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I was aware of that with Google (at present) but am not sure of the situation with Bing (or others) - that's why I asked, kinda.

I thought jacquesm might be ahead of the curve on something here or that he knew some trick for multiple category ranking or something.

I'd also imagine that it increases the instantaneous value of the domain from a sale perspective as a wider range of pages can be presented in the SERPs on a domain that has many subdomains if some subdomain is relevant to a particular search alongside the main domain.

Was just a thought really, thanks to jacquesm for answering.
The most profitable way would be to write, design, market, proofread, build the website and integrate payment etc etc yourself. I've been doing some research, and it seems that the average author is content with low (compared to the profit) royalties as long as they only have to deal with writing the damn thing. There are ebook markets out there but a lot of them are having trouble gaining momentum as a go-to location for books. This is a chicken and egg problem, and as more authors offer their books as ebooks, this will get better and hopefully a number of markets will emerge.
@bradleyland, I responded in the edit.
This is a poorly written article for two main reasons:

1) No source code.

2) Incomplete test results. Why showcase two webkit engine based web browsers (Safari and Chrome) but not include a screenshot from Firefox?

3) Factual inconsistencies.

FTA:"The IE team have been chanting a mantra ad nauseum : Same Markup. That means, write once and have it render the same on all browsers. Funny, but the other browsers have been doing that for years. Seems, from the images above that it’s IE that’s unable to render the same markup."

Last I checked, implementing transitions/background gradients (etc.) in CSS required a separate line for webkit, mozilla, etc.
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I love that most of the Google Collections stuff can be used in GWT. Sadly, its predicates and transformers would benefit from the closures found in Javascript.
sorry, i was downcasing the usernames for consistency but apparently news.yc requires case-sensitive usernames to pull up the profile.

if you want to try now, it should work for you.
> If you can duct tape a product that gets me $1B of yearly recurring revenue then I will take that over the cleanest architected product that no one wants to pay for.

And that's an excellent reason not to tie a given salesman's compensation directly to sales value, but to time-averaged client profitability.

If you skin your client and sell them more than they need or something impossible to pull off, then retire and leave a mess for legal to sort out, you are not exactly a good salesman.
The person who is interviewed should be interviewed at least for a full day. They should be presented with a large set of problems, both "fizzbuzz" type, design problems, debugging problems. They should talk to the top technical people in the company, with those they will be working with, and with as many other people as possible.

This is even more important in a small company. A small company cannot afford to hire a dead weight. A couple of those will kill the company -- they waste resources, don't get work done, and, what is perhaps very dangerous, drive away top technical talent who does not tolerate mediocrity.
Thank you. If you use it, why? When? What for? How is it actually "used" anyway? If you tweet, do you also ever read what's ... tweeted?
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Well, the cool thing about the internet is that you don't need to launch at a certain location. If you've launched in location X, you've launched it in the US.
The author keeps 80% of his sale on Lulu unless you are selling a seriously discounted product, or selling via Lulu into other marketplaces such as Amazon or Ebay.

Also, in our and other industry suppliers experience many books sell better when they are offered in both ebook and paper formats.
I found it very useful for following the Iranian uprising last year. Since then, however, I mostly use it for updates and promotion of my open source software project (Appleseed).

As for more intimate discussion, I've never really grokked how to use it in that way.
Apparently they're also being recorded for your future watching pleasure: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos
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We know what the service does. We have that much data - we can see what users are allowed to do on the website, and what they cannot do.

And for the level of content, interactivity, media, etc etc, I can say that 500 is silly.
eBooks are my area.

1) Piracy is going to happen no matter what, so stop losing sleep over it. Count on the fact people will pay for books and concentrate on selling them.

2) Every eBook DRM has been cracked. But most who do that do so in order to be able to format shift. Get an eBook at $9.99 from Kindle Store vs $$ more from Sony or Kobo, then strip DRM and use Calibre to reformat to ePub for a Sony Reader or Nook.

3) As others have already pointed out, there's B&N's nascent PubIt! service. What that has going against it is that B&N uses a mutant form of the DRM that was common for ePub until B&N stuck its nose in. B&N books are stuck on Nooks for the average person (similar to Kindle) who doesn't want to learn how to DRM strip. You limit your market.

4) Kindle is THE monster. It's where the majority of eBook sales take place. If you know HTML, you can create your own eBook. If you need help, get Tallent's book:
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/self-publishing-read/

5) I'd stay away from Smashwords & Scribd. The first has a format meatgrinder that will drive you insane for trying to make things look good. The second has had that whole Archiving "error" marring its rep.

6) Make sure you have an ISBN so you control your metadata.

Any other questions?
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I mean, if you want a servant, just go live in India or another developing nation...it's still customary in many places.
I would love a MBP that doesn't include an optical drive, but it isn't going to happen for a while. The problem is DRM on DVDs. I'm perfectly capable of ripping my movies, but without access to a DVD ripper that's as easy to use (and included for free with the OS) as iTunes, the average person hasn't figured out how to rip DVDs and still needs an optical drive to watch movies. The Air is going to be stuck in a niche for a while, unfortunately.
Recently we started interviewing 4-5th year CS students for a C++/database programming job/internship. One of our questions is, if you have 10 computers and all are connected, how many connections do you have in the network (45)? Even after drawing the n=3,4 cases on the whiteboard as graphs, most CS majors cannot answer the question. As we spend more time on these interviews, we're considering making this our first question, and if somebody cannot answer it, however long it takes, interview is over, let's stop wasting each other's time. Similar no-go questions that people have problems with are: what's a JOIN, what does ACID actually mean, the difference between TCP and UDP.
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I'm part of a 7 figure project right now. We're a .Net shop, they have a Java infrastructure (and are as "enterprise" and process-laden as you can imagine and then some). We need to integrate -> See, we're right there.

SOAP it is for us and I do have to say that I'm rather relaxed. For us it's just one way (Java services, Java generated WSDL, we just consume/use the stuff), but it works rather well.

Unless you don't know about 3.5/WCF/Service References and try to do it the old-fashioned "Web Reference" ASP.Net way: That's a royal pain and just plain doesn't work at all for some (valid) SOAP things (some sequences of alternating complex types a la [Key, Value, Key, Value,...] for example cannot be mapped). Guess how I found out..
You're not very good at reading signs. I've been building websites by hand since 1995.
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Upvoted, but there is a benefit to fewer releases, of course: less diversity. Corporate IT reasonably finds this attractive even in the face of its downsides.

So the lesson if you're gonna be Microsoft and you're gonna have few releases seems to be: pick the standards (de jure or de facto) that seem very likely to have a good chance of being widely-adopted, keeping in mind that you have huge influence over that variable since you control the most widely-used browser in the world, especially if you make your moves wisely and with high quality.
Can you trust fixed-bit computer arithmetic?
It is also perceived to be easy to get into, walk into a bookstore and see all the "whatever for dummies" books. So there is a huge army of low-grade "programmers", many of whom are now unemployed. That is true across the entire planet, mind. So while there is a shortage of true talent, that won't be solved by importing the "... for dummies" crowd from overseas.
Isn't this thread exactly the right spot to reply?
I'm not in love with GWT becaue it's Java although I probably am below average among HNers in my dislike of the Java language.

It has been rare that Google has introduced some piece of technology to the world where, even if it first seemed to be some one-off oddity, was not part of some grander plan which had yet to emerge. Take GOOG411 as an example -- it was a cheap way to mileage on voice recognition tools for Android. Take Google Maps, Android, and GOOG411 all in isolation, and the company seems a bit nutty. But, once it became clear that they were all part of a strategy for location-based advertising, everything began to make sense.

I look at GWT, the Native Client project, and Web Printing as a couple of similar data points. Clearly, Google is positioned to come out ahead as the Windows desktop loses prominence. So, what might we infer about Google's intentions given the historical cohesiveness of its technology strategies coupled with the existence of these projects? The point of my post was not to argue the merits of GWT but to ask whether it is logical to presume Google's intent is to replace JavaScript as the sole means of programatic expression on the client.
That's where I'm coming from. But I guess it's just years of beind used to doing JS by hand.
This is so odd. I just gave a quick presentation on him yesterday in theology class. The prompt was to "Use you creative genius to show God in a visual manner." I argued that we couldn't describe God in finite terms, so I used fractals because of their infinite detail. Much better response from the class than collages of waterfalls and sunsets. And now that I think about it, fractals came up in my Physics class too. My teacher was describing a talk he gave at Wolfram Research on the subject.

And then Benoit Mandelbrot died yesterday. Very odd coincidence. Rest in peace, Mr. Mandelbrot.
Learn it from the masters: http://www.johntreed.com/HTWP.html

He maks his money by self publishing Real Estate newsletters, which are information dense and there is a niche market for that kind of stuff.

He has a lot of sensible tips on self publishing.
It's more accurate to say Google wants to make the browser into a Sun NeWS server, which did exactly as you describe, but with PostScript, not JavaScript. Sun also had a project to do this with Tcl/Tk. And really, that was one of the early visions for Java too. So Sun had three tries at this, and it never caught on. Perhaps Google will have more luck... Or perhaps it's a wild goose chase.
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Now I do:

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Yea, but imagine if you could say you built Versailles, patronized Molière and Racine, quelled the aristocracy, and slept with all the most beautiful women in France.
Shocking, I suppose, but apparently very true and very ugly.

As the son of two professional parents who grew up on farms, that latter fact turned out to be ... rather unfortunate WRT to the last Indian manager I had (a naturalized citizen but was born, raised and went to college there).
Then I'll watch it later.. the streaming vid breaks every half second..
My Bad.

I work on websites which have a lot of custom JQuery code and there is no way I can deliver them using hand-coded JavaScript in the required turn-around time.

Obviously YMMV.
I'm not sure how your personal idols refute my ideas of fairness.

I'm claiming they got rich by means of voluntary exchange with customers, rather than exploiting people. Do you disagree?
This doesn't solve the problem for everyone else, but when interviewing, solve the problem for yourself: Bring your own laptop. (Or borrow one if you need to!)

I can't believe in 2010 this isn't "conventional wisdom", but heck, take advantage of the competitive advantage while you can. No matter how impressive your linked list reversal is on the whiteboard, running code is even more impressive.
We need to start promoting ChromeFrame to every single IE user on as many sites as possible.

http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

It will solve the IE6/7/8/9 issue.

The only problem is machines without the privileges to install it.
I understand why Microsoft is doing it, but I still know this is against my best interest.
Twitter doesn't get a billion organic searches a day, so his numbers are far off into fantasy land. That number (if valid) counts all the auto-refreshes ("X new tweets"), trend browsing, API access from apps like TweetDeck, etc etc. Google makes so much per search because people actually sit down and want to find out something.

Having an auto-refreshing search for your company name that generates hundreds of searches a day isn't going to ever bring a dime of revenue in for Twitter. To get realistic numbers you'd have to first find out how many real "I want to find" searches are happening and then see what they are searching for. If I'm typical, the search traffic won't be super lucrative.
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Is the feed working for people? I've been getting to the page, but just getting a black box where the video should be. It's been sitting that way for a bit. Bummed.

I'm looking forward to Ron Conway and Brian Chesky, myself.
Anyone else getting a shit feed? It's so choppy that I get a second or two every 10
>> The same people ... don't understand why someone is uncomfortable writing a program on a whiteboard or, even worse, over the phone

Exactly. I loathe whiteboard interview questions. In five years of programming, how many times have I ever written or looked at code on a whiteboard to solve a real, work problem?

Zero.

Yet some people think the best way to learn about a candidate is to put them in a situation far removed from a real, daily work situation and see how they perform.
The fastest search engine ever made. Period.
Google instant and youtube instant are cool but what about automatic finding! ;-)

i've developed a new kind of search engine which takes you straight to your result page, removing the browsing/searching/clicking part of the experience.
I can reasonably claim that it is faster than google instant.

Check it out at : http://www.psykomatic.com/

I recommend using Chrome as a web browser.
Your comments and suggestions are more than welcome! ;-)

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One of the problems here is:

Failure = who cares.

Success = danger (see below).

Big success = guaranteed lawsuit.

There are several failed startups that I'be been in where there was no possibility of the phoenix rising from the ashes because the people responsible for the failure were clearly going to sue if it became a big success.

Even in one situation where the ownership of the code was crystal clear (the primary author was the son of a very big time lawyer and was very careful about that).

In that last case they insisted on owning a majority of a new venture despite their proven ability at failure. In my experience, greed of the sort we're seeing here is a strong sign this situation will never work out; among other thing it reveals a whole lot of things about how the other person views you and your contributions to the venture. It also suggests the other guy is not going to be able to make it work if he parts with you.
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I think we've gotten so used to format shifts - beta/vhs/dvd/blueray - cassettes, albums, cds, mp3s - that trying to price for the long-haul of ebooks isn't going to be in anyone's plans. :(
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There is no evidence to support this statement. With all the hype it might appear to be approaching but we aren't any closer today. More people live to an older age but we're still getting older at the same rate. John Adams, the 2nd US President, for example, lived to 90. 200 years later and most of us won't live that long.
I will trust you on this one.
Well, there's definitely a lawsuit if he uses the code and succeeds. For a Facebook level of success, well, that's just a cost of doing business. A moderate level of success will probably leave only the lawyers as winners.
As someone who is from a third-world country and self-educated, I can't stress enough on providing access to education.

We can create 5,000 jobs today. Simple workers with $10/hour pay. 100 years later and the country won't move. The workers don't understand the power of education, they won't teach well their children and in a third-world country, it's very unlikely they'll get a decent one.

I don't mean by education, an MBA, Ph.D... or all the buzz-words. I mean HN culture, real programmer, self motivation to work and exploit your full potential, mind openness to read and accept the other...

Comparing myself with my other peers, I'm a lot in a better condition and I feel proud of myself, doing something useful instead of spending my time on cafés and playing/watching football.
Deadline pressure != interview pressure.

Also stressful deadlines are an indicator that sosmthing else is wrong in a company. The company should fix that issue instead of hiring people that can "program under pressure".
Interesting. However, many of the pages I moused to reloaded without your bar at the bottom - wasn't sure what was going on at first.
If you're worried about piracy and high fees, why not create an online course instead of pdf e-books.

If it's an how-to book and not a work of fiction, you don't want to create a pdf e-book anyway. Here's why:

* Low perceived value. People know how to create pdf e-books. Just choose ‘Save As’ in MS Word. So it has a low perceived value. Much lower than the $13 real book you can buy from Amazon. This means you cannot charge a high price for your pdf e-book.

* They’re static. Once they’re out there, they’re out there. You cannot add stuff, correct material or fix typos.

* As you mentioned, they’re (way) too easy targets for piracy.

* Lots of people don’t want to read anymore. They want to watch videos instead. So might as well add some video.

* No analytics. Which chapter is most popular? You will never know.

* No interaction. People read a chapter in your e-book and have clarifying questions. But alas – no interaction is possible.

So that's why I think online courses are the way to go.

How to create an online course and sell it?
This is what my startup does: http://traindom.com
The other thing is that these interviews almost always enforce no Internet access. If I was in a position to hire, I'm looking for people who can solve problems, not those who can remember the Java API in their head. If their first instinct is to open Javadoc, then my reaction should be "good, they know where to look for to make sure it's correct" not "God, why can't they just do this [arbitrary task]?"

I'm hoping to finish my PhD and become a professor in Computer Science. My plan, given university constraints, is to never once offer a written final. I've not once taken an exam where I was confident just writing code down. It doesn't make sense. Offer them a final on a computer with Internet access, but with a sufficiently difficult problem that it can't just be Googled for a complete answer. Their web access logs are turned in with their exam, so I can see if they copied something if it looks suspect, or if they're borderline I can give extra credit for going through a mental process that shows promise.
Against your low perceived value, pit 37signals "Getting Real", which generated more profits for them (6 figures) than almost any mainstream paper tech book published the same year.

I agree that piracy is an issue, though.
It takes a while to find a use. Originally, I thought it was just the status feature of Facebook for people over 35, so I was wondering why everyone was so excited about a limited feature set. I've definitely come around. I don't think everyone uses it the same way, but I'll rhyme off a few uses I've found.

1 - Replacement for RSS. Follow the blogs you do on RSS and get push notifications of updates. Authors sometimes have smaller things to say than a blog post requires, so the feed acts as an added feature.

2 - Follow the doings of "niche celebrities" like Eric Reis and PG. They give advice and comment on recent events, but aren't really popular in the mainstream sense.

3 - Follow more general celebrities. It gives people you are a fan of a direct line to you independent of traditional media outlets. Think Conan when he was without a network, and Kevin Smith is doing some interesting things as well. Sure, Kim Kardashian has a huge following which she uses to hock products, but there is a massive audience who wants precisely that.

4 - Comedy feeds. I find when comedians have only 140 characters, the constraint makes the jokes more punchy. (plug: my traction deficient app http://laughlitmus.feedladder.com is trying to capitalize on this; viral loops are a bitch)

5 - Real time events. You'll hear about an earthquake on trending topics before any media outlet.

6 - Following privacy paranoid real life friends. Twitter has a dead simple privacy model. Either people can publicly see your feed, or they have to approve you. Some people I know got fed up with the Facebook privacy shell game and switch to Twitter for this.

7 - Connecting with a loosely coupled community. For those of us not in the valley, finding fellow hackers can be troublesome, and when you do, you don't really need a heavy connection, but following each other on twitter is a nice lightweight way to see if the local tech event is going to be hacker or muggle heavy.

8 - Location based chat for conferences. Hashtags allow for people to mark a discussion about anything, and a lot of meetups will tell you the recommended hashtag so you can see what people are discussing in a specific place.

I hate is the whole "Twitter is just people talking about what they had for breakfast" complaint, it really just meant you are following boring people. There actually exist a non-trivial set of people I know whom I am friends with on Facebook (and real life) but wouldn't follow on twitter because they're tweeting about stuff I have no interest in.
I don't think it's quite the theory/practice split here. A large percentage of CS majors would probably fail the theory version of fizzbuzz too; say, ask them to analyze a simple sort algorithm for asymptotic complexity on the whiteboard.
There are always exceptions. 37Signals is a known brand. If you're not known, it's hard to charge a lot for a pdf.
I wonder if he was in quirks mode by not having an appropriate doctype tag?
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