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Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | sidsavara: I do a lot of development in Java, Java Server Faces specifically. We used RichFaces which comes with some slick templates and modules. We added FamFamFam silk icons, used JFreeChart for charts and some scriptaculous for transitions and effects, and the whole thing came out looking great.This may be off topic, but I think part of is it the graphics, and part of it is the AJAX "feel". By that I mean, even though Google Reader and GMail are AJAX apps, they don't "look" like it. I think that is kind of the point though: they're functional, and they don't get in the way. We used lightbox type effects, loading buttons and drop downs sparingly, to really enhance the user's experience. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | radley: Can you find someone from a local college or Craigslist to build Google? Prolly not. Same goes for Vimeo's design. It may seem really simple and easy in appearance, but that's the result of clever design, not chance.It's really hard to hire a talented creative director if you know nothing about design. You may want to consider working with a design studio for now, just to learn the ropes and gain a higher appreciation. Poke around design award websites or places like deviantart.com to find one. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | Harkins: I'm using the free Silk icons from http://famfamfam.com/ -- they're pretty popular, a lot of apps use them. |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | noodle: iirc, the major issue is that you need some serious money, coordination, and brainpower to make it happen. many countries just aren't coordinated, rich, or connected enough to make it happen.one of the major inhibitors are, indeed, the "nuclear secrets" as it were. there are a few special sauces that just take experimenting and tinkering and brainpower to work out. all of which also cost more and require more supplies.or, at least, thats my simplified, non-physicist understanding of it. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | mstefff: Myself. Photoshop is extremely easy to learn - mainly for regular web sites/graphics. Spend some time and read some tutorials. Get yourself very familiar with CSS. And begin scanning through CSS galleries to get inspiration. Sites like Vimeo are extremely easy to design. Don't waste your money. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | pibefision: I suggest u take a look at Cuoma.comIt's a small branding agency that works great, and it's in south america. |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | jellicle: Refining potentially fissionable material is difficult. Remember that U-235 and U-238 are chemically identical, so you can't separate them by any chemical means, and U-235 makes up only 0.7% of natural uranium ore.The Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people... many of those were NOT the guys designing the bomb, but the guys trying to set up refining operations and the like. It cost the equivalent of $21 billion dollars in today's money, and took five years to get a bomb.So, if you have a country that has $21 billion dollars and five years to spare, and can avoid getting bombed by the United States during that time, and is sitting on minable fissionable materials, they can develop a bomb... Even if you give them a 50% discount because it has already been done, still, $10 billion dollars. |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | orib: The hard part is getting enough enriched uranium. it's chemically the same as all other uranium ore, and the only difference that you can use to separate it is a 0.85% mass difference of the atoms. Once you have the uranium extracted, the bomb itself is trivial, as far as these things go. You need some knowledge about how it works, but the actual parts are simple enough. In fact, you could probably put together one with steampunk technology without too much trouble if you had the uranium |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | aristus: The fissionable material is the big part. But don't underestimate technical details like the shaped & coordinated charges, etc. A few years ago the US government posted all of the documents turned over from Iraq's nuclear program. A few of those documents were taken down quick after nuclear experts warned them that they were releasing vital and hard-to-discover engineering details. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | cacique: visit http://www.cuoma.com is a small Design agency locate in Argentina, but have a premium skills in branding apps and web2.0 Design. Contact me directly at smartinez@cuoma.com |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | Ezra: It's trivial to design and build a nuclear weapon.The trick, as others have mentioned, is getting the Uranium.You do not need billions in R&D, or a crack team of scientists.A working bomb was actually designed by two (ableit, smart) students... in 30 months... in 1964. It would be far easier today.Check: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science"You could have taken any number of classes at Beloit with Professor Dobson, until his recent retirement, without having any reason to know that in his mid-20s, working entirely as an amateur and equipped with little more than a notebook and a library card, he designed a nuclear bomb.Today his experiences in 1964 - the year he was enlisted into a covert Pentagon operation known as the Nth Country Project - suddenly seem as terrifyingly relevant as ever. The question the project was designed to answer was a simple one: could a couple of non-experts, with brains but no access to classified research, crack the "nuclear secret"? In the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, panic had seeped into the arms debate. Only Britain, America, France and the Soviet Union had the bomb; the US military desperately hoped that if the instructions for building it could be kept secret, proliferation - to a fifth country, a sixth country, an "Nth country", hence the project's name - could be averted. Today, the fear is back: with al-Qaida resurgent, North Korea out of control, and nuclear rumours emanating from any number of "rogue states", we cling, at least, to the belief that not just anyone could figure out how to make an atom bomb. The trouble is that, 40 years ago, anyone did." |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | tlrobinson: We've done pieces ourselves, and...http://www.madebysofa.com/ - Cappuccino logo at http://cappuccino.orghttp://metalabdesign.com/ - splash page for http://280slides.com and http://280north.comhttp://cocoagrove.com/ - 280 Slides logo and some of the graphical elements in 280 Slides |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | jadence: I tried local colleges (http://www.academyart.edu/) but found the rates the students want to charge as much as the more experienced designers though they had much thinner portfolios.So far all the designers I've hired have been through recommendations of friends and they've worked out well so far.For logo design (yes, I realize a bit off topic) I recommend http://www.designoutpost.com |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | rms: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | tdonia: typography. it's not the only thing a good designer knows, but it's a basic skill that the good ones respect.there are 2 schools of design that a savage like me can comprehend: systemic and emotional. i'm sure that many can argue for the many gradations, but these are the important distinctions/extremes to recognize. that said, it's not either or - successful designers evoke (that's an important word- what does your potential designer's portfolio evoke) their ideas in a consistent/lasting manner. this requires both schools of thought - powerful ideas that can be repeated/propagated.emotional design is provocation. vimeo is better at this than google - compare the persistent vimeo login page with the occasional google holiday logo. that said, there's a much wider range of emotions that neither of these places touch. good emotional graphic designers will understand how to communicate your product evoking a positive emotional response.systemic graphic design is the ability to maintain an identity, consistently, and create familiarity. most of us feel that if we were hired as a brand manager for google, we'd have a pretty good sense of whether or not a page put in front of us meets their identity's requirements. that's a test to remember. more than any one event in your brand's lifecycle, systemic graphic design will be there to give you a (relatively) easy solution in any situation, once your voice has been defined. best example in a typeface: helvetica. these designers demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of systems design. look at Paul Rand's work & Josef Müller-Brockmann to see evidence of a system that's designed to be familiar, even when it's radical.ideally, you need both. an easy metric that would hold up against the best ones i know (and no, i won't release their names, they're busy ;) - they love to talk about their art and they will not hesitate to tackle a new challenge, especially if it seems hard. even at the expense of dayjobs & prior commitments. then, give them space. when ideas seem ethereal, be very clear on your business requirements, but let them solve the problem/bring it back to earth.hope this helps. graphic design is half of how i discovered (social) hacking and i can't stress its importance enough - it's a useful field to learn about, not just depend on. |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | mechanical_fish: I recommend Richard Rhodes' book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | sprice: Intelligence |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | bjclark: This question makes me giggle.Who the fuck would care about how many LOC they write a day? I've never even considered this.Things I care about in my code (thanks Kent):
Runs all the Tests?
Reveals all the intention?
No duplication?
Fewest number of classes or methods?Although, I kinda of like this question. I'm going to add this my list of questions to ask someone in an interview. Only cause I want to see how many try to answer this with a straight face and how many people giggle. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | timcederman: Find people on smashingmagazine.com (their gigs section) |
What prevents more countries from creating nuclear weapons? | streety: All the comments so far seem to focus on Uranium based nuclear weapons but what about plutonium based?My physics knowledge is basic at best but my understanding was that if you had a working nuclear reactor then plutonium could be extracted, relatively, easily from the waste.Are there other obstacles in the making of a plutonium based weapon which means it's actually easier to enrich U235? |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | yokumtaku: The app was neat, but I think anyone that has a need to type Japanese already has an IME. The latency of the app was irritating enough to make me not want to use it for anything more than typing a couple of characters. If it was faster, it would be much more useful. Nice job. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | jsvaughan: We got the http://www.bionicbooks.com logo by posting a project on http://www.crowdspring.com |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | lyime: This is a great question and there is no easy answer.
I was also on the same page as to having a really amazing design for our app/start (Mugasha.com). I am not a designer myself, I am developer/UI/UX guy although, I have an appreciation for good design ethics. There are two ways to go about it, One is what 280North did and hire these mini-studios. They are great, focused and quite talented. Make sure its a mini one, big ones are not very focused. The second is the path I choose and found a designer in our local are through networking and events and made him a partner. This is tough, I am giving away a quarter of my company to a designer who I trust. I am also making him responsible and take ownership of the design and UI. Its a collaborative effort in the end but the best thing to do would be to hire someone who is good and who you can trust. |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | wlievens: Anywhere from -5000 to +5000, duh. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | ilamont: Unless your real name is "I.M Neuron," you have nothing to worry about. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | ScottWhigham: So Stackoverflow is a relevant community now? Huh....Anyway, I suppose it depends on the type of job you're after. Want a position in the FBI as a spy? Probably not gonna happen if you're a twitter junkie, I'd guess. Want a job as a web developer? Probably more likely to happen if the employer thinks you have your "finger on the pulse".I think that, as long as you don't have stupid things on the web that make you look unprofessional, you're okay. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | maxklein: That's why I use a one way name. It's easy to go from this name to my real name, but it's not as easy to go from my real name to this name. I stand by the things I say here, but I do not want to have to explain them, or have them permanently associated with me when anyone does a casual google search. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | brk: If your comments are generally "+1, Insightful" sort of stuff, then this would generally help you.Of course, this is based on the premise that you also have decent references and can speak to accomplishments in your prior job. If all you have are online comments, then you don't have much going for you. If you have a strong resume and experience plus quality posts in relevant forums, that should work in your favor. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | thomasmallen: I've been trying to delete accounts with my name tied to them (emailed Sir Graham asking to delete this one a month ago), but I'm on the fence. I think that generally what I write reflects positively. |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | truebosko: How do I actually use this on other sites? Seems I can't or am I missing something?Also you probably know this but if I make the abbreviation:
hh = hello hello
Then add another one like:
hhy = hello hello to youhh is replaced with "hello hello" before I can finish typing hhy. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | charlesju: Cool startup, I like the logo. The video is a nice touch, people are just too lazy to read these days (myself included).Suggestions:
- Lose some of the fluff. For example, in your "what?" section, you could've written it as simply "We notify you when artists release new albums". There is no reason to have more words than you need to describe your product.
- I would have preferred voice in the video. Don't be shy, having a voice over helps a lot.
- Maybe add a way to import information from existing sources like Last.fm or Facebook's music interests?I'm intrigued by how you guys plan to monetize this, but maybe I'm just greedy and should be thankful for a web app that helps alleviate some of my headaches. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | twinkle: Have you seen http://hitbio.com? You can comment your google search results and forward the the 'bio' you just created to your potential employer. |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | mrlyc: LOC are not always accurate. I once rewrote 2,650 lines of C code as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program using their own implementation of ftp. I just used the one that was already on the computer. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | pxlpshr: Pretty good idea and easy to monetize if people actually purchase through your site. I see this being less than 5% tho.The logo concept is ok I suppose, but the overall presentation of your brand (logo+site) will significantly impact adoption of a product like this. I recommend you put some energy ($) into it... the logo reads like there's a 'T' in it btw.I think you should enable some public features, for example a user can easily see any new releases within the last week. This will also boost your saturation on search engines. |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | known: Any good implementation of asoftware feature is inversely proportional to the number of lines of code. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | tomjen: I sure hope they google me - I am apparently with Copenhagen Business school, a filmmaker, a photographer and (twice) a carpenter. Well at least I am no longer a gay porn star. |
Django hosting | robg: I found webfaction.com from recommendations here, and I haven't been disappointed. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | symptic: I've been designing since I had to pack up my art supplies when I moved at 14. http://sicret.net has some of my work, though less of my recent stuff which is more based on typography and establishing a well-constructed grid.grid.While I am working on my own startups, I'm also a university student and need to pay the bills through freelancing. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | bouncingsoul: It's a pain to add artists one-by-one, and the service isn't valuable until I do.I (and a lot of my friends) already have a list of artists in my Facebook profile. You should let me paste that in and parse it. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | tyohn: The concept is fine but I find the design a little drab. In my opinion this is an "entertainment" based site and you mentioned possibly selling music... you need to jazz it up, give it some pop - create a vibrant color scheme - then I think people will feel more in-tune with your site. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | pclark: this is cool, but the real reason I'd want this? honestly?When the albums get leaked to what.cd.I like the layout, I really like the sign up form (nice and simple)
one thing, when searching for something with multiple results there is no way to go "back" once you've clicked "n more artists"its a bit weird that the album links dont go direct to amazon/iTMS -- i assumed that was your revenue stream? |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | tjweir: You could run a design competition at 99designs.com.You would then follow-up with the winner if you needed any extra work. |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | PaulKeeble: A lump of bash(ish) scripts for doing auto deployment is after 9 weeks average around 130 lines added a day and around 4 removed.Interesting the peak is 1201 lines, and the lowest is 1. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | lacker: I think you have it backwards. I do a lot of interviews, and I would love to see more interviewees who care about Python versus Java, why can't Rails scale, et cetera. Everyone spends their spare time doing something - if you spend it talking about relevant technologies that's a good thing, not a bad thing. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | edw519: I sure wouldn't want a prospective employer, headhunter, or customer of contract services to find any of my posts here that start with, "My startup...".Why would they want to hire someone who would be gone as soon as their startup took off? |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | STHayden: I still think it's best to hire full time designers then going to an outside firm. I am biased because I am a user interface designer for startups. But I think working on something full time lets you understand the application much better. |
Django hosting | callmeed: MediaTemple has Django grid containers now. Starts at $20/mo.http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/features/containers.php... |
Django hosting | ynd: I recommend a VPS with slicehost.com at 20$ month, with Nginx to serve static files and fastcgi for Django. Nginx+FastCGI is the answer to the memory constraints(256mb).There are multiple plan you can update to. And since it's a VPS, updating is painless. |
Django hosting | arien: I'm using cheapish shared hosting Site5, which supports PHP, Django and Rails. The Django instalation wasn't exactly easy, but it worked (if you need help I can give a hand).However you might prefer going for a more Django focused host, you can find a few @ http://djangofriendly.com/hosts/. |
Where are the Midwestern startup jobs listed? | roberte3: Former midwestern guy myself. There are very few midwestern 'startups'.If you don't want Chicago (My first choice for midwestern livable/startupable city).You might consider Indianapolis - its fairly diverse considering how close to KY it is. But there are a fairly large number of software firms for the size.Probably your best bet is to do some searching for mailing lists for technology groups in your area. If your interested in iphone stuff, look for x-coder hacking group in the region. Get to know the people and you will find a partner to found something with or you will hear about the job openings that no one is announcing because they are to small. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | grag: I think it would make sense to allow people to use your app (start building a list of artists) before registering. Just store their list to a cookie and show a little notification that tells them to enter their email and a password to save their artist list and start receiving notifications. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | marketer: Create a personal website and use some SEO voodoo magic to make it the top result for search engines. That way, when potential employers search for you, you can control what they see, to a certain extent. |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | raganwald: What do I think?1. I think you look a lot less like a forty-something or fifty-something business manager, but only because most people of that generation who weren't in computers grew up with Usenet, mailing lists, or BBS's. So if their idea of "professional" is to be just like that, no, you don't look professional.2. I think my children will laugh at this question: They will grow up being on CCR 24/7 in public, with facebook and its descendants being their social hubs, and with everyone able to see transcripts of everything. That doesn't mean your question is laughable, only that this is a very temporary phenomenon driven by a generation gap. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | wensing: Great idea--solves a practical problem (albeit not one that I have).On a different note: do you care how people pronounce your name?My first thought was "Muspy", almost rhymes with "Musky".My second thought (upon seeing the logo) was "Oh! Mus- is from music. And -py is from ... Python?" So now I'm thinking about pronouncing it "Muse-py"--as in how you'd pronounce a Python module. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | jah: Well, I can tell you where NOT to go:When I first setup http://chesstr.com I tried one of the larger, "get a logo for only $150" firms. Needless to say, I was tremendously disappointed. First, my website name was misspelled in a few of the mockups - seriously, how do you manage to misspell 'chess'?I also felt very pressured to select my logo from a handful of rather bland options ("make your selection so we can wrap things up"). They made some claim about 100% satisfaction, but I was so frustrated and displeased I just walked away - $150 bucks down the drain.I ended up just doing it myself with gimp. It's certainly not very good - but it was better than the alternatives. B latent plug, anyone have any good logo ideas for a chess website? :) |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | arthurk: Would it be possible to have a RSS feed with the latest album releases rather than email notifications? |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | kirubakaran: Fuck. That. Shit.http://xkcd.com/137/ |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | emmett: It adds a cost to creating a user account. Sometimes, you actually want that. Also a user with a valid email address is worth more than a user without one; even with dropoff the value could be worth it.That said, we don't do it at Justin.tv, and I think it's stupid. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | qhoxie: There are a lot of reasons to do it depending on the application.One that comes to mind from my own experience is if you need a valid email address for further transactions. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | jkkramer: 1. Prevents typos (though bounced emails are not a big deal)2. Makes it so you can't sign someone else up surreptitiously3. Ensures the email they enter is realDepending on the site, these may or may not be a concern. For some sites, the drop-off rate is worth the reduction in support hassle. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | m0digital: Good question. I'm kinda torn both ways. One advantage is that you know that the email they provided is valid so that if you do need to send them important updates it will work, otherwise there's no way to invite the users back if they haven't checked your site out in a while. There are compromises you can make like giving access to 70% of your site w/o email confirmation and the other 30% after email confirmation. I'm not a usability expert so someone else may have a better answer. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | cperciva: If you're ever going to be sending your users email, you should have people confirm their accounts -- otherwise, you're just another "they opted in, really!" spammer. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | ashleyw: Don't require your users to activate immediately, give them a day to do it, and just don't give them access to anything a spammer would love to use - or limit how many times they can do it before they need to activate.And after they have submitted their details (which should only be critical information — seriously, nobody likes long forms.), don't send them to a dedicated "Thanks for registering" page, its a waste of time for them for them, just take them to the homepage or where ever the magic happens, and present a banner above the content thanking them and giving any info they may need.And overall, don't get too defensive on spammers; Lets face it, your not going to get much spam until your site is popular — so go easy and don't frustrate your users, and then tighten your defenses later down the line if required.Those are my post-signup "rules". I love working out how not to annoy users even slightly — sadly a lot of sites don't do it very well! :) |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | noodle: confirmation emails are useful if you're looking to verify ownership and existence of a particular email address.not all apps need this, so not all apps would necessarily want to use it. but if yours does, there's not really a good reason to specifically avoid using them.just a tool in the toolbox, as it were. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | truebosko: LOVE The idea. Allow me to import from Last.fm and I'll use your service. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | nextmoveone: I actually look forward to them cause I tag them so if I forget my login info I can just refer back to it. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | markbao: I think one way to approach it is to only require confirmation if they want to receive email. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | rodmaz: I think for some solutions the quality of data is very important, sometimes crucial. Think LinkedIn, Facebook, which are sites that count very much on the quality of the data they collect for advertisement purposes.
Facebook for instance enforces that you enter a valid email address to belong to a network (e.g. Cornell University etc).
Maybe someone creates a solution, a 3rd-party app which could do the trick (maybe even use Twitter for that). Ideas?? :) |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | mattdennewitz: when i read the name, the first association i made was "mumps" |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | tstegart: It has benefits from the customer's point of view. Too many people here are looking as it as a hassle. Its not always. sure, as the original poster pointed out, having that requirement on low priority sites, as he calls them, is annoying. But if you're setting up something important, you want to know that everything you set up is correct and your identity is verified. If I was setting up an online trading account it makes me feel better to have a line of communication established. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | mdemare: I've actually googled around (in vain) to find such a service (after searching everywhere on last.fm for this feature - I was convinced that they'd have it - but no...)So, excellent idea, I needed it yesterday! |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | pstinnett: I think this is an interesting idea. I definitely agree with other comments here. Open it up to let users import data from Last.fm or other apps that are recording their listening trends. Then let them know what albums are being released from artists they frequently listen to.Pulling in info then making a recommendation system would be great. Maybe work on an iTunes plugin to read star ratings and phone back to the app? Just thinking out loud here, I have no idea if something like that would be possible. |
Review our site, ListBite (social classifieds) | djm: Question: How did you select the list of locations to use in the UK version of your site? I would have thought that you would do it based on population size but there are some rather small places in the list - eg Bath & Swindon.Bug: When clicking the logo to return to the home page from one of the UK regional urls the site returns to the .com instead of .co.uk page and shows the US locations. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | callmeed: If you have an app with paid & free levels of service, it prevents people from creating multiple, free accounts. |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | haasted: Overall, I think it is a nice and useful service. I could definitely see myself using it.My first thought once I grasped its function was "where do they get the data? Can I be sure that my favourite, obscure indie band will show up there?". Perhaps you should add this info somewhere?Disclaimer: I did not sign up for an account, so there is a possibility that I missed a members' faq somewhere. |
Review our site, ListBite (social classifieds) | soc: Thx,
For the UK site we picked locations based on area and population, but definitely can refine it some. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | mtw: unicity of users |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | ajkirwin: One word: SpamYou can't rely on things like captcha's, not anymore. But requiring an email address is at least a small difficulty. And if you get a whole bunch of signups from a single domain in a short period (And it's not, say, gmail) you know something's up. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | jraines: Are you talking about double opt-in? I have a site where if I don't use double opt-in via a confirmation email (with "click this link to activate") then I get a ton of bots filling out my form and cluttering my inbox. |
Review our site, ListBite (social classifieds) | mapleoin: sorry, I can't get past the frontpage due to the schematic design |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | pistoriusp: I think the point might be to confirm that the email the user is signing up with is a valid email address which belongs to them. It's especially helpful if a user wishes to reset a password. This might help prevent users from creating multiple accounts.Sure, it's easy to get around, but for most users they simply comply. That been said we don't use email validation on any of our websites. |
Learning Erlang from scratch | qhoxie: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlangNo question. Written by the author of the language.It has lots of great practical examples and walks you through everything from start to finish.http://www.trapexit.org also has some really nice tutorials and discussion. |
Review our site, ListBite (social classifieds) | halo: Why would someone want to use your site over the better established sites that do the same thing (Craigslist in the US, Gumtree in the UK)? |
Learning Erlang from scratch | tdupree: After seeing it referenced a lot on HN, I've also been really interested in learning Erlang.What projects have you fellow hackers used/are using Erlang for? Are you glad you did? |
Learning Erlang from scratch | tlrobinson: I don't know Erlang and I haven't read this, so I can't vouch for it, but I came across this book:http://www.erlang.org/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf |
Review our site, ListBite (social classifieds) | tyohn: I think you should narrow your focus. Didn't craigslist start out with just one area? Why do you call it social classifieds? Is there a social network tied in somehow? |
Django hosting | jaskew: Dreamhost, install is manual, but works fine for me.Hosting is dirt cheap and there are all sorts of deals out there for them.Customer service and the way they run the place seems to have gotten better lately, too. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | webwright: We just removed ours.The only benefit I can name is that it confirms your ability to communicate to the user if they lose a password, etc.And, it probably incrementally adds to the value of your company (presumably a company would rather have 500,000 confirmed email addresses than 500,000 unconfirmed ones... Of course, given drop-off...) |
Review our site, ListBite (social classifieds) | wmeredith: I won't use it because I'm in Kansas City. Also, it looks like a parked domain. |
Learning Erlang from scratch | jfarmer: I wrote a few Erlang tutorials was I was learning: http://20bits.com/tag/erlang/The public documentation for the language is awful. |
Learning Erlang from scratch | balpreetspankaj: A few days ago, I was looking at this presentation on Erlang presented at one of Google Tech Talk. This was my first introduction to Erlang and I found it very informative.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=240707194662243675&#... |
Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional? | timcederman: "stronger" your reputation? :) |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | charlesju: You need an out-of-bound communication to retrieve password and authenticate the account. If you can weather users not being able to retrieve their password, then by all means take out e-mail activation, but if you want to build a robust application, you should keep it in. |
Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? | jhrobert: The answer lies there: http://virteal.com/ThePerfectLoginItem 1 of the "check list" is titled "Optional registration" |
Django hosting | nated: I rarely see them mentioned but linode is probably the best deal I have seen. 19.95/month you get a VPS solution, full root access, 360mb ram, 200GB Transfer and they have awesome customer service. And no, I am not affiliated, its just nice to see a hosting company that serves its customers well @ Linode.com |
Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service) | dc2k08: include concert listings for followed artists. link to ticket sellers for revenue. explore other ticket related ideas. |
Learning Erlang from scratch | damienkatz: The best way to learn any language is to build stuff. Build something you think is cool. Allow yourself to suck at it and do everything wrong. Then build it again, or build something else cool. |
How do I profit from my idea? (new tagging system with many benefits) | ram1024: i think the only really tried and true method is to bring it to startup in a company and demonstrate that it is really a new and beneficial addition to the market.take your tags and make a business out of it. until you do it has no value and can't really be safeguarded as just "an idea". |
Test-driving a Porsche: Arc or Perl 6? | mechanical_fish: Like many people, I used to really like Perl 5 and I wrote some important code in it, though I feel that I never really understood a lot of its remote corners. But all I've seen of Perl 6 is its Wikipedia page, which I have just read. And now, for some reason, the image from this article is stuck in my mind:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_brother_where_art_thou"Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball."Somehow, Wikipedia's definition of the second-system effect feels incomplete without a link to Perl 6.I'd play with Arc. It's small, young, designed to be comprehensible, and based on one classic language instead of on all of them at once. |
Should I just burn the bridge? | nreece: One option can be to switch from a full-time job to independent consulting, so that you can still earn by doing short-term consulting projects, and still be able to devote more time to your startup. |
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