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This article's thesis is way off. I'm pretty sure, when someone complains about "crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash", their concern is not about the possibility of themselves becoming like that.

Ben Stroud, you live in London, why are you writing about San Francisco anyway?

Agreed. Apparently though, that SnapChat guy didn't get the message. To be fair, I'd love to sit around and get money from successfully executed ideas that I contributed absolutely nothing to. So I suppose I can appreciate the angle at some level.

10-12 hours on Macbook Air(on and off with additional monitor). 1-2 hours on iPhone.

Wow... if you actually click the link to Meng To's "From Design To iOS7 Prototype" design post, you'll see that at least 1/2 the images are of men. You perniciously decided to cherry pick one example that happens to have a woman, and assert that he's sexualizing women.

Also, it's clear that you are projecting your own homophobic prejudices onto women when you write: "I can’t stand this video. Watching toned men parade around with their junk sticking out makes me feel very uncomfortable."

You assume that, because you feel uncomfortable looking at the skin of same sex individuals, all women must therefore share your prejudice. I think this article reflects more about your own assumptions and prejudices than it does about the difficulties women really face. You are contributing to the problem, good job.

Let the non-biased comments commence! ;)

Haha, nice, this gets my funny comment of the day award. =)

Everyone is free to believe anything they want, but mixing "science" into this article is rather degrading to genuine scientific inquiry. This is an article with an agenda, and that agenda is selling a book to believers. You can find a more appropriate platform to post this on.

Wow, I had no idea it was possible to earn your way up to a down vote button. Looks like I need to participate more. =)

Garbage article with intentionally deceitful title. This shouldn't even be on HN. If there were a down vote button, I'd be clicking it ferociously.

In the current iteration, I'd say this isn't a usable UI. As a first time visitor, I'd have no idea what I'm supposed to do or what anything on the page means. The form field is somewhat of a mess because of the placeholders and you need to change the ..: Search :.. button. Make it a prominent and obvious call to action button. Also, make sure the form field itself is responsive like the rest of the page so it doesn't get cut off when I resize the browser.

I have no idea what any of the things below the form field are so I can't comment on that.

As for positives... I like the ASCII picture of Isaac Newton in the source.

This needs a lot of work, but everything starts somewhere.

Heh, way to use Craig's List as an example of design. None the less, agreed, type is unarguably a basic necessity for good design and usability. At least for now.

"It's either the best or the worst customer service email I've ever seen."

Considering the post, I'm leaning towards "best".

Two things about the article:

1) Order of information seemed really backwards. It was like the blog version of Memento.

2) I've never read an article that had so many sentences begin with the word "so". About half by my count.

...soooo, that brings me back to "best customer service email ever".

I'd have to disagree a bit with the basic assertion of this article. While focusing on higher quality output of content is clearly useful, it can't be said that it is necessarily more useful than analytics. First, how do you quantify the quality of content? Is it by personal preference or by the number of site users engaging with that content? I'd probably use engagement (the stuff that leads to revenue) as the metric of choice for ascertaining the qualitative value of content, and , of course, that would be most accurately measured by the site's analytic data. Analytics help objectify what content people like and removes the aspect of personal preference.

Additionally, we need to understand why our traffic does certain things and, more importantly, why they do not do certain things. Analytics can help identify deficiencies in our site's user interface that cause friction for users to do the things we need. Without the proper data to show how users are interacting on a site, UI designers may be shooting in the dark if the goals are conversion rates and not just slick designs.

Thanks for the feedback and sorry for putting the punchline below the fold. At some point, I might improve Intellisult's UI, but that'll have to wait. For a silly site like that, and with a budget of $0, it's difficult to prioritize every detail just for providing people with some free entertainment.

If you'd like to contribute any good design ideas, I'd be happy to implement them when I have some free time. =)

FlagTap is clearly at a very early stage... everything does have a beginning after all! =)

Hey guys, sorry, haven't really had time to extend functionality beyond the basic creation of insults. Follow Intellisult on Facebook or subscribe to my Twitter @MattHofstadt and I'll send an update when I get around to adding more features to the site. Permalinks are a good idea! =)