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Huh. I'm British and I would always use singular for a company (not for sports teams necessarily ref: that wiki link). Are we really supposed to say "Google are having an earnings call on Tuesday"? I would say "Google is having an earnings call on Tuesday".

Not cool. This is the reason I went with Mozy. How is this hard to predict? It's not rocket surgery.

Yep - essentially this. I have made cold calls in the past and I have no problem with people trying to make a living. However, we get many calls where it's very hard to get the caller off the phone. These are 95% recruiters. Despite the fact that we politely tell them we aren't interested.

Also, it becomes obvious so quickly that it's really not much more than a way of saying "not interested" and getting off the phone.

The occasional laugh is all (and to see if it was possible - turns out it's not really, at least the way it tries to do it). It's quite broken (see note in code about how I'm not really a developer).

London, UK (no remote) -- Distilled

http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/distilled/introduce-awesome-...

Apply: http://www.distilled.co.uk/company/jobs/search-consultants.h...

We are hiring SEOs (the good kind). If you want to help our clients deserve to rank better, come work with us.

If you know someone, refer them and win a frickin' quadricopter!

[If you are in Seattle, WA, there's a good chance we'd like to speak to you too...].

I'll have a look at getting it on a public github, but in the meantime, it's just an index.html and a few js files. Feel free to nick it (just give distilled.co.uk / hiremarshal.com a link in appreciation).

We're in the same revenue ballpark - though consulting business, so smaller multiples :(

We have used lawyers in the UK and US (for contract advice, that kind of thing) but we don't have one I'd turn to if I were in this position. It's certainly not impossible to reach this point without that kind of advisor around.

[Note: we started in the UK, which could be a factor]

Yep. True. Not unbiased in the slightest. I find it interesting nonetheless as I would not have guessed it to be true...

You (and other commenters saying similar things) are definitely right on this point, but I remain interested :)

I think the point is that if you look at the average across all devices, the iPhone is still ahead, but if there was only one Android phone (and it was one of the good ones e.g. the Samsung Galaxy S) then Android would be ahead.

The average Android review score is pulled down by the crappy Android devices. Having an open market creates higher highs and lower lows than Apple controlling everything (it seems).

Interesting to compare product searches to actual sales data (we've been looking at this with a client: http://blog.reevoo.com/2010/12/datamining-santas-grotto-pred...).

[Starts digging around in Excel...].

Clickable: http://www.7bks.com

nice work, bro

Edit: also https://gist.github.com/670034 And http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001

I recommend anyone running a startup listen to this advice. Rand has been one of the biggest influences on my business thinking and has helped me immeasurably in growing our business.

I have watched him learn many of these lessons, tried to learn them myself and look forward to much learning to come.

Off-topic - I love the mythbusters video linked from the "Humor" tab.

Are we being served different recommendations? The Samsung I see recommended is the WB600: http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/digital-cameras/278734/samsun...

(This is the mid-level recommendation - the top price recommendation is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3).

I'm not a camera guy so I can't vouch for the quality of these cameras, but I'm not seeing the one you linked to.

It's not my site (unfortunately) but I know the team - I've pinged them about the various feedback emerging on this thread.

Hi Mike. I hope not... I'm a real person. I used this site last week to buy a TV (the entry-level one) and loved it. I have started using it when non-technical people ask me which (TV|netbook|etc) to buy because it's pretty, and you know they aren't going to go that far wrong. If they don't like the one they get: http://www.justbuythisone.com/what-is-roomservice - which is better than my friends normally get from me!

I did find out about it because we work with the guys who built it (http://www.reevoo.com) but I thought the HN crew would enjoy it - it feels to me like a hardware version of this classic XKCD: http://xkcd.com/627/

It's built by Reevoo and powered by their reviews - here's what they say about the source of them: http://www.reevoo.com/pages/review_collection

They can still buy the recommended one (assuming you trust the opinions of those in the UK!). You can't follow the links, I guess, but at least it makes the decision of which one to buy easy.

Thanks for this idea - this was 3rd in the list at the specified time. It looks like it's possible we will get to this one - but it seems like it is somewhat tricky (since it's been around for ~5 years). Any devs out there familiar with this part of the system who might be able to contribute a fix / idea (given budget!)?

I'm running through digging out a plan of action - this was the 2nd in the list at the chosen moment in time. I don't know what specific action we could take with the HTML5 idea within the budget - do you have any ideas?

Hey Joe. Yours was the top-rated comment at the deadline so I'm trying to pull out a plan for what we fix, in what order.

The "recently used documents" seems like the most specific bug / fix that we might be able to get done first.

However, am I right in thinking that what you are seeking is essentially this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/66933

If so, it looks like it has been fixed (or am I misreading the bug)?

Good feedback Chris. Thanks (and sorry if I bring too many newbies into the gene pool).

You're right - in many ways $1k is tiny, but I was hoping that there would be a bunch of annoying bugs / bugs in boring areas that cause people headaches that (other) people could fix in ~1 hour or so.

If others wanted to chip money into the pot, I'd happily give it a shot at administrating it for a bit and see if it gets traction. So far, we aren't seeing bugs submitted that would cost > $1k to fix either - if we do, perhaps we can persuade some people to chip in to help meet the cost...?

Yeah - we chose to "just launch" first. All this kind of marketing stuff will come along. There is a free account you can use to try it out in a hands-on way. I should be able to get a tour / screenshots / demo up there later this week...

This is the kind of thing that has hit us / hurt us in the past: http://bugs.php.net/44251

It's now fixed, but that is the kind of thing we're looking for.

I'm not a developer - I'm a business guy primarily - so I'm unlikely to be the best person to pick out things that typically hold up developers.

Maybe there aren't any...?

Anyone going to get us going with a bug you'd like to see fixed in an open source project?

I was hoping people could list bugs here to allow the community to vote on the ones that should be fixed first...

Seemed an easy place to have the voting happen.

We need someone to get the ball rolling!

Yes. You're right for serious enjoyment of course but I really enjoy drinking whisky from a cut crystal tumbler for some reason. I like savouring the good ones from a proper glass, but there's something about the weight of a good tumbler...

No-one talking about tequila? A good tequila is next on my purchase list for my spirits cupboard.

Generally, I'm a whisky man. Islay and Speyside particularly (Ardbeg or Caol Ila would probably be the desert island whiskies, though my guilty pleasure is a 12 y.o. Glenlivet).

Obviously, I mainly drink water. Whisky isn't what you go for when you need refreshing.

Also, is there a correlation between black coffee drinkers and whisky drinkers?

Actually, they sometimes are. We solve hard consulting problems for competitors quite frequently. And those are then the cases with most need for an agreement like this...

(By the by, I'm a fan of the laws allowing people to build their own stuff in their spare time without using company resources).

A lot of our client contracts include mutual "no poaching" clauses. Obviously we are a lot smaller, but what determines when this is OK and when it's not?