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Taking what arockwell said, can you not just drop jquery.js into core.js? I.e. rename jquery.js.
I remember believing this in high school. It was an artifact of the definitions of liberal and conservative they taught us, which were that liberals wanted change, and conservatives wanted to preserve the "status quo." That bit of Latin was critical; it made it seem as if there was a real idea here; it was something that might be on a test.

I remember thinking that it was obvious that the safe choice was to be liberal. If you chose to be liberal, you'd have the values of the future today. It would be like leading a target. You'd just get more and more right over time, and the conservatives would get more and more wrong.

In fact, as I realized soon after, this explanation of the difference between liberal and conservative was bullshit. Conservative, as we use the term in the US, does not simply mean "wants to retain the status quo." If tax rates are high, for example, it tends to be conservatives who want change and liberals who want to retain the status quo.

The real distinction between liberal and conservative is much more complicated, and also changes over time.

Incidentally, there are several ways in which the US is more conservative now than under Kennedy. The most conspicuous is tax rates.
I did some looking around a while ago and couldn't find anything that gracefully gives users ACL-like, fine-grained control over who can see which of their postings. This seems like a clear hole in the space, too me.

I'd like to be able to create a group of users -- let's say by email address, so they wouldn't even have to be registered with the site at the time I created the content -- and then be able to post specifically to that group.

Drupal Organic Groups gets close, but sort of misses the mark -- I don't want people to have join a group, I just want them to see content I've targeted to them when they come to my page on this hypothetical site. Also Drupal's permissions system seems sort of disjointed -- various plugins can too easily collide with each other's customized permissions schemes. (Caveat: this based on reading, not implementation, so maybe it can be done.)

Also -- I want this to be something I can run on a server I own. I don't want to put content I care about in the cloud.

This idea has been kicking around in my head for a long time now. If anyone knows of a CMS that lets you do this, I'd be interested. Someday (like when I've finished with grad school?) maybe I'll scratch this itch...
What would it take to create a free codec rivaling H.264? Is it a patent issue or a technological one?
Early Stage Startup. Please give your feedback.
Here is a post which explains overall idea about netvorx - http://blog.netvorx.com/2008/12/dec-4th-release.html

Site is not yet SSL enabled and we are working on fixing existing bugs before we try to add more functionality.

If you can rate the idea and if you can suggest us to improve or add more functionality then that will be really helpful.

Please rate : http://www.netvorx.com

Revenue Model :

Site will be free for organizations or for any individual users.

We will charge in case

1. If any organization wants to use our site and if they want any special customization then we will charge for customization development.

2. If any organization wants to deploy netvorx within their network rather than using http://www.netvorx.com then we will charge for maint & support. If organization wants to just use as-is version then there won't be any charge.
Congress gets bill to make cell phone cameras go click
I think the first point to realise is that there's a huge scope as far as potential CMS functionality is concerned.

At one end of the market are the big enterprise level CMSs complete with workflow, permission groups, asset management, etc.

At our end we've created a hosted solution (http://www.cushycms.com) that takes 2 minutes to install and no training, etc.

Personally it always amaze me how difficult most CMSs are to use. The fundamental point of them is to allow non-technical people to edit content.

The other problem we've tried to tackle is that it can often take days for a developer to implement/customize a CMS.

Sure we've sacrificed some functionality (editors can't add pages) but we felt it made sense to start with base of easy/fast and build from there.
Myth and Cult - How atheists misunderstand religion
Impressive, Cappuccino is a great looking framework. I've dug into it a bit, and while they need lots more docs, they're pretty helpful in their IRC room, and make some really cool things possible.

It's at the top of my "things to learn when I get a minute" list.
That was exactly what I took from the movie- not the suit or whatever was interesting but how great a user-agent setup he had!
This widget page took a risk (of crashing browsers and annoying users), and I think it is interesting because some of the widgets are liked together ala Rube Goldberg style.

I like the visualization of 'Forests being cut now' into 'Houses built now' (trees chopped/shredded into house 2x4's).
I believe this is already the law in Japan.
Snapshot on VC investment
By far the my #1 gripe is the lack of consistency between Illustrator and Photoshop.
I would guess because Xiph controls both theora and vorbis, while the guys responsible for dirac only have the video codec
Assuming the following:

- A small percentage of internet users potentially interested in your site will find it.

- A small percentage of those who come to your site will become regular users and create content.

- A small percentage of those who create content will account for most of the site's content.

I presume you want to find those people in the last category fast -- and you probably don't have the resources to let the funnel above just work.

So find them, cajole them, steal them, hire them, reward them, make the site engaging for them -- basically don't sweat the content side for a while until you have enough content to break a sweat over.

You really are creating two sites. One for consumers, the second for creators. The better the consumer site is at being a content site, the more traffic you get. The more features the creator site offers for user-rewarding social interaction, the more content you get.

Look at how Yelp rewards their frequent users in every detail, using techniques that are not unfamiliar to game designers. Check out Amy Jo Kim's explications of this topic:
http://www.slideshare.net/amyjokim/putting-the-fun-in-functi...
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/03/how_game_...

The best thing about getting highly active (you could say passionate) users is that they become champions for your site and bring it up in other contexts, not just blogs but in workplaces, among friends with similar interests and other potential champions.

But my most practical tip would be to mine existing interest groups via messageboards and labor to introduce their champions to your site. You see this on Yelp in how vegans and vegetarians are very active users. You can do the same thing for people who know about an entire vertical business segment of their area -- they've visited every ham radio store, every bookstore, every coffeehouse, every diabetic food store, whatever. People who already, mentally, have a list of feedback they want to ask. It's a bit more challenging than reviews, maybe, because people more often have lots of opinions to give than questions to ask. So you may have to find some way around that, say to organize campaigns for active users to create and join to ask en masse about some issue they care about.

I hope for the best with your launch -- congratulations.
I make a CMS and sell it for a living (we also have an open source version). I'll be the first to say we're nowhere near 100% there, and won't be for a long time.

CMS is a bit vague because it encompasses so many areas that overlap, so one product is inherently not going to excel at all of them. These areas include:

- Traditional content management
- Document management
- Workflow/notifications
- Revision control
- Access control/restrictions
- Website editing
- Website layouts
- Website features (forum, search, blog, events, member registration, ad infinitum)
- Website building framework for custom development

The core of a web CMS is just a framework (or in traditional CMS-speak, a content server...), then come the apps that each handle different components of the site (blog, events, etc), followed by one of those apps which handles the actual content management itself which tends to encompass the rest of the above points.

As you can see, this is a lot for a single app to do and do well. Some of these aren't needed for smaller sites, but the same CMS that works well for those then won't work well for larger ones. And the more features a CMS has, the less it retains of the simplicity that made it appeal to the smaller sites.

Personally, these days I use our CMS as the framework that underlies the SaaS software I'm building for my other startup, so that's where my focus has been. So for at least the next while, the biggest changes in our CMS are likely simply to be framework-level things to save development time or improve performance and things like that. But again, those only benefit me and those users using it as a framework, not those who just need a simple web page editor.

In short, CMS fails because it tries to be everything to everyone. Blogging software overtook it in popularity because it did exactly the opposite. Now most blogging software is following the same path and becoming bloated CMSes... Kinda funny to watch actually :)
I think there are a lot of small businesses that still don't have websites. Or they have static, aging websites simply because they don't have the resources to commit to their internet venture.

My startup is working on getting businesses online, from the ground up in a simplistic yet proactive "learn as you go" type approach.

Anyway the point is your service is very useful to businesses because it generates content FOR them. When businesses get started online, generally all they want is EXPOSURE. They ask things like "how do i get on google", how do i get "clicks", "who do i pay to get customers" ...
Your service allows greater exposure through organic content growth...

I would suggest you relate this to small business who may or may not have a website. Tell them to encourage existing customers to use your service. Their online exposure will grow and its a win/win. Prepare quick benefit packages and "getting started" guides for businesses. Encourage THEM to do the promoting and since it is in their best interest, it just might yield results.
> Whatever the legal reasoning was for protecting the letters I store in my home should also apply to my e-mails in Google's database, no?

What do you think will happen if Google decides to give your letters to a govt, perhaps because Google believes that you're evil?

How much effort do you think that Google will expend on your behalf?
No more redeploys for me...
There's certainly a lot of half-bakery out there in CMS land, but as others have said you can't "solve" content management any more than you can come up with a single standard size for books and publish all books that way. All content is different, and the way it's produced is different.

I think there is a market for componentized solutions to CMS -- solve one portion of the problem, but solve it really well. This is basically what drupal is trying to do but I would sooner eat my foot than configure drupal.

So, hey, get cracking on that awesome new CMS of yours! :-)
What happens when the product or company you produce puts people /out/ of work?

For example, if you allow one person to do the job of 10 and a company purchases the product and lays off 9 people, is it still good? What if only 2 people work at your company?
Give us a vote?  YouIntern.com on killerstartups.com (no reg req'd)
I'd personally say The Friday After Next just sneaks into the top ten.
Hacking the .SVN directory
I have an easier argument. Come up with a half-interesting problem and ask them to solve it with and without jq. they will immediately love JQ. We snuck it in because we wanted the .load functionality. And I assure you everyone immediately fell in love. After that it was not long until cool animations started to appear. People started saying "hey whats that really cool thing you did with the UI in that app, how do we do something so cool too?"

The niceness of just DOM manipulation + some ajax simplifiers + animations = awesomeness!
Not that simple unfortunately.
The power of the web is a known solution in such situations, and I can see how you would lean that way. It's a good idea to cast a wide net, to learn things from people so far away that before the internet you would not have had that opportunity.

But it is still harder to learn by reading other people's code and looking at a message board than it is by sitting right next to them. So if there are local interested people, you should find them.

Also consider that as well as you learning from other people, other people can learn from you. If the Montreal community is oriented towards Rails instead of Django right now, would not be a service to expose people to Django ? Isn't it likely that there are a number of people in Montreal who are feeling the same way you are, and would jump at a chance to do some joint learning of Django, but they know of only the Rails groups ?

I'm not against the online collaboration part, and if your idea of group programmer's projects takes off there will need to be a way to find similarly interested programmers, so there will have to be a web site. But if all you do is put up a web site now, I think it will just sit as another abandoned web page on the internet; but if you find people and start interacting with them, the web site will get written by someone in due time.
I showed this to my roommate, and he mentioned in his product, the lexer is similarly written. The reason for this is, apparently, it is a really simple way of implementing a finite state machine.

Wikipedia mentions the pattern as well:

"The lex/flex family of generators uses a table-driven approach which is much less efficient than the directly coded approach. With the latter approach the generator produces an engine that directly jumps to follow-up states via goto statements. Tools like re2c and Quex have proven (e.g. article about re2c) to produce engines that are between two to three times faster than flex produced engines.[citation needed] It is in general difficult to hand-write analyzers that perform better than engines generated by these latter tools." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_analysis)
Carmack isn't just being hypothetical here; he independently came up with "Carmack's Reverse" for rendering shadows and it turned out Creative already had a patent on it; they ended up using it to force Doom 3 to support some crufty proprietary 3d sound system.
History answers this question clearly: it's fine. Somehow, labor-saving technology always seems to create as many job as it eliminates. So after centuries of innovations, the unemployment rate is no worse than it's been in the past.
I always thought Gene Hackman's character in "Enemy of the State" (opposite Will Smith) was Harry Caul 30 years later.
Bill would require camera phones to make a sound
This is probably going to be a common sentiment - But the signup is an issue - I think people are getting increasingly intolerant of the signup/confirm email hassle... Especially now that there are sites that do it so well.

This system required 1. entering your details, 2. getting a confirm email, 3. selecting a password and 4. logging in again after setting the password. That last step is bad enough, but even without that it's still too many.

The barrier to entry a lot lower (i.e. 1 step) if you considered supporting OpenID - as well as streamlining the existing process.

The style is fairly minimal, which is good, but this rendition is not really to my taste. To be honest, for me it was reminiscent of the "Microsoft ASP Verdana everywhere" style from the Office 2000 era.

Functionality wise - Well - Not sure. I wasn't sure what I was meant to do. I think the design doesn't really take you through the site. What do you see as the main use case? you should really explain these to the user and prompt them as well (e.g. You haven't entered a Profile yet - entering a Profile lets you XYZ).

I did have a click around. Not sure what environment you're running with, but it was a little slow (I'm overseas, so that might be a factor). Either way, for that kind of functionality an AJAX model would help a lot.

So... Yeah... Not really sure :) I think it needs a more fleshing out.
Is California's $42 billion deficit actually a golden opportunity?
Dare I say "Italian Job", the guy who hacks into the Traffic System. I think they said in the movie that napster was his idea, but someone stole it while he was sleeping.
You need to better present what your product does. People hate reading, a picture can say a thousand words.
These kinds of things "respawn" every generation. Here's an older version of which I'm still fond: http://get.a.clue.de/Fun/advsh.html

beware of the deadly ``Wand of Emacs.''
I love the evolution of McCarthy!
thepiratebay :(
Is the LaTeX source posted somewhere ? Or at least the final output, so I can check out these sexy features ?
I second "A Beautiful Mind" - one of my favorite movies...
This is pure drivel.
wohooo! Another browser to support!
So long to Gene
Don't know what kind of management you are pitching this to, but when I have had to convince "semi-technical" manager types I have found pointing to other places that use the same tech helps. It at least gives them a feeling of cover - that their techies aren't using some wacky or risky techs.

IBM, Google, etc etc (http://docs.jquery.com/Sites_Using_jQuery)

Even traditionally conservative (and accessibility obsessed) government web sites are moving to jquery:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

http://www.epa.gov/region09/
The truly elite (or at least, those who think of themselves as such) know that "effect," when used as a verb, is (sort of) a synonym for "cause."
The problem is not developing a new video codec but gain support in digital cameras.
Some of the shirts are very clever.
Ha! Another UR reader. One day we will all be rounded up in some sort of camp.

That's impressive for a blog comment. UR's comments will never decline in quality, because the masses will never have the patience for Moldbug's meanderings.
What is there to misunderstand? Religious folk talk to imaginary uber-beings, shamelessly making up stories about the universe. It is a mental illness.
Apple throws another curveball, approves Podcaster for the App Store with changes
Coulomb vies with Better Place to build electric car charging stations
As I understand it your product is a central place for a team to communicate within. To me, I think of it as a personal social networking site. You can have profiles, blog, image gallery, status message, etc. Also get group discussion boards to collaborate and internal messaging.

I know you are not trying to be a social networking site, but in my opinion, my first thought is, "hmm maybe I can just use a private ning account for managing a small team".

I'm not saying this is right or wrong. What I am saying is that I think you really need to provide an optimal use case. It's one of the hardest things to do, but as an entrepreneur you need to explain your product and why it benefits the user in ONE SENTENCE. What problem do I have that this simply ..SOLVES. It is very hard, but this ensures that you can convey your product in the greatest light. Note that your customers are not hackers taking the time to give you constructive criticism, they will go to your home page, say ..."i don't get it" and then click away.

All the best.
Pi is amazing. It's also the only full length movie that I've watched with the director's commentary.
What about the hearing impaired? They should squirt water too.
This is wonderful. Informative, entertaining, insightful. Where's the dropbox to say so? Oh, this isn't Slashdot.
Don't tell me what Netvorx is "for", tell me what Netvork "does" - what it does for me, my company, my friends, my network. What's the benefit of registering, using, promoting, etc.

I had to look at your blog to get any idea of what might be behind the sign-up. That's bad. In real life (ie: not when voyeuristically looking at someone else's start-up), I'd have not stayed on the home page for 5 seconds and I'd have back-buttoned, or apple-l'd (hey, my MBP is old) away.
Perhaps as the economy goes down the toilet, people shift their entertainment dollars to Netflix as it is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment available. I wonder if Netflix and Walmart are positively correlated :)
To throw away Christianity is to throw away Western Civilization and much of our heritage. I enjoyed this bit from TFA:

"Arguably, the highest achievements of the human species have been motivated by that instinctive spirituality just mentioned. The great cathedrals, the precious heritage of religious art and music, are not only monuments to religious belief, but more persuasive testimonies to and arguments for faith than the disputations of theology. Have you ever read the story of the conversion of St. Vladimir, the founder of the Russian Orthodox Church? He was, as the account goes, a pagan prince of the line of Rurik; and an enthusiastic pagan, having built several temples. Yet he was not quite satisfied with his religion, and agreed to hear deputations of Muslims, Jews, and Christians each deliver their respective sales pitches. The presentations of the first two were rather arid, but the Christians (who had come from Byzantium) put on by far the best show, high mass with all the smells and bells, rich vestments, singing, the whole nine yards. Vladimir was convinced - any religion that was so beautiful had to be the right one (it also didn't hurt that it had the least restrictive dietary rules, and no ban on booze). Accordingly, Russia became Christian, and Vladimir a saint - all on the basis of his aesthetic judgment.

I suppose these anthropological and aesthetic reasons explain why many people remain culturally Christian despite an abundance of doubts and discontents. They aren't willing to dismiss the spiritual out of hand; they see more benefit than detriment accruing to society from religion in spite of their doubts (as did Jefferson and Franklin); and they find Christianity aesthetically appealing (as did St. Vladimir). They are therefore unwilling to discard it in favor of the barren and austere horizon offered by the crusading atheism of a Dawkins. For my part, I'll wait to see whether Dawkinsianity produces anything equivalent to Chartres, Handel's Messiah or Mozart's Requiem, the Pietà or the Sistine ceiling. When it does we may re-evaluate it to see if it offers anything worthwhile."
Any academic (professor, post-doc, grad student) has a CV or resumé in PDF or PS format in his / her webpage. Sources of inspiration galore.

Googling for LaTeX source code would work too. I use TeXnicCenter to write LaTeX files, and it probably comes with a resumé template already.
Yeah... I imagine it would cost more than $18,000 to fly a plane-load of people across the country. Not to mention the fact that you need to keep pilots and other crew on-staff even when the plane is on the ground... the costs just don't add.

Makes you wonder why they bother. Last I checked first class was still plenty pampered.
Cool. Site looks nice. Plays videos as expected.
Now just let me save my playlists and embed them via widget (like playlist.com) and we are good to go.
Honestly, the JVM is pretty crappy right now for functional language support. A lot of stuff has to be implemented by hand in either the compiler or the program itself. Several features in Clojure take the latter track at the moment.

I advocate tracking down people from Sun and asking them in a personable, friendly tone of voice to please fix this kind of problem. On their front lawns.