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I think Microsoft tosses too much research money around in the hope of finding something rather than focusing more on what matters.

I don't know why they can't innovate like other companies with all those projects and all that money they spend in R&D. Maybe it's because of all that internal competition outlined in the Dick Brass' "creative destruction" piece. This could be one explanation, but I think it's not the only one.

It was not long ago that MS investors complained that Apple invests one tenth of what Microsoft invests in research, obtaining far better results.
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Because it is not the case, sadly.

I am sitting here with a European 1.5L Coca Cola and it indeed lists Energy, Protein, Carbohydrates, fat, fibres and natrium in g pr 100ml (reasonable, since it is a liquid).

But right under that it says "A portion contains" such and such amounts of sugar, etc relative to the recommended maximum daily allowance for a person. The problem is that it defines a portion size as 250ml, which is unlikely to be what people actually eat.
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There's tons out there. A good start would be "Good Calories, Bad Calories," by Gary Taubes. Here's a good article:

http://www.westonaprice.org/The-Double-Danger-of-High-Fructo...
Nice work! To increase adoption, I'd suggest adding a page to your site dedicated to it, with some screenshots of it in action.
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Using the webkit nightlies and regular Safari on Snow Leopard with ClickToFlash installed, I just shows a blue ? box and a crash report.
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I figure Google has released a browser simply (as with their Google toolbar) so they can spider all the 'dark web' pages everyone visits. Evidence? Look at all those eBay search results when eBay prevents spidering.
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seems they linked to their staging site (publicly accessible!!) by accident. Same page without staging subdomain:

http://www.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-micro-e...
I find Silkscreen to be the tiny-font of choice.

And it's free: http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/
See discussion of the previous talking pad article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772676
It works just fine. I've been using Chrome on Mac since they began releasing stable ones a few months back. Haven't looked back (I also use it on every other OS, so I may be bias.)
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This is the autotrigger url:

http://www.syncfu.com/ipad.html#dosyncfu
I've lived in both US/Europe and believe the kcal/100g is an important part of the nutrition label for two reasons:

1) Calorific density is much more important then calories per portion. If the majority of your food intake is in the 300-500kcal/100g range then you are going to feel hungry more often, over consume and gain weight - the body's satiation feedback loop is calibrated for fresh, natural food (50-200kcal/100g) not doritos (500kcal+). Interestingly, natural foods outside the typical range are difficult to consume in large quantities (try eating 2000kcal of avocados or honey in one sitting). There's a good discussion of these issues in the Volumetrics book.

2) US "serving sizes" are completely artificial, to the point of being downright misleading. The food industry is essentially lying to consumers. Calorie density can't be spun.
"Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Downvoting a humor site because it isn't funny...that makes sense. :) Here's an upvote. :)
I love Chrome. I installed it as the default browser on my company's Terminal Server/Citrix for our 50 users. It is a bit difficult to set it up in TS environment for all users but once setup, it works great. When 15-20 people had IE open with our intranet site, the server spiked to 60-70% usage. With Chrome, it's barely 20%.
This is the autotrigger url:

http://www.syncfu.com/ipad.html#dosyncfu
That's my term for how the Pentium 4 Netburst "marchitecture" hit an unexpected dead end. Externally they said they'd push it to 10GHz, I've heard that internally they expected at least 5GHz, but they were only able to push it to 3.8GHz (and more often 3.6GHz; 8GHz if you used liquid nitrogen cooling as reported by some overclockers).

Heat dissipation scaled in a way they didn't expect and this forced a return to the wider Pentium Pro architecture approach (one AMD never left).

If you look at Intel's current processors (at least on the Wikipedia lists) you'll see they tend to run between 2GHz to 3GHz, with only a few at the latter and above, with none more than 3.3GHz. Their future roadmap doesn't top 3.6GHz.
Where is eBay preventing spidering? Their robots.txt doesn't block off anything significant, and while it says that robots should ask permission Google would certainly have that. I also don't remember any issues crawling it with the startup I work at except that the site is massive and extremely time-sensitive.
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That second font was created by Ken Perlin, of Perlin Noise fame.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1105632
The app wasn't a finalist. You can't enter an iPhone app in an Android competition. Logic like this is what makes people think Microsoft Office for Mac is as full featured as Microsoft Office on Windows. They're too very different products with different codebases and functionality that attempt to mimic some behaviour between each other. Have you seen the frustration of an Office:Mac user when they realize, for instance, that they can't do something simple like get Entourage to work with an Exchange server or get Office to connect to Sharepoint?
Yes. You can make very fast parts with it, and for a long while the hype was that it was the future for high speed computers, but that never came to pass. I read in Science that the problem was insufficient fan-in/fan-out, it just wasn't practical to design computers based on Josephson junctions, and on top of all the practical problems (keeping one cold, issues of going from normal temperatures to cold and back, fabrication) that was that.
You should know how to sell it from day 1.
It seems the entire linked story was misleading. The dev mentioned the app was a finalist in a Google Android competition. Apple didn't reject it but suggested (whatever that means) the description be changed to remove mention of being in the competition and I agree http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1106361. The iPhone app port wasn't the competitor in that competition.
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When a customer is going to spend more than $100k, they look for a relationship to minimize risk. Golf and similar activities are what the buyer demographic does with their friends.

Do people really think that customers that sign up for $10/mo "to-do" apps are more sophisticated buyers than enterprise customers?

In my experience, many people who complain about the enterprise sales process are failing for their lack of real domain expertise not their distaste for "schmoozing." They are also usually underestimating the intelligence of their customers and unwilling to build relationships.

Disclaimer: My companies do enterprise software.
Edit: I've also played golf exactly once in seven years since we started.
Very cool. Now I wish I could get chrome on OS X to enable extensions!
The hold Microsoft, Oracle (Sun) have over enterprise software comes from marketing. An entire generation of programmers has been trained and certified to use and develop with their products and knows of nothing more. These programmers careers are so dependent on identification with these companies that they defend them with a surprising close minded intensity.
And I'm impressed with the amount of insensitivity and ignorance with which you can make judgements about other people's lifestyles and body images.

A good friend of mine killed himself after losing 250lbs when he realized he couldn't escape a lifetime of emotional damage from people ridiculing him about his weight. Hating people because of their appearance is just another type of bigotry, no different from racism, homophobia, or religious intolerance.

As a fat man I have NEVER hated anybody for any of these reasons, but as a thin man you somehow get a pass to do so against me because it's currently politically correct to blame fat people for the world's ills?
Conclusion: The next wave of web developers pick Chrome.
But he doesn't even come to that conclusion in a logical way.
I'd give Microsoft credit for killing IBM's OS/2.
What really created the PC-compatible market was the creation of "clone" BIOS. I'd give Phoenix credit for that.

Dell gets credit for being a pretty efficient if not innovative box builder, first with a major online store (ironically it ran on NeXT software) to sell over that thing called the World Wide Web which was developed on NeXT computers.

IBM deserves some blame, if not credit, for allowing Microsoft the foot in the door with licensing which led to their excessive enrichment. If IBM has insisted on buying an OS outright, or developed their own, we probably wouldn't have had the widescale mess known as DOS and Windows. Microsoft basically bought DOS outright from someone else, so they didn't even innovate that.
DOS/Window success wasn't based on quality, but on licensing and taking away consumer choice (through dealing with manufacturers and bundling) as the article points out.
It won't work in Chrome until Google implement GM-specific functions (GM_xmlhttpRequest).
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I remember a few years ago, an auction aggregator tried to spider eBay (just incrementing the auction ID) and eBay basically sued them, or blocked it off - either way, the aggregator went out of business.

But that was 2001. So I guess things have changed (and thanks for informing me).
The #1 question to ask when selling to the enterprise is, "What are the spending authority cut-offs?" Nothing means more.

Funny, in my experience, the 5K and 100K numbers are pretty accurate.

I recently assisted in the purchase of business intelligence package. The CIO (my contact) had authority to spend up to $100K. Anything more had to go the board, and that "just wasn't going to happen". One vendor knew what to ask and bid $93K. The two others were much higher. Guess who (automatically) got the sale. The other 2 may have been better, but we'll never know. They were effectively eliminated by rules they never asked about.

At the low end, almost everyone has authority to spend up to $5K, even users. They bring in desktop software or SAAS under IT's radar. There's huge demand for solutions to their problems that fit under their spending limits.
I hope it was a three-piece tracksuit, at least. Does Juicy Couture make vests??
http://clqr.berlios.de/ is a better link for this resource.
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Just dig a big hole. Once you get into the earth a bit, the temperature is a constant coolness. Plus, an old mineshaft is a pretty good candidate for surviving some "end of the world" scenario.
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You can't just dismiss it like that. Techies are early adopters. Chrome is smashing through and stealing market share from every other browser. Check your own stats. Check others.
This is the last year on Mibbit (main client). http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png

What was surprising to me is that chrome is stealing share from IE. Which is fantastic news! Course the other theory would be that firefox is stealing share from IE, but Chrome is stealing share from firefox at about the same rate.

But in any event, less IE is good for the web.
It's interesting you bring up users spending "against" IT's wishes. In larger organizations, there's quite a bit of that going on. IT wants to control the desktop, make enterprise-wide decisions, use favored vendors, have total integration, etc.

Users just want their problem to go away. And there have been many, many purchases at the low end based on user problems and not corporate policy.

Perhaps you'd call that Commando Enterprise Sales. Go in under the radar, keep a low profile, and spread virally.
I thought you comment said your don't use the MVC pattern.
In that case, if you can pay bills and live comfortably on whatever they offer, I'd say that experience > $$ earned.
I made a site with bookmarklet quite some time ago that does something similar to that.. http://www.convotrack.com (was made more for twitter though)
Indicative of the entire philosophy of software development--the newest stuff is the most important, and things from years ago don't matter (now we can keep re-inventing the wheel).
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Yeah, but that cuts against the "people being able to find it again" problem.
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Agreed, it's not really anything more than a gimmick. However, if it only appears once in a few thousand applications it's going to grab attention while someone is trying to figure out what the heck it is.
> But in any event, less IE is good for the web.

My hatred for IE 6 notwithstanding, I'd phrase it: browser diversity is good for the web. I see nothing wrong about using IE 8 (although it's not my personal choice), because thanks to competition it's actually a decent browser.
"Windows XP was highly successful though, although again they really failed to do anything very innovative with that OS other than keep it stable."

Just as some seem to look back on Microsoft and portray it as having been so good, there seem to be some rose colored glasses looking at XP too. Yes it was hugely better than earlier consumer versions of Windows, but between it's inferiority to OS X, and massive number of security holes, and the various ways people were locked into it, it was pretty sick.

I think it was some of the disappointments of Vista that somehow made XP seem better in retrospect
Sure XP was popular in the sense of it being widespread, but the same could be said of herpes.

It's sort of like Bush making Reagan and Nixon seem better.
Nixon, the criminal, sure looks saintly now.
And as much as some may have disagreed with Reaganomics, he still came across as honest about his intentions, and likable with a sense of humor.

Its funny how perspectives age.
"Let’s pretend for a moment that Dan is not some privileged little schmuck and that his parents aren’t connected to Silicon Valley in some convenient way for Mike and/or Scoble. Let’s imagine that the parents actually performed due diligence and took five minutes to Google the people their kid would be spending time with."

It has nothing to do with his parents connections- Daniel met people by cold calling CEOs and other tech people when he was young (and cute). He made his connections by interviewing people when he was younger, and used these connections to intern at a few tech companies.

Daniel was definitely old enough to know what he was doing. The problem was he was so use to doing whatever he wanted in the tech community, he thought he had no boundaries. He reminds me of Richie Rich- he gets whatever he wants, his parents are never around (at least, not at tech events- every time I've met him, he's been traveling around SF alone), and he's always around older people.

Unfortunately, he's reached the point where he's no longer a cute young kid- and, he failed to adapt to his new situation. Hopefully, this will teach him to stop being a "smug little prick." And hopefully, he will recover from this.
Interesting read, if a little meandering.

I'm not sure what he advocates anyone else do about it, though. Seems more like a generalised attack on the world of tech reporting. That's cute, but what's the point?
Relatedly, you can shave the educational purchase cycle from 18 months to under 3 minutes by selling directly to the teacher rather than to five decisionmakers in three buildings, including two whose sole job is to say "no" to everyone.
This is just a long, trollish flame. Not worth reading, imo.
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"The bigger question: is it in any way fair, just, or moral to tax society's most successful more heavily just for being more successful?"

No, it's not. However, it is fair to tax the people who have the most. Determining your income for the year is just a heuristic, and an inaccurate one at that. However, if you can come up with a 100% fair way to determine whether a person deserves their income based on a tax form, I'd suggest running for Congress or the Presidency.

But until that happens, we're just going to have to settle for an imperfect system. Personally, I like the idea that if anyone is treated unfairly by our tax system, it's the top 3%. I think our tax system is fair to the other 97%. And that's quite an accomplishment.
I suspect their retention rates could be a lot better..

I paid for Evernote a year ago. The other day I got a mail saying my account had been reverted to a free one until I renewed. But I haven't bothered. Evernote is great but I rediscovered that the free account works just fine.. oops! If they'd notified me a week or two in advance, I'd probably have paid for year two for fear of "losing" my privileges (whatever they are).. but as it is, it still "just works."

Just pointing this out in case other startups consider dealing with renewals in the same way. If people are reminded of how awesome the free account is, there's less motivation to renew! I suspect I'll end up renewing just as a token of support though..
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Some metrics:

From the article:

60 servers

35% active users (defined as being active a given month)

2,335,676 total users

41,598 premium users

38972 users per server

4 sysadmins

$68,641 - Total variable expenses (hardware + software + hosting + network + operations staff + support staff)

$145,000 - Total revenue from active premium users

From this we can deduce some interesting numbers:

free/paying ratio (all users) - 1,7%

free/paying ratio (active users) - 2.2%

revenue per user (all users) - $0,06

revenue per active premium user - $3,5

Variable expense per user - $0,29

38927 users per server

583919 users per sysadmin

I particularly find the $0,06 revenue per user interesting, since it gives a rough number to work with if you're doing a freemium website. Eg. if you need $10.000 in monthly revenue to break even you will need 166.666 users.
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Agreed @ Browser diversity.

I disagree about IE8 being a decent browser, but that's just my take on it. Safari,chrome,opera,firefox, all are in a different league to IE.
It's up to 9.8% of visits to Kongregate. Here's our browser share vs a year ago. IE lost a lot, Firefox a little, Chrome and Safari both made big gains.

Internet Explorer

Jan-10	41.8%

Jan-09	50.1%

Firefox

Jan-10	38.2%

Jan-09	40.2%

Chrome

Jan-10	9.8%

Jan-09	3.0%

Safari

Jan-10	7.5%

Jan-09	3.9%

Opera

Jan-10	2.4%

Jan-09	2.4%
This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:15-inch-titanium-powerbook... replaced the Pismo and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBook_redjar.jpg was a new product line
Could you please explain why the choice of browser affect the server load?
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Apple is being stupid, it makes them look bad and does Google's job for them.
That's a pretty clever implementation for cross-browser, cross-community support!

Narrowing down to HN only and greasemonkey allowed me the following improvements:

* While the bookmarklet has to be actively opened by the user, HNCE pops up as a small tab whenever it is relevant.

* The comments in the bookmarklet are sorted chronologically (descending); Directly embedding the page with HNCE allows the hierarchy and ordering to be preserved.

* Another benefit of directly embedding the HN page is the ability to contribute to the conversation and up-rank the article.
By running on the said server, I suppose.
It is a terminal server we are talking there, not some web server.
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What's interesting for HTML5 web developers is the rendering engines, which combines Chrome and Safari:
IE(6/7/8 mélange): 41%
Gecko: 38%
Webkit: 17%.

So standards compliance is becoming more and more popular.
Because for whatever reason he has people accessing the intranet via a browser running in terminal services/citrix -- meaning all of those browsers sessions are running on the server and the clients are simply presented with a view of what's going on.
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