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This to me is classic linkbait, how it is on the front page is beyond me. The "made for google adwords" sites are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to online income. I am surprised this guy doesn't have a bunch of ads on his blog so he can make $2,000 a month telling other people how to make $2,000 a month.

When I bought peepcodes, they were always great. Usually including a couple of hours of video with an accompanying pdf. The production quality is excellent and for the price, you can't beat it.

One thing I noticed immediately is the duplication of cards. I wanted to sort by the biggest percent discount and basically the whole first page is the same 1-800-flowers.com cards.

The execution is very tight from what time I spent with it.

I have a lot of respect for C and every once in a while I open up the K & R and go through a few chapters. While I find this to be really well written and holds up even for today's standard of programming book, I feel like the resources for beginner C online are pretty slim.

I think my primary use for knowing some C would be writing C extensions for Ruby or looking at some source code of classic C libraries.

Corey Haines has done this with software development. In a similar fashion working for room and board. Which turns out to be a great deal for the company and I assume great experience for Corey.

My only point is, what domain do you visit regularly that uses .cc? It just makes me second guess the credibility.

You certainly have thought about that. It does make sense when you write it. I think with the right treatment you can shape your brand effectively. I think the .cc tld is still obscure enough that you could shape it to mean email 'cc'.

I like how simple this is, but I find the branding a bit off. Nothing is memorable about fiesta.cc, and a .cc domain tells me you may not be serious enough about your business to invest in a better domain.

Did you open the floodgates for anyone to sign up or did you do a limited beta launch first?

I always keep a virtual machine with some flavor of linux installed on my Macbook Pro. I like to see the progress that's been made and just to try something different for a while.

I am used to linux and have used it pretty extensively, and I enjoy it. What I find to be my main blockers are related to working with other people who are using OS X / Windows. I agree that this is mostly the fault of vendors. Skype and Team Viewer come to mind as applications that support linux but always keep you a few versions back, thus not having support for some features that the rest of your team is using on OS X / Windows.

Ultimately I just get tired of messing the little things that bug me with linux, that I know just work on OS X. It was well said by someone else in the thread that linux is a lifestyle and I can't agree more with that.

I am not opposed to your solution, but sadly, I think it would be an extremely rare case. The ruby core team is very conservative with change, and I don't see some sweeping stdlib switch happening. James Edward Gray II was successful with ousting CSV for his improved implementation, and I think that's probably the way it will happen, if anything does happen. One library at a time.

I am not sure the author's solution, removing the said libs, is the right direction. I agree that the stdlib is crufty and slow, but they do 'work', and people certainly use them. I think the better option might be to deprecate and replace.

Here is a little screenshot, which in my opinion does a lot for understanding what it is.

http://grab.by/grabs/fd40f157cef16b5028333e3bf9dc3923.png

The VPN is a probably a rare thing, but to tech people when you say private network, without context it is easy not to think social.

Even if this app IS something interesting, nothing makes me want to sign up.

Here's why:

I think your landing page copy needs some work. Immediately when I see create your own private network, I am thinking VPN. "Socialise in groups," to me seems ambiguous, isn't socializing an inherent group activity.

In terms of design, there is low visual affordance. I am not enticed to roll over those icons, or click on the sign up button. I think "Create your own network now" is a good call to action, should be more prominant and should be followed up with a start now link or something, or get started, something to encourage the user a bit. "Sample network" shouldn't be directly next to "Create Network", it confuses what action should be taken. Sample network shouldn't be a button, just a plain link. Also that blue is far from harmonious with the rest of the color scheme you have working. The text below the icons needs more contrast with the background.

I want to see a screenshot / screencast to show me what I am getting. I still can't imagine what this thing even is.

A common thing I have heard is that Python people are obsessed with documentation and Ruby people are obsessed with testing. Not saying that one or the other is 'better', just that the culture around each of the languages has created these stereotypes.

What are you looking to do? It seems like there are enough of these "base" projects to work off of.

Part A - I am on the side of completing as much UX up front as possible. Bad visual design is something that no one can ignore. I think that ideally before you even have done the "black-text-on-white-background" prototype you start with UX.

Part B - Steve Krug has a couple of simple concrete usability books. Other than links I have seen mentioned. http://ilovetypography.com/ learning good type will help a ton with design http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen is kind of the godfather of usability, some people love him, some hate him, either way you will learn something from this guy. Also, going through tons of websites and critiquing them by yourself or with peers, writing down everything that works well and doesn't work well, that you would change. Do little usability tests on your sites, even on sites that aren't yours with family or peers.

Part C - I don't know as much about startups. I do know that having a designer on hand is much nicer to work with than outsourced. Ultimately I think it would be like dealing with anyone else outsourced in terms of reliability.

Part D - I actually started as a designer, and IE 6 crushed my soul. I am still very interested in UX though. I think starting as a programmer, I would just try to recreate designs you think are appealing. I would also try to learn the grid system. Use CSS frameworks as training wheels that have a solid grid, and decent typography (eg. Blueprint). I started constraining myself to HTML and CSS, and I think you should too, leave Photoshop alone until you can make decent designs in just HTML and CSS. Then, when you are completely comfortable using the two, then look to PS to add details that you can't achieve otherwise. The big obstacle you will run into, is that you will feel like you aren't making as good of designs as designer X. Design in my opinion is much more personal and emotional than programming so don't let that get to you.

Good Luck!

It actually isn't a redirect if you have it set up correctly. Did you configure your DNS to point to the Posterous server? If so, your domain should be directly bound to Posterous without a redirect.

I only register the domain for a year, and if it expires in the year without me doing anything I let it go. I mean, it's been an entire year.

I think if I were in your shoes, I would purchase some decent looking themes from themeforest or similar, get an icon set (if you need one), and pay for someone to do a logo. Do what you can in CSS/HTML to get something cohesive together. Maybe pay a designer for a couple of hours just to review what you have done or give some pointers. This will be quite a bit cheaper than hiring someone to do the whole UI.

Learning to design isn't something that happens quick and some people just can't design, period. It isn't something that happens overnight or in a few weeks. It may be worth taking some design classes and getting into some design forums to get feedback etc, on what you have done, if you have an interest at getting better.

repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1795783

You wanted an audience, now you have one. Make something of it.

The awesome thing about holman, is that he did this app just for fun and the love of "the hack". In my opinion he will gain much more than a chunk of ad revenue. A very well-respected reputation. This to me seems much more valuable than even $5k ad revenue. I don't feel like we would be talking about him near as much if facelette.com was some spammy looking "made for adwords" app.

When you go to the site it is just so pure and honest, it doesn't make you question what you are doing, or who is doing what with your information.

"bleeding edge" doesn't usually refer to released software.

Zerigo is solid, has an API, and as low as 1 minute TTLs http://www.zerigo.com/

- 3 domains are free

- $19.95 up to 25

I am wondering what this does beyond twitter.com/username?

Preventative maintenance implies that there could be a problem if you don't do 'x', I am talking about the 'ice cream glove' type of speculation.

It should also be mentioned that if you are going to be doing some rebasing that you should look into enabling git rerere. What isn't mentioned in his article if you do multiple rebases to the same branch you will have to resolve the same conflicts over and over without rerere enabled.

    git config --global rerere.enabled 1

Yeah, the style you mentioned (domain.com/user/images) makes sense to me, and it is built into Rails to do it that way.

I think the thing to consider is what is most practical to your users. I want to be able to login at yourdomain.com I don't want to remember that I have to login at app.yourdomain.com. I think ultimately providing the simplest path for your users to sign up and log in with is what you should do.

What might make the most sense is putting your marketing site in a sub-directory like /tour or something and then get another domain just for marketing that redirects you to the /tour marketing page.