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Considering Kinko's isn't around anymore, that may not be the best brand name to aspire to. But I guess if they get bought for $2.4b that's not the worst thing that can happen :)
Buying a DVD (especially used) is barely more expensive than renting, and there are all kinds of benefits to owning it, including the ability to watch it over a long period of time, lending it to friends, watching a really good movie multiple times or a second time with friends, etc. Plus you can buy any movie; you're not limited to the crappy mainstream selection of the video store/kiosk. Plus they have value (some of my films are worth more than when I purchased them) so that has to be factored in as well.

Note: I live in an area which doesn't have Netflix, so I'm comparing to renting from a store/kiosk.
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While I certainly don't mean to dampen your enthusiasm, it takes more than open source culture to get those prices to drop. This industry is an absolute minefield for intellectual property. Just like 2D printing, 3D printing manufacturers make roughly 70% of their cash from the sale of materials, and this means there's no incentive for them to drop.

Of course, this isn't stopping people from knocking them off for cents on the dollar, but still.
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Wait a minute... You are complaining that you are now forced to have updated looking and function software? Oh. The horror. That's a sure way to make your users mad. Sell them software today that looks like it was written 10 years ago... But wait, it was written 10 years ago.

You are completely pushing the philosophy of technology needs to remain the same and consistant through all of time. Not possible, ever. Technology HAS to evolve or we all sit at a standstill. If you don't want to learn new things and stay modern in technology, then you need to sign up for truck driving, not software development.

They (MS) didn't just sit around trying to find ways to piss you off by coming out with new technology. They released one, found a way to improve, and released that next. Quite blaming the vendors and put the blame squarely where it belongs, with people who refuse to learn and evolve with the technology.
Especially as many spelling mistakes are actually typos.

Also, "meanningful" is an excellent example of Muphry's Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
Hey, lay off man! If Chicago doesn't have to teach multiplication, New York doesn't have to teach grammar, alright?
I'm not familiar with the startup scene in London, but the tech seen was awesome. I met some great people (managed to hire some of them), had some great conversations, and learned a ton.

There was a lot of boozing, though. :)
I bet it's worth more than that.
If you're selling another 0.000000001% of 37signals, put me down at $10. Being a minority shareholder of 37signals and putting "increased the value of 37signals 10x" on the CV has far more than $10 of cachet ;-) (as Microsoft realized with FB).
Only problem is many people often create clones when they make games. Obviously your creativity is a qualifier for this.
(cross-posted to the blog): If all the "attacker" did was a #include /dev/random, how is that not something someone in your own QA team would do? Heck, if this was my company, that would be one of the first things I'd do (albeit only on my laptop or my staging environment)...

There may be other details that he hasn't shared, but if this is the "attack," it's pretty benign.
I did - I used it to translate from simplified Chinese to English, and the results where extremly impressive - there where very few mistakes and some of the paragraphs read like they had been written by a professional translater.
For what it's worth, on just about every well-written, thoughtful comment on HN, I look up to the byline to see if it's from Patrick.
Watch your back Patrick. I think you have a new stalker. Seriously though.. this is one of the scariest blog posts I've ever read.
Sure. I ditched a safe $60,000 a year (plus bonus and other meaty goodies) job because I wanted to work in software. This is good money in Orlando, FL and I did this in mid 2009, when the economy was terrifying. Eventually I ran out of money as an indie. So my effort did die on its arse. But now I work in the software business. It was awesome.

I'm sure there are plenty of ways I could have ended up less lucky than I have. I try to think of luck as a function of work, though. I want to believe I'm a survivor, but I've definitely been fortunate.

All I'm saying is that if you've got some sort of direction you feel is important but you never take action, that's the failure. If you take action and don't succeed, there's a lot you might do to make the most of your new position, thanks entirely to your having taken the risk.
Paper processor. What is fetch , decode , and execute?
Your co-worker steals your 10-years old nickname and uses it everywhere?
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6 orders of magnitude is not pretty close.
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According to Google Translate <drum roll>:

Mr. Matsumoto, Hi. This is Nate.

Google translator, the incompetence which is vulgar. (Laughs) Make sure to email me directly. You can write in Japanese. I will help you.

Sadly, no goats.
Cell tower solar cells off-grid might be beachhead for distributed power
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They are competitors.
Argument to Authority is a logical fallacy.
Startup CEOs – The Panhandlers of the Internet
They're an entertainment company, yes, but they are hugely more available than TV. It's not generally true that hours spent on Facebook replace TV-watching, because TV isn't generally watchable in all the situations Facebook is. That spare 5 minutes to half-hour in the office can be filled by Facebook, for instance, where TV simply isn't practical.
One thing I find absolutely annoying in FireFox is that its always bugging me about updating either the browser or its extensions. Chrome does this all in the background and just works.
For me it's mostly just the combined search & url field. Once you get used to that, anything else feels awkward.
The #include /dev/random hosed the code evaluation task queue and everyone else's code evals started piling up behind it. This behaviour has been fixed now; every submission is tried just once and then the evaluator moves on. The attacker might not have known they could break my system in this way, but they threw in some system("rm -rf /")'s in there which is fairly malicious.

I'd yell at my QA team if I had one...
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You call him a genius, yet he spent 6 years promoting a product (which I might add only took him a few days to create) that is only now just breaking the $1000 or $2000/month mark. Most smart people would have cut their losses a few years ago. Especially since that market isn't very big (elementary school teachers are poor and most schools won't invest in such a product).

He is looked up to on the Joel on Software board and this forum as a marketing/business genius, yet he barely makes enough money to break the poverty level for one person (I can't imagine how he affords to live in Japan).

He has talent and perseverance, but he's not a model we should be following for business.
We did an experiment in my societies and culture class where we tested translations between several different languages using several different services. What's really interesting to see is when you translate between a language and back again, or go through multiple channels to origin--eg, English->French->German->English. We still have a long way to go before machines can provide perfect translations, but that's part of the fun right? Pushing the boundaries and finding new inventive ways to solve the problem of allowing anyone in the world to communicate with anyone else by bringing down the language barrier. We're closer today than we've ever been, and we'll be closer tomorrow, and so on.
Yes but there is more than one reason to charge a lot for a product, one is the material used (which I don't expect to change much), but there are many others, such as creativity of design, utility, etc.

When you look at Shapeway's store you can see so much intricacy in some products. With a $10 block of plastic I can make a product that would otherwise sell for $100, now sell for $10.
Five federal agencies want big robot technology advances
The sendfile manpage says:

"
Presently (Linux 2.6.9): in_fd, must correspond to a file which supports mmap(2)-like operations (i.e., it cannot be a socket); and out_fd must refer to a socket.
"

so apparently you cannot use sendfile for your scenario.
I started off being uncomfortable that I was using Chrome more and more. But it is a lot of little things that make it better. I'm on the dev channel, and some things might break, but having quick patches and updates is awesome.

Three things are holding me back to fully switching over:

- Awesome bar - its awesome

- Web Inspector <<<<< Firebug

- '/' to start searching (unless its there and i just dont know about it)

edit: formatting
I'm quite curious as to how many people will, after reading the challenge, actually move on to take it and get a game done. This is one of those simple ideas that you think quite often but never end up doing. Once it's out there, however; once someone puts it on the table - then it becomes a challenge. And challenges are great.

I for one, may just do this.
Read the original post, Joel didn't make that mistake.
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Also a dime per user/year is more than it seems when you can only collect it through indirect means (ads, charging other companies for using your platform). Remember their ~500mio user figure also includes the overwhelming portion of users who generate no more than a handful of page impressions per month.

It's not like facebook could invent a yearly membership fee or start selling t-shirts or such...

Well, they could, but I doubt more than ~20% of their audience would actually pay.
The plural of corpus is 'corpora': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_corpus
Doesn't it come down to who comes up with the price and what their motivation for investing is?

When a VC invests in a company, they're looking for a big exit. Essentially, they're trying to predict how much the company might IPO or get acquired for. A public investor is trying to predict the rise in future profits of the company. The difference in motivation matters when you consider a hypothetical.

Suppose the company is guaranteed to have stagnant or falling profits. Does that discourage the VC? Not necessarily. They don't care about whether the company can make money. They care about whether they can keep building perceived value in the eyes of anyone who would want to acquire. A public investor, however, would not put their money in that company (at least not for long).

Therefore, I think David's main point is sound - VC's are more likely to over-value your company than the market is. We also know this to be true because of what happened in the early 2000's.
This reminds me of when I worked at a start-up outside of Boston. I'd ride my bike all the time and I got into the riders click in the city. The funny thing was, people didn't measure how long they'd been riding in Boston in time; they measured it in how many times they'd been hit. Boston drivers are the absolute worst I've ever seen. If you go on a road trip to New Hampshire, you'll notice the difference as soon as you cross the boarder.
> The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency...

Presumably subprime mortgage backed securities are the exception that proves the rule...
"In business, economics or investment, market liquidity is an asset's ability to be sold without causing a significant movement in the price and with minimum loss of value.

...

Another elegant definition of liquidity is the probability that the next trade is executed at a price equal to the last one. A market may be considered deeply liquid if there are ready and willing buyers and sellers in large quantities.

...

The liquidity of a product can be measured as how often it is bought and sold; this is known as volume."

I don't think any sane investor would consider private shares of Facebook "plenty" liquid. The volume of Facebook trading is so low that when a large trade of it does occur, as in this additional investment that valued it at $33b, the price jumps wildly and it makes news.

As per the secondary market, Sharespost shows the last contract traded on their system being over 3 weeks ago, and that there are only 3 people willing to sell and 5 people willing to buy right now. Those are pathetic numbers.

Granted, shares are not entirely illiquid either. You could sell your shares... but it's a necessity that the more you want to sell, the lower your price is going to have to be to attract enough buyers.
So...when can I use this to share data between a BSD and a Linux machine?
Some of the author's points are interesting, but if Patrick took the advice, he'd basically turn into a clone of every other arrogant blowhard tech entrepreneur in the world. He might make more money, but he wouldn't be the patio11 that I've come to admire.
Of course doubling their user base twice is something like 30% of the human species. I'm not sure that's realistic.
I have a Russian friend who used my computer to check her vkontakte (Russian facebook), she's not used to Chrome and it auto-translated the page. At first she didn't notice because she's equally capable in English, then she started to giggle at the word pancake (which is a poor translation), but she said that on the whole it did a really good job. I guess some languages are easier to do. Anecdotal I know, but its good enough for me to use Russian websites to read photo comments.
As contextfree says, Linq2Sql is an ORM and Linq is really a set of a few technologies (expression trees, lambdas, anonymous types) originally created FOR Linq2Sql but now used all over the place.

An example of non-L2S use of Linq to sort an array of objects:

//array of dogs
var dogs = new[]{
new Dog{Name = "Bowser", Age = 1, Gender = "M"},
new Dog{Name = "Yoshi", Age = 2, Gender = "M"},
new Dog{Name = "Molly", Age = 2, Gender = "F"}
};

//get all male dogs ordered from oldest to youngest
var dogs2 = dogs.Where(dog=> dog.Gender == "M").OrderByDescending(dog=> dog.Age);

No database access involved.
I don't really get why Chrome is so exciting. OK, it uses the GPU to render pages. That's fine, but that's never the bottleneck for me; my CPU is done rendering pages long before it gets the next byte from the painfully-slow web app that I'm connected to.

What we really need is GPU acceleration for Arc...
I hadn't seen splice, it was cool. But what really blew my mind was the discussion of a system call on Wikipedia. :-)

To put it into the wikipedia is obvious I guess, but I just fell in love with the net again. Thank you.

Edit: I really should do some low level stuff again.
The 100 million for schools is a preemptive publicity stunt ahead of "The Social Network" film premiere next week.

It will be interesting to see how hundreds of millions of people seeing a film (on- and off- cinema screen) – supposedly depicting shady roots of their favourite website – will react.

Most likely, with a "meh…" but let's wait and see.
For me, Chrome wins purely on speed. Like the article says, "it [Chrome] feels faster, and that's all that matters." Once in a while I need to use Firefox to test something, and it just feels painfully slow in comparison.
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asp.net mvc was a community effort and open source from the every beginning. It even packed in with jquery javascript library. It can have the same collaborative community support as any other framework. However, I suspect that the most of developers are not interested in contributing is because the learning curve it has for who coming from traditional ASP.NET background. Among those so-called developers most are contractors who are used to hack up quick and dirty web applications that aren't scalable in a few years.

On the other hands, we have to give kudos to Microsoft that making things easy for people with little programming background get off the ground.
Wow, someone who doesn't complain about and actually prefers "forced" auto-updates. I never thought I'd see a day like this.

("forced" intentionally wrapped between quotation marks.)
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i spent 2 minutes of my life reading that and i want it back
Wow. We are a 10 person company (entire company, not just dev staff), and we had a major issue and I called MS and the issues was fixed in 2 days. And no, it wasn't some wierd setting or some hotfix that was already available, it was a bug in 2008 R2. Minidumps, remote sessions, and long conference calls for 2 days, but they ended up providing some files in the end to work around it until the next patch.
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Starbucks to hike prices on 'labor intensive' drinks
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Why Do We Eventually Talk About Cheap Certificate and Custom Pocket Folders? 
People talk about folders because they are compatible business identity development products. That is why online printing company offers the best folder printing solutions to its valued customers worldwide.
This is dubious depending on where you're selling. If you're selling on the iTunes App Store then it's impossible to not make one single sale. Mostly because there are built in promotional mechanisms in the store. It's more interesting to try and make a unique and economically successful game.
I was just doing research on using sendfile's modern zero-copy replacement(s), splice & tee: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505

They were linked elsewhere here, but worth repeating in a top-level comment. :) Possibly a handy tool for the rare times you need to squeeze blood out of a stone.
> OK, it uses the GPU to render pages

? It actually doesn't -- not release versions at any rate. Are you confusing Chrome with IE9 or Firefox 4?
At the moment, I don't hear/see ninjas sneaking up on me, hackers taking down my web app, a terrorist plot, or the shadow government spying on me.

Oh crap.
Without information, though, it's all speculation

Right - that's the point. The valuations are not based on actual profits or profit potentials but rather on speculation/hype, which means bubble, and when a bubble bursts, it ends up hurting the entire community.

Obviously, startup valuation is not a science. BUT when valuations are based on wild projections (such as FB will be be more profitable than Google), then someone must call it out.
It's as valid as when people refer to the Valley as one big techie circle-jerk. Or as the most fertile technological environment in the world. Location, location, location.
Anyone want to help me come up with fair terms for a bet between myself (twitter.com/harryh) and dhh? See our back and forth on twitter.
AdBlock Plus is holding me to Firefox... I have disabled check updates in firefox and do it myself once in a while. This has kept me sane otherwise it is too annoying and load time is high.
How much does it cost you to divert your attention to fixing someone else's bugs?

It's all just a question of economic efficiency. Being able to pay for priority bugfixes is efficient.
The more interesting question is whether facebook will even be around in 5 or 10 years. Look at myspace, huge userbase, grew from almost nothing practically overnight, and relegated to the dust bin almost as fast once facebook came around. The chances of a competitor being able to do the same thing to facebook cannot be ruled out. Indeed, with facebook's api such a competitor would have an easier job of nabbing facebook users than was the case with myspace (join the new site, let the new site import your fb social graph and mirror your feed to facebook automatically up until the day you decide more of your friends are on the new site).
I agree, C# is aweesome as a programming language. With Mono, an open source implmentation of .NET framework, it virtually runs cross all platform, even supports iPhone apps with MonoTouch.
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There is a college here that starts you out with VB.Net, in the CS track, no less. They learn C++ the semester after that. I wish they would just drop VB.Net and start with C++ then let them take an elective with C# or something...
You can do this with paypal, you just have to code the integration yourself. Can be as simple as having a form POST different values to the paypal API then redirecting to your site.
If it has any real depth, you'll see things the second time that you didn't see the first. If it's actually good, the same will hold true over and over. There are folks out there who watch "The Usual Suspects" in groups, regularly, picking up on details they'd missed the first fifteen times. I could watch "Ergo Proxy", "Eerie Indiana", TV-form of "Avatar: The Last Airbender", "Ghost in the Shell: Stand-alone Complex", "The Usual Suspects" or "Cypher" a dozen more times, and be suprised each time by picking up on new pieces of detail or references.
Did anyone really believe that a bunch of guys were going to write a secure privacy-based facebook-killer application in three or four months?

That's a challenging proposition even for experienced teams.

Though we all know that they warned us that the software was still full of bugs and treated as experimental.

Patrick says that doesn't matter, that they haven't got the foundation right and anything built on top of it will likely fall.

Maybe they can still iterate and fix those things. Maybe they will scrap large sections of the code and re-write it properly. I suggest they keep trying and learn something from all of this. Us older geeks can be pretty harsh sometimes. We often expect new-comers to not make the same mistakes we did once. That's how we learn though, so don't take it the wrong way.

Next time just don't promise more than you can deliver.
Every time I see an article like this pop up somewhere, I first feel like it's beating a dead horse, but then I'm reminded that a lot of people out there don't have passion for what they do or have lost it. Being reminded that passion and caring about what you do leads to inspiration and can be reinvigorating. If 1/10 of these types of articles touches 1 person and affects change, then something good has been done. Thanks for the article and thanks for helping to remind people about passion and how it relates to success and happiness. Cheers
Another example of MVPs in gaming are the guys at Wolfire. They are developing a game called Overgrowth and releasing weekly alphas to those who preorder, thereby funding the development as they go along.

They were also part of the huge Humble Indie Bundle, so it's fair to say they're doing pretty well on the marketing/money front.