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So your network traffic is guilty and sentenced until proven innocent.

Sight Glass Coffee is using it as a POS.*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/4487454328/

*I don't have one

org-mode for emacs is great.

Prioritize your list of things to do. That way you only have 1 thing to do next. It may seem daunting to have a pile, but if you line everything up in a neat row, you can only see 1 thing to do until it is finished.

A good way to eliminate things from your immediate workload is to only do things that will make your life more efficient. Some projects are fun but will not make it easier to get more things done later.

If you have a unifying reason for completing a series of projects, that can help inspire you- especially, if it is a great reason. I think I read somewhere that Stravinsky said you have to force yourself to be inspired. . .

Why not just have the customer opt-in/out of 'algorithm participation' per movie selection?

Likely, Netflix has the power to start it's own social network platform based on it's existing users' movie preferences. Some user's might be proud to say that they rate specific movies highly, and correlate to particular algorithms based on collective opinions.

For instance: 'Click here to add user X's preferences to your algorithm for Y genre'

I want that and a stackoverflow for the same. Thanks!

Don't stop at ideas for webapps. What about ideas for creating jobs or reducing environmental problems? I guess you could crank out other sites that used collective decision making fairly quickly, now that you have the template. Build a network of these sites and sell it to someone.

If you had groups for people to join it might make sorting easier; we still have to sort through people with ideas that cannot type URLs in a browser: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1119184

Also, allow me to unvote. I accidentally clicked on voting for some top app to see how test how voting worked.

Please don't have me default post to Twitter when I vote for an idea after logging in with Twitter; that is sort of annoying.

Consider how search engines are going to index the ideas from your users. Create a URL object for each post and have the relevant content there. ( such as other users' comments about how to improve the app idea )

How do I submit ideas from the Wappr site?

I was thinking of how many tons and how big the sails were on mast ships. If there was a design of a much lighter and smaller hulled ship ( catamarans have less drag ), and a much larger mast assembly, seemingly, it could power a decent sized generator with some force.

Power could be stored onboard and transfered via a cable-connected, station out at sea.

Thanks for your reply.

Yes. I keep technical notes in the cloud.

Even if a company misspelled a word in an email that I assumed was hand written, I would think less of that company- especially, if it was a product such as software, where precision in spelling counts.

I agree with the idea that another variable changed near the same time. But I am still interested in hearing more stories like this, since it is an interesting concept in what I guess could be called 'sociology of marketing'.

Sort comments by hours or days ago.

Thank you!

I guess my reply to you would be under 'meta' because my questions to you are:

What do you mean by: 'more room for nasty rules lawyering("This is not Hacker News")'?

I like your idea; how would I choose between 'information' and 'related'- or 'opinion' and 'related'? Would 'factual' and 'insightful' be more useful as labels?

One idea: disconnect the visible down-votedness of a user's comment from a user's visible karma- which seems to upset people. I often see posts regarding 'why are you down voting my comment?'. Not allowing a post to get publicly, visibly, lower than 0 would prevent meta discussions about 'why'- even though the hidden negative score would move the actual comment down the publicly visible thread hierarchy.

Not showing downvoted scores on comments would never cause a user to exclaim 'why aren't you upvoting me?'

Disconnecting a user's visible karma from the hidden negative points a user acquires from negative/poor comments would be important for this idea to work well.

I agree with only allowing upvoting as _the_ metric to measure the quality of a post or comment. All posts and comments could be recognized as 'default incoming' content or 'approaching exceptional' content.

+1 for disabling downvoting.

They do, last time I checked: """

The following organizations are accepting SMS donations in the US only:

    * SMS text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts 

"""

Send the google ad link to a page with an alt phone # or alt email. You can track the calls or emails per impression that way.

( or ask new customers how they found you )

Congratulations Etherpad!!

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Why does everyone assume google will destroy the clean interface of Etherpad? Why, instead do people think the Wave interface won't be customizable, since it is an open api?

http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html

"""The Google Wave API is an open platform allowing developers to extend the functionality of Google Wave itself . . ."""

Why not write a script that checks the site from a cron job on a different server. You can have it send an email or text via twitter. Cron is a simple service. And if you can write a script that emails you or your phone, you only need to place it on a very reliable server or 2.

I wrote a script, run via cron, that checked a ticket web page every 30 minutes for concert ticket availability. If the text changed, it implied that the tickets were available; the script sent an email to my phone, a text message, telling me call for tickets. ( Ratatat was the band )

That would be a good feature to be able to turn off/on in your site preferences. I would likely leave 'view usernames for comments' off.

Good idea.

If you gave me the option to switch karma on/off for submissions and comments, I would likely leave both off.

Leaving karma off somehow gives me confidence to contribute more.

Another idea is to remove the (time 'ago). Good comments are timeless :) and old comments seem like nobody is watching anymore, so the dialog seems over.

Thank you Paul

Thank you for letting me know I am a bit off topic. I had just read this:

http://education.jlab.org/qa/electron_01.html

and converted to MPH. I was contributing something I thought was of interest and very much on topic.

I read that electrons inside us are moving around 4.9 million miles per hour.

I am fairly certain that people using this will eventually learn to sing in tune with out the app.

I really liked watching how happy everyone was when they were using the demo. They were all so immediately impressed and inspired.

"he was disturbed by the irony of landfills choked with building materials and yet a lack of affordable housing."

Similarly, grocery stores and restaurants throw tons of food away.

If only Get Satisfaction could get the Google account. . .. Perhaps Google should acquire them; that would likely solve the customer service issues people seem to be so upset about.

"I don't know if I am going to be able to do this" never gets old. Also, "I hope this isn't going to crash the server someday" gives me a warm feeling late at night.

There is an interesting discussion going on right now, here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/2009-August/0052...

Currently,

Philip Glass: Mishima

It makes reading/typing anything seem more deeply important than it should be.