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Need help finding a post | swapspace: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_be...The corresponding HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373041Is this it? |
Need help finding a post | iamdave: http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=& viewcastid=14This.(kill the space after the ampersand because the link got abbreviated) |
Is the next wave a bunch of sub-$10m Web companies? | pclark: $5M - $10M in revenue or in valuation? |
Is the next wave a bunch of sub-$10m Web companies? | pclark: also, a good reason why we don't see may web success stories that have revenues over $20M is because large companies have people dedicated to sourcing companies to acquire.If they're good at their job they'll acquire them before they have huge revenues - because its cheaper. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | andrewljohnson: It's gotta be photosynth. The ability to stitch together disparate photos is really cool: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_dem... |
Is the next wave a bunch of sub-$10m Web companies? | wschroter: Revenue |
Is the next wave a bunch of sub-$10m Web companies? | vaksel: just build something people are willing to pay for. |
What Would you want in a government API? | geuis: A congressional api. Pass either a lawmakers name and get their voting record. Pass a zip code to get the lawmakers for your area. Pass a bill # to get relevant data, etc |
playin' the stocks game | czcar: Unless you want to do this full time, put it in a index fund. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | scw: Iqbal Quadir on Grameen bank and microfinance:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/iqbal_quadir_says_mobiles...The talk covers the scaling of capitalism to the "other 80%" and the profound social change that takes place with small capital outlays. |
Is the next wave a bunch of sub-$10m Web companies? | brk: I personally think that the "traditional" venture-backed (ie: having raised $10MM+) web startups are going to find acquisitions less rewarding than what they had hoped for.By and large, there have not been a lot of successful Web2.0 startups that have gone on to acquisitions, and many of those that have didn't really end as well as people would have expected.IMO, the current and future wave of web startups is the 3 guys in a basement building out an app and selling it for $3MM-$9MM. Maybe they took a little bit of angel money, maybe they boot-strapped it.In order for a Web/SaaS company to gain real value, they need to be able to have a super-solid revenue model, with a very low COCA (cost of customer acquisition) and customer support/training cost, and TLV for each customer of 5x-10x+ the COCA and CS costs. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | shadytrees: Hodgman, hands down. But that's because I'm a sucker for great stories.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_hodgman_s_brief_digr... |
What Would you want in a government API? | smhinsey: I would like to see a "profile" style portal which can be linked to any relevant Federal programs I am involved with, from Social Security to my tax burdens with the IRS.Primarily I would like this to be a single-service type situation where I can choose to go paperless and conduct all correspondence electronically (if I still need to send in the occasional signature such as you do when you e-file your tax returns, so be it). I'd like to see timeline or email based metaphor for interacting with this correspondence. It should include IRS, passport, immigration, the entitlement programs, the VA, whatever your interactions with the fed cover, it should cover.There is no reason this couldn't share authentication with my state & municipal governments as well. I would like to see a seamless portal for interaction with government at all levels, while each level retains their own autonomy of implementation. If this is 10 years out on the timeline, that is fine, but I do want to see progress made. Start small if you must, but start. |
What Would you want in a government API? | jderick: Before we worry about an API, how about some decent blogs? |
What Would you want in a government API? | rokhayakebe: Law. Location. I want to search what the Law says about the keywords/phrase I submit. This way next time a cop is trying to bs me, I can pull the phone, and double check what's the law in regards to it. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | grandalf: This isn't a TED talk but it might as well be. I found it quite inspiring:Shai Agassi talking about his company Betterplace:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPEwJfSaYmY(Just try to ignore Tim O'Reilly's annoying, negative presence and useless attempts to upstage his guest) |
What is your favorite TED talk? | erik: These are all mentioned in the thread the description links to, but I think it's worth pointing theme out as highlights.Aubrey De Gray on aging
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_ca...Jeff Hawkins on AI
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain...Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_fab_l...Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_techn... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | dimitar: The one by Philip Zimbardo:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_ps...He talks about good and evil, about his famous Stanford prison experiment, about Abu Ghraib, about heroes and villains. Very emotional, very expiring and thought-provoking. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | ned: Barry Schartz on the Paradox of Choice.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_par...To paraphrase his talk:
There is an "official dogma" that more choice equals more happiness.
In reality, we have gone too far, and now more choice induces:
1. paralysis (you have so many choices that you give up and don't choose anything),
2. regret (if what you choose isn't perfect, you can only blame yourself),
3. high expectations and the impossibility to be pleasantly surprised. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | llimllib: I'm shocked that nobody mentioned Ron Eglash's talk on African Fractals: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fra... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | bporterfield: I've always loved this one, great message and a good speakerhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_ballard_on_explori..."NASA's 1 year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years" |
What is your favorite TED talk? | bporterfield: I've always loved this one, great message and a really good speakerhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_ballard_on_explori..."NASA's 1 year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years"Really eye-opening talk about ocean exploration, or lack thereof. This guy has discovered some amazing things. |
What Would you want in a government API? | DanielBMarkham: bullshitMe, which takes as parameters my SSN and returns a load of political crap geared especially for my demographic.Could eliminate a lot of political grunt work and save money come the next election. It would also provide excuses for practical things, like why the potholes aren't fixed or the budget is still unbalanced.I'm also all for simplifyAgency, which takes an Agency name and returns a list of functions that the agency does. So I could call simplifiyAgency("IRS") and receive a list of APIs the IRS exposes.Or how about something extremely practical? Give us access to all of that GIS and USGS data in a simple format. You know, the data that is in the public domain but companies make a killing re-selling us. |
What Would you want in a government API? | parlin: A live feed of who gives funding to campaigns or any politician would be great. Thanks.What if ALL contributions were reported on a public twitter feed-ish service? (and a timeline)Oh, and an api for that data would be sweet too. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | dustineichler: Dean Kamen tech talk wasn't elegant but meaningful |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | farmerwu: Looks like RIM has begun accepting applications to their store. Has anyone gone through the application process yet? I'm glad they got it out, and its not the much past their original December launch date. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | fiaz: The following had an impact on me:Tony Robbinshttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_...Daniel Gilberthttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_...Mihaly Csikszentmihalyihttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_o...It's hard for me to pick a favorite. I hope at least one of them is useful to you. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | Devilboy: This one by Phillipe Stark is my must-watch TED talk.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philippe_starck_thinks_de...He talks about how he approaches his work and about what drives him to excel. I watch it every few months, it gets better every time. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | froo: I quite like Brian Cox's talk on the LHC.Whenever anyone has asked me what the big deal about it was, or if I knew anything about it (I'm the "go to geek" it seems) I've always referred them to that particular talk.He has a very eloquent way of putting it into perspective that has a very romantic view of science which I found inspiring enough to share. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | AndrewO: Not sure if it's my favorite, but the one the hooked me was Bjorn Lomborg's talk on what kinds of projects could cause the most positive change most efficiently:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global... |
What Would you want in a government API? | mooism2: At a different level of government, I'd like a real-time public transport api. Tell me where all the buses and trains are right now, and let me make sense of it for my website's visitors. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | thomasmallen: Unless you can move to a host quickly where you'll know exactly how your app can scale, I recommend you cache the hell out of everything possible. What does the site run on, by the way? Maybe we can offer more specific advice. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | teej: Just cache. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | dangrover: Another Mac dev just assured me no one listens to MBW. :)I'm still putting the files on S3 just in case though. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | cubicle67: Congratulations. Your app looks good and I hope the influx of traffic results in sales. (I have no technical advice to offer) |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | vulpes: S3 amazon link to download, stripped down version at the ready if your current site will start generating too much load. Dreamhost loves to suspend accounts which use too many recourses so to prepare I would move your site over to something more reliable like a small slicehost slice. At the very least you should lower your TTL on the domain to 10 minutes and as soon as you see your site go down, open up a new account at slice and switch over quickly. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | sarvesh: I looked at your page. Change the home page with an html page with just two links. One link will point to a Coral Cache(http://www.coralcdn.org/) and the other to your regular page. That should enable you to handle the load you are expecting. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | truebosko: Being on Dreamhost without the option to move in the limited time, these are your options that I can personally think of:- Cache the hell out of everything.- Fix links to broken JS includes. On http://store.wonderwarp.com you link to https://store.wonderwarp.com/mint/?js which does not exist and wastes valuable processing time only to error out.- Pack and minimize your CSS/JS files, even just temporarily. If you are dead sure this is going to be a lot of people, every small bit of saved bytes helps!That's all I can think of since you've already moved the downloads to S3. Your site is mostly heavy on the static content anyways so not much you can do unless you stripped it down, but I would say keep it as it is because it looks great.Regardless, if your site does go down think of it as a victory. You got so much traffic (and probably sales) to knock you down that you can only become better for the next time you get press. If it's a good product, it will happen again and again :) |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | iigs: Have an almost-static replacement index ready with just enough stuff for a php "give us your email address and we'll send you invites [and a discount or some other bennie]". No CSS or JS on that alternate universe page. If things get nasty you'll want this to be as few keystrokes as possible, because it's possible to trash interactive response in the shell.Maybe make a pass through your normal site with YSlow if you haven't already, but your site is super fast right now (2009-01-20 17:20pm PST), which is good news.Also, if you're concerned about it still and you have another hosting option available, change your index.php to <? header("Location: http://www.temphosting.example.com"); die(); ?>, which is probably the smallest amount of cpu you can involve without getting dns moved.Good luck. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | RoboTeddy: Along with S3 for large static content,- Make sure your MySQL queries are optimized (use EXPLAIN SELECT to make sure indexes are being used as you intend)- If you end up needing a dedicated server, look at a service that can automatically provision servers in a matter of hours (such as http://www.theplanet.com). Or go with something like (http://www.slicehost.com), which can set you up in minutes.- If you need to change servers in a rush, you can leave your DNS with Dreamhost; just set up a subdomain like 's2.wonderwrap.com' that resolves to your new server, and redirect requests for wonderwrap.com to s2.wonderwrap.com- I think you'll be fine! Good luck |
What is your favorite TED talk? | jodrellblank: My favourites have mostly been mentioned - David Deutsch talking about the open-ended generation of knowledge, Dan Gilbert on perception and consciousness, Aubrey De Grey on reversing aging and his arguments for why it will be possible, Barry Schwartz's paradox of choice talk, Malcolm Gladwell.And Burt Rutan on space exploration. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | vaksel: Is there any reason you are still on a shared hosting account? I mean shared is great for b.s. or personal stuff...but I just don't see how anyone can justify using it for anything real when servers or VPS are dirt cheap.I mean you are actually selling a product, you can't afford to have any down time. |
How do you simulate a flash crowd traffic to test your site before launch? | aditya: use siege, http://www.joedog.org/index/siege-home |
How do you simulate a flash crowd traffic to test your site before launch? | mechanical_fish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server_benchmarking |
playin' the stocks game | MaysonL: Read this: http://ycombinator.com/munger.htmlas well as the rest of the yc library (click on the library link at the bottom right of the front page). |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | patio11: I really don't think you're likely to have scaling issues. Your site appears to be static (if not, freeze it temporarily, since there is no dynamic content which adds customer value -- aside from the purchasing pathway, and honestly if your website gets brought down by too many people hitting that at once then you should just take your lumps like a man and then console yourself that as soon as you fix things you can retire to your own private island).It is very, very difficult to knock over a site, even on shared hosting, with just static files which are not rich media. You'd need to have thousands of users a minute. I am not familiar with the podcast, but I am familiar with the concept of conversion rates, and based on the expected conversion rate from someone hearing a URL to typing it in unless his podcast gets piped in over the loudspeaker at MacWorld I rather think you're unlikely to get more than four figures of visitors out of it. You'll get through four figures in a breeze.(Candidly, I think I wouldn't be hoping to see four figures myself, but that might be natural pessimism.) |
How do you simulate a flash crowd traffic to test your site before launch? | mattdennewitz: i havent tried it yet, but ive heard good things about tsung. http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/user_manual.html#htoc2 |
What is your favorite TED talk? | blgraves: Gever Tulley - 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangero... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | sidmitra: I've just started watching TED... but i really liked the http://www.thedolectures.com/ which are similar |
What is your favorite TED talk? | glymor: Thomas Barnett draws a new map for peacehttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_ne...In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break it in two.He's a great speaker, funny if a little hyper active. He received a standing ovation; presumably reflecting the timeliness of his message after the difficulties in Iraq. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | lallysingh: Just remember that DNS change time isn't a big problem if you can put out a HTTP redirect. |
What Would you want in a government API? | ambition: I'd like to see citizens issued with official public/private cryptographic key pairs. I think this would have the potential to hamper identity theft, enable legally meaningful electronic signatures, and bring encrypted/authenticated communication to the public. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | lee: Here's a gem: McKean: Redefining the dictionary
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the...delightful! |
What kind of office do you have? | Tangurena: I'm facing the door (normally open), and not facing the window (which overlooks the Rockies). When I faced the window, I found I didn't look at the monitor, so facing away at least lets me get work done. I have 2 bookcases, one full, the other one getting there. I leave the shades open until about 1pm when I close them because the direct sunlight makes everything unreadable. There are 3 chairs, a whiteboard and another desk (which is unoccupied, and with a hiring freeze is very unlikely to ever get occupied).Because of a bad experience getting laid off at a previous job (if I hadn't tailgated someone else in, I never would have been able to get my personal books and stuff), I normally don't keep more posessions at the office than I can carry out by myself (meaning no aquarium, or other bulky stuffs), and just books. |
What Would you want in a government API? | time_management: You're already doing it wrong. Camel caps? Eww.uglyAsFuckAndAlmostUnreadable -> fail.
acceptable_using_underscores -> better.
using-hyphens-as-lisp-does -> great. |
How do you simulate a flash crowd traffic to test your site before launch? | jcapote: browsermob.com |
What kind of office do you have? | jwilliams: From what I've seen people like facing the door...I remember I once got the choice window desk in a large office (very large - was actually a trading floor of sorts).Whenever I came in on weekends I'd sit with my back to a massive, empty open space. It didn't feel like an issue when there were people around during the week - but when it was just me it really creeped me out. Eventually I swapped with a location that didn't have it's back to the open space. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | amjith: Can you share with us, which ideas you implemented and which ideas gave you the biggest benefit? Thanks. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | whalesalad: You shouldn't have a problem with static file downloads, on Dreamhost or on S3. |
How do you simulate a flash crowd traffic to test your site before launch? | bigbang: ab which is a command line tool to simulate any number of concurrent http requests |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | bill_mcgonigle: Does Dreamhost let you configure apache mod_cache on your account? You might get some wins there. Watch out for artificial limits like database connection counts. But unless they're really awful you should be fine, a decent linux box can throw out huge amounts of traffic. S3 is a good idea, not merely for traffic capability but to avoid getting your account suspended for being 'over-transfer'. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | orionlogic: No other TED talk had surpassed Isabel Allende's inspiring talk about passion.I can't stop viewing from time to time. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/isabel_allende_tells_tale...Another captivating small talk by Bob Thurman (father of Uma thurman) is quite fun. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bob_thurman_says_we_can_b...Helen Fisher's view on romantic love and her scientific observations how it differs from other themes of 'love' which can also be described as the most addictive substance on earth. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/helen_fisher_studies_the_... If you don't be in love like the story she told about Mayan King in the begining, then don't love at all. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | chmike: Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_be... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | awi: Steven Pinker's talk: A brief history of violence is great: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth...Some people fail to realize that our time is the most peaceful there has ever been. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | Zev: Chris Abani's talk on Humanity. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | cloudberryman: If you are on Windows you can use CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3. With FTP like client it makes managing files in S3 EASY
http://cloudberrylab.com/ It supports most of the Amazon S3 and CloudFront features and It is a FREEWARE |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | pclark: few thoughts:S3 = awesome, Transmit makes it nice and easy to use tooDreamhost = awful, seriously consider moving to another host. A Small Orange are awesome, and would probably happily help you out in times of traffic bursts.Please do post back with how you got on! :) |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | cperciva: I think your problem description is missing something; otherwise n1 = n2 = n3 ... = n[m-1] = 1, nm = n - m + 1 is a trivial solution. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | VarunGupta: There can be many ways to do so, one of them is already described by cperciva.Another can be,a) All Integers
n1 = n2 = n3 =.....= n[m-1] = int(n / m) and
nm = n - (n1 + n2 + n3 +.....+ n[m-1])b) Floats
n1 = n2 = n3 =.....= n[m] = n / mI feel the problem can be more serious if you want the parts to be in certain fashion or distribution. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | wlievens: Do n1, n2, ... have to have different values? Increasing values? |
What Would you want in a government API? | corentin: > I imagine it would create a thousands of government jobs, boost every sector of hardware sales, foster the creation of thousands of start ups and bring accountability and transparency to government, among other things.The money you need to fund this stuff has to come from somewhere; hence destroying thousands of non-government jobs, slowing down every other sector of the economy and preventing the creation of thousands of startups. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | inklesspen: Is this your homework? |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | RiderOfGiraffes: As others have said, your problem as stated is trivial. Here's a degenerate solution: n1 = n2 = ... = n(m-1) = 0
nm = n
I'm sure that's not what you want.Here's another solution: n1 = n2 = ... = nm = n/m
I'm sure that's not what you want either.Others have asked relevant questions. Assuming you want the numbers to be integers, and as equal as possible, then compute: k_min = floor(n/m)
excess = n-k_min*m
All will be at least k_min. If they are all k_min, then you will have a total of k_min*m. You need an additional "excess", so assign them, one each, to the first bunch. n1 = k_min + 1
...
n(excess) = k_min + 1
n(excess+1) = k_min
...
nm = k_min
If you want you can reverse this so that the larger ones come after. That's left as an exercise for the interested reader.You could also put all the excess in one place, so you have n1 = n2 = ... = n(m-1) = k_min
nm = k_min + excess
So really, it all depends on what you want. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | mooism2: n[i] = i for 1 <= i < mn[m] = n - m.(m-1)/2This is still fairly trivial.I sense there are yet more requirements you're not telling us. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | alexkay: http://stackoverflow.com/ is a good place for this kind of questions. |
How to handle a potential sudden huge traffic load tonight? | Jem: I unexpectedly got 20,000+ u/hits from StumbleUpon to a dynamic PHP page last year on a shared hosting account and there wasn't even a blip - how much traffic are you expecting exactly?I just wonder if you're unnecessarily wasting effort.. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | gjm11: Sure (even with the distinctness requirement that wasn't originally there). n1=1, n2=2, ..., and nm = whatever's left. This will only work if n is at least 1+2+...+m = m(m+1)/2, but if that isn't true then there's no solution. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | kraemate: protip: Use Generating functions. Piece of cake if you use them for this problem. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | RiderOfGiraffes: Edit: slices should be of distinct values.You can't do it with positive integers if n<m(m+1)/2, or with non-negative integers if n<m(m-1)/2. If there is no restriction then there are, again, trivial solutions.Why are you doing this? As someone else has said, this does smell of homework. If it is homework, then tell us what you've tried. If it isn't, then tell us what it's for.You continue to underspecify your problem. What are you trying to achieve? |
What is your Lipson-Shiu type? | RiderOfGiraffes: ILIE (Grand Vizier) |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | kurtosis: if interested in integer partitions this python should do the jobdef intpart(n): if n == 0:
yield []
for k in range(1,n+1):
for p in intpart(n-k):
yield [k] + p
i believe that this isn't truly integer partitions because it will count 4 = 1,1,2,1 and 1,1,1,2 as different partitions but that's all I can give you between breakfast and work.see wikipedia for integer partiton or young tableau for more on these interesting objects |
Please Review My New Site. | spoiledtechie: I don't expect to make money off this site, but I do hope to make some headway as my first true website...Let me know what you all think. Its a Drinking site which will one day bring all the drinking activities together hopefully. |
Please Review My New Site. | whiter4bbit: actual:) |
Please Review My New Site. | teej: Definitely an interesting idea. Here's a few things:- Iterate on the design: I'd start on the color scheme, since it's easy to get right. Resources: http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/- Random design tip: Please don't use a grey gradient on everything. It looks like everything has a layer of virtual dust on it. Try black or white, and then tweaking the transparency/opacity of the gradient down to 25-75%.- Maybe I'm alone, but I never really thought tag clouds were a great data visualization. Regardless, I think another way to explore the games is worth pursuing. Example: http://www.extratasty.com/recipes |
Please Review My New Site. | mkuhn: i like the idea to get creative ideas :-) a few suggestions:- i would not only display a tag-cloud on the homepage but also top games.- why do you need people to log in / "register". wouldn't a captcha also do the job of avoiding spam and make the log-in/providing personal data optional. i think it makes it more likely people would contribute- categories might could help people to navigate / provide contributers with suggestions how to classify their games. it also enables to "surf" the site.- i don't dislike the design but i would make the navigation a bit more dominant and combine the two logos, combine the picture of the bottles and the title |
Please Review My New Site. | oakmac: I would change the text: "If you do decide to drink, DO NOT Drive. Drink Safely." to simply "Always drink responsibly." and have that section of the text be a link to a new page with a paragraph about drinking and driving. You also might include some external links on that page (MADD, AA, etc).It is more direct to use a command instead of a conditional and use a positive instead of a negative. |
Please Review My New Site. | icey: The layout seems like it's missing something to me. The tag cloud block is too short vertically maybe? I kept waiting for something to load under it, and it never did.The other option is to put the tag cloud in a column on the right and make a center column where you can have a featured game or something? You know, to put some content on the front page.Anyways, it seems like a cool idea - good luck! |
Please Review My New Site. | pclark: whats in the light blue box on the right? adverts?remove it, make the content wider. |
Please Review My New Site. | bemmu: My attention was drawn to the tag cloud first, and that made me confused as to what the site was about. Only later I noticed there was a description on the left.Personally I am also a bit skeptical of the usefulness of tag clouds. It seem to me they are mostly interesting to techie types who like to think about raw data. I would rather see some specific examples of recently hot drinking games from the site. |
Please Review My New Site. | axod: The "Drinking For.com" is only half visible in Safari. (Can only see top half of it). |
What is your Lipson-Shiu type? | jdp: ICIG (Entrepreneur) |
Please Review My New Site. | superdude44442: Yeah! I love drinking!!! |
Please Review My New Site. | jordanf: Nice man. Black text on blue is hard to read for me, though. |
Wrong choices during development, who pays? | josefresco: You proposed the method, which means you should stand behind it's success or failure. It's also likely that your client based his/her decision based on your expert advice (which is why they hired you)However I know many consultants who simply bill for their time no matter what, even if the path taken leads to complete failure or results in time wasted. |
Please Review My New Site. | moxy: I can't say I'm too fond of the color scheme. However, I left the site feeling impressed, primarily because I'm quite fond of the site's purpose.It might be beneficial to replace the tag cloud with something a bit less abstract and considerably more specific -- possibly even a "recommended games" or "top games" page. Though you could always use the tag cloud to supplement the interface. |
Please Review My New Site. | noahlt: When you click a tag and see a listing of activities, the headers ("equipment" and "rules") are inline with the text. Where it should read like: Equipment
foo bar and baz
Rules
blah blah blah.
it looks like Equipment foo bar and baz Rules blah blah blah.
That is hard to read, and ugly.Also, the colors aren't so pretty.Neat site though. Clever premise. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | sh1mmer: I would definitely say Jonathan Harris talking about wefeelfine.org http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_harris_tells_the...It's a fascinating data-mining project as well as something that looks at how technology can affect people and what we can do to help. |
Please Review My New Site. | GrandMasterBirt: Very non-standard navigation up top, but not so bad, I actually like it since it is so simple.The site looks nice. What would make sense is that the 1st page is the description up top, then tag clound. Every other page has the description on the side. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | sh1mmer: Oh and I'd also really recommend Tony Robbin's talk. I've seen him live and this is a real snap-shot of that http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_...I think his approach is really interesting and think he has a genuine desire to help people work out what drives them and use that to do something good. |
review my app whereslunch.org | pclark: awesome, wish there was a UK equivalent.How about you make a Cambridge, UK version and I'll try to get some people to use it? |
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