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Btw, I just found this, not the creator. Yeah, there are some issues, e.g. clicking to open a new modal inside a current one just scrolls to the top, but I always like to see how people can hack around these things, and checkboxes can be pretty powerful.

Do you have a source re: sustainably farmed/recycled wood? I was not aware of this, and so often hear about disappearing forests in Brazil and Russia. But I'm curious.

The ads run on RSS only, I think.

Except that shipping is not necessarily obvious. There are several options (overnight, 2 day, longer) with different price points. Also, if you're a Prime member you get free 2 day shipping, but what if I'm prime but not logged in/using a different machine?

And setting a default shipping cost is likely to further confuse customers. E.g. if you show the cheapest option always, there will be a price bump at checkout, but you don't want to show expensive option by default because it raises all perceived prices.

Another suggestion: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/cssgradientbackgr...

IE's gradient builder, I find it nicer than the colorzilla one.

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I agree, for about 95% of my searches the results are vastly improved, but I still run into the occasional search that's just a spam minefield. Recently my boss asked me to look into purchasing windows licenses, and between the google spam and the awful microsoft.com experience (everything requires silverlight, which I can't install, and half the links opening .docx instead of just a webpage) it was far too difficult. /rant

Just a heads up, if you click on "Getting Started" at the bottom it sends you to the "getting-started-mac" page, and the download is for mac. If I click directly on "download" it knows I'm on windows, but through the getting started vector it serves me the wrong link.

Otherwise, looks amazing, gonna give it a whirl after work.

Also, my personal message ran past the allotted space, and didn't expand, nor was there a scroll bar. So I couldn't see the last several words. An auto-expanding textarea or simply a scroll bar would be nice.

Ah, just searched the iOS store for Jargoneer after watching the video. Is there a mailing list or any way to find out when it's released? Looks awesome.

http://db.tt/gnlkHVZ1 - Thanks!

Not sure what kind of theme you're using, but it broke the Greasemonkey script Hacker News OnePage for me. If you're using something like greasemonkey or stylish, you might have to go into the script and tell it to work on https, since the sites are whitelisted with only http. That should do it.

Things are a little too spread out perhaps, but I already love that the top action bar (archive, spam, delete, etc) follows you down the page. As someone who's never quite mastered gmail keyboard shortcuts, I was constantly checking items then scrolling to the top or bottom to manage them. Nice little timesaver.

True. Yes it is a for-profit site, although as of now only through amazon affiliate links. We have no plans for any kind of subscription model similar to theirs.

The thing with Netflix is it only works after you've given them your money. They do have a great recommendation algorithm, but ours lets anyone get results, without requiring you to 1) be a paying customer and 2) already have chosen dozens of things you already like.

There's no barrier of entry.

I guess we're aiming more at the DVD-buying/heavy tv-watcher crowd. Granted, a lot of show discovery comes from those sitting on the couch, but I often find channel surfing to be rather tedious. If I already know what I like, flipping through Comcast's 1,000 channels often yields nothing.

And the TV guide doesn't do recommendations, just tells you what's on.

That said, we're looking into getting local times integrated with the results, as that would obviously be hugely useful.

1) Making the attributes clickable is in the pipeline. 2) There's a brief blurb in the 'about' but you're right it's not clearly explained. Any thoughts on how to display that? Bottom of page? We've got some ideas for stuff to add but trying to keep it uncluttered.

It doesn't necessarily mean that your job becomes marketing instead of art, but even just a bit of connecting with your fans can make a huge difference.

And this is more focused on creative fields, because they have been so widely 'disrupted' by technology. I can download a book from a torrent site, but I can't download a programmer's time at working on a problem (though I could of course download OSS code, but that's a whole other thing).

So books used to make a lot of money (for very few people), now they don't make as much money, but the positive thing is that more people can get in on the action, because the costs of distribution are so much lower. And in this author's case, she's basically ranting about how fans of her books aren't paying her, when she could spend that energy much more effectively by somehow connecting with and cultivating that fanbase. If they like her stuff, they'll probably pay her for something, if not a physical book.

Techdirt often does case studies of people in various creative industries that have made this kind of thing work. See for example: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20101026/0...

Musicians, authors, filmmakers, artists, whatever. Lots of creative people are able to leverage a dedicated fan base into a livable, if not insanely lucrative, salary.

The key is to provide something scarce. Since books, music, etc. are digital, they no longer are scare, but you can offer things like a day in the studio with the band, or for an author it could be advanced drafts, a $1000 dollar option to get your name as a character in a new book, signed special editions, you name it.

It may not get you to the top of the NYT Bestseller List, but if done with an eye toward your core fans, you can absolutely make a living on your art.

There is a whole list of them at: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/