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I worked with Notes and Domino quite a bit back in 97-98 and my memories of it from that time are mostly positive. We used it for writing fairly ad-hoc documentation and workflow management tools and also turning these into in-house web apps. It also integrated very nicely with Lotus 1-2-3 and made it easy to produce custom reports as spreadsheets with nice graphs and tables. It was surprisingly smooth and easy to work with compared to anything else at the time (and in many ways compared to most things that came after).

I haven't looked at Notes since 98, but I've occasionally been tempted to take a look at later version to see how a tool I really quite liked managed to turn itself into the most hated software in the industry.
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Couldn't disagree more. Every good person should avoid working with evil systems. We should also excommunicate any people who do work with evil from our circle as best we can so they can't grow as well in their profession.
Quite ironic considering there isn't any interaction. Effortless indeed.
Then the most secure type of encryption could be using porn?
Very cool, I built something similar for a marketing application called Bronto a few years back. Here's a screenshot:

http://cl.ly/LMn2

Same kind of in-out flow but for marketing, sending emails, segmenting contacts, etc. The fun part was drawing the bezier curves using canvas between each node!
I really, really, really hate this flatshit design trend. Not so much by the way it looks –or works– but because of the sense of superiority of their proponents. I hate that it is being touted as some kind of movement that is liberating us from the evilness of skeumorphism. It's bullshit. A good designer should put the user experience above his own snobbish idealisms. Function over form.
Oh my gosh read this startups. Please.
10? Go into the settings and put it at 30 or 50 or 100 if you want more than 10. It'll be far more reliable than infinite scrolling.
The idea, if nothing else, is that such an analysis is possible it is also expensive enough to make it hard to do for everyone at once. If everyone superficially appears to be searching for verboten stuff, then their job becomes harder than just "carefully investigate whoever is hitting naughty keywords".
Here is a fix for computers that can turn on:

 > About This Mac > More Info > Highlight serial > Copy (command + c or edit > copy> > Paste (command + v or edit > paste> into form field
“NoSQL” is a misnomer. NoSQL databases aren’t designed to abandon SQL, the structured query language used pull information from traditional databases such as Oracle and MySQL. A better name would be “non-relational database.” NoSQL databases don’t use the neat tables of data that underpin relational databases.

Thank you. I've been beating that drum for a while. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566423, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4044572, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=899758, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853284)
What's some good examples of well put together landing pages then?
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Amazing service, the only thing missing (and that would stop me from using it) is the ability to check the Free Text input with a regexp (to be sure that the user input is a valid email, phone number etc...)
The "flat design trend" is just minimalism to be fair. Something we've had for ages.

But the latest series of flat designs do often rely on rounded corners too. Glad you wrote this though as I was about to do the same :)
Are you using jsPlumb? I just spent some time on a project that uses jsPlumb for a similar effect.
"I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach." - [Bruce Sterling](http://boingboing.net/2004/01/08/sterling-ill-believe.html)

I don't see how people can believe in a long time prospect of Mars colonization as long as we shun deserts and polar regions. Seriously. Sure Mars would be fun to visit (at this point). But live there, with our current technological advancements in mind?
If this is free and ad free, how do you pay the royalties to the artists?
I second this, is there a good round-up somewhere with great examples with awesome interactions?
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I've been doing http://priceflurry.com for quite some time now (I posted about my progress on HN couple of times). It's a service where people can collaborate on prices and deals. It's finally getting some traction (not that big of, but who said it's going to be easy) and I'm really happy to see that :-)
Used it back in 2006 for company email, policy documents and software issue tracking - both enhancements, bugs etc. raised by product management, development and client facing services.

It was a mess. A slow, grinding mess of unusable screens and panels. If you end up typing things in an external text editor simply to copy-and-paste it in just to guarantee you don't lose your work, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

Got a friend whose company were recently bought by IBM and they "eat their own dog food". He's not happy to be now using Lotus Notes.
It says "Only $3.95 a month" on the site, so I imagine that's the plan.
While I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk, and I even think Tesla is pretty cool, I'm a little underwhelmed. Every one of my ventures could be cash flow positive if I got a half BILLION dollar loan from the taxpayers and then was able to sell my product with a $8k tax credit stapled to the side of each unit.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/the-government-comes-throug...
We've using Google App Engine and their Text Search feature (https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/o...). It's still experimental and slightly buggy but very easy to use and obviously scales well.

They haven't announced pricing for the service yet which is quite key since search is our main feature.
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>We won't see change until we start electing better leaders, or changing the system.

No amount of voting is going to help until we get a better voting system... which is set up by the people who get voted in.

You can sit around justifying why you're helping spread evil or you can take control of the only things you can actually change: your own actions.
I work in the R&D division of a microprocessor company. Most of what we do, I would call "research", but not quite "science". We investigate things that are too risky or time-consuming for our product design groups to look into, with an eye towards making our company money in the future. We fund Ph.D. students in electrical engineering and computer science at university labs, and collaborate with them. But we don't (generally) push back the frontiers of human knowledge in our day-to-day work.

Things might be different at (say) IBM Research Zürich, doing work on atomic force microscopy, but that sort of thing seems to be the exception rather than the rule in industrial R&D. I don't know if I would have expected to see hardcore science at Sun Labs where the article writer's friend worked.
I'm not experienced with NoSQL but the name has confused me ever since I've read about it. I believe it stands for "Not only SQL" but the abbreviation really seems to hint that it abandons all SQL.
What's the common screen resolution in a business environment or how to measure?
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I'd still prefer that, because "It's science!" means that someone, somewhere understands it, and that they could too if they wanted to. "It's magic!" means there's no hope of understanding.
The interesting bit that I'd like to se more explored is the quote about "two companies that will not help app developers succeed". Those two are obviously Apple and Google, and I think a key of the problem could be right there, under our nose.

Why would Apple and Google not want to help independent devs push their apps on apps markets? (Let's suppose this statement to be true for a sec). We can find many reasons for Apple and Google to avoid random cowboys getting successful with a piece of code on "their" phone. First, it is concurrence. Google Reader has a lot of unofficial clients, and it must be some kind of annoyance, because they might not use the APIs as intended. Indie apps might bridge unwanted links with bigger competitors, or might just pollute the app store with ugly icons, semi-porn, ponzy schemes, or simply noise.

But from their point of view, maybe these companies consider themselves as elephants carrying most of the weight (hear development cost) and just don't want to let a horde of monkeys jump on their back and disturb the convoy. And we need to agree that this convoy has to get his way into the bush.

So app devs should go back to good ol' Web, following Vibhu Norby's advice? That smells like a defeat. Fred Wilson is right in saying that mobile is future, "like it or not". The problem is we, as devs, should make this future ours. We should fight, and we have weapons. I'd love to see "I broke out of my own jail" stickers on every iThing on tech talks. We should hear and speak more about the forks of forks of Android. We should make it the new hype to have one phone in each pocket, each with a different system, all running "pre-alpha" obscure OSes. We should make it cool, easy or even normal to have one's own VPN-NAS-cloud where all the things connect.

(I might have gotten a slip too far, but) if we don't push hard on this, both Apple and Google may slowly bring us all towards the nightmarish path of MicroSoft, where hundred of thousand of slaves push the wheels of a Gigantic Golden Sphinx, and kiss their own blood on the whips of their executioners.
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I've been using http://historio.us for quite some time now and really like it. It's basically the same concept.
Don't the serial numbers have bar codes under them? Would a bar code scanner not solve this problem?
My guess, as someone who uses Notes everyday, is that its primary purpose now is an email and calendar application. Its richer capabilities are generally not needed, and add friction to normal email and calendar use.
Hehe maybe your friend and I are at the same place. I feel the same way...
> stifle quick turnaround, experimentation, payment
> methodologies

As a consumer I will take well thought out and well executed product over quick turnaround. Experimentation? I am not a laboratory animal. Payment methodologies? Just give me one method to pay!
For the type of applications Google is showing off with Go, I doubt it matters.
I worked for a mystery shopping company for about 4 years and we relied heavily on surveys. There are some of the things we ran into with our "system" that I thought I'd share.

1. It would nice to have more advanced logic. For example, if I had a matrix question ranking my like or dislike of an array of sports, it would be nice to allow control flow so that I could ask follow up questions on sports I didn't like. You could do that now with separate questions for each sport (Do you like basketball? Yes/ No -> Explain), but if you rated them in a matrix there is really no way to do that as far as I can tell.

2. Using previous answers as variables of following questions. (What did you order for lunch? Sub/Pizza) -> (Did your find your %answer% to your liking)? You could accomplish this by having the Sub answer follow one path and the Pizza answer follow another path. But that would create separate questions for reporting when really you just wanted to know if they enjoyed their order, but you'd like to personalize the question based on their own answers.

3. Another logic example might be that regardless of an answer on question A, you'll go to question B, but question B might have some of it's options disabled based on the answer to question A. Again, your system could handle this by branching each answer on question A to it's own path with a modified version of question B only showing the relevant options, but I would again assume that this would create separate question B's in reporting when you might not want that.

I do realize these are edge cases and someone needing this functionality might not be your target audience. Just thought I'd share.

Great, great job so far. As others have said, it looks really good and I found it really intuitive.
That's rather disingenuous. Musk is selling an innovative product worth tens of thousands of dollars to individual consumers. Considering the engineering that had to go into making the Model S a reality, I would consider this very impressive. Moreover, there is no reason to think that Tesla will not continue to increase in profitability with each passing week.
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I'd bet Pike, Thompson and Griesemer, as Google developers themselves, knew Google's problems for developers even better than "Google as a corporate entity" would have. It's true that they weren't asked by anyone upstairs to face these problems, but that's how Google works.
Nothing stopping you from doing a venture that takes advantage of federal grants and tax incentives.
I like the URL idea - ID numbers are not very friendly (and as you said are bad for privacy).

I'd like to keep pricing simple - pay a fixed price and use it as much as you like. This to me is both easier to implement and will encourage people to use it more.
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Thanks, that's a good list. However, one would be hard pressed to convince people to voluntarily fund this to the tune of 20 billion dollars a year.
External inputs. Upcoming family events, scheduled meeting a few hours away, things of that sort.
Nice little tip. Thanks
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As far as I know, "not only SQL" is a backronym, coined because of that confusion.
A company works for its shareholders, which are a very restricted group, and public funds work for society. Intuitively, the outcome is clear. It's also supported by actual data: wages stopped rising in the US in the 1970s, while productivity kept going up; this is correlated with the introduction of concepts like "shareholder value".
One of the reasons I left immediately after finishing my PhD. If I wanted to jump endlessly from platform to platform, I had Sonic the Hedgehog for that.
So you have a problem in taking taxpayer money for working on science that advances all of mankind?

Instead you could work in Ad targeting/personalization, where you will help trick people into clicking on ads for products they have no interest in, while invading their privacy in borderline-illegal ways.

Or you could do for-profit research whose only purpose is to convince decision makers to buy X, regardless of the true reality. (drug companies put billions into this type of work)

Or you could work in Microsoft Research or similar environments. It is actually quite similar to academia in many regards. The funding is also mostly taken by force (of monopoly, many individuals and companies have no choice but to work in Microsoft Office due to deliberate format incompatibilities).
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but Metro is quite nice.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist :)
Man, I would pay money for this. Its exactly what I need. Who made this?
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Is there a real reason you can't just get rid of the size requirement? People can see to resize their browser window if they're feeling cramped and it's practical.
Meanwhile, non-relational databases go back at least to in '60s and predate the relational model.

http://blog.knuthaugen.no/2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.h...
Great news! Here's hoping they're able to place superchargers across the country within a year as planned.

As much as one part of me wants to see Elon Musk succeed just to prove Romney wrong for calling Tesla a loser, it's more important to see Tesla do well for the benefits we may reap from companies like this trying to make better solutions and provide excellent competition to the status quo. That being said, I'm feeling pumped and want to shout out Sarah Lane's dorky-but-apt response to Romney:

"Romney just called Tesla a loser company? ENGAGE LASERS, SILICON VALLEY!"

https://twitter.com/sarahlane/status/253670586834890752

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Awesome, I tried a Chinese TTF font and it works! For many years I've been waiting for some JS code which supports CJK fonts, none of typekit, cufon etc. worked. This is really awesome.
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The irony here is how bad the press42.com landing page is; your value proposition is pretty unclear with your one sentence. Try working on your own landing page before dishing out criticism, (not to say that what you said isn't true).
You made my evening with that comment. All three paragraphs. I would upvote you twice if I could but alas.

The 2nd para definitely made me chuckle. I could clearly visualise a flushed individual muttering "ich haben eins, und ich brauchen kein" and "Mist! Tut mir leid", etc..... to himself :-) Made my evening.
Regarding "have your contact details on your website, not an ugly, stupid and useless form that no one uses."

Is there any advantage to having a visible e-mail address your site vs a contact form?
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Why even bother with mesh networking? We already have the technology needed to decentralize the Internet: amateur radio operators have been using digital modes for decades, over long and short distances, and packet switched amateur radio nets do exist. The problem is the ITU, which set up the regulatory structure that prevents amateur radio from ever being anything more than a hobby.

If we took some of the spectrum that was handed over to 4g cell providers and gave it to amateurs, and created a regulatory system that encouraged amateur stations to act as repeaters, routers, and gateways, we could have a decentralized wireless internet in short order. We should create a new class of amateur licensing, specifically for packet switched networks, that allows a station to repeat a commercial transmission (e.g. someone directing their web browser to Amazon or Google), allows the use of cryptography without requiring key disclosure, allows profanity, allows communication with unlicensed stations (e.g. someone's laptop), etc. There is no technical reason this cannot be done, and amateur radio operators are just as capable of setting up and maintaining a packet switched network as commercial services are (and perhaps even better; Comcast has pretty bad bufferbloat problems).

The ITU establishes standards and regulatory recommendations that are intended to protect the power of telecom monopolies. That is fundamentally incompatible with the Internet's design, which makes no distinction between nodes (compare to cell networks, cable TV networks, etc.) -- any connected node can be a service provider.
The trick is that if this were being done on a regular/wide basis, people would notice and have pretty incontrovertible evidence of it.

I have no doubt they can do it, but it seems to be consigned to their bag of tricks for special occasions.
I use my nexus and the constant grey puts me off. Very little contrast, very little distinction between what is UI and what is scaffolding. If you're going to do a flat design, the elements have to separate themselves from one another -- things have to be distinct. This is a great example of a flat email interface with basically the same layout as Google's client: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/ everything being #cecece and shifted one direction or the other isn't.
This looks very good! I took the decision of fixing everything to a grid early on and still pay the price for it (I have yet to make connections overlap properly). Having everything floating free on the stage is probably a better approach.
And how all this nonsense you describe in the third paragraph will help me as a customer/user?

What is so desirable in the future full of fragmented, incompatible, rushed out crap?

If there is a jail it is in the thinking, that development is something soooooo special and should be centre of thinking, politics and universe. Guess what: we make apps for our users. And they want none of that drunken ivory tower vision, they won't go whip out their phone, do what they want to do and go on with their day.
I have the four core model; I'm not sure for my work flow that faster CPUs or more cores would really help much compared to the cost. My SSD upgrade has really given it new life in terms of responsiveness.

Thanks for the link to the workaround. Hopefully it isn't something that will get broken with updates.
3. Plan for a future in which we remain as stupid as we are today.
4. Pick broad fixes over root cause fixes.
That quote is pretty spot on. However, the whole point is to "back up the biosphere" in order to protect human consciousness from an earth shattering event (pun intended). At some point in the future, we're going to have to get off this planet.
umm, I think you'd feel different if you were an investor in the fund and the principles just started giving your money away :)

Remember the money isn't just the owners, it belongs to the limited partners, ie the people who put money into the fund.
How can you see individual user sessions using Google Analytics? In other words, how can I see, for an individual visitor, their landing page, sequence of subsequent page views, and finally their exit page?
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Why would anyone waste their time trying to live in the Gobi desert? The point is to get humanity into space.
User traffic is user traffic is whole lot of different kinds of traffic. So there should be QoS, but how? You cannot depend on the IP Differentiated Services Field, so perhaps heuristics to deduce what the traffic is? Thats prone to misidentifying Netflix vs. CDN download thus ruining UX.
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So actually a google search is possible on the limit set of your bookmarks. Why only search on this limit set when I look for something?

Secondly does it search a page in the version I bookmarked it?
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"Only 52% of Google users click on an organic search result found on page one"

According to this research
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llgo (an llvm go compiler written in go) is also happily on its way to being a third compiler. Andrew Wilkins recently made a statement that he was able to get some Go code running in Chrome via PNaCl. Pretty exciting stuff.
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Yeah, the ITU is great at ensuring compatibility. They are also great at creating and maintaining monopolies on telecom services, and sidelining hackers, hobbyists, and anyone who tries to do more with their equipment than simply consume service provided by the "big boys." ITU recommendations almost always divide telecom services into consumers and service providers, which is basically incompatible with the Internet's design.
Perhaps, depending on the user. Doesn't work well for me though.
Does seem to be a rounded corner on nav nav-list bs-docs-sidenav affix-top
Is there a way to ask an open question (no list of predefined answers, but a text box for the user's answer) ? I cannot find it.
There's a nice Stack Overflow podcast[1] on the same subject, where Damien Katz talks a little about what he liked on Lotus Notes. I thought it was a nice episode.

[1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-59/
You'll be forced into submission. Your link will be throttled by the ISP based on bandwidth alone regardless of content. This is not new.