A couple weeks ago I built http://www.hackeress.com with the crowdspring / 99Designs clientèle in mind (who seems to be your audience).
You could expand your site and add a section for designers who specialize in the code-writing aspect of design. Just a thought.
EDIT: Fixed. I'm still working on the site's content; got busy over the holiday. But the design of the site is done, as are the custom 404 error pages. :)
From the standpoint of a developer who specializes in design, the problem is NOT (as the article states) "the designer doesn't know HTML" vs "the designer only knows HTML". The problem is people (programmers or not) who don't understand how design fits into the process, sequentially.
Cases in point are sites like 99designs and crowdSPRING that launch projects for "uncoded" web designs. My solution: http://www.hackeress.com
Yeah, the site is not finished yet. But it relates to this discussion.
The spirit of the OpenID concept is a good one, though. I'm one of the people who attended the first OpenID dev camp (before OpenID was adopted on a wide scale) http://openid.net/2008/01/14/the-first-openiddevcamp-was-a-s... and there was (and arguably still is) a need for something like it.
The main problem is that it complicated things when it originally set out to simplify them. Power users are hesitant to consolidate all their user names and passwords into the ultimate master key; from a security standpoint, better to use separation of control when users are also smart enough to use different names/passwords across a variety of sites.
Nice job guys. As Obama's trip to India demonstrated, India is (or rather will be) an emerging tech center, so it makes sense that it is ripe for its own version of Silicon Valley. Any online community that can facilitate the growth of its local physical economy is a good one.
Not sure I agree with all the negative comments here about the IP issues. After all, NewMogul.com was (is?) pretty much a clone of YC News here, but open to submission and discussion about more broad topics besides startups.
Also, going to the country's largest landfill showed me a lot about how much waste we create in our search for the next thing. We throw away a lot of stuff that works perfectly fine simply to get the bigger and better model.
The landfill problem is interesting in context (as the interviewee mentions Wal-Mart). First of all is the combination of Wal-Mart + rural America + lack of recycling education (in rural America). Wal-Mart got big by basically exploiting small town USA's country bumpkin mentality.
Second of all: Rural America does not recycle. . . it's actually kind of infuriating. Case in point: after I moved to Utah from Florida, I spearheaded a paper recycling program at my high school. Most of my elementary and middle-school years I'd been drilled with the very liberal environmental studies education, so I was pretty astonished that people in the country didn't recycle anything. . . one garbage bin by the curbs, and all of the trash into a landfill. Shortly thereafter the local Wal-Mart moved to the end of town and opened up as a brand new "Super Wal-Mart". The trash cans stopped being big enough, so the city bought people newer and bigger ones.
What it ultimately boils down to is Corporate Social Responsibility. Wal-Marts could do more to address the issue by offering recycling facilites and education. But for the most part things that get purchased in bulk / supersized containers from the Wal-Marts and Sams Clubs across middle America will never get recycled.
A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available. (93%)
Counterpoint: surprising to me is the number of economists who "agree" with this statement.
First of all, it does not compute, intuitively, to me as a logical "AND" statement. "Quantity" and "quality" are two completely different things.
"Quality of housing" would be a function of renting vs. owning status (e.g. paying rent vs. paying a mortgage), further subjected to the degree of separation between the tenant and the actual mortgage/title holder. "Quantity of housing" would be a function of information asymmetry between "buyers" and "sellers", and obviously price (determined by the kind of information asymmetry).
For example, let's take the scammer in New York City whom we will call L. V. At the end of 2006, he went on a two-month buying spree in which he purchased ten investment properties in south Queens by obtaining 20 mortgages from ten different banks putting little or nothing down on any of the purchases. Apparently none of the banks was interested in checking his other purchases to see whether he had the means to handle 20 mortgages. Of course, L. V. never told the banks that he had no intention of making the payments on any of these loans.
One by one, L. V. defaulted on the loans. By the end of 2007, eight of the homes were in foreclosure. Undeterred, he continued to collect rent from tenants whom he had put into these two-family homes. When the article about his scam appeared in a December 2009 New York Daily News article, he was trying to evict tenants from two of the properties for non-payment of rent even as foreclosure actions against him were proceeding.
We need some sort of system to deter Evil landlords, such as this one. It is such a one-way street. Landlords / Property Management Companies (PMCs) almost always require credit checks, background checks, first month + last month + deposit + "fees" to move into a place they're not even getting any ownership on, just for a freaking lease!
Why shouldn't renters be able to check out their landlords, or PMCs similarly? Not just BBB stuff, but seriously comprehensive and detailed records of assets owned for passive income.
In photosynthesis, green leaves use the energy in sunlight to rearrange the chemical bonds of water and carbon dioxide, producing and storing fuel in the form of sugars. “We want to make something as close to a leaf as possible,” Lewis says, meaning devices that work as simply, albeit producing a different chemical output. The artificial leaf Lewis is designing requires two principal elements: a collector that converts solar energy (photons) into electrical energy (electrons) and an electrolyzer that uses the electron energy to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. A catalyst—a chemical or metal—is added to help achieve the splitting. Existing photovoltaic cells already create electricity from sunlight, and electrolyzers are used in various commercial processes, so the trick is marrying the two into cheap, efficient solar films.
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The problem is that commercial solar cells contain expensive silicon crystals. And electrolyzers are packed with the noble metal platinum, to date the best material for catalyzing the water-splitting reaction, but it costs $1,500 an ounce.
So the major hurdle for the electrolyzer component is platinum, because it is rare and expensive. But solar / photovoltaic-derived energy is the future. Ergo: investments in platinum could be very lucrative.
Secondly, EVERY SINGLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD that has shares that trade is valued by taking the last share traded and multiplying by the number of shares outstanding. It's just the DEFINITION of valuation
Facebook is not (yet) public, which is a massive factor relative to the calculation of its book valuation. Presumably, at least on the surface, all of this facebook hype of late would indicate that what used to be a closely-held entity is quickly becoming ripe for the IPO market. What the actual valuation is (or will be) cannot be determined until the free market goes to work on it.
But then again, speculation, anticipation, and fear . . . these have all been attributed to major market fluctuations, crashes, overnight millionaires . . .
A better-formed statement would be something along the lines of: if this movie does well in the mainstream, then there will likely be a surge of interest in web start-ups.
The interesting thing about this, though, it that Washington State borders both Canada (foreign country) and Oregon, which has no sales tax. I lived in the Portland/Vancouver area for a while, and some people were able to live / work in Vancouver never paying income tax, and do all their shopping in Portland (right over the bridge!), thus actually paying no sales tax.
October 3rd? This is either a typo or perhaps this new privacy policy thing is not in effect until a month from today? "Last modification" date is a little misleading if the latter is true; the policy could have some sort of language regarding "effective as of DD_MM_YYYY" to be more clear.
Studies have shown that a person’s ability to savor experiences predicts their degree of happiness. Savoring is defined as the emotions of joy, awe, excitement and gratitude derived during an experience.
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So the visual reminder of money in the experimental group prompted the participants to "savor" the chocolate for less time: 32 seconds vs 45 for the control group.
Doesn't imply "unhappiness" though, just happiness experienced for less time.
Great non-linkable comment on the Examiner article discussed: "if you want a degree - go to the University. If you want an education - go to the library"
It's one thing to aspire to focus on small-scale businesses that benefit a local area / community (as do most female entrepreneurs). It's another thing entirely to focus on some kind of ambitious VC-funded enterprise that's visioned to scale big / globally from the get-go.
A compelling argument has been made that the positive associations between SES and ASD prevalence that have been observed likely are due either in part or entirely to ascertainment bias [22]–[24], [30], [31]. For example, it has been suggested that “more parents of high social class families [have] the necessary information and financial resources to find their way to the specialized facilities” [23] and “a knowledgeable and determined parent of an autistic child [is] more likely to obtain an informed diagnosis” [24].
Interesting to explore whether the diagnosis is resultant from "better" (higher paid?) doctors' opinions or if the frequency of ASD really would be higher among that strata of socioeconomic status.
Can you cite some numbers here. Browsers are hugely optimized for displaying tables. They have tables down to a fine art.
I'm completely unqualified to be talking about this, so only to a certain extent do I even feel like I should answer this: I have simple and mere examples of what works on production sites I've prodded and nudged into working.
No tables, pure CSS (design) working w/ PHP (calculating as per SASS/HAML). Not even any JavaScript. Site runs really fast. Even checked on YSlow, it runs quicker than most tabled sites doing the same thing.
I don't have a CS background; everything I've learned has been self-taught. I consider myself more of a CSS "artist" than a real "programmer". So YC News hates me 95 percent of the time, as I've had a hard time melding with the "set-in-stone" terminology people here like to downmod for. However, I do know, intuitively, why and how certain things work why and how they work. Most of the time, I simply prefer the large bandage to the 1000+ small band-aids on browsers. Can work both ways. :)
You could expand your site and add a section for designers who specialize in the code-writing aspect of design. Just a thought.
EDIT: Fixed. I'm still working on the site's content; got busy over the holiday. But the design of the site is done, as are the custom 404 error pages. :)