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I believe HN was created with arc[1] to put design pressure on it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

Nice article, Jose! For those interested, Aaron Patterson (tenderlove) talks about this in his RailsConf talk, starting at 26:45. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOAHIpmLAI

That's about what I was thinking, too. It might be good to explicitly say that they would have a lot of influence over the product, so it would ideally be well-suited to their need…

Yeah, serving up two versions simultaneously and split testing them would be more scientific, but I appreciate the number anyway. It was an after the fact observation rather than a…

FWIW, I really appreciated the post, Joel. I'm actually in the process of buying a lot of this stuff for myself due to accepting a new telecommuting job. I need to furnish my home …

I think this is essentially what FogBugz does, so if it works for you, I think there's a good argument for using it.

All of these arguments are the same arguments you need to think through when determining whether to make a web app vs. a native app on the desktop. They're identical, because the d…

Agreed. The minute you know the feature does have traction and won't go away any time soon is the minute you clean or rewrite that code. This may be semantics at some level, but I …

Oh no, now he has no motivation to do any open source! :-P

In addition to the argument for keeping your styles together, CSS is declarative while Javascript is imperative. There are just less moving parts in CSS, and the browser keeps trac…

My favorite part is at 2:42 when they show the fairly plain dashboard, and you see a lone toggle switch marked "Fly".

Absolutely agree. I help move some of the poorer families at our church, and I'm always astounded at where their money is spent. One family wore hand me down clothes and had little…

The only problem is that he's still stressing about money at that point. If he has even 300 people willing to pledge $8/month, he can bank on $2400/month and adjust his living expe…

After about a day of thinking on this, I think I've come around. I still don't think I would have pulled the trigger on this, but I respect the people that did. And, again, I absol…

Totally agree - and the HAML/SASS argument is perfect. We talk a lot about web standards and doing things that are "native" to the web, but abstracting things like HTML/CSS/javascr…

I think it's the layout of your site plus the brevity of the post that confused everyone (including me). I couldn't distinguish what I was supposed to look at, what was image and w…

I forwarded his recent TED Talk to several of my teacher friends, and many immediately thought this was supposed to be their replacement. So, I'm assuming the first (mis)conception…

That's the opposite of how I read that. I take it as a comfort that they're doing their best, and they're the best at what they're doing. If they needed food or money, I would glad…

All I know is that I felt conflicted when I saw the tweet. "Do I retweet? It's for a good cause. But, I don't want to support Bing." I didn't retweet and felt a bit guilty. I didn'…

Touche. I'm thinking way too much like a programmer. Thanks for posting that link, it's a good reminder of how different people are.

I definitely do the "want to share but also 'bookmark'" thing with my Twitter updates. And, yes, hashtags somewhat solve this, but not really - at least not for me. I like the idea…

I definitely agree, especially with the idea of getting your employees further invested in the company, even if it doesn't mean a job/title change. I don't get compensated the way …

Agreed, the math here is way off. No mention of amortization to either side of the argument: the "saved" $104,000 OR the expected $800,000. Perhaps I invested the $800,000 (or what…