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I would say that this is a good strategy, except that sales to banks is likely to be very high touch, and they are strongly infected with Not Invented Here syndrome. They have extreme security needs and large IT/programming departments, so I think it would be hard to find a niche that they would be willing to buy.

I strongly agree with the building up capital thing, though. If you can save up 50k, and you can handle everything yourself, your runway becomes extremely long. Just have to be careful not to get addicted to the salary.
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Somehow, Smashing Magazine is broke. Their content is incredible but they can't pay the bills.

"I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars / they criticize me for it; but they all yell 'holla!'"

Smashing, your move.
An IPO is an initial public offering. Do you know what that means? Wall street doesn't create anything, it just sells stock to its clients and others. Often it sells stock to clients before the IPO, which it then sells for the clients again when the stock price reaches a certain number.

This is one of the reasons Google went for a dutch-style auction process for its IPO, and wall street was pissed, since they couldn't use their usual methods to make money from that.

The other things Wall St does is mergers and acquisitions, where they make huge amounts of money on consulting fees.

I mean, sure they do a lot more. They increase liquidity in the market, they help companies get loans, but most of it is moving money around, and getting a fee for it.
I'm willing to bet Google isn't going to sue itself.
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Love the essay and the comments. You rock, Josh!!
This link results in a redirect loop for me, the following seems to work:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100429/cm_csm/297733
zuckerpunched, heh.
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Replacing link posted earlier that resulted in a redirect loop
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All companies are about making money. Wall Street is more honest about it, and does a better job of rewarding its employees. The ridiculous money culture ends up centering around stealing money rather than fulfilling real societal needs. Next, the money gets wasted in conspicious consumption..
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I didn't mean to seem pedantic. :-) More just for those who get a blank page (the response I was receiving -- no visible indication of 404, at least with Flash, etc. blocked) and assume the site's timing out.
No problem. A little over a year ago, we had the Lumenos HSA $1500 individual deductible plan and it cost $300/month for an employee only and about $1000/month total when including a spouse and 2 or more children. It was about due for its annual price hike so it probably costs 150% of that now -- seriously! Yeah, it's kinda depressing...

One of us also had dental; its premiums ran 10%-20% of the health insurance.

I got it through a local broker because we knew someone who recommended them, but I think you can do it all online too.

If you want to compare plans, there are broker sites that will quote small-group rates online but I can't remember which of those I used.
It`s just funny how SM has a huuuge following and the main way they want to monetize the traffic is through Ads. Is that really the answer to making money on the internet these days? I`m really tired of seeing great sites and startups, fail at the basic principle = making money. There`s so many ways to develop a product or service for your audience that already enjoys your content and comes back for more, it`s not even funny.

btw.
I think Smashing Magazine pumps out great content and is consistent in doing so.
Pretty much all the software that Stanford uses is complete crap. They can't even let alumni keep their e-mail addresses because of technical difficulties. The only thing that doesn't completely suck is courseware (http://courseware.stanford.edu/) and that was developed by the CS department, and as far as I know is only used for CS classes.
Sure, it is a sad story indeed, but does this story really belong on HN?

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Much academic writing, US or non-US, is barely comprehensible and is certainly never enjoyable to read. I didn't realize this in college, but there is a reason English is a requirement for many science majors. Not to be "well rounded", but so that people trying to learn from your work don't want to kill themselves after reading your paper.

Most CS papers I've read have been good (English is just another programming language; follow a few rules and you're in the top 20%), but most hard science (medicine, chemistry, physics) have been terrible to the point of incomprehensibility. It's sad -- like the article says, hire a writer.
Though the technology is impressive, I'm disappointed it's taken so long for it to reach the mainstream. Asterisk has been able to do this kind of thing forever, and I had a fax modem in the mid 90s that had voice capabilities and a programmable voicemail app included.
In a perfect world, websites with 10s of millions of page views that pays for dozens of writers should have little to no ads. We don't live in a perfect world.

There are few sites where I disable my adblock+, SM is one of them.

The op probably don't have any experience running a big site like this.
Why shouldn't "humanness" be a part of all businesses? Last time I checked, humans make up the majority of your business' customers.
Not true. If you've been reading the rest of this thread, the argument has largely been that academic results aren't good indicators of programming ability.

In fact, the way the Malaysian education system is set up, I would argue that it's probably only possible to be a good programmer by getting poor results. (Unless you're a particularly good exam hacker). Becoming a good programmer takes practice, and practice takes time, and being a straight-A student in Malaysia involves going to school and going to tuition and memorizing garbage - all of which eats into possible programming time.
No way could you get a 50:1 kill ratio with a hammer.
Totally agree; I'd rather have the excellent content they deliver and a few ads. Most people just gloss over them, anyway.

OP - try AdBlock, or buying their book to help support them.
Resource allocation in a modern economy is a complicated technical problem. That's the problem investment banking was invented to solve. That it has been corrupted doesn't alter this basic idea.
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Tut+ of Envato does a great job on this. Like SM, they also give out free tutorials, but they go a lot more technical and not limited to designing. They also have a premium section of their site which does quite well according to Collis Taeed (sp?).

http://tutsplus.com/
i don't think i'd use it that way either. i did a quick google search to check and the first thing that came up was this: http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/abbreviations/f/ievseg.ht...

i can only think of three exceptions where you'd need capitalization for additional information: acronyms, proper names, and abbreviations.

i've been doing this as a test since may 13, 2009. i've never run into the problem of a misunderstanding before due to lowercase and i usually write this way in all casual written forms of communication (email, sms texting, blogs, comments). i originally picked it up from a designer i admired back in 2008, and the habit kind of stuck after trying it.
My biggest question from this article is "What is the alternative to Wall Street?" What else should our best and brightest students be doing?

I feel like the passion and creativity required to do a startup aren't any more common in the ivy league population than they are in the general population. Every intelligent person doesn't have the ability to make things happen. And job in the public sector or for a non-profit doesn't seem appealing, especially not to competitive people. So if you're going to get a regular job, Wall St seems like it's as good a place as any, especially if they're actively recruiting you.
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I was deeply affected by this video. So amazing! This video was made by PowerPoint and converted to video by Wondershare PPT2Video.
I don't think he said that. He says that your goal may be to save the world by being a public defender, but when you start working as a corporate lawyer with a nice apartment, you stop caring about the goal.

What he's implying is that it's "bad" to throw away your life-long ambitions for a bit of extra money. If your life-long ambition is to be a kick-ass corporate lawyer or investment banker, then there's nothing bad about that at all.
A while ago I did look into this. I can't remember what the situation was with Gmail at the time but I'm fairly sure that hotmail had a similar clause in their ToS whilst Facebook was actively enabling scraping.
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He also invented the Rapatronic camera that was used to take pictures of nuclear explosions with 10 nanosecond exposure times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera
http://www.simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.ht...
The reason they berate them is that people frequently say "If everyone does a little, we'll get a lot done.", and then do a little and stop, congratulating themselves about what they've done. In order to affect real change, a lot of people need to do a lot.

Focusing on and performing little actions distracts from doing the the big things that actually make a noticeable difference.
Why people are so stupid? (a stupid rhetoric question =)

The same crap designed to run on x86 CPUs with heavy FPU usage even with hardware GPU acceleration on Windows, cannot run smoothly on ARM CPU without any acceleration or comparable FPU. That is all marketing bullshit.

Even on Linux i386 they use no acceleration at all. Do ldd libflashplayer.so and try to |grep nvidia or something like that. Then try ldd mplayer and compare.

Flash sucks as technology, and Apple understand it. Of course, they want Flash on their devices, but it just broken. By definition.

The same shit with JRE. Dalvik VM in Android or that on Google App Engine is not the same as JRE, and you cannot, and never will be able to run some bloated spring+hibernate+swing crap on ARM.

Just face it: ARM is a completely different platform. Their favorite mantra "Code once, run everywhere" does not work anymore.
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When tied to fundamental underlying assets, investing creates liquidity and capitalizes businesses over the long-term. In its current form, Wall Street "investing" is more like high-stakes short-term gambling. Somehow we got to the point where banks were so leveraged that a single incorrect "investment" nearly resulted in the collapse of our financial system. Is that sort of "investing" creating real value?
Speaking from anecdotal experience, this is not true. As an example, I heard some employees from the company I worked at left to start a company to make messaging software. They ended up with a half-broken IRC client with a terrible UI and no features. They then sold it to the bank for millions of dollars.

If it's expensive, banks like it. Quality is a plus, but not required.
I'm not sure if that's their market... They're rolling out XBox and Zune integration. It feels like they're trying to appeal to gamers.
How long do you think it will take before YC can work out an expected return for founders?
In the other industries, people are motivated by doing just enough work to not get fired, and then reading Facebook all day.

Basically, people in general are depressing. That's not a finance thing, that's a human nature thing.
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This is what it comes down to. Most companies treat workers with absolutely no loyalty these days. (Downsizing, anyone?) So it is absolutely wholly unfair to expect employees to treat companies with excessive loyalty in a one-sided manner, beyond the sort of basic professionalism you talk about.

/nostalgic for an earlier era I am to young to have known
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Or maybe I should say that I wish FreeBSD could do EC2, since this is currently blocked by deficiencies in FreeBSD's Xen code. Either way, I wish I could stop using Ubuntu.
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(full disclosure: the author is my brother. He hasn't asked me to post this on hacker news but I'm a long time reader/ never posted before- thought it would be interesting to ppl here. Hope that's ok)
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-I think battery life will indeed be an issue. 10 hours has certainly set the bar high. I think people are going to expect significantly better battery life on a tablet than on a laptop now.

It's probably worth pointing out that the Macbook Pro line has about 10 hours of battery life. It's only the so called "equally good laptops for cheaper" that struggle on with a couple of hours of battery.
With this kind of web design, I understand why they keep talking about the end of the world.
Nothing to see here. Oracle want its own, totally controlled market, with their hardware and their software, like that IBM have.

You want support - pay us. You want updates - pay us. You want JRE - pay us (coming soon =)
I think it was justified in this case, as the ads actually pushed the page content below the fold. There was literally nothing other than the article's title visible in that screenshot. Ads are okay if they don't impact the readability of the content; once the ads start making it harder to get what you came to the site to find, you'll find your ad sales figures dropping as users become confused and leave.
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WTF, read the comment you are responding to before you respond to it.
From some of the heated discussions on this thread, i think you guys were successful at doing that. =)
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There are some interesting things on this phone. I disagree with the reviews assertian that the dot is a bad idea, i think teens and tweens will jump on this. It seems very intuitive, much better than typing.

And bugs happen, my iphone crashed on me just last night, although it hasn't done that for months.

But the price is a bit of a funny one. You would think that MS would have worked a better deal with Verizon, a combined voice+data package for a lot cheaper. I mean, it is not like kids are going to want this phone, but as a cheap smartphone it might keep them happy.
I just can't understand why software decoding of video would be that slow if you're implementing the stuff using standard api calls. VLC & MPlayer run great on the mac and I doubt they're using undocumented api calls to play video -- I just don't understand why flash video runs so slowly. I'm guessing they just have a really crappy video software architecture.
If it wasn't useful no-one would pay them for it.
Dirty little secret: overwhelmingly, they don't.
Or kids with facebook/myspace/twitter accounts.

It looks like it replaces the Sidekick.
At least 20+ years ago Wall Street mostly made money by making available tangible assets to the common investor -- facilitating IPOs and mergers aka "moving money around" does provide for efficient allocation of capital which in turn creates wealth over the long-term. I can understand the argument, then, that bankers are/were providing a service that is beneficial for society. In the last 10 years, though, IPOs have more or less dried up due to Sarbanes-Oxley and M&A activity is only slowly re-emerging. As a result, big banks make most of their profits from larger and riskier trading operations and pumping out intellectual gobledeegook like the CDOs that caused this whole mess. It's this "modern" intellectualized finance stuff that REALLY is just moving around paper junk for profit.
Translation: "We are more entitled and delusionally grandiose then you. Even though we don't produce anything and we don't solve any fundamental problems, the fact that we make money is a service to you. Paper profits equal prosperity, why can't you peons understand that?"
Type Brian holt scammer on google and you will find even FBI stuff on Brian. He has been stealing a lot of design, code and peoples privacy for years, no one can find him to shut him down for good. People report this criminal, robber and misery guy ASAP.

Toti
And surely having worked at a bank is a huge advantage. Especially if you go in there with the intention of finding some area to help them out with, and network like hell.
Entertainment is essential to every civilization as the Romans discovered with their bread and circuses.

Of course you may have a point when games like World of Warcraft ruin people's lives, but from a monetary (and thus time) magnitude, wall st. has wiped out people's savings that have taken decades to build.
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Also, I think there's going to be a ton of flash apps that won't have updated their apps to properly use flash's touch apis. I'm sure there's going to be a whole bunch of apps on yahoo games that just won't work and the owners of the tablet won't understand why.
Its funny how intense the activity was in the 90s until 2001. Maybe the Internet is letting the twits connect like never before.

Then its like they took a break for a couple of years after 9/11. Too much reality knocks out the fantasy for awhile.
I would just do something they can't do and at some point, I'll be able to get a higher salary or start something on my own. Otherwise, you're in the wrong field.
Some time before, I attended a short course on handling the small/medium propane tanks. It's like with the nitrogen tank - it's relatively small, some people don't expect it to cause problems really -- but now I flinch every time I see someone kicking/rolling the bottle (way too common thing). In reality it could easily destroy a thick wall and cause a collapse, never mind tearing the people nearby into pieces. Unfortunately many people handling those bottles never learned much about them...
Vista ran "flawlessly" in demo videos too... but we all know how that turned out when it was released.
I think you and exit are confusing two different things that are both frequently called "your country". exit is pretty obviously using the "state" as synonym for country, where you seem to mean more "society". As expanded, I can actually agree with both of you.
Somebody stop Brian Holt. This guy is a criminal. Has stolen movieforunz and other sites by spamming. He claims to be a professional but its a kid with nothing more then a set of typing skills, and very snake like attitude. Be carefull. Type Brian holt scammer on google and you will find even FBI stuff on Brian. He has been stealing a lot of design, code and peoples privacy for years, no one can find him to shut him down for good. People report this criminal, robber and misery guy ASAP.

Toti
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I really wish there was a Versions client for git. I can't imagine that they aren't working on it.
Somehow, Smashing Magazine is broke.

From what they've said in the past, it's because of the Smashing Book they produced. They put too much money into making it just so, or something.

In terms of day to day costs of keeping the content flowing, considering the number and caliber of ads they've got, they shouldn't be having any problems at all unless they're really bad at managing their cash-flow.
I don't think one should judge at all. People take a very broad brush painting Wall Street these days, which is understandable but still wrong. I prefer to judge people, individuals, not categories of people, however defined.

Also, why should "we [...] as a society" think of something "better" (who defines that?) for these bright minds? Surely, they know best how to make their own choices (where I'd emphasize _make_)?
Ah the joy of Moodle... I haven't met one person who likes it (although I've seen much worse systems - WebCT anyone?) It's amazing that people still want to install it for anything serious. Although maybe there no alternatives feature-wise?
As my peer said...

I know that myself and most of my peers would love to be loyal to something, we are eager to learn... We love to work hard and play hard. We're willing to learn the ropes - but we have no intention of working for the same company for all our adult lives - because we have seen many cases on our own eyes how that kind of attitude is less then beneficial.

But as mentioned elsewhere our bullshit tolerance levels are low.

I agree with you that costs of loosing productive people who understand context of their work is expensive. I don't agree with you that businesses care (at least not the ones I saw myself). Well maybe they care - but not enough to actually invest anything or seriously commit to solving the issue for themselves.

It's all just talk - yes they'd like if people would stay longer, but they "can't afford" to actually improve living and working conditions for their workers.

Just mgmt business as usual - improving sales and market position is hard, cutting expenses is easy, leave a trail of broken businesses behind on your path to glory.
I've always heard people suggesting that one should disable Adblock on sites that you like to support them. But I'd think most people who can will still block ads (I do; they're distracting). Trying to support the site by disabling ads seems to just encourage the site to continue using what will eventually be an ineffective way of making money.

Couldn't you make the argument that by disabling ads you're "voting with your wallet" and forcing them to find a more sustainable source of income?
The point about starting a bidding war is particularly cogent. I hope that if/when acquisition of Dropbox does occur, (1) the founders and employees are well rewarded for the fantastic product they built and (2) the service is not discontinued in any way. Over the past year or so I've come to rely on Dropbox; few pieces of software have ever been as integrated into my daily routine.
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I have it in quotes for a reason.

If you're going to be that literal about it, all businesses are run by and comprised of humans, so how could they be anything other than human?

I'm talking about the idea that everything needs to be friendly, personal, casual, charming, quirky, and the like. The reason that it shouldn't be that way is that it's not always appropriate or useful.
the ruby's cool, i guess, but holy shit is the gridbag.com design awful.
It was a good times 10 years ago, but now it is finished, and we (the ordinary people) must somehow deal with all the results of their activity (mounts of debt backed by junk or toxic assets, flawed financial instruments, like CDOs, etc.)

So, 15 years ago smart people were making money on Wall Street, while smart techies making money in Mobile and Communication sectors.

They were a good opportunities to those, who was smart enough to see them, while the rest of us were coded PHP and HTML (or J2EE - the luckiest ones) for food. =)
Or in the analogy I prefer , "Social security is eating your own young."