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> Nothing excludes people who start lifestyle businesses from starting a huge multi-billion dollar infrastructure play after they have created their first business.

so they would invest their own money to create a bigger company, the difference being that the source of funding is now the founder

then the founder thinks, jeez, I am taking a big risk here, investing $100M of my own money to start this bigger business. I am going to call some friends and ask them if they want to share this load

and thus you end up re-inventing venture capital

issue of semantics isn't it - why does it matter that it has to be the founders own money?
Of course it's a bad idea, jeez ... It's used in pesticides for something. http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35...
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Reddit has never been low on money. According to one of their old developers, the staffing issues have always been political, not financial.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...
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Let me first give an introduction. I'am a 30 year old dutch software developer working at one of the largest internet companies in The Netherlands. My wife is a Highschool teacher, teaching Dutch language to 13- 15 year olds.
Almost 3 years ago we build a website for here students to use. After a few months it took off and visitors are climbing. From our stats we see that a lot of schools are using it. We got good media coverage and top-5 rankings in google for important keywords. The succes came as a surprise to us and we decided to create a business out of it.

We provide 250 free exercises and since a year we also provide subscriptions: personal subscription (5 euro / year) and classroom subscription (35 euro / year). With a subscription customers have access to their performance report and a few "member-only" exercises. With a classroom subscription a teacher can see the results of their students, look into the exercices they made and what mistakes they made. And some other extra functionality.

All this functionality is primarly used & tested by my wife and her class. For us it is a sideproject; it is generating revenue & profit, a couple of hundreds a month. Enough for me to cover my hosting expensives, and working less hours at my day job.

My wife is very clear: she is a teacher and wants to teach. She doesn't want to persue the business fulltime. Also she is pregnant with our first child. So technically: I'm the one running the business and my wife is my biggest (& most influentual) customer.

I'm not sure what to do next: we have a few hundreds a month and I would really want to grow. So I can work even less at my day job and more on our project.

But we have a hard time figuring out how to scale:

* Selling to schools is hard, even more without dedicated sales. With keeping the price low we think it's easier for schools to buy.
* The succes of the website started with the free exercises and quality content. We got a lot of free press with that. We don't want to risk our name with making it all premium content
* We don't want to run advertising as it would distract students, and make schools don't want to use it anymore.
* I work at the website besides my main job, doing all the coding and administration stuff
* My wife doesn't want to sell (the website is tied to her lastname)
* We are anxious to get outside funding, we want control over the project ourselves
* We are afraid to charge more (risk of losing customers)
* We only want to go into different subject when we can find good teachers who can create quality exercices.

Sofar the options are to creat more verticals (we need subject experts there) or create a better site.

So what to do? I would really like more time to develop more functionality. We get a lot of e-mails asking for different kind of exercises. Which I simply don't have the time for to develop. I feel we are an unique team: teacher and softwaredeveloper working together. I think we have a great oppertunity to create a big product. Good software is a huge gain for edecution.

But I don't know how to execute on this oppertunity, any tips?
The W3C validator is not up to date and does not understand vendor prefixes. Until they make the validator consider real-world web apps, and not just academic markup, I won't take them seriously.
very interesting... I use metal to wake up when I'm tired, but for the apathetic periods it may also be interesting. will try.
admirable. you guys are doing very well. Keep at it
It's my understanding that such login banners are used to provide support for prosecution efforts, should someone break in and claim they did not know that access by random people was prohibited.

I would hope nobody thinks such warning messages are an adequate substitute for human-based and technology-based security measures, any more than wearing garlic cloves or putting up "no guns allowed" signs are replacements for being wary of vampires and armed criminals.
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> If there were legal and technical means to license microwaveable food, I'm sure someone would do it.

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They probably didn't miss anything, you did.
You are judging two people's (two very initiated people at that) knowledge based on one (semi-censured) email conversation.

There are several more likely scenarios, such as:

a) no need to mention either VBRO nor couchsurfing since they were both well aware of them.

b) it was mentioned but in another context.

c) it was redacted.

d) there was no point mentioning it since AirBNB would've said it in their pitch.
thanks! in the past I treated such down time as a time to regroup, but we live in a world with deadlines and sometimes rigid schedules where it's not always possible to step back.

This is not a whine... I'm with a fairly productive mindset "usually", so perhaps it doubly hurts when I can't be productive or take life by the mouthful.
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Sorry that's wrong; neither REST as a style or HTTP as an implementation are RPC. One of the key components of REST is Layering which is made possible because REST is distinct from RPC. This is covered in the dissertation:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/evaluatio...

6.5.2 HTTP is not RPC

People often mistakenly refer to HTTP as a remote procedure call (RPC) [23] mechanism simply because it involves requests and responses. What distinguishes RPC from other forms of network-based application communication is the notion of invoking a procedure on the remote machine, wherein the protocol identifies the procedure and passes it a fixed set of parameters, and then waits for the answer to be supplied within a return message using the same interface. Remote method invocation (RMI) is similar, except that the procedure is identified as an {object, method} tuple rather than a service procedure. Brokered RMI adds name service indirection and a few other tricks, but the interface is basically the same.

What distinguishes HTTP from RPC isn't the syntax. It isn't even the different characteristics gained from using a stream as a parameter, though that helps to explain why existing RPC mechanisms were not usable for the Web. What makes HTTP significantly different from RPC is that the requests are directed to resources using a generic interface with standard semantics that can be interpreted by intermediaries almost as well as by the machines that originate services. The result is an application that allows for layers of transformation and indirection that are independent of the information origin, which is very useful for an Internet-scale, multi-organization, anarchically scalable information system. RPC mechanisms, in contrast, are defined in terms of language APIs, not network-based applications.
Not to mention things like adobe checking for updates
they also raised money in '06 from Bezos

their argument isn't that VC is evil, more that in a world where a lot of entrepreneurs seem to be focused on the fundraising/grow-quick/big-swing path, there are alternatives

the OP on the other hand is advocating something entirely different
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Enterprise hard drives might lie about fsync with caching turned on, but they generally let you disable caching and behave correctly.

Of course that completely shafts your performance, but hopefully you were expecting that.
I'm one of those few programmers who like to code with a proportional font. I have been declared mad as such, with the reasoning "you can't line up things with a proportional font". Well, guess what, I don't need to. I pay attention to correctly indenting my code, and that works even with proportional fonts. I find monospaced fonts hard and unnatural to read. Almost all books, magazines and newspapers use proportional fonts!

If your code needs lining up to be legible, you're doing something wrong.
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Are there any channels in particular that you would recommend? :)
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It's part of the uniform interface constraint

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...
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It might be worst in the USA. I don't know. But telecom companies all over the world seem to be in love with arbitrary restrictions on how you use their infrastructure.

All so that they can sell zillions of different plans for slightly different services, overcomplicating the market.

I really hope that some time in the future, an internet giant such as Google will step into the mobile internet space and simply regard all bandwidth as bandwidth. Without caring whether it's used for voice, short messages, long messages, video etc. It would make life so much simpler.
If you read between the lines, this says that EBS lies about the result of fsync(), which is horrifying.

Jump to conclusions much?

Do you know if reddit had fsync enabled in first place?
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I would say that the most common errors are because there is no built-in string type (at least in C) and lot of library function expects null terminated strings.

And these are hard to get right, because they are very prone to off-by-one errors, and novice programmers tend to write string manipulation routines from scratch, which leads to corruption.

Use libraries (e.g. bstring or std::string in C++) that do that for you, and you won't have problems.

Regarding memleaks: you can leak database handles, file handles and other resources in managed languages. In C/C++ memory is one of the resources you also take care of. In C++ there are also destructors and you can use RAII to handle most of the cases without thinking.
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When I hear about geniuses that lived, most of the time I hear about how awesome their memory was ... which worries me, as I can't even remember the names of people I meet without effort and this would mean that I may never be good enough for anything, so why bother?

But Einstein wasn't one of those people. His IQ may have been great, but he wasn't one of those people that could recite all U.S. states or presidents at age 6.

What I like about Einstein is that he worked hard for his whole life. Whatever disability he may have had regarding his memory, he compensated multiple times by being persistent and obsessed with his work.
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You managed to read it all? I printed his dissertation out once and fell asleep at the beginning. If this happened to anyone else you can read a somewhat abridged version in his ACM paper: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~taylor/documents/2002-REST-TOIT.pdf

On another note, I remember reading his "musings" and getting the impression that he was mean and arrogant. I met him last year and he seemed like a nice guy. I was still careful to call my serial device HTTP resource server "RESTish" out of fear that I probably violated some principle somewhere.
Most startups need VC money because their ideas are obscure, stupid, and market-less. There is nothing wrong with using your skills to build a simple small business to fill a market need. Anyone who feels guilty for trying to make money with their talent is a sheep and a fool.
"We're aiming to be as large as Facebook or Google"

Do they have any success apart from Angry Birds? For games company, repeatable success seems to be crucial.
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I don't know whether he was a "good" or "bad" student. He was certainly a disinterested one, as there wasn't great overlap between what he thought about and what they were trying to teach. He must have been an effective one, however, as he picked up the information needed to solve problems in many fields, expand physics, and have a "typically European scientist" level of culture.

For those in science, most dream of having a career that can compare to his 1905.
Arguing about the term "lifestyle business" is itself distracting.

To me the point is that nowadays you don't have to get permission (in the form of someone else investing in your company) to get started. On your own you can fairly quickly build a business that pays your bills (your "lifestyle") and lets you escape "wage slavery". Once you do this, you have a lot of security and a lot of power/control over your next move.

I didn't think the point was to build a business that makes enough to pay the bills and then stop building. I'm certainly not stopping.
One tiny modifier to your comment.

The BBC is paid for by the British television license payer, not the taxpayer. Otherwise, spot on. Journalists need to eat, too.
I'm the author of the Async JavaScript library (http://github.com/caolan/async) and kept finding myself including it with the excellent Underscore.js for small and client-side projects.

This seemed like overkill, so I've made a tiny build with just the essentials from each library, and a new unified API. Perhaps some HN members will find this useful?
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1. Don't give up your day job until you're making 10x what you are making now. Right now, you are likely not heavily taxed on that income, if it becomes your main source of income, you will.

2. Can you turn your day job into a 3 or 4 day a week job?

3. To scale: yes, free quality content attracts users. You need to find out ways to create that in a sustainable way.

Good luck!
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I've never experienced an earthquake. As such, the cracks and drifting earth make me doubt the reality of such a video. Does this drifting actually occur at the surface like that? Edit: speeling ;-)
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I'd guess those people who attracted investment in the new startups could do so because of the earlier (self-funded? "lifestyle"?) businesses.

Large businesses don't necessarily come from small businesses, but many people who build large businesses were once people who built smaller businesses.
There is a difference between being sued and losing a lawsuit. Anyone can file a lawsuit on shaky grounds; but defending a case is expensive, and if they sue your company, you can't represent the company yourself unless you are a lawyer. IANAL, so I'd suggest getting advice, particular on whether or not you will win.

The Teachbook vs Facebook case is still going; Teachbook filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds of venue, Facebook opposed, the matter is still at the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) stage. Facebook declined to have it heard before a magistrate judge, meaning they are probably stalling for time; they might not be confident they will win it, but want to maintain the FUD around anyone using the name for as long as possible.

There is a 9th Circuit precedent that PerfumeBay and Perfume-Bay infringes on eBay's trademarks (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1050747.html) while "Perfume Bay" does not - largely because searching for perfume e-bay or perfume ebay would bring up their site.

So under that logic, vegetablefacebook would definitely be out, but vegetablebook probably wouldn't be, especially if you could explain what it means without reference to Facebook (e.g. if it had recipes and so was like a book). You might get sued, but I think (or at least hope) you would win if you had the resources to persue the case.
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I would champion this point - at least in terms of research and science.

On the other hand when it comes to artists and sharing of other similar IP, the current system can do with shorter copyright terms. At least thats my non-nuanced starting point on these discussions.

(!!Science!!)
Tnx, i'm working 4,5 days now. When the baby is born I will be working 4 days. Getting from the current income to 10x at the current grow rate will take us 4 years at least.

Any advice how to make it sustainable?
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Yes, there was a case in which a system had "Welcome to XXX" as a banner, and their attempts to prosecute a cracker failed because of this.
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Here is Einstein's certificate for the year 1879 (he was 10):

http://www.scienceblogs.de/frischer-wind/einsteins-zeugnis.j...

Long story short, he obtained the best score (6) in the three mathematical topics (algebra, geometry and descriptive geometry) and in physics.

I guess one of the reasons the myth has endured so long may be that it makes for such a great story. A sort of intellectual rags-to-riches, so to speak.

Edit: corrected the physics score.
Funny and still helpful. I found myself googling names I wasn't familiar with. Perhaps I'm just too green.
I agree that ditching the whole thing would be ineffective. Even if we did, I would bet that the new system would be the old system with minor differences.

There is good in the system, it needs more people to help managed and identify fraudulent/cheating behavior which is aimed at gaming the system.

I also think we need a smaller net so that fewer things can be patented. Again, this is for the freedom to exchange information and ideas, which leads to the betterment of humanity as a whole.

Everything we do has been built on the ideas and labor of others before us.
It makes little sense to me to imagine we will be better off by not letting future generations do the same.
Instead you'll choose the other guy who will..

Oh wait.
You're right. However, the situations I described where not really the hardships of my life. They where just situations in which I was disappointed in other people and I just wanted to share that with you. It was initially something I had written for myself to know the real reason why I wanted to start a startup. Then I thought, why not share it?
Do you think stackoverflow would answer it? I too find this an interesting question