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Yeah, i saw "carlover.com" in green and thought "you've got to be kidding, i'd buy that in a heartbeat" (I love cars).

Unfortunately, it was kidding.
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My own anecdotal evidence agrees with this. LOL cats, FAIL, Rick Roll, Xzibit's catch phrase; this list goes on.

It seems most of these memes originate or are popularized on relatively geeky web forums (4Chan, Reddit, eBaum's, SA, etc), where they propagate among those forums' readers -- the sort of geeky people that spend their time on web forums. After a while a meme reaches critical mass and spills over into popular culture, and the geeky early-adopters have to listen to the meme they helped spread all over again.
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Very Mao.

Done grows from the barrel of a gun.

The mass line represents the creative and productive energies of the masses of the Cult of Done, which are potentially inexhaustible.

To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened, is a failure of Done.
Yes, we've had WinMo phones for longer than anyone else; we had them at least as far back as 2003, but smartphones in general never really caught on anywhere except with business people, until the iPhone came around and Jobs made it sound like he had invented the smartphone...
I think the point is, it doesn't have to be this way. The fact that it is is due largely to those in charge, that have the power to change things, being willing to leave them as is.

[Please read no further if comparisons with Apple annoy you :) ]

This is the public face of AA, and it's crap. No one disputes that, and yet it's still the same. Could you imagine Steve Jobs as CEO of AA seeing this site and taking the excuses given? Can you see him taking "We're fixing it over the next 18 months" as an answer?

[Edit: I think I'll market a new bracelet "WWSJD"]
I am really impressed by AA's response.

What is the largest team you have worked on?

I read the letter and your reply. I love the Ira Glass series on taste as well, but do you really want your business analyst to have great taste? I mean, it might not hurt, but I can't imagine making that a job requirement.

AA is not in business to make pretty websites. They are in business to effectively get people from point A to point B. Their website is effective. Your mockup is not as effective for some of the ways I interact with AA.com.
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Shit, that seems pretty brainless. TwitCam, TwitSee, TwitSight, TwitEye, Twitwhateverthehellbutfortheloveofchristownyourdomainsdotcom.

Great way to funnel traffic to the wrong url, everything they do in marketing will send traffic to TwitVid.com, their competitor.
This especially:
"In Python 3, all strings are sequences of Unicode characters. There is no such thing as a Python string encoded in UTF-8, or a Python string encoded as CP-1252. "Is this string UTF-8?" is an invalid question. UTF-8 is a way of encoding characters as a sequence of bytes. If you want to take a string and turn it into a sequence of bytes in a particular character encoding, Python 3 can help you with that. If you want to take a sequence of bytes and turn it into a string, Python 3 can help you with that too. Bytes are not characters; bytes are bytes. Characters are an abstraction. A string is a sequence of those abstractions."

Couldn't have said it better myself.
It's not a punitive measure when posts get killed. It may have been a fine submission, but off-topic for this site. (In this case, I think it's pretty obvious why it was killed.)

I think for the most part things get killed before they gain much, or any karma. I'm pretty sure there are accounts out there that are perma-killed which can't collect any karma anyways.
This chap has no idea what he's talking about - there are very good reasons why the Python interfaces are designed the way they are. The real rofl moment is in the comments when he kindly recommends that Python should "try to keep up and move on to more dense numbers"... like 64 bit ints and decimals. I mean... wha??
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Well, the folks at the gate told him he wasn't the first person who had had this problem. So somebody in the bowels of the corporation has discovered that this is not a one-off issue.
I've only done very brief advising to groups in big companies, a long time ago. I've never worked in one. I can't imagine the horror.

But it doesn't really matter if the company is big or small, does it? The end result still has to be of some level of quality regardless of the requirements. If something is wrong, there's either a problem on the business side (too many requirements/unfocused goals) or on the design side (bad designers).
Yeah, I think 18 months is reasonable.

Here is Apple.com a couple of months after Jobs returned:
http://web.archive.org/web/19970404064352/http://www.apple.c...

There was an iterative change about 8 months into Jobs' return.
http://web.archive.org/web/19971013114837/http://www4.apple....

Then things really started to get better about month 15:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980509035420/http://www.apple.c...
Well, the first 4 links on the page are to music related topics - Royalty-Free Music, Music FAQ, Music Licenses, Scoring Services - so I just sort of assumed.

Unless of course it's not your page .. : /

Anyway, I later noticed it does have staff paper, so my comment was useless and wrong in not one, but two, ways. Cool huh.
I was interested in applying for immigration to Australia. I figured that everybody wants to go to Canada so the process will take forever. That is, until I hit the work qualification part of 6-8 years of employment.

I didn't actually end up applying. I am not sure how wise that decision is.
Can the person who downvoted this, explain why it is relevant? Thanks.
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"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

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1 - Dropbox.com is obviously not dropbox mistaken users will go to Google.
2 - Dropbox isn't really a site. It's more something you install on your machine. I use dropbox and I don't remember knowing that it isn't on dropbox.com
3 - It probably still costs dropbox something.
"We provide the browser for free, like Opera desktop and Mini, and then we generate revenue through our content partners."

Opera's been free for quite a while; does anyone know why it still hasn't gained popularity? I imagine a lot of Firefox users don't use extensions whose functionality isn't available on Opera, so they wouldn't really be losing anything. Is it something wrong with Opera's business model?
An interface is just a transporter to help you get from where you are to a place where your goal is completed. That's it. There are varying levels of "effectiveness" in transporting you, though, and that's where the quality of the interface comes in.

For example, AA's current website is "effective" in the same way it is effective to travel 50 miles from here by walking. But what if you gave me a bike? What about a car?

AA is in the business of giving their customers an enjoyable experience. They just happen to transport them via airplane as their business. Or at least that's how a customer experience designer should look at it, I think.

And stuff like this is just totally unacceptable: http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Photoshop-20090522-08344... .
For the NY Entrepreneur Forum ULS events they have two ticket prices - $5 for those giving a one-minute pitch and $15 for no-pitch. I've only been to a couple of their events but I think this strategy played a part in keeping the proportion of actual entrepreneurs high.

I'd definitely recommend checking it out if you're at all interested.
Hi, I'm still a little confused about the advantage of prepared statements. No explanation I've seen so far has actually explained why they are good, but my thinking was that the developer does not have to remember all of the dangerous characters to escape because the prepared statement stuff do that for you. But now I'm reading here http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/prepared-st... that the advantage of paramterization is separating the SQL logic from the data supplied. Why would that matter? You can still supply data such as ' OR 'x'='x
Should I sign over my site for a small stake in a company that does not yet exist?
Dear HN,

A couple of years ago I decided to teach myself some web development. I had a novel little idea for a website which as far as I know hadn't been done before and would be simple enough to implement, so I implemented it and learned some web development.

The website has been running for 2 years, during which time it has been ticking along nicely with small number of visitors. It doesn't make any money but thats OK, it wasn't the intent.

I have recently been contacted by a couple of guys who are starting a company with a very similar idea to mine, the difference being they seem pretty sure they have a way of monetizing it. I've met with them a couple of times and it does sound like they could pull it off. They have a lot of industry experience and contacts in the right places.

They are purely business people, not technical in any way so they would like to incorporate my site into their plan. For me agreeing to sign over the site to their new company I would receive a 10% stake.

So, the question is, what to do? I'm pretty sure I won't be able to monetize it by myself in the way they could. Having the right contacts is sometimes all you need to get ahead.
At the same time 10% seems a very low stake considering I have a working site and at this very moment all they have is an idea.
What makes these observations even more poignant is the fact that this paper used to be the most prominent in USSR times and AFAIK is still one of the major ones in Russia.

Also, the mix of such content and the paper's name, which translates to "truth", is rather ironic.
@ the OP you might want to go ahead and update your blog -- potential clients googling your company might stumble across it and run away in fear ;)
despite:

http://www.hajnalka-vincze.com/Publications/132

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:bbg0mOuVSmgJ:www.hajnalk...
I think Google is a prime (but rare) example of a large company that has maintained "awesomeness". They encourage creativity, recognize their employees, and focus on providing a good experience to the user. They're not afraid of a big change, so they're able to step back and say, "okay... how should this REALLY work?"
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Just because I can, means I have to? Don’t think so.
I work with a couple of guys who've been doing a lot of work to organise UK (specifically London) hack spaces.

http://hackspace.org.uk

I think the reason for the popularity is a mix of work discontent and people wanting to do radically different things than their day job may offer them.
you're right - also canadian hackers are known as one of the best, especially from waterloo area that has one of the best university ...

also special tech. visa category is going to hit hard if US doesn't change their policy around H1B visa - i see so many hackers who now come to canada just because their employers couldn't get them thru under H1B or because of some nonsense bureaucracy... canada being next door neighbor, full advantage is being taken by the employers under this fantastic tech. visa category... also once you're in canada it becomes much easier to get permanent residency and then citizenship... i have also seen many H1B visa holders who cant get green card for some reason, so they come to canada as permanent residence and then work here or go back to USA on NAFTA work visa (TN) category ...

basically if you come to canada all the doors of the world opens for you and sky is the limit...., though CAUTION: it wont be a cake walk if you're trying to settle down here ...
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"I can't imagine the horror."

lol

Try to look at it from another perspective. Getting lots of quality work done quickly? Yes, horror. But there are lots of things you encounter in these large organizations you simply don't see elsewhere. In terms of requirements, logistical issues, volumes, people, politics, etc. Once you push the envelope of your personal experience by dealing with these things, you become much better at everything, including lots of stuff you do for small companies.

Think of it as practicing basketball with a smaller hoop. I have always oscillated between large and small companies, trying to assimilate the best of both. The battle scars from the horror will probably come in handy later.
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The total number of people involved in hacker spaces, world wide, rounds to zero.

It's an interesting little meme, but when there are more people following the most obscure rock band you've never heard of, you can't really call it a big deal, or wonder what it all means about the state of the world.
Also check Larry Wall's competitive reply: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~partain/haskerl/wall-1.html
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I think it's just human nature to want to be free and independent. Let's not forget how low the barriers to starting a software company are these days. These low barriers are just a factor enabling people to quite working for big companies.
Tell them that you've actually got your own company and you'll be happy to hire them as a marketing team and give them each performance-based compensation based on the revenue they bring in for you.

Or, to be less inflammatory, tell them you want in. You're the one bringing IP and a customer base to the table, so you'd like to have an equity stake at least equivalent to theirs. Don't let anyone who may or may not have any ability to implement jerk you around.
IE has the backing of Microsoft.
Firefox, until Chrome came out, had the backing of Google.
Safari has the backing of Apple.

Marketing and marketing budgets has a lot to do with it. Opera supports most of the extensions that are popular on Firefox http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/2006/07/04/top-150-popular-fir...
Its hard to beat the marketing juggernaut that Firefox has become.

OTOH Opera Mini is simply a wonderful app, and its an app I see installed by users themselves on smart phones everywhere. (Too bad Apple rejected Opera Mini.)
I don't know about "plenty," but I worked for a company with 1.8 trillion dollars in assets. They have a simple, very accessible self-service web site for their customers, and they work very hard on breaking down the factional fighting and silos that prevent a talented UX architect from actually doing his(?) job.

Of course, they have it much easier in that they have a fanatical obsession with simplifying their product and service line rather than complificating it beyond human understanding.

I'm thinking it is not a coïncidence that a company with a usuable self-service web site happens to be a company with simple, easy-to-understand products and pricing.

Hard for me to say anything about AA's management, I am no expert. But looking at their web site, I would rather own the other company's stock.
Valuating the mess that is GM ... now there is something worthy of a Doctorate from Wharton, heh
The reason I ask is not because I disagree with your demands for higher quality. What I think you're missing is just how difficult it is to organize that many people and interests.

If you want your suggestions to be taken seriously, you need to provide them in a way that addresses those problems instead of simply demanding better results.*

* I'm assuming you were writing primarily as a design critic, not as a frustrated consumer -- although I understand that the latter motivated the former.
True, but Java uses signed int's so the former should still work.
This isn't saying that Tesla is worth much, just that GM is worth next to nothing. At this point, it looks like a foregone conclusion that GM shareholders will be wiped out in a month or two. GM's obligations seem worth more than its assets and its costs (parts, labor, etc.) are greater than its revenues which makes it unlikely they shall ever meet those obligations in the future.

To be honest, I'm surprised GM is worth a whole billion dollars. All of the plans - from the President's plan to award 50% of the company to the treasury, 40% to the UAW, and 10% to creditors to bankruptcy which would see all common shares voided - would see any stake in common stock worth nothing. Are there people who think GM is going to get a scenario where they are able to pay off their creditors, the UAW, and the government in order to avoid wiping out common shareholders?
Yes, of course! And that's the way we like it.

Remember, not everyone works for a startup. Some people have lives, and hobbies, apart from their day jobs.
The thing is is there doesn't seem to be any significant shift at AA. When Jobs came back, there was a changing of culture. With AA, nothing will really force them to change/adapt/make real changes if they can get away with what they're doing now.
You are wrong.

On the front page of AA.com I can log into my frequent flyer account without having to click to go to a login form.

Being able to select a date with the calendar is much more effective when trying to make plans three months out. Parsing unstructured data from text fields is "cool" but increases ambiguity for the majority of users.

What if I want to buy a ticket with points or want to only see flights that have first class available? You're design is going to require me to fill out two forms (or toggle filters at some point).

The AA.com website is not perfect. However, it is effective in ways your mockup is not.

Your position is extremely arrogant and I doubt that you have the experience to back it up.
I love it how everyone here lives in fear of another september.

I would rather keep the site simple as it is now. I don't want any silly karma :-p
IE comes bundled with 90% of computers.
Safari comes bundled on a good portion of the other 10%.
Firefox has massive support from the open source movement and the tech community in general.
Chrome has free advertising on the front page of Google.com.

Opera has... a small group of loyal fans?
I think a static checker such as Coverity would probably find this bug.
Why would people complain about apps being marked explicit "unfairly"? Unless one is trying to sell apps specifically to children I doubt that a tag of explicit will do much to hurt sales. I'd imagine it might even help, the same way some people assume a rated R movie is by definition more interesting than a PG-13.
In my experience, as a UX person in a small agile company that works with lots of large, not-so-agile corporations, i've seen this story over and over again. It's relatively well documented in the field, but broadly, it's a matter of access. the fact that a UX person that's not the CEO responded to this indicates simply that AA is late to the game. The teams we work with may start out that segmented, but usually getting the right experience together means going to the up the corporation's ladder & using that as means to effect the change across all the departments and divisions that have a stake in the experience being developed. More than once this process has (or should) effect the employment in those divisions because most large corporations weren't structured to create the artifacts they are now held to. Along the way, in a successful (read: not doomed) company, executives emerge that are more conscious of the customer's experience. The evolving question is a matter of response time - how quickly can a company adapt to new environments. For AA, it sounds like it'll take a year or more to see significant change. we'll see if that's fast enough.

more on this:

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the-information

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/enterprise
Agreed. If only this had been around 7 years ago when I was first introduced to unicode and character encoding when trying to internationalize a C++ app. It took me forever to get my head wrapped around this idea as I were generally never forced to deal with the actual conversion and Strings were always just Strings. Even 7 years later this document completely cleared up the way I was thinking about it.
...the problem is that Blackboard produces (apparently) rubbish software and has horrible customer support. Angel (apparently), lives up to its name in that it provided access to source code, super-fast responsiveness and generally angelic customer support.

We used Angel at Penn State, and that software was broken and cumbersome to use... I can only imagine the hell that is Blackboard.
I'm very curious why, as a talented designer, would you want these contracts? I mean I understand that I'm sure there is plenty of potential to do something great and I'm sure large companies compensate very well, but don't the inanities of meetings that take forever deter you from wanting to work on these jobs?

I guess what I'm saying is that if I was a talented designer, I would want to work on things I enjoy, namely designing, and not having to deal with corporate bureaucracy. For every large corporate contract, there must be many more interesting projects out there. (or am I being a naive millenial? :)
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There was a comment floating around a few weeks ago about a designer who worked on gmail, and how tough it was to get things to change in google, as regards design.
My mockup isn't perfect, and it wasn't intended to be. Your questions and requirements are all valid. Considering the current site acceptable is what bothers me.
Yay, with a front page prominently showing off the latest release, in March 2007. Feels alive!
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This reminds me of why I abhor "concept" designs that people photoshop up to look like the next generation iPhone/iPod/Mac/Telsa.

They have always struck me as a giant waste of time. Without knowing any of the engineering or business constraints, they're an exercise in academic masturbation.

The remind me of drawings I did when I was 6 about my awesome car that did everything: flamethrowers, wings, scuba gear AND 3459798345 miles to the gallon.
This reminds me of the recent Postgres vs. MySQL discussion in that the Postgres users/developers were so convinced of their superiority they didn't bother with all the little things like easy installs on windows and so lost to an inferior (in certain ways) foe.

I like Opera as a company but their desktop UI has always had a clunky, KDE-like feel to it. It's configurable enough that you can change it quite radically but they start with lots of stuff turned on.
question - are we talking about you giving them the keys to your site and then walking away, not having to help, develop, or deal with the site, for 10%?
Any plans which ends with "release" scares me. I've written many of them. It never works out.
Yes, the difference is related to what gets reported, and how it is defined. I think it is more narrowly defined in the US, and more under-reported.
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GM's value is zero. The stock price represents a nervous dance between shorts and longs who try to force sqeezes. (And I suppose there are gamblers who are betting that the government will bail them out without a ch 11 style reorg.)