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Just a tip: the confirmation email went straight to my spam folder (with a very high spam rating). You might want to think about using something like mailgun or sendgrid for better deliverability...

This would be awesome if i could set personal preference for the review sources. I really don't care what Yahoo voices or some of the other 'critics' think but you are bound to have some reliable critics in there that i do care about.

Maybe even more so than for movies readers tend have more in common with some critics then others and the 'meta' opinion is just not that interesting.

First thing i noticed as well, i wonder if that's a new idea. Once you get it it's the perfect little icon for the action.

"For services hosted in other countries the law in those countries might well have something it can say/do"

The actual hosting country does not always matter. In the Netherlands for instance (i can't speak for other countries) -where- a service is hosted is irrelevant. If you market your service to Dutch citizens (you have a Dutch language version of the site, or a Dutch contact number for instance) you are assumed to abide by Dutch law and can be prosecuted in a Dutch court if you don't.

So what happens when your not a US citizen, the wiretapping option is turned off then you think?

There is no issue with IP addresses and SPDY perse. It's just that for SSL encryption (HTTPS) to work currently you would need your own IP address as older browsers (read IE < 8 on windows XP) don't support the SNI method of setting up HTTPS where you don't need your own IP address.

This would be very much illegal in Europe if used beyond just the test phase of an app. And even during testing it could only used with active consent of the tester probably.

Does this mean your not limiting use of delight to the testing phase but also allowing it to be used 'in the wild'?

I'm not sure recording a video of the user going through her private data on an app is the same as seeing where she clicks on your website though. As far as i know services like Clicktale will record mouse interaction but not the actual data on the screen which makes a huge difference.

And just because a big site uses it the language does not become good either, see the availability argument. I think most PHP programmers would not recognize what's running at Facebook as PHP with all the customization they have done.

Same way only easier; since your skill is more specific making it easier for people to figure out what to hire you for and for you to find out who your clients are.

I guess your portfolio could relate some use cases. And lacking those there are a zillion open data projects that could probably use your help which you could use to build your name. Also a good way to network a bit as probably people with big data know other people with big data who are hiring.

Definitely worthwhile to get a designer in, if only for the basic branding elements; logo, type, palette.

Spend some time on designer hangouts, like dribbble, find some designers you like and ask for some quotes. In my experience it's always better than what an 'amateur' comes up with and surprisingly affordable.

"You couldn't even begin to localize templates like this without rewriting them"

How come? If your base HTML templates are say python or ruby templates they could be localized fine. And if the JSON content your parsing with Walrus comes from the same backend and is also localized where's the issue?

It's mustache with some view logic sugar which makes a lot of sense as far as i'm concerned and would allow your HTML templates to be mostly 'logic free'.

Luckily all of this happened, i think i believe it did, in The Netherlands where litigation over this sort of thing is just not very common. Especially in smaller companies as this one seems to be.

As others have mentioned the website and portfolio are a must. It's ok if there isn't much on there yet, just some idea of what you can do is usually enough.

While you work on your portfolio make sure it's obvious what people can hire you for, i.e. your speciality. A 'web designer' might do front-end or just photoshop design or maybe your special power is making interactive doodads with jquery. Specialities are helpful, or alternatively a list of actual practical things you do, and help people see if you are a fit for the problem that needs solving.

The context is far from meaningless. While you understand that 'technically' it's the same source, your friends and family using Facebook will have certain expectations when 'liking' something. These expectations will probably be that they like something in the social network context of Facebook (visible to people they know) and not in the context of the web at large (viewable to teachers, bosses, and random strangers).

Nothing new here. Basic technical skills are becoming a must for almost any 'knowledge based' job out there. Not everybody will necessarily have to learn to code but if your a marketer and don't know how to setup an A/B test or send out a newsletter your simply a bad, or at least unskilled, marketer.

yes you could indeed throw another address at your virtual host. but the website/tool in question won't work with IPv6 addresses as they are not valid in a URL is the point i was trying to make :)

This is pretty handy until were all switched over to IPv6 and we'll need to "to solve the problem once and for all" again.

Observes are the argumentation, requests are the basis for new law.

Euroshopper is a "low-cost 'basics' brand" so i guess they're fine.

Isn't the whole idea of having a super yacht to not have to sleep in somebody else's shabby hotel suites?

Most, probably all, modern olympic game organizers make sure there are VIP lanes for sponsors and the very (very) rich. Basically, fortune permitting, you have to be able to get off your yacht, stroll into your limo and then be at any olympic venue in about 10 minutes.

So while it could also be done to impress committee members it's more probable that it's done to not piss off the Mittal's and the Saudi's.

Most Flash developers actually use Windows since, until recently, the Flash IDE ran much faster on Windows.

Are UK rates really that much lower than Dutch (NL) rates? In my experience (both as a freelancer and in hiring freelancers) is that in all areas of web development and design hourly rates start at €40 for wordpress stuff (charging less would be considered amateur range) up to €120 for really specific skills with most developers and designers charging around €60-€80.

Even with these rates it's pretty damn hard to find decent Python/PHP/Ruby or front-end devs. Designers (and Flash devs) are a bit easier to find as we are not lacking design/art schools.

Could it be there are simply more technically schooled people in the UK driving down prices?

To be fair, it's Facebook promoting this interface and the news agencies / publishers just being too spineless to say no (dwindling readership and such) and/or really believing it will get more people to read their stuff.

It would be nice if it sorted by relevance; i.e. a search for background would give you the definition of the background property first instead of the -webkit-background-composite property which is almost certainly less relevant (worse match, less used).

I guess it's a matter of taste but i find the addthis button bar rather horrible to look at. Plus it does not have nearly the feature set that Nic is looking for. I agree there's a product there.

Your right i guess. My point was that although Khan's videos might be great primers for some topics they tend to miss the boat rather badly when it comes to topics that need a bit more depth like history. That being said algorithms might actually make for comparatively good material to explain in short videos so no need for me to be so grumpy.

All good suggestions. As for Sparks though; i wouldn't mind if they just dropped that completely. Not sure we need another google reader and + has enough to keep you busy as is. Would get rid of some clutter too.