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I've used mechanical turk in getting initial users. You can set up a task, and have turkers do very specific actions on your site, for $.05. And, studies have been done, that suggest that Turkers are really very well educated, and are probably early adopters. If you treat them with respect, and show appreciation for what they are doing, they will go the extra mile for you.

I've also used Adsense to get initial users. For my keywords, they cost about $.10 a user, and about half of them bounced. But, it provided me with a demographic that I wouldn't have reached with Mechanical Turk.
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When I was in grade 8, I took a mandatory "shop" class -- woodworking, metalworking, and electronics. One day in class the teacher observed that Leonardo da Vinci, while he had lots of ideas, rarely built anything, and as a result of this he never discovered that his plans were flawed.

This one remark transformed me from being someone who was content to work entirely with theory to being someone who went out and built systems -- because however confident I was with my theory, I wanted the confirmation offered by seeing it work.

This doesn't have much to do with entrepreneurialism, but it's certainly something which changed my life. :-)
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Why? Are you a Microsoft programmer?
Thanks for all the helpful information. It all actually got me going on the process, which is the hardest part for me.
that's a textbook example of one of the things pg says not to do here: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. 'That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

you often have knowledgeable things to say, but that's not enough around here.
To me, the biggest point made in the Atlantic article was that the flu vaccines have not been double blind tested, which seems incredible.

However, this critique doesn't seem to argue with that point, unless I'm misreading it.
I think this topic has been covered many times on HN, atleast for US.

You can try searchyc.com to find them.
"Lazy" I get, but when he says "dumb" I think "humble" conveys the idea better. You shouldn't be "too smart", but that's not the same thing as being dumb. Letting go of preconceived notions to get to the root of a problem may involve "playing dumb", but that's still not the same thing.

Still, "dumb" sounds less chest-beating than "humble" (ironically enough) so if you think you're not humble enough about being humble, by all means start calling yourself dumb instead. :-)
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This incidentally is a great window into what the opinions of many consumers are when it comes to "good design".
I didn't say you're targeting more intelligent people, just more technologically inclined people who are most likely accustomed to Adsense ads and therefore less likely to click on them and provide you income.

There are a lot of niches out there that are full of really intelligent people who are less technologically inclined than most of us who would be more likely to give consideration to an Adsense ad than we would..
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This is a really convoluted way of conveying a few simple concepts: 1) automate what you can and 2) keep your mind and perspective fresh by continuous learning.

I don't see why we need to redefine the words lazy and dumb. Truly lazy and dumb programmers don't really accomplish much.
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Keep the 24" monitor, you can use it as a second display on the iMac.
I would like to read the story of an IntelliJ/Eclipse-user going to Vim/Emacs.
They also have completely different markets, and I'm annoyed by the number of times I see the Google search page trotted out as an example of what people want. Most of the users I deal with on a daily basis have their homepage set to either their Yahoo page, or their msn page, or something similar.

I don't think I've yet to sit down at a user's computer and find their homepage set to Google's search page.

Unless, of course, they installed Firefox and then forgot it was there.
instead of "counterexample", use "exception to the rule".
The o-ring failure had nothing to due with quality of the part. It had to do with politics, the engineers said that the part had never been tested under the conditions and recommended scrubbing the launch. I think Edward Tufte has gone into detailed analysis about how the engineers presented their case poorly.
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No, but OS X does not work for me. It powers a computer under my TV that I use for watching movies, but it doesn't even do well for that task. (OSX's VLC often crashes, NicePlayer can't play partial AVI files, the built-in DVD player doesn't let you skip the ads at the beginning, etc.)

For development, I could never use OS X. I rarely use the mouse, and I need a package manager for installing random libraries. I tried this on OS X and it just doesn't work as well as Debian. Emacs also doesn't work right.

A unique monitor with generic Intel hardware running Linux is a great computer. That with OS X and it's just a paperweight. Your mileage may vary, but I have to say that my eyebrow raises itself a bit when I hear a developer say they use OS X.
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This is on the front page, so maybe this is a good place to remind people that GeoCities is being shut down today. If there is some content you want, make sure to download it and/or have the Internet Archive crawl it ASAP (See gojomo's comment).
I never thought I'd find something that I'd actually consider buying from Apple, this is the first product to break that rule, it's a really nice monitor for a real computer, and if I feel like having a fap about how designer I am, I can use the free mac...
:D
article hits one of my biggest gripes with computer UI design in general: the ubiquity of the yes/no option. programs are no longer a stack of cards people. the options presented to the end user should be a list of the actions available to them (with most common at the top) with a small blurb in non-tech speak about what each option does.
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There is no ONE individual who inspired me. There are a lot of them.

The story of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs was my first fascination I guess. I read a lot on and off the web and I guess I have seen a lot of fantastic articles, lectures and advices that helped me a lot.
I think answering the question in regards to the US is by far the easiest.

In other countries I've lived in and researched it in it's been a very difficult process, as most processors are US based.
>I think only Ars could pull off a 15-page review of an OS.

They have 23 pages for Snow Leopard, not sure if that's the record.
This is the weirdest thing. You're explaining my own software to me.

I find that this happens to me quite often in FreeBSD. Usually the way it works is that someone asks me to add a feature which I had never considered before; I do so; and then I completely forget that I added said feature and revert back to thinking of my code as I originally wrote it.

I don't know if this is the situation here, but I think it's much easier to change code than it is to change one's mind.
Did you know that Windows 1.0 was a tiling window "manager"? Windows couldn't overlap for fear that Apple might sue Microsoft over the look and feel: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/winhistorydesktop.mspx
My thoughts -

1) I really like the landing page. It explains exactly what you guys do very quickly and it just looks great.

2) I'm a big fan of no-signup demos. I wanted to play with it, but not so much that I'd go through the proccess of signing up. I have no need for your service, but hey if it was zero-effort to play with it for a minute maybe I'd recommend it to someone that does.
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Not wishing to get into an argument or stray off-topic too far, but Emacs (Carbon Emacs, at least), works absolutely fine on Mac OS. I've had no problems with it, and I use lots of extra libraries.
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there’s an entire high-end computer stuck to the back of it

Actually, there's an entire discount-parts ($150 cpu, $70 video card) computer stuck to the back of it. If you configure it with high-end parts the price goes up to $2200 and even then you're getting a previous-generation video card (radeon 4850 rather than the new 5850).

It's not really so curious. Apple does the "make exclusive deal with a supplier and beat the rest of the market by 6 months in order to look cool" trick all the time. They did it with Intel for the Macbook Air CPU for example.

What it must mean is that e-IPS panels cost much less to manufacture than s-IPS panels. And that a new generation of higher-res e-IPS displays will be arriving in 6 months.

EDIT: I googled "e-ips" and found this at http://www.displayblog.com/2009/02/13/lg-display-e-ips-lcd-p...

LG Display has developed what it calls e-IPS. e-IPS is a version of the company’s trademark IPS technology that brings the cost down. Way down. LG Display target market is toward the larger LCD monitor market that is currently dominated by TN (Twisted Nematic) technology. LG Display has stated that its e-IPS LCD panels will be price competitive with TN LCD panels.
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its almost entirely about the installer, or lack of in previous linux versions.
HDTV and PC vendors will converge to a similar product. In Europe the iniciative is called Hybrid Broadcast Broadband (http://www.hbbtv.org/). One of the pushers I think is the BBC.
Hmmm, we're trying to figure out some sort of demo. It's hard to jig up with the way Xero does OAuth (they only allow access tokens that last for 30 minutes. Twitter's access tokens last forever. They assure me they are working on it though!).

I guess we could do one that doesn't connect. We'll push it up the priority queue. Thanks :)
Thanks for the feedback!

1) I agree it's difficult to use. Streamlining is a technical problem.

2) I also agree it's difficult to understand. I made up the term 'exercise group.' It's to group the different sets and repetitions for one exercise. I need to make the process more clear and easier to use. This kind of ties in to the first problem. I tried using javascript to have it all on one page in a dynamic fashion but wasn't able to piece it all together. This is the first step in getting a useful interface.

3) This is very interesting to me. I came across this issue with swimming. I looked up some swimming workouts and they looked like nothing I had seen before. I'm familiar with weightlifting. I had thought of being able to copy workouts from one to another. What about being able to copy weeks and then being able to tweak?

4) Do you feel more comfortable with fields?

5) I imagined everyone would have an account.

6) Ok, haha yeah I need lessons on design stat!

Thanks again
It's not clear when you last made a serious effort to try OS X, but you may want to consider taking another look. A lot of the stuff you mention (emacs problems, inability to install packages, VLC crashing) doesn't reflect the current state of the OS.
I agree with lazy but dumb I do not think so. In fact I think that good programmers are lazy and smart.
I developed for several years solely on a Linux laptop - it was my personal laptop too. Then I switched to OSX, and damn what an awesome breath of UI fresh air.

I would never deploy anything on any platform besides good-old Linux, but for a personal computer, I'm sold on OSX.
You should put the "sign up to know more" box the moment you have your domain hosted.

WP Themes like http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-domain-parking-theme/ are your friend... takes 20 minutes to set this up.

Add to the list of emails u get from this page the email address of everyone you network with about the idea/startup. That's kinda cheaky but it's done a lot.

When u launch go through the list to spot any pr, media or VIP people -- offer them a beta. Then just launch and email blast everyone with the information.
Duly noted, thanks. :)
Maybe you could look at Followers to Following ratio of a potential spammer to detect if it is indeed a spammer?
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I agree, if you're on 10.6 and you value your time, just use Carbon Emacs and stay away from Cocoa Emacs until more than 2 people start committing regularly. It's old but it Just Works.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git;a=history;f=...
He was a bit rambling. But he did it with style ;)
Jettis, Epoch & ccbill are reasonably ok.

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Good point. I'd rather have small data (e-mail, personal website, shared files…) at home. It has a smaller "Big Brother" potential.
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How is this not Adobe saying "Just use Flash, Trust Me"? What exactly is now open that wasn't before?
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I have a huge amount of respect for Mark Pincus. He's really been through the trenches and has done a great job growing Zynga. Mark followed two points of pg's advice in "What Startups Are Really Like" that set him up for success. Here's what I've seen that have made Mark great.

In 2007, it was myself and Shervin Pishevar who set out to directly compete against Mark in the gaming space on Facebook. We set our sights directly on Zynga - we used the absolutely best PR company and our huge stacks of VC cash to make sure that we were always one step ahead. From the media's standpoint, it was a two-horse race with SGN taking a commanding lead over Zynga. Mark, however, decided to ignore his competitors. While we were too busy reading the headlines, he kept iterating on his core strategy. He was spending every day polishing his secret sauce to make his games the largest and most profitable on Facebook. Then Mafia Wars launched, ultimately validating his strategy. The rest is history.

Mark certainly had plenty of opportunities to give up. The app acquisition race was costly to all companies involved. While bleeding that cash, Mark was constantly fighting to maintain the profitability of Poker in the midst of massive fraud. Mark's dog, Zynga's namesake, also passed away in this time. Despite all of this, he stayed persistent and stuck through to the end.

I've butted heads with Mark in the past on panels and in the news, but I can tell you without a doubt that Mark Pincus demands some serious respect for the company he's built and the work he's done to get there.
How is this different from this previous submision:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=894176

??
Or run Emacs the way it was meant to be used: in a terminal window. I've been doing that for, oh, about a decade now and haven't seen much cause to switch.
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1, 2) Nice. Wish I could give you technical help, but I don't do any web development at all. I'm sure others here will be able to help though. But, if your having trouble, I'd suggest create something much smaller, with just text fields for example, and try to build it up slowly. Once you get used to it, you can create this interface.

3) Yeah, thats a good idea. A "same as last week" button and a "copy week" button would be great. This can only happen once you re-design the workflow though... I imagine it such that you click a "add a new week" button and then fill it in, so once you do that, you can have these buttons.

4) Yeah. A warning if someone enters something thats not a number/integer, but a field is better (I prefer red text saying "this should be a number" that comes up next to the field, but thats up to you).

5) Even still. If I put up a workout, who will be editing it? How do I know they'll be editing it in a way thats really in the spirit of the original workout. What if a professional weightlifter comes in and starts making the workout more hard core? It might be "better" but not really good for a certain kind of audience?

This is not to say you can't find a way around this. You may want to consider how people get "access" to a workout. If you do restrict access though, a discussion page would be good. I don't see this as an immediate issue, but something you should keep in the back of you mind and think about as you go forward.

6) :) Its just the fact that your a "computer person" so an "index" is something you think about.

P.S. Its good that your taking all the feedback positively.
I'm not really sure what happened here. Usually when the URL matches the submission simply upvotes the previous story, in this case that didn't happen for some reason. As a clarification, I never saw the previous submission.
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Notepad, by the way, remains crap. (page 11)

Ah, call me sentimental, but it's good to know that some things are still kept the way they always were.

I agree with the basic statement on page one: Vista is not that bad, Win 7 is Vista take 2, rough edges smoothed off, and the drastic difference is just in perception.
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Robin has a post about this controversy at Overcoming Bias http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/10/flu-shot-doubts.html .

"revere" cost himself a bit of credibility with me by working his leftist/progressive politics into the article and especially his comment replies.
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Unless something changed in the last 5 minutes, that is not true.
As said somewhere else (currently immediately above, but that could change!) possibly the other was sbmitted at a different time of day.

Also, the other URL has additional parameters - RSS feed, something else - so the URLs don't match exactly.

The other attracted no comments, maybe this one is better timed. It's one thing I wish could be fixed on HN. It's one thing for submissions to be ignored, but having them not seen at all seems a bit of a waste.
Wow, your second link (remove the period from the end) made me feel exactly the way women say they feel about PUA/game advice. Good stuff.
So you use OS X for the nice UI and yet you are willing to use Emacs with an inferior UI?

No thanks. I will stick to Linux.
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This has nothing to do with DTrace, and everything with this:

http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html

Which I don't think has been settled yet.

(Couldn't get links to work nicely)
I hate to turn this into an OS debate, but it looks like it has become one. I have used OS X. I have written software for OS X. I had a job that was to support OS X.

I don't like it; I don't think it works well. It doesn't do what I want and it's not particularly stable. Problems I have with OS X are nonexistent with Linux, so that's what I use.
It was my understanding that overlapping windows was a "cool hack" that the developers implemented for fun. Then the marketing people decided to include that "feature" in the final version... and here we are today.
The price of IPS displays is dropping because LG has developed a new technology called e-IPS that costs much less to make than s-IPS, which it's replacing. The e-IPS displays still cost more than TN displays I think.
Awesome got its name from the sound you make when it crashes and takes your entire X session with it. "Awesome."
pg's definition of a startup is a small business that intends to get big. He says that this is the ordinary Valley definition. This is the kind of business that needs the funding and connections that are available in the valley. So the question becomes: why do people want to start that kind of business?

your definition of small business seems to be the logical/literal one, which includes all businesses that start small, including lifestyle businesses (nothing wrong with that; it's just a different definition of the word, and a different kind of business).

/me rides off into sunset
I dont understand exactly what you're getting at here, could you elaborate?

Also, could you give an example when the Yes/No option doesn't work and when the added complexity of presenting several actions is justified?
Wait until a tiling window manager shows up in a Steve Jobs keynote. Then everyone will suddenly love the concept.
I'm not a big fan of Flash. It's great for doing certain things, but it's also used in places where HTML/CSS + JS would have done just as well. I avoid it unless there's no other choice.
Why would your eyebrow raise a bit when you hear a developer say they use any particular OS?

What do you gain by having such rigors? Why do you assume your opinion is absolute? (Which is must be for you to cock an eyebrow in what I'm assuming is disgust or mistrust).

What do you do when someone tells you they develop on Windows? I'm imagining a groin pull, or something of that magnitude.
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