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4. In addition to wanting to shame FG, Mr. Arrington wants to send the world a message saying, in effect, that anyone who tries to pull this sort of stunt on him will pay the due penalty for what he does, even if it costs him a large sum to exact the punishment.

I have sometimes wondered why companies don't do this more often. It seems that a consistent and well-publicized "we don't negotiate with terrorists" stance could be useful to discourage for example patent trolls.
It holds for LLCs too.
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Make your first premium feature the ability to take ads off it.
Advantage to making an LLC: Interns of all sorts will work for you for free, even just doing your taxes for you, since you can give them a credible spot on their resume. My friend who went to Y-Combinator has an intern right now for that reason, it's great.
I worked on the Page Creator Team at Google (WYSIWYG website editor that launched 4 or 5 years ago, and was eventually subsumed into Sites). It's cool to see how much better the technology is than it was back then (we literally had to build a different editor for every browser, since contenteditable only existed in IE, and there was no such thing as Mootools or JQuery)

Your site is pretty cool. The table of contents feature is nice (we had a lot of requests for that). I wouldn't worry about large sites, because you are going to have to optimize for some use case.

One thing we found was that a lot of people didn't actually know what to put on their site. Templates are probably a good way to do this. Another possibility would be to have different entry pages for different use cases (bring people in when they search for "I want a way to do X").

If you want an example of a company that has been successful in this market, take a look at SquareSpace (they were profitable on their own, and just took a monster VC round).
+1 - this'd be _way_ more compelling for me if it had some sort of analytics integration. Doesn't _need_ to be Google Analytics, but that's probably the easiest choice...

(perhaps there's a business opportunity, do a deal with someone like getclicky.com - have a simple signup/installation of their tracking code in exchange for a revenue share...)
That is true. He likely mistook the hype and attention around the Crunchpad to be because of his own work, not the work of Techcrunch.
Things that I don't need to get separately when I buy a computer.

I'm not advocating for Microsoft. In fact, I use Linux, Open Office, and Gmail. But for regular consumer, they just want something that comes in one package and works without additional effort. That's why iPad is hitting the spot, because it's even more packaged than a Microsoft PC. Microsoft couldn't careless about Ubuntu, but they should definitely be worried about iPad (or packaged computing device in general).
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I've been using an LLC for my ad-supported websites' income, paid writing, and side consulting work for a few years.

I'm far from a financial expert, so I could be wrong, but my impression is that it's been very beneficial in the finance department. You can purchase an awful lot of things with effectively pre-tax dollars if they are legitimate business expenses (like that new MBP); things that you may have normally purchased with post-tax funds anyway.

I haven't needed to invoke its liability protections, but I've been told (by counsel) that the most important thing is to keep your money well separated. If you intermingle your funds or use business funds for personal expenses, that can be used to pierce the corporate veil and nullify your protection.
I've just had her login using Facebook Connect to see if that was what she had done originally, but apparently not.

I'm just encouraging her to give the bank a call and do a chargeback.

She clearly was charged, clearly hasn't received any coupon or class, hasn't received responses to customer services, cannot login and is being treated like her account doesn't exist. A chargeback seems to be the only option.

Though now I've tried to talk her through all possible scenarios I totally get why she's really pissed at Groupon.
When I first mentioned Diaspora to my Greek friend, the first thing he said was, "is it a social network for Greek people?"
Well, it's kind of a truism that many people in business are concerned only with what they can get away with. In my own line of work, I've seen seven figure licensing deals ignored because the smaller party didn't have the means to litigate. CEO's coaxing contractors to start work on a verbal agreement then refusing to remunerate because there was no signed contract. Et cetera, et cetera...

Whether you choose to be the type who screws others is a matter of your personal code. But despite your honor or lack of it, you will be screwed at some point. When it happens, how you choose to react may well have an influence on whether it happens again...

I wish Arrington all the best in this, if he has the cash to burn.
I'd imagine they already do have a decent portion of Facebook's social graph. The FB graph that Pete Warden harvested with a crawler, and then later deleted after lawsuit threats (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18721-data-sifted-from...), didn't violate robots.txt in its crawling at the time. Given that Googlebot is pretty quick to acquire any web content not robots.txt-protected, I wouldn't be surprised if Google has a copy of something similar.
That's a really good idea. I post stuff to Facebook all the time about college football, but I know a lot of peole don't care about that and just want the baby pictures... and vice versa.
I just downloaded and ran the project, and to be honest, I didn't see more UX work than what could have been done in an afternoon's worth of googling around for some templates.
Yes, thats correct. And that is by design.
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Disclaimer: I never "got" really Twitter. The service still strikes me as mostly useless.

Now this could just be me but he says:

"Twitter needs to decentralize [...] my belief that all communications media will inevitably be decentralized, and that all businesses who build walled gardens will eventually see them torn down."

So I heard we had this decentralized way of sharing which they call "the web" which is completely decentralized and without walled gardens. And we had these technologies called RSS and ATOM for receiving updates on those.

So...he's effectively suggesting we go back to the web and RSS but with everyone writing shorter messages?
Think of yourself as the VC and the homeless couple as the startup: What's their business plan? When are they planning to monetize? Deciding whether to invest in the second round is one of the hardest things a VC will ever have to do.
Doesn't an airliner crashing into the ocean leave some trace?

I would think there would be an oil slick, and some floating debris. There's a lot of stuff in an airplane that floats. Surely these things would be spotted by air or satellite.
Classmates.com is rated higher than Tudou or Netflix.

I didn't realize they are still a force. Didn't facebook solve this problem?
Google [homeless london] and try a link like http://homeless.org.uk/region-london.
Good advice is to look up hostels and such. That's the only dignified way out, short of actually starting your own hostel
A real craftsman also cares about having the output of his craft be useful/enjoyable to other people. And sometimes this means, having to make it work on a system that other people use, and not the one that you use. Just saying.
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If both of them work that sounds like a great feature for most people.
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The ready availability of funding plays a role as well. The 80% figure isn't for startups that actually achieved profitability, but for startups that achieved more funding. VCs aren't as willing to fund unprofitable restaurants.

Whether that's due to real promise of future profitability, versus a funding bubble, is something to judge in hindsight. ;-)
I would suggest you do it the other way round; create more side projects, monetize them, form LLC. Not sure why you need to protect liability for your side projects.
Sure, but it still has to waste time (and cell life) consolidating and moving about logical blocks that the filesystem no longer cares about.
My old boss had a good saying:

If it isn't tested - it doesn't work.
Don't go enterprise. The sales cycle will kill you.

If this was my service I'd do the following:
1) Everyone runs ads, you get the revenue (no revenue split)
2) Charge $5/month to take ads off
3) Charge $10/year for custom domains (make you you get a good affiliate deal for domain name reg, too)
4) Charge $XXX/year for large traffic sites (where XXX gives you a good profit on your costs)

Nice job, BTW.
You obviously haven't noticed all the touches like being able to drag files into the browser to upload them (Gmail-style)
or, in other words: they'll keep on copying stuff other companies, like Tweetmeme, have done with their data so far.
adds a bit of blue dye for the same effect

Blue dye != blue fluorescent dye. Blue dye simply absorbs non-blue light; blue fluorescent dye absorbs UV and emits blue light.
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Or: Google these days is sounding more and more like MSFT...
Good catch. We had this working before but I guess it's a bug that slipped through. It's been logged.

I don't know if you caught it, but there are some other table shortcuts like CTRL+Enter creates a new row below and CTRL+Shift+Enter creates a new row above.
When you make a new account you get "home" and "work" aspects, which you can add people to individually. That actually goes a long way to making it clear.
Yehuda really did an amazing job with Rails 3.0, both in improving the architecture and explaining the decision made.

I don't know much about SproutCore yet, but I'm definitely going to take a closer look now. I also don't know much about node.js yet, but it seems that might be a good companion for SproutCore, so I wonder if Yehuda will go that route as well.
I bet most people would easily pay $50/year for those features.
That sounds like a good statement about life in general.

I keep looking forward to the time I have it all "figured out". As I get older, I've started to think this never happens.
I'd been thinking the exact same thing on the drive home today, expanding on an earlier thought I had that twitter is RSS done right. http://twitter.com/catch404/status/24605947455

I think they did this by providing a consistent format (both data format and by enforcing limits), a central view and a usable api. RSS/ATOM just didn't get this right. Twitter forces people to get their message across in a small amount of characters. RSS/ATOM again is inconsistent in mainly due to it trying to be a portable medium (reading full stories in a reader). I guess the twitter model is more natural?

Perhaps there is a place for adopting a twitter based format for future rss feeds and making viewers around this.

I personally like the idea of sites having a dedicated twitter account to post updates to, I don't use rss feeds but like getting information via twitter.
Thanks for the response. I agree that a security page is a good, even necessary idea, it just doesn't strike me as a pressing emergency for them at the moment.
I think Yegge was right about compilers. Without understanding low-level languages and how high-level languages get transformed, a programmer can never really understand the language he's working with.
That is pretty much standard in dynamic languages, including Ruby and Python. It's what I miss most about strongly typed languages, like Java and Scala.
There's a major python slant here. I don't know why, but it always feels that way to me as a regular reader here.
The Google News changes introduced earlier this year proved this to me. You'd be challenged to find a single person on the internet who prefers the new Google News format. It took months for the design team to grant even the slightest hint of a concession, letting people switch back to an (albeit uglier and less efficient) two-column format.
This kind of logic doesn't make sense. I'd love to find a word for it.

No one has simultaneously done good and bad like that. If a person does bad, then change their views or themselves, and proceeds to do good wholeheartedly, then good, I'm happy about their actions. Why do people have to criticize stuff like this? Learn to forgive. Focus on what's being done now instead of just being upset about the past.

I'm sure all the Bill Gates hate affected him some back in the day (and apparently now too), but it's very doubtful that he cares all too much what other people think or he wouldn't have accomplished much, and still wouldn't be accomplishing much today.
"by hook or by crook" is the article editorializing. Eric Schmidt did not say that, as the link text implies he did.
Not so much. When you leave a job amicably, you keep lots of options open, including coming back at some point. You still have plenty of goodwill with everybody there.

When you go through the hiring process at a company to the point where they make you an offer, then give the impression that the only reason you put them through it all was to get yourself a raise at your current job, you piss a bunch of people off, and likely burn that bridge forever.

Finally, having made it in the door at company 2, you now have a bunch of new contacts that will be valuable next time you're on the market. And if that next time is only a couple months in the future, you'll have at least a couple people who were your advocates and now feel they owe you something for convincing you to leave a perfectly good job for whatever dysfunctional office politics caused you not to "fit in" at the new place.
What's the "interesting new phenomenon" that this political article elucidates to make it not off-topic?
The concept is so simple yet addictive. Plus it works on a variety of platforms. This isn't even mentioning the fact that it's 6.9KB! Impressive.
But not to me :)

Programming is the way to sharpen your wits in this respect and the way we codify algorithms means that it is much more formalized and allows for algorithms of increasing complexity.
I don't have the ability to downvote yet, but...

unless op can explain why it's not spam?
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This video gives you some idea of how this could be done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z7jwZK2-Gw
however most people doing this kind of analog audio editing with tape actually had to cut the tape by hand, and all had to make careful calculations to keep the edits in musical time.
I've started going to the gym to work on fitness, and for weights I find sets of 16 reps far better than 15 reps (the generic starting number for the sort of work I'm doing)

For really light loads I just count to 16.
If slightly heavier I count to 8 twice. 8 lifts isn't so unreasonable, right?
When pushing heavier amounts I recurse again and do 2 sets of 2 sets 4. Listing something heavy four times is no big deal.
If I feel like I should break into 2 sets of 2 set of 2 sets or 2 I know I'm using more load than I should be for 16 reps.

Physicaly these are all identical to a set of 16, but mentally very different.
When will people learn not to believe everything they read on the Internet?
I've often thought that it would be interesting to offer customers an option to commit to their own price, where they may be called on (say) a month in the future to pay that price or less, with the understanding that every person that purchases the product that month will pay the same price, ultimately chosen by me (presumably to optimize my profits). And then repeat each month, setting each month's settling price plus some premium (a couple percent or so, to make sure the price does not go to zero too quickly) as the "immediate purchase" price for the next month.

You, the customer, obviously wouldn't name a price higher than you were willing to pay (the product is not worth that much to you), but you also wouldn't have an incentive to undercut too badly - if you do so, I'll simply pick a higher cutoff than your price, and you won't get the product. There's really no gaming this system, if I'm not happy to sell at a price, I don't sell to you; if you bid fairly high, though, you'll never get screwed by me, all purchasers will be "filled" at the same price every month.

Chargebacks are the main problem with this - you'd have to make sure that you could retroactively adjust prices in order to avoid possible gaming of the system via fraudulent charges, and I have no idea how that would square with the CC companies.

Bonus points for somehow arranging things so that you can profit off of the interest on the committed-but-not-yet-spent money that people commit to spend on your product...
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I think it's like a turf war inside MS and the existing IE team managers wouldn't like to lose their position of strength and the no.of developers working under them.

Also the browser is taking up more of the OS capabilities, like threads, storage, GPU acceleration and so on. So MS would be reluctant to let the browser become too strong. But the horse has already bolted and there's always Linux, Android, Meego etc for the browser makers to cater for the netbook, tablet, smart phone markets.
great you are going something! depends on what you can afford...

could you afford to pay for a month in a super cheap hostel? could come in at less than £250 for a weeks. could you give him the clothes he might need for an interview? could you find jobs for them

depends on how far you feel you can go, but now they have your mobile expect to hear from them, you may seem like their only way out.
good luck, and I hope this has a good ending for you all.
Well, there's at least one glaring security issue that should be obvious to any Rails developer.
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Unless you have some big assets that makes you personally worth suing or, frankly, you are doing something slightly dodgy that you want some separation from, then I would only form the company once you are making a few $1000 profit.

When you create the LLC you will have filing costs, anual LLC costs ($800/year for a CA LLC), accountants fees... You basically don't want to be paying those until you have income to offset them.

You mentioned forming a company to do several side project with the view that if one takes off it will be already set up for investment and growth... well don't forget that all of your other side projects will be in there too and so investors will own those ideas too. You might decide that if a given business/side project is worth having an entity then it's probably worth having its own entity in its own right.
Minor nitpick: I couldn't get out of editing a block of text. I'd hit cancel, it would pop up a confirm saying "save or cancel", I'd hit cancel. It would drop me back into the editor.

That happened 3 times in a row and I was about to leave and never come back to your broken site. Then I noticed the tiny little "actually cancel" link down at the bottom of that confirmation box.

So my suggestion is to fix your save/cancel confirm box to work like everybody else's. You'll confuse a lot less people.

While you're at it, grey out the rest of the page while it's visible. It pops up down below the content you're editing, and it's easy to miss it and wonder why the first cancel button is not doing anything. And of course, it has the same button names on it, leading one to expect to be able to click the first cancel button a second time (since you're already hovering over it) to accomplish the same thing.
Attempting to measure the performance of a political party statistically and without being influenced by the personalities involved is interesting and new. The particular approach described is horrendously flawed, but it seems possible that there is good discussion to be had in proposing a better methodology.

Flag it if you think it's off-topic, and then something mysterious and not well documented might or might not happen. Personally, I decided it merited neither an upvote nor a flag.
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Because you stopped, there's something in it. You know it.

It's the fellow human being without a place to spend the night that you can't ignore. What separates you two are names, roots, jobs, hobbies: all of them external things. But you see yourself in the couple because you're the same as them.

Whatever you offer them, there's only so much you can do. So, do set limits.

If you buy them five nights at some hostel then make it clear that it's absolutely only five nights. At some point, everyone prefers the easy way if only there's a chance. If you give them something, it's your responsibility to limit the offer to some amount so that they can't give in to the lazy mode and expect to get more. They will ask for more, certainly, maybe two times, and they might even call you names because you then refuse.

It's perfectly ok.

Helping people isn't about ensuring that they're happy so that you can be, too: it's about giving them choice they didn't have earlier. If they choose to spend the time at the hostel wisely, they might sort out some of their things and find a job or a more permanent place. If they just chill out for a week and ask for more, it would be unsustainable and disadvantageous for both them and you to continue that way. But you can reach out now and see what happens.

I'm so touched by your desire to help. I hope things work out somehow.
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"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong."
I also think their new image search is a disaster. I like the infinite scroll bar (which bing did before them) but I hate how the images pop in and out. The whole experience is jarring.
Another example – Fusion Garage employee Stuart Tan, who still lists the Crunchpad as the project he’s working on on his Facebook profile, emails his girlfriend to tell her that he’s “really sucker these people.”

This comment is taken out of context, and I believe that written by a singaporean, it means "these people really suck", and not "I will cheat these people".
It's broken only in the sense that they approach design as an engineering problem instead of 'hire a designer and do whatever he says'.
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(I'm surprised you didn't find this - 3rd item on Google!)

HTML based, so it's platform independent. You don't need fancy features just to develop 'finger memory'. My mom (who used to teach typing) told me: when you can type each line 5 times without errors, you're ready to move onto the next pattern. Concentrate on accuracy, not speed; speed comes later.
You'll need a lot more than that. Like right now, because they'll be headed your way as soon as you get any exposure.

Here's what to do:

http://expatsoftware.com/Articles/2010/03/care-and-feeding-o...

Bake all of that into your site from the beginning and hopefully you'll stay off of Google's blacklist.