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Venkatesh Rao (ribbonfarm) came to a very similar conclusion here: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/02/10/health-and-the-happy-ha...

"I wander around the Metro DC area as I work, covering as many coffee shops as I can, attempting to work up to the ranging average of 10-30 miles per day of our hunter-gatherer ancestors."
Ok fine, not even Apple, any generic tablet device wins here.
I hate software patents and don't think they should be issued at all, but the idea that "if, on the other hand, the troll was required to show the startup had some prior knowledge of their technology, the burden would be shifted to the attacker, and this blatant abuse would come to a grinding halt" flies in the face of what the patent system is intended to achieve.

"Patent" means open. When you file a patent for a new innovation, you disclose the underlying technology to the general public and open it for all to see. In exchange, you receive legal protection that nobody can use your innovation without your consent. It doesn't matter whether they stumble upon your technology completely independently. The technology is yours.

The alternative to disclosing your technology in a patent is to keep it a trade secret. You don't own the rights to the technology itself, so anybody who develops it independently will be able to be able to use it as well. However, other companies still cannot explicitly steal the innovation from you. This is how Coke has guard its formula for decades.

Just because multiple groups can arrive at the same innovation in a similar time-frame doesn't mean that that innovation was obvious. In fact, this has happened with many great innovations. The telephone and the integrated circuit are prime examples.

And how can you guys not understand the importance of patents to the development pharmaceuticals? A group cannot invest a billion dollars into the development of a compound without guarding it from competitors. Once these patents expire, generic companies are able to significantly undercut the creators. The generic makers are aided by the openness of the patent system, but this is not necessary to copy a medication. It's structure can be easily deduced, and even extremely complicated medications such as taxol have been synthesized using several different pathways.
Hobbes is not a tiger either, is he? :-D
So, some great users are on your similarity list... but are you on their similarity list?
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Well, my "startup" is not a web site, but a brick & mortar business, so the dynamics are a bit different. The business managed to pay for its own operating expenses from day one, thanks to some careful budgeting on our part. We broke even our first year (making back all of the initial money we had invested in opening, which, again, had been carefully budgeted and kept as low as possible) and started making a profit our second.

We just finished our 5th year in business and last year's earnings were down, thanks to the economic problems plauging, well, everyone. We ended up making less than we did in year 4, but only by a very small margin, and it was still more than we had made in year 3, and still profitable.

We've been very careful about how we manage finances from day one and given a lot of other local businesses that didn't make it through the year, I'm calling 2009 a success.
The sharing of environment configuration is very common among high end WoW raid guilds -- we did this on a regular basis and would see significant statistically measurable improvements when people setup their interface for specific encounters.

The process of going through and explaining each step in your workflow and why it is setup that way helps even with limited collaboration. The drawback to this is environment configuration is very specific to the type of project, size of your team, and the development process you follow.

In order for this to succeed as a site you'll need to pick a niche (like any startup should, boiling the ocean is hard) and build an audience around that -- i.e. developers using Netbeans on C++ projects using buildbot for CI in an agile environment. I use this example as you cite Netbeans in your idea and you thus probably know others using it giving you the start of a community.
It also happened in "Up."

Houses in a small "village" I used to live in in china are being demolished... probably for factories. They aren't even compensating us because we can't "prove" ownership, since they didn't have "deeds" back when my parents lived there.

I'm not really complaining, since I don't live there, and don't want to live there (the houses were basically brick with cement), but it does have some sentimental value.
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Here's to the crazy ones - a decade of Mac OS X reviews
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The IRS can be a real pain.

I was audited a few years ago after being flagged for a large business expense, like this woman. Despite only that single expense being in question, the auditor asked for complete sales and expense records, which took literally reams of paper to print out, then organize and bind into folders for me to ship (I was out of state at the time of the audit and they wouldn't move it to a local auditor). It took days to click through pages and pages of history at PayPal to provide a separate printed receipt for over 1,000 separate sales, just for starters. I simply used the QuickBooks export to do my accounting, no need to keep each individual receipt on paper.

In the end all those reams of paper added up to exactly what I reported on my taxes, to the penny, and the "investigation" was closed with no changes to my taxes.

I hope every year that the audit means they'll be less likely to audit me again since I always have the same big single deductions each year (suppliers mostly).
There's really no need to publish keys if they're eventually cracked anyway. If your goal was to undercut sales of ripping software, why not just release a keygen for their product? It would directly reduce their revenue instead of doing something that hurts your own sales more than the attackers.

NB: Obviously I'm not advocating this, just trying out a thought experiment.
Wow, you're in Warminster? I'm near Ambler. Small world.
Indeed, except you're talking about a black market with rather severe penalties for those caught participating. Otherwise, you can be sure that what you describe would happen.
What's your point? Is it that we shouldn't publicly talk about some statistics for fear that people might draw the 'wrong conclusions'. What if Stein was right and 'Jews' actually did run Hollywood? (BTW I really don't know or care) Would that be a piece of information that should reflexively suppressed?
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I've been struggling as to whether finding the right co-founder for my startup is worth the effort.

I think I'm going to stick it out on my own, at least for now.

EDIT: I originally said I was "on the verge" of bringing out my startup, but the language bothered me. I've given myself a two-week deadline to get the Web site off the ground, and a bit more time after that to get the business actually running. HN taught me I should push myself to get the startup moving, or it'll never happen, and that's what I'm doing now. =)
How is the Internet changing the way you think.
Good idea ;) Lean and clean.
> their whole business is litigating patents, so tying them up in court is not exactly a deterrent.

Lawyers can make a considerable amount of money, any disruption to the Patent Trolls' game will severely reduce their numbers. These Patent trolls, as you said, are often lawyers and by tying them up in court you are costing them profitability. Every non-settlement forces them to go to court and actually fight.

This is how the courts work: Out-of-court settlements are frequent and are preferred as it saves a Judge's time for real cases, however mass submission and withdrawal of suits are seen as a waste of the courts time and effort. A fair amount of cases end up in front of a judge before settlement, if these end up being withdrawn (and the judge will know it's withdrawn not settled) you're going to be in bad credence with a judge. Pissing off a judge is a big no-no. Patent Trolls will be pissing off multiple judges, which is like putting a shotgun in your career's mouth and pulling the trigger.

An insurance agency that fights patent trolls would be ideal. Offer $X amount of legal fee coverage for $Y a month, get a few talented lawyers and a fair amount of paralegals. Once word gets out, the majority of the work can be performed by paralegals (essentially everything up until you're standing in front of a jury-or-equivalent can be performed by paralegals) as no troll will want their time tied up. Eventually, only Trolls with a fair-case will fight, you then have 3 options to give your clients: offer them your lawyers' services/suggest settling/wish them good luck elsewhere. It would be a sort of no-case-no-extra-fee's deal.

Lawyer's typically bill by the 6-minute interval, and frequently charge 100's of dollars an hour. In fact 1-2 billed hours is typically a lawyers daily pay, and they may still have 6-8 hours on top of what they're billing clients. If you start consuming these lawyers time, their profitability drops, especially considering they require settlements for their pay. They're invested in the 'easy win', which isn't conducive to fighting a drawn out case. If companies actually start going through with the court battles, the payment is potentially delayed anywhere from 3-months to 3-years.
Is this Jacques Binet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Philippe_Marie_Binet

If so, is it about Fibonacci numbers?
You've missed an entire class of users. Believe it or not there are people who know nothing. Literally. They don't understand that when they save their password it's stored on their disk. They don't understand what a disk is, and they don't understand what a file is. They don't have the luxury of even thinking "could I break it", they are completely oblivious to the risks or how any part of the system works. A computer is like a television to these people. A black-box appliance.

I was baffled but there are people out there - not senior citizens but 20 year olds - that really don't understand or care to understand any of that stuff. It's a magic box to them. They have no idea chat histories are stored on disk even though they see them in MSN. The fact that they have logged in makes them think no one else can see them. Likewise the fact that their saved password is stored is over their head unless someone explains it to them. Not everyone has someone to tell them these things.
Pretty similar indeed. Thanks for sharing the link.
But it was acted out long before then. :)

Many of Shakespeare's works only entered written form after he died.
That used to be on their job postings. "Get inside information about your friends! See all their private details!" (or something similar)

I think their foster mother has tried to make them grow up a little.
And yet even pharmaceutical companies are now facing problems caused by too many patents (though I'm sure none of them want to abolish patents completely the way many in software do). Michael Heller from Columbia Law School writes about new therapies that companies can't bring to market because they involve dozens or hundreds of different genes or compounds, each patented separately; he argues that this will become more common because of trends in medical science. He also cites some interesting examples like http://www.goldenrice.org/ which actually did get produced, but only because they formed a non-profit foundation and basically shamed companies into licensing their patents as charity for the developing world.

Many, many more details in Heller's book and in this Econtalk interview:

http://www.gridlockeconomy.com/

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/11/heller_on_gridl.htm...
Not impressed. I'm pretty sure being an asshole is more frequently harmful than helpful. I myself have been one from time to time and I understand the motivation to paint it as a strength. It's not. Even pretending that, "We need a few like me to protect all the nice ones," is specious. We must resist attempts to justify our bad behavior with pseudo-reasoning.
I do think he makes a good point though that "Your patient, non-bastard supporters are the lifeblood of your community" and these are the people who have to be protected. Whether his approach is the right one is arguably questionable.
Mostly graphic design work. I pay designers for uncoded website and logo designs, advertising creatives and occasionally small graphics. I used to do the design myself, but I'm not very artistic and a good designer produces better work in far fewer hours, so I'm willing to pay for it. I've run some design contests on 99designs.com and keep in touch with the winning designers for future work, and also met some people through the SitePoint forums.
As is typical of the usually shoddy reporting by the WSJ, the article completely fails to explain or even briefly describe the court's ruling itself, despite spending nearly 4 paragraphs describing how the ruling could be monumentally helpful for others.

(And no, providing the disposition of the case is not the same thing as providing a disposition of the legal ruling by the court.)
Congrats to Heyzap, which competes with them.
I haven't thought of a revenue model yet: just throwing the idea out to see if that's something people would actually like. Getting developers to share their work environment would indeed be a challenge. Perhaps, a karma system a la StackOverflow/HN could be used as an incentive. Developers on StackOverflow don't mind helping each others out so I don't see why it wouldn't work with my proposed format. I have to admit though that making a screencast is time consuming and the karma incentive might not be enough to balance.

Another option that was mentioned in the comments was to ask "celebrity" developers to share their workspace. Celebrities usually like free publicity so I believe that might be a viable option to start out.
A graph charting downloads v time with PR events or advertising milestones noted, or some more sophisticated analytic for which milestone drove traffic. I'm terribly interested in understanding the relationship between PR and downloads, how much "inertia" is there? Does the old "8 views" advertising axiom that action requires multiple exposures still hold?
I don't know, it does sound like the firm has a decent track record.
The TechCrunch article doesn't mention it, but Mochi has made some major contributions to Python/Erlang open source and Erlang evangelism for quite a while, including the MochiWeb HTTP server: http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/
Sure, but it's hardly novel: "productive, peaceful people make a good community." Can't argue with that.
I think they should go after 3) if this gains traction. They already do 1) BUT it requires considerable amount of effort from their side and the authors are not always interested. However, getting a cut from each rental would be quite lucrative and won't require them to keep churning new editions out.
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Of course it's not settled. But the article says what I wanted to say better than I could say it. I don't see any benefit in restating what has already been said, worse. Think of the article as a library function I called.

It's an obvious point that there will be some rare souls who prefer Android. For example, if the importance you put on a working Google Voice implementation counts for more than the sum of all possible other goods a phone might offer you, then maybe the iPhone is not right for you. Likewise, a child who will eat nothing but fish sticks will likely prefer them to the best filet mignon ever cooked. But for the most useful definitions of "good," there's still an order on the set in both cases.

It probably won't surprise you that I mostly agree with the hypothetical chefs and authors you cite.
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I've read this few years ago. I felt like this guy crept into my head, teared out my personal exact believes and published them on his website.
Yeah, its helped alot with my family's computers a lot too. (on a side note) I will say im amazed that with one installation of win 7 pro (since rcm version), I havent had any virus/spyware problems (with no anti-virus/spyware software)
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Personally, I don't value software parents much.

I think they are a giant waste of money. You spend $20K on lawyers, to get nothing more than the right to spend more money on lawyers in the future.

That $20K could be better invested elsewhere (like on product improvement).

I think it would be worth considering eliminating software patents.

However, I don't think an "independent invention defense" is a good idea. It would essentially eliminate all patent protection. Basically, the absence of proof that you knew a patent existed, would get you off the hook for infringing on it. This means that as long as you had the right set of rigorous policies in place, you could operate with complete immunity from patent infringement claims.

If all employees were trained (by mandatory corporate training) that "under no circumstances should you ever read any patents, ever", and "if you ever have any doubts about anything being patentable, direct the question to our lawyer", and you were very strict about enforcing it, you could make a case that pretty much every invention was discovered independently.

That would defeat the whole purpose of patent protection. The idea is that by getting inventors to disclose details of their invention (which benefits society), that they get a monopoly on its use. Without the monopoly, there is no point in having a patent.

If software patents pose a fundamental problem, then I think the best course of action is to eliminate software parents, not to undermine the entire patent system.
Well if you're going to go that route...

... then wouldn't it be cool to be snails? It's still kind of like a slug, plus you solve the rent part by carrying your entire house on your back. Not sure if there are any advantages to being a snail in sunny CA though.
I wish they would compare per-capita numbers on a city by city basis. Since startups tend to congregate in certain cities, the per-capita numbers for whole countries don't really tell you much. In this case, the Bay Area is about twice as populous as Tel Aviv, but the US is about 40 times more populous than Israel, making that national per-capita figure kind of meaningless.
Indeed, It may be a chip on my shoulder about iphone/touch development standers (including, but not limited to, needing a mac to develop for them). Just my personal preference though.
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Sounds like the bystander effect's influence on the web. A difference is that the requester is contacting others directly, not passively waiting for help. I guess the mentality of being a small part of a crowd is the most important factor in the effect.
I considered rewriting his first two paragraphs, replacing "Jews" with "whites" and updating the numbers accordingly, but then thought better of it. Instead I will offer this:

Broooks quotes Steven L. Pease "The Jewish faith encourages a belief in progress and personal accountability. It is learning-based, not rite-based."

1) While I acknowledge the importance of learning in Judaism, I find it a bit odd to claim that a religion with 613 commandments is not "rite-based"

2) These were the same values of the original Puritan settlers in New England - in fact they even saw themselves as modern day Israelites, chosen by God to go into an unknown land and build a city upon a hill. They rejected the Catholic rituals of the Anglican church, and to this day Boston is a city whose message is "you should be smarter." (http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html) Furthermore, U.S. progressivism grew out of the Unitarian church at Harvard and the Transcendentalists, both in New England.
At the one place I worked where this was actually implemented (spoof a user by entering a hashed password), it only worked from inside the firewall, to mitigate this risk. According to the interview, Facebook has similar restrictions on user spoofing.
One of the better explanations of the Google approach I've read. Google aims to shape the market to their benefit, to create new markets. They think not so much in terms of products as how those products will affect the existing structures.
I posted the solution on my blog. If anyone wants to figure it out themselves, then don't read it.

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It is extremely questionable. However, on the occasions I stopped doing what I do (usually because I felt that I was starting to burn out and be too much of an asshole even for my own tastes) nothing anybody else did helped very much and eventually I got asked to come back by a number of the nice people because the standard of behaviour was sliding and they weren't being listened to because they were, well, being too nice.

So I can't claim my approach is right, only that it works and that in the absence of somebody finding a better one I'll continue to follow it - and I'm reasonably comfortable that in this case the ends -do- justify the means, at least according to my own moral calculus.
Very true. Specially asking for advice/mentoring in such a mass way is not just wrong, it's outright disrespectful.
I'm curious as to what OCR library you are using? I've had issues getting 100% reads in the past on related projects, and I've love to hear how you deal with image de-skewing and OCR.
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We probably disagree on whether this is, in fact, 'good news'.
If you find what I'm saying specious and pseudo-reasoning. perhaps you could outline specifically which arguments you find unconvincing and why; I'm aware that what I have here is very much a working hypothesis backed up only by anecdata, but I thought it was a reasonably consistent hypothesis and any holes you can poke in it would be very welcome.
In the person's defense, he was specifically looking to generate a panel of advisers, not a single mentor.

This may have been successful, but I personally only felt motivated to reply when I received a direct message.