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I would take the Pond a step further. Programmer/analysts should not have their own office space in IT. They should be sitting with their users.

If I have to listen to idle chatter all day, I don't want hear Joe bitch about the poorly written code he has inherited or Mary complain how hard it is to normalize her database. I want to hear Tim bitch about how hard it is to update an invoice or Julie complain about why data has to be re-entered into a web app from an Excel spreadsheet.

The best application software comes not from technical prowess, but from intimate knowledge of that application. If you're not a user, you should be suffering with them. Need office space? Knock off 2 birds with one stone and sit with your users.
I'm going to remain on the fence. I had tabs in Vim. Then I switched to Emacs, found out the tabs options sucked. Now I have ido-mode. It's a nice mode of operation. Though I'm not sure it's a good mode for the average Joe.

Though, I've found people will learn lots of things if it has the right pay off. People get by fairly well on their own when it comes to web mail and the various social networking sites. For some reason they need training on "work" tools but personal tools.
I'll second that. Twitter at PyCon was also the aha moment for me. Since then I've used it every day.

In fact people at PyCon were asking me for me Twitter username to stay connected, very different from previous conferences I've been too.
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One incentive might be that the "watch instantly" option is conditional on studio contracts, which are time-limited. I believe a number of movies lost their "watch instantly" option earlier this year for this reason. (It's a weak incentive, given that you can still order the discs, but it exists nonetheless.)
JW FLV Player.

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

It's the one you see a lot of sites using.
Yes, it's true: their service is so good that one doesn't feel the need to abuse their security.

Still, they need to make sure that, for example:
- you don't give your credentials to all your friends (so that they too can watch movies, without having to get their own Netflix subscription)
- their content doesn't get streamed outside of the US, because that would be a violation of the license agreements that they have signed.

We studied their system to understand how they implement those security constraints, and how they manage to do it without affecting performance and user experience too much. The incentive was to learn, not to break their security.
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This isn't surprising, yet it's happening with wholesalers and manufacturers over the world. Before Woolworths went bust, they owned a subsidary called Entertainment UK, which supplied DVDs, books, videogames, etc. to major retailers. On long credit terms. So nobody was really paying.
Over and over people here on HN tell each other the same old advice: "Execution is everything."

By being radically honest with your boss, you executed a career change poorly. Nothing else needs to be said. We could speculate that had he executed his career aspirations better, he would've ended up founding his own businessa, on his own terms, with his former boss on board as a character reference or angel investor.

Likewise, the girlfriend might not have left for a financial reason: It might have been a combination of money and his medical condition going un-addressed.

Having your credit destroyed makes it harder, not easier to start your own business. "Focusing on your priorities" doesn't mean shit. Realistically $10k in debt, or poor credit, sets you back 7 years compared to most of your peers. "Get used to living on less -- like always within your meager means" might be a better mantra.

Also, he might've also been a dreamer with no intention of working for himself. In my approximation, that's 80% of the people here on HN. To them, the grass is greener, but they won't ever dare try climbing the fence.
Is it better to be an expert in the market you sell to or the products you offer?
steve jobs never said that web apps were a replacement for real third-party apps. in 2007 he said that web apps are what we've got now, and then he failed to comment at all on any upcoming sdk, because apple never talks about unreleased products.
Just to be a contrarian:

People buy stuff because of how it makes them feel. When you buy something from someone you respect or idolize, you feel good. When you're part of a cult-like following, you feel like you belong. When you recommend a doctor or a mechanic, is it because they did a good job? Or is it because they are nice and they listen to you?

You can absolutely follow the path of quietly creating value and reaping the rewards. But does Jason Calcanis's antics add to the value/growth of Mahalo? Absolutely. You might not like Jason so much, so I'll throw out another example: 37Signals. They are masters of marketing, making noise, creating a "club", etc. They've clearly created a solid collection of products, but I surely hope that you don't think their product/value is their secret sauce.
What's interesting it that people are already paying for that: http://twitter.com/Tweefight/status/1525833327
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Well, pocoo guys stopped its development a while ago.

Fortunately they are working on a new one called Inyoka which can be seen live http://ubuntuusers.de/ , but they have some stuff to resolve with it before it can be open sourced (IIRC, some theme-related things...)
Selling food is certainly regulated, as is commerce in residential areas. I'm sure the founders thought correctly that when they were small, no one would notice, and when they grew, they could afford to follow the rules.

There is certainly a gap, and one that prevents many people from taking the leap.

Lots of people have thrown parties that had booze that also had a kitty to help offset the purchase cost.

Transitioning to a bar or a party planner is a whole other matter.
If your subject likes conversation they will love Twitter.
If your subject likes text messaging they will love Twitter.
If your subject leaves comments on blogs/Digg/etc they'll love Twitter.
If your subject wants 2 hear the latest news (national to news within their inner circle) in real-time they'll love Twitter.

Well back to watching that lady singing which I found on Twitter an hour after it's broadcast in Britain. Im not into this music but this lady can sing like no other and more so her story is amazing movie stuff!
Don't try and convince anyone to get on Twitter. Show them how useful it can be with real examples. If they don't want to use it then don't push it, because the one thing everybody hates is peer pressure to 'get on' something you don't particularly want to.

Take Facebook for example. I won't ever get an account. Why? Because it really is a land of inane garbage populated by idiots. The owners have nothing but contempt for the whole 'privacy' concept, as is shown when you read their Non-Privacy Statement. It has no conceivable use for me at all. Yet I get the blank stares when I say "I don't have a Facebook, and I don't bloody want one!"
That's more of a geographically loaded question.

Where I'm living, which is far from ideal if you're into tech, there's maybe six companies capable of paying me what I'm worth on the local job market. They all know they're the biggest and the best in the area. Two have really dickish HR that make me doubt they're actually a good company worth working for. One I personally know treats its employees like garbage.

So there's three real companies you can work for in my area. Of those, I work at one. I am waiting to hear back from the other two. From one, I know it will likely not be good.

So where does this really leave me? Careerwise, I'm trapped.
I need to re-locate if I want to find something better. Or find a telecommuting gig. Or start my own company, etc.

Radical Honesty, especially from strangers, just ends up being the "hypothetical 20/20 hindsight voice" and a bunch of personal responsibility b.s. I bet its also his fault he had a medical condition that affects his health?
These ideas are interesting but why is it limited to a drop-down from the taskbar? You could make the entire window pane work like that.

The last example, where the user is browsing search results, is just a recapitulation of the entire browser concept inside a taskbar dropdown, with more animation and tear-off results. The animation and tear-off results are an interesting idea, so why not apply them to the whole browser window?

But the main idea here is that different verbs work in the taskbar now. We can imagine that the address bar has always had the implicit verb "go to"; now we'll do other things, like "translate".

Of course the next step is to make the translation provider configurable, and maybe you even get to choose certain providers, just like Mycroft (the search box on Mozilla browsers). But for configurability, you can't beat HTML. If you think of HTML as "interface configuration downloaded instantly" it becomes the ultimate end of all customization efforts.

So maybe what this is proposing is an interface that isn't configurable, that's deliberately constrained. Just like Mycroft forces all the search engines to work in the same way, at least in how the service is requested, but then afterwards it's all HTML pages. I think Aza would prefer to keep control over how the service makes a request and how it presents results, but the easier & simpler way might be to just make Mycroft-like services, where we are just requesting HTML from somewhere, but in a way that's more convenient for a specific task. That also gives service providers an economic model, if they can include ads or other upselling in the results. We can't assume it's always going to be Google's largesse.
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Yeah, convince me. I don't blog, twitter, facebook, myspace, IM, text, etc. My cell phone is a company phone and it doesn't have a web browser. Heck, I still read usenet, believe it or not. (I'm an information consumer more than a producer, so when I do work up something that might be interesting to others, it's not that much work to write it up and post it on a website.)
That is certainly a good point, and Twitter's value to me has certainly increased over time.

I started with a handful of followers too, though, and I don't recall it being such a terrible chore to log on to Twitter every once in a while and follow a few people here and there. Soon enough, a handful turned into more, and more, etc..

I don't think you need to be a visible internet entrepreneur to have a few hundred followers...
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Err... what?

* I hope they don't copy iTunes, with its extremely slow interface, lack of features, lack of extensibility, lack of options... etc...

* No tabs: They must use tabs in some confused and different way than me. Generally I have one window per browsing task, e.g. one for Gmail, another for HN with tabs of articles and comment pages I'm reading, etc... ironically it was much easier to work with 10+ tabs before the changes of Firefox 3 where they would scroll off the screen because of their fairly large minimum width... Maybe if people are using one window only, and trying to keep their mail, social networking, online radio, and everything else under the sun open all day, they might get confused, but this is sort of a solved problem. Just open another window.

* Taskfox/Ubiquity: umm, what? Most searches I do in Firefox go right to the built in search box with a simple Ctrl+K, couldn't be easier. I have over the years, starting in Firefox 2, added a few keyword searches to the location bar, because I don't like changing the search box. I have w for wikipedia, and so on. This seems similar, but I'm not sure of the utility of opening Wikipedia in a tiny dropdown... how is that faster, easier to read, or any other good quality? It seems like some kind of half hearted attempt at taking an autocompleting command line and adding some that useful on the web, but I don't see anything... useful.

* Possibly unrelated gripe: I took a while to "upgrade" to Firefox 3 from v2 because I didn't like the "AwesomeBar" and a couple of other interface changes. While I am mostly used to it now, I still can't reliably get the AwesomeBar to autocomplete some URLs. It seems to fixate on the first match, often not displaying the second match until I actually type the full URL, if at all. Not to mention the fact that even when it works, its not as fast as the Firefox 2 behavior of naively autocompleting visited URLs. I don't need to autocomplete my bookmarks, that's why they are bookmarks! I click on them!

I like Firefox, I have since Phoenix 0.4 or so, but I really don't know what they're doing anymore...
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From Kathy Sierra's website:

Twitter is a near perfect example of intermittent variable reward (the key addictive element of slot machines)

Twitter can trick the brain into thinking it's having meaningful social interactions by promoting "a strong feeling of connectedness" while another part of the brain is telling you something is missing.

Twitter is yet another dramatic contribution to the always on multi-tasking lifestyle.

I agree with her 100%. Twitter and technologies like it (telnet talkers and MUDs in the 90's, IRC and so on) are dangerously addictive and having one of them hit mainstream scares me.
It really depends on the temperament of the friend.

One of my good friends, who's declared I will be his best man at his wedding, used to be the guy at the party scoping out the drunkest chick for the "easy lay".

I flat out told him I'm not inviting him to my parties because I know all the girls that come to my parties personally, and I'm "sick and tired of watching you take advantage of the drunkest chick at my party."

He's told me that hearing this, he almost completely wrote me off as an asshole and never spoke to me again. It was only over time, and by seeing how shaping up (being nicer to people, not being completely selfish or short sighted) he realized I was right. And I was urging him to be "better" because I knew he was "better".

TD;DR: Radical Honesty can work, has a low success rate, and will always, always, always generate resentment. People instinctually kill the messenger.
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My family crest bears this motto in latin: "He conquers, he who conquers himself."
What problem were you solving with the franchise news aggregator?
This is fairly easily done already with many sites, if they accept an HTTP GET argument, using bookmark keywords... you can set up a bookmark to say, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s and then visit "w Firefox" to go to the Firefox Wikipedia page...

I'm not sure its useful for anything beyond search or direct navigation though...
JW player works well for playing videos, but if you plan on using the plugins be aware that many of them conflict. http://corp.kaltura.com/ is another option.
Yeah, but when you're editing text, you're working with a relatively limited number of files, ones that you probably work with often.

That doesn't map well to web browsing, a lot of which is exploratory. I know I use the tab bar as a sort of `to read' list, piling up things I will pay attention to later.
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Not sure where you're getting your 40% number, but my sites see less than 3% of users using FF2 (these are sites which still see 20%+ IE6 use, so not skewed towards developers).

This stats page shows FF2 use at 3% of total, which would be around 7% of Firefox users.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_firefox.asp
You mean http://flowplayer.org. In my personal opinion flowplayer is excellent. It has the most extensive customization and API of any of the available flash players. Especially if you're using their most recent 3.x version. Furthermore, they have an excellent set of documentation and examples.
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pg's article has been on my mind since yesterday. And I keep thinking how most jobs are in fact created by small and medium sized businesses. And startups really are just small businesses.
Aside from the Silk Road, communication between Europe and Asia was relatively small and the prospect of war was extremely remote. During the Classical Period, China definitely had some of the elements of a superpower, but they're questionable on the political and military front. China was quite insular, combating themselves with numerous political upheavals.

However, the Roman Empire (more so than Greece) managed to stay the infighting between factions until unification and what we all perceive as the Roman Empire that stretched across a huge area.

China's history is the Dynasties, which up until the Mongol Invasion and the formation of the Yuan Dynasty, the country hadn't had one single ruler of the whole territory. Probably in around 1200, when the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) itself divided into three states, the Yuan Dynasty and thus China probably became the worlds superpower.

After 1206 when Genghis Khan united the Mongols there's little doubt that the Mongol Empire was the super power. At its height it controlled over half of Eurasia, meaning at the time it essentially controlled over half of the world. Even when it broke into the Yuan Dynasty, Ilkhanate, Golden Horde and Chagatai Khanate. However, the Yuan Dynasty was largely recognized as led by the Great Khan, but the other Khanates didn't seem to care, they just never attacked each other.
I agree with this one. I mentioned to a program lead that I felt I was ready for responsibility such as being a program lead, and despite writing the prototype of the system we were designing, having intimate knowledge of the requirements, performance awards and recognition for my dedication to that client, i got stuck on doing the metrics module all by myself. And it was slated to be replaced (as soon as I was done with it) with an off-the-shelf reporting tool.

Bottom line: If you feel you're ready for the next level, find a place that wants you there and will take you in. Don't ever let your boss know you're not 100% in love with the shit sandwiches you're being fed.
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You could start by trying to convince me. I have no interest in regular updates on what my friends are doing (I'm quite content with them telling me the interesting things when I actually see them). I also have no interest in giving anyone regular updates on what I'm doing (again, I'd rather just tell them if it's interesting enough).

I could use it for asking questions, but why would anyone see or answer them? Wouldn't I get a better response by actually directly emailing people or lists where someone might know (or even asking people face to face, as low tech as that may be).

So why would I want to Twitter?
It's not just size, there's the issue of adding significant (potentially > 1 full second) latency to a "please wait" animation. This is about 4 times longer than the longest time a UI should take to respond to the user before the user thinks it's dead.
If they had known it was illegal, do you suppose they would have done it? If they wouldn't have, then there would be one less salsa company and the jobs for that company never would have been created.

The people who living in fear of something being illegal, use it as a crutch to never do anything. It's far easier and economical to just do whatever you need to do, so long as no one or nothing is being harmed in the process. Following the rules is expensive and pointless when you're small.
I agree. Instead of trying to protect the masses from their own stupidity, why not work harder to educate the masses? I realize that there must be a balance in all things, but I think the scale is tipped heavily in the direction of the government holding our hands and making up our minds for us at the same time.

Thanks
Mark
Yeah. When you've realized the phrase "shit settles on the bottom of the pool" sticks in your mind, alongside the phrase "my co-workers are settling" then you're on the path to misery.
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I agree with the statement on water. Other than that, thanks, but I have to get back to work.
I've been using SkypeOut quite a bit lately, and I had tried a few months ago to do some tuning. It's disappointing how little official technical documentation is available, at least readily. One would think Skype would want to unleash a volunteer army of amateur admins poking holes in firewalls and debugging connection problems.
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commercializing whatever new discoveries the boffins throw off is as straightforward as building a new airport

Is he being facetious? I've never built a new airport, but I can't imagine it being straightforward.
Its sounds more like a clever hack. "Multi-mother food source". It'll be fixed in the next patch. Just keep logging on to steam.
I haven't tried it, but it looks like this might address your issue with minimum tab width:

http://www.watchingthenet.com/firefox-tip-how-to-set-a-minim...
I run a niche social news site where Chicagoans are sharing and rating links to local stuff. For some time now, the plan has been to publish original reporting that digs a little deeper into one of the most interesting submissions each week. This is the first such report. Someone shared a weird Youtube video, I hired a freelance journalist to investigate and she brought back the story linked here. Social news + Original content.

Everyone's talking about finding new ways to support original reporting on the web. This is my proposed solution: outsourcing my "tip line" through a social news app so we can focus on the reporting rather than the story-finding.
I couldn't agree more about YC. The application questions would change to "we're only interested in single founders, but we will consider a technical co-founder." I think it also just makes sense for the "spray and pay" style to fund 1000 startups focusing on hard problems with the potential of 1 making up for it all.

When we hit it, dbul, you and I can put this together. Deal? :-)
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Regarding the "awesome bar", I have to say I miss it on Safari (Mac). What I like is that it matches what you type with the whole title and URL of your bookmarks and history.

On Safari, it matches only the URL and only following the right order. E.g. on Firefox, I would type "cal" and Google Calendar would show up as the first result, while for Safari I would need to type "www.google.com/cal" before getting the result. Or if I wanted to jump back to this discussion, I could type "news firefox future" and it would probably find it.

Not that I'm in love with Firefox though. I keep on switching back and forth between the two. (right now on Safari)