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A good presentation does improve sales but imho the value is more important. E.g. if it solves a problem and looks like crap, it's a good enough MVP. A business is not sustainable because of its design, UX or fancy code but because of its value to the customer. A good UX/design/fancy new technology increases the conversion, user experience and what not but it's usually not the key criteria if a business fails or not.

We all see the fancy bleeding edge presentations of successful ventures today but we also forgot or never saw the initial MVP that evaluated the idea/customer and served as a foundation for everything later on.
So, why do named branches suck? We use both, named branches and bookmarks, but for different things and it works great.
I ues excel to calculate back of the napkin financials for business ideas. daily revence projections by category, monthly costs per day, other expenses. to model how the business might grow.
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For these sorts of folks, side project programming doesn't require or consume energy, it creates it. Some people relax by watching tv or reading the internet. Some people relax by coding features for an open source software project.

Is there a correlation between the latter type and productivity in a day job? Employers who ask for a prolific github account would seem to think there is.
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A company local to me worked[1] on a similar idea[2] for Mind, a mental health charity in the UK. Might be some inspiration there. As for the technical side, you'll only learn by doing, and other posters have provided some fine ideas.

[1] http://www.yoomee.com/elefriends

[2] http://elefriends.org.uk/
It's a mistake to consider only the cost of the Sunday Ticket. If that were the only factor, the NFL could easily make up the difference. There's a ton of people who either don't or can't get DirecTV who would sign up to stream NFL games, so I'd be surprised if they didn't multiply Sunday Ticket subscriptions by a factor of at least 10.

But the reason why this isn't profitable for the NFL is the billion dollars per year that DirecTV pays them to be exclusive. There probably wouldn't be enough of an increase in viewership to cover that. The $300 DirecTV charges customers is actually selling it at a loss considering how much they pay the NFL. Their bet is that they can make up the difference in $60-$100 per month subscription fees.
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Enterprises need a platform that they can invest thousands, if not millions, of man-hours in. Explaining to upper management that a very expensive application will no longer work due to an upgrade that doesn't benefit the company is a career limiting event. Not to mention why there are some instances of Windows 98 still running.

Even though it is only implied by the article, Microsoft's business model is in jeopardy if the most future-proof method of application development/deployment becomes the web.

The phrase isn't "Nobody has ever been fired buying Apple." Apple is unapologetically a consumer-oriented company. Which allows them to behave differently than Microsoft.
We will always have an army, would you rather it be through conscription or volunteer?

As an 18 year old man I would have said "volunteer" no question. As someone who had a nephew volunteer, my mind is now completely changed and am 100% for conscription.

Egalitarian conscription means mothers across the country have a major stake in any decision to go to war -- even if their kid has not (yet) been drafted. You can bet your ass they will make it known they don't want their sons and daughters to be killed in some far off land fighting some rich man's war. It also means that congress itself will have children in the line of fire (unlike today where it is on the order of about 10 out of 535) giving them a lot more personal accountability for choosing to send other people's kids to face death.
Apologies, maybe I am misunderstanding this point:

>Sigh...sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't change my username to "tokenwoman", a la "tokenadult". :P

But are you suggesting that tokenwoman is synonymous with tokenadult, and by doing so suggesting men are children? If so, I consider this insulting rather than amusing. Sexist jokes are unwelcome regardless of the gender being targeted.

If I've misunderstood you, then so be it.
Personally, I think the most interesting one one is Tidbit, which lets you mine bitcoin via an iframe installed on your website. http://nodeknockout.com/teams/shoop-team
I would pay to watch NFL and NBA games in HD in a format that doesn't require me to download additional plugins besides Flash.

The NFL won't even show you live games in the US. You can watch them only after the broadcast. Also it took them forever to provide te All-22 stream where their only excuse was "we don't think fans should have this footage because they might criticize the coach"

The NBA website is just a mess to use and if im paying something like $250 a season for it I expect it to at least function properly.

And don't even get me started on stupid blackout rules. Ugh.
Does he have any experience with suicides? Has he lost anyone or felt suicidal himself? People who have know how difficult it is.

The app was described as a "social network". As someone who has experience with suicide (both from my perspective and from losing people), I have to question what a difference that will make. How exactly does it work? If he can't explain, perhaps a mockup of the UI might answer a lot of questions.

Of course it has the potential to help someone. Everything has potential but how realistic is that? The chance that this will make a difference seems really low to me.

I hate to be the negative guy on HN but suicide is a serious matter and I can't see why anybody would give grants to 15 year olds to build 'apps' to 'prevent it'.
I dig it. I actually submitted a potential favor, too. I like that you want to focus on a single idea each week, I like that it is small and specific (and finding later on the about page that the goal was to be small and specific was great, too.)

Some people are weirdly upset/dismissive because similar things exist in the world. I don't care about that whatsoever. With this small gesture (and great domain as ericabiz pointed out) you'll likely end up doing more for others on a weekly basis than you were before. Why would anyone ever be annoyed by that?

Good luck with the project.
Is it merged in today's build? It seems not to be available in the 28.0a1 (2013-11-18) OS X build/update.
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If you do that and only that, you open yourself up to related-key attacks. A better approach would be to use a well-known scheme like the Merkle–Damgård construction.
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Figure out who are the users, research what people are already doing in this space (Samaritans) and test your ideas before building anything with paper prototypes.
If you think of democracy as being majoritarian, the U.S. Bill of Rights is explicitly designed to be anti-democratic. Just read the language: “Congress shall make no law.” “Shall not be infringed.” “Shall not be violated.” “Nor shall be compelled.” “Shall be preserved.” “Shall not be required.”

These are rights that individuals — not societies or governments — possess. Even if a majority of the population wants to infringe them through the democratic process, that’s not permitted under the BoR. (You could also say that these rights are natural rights that predated and were merely recognized by the BoR, but that’s not necessary to make my point.)

We’ve already recognized that some aspects of life, including free speech, torture, and so on are too important to be left to the democratic process. We’ve explicitly blocked, or at least tried to block, the democratic process from interfering with those rights. That’s because the democratic process is imperfect: it’s subject to the day’s political whims and foibles.

Given that we already have a fine example of one anti-democratic mechanism at work, it’s hardly ridiculous to contemplate others. This is supposedly HN, not Status Quo Anti-Innovation Political Curmudgeonly News. Right?
Hello, I would try to write the entire app myself. You will learn so much from it. That will benifit you forever. If you get stuck, just put another ask at hacker news. If you just help one person who is depressed, its worth ten times the effort.I have been there. Thanks for taking part in the competition and good luck to you.
Seriously -- every project I had the opportunity to work on during my teen years has formed the basis for so much of my later "real" career as a developer. Each experience has provided me with invaluable skills.
One more reason why you are not getting good healthy sleep
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And are you sure all cards will be nice and fluffy?

Or, I'm sure an Atheist would receive a lot of "I'm praying for Jesus to make it better" cards (or any other way around really, this is just an example)
The question still remains: how many people really need to be on statins? I have genetically high cholesterol. My mother, and her father, are both on cholesterol meds. But I don't want to be on any medication I don't need, to the point that I (perhaps irrationally) fear being on statins. So, I've tried other things. Diet doesn't seem to make too much of a difference (although one summer where I drank vast quantities of fruit juice seemed to help, but then you run the risk of diabetes), but exercise does, and that I can do. Only thing is, bodies adapt, and now I have to watch out for sports injuries, as I can only seem to get my cholesterol down to mid-170s by hitting a BPM of 160+ for a bare minimum of 30 minutes every day. Much less than every day, and my cholesterol starts creeping up towards 200+ again . . .

I don't mind the exercise - it's good for many things. But if I damage something, to the point where I'm not exercising for months (or even just weeks), should I be put on statins? Based on this article, I would refuse to be put on statins.
It will either be in tomorrow's Nightly or we will do an extra build of Nightly in the afternoon.
I'd think that most professional web developers are developing for a VPS where there is no "CPanel". As for me, all of my development is done either in Docker or Vagrant.
Maybe in some cases, but not when the pace of conversation is slower. Reddit locks threads after a few months, and anything beyond the latest 100 submissions is pretty much gone.
shame on me for using only a few from the list, definitely going to start using the other ones! Thanks
I thought one was supposed to wait until a taxi driver started giving related investment advice...
Even if folks don't end up pissed off, I think even just cutting down on exposure tends to have a similar effect. It's pretty easy to fill the gap left by one TV program with some other TV program. Or any number of non-TV activities, for that matter.
Physically moving dollars is the hard part of conducting black market business in dollars.

Obscuring a wallet address is far easier than physically smuggling cash.
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My experience with the Google ad reps has generally been pretty positive. The only complaint I have is that it seems like they want to spend 30 minutes on the phone with me every other month.
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Civil discourse on HN! A sincere "sorry" that is not a no-apology apology! Maybe this place has a chance....
Well, the problem comes up when it gives you proposals that are not equivalent, because it doesn't understand macros and/or local scope :)
Additionally if he's looking for assistance in the backend front I'm more than willing to help out. I can't necessarily pick up a new project, but I do know how invaluable it is to have someone to bounce ideas and questions off of.

I work primarily with Python and Angular at the moment, but I can provide assistance in other areas as well. OP, if you'd like to take me up on this offer just connect with me on GitHub (link in profile) and I'll shoot you a message.
>I'm Australian, so I'm probably biased, but the relationship between the two countries is complex, and layered.

How's that making any difference to the matter? Colonial powers' relations with their colonies were "complex and layered" too.

>And if you think the Indonesians didn't know we were spying on them (and they probably on us), then there's a bridge I can sell you...

Again, what difference does it makes if they knew? A local power (and a US lackey) spies on them, and they know it. Is that much better than if they didn't know it?

It's not like you don't get to enjoy the benefits of spying, blackmailing, upper hand in trade negotiations, etc because they know or suspect you're spying.

And it's not like an (essentially) third world country had any major benefits by their feeble attempts at spying at you themselves...
You should try using a backend-as-a-service if you aren't comfortable with databases/scaling/etc and would like to get the app out. Parse (parse.com) would probably work great for you. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get them to sponsor your application / company (assuming you create a non-profit).

Best of luck.
I've recently tried to switch back from chrome to Firefox but the persistent search thing really bugs me, as well as the fact that it doesn't always search when typing into the url bar.

If you want to get back so quickly there are recently closed, bookmarks, history and plenty of other ways. Always persisting the search term I find very visually distracting.

Edit: On the other hand, the current tab behaviour is more of an irritation. Middle clicking the tab closes the tab unless it's the last tab when it does nothing. This is irritating. Dragging a tab doesn't work well when that tab is maximised. In chrome if you have 2 windows both maximised it's easy to drag a tab from one window to the other. In firefox you have to make one window smaller first to do this.

I'm quite excited to find out if this new interface fixes this.
Congratulations! This is an absolutely great opportunity for you to learn useful skills, make the world better and significantly improve your resume.

I think you should spend a grant on your education and skills related to the app. This is a sustainable approach given that the grant is not really large and you are in the exploratory phase of your project.

Do everything yourself while consulting with the community non-stop, lots of people will be eager to help you.

Btw, I consult startups on marketing and I think your story is straight techcrunch/mashable/thenextweb material, ready to inspire other young people to learn programming. If you need any help spreading your mission, this app or teen2geek, for the greater good, just drop me an note, I'll be eager to help you pro bono. My e-mail is in the profile.
There's a lot tools I didn't know to before, but I'm pretty sure it will make me more productive, such as: Zsh!
I think you'd have to understand if there is a parallel behavior with parents who allow children to watch significant TV -- do these parents not read to kids, not talk to them, etc -- TV could be a symptom of other behavior which is influencing child,

That said, I do think TV and Games influence behavior...
Also, college football is even worse about this. Cable-cutters would gladly pay up to be able to watch their team all season. You can get the low profile games/teams on WatchESPN (ESPN3) (if your ISP pays a toll), but if the game is on ESPN or ESPN2, you're probably out of luck unless you've got a TV subscription with your ISP.
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It is my understanding that an available veriety of pornography actually reduces sexual crimes. As if the materials work as a sexual release for potential would-be criminals.

If that is in fact the case, i fail to see what problem this solves. (Obviously speaking about consented pornography and not released images/video of a legal definition of rape)
how!!? Now we finally can have games with large environments and high texture resolutions because we aren't limited to the capacity of our discs...
Well, for starters you stated that you "have to have" probable cause to "effect a search". Do you seriously believe that to be true?

Its much less about your politics than it is your credulous insinuation that illegal search and seizure is not taking place because searches "need" probable cause to be effected.
>>>> Apple is unapologetically a consumer-oriented company. Which allows them to behave differently than Microsoft.

This a thousand times.

Microsoft is essentially stuck between servicing the enterprise segment whilst still trying to behave like Apple. They're trying to build a walled garden and shim everybody into it - including their enterprise products and customers.

In short, they are in the midst of a HUGE identity crisis.
I think the original poster knows his/her wife well enough to go about doing this.
I just get rid of the search bar and use the URL bar for search too, don't think there are any downsides to doing that.
There is too little in it for anyone to have any confidence in it. Meaning, no privacy policy, terms n conditions, ways to contact you (as a street address or real entity, other than an anonymous looking gmail address). Any of your forms do not validate for a real email address, which makes me nervous about the security of the data you're collecting... (read SQL injection and not knowing your programming skills).

No offense please, but these are all little things that would make me nervous before submitting some data.

And then there is a favor asked about sending cards to a woman that no one knows, and someone should wonder if it's an ex-boyfriend playing a prank or the real deal. It doesn't show any affiliation between ask.io itself (you) and the woman in question.... Checking out humbly doesn't help either, it is as empty of info as ask.io

Good luck to you and your wife, best recovery!

TZ
I also prefer them separate, but rather for ease of navigation. I use the address box as a form of "search my browsing history" to jump to pages that I've visited before, and it's convenient to keep that separate from the search box's own history and automatic suggestions. The fact that Chrome conflates these two concepts is its biggest turn-off to me.
Was this a self post by mistake? The article: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/11/australis-is-landing-in-...
I think you need to research the tremendous effort and money that has gone into political activism on behalf of gay rights. I think you're succumbing to hindsight bias, where things look easy and inevitable after they have happened.
We prefer to have the values only defined in one place. In Epoxy.js, looking at the getting started example, it appears the value firstName is indicated both in the JS and in the HTML. In EndDash, this would only need to be done in the HTML with '<input class="firstName-" />'

In addition, when dealing with views, there is no need to extend Backbone.Views as Epoxy does. Instead, simply add data-view="myView" to the desired 'el' of that view. The js object in scope will be automatically passed in as well.

I am sure there are more differences but from a first take this is what I notice. Would be interested to hear your take as well :)

From Amicus :)
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It looks even more like chrome now.

DISCLAIMER: I don't like chrome.
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I am a CS student on my second year. So far we had only basic JAVA and SQL courses with hardly any practical applications. For the past 7 days or so I have been getting into learning ASP.NET, C# and SQL, amongst other things without any particular goal in mind. I was testing various components (buttons, labels, gridview, panels etc) and playing out with C# and SQL. Overcoming simple things like formatting strings, issuing SQL calls, using the gridview to get the index of the item that was liked etc was quite a blast :)

One of the features that I am planning to implement later on is limiting amount of votes a user can give per submission. I am guessing I will have to save data in a table where schema would look like username, submissionid, votedupordown and parsing those to allow or disallow access to voting functionality.

One more thing I have in mind is integration of either bing or google maps (depending on whichever gives me the most free queries per month) and SignalR to show in realtime submissions as they come up...

What am I making? I have no idea. This could be nothing or it could be something. Source may be released on github when I'm happy with it, right now it's probably rather messy but I do try to keep it neat.

Your thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?
This sounds like a really great way to get started without having to invest (time, money or both) in unfamiliar tools.
What is that 3 years imprisoment going to achieve for society? Which is the crime? Who's the victim?
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Why not learn Node.js? You learned almost everything else Javascript. There's got to be some decent ORM for it. How much time do you have to do this?
icon/sprite editor.
I think tokenadult's nickname is a reference to tokenism[1]. It's a tongue-in-cheek insinuation that he's the acting adult amongst a group of children. Just a joke.

If that is correct, then tokenwoman would be the one woman in a group of men. It's a joke within a joke, though unfortunately one with echoes of truth, statistically speaking.

Cool your jets, man. It wasn't meant to be offensive.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism
You could read it as targeting websites which show videos of actual rape, no matter if they claim it's simulated or not.

Not sure how they could tell though!
This is an interesting idea. I don't know if I would be comfortable posting my address, though.

Definitely not trying to make this political, but please do more reading about "Mother" Teresa before quoting her as an inspiration: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor..., http://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Prac... and http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uom-mta022813... .
You've misunderstood. My point was that women seem to be in rare supply on Hacker News. I find myself often commenting on items as one of the "token women" in the community (token, n. "a thing serving as a visible or tangible representation of a fact, quality, feeling, etc.")
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For real? Oh a spaghetti fan I see.
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