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A quick look at the effectiveness of the status page, and what can be improved: http://www.transparentuptime.com/2010/02/github-system-statu...

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I'm completely sucked into this show, but I have an uneasy feeling about putting young entrepreneur in front of extremely experienced VC's.

Looking for a Sr. Manager of Engineering, to manage the entire engineering department in San Diego:

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/sad/1315679159.html

Nice, they mentioned my site (simplecountrycodes.com)! I got some awesome feedback from HN on the design of that, so thanks everyone :)

Love the idea. That's Phase III :)

Thanks! Any ideas how to make it simpler?

Never differentiated the two myself

Trying my best to stay away from all that manutia for now, at least until I can justify the amount of work necessary to do that. But agreed, could be really useuful.

Agreed.

I'm doing my best to avoid that (for now) :)

But I agree, could be really useful.

Not sure what you mean, but I presume the gray auto-replaced text isn't great?

I like it! Crowdsource it. I'd probably want to have at least two people do it independently per country to make sure they aren't saying naughty things.

Good point. Will think about this one.

Awesome tip, will investigate.

Any ideas where I could find all of the common abbreviations?

I really like the idea of showing the country times. I've been looking into ways to do this, but it isn't trivial. I will definitely keep keep thinking about this. I personally would find it really useful.

Great discussion. Will try some A/B testing here and test bounce rates.

Great feedback.

Like the idea of keeping the previous values, though I'll try to see if I can do this without cookies.

In regards to the second idea, I'm trying to keep the site as simple as possible, and adding anything else will only hurt (imho).

One thing I'm finding that I didn't plan for is that I'm getting a lot of visitors from outside the US. Any advice on internationalizing the site?

I'm surprised there isn't more talk of Bazaar. It's awesome.

Since with engineers you rely on them estimate how long things will take, and the last thing you want to do is keep nagging them to decrease that time, it's easy for engineers in a non-startup company to lose the sense of "urgency" and get complacent with the estimates, adding buffers to make sure they are never late. How would you try to keep ever increasing estimates?

My point is that there's it's very difficult to measure the productivity and "results" of knowledge work, and you need to look at all the data. This includes looking at hours worked, plus the quality of the end product, the way they work with others, the clients impression, and the success of the product in general. This is a complex problem the requires a holistic approach.

What does "results" mean in knowledge work? It's impossible to know whether the results could have been achieved faster or better if you had indeed measured hours. I'm not saying measuring hours is the only thing to watch, but you can't simply track a undefined concept like "results".

As a manager, especially when I'm not coding in the project, I need some way to know how hard the engineers are working, and whether there's anything I can do to help them be more productive. I have no doubt there is a clear correlation between hours worked and results produced. I think as long as you give engineers the flexibility in their work schedule, I can't imagine not counting hours.

An offsite status site would certainly not guarantee that it won't go down at the same time, however it would dramatically improve the chances that one is always up

A good thread over at Wired around popular social bookmarking alternatives: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/magnolia-suffer.html

A great lesson for every saas service, and how a little bit of transparency goes a long way: http://www.transparentuptime.com/2009/02/magnolia-downtime-s...

Interesting perspective