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It's not my assessment, I just happen to agree with it. You disagreed with it yet came to the same conclusion (Microsoft's dominance over desktop). I simply miss the logical step in that process.

PS. Also, there are plenty of "digital ecosystems" for us to play with, even today. Billions over billions of ad hoc, embedded, portable, desktop, mainframe and all the other platforms in between. Thankfully some unification now exists (where it matters).
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To be perfectly honest, if you open sourced it but just put up the source to download (and not precompiled binaries for OS X), you'd probably sell close to as many copies as you do now.

Although it is also possible that someone would compile the source and put a binary on the Internet for free, undercutting sales.
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You can't put yourself on salary unless the business entity is a corporation or an LLC taxed as a corporation. Even if you do payroll for yourself you still have to file a 1099 and a schedule c. For a freelancer a Corp is a bit overkill and you get taxed twice.
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The owner of Posies is Jessie, not Lucinda (the regular customer). I have to admit I'm surprised Jessie agreed to take a loss without any upper bound. It's almost like stock speculators who used to take naked short positions with no hedging. Somehow it never crosses their mind to say "wait, couldn't this completely wipe me out?"
Remember that the GPL prevents one thing and one thing only: making proprietary forks. Meaning, the only "freedom" it doesn't give you is the freedom to restrict the freedom of others.

This limit is perfectly in line with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. I argue that anything that allow this limit to be crossed does not most efficiently promotes freedom.

Yes, permissive licences do not most efficiently promote freedom. (Don't get me wrong: they do promote freedom.)

Now the AGPL, because of its additional restriction, could be seen as less free. I think that technically, it is (it doesn't fully give you the right to private modifications). But the spirit is the same, applied to remote applications instead of distributed software.
On the other hand, you could phrase it as why would you want a 5" phone, when you can have a 7" tablet that makes calls?

Unfortunately it is being reported that the US carriers are blocking this ability. Might explain why you can't make phone calls with the iPad as well.
As far as I understand he is using S3 as a dumb block-level store. He has implemented a file system on top of S3.

All customer data is stored in different files, it's just that those files don't map 1:1 to S3 objects.
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Ask HN: How come no one has ever set up an alternative domain system?
If I understand correctly how DNS works, you only need a bunch of servers serving an alternative array of domains to set-up a complete parallel "Internet". Of course, your clients would have to use the right DNS servers to resolve those domains correctly, but a) it could work in certain closed circles, e.g. P2P file-sharing trackers or something, and b) with the new trend of local (mostly mobile) apps there is no reason not to hard-code them by the developers.
If it's true that 97% of businesses want to do it again - it seems that Groupon really isn't in much danger.
There's been a few attempts, none of them caught on.
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I think there's two issues going on here.

One, of course, is the RealName issue, and naturally, that's where the focus of the discussion is.

The other, however, is that a site like this, RealName or otherwise, has a serious chicken-and-egg problem. You need to have a serious plan for traction before even starting. Without a built-in audience (like Joel and Jeff's readers at StackOverflow), you're fighting a seriously uphill battle to begin with.
Ouch, I could imagine that S3 glitch causing a serious problem. Not in Colin's code I'm sure but maybe with someone a little less diligent. A 404 could cause a system to assume something isn't there and maybe, shock horror, write something else in its place. I can imagine that being very very bad... Still, sounds like it won't be happening again.
>Nothing about speaking to the specific small business owners that got it wrong by using groupon and what groupon has done to prevent other small business owners from failing in the same manner. How groupon has extended or enhanced their offering to protect against a bad experience for all parties involved?

Well, here's some things you apparently missed:

>Of course, we have heard from merchants who felt Groupon sent them too many customers. We responded to those concerns by creating merchant preparation materials, including this video featuring a Groupon merchant who sold 10,000 bagel Groupons in a day:

and

>Also, to clarify one important point: it has always been Groupon policy to allow merchants to cap deals. If a merchant sells too many Groupons, they’ll have a bad experience, the customer will have a bad experience, and therefore, Groupon loses. We’re longer-term thinkers than that. In fact, we have the opposite problem more often – where merchants protest a cap we recommend, convinced they can handle more customers than we think they can.

and

>Now that we know Posie’s had a problem, we have reached out to them so we can help.

So they didn't specifically mention talking to the 3% that didn't want to do it again, but they most certainly did address the other concerns you raised.
What do you mean by the commercial/business aspect of the project? Are you talking about how the project can be monetized? If that's what you are concerned, I dun think you should worried too much. Look at twitter. :P How are they making money?

Instead if you have a viable product that solve some problems for your users, there are quite a few ways to make money from it. I.E. paid subscription, sell licenses, white label, sell the whole company, etc...
Here is a nice tutorial on how set up a server to render tiles with Mapnik:

http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server

If you want to serve tiles you would then have to take a look at mod_tile: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mod_tile
Java is not ideal, we all know that, it just hasn't caught up (in fact that was true even when it first came out). But you can treat it as a target (like assembly) that is made for an IDE to read and write. Then just work with the IDE for a while you will find that a lot of the time the IDE provides the functionality of a more productive language (it even helps you to read the code). After a while the language starts to dissapear a bit and you can concentrate on the job itself, which is what it should be all about. I know this (language choice etc) is a contentious area so let me say that this is my personal experience and I have no way of knowing whether it would be true for anyone else.
How can they subsidize the Wifi-only version they just announced?
It seems like an interesting tool, and I signed up my site for the notification service.

However, it's kind of difficult for me to judge the actual value of the notifications until I start getting them. Having lived without this information so far, it's hard to measure the utility in advance.
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So assuming that these customers didn't buy anything over $13, her COGS should have been $13 * 0.3 = $3.90. This also ignores the fact that there are people who paid $6 for the coupon and never redeemed it.

Now lets assume that some people didn't redeem the coupon and that her COGS is a bit lower, so COGS = revenue. As labor and overhead are 'fixed', she shouldn't have lost any money as long as these weren't existing customers who decided to use the coupon.

If 100% of her existing customers used the coupon she certainly would have seen her profits hurt. If 100% of these people were new to the business, she wouldn't have made/lost any money on each transaction, but she would have obtained a lot more exposure.

So before deciding to do one of these deals a business owner needs to have a clear handle on their costs, the expected mix of new/existing customers, and the expected revenue from the new customers over some reasonable length of time.
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Common freelancer mistake is not charging enough or trying to compete with large companies on commodity markerts where margins are just too low. Not generating enough revenue is the direct cause of not being able to afford holidays, time off because of sickness, training, seminars or being worried about periods when work stream peters out.

It's hard for a freelancer to employ the economies of scale and hence they need to specialise n a niche where they can outdo big players and charge bigger premium to pay for overheads and cover the risks.

A freelancer carries more risks than even a small size company that aren't pooled: sickness, a spot of weak demand for a specific product, not getting paid. Certain overheads are also higher per "head": sales, bookkeeping, legal.

One need to charge a top buck and keep overheads low to maintain a sustainable freelance operation. I saw so many freelancers going back to permanent after 2-3 years just because they were not charging enough to compensate for the risks, extra work and flexibility of the service they were providing.
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Free? Free?

Let me put it this way. Say you have a Facebook account. Say you use it as intended: by doing most of your (semi) private communication through it.

Now, how much would I have to pay you for you to surrender a copy of your Facebook account, with your wall, your past conversations, and a copy of what your friends let you see? Promise, I won't do anything bad, but please sign this little paper that let me to, just in case.

That's the real price of using Facebook. Either you really think your price is $0, or you didn't think this through (most people don't, which is why I think Facebook is so popular). My price is $you_can't_afford_it.

(Edit: I forgot to mention advertisements, but I don't know how much they really cost me.)
Fast-flux networks exploit the way DNS works to create overlay networks.

But substituting the Internet? I'm not sure how viable it would be.
Thats a great point and my brain hurts when trying to think of a way to demonstrate the email notification.
Well, anecdotally, I did. I built a minimum viable product as a 'side project'. I had money to run it for a year before I needed to monetize. It worked for me. It means I use 1/10th the number of machines/bandwidth of one of my competitors.

I agree though, in your circumstance it was probably the wrong approach.
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Short version: I've been asked to compile a document that will go to various people at MS, including Steve Ballmer (before anyone asks, no I'm not giving you his or anyone elses contact details).

As such, what would you guys like to see from Microsoft in the future? Suggestions can cover anything from IE9 to Windows 8, your thoughts on 7 (desktop or mobile), Xbox, Zune... Also, thoughts on competitors and their movements would be welcomed too.

Please note that this isn't just a feature request list, so anything to do with the strategic direction of MS and/or any of its divisions would be great.

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Depends how it works. Is it doing anything new or interesting or is it another implementation of the usual data sources?
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Nice thread guys. In terms of a couple of other alternative mapping libraries, I can point towards a couple in addition to Polymaps. By alternative I guess I mean something that is not currently ready for mainstream consumption - unapologetic disregard for no IE6 (nor IE7 or IE8 in reality) support or attempting to support browsers that aren't adopting forward thinking standards such as SVG / HTML5. I will preface this by saying I am actually pulling one of these together so I might be a little biased in how cool I think tech like this is (Polymaps included).

First off you have a library called Cartagen (http://cartagen.org/) which is a very ambitious project indeed and does move towards what simon below suggested in terms of actually rendering without the need for image tiles. Well worth a look.

Next, you have the project I have been working on (opensource, MIT licensed, etc) which I have called Tile5 (http://tile5.org/). In terms of GIS feature completeness, it really doesn't compare with the Polymaps or more mature technologies such as OpenLayers - yet. My focus has been to date to create a really nice feeling library for web mapping (mobile touch support, inertial scrolling, easing animations, etc) as my goal was to compete with native maps on mobile - ambitious, I know.

I'd certainly welcome feedback and input regarding Tile5, but would also recommend checking out Cartagen as well to see what else is possible using the likes of Canvas and SVG.

Happy to talk more about this, but obviously don't want to spam the thread.
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> Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.

Is the browser support documented somewhere? I can't find it.
I would start with a version of Windows that is not backward compatible with really old APIs (i.e. removing a lot the old cruft) and making the remaining OS be super fast and have low memory usage.

I ask for this because although computers are getting faster all the time, booting and using Windows these days is still an exercise in patience, even on my high end laptop.
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> The question is whether “where it is today” is better (possibly cheaper) or worse (less innovative) for Microsoft’s/Intel’s bullying

I should have expanded on that.

I think it is better because computers got cheap and universal and a standard. A PC used to cost thousands of dollars, and now you can get one for a couple of hundred. I know first-hand what this meant, as I live in Eastern Europe and I could only get one after I found something cheap.

Yeah, it sucked that Windows wasn't particularly innovative, but the software running on top was innovative with lots of competition going on. The hardware running on top was competitive too ... even Intel faced stiff competition.

So there are both good and bad parts about this ... and the environment is certainly a lot better than the waled garden the mobile carriers are keeping us in.
Native SVG support would be required, so the likes of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE9 would all work. On mobile any webkit based browser should also work quite nicely.
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Very insightful article. I think Digg vs Reddit might be suffering from the typical "grew large too quickly" issue where due to their sheer size, they implemented more corporate/mnc type policies for handling hacks etc. By default most larger companies are anti-hackers which ( to their detriment) is what powers true innovation. A dire need to expose and solve an itch. Lets hope Reddit keeps the culture rocking
I'd say the latter I guess, its hassle free compared to other seo web apps and I've never seen real time email alerts in any other service.

I'm adding in a feature which gives the backlinks a rating on a scale of 1 - 10, its about 70% done, I've never seen that done either.
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What would you consider a maximum acceptable boot time?
So what could be VMware's plans for SuSE Linux? I am not familiar enough with their strategy to be able to speculate on this question, but I am curious - it certainly does not look like an "obvious" acquisition to me.

Keep in mind that SuSE Linux was not profitable under Novell - IIRC the SuSE venture finally broke even in the last FY, so it's not like VMware are buying SuSE to rake in the Enterprise Linux revenue.
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If he meant what he wrote he should get a job, seriously.

I love the freedom that being a freelancer gives me and I could write about the hard times but I'd still do it without a bitter aftertaste like this.

Of course everything has its good and its bad sides but this sounds like someone that is very frustrated but that has found nothing better than what he's doing.

Also I notice he's a writer, now writing code and writing books are completely different for the 'average' level. An average coder can bring in quite a bit of money if they play their cards smart (look at me ;)), but an average writer would have a very hard time to make ends meet.

Writing books is more like making music than it is to writing code. And music can be tough too, as long as you don't make it in the 'big league'.

Freelance writing is tough from a financial point of view, and that's something that you presumably know before you pick that particular poison.

I find this piece much more negative than just the facts presented, the undertone is such that I hope people do not take this as the 'average' outlook of freelancers on their work and their work environment as well as their financial situation. It is not representative as far as my experience and the free-lancers that I work with are concerned.

You can't negate the tone of that article with a single line of 'because it's awesome, duh' at the end.
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Once you have some savings in the bank, it is a lot less stressful. For me then, a time without contracts is not a loss. I have enough other things to do, like working on my own projects that hopefully will eventually get me out of the consulting circle for good.

I also think as a freelancer it is easier to meet a lot of people. For one thing, you typically see more different companies. But there is also more incentive to go to technology meetups and networking events.
I always wondered why Kevin and Alex felt the need to hide behind their laptops on Diggnation.

Unfortunately reddit is not what it used to be. The days when Lisp tutorials I submitted skyrocketed to the top of the front page (before subreddits) are only a distant memory now.
As low as possible, and ideally virtually instantaneous. From a cold boot, I'd put a cap of 10-15 seconds tops.
Interesting if real. Ok lets go for benefit of the doubt, starting with the highest priority items:

Mobile technology - The Windows phone 7 will not succeed. Sure you will sell a few phones but for the marketing and sheer executive brainspend on this you will not get a profitable return within 5 years. I had a good debate on Quora about what sucess looks like for Microsoft and I don't think this is realistically achievable: https://www.quora.com/Will-the-Windows-Phone-7-succeed-Why-o...

So the best decision would be to give up on the OS and focus on applications such as MS Office and XBOX game centre for iOS and Android devices. Alternatively buy RIM - it is such a good synergy with the current MS business and getting cheaper by the minute.

Consumer operating systems - The days of big desktop being a true star are dead, it is a cashcow at best. Why do you really need more than a XBOX / PS3 and a tablet & phone now? Focus on building from scratch an OS like Chromium that will run on a tablet, boot in under 3 seconds, have IE 9 as the browser and run office.live.com with proper offline mode. Use the Wintel partnership to get firmware optimization with this and use Dell, Acer and HP to get this new OS out on a powerfull (maybe dual screen) tablet by Q2 2011.

Browser - IE9 looks promising but it is a straight up rip off of Chrome no questions. Where is the real innovation - hire some people that will really think outside the box on a browser e.g. how about something like Cardspace from WebOS - organize browser and OS activities by task rather than by tabs and applications

XBOX - This is the one shining light in the last 5 years for MS for me. Focus on leading the industry not following it - how about a true cloud gaming service using optimized RDP or equivilent to allow full 3D rich client emulation gameplay on tablets, TV's and phones

Zune - must support full cloud based music streaming service - do it before Google music.

Augmented humanity - do something to lead and the define to way to private and secure augmented humanity: http://rakkhi.blogspot.com/2010/09/privacy-in-age-of-augment...
I was thinking more along the lines of building a history. Open a business bank account and a personal account. Give yourself regular payments (bi-weekly / monthly) from the business account. Perhaps then you could show your statements to the bank when asking for a housing loan. You would be demonstrating that even though the income of your business is up and down, you are able to provide yourself a steady living wage and that you have reserves to smooth out the bumps. Maybe this wouldn't help though, not sure. I'm a "freelancer" myself but I have never attempted to get a loan.
VMware's newer products for enterprise virtualization (VSphere, 4i) are built on top of the SuSE Linux kernel... so my guess would be a purchase to essentially own the underlying OS kernel they build their product on top of. IIRC, their older products were built using Red Hat instead, they made the switch a couple years ago.
I'll give it a try now!
Mate, I think polymaps would struggle a little with the OGC stuff. I haven't had experience with the OGC standards in depth, but I have worked with deCarta who implement OpenLS for their webservices and knowing what was involved there it's probably a little beyond the scope of what the guys are trying to achieve in the polymaps project.

From what I can tell, Polymaps is definitely optimized for retrieving map tiles that conform to some kind of algorithmically determinable tile url (such as OSM, Google, Bing, etc).
I would guess it's a move in the EC2 / etc. direction, integrating the next layer up in virtualization.
It looks like it is tracking my own links (check http://poilep.com/?site=http://www.mostlymaths.net)
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I thought that HDCP needed a handshake of something?

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