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The entire process of diagnosing people with hypertension needs a shake up. Managing blood pressure is such an important part of the human condition but the evidence as to what works and what doesnt can be confusing. Weight loss and stopping smoking works, but for exercise, cutting alchohol and cutting salt there are many conflicting reports.

Add in the fact that genetics plays such an important part, and the prevelence of White Coat Syndrome it's a shame that the medical world cannot make its mind up.

I rolled up to the site and my thought process was 'theres not enough information here as to what this site does, so im not prepared to enter my email address'

A working firefox 4 compatable bookmarklet. The delicious one doesnt work in firefox 4.

It's not a pipedream. We run a dev team that is both productive and enthused about the work we do. Every single engineer is out the door by 6, unless there is something that needs completing urgently. We are constantly shipping new versions of our product, are very profitable and have a minute churn rate of developers.

My gut feeling is that developers who cultivate a lifestyle that will inevitably lead to them burning out are either drinking the koolaid of some kind of cliched' notion of how developers should perform, or are simply being exploited by their employers.

Everyone has a right to see their family and keep fit, and in this sellers market, developers CAN work at a sustainable pace that doesnt put their future careers at stake.

I love Dziuba's writing. I introduced a friend to his blog and he said 'it's like 4chan learned how to code'.

Luxury! I used to have to snip endless chads out of punched cards to represent the very zeroes and ones of the program i was writing! Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

I get your point, but feel you are overplaying the difficulty. You can code in plain ol javascript on freeswitch to create complex inbound and outbound comms apps in a couple of hours. Plug it into a sip provider ( i use sipgate ) and there is nothing more complex to it. Far far cheaper too.

You dont need a bunch of servers either. If you are doing more than 200 simultaneous calls ( freeswitch easily achieves this on 1 box ) you shouldnt be looking at these entry level systems; Voxeo, Tropo's parent company has an incredibly powerful platform.

Had a play with it and it's lots of fun. I scraped the Hacker News headlines. Is mucking about with HN the new 'Hello World'?

Saw the chaps behind it pitch at Software City in Liverpool this week. Good guys and lots of potential for use in journalism, government and beyond. I think its partly open source too which is always a bonus.

To the OP, if you want a career in coding, get used to learning.

This year I've got node.js, rails 3, html 5, mongo db down pat, all in my own time. Its a fair bet that 90% of HN readers have done the same amount and way more.

Languages and frameworks are not important. Communication, problem solving and productivity skills are important.

Plus, learning more stuff = more fun.

A few experiences with visitrs.

The first 5 seconds of looking at your page filled my head with 'This is just a page of shit that I'm not interested in'. It was not clear that I can participate in creating the list. your join now button is virtually invisible to passing users.

I have to click an 'about' page to find out what the site does. this is way too much effort. this needs to be splashed all over the front page.

Once I understand what it is, it's not as good as my existing bookmarking sites. Struggling to see where the USP is.

My gut feeling is that you might be able to get it to work if you work in the niches - people into baking would rather join a dedicated cake site than something that is as general as this. Buy 10 niche domain names and work in the communities they target. Makes SEO a damn site easier too.

Hope this helps!

http://www.adamvana.com right?

the http://www.fortiguard.com/ network protection we have here in work has flagged your site as porn wont let me in. just FYI.

Nice idea, would be interested in becoming a customer but you really need a better landing page than that. take a look at unbounce.com as will convert better than the page you have there. plus if you work on the copy a little it will give you a head start from an seo point of view.

Just my 2c of course, IMHO, but a major reason you are getting so much grief is because of how difficult you have made it for people who cant now afford your services at the scale they once did, and how difficult it is for people to move from your service.

>>There will always be a "cheap" or cheaper competitor out there but we are not that one.

Well not now you are not. You hold all of their customers details, moving from chargify to something more affordable is a nigh on impossible task. I'd expect that there are more than a few startups who will just shut up shop who just dont have the resource to enter into a process of getting all of the users to re-sign up with alternative providers. Thats pretty sad dont you think?

also, its my understanding that PCI is required for anyone who 'transmits' card data, i.e anyone who uses the chargify API. If you dont have your game tight you are not PCI compliant and liable for any card data losses, regardless of chargify being compliant.

some reliable self-hosted alternatives for people who need to jump quickly. rails: http://github.com/maccman/saasy rails: http://railskits.com/saas/ php: http://www.opengateway.net/

Looks good but its virtually identical to serverdensity.com , which also monitors windows servers in a similar manner.

ISO 27001 is actually quite flexible. The implementation details can be as 'heavy' ( or not ) as you make them. For instance change controls implies all kinds of non-agile processes that inhibit you from building software the way you do today. Change control from an ISO 27001 point of view can be as simple as stating 'when a request for a new feature comes in, we put it on a list, and discuss the impact of it'. I'm sure you would recognize this process as a SCRUM product backlog.

You can be 27001 and still be agile - we are. The biggest problem of all is training your staff to be ISO-aware (data classification, password policies etc) and making them stick to it so that you pass the audits.

Just from experience, I'd really suggest getting a pro voiceover done. Text on these kind of videos should be minimal, the same advice people give for powerpoints. People just dont read or pay attention. Get a pro voiceover for less that $100, it really makes a difference. I make these videos so am kind of speaking from experience. examples of my work http://vimeo.com/7982259 http://vimeo.com/3313085 http://vimeo.com/9131485

>What is my company doing wrong?

I think this is the wrong question. The right question is 'what can my company do better?'. In your case, there is not much value-add over a google search. Tell me where I can get 2 for 1 pizza right now, who makes the best lasagne, give me coupons, loyalty schemes, 'say marksmenus.com sent you' calls to action, 'do you like ramen? try these 3 local joints' features. Bury yourself deeper into both the restaurants and users. Your app is good....it could be better.

Pretty shocking. What sites don't verify emails in 2020?

A conversation about single page apps would not be complete without mentioning Sammy.JS http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/

It's a fantastic little library that gives you the ability to add what I can only describe as 'rails-style' routes to your client side .js apps. It makes your single page apps much easier to write and has a good event-handling model too.

sounds like you need the Selenium Firefox plugin http://seleniumhq.org/

webcams inside the collider itself http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

I for one am donning these in anticipation http://www.vibramfivefingers.it/images/moc/img1-large.jpg

its a bit sluggish on my 3g....certainly not as impressive as in the video

Congrats! What do you mean traction/social proof?

I thought I couldnt love jQuery more than I do until I saw this.

5. Write a web app that displays the amount of time left until it 'drops' out of your ownership. Only then can you move on with your life and forget this whole sorry episode.

100% turn it off. you stand to piss a lot of people off very fast if you dont. other than that, i like the concept. reminds me of www.halfbakery.com but twitter powered. bookmarked it.