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Sorry, I abbreviated "the projects on Codeplex that are run by Microsoft" as "Codeplex". That's how I understood the statement of the article where he said Codeplex wasn't real open source. If a project is under MS' wings, sure you can submit patches, but they might be rejected for business reasons or simply because no one cares.
I don't like commenting on rumour myself, but I heard that Arrington's source was someone within CBS with some kind of grudge.
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> But $10/month per user probably wouldn't be enough revenue to match facebook's high valuation.

What, five billion a month would not be enough? Of course, no one is going to pay for Facebook, mostly because some people aren't going to pay for Facebook and when some people aren't there, no one is.
Why? Asides from the BtrFS having btrees and some (acknowledged by the ZFS developers) better design decisions (see the btrfs wikipedia page), ZFS keeps Solaris customers locked into Solaris and away from Linux.
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The drivers for MySQL / PostgreSQL are very slow, not to mention stuff like LINQ / Visual Studio integration which are piss-poor, making you wish for SQL Server.

People are used to throw such examples in the air, like you forgot "hey, there's Mono if you want Linux" ... but how many real apps used by actual people diverge from the MS stack?

Hint: it's not ignorance.
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What in the world could "genuinely bad guys" mean if it doesn't include rich people who do something wrong for money, knowing that the consequences will fall on people who are not rich?
That's great in theory but once an application becomes big and settled it is usually too big to just 'upgrade'. Upgrading becomes a massive time sink and when there's other deadlines pressing for stuff that your clients will actually notice then upgrading won't happen. Ballmer wants to release a new VS every 18 months.
Just skip every other major release and save yourself 1/2 the pain and effort.
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If you're referring to rational people who have something to hide, those tend to lose their rationality once the shit hits the fan (like when Arrington posted "So A Blogger Walks into a Bar..").

McClure got pissed off because of an article that didn't even provide names, went out and verified the facts of the meeting, attacked PG on some wild assumptions to the effect of "what goes around comes around", and his post goes from "the agenda was drinks, good food, & shooting the shit" to "in addition to pricing & valuation, some of the more interesting things discussed were.." basically confirming Arrington.

In the most childish way possible.
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I built a time fountain. I became obsessed with making one after seeing this video. I knew absolutely nothing about making circuits, so I spent the large part of a summer troubleshooting all sorts of minor things (it took forever just to get a blinking light, without toasting it, for example), scrounging for parts at Radioshack (what a rip-off!) and various online catalogs. I bought enough parts to make 10, but after making 1 of them, the thrill was over.

Anybody I show this thing to is instantly amazed. About 10% of people can actually figure out how it works. And, in general, if they don't understand it before having it explained to them, they won't understand it afterword (though they will claim to "get it"). Maybe I'm just not good at explaining the strobe effect. When people first see it, they momentarily believe that I've managed to create some sort of anti-gravity device. Then when they see it going backwards, they sort of lose grip of reality for a moment. It's amazing.

My time fountain kicks the original one's ass. Unlike the one in the video, mine does a full 30fps and has analog adjustment knobs for forwards, backwards, etc. It doesn't relay on a "drip detection" circuit, but rather just two 555 timers. I freakin' love the thing.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvY7NGncCgU
Note: I didn't make the one in the video, and this wasn't my idea. I simply implemented the same concept myself with various improvements.
What's the difference between the 'the_sinz' and 'sinzone' accounts?
I'm frantically trying to figure out how to justify Ender's Game as a business book so I can mention it here.
> if you're doing a startup, you want to have a business, not a hacking hobby

That's funny, because I know at least 2 businesses that started out as hacking hobbies ... Apple and Google.

You also don't know when your business will reach the "tipping point", going from barely profitable to hugely profitable ... it could be 3 years from now, it could be 7.

... and until then spending thousands of dollars on software for a single server is just plain stupid from a business perspective, when you could be investing in something else or just give those money away as bonuses if you've got nothing else to do with it.
Yeah, it took reading the entire article to figure out what the site in question is for and what it does that allows regular users to reinstall the kernel on one of his machines.

The first several times I read the term "code evaluator", it never occurred to me that he really meant evaluator as in executing user-supplied code on his server. Holy yikes!

Reading the rest of the article, it does seem that he's at least thinking about how to deal with the ramifications of that decision. It certainly takes some boldness to try this at all. Personally I would have got as far as "executing user-supplied code", thought about it a second, shivered at the implications, and picked a different idea to run with.
ugh, depressing...
Ads on the website too I guess.
that's an interesting perspective. but still... although the users are not receiving any direct monetary benefits, they are still deriving value from system, by using it as a means of entertainment and social networking. so facebook is providing a service, and people are using that service for their own benefit. it doesn't seem like cognitive slavery.
It is not just the copy, it is the whole direct selling layout. They know the tricks and the methods. Benefits, big buttons, ask for the order etc. Good job.
Arrington feeds on drama, quite literally.
Yup, I got the same email from that same company for 2 different sites.

Glad to confirm that its a scam for sure. I figured it was an easy one to pull - play it off like there's trademark infringement and then sell the 12 'hijacked' domains at once.
Just because somebody can make a 3D animation of something doesn't mean that they can build it. I know it's a "concept", but so is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE4Wn0cjrO4 (German, but video speaks for itself)
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Hmm, OK I guess. I wasn't aware that XKCD had attained that level of representation of CS as a whole (or I guess a paper-based SQL injection, even though simply naming someone a SQL injection string doesn't necessarily require it be paper based).
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They alredy extract the most popular posts http://www.tumblr.com/popular/top

I'm sure they have no problems to know which blog is the most popular (page views, number of "reblogs"...)
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I don't know of any specific hiring opportunities for you. Just want to say that I don't think the language thing is going to be a big problem, we all speak english.

Maybe this can give you an idea of how/where to find employment: http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Work/Get-a-job/

Best of luck.
You missed the context: these guys were being bad and they got an appropriate bitch slap. Hopefully that's the end of it. I'm sure none of them are genuinely bad guys.

In other words, the point of them being "genuinely bad guys" or not is whether the affair should be allowed to blow over after a few firm but loving reproaches. staunch and cookiecaper are both speaking in the same terms, on the assumption that only "bad guys" need to be punished harshly, because non-"bad guys" want to behave well and just need a mild wake-up call now and then.

Rejecting the concept of individual people with persistent qualities forces you to argue in different terms, but it doesn't necessarily change the result of the argument. So let's talk about punishment from the opposite orientation:

People exist in complex fields defined by their personal relationships and social institutions. People tend to engage in behavior that results in comfort, advancement, and social approval, they and tend to avoid behavior that results in deprivation, loss of position, and loss of social capital. Harmful behavior is controlled by ensuring that personal relationships and social institutions punish bad behavior instead of rewarding it.

In this case, that means society should find out what these people did, enforce any laws against it, and (in the case of people who know them and work with them) shame them with disapproval and show an aversion to dealing with them. Otherwise bad behavior will flourish and affect more people. We do not want to be responsible for tempting people to behave in ways that are injurious to others, because aggressive, selfish behavior harms those who engage in it as well as their victims. If we, as a society, do not inflict just punishment on those who harm others, then aggressive, selfish behavior will increase, and there will be more suffering for both victims and aggressors.

tl;dr: Rejecting the idea of "genuinely bad guys" leads to the conclusion that they should be punished regardless of whatever personal characteristics might be ascribed to them.
I just realized that I replied to the wrong comment, but it sorta applied to you also :)

I understand that prior to the email a lot of people still had doubt, but there were comments here still trying to string an anti-Techcrunch conspiracy together even after the email was published.
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I like using a directed acyclic graph, presented as an outline. E.g., Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
It looks like you were right - they dropped that record to stop the requests coming in
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What is that instrument, that somebody keeps putting their hand infront of, detecting? Sometimes it goes up when the hand goes near, and sometimes it doesn't.

Very cool project. I think if somebody made an installation / toy that did extreme looking ferrofluid stuff in response to people touching around it (like those glass spheres with electricity arcs tracing all around), it'd have commercial value.
I don't buy it. Facebook isn't marketing the comments or profiles themselves as content but instead marketing the network which is capable of storing and displaying user-generated comments and profiles. In other words, just like ISPs don't actually sell the content of the Internet but only participation in the network itself, Facebook markets the participation in their private Facebook network.
Based in all the xss and sql injection attempts, I'd say you certainly reached your intended market.

Wouldnt a twitter search have been the better option?
People are providing the 'value' for these networks in the way that watching television created 'value' for the television networks in most recent decades. Instead of people just sitting in front of the television being a captive audience, technology has made things more interactive, and companies have made the interactivity product added benefits for them (i.e. you bolster their data by developing a social graph, which can then be sold/rented/etc for added profit).
What if their politics wear leaning towards the "Racists" to begin with?
Oh, hah. I'm definitely not trying to insinuate an anti-techcrunch conspiracy! I don't think that's the case :P
I wonder how this relates to cocooning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocooning

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4207/is_19950305/ai_...

http://www.allbusiness.com/human-resources/workforce-managem...
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That blog post is one in a series of ongoing commentary about the site, so I don't usually explain the idea again. I guess it really is confusing out of context.

The code evaluation runs in a standalone server. I hope to learn what to block over time against a series of successful exploits. Evaluations that failed to compile/run/return-an-expected-result are marked on another server (on which they are not evaluated in any way) so I can study them later.
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That was worth watching. Thank you.
Hmm these seem a little too obvious for HN. I thought it was going to be a little more about choosing a name and a little less about securing SEO for your name.
The only way to transmit information over a wave of fixed frequency is to mess up with that wave (if the wave is really fixed, it doesn't carry any information). When you mess up with the wave, you necessarily fluctuate it's frequency. So you have to send you signal within range of frequencies.

Intuitively, the more information you want to transmit, the more you have to mess up with the frequencies. Hence the bandwidth per Hz thing.

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welcome.)
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Because it's stupid. Just being rich doesn't make you immune to criticism. Sure, he can do what he likes, but other people are free to voice how dumb it is. I don't see what money has to do with it.
Well, if I may, even more like "hacking stuff together that SHOULD be thrown away within two years but never is".
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I get two such mails every month; it is a brilliantly executed scam though. I almost fell for it the first time I saw it.
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The opening panel at Techcrunch Disrupt on Monday 27th is going to be a must see:

9:40-10:10
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http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/2010-sf/agenda/
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Hello HN
let me first say , i dont like web apps i never did
i really want to build good old fashion desktop application.
what do you think is there a place for this kind of application this days?
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The point of view is rather extreme, but he's also touching something relevant at the end of the article, and may give some ideas.
the term 'cognitive slavery' doesn't apply that much to google, i think. They may not create content or jobs, but they provide a lot of tools (cheap ads, free hosting) empowering a lot of small businesses and giving them something they wouldn't normally have access to (as a designer, i complete my clients website with a lot of google tools, and they very often express their amazement at the added value). So that's a point for them.
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Ten times exactly the same? Occam says it wasn't a typo ;)
Yeah, like I say, Hats off to you for even trying. Sounds like it will be a fun site to run, since I bet you'll be battling against would-be hackers full time from here on out.
Interesting! Do any of you use criteria and categories to organize ideas? Ie usefulness, time required, etc.
You know, you could probably harvest quite a number of passwords by adding a small 'login' link to the top right corner of the page
anybody knows what DB their memcached was fronting? Oracle (in dedicated mode)?
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In short: Author states facebook (for that matter any user centric service) has grown to be worth few billions because of its users. The users' activity is critical to fuel the growth. Hence the user should be rewarded else this is cognitive slavery. And we are encouraging cognitive slavery widely on the web.

Good to encourage a share with the users for their contribution. There are blogging platforms like blogspot that share the advertising revenue inspite of giving a free blogging platform. It is an aligned incentive as users would write more effectively to get more ad impressions.

Facebook is different. The reward is the free subscription to all the networking, apps and fun that they get through facebook and not the other way round. Why should anyone be paid.

Edit: formatting
Also I'd like to add that you should mention the name of the dev group. What they're doing is certainly shady, if not completely unethical.
This is what I was responding to:

I seriously don't understand how people were defending his writing style.

I explained that his writing style is defensible because he doesn't care about the general audience. And if there were more people as rich as him, you'd see more people not bending over backwards with perfect grammar and an apologetic tone.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean he isn't justified in sounding off if it makes him feel better.
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Wow, this TextMate must really be cool if people can easily clone a rich environment like SLIME. Unfortunately I work on Linux.
Unless the message is from angel-list@foo, I wouldn't automatically assume it was sent to a bunch of people, and not just me.

If it's sent directly to one person, he would think twice before leaking it.

Anyway, this whole *gate crap is inane.
If you don't act like you're slightly delusional, you stand out as a minority.

You mean mentally ill -- depressed. Being an entrepreneur seems like the opposite of being depressed:

extremely overoptimistic vs. overrealistic (depressed people are less overoptimistic than non-depressed people)

emotionally resilient vs. easily emotionally drained

able to derive satisfaction from drudgery that will (probably) not pay off vs. unable to derive satisfaction from rewarding, constructive, fun activities

feelings of self-worth unaffected by failure vs. feelings of self-worth unaffected by success
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eh, I am not sure that I want my payment processor to 'push the innovation envelope.' I want them to process my payments, with as little hassle as possible.
I agree with this assessment. Sure it's linkbaity and Arrington has an ulterior motive of stirring up drama for page views, but at the end of the day it passes the smell test. Not necessarily that collusion occurred, but just that things may have been heading in that direction... it's probably a pretty gray area when you think about all the way that angel investments are structured and the diverse opinions among angles.

All the drama will probably blow over in a few days, and in the end both the super angels and entrepreneurs will be better off for this ethics-check having occurred.
You know what would have been neat? The readers of HN working together to try to reverse engineer the original meaning. There's an attempt at that by a couple readers. But is that what get's voted to the top of this thread? No, an inane comment sits at the top with 58 points. Disappointing.
This is a ridiculous assertion because Facebook usage patterns do not follow a power law. As a simple calculation, Facebook has a 5000 friend limit so all 100,000 "superusers" would all have to be hitting up against this limit and all have completely mutually non-overlapping friend groups to reach out to the 500M current Facebook users. This is an absurd contention.

In reality, there's approximately 250M regular users and 250M light users which means each regular user would only "earn" $10 if Facebook brought them on as employees. That makes this a significantly less compelling argument.
There's still a place for desktop applications. It depends upon what you're building and whether that's a fit for the medium.

For example, I've built game creation tools. These are better suited for the desktop because of the complex interactions and user data involved.

There are plenty of startups that have built their software partially or wholly on the desktop such as Dropbox and Unity3D. For small developers, building desktop clients to popular web services like Twitter is another relevant path to take.
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Of course it is not an admission of guilt.

It is very clearly used as such. 'Being defensive' is meant to be bad thing; it's never used in a neutral or positive way. That's why the analogy from nature fails: 'defending yourself from a lion', in whatever way, is a morally neutral act. 'Being defensive' is not intended to be morally neutral.
Since most of their (original) codebase is/was PHP, I would say there is a high likelihood that their db is MySQL (though I guess you could refer to it as Oracle since they own it).
ICANN don't maintain the .cn TLD. If China's attitude to copyright, trademark and other IP infringement is anything to go by, I don't think CNNIC is going to do much.
Facebook uses MySQL.
Mostly bits of furniture - bookcases and chairs for my daughter, various little toys like balance boards and beams, kitchen cabinets.

Oh, and soap. I make soap - does that count? :)
I think Ubuntu first needs to brush up on its desktop-ui. There's still many little annoyances.

For my use-case (dev + web) it's superior to Windows, but it's no OSX yet. And it wouldn't take that much to make it awesome.

Example from 10 Seconds ago: Resizing the browser-window. I had to use ALT + Middle Mousebutton, because otherwise the resize-area in the corner is too small.
As someone with a fair amount of Tcl and Tk experience, I think the web is the way to go. It's simply faster and cheaper to develop and deploy with. Fix a bug? All you have to do is upload a new version to the server.

Here's patio11 on desktop vs web: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...

That said, Tcl and Tk are a fun, fast way to hack up little applications if you need something local.
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