Don't put your life on hold. I've been telling myself the exact same thing for years. I've reached my goals, and 100% of my income is from personal projects. However, I still put everything on hold, but now I tell myself once I expand, and finally sell out, I'll get out more.
Work 20% less, and invest that time in a life now.
Checked the stats on my site. Based on around 50,000 unique visitors yesterday, 3.7% used IE, and 0.5% used IE 8 or below. It's related to technology though, so it's skewed highly towards firefox and chrome.
Another advantage of the dog is how it's looking to the right. After your eyes dart to the puppy, you naturally follow it's line of sight to see what it's looking at, and you end up at the sign up button.
If they use an image of a person, they would need to be glancing or gesturing in that direction as well.
Actually, I'd like to see them A/B test the puppy against itself, but flip it horizontally so it's looking to the left in one scenario.
'Will it blend?'. One of the most successful campaigns that pops into my head. A blender, succeeding at social media. It's one of those products that you would never have thought of benefiting from social media, and yet it hit a homerun.
From what I understand, the idea is that you sign in with any Persona provider. For example, let's say gmail, hotmail, yahoo, ycombinator, microsoft, all have user e-mail addresses and they set themselves up as a provider (anyone can do this). This means, I go and create ABCforum.com and it has a login with Persona button. My users can now login using their gmail, hotmail, yahoo, ycombinator, microsoft, etc e-mail addresses.
So the difference.
1 (Without Persona). You create an account on ABCforum.com with [email protected] as your username, and make up a random password. This is another account you always have to remember, and the password can be viewed by the developer behind ABCforum.com since it's stored in their database (which could also be hacked in the future). You get a verification e-mail sent to you, so ABCforum.com can confirm you own that e-mail.
2 (With Persona). You click login with Persona, and enter your gmail e-mail and password, which Google verifies belongs to you. There's no creating an account.
The provider (in this case Google Gmail) is confirming your e-mail and password, and not the site you're signing into (ABCforum.com).
There's no guaranteed path to creating a successful startup. Google can release a project, and push it to millions of people overnight. They have a nearly unlimited budget, and bring some of the most talented people in the industry to the table. However, they have countless failures. Time, and time, and time again you see the most respected teams in the world fail. I find this fascinating. You can take the brightest minds in the world, give them billions of dollars, and they fail, while someone eating Ramen noodles, living in a basement succeeds. Try, and try again, because it's going to take a lot of failed attempts. Keep a fast turnover, and don't continue to pursue an idea that's not gaining traction.
I disagree. Stick with typical input boxes. Go to Kayak.com. Type 2 or 3 letters and you find the airport you're looking for in the search box. It's less typing than the Adioso search, and you know the input is correct. The first search I did on Adioso picked the wrong city and date range, even though I was quite specific. Also, images of the location and food are completely unnecessary. People want to find the best flight, at the cheapest price, and that's it. Unless you're trying to sell vacation packages, you're just losing focus.
Keep in mind, although we might view it as a career, other people might be fine with programming simply as a hobby.
I mean, say I want to get into basketball. I ask someone in the NBA how I can get started, and what kind of routine they recommend for getting better at the game. They're thinking, 'I started playing basketball when I was 5 years old, I've practiced nearly every day my entire life, I workout every other day, I stick to a strict diet, I'm 7'4", and the game has consumed my entire life.' From their viewpoint, I have zero chance at becoming a star, I'm getting into the game too late in your life, I don't have the characteristics of a basketball player, and I simply don't possess the same drive they once had. However, this misses the entire point, I'm perfectly cool with playing basketball for a couple of hours on the weekend, and never going any further. The same applies to programming. There are people out there that have no interest in become the next zuckerberg, they just want to code a few hours when they have spare time and make a little tool or game for fun.
Thank you, this article is pointless, why is this news? Technology is the result of people trying to make money, solve a problem, or tinkering in their free time. Yes, people with a hobby fall into the group that like to tinker, and they have more free time outside of work, on weekends. Gasp. HN has some of the most mundane articles on the homepage at times. I mean, you can write an article about how a two hour lunch break equals success, or why the most productive hours of the day are from 11PM to 3AM, or why standing on one leg while working promotes creativity, or how 3 people is ideal number of partners for a startup, and people just eat it up.
It would be based on cookies, no different than logging in with a password, then returning at a later date. Instead of typing a password, you click an e-mail link. That's the only difference, and like I said, it comes down to preference.
A number of people have said it provides weaker security, but I disagree. You can guess passwords, you can record or watch someone type a password, or catch the password over insecure protocols. The e-mail approach doesn't have these holes. The link is valid once, so if you login and someone else tries to use the same URL after snooping, it's not possible. With password logins, people can use the password for that site, or your e-mail password to reset the login. With the e-mail method, they need your e-mail password, that's the only way they'll be able to login to your account.
However, you do need secure access to your e-mail. I know there are times when I'm on a public or friends computer, and I need to quickly login to a service. I'd much rather enter my password only used on that service, instead of entering my e-mail password. This way, if it becomes compromised, it would be a much smaller concern.
This link will expire after an hour and can only be used once. To log into multiple browsers, send a login request from each one.
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It works well, they click the e-mail link, and it saves a cookie to log them in. I think it's a decent solution. It comes down to preference, would you rather type in a password, or click a link e-mailed to you. At times, I have complex passwords, so they take a while to type, and other times, I'd rather type in a password, than access my e-mail on a computer or network of questionable security.
In the end, passwords need to change, and I think in the future they'll disappear. We need smart cards or something along those lines. Click the login button, pass the card over your phone or computer, and you're instantly logged in. The card remains in your wallet like any other.
Work 20% less, and invest that time in a life now.