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plainspaceon Working for a startup makes less sense

How exactly should they do it?

plainspaceon Show HN: Team Leaderboard – Slack Reactions Leaderboard for Your Slack Team

http://jessicake.us/ FTW. Quality work. Looking forward to seeing how people use this.

plainspaceon In the weeds, being overwhelmed and finishing things

Asking for help only works in environments of acceptance, inclusion and respect.

plainspaceon Spoiler Alert – JQuery plugin for sensitive content

Maybe we should use a tooltip on the blur to explain things.

plainspaceon Hojoki mobile app (built on Trigger.io) in action - cloud app notifications

We are developing PLAYERPRO with Trigger.io. Stay tuned. We'll have something for you to look at soon.

http://www.getplayerpro.com/

PS We are looking for a full stack developer to join our team. Choose your poison:

http://www.startupers.com/jobs/playerpro/14592/full-stack-de...

https://angel.co/playerpro#recruiting

http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Full_Stack_Developer_1667_1.as...

plainspaceon Ask HN: Review my startup, http://UpOut.com

Awesome. Love the name/domain. Beautiful UI that will clearly keep getting more so. Couple of thoughts re design: 'Love sharing great things to do?' box should line up on the right side with the right side of the boxes above (using Safari.) I'd also try making the width of the sign up bar at the bottom the same as the footer bar (Home | What is This?, etc.) Keep up the sharp work.

plainspaceon Ask HN: Review my startup, http://UpOut.com

Only use jQuery? Would love to hear more about the tech stack.

plainspaceon Jenga Pistol

Did I do something wrong here? Relatively new to HN. Is this how opinions are treated?

plainspaceon Ignite Show: Jeff Veen on great designers and cargo cults

Be intentional with what we steal

Here are some great articles on the topic:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/copy-great-designers-steal/

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign

http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000016.html

http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/stealing-design/

plainspaceon Guido: I've abandoned the "don't use tables for layout" meme...

css design is beautiful though. in general, if you put a table design next to a css design, the css design will be more aesthetically pleasing.

plainspaceon Eye candy is a critical business requirement

It is not hard to imagine this house with window shades or different window shapes, sizes or technologies to make them opaque at the right time.

plainspaceon Eye candy is a critical business requirement

It is not really that outlandish. Ugly houses are not going to kill you or anyone else - directly. It is that the more we degrade the human and natural environment by creating ugly, depressing, inhumane spaces, places and practices, the less capital (natural, human, etc.) our children, their children and their children will have live on.

plainspaceon BMW 320D - the 57MGP wonder on Diesel

why aren't we getting euro diesels in the us?

plainspaceon Twitter Exploit Still Works

does this mean that if I am using tweetdeck on a mac that i am vulnerable?

plainspaceon Jenga Pistol

great hack in my opinion...

plainspaceon Self-Proclaimed Multitaskers Aren't That Good at Multitasking

I wonder how much money is being lost by businesses who buy multiple monitors for their employees and "allow" or encourage them to multitask?

plainspaceon Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

here is a link to the 09 wwdc presentation. you can skip to the 10.6 section:

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0906paowdnv/event/inde...

plainspaceon Eye candy is a critical business requirement

Cities are a different beast.

plainspaceon Eye candy is a critical business requirement

I do believe it is a survival issue. Call me extreme but if we don't start making the manufactured landscape beautiful we are going to destroy the "natural" landscape completely. I would rather everyone be fed, clothed, sheltered and educated. If we cover those bases the chances of living in a more aesthetically appealing world are much higher.

plainspaceon It's Time to Redesign the Product Page, Part 1

Brilliant post and great improvement on the design. It is much easier to look at and absorb. This goes along with the intent of my comment on the "Eye candy is a critical business requirement" post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781315

plainspaceon Why I'm Quitting Gmail

all great points. i love gmail's bells and whistles but there is something a little unsettling about how they "handle" customer service.

plainspaceon Facebook, TipJoy, the Deal that Didn’t Happen and the Hire that Did

Just highlights the importance of bargaining position. Make deals when you don't need them, because you won't be able to when you do.

I think this is the real take home here.

plainspaceon Adding a second hard drive to a Macbook pro

Amazing. I'm going to give my new 13" MBP a few more months but this seems like a great mod.

plainspaceon Eye candy is a critical business requirement

Great looking presentation. Would have loved to hear it too.

Was the following ever true?

...it doesn't matter how pretty your site is or how many "bells and whistles" you have. While a high-quality site is important, the majority of people today value usability more than good looks or fanciness.

I firmly believe that if we (the collective we) don't start paying more attention to aesthetics, we are not going to survive this mess. The human landscape needs to start looking better. Would you rather have a trailer or one of these? http://www.smallhousestyle.com/2007/07/23/the-mill-house-by-...

I know that not everyone can afford one of these but if there was more desire for them in the market the prices would come down and possibly be more competitive with a double wide.

plainspaceon Never Criticize Your Competitors

brilliant post. there is a fine line here but imagine a world in which criticism was not the knee jerk reaction? not just in business but in general. at school, in the playground, on the playing field, in politics. it makes me think of 2 things: Ben Zander's "the art of possibility" and something else that I can't remember right now.

plainspaceon The number one reason my startup failed

This is a brilliant piece imho because not only is it a lesson to the community but because the example also edifies what the gurus are telling us. Agreed, it would be great to see more stories like this. Maybe one of the "incubators" could take this on?

plainspaceon After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall

Completely agreed based on the fact that we are seeing new technologies and new uses of technologies impact the amount of wealth available. Think of all of the money that Google is generating? Where did it come from? Did it exist before Google? Is that money being taken from somewhere else or is it new money?

plainspaceon For Twitter, Sharing Data with Google Would Be Suicide

This comment from the article raises a very good point...

Go Twitter?

Twitter is the first company in years that has the potential to disrupt Google in their own game - Search.

No. They are not going to be the new general query search engine, but for certain queries they could be much better. For example, a couple of weeks ago I thought of going diving near Cancun. But I was afraid of the weather and the Hurricans in the area. All I needed to do is type “Cancun diving” in Twitter search and in seconds I got real time twitts of people who are actually there, talking about the dives they did just a hour ago.

And of course the obvious ad model is to now show me ads and deals for diving shops in Cancun.

This is the real promise of the real time search.

plainspaceon For Twitter, Sharing Data with Google Would Be Suicide

Goog is much better than Twitter at serving relevant content to me. Are they so far ahead of the game that no one else can join? The #diabetes hash at Twitter has a lot of not-so-relevant material to weed through. The same search at Goog gets some pretty relevant material in front of me. If Twitter does make some search changes, won't users abuse the ability to capture the search queries? Great article though and I agree with the writer, it is going to be a great show to watch.

plainspaceon Web Developers Are Stupid

How are we defining "web developer" here?

This is from our friends at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_developer

A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who is specifically engaged in the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over the HTTP protocol from a web server to a web browser.

and

Modern web applications often contain three or more tiers, and depending on the size of the team a developer works on, he or she may specialize in one or more of these tiers - or may take a more interdisciplinary role. For example, in a two person team, one developer may focus on the technologies sent to the client such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and on the server-side frameworks (such as Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET) used to deliver content and scripts to the client. Meanwhile the other developer might focus on the interaction between server-side frameworks, the web server, and a database system. Further, depending on the size of their organization, the aforementioned developers might work closely with a web designer, web producer, project manager, software architect, or database administrator - or they may be responsible for such tasks as web design, project management, and database administration themselves.