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by nudge 16y ago
I did not know that about reddit! I had wondered how sites which depend on so much user participation get started. Now I know they cheat ;) Anyway maybe you need to define more clearly what you want? What is a 'passionate' user? Your app do
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by nudge 16y ago
They won't search you out. You need to go out and grab their attention. What is your project?
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by nudge 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/best
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by nudge 16y ago
It's a nice form, but do you think it's a good idea to allow a user to sign up without checking that the password is what they intended to type (i.e. by having two password fields and checking they are the same)? Seems like a very good way
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by nudge 16y ago
Other freemium apps have given the beta away for free with the promise of a lifetime discount for users of the beta. That seems like a nice compromise to me.
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by nudge 16y ago
I think it very much depends on your customers. It's true that I was thinking of companies with very tech-oriented customers when I was remembering other cases of this. I can't remember exactly who they were though, sorry. But yes, I should
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by nudge 16y ago
Publish their threatening letter on your blog. Gain the respect of your customers, and new potential customers of yours and theirs, by being the good guys and showing them to be the ones that resort to legal threats to discourage healthy co
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by nudge 16y ago
I had planned on using google for jquery, yes, but I didn't realize I could do what you describe with my own static files. The site will use some pretty hefty javascript, so that could make a noticeable difference. Thanks.
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Ask HN: Should I use a host in the UK?
5 points by nudge 16y ago|4 comments
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by nudge 16y ago
Lunascript( http://www.asana.com/luna ) looks pretty exciting but I don't think it has been released yet.
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by nudge 16y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I would have thought that trademarks are balanced by common sense and context. So, if you have a shoe company called London, and I call myself London, you have no claim against me unless I'm also selling shoes (because
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by nudge 16y ago
Have you submitted it as a bug? It's the dev track people! Why are you expecting it to be perfect already?
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by nudge 16y ago
It's not really like the save icon. The padlock for https is like the save icon, because it is a metaphor for a certain interesting state. Http, on the other hand, doesn't tell you anything except that you're not on https (or ftp, etc). So
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by nudge 16y ago
Agreed. People seem to be upset mainly because of what they imagine certain users will do, rather than what they have actually seen happen.
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by nudge 16y ago
So? Do you think people will be upset if they copy and paste a link and it has http:// put at the start?
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by nudge 16y ago
It's the dev track. If you don't want to see bugs, switch.
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by nudge 16y ago
The full url with http:// is added to the clipboard when you copy.
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by nudge 16y ago
Do you generally assume you are on a secure connection unless told otherwise?
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by nudge 16y ago
I never said UI simplification should be privileged above all other concerns. Your idea has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
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by nudge 16y ago
You say the protocol being used is important. Is it? Why? I think it is not. I think the important things for 99.9% of people are: (i) this is a website, (ii) this is a secure website. The actual protocol being used is a technical issue tha
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by nudge 16y ago
Anything that is not understood by a user is potentially a source of confusion and error. The http prefix did nothing when navigating. You could type 'www.google.com' and get exactly the same result as ' http://www.google.com . It is redund
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by nudge 16y ago
Copy/paste seems to be working perfectly well on Chrome for me. And if there are other buggy cases, why are you assuming they cannot be fixed? Facebook and twitter will work just fine. The problem it solves is one of simplicity. http doesn'
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by nudge 16y ago
Jeez. I really don't get the fuss about this. 99% of web users probably won't even notice, except they might be pleased with the removal of the incomprehensible (and, for years now, unnecessary for input) code in front of the part of the w
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by nudge 16y ago
Do hire a lawyer. I have spoken to many patent examiners and they agree that applications not written by professionals are very difficult to work with. You might still get a patent granted, but your claims won't necessarily have the optimum
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by nudge 16y ago
If you publish a description of something, it immediately becomes unpatentable, by anyone (including you). This is because you cannot patent something that is in the public domain, and if you publish it, that's where it is. So that's patent
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by nudge 17y ago
The risk is probably not a legal one, but rather simply that someone might do it themselves. Of course, you don't have to give away everything about your idea. It would be a great experiment though. Go for it.
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by nudge 17y ago
Fair point. I didn't know it was custom.
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by nudge 17y ago
Github
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by nudge 17y ago
Startups as opposed to open source? I suppose that would cut down on the users, but how would you police it? To be honest I think that would just annoy people, as well as being a lot of work for you. If you really want to limit signups, I w
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by nudge 17y ago
You can limit the number of signups without making it invite-only. You just make it first-come-first-served, and accept no more than X signups. I'm assuming you've done a closed trial first, among yourselves (using it to develop itself, I h

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