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Nice! I've built several production systems using node/express/jade + require/backbone/handlebars, and I completely see why you made OJ. To me, OJ is the logical next step, just beyond where we are now. Please ignore the hate and accept my Kudos.

This post is getting a lot of flack from people who haven't given it more than a glance.

-------Benefits

1. SEO is not a problem.

Since OJ can be compiled on the server-side, it's comparable to EjS, JADE or other templating languages, which means SEO is not a problem.

2. Current code-size can be ignored in the long run.

This code doesn't have to be sent to the client (since it can run on the server), could possibly be hosted by a CDN and cached across the web, and can probably be tightened up in the future.

3. CSS is still available, but the views know about their css files and are coupled with them

4. True MVC on the front end

OJ gives us the chance to do true MVC in the web frontend, without having a javascript view and an dom view and css styles that are separate, but that work together to make one thing. It seems to me that they're really made for each other - shouldn't they be together at last?

5. Sharing code will be easier

OJ could eventually be supported by a package manager that allows you to include (or install for server-side) js objects for things like youtube videos, but also for tweets etc. Separation of concerns (So your app doesn't just have one huge CSS file, but each view has it's own css, and it's own html & js etc) will also reduce complexity in larger apps.

------Trade offs

1. Yet another framework to learn/use

2. May be slower than what you currently do to render pages

3. If used client side, you may weaken your site's SEO

4. New engineers to your team will likely need to be brought up to speed.

5. (short term) There are likely weird bugs you'll pull your hair out over.

I'm looking for a quick response to "How", w/o going through code. Care to enlighten me?

I'd also expect internal communication to be much faster than going over the internet.

I thought it was fun, so my title is not deceptive. Maybe you've got a different idea of fun from me. Note - I don't work with/for docker, just thinking about using it and found this tutorial.

I don't have insight into this, but since your startup seems to lean heavily on twitter, I'd like you to check out this link/video - it perfectly encapsulates my views on the matter.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/fred-wilson-be-your-own-bit...

Specifically, 20 minutes into the video.

true, but it's absolutely what i needed to find today. Thanks!

Sent to (at least) people who booked with them in the past by email, quoted below.

I added this link because I wanted feedback on whether or not this is good customer development - it's not face-to-face, but it's targeted and probably on a mass scale. Also I posted it as a kudos to FlightCar - I booked with you guys and had a great time.

Email follows below: -------- Hey there!

Thanks for listing your car with us on your last trip. We're thinking of launching a new program (in addition to our current offering) and wanted to get your thoughts first.

Could you please fill out a quick 4-question survey? http://flightcarsurvey.wufoo.com/forms/flightcar-long-term-p...

We really appreciate your time.

Thanks,

Rujul Zaparde Co-Founder/CEO FlightCar

I used it in my desktop (mac chrome) browser, and it's a better UI than the HN website itself - much less pain from context switching. The biggest issue for me is that it's really hard to read text - mainly because there's too much on the page, and the formatting makes it all unremarkable. Even the comment indentation is unremarkable, and easy to miss.

Improve readability and make comments easier to access (perhaps inline them after the article text), and you've created something amazing.

The video on the homepage is so, so boring! Make it 30 secs max, and keep me interested! The biggest problem is that I want what you're selling, but I don't want to sit through your boring video, which makes me skeptical that I can use your platform to make a non-boring video: I assume that your video is the best possible result of using your product, and it sucks.

So I didn't sign up.

I wonder what happens in a case like this if the person is simply unable to remember the password.

Because it's cheaper, but has a lower quality UI/UX.

Actually, a trailer park would probably be a huge deal. The biggest problem would always be knowing who just wants a cheap place to live vs a cheap place to hack.

I'd recommend vanguard.com . From what I can tell, wealthfront is largely repurchasing vanguard funds and selling them downstream.

I guess facebook has truly become a utility: It's a semi-monopolist users hate, but they find it too hard to cut the cord. Sounds like AT&T, Comcast etc.

It's in github's best interest that students get this for free - they want you to share it with your friends. Free things typically have a higher viral factor, and github is actually quite social.

Your $7/month isn't really doing them any favors. They'd prefer if you'd convert your friends.

Those are rare successes, but if you look at the hits on the appstore, they're much more uniformly indie.

This is a bad idea b/c of sync issues. Just use bitbucket, which is a poor man's github.

Problem is the difference in the budget to bring a great game to market. It's unlikely that a tiny team can bring a great console game to market, but that happens all the time on mobile.

But I agree - it seems to make sense to make it easier to develop games (aka simpler, cheaper, better-designed tooling that does more heavy lifting), and add an appstore.

This is Oya's approach, and the big problem with this approach is that it doesn't really invite developers with deep pockets : developers who can actually pay to 1)develop a quality product, 2) advertise their product across mainstream media - which will drive demand of your platform.

And the final problem is that it'll be way less profitable for Oya: console games are so overpriced that they subsidize the consoles themselves. But apps can't really subsidize the iPhone - they're a low-margin business.

I think the real solution is to give away both the consoles and the games, but charge a monthly subscription, and divvy it up based on engagement in games. It'll be the new cable tv: $25 for basic service (you only get access to 20% of hot games, but all regular games), and $45 for premium access to everything, with netflix and hulu plus thrown in for free.

It's a digital good (so marginal cost is zero). Price floors are the only thing stopping the average price from falling to zero. This means that an apple-imposed price floor is enticing. However, apple can always remove the price floor once they have enough inventory to make their market appealing.

How'd you get the rights to 1) the music, and 2) the video clip that's used?

For me, you absolutely must have location targeting. Combined with a subreddit suggestion tool, and the ability to actually choose my own budget/pay per click or per impression, I'd be able to take reddit ads seriously. Right now, I'd only do reddit ads to promote content, or for laughs.

What makes it a poor offering?

Newegg's strategy here is basically applied game theory, where they loudly and publicly state that they will never pay licensing fees to trolls, and then they loudly and publicly show that to be the case. Worse, they're actually winning their court cases, and destroying the value of their opponent's patent portfolio.

Nobody in their right mind would waste time trying to troll them now - unless they have a really rock-solid case, which is unknowable before litigation.

My company's currently the subject of sabotage on yelp, and it's having a pretty substantial effect. Now, I don't think that yelp itself is responsible, but they make it pretty easy to attack competitors if you've got no scruples. Check my hn username and email me if you want specifics.

This is a straight up attack on yelp, targeting local commerce. Their goal is that instead of searching yelp for massage therapy, you search google maps. That sort of query is extremely valuable (trust me - my company pays for it every day). It makes a lot of business sense - it's probably the most lucrative way to monetize maps, and get people to use google reviews more.

Most people skim websites - they don't do a full read. And most people stop reading once they think they've gotten the gist of what it is. The large header reading "why is it free" is so far below the fold that I never saw it. I revisited the page 3 times and eventually found it by doing cmd+f and searching for "why is it free", and I could only do that because you said there was a header with that title there.

This is a huge deal to any business that takes themselves seriously, and when you bury the lead like this, it makes me not trust you. As I said before, this detail should be under the "pricing" text, since that's what every person who might use this service is going to be looking for, once they understand the basics.

And I'm a person who might have used this service. I keep a special gmail account for processing hiring applications. I'm their dream user. And I was misled so far that I don't trust them.

Put it under your pricing section.

That white clean look is going to start looking disgusting once it gets use in the real world. I see them imitating apple's design aesthetic, but they really should have learned from the white macbook - because this is going to be worse. Cash registers are already always dirty, because there's high transaction volume there - it's literally the bottleneck. Now it's white and pretty looking, so it'll draw your eye, which basically requires every business who gets the square stand to give it a good clean daily.

This is NOT being upfront. Without coming into the comments I would not have known you'd try to poach my candidates.