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Also, perhaps displaying the due date and changing colors if it's past due / about to be due might be a good idea. For instance, the day before change yellow and the day after change red?
When things are selected as done, the next day pushing them into an "Archive" list similar to how Things does it might also be cool.
1) It looks far more like people just posting an introduction about themselves. Let's say that a month from now you have 200 posts on it, and I'm looking to see if anyone wants to get lunch in Santa Monica. This doesn't appear terribly easy, and being lazy I'm not going to spend more than about 1 minute trying to find people.
2) I don't see that any of these expires. If I post for lunch in an hour and a half or so, it will live on forever. This is much more an event and time-based thing, yet the records live on more like a blog/news/announcement section.
Dates, times, and locations should be displayed well, a search by city would be most useful as well.
Some of those are simple, "stop being X to Y people because you think they are Z" is much easier to notice a pattern of than the sub-conscious effects of "for some reason I don't like people who act in these ways."
Loyola is an EEO employer that seeks applications from women and members of minority groups.
Then it leads into why building a company is this environment is bad. Your employees are going to start looking for other startups, you don't have enough whiteboard to map things out.
It seems to me that the reasons for needing "30,000" square feet of office space are applicable to a financed company, not so much a bootstrap. I don't think the argument that's being made here is supported by the arguments for it.
From my own experience at least in building random projects out, Starbucks works really well for me. I bring headphones, so the distractions of the "annoying person on the phone" don't really apply. It helps me focus because it does get rid of the distractions of home, without adding any distractions.
I'd have to have been in the park a lot to map out points where you could walk, write the algorithms for navigating the park from any random point of interest to any other random point of interest in a reasonably efficient way while following the boundaries of the pathways. I'd have to have kept the app updated when anything changed at the park, including things like "For two weeks, this one path is blocked off because construction is happening" which happens fairly regularly at Knott's Berry Farm.
Although those are all challenges I could have overcome given the time and resources, it wasn't something I would be very passionate about and it would die out as a result.
I've had a lot of reasonably good ideas, and some of them have worked out rather well in the past. Most of them I don't pursue more than as an idle thought. Those I choose to work on I do as a result of how much fun they will be, how passionately I feel about what I'm building, and how challenging I think it will be. A few weeks ago How I Met Your Mother inspired the idea for http://www.notanewyorker.com/ and that was something I said, "I'll build it tonight, I have nothing better to do." It's a cute little website, and the biggest motivating factor was I thought it would be funny, and using Python on Google AppEngine would be interesting because I've not used it to build anything like that. I found I hate Google AppEngine now though.
I have a lot of stuff marked "Later".
With regard to someone stealing the idea, I don't really worry about it. I regularly give ideas I've had away, especially if I think I'll never make them.
A few years ago a friend and I were at a restaurant and there guys were trying to figure out something to build on the iPhone, my friend and I had just come back from an amusement park in southern California and I suggested a custom map of amusement parks that has points of interest for all the restaurants and rides and gets you there within the boundaries of the pathways in the park. I had the idea earlier that day, but I would never build it myself, so to me it was fairly useless.
If you're trying to actively promote a stand against those machines, more information would be a great addition. An about page that goes over what's happening, and a section that links to other places talking about it. Perhaps adding the ability for people to share their experiences directly on the page instead of just tweeting.
It's cute and pretty, but I think it lacks substance.
You should never do this. Unless you have a really good reason.
Half of my friends have "green cards" (medical marijuana cards) that can be bought for around $150 from random doctors after you say you have "headaches," "trouble sleeping," or "anxiety." The ease of getting a card, combined with the availability of "clubs" has made pot for anyone with disposable income trivial at best to legally obtain.
Teachers are being laid off, random services are getting budget cuts, income tax returns were getting IOUs last year, and pot is already trivial to access: Why aren't we manufacturing and taxing this?
I doubt either option was fairly healthy for the students, but I wouldn't use a high-school cafeteria as the epitome of healthy living.
Also for some reason the rich kids at my school typically brought their own lunch and ate more natural food than the middle-class or the poor kids. Anecdotal at best, but that was my experience.
The end-result of this hack was that the student government opened up selling outside food at lunch time more often for more clubs than previously allowed.
I see this as good for everyone involved, with the possible exception perhaps of the poor kids.
Although I don't exactly see how a few pennies can slow down transactions in any significant way. You can get up to one more penny than you would get in quarters. Pennies come in roles >2 as large as quarters.
Something we did at $company[-2] is we had a block of IPs that weren't used for customer traffic. If something hit them (SSH login attempts, HTTP GET requests that were looking for RFI vulnerabilities, etc, etc) the IP would be firewalled from the entire network for a period of time (generally 2-3 days).
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsCrashCourse is fairly good for a quick introduction to similar ways of doing things in emacs. =)
1 See spelling in use at http://www.vim.org/about.php
2 "Vim has a small footprint in RAM and on the CPU. A given system can support a great many VIM users at once."
This like saying giving someone a shell script to rm -fr / and having them run it is infecting the system.
Although it is trivial to implement SSL, you should only do it if you need to because of the above, using up all the IPv4 addresses because your random video sharing website might have a user somewhere on a wireless network where their cookies are hijacked. This attack has existed for pretty much ever and isn't very useful for a dedicated focused attack.
No ordering is yet implemented based on rating, everything is displayed based on the created date. Any posts which reach -10 are deleted. I figured that would be a good anti-spam method, and it seems like some spamming things are hitting that.
Once there is more data some "Best of" and such sort links will most likely be added =)