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Needless to say the blog should also make frequent references to Tim Ferris' book and relevant anecdotes and tips in it (and of course an Amazon affiliate link for those that haven't bought it yet). I'm slightly surprised there's no mention of "As recommended by Tim Ferris' / Four Hour Body" in big letters above the fold in your current home page design. You ought to be able to pick up links from health-related blogs/forums as well as search traffic from people specifically looking for "PAGG stack", and immediate context is invaluable to keep the bounce rate down.

Whilst we're at it, other generic marketing suggestions:

- draw more attention to the savings for 2 and 3 month supplies

- offer an auto-rebill option (assuming your drop shipper and supplier is happy with it). Chances are some of your target market are people that quite happily get their Acai Berry supplements sent to them on a regular basis.
Is it necessarily incompatible? Do the terms of service of the App store prevent the source code of the VLC iOS app from being redistributed freely? (If not, then anyone with a copy of XCode and an iOS device could compile and install it on their own device, and with an iOS developer license would be free to install on others. And in principle to make and distribute derivative works.) As RMS has frequently noted, the GPL doesn't prevent anyone from charging money for binaries of GPL'd code -- it just requires them to permit redistribution of the source.
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The only lean thing about this fad is the name. Note the slow accumulation of received wisdom here, various MUST READ blog posts, books, MUST LISTEN podcasts, and now a Harvard MBA program.

The first step to being lean is cutting out fat like this.
About reading fiction apart from technical things - I believe that fiction writing is important and practical for society as a whole in a way similar to how thought experiments and simulations are important for scientists. Writers of books and TV shows create imaginery worlds in which they set up different scenarios, create problems and propose solutions. Those stories often create discussions, in which people generate and evaluate ideas.

For example, many science-fiction fans get involved in lengthy discussions about physics of space travel and social consequences of technology that doesn't exist yet. But it might exist in the future, as it is with ie. Orson Scott Card's writings exploring influence of global information network on society and governments back in 1980-s.

I believe the same applies to other genres as well - good stories contain simulations of events that might not be happening right now around us, but one day they might. It's a human way to create solutions before real problems strike hard.
I wonder why he didn't name the person? I don't know why, but it bothers me...almost as if he never found the strength to confront it, and he died never being able to do so.

I feel bad for the guy. I'm certainly not one of those self-righteous "suicide is selfish" types, but it does bother me that the victims always seem to lose in these cases. Such a loss.
I agree with you, some of those projects are way to new to be considered failures (Buzz, Google TV). They might be but I find it premature to call them that. As for the Nexus One, it wasn't selling like the iPhone but I know of a few who did get one, but in the end how many iPhones were purchased online? The best part is that other Android phones tried to match it's spec once it came out, no need to call that a failure.

The only argument I can agree with in the post was about the relation Google has with devs and users. Sometimes they do release stuff and then it seems they forget about them. But I think most of the time that's just lack of time by the people working on those projects, they try to add features and move forward and that's always a tradeoff with maintaining whats there and developing relations with devs/users.
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I can absolutely believe this. My brother was in the Marines. He wanted to become admiral. His performance was good. According to him, if he got promoted to captain before 40, he'd make admiral, otherwise he was on a track to become a military attache in a random country. He was on track to become captain at 41, but every year someone who had been an enlisted man first got promoted to captain a year early.

When he wasn't promoted early, he quit with a full pension.
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If there's no license there are no rights for the user – they'll basically not be allowed to do anything with the code (or their lawyers can reasonably tell them to stay off it).

My preferred license for "please do whatever you want with the software" is the MIT/X11 license.
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Nice idea but don't you think others would abuse the system?
Looks meh, wont be wasting my monies~ nice fail guys
I was thinking about exactly this yesterday - so much of "media matter" is like junk food for the mind. I wondered if we could start an organic movement but for the content industry.
I can't think of a big company more ambitious than Google or one that gets involved in such a variety of new projects. As a result they are bound to fail a lot but the money is still rolling from their main products, and young engineers are still attracted by that ambition. No mojo lost.
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Thanks for your answer :). But still, I'd like to know if it is a constitutional right or if I misread it somewhere?

BTW. I heard a joke about current flight security policies in general (ie. not specific to any country) that "you can board the plane with a fish in a bowl, as long as you dispose of water before entering" ;).
No, that is not at all what he said. Actually, nobody said that.

The assertion is that when you consider suicide, you have your reasons and those reasons are a product of your environment. A chance to see yourself in a completely new environment, for instance in a desperate area of the world where human help - any help - is needed can give you a whole new experience and give you the nudge you need to re-evaluate yourself.

There is no kill-yourself-if math here. It's about giving people time off from their (perceived) issues to think.
I consider "Google in Decline" articles to just be linkbait.
I honestly would like to understand what possible motive(s) the "media" could have to write this kind of one sided, nearly 100% wrong, senseless article that claims something really big.

You've got to wonder - is it paid for by a rival? Is it that in the world of anyone-can-write-for-a-blog, we are seeing utterly stupid people getting chance to write anything they can dream? Is it just an opinion vs. fact? Is the writer pissed off by the corporation he/she is writing off in some way?
This language, IMHO, is what go-lang should have been!

Vala provides enough syntactic sugar to prevent buffer overflow and yet its performance is comparable to C, because it generates C code.

For me, who was Java educated, Vala is strikingly familiar and easy to learn.
That's why it's to Iraq. Not many westerners will go to Iraq unless they are suicidal.
Does anyone know what percentage of Google's products that originated from companies they purchased?

I know Wave and Android were purchases, but it is always good to keep in mind the difference between Google built products and Google purchased/hyped products.
This article handily leaves out that the products most crucial to Google's core business - selling ads against search - are on an absolute tear:

- YouTube is now the world's second biggest search engine.

- AdMob grew by 4x in the last year and is growing FASTEST in China which is hugely important.

- Android is well on its way to becoming the ubiqutious consumer phone platform.

- Gmail is growing like a weed and rolling out really useful and innovative features reguarly.

I agree that Google has lost some of the spit shine and I would never want to work there, but I don't think he's properly framed the "failures".
I'd definitely be running this if I wasn't turning my screen off when I'm not using the computer, and if I didn't rather spend my CPU cycle on scientific/medical distributed computing projects (BOINC Rosetta@home, primarily).
My favorite: "Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever."
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We must thank Google for its contribution and effort to fight off computing monopolies. Enterprise with Google Apps vs Microsoft, Android vs Apple, coming soon xxxMe vs FaceBook, AppEngine/Boutique vs Amazon. But this is kind of spreading too thin and fighting the whole world alone. Looks like its their destiny rather than their vision.

ps. Arrington should put forward the question to the CEO and post the video, like he did to others.

ps. Its too early to write off Google TV. Chrome browser and Android are great success.
I applaud their Eden overlay, but also hope that it doesn't interfere with the Adam getting timely OS updates as has apparently happened with some phones...
Android was not in a shape where it could compete with the iPhone when Google bought them. They bought it sure - but they also made most of what makes it successful in today's market.
Not even close to a grey area unless you want to argue that Nike has a monopoly on athletic shoes that have the Nike 'swoosh.'

In what way is Nike's swoosh comparable to Apple's AppStore?

I think the situation is much more complex; we're talking about a privately regulated marketplace within the free-market.

--

How is that different from pretty much every other market where some business decides to create a product that relies on another business' product?

A single company can be in complete control of a marketplace - this isn't so possible in non-digital market without help from an organisation like the Mafia.
Article is fud/shit.

Having said that, maybe I'm stupid - but I'd really like to see Google taking a bit of holistic approach to its management/product management.
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> Does anyone here take these fluff pieces by TechCrunch seriously?

Does anyone here take any pieces by TechCrunch seriously? I'd really appreciate it if someone made a userscript to hide submissions from domains of my choosing.

Edit: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27105

Supports Reddit as well.
> Plain text have no value if people writing and reading the specs are developers.

I disagree. Language shapes thinking to a certain degree, and Cucumber can help put yourself in a useful mindset for describing specs.

I think he has a point with the last comment though, most (though not all) of the benefit comes upfront. Mind you, that's the best place to have a benefit :)
That article, and most of its reader comments, mildly sickens me. I love Apple, but that doesn't mean I have to approve of DRM. It's crazy to see everyone piling on Rémi when Apple made the decision to use DRM and thereby exclude a whole category of OSS projects. A license is a license, and if DRM is prohibited, there's not much wiggle room. I feel sorry for Rémi, as he'll probably now be subjected to dozens of misguided angry emails.
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The headline is not where to convey the backstory. I really do think you should just write a blog post about that. It would probably get upvoted, unlike this story.
Wave was actually internal. The team leads were acquired for what eventually became Google Maps, Wave was their next project.
Excellent. Is there any industrial use for the main banana itself?

Potassium extraction, maybe?
hey those coffee machines that only take the special cups also take home grown coffee grounds too in a specialized filter! I get you're point though :P)
A few anecdotes and blog posts by angry sites owners who don't get to appear on top of google results are no arguments. Google is doing more than fine.
but the fear is gone. Remember back in the day when everyone feared going into a market that Microsoft might get into? There was a similar fear with Google, but it's not there anymore. That's a problem for Google.
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>"if you ever get us in a copyright dispute, you are banned forever from our store"

Talk about giving power to the trolls.
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Wave was developed inside Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
Look, I'm just not wading into this. You and I should, as much as possible, avoid arguing; because of our personality types, we're just going to end up at the nerd equivalent of pistols at dawn.

You're telling people to use SSL with this. That is good. With SSL in the mix, my only real issue with AUTHO.ME is that it's a lot of moving parts for (what I think is) minimal value. You think "not having to implement bcrypt or PBKDF2" is major value. Guess what: this point is not worth a huge argument. And it's absolutely not worth a line-by-line evaluation of your crypto code, so I'm just not going to do it.

If you're planning on a doing an indie two-factor auth project, that value may be less minimal. I have no coherent opinion that stuff. Good luck with it. If you do something crazy, I'll call you on it, which is I think what you want.

Ignore Kaminsky, by the way. I can't imagine how using RSA instead of SRP could possibly make this safer, but I can imagine lots of ways in which it could make you much less safe.
most of the complaints here could be solved by facebook implementing (better) disjoint friend networks. I would imagine they are working on this. I currently have draconian privacy in place to prevent most of my friends from seeing status updates. Once this becomes easier wont these issues go away?
Ummm, the Marines don't have admirals, and you should make captain in the Marines pretty fast, since it's only O-3, as opposed to O-6 in the Navy. You sure he wasn't in the Navy?
I'm a student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, so Microcontrollers are bread and butter to me, but what really has amazed me about this platform is the number of non-EE's I see and help use it.

For engineers, the idea of using a wii nunchuck to control color LED's is trivial. For an artist or a design it can be world-changing. And our local arduino group does just that :-)
stop posting about google
its not about "hacking" and creating things its about ads, you yet-another-google-wannabe-fagot.
all things we know were fucking bought
you all like re-posting very old "news" here. wanna increase your karma to success in next yc applicatiob round?! so please digg xerox parc whatever dead old news and post instead. people created something at that days. they added fucking value as you marketoid html writers use to say
Is learning to program inherently hard?
Can Techcrunch only publish articles by Arrington and Wadhwa?

It sucks that I don't know whether to expect a hot story, an in-depth column, or some guy's delusional subjective opinion.
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> There was a similar fear with Google, but it's not there anymore.

There never was such fear, what are you talking about??
an alternative: http://www.directededge.com/ (YC startup)
Sensationalism and controversy will drive eyeballs to the site, which at least in the short term will mean the site makes more money. For all we know the author of this piece was under his quota and needed to scrounge up some hits.
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Apple doesn't allow 3rd party mail clients.
Microsoft still tried to compete in search, Apple are competing despite Google's smartphone entry, there are other mobile advertising networks being founded and people are still attempting to found alternative video networks. Did the fear actually stop competitors? I think not.
"Since is formally a for-all/there-exists ($\Pi_2$) statement of arithmetic, there is a principle that such a proof should be convertible to one without contradiction"

Where can I find more information about this sort of thing?
I would like to understand something here. As far as I was explained by experts (I'm not a lawyer) GPL license does not allow to publish software on closed / proprietary platforms controlled by ToS similar to Apple AppStore. My understanding it is not that VLC on iOS is breaking AppStore ToS but GPL license which is very restrictive when you release something based on it but it is not open sourced.

Am I wrong here?
Sometimes with FUD articles like this when you check the background of the author they're either working for, or closely allied with, a rival company (like Microsoft), but as far as I can tell this is merely a case of cluelessness rather than partisanship.
Lean or not, one big lesson I learned is not to implement a feature until somebody asks for it. This is a surprisingly difficult thing to do, if your mindset has been focused on building things for a long time. If you are not aiming for commercial success, usually building things not necessarily require validation. You can often build for experimentation or fun.

After spending weeks on building and removing features, if I now catch myself building something, I ask the question, "who told me to do this?" and often refrain from doing it.

One hidden power of not building is the simplicity that it brings. You have one less feature to maintain, and you probably save weeks of quality engineering time by not having that feature.
Same with Twitter and reducing how many people you follow. I do think with Facebook there is some social pressure to have many friends, especially for younger people.
I find it quite amusing that they chose Microsoft as a company who has its mojo back, despite the total failure of the Kin and low sales of Windows Phone 7. I don't see how Bing, a search service with low market share that is losing money is a success and google, a search service with high market share that is making money hand over fist, is a failure.
In addition the data isn't normalized. The rate of something could be decreasing year-over-year but due to population increase the quantity continues to increase. Ignoring the normalized data helps journalists create sensationalistic headlines.
21% of TVs sold in 2010 had internet connectivity.
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" They're the ones who decided to make the App Store license incompatible with the GPL."

No. It's the fault of whoever submitted an app covered by an incompatible license. Apple didn't change their terms after the fact to exclude GPL.
All this contributes to a collective fear of exercising Free Speech when it becomes necessary.

You don't give an F now about the fact that company x keeps tabs on you using tech y. Typically this is expressed as "I'm not doing anything illegal so I don't care".

Outside of US and other civilized realms, the notion of "Freedom of Association" and "Innocent until proven guilty" are perhaps foreign concepts. But to hear this non-sense -- "I'm not doing anything illegal" -- as a justification for their stupid acceptance of systemic surveillance is just unacceptable.

These companies are fundamentally enablers of tyrannies.
Pretty sure Notifo is just Chad and Paul, but given Paul's popularity this really isn't that odd. Probably just the result of an innocent, "Hey dude upvote my HN submission will ya" text or two.
Not true at all. I design heavily interactive apps and my husband, Thomas, wrote the first OSS JavaScript animation library (Scriptaculous). We consistently push boundaries. It's what we do :)

But for a good example of how to do heavily interactive, shiny, Javascripty apps, look at our work on http://twistori.com http://letsfreckle.com http://pepsicozeitgeist.com etc :) not to mention Scriptaculous, Scripty2, Zepto, etc. And test their performance versus others.

Yep, making heavily interactive, heavy graphical web apps is a trade-off. That's why you have to know every single little thing that can slow things down, and then you have to make the decision which you can get away with and which you can't.

Thus our suggestions are quite strict!

For more information, you might enjoy our book: http://jsrocks.com :)
It is not an opinion, it is in the law. The government has no law to enforce in a case like this one. That is why they don't tell Walmart what to sell. As much as they want them to only sell american made goods, they don't have any law preventing Walmart to sell china's merchandise. And that is why they can regulate the telecommunications industry, because they have laws that let them.

"The world is changing; I believe that as we become more dependent on digital technologies, new legal frameworks need to be discussed and evolved."

This might be the case, and I partially agree with you. But as it stands now, Apple are not doing anything wrong.
A trillion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? The willingness to take on hordes of debt to obsessively work on building something you, and others, will love.
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Could be also that its a beta signup and people are really interested in the android client.
I have been following them for a while - in the meantime a NookColor is working out very nicely. Perhaps in 6 months I will buy one of these with the PixelQi screen.
Yes there was. In 2005, when you founded a startup, you had to explain why Google couldn't smoosh you by cloning you and integrating with Gmail. And, moreover, they did exactly that to Kiko. Now that's not really the foremost question in people's minds.
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Not even close. A packet is 100 bills; a packet of $100 bills is ten thousand dollars. Just a rough count of the front face of what you see in that picture will tell you that there is either more than a million there, or that the centre of the main block is hollow. Think of it this way (in a very lossy fashion): a crisp, new bill is not too very different in thickness from a premium sheet of inkjet paper. A US bill of current issue is 2.61" by 6.14", so four of them can be printed on a letter-size page with a lot of trimming waste (42% waste -- but it's the best packing you can get on letter). A ream of paper is 500 sheets, so with a whole lot of waste, a pile of paper about the size of a ream of ordinary office paper is $200,000 dollars. Paper is ordinarily sold in boxes of ten reams, and if you are familiar with the standard size box of office paper, well, you are familiar with something that is 42% bigger than is needed to hold two million dollars in $100 bills.
"No, if Apple decides to create a new marketplace - to which tens of thousands of small business have a stake; Apple has a duty to act in an impartial and fair manner."

Apple didn't change their terms to exclude VLC or GPL. A developer (not VLC) put together the iOS version of the app, and, being fully aware of the terms of the App Store, the model of distribution, the use of DRM, and the likely incompatibilities with GPL submitted the app to Apple.

Blaming Apple for this is completely wrongheaded. It's essentially a disagreement between a VLC developer and the developer of the iOS app.

You might have a point if Apple had changed their terms after the app was submitted in order to exclude the app.

If anything, they loosened their terms to remove incompatibilities.

The iOS app developer screwed up. You should be calling for a regulatory commission to prevent developers from doing stupid things with GPL-licensed code like making business decisions that require abusing GPL.
Yeah, you'll get announcing datacenters out of that, but for IP ownership, you need to check WHOIS. ARIN WHOIS is only going to be ARIN regions (the Americas) - you want RIPE for Europe, APNIC for Asia/Australia, and so on.