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Being a writer, I don't see a point in this. When I was writing reviews, multiple files would have made it a clogged mess and to actually write efficiently there wasn't much time to be changing things up. If it wasn't close enough that the editor would fix it, then the entire thing would be redone.

While I'm writing short stories I'd get the same problem. A few thousand words is easier to edit by mind than version control would be. For a novel I see the use in chapter control, but I fail to see how useful it really would be as a novel isn't a series of unconnected events that can be seamlessly changed without huge catastrophic changes to the entire piece.
I would like to see a 'Not interested in reading or writing' choice.

Also, the 'other' choice is translated into what google assumes is my native language based on my ip. Which is entertaining.
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The article only considers public companies. Are they missing some?
That is a problem with the YC model in that they can't (or don't) fill follow-on rounds and are thus diluted.

Most VCs that invest in an A will set aside 3-4x that to invest in later rounds (Fred Wilson wrote a post about this recently)

(ps. your pre values are way too low (the 3 at A was probably on 10) but the point of dilution still applies. They also would have sliced out a 20-30% option pool at A)
This is the same as any moral argument, whereby you advise someone not to intervene in a situation where they could help, because of a possible danger.

There is right, and then there is smart.

It's difficult to say that action would be noticed or appreciated and the danger may not be realized but can't be ignored.

But heros do dumb things because they're right.
It's not about distributions, it's about companies. Canonical is not a for-profit, publicly traded company so it doesn't really fit this comparison between sun, redhat and novel.
You should get this on the iPad. Looks pretty good.
I don't think pg will consider an exit a home run until it exceeds 1B.
What do they need Photoshop for? Is it a photography studio startup? I haven't seen any of those.
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I can see EngineYard opening a bottle to celebrate as well, $212M in 'mostly stock' would be landing a big one, to be landing it in cash is very good indeed.

Congratulations to everybody, especially to the people that brokered the deal on Herokus side, very impressive.

In other news, registrars the world over report a large uptick in domain registrations around the twin themes of rails hosting and sushi...
Careful with your assumptions. Energy is nor equal to oil.
I had envisioned Heroku to be a standalone player. It's Paas model was looking like it would be a game-changer. I didn't think they would sell - at least, not this soon. I understand cash is king, but this was a company I had hoped would stand its ground to be something great.
> 404 - Not Found

Submitted by a completely new account.

Flagged.
I thought that was Google App Engine?
It would be more impressive if the site was actually running on the original server and software, but I imagine that machine is safely tucked away in their museum.
Feynman explains it nicely in his lectures on physics. The key is relativity. (Magnetism is a relativistic effect of electricity.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electromagnetism_and_... may be interesting. Especially the section "Relationship between electricity and magnetism".
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Sun was a hardware company. When hardware became a commodity their unique architectures could not find buyers, and there was not enough margin in x86 to sustain the company.

Novell sold proprietary LAN software, and their market evaporated when Windows starting having networking built-in, while at the same time Linux made open networking standards available at no cost (for the software, at least).
Another old favorite. Much discussion from 8 and 22 months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1218951 <- 31 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478632 <- 56 comments
Risking your life climbing a mountain is no more "living", than sitting at home with your family watching tv is. Romanticised bullshit.

If you enjoy doing something, do it. Don't do it so you can add it to your list of life experiences so you can pretend that you've lived a better life than somebody who hasn't done it.
Quite the opposite. Considering Sun and Novell to be "open source companies" obscures the fact that both of them had the bulk of their successes with their closed source products, and only came to a business model related to open source reluctantly. Red Hat is an outlier in that regard, and I suspect it is the main reason that they are still around.
Of course it isn't; however it represents the better part of our energy consumption, and we face an unknown : moving from one main source of energy to an inferior one (in the past, we always went from one source to a better one).
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Not for me.
Exactly. Of the three, Red Hat was the only one that was formed around open source, and the only one whose open source business model wasn't born in the desperation of a previous, successful closed source business model collapsing.
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Time to start keeping an eye on other hosting solutions. I'm love Heroku and I host a decent number of paying applications on it, but I'm afraid that when the original people will start leaving we'll be left with just another big corporation.
Variety is proud enough of their editorial "slanguage" to share it with the rest of the world:
http://www.variety.com/static-pages/slanguage-dictionary/
For writing apps completely in JavaScript (both client-side and server-side) there's http://www.erbix.com/ which provides hosting, online IDE and a marketplace for JS apps. It doesn't have yet source version control integration but you can upload or download directories as .tar.gz or .zip archives. (Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with the project)
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>You may consider them the "top manifestations". I don't think many other people would. For my part, I'd put Bach and Shakespeare and Newton and Gauss higher up than Hitler on a list of top manifestations of the capacity for abstract thought.

you don't get it. Bach and Shakespeare and Newton and Gauss were just 4 people. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot were just leaders of millions. These millions were expressing and implementing abstract ideas who should be killed by doing actual killing.
So, lets put it in easy way for you to understand - the top manifestations (number of people involved, total effort they put into it, including the ability for abstract thinking) are Inquisition, WWI, WWII, Khmer Rouge, ...

>And yet today the world -- especially the industrialized, wealthy parts of the world, which have benefited most from a sustained application of that ability for abstract thought -- is less violent and longer-lived than ever before.

this would sound so true right before WWI, and before WWII as well...
> $3M Series A (mid 2008) Assuming a $2M pre-money

> $10M Series B (2010) Assuming a $5M pre-money

I know this was just a thought exercise, but shouldn't their valuation have increased between 2008 and 2010?
Maybe you only need it because you have it
The Readme.txt at the bottom provides some context.
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I really hate the 'everyone needs Photoshop' argument but in reality if you're using it for a startup to edit some buttons and close crop some photos it's 'less wrong' than actually using it as your primary tool for making money. Photographers, designers and artists need to buy it. Everyone else should use less sophisticated software, Photoshop is overkill for anything you need to do for the web.
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I interviewed with Salesforce and I have to tell you that I found their culture a bit ....weird. It's something I couldn't put my finger on but I just had the feeling that they were all in some sort of cult or something.

I didn't get the job. Probably a good thing.
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On the other hand, JavaScript allows you to nest functions, unlike many languages.
"even now when I show Whereoscope on Android to iPhone users, I need to explain the basics of navigating an Android phone to them before they can use it."

I just can't let this stand. I have an iPod Touch and an Android, and I struggle a lot with the iPod Touch. Even making the MP3 player (iTunes?) do what I want is a challenge, and that is a native Apple app. I also had a lot of problems with iPad apps when I tried the iPad of a friend. The lack of a back button is a problem if the browser pushes you into some other app (YouTube or Maps), for example.

I could go on and claim that Android usability is so much better than iPhone (which I personally feel it is). But lets just assume that this guy is used to the iPhone and hence can cope with it better than with Android.

Also, if his users struggle with his app on Android, it is probably his fault. What is stopping him from giving it the same interface as the iPhone version? iPhone has one button, Android has 4. So it should be possible to use the same interface on Android, assigning one button to behave like the iPhone button.

Btw, you don't actually have to use Eclipse for Android development. You can do everything with the command line, and hence integrate the development environment (simulator, build script) into any editing environment you want. I am not sure if the same is possible for XCode, but I don't think it is. If XCode does Java, you could probably even use XCode for Android development.
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I stand corrected. In my defense, however, in a reply to another poster he seemed to imply that because someone hadn't researched his point, his points weren't untrue.
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Excuse me, but what is OT?
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You can also go to a static language like OCaml. They don't blow up your code size, but are also fast.
If you're doing fiction, can I suggest reading everything J.A. Konrath (jakonrath.blogspot.com) has to say on this issue? His strategy is building a stable of cheap genre fiction distributed via the Kindle, and he is both killing it and clearly having a ball doing what he loves.
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Practically, electromagnetism is straightforward. Imagine a straight wire with electrons flowing through it at constant rate. This way, the moving electrons produce a magnetic field that is always perpendicular to the electric current (which is along the wire). What is perpendicular to a line in three dimensions though? It looks something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electromagnetism.svg. This phenomenon is governed by Ampère's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amp%C3%A8re%27s_circuital_law). A handy trick for figuring this out is using the right-hand rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule.

Now, you can arrange your wire in any number of ways to produce a more interesting field. For example you can arrange it in a loop (or several loops). Since, once again the magnetic field is perpendicular to the wire, at the center of the loop it will be perpendicular to the plane of the loop. This way you can make an approximation of a constant field along an axis (just in that small space at the center of the loop/coil).

The fun part is that the inverse relationship also works: a changing magnetic field produces an electric field. Thus, taking a coil and moving a magnet inside of it sufficiently fast produces an electric field, which compels the electric charges in the coil to move producing an AC current. The change in the magnetic field is called the magnetic flux. This process is described by Faraday's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s_law_of_induction#Th...

Lastly, Maxwell combined these two equations with two other fundamental equations of electrodynamics (namely, Gauss's law and Gauss's law for magnetism) with some minor corrections for some special cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations. In physics laws and such are very often named not after the first person to discover something, but after the last. From these equations you can derive that light is nothing more than an electromagnetic wave (which of course then goes into the whole duality of light).
I hope Google get +1 right.

And all I got from this article is how beautiful Google is looking these days.
Our HTML prototyping tool Quplo (http://quplo.com) is a web-based IDE for designers and developers. It doesn't have github, dropbox, or server-side coding (offline support is on the way). It's purely meant for developing prototypes. But it's a start. We'd love to see more products in this arena and we'll definitely be making sure we're in the Web Store ASAP.
The TechCrunch version is currently the top story on the HN front page. It has 50 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982489

To a brief glance this article on mashable offers significantly less detail or information.
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The cult of enterprise solutions.
Yes, Lulu can format your book for the Kindle (although I have not done so). Great point Patrick.
Yeah, and they've got no ulterior motives? due process anyone?
I second that. Some people I know at companies really consider Ruby to be a toy. Having the SalesForces name behind it somehow will really be a change here in my case.
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...Novell and Sun were both once-mighty commercial open source-focused companies...

Rewrites history. Novell and Sun were both long past their brightest days when they embraced open source. In fact they embraced open source in desperate efforts to remain relevant in a world that had passed them by.
It would be intelligent if YC take a non-diluted portion. That is if the startup raise VC money, the YC % don't get diluted and the founders % get diluted a little more.
Is this link SFW?
Doesn't `Chromium Blog' and the URL give it away?
I think Heroku is not so much about Rails than about Ruby. You can use any rack-based app here, as well as host long-running job workers.

In the non-startup enterprises (I work with those), the work is usually to glue things together. Call a legacy web-service here, run a worker there, put things back into a legacy CRM etc. Ruby is perfect for that.

JRuby is even better, actually, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Heroku support it later on.
Sadly, exercise does not overcome the effects of prolonged sitting: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100722102039.ht...
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Congrats to the Heroku guys!

P.S: Now what happens to the free app quota?
I don't have anything against Paypal or any of the other companies who blocked Wikileaks. I guess in a perfect world it is bad, but if Paypal (and whoever else) weren't to do it and the US government did get angry then who'd be affected? That's right, every other customer (including me).

The problem isn't with these companies (although I suspect a lot of this is about how everyone already "hates" Paypal) it's with the governments. It saddens me that these companies are being targeted, people should be shouting at the government(s) putting pressure on the companies, not DDoSing the companies.

I'd rather wikileaks had their account closed than the service I receive be affected, however selfish that may be.
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I'll add this because it has happened to me - sometimes you're in all in one mode and you still don't see your code, just the file name that you selected at the top of the window - this is because there is a horizontal divider that is pulled all the way to the bottom of the window. Look for 1 little dot at the bottom of the window in the center, if you drag that up you'll be able to see your code again.
If my "app" on Heroku is counted in that hosted app number, then people must assign a lot of value to a one page web app that simply states "welcomes to rails." I suspect there are other apps on the service that compete direectly with mine.
You don't want to piss off the State Department. They can make things very difficult you in the future. At least, I suspect this might be the strategic thinking of PayPal, Amazon, EveryDNS, MasterCard, Visa, most national media organizations and any other business large enough to care.
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Also, don't forget about potential future value re: their upcoming node.js support. I suspect that'll be even more popular than their rails service at some point in the not-to-distant future.
Maybe, within the Unix world, but there's a large software world beyond Unix, and that world seems to be grabbing onto 'simple is best' rather hard for my liking at present.

I'm pleased for you that you like the Vi family of editors - I'm relatively familiar with them, but can't stand them. I'll never understand its continuing popularity; I know other editors I'd judge as powerful in practical usage but which are no harder for an ordinary user than Notepad. When I want a straight text editor I use one, but there's more to developing code than just editing text and that's why I like Visual Studio (not that it's the best IDE necessarily, just the one I use for work) - it gives me a single, coherent, consistent interface for developing the program in a way that I find vastly more productive than when I was having to use plain text editors and jump between tools to accomplish routine tasks. I don't for one minute miss having to compile code to find I'd made a one-character typo that didn't compile, or had made a type referencing error. Nor do I miss having a separate window to jump to whenever I realised I needed to check out an individual file while on a bug hunt. I don't dispute IDEs have their training wheels and some of them get in the way, but plain editors have their obstructive limitations too. I use IDEs willingly having come from the other approach, not in ignorance of it.

To get back to my original point - we shouldn't be looking to make our tools simple but to make them ruthlessly focused on improving the user experience for our users. Talking paperclips are a bad idea but I don't believe that source control integration in an environment that will largely be used with source control is anything but a boon to developers or that other similar examples in other software are bad. We should be looking to make software as powerful as we can keep under control, not as simple / narrowly focused (I'm aware they're not the same but I don't believe the article would cite Vim as an example of simplicity) as we can manage. Workflow is good, context switch is bad.
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Good to hear that there is some way to support Wikileaks now that Paypal has cut and run. Very disappointed in how some U.S. companies are reacting, when the U.S. makes fun of countries like Iran, China etc., for doing basically the same.
What a horrible domain name.
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i always thought heroku was the best-designed site i've ever seen
PayPal should have fought this instead of panicking and
complying with the State Department. If it's true their
exact words to PayPal were that Wikileaks was
performing "illegal activities", then they are liars. There
is nothing illegal about Wikileaks. In fact, PayPal should
have stood their ground.
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Does anyone know if it is possible to get a freedom of information act inquiry to find out if the state department really did advise/request PayPal to do this?
I doubt that would fit very well with PG's pro-founder ethos.
No, the premoney in each stage is too low to be credible.

Generally a venture round will be for between 33% and 20% of the company, trending lower as the company gets further along. 25% is a pretty typical number.

If you assume each of Heroku's two rounds were for 25% of the company, then 94% -> 70.5% after the A -> 52.9% after the B. (It seems counterintuitive to sell 25% of the company twice but end up with more than 50% of it, but this is because the Series B dilutes the Series A as well as the common.) The premoney valuations implied for the A & the B would be $9MM and $30MM respectively.

The reality would be lower, because this doesn't take into consideration things like option plans. If we assume they created a 10% option pool before the A and then used it all, the dilution looks more like this:

94% -> 84.6% (options) -> 63.4% (A) -> 47.5% (B)

Of course these things can still vary pretty widely. But no one's doing $10MM on $5MM premoney unless something has gone pretty wrong. In that case I'd expect the management team to get topped up with additional options to keep them motivated.

As an aside, the calculation of who made what also assumes that the investors have no pro-rata rights, which is wrong. When a company raises $10MM in a Series B, not all $10MM comes from the Series B investor.
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