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Honestly? Not really...

I don't know where to look between the logo, tiles, sidebar filters, sign-up button, big text "tabs", forced uppercase, forced lowercase and that mysterious white pane at the bottom.

It all sort of makes sense and doesn't at the same time. It's a really hard one to explain. I think a first step you need to look at the typography. It's all over the place. If that's a Windows style convention, there's no saving the human race.

It's also not that useful to just have a massive tile-spread of things at the topmost levels. Keep editorial and design control over the first "Find apps" screen. Also make sure you're not suggesting things that people already have on those screens.

And why are there things without icons?
Oh god, I hate DNN. I had to use it for my fraternity's site when I was redoing it because one of the alumni is the director of training for it. The sad part is he would never respond or help. That thing was such a pain to use. Trying to actually get into the nuts and bolts (css, html, js, ect.) of any of the pages was horrible.
[pedantic] gcc isn't used much in OSX anymore; the 'gcc' that ships in OSX is a pre-GPL3 version (as are any remaining GNU tools) that's on top of LLVM, and I believe the OS itself and most apps are compiled with clang now. (though LLVM and clang were both born from similar communities)
I agree with almost everything said here. When I was living in San Francisco, though, my bike commute was only slightly longer than my bus commute (not because I am that fit, only because buses in San Francisco are terrible). SO MUCH less stressful! I did notice one thing, though: I wasn't reading as much or listening to podcasts as much anymore.

I live in NYC now and fortunately I'm a very short walk to work. I can't wait to buy a bike and start riding again, though I'll need to figure out how to fit one into my tiny apartment ...
#2 was originally "Listen to users." And it skipped my mind on how hard getting users to give feedback was (this was 10 years ago). What I did instead was check out my reference competitor's forums for threads like "bug fixes" and "feature requests." I wasn't listening to what users said they wanted, and I built my product anyways, without their requests in mind. In retrospect, it seems obvious that users were dealing with problems with existing solutions, and there was a pain point I could address. If I didn't address these points, it would mean my product would drop to just as much irrelevance as my competitors were doing at the time. This leads me to another lesson: Establish a reference competitor. It shows validation for a product/market fit, and is less expensive for you to copy+improve than innovate from scratch (I call it the first mover disadvantage).

Girish talks about addressing pain points here: http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-c... coincidentally from a user comment he discovered on our very own hackernews, and then built a profitable business out of it.
Well, in countries with larger maternity (and other) leaves and functioning overtime legislation, it's obvious even to dumb,lazy and miserly managers that (a) you need to plan for workers becoming unavailable, and (b) you need to hire extra staff for absences, as it's cheaper than paying lots of overtime. Only in USA they can get by without caring about this.

Handling long absences is an everyday task just if you handle vacations properly - a month paid vacation means that of an unit of 12 employees at any time at least one is off, so every company has worked out how to handle replacements and task switching properly (i.e., delegate tasks to someone who has time) - and if you handle a month off, then you can handle 6 or 12 months off.
I used to bike to work in central London. It requires being alert, but it was far better than driving, taking the tube or taking a bus.

I never wore headphones though. I would have considered that suicide.
3) commissions incentivise sales to sell ANYTHING they can get a commission on, not necessarly the things you want to sell or are good at making. one needs to be very careful in what sales is allowed to sell.

Yeah, incentives for sales people can be a bit whacky. For one, they're rarely encouraged to do what's best for the company (and therefore their colleagues) in the long-run, but rather wind up taking a very self-centered, short-term view.

There was an interesting article I saw a while back (can't remember if it was here on HN or not), about paying sales people salary only, no commission. From what I remember, at least one company tried it and found that it worked really well.
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I'm a Londoner and I loved biking to work. I've really missed it since I've started working from home.
Agree with the headphones bit. I can't believe it when people bike in a city with headphones and no helmet on.
This kind of patent for the machine (which being a hardware-machinery patent, I can agree with), would cover all other existent coffee-pod machines, if it worked as it works on the software patents world. What would be patented would be all possible and unimplemented means of getting a coffee from a capsule, with a mobile or desktop coffee machine.
I was really looking forward to these but they taste like bad filter coffee.
What would cause GoScale to receive the same fate? Not enough interest in the platform?
I think that will depend on your person usage. For me, I currently use OpenBSD and I love it, but I don't care for the "desktop interface" and prefer a simple window manager (Evilwm) with a bunch of Xterms.
Please anyone reading this don't wear headphones, you've removed one of the most useful senses for knowing where there's a potential problem.

I'd love to cycle to work, the only problem is it's a 160 mile round trip, so it's not too sustainable. I've thought about cycling the journey from my house to the train station but then I've got the additional problem of dealing with a bike on a busy train (two trains really), storing it at the office (small elevator) so I keep getting the bus. If I ever work closer to home I think I will, everyone I know that does is in much better shape than me and generally a bit more awake at 9am.
This thread is an embarrassment to HN comments.
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Engineering is transparent … It is fairly easy to evaluate how good someone is. Are they a good coder? An ubercoder? Things are different with sales. Sales isn’t very transparent at all. We are tempted to lump all salespeople in with vacuum cleaner salesmen, but really there is a whole set of gradations. There are amateurs, mediocrities, experts, masters, and even grandmasters. Peter Thiel
OS X does have a slick interface, but that interface is not very configurable (as opposed to say KDE4). When it works for you, it works well, when it doesn't there's not a lot you can do about it.

Also there's more and better and easier access to Unix tools on Ubuntu, just about everything is an apt-get install away. I've used third party package systems for OS X but it looks like there's no clear winner among them at least last time I looked, and some software just isn't available in recent versions without compiling or troublshooting it yourself, which I find to be a big waste of time. YMMV.
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You're right. It does nothing except belittle the efforts of the developers. They're trying to make their work more open which should be applauded. Just because the entire administration does not adhere to their stated philosophy, doesn't mean that we (the developer community) should be jumping on those who are at least making an attempt.

The majority of HN readers and GH users would immediately close issues / pull requests like this and be bitter about it. I don't understand why there is a double standard being applied here.
It is subjective, you're right. The parent asked why ANYONE would want to run linux on a mac. My reason is because I like the look and feel of the machine. I suspect many others (but not everybody...;) are in the same camp as me.
Sounds like a good Hackathon project. Do you have a Maker space nearby?

Edit: There are refillable cups if you want to avoid the expense and waste: http://www.coffeeduck.com/en/ http://www.podcafe.com.au/
Blame the lack of a downvote button on my account.
The problem I have with this is I tend to uhh sweat more than a normal person. (Not because I'm out of shape, just because I sweat a lot...) I don't think I would feel comfortable biking to work simply because I would then smell all day and that's not exactly something I want to happen.
No rhetorical at all. I've tried to switch to Linux on my macbook a couple of times with disappointing results (jumbojet fan noise, magma hot, etc).

I am looking for success stories to motivate me for the next switch.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro (7.1, I think), and everything worked out of the box (including suspend, which historically I haven't had much luck with). Also, the fan works fine, and I get between 5 and 8 hours of battery life, depending on what I'm doing.

Although, as far as gaming performance goes, I haven't actually run any games.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "running on top of a low-level layer that prevents the OS from having proper access to the hardware."
If 3d printers today could do suspension parts, do you really think that the lack of 3d models would mean that they'd be useless for restoring old cars?

As I pointed out, 3D models help with a minor problem, a problem that has other solutions. They can't make much difference.
Good to see some C# on HN
How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
What? What's wrong with Linode?
wow, that's great to know! let us know if we can help you to get started with your apps!
There are quite a few, so I'll just grab some examples of corporate hell:

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/04/21/empires/

That talks about Collabra eating Netscape from within by destroying its culture. You might argue that Doubleclick has been steadily doing that to Google.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/04/20/screw/

There's the whole antitrust lawsuit about no-poach agreements among valley companies.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/04/19/leave/

There's the five year leave program evaporating.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/10/17/badging/

If your company starts doing this, worry.

Reports on wages and working conditions are fair game.

Plug: my 2011 posts are organized in meaningful categories in my book (link in profile). You might give it a shot if you prefer that arrangement.
Related to how Hacker News changes lives:
How a simple comment on Hacker News motivated me to resign from my comfortable well paying job and launch my own startup
http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-c...

The rest of our discussion on Hacker News/startup lessons here: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4426093 (An interesting take on addressing the pain points of customers).
I want to second this. The benefits of riding are not quite as apparent if your are seriously injured or dead.

Ride safely. Leave the headphones in your pocket and pull them out when you're safely at your desk hacking some code.
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> Citizens and companies shouldn't have to have their dollars used to pay other people to have and raise children.

Except that society as a whole DOES already pay for this indirectly. Not providing decent support for people having babies effectively forces people to either have the family they want or keep working. Given that women disproportionately are expected to be the primary caregiver for children, this is a big pressure to keep women out of the work force.

In terms of morality, it is really unethical to punish people for living their lives and exercising their basic biology.
I'm making my way through Jeffery Way's fantastic jQuery series. This looks similar to a Publish/Subscribe concept, also jQuery deferreds are apparently another good way to avoid putting too much code into a success callback.
Well... Right from the article:

Unfortunately, switchable/hybrid graphics remain
a pain in the ass under Linux. With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,
the 2010 MacBook Pro had problems with either
open-source driver.
My father used to do a lot of research using microfilmed 17th-19th century documents.

Cursive handwriting (combined with often poor microfilm or fiche photography) was an occupational hazard, he got fairly good at interpreting some documents but it might take him the better part of an afternoon to transcribe 4 or 5 pages of journal entries from some documents.
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I prefer the approach of saving money to account for one parent being able to take extended time off from work/leaving their job for a period of time. Myself, I've saved money and could work from home.

As for my own mom, even though I live in a country where she could take a long maternity leave, she opted to go back to work after a very short time.
Ironically, the site doesn't scale very well on an iPhone.
We have medical students "training" their fast and ugly writing, right from the beginning of college. It's all about the doctor's status. The bad handwriting is one medal.
If you want to try taking a bike on the train or in the office, do yourself a huge favor and get a foldable bike.
we didn't know about buddy.com, but it is good to see a trend towards 'security included' ;)
Actually..

If you had all of the instance data stored on a fast SAN, so that it was available to all of the hosts simultaneously (possible.)

And you had an ultra-high speed interconnect (40Gbit Infiniband would do) between hosts, for sharing the memory state when you migrate..

4GB of memory, at 40Gbit/s would be transferred in 0.8s. (assuming perfect throughput, all cows are spherical, etc..)
I love how Firefox and Chrome can compete while still upholding respect for each other and mutually progressing the web.
Thanks Zach, will email you this afternoon, or in case I forget aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca. We def should connect.
That private API appears to be usbmux which iTunes uses to create tunnels to the device:
http://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Usbmux
>We started by really focusing on websockets

Don't focus on the underlying tech, especially in your marketing material. Your users don't (and shouldn't) care. Devs who are going to use your product, won't be using web-sockets (and in fact, your library has fallback to flash sockets so in fact they may not), they'll be using your library, and if your library, works and gives them good performance, does it matter if underneath it uses, flash sockets or web-sockets or comet or ajax or a combination of all or black magic?

>We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend.

So is there any reason why someone would choose you guys over the others (most of whom support Web and Mobile clients)?
I disagree. The hard part is nesting views/widgets, and these are very annoying to maintain manually.

Knockout.js provides a "foreach" binding, and Angular provides ng-repeat. These are good solutions that automatically handle nested-views in an efficient way.
Right. What the author of the article ignores is the tradeoff you make when you spread triggered behavior all over your code. When something goes wrong, debugging is a lot more difficult and race conditions sprout up unexpectedly.

Event driven, decentralized programming requires new rules and discipline in how resources are accessed. Sometimes a big ugly function where everything happens is a lot easier to deal with than a wild goose chase through a dozen different places in the code (and a cascade of subsequent triggers).
I ride with a single headphone on the curb-side ear. I can causally listen to pod casts, etc...and still keep all my senses of anything around me. Then again, I know plenty of drivers who shouldn't listen to things while driving because it's distracting for them. Keep sharp and pay attention. I commute about 40 miles/day. The bigger danger than not wearing headphones is those hybrid cars sneaking up on you, or a bunch of others....like day dreaming and hashing out answers to problems you're working out at work.
There's a chance that time machines would pretty much destroy prior-art as a defence in patent lawsuits.
@OP: your site is utterly UNREADABLE for me! The Inconsolata font looks ugly-to-unreadable on Windows browsers at the font-size you use! (Maybe the Mac OS antialiasing does some wonders or maybe you have Retina display, but PLEASE, either substantially increase the font size or change the font: on Windows machines, Consolas is readable at this font-size, so you can just do `font-family: Consolas, Inconsolata, Monaco, monospace`).
I wear headphones and listen to music all the time when biking. There is absolutely no problem doing so. I watch where I am going and I can easily hear any meaningful sounds through the music.

Or do you mean headphones that completely shut off the environment? That would be pure stupidity and neglect. But also something far different from just listening to music on a bike.
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Power consumption has been such a big problem on Linux. Their was PCIe-ASPM bug before and now new power bugs. Their is no end to it.
"I really think everyone/thing Ubuntu related should be focusing on the fact that the desktop doesn't cut it"

So, the problem with this is that what you think is important might not be what other Ubuntu users think is important.

Also, I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro, and it _just worked_ (TM) out of the box.

"If it doesn't do its job, who cares that it can unzip twice as fast."

Unless of course you're day to day work involves unzipping large amounts of data, in which case it ends up being important.
Do you use CoffeeScript with Angular? I am curious if that combo works well.
When you're sure it's working well,

Translation: We cut out the time on managing our schema and sped up our development, and this meant we got to spend it all back and more managing schemaless storage!
I live in a major city, cycling with any kind of headphones would be a deathwish.
Whether you find OS X usable or not is subjective. I personally don't, preferring window managers over fully fledged desktop environments and such.

In any case at least GNU/Linux distros can easily be customized to fit one's needs. That's an important factor in the software usability metric that is often forgotten.
Shower at work? Once every couple of weeks, I load a work drawer up with fresh clothes, hand towels, etc. Guess I'm lucky that we have a gym in the facility, but I know others that just shower at the sports club down the street from their job.
Could you be more specific? What was Backbone not doing that Angular does?
Probably referring to the All Software Sucks camp of philosophy.
The major problem is the lack of any kind of bike lanes/infrastructure in most major cities. This makes cycling to city centers difficult, if not dangerous.

Another is showering and changing once you get to work. A 10-20 mile ride will leave me sweating, without a shower I can't be presentable for the office.
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One thing that I love about my bike commute is that it takes 50 minutes by car, in good traffic...up to 90 minutes if traffic is bad. When I ride by bike, it's always 65 - 70 minutes. I might lose 30 minutes of my day, but the 2.5 hours of total fitness more than makes up for it, not to mention the boredom of sitting in a car idling on the highway...which has obvious environmental impacts.
And just to expand on that a bit further. The FMLA allows you to take up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for health reasons, and protects you from being terminated by your employer during that time.

My wife and I had to face similar decisions when our first son was born.

I really applaud Google for doing this. I certainly understand that employers walk a thin line on giving benefits without employees simply taking advantage of the company. But a good maternity/paternity leave program really helps build loyalty to a company.
I use this, and hope there will be no compatibility problems with the switch to VS2011. It works fairly well except for odd cases where it can't expand because you need to move to a newline.
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Human beings do a lot of learning over the course of life, so it's not at all implausible that the biological substrate fixed in all individuals in the Homo sapiens lineage for brain development is highly adaptable. But somehow folks forget this. To sum up what biological research is showing us, perhaps we should say that humans have software-modifiable hardware at initial installation.
I think it's dependent on the riders reflexes/awareness, but you're right, in most instances a rider shouldn't. Having said that, it can be a driving force when going on endurance/long cycles.

Have you ever thought about locking your bike up at the station? In London/UK a lot of stations offer this.
I find that hard to believe given that Linus Torvalds develops Linux on a MacBook Air: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-millenium...
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Thanks. Fair point about whether we stick around: You'd expect me to say we intend to but the proof is in the pudding. We have a lot to do and long term vision. As for the economics a key point is that the resizing allows us/users to optimize much better the allocation of resources to what is needed
I'm wondering why commissions are structured the way they are. For example, in a SaaS company with a subscription model, I'd imagine that it would align motives of sales people better if the commission would be paid from each monthly payment instead of as a lump sum when the deal is closed.
I'm really glad that Backbone has helped you become a better programmer; that's great!

But it's worth nothing that this is really a trickle down effect from the creators and maintainers of Backbone making use of great design patterns and using effective programming practices. We should all strive to learn from great code in many languages using the design patterns and practices of many libraries :)

*edit: typo
As someone who will be commuting by bike soon, I have to ask: what do you do when it rains/snows?
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It's why we need copyrights and patents.

If there were no protections, anyone that had lots of resources could just cherry-pick new technology and ideas (use the companies as almost free R&D) and beat them to the market before any small company even has a chance to get off the ground.

The result would be a few huge companies.
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If you're really that concerned about it,

1) Print source code
2) Get it witnessed by a notary public
You should really wear a helmet 24/7!! Also body armor. Listening to music on a bike is clearly suicide. Please do not take ANY risks. At all, ever.

Also, become an entrepreneur. Take the plunge. Live your dream.
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I started foundcamera.com as a basic weekend project a little while back.

I hoped to help a few people out and potentially facilitate some great success stories.

I thought it improved upon what's out there already as it's super simple (no signup) and it puts the geographic element at the centre of helping people to find & return treasured photographs to their owners.

It's recently picked up in popularity and I'm adding more lost and found items and seeing several hundred visitors each day. No successes as of yet.

Any suggestions for getting more people to play detective and help return items? I want to get some green pins on the map!

Are there any non-intrusive ways I could monetize it? Not to make a profit but at least to break even.

How could I improve it for v1.1?

Thanks