backing up on harddrives (applies to cd/dvd/usb as well) since begin 90s and thus I have quite a LOT of harddrives. Time passes and those harddrives get into cupboards, you kind of forget them. When you need them they are often corrupt (esp USB sticks!), but you forget about the older ones after a while (20 years is quite a bit; you'll have kids in that time maybe, move 2-4 times etc). I'm quite sure a bunch of those hds/cds are potentially in the hands of people who could abuse them if they were interested (they are not; my sensitive stuff is not very sensitive). I like the cloud idea more as I don't 'lose' things and stuff is always there on every computer/device. But I just would like simple encryption. For dropbox I have a directory where I put stuff like that ; I have a background software which GPG encrypts everything there before sending to dropbox. It's great. But it still is a bit of a hassle.
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I expect some at Google are cogitating over replacing the current certificate method.
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Everybody uses email differently. Any one person proposing a "solution" to email or a new client design or workflow or whatever is going to be shouted down by the 90% of the population that doesn't do it the same way.

The best thing, then, might be to let everybody design their own email client. I'm imagining something that lets you drag around GUI widgets like "this email has a to-do item associated", "displays this email's author", or "mark this email as being high/medium/low priority". Provide a few layout tools, maybe a really simple domain-specific scripting language in case someone wants a widget that you didn't provide, and everybody's happy.
Thanks for the feedback.
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What is the advantage over writing down the code in a note taking app, or taking a photo of the code and showing that?
> but do you think that perhaps there could be any other reason, just any at all, that people don't see it your way?

Of course that I'm aware of that, I'm not that self-centered :)

> Once you've started explaining away why people disagree you with that kind of rhetoric, it's really hard to learn anything from them.

English is not my primary language, so I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're saying, but in case you're suggesting that I'm full of what will turn out to be empty rhetoric then of course that you have the right to your opinion.

Anyway, I find it crazy that a guy like me (I think I'm in HN's bottom bracket when it comes to programming- or CS-ability) somehow sort of "defends" a guy like Alan Kay. I'm only doing it for the energy, the passion, the whatever-you-want-to-call-it that always gets to me when I'm reading Alan Kay's interviews. I agree it's something subjective.
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When I need to reach someone, I usually want them to respond as soon as possible. That's why I'm trying to find a way that I know they receive. Sometimes it is skype/gtalk (if i know that the person is at a desk with clients online), sometimes it's sms (if i know that they have their phone). And of course, voice call, if text doesn't cut it.

If I know their main communication agent is email and it's business hours, I will send an email.

My point is, you can make a perfect replacement for the email, from point of view of recipient, but people who are in control most of the time are the senders.

THEY will choose a way to contact you. If they see that FOR THEM it is more efficient to send a chat, SMS or email, they will do it.

Of course, you may try telling them: "That's it, I'm using only my new perfect todo tool", but I don't think it will hold for long.

I may definitely be totally wrong.
I have a MBP; I rest my wrists on the huge slabs under the keyboard which works absolutely fine. If you computer doesn't have that, then yes, I would make a real table on the table so I can rest my wrists.
I purposely held back in the blog post because I wanted to spark a discussion. What kind of questions would you like to see on the Fail Fund's application form?
Very impressed with that, thanks for sharing!
Hypothetically speaking, you could be running on a cheap laptop that you bought used for some $200. One and a half years of using Dropbox would cost about the same amount.

Realistically though, I totally agree.
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Yeah, I totally get why you're excited about the project. I hope you didn't get the impression that I was saying you're wrong to be excited. I thought your post was well written!
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I am not totally sure if this is true or not, but somebody from the Netherlands was telling me you can roll over your paid holiday allocation year on year?
What about the new idea, do they have to already have one or is just having failed (properly) and learned from it enough?
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The OP did point out that even the "qualified investors" had no clue what they were doing. Just to make sure we both read it the same way.

Also, and correct me If I am wrong - you've moved to discussing a quote from GS for a product (JPY/USD cross to be specific), and not CDOs in particular.

This is in order to point out that:

GS has no fiduciary duties to the buyer

This point is reiterated in your last line as well - no one is to blame if you made a bad trade, other than yourself.

So in essence, you are arguing caveat emptor - correct?
Here in America, I had ... 31 days off work last year, and usually travel completely off grid. There exist employers with less generous policies in the US, and there exist workaholic employees, but neither is necessarily the norm.
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I would rather try to make that 10% of the population happy than try to make everyone happy. I can't do that and I don't know anyone who can do that.

I'm sure if I can delight 10% of existing email users to a level where they are ready to pay me it is going to be big, very big.
I actually think it was a good rename. He said a lot more than that, and sensational titles aren't really needed on HN.
In Japan you guys wouldnt survive :)
You get 10 days vacation a year, and you will be damn lucky if you can take them all since it depends on the willingness of your employer to allow them when you want them. People usually work late and night and often on saturdays depending on the work pressure.

I am not saying whats wrong or right, but I know my friends back in Europe think its crazy to work such a long time.
Is it even possible for a true entrepreneur not to have a new idea? I don't think a lack of ideas is the problem.
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Well, people won't do things for free, if someone takes the money for their effort. What is the number of contributors who know exactly what's going on?
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In Lithuania after 4 years of austerity we work the same 8 hours and have 28 days for vacations. The only thing that was taken from us is holidays that matches with weekends (e.g. Mother day is on Sunday so we don't get free Monday anymore). We were in quite similar situation like you (in Greece) but our politicians did better job in the face of crisis.

Of course you are still richer than us (so maybe you should stop complaining?). BTW how do you feel about Estonia helping you? Overall looking from our side it looks like that a lot of wrong decisions have been made in Greece but you have made good choices recently. I think you will get better in the future. I doubt that something like that will happen in other EU countries.
I found this number incredible, that's why I had to post it. The rest of the article is blah.
A solution (e.g. used in newspapers) is to make the ads like normal content (just saying "ad" above in fine print).

(On the other hand, I have trouble reading the webpage of a big electronics store because their whole site looks like an obnoxious ad and is filtered by my brain.. )
The proportion of public money burnt into corruption is much lower in the rest of europe and US. Whatever happens, it might not be great, but it's not likely to be as harsh as in Greece.
What if you have a situation where someone has debts. Is their mental health (which is what you're talking about with a holiday rather than physical health) more significantly improved by paying down their credit card by $7500 than a holiday?

Or someone who wants to spend their holiday time with an old or terminally ill relative (which was my situation a few years back)?

Or what if someone just enjoys taking time off to do something entirely different but at home - say DIY or some other hobby? Why should they be penalised because their idea of a holiday is different?
Kayak brings it up for $331 if you search BKK to JFK:

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What's interesting is that BKK>JFK is a cheaper itinerary than BKK>KBP so if you wanted to travel BKK>KBP you are better of booking BKK>JFK and throwing away the last leg.
Being connected all day, every day is certainly not healthy, but how is 1-2 weeks in a year (52 weeks) going to help with that? Vacation does allow you to "return to your body" as I like to call it, but a few weeks per year are not nearly enough. What people need is at least 2 days per week of not being connected, and lots of pauses during each workday. THAT's sustainable.
I think the solution to that is simple on the client side. Any text that repeats itself in two emails from the same person (including one's own) can be considered a signature and hidden. Gmail does a pretty good job of that.
> And yes, writers have to sell a lot of books to make a living. I can imagine a lot of fairly well known writers probably make comparatively little compared to say, a software developer.

It's no co-incidence that you'll often find writers penning newspaper columns or appearing as talking heads on TV shows and the like - it's regular money which supplements the irregular and not massive income they get from writing.
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Most emails are spam, actually. Some legitimate, but the majority doesn't warrant a reply (like all the "marvel at the new features of our startup" mails). Of course the mix varies from person to person. And they are TODOs in the sense that you feel like you should delete them, or archive them, or whatnot.

I think it would be better to make most of them go away automatically, though. Perhaps things like "automatically save attachments from x into project folder z" would help (already doable? I don't use filters much).

Maybe it really would be better to make emails a universal transport layer and integrate it better with other stuff. People send you a TODO -> goes into TODO list. People send you an image -> goes into photo library. And so on... Of course I always hated the idea of Outlook of allowing other people to mess with my calendar, so I don't know...
Not to mention that "15 days paid holidays" would be illegal in EU. 20 is the legal minimum, even for lowly jobs like people who sweep floors.
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I just realized i totally fucked up my last two vacations. Needless to say i've been working.
I think there is nothing wrong about 10 days or 40 days. It is more important how something matches your expectations. If you expect 28 days and get less then that's bad.

As European I really enjoy long vacations and use them for personal development. I guess I could still do that in Japan without long vacations but I guess I would need to do that on time of company.
There is no legal entitlement for employees to have leave on bank/public holidays. Whether they do depends on their contract of employment.

If an employee's contract says they don't work bank holidays then those days are considered part of that employee's 28 day statutory minimum. If they do work bank holidays, or their contract is silent on the subject, then the employee still has a 28 day allowance but it doesn't include the bank holidays.

Also, some parts of the UK have more than 8 public holidays per year.
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Maybe you tell other Greeks to pay taxes again.
My original source of inspiration was "how do I make money off the blog network I run, and give some money to my bloggers as well?"

The model I have in mind will suit news media, sites like PA, discussion fora like HN and web applications as well. In my draft pitch I say that I am proposing to "reinvent the internet economy" and I feel that I'm only engaging in a modest amount of hyperbole.