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* What was your decision-making process when evaluating frameworks?

very clean internally framework code. not necessarily large user base. something where the original devs may likely still be using their creation within the next two years. lightweight. no magic!!!

* Was your ultimate choice made simply because the framework was the defacto in your language of choice? In other words, did you choose Rails for Ruby, Django for Python, Cake for PHP, just because the language itself was what you knew?

Two years ago, I wanted ruby, but not rails. I settled with rails and moved on to merb once that was available.

* Assuming you're sufficiently experienced in framework X now, what are your regrets? What makes the other frameworks look like greener grass?

I have a background in writing and choosing frameworks. So I knew rails was not a fit before I used it but it was all there was if I wanted to go with ruby. Merb still is a fit despite its relative neglect this year. I have few regrets continuing its use.

* If you could start your project over again, would you chose the framework again?

I am doing a new project now, I'm using merb again because I have invested in it and it works well. If I were to move on, it would be for a javascript framework as I should benefit from javascript client and server. Such js frameworks are not mature enough for my needs.

* Did you choose framework X secretly because you just wanted to learn it? In other words, was it attractive to you just because all the cool kids were doing it and you wanted to add it to your toolbox? Be honest.

no. I'm cool enough as it is ;).
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Would the Wokhei Limited License cover your needs? You can use the logo for free as is as long as you credit Wokhei.
>Your reputation is on the line, and if you spend/manage the money wisely, there is a great potential windfall for you in the future.

I don't see that being any different than government.
If this is the large Heartland break-in from last year, then this guy also managed to install keyloggers/trojans in unallocated disk space on servers inside the datacenter. The trojans collected every track 1 or track 2 magnetic strip off every card processed at the facility for an unknown length of time. Heartland processes about 100,000,000 credit card transactions each month.
Posted in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=770268 as an alternative model for making progress in space.
How is this different then all the other logo creation sites and services out there? How is it better than using 99designs, etc?
What would be the first thing you do? All that adds up...
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It's funny to see the critique of iPhone usability go up and down. First there was the critique that it couldn't do enough, there was no undo, no copy or paste, no easy way to delete things, the UI was too much like it was on the Mac.

Now that those features have been added and the UI for the iPhone has become more distinct from the Mac, you get the critique that it is all way too complex.
While I agree for the most part, I'm also leery of companies showing developers a room full of Macs just to get "bonus points". I fear Macs are becoming the new Aeron chair. Given most startups are poor, I'd much rather a company spend it's money wisely. If it means I have to do development on a high-end, but generic, Ubuntu box, then so be it.
"Did not make my canoe go any faster, December 13, 2007

By Lex10

Ungainly shape and small size proved to cause wet hands and canoe actually seemed to go slower. I'm not sure if there's any connection, but there were a lot dead fish floating on the way back. Very bad ore."
I read it, and I don't think so, because I want the logo to be redistributable under the same terms as Hecl itself.

If it's a problem... no problem:-) No harm in asking though!
There are quite a number of people who don't like activerecord. They usually swap it with datamapper. Search on github for "rails-template", its recipe for settinf custom rails.
I have advised people to use cheap logo services as a way of getting a decent first draft--something they can use temporarily or take to a more involved designer for improvement.

If I pay for a logo (cheap, sure--but also with no opportunity for feedback) I expect to get (1) ownership, not a license and (2) the source files so some other designer I hire can improve it (or make it suck worse, or just make it black and white--doesn't matter, it's my logo).

Re: ownership, if you want to require me to agree to let you display it in your gallery, that's reasonable. (Even then, if you get pushback, consider an option to buy my way out of that. If someone's that concerned, just take their money and put the next one in the gallery.)
Please don't get offended. It is an excellent idea, but I think it needs a bit of work still. The front page especially. You need to place the screenshots higher and be more succinct with your message. What you want me to do first? Provide feedback? Pay to have some unknowns provide feedback for me? Earn karma? Message is not clear.

People will come to you for two things:

(a) Links, yes unfortunatley

(b) Real reviews

You need to mod submissions. You either narrow it to 'applications' or anything websites go. Based on the former I would not list any web sites selling Bollywood or templates.

Go for freemium, free rating and comments, but have some people who are professional to give a professional assessment and charge for tis perhaps on a 50/50 basis.

Building a community is hard work, but most of the times you need ten or twenty very active members to provide the catalyst for growth.

Ask the same question at http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/ also. Here we are all HN groupthinkers you may get some different angles (usability, SEO, community) from some really nice people.

Final question to you, would you pay for a review of launchly.com? If yes what would you consider value for money, if not why not!
The congestion charge certainly looks like a tax from where I sit (the US).
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I do represent your target audience, looking for a logo designer right now.

Besides login issue, already mentioned here, i think the video is too long, you should fit into 30-40 seconds with real example. I am missing portfolio, so can't estimate quality of the service you are providing.

Anyway I submitted request, will see what will be an outcome.
That's not a fair comparison. If you looked at one of the early slides in the presentation that the slide in question came from, you can see that NASA decision makers are trying to balance three conflicting objectives: 1) Budget realities, 2) risks, and 3) benefit to stakeholders. This is no different than any corporate board. The stakeholders of NASA are the American people. As such, NASA has a duty (implicit or otherwise) to bring as much benefit to the American people as possible. It does this through several avenues. One of the biggest, and one that is often overlooked is the amount of knowledge that NASA has generated. You show me one for-profit company that has been as open as NASA at making all of their information public and available. [1] Secondly, it would be naive to think that NASA does not have an obligation to provide benefit to their stakeholders by providing jobs.

With this framework in mind, what objective is the car designer trying to balance when deciding to use more steel? If the writer decides to use more words, what objective are the trying to meet? The first case you bring up is ridiculous and I'm not going to address any further. The second case is more fair. The novel writer does have to balance clarity of writing and the amount of pleasure they bring to the reader. Someone buying a 50 page book is going to feel pretty ripped off if they read it in 30 minutes. Why are the Harry Potter books so damn long? Because people love to read them. She could have just as easily written the same story in a lot shorter format if she had so decided.

[1] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp
When clicking through to a site (I looked at Recipe Puppy), You have a Launchly bar at the top while loading the site in a frame. I don't want to get into the debate about loading pages like that, but you do have a broken back button with that bar. I clicked on several links on Recipe Puppy, and the back button was always grayed out (had started in a new window).
The benefit of having knowledge embodied in a person rather than a book is skills; and skills deteriorate if not used; stockpiling human resources is a waste of time and money.

As for risk; show me the armies of those fired after the shuttle accidents. Even after Feynman exposed the dishonesty of the official reliability estimates, not a single bureaucrat lost his job for lying to Congress or the public about the risks (since the engineers had a good idea of the real risks, the management at NASA either knowingly lied or were effectively sticking their collective fingers in their ears and refusing to hear what the engineers said).
You put in your info once, you don't get to give feedback and request changes, you get one logo at the end--like it or not, and you get it in 24 hours.

These points all make it different from most logo services. Better is another question.

I didn't find the difference difficult to glean from the site, but it wasn't obvious to at least a couple people here, so maybe OP still has some work to do here as far as positioning.
Can you imagine a for profit corporation evaluating project based on such a criteria? Yes. Did it for years. It's either that or fire the people who work for you.

it still doesn't explain why your project would get 2 points if you increase the workforce by more than 10% If you create a stable environment by not treating your workforce like rented mules you will not have significant turnover. The only way to bring in new capabilities is by increasing the head count.
First, your project needs to solve a problem for an identifiable group of people. Then, you build a relationship with the people that group of people trusts (e.g. by blogging, commenting on their blogs, etc). Then, you introduce your thing as something which will help their readers/colleagues/etc solve your problem.

That is the general gist of it. Your bigger problem: what identifiable group of people has a hole in their life shaped just like a news aggregator/mashup machine?

Edited to add: It is almost never, ever, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeever in your interest to allow yourself to appear poor and desperate, much less to make a point about it. "We are in desperate need of PR person (who can work for free :) )" is the first thing I see on your home page. That tells me you're poor, desperate, and unprofessional. "Indiameme is seeking forward-thinking PR professionals" is a much, much better way to phrase it.

(Forward-thinking, in this case, means willing to work for an unconventional arrangement in which they do your PR and you help them surface their stories. Word to the wise: no sane PR flack will go for this. However, having the offer on your front page won't hurt you.
I agree with your points, although i ended rolling with pylons as the foundation. It allows me to add extras such as gzip wsgi layer, secondary dbs (tokyo and mongo), and roll my own custom routes with little effort.
I agree that the Joel Test is a guideline. Some questions on it might only work for everybody. Consider, "Do you have a spec?" Some of the neatest teams I have worked on used index cards instead of a static spec and it worked really well.
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I would hope that higher life forms try and protect lower life forms, such as ourselves, from the influences of galactic domination.
I could be misunderstanding, but it looks to me like an Atlas V HLV has about 1/5 the lift capacity of a Saturn V. I know materials are better now, but I'm not convinced they are 500% better. Furthermore, the air, water, food and crew is a fixed mass. I doubt an atlas could take a person to the moon and back even if the structure and fuel are massless.
It seems like there is an obvious point left unsaid- touch user interfaces are more fun. Sorry, no citation, this is just my impression. If you had to operate the iPhone with a mouse and keyboard the experience would be entirely different. It just seems a lot harder to try and make a website playful because using a mouse is not fun.
Even for the stuff I've been hired to build, there was something there when I got there. It's your responsibility to insure that they have properly represented what they already have. Deception in the recruitment process is a real turn-off.
If a team does not have source control or an automated build system is that a deal breaker? Or is that an opportunity? I have noticed that the thing that makes some teams magical to work on is an undefinable quality that they have a kind of indescribable vibe.
Good tutorial. A more practical application would have enhanced the article. Closures in PHP, just forget them!

As a byline, it is posted at recessframework. I did not know about the framework. Downloaded it gave it a spin and was impressed!
Strangely enough, one of the worst companies I worked for (Intuit) passes these "signs" test with flying colours. They have plenty of money, a huge customer base (thanks to a near monopoly on users who have years of financial data their data locked in to their apps. the desktops apps are decent. The web apps suck.), version control (Perforce), low turnover (no one leaves unless they are kicked out -- there is little real work to do and very high salaries, which attracts a certain type of developer). Intuit doesn't "get" the web and is desperately afraid of someone developing a web app to compete with their desktop apps(their own web apps are very sub par).

PG said in his "Ideas we'd like to fund" essay.

"21. Finance software for individuals and small businesses. Intuit seems ripe for picking off. The difficulty is that they've got data connections with all the banks. That's hard for a small startup to match. But if you can start in a neighboring area and gradually expand into their territory, you could displace them. "

On the positive side they did crush Microsoft (Money). Ok I am rambling. Back to work.
A few things that would help right away, uniforms and tiers. Three or four tiers would do. Slow, average, bright. I understand the mixing of students of different abilities, but I think it does more harm than good.
I know someone that tried to shut down his company (rfid luggage tags) and return capital to investors. He ended up being forced out and the company burned through all the cash and shut down. Sometimes doing the right thing isn't possible.
Good ideas, it seems, need to be repeated.

Absolutely not. Ideas that are diffuse and unoriginal, on the other hand, are often repeated because they are uncompelling.

I've read The Black Swan, and although it was entertaining, I didn't feel like I learned anything of value.
It sounds like they aren't even sure where the amino acid came from. From the article:

"With only about 100 billionths of a gram of glycine to study, the researchers were able to measure the relative abundance of its carbon isotopes. It contained more carbon-13 than that found in glycine that forms on Earth, proving that Stardust's glycine originated in space."

Does anyone know how they can know that space glycine should have more C13 than earth glycine?
It's a nonsensical metric.

If company A and company B were equal except that in company A some people chose a Mac that would mean it would suddenly be a better place to work at?
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Don't you need to put yourself in other people's shoes to get a better idea of the sorts of things other people want?
At the time he said it, it might have been true, that's the thing. A government department will be understaffed the few days of the year when they have to deal with a crisis, and they'll all be sitting around shuffling paperwork back and forth to each other the rest of the time. What's needed is a flexible structure with fewer people all of whom are capable of fulfilling whatever role is needed right now. Historically that has been prevented by "demarcation dispute", e.g. X union claiming only its members have the "right" to perform Y task.
You need need need a portfolio.
So far all I can see is one logo (yours) and it's not really the branding I'm looking for.

A portfolio would reassure me that you have a broader range, or that you excel at doing one kind of logo really well.
I sympathize, but there seems to be so much stuff that goes into a web framework. One of these days I want to make a list, to help deciding on "create my own" vs "external".

Maybe if there are libraries for all the needs in your language, it is doable. But it seems a bit of a headache. I am not sure I even want to waste time on thinking about my own framework. It is not the most interesting problem (how to write a web framework).
>> if you spend/manage the money wisely, there is a great potential windfall for you in the future.

> I don't see that being any different than government.

Oh really? What is the "windfall"? (It's not supposed to be money in govt.)

And, if it's the same, why is the typical govt service so bad?
I'm not talking about boring. I'm talking about competence.
I forgot to ask. I haven't had experience with repoze. Do you like it? Do you prefer it instead of rolling your own?
Grover Cleveland did pretty well his first term.

Eliminated the spoils system, got rid of a bunch of time server type jobs.
What works 11 years ago might not have worked today. Same for user interface design for the web. No one recognizes the drop down suggestion. User interface evolves like technology, and without doubt, the iPhone is a class of device of it owns that have never existed before any other. So I would give Apple the thumbs up for creating an user interface that not only is fun but usable on a revolutionary device.
Sorry, forgot to comment..

> Since you read privacy policies closer than we do, could you recommend a good examplar of a friendly, non-legalese privacy policy?

Actually I just happened to feel like checking yours out. I'm afraid I haven't got any privacy policy to link to, but as I mentioned earlier, I'd try to make things as simple as possible.

Something like:

We only have whatever data you give us, and we only use it for this website's functionality - nothing else.
at the moment there's a slideshow of logos on the home page - but I do get your point, there's gonna a be gallery we'll roll out on future iterations
I'd be interested in hearing how well-suited CodeIgniter is for a web-application that will be brought FAR beyond just presenting blog-like content. What I intend to build will be a full-blown web-based app.

I'm about to start a new project, and thought I'd settled on CI as my framework of choice (never coded w/ a framework, so trying to get it 'right' on my first try), but some of the comments I've read here and elsewhere have me second-guessing my choice.
I was very much of that opinion before as well. But I've since come to change my mind. I'd like to concentrate on those parts that are unique about the application that I write, not the stuff that every application has to do anyway. This takes a lot of time and effort to maintain, especially if you want to stay 'current' and want to compete with the rest of the market.

If what you make is limited in scope and you can easily handle the worlkload then more power to you. But I find that for me it is more efficient to reuse well written code, even if that means I can't claim I wrote 100% of the project.

If a framework limits you, then that is a good reason to roll your own. But that comes at a price, maintaining a codebase is not without cost.
there is an animated screen with logos passing by, I supposed that was somehow their portfolio even if there is no mention of the companies involved. also I read about a gallery, maybe at some stage some of the logos will endup there.
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Did you ever wonder why NASA has facilities in Huntsville Alabama? How about the strange split of mission control between Texas and Florida?

It's "odd" how NASA facilities are so often located in states that had politically powerful senators at the relevant time.

The "Robert Byrd" effect is not new. I'm waiting for them to rename West Virginia after him.
I'd suggest implementing memcached before adding a second DB server, often this can help in scaling incredible amounts. We had an application which as soon as we implemented memcached(we really should have off the bat) the load was cut over 1/2. Of course this was an extreme example since the server was getting pounded with tons of reads from our DB every second.
I suspect there argument does something like: if it has less than or equals to the amount of C13 as glycine on Earth then we can't rule out that it's contamination. But since it has more C13 than from Earth it must be from somewhere else.
I read it as: "You can now share a document with your Google Groups members by inviting your_group@googlegroups.com"?
I've heard this comment from others before - but alas, I cannot echo it as I haven't had experience with anything ASP or .NET related.

Not an uncommon sentiment though.
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Get traffic. Traffic brings money. Money buys stuff and people and you can make scaling their problem.

Without traffic, there's no point in scaling.
It's not that they know space causes more C13. They just know it's not normal earth glycine because it has the wrong C13 ratio.
What I don't understand is why did they create a separate site per topic. With separate user account! This is very inconvenient and complicates things for the users. having it as a 'category' within the same site would be much better for usability (and for SEO :)
I with you that it is a problem of incentives, but I disagree that it has much to do with managers desiring more employees to increase their clout. Simpler explanations exist. If a government manager fires an employee, what does she gain? She doesn't get any of that employee's salary (the tax savings won't move the needle at all on a personal level), and won't appear to be doing a better job, since there is no profit with which to measure performance.

On the other hand this manager has a lot to lose. First, most people find putting others out of a job unpleasant. Second, that manager and her co-workers will now have to absorb the duties of the fired employee. So more work for her. Third, the department would probably be exposed to litigation by the fired employee. In my experience government agencies don't fare very well in court, and the government is scrutinized much more closely for things like nepotism and racism than the private sector.

There is another issue at work here, which is that legislators have much stronger incentives to add parts to the government than to remove them. Sure, there are plenty of voters who favor making the government smaller in general, but for any particular program the number of people who care deeply about preserving that program is always greater than the number of people who care deeply about removing it. People simply don't have the time to study all parts of the government and advocate against the existence of unnecessary but small programs. The people who are served by those programs (or sell things to the government in support of them) have all the reason in the world to care. Actual reform of the system (instead of general pouting at the size of government) would require removing a large number of small programs, and this is unlikely to happen for the reason I just mentioned.