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The VC industry barely existed when Microsoft was founded in 1975. I don't know if Bill Gates would even have known the word "startup" then. He was starting a business the only way people knew how to at the time. Now founders have more options. That's not bad. In fact, the empirical evidence suggests it's net better, because the company that would be most people's candidate for the "next Microsoft," Google, took advantage of these new options to grow faster than Microsoft did.
By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize other's work and belittle their motivations?
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I haven't studied the payment aspect of AirBnB, but Etsy does it like this:

Seller:

* When you sign up to be a seller you provide (and they verify) a credit card number and optionally your paypal account.

* A listing fees of $0.20 are charged for each item posted but these are not charged immediately. Rather, they accumulate in your account.

* When you sell something, the transaction fee (3.5% if I recall correctly) is also added to your account.

* At the end of each month you receive an invoice from Etsy for the fees you accrued that month. You can pay this via PayPal or your credit card on file.

* If you don't pay your bill, Etsy will bill your credit card on file after several months.

Buyer:

* During the payment step of checkout, Etsy directs the buyer to pay the seller via PayPal (or check if the seller offers that option). Link off to the Seller's PayPal in the standard way and return to Etsy to complete the transaction.

Etsy doesn't handle the actual payment money between the buyer and seller, only their listing and transaction fees.

[Edit] One reason Etsy - like Apple and others - batches their charges like this is to reduce the number of per-transaction fees charged by PayPal/credit card processors. Below approx. $0.40 you'll actually receive $0.00 via PayPal for example.
A poor refutation given that diggnation is released on a weekly basis but is recorded once a month.
EBS storage aside, they are down to 3 guys? yikes
Or you've been really unlucky....
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Ah. I guess I missed the context. Sure, with 37signals I definitely agree with you.
I wonder if they can also detect proxies (e.g., http://code.google.com/p/iphone-socks-proxy/ )
You seem to be contrasting running a small business with running a large business. My impression was that the article was contrasting running a small business with working for The Man. If so, the original author's argument has merit.

For one thing, software development is almost entirely a knowledge-based industry. It does not require external funding to reach any useful viability in the way that, for example, a factory for industrial machinery or a large retail store would.

Moreover, in software development, the mechanical grunt work is trivial. The real value is determined by things like project ideas, business models, dealing effectively with users, and ability to convert those into a useful software design. That means small teams of really good people can punch way above their weight class.

As I see it, those basically negate the two big reasons most projects would necessarily be implemented by a large company (scale of people and scale of materials). That pretty much leaves variations on the themes of community/personal development and regularity/job security as the major reasons a good software developer might choose to work as an employee of a company rather than going it alone or with a small team they put together.

After a few years, I came to the conclusion that both of those benefits are mostly illusory. Does employee #32,768 at BigCorp, Inc. really have more job security in the current economic climate than a contractor with four or five repeat clients, or than three guys running a lifestyle business that has 1,000 customers and enough money coming in each month to easily pay everyone's bills? And do employees at big companies really develop skills and experience faster than a bunch of guys who build an entire working business from scratch or a contractor who works with four or five different technology stacks within a few months?

I'm not saying employment isn't for anyone. Obviously the kind of regular work environment it brings suits a lot of people, and not everyone wants to take on all the other stuff that goes with doing it all yourself. However, those are basically social constraints rather than technical ones. They don't reflect on the potential value a particular software developer could contribute to a project.

I notice that several people in this discussion have pointed at the need for some things to be done at scale. Pg himself wrote:

> If that happened, the whole world would crumble, because we wouldn't have any technology bigger than could be built by lifestyle businesses.

But the way I see it, every successful large project is either a successful small project that grew or a bunch of successful small projects that learned to interact effectively. No-one says that just because you decide to run a small business instead of working for the The Man today, you can't grow that business or collaborate with others tomorrow.
You forgot one: there is no money to go around. Many schools would be happy just to have enough money to provide paper for xeroxing tests.
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Well, really, I have to agree. I mean, they've been hanging fire on 2. ???? for a very long time now, and probably should have given more thought to the question of project vs. startup before now.

Unless you just want to consider their equity revenue, which is basically how the 90's worked anyway. "End of the business cycle" my ass. I'm still mad about that.
I would guess they're only looking at bandwidth usage. For one thing, that would be the easiest (and least creepy) thing for them to monitor. Additionally, it should be the only thing they really care about regarding tethering (why should they care if you're using the same bandwidth as a non-tetherer?).
"If we fund you, the goal will be to build a compelling prototype or demo to raise money from appropriate investors"

- Perhaps i'm a bitter competitor* yet shouldn't this read.

"If we fund you, the goal will be to build a compelling prototype or demo to raise the standard of education for all, inspiring a thirst for learning"

I'm skeptical to private groups with funds who want to invest in a lucrative market which is not purely based on "capitalistic ideals". To use a famous quote in context "Education is for life, not just for Christmas".

* One day! for those who know me and my snail like pace at getting to a version 1.
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My assertion is quantity-neutral. I simply don't think it matters how much is copied, just the fact that any copying is going on at all signals that the look and functionality is having an influence.
> Align everything you can in code

Yes. Makes code easier to read and makes it easier to refactor if you use an editor with column select/multi-line caret.
I removed New Relic temporarily and redeployed, and Heroku is working for one of my sites now (also not working for another site though).
They have been granted a lot more help from Conde Nast. They're in the process of hiring four more developers.

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-po...
Disk access was the single reason we couldn't go with AWS offerings. The speed/reliability of EBS just isn't where we need it to be for our database servers. I don't blame amazon for this-it's just a drawback of the their choice to go fully shared tenant and virtual.
>>it took years for microsoft to gring out decent revenues and profits.

Microsoft's first profitable program was Basic and it was released soon after the company's launch in 1975.

6 years after Microsoft launched, TVI invested and obtained a tiny portion of Microsoft's stock. To answer your question on the history, this sole vc investment played a very small part in Microsoft's history and the tiny VC share is one reason why Microsoft was a founder-run company.

Btw to be clear,capital can definitely be useful. Youtube had losses running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet, VC money helped them make a big impact on the world.

However, after Microsoft's model, my preference would be for the model adopted by companies like Google. Google developed great technology and a great monetization strategy before they took in a single penny of venture funds. Again, it is no coincidence that Google is a founder-run company today.

All that said, I have no problem with zero-revenue companies that chase vc funding and hope to get acquired (Acquisition is how most VCs get returns on their investments). I'm just suggesting that it is absurd to create silly labels like "lifestyle business" and pretend that risking other people's money (i.e. vc funds) is the litmus test for a true "risk-taker"
I don't think it's true that people capable of big successes are commonly derailed by the fruits of small ones. Remember how Caesar was particularly wary of thin men? There is something to that. People like Larry and Sergey, Mark Zuckerberg, and the younger Bill Gates are not driven by the desire for luxuries, so no amount of wealth is enough to make them lose interest.
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That would be "startup".
The problem is that if the issue never gets fixed then native apps using a webview will never see this performance improvement. Which means in order to stay competitive Apple must continue to develop nitro. Which means they'll either develop nitro in parallel with the old JS engine, or they'll let the webview stagnate. Marking an issue as "dont fix" is very scary indeed for the web on iOS.
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i guess a computer scientist isn't a computer scientist unless he or she has a piece of paper to prove it
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I think Tolmasky's point was that, even though Web.app embeds the same UIWebView as non-Apple native apps, Web.app was written by Apple. Apple could enable Nitro JIT for Web.app because its native code was written (and audited) by Apple. The only third-party code executed by Web.app is JavaScript that is already assumed to be safe enough to use the Nitro JIT in Mobile Safari.
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The second sentence is not supported by any of the historical uses of the word "hacking", whether it's the original one (a vaguely defined definition involving deep knowledge and stretching the limits of computing systems) or the debased one ("breaking into computers"). Many of the earliest 'hacks' occurred well in advance of any defined APIs for anything but are still clearly recognizable as hacks (e.g. some of the clever tricks in HAKMEM, for example). Dividing a number by a constant but multiplying by a magic number is a hack, for example, but no API has been violated here.

That's a shame, because recognizing the distinction between "mere coding" and "hacking" would be a good idea.
Yes. In the interest of preserving history, he wrote and later deleted a line that went like:

"duping credulous customers into paying for [something something] time tracking styled with the latest CSS design site trends"

I was not directly named, but if you ask me, it's pretty clear which app he's talking about: my first, Freckle http://letsfreckle.com .

And yup, that's me! I dupe 1,000 paying customers every month! They're so well-duped that they write love letters to our support account. I really can't get over the fact that I've got them so well-fooled they actually believe my software makes them happier and helps them run a better, more profitable business.

For the record, though, we have lots of functionality you can't get elsewhere. That's part of the magic of the dupe.

EDIT: Hey, look like that line about duping is back in Alex's comment. Either I'm blind and didn't see it the last time (which I concede is possible)… or it returned.
Ah normal people. Got it.
Good for the startup community by reducing early-adopter fear of startups going under.
If i can get an ipad w/o a having a mac, then I will agree it is akin to a microwave. I can't buy one for my parents, since they have no mac. how would they update it? activate it, etc?
PITA? Go to any CPA, give her $200, your LLC is done in an hour. How is that a PITA?

Although maybe it's harder in your state. Indiana's LLC law is so easy you don't even have to register who owns the LLC - just name a managing director and you're good to go.
Wow...they sound like they are really beating themselves up over it.

I know the community can be demanding, but that just seems stressful.
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The choice to shut it down and bury the tech seems a weird route to take by Twitter. What could possibly be the upside if they were only interested in the talent anyway?!
I don't think anyone besides geeks would use something like that. Google says very few people use the filtering functions built into their search. You have to take it to the Monkey Island level first, perhaps, where there is a way to build a query? The average person won't take the the time to learn or remember a complex syntax for a search engine.

A powerful search syntax is a good idea. It could be something as simple as a frontend to another search engine's API. As far as natural language search, though that's the goal of sites like ask.com which have been around for a long time now.
Supposedly fixed now (see OP).
Happily, the Reddit team is better than the Reddit hivemind with regards to the appropriateness of channeling nerdrage.
Yeah I agree with that previous comment (that I can't reply to for some reason).

I was talking with a potential client this morning about how he used to us Drop.io and built some systems based on it in lieu of the API calls he needed then Facebook acquired them.

It may be the case that the Facebook purchase in this case was about more than talent, but if every startup is only buying time until their big exit a general distrust amongst users may be the result.
More options are great. I have always said that the bootstrapped model and the vc-funded model are both good legitimate models for businesses.

My problem with the parent post was the absurd notion it promoted about companies that didn't run chase vc funding.

As mentioned, I also think that "lifestyle business" is a stupid vc-invented label.

Incidentally, Google developed great technology and a great monetization strategy before they took in vc funding. Being acquired wasn't Google's goal. The reality of today's VC world is the opposite of Google's approach. VCs make money through the acquisitions of companies they fund.
Well, I had successfully forgotten the diggbar until you reminded me. :D

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Honestly I never used it. Presumably there were those who loved it, those who hated it, and those who went 'meh'. I remember it generating a lot of controversy, I just don't remember what it was that it was supposed to do.
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Ah yes, not even the Steve himself can resist the ole pie chart chin trick.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/jan/21/liesda...

Maybe he'd blame that on the default styling of pie charts in Keynote (tsk!), but it'd take some extraordinary reality distortion to believe the Apple slice landed at the bottom by accident.
I personally detest people who do this, outside of things like tables (i.e. structured constant initializers) and comments on type definitions. If there's a high degree of regularity in the source that you're trying to expose, there's probably a better way of doing it - extracting out common variables, using a table lookup, adopting acronym conventions for regular parts along any given axis which have the same length, so that the code naturally lines up without ugly random rivers of space down the middle.

Unsigned types, on the other hand, are just evil. Way too many people use an unsigned type because they think it represents an invariant that this value will never be negative, that it has some kind of documentation or safety aspect, but that's just wrong. Unsigned types don't act according to the intuitions of most average programmers, and things as simple as for-loops are incredibly easy to get wrong with them (e.g. think about the most common idiom for iterating backwards in C derivatives). If I had my druthers, mixing signed and unsigned ought to expand the expression to the next larger signed type that can represent the range of both (and error out if there is none), and there ought to be separate subtraction / decrement operators specifically for unsigned types. 'u += -2' where u is unsigned would be a type error - assigning a signed value to an unsigned location.
A few thoughts:

- This already is happening. There are far more developers and entrepreneurs trying to build lifestyle/small businesses than their are trying to raise VC funding and shooting for the moon. It's just that the media and people don't care about them, and really why should they? Nothing against those businesses as I've had my own lifestyle business, but when there are so many of them and they have such a smaller number of customers and users it's not that interesting to read an article about a web application that has 1,000 users.

- Why does the house of cards need to fall down? Is it a house of cards? Without getting into bigger global economy issues, isn't a system that has created companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. pretty good?
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So basically, you have attacked the whole http://startupweekend.org philosophy :).Incidentally we actually had a discussion along these lines at hackerstreet sometime back http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=5076

Personally, does it matter what someone calls their idea, project or startup? I am sure, some one will call their weekend idea as a startup only if they are planning on monetizing it. Projects are different. We have hundreds of thousands of projects on sourceforge and other sites.They do not call themselves as startups.
The install's floating around in a lot of places; for example: http://www.oldversion.com/Internet_Explorer.html; or as part of this multiple-version package: http://utilu.com/IECollection/.

When I tried loading the Acid Tests websites in IE2 (from the utilu collection on XP SP2) it gave me the error "Site Temporarily Unavailable (error id: 'bad_httpd_conf')". Not sure what's up.
It would be neat to profile them wouldn't it? Im betting a large portion of them have found that the start-up scene and growing large is great at the beginning of your career, but perhaps stability comes into play? Kids, Wife, Health?
You shouldn't bite the hand that... hosts you.

And it is pretty unprofessional. Ketralnis thinks he's defending his buddies but he isn't really helping the situation.
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From my understanding of language parsing (one college class plus a little work lately) its an incredibly difficult problem that is NOT easy to solve. It always worked for something like Dungeon or Zork because the language was incredibly limited. There is a huge difference in the number of verb/nouns you would consider in Zork versus in a search string.
my wife is a native (from tokyo), who has only been in the states for a few years. when i asked her about this she said she'd read the article and was surprised that we thought this way. that is to say, that we assumed that because the japanese didn't have a word for something, they didn't loot. she said they don't loot because they have respect for each other.

of course i immediately asked her what the word for looting is. she said, "ryakudatsu - when the crisis happens and people don't have stuff so they go to the store and steal."

she said there is another word sometimes said casually as well "dorobou - thieving", but it's generally not used except when someone is breaking into other people's homes.
Understand the problem you are trying to solve. Accept no substitutes.

Get good with your tools (whether that be IDE, knowledge of the language, APIs etc)

Test your assumptions mercilessly

If you write code as though nobody will ever see it and nobody cares, the code will suck. If you write code as though for the best, most respected and most intelligent hacker(s) you know, the then code will be better. Write code as though you have an important audience that cares deeply about the result.

Yes, you can sprinkle the code with comments explaining to your important audience how awesome you are and what a clever piece of coding something is. And this is actually a good thing, since these become focal points for mercilessly testing your assumptions :D
You can't "upgrade" say a PWR to an IFR. It really is about completely decommissioning the old and building the new.
I thought the difference was "an author is published." That doesn't translate into the post-NYC-book-publishing-industry era, though, because "an author is read" doesn't convey the same idea—you can be read because of viral marketing effects, but usually you're only published because an editor thinks your content is an investment that will make their publisher money.
Either that, or it would become more like the private airplane market- totally inaccessible.
But possibly bad for the community in that it pretty much removes the possibility of getting bought by a company that wants your talent/customer base more than they want your product.
Are you making an obscure pun or play on the words Facebook and Facetious?
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One (additional?) constraint that perhaps doesn't fall nicely into one of those categories is "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State" (HATEOAS), which was emphasized (though not with those exact words) by Roy Fielding on his blog:

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...