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I think he meant dominance w.r.t. Danish only, not all languages like English today.
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Thanks for the view. In that light, one upside to my plan (no investment other than sweat from me and maybe a couple of others), is that if I take on the risk, all I'd be risking is lost time/opportunity cost, rather than venture cash.
Maybe it's just a matter of time before the Apple of the airline industry makes its rise? Or maybe one exists already.
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1b could be 'have a decently paid wife/husband/partner' - that approach is working for me, so far, tho I am still doing some freelance dev to keep things relativley fair
I moved from Los Angeles to Kuala Lumpur and I can attest that it's quite an enormous saving on rent and food. I must preemptively qualify Malaysia as a fabulous location for a web start-up as it scores extremely well on my PEST analysis and other essential factors. Also being physically away from my "rock and roll all night and party everyday" friends indeed dramatically cut down on my socializing budget. It all rosy here, up until now that is.
c) None, just get it out there

At first I thought you were doing a patent search to apply for a patent - which makes sense. But on rereading, I think you're just checking to be sure that you're not infringing on anyone else's patents. I agree with your IP friend: if you're not going to patent your invention - there's no point searching at all (and there's even the risk of triple punitive damages in some jurisdictions, as sgrove noted.)

If you infringe on someone's patent (and they care), you can probably code around it. But unless you are competing directly with their product, they won't care. Here's pg's take on it:

What does that mean in practice? We tell the startups we fund not to worry about infringing patents, because startups rarely get sued for patent infringement. There are only two reasons someone might sue you: for money, or to prevent you from competing with them. Startups are too poor to be worth suing for money. And in practice they don't seem to get sued much by competitors, either. They don't get sued by other startups because (a) patent suits are an expensive distraction, and (b) since the other startups are as young as they are, their patents probably haven't issued yet. [3] Nor do startups, at least in the software business, seem to get sued much by established competitors. Despite all the patents Microsoft holds, I don't know of an instance where they sued a startup for patent infringement. Companies like Microsoft and Oracle don't win by winning lawsuits. That's too uncertain. They win by locking competitors out of their sales channels. If you do manage to threaten them, they're more likely to buy you than sue you. http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
flagged for p0_r+n ;)
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Thanks 10ren - that's interesting (and reassuring) to hear. Kinda the answer I was hoping for, in fact.
IMHO, prototying a product with OpenSource hardware isn't the scene right now.

Opensource hardware currently attracts hobbyists on mass.

I haven't seen any real market-ready product done with something like Beagleboard or Arduino.
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What about http://www.buglabs.net or http://www.adafruit.com they are really turning open source hardware to profit and the community keeps growing ..
The redesign is much better, but I don't appologize for the snarky remark. Starting out with 5 paragraphs of a hyperbolic and fluffy rant when you're criticising another company for having a cluttered site is insane. What ever happened to bottom line up front?

Dustin did a great redesign, then wrote the article seemingly based on the premise that he had built in credibility. What else explains the wall of self indulgent text, basically celebrating his victory over the AA designers before it's even been established? If I know who he is and I stopped reading, who in American Airlines is going to get to the bottom?

I don't know, maybe I overreacted, but I did tell the truth about closing the tab. I didn't make it to the redesign the first time I looked at the page, and the snarky remark wasn't to get points, it was more made out of disgust. If you look through my comment history, you'll probably see this is rare for me.
From the protection side, imho, if you have to rely on patents to protect your business, you're probably doing it wrong.

Sucks to be ARM/Qualcomm/Broadcom/$ChipFirm right now.
How many HN readers who have startups have broken even?
Hey thanks for pointing this out. I added a sentence at the top to clarify the article and toned down the hyperbole.
Ask PG: Why when I go to /CLASSIC does it show "Unknown"?
I had my caps lock on today and went to http://news.ycombinator.com/CLASSIC instead of http://news.ycombinator.com/classic and all I got was a white page saying "Unknown." I just checked and this happens with several urls (http://news.ycombinator.com/LEADERS, for example).

I'm a Windows guy and IIS (the Windows built-in web server) isn't case sensitive. I also don't care to search around and figure out what web server you are using (apache?). So the question is: is this by design or accident? And if it's by design, why?

And BTW - I don't care one whit if you fix it or don't; it doesn't affect my usability at all. I was just curious.
Not sure what I can say when you don't believe me. Here is an article from the Danish national encyclopedia (in Danish).

http://www.denstoredanske.dk/index.php?title=Samfund%2C_jura...

German was the official language of the Danish military until 1772, and equal to Danish in the city administration and guilds.

Another article:

http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Samfund%2c_jura_og_politik/Spro...)

No foreign language has had greater impact on Danish than Low German ... 16-17% of the Danish words are from Low German, 4-8% from Greek or Latin, 2-4% from French, and less than 1% from English. [ For comparison, around 2% of the English words are from Danish (from the viking era), according to Joseph M. Williams _Origins of the English Language_ ].
Sure, maybe you enjoy navigating their odd hierarchy of complex member statuses. I'm pretty sure most people don't enjoy that. At the end of the day, American Airlines loses 300 million dollars a quarter. They're doing something wrong. And they have to fix it. They could start with fixing their customer experience.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemjabella/3296058718/

Really need to get off my butt and get some shelves up.
I absolutely agree with your first point (re: arbitrary number), but I think the point the article is generally making is "time spent marketing is more important than most web-based startups consider." Maybe not.

Point number #2? High5. Well put.
Maybe those applications failed because the idea behind them was not that useful / interesting?

Marketing is important, but a kick-ass implementation of a good idea usually sells itself without much effort.
thanks. but how do you define "financial independence"??
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I seriously doubt he wants to consult for them. This is good PR for him. He's written off American Airlines as a client potential client and a past customer.
"I do not think that is what "derivative" means, leastwise in common economic parlance."

Last time I checked, put options were considered derivatives. After all, a put option is basically a contract whose value is derived from the price of a certain security / commodity (in this case corn) at a certain point in the future. Depending on the price of corn, the buyer of the option will choose whether or not to exercize the right to sell the agreed ammount of corn.

"and created money where none should exist"

None should exist? Why not? If I know I will earn Y dollars on day Z, I can plan my investments better. Instead of delaying the purchase of a new tractor, I can buy it at the most appropriate time because I don't need a money cushion to damp any effects a falling price might have on my business.

One of the biggest challenges of running a business is forecasting demand. Using derivatives, you can at least guarantee a revenue stream and transfer market risk to whoever is more qualified to handle it.
If you look in the source code of this site you'll discover that it doesn't lowercase that part of the URL:

(def parseurl (s)
(let (type url) (tokens s)
(let (base args) (tokens url #\?)
(list (sym (downcase type))
(sym (cut base 1))
(if args
(parseargs args)
nil)))))

In fact it only calls 'downcase' on the type (which is the HTTP verb).
Do you have any regrets about not going or going to college for programming?
I don't think he intended to land them as clients. This is more to showcase his skills and gain publicity. A page from 37 signals playbook. I think he has few good points about the user experience. However, the hyperbole turned me off.
I'm really hoping to get a lot of feedback and personal experiences from programmers about college.
I like the redesign quite a bit but #### - the copy was just whiny. "Recently, I had the horrific displeasure of booking a flight on your website, aa.com. The experience disturbed me so deeply that I vowed never to fly your airline again." Not one single human reading that sentence believes it. And I can guess that most people reading it had the same thoughts I did: "Oh give me a break... {closes page}". I did close the page and came back to the comments here at HN trying to figure out what this was about. After reading a couple of comments, I re-opened and saw the re-design and liked it. But I did close the tab after reading that sentence lol.

I also laughed when I read, "Your website is abusive to your customers..." No, it isn't; that's just more drama/hyperbole. As someone else said, thousands and thousands of people use that website every day and, in case he isn't aware, that site design has been around for at least two years. I've used it countless times and, while it will win no awards for usability or design, I can accomplish what I need without resorting to cursing generally.
It's important to make time for both! >:)
Advertising always has been, and always will be, a black art. The percentage of time, effort, and money that works for one company might fail dramatically for another. Just compare advertising budgets and strategies between Pepsi and Google. Any time I hear advertising or publicity advice, I take it with a grain of salt.

However, the fundamental point of the article still stands. Running a business is really hard work, and starting a business doubly so. There's a really strong correlation between effort and success, and it's always good to keep that in mind.
Microsoft BizSpark gives startups the full set of development tools and OSes for free, so only the cost of the hosting should be an issue.

Although as a UNIX type of person, I'd be afraid of the potential lock in of the MS platform.
Delete the snotty letter, it's not your main point. Also, remove the use of their logo and trademarks or they're just going to have their lawyers send you a letter telling you to take your page down. Use placeholders of the same size.

Focus on the before and after redesign with visual callouts of what wasn't working and how you fixed it.

Be professional.
Not sure about firing the entire dev team. You don't even know what the back office is like. Who would maintain the existing system or handle the change over?

Just get some people to work on the design and work with the existing dev team and sack the current design team.
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They're doing something wrong. And they have to fix it. They could start with fixing their customer experience.

They're definitely doing something wrong, and they definitely need to fix it.

I like your redesign, but I doubt that their existing design is what's losing them 1.2 billion a year.

Treat this as a pandemic emergency across your entire company /
Immediately fire your entire web team, if you have one /
[Booking a flight on your website] disturbed me so deeply that I vowed never to fly your airline again

This comes across as hysterical and out of proportion with the problem at hand. This detracts from your main points, and makes it more difficult for you to be taken seriously.
Not having a good design for their website is definitely not illegal.
Also, coins are heavier.
Before hiring a lawyer I would check out Patents.com and do a quick search for my space and see if there is anything out there that is adjacent to my IP. This costs nothing and gives me a good idea of what others are thinking.
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I think this will change, some hosting are making plans (pay as you go) that can scale if needed and pay only what you use. The future is more promising, I even quit PHP and starting to learn ASP.net MVC. Microsoft has done well by making the new asp.net MVC respects the standards
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It's also a typo-ridden mess. I stopped counting after 5. It still surprises me that people won't proofread before hitting "publish."
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what cell phone application would you want to use which require a good deal of computing power(using parallel computing or other).I myself would like to implement many basic photoshop image enhancement features for images taken in cellphones on cellphones.

My objective is to build an application which uses the gpus processing power as in parallel computing,eg. joining large images together on a cellphone itself.
This is a good argument for seperating content from presentation, in the same method an object shell does. For every workaround, there's still the underlying issue needing workarounds in the first place.
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Syntax and the real meat:
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My rough-and-ready wrapper:
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They're called VirginAmerica.com
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You're right. I meant design team. I changed it from "web" to "design."
Wow, this is really really strange. What unusual timing with this article!

A friend of mine actually just recently moved back to his hometown after being unable to find work in the Portland area.

I really hope this economic crisis ends because I graduate in six months and the job market back in the U.S. isn't looking too good.

P.S. ...And, just to make things even stranger, I just finished eating some tortillas like five minutes ago, and the poster's username is 'tortilla'! :P
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Do you actually work from that couch all day? I can't imagine that being comfortable for more than a few hours.
I'd like some decent Augmented Reality apps/games, proper AR rather than the barcode based stuff. Something that could recognise an environment and overlay cool stuff. A decent camera, GPS, compass and good processing power are all required. Figure between G1 and iPhone 3 we might be getting there.
Not my experience.

Example:

Ft. Lauderdale to Pittsburgh on Southwest: $150 round trip, full credit for cancellations, no Saturday night stayover required, can book only one way trips, no change fees, no luggage charge, can pick my own seat, earn 4 free trips per year, drink for free

Miami to Pittsburgh on AA: $550 to $800. That's all I need to know.

Full time Southwest flyer here. If one airline has it figured out, why don't others?
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Hot-CPU/memory switch would be a little freaky.
I couldn't care for some of the copy. It seems like you wrote it right after your horrible experience, so being a little dramatic is normal, but go through it again and tone it down (now that you're a bit less frustrated).

With that out of the way, I think the redesign is wonderful, it really makes the experience much less painful. Sure, some of the legacy classes of travelers are an annoyance, and I'm sure if American Airlines had to do it again, they wouldn't create so many sub-classes. Like dealing with real clients, you simply have to accept some legacy standards and work around them (maybe explain to me clearly the difference between classes).

Overall, it looks like you did a lot of work and I love the end result, could you maybe post a little before/after with some details on what you decided to cross out or move around?

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I'd really like a complex and easy to use "personal assistant", with voice recording/voice recognition in addition to typing. Something where I can press at most two-three keys and record "milk" to the shopping list or "Mail X about the problem Y" to the TODO list.
Because he clearly is biased against "medicine" and then finds a book that fits his bias and is trumpeting it as the eternal truth.

He's committing the same offense he speaks out against in the same article.
eeeeh, "enjoyment / benefit" is sometimes true but not always.

Sometimes in a relationship both parties agree that it is best if one party (usually the mother) puts aside her career in pursuit of raising the children. This party is at a disadvantage after a divorce, and in some cases it may be reasonable to compensate for it.

Ideally this should be a tiered system when payments wind down over time (but usually isn't).
I created one of the projects Xed out on that chart. Looking back it was a project and not a business - I got coverage on all the hot tech blogs and the associated huge spike in traffic but there really was not a business there. It did help me get my next job though and it was a fun ride.
I like the Twitter support! A lot really.... it integrates all the IM in one place. Tweeting gets more familiar and easy.

You can send direct messages by chating with that contact the same way you'd do in MSN/AIM. There is always a group chat called Timeline updating the tweets being sent, where you can RT, reply and tag as favorite.

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Second this. Virgin America blew my mind when I flew them from Seattle to SF for StartupSchool last year. Their First Class was the same price as everyone else's coach, and was the best First Class I've been in, including lots of international First Class travel. Unfortunately, they, like JetBlue-my other fav airline, don't fly many places yet. Hopefully they expand soon!
what specifically in augmented reality?
No, they're called Singapore Airlines.
http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/company_info/n...
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I'm okay with the tone. One of my treasures is a book called "Ogilvy on Advertising" by David Ogilvy. In it, he impales, flays, dices, and torches campaigns and advertisements for various companies. His tone is less confrontational than Dustin's, but given the age of the book, I think it's at least as confrontational relative to the cultural standards of its time.

The book is now a classic, and Ogilvy built his eponymous firm into a powerhouse on the back of his reputation for telling anyone and everyone who would listen how terrible most advertising is, and how incompetent both clients and agencies are.

And what kind of stuff did David Ogilvy advocate? Simplicity. He ranted and raved about advertising that failed to pic a simple benefit and hammer it home, advertising that failed to motivate the reader to act. I see Dustin's rant in the same light, telling AA to get to the point and make it easy to fly with them.

Dustin may or may not follow in Ogilvy's footsteps, but this kind of thing certainly has precedent.
Your quote is a bit out of context. He goes on to explain, "As a physicist, if I get an correlation coefficient, R2 < 0.9997 in an experiment, I would consider that a poor result. A nutritional researcher working with human patients cannot even dream of achieving the degree of control or characterization I can, and their data are overloaded with spurious noise."

He is giving his opinion on why the science is "garbage" and explicitly states that "This isn't largely the fault of the scientists involved"
Hmmm... pretty cool. I wrote a little sample app for this that will generate a sierpinski triangle:

http://cloud.github.com/downloads/petejkim/socks/socks-chaos...

And the code:
http://gist.github.com/113435
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Three displays + old character-cell terminal (useful for looking on logs and such things) for workstation (with one monitor going thru KVM switch to few other computer for testing on obscure architectures). Sun Type 7 keyboard and mouse.

Old NCD thin client on edge of workbench part (incredibly useful).
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