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I like the idea and i wish someone will do the equivalent for iPhone ;).

Although, i think that styling the links with something like Arial instead of Monospace would enhance the readability. Espacially since its the prevailing content.
because thats what the forum is about? :)
> If it requires real money, spammers will steal that.

If you raise the cost of sending a single piece of spam sufficiently, spam will vanish. Exactly the way junk snailmail would, if the US Postal Service did not subsidize it.
Why would a boring project manager job for a boring HR application interest a hacker?
I'm not a moderator. I didn't kill it. I just flagged it. A number of other people did so too. And so the moderators looked at it and came to the similar conclusion that this was not worth having on the front page.

So, it was not a single authority figure acting by themselves, it was a collective decision.
I say we hire young, smart people like Nate Silver to fix our economic problems.
Definitely put him in charge of product development.

Seriously though, judge people on their actions not their diagnoses. And if you're working at a startup questionable mental health may in fact be a prerequisite to success. Obsession, creativity, drive, focus are all cognitive assets in some cases and liabilities in others.
so he actually took a test himself in order to be diagnosed with it, and made the choice to not receive treatment/therapy?
Really? People downvoted you for that?

It adds to the discussion and it's a curious question. It's not entirely on-topic, but he did SAY that in advance.
I'm not impressed. Building RSS reader without writing a single line of code? This is not important at all. We all know anything else will take lots and lots of code to write.

Also what's up with emulating desktop GUI on web? That's just dumb. When users see desktop GUI, they expect it to behave like desktop GUI as well. If their drag-and-drop and context menus fail, they think application is broken. Why would any sane developer want to confuse its users like this.

No matter how good this IDE is... it's still for desktop-like web apps, failed branch of web-development, so it's already FAIL and waste of time of these talented programmers.
> You have to wonder what the buyers where thinking. One problem was that the rating agencies (paid by the companies creating the products, BTW), rated the stuff AAA.

The biggest reason why this "stuff" was rated AAA was that banks backed them fully, ie if they defaulted then the bank would step in and make the investors whole again. Hence the CMO's got the rating of the bank that provided them.

The thinking was that some mortgages would go bad but certainly not a large percentage of them.
First, no one is a diagnosis. But if your friend does have this, he or she will seem fine until they "break". For example, they may suddenly leave town.

This isn't something for Hacker News and it's certainly not something up for public opinion. If you notice behavior that puts you or someone at risk, contact the police immediately. Otherwise, it's your colleague's personal matter. If you're confused or need someone to talk to more about it, my email is in my profile.
For startes GetSatisfaction accused 37s of not caring for their customers. Publicly.
This seems like a clean approach and one that I've heard before. I now build function generators that wrap functionality around passed in elements and then register these functions with events -- so basically what you are doing except with closures instead of objects. I've found this approach useful where I'd prefer not to use a CSS selector over and over again.

My suspicion is that these problems have been solved already by programmers creating traditional event-driven GUI applications. This is unfortunately something I have no experience in so I can only guess that there is some overlap in these problem domains.
Ask HN: Learning Ruby + MooTools
Compared to most people here, I'm a n00b when it comes to programming. I've had a computer since I was five, but I never really got into computing languages until this past year (I'm 23 now---yes, pretty old).

Without ever taking one class in computer science, I managed to create about 8 websites (built off of wordpress): http://venturedig.com/?page_id=335

I know html, css, php. But that's pretty much it.

My Goal: My new goal is to increase progress and create a light-weight 37 signals-like app, using my new macbook.

I could be wrong, but I imagine that in order to accomplish this goal, I'll need to use Ruby on Rails and MooTools. Do you think a beginner can grasp it? And, what do you think the learning curve will be?

Thanks!
wow. this is brilliant. on the order of... nyc birlliant. i live in manhattan and the entire island is like one big mixed use residential/commercial/recreational mall.

hybrid is almost always the best way to go.
Indeed. MacPorts has the additional advantage of using upgradable and removable packages, rather than polluting /usr/local (or worse, /usr) with unmaintainable detritus of various .pkg installers. MacPorts packages do occasionally fail to build, but (1) the maintainers do respond to tickets opened in their Trac system, and (2) most problems I saw had to do with Python packages, and MacPorts handling of Python apps seems to have improved recently.
It and all of the human effort that went into it will vanish forever into the ether. That is the customary fate of shuttered projects in this age of infinitely stretchable copyrights.

How marvelously efficient free-market competition is!
For years, the quality of American cars was vastly lower than the Japamese. Things have gotten a lot better, but now it's the overall design and market positioning that's really lacking, as well as a lack of cars that really target the market.

There's a line out the door for the Smart car. How hard would it be for GM (or Ford) to grab one of their little, gas-sipping city cars (like the Ford Ka), and sell it in the US? It's obvious that consumers want them, and it would give American automakers a domestic answer to the Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris.

The interior styling needs to stop being so disjointed; I have yet to sit in any American car and get the feel that people actually cared when they laid out the inside of the car. The Saturn Sky is a great example -- I can't operate the controls on the driver-side door, because they are placed right under the middle of my forearm.

It's even worse in the economy segment -- Ford and Mazda share technology, yet the interior of the Mazda 3 is such a wonderful place to be, whereas the interior of the Focus is just... dreary. The Mazda feels like a downsized BMW, and the Ford feels like... well, a Ford.
Very Nice Work - and thnks for the contribution of docs.

Having read this from a founder point of view its clear to me that neither one side or the other of the transaction has all of the answers. Kind of back to the difference in meaning of "being offered terms", "being given terms" or (my favorite) "coming to terms"

I'll echo the request for a convertable debt document template
Invoice Factoring or "Receivables Securitization" only happens when the receivables are well established. That is, when the invoice has been generated and accepted by customer.

No legitimate funding exists before the invoices are crystalized. Definitely not for "FUTURE" invoice
Doesn't look like the index is downloadable in any useful form. The links just lead to what appears to be a moribund mailing list.
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HN comes through again! Thanks guys, those are my thoughts exactly!
Loud public fuss is usually a reasonable backup plan if asking them to change doesn't work.

You still haven't grasped the problem. I'm sure that 37signals could easily have used quiet channels to remove the offending pages, messages, and marketing copy on GetSatisfaction.

But that would not have reached me. Up until three hours ago I was wandering through the world, with a faint memory of the time that I followed a Google link to a 37signals support page and found nothing but a ghost town. To counteract that bad impression, they need me to hear that it wasn't their fault, and they want me -- a potential future customer -- to know that they take their reputation very seriously.

I suppose they didn't have to put up a blog post. They could have filed a lawsuit, or obtained an injunction, and then publicized that instead. Would that have been more polite?
I'm trying to separate the legitimacy of 37signals' complaint --- which I care about --- from the "level of maturity" shown by their response. I don't care about that at all. Why would it? How does it affect me?
I wouldn't say Vim has a ridiculous learning curve, it took me about 5 minutes to read through vimtutor and get started with vim.

However, being a vim adept for a long time hasn't stopped me from switching to textmate when it came to developing rails apps. ;)
You left "deterring future companies who think this is a smart play" out of the calculus there.
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I like it very much and have already linked to it from http://learningandroid.org. If your happy with it, I'd also like to add the feed to the site to show the latest items.
Ridiculous.

As if Fried couldn't have posted the article after an interaction w/ Get Satisfaction. But then it would be a good example of quick customer service, as opposed to a hatchet job.
Okay, it was collective. But it doesn't solve the problem.
Does a book club or happy hour group need, or want, custom design and branding?
Actually, we don't base the synchronization system on the fileystem. It is based on concept of records in a virtual store. A record is a 'syncable' entity. For example, a task in a Workspace is a record, a file can be a record and so on.

There is no single authority for a record. It depends upon what the sync settings are. Say you have a record that two people simultaneously modified, when the sync happens, the conflict gets resolved based on the setting, which for instance can the last change wins or the originator wins etc.

Think of Workspace more similar to how Groove works rather than a shared filesystem.

The Tonido Domain Server (TDS) basically implements a distributed login and authority system. As you said, it basically stores a pretty name->Crypto key that can validate a particular peer and help verify the identity in case another peer is interested.

The identity server's job is to provide Dynamic DNS function so URLs are resolved as well as to handshake connections between peers. The TDS is distributed in a sense that you can run your own TDS with your identity domain(say mindslight.com) if you want to. Your Tonido ID will be then me@mindslight.com. There is no central system. As long as they all talk the same simple protocol everything can interoperate.

What we are really hoping to get to is to the point where more TDS exist and people simply choose which one they want to create an ID on, like email addresses.

We need to write some more on this in our blog, but these days 24 hours doesn't seem to be enough. :-)
I was just looking for something like this last weekend. I am making an app in which the URL contains lots of different parameters and it is generated using JS. Compressing this long query-string would be awesome. I haven't looked at your code yet but do you think it would be possible to have a JS library that does just this? Maybe a jQuery plugin?
I could be wrong, but I imagine that in order to accomplish this goal,
I'll need to use Ruby on Rails and MooTools.

You are wrong, in that your goal doesn't imply those requirements. RoR is one tool among hundreds that you could use to write a webapp. The same is true of MooTools.

I'm not saying that they're not good options or even that they're not the best choices (maybe they are), but it doesn't follow from "I want to write a web-app on my mac" that "I need to learn RoR and MooTools".

That being said.

Yes, I think that an intelligent 23yo who knows php can probably learn Ruby (+ rails) and JS (+ MooTools).

I'm not sure how useful an answer you can get here though. If people say yes, you're going to go and do it. If people say no, you're going to think to yourself "F--k that" and do it anyway (or at least you should).
how about making an intelligent response to the facts and arguments put forth in those films instead of an empty, snide remark? Which sounds more like the product of a stoned freshman, my post or your comment?

sean
Accommodation combined with an upmarket/trendy strip mall is very common in Brisbane, Australia now. Personally, I don't understand the appeal, but I am a bit of a sook when it comes to noisy neighbours.

Basically it appears to work well in gentrifying inner-city areas with plenty of public transport and activities nearby.
I think the extortion was pretty blatant, and the counterattack was proportionate.

The BS response given by GetSatisfaction's people is so bad it proves the point.
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It's a nice way to profit from a bad situation. Added would be a pack of lawyers with rows of razor-sharp teeth and large dorsal fins.
I think a lot of the 'stigma' if you can call it that about consultancy and agencying is the perceived effort to reward ratio.

Startup? Put in some effort, create something awesome, become billionaire and retire to beach with daiquiri.

Consulting/agency? Have to put in graft every day for clients to keep the thing going. No big cash out, no ultimate win, constant pedal power. Maybe the odd holiday to the Bahamas.

I'm not saying this is true, mind. But it's definitely the 'divide' I've seen and heard between the two options when talking to other entrepreneurs.

On the flipside some of us love building stuff to our own specification and not other people's. The previous points in this thread about choosing what you work on can make or break the idea, really.
I love how mathematicians use the term "discover" instead of "invent" the way anyone else would.
...no Mac browser supports F11?

Seriously, I've been taking advantage of browser built-in fullscreen for years now.

I mean if this fills a need, that's all well and good, but I have a hard time believing this is actually a problem.
Not to mention Blockles (not 'Letris'), the product they're currently being sued over. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22815
Unlike DSL cable modems are registered by mac address, and not by physical location. So you can get an account at one address, but really use it at another.

This can cause big problems for law enforcement.
I am similarly "ambidextrous," self-trained as well. It started as a hobby in 3rd grade, so here's my anecdotal evidence that it is highly trainable. As for age, it is certainly a factor, but it doesn't make it untrainable.

What I find more amazing is how people think it is unbelievable; I once felt like a circus animal in demonstrating it is possible to my friend.

Everybody is "ambidextrous" (at least in regards to common motor tasks) to varying degrees. It's up to you to control this degree. A highly-trained violinist has a more functional left-pinky (more than the right pinky), for example.

Another interesting thing about lefty and righty-ness, is that some people make the observation that lefties cross their arms and their fingers opposite of righties (e.g., left thumb on top for lefties). I reasoned that this was just habitual, so I deliberately changed mine, and over the years the "lefty way of crossing" is the most natural one.
Hmmm... maybe - but I don't think so.

Firstly, the cost to each player is extremely small - so their incentive to "do something about it" is small. If a person receives only one email a year nothing will be done.

But if he receives his life's spam in a year he will do something about it.

Also note that most countries will not change their laws for a "small" problem. But if a problem is perceived to be large enough the law will be changed.
Isn't "this feels like clutter to me" what the down-mod button is for?
I don't see any HTML and precious little "open web" in Flash, Mr hey-hooray-for-Flex-Builder.
Amidst this Recession Gaming Companies Still Come Out On Top as Employer of Choice
It's thought that eventually everything will be commoditized. If there is innovation all thie time in everything; will innovation be commoditized because of a limit to rapidly changing expectations and information overload? Check it out with your local philosphy professor
Otherwise I did like the premise of the essay
DHH wrote a comment that I really agree with:
"Brian, that language adequately reflects the feeling we have when we discover a site that is accepting questions and requests from users who expect an answer there - and will be disappointed when they don’t get it - is taunting the conversation with words like we haven’t committed to an open conversation and then have a price tag to make that go away.

GS’ is certainly helping to turn that image by being quick to respond here, but that doesn’t really change how the situation arose."

I think it might have been more polite to privately discuss this with GetSatisfaction first, but this needed to be discussed publicly.

The only difference between an official support page and an unofficial support page is the added announcement at the top that says the page is unofficial.

The official support pages also says it is supported by employees, but I don't really know what that means by itself. Does it mean that the product is only supported through Get Satisfaction, or does it only mean that company employees read the questions there?

Just check out the pages for officially supported products and unofficially supported products. Photosynth is only officially supported by GetSatisfication. The NY Times has its own customer support. The only big difference I see is that the NY Times has the added message that it is unofficial.

Photosynth:http://getsatisfaction.com/livelabs/products/livelabs_photos...

NY Times:http://getsatisfaction.com/nytimes

GS is advertising itself as a one stop customer support solution.If I believe that a company solely uses GS and try to contact that company, I am going to treat any response as an official response.

With 14k+ plus support pages on GS, I am sure that there are a few companies out there that don't even know they have a GS page. So if GS is not clearly saying that those pages are unofficial, any lack of correspondence will hurt that company.

GS was basically hijacking some companies customer service. If I have a problem with a product, and I incorrectly believe that I am being ignored, the company will end up worse off. At the minimum, I will seriously consider not buying from that company again, and I might mention my bad experience to other people I know. And if my problem was severe, I might think of filing a chargeback.

I really doubt 37Signals spends a lot of time scouring the internet looking for people infringing on their IP. So probably this was brought to their attention by their own customers. So while they could have go about this in a less confrontational manner, I really don't think they were being an arse. This problem deserved public attention.
While I'm pretty blasé about Facebook from a user's point of view, I am quite interested to know where they will go with an IPO. Google expanded into so many fields other than search after their IPO, I wonder which territories would Facebook venture into. Currently, other than a few LAMP/memcache/API stuff, Facebook isn't doing much outside of the Facebook social-networking world. Google ended up with a phone and transit. Will there be a Facebook channel or matchmaking?
I really like the visual design of the whole thing. Good job!

It looks very polished and professionally designed.
Well, believe.
What's amazing to me, is I think the quality gap is much smaller than people tend to think but the American companies just let that image get created. Regardless of how the actual quality compares, people think American cars are lower quality. It didn't happen over night either. I can't imagine what went through their minds as they just let it happen; there was probably a lot of corporate thought control and it was un-PC to actually drive a Japanese car or say anything good about one for decades. You know you contrast that to like MS and their approach to Linux, MS is on top because they fear EVERYBODY and give them some respect. I just can't imagine letting my company develop and image of creating lower quality products than my competitors, for years and years.

Now the bigger difference is when you buy an inexpensive, smaller Toyota or Honda, they are radically different than an inexpensive, smaller Ford or GM car. The styling choices are different. For years Americans associated big and heavy with quality, they always thought the Japanese cars are tinny and flimsy. It really seems like when you buy an inexpensive American car, you get a cheap car but when you buy an inexpensive Japanese car you get a cost reduced version of their nicer cars.
> The "magic" of unregulated capitalism brought us Fox "News"

and the New York Times....

> and the economic collapse we are currently experiencing.

Nope, but that's other threads.

> Elimination of monopolies.

With one exception, the US govt hasn't broken a monopoly while it was still a monopoly. And, in that case (Standard Oil), the break up took out the low-cost-to-the-consumer supplier, resulting in increased prices....
> I agree that the company should not be expected to pay for work not done, but these payments are essentially part of the benefits package agreed upon when the employee started working.

Those benefits packages were done under extreme coercion from the unions. The management of GM basically just deferred these costs.

Things such as pension funds should not be handled by the employee (IMHO). You should get your full salary (with benefits included) and make your own choice what funds you will use for medical aid/retirement.

Also - on a side note (of topic), these companies should be allowed to fail. They are easily replaceable and most motor manufacturing already happens in lower cost countries in any way.

Aren't there companies that are much more important pillars of the world economy that deserve a bailout more (e.g. AMD).
O Rly.

Have you ever worked at a startup? It's not layers of management. It's a mess of people pushing towards similar goals with a LOT less workflow and oversight than a normal company. Everyone at our 5 person startup has the authority to commit copy to the site. I imagine GS is similar (I think they have ~10ish people). Sometimes it's not great copy. Sometimes it's placeholder copy. Sometimes a user will point out a typo in a prominent place on our site that hasn't been touched for a week-- How could we possibly miss that for two weeks!? <gasp>

" This is not some random page buried deep within the site, it is top right on most of the pages they are generating."

I don't know their QA process, nor do I know the time/date of the commit of this copy change. But I can say that it only shows for companies where the company hasn't "claimed" the forum. So GS folks could've checked their own forum area, and a few customer areas (which were "claimed") and never seen that message. If one employee made the change without discussing it, it'd be very easy to miss. For weeks at a time potentially. I haven't re-read copy on our home page for WEEKS-- for all I know, one of my team changed it.
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> How hard would it be for GM (or Ford) to grab one of their little, gas-sipping city cars (like the Ford Ka), and sell it in the US?

It wouldn't help because the fuel-efficiency of imported cars doesn't count for GM's domestic CAFE.
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This is yet another of those studies that's completely misleading because it's mostly about angels investing in restaurants etc. Startup investing is a tiny fraction of angel investing.