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This is a fantastic site from what I can see right away. I hope you guys can open-source this effort or package it into a ready to use cms for other clubs/organizations to use. Even if you charge for it I would be your first customer. Bravo.

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The drop down menu is not necessary. The main item on the horizontal bar links to a page full of text. Your goal should be to maximize the percentage of content per page that is consumed. Your visitors will be happier.

Suggestion is to discard most of the text and replace with a clean graphical interface that contains the items in the drop down of the menu item linking to the page. Example, The games page would be a grid of boxes with each game listed and a picture above the name.

Video and pictures need to be more front and centre instead of in their own category hidden under About Us. The entire menu is very logically laid out. But this should not be your aim. Show the user what they want first. Show the best content first.

The calendar doesn't need to be it's own menu item. In fact it should always be shown - maybe on the side bar to the right like on the front page - but do it on every page.

The Welcome text on the front page in the blue bar is really all the about us that people need.

You don't need a Home menu item.

I like the colors.

I like that it is not full of dynamic content or javascript.

Here is what I would change:
Front page: Banner and dynamic picture take tons of screen real-estate.

Make the title smaller. Add a caption to it to decribe the site. Delete the Welcome text. Replace the welcome text with a grid of 4 videos - the most recent or dynamic ones. The news posts should be trimmed. 2-3 short paragraphs
max and only if you have to. Your front page is your one chance to convince new visitors to come out to an event. Service your existing users with news in other ways - email, or on the bottom of page.

Upcoming events and Keep in touch are perfect. Add your emails to the keep in touch and get rid of any other sections in the site where you list emails.
Get rid of About us. Replace Register, Login, and About us with a login box and a Get Involved.

Remove Support. Have one easy to find line of contact for all Help requests. No FAQ. Nothing else. Either it's easy enough to figure out on my own or I should ask you. Otherwise I'll think I'm an idiot or being treated like one.

No Overview pages of any sort.

Keep removing text and pages until you absolutely can't anymore. Less is more. You're done when you can't get rid of anything else. That's when you know. Check out how youtube.com front page does it. It's good.

Hope this helps and good luck!
Confess HN: Share your Immoral Hacks, Codes or Tweaks
You know you weren't suppose to do it. It was a immoral and sinful hack or tweak, but you did it anyways. A goto? A linked list of function pointers? Even committed it? What nasty hacks have you do lately?
Yeah I think Windows 7 is a chance for MS to push premium and take down the "big bad company" image a notch (as they've done with ASP.NET MVC by interacting with the community and including well known developer figures in the project).

I'm not sure Linux will ever pose a serious threat to the "home-user" market - even developers I know tend to agree that Linux has never taken user-interaction seriously. It might be prettier these days but that isn't the concern, it's genuine "getting things working" and "using this day by day" that is the problem. Most Linux users live by the terminal but home users moved to the GUI a long time ago and aren't going back.
Technically, they are representing the company, not you personally. It is an important difference that doesn't really come up often AFAIK
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I have no time for games any more either, I stopped playing games frequently about the same time I stopped buying UV reactive IDE cables and blue LED fans.

But I think it also depends on what kind of games you're into. For me first person shooters are best played with mouse and keyboard where as fighting games (like Street Fighter) or sandbox-style action games (like Prototype) are best played with a controller. I know you can interchange your interface devices these days, but I find myself still thinking, FPS? I want to play that on a PC, or sand-box style action game? I want to play that on a console.
"then later an entirely new beam of light (with identical properties) "

I think, if you understand quantum physics, it's meaningless to say that it's a "new beam of light with identical properties." If it "has the same properties", then it is the "same beam of light." It doesn't just look the same. It is the same in a physical (and meta-physical?) sense.

Then again, I don't really understand quantum physics, so I might be misunderstanding this. I'm telling you what I picked up from Eliezer Yudkowsky's series on quantum electrodynamics.

Perhaps a physicist can elaborate?
Haha this comment from the original post by Roger Pence is gold:

"

Timothy Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, James Gosling, Brendan Eich, Bjarne Stroustrup, Alan Cooper, Edsger Dijkstra, Doug Crockford, John Resig (et al) ... Jeff Atwood.

Jim Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, BB King, George Harrison ... Nick Jonas.

Jesus. What’s next?
"
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I used a bash script to query a mySQL database because we weren't allowed to use "unapproved" libraries and the last time I tried to get permission to use a CPAN module, it took 8 weeks.

I am ashamed.
"She and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process, light was converted into matter then back into light."

When I first read that, the only response I had was "Beam me up Scotty"

I think it was more of a stunned response than anything. Mind = Blown.
So you're saying a decent article on your own blog posted twice a week is enough to pay utilities and rent + some insurance? That's pretty impressive, to me at least.

How do you monetise your blog? Just through ads? What kind of ads?

I've been thinking about doing something interesting to this, so it interests me. Would you mind linking to your blog?
Ask HN: How many angels read HN?
I'm mostly a product guy, but I'm an occasional angel too.

So, out of curiosity: reveal yourselves and talk a bit about what you look for in a startup.
the key phrase here is "Despite all the intriguing possibilities, "there are no immediate practical uses," Hau admits."

The experiment and its results are intriguing nevertheless.
If you like that you'll love his autobiography:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148

It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.
I spent some time in Sydney, Australia in the early 1990's. It is where I first saw the wide application of roundabout technology to urban traffic problems --they permit a much more regular and even flow of traffic than do stop signs and lights.

I have since wondered occasionally why we don't use roundabouts more in this country.
I look for a team I like and a product that is what I think of as "market-shaped" - a meetingplace for transactions, either financial or otherwise.

I also generally don't consider a company I wouldn't work at (are the founders someone I would work for?) or a product I wouldn't work on.
This is probably the most interesting site I've found here in a while. At first it seems very strange and crank-ish but there's definitely a lot of stuff for me to come back to.

FWIW, I just finished a math bachelor's at UC Davis and I would say "reports of mathematics education's death are greatly exaggerated." Certainly we did cover some of the "neglected" material, and my teachers presented things with an eye towards unification.
"Regardless of the legality of deleting the 1984 ebook, it's ridiculous to assert that Amazon should be able to destroy anyone's annotations for any reason. Those annotations belong to the user who created them."

The annotations were not destroyed. The work they referenced was removed. The claim is that, absent that work (with its particular page numbers , etc. I'm guessing) those notes are essentially useless, since they now refer to a void.
I will probably get downvoted for not adding anything but I found this article really worthwhile and interesting. I think the problem I have is supporting the idea and the development process both financially and motivationally. Then once you have the product where do you go next?
Sadly, not for the free version of Google Apps for Your Domain.
Cool idea but this won't last. First companies will sack staff they catch on here. I guess you could obfuscate the buyer/seller information but eventually some staff will get tracked down based on their products or the discount they offer or whatever. Secondly, eventually it will just be filled with companies themselves selling the clothes on here right and ultimately moving the average price up. That or this will just work to remove the notion of employee discount.
The pic of Dijkstra (#18) is actually a picture of Dr. David Gries (Cornell/UGA) who was one of my prof a bit ago. Me thinks this list wasn't very well vetted and was hastily put together for some Digg "Top X" mojo.
When you're dealing with highly biased people, it can be difficult arguing their points when their argument is so obviously slanted in one direction. They only use the data that backs up their position while completely ignoring the rest of the data available.

It's like dealing with religious zealots arguing the merits of creationism. Or a better argument would be trying to convince someone that a tree is dead by pointing at the 5 brown leaves and ignoring the rest of the healthy tree.

That's why I think it's better to use the data as a whole and draw an conclusion from it. I think it is a valid argumentative style and so I think your comment was not called for.

Realistically, the only way we'll know is several years down the track. Will Microsoft be on their "long slow decline" or will this article be more FUD.

My money's on the latter, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Is this what you are asking for?
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Its in his profile: http://paulstamatiou.com

Pretty well known and according to Compete.com seeing about 55k uniques/month, thats quite a bit.
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Shouldn't Amazon be held to a heigher standard than a High scool kid?
Thanks for that. In future I'll check profiles.
Yea thats more than my startup. Sigh...
I used blocking disk I/O from a theoretically non-blocking event loop.
Getting into the neighbor's WEP. There wasn't even much to it in the end. My desktop didn't have a wireless card so I had to pipe the connection from a half dead laptop I had lying around.
relentlessly resourceful...
Nice idea, but I think it needs a catchier name. Something with a little more zip.
There's a major problem subsidizing a device like this. The target audience most likely already has a SmartPhone and residential internet service via cable or DSL. That's probably $90-$100 worth of Internet access alone. How many people will be willing to pay an additional $50-$60 for a data only cell plan on top of that? If you're (un)lucky enough to have a spouse or child who wants a data plan your Internet bill alone could easily be $200. Don't forget voice service. Unlimited SMS. Say hello to a $300+ monthly Internet/voice bill. Makes the base price of $400 look like a pittance compared to the $3600 yearly service fee the typical person might end up paying in this scenario.
Are nerds the leading indicators for handheld calculators?
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I'm so sorry.
"eventually it will just be filled with companies themselves selling the clothes on here right and ultimately moving the average price up"

Dude, that's every online retailer's dream.

This could be a really successful "in" to having an online business. The trick will be to continue adding value after the initial hook has worn off and prices are no longer competitive. If you can make the shoppers keep coming even after they no longer get the employee discount, you have a profitable venture.
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Actually, Japanese car companies gained control of the US market because they offered affordable cars that were more efficient. Once consumers saw that they were getting equal or better quality for less money, they switched.
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Are you working on the projects with someone else? I feel like one of the biggest motivators are teammates or a client who's excited about the product. Someone to work with you on something definitely makes things a lot more exciting for many reasons.

1. Check and balances, they help you rationalize and keep you in check as an outside entity. This makes you confident that at least one other person truly believes in this project
2. Excitement is inherently contagious
3. More ideas, more resources, faster development
4. Fun to hang out with

The financial and the next part, I have no clue, but I do know there is no golden rule that applies to every situation.
1- Write articles it's simple, but gives a great revenue

2- google adsense from sites/blogs i built/build/will build

3- Twitter; a new income, advertising/selling accounts/ and other tricks

That's it, i live with my family so i don't really need that much money
Hacker News.

(Really, it is. After that, Google Reader, then the Sydney Morning Herald....)
I used a boot to download twitter following pages because it was not allowed to a "non browser" and "non logged user"; it's so bad and some kind of spamming, but i did it any way! :'( :'(
it's meaningless to say that it's a "new beam of light with identical properties."

You can think of it as information (bits). The same information that was encoded was decoded later.

It is not as if photons are items on the macro scale, that were somehow labeled (for example, photon #134), then disappeared and reappeared and the scientists compared the label and proclaimed that its the same photon (#134).
OK, so let's say I own a retail store and I see that my company is on here. No problem, I just sign up, have an employee buy some stuff for me so I can find out who they are, and fire them.

I bet that this violates the agreements most employees sign for discounts, which probably says they can only buy for themselves (or maybe family/friends), and that they can't resell the items. So this is fraud, basically.

Perhaps I'll start a site called "EmployeeOfficeSupplies.com" that hooks up people in need of office supplies with people working in offices who are happy to steal them. Or maybe one where I help people "share" their health insurance benefits.

This is stupid.
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Selling accounts as in those with a large user following?
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Companies will sack staff on this site? In this economy, companies will probably reward staff on this site if they move product. Heck, companies will probably just put themselves on the site!
Or, I either raise the price or lower the employee discount so that there is a sufficient margin and get all my employees to sign up and profit.
Sorry to offer criticism, but this is the most unethical thing I've ever seen. Not only that, the market for this sort of trading is already stitched up by eBay, and they do it better by not being so blatant about the source of the discount.

So this product actually does a worse job than eBay - that's no mean feat.

I know sometimes game-changers come about by pushing ethics around - but this is morally wrong in so many different ways I'm struggling to express it.

Purely out of interest, I'd love to meet the person or people who came up with this, but only so I could do my grumpy old man bit about the "me" generation.
Ask HN:Benefits Of Storing Passwords In Plain Text?
I don't know what's been going on lately but I'm finding that more and more webapps are just storing my password in plain text.

If an app seems sketchy to me in this regard I use a non-standard password and then do a password request to see how this is handled. Most of the time I will get emailed a link to reset my password but more often than I had expected I'm just getting my password emailed to me. (of course I understand getting a reset link doesn't necessarily mean the password is encrypted either)

This happened today with the new version of Hootsuite.com - I forgot I had an account and when I filled in the 'forgot password' form I got an email with one line "Password: XXXXXXXXX'

From all work I've done and developers I've talked with it's best to use some kind of protection on the passwords - even if it's just md5'ing it. Are there any major benefits to storing a password in plain text (from a development standpoint)?
Gotos aren't necessarily bad - for example when you have a large amount of nested loops and need to break out of a certain number of them.
Are there any major benefits to storing a password in plain text (from a development standpoint)?

Not unless you want to use your users' passwords to impersonate them on other sites... or to allow anyone who breaks into your servers to do the same.

Don't use MD5 either -- that's far too weak. Use a real key derivation function: Ideally scrypt, but failing that, bcrypt or PBKDF2.
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yes, when the twitter bubble just began it was a very profitable business
Also good for exception/error handling for languages that don't have that capability built in.

E.g. the SQL script I've been working on today has a number of gotos in it.
Yeah I have 30 days to refund everything without having to pay any fees, less the iPhone restocking fee, but as much I would love to, I still don't have enough money overall after that to afford to switch carriers.
windows will remain dominant in OS shares at least for the next 15 or 20 years; after that something new need to be made.

Like the jump from Dos to win 3.1 or win 3.1 to Win95; Microsoft needs to make something more spectacular than an upgrade to 7; something more innovative and productive.

if it does, than there are another 30 years for msft life.
Freelance web dev. Might be easier if I had a programmer to team up with, could get better sized projects and focus on what I do best.
I was in the market for a new phone recently and was considering the new iPhone. Pieces like this were a big factor in my decision to give my money to Motorola instead (I got a shiny new Ming and absolutely love it).
Downmodding this was highly inappropriate. This is purely a description of an on topic idea.
this is the most unethical thing I've ever seen.

I'm guessing you don't watch the news very often :)
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not really accurate, larry page made Google but it's not that influencing: google is influancing but not larry.

people who are influencing are: Jeff at wood, Joel Spolsky and other famous bloggers.

IMHO
Frankly, the list seems put by a social news surfer and counting how many times a product gets mentioned and who its creator is. Granted since its a WebDesign site, but if you're putting the likes of Ken Thompson in there, you're probably gunning for the elders in all fields of programming.

If that be the case, why put Jason Fried in there without mentioning Guy Steele. Or John Resig but missing out on Charles Moore. I'm not saying Fried or Resig are not good, but surely not in the same category as K&R or GvR. And where is Matz? :)
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I see what you are saying. why can't you say *.alsfjosajlksajdf, just the same as now? It's harder to remember, but encryption keys are literally impossible to remember and people maintain lists of those.

So to be clear, the idea is just to take away any choice when you buy a domain name. Since people don't use domain names much to navigate around, and tend to use google, this won't change much.

The domain is hidden and ugly, but otherwise works as per usual, perhaps I should have been explicit about that.

Something else I should have been more explicit about: The whole point is to make it impossible to have squatting and lawsuits about domain names. Let a search engine decide what is the best 'flower' site, not who happened to buy flower.com in 1994. The current system inherently favors existing sites over new sites, which is silly.
I feel we _are_ rich. You don't have to launch a Google or Microsoft to be rich. Launch a small niche product, get a few customers, earn enough to live a typical western lifestyle. That's enough for me to feel rich.
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I agree with you in full. Giving other people your employee discount is a method of theft. It is no different than other methods of employee theft such as over-charging customers, identity theft, theft of stock or theft of time. The only difference is sharing your discount is an easier form of theft to rationalize.

This website is a black market and is likely profiting. I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
If we're talking about the iPhone, empirically I would say yes.
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