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Indeed, but I'm questioning your use of the term fraudulent, not unacceptable. The OP does not argue that he's right and Google is wrong, or that they tricked him: he admits carelessness. Now, I do think contracts become considerably more meaningful when you've got a powerful motivation to pay attention to the details than when you're just trying to find where to click OK so you can try out the product/service hidden behind the wall of text; equally I think Google does work hard to simplify the complexity and make it accessible. So I don't excuse him by shifting blame to Google - other than disputing the wisdom of perma-banning him for very minor violations.

When you say fraudulent, you're saying he deliberately tried to deceive Google, or at best, was totally indifferent to the risk that they would believe something (his acceptance of the adwords conditions) which was not actually true. Yet if you look at the sequence of events, he started putting up videos to showcase his work, later found himself making enough to subsidize his sailing project, and later again got the idea to monetize the HD video because he was receiving so many customer inquiries about the YouTube videos.

When he signed the adwords agreement, he didn't even have a sailing video sideline, much less an expectation of milking it for a little extra money. Where is the willful intent to deceive here?
Last week I optimized some MySQL queries which triggered the 'not-using-index' warning, even when I had all fields which were used for selecting and sorting indexed. I think a JOIN on a nested subselect somehow confused MySQL: when I duplicated some extra restraining WHERE clauses into the subselect, response shot up from 800msec to 12msec per query. Very nice. But the query still shows up as 'not-using-index', which is strange.
The problem with leftists (which I'm choosing to define as "to the left of normal liberals) is they become obsessed with money.

Even when they know money is an ineffective tool to solve the problem. Take education. Someone who lives and breathes politics like Sam Harris absolutely must know we're 4th in per pupil education and that our University system is absolutely broken. Yet what does he suggest as a solution...

"there is no question that a true breakthrough in education will require an immense investment of further resources. Here's an expensive place to start: make college free for anyone who can't afford it."

Also his obsession with the rich blinds him to the contradictions in his own arguments. For example he says...

"Some readers will point out that I am free to donate to the treasury even now. But such solitary sacrifice would be utterly ineffectual, and I am no more eager than anyone else is to fill the pork barrels of corrupt politicians. However, if Gates and Buffett created a mechanism that bypassed the current dysfunction of government, earmarking the money for unambiguously worthy projects, I suspect that there are millions of people like myself who would not hesitate to invest in the future of America."

But then ends the article like this...

"Let Gates and Buffett convene a team of brilliant people to lay out the priorities. But again, we should remember that they could scarcely fail to improve our situation. Simply repaving our roads, the dilapidation of which causes $54 billion in damage to our cars every year, would be better than doing nothing."

Well...if that's the case why doesn't he go out and hire someone to repair his local roads and donate their labor to the city? It's not that expensive to fix a pot hole or two
If you were a regular sailor you'd understand the wisdom of keeping a box of candles on board, and wouldn't find anything striking about the idea of using them.
Quote:

'One way he [Al Hoagland] tries to illustrate the importance of modern storage systems to school children for whom technology is ubiquitous is to ask them a random question, such as "What's the height of the Hoover Dam?" When the kids all jump on a nearby computer to search for the answer, he then asks them where the information came from...

'They just stare. It's a total blank," he said. "That's the frustration when you worked on something to make that possible, but you're not even recognized. Most people just want to see a 3D movie, they don't much want to know what made it possible.'

Says a lot about today's society.
OP's blog post reminds me sorely how depressing it is to create something and get feedback from the world. The most accurate description of Word Lens I've read is "take a look! This is the future." And still, there are people to write nasty articles calling it lame because it doesn't fix breakfast as well.

So I found my resolution for the new year. I'll stick to my anonymity when creating products, and hire somebody to get feedback while filtering out the nasties. And never, ever ego-search on my products.
Two big changes:

- you can video chat with people without an apple FaceTime compatible product.

- you can use it over 3G unlike FaceTime which is limited to wifi
Why am I now picturing Marissa Mayer and Google?
The missing part of his article is the exact text of his message to his subscribers re: 'I told my subscribers that I got some money if they visited the websites of those advertisers.'

There's a difference between "I support this product and you should check them out" and "click on these ads." Google's ads are targeted and beyond them being about sailing, he doesn't necessarily know what's being shown.

So it's pretty difficult for him to personally recommend particular ads or companies. I'd like to see the exact messaging he sent to his subscribers.
Thanks for the link, I really like the site. However, my interests are more in the area of programming languages (PLDI, POPL, OOPSLA, etc.). Does anybody know of something similar for ACM SIGPLAN conferences? (I know they hand out "most influential" awards after 10 years consideration time, but "best papers" in general for many conferences should give a pretty good picture of the state of any field over time...)
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I'm one of Loopt's co-founders. Loopt uses Microsoft's stack (the reasons why are off topic here), and was licensing Windows Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio through the SPLA program before BizSpark was available. We joined BizSpark right when it launched.

BizSpark consists primarily of two things: (1) a one-on-one contact to provide advice, to arrange partnership opportunities (marketing, etc), and to provide introductions to the Microsoft product teams as needed; and (2) free software licenses (which you get to keep at the end of the program). Loopt has also received other benefits, like access to their compatibility labs, conference passes, etc.

With BizSpark, Microsoft is confident enough in the quality of their offering that there's no commitment. You chose to use as much or as little of what is offered as you want, and there is zero pressure. We make use of various open source technologies[1]. It's not a problem. Also, at the end of the program they offer an extremely generous graduation offer[2] with no financial obligation.

After that, Microsoft's volume licensing is reasonable[3], the tools are well documented, and everything works as expected. Their stack is predictable, consistent, and dependable. If you want to be able to focus on your product instead of the tools you're using[4], then the Microsoft stack is great. Note: It's cheaper to have your tools work than to hire someone on salary to maintain and debug them.

[1] Ubuntu, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ruby, Rails, etc.

[2] http://www.bizspark.com/Programs/Pages/GraduationOffer.aspx I can't discuss the details of Loopt's custom offer (we exceed the standard usage by a fair amount), but we'll be much better off after BizSpark than we were before. Microsoft has been very generous.

[3] See the SPLA program: http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/licensing/splabenefit...

[4] Not that they aren't extensible if needed. Back before ASP.Net MVC and WCF (and before Thrift, Protocol Buffers, and Rails) we wrote a ton of our own custom web and RPC tooling. ASP.Net is actually really nice but gets a bad rap because of web forms (which you don't have to use, and have improved substantially in the latest release). IIS 7 rocks as a transport agnostic application server, and can do MSMQ, TCP, UDP and more (it's extensible) in addition to HTTP.
which was mini fb-app, if you don't mind me asking?
220.000 hits in 2 hours is about 220000/3600/2 = 30 hits per second. The server needs to produce pages in about 33 msec. And all that is average; there could be spikes. Hmmm, interesting. And certainly doable. On my site I use memcached and that produces pages in 3 to 4 msec.
> You have to remember this isn't about sexism.

Agreed. Many folks confuse sex/sexuality with sexism. Sex != Sexism. Just as "not liking to hang out with gays" is not (necessarily) homophobia. You can not like a thing, or think it's unhealthy, even if you don't think it's a morally wrong or evil thing. Important distinction that people trip on all the time.
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Who cares what he did/does with his personal life anyway?
This is a terrible article. His three main points:

1. "You find yourself writing lots of code to reinvent the wheels that SQL gives you for free, and before long you’ve unwittingly reinvented the relational database."

NoSQL came about because people were sharding their data and managing relationships outside of the data layer in custom code anyway, and they were well-served by putting some of that complexity back into the data layer. This wasn't a trend because people don't understand the mathematical beauty of normal forms. This was a trend because altering the schema of a heavily accessed MySQL table will bring your website down.

2. Digg

A Digg engineer on Quora recently said, "The whole 'Cassandra to blame' thing is 100% a result of folks clinging on to the NoSQL vs SQL thing. It's a red herring." (http://www.quora.com/Is-Cassandra-to-blame-for-Digg-v4s-tech...). Yup.

3. The MongoDB is Web Scale video

...really?
PS3 security is epic fail. Hacked for good.
AdWords versus Click Farmers has a striking resemblance to the prisoner's dilemma, where the only winning strategy is punishment followed by forgiveness.
Does skype on iPhone allow you to receive calls in the background?
I was just trying to be nice. But then realized I'd rather be honest than nice.
That comment is a banality and I'm pretty sure it was a banality in 1967. It is, and I think always was, for "intellectuals" at all levels of ability and arrogance to criticize their families/ethnicies/classes/governments/nations and embrace the "other" in every category. It's a really common pose.
Why does Loopt use a Microsoft stack?
Me: "This is how the world works."

You: "Slavery is a terrible thing."

Yes, I agree with your statement, but it went way beyond anything we're actually talking with in order to elicit agreement from readers. You characterized the previous comment as being pro-slavery, hence creating a strawman argument.
The problem with leftists (which I'm choosing to define as "to the left of normal liberals) is they become obsessed with money.

"Everybody loves money. That's why they call it money."
I'd love to see a graph of signups during this time. The article says "not a whole lot of Delicious users switched to Pinboard"--is this true? I wonder how much the signup fee dissuades people.
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I believe calling it simply a "secret" or "random secret" would lead to less confusion. But my point wasn't so much to prove you wrong, but to point out that the issue was more subtle than "sony didn't read the crypto manual".

I liked your comment in general, but I think the jab at Sony for not reading your blog and the parenthetical (surprise) insinuate a level of boneheadedness that's unwarranted. Maybe that's just my reading of it.
I've used clickatell (which costs money) to do this. The API is fairly simple, they're pretty stable and they can send to most places in the world.
1) In general, the database is always the bottleneck. It's easy to throw up more webservers- can't do that with db's.

2) Throw up an ad or two, with the goal of having the ad revenue pay your server costs. This will allow you to not worry about the financial situation while you're fighting fires, so you can defer thinking about investment etc until later.

(now after you have the servers tamed...)

3) Make sure you are incorporated. You probably want to be an S corp or LLC.

4) Look at your metrics and decide whether you have a sustainable property or not. (Look at your retention numbers) Based on the data, decide whether you have

(a) a self-sustaining cash cow, (b) something that can be huge and take over the world, or (c) a fad that will grow and die quickly.

If (b), and you need money to get there, start talking to investors. But don't take money too hastily- it's a long term commitment and you'd better know what you're getting yourself into.

If (c), try to sell it to someone who thinks it's a (b) before it dies.

Congrats and good luck!
I can't reveal details but the graduation offer Loopt has received (a customized configuration) is fantastic. We'll be much better off at the end than when we started, and don't regret it for a second.

It's absolutely not a bait and switch.
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If you are running iOS 4, then yes.

It quite quickly drains your battery though when running. And it'll ring and vibrate whenever you get an IM message, even when you are at your computer chatting and thus aware of the IM conversation going on.

For these two reasons, I personally don't run skype in the background
And Android is still left with a hardly usable app that can only be used on the Verizon network :(
Consider:

a) Amazon have not cut him off (and I hope someone will draw the risk you highlight to his attention before they do)

b) there's no incentive offered to use the links in the sense of just visiting Amazon. There's an incentive offered to people who make a purchase there, which is an entirely separate act. Now 'visiting' is only offered as an example and he probably is violating the agreement by giving subscription discounts on some purchases, but it's an easy misunderstanding to make, especially given that it's not the central plank of his business model or anything like it.

Ironically, his forthright explanation of how his business model supports a positive interpretation of his motives, because he doesn't even seem to understand the potential pitfalls of what he's doing. If he were the scammer than some are suggesting, it would not be in his interest to expose his methods.
Is it the responsibility of intellectuals to cheer-lead for Hezbollah? To label a Holocaust denier and anti-semite "a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort"? To minimise the Cambodian genocide?

[Refs: http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/11/chomsky_and_hol_1..., http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/archives/000155.htm..., http://wernercohn.com/Chomsky.html, http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/ExtremistPolReg.html]

If so, then Chomsky -- the idiot-savant of the American far-left -- discharges his responsibility admirably.

Being lectured by Chomsky on the responsibility of intellectuals is like being lectured on humanitarianism by Stalin.

Members of the Chomsky cult may now begin sputtering...
Advice from a guy who's gone through this a few times:

1. Monitor your retention. Are people coming back or just checking your site out once? You can go viral very quickly but tank just as quickly once the initial interest dies down.

2. Start thinking about a business model. Highly viral sites that don't retain well could really hurt your bank account if you're not monetizing. If you can't can come up with an interesting one, throw up some ads to tide you over.

3. As soon as possible, get your database on dedicated hardware. Your bottleneck is going to be the database: so memcache, add the right db indexes (get a backup db so you can hot-swap while you do this), and add lots of RAM if needed. You don't want to be scrambling to migrate your database once you hit the limit.
> I were participating in the AdSense program, Google could terminate me for writing this message, ...

Based on what you have written, you'd only be in AdSense by means of a shell corporation that didn't have your name on any public documents.
>As for monetizing, that's probably with ads, as usual, but you have to be careful about when and where to put them.

How about analytics? For each person who writes about me, I could pay to see where in the world they lived, how long it took them to type in the three words (or even watch a movie of them typing them in), whether they clicked the link that was on my Facebook or the one on my Twitter feed (based on HTTP referrer), etc.

If you were confident you could give each user the ability to see this information for 1 user for free, and then have them pay if they wanted to see it for the rest of the users.
No one should be paraded around as anything.

I argued that it is a fact that if you walk into an event with a cute girl on your arm. You will be treated differently by men AND women than if you walk into the event without a cute girl on your arm. This is how the world works.

It's why some people are streaky daters. When they've been single for awhile, they're always walking into rooms alone. But when they get some momentum going, men and women take notice and show more interest in that person, which can lead to more dating opportunities.
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Hmmm... when I tried that URL in Chrome, I get:

"You attempted to reach www.microsoft.com, but the certificate that the server presented has been revoked by its issuer. This means that the security credentials the server presented absolutely should not be trusted. You may be communicating with an attacker. You should not proceed."

Just FYI...
A compelling discussion of my reasons won't fit in a comment. Perhaps I'll do a blog post in January.

If you want to know more before then feel free to email (in my profile).
How do those girls know you're married?
I've condensed the key generator into a bit of Python:

import sys, hashlib, hmac

print hmac.new("46DCEAD317FE45D80923EB97E4956410D4CDB2C2".decode("hex"), sys.argv[1].decode("hex"), hashlib.sha1).hexdigest()

# suitable for a t-shirt or something.
It's how Google code handles files in SVN, rather than a browser issue. They specifically set the content-type header to binary, rather than image.

I would hate it if my browser asked me what to do every time I load an image.
There are many more important things to change in the world than the fact that men are impressed by a guy who is accompanied by an attractive female. I don't get how it's evil to point this out. It's not a pleasant reality, but neither is death, the odds of being in a car crash, the unemployment figures these days...i.e. all just statements of facts, neither good nor evil.
It will be a sad day in America when this man passes on. One of my heroes anyway, and I wish we had more like him.
This guy reminds me of Maddox (http://maddox.xmission.com/).
Are you guys BizSpark or BizSpark One?
Ask HN: What do you think of Wikipedia's fund raising?
People have contributed more content to Wikipedia than any other site in this world. They should find a way to monetize it.

Also, 14 million dollars is too much. They should have some transparency.

I am fine with Google Chrome's, Microsoft Phone 7's or Toyota Prius's banner ads on Wikipedia. They will at least look better than their current begging banners.

Google counts its Google Chrome banners as ads and the same applies to wikipedia. Jimmy Wales' statement of having no banner ads is a lie.
It's not free - the thing you're not seeing here is that if you don't qualify for the continued "free-ness" of BizSpark (meaning re-upping), then you need to buy an MSDN license and make sure that your dev staff is covered appropriately with those licenses.

You CANNOT run production SQL on an MSDN license - neither can you run a web server on an MSDN licensed version of Windows Server. Well, you literally can but you'd be in violation.

It's not FREE. Microsoft doesn't make software to give it out to anyone claiming they're a startup. Read the entire FAQ in its entirety, then understand the licensing for web servers and web data servers - you'll quickly see that you'll need to enroll in other programs (ISV or otherwise) to get the discounts.
We just graduated from BizSpark One, but are still in BizSpark for one more year.
his account was suspended

OP's last communication from Google (emphasis added):

However, after thoroughly re-reviewing your account data and taking your feedback into consideration, our specialists have confirmed that we're unable to reinstate your AdSense account.

You have made a lot of emphatic assertions on this thread, and I think many of them are wrong. Here you complain about a lack of evidence but then immediately misstate the facts. Please reconsider your approach.
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Yours is the first description of pair programming that I have read that makes it sound reasonable. Your description is perhaps just common sense but it really needs to be said.
And this article makes it also perfectly understandable why software in those days would store years as '85' instead of '1985'.
it's probably more like $120 in Italy, just to give you the idea...
Most people have a strong interest in how others perceive them, including yourself: "I would feel really stupid sending anyone link like that." You're probably part of a culture where publicly asking others what they think of you is frowned on.
Sorry, I didn't check back to see that anyone had posted...

Just in case you see this, my idea was to limit ALL contributions to $1 per entity - person, corporation, whatever.

Hmmm... So if a corporation had/forced all employees to offer up their dollar to a specific candidate, looks like you are right - It could/would still be gamed... sigh.
I had the exact same objection to the parents argument. IMHO, your experience with college students is a direct consequence of what we know all too well from the discouraging PISA results...
MySQL's query plan is odd at times. What does an explain look like on that query? If any portion of the query, including subselects isn't able to use an index, it will report it. You can try to force indicies with USE INDEX/FORCE INDEX which can sometimes help.