netpenthe

australia?

One big farm in Australia is Anna Creek Station at 2.4 million hectares

Total UK farm land is 9 million hectares.

i think i'm joined to two now - had to be invited to second one

this is causing us terrible inconvenience .. has been going on for months :/

yup thats what i'm doing now.. would like to get off a vm at some point :/

straya

i've tried heroku a few times, always found it kinda painful to learn and felt helpless when things go wrong..

not sure if its because i'm used to building own servers (which might be inefficient)

maybe heroku is better for people with less sys admin skills? or it might just be way better now (i haven't tried in over a year).

now i use rackspace/ec2/linode for rails.

Ada

it is all fashion, things come into fashion then they go out.

then they come back in.

there was an old Mad magazine that had this with cars:

  1. first the cars were all chrome with a little bit of glass

  2. then the glass got bigger and bigger

  3. eventually the cars were all glass with a little bit of chrome

  4. then a 'futuristic' car came along that was all chrome with only a little bit of glass

yes did consider code reviews.

our thought on this would be mainly for people to check outsourced work is not way out of line.

in a 30-60 minute review you can't get too deep, but you can give a general opinion of the overall quality of the code and whether or not the developers are way out of line.

it might be more a sanity check for non-tech website owners.

as a side point, there should be a point where you can comment that "things look good", but i agree the designer should have to comment on why they look good..

we're working out designer guidelines now :)

really appreciate the feedback, and i agree.. the feedback needs to skew towards "useful things you can do to improve your site, preferably the easiest things to do"

TBH: they were the first two reviews we got done and that is what the designers came up with.. we wanted to soft launch and improve rather than wait for the 'perfect sample'

we've since run about 10 more (actually getting a bunch of websites to review from HN) and the reviews are getting better so we'll be replacing those samples soon...

one thing that we've seen from these reviews is that there are some great projects out there that need website help - sometimes i think people lose site of the fact that even a small startup can look as big as Apple if they have a decent website.

(also note i'm a dev not designer - we started this idea because i've needed it countless times on projects i've been working on)

don't mind it, seems like the future will have this

how rejection letter feels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQcRspK5z8

this seemed shoehorned, with teeth

well it is a euphemism but it is also jail.

working 9-5 earning a decent salary is something that can hold you up.. - opportunity cost to try something new or take a risk is so much higher

yer but if there ever was a single place and time for that comment, it was in a thread about 'latvia passions'

thanks guys got lots now, won't be taking any more for a little while..

thanks also for feedback and emails.

will do a post once we've got this batch done,

we're seeing some interesting points and themes that can be pulled out.

paypal might not be great to work with..

i've previously had $50k locked for over a year (and thought i'd NEVER get it back). I then vowed never to use them again...

but buying stuff with paypal is just SOO easy.. its 3 clicks... so much easier than getting a credit card out.

i hate/love dem

regardless, this offer is pretty attractive

your family or your job?

they made it too easy, who chooses job?

we're developing a website for non-designers who have built or maintain websites

the basic idea is to get a quick review of your website from an expert designer. They'll give you tips on what they would fix if it was their website.

if anyone has a website they'd like an expert designer to take a quick-ish look at and give you feedback please see my thread here (note: its FREE whilst we get it going):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621909

if you read his review of the first Surface, he loved that too, minus the wining and dining

a small amount of inflation (2-3%) is generally seen as good and the target of reserve banks around the world... you think they have this target because inflation is BAD?

inflation encourages investment (better invest to beat inflation)

deflation is bad unless you already have a lot of money. it discourages investment (why invest? i can just sit here and the value of my money goes up)

you can call inflation bad, but it is still better than the alternatives.

about as good as vmware :)