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A COMPUTER game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers

To be pedantic, the retailer does not own the souls of the shoppers. It owns options on those souls. Until such time as the retailer exercises the option, those souls still belong to their original owners.
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I moved to Mac OS three years ago and since one year ago I'm back to Linux. And I feel at home.
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Yes your example is looking nice. But I think that the information that I sell is more important than a design...
Ups, sorry. I have formated it like people do in my country... In future post I will do it right :)
i love the simplicity, but i'm afraid it'll get popular and disappear

here's the dev's twitter: http://twitter.com/charliesome

and here's a forum post where he explains he hates rapidshare and set out to build an alternative: http://www.loungegn.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=54&st=...

and here's the (funny) non-existent faq page: http://www.anyhub.net/faq.php
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Monkeysrings.com. Treat most casual web surfers as having ADD and that they are only itching to click the back button; so the easier and more memorable the name the better.

You might consider having a clear, camel notation heading at the top of your landing page to make the website name clear.
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Next time I catch heat for it, I'm going to fire back with "So what, Jeff Bezos is an SEO, too."
Your employee costs are off - Fully loaded, average employee costs for a company like Twitter that hires in the radford 80th percentile in Silicon Valley are approx $190,000/year - that includes Salary (avg $150K), Benefits (22.5%), and operational (computers, internet, email, phone, real estate, etc...) ($8K/year)
I had very similar symptoms to this guy (pain starting in the wrists and then forearms/elbows). I have adjusted my typing habits and daily routine as follows:

* Exercise arms with light weights (~10lbs)

* Adjusted chair height

* Started using a real keyboard (I think typing on a MBP for extended periods was a big contributor to my RSI)

* Drink more water, get better sleep, get some kind of exercise

These days, I don't notice any kind of RSI pains. I think generally, RSI (for a typist) is due to combinations of stress, poor posture, lack of general wellness, etc.
This was a great article and it sounds very familiar.

On and off for the past two years I've experienced similar pain. (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889067). The last three weeks have been particularly bad: I've taken time off, I continue to wear wrist braces at work and at night when I program, I've started doing rigorous hand and wrist exercises daily, and while it has helped a little bit, I still experience a lot of pain. It scares the hell out of me because a lot of my future plans depend on me being able to spend a lot of time programming; without my wrists, I'd be lost.

What occurred to me reading this article is that about three weeks ago I found out about an incredible opportunity that may drastically change my life. (Stay at my day job or leave and work on a startup full time). I've spent a lot of time dwelling on it, trying to decide what to do. It can't be just a coincidence that my debilitating wrist pain started at about the same time.

I'm going to buy the book. I have high hopes. We'll see what happens.
True, apple has about 25% of the market. But it slipped a little between November and February, while the Android market share more than doubled.

It's been a slow starter (it didn't explode out the gate like Apple did), but it's gaining. Much like Chrome.

In other news, Blackberry is still the market leader.

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/4/c...
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I don't want to sound like an asshole, but what "you think" here doesn't count for diddley-squat.

What you've got is a perfect opportunity for A/B testing-- check out Patio11's blog or comments here for examples and details.

You can (and should) be tweaking your page, and measuring the results of those tweaks. By keeping the tweaks that bring you better results (and rolling back the ones that don't), your conversion rate (and income) will continue to grow.
Dude should have committed to delivering something within his Presidency. 2030 is a long way off.
If I had known about this 14 years ago I would have certainly tried it, I tried many things... the ones that I think were helpful for me are:

Ice bathes for my arms: I filled a sink with water and ice and submerged my arms up to the elbows; this was obviously useful for short term pain relief, and might have helped reduce inflammation over the longer term. It was important to wait until the arms were warmed up again before going back to typing.

Keeping fingernails well trimmed; surprising, but it made a big difference.

Massage; I think it was through massage that I started realizing that even though my symptoms were in the wrists the problem was probably more systemic, it's amazing how much pain a good massage can discover in surprising places!

Stretching; stretching the wrists felt immediately good, as did standing in a doorway, arms on the door frame, and leaning forward. Working on the hamstrings probably helped longer term.

Weight lifting, particularly exercises that strengthened the back; lots of people have mentioned it here, and I credit this for being the biggest long term help.
First they came for the pornographers, and I did not speak out because I was not a pornographer ...
For our analysis, it's the mean and not the median that matters, since we're talking about the sum of money brought in by professor teaching divided by the number of professors.

From first glance, it looks like the median is quite possibly below 25, but the mean isn't, if you only look at undergraduate courses.

Also, professional schools have huge class sizes and charge tuition at the same or an even higher level.
I've always been irked by that as well. In Quebec most blue collar workers are unionized. And shop at walmart. While on strike. It's so hypocritical.
This 'article' makes you think... We have got some fixin' to do!
Your website analytics should be giving you some insights as well. Look at your referral traffic, geographical information and esp. the search terms used to find you, as that will give you insight into their intent.

Maybe this is old news to you. I'm not sure. Just trying to help :)
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Yeah, comparisons between Apple and China are invidious. Let's hope China doesn't start an international incident about it.
I wonder how much delta-V it would take to push a metallic asteroid onto the Interplanetary Transport Network? The mountain could come to Mohammed.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ...)
Emacs Muse is another project that is worth looking at for this kind of work:

http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html

It's basically a markup language not too different from markdown, but which is much more flexible and translates to LaTeX, HTML, PDF, etc.
On the supposed professor "overcompensation": I know a couple of well-respected professors' kids who had to turn down their first-choice schools because they couldn't afford to go. So even these supposedly overpaid professors can't afford these outlandish tuitions.

At any rate, professor pay has never been going up at 3-5 times the rate of inflation, and the viability of the career track has been crumbling. Overall teaching pay has been going down relative to inflation, and quite possibly in absolute terms.
Raise your book price to $30, open an affiliate program, give $20 per sale to your affiliates. It worked for Aaron Wall's SEO Book.
You have 2 hours, I think, to go back and edit it.
I am always tweaking my pages. Anyway I believe that good and interesting information is main key. Better than a beautiful graphics.
In Italy the situation is very bad (as usually):

- Just to open an srl company (the name for our limited) 5000 Euros are needed in taxes, notary stuff, and so forth.

- You need a minimal capital of 10,000 Euros just to start. But with a trick you can just put 25% of it as real money.

- The process is as complex as you can imagine if you try hard, requires a lot of time, and in no way you can be able to do it without the help of an expert (that you need to pay as well).

That said in Italy is also very hard to get money if you build a company. Banks require a number of absurd guarantees even to give you little money (and if you have this guarantees you don't need the money, usually).

There are a very limited number of VCs, but that's not what people need to start, also if you think VCs are evil in US you should check ours: as you can guess in an environment where funding is so rare they gain a lot of rights on your company.

To add this to the already sad mix, the average italian, regardless of how smart it can be writing code, has the insane feeling that's not possible to just build companies that will succeed without any kind of external help, but just your customers or other companies enjoying your products.

That's why I think my country is full of talented people but it is absolutely unable to develop an IT industry.
Unfortunately dread Cthullu got my soul long ago, so I would have to opt out of this particular licensing agreement.

Ia! Ia! Cthullu fhtagn!

:-)
This is absolutely fantastic! Exactly what I wanted at the right time.

I don't have much bandwidth to work on the UI & design side of XP-Dev.com as I'm focusing more on functionality and other products, and in bad need of a web designer http://bit.ly/9FafRq
Fixed - thanks :)
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Argh. I read that as $662,260 because of the comma. Damn ingrained default US currency pattern recognition.

Congrats, you seem to be diversifying your income streams.
There are many who independently made a lot more than that on a daily basis. Your obvious pride just makes you look rather silly.

Keep it up though, working for SomeCorp is even sillier.
Automated assembly is still more expensive than cheap labour. You understimate human beings.

See for yourself: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=185
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I have one more step:

1) Do not buy their products,

2) Do not develop on their platform,

3) Voice your opinion about products/platforms loudly (Apple should be actually happy about this, it allows them to know where they can improve).
Thanks - I fixed the comma :)
The Future is Movie OS
We make fun of fictional Movie OS because it's "not realistic" (it's not), but haven't recognised that it fixes a problem we've not been dealing with adequately: creating intuitive software user experiences where actions result in transparently understood actions.

I argue that the requirements of Movie OS (that they must clearly convey critical plot information) produce clear lessons that we can learn from when we design user experiences. A dialog box with good copy and "Are you sure?" isn't good enough anymore.
The touch pad on the MBP causes me a lot of pain as well. I started carrying around a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer and had the touchpad turn off when a mouse is plugged in. I'm now able to type for long periods of time without killing my wrist or thumb. (It's still hard to break the habit of tapping the pad with my thumb to click.)
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I know there are many who make more. But it is what I made and I am proud of it =)
I'm another guy who had RSI and eventually got better by using Sarno's methods.

Sarno's ideas are a little flakey and a little offputting. But if you have RSI and nothing else seems to help, I recommend swallowing your embarrassment and giving Sarno's approach a real try.
I remember the parrotsecrets site (that sold an e-book on how to care for parrots, and apparently made tons of money doing so) and it looked a lot like this site. Maybe that kind of design actually does sell better. But as you say - A/B tests will prove or disprove it.
upvoted for powerball... it should be standard working equipment along with a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard (quit typing on that laptop RIGHT NOW) and a good mouse.

These exercises (http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/04/exercises-that-protect-...) also help though they are for carpal tunnel.
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It takes way too long to learn a language well enough to make anything decent.

Plus I am a designer, so I use the wrong side of the brain :) While I find the end result of programming very interesting, I find the process of programming (and learning it) extremely boring.
the problem is not that so much; it is more the fact that the page layout matches the sort of layout you get on one of the "make money online" scam type pages :)

It might put people off, I don't know.
They're proposing standards for all the levels, so, in theory, other "cloud printer" providers could do what they do.

So, in theory, it's not lock-in to their cloud.

In practice, who else is going to do this?

I suppose if there were a common OSS solution that one could run per-company or per-workgroup, that'd be great.
A very interesting read for the most part. I worry this kind of call to action will send a noob off in the wrong direction, even before they've actually learned the meaning and lessons behind what the author is hoping to prevent.

Personally, I think the biggest problem I find in other people's code smacks right up against the author's main point--it encapsulates one person's timestamped reasoning on a problem, and didn't keep in mind that that might either be wrong, or drastically change in the future.

I'd love to come across more 'flexible' code, but I'd be far happier to come across more code that is well-reasoned and thought out in a manner that makes inheriting said code to be more than a royal PITA.
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But if your page looks bad, nobody will even start reading your information to find out that it's interesting.

Don't discount marketing.
There's a fantastic spreadsheet you can get from the World Bank website DoingBusiness.org:

http://doingbusiness.org/documents/Simulator_2010.xls

You can select which countries you want to compare in the first column.

For example, I selected the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy just to compare them.

The US:
4th easiest in the world for ease of doing business. Setting up a business takes 6 procedures, 6 days and 0.7% of per capita income.

UK:
5th easiest in world, 6 procedures, 13 days and 0.7% of per capita income.

Ireland:
7th easiest in world, 7 procedures, 13 days and 0.3% of per capita income.

Germany:
25th easiest in world, 9 procedures, 18 days and 4.7% of per capita income.

France:
31st easiest in world, 5 procedures, 7 days and 0.9% of per capita income.

Spain:
62nd easiest in world, 10 procedures, 47 days and 15.0% of per capita income.

Italy:
78th easiest in world, 6 procedures, 10 days and 17.9% of per capita income.

All these countries except Spain and Italy require no minimum capital.

Btw, I came across this great website in a footnote from a pg essay.
Something I take from this (and it is very valuable) is not to expect to make a living from AdSense (or at least, that it is very hard!). Thanks for keeping us up to date :)
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I thought that was a deliberate design decision (also notice that the sky becomes darker as you scroll up). Sure, some kind of min-height would fix the issue, but it's not like there aren't other sites that assume a minimum 500px webpage height.
Too big a danger that someone will sue you.
Blizzard making $2.5 million/hour on virtual pet
When I was a kid, toys were powered by imagination. Today, they run linux.
In Finland, the minimum capital required for a limited company ("osakeyhtiö", Oy for short) is 2500 euros. The registration costs something less than 100 euros, IIRC.

The paperwork is simple enough that it can be filled out with common sense. I've done it myself. The only slightly mysterious bit of protocol was the need to open a bank account in the company's name before the company is actually registered, in order to hold the capital. Luckily the banks and the registration office are well familiar with how this works and can explain the process, so it turned out be quite simple in the end.

Simplifying the process of creating limited companies is probably the easiest way that governments can stimulate startup activity -- there's really no reason to keep it complicated.
"A good example of an interface that already exists that fosters impartiality is Wikipedia. Through the interface, user culture, and the general architecture of the site, Jimmy Wales created a battleground for millions of politically charged groups and individuals to collaborate and come to points of pragmatic consensus. The result is an encyclopedia with a depth and range their trustee counterpart would have never been able to produce.

It will take a different type of impartial architecture to accomplish this for news but the potential is evident."

So, is kommons.org a Wikipedia for news? I tried clicking the link, but didn't care enough to actually register, and there is nothing to see there without registering.

If not, "Wikipedia of news" sounds like a great elevator pitch for a startup. Although, I don't know if it can actually be a growth business. Like the original Wikipedia, or Craigslist, it might be destined to be a "keep the lights on" bordering on non-profit kind of entity.

The key would be an interface that allows a consensus to build quickly enough to be useful for current events. That could have been immensely helpful, for example, during the health care debate if there was one place that impartially summarized the contents of the bills currently under consideration, what the opposition had proposed, etc. in a way that was quickly digestible, understandable, and stayed up to date with current developments. Besides (possibly) kommons.org, is anyone else trying to do that?
Warren Buffett started his career going door to door selling chewing gum, Coca-Cola, and weekly magazines [1]. I'm sure he looked rather silly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
Interesting - do they specify anywhere what kind of business? Italy, for instance, has several kinds of companies that are "companies of persons" instead of "companies of capital", which are cheaper and easier to set up... but not very good from various legal points of view.
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Sole proprietorship is pretty easy to do in some EU countries. Then again, in might have a different juridic status so an LLC is preferable.

But I wouldn't focus only on how simple/cheap doing an LLC is, we should look at the total cost of it all. For example, what good a cheap initial tax if operating or closing an LLC involves tons of bureaucracy, heavy taxes and a ton of time.
That's why the site would have a section that lists all the programmers, so the entrepreneurs can contact them directly instead of posting their idea.

Those who post their ideas will find potential "matches" faster though.

http://programmermeetdesigner.com doesnt have a good userbase to be useful enough.

http://findmycofounder.com seems to be one-half of what I'm talking about. I havent used it so I dont know how good it is.

Somehow I think that a site that is launched by the HN Community would be perfect for this.
I took a look at your book and was interested in the subject, but found the page off-putting as the grandparent suggested. Looked kind of scammy to me, so I assumed it wouldn't be worth the time.
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Tell that to the people who ponied up the cash.
I keep the price low to be available to all my blog readers ;)
Most folks blog to raise awareness for their business or themselves. A couple $20 conversions > AdWords for the majority of HN.
> It seems to me that people just don't like switching between input schemes.

One time, I was working on something important, and every ten minutes or so, my girlfriend would interrupt me to tell me about something that she was reading... finally, after the third or fourth time, I got really frustrated, and as a systems guy, naturally, I yelled, "CONTEXT SWITCHING IS EXPENSIVE!"

She didn't get it... but she got it.
100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow.
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You are right. My adsense is very low source of income when compare it to others.
I've observed that a number of Austrian and some German Startups have actually incorporated as UK Limited Companies, which just happen to be headquartered in Austria/Germany. German courts have confirmed that this is fine. FWIW, forming an Austrian GmbH requires €35,000 in starting capital, half of which must be an initial cash deposit, in addition to all the legal/bureaucratic hoops you need to jump through. (It's not clear to me where the other €17,500 come from.)

I'd be interested in people's experience with incorporating in Europe, especially regarding whether it affects international investment, and how much of a problem it is for day-to-day operation if you're a UK Limited Company but not located in the UK.
I'm Danish, so I'm not "there", I'm "here". I'm criticizing my own system from within. The article I'm reacting to is from an Australian website referencing a UK firm. What people do and don't do in the US doesn't seem to apply, and certainly not for for calling me silly and thoughtless, thank you very much.

A purchase is the entering of a contract to exchange goods for money. The terms of the contract are for most developed nations fixed and encoded in culture and the law, so we don't think about it in our day-to-day lives. But that doesn't change the fact that it is a contract. You appear to be American, skim the TOC of Article 2 (Sales) of the Uniform Commercial Code if you don't believe me. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/)
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My startup (FiFoBooks.com) offers another possibility: authors retain all the rights to their work, have full editorial control, set their own prices, and also keep the majority of the sales proceeds, with no "ifs".
The bobblehead congress app was rejected for ridicule of public figures as well (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=5203) getting "Tom Richmond, of Mad Magazine fame" a lot of press.

Deliberate or not, this is a good PR stunt for the cartoonists to get coverage. The fart apps guys did this too.

The process (submit app in violation of guidelines, tip off press, enjoy web-wide mentions and increased linkage) is replicable.
At such a time delay, and in a format that's hard to share and link to, why not let someone reprint your article?
I used Sarno's methods to get over my RSI. But I could see yoga addressing some of the same underlying issues (anxiety and chronic tension) and solving the problem from a different angle.
Per the provided demos, none of these seem to support drag and drop. Or am I missing something?