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Thanks for the comments, Sam.

I've been trying to work out the best response to this. I think that you're correct in that there is a hole to be filled by a QR-to-URL service - essentially a bit.ly for QR codes. Despite availability of QR codes from existing players (Google being the most significant) and the ready availability of both websites and libraries for producing QR codes from URLs (and any other text), branding will play a big role in making them take off. ScanLife is certainly a player in this space: http://us.scanlife.com/ . They have QR codes on the Inception movie posters as part of the advertising campaign, as well. But anyone can do it. And given that ZXing is an open source scanning library, anyone can build the apps.

It may be shortsighted, but that's not the business I want to build. Scanning a QR code to follow a business is something I actually want - something that came directly out of a need in my own life - and it's the connections themselves that are interesting to me. QR codes are really only the beginning of what I want Quirk to be - I just think they're a good place to start.

That said, you're not the only person to suggest that Quirk should provide a tool for converting URLs to barcodes, even just as a promotion for Quirk itself. And if that turns into the biggest aspect of Quirk, then so be it. So, I guess we'll see.

Thanks again for your comment - definitely made me think (thus the slow response).
Ubuntu user here. Wireless, video, sleep and hibernate work too and I never spend time tweaking anything.
It's pretty clear, from their pathetic advertising strategy and their mis-handling of "Reddit Gold", that they have no idea how to do it.

Having talked directly with the Reddits directly, it's a bit more complicated than that. The Reddit's hands are tied in a number of ways because of their relationship with Conde Nast.

They are quite motivated to make the site profitable, but they have been busy managing the server farm and trying to manage the community with a hand full of guys for quite a while. Conde Nast didn't want them to hire any one else.

IMHO, those guys deserve an insane amount of credit for keeping the site up and running rather than contempt because they haven't monetized properly.
It's like this guy has been stalking me my entire life:

... he bought a couple of plastic molding machines and started making channel-changing knobs for black-and-white televisions. His first customer was Chicago-based Admiral TV, and he soon got deals to supply RCA, Zenith, and Philips (PHG).

My family owned an RCA black-and-white TV in the seventies. This guy made the knobs for my childhood TV.

Gou's first break came in 1980 when he started supplying Atari with connectors that linked the joystick cable to its 2600 video-game console.

I remember that connector very well. What 2600 owner could forget them?

And the story just goes on like that, I'm sure. My iPhone is the spiritual descendent of those old things.
ARM has a different take on this, positioning this MCU (int the 1 GHz – 1.5 GHz single or dual-core configurations) even for Smartphone and Mobile Computing: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a15.p... (under performance tab).

Then you scale up to 1.5GHz – 2.5 GHz quad-core, octo-core or larger configurations but this are obviously for other class of devices.
Nah, there are plenty of large tech companies that are run by sociopaths, with bad work/life balance, etc. At least at a startup, there is a small chance you'll get rich, or meet some productive people.
Supporting 1 TB of memory on a 32-bit system reminds me of the bad old days of DOS extended memory. Are there any plans for a 64-bit ARM chip?
Sorry for taking too long to comment on this. You were the first to point out that the homepage is lacking, and that is now very clearly the consensus.

Thanks for taking the time to look at Quirk. I've been putting a lot of effort into figuring out the right message to send, and how to present it. Hopefully that'll appear soon, and moreover, hopefully it will get more people past the front page and into the signup process.
Craigslist never wanted eBay as a shareholder; they tried to block the private sale to eBay, or buy the shares back for the company.

I believe I read something at the time that suggested Newmark and Buckmaster eventually reached a compromise with the former employee and eBay, that may have also involved other side payments and some sort of agreement on eBay's participation. Clearly, eBay's later actions violated what Craigslist expected, and then Craigslists' equity manipulations violated what eBay expected.

As an outsider without all the details, throwing insults like 'scumbag' is a bit harsh. Craigslist tried an aggressive legal maneuver in a business dispute; they lost this round. Perhaps they would prevail on another lawsuit about eBay's duties as a Craigslist board member.

That the two sides have a dispute doesn't mean anyone's a villain; that any side loses a court ruling doesn't mean their tactics were evil or even unreasonable at the time with what they believed.
>> but that doesn't mean that there's something nefarious or bad about it. <<

Except in the article it read:

"Gameplay in FarmVille, FishVille, or Café World is based almost exclusively on what social-game designers call a "compulsion loop." Players perform basic tasks — clicking on crops to harvest them, clicking on stoves in restaurants, clicking on fish to feed them — earn fake money, enhance their farm or restaurant or aquarium, and repeat. In Zynga's hands, the art of snaring users with such gimmickry has become, quite literally, a science: Pincus told Time magazine last year that Zynga employs a behavioral psychologist."

I think the absence of something in addition to the compulsion loop is what people are objecting to here. The loop itself is not value, it's exploitation.
This is good to know as I build my site up.

www.techguysmartbuy.blogspot.com
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I just had a look at your site. I think its very informative but just having so much text will put off a lot of people.

There is just so much information that its kind of overwhelming.

You really need to talk to a good designer on how to create a smaller but more graphical site which can convey the information layer by layer.

And I can see how a game could help convey this information though I think a better illustrated website might be a cheaper and faster way to get a start.

And for the people who are criticizing your work - I think you should ignore them. Help the ones that want the help and go from there.

One simple way would be to list out the top 7 SAFE actions that you've taken that have helped with your CF. Put that on your front page. And then from there link to other pieces of information. That way the user has something useful right on the front page.
The pared down checklist might be good enough. Right now its a link that I had to find - it would be good to put the most important information on the front page.

After that you need to make the site more legible w.r.t font-size and the colors and the general design.

From a tactical standpoint I would advertise for a web designer who also has CF. I'm guessing you might know how to find one. And then show him the site and ask their help. If your site helps them then its possible they will put in the effort to help others.

Keep working on this. You can email me at railsnoob at yahoo dot com if you want me to review something.
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Billing: Recurly.

Accounting: Quickbooks

Provisioning: Home grown on EC2/GoGrid/Rackspace

Banking: Local bank

Newsletter: AWeber

IT: Depends. Most I handle, but some of the mundane is outsourced.

SCM: HG @ Codebase

If I had to do it over again, I wouldn't obsess as much as I did over the infrastructure. Check and re-check your backup & disaster recovery plan.
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Have you read Craigslist's countersuit?

http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/05/unlawful-and-unfair/

Craigslist alleged eBay specifically put key managers of eBay's Craigslist competitor, Kijiji, into the Craigslist board seat.

Here, also, is better coverage of the decision:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/ebay-wins-lawsuit-a...

It wasn't a rout for eBay; the judge seems to have agreed with Craigslist on the critical issue of a board seat for eBay:

On the question of EBay’s seat on Craigslist’s board, Chandler found that the agreement covering EBay’s investment didn’t guarantee it a director’s spot.

The agreement specifically stated that if EBay started competing with Craigslist in the U.S. market for classified advertising, the minority shareholder couldn’t stop efforts to remove the board seat, Chandler said.

EBay’s claims over the seat amounted to an “attempt to obtain a permanent board seat through litigation, when it could not obtain a permanent board seat through arms-length negotiations,” the judge said.
Honestly, I don't need a computer more powerful than my Motorola Droid. If someone could make one of those that had the battery life of a feature phone, I'd take my Moto Droid any day of the week.

(Actually, I don't see why you think that tablets should have multi-day life expectancies. I'm almost always using them in areas where there are plugs. My phone on the other hand almost never leaves my pocket. )
Maybe they would get more women founders if they called it X Combinator?
While you'll certainly be able to outsource the calls, when customer service is the service, you need to make sure to get good callers. Hopefully this is doable for low enough wages to make a good profit.
I'm stuck at work and on IE so I can't really see the site. You gotta support IE.

Also not sure about the name, will people know that Furlango is about events?
I happen to be somewhat familiar, since I've been living there for 26 years. The majority of state enterprises (or those the state has a share in) right now are profitable, with the notable exceptions of a) railroads and b) the off-the-books units created by ministries to handle short-term tasks. Could they benefit from a restructuring and would lay offs be helpful? Probably so.

Does the state's involvement in public corporation screw up incentives? Telecommunications is a good example of why not. Banks still don't convince me; they pay taxes with interest rates significantly less than 18-20%, which is the norm and they have resisted any and all attempts of the state for policy changes.

Personally, I am more concerned with other issues: the legislation that often proves to be shortsighted and inefficient, limited (and that's a euphemism) opportunities to young entrepreneurs, poor education, but the one thing that bugs me the most is that Greeks (yeah, I'm one of them) have no regard for public interest. The why is a longer story than what can fit in this post.

PS. You hinted to "shut down the money-loosing public businesses" as the "more appropriate solution"; if you're not advocating for it I may have to brush up on my English comprehension skills.
A much more balanced and detailed report of the ruling is available here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/ebay-wins-lawsuit-a...

Notably, while eBay gets some of Craigslist's actions reversed, and a bunch of info they'd been denied, they don't get the board seat they wanted -- the board seat that Craigslist's countersuit alleged was being abused for eBay-Kijiji's competitive advantage.
The 404 is an empty closet.

The 403 is a locked bedroom.

The error stack trace is someone's vomit on your shoe.
Wouldn't this get old real quick? Like after one message.
Be interested to know what your other data sources might be if you feel like sharing.
In my experience the browser still saves/load a lot from the Harddisk. (OS X with 4GB RAM, YMMV) So a SSD also helps when i'm only using the browser with many tabs.
To be fair. The current concept would appear to have this flaw as well.
Ask HN: Super simple, revenue generating products?
One particular thread tonight astounded me: the one showing AwesomeReminders at more than 750 PAYING users.

What other super simple, quick-to-build websites/apps are there that generate a non-trivial amount of revenue? (At least a few thousand a month.)

I want to study/think about them.
Is Recurly worth it? One of their team just sent me an email suggesting I check 'em out.
Ask HN: Play video games? Please review my product
link: http://truedat.net/

Hi folks - Truedat lets you track the console video games you own and want; it recommends you games; and it lets you create 'watch lists' on video game prices, where you automatically receive emails whenever the price you want to pay is reached. The service is totally free, and I make money through Amazon's affiliate commissions.

Here are a couple example use cases:

* There are ten games you want to buy right now, but you can't simultaneously play all of them. You order two games now, and add the other eight to your truedat wants list. Truedat automatically emails you when your target price is hit.

* It's the beginning of September; the Holiday Games Onslaught is about to start, but there is still at least a week left and you want a new game to tide you over. You use Truedat to quickly find the best, cheapest game from the past year you forgot to buy, and you order it.

Here's what I'd like to know from you:

1. I'm too close to the product, now. What sucks? I'm sure the body copy does. Would this make any sense to you if you just happened on my site? What else sucks?

2. Would you use this? If no, why not? Does this satisfy a need you have? Assuming you are an avid or semi-avid console gamer, is this a painkiller or a vitamin? (http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/03/is_your_product.html)

3. Anything else you have to say about this. I'd love as much feedback as I can get.

thanks for your time and input!

Aaron
Theodore Dalrymple is great.

This is one of his best: http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_3_urbanities-how_and_how...
Ask HN: Where can one find an inexpensive consultant to assist new startup
I am an co-creator of a prosumer tech blog, I have recieved a few products to review like phones, cameras, Bluetooth earpieces,etc. I am seeking the assistance of a consultant that won't break my pockets to assist in taking the blog to the next level.

Check out the site and let me know where one could improve.

www.techguysmartbuy.blogspot.com
Yep. Plus they actually have working demos and are going to ship next year.
Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting).

Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?
Conventional drive: on the order of 800 IO ops per second.

Good SSD: on the order of 20,000 IO ops per second.

Now consider a hard page fault or disk access (browser cache, whatever) and reverse the above numbers:

Conventional drive: ~1 ms / disk access

Good SSD: 50 microseconds / disk access

That adds up quickly.
Even when all my Java is already compiled, Eclipse routinely locks up for seconds at a time as it's "helping" me. I've worked in the same place for a few years, and the IT guy recently told me my laptop is part of the oldest batch in the entire company.
Business: Social games for gamers (http://www.ea2d.com)

Languages: Java backend, AS3 frontend, Python + Ruby misc

Note that we're very new (and hiring!), so much of this is still being built out.

Software lifecycle: git for SCM (GitHub as central repo); ant for builds; ivy for dependency management; Bamboo for build automation; Crucible for code review; JIRA for issue tracking; Greenhopper for sprint planning; Vagrant for containerized development environments

Systems infrastructure: AWS (EC2 w/ELB+ASG and S3 for now, more services to come); nginx-fronted Tomcat for JVM; Cassandra for persistent DB; chef for configuration management (currently chef-solo, but
evaluating Opscode Platform); PoolParty+Fabric for one-click deploy server fleets; Nagios + Pingdom for monitoring; Mixpanel + Kontagent for analytics; Dynect (likely) for DNS, possibly for GSLB; Akamai (likely) for CDN, possibly for GSLB

Misc: PagerDuty for on-call stuff; Google Apps for email, shared docs, etc; Confluence for wiki; OpenFire (Jabber) for chat
Pffft. I'd farm the work out to mechanical Turk. Then you don't even have to do the work yourself. :) Much more scalable and less annoying too. You could even have them call you occasionally for verification they're really putting their hearts into it.
$10 more for international? Are you calling from a landline? :)
Of course! These people are in a war! They get slaughtered, they slaughter, they can get woken up anytime by a crazy ally shooting everybody! They can't trust even most common items as they can be stuffed with explosives. They can't trust the locals because they might be after them.

Would you like your workplace to be like that? I mean, I hope that there is no workplace as stressful as a war.
Why not? I'm sure there are many companies that would like to record and archive internal events.
I didn't blame you guys for not doing hardware, I knew you would if you could. I was simply pointing out that most people don't know anything but "this runs slower in VLC than iTunes".

Anyway, thanks for a great product! I haven't really used any video player but yours since I first found out about it.
After reading some 208 words that it took you to reply that q, i still didnt get how do you actually estimate time that it will take you to do some prjct.

You reply can be pretty much summarized as: "I have overpriced hourly-based model" which is 202 words less than what you wrote.
I would never, ever trust those guys again.

They pulled a massive bait-and-switch on their first users. Overnight, without notice, they changed their long time published pricing from pay-as-you-go (fee per transaction) to high monthly fees. For many, the cost was orders of magnitude higher. They arbitrarily decided the API would only remain accessible if you bought the highest priced plan.

It'd be fine if they gave notice of the change or grandfathered people in, but at least initially, they didn't. They just wrote condescending, insulting blog posts telling us all how we should appreciate their rate hikes. If you weren't happy with (or able to pay) the higher prices and had already integrated Recurly with your site, you were essentially held hostage. They have all your customer billing information, not you. If you want to keep billing customers, your revenue!, while you strip out Recurly and implement some other payment system and get all your users to sign up again, you've gotta pay to keep your account open in the meantime.

Eventually they figured out that screwing with their users like this wasn't a good idea after all, backtracked and came up with a new pricing scheme more like the original, but it's really too late at that point. Revenue is what makes a business. You don't play games with who you trust that to. And nobody should ever trust it to Recurly, since they're more than willing to play games with you.

If you want to outsource subscription management, check out Spreedly and Chargify. They've proven themselves more trustworthy than Recurly by far. Really, I recommend doing it yourself though, it's not that bad. PayPal subscriptions and IPN can take you a long way with minimal coding.
I see a trend here. Good food. On loved ones. Gadgets.Books.( All same for me too). Wonder what people here would spend on if they had 10 times the money they have now.
My IQ is at least 155 (max on the version of the test I took) and I can tell you that bliss is better. That's why I drink(I'm drunk now).

Smarter is just a race. It's intangible for the most part. Feelings are here now and have an immediate effect. IQ is exclusive, feelings are inclusive. IQ promises something(happiness?) later, you can usually get that thing faster some other way.

I don't want to have to have Moores law in my head to keep up. I feel good now, so what.
True. And that goes for the executives as well, more so in fact (e.g. better health care plans and so on).
Cut him some slack, it was clearly a simplification. Also, you're wrong to declare him inaccurate.

Even if 30% of queries are truly unique (a number that people have quoted from years ago, may no longer be true) caching 70% of the queries is a big win. Also, instant search is heavily relying on Google Suggest, which by it's very nature, are queries which have been performed already, so are trivially cacheable.
I've been happy with them. The API is simple to use. Isaac is a great down to earth guy. Handled the pricing uproar well earlier this year well.

I'd also suggest Chargify and Braintree.
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This is a fully loaded question!!

"What is the right price of some of the items you value" --> India has double digit inflation right now.Not of much significance to people on HN,the cost of certain food items has doubled in India, over the last couple of years!

Have been recommended to read "Wealth of Nations",Adam Smith, have the book,but havent got around doing that.

Maslow's heirarchy of needs( Google it) ,is a good rule of the thumb- which determines what your needs would be, depending on which "level" you are.
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Well things have improved a lot in the last 4-5 years...
Clothes (got a consulting biz), a dell 30' + 13' macbook pro, my dog (food and veterinary)
I found that traveling with couchsourfing is both cheaper and more FUN actually
And then I try to invest whatever I make in new ideas, websites - always trying to get the passive income higher since I pretty much only have active one now.
I don't know, but it's the obvious next step. There are certainly rumours that ARM is going to go that way. I'm not plugged in to the chip manufacturer gossip network but my guess is that ARM doesn't want to start an open fight with Intel before they have

1) Tested the server market. A 32-bit chip has its limitations, but for things like caches that are IO limited it is fine, and

2) Got their 64-bit architecture nailed down. I expect they don't want to give Intel a long lead time to respond.
Would you change your mind now? I decided on Monday to buy an Android phone (HTC Desire), but haven't got around to going to the store yet.
This is why there's so terribly many flash/silverlight apps driven by external javascript? And why, on average, there's so very much cohesion between flash/silverlight objects and the pages they live with in?

In practice, the wall clearly exists. The average flash/silverlight app is an alien box sitting amidst its host page, with very few and generally comparatively minor exceptions.
How is it so intrusive to have 2 fields on a page?

Depends on the design, goals and intended audience.

Form fields are harder to ignore than most page elements and have a sort of gravitational pull on the eyeballs, so you can easily imagine situations where it's better to avoid them. Like, say, on public marketing pages for first time visitors to a microblogging app that's way hard to explain to your average non-blogging Yahoo-using grandma in flyover country.
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Interesting that you consider a gmail address to be more professional looking than your own domain.
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