How was he able to start an immigration process without a university degree? Was it because he is from Australia and not, say, Brazil? I'd love to move to the US as well, but without a degree that's basically impossible for me.
There is also a cost to having such a belief. You are adjusting your life to a religion and following its rules when you could have a much better life by not doing so. For me that slight chance of eternal reward is not worth what I would have to suppress on my own personality and "taste" for rationality. Basically, this is Pascal's wager, please read on it.
Following whatever 37signals does is what seems like cargo cult. They do so many things wrong, and yet designers like this come and say "If they are doing it that way then it must be the right way".
You see, that's what's wrong with GUIs. You have to dumb down everything just so your casual users can use it. And when I'm not a casual user anymore I'm stuck, because you decided for me what features are "confusing" or not. That's why, IMO, things like basecamp suck.
I'm sorry, english is not my first language, so I maybe that's why I thought the word advertising didn't include craigslist postings. In portuguese we have a very specific word to the advertising I'm referring to, "propaganda" (which also has the same meaning as in english).
Craigslist/Ebay are exactly the kind of things we need more, especially ebay, where you can see different offerings side by side and compare them on objective grounds, then decide which one better fits your needs. And that's the key, if I'm on ebay it's because I'm looking for something, people are not trying to convince me to buy groupons when I'm actually looking to read a fine article from HN.
If "I" succeeded in banning the advertisement I'm talking about (basically impossible without censorship, and that's the last thing I'd want), more sites would spring up to help people who are looking for something. You wouldn't always buy from the same brand/store because you would have these tools to help you make sure (with the least amount of effort possible) you are making the best buy you can.
Furthermore, I think it's the existence of advertisement that is reducing the incentives to create alternate business models (for content websites, for example), like micro-payments (think very small subscription fee for a site like salon.com), and basically tips, which could be considered donations but would be too small to be worth it with the current payment processors.
This will probably offend some startup people here (who probably rely on advertisement to run their otherwise unprofitable websites), but advertisement is evil. How can you believe in the power of capitalism and the invisible hand and still think it's ok that people are all the time being led into buying stuff they do not need because marketers study specifically how to psychologically manipulate people into associating good emotions with material crap?
I'm not saying there aren't other factors involved, but do you really think the most popular brands are so due to merit? Don't you think the world would be different if not so many people would just stop consuming products from the very corporations they are protesting against?
This could be a very long rant, I just hope you can see where I'm going with this, that the really unethical thing to do is to allow advertisement to continue to exist.
Exactly what I thought, it's almost as if they implicitly say the only good way to make a file explorer is to make it just like osx' dolphin, where you need to use drag motions for any operation. Sure, let's get rid of the buttons and the context menu and make our users open a couple windows so they can drag stuff around.
Can I automatically sync files using it? I work in multiple places and if I have to manually run a sync operation before I leave, I'm certain to forget or be unable to at some occasion, and then I'm screwed.
I don't have noscript but even after temporarily allowing coffeeandpower.com and beta.coffeeandpower.com on CookieMonster it keeps showing me the no cookies page. Why does it absolutely need to set cookies to show me any content? This is so annoying.
This would be fantastic to write validation code, because the same code can be used on both the server and client sides. Thanks endian for sharing this with us, I can't wait to try it out!