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T-ShirtMaker - Create and Design your Own T-Shirts Now
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Mission
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Description
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Bitcoin=Yahoo. Litecoin is the new Google
I also think it would be nice to have a search/browse page to see more than one favor. I looked for such a feature and of course didn't see it. That way if the current favor isn't my cup of tea, I might find something else that is.
Discussion is veering: This is neither a Techcrunch article nor a discussion of this particular design which pleased the customer. It is an article about a website design workflow from a pattern lab† viewpoint.

pattern lab is collection of PHP tools for making web sites from organized, abstracted components.

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† http://pattern-lab.info/ (MIT license, lives on github)
The State of the Smartphone: 2013
Dude --- It's too late, but next time: https://poboxes.usps.com/poboxonline/search/landingPage.do

They have a saying on reddit "your poor inbox"
Interestingly, the BBFC gave the thumbs up to Irreversible, because the camera was locked off during the rape scene and so it wasn't deemed to be for titillation.
My experience is exactly the opposite - winforms were a joy to use, and I barely had any success with WPF. But I had a lot of experience with MFC which were extremely close to winforms.
One thing I'll tell you.. never ask for the Google support teams help: all they tell you to do is bid more. It's almost as if they're on commission. Google PPC is slowly becoming more and more expensive - and Google are slowly putting more and more adverts on the site.
This makes me curious about some of these browsers I've never heard of. I feel like I am at Egghead software back in the day browsing boxes on the shelf.
Authority is where I got these requirements ;), and yes, its best suited for technical books IMO.
Wasn't this "fear- driven strategy" of aggressive paranoia (I hate to use the word here because it has a strongly negative connotation when such paranoia may be entirely warranted) a hallmark of the aggressive and tech expansionist culture of... Microsoft?

This is the upshot and downside of companies with ambitions that are essentially limitless:

When you treat EVERYTHING as an opportunity, you inevitably come to see EVERYTHING as a potential threat.
Fed Chairman Bernanke tentatively endorses bitcoin
how policy, capital, and technology will interact with each other will define the 21st century. Good to see the thinking behind what is happening from the policy side, and see what can be done to fit disruptive new technologies into slow established frameworks. Tiresome work, but work that must be done.
Enjoyed the read! Pattern Lab looks pretty interesting too.
The idea that the evil corporation can enslave people is, I think, somewhat naive. Certainly, there are companies that don't respect or appreciate an appropriate work life balance. Also, there are certainly employees who are happy to trade an appropriate work life balance for a certain amount of money.

In the field of IT though, companies are frequently seeking out more and more ways to entice workers, and offering to chain them to their desk is seldom an appealing offer in isolation. Chaining someone to their desk for triple the market rate might work, but if it ever stops working as incentive, the employees are free to leave.

I've worked in environments where the work was put first, and the demands of the job are indeed intense. For that sacrifice, I was paid very, very well. When I realized the impact it was having on my personal life, I was no longer willing to make that trade, and opted for a change. Now, I still work hard, but I'm better able to dictate the 'when' and 'where' of it, and am overall more productive. That is a choice that everyone is free to make.

For what it's worth, even in the 'evil' corporation I described, nobody would have bothered to force me into working harder than I wanted. The expectation was just higher, and, I might even dare say, commensurate with the pay. Had I not wanted to work as hard, they wouldn't have pushed it, they would have just lowered expectations of me, and those lowered expectations would have resulted in lower bonuses, lower pay, and perhaps a lower overall regard for my work ethic. It was rather easy for me to just take the pay cut initially rather than draw it out and ruin my reputation in the process.
I hope your wife gets better soon! When is her birthday? It would be awesome if she could get her cards exactly on her birthday
Bitcoin $645? Yeah, That’s Totally Reasonable
The NFL is as large as it is because of Free TV (Network) broadcasts. While cable tv is largely thought of as ubiquitous, it's still the ONLY sport where I can watch 80-90% of local team regular season games and all of the playoffs OTA.

It's a TV sport.

EDIT: local team
Doh! I missed that.
MVP is also popular because it has an element of laziness and "get rich quick" attached to it subconsciously. It sounds easy to just build the smallest possible thing you can charge money for, then just throwing out a landing page, submitting to Show HN, and you're an instant millionaire right?

The reality of building things is there is no such thing as a trivial app. There are edge cases, features you didn't think about, hidden costs, difficulty marketing, personal problems, etc. Even if your app does one incredibly simple thing, there are probably hundreds or thousands of hours of development between that initial hacked together demo you did in a few hours and a profitable product, even a very small one.

Everybody wants a shortcut, everybody wants a free lunch. There are a few cases where people have got lucky and hit the startup lottery so to speak, but for the other 99%, it's a lot of work to build something good and to make money doing it, especially something small.

If you think that you're different/special and these rules don't apply to you, then you're probably in the 80% of people who believe they have above average intelligence/skill/beauty/whatever.

MVP does not mean easy.
>> Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.

This is a pretty loaded statement. As every legal objection so far has been struck down, and the streams are authorized by the Aereo user, it seems like disingenuous reporting to call the streams 'unauthorized'.
Apple’s bet on its clean energy infrastructure
Then neither the West nor East will have jobs and millions more will join the ranks of "human surplus"...
How to stay on top of bitcoin market prices
Front-end Developer, UX Lead at True Link
We're hiring a front-end developer with an eye for design. You will shape the core product and user experience of True Link's banking service for the elderly (a service especially designed to protect seniors from fraud and scams, a $100 billion / year problem).

Simple, intuitive UX is core to our value proposition, and you'll lead the charge to make this a reality.

Our world-facing site has three components:

A cardholder website (think online banking) designed to be friendly, simple, and usable
Static informational content
Frequently-updated public educational materials, like a blog and forums
To restate point one, an online banking experience that isn't terrible

We're looking for someone who:

Believes in the company's social mission
Has a good eye for design
Is excited to iterate based on extensive user-driven development and testing
Can make things work in Javascript and HTML/CSS (or HAML/SASS)
Is passionate about simplicity
About True Link Financial

You'll be one of the first six members of our venture-backed team. We're scrappy and fresh, and our team includes top talent from Visa and MasterCard and backing by leading Silicon Valley investors.

You can expect a competitive salary and equity package, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and an office in downtown San Francisco. You can also expect abundant laughter, snacks, and the opportunity to work with a world-class, mission-driven team.

Email jobs@truelinkcard.com with your resume and a note to learn more.
Why you should consider Syme over Facebook
I disagree. Developers, like me, tend to build the entire thing before the customer validation. This is so wrong if you go the lean approach.

Excellent blog posts about this issue:
"Why only fools write code first" http://blog.reemer.com/why-only-fools-write-code-first
I got Aereo purely to watch NFL games legally. If this goes away, I suppose I could go back to pirating streams.

To be fair, NFL Sunday Ticket is a really great subscription service if you want to follow out-of-market teams (I considered getting it this year to keep up with the Falcons now that I've moved to NYC, though in retrospect I'm glad I didn't). It's too bad that local games are subject to arcane blackout and broadcast restrictions.
Box Announces New Preview Experience
I dig the new design, it's better than the previous one and it seems much faster too (not sure if this is because of the new design but that's how it feels to me). Good work and a nice write-up.
I would question whether it is a matter of their not being interested in it vs. Their being interested in it but not having a compelling search product... yet
[meteor-weekly] Gittip, Meteor UI, Pro Meteor and More
I think they had a chance with microsost lightswitch , which looked like a pretty good LoB dev environment, But it only supported windows UI. I they had supported HTML5 + windows from the start(not just recently), they might have kept some users using windows UI.

Now everybody is doing html5. There are even good tools for LoB(like alpha five) on html5 , so lightswitch has little advantage.
"Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals."

That statement isn't even loaded, it's just wrong. What makes Aereo so interesting to me is that its premise is unbelievably simple. It's a regular old [ridiculously small] TV antenna, but instead of plugging it into your TV, it's plugged in a few dozen miles away and it connects to your computer over the internet.

When the leagues say that Aereo cuts into their retransmission fees from cable companies, what they're saying is "we want people to use cable tv, and making broadcast tv easier to use makes that less likely."
MVP is about risk reduction. If your MVP fails because you didn't hit the right spot, it's a success: You saved a lot of time and money and can look for better opportunities.
While I naturally want the UI to look nice as a designer, I'd personally have no issues shipping a prototype/MVP using a framework like Bootstrap. What I won't stand for is when a product being an "MVP" is an excuse for shipping code that hasn't been tested properly and/or has no thought to the UX.

Craigslist may look like 1995 but it still does a better job than any direct competitor out there.
BTW, nothing like a casual doxxing on a public forum to make my point about the need for real privacy controls, and how unsafe lack of anonymity/effective pseudonymity on the web can make women, in particular, feel.

Congratulations, I've changed my G+ photo for the first time since I created the account.

Until now, I never felt uncomfortable having a photo of myself there, even though it meant that I had to deal with some small amount of unwelcome comments, and plenty of not-unwelcome flirty comments (which I'm fine with, I'm a flirty person, and I enjoy good banter. I'm not interested in anything more than that, and crude come-ons got deleted immediately, but I didn't mind the occasional complimentary exchange. If I'd had a problem with it, I would have used a different photo, or an image that didn't show my face.)

Google Image Search didn't exist at the time that I created my site, and my Flickr account also predated it.

You say that "anonymity is only effective if you practice consistent inconsistency" -- but if your goal is a persistent pseudonym which allows for ongoing human interaction over years, you're almost inevitably going to let some type of identifying information slip.

Your comment sounds suspiciously like victim-blaming in this case -- I never claimed to be an incredibly tech-savvy privacy specialist, I'm an an ordinary user of multiple online services and social platforms, and while my attempts to create walls between some of those identities may have been inadequate, they should have been respected.

I present as the same persistent pseudonym in most places, so it's fairly easy to track me through that method -- but that was deliberate, so that people could recognize my username cross-platform.

Since G+ was the one platform where I was doing a lot of public engagement with strangers, I chose a different nym, and deliberately didn't connect those identities. And, again, Google's products broke down those walls -- in this case, inspired by your actions rather than an automated merge, but still a privacy violation powered by Google.

No, putting a user's real name into YouTube isn't the whole of the problem. But it's a symptom of the contraction of identity that Google's products are forcing, even if users have actually taken active steps (and many people have taken more steps than I have, including creating multiple Gmail accounts under different identities) to try to protect their identity privacy and to keep their various online identities from merging.
The M's, V's, and C's: Keep 'em light and fluffy
When I am trying to decide how much time I should spend on product 'quality' (robustness, bug free, elegant design) I always think of it in the context of experiments. The product is actually a byproduct of a sequence of experiments where the true focus is 'learning outcomes'. I consider the best experiments those which you learn the most at the cheapest cost. For a given experiment, if a poorly designed product gives you "outs" and makes your experiment less conclusive ie) well the users _might_ think this, but it also might be because my product looks like a POS. Well that isn't a very good experiment to execute. There are definitely high quality experiments you can perform where the product quality itself is poor but the learning outcome is high. This is especially true if you can filter your data set (only consider early adopters for example)
Oregon's Health Insurance Exchange Hasn't Enrolled A Single Person
Hah, I had the same exact thought when reading that. Though like I said in my comment, I think the statement goes well beyond "loaded". It's just false.
> One of the biggest speed-ups for any 3D process is, simply, having done it before.

Really, any process. Doing my first real research project, holy crap. So many things to figure out before you're allowed to start...
Widespread popularity of rape porn is a +1 for Japan?
I love the freedom of the platform. Create any subreddit you like. Moderate it anyway you like. Upvote what you want to see downvote those with no value.

But, as with digg, I couldn't have reasonable discussions there. It was always a flamewar or an attack by the hivemind. Then there is the memes. Too too many on nearly every board. Don't get me started on rage comics.
I don't think this is true today. Git and Mercurial have the same basic model, which means that a commit is immutable because the identity of a commit is determined by its content.

This means that you must re-create a changeset in both systems if you want to "change" it. Mercurial and Git can do this and have been doing it for years. The difference is that Git has a built-in concept of garbage collection whereas Mercurial does not. So commands that modify history in Mercurial must trigger the garbage collection (we call it strip) manually -- and they do, of course.

So you wont see any big difference between 'hg rebase' and 'git rebase'. They both build new commits and remove the old commits (in Git they're removed eventually, in Mercurial they're removed immediatedly, but with a backup if you want to restore the pre-rebase state).

The latest versions of Mercurial has history modification built-in: you can 'hg commit --amend' without enabling any extensions. The changeset evolution concept will take this even further and allow really cool collaborative editing of shared history.
How much of that NFL and MLB broadcasting money was going back to the government from the use of those OTA broadcast licenses?

Maybe the broadcast networks need to implode sooner than later.
Go to http://healthcare.gov, type a semicolon into search, wait for autocomplete
Ugh I bought Ask.io for one of my own projects. Domai.nr said it was available, I paid, and after about a month they informed it it didn't go through for some reason I don't remember (thankfully refunding me). I was pretty pissed... I had already made shirts.
Mostly agree with your post, however I think you misunderstand the scalability argument. If you are wasting any time on making an MVP scalable it probably means you are taking time from more important activities such as sales and acquiring users.

You can have the best automated workflow that scales perfectly, but it will not beat the manual workaround if you have 5 users. You get the users, you build, automate and optimize. For a lot of things the initial users won't be able to tell the difference so no UX impact.
How else do you get music into the app? Also itunes Radio and buy songs via itunes on the device is still itunes
This still doesn't say "ignore all the Lean startup advice during a bubble". That's what you claimed, and this sentence doesn't say anything of that sort.
No actually they're being rather straight forward. They gave you the exact reason why they want Aereo to be shut down. They don't care at all if people use cable, they just want re-transmission fees.

I don't agree with their position at all, but there is absolutely no reason to change their words or act like they're being indirect.

Aereo is causing a stink from the cable companies.
Cable companies have very little public good will.
Cable companies realize they can threaten NFL and MLB.
Cable companies lobby NFL and MLB to make statement.
NFL and MLB have enormous public good will.
NFL and MLB make statement.
> Yes, every situation is different, but replacing capacity that you use at peak on AWS will cost you much less to buy, rack, and power yourself considering hardware and hosting costs.

The important thing to keep in mind with a DIY situation is that there are additional costs besides hardware/rack/space, and a lot of things that you may have a hard time putting a dollar value on (flexibility). It's not accurate to just throw out the cost for a Sandy Bridge Xeon + rack space without factoring in the other stuff (upgrades, maintenance, if you need to add an employee, the lessened mobility, the increased responsibility, etc).

At our current scale, if we went the DIY route, we'd need to hire someone else to take over more of the Ops situation for us. An additional employee would cost a lot more than paying AWS a bit more (salary, management overhead, good benefits, communication). We'd also have more "stuff" to worry about, whereas right now our small team spends 98% of our time working on our product, marketing, and sales. This is entirely anecdotal and specific to our situation, but I mention it as an example.

> All the hype of "cloud" makes people think that it's the only and/or best way to do it - certainly not the case for every sort of business.

I personally can't stand the "cloud" buzz word, because it doesn't adequately describe anything. I am no "cloud" zealot, but on the same token I think some bare-metal-always-wins advocates don't really "get" what AWS is doing or when it's appropriate to use them (even if they appear more expensive at face value). As a developer, I've seen the kind of crazy neat things we can do with the flexibility and the shifting of responsibilities to AWS. For us, AWS is a no-brainer, though we do wish we had a more affordable route to going hybrid than DirectConnect or their dedicated machine offerings. But like I said, I wouldn't dare make a generalized assertion of AWS' value to others based on our situation. Every company/staff/application is different.
What the broadcasters are saying is "we don't like this precedent of Aereo doing it for free, because then that means Comcast/AT&T/Verizon/etc are going to quit paying us retransmission fees as well"

The NFL and MLB are just being used as a pawn by the networks to crank up the pressure.
This is dumb. It merely duplicates the exact same information that is available front and center on everyone's GitHub profile to begin with, but in a worse format. Only idiot VCs would think this is cool or useful. Coincidentally, the creator of "GitHub Résumé" thinks Coin is a great idea and wants to invest: https://twitter.com/davidcoallier/status/401075383971627008
BERNANKE: Bitcoin 'May Hold Long-Term Promise'
"Optimizely for Adwords" = Adwords. They have added very powerful tools for setting automated bid rules, little to no programming required. Developed ad markets mean the terrible keywords are cheap and the great keywords are expensive. If Google really is charging you 1 cent more than the next highest bidder you don't need to put in very much effort.

You can even just bid by CPA. Google figures out the rest (and they know how much you are making but that is another issue.)

The optimization that matters the most now is simply out earning your competitors.
I wouldn't discount the built in tools like conversion optimizer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQs7fNYp3Q
> Simple grids and data entry type input stuff is simple to do in web apps.

Well, for an appropriately narrow and trivial sense of "simple" I'd agree. I mean, if all you're talking about is "input number/text into box, press 'Save'" then sure, that's "simple."

I don't think I've ever witnessed a business web app with such trivial requirements, though. After they've been through the "me, too!" (e.g., for "visibility", people will insist on the inclusion of feature X, even if it's not really necessary) and political/gossip/clique infighting grinders most such apps have ridiculous requirements that blow the complexity way up.
I am an Aereo subscriber and they go through great pains to ensure I live in the market I say I do. So I don't understand how the networks view this as anything different than me putting up an antenna on my roof and watching their sports ball that way.

How does this impact them at all? If anything technology like this could tell them more about their audience then they could ever hope to know via traditional OTA broadcasts. But maybe that's the rub? They're scared that people will finally realize that not as many people are watching as they think?
1) We could go into a rabbit hole with this, I'm not going to, just will remark that there are plenty of credible (subjective I know) who believe statins at best replace one malady with another, they do lower cholesterol while not caring why it's high in the first place. They help people who have already have had a cardiac event, and up to 50 years old. Not older men, and in no case women.
2) No conflicts of interest?
3) I made no claim about slice size, it's still $1.5 Billion per year for one country, and that's not insignificant.
4) so, each pill is cheap.