tonyblundell

"Brainstorming sessions and equivalent ideation techniques like Creative Problem Solving have an ever-growing body of evidence showing them to be an ineffective way to generate good ideas."

Any links?

If the code is inside the script tag, it has to be downloaded with each page. If it's a separate file, it only has to be downloaded once, when the first page is loaded.

Really? I thought that was one of it's key selling points.

Unfortunately none of the code is shared.

... as a service!

But seriously, isn't this how Groupon is supposed to work? Offer a stupid discount, protected by a limited supply in order to manufacture demand.

I'm not sure why this is top of HN?

I'd be interested to hear more on this. At the minute I'm not sure what dire circumstances you mean, or how having a leader implies a threat of war. It seems like a lot of what you wrote could be applied to any leader of any nation.

I went through a vehement anti-monarchy phase when I was younger, since then I'm starting to appreciate the idea of a head of state who isn't a career politician that campaigned or even bought their way into office.

The Queen is more than just an actor. Think of how you'd hire a lawyer to speak for you if you had to appear in court. It is necessary to hire a trained expert in collating and co-ordinating information from the relevant sources and communicating in that particular forum. It doesn't detract from the meaning or sentiment.

They showed it to us at Primary school too. I'm from south Sheffield though so the accents sounded quite posh to us :-)I do remember being freaked out by any loud noises in town for a few months afterwards.

I watched it again a couple of years ago. It's amazing to think about how close we actually came to nuclear war not so long ago and now we're in a position where people can campaign for self disarmament of nuclear weapons.

I really like the idea of an Ubuntu phone, but the desktop thing is just weird.

I really can't see a use-case for it.

Aside from a drastic increase in the chances of dropping my entire computing resources in a toilet, or leaving them in a pub, usable desktops can be had for around £200.

And you still need a desk at home with a monitor, keyboard and mouse. At a time when people have largely ditched that idea in favour of a laptop or tablet form-factor.

The fact that it's on Indiegogo suggests they've tried to get commercial investors and failed because it's unmarketable, which is frustrating because I think a straight Ubuntu phone could really make an impact.

"The specific project I work on is way behind. It was supposed to be delivered before I joined. There's an insurmountable amount of technical debt that nobody wants to acknowledge. Bad decisions were made with regards to developer software, tools, source control, software design, database management, environments etc."

Welcome to the wonderful world of IT :-)

My advice: You're going to be looking for a new job very soon and during the interview you're going to be asked about your last job. You'll tell them how bad it is and they'll ask you what you did about it. At this time you need to think about how you'd like to be able to answer that question, and act accordingly.

Isn't learning to do the best thing for the business irrespective of your instincts a skill?

I'd prefer to hire a nice person. Training nice people to be good at something is easier than training skilled people to be nice :D

Maybe I'm in a minority, but I genuinely don't care about seeing the ads.

I'd never pay for them to be turned off, unless perhaps if it was a small site or community that I wanted to help out / donate to.

Oh, and the audio ads in Spotify, I'd pay in blood not to hear them :D

But surely they don't make $49 per user per year on ads? It looks like they're over-charging on the paid accounts to cover the costs of the free accounts. Especially the 1TB is free, 2TB is $500 deal.

And it seems that after proving people will happily pay for premium features, they've now sent an email to all their customers which essentially says unless you have over 1TB of photos with us (which is pretty-much no-one), you may as well cancel and use the free account instead.

It seems like a very bizarre structure to me and I can't see people subscribing to it which is a shame as IMHO they've just vastly improved what was already by far the best product in its market.

I Hope I'm wrong.

The redesign looks awesome, but who's going to pay a recurring $49 just to remove ads?

Can't help but think their money men might be about to screw this up. Hope not, love Flickr :-s

I prefer to be in absolute control of the layout. It's not that big a task.

Rules are there to be broken.

I stick to 80 chars 99% of the time because long lines are more difficult to read.

But if a line ended up being 84 characters wide I wouldn't go replacing variable names or hacking a single function call onto multiple lines to fix it.

No one has died yet :-)

Looks awesome

A sense of humour normally gets you downvotes on here :-p

Great, thanks!

This is why I never 'buy' things online that I want to keep.

Music is a paid subscription through Spotify. If they went down I'd subscribe somewhere-else.

Videos are either through a paid Netflix subscription or rented for £3-ish through XBOX live. I never really watch the same movie twice.

Books I do buy from Kobo, but I wouldn't read the same book twice (unless it's a reference book which I prefer to use paper for), so I don't really care if it's not available after I've read it once.

I've never really got why people spend £15 to 'own' a movie on something like iTunes when the way we consume that stuff is changing so quickly at the moment.

Sarcasm, nice.

But seriously, I'm new to Node. If I see examples of bad practice on the home page, I've no way of knowing if the framework is going to be teaching me more bad practices in the areas I'm not familiar with yet.

Because GET requests can be saved as bookmarks, copied and pasted, indexed by search engines, etc.

Lots of people rushing to build RSS clients, but why not build something better?

If you can build something that will take any URL, figure out which bits are changing regularly (the news items, etc), and push the changes to a Reader style interface, you might be on to a winner.

It's 2013, a reader should be possible without RSS.

If it's on the homepage and in the docs, people will copy it without questioning it. That's why people use frameworks.

Still a decent effort :-)

I wonder if it's something to do with UK companies importing/exporting between the US and Europa

> The market is valued around $5-6bn per year, with around $1.5-2bn based in the UK.

Does the UK really make-up a third of the world wine market, or did I misunderstand?

Grow up. I'm not bitching and moaning, nor am I anti-MS. I told you I worked with MS languages.

I just think this is a crap way of doing Django. Just like developing Silverlight apps in VIM would be.

It does look exciting, but I can't trust a framework that promotes saving data on a GET request.

Why?