lukiebriner

This crashed the graphics in every tab of Opera when I tried to look at it! Even with this tab closed, had to restart. Gulp.

You would think. However, even the current UK systems are nowhere near optimal. Crossings that block traffic for too long; Cycle crossings that stop for longer than pedestrian crossings; Lights that are at red even when there are no other cars. If councils are not motivated to optimize the current systems, they are unlikely to be interested in anything new and disruptive? There is also the pain of taking any new ideas through the approvals system, which I can only guess is both not easy and will be gamed by the larger companies.

It has worked because they've done what goes against normal government behaviour and that is, "keep it simple". They are also learning to share resources so that multiple government sites can share postal and payment engines - something which is so obvious but so lacking!

My problem with this is another howler for security:

Creating something that already exists.

Although OWASP are not legally mandated, they are the most respected go-to people for this kind of stuff and have much more exposure that your "guide" ever will, it also has a much greater level of review and scrutiny so instead to trying to help by increasing the web noise level and possibly making your own mistakes/ommissions (some of which are mentioned below), why not instead get engaged into the existing community and increase the quality of that if needed?

I agree with parent5446 - there are various codes that although they are usually only used by web servers, they are also used in some REST APIs, including mine.

e.g. I return 304 when people query an image 1) Because it is not a static resource but is pulled in from another server and 2) It will never expire because if it changed, a parameter in the URL would also change.

It is a self-feeding problem in London. It attracts job so massive government investment is made, which attracts more people but also pushes prices up so high that we need to give benefits to certain people who can't afford to live there.

If investment was made to comparable levels in any of the 10 or more other large cities in the UK so companies don't feel the need to work in London, perhaps we would solve productivity without producing a Mega-city.

It sounds easy and I know there are loads of bureaucratic hurdles and it doesn't help that local councils don't always want the change that is needed in their nice cities to create the influx of jobs...

The first question is what are you bringing to the party? Just because you have a good idea, you might be better off hiring in and not taking salary etc. It is too easy to treat the product as your baby even if you don't add any value, which means you will make it too slow or too fast to make it viable.

If you want to bring sales skills into the mix then you need to know your target market segment. Selling cars to the public is not the same as selling robots to the corporate world.

Startups also should have multi-tasking founders. Ideally, all of you can do several things. It can be a mistake to think that person A is a sales person, person B is technical, person C is design etc. because you then need 6 or more people just to cover all the jobs.

Also, you will possibly come up against problems with investment if a Founder is seen as dead-weight rather than adding value.

Just my tuppence worth!