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This wholly encapsulates the philosophy we are bringing to PHP Fog... let us deal with the plumbing and you deal with development.

Hey fellow hackers, would love your feedback for making this a killer service.

"The main point of OmniFocus is to hide things from you that you can’t possibly be doing right now while still letting you track them"

"[Without understanding this,] OmniFocus is just a weird-looking and pointlessly complicated list-maker."

There are many kinds of websites, and not all of them have a community of users. Many ecommerce sites for example have no sense of community and are all about the product and the relationship between the seller and the buyer.

To assume that only blogs or services are bought and sold is a mistake. However it is true that finding a proper buyer is always a concern. Buying and selling websites can be more involved than buying and selling stock for sure.

If you are a computer geek who knows websites better than the stock market, then buying them speculatively could be more interesting than you give it credit.

Mog has way better editorial and music discovery features. Also Mog has a radio feature that lets you listen to any range between artist only radio and pandora like radio which you can modify at will... if you start in listening to it pandora style and decide you want to start listening only to a single artist, you can just move a slider.

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He is not offering to work for free, he is offering to work for profit sharing. By not asking for hourly cash, it sounds to me like he is hoping to get a larger piece of the pie.

PHP is not a language that was designed to be a language. It was originally a set of scripts that slowly morphed into a kind-of language. Because of that, PHP lacks a lot of the language features (threads, namespaces, proper OO design from the ground up) that "serious" languages all have. Ruby was buit to be the best language Matz could think of. Erlang was built to be a great language for programming telecoms. None of the "serious" languages morphed out of some CGI scripts.

As I already mentioned, PHP is not an OO language. It is a language that has OO as a feature, but the core API is not OO. This creates a very awkward mix of OO and procedural code.

One of the most embarrassing things about PHP comes from its complete lack of naming and ordering conventions. Look at the array functions. http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php 47 of these functions start with array_, 25 of them are a mismatch of whole words and partial words that happen to do array functions. The reason PHP documentation is so good is out of necessity. Without fantastic documentation, PHP would be completely unusable due to this staggering oversight.

Language bashing for geeks is like ball scratching for baseball players. It's one of our ways of being social. Not everyone likes it, but it can be fun.

You should design websites with a width that complements the content

This is true, but I don't want to describe the details in public which would only make it easier to game. I am just wondering if hackers would use the service if it was available.

Does TopCoder have a job posting feature? I can't find it.

But assuming I figured out a way to make it hard to game

I have had enormous success with lead generation with the help of TimeSvr (http://www.timesvr.com/). $60 a month and they can spend hours a day coming websites for email addresses, sending personalized emails, and tracking their actions and progress in CSV files.

Having another company doing successful business with your idea means that there is a market, which is a very good sign. There is no shame in not being #1 in a niche. Success does not have to mean overtaking the world.

- "Bringing wedding vendors together with bridal guests" I didn't want it to distract attention... did I go too far?

- I really don't like the stock background image on this page - What if I made it more white and blended so that it was in the background more?

- Is the business type page a joke? There at least needs to be an "other" option -- I have done a lot of research in the market and I can't think of any other business types that would benefit from this product... but maybe I shouldn't be so quick to judge

- Your privacy policy doesn't exists, that removes all credibility of your site. -- Going to add that promptly, thanks

Thank you for the feedback! I really appreciate it!

I just got married and my wife and I thought one day: "wouldn't it be awesome if we could register for products from our own vendors?". That way our guests at our wedding could buy us extra flowers or a photograph book instead of just a blender.

This got us thinking, and now we have decided to go into business together starting a site that lets people do just that.

Vendors will pay a flat fee per couple or an unlimited quarterly use fee in order to sign up their bridal couples and allow them to do online registry.

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This is not a web application, this is two forms that go nowhere and do nothing.

I think you are asking the wrong people here. It might sound scary, but it will be a lot easier than you think to just have an honest and frank conversation with the CTO. Don't go into a blame game, just explain your expectations in an honest, direct, and highly respectful tone. You are not going to make any progress if you do not open up communications and let yourself be heard.

That is correct. Although it is a niche, I want to attract as large of a niche audience as possible and starting from 0 readers is intimidating, even when you write good content.

Do you guys realize that you are both falling into the same fallacious talk as as the author of the blog post. "Bailing out the rest of us" whether you are for it or against it is such a naive statement. You guys are both overlooking not only the highly complicated ways in which this entire situation is affecting all of us... how the bank failures can and is directly leading to layoffs of people that have never in their lives overextended themselves financially, but also the fact that there is absolutely no straightforward path to bailing out anybody in this situation. Even if someone wanted to, nobody could bail out "the rest of us" so your bickering is moot. The only thing we can do is watch as this tidal wave washes over us all and play it safe until it passes. None of us are out of reach of this event.

"Who is to blame? We are - i.e. you and me"

This guy is so quick to judge, so quick to place blame on such a complicated issue. What a massive over-simplification on such a dynamic and complicated issue.

"If you use a credit card, you dont want to be rich"

That is such an over-statement. You've got to spend money to make money. Using credit wisely might be the only way for some people to break out of their financial status.

Come on people, running an app in wine is not "porting"

Technically, they did contact many of the people who run the biggest ruby on rails websites before the announcement, which was kind of them.

"The music download service Rhapsody [has made] its catalog of five million songs available without electronic restrictions on playback or duplication"

"free previews of complete songs"

"Rhapsody will restrict full-song previews to 25 a month"

Two of these sentences are not like the other.