While acknowledging that the original post was an engineering exercise, the fact that your improvement required breaking the "rules" beautifully demonstrates how, too often, software designed for humans simply ignores how they really work.
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At what point would equipment failure be considered, especially given the notable lack of experience in this scenario? Seems that corroborating evidence would be highly desirable before publicizing this. (Or perhaps I am underestimating the data already gathered on this topic...)
While lwhi's "correction" better reflected my (admittedly ill-communicated) sentiment, it still feels as though there's a Digg-like oligarchical groupthink seeping into Hacker News as of late, which is no more preferable to the Wild West antics of r/programming... =\
(As an anecdotal sidenote: my work's firewall blocked the bsa.ly domain on the basis of "adware".)
Oh yeah? And who the fuck are YOU, sir?? Or Mr. Atwood?
For all you know, the world would be infinitely better if the Mayor of New York City learns how to code.
But I suppose we'll never know, because no one should ever do anything other than what they are to be doing right then.
Only.
Forever.
In that case, stop writing and go back to whatever it is you were doing before, because the world is not a better place when you blog -- your valuable time would be better spent elsewhere.
Is not history itself defined by breaking patterns? They don't call it a "turning point" because it sounds nice.
How many events that altered the path of mankind were part of "The Plan"? How many were arrived at by strictly adhering to a well-defined path?
*An option few have, so don't be ignorant and categorically mimic our approach.
FTFY.
What type of startup? Is it a native app-focused endeavor or will it be browser-based? What if it requires NO developers and can run on some out of the box solution or SaaS/PaaS? What if you use Twitter bootstrap and outsource/contract your minimal design needs??
There is no secret sauce, people -- success is a highly-variable mix of hard work and luck. Period. You could do everything right and still fail. And vice versa. Just look around a your local brick and mortars. How many establishments have been making a go of it for years, even decades, with subpar products and services?
This has been, is, and will be the case for every type of business for a long time.
Get over yourself, get out there, and fucking do it anyway.
I don't suggest you complain to your non-white, non-male friends about that...
#IngrainedPrejudice #DeathByAThousandCuts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose
Doesn't "...And a few girlfriends slept alone in their beds, While visions of exits danced in their boyfriends’ heads..." operate on the same presumption that has resulted in a number of others getting their asses handed to them recently?
Just don't try to be the ______ (Craigslist/Facebook/Pinterest/HotOrNot) for musicians because _____ is probably sufficient, if not better for the simple reason that it's already being utilized and substitution is unlikely to be the droid that you are looking for.
Though I'm not a musician myself, you've really piqued my interest and I'm going to go poll my surprisingly large collection of musician friends and acquaintances...
Viewing celestial bodies/events with the naked eye (or as they would be if we could) can certainly be compelling but I thinks it's only pragmatic to acknowledge that even the outer planets only hold a passing interest to the public at large in an unaltered view.
It must be appreciated that we can capture these views at all, and with such detail!
And while we can agree that most people are largely brand agnostic in a number of tech-related purchases, sentiment still plays a role, even if it isn't as explicitly expressed in the way a typical Hacker News reader might.
The purportedly high cost of OEM development would be mismanagement at best and is simply an informal fallacy at worst.
Your rebuttal supports my statements, as captured by this statement: "It's like the PC market of 10 years ago..." Pray tell, which players remain from that era and, of those, which are not on the brink of insolvency?
With no suggestion of altruism or the like, it is simply good business in most markets to invest in the satisfaction of your customers. Since they were brought up, Apple is an excellent HIGHLY PROFITABLE example of this correlation to the bottom line -- possibly the poster child of the foreseeable future. There are other good examples to be found, very likely in the form of far smaller enterprises in your own area.
Pleasing your new and incumbent user-base is certainly no guarantee of success, but can anyone produce data that supports the idea that it would be net loss in the long run, all things considered? I mean, if the definition of a business is intent to profit, doesn't it stand to reason that the longer you operate, the more profits you generate? (In the most generalized sense, not discounting the possibly complex specificities of a large operation nor the vagaries of human behavior and progress...)
As a long time devotee and early-adopting "evangelist" (especially Maps, Gmail/Apps, Picasa, and eventually Android) it seems we are witnessing Google's decent into terminal failure to grasp the concept, and value, of "customer"...
Then again maybe it's one of those habitual things, for example when someone says "Knowwhatimean" repeatedly.
Certainly, the developer(s) could simply use Github, so maybe Givhub is just a glossy API wrapper rather than an independent instance?