jerryji

Where's HN and Twitter? :)

Thanks to the Internet, now it takes only 24 years to publish one's physics experiment result :P

Don't get me wrong, this is very cool -- hope I'll have all the facilities (mainly a large, undisturbed basement) when my son grows up to do it together with him.

euwyn.com ? (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544074 )

Thanks very much for the correction, unfortunately the submission title can't be edited (hopefully I'm not wrong again on this...)

Unfortunately more attention has been drawn to the design of your site than its functionality.

While the design is great and you have all the reason to be proud of it, the long term success of your business will tie mostly, if not all, to the functionality rather than design.

My E-2 interview (at the US embassy in Singapore) is scheduled at the end of this month.

Cost me more than $6K (in attorney fee, etc) and countless number of hours to prepare all the documents without any guarantee that I'll get it.

It _is_ more scary than applying to YC, now good luck to myself.

Semantically/Geographically hierarchical category ranking is exactly what I've been working on.

Even though it might not be considered production yet, I'd recommend any public site to at least turn off debug setting (and better add a catch-all route).

Mike Arrington: The future is CrunchPad.

Scobleizer: No, the future is Building43!

Guy Kawasaki: You both are now on Truemors, which is the future.

Me: 42!

I don't understand why so many similar programs automatically excludes single founders like me.

This is a bit surprise to me -- I thought all HN users would have Adblock on all the time :)

In fact, the AdSense is there just to align the user expectation from day one. Anyway, I can't agree more how annoying they can be and am going to turn them off now.

Thanks for your advice on the summary.

Thanks very much for the feedback.

What I fear most finally comes true -- not even HN users can immediately figure out how to use the site (which was purposely left out from the brief)...

How about some hints like you can get all news regarding social networking websites:

  http://bit.ly/dc6ko

or compare DISQUS with Intense Debate:

  http://bit.ly/3Qhr9s

Now I definitely need to rethink the usability issue.

While it's a nice site, especially taking into account the percentage of research projects ever reach its level of usability/commercialization, I am not quite convinced that there is ground breaking underlying technology -- how is it fundamentally more novel than a Craigslist marshup (e.g. http://www.housingmaps.com/)?

"""At Fog Creek, we decided that the right thing to do when the labor market tightens is to give raises to everybody at the same level."""

I've always been wondering what would happen (has happened) when the labor market softens?

Kudoz to the author for his understanding and appreciation of pragmatism:

  use the right _language_ for the right job

or in a longer form:

  English is better than multi-language
  Although multi-language is often better than *only* English
  Practicality beats purity

Disclaimer: I don't have any direct input to this question.

However, someone else might, with the help of --

http://bit.ly/jgAHI [CollectiveSys]

Jerry

"Even if people were willing to post their successful applications, I don't thing pg would approve."

Would PG approve posting a few UNsuccessful applications of different level -- from amusing, to boring, to pretty close? -- guess people like to see those just as much, I sure do, and am not merely joking here.