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Thanks. It's a good quick run-through with the fundamentals and lives up to the title. I wish there would be simple and short illustrative examples/case-studies - or links to it - in the lessons to prove each point.

The worse, I guess, is the password constraint. I really fail to understand why should any application (except banking, may be) force its users to go for difficult passwords. I agree, it weakens the security - but warn them, don't force them. It should be a guideline; not a rule. Whether I want to follow it not is my decision; my risk.

I was using the CodeAcademy courses, they are equally good. Although I have looked into only the first few lessons on learn-angular.

The whole story is enjoyable; especially the Ballmer Visit part. It's surprising to see the city council reacting that way to his visit. Something that is hard to understand in many parts of the world.

A cleaner way to convert a function declaration into a function expression would be to use brackets

  (function() {
    //code here
  })();

This won't affect the return type of the statement; which in case of using ! will return boolean 'true' unless the function returns a truthy value. Plus using ! for this purpose, looks totally messy.

I'm one of the authors. We hope it's a good start of a collection for OmniGraffle users. Requesting everyone to contribute; submit more stencils and make this place great.

Good idea. OmniGraffle users now can use such free stencil collections. It should grow.

Thanks. We'll do that soon.

We are putting up a fully functional demo to try out the whole product. It should up and running in a day. Will post the link here. Thanks.

First thing - don't search for motivation or don't try to get yourself motivated. You'll end up looking for things that will make you feel good which will in-turn promote procrastination and thereby take you away from actions. The truth is motivation doesn't last. It's a push mechanism. You'll have to focus on things that pull you towards it.

If you keep going like the way you are currently, how would your life be? Definitely you understand the problem with it and this post is the proof. But ask yourself - "why do you want to get A-levels at school?". If programming and researching keeps you going, by all means, you should focus on it. Make sure you put the best possible efforts in it; the rest will follow automatically.

I trust, that's a good decision. The context of a component should always be carried with the component. I myself, found the global menus a lot troublesome, although the design intention to provide more room was successful.

It was a wrong choice of tool for that kind of a project, in the first place. The biggest problem that I've personally seen with AngularJS is the steep learning curve.

People, please watch these few videos to genuinely understand what 37Signal guys (David and Jason) stand for before having a say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUs&list=PLuBTPnEIr6J...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzERXJgi5vQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k

and yea, don't forget https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays/status/10390379840929792

Hats off to the simplicity and focus these guys have. I have loved and admired this company over years. These announcements have only added more respect for them.

Excellent work there. I always wanted to work on such a public collection but kudos to these guys on making it a reality. I've used/read-about/tried-out most of the stuff listed there and appreciate the hardwork that has gone into putting all of it together.

I think Polymer (Google) and Brick (Mozilla) deserves a mention there as Web Components have a very high possibility of becoming the ultimate way for the future of web development.

- "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie

- "The art of thinking clearly" by Ralf Dobelli

- "Sources of power" by Gary Klein

- "The 8 pillars of motivation" by Farnoosh Brock

- "ReWork" by Jason Fried and David Hansson

- "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug

- "The art of explanation" by Lee LeFever

- "Getting real" by 37Signals

- "The secret" by Rhonda Byrne

Most probably they had a very valid reason. Why don't you first try to talk to your coworker who got fired? And there is no harm in talking to your manager as well about it; just act neutral, though.

I could find almost nothing on this thread to agree with. None of the other comments here make sense. I have high respect for HN community but this page make me doubt it. Why should we discuss the name? Apple, Windows - aren't they funny product names? How does it matter? What matters is a new product is launching - our community's criticism should help the product owner. If there are things that we believe won't work - give reasons. Appreciate what's good about it. Name, too, can be criticized but don't make fun out of it. Somebody has worked so hard on making that product a reality; respect that hardwork.

What I like about the product is the very idea. And also the way they have explained it on the website, the graphics, text everything. Really appreciable.

Thanks. That pretty much closes the hopes from both ends. No worries; at least during her vacations we can surely travel.

Thanks a lot. We weren't thinking about online schooling. We were hoping that schools of similar thinking and syllabus would come together to form some sort of network where they would allow pupils to attend from any of their supported locations. I know, it is asking for too much, especially, when it's the whole world that I'm talking about and not just US.

Allen May (http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3030327) and I came in touch over the same topic a few months back. And whatever Nicholas is saying here makes so much sense that I couldn’t agree with him more.

I myself have been engaged in a couple of mentorship programs this year and planning to continue doing it. I’ve set few rules and created my own process on very similar lines that Nicholas has explained; although not that precise and thoughtful. This blog post has helped me with some really great directions. Sincere thanks to Nicholas for it. Great work, there.

I feel, we could use a transparent system where the ongoing mentorship program highlights are shared publicly and other mentors can learn/contribute from/to it. It is such an important aspect of our professional life that it saves huge amount of time (in years), makes us a stronger person, gets us the right kind of contacts, polishes the existing knowledge, teaches how to learn effectively and provides us with a solid foundation that lasts through the whole life. Making small mistakes as a mentor can have disastrous results on the mentee’s life.

I appreciate that the auditions are actually paid ($25 an hour, irrespective of the position) and as they claim, you can complete the assignment at your convenience, sounds really reasonable.

Where I feel hesitant is - they hire "all" their employees on contract basis. Wouldn't a great work place want their 'employees' be their 'people'? Would you feel like the product belongs to you? And the tone of the whole article also makes it a little dry - check out the comment by "Eugeny Brychkov" and may be you'll understand what I'm saying.

Thanks; I did miss it totally. Will watch carefully next time before commenting.

When you are passionate about building products and solving real life problems, it is not always possible to work on our own problems. But there is always one really big problem that nobody else has solved for you. And if you haven't found it yet; then you should keep looking for it. Because I firmly believe, the solution to that one problem take years to build and mature.

Taking example of many successful product builders, entrepreneurs and corporate, they all have had one or two 'winner' ideas.

Key is to adopt processes that would work for your people rather than they working for the processes.

Kudos!!

May be the study completely missed the 'after effects' aspect from the calculations

1) Right and Wrong are just perspectives

2) True happiness is in doing what you really enjoy and being in control of yourself all the time

3) There are always more unfortunate around you

4) World is full of irrational behavior; but good part is you got choices

5) One-thing-at-a-time is a myth; you can do what you believe you can

6) No matter how bad it looks, convincing most of the people is mere wastage of time; they hear what they want to hear

7) Reading is an unpleasant process for majority and so is easy explanation

8) Working hard is fine only when you're learning

9) Business is all about minimizing the risks - contradictory to the general belief

10) The universe doesn't give a flying fuck about you. So go out there and live the life the way you dream of.

Anything for data :)

The last para - If there is just one thing you should learn, it is: Just speak to prospects and extract their pain, then sell the painkiller (before building the product). If they are willing to buy, do take their money and invest that money into building the product.

Is that really possible? Making someone pay for a product that doesn't yet exist? How can you do that?