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Perhaps a quick chat with patio11 would help here? I can't imagine a more appropriate HNer for the kinds of questions you have. He has been thinking about the education market for quite a while. He has long advocated finding freelancers who you can pay to build up content. What about hiring some freelance subject experts to build questions for you? That removes at least one burden to expansion and lets you trade money for time. Along those same lines, you might focus your energy on automating as much of your maintenance as possible so that you can focus on developing novel stuff. Maybe even hire a freelance web developer to do some of the more boilerplate stuff so you can focus on the truly unique stuff.
Ironic that many of the folks here (myself included) are in the business of charging extra for packets of data by building SaaS. Our goal is to "commoditize our complements:" We want to extract all the value from the chain and have the hardware vendor, the OS vendor, the browser vendor, and the carriers all become commodities surviving on a tiny margin on top of their costs and slitting each other's throats.

It seems AT&T want to charge more for packets that have more value. Or putting it in another way, they're performing a kind of price discrimination. All things we like to do, we just don't want them done to us :-)
I don't think this person has much of a clue. The reason there are more android phones out these isn't because people are choosing phones with removable batteries etc. It's because they're getting them free or cheap with their contracts. There is very little in the reasons for the iPads dominance which isn't likely to be changed given time.

I see very little in the claims as to why iPad is dominant which isn't
Yes, he could not say the names of all US presidents at age 6. I doubt Einstein ever tried memorizing the names of all US presidents when he was child. He wasn't in the US then. :)
I will use VPN or HTTPS proxy and will sue you if you will use that information for non-technical purposes.
Exactly. Liquefaction is not water coming up from the ground, although that's a side effect of it.
Will apps be the death of free software?
Well, this is 2011. That sort of policy just isn't in application anymore. Because companies with policies are companies with upgrade policies as well.
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There are lot of Indians on HN and I think they appreciate a job posting by an Indian startup, just the same way they do for other startups. What's so special about being in Delhi that a job posting isn't going to be attractive?
To be blunt I think you can charge more for this product. €5 / month is more realistic. I would tie in a price hike with a bunch of new features and keep the free model going.

Years ago a friend of mine doubled the price of his software product and sales went up because it now seemed more professional.
Mind if I upvote that one?
I agree - phone companies must intercept your phone calls and your internet traffic and charge extra money when you use it for business. Excellent suggestion, thank you!
In practice there is no difference between the license and a tax. It's like you can't own a car without paying for your MOT.
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Hahaha. If only you knew... In Canada at least, they charge more for a business landline with unlimited local calls than they charge for a residential landline with unlimited local calls.

Sounds exactly like what you suggest :-)
Yeah, it is trivial to analyze traffic of somebody else when you are working in FBI with court order...
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I'm not sure what you're saying here... that HN is a popularity contest? Please explain.

Also, the post specifically said "one" engineer is being hired. Now it's been edited to imply more than one.
Just a note: Youtube is now massively profitable.

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/03/09/1906416/youtube-s...

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It is same in many other countries too, just because business phones are used much more often. It also hard to reuse such phone number, which is listed in many places: it will be "hot" for years.

Now, it is time to validate your home landline phone. Are you really doing no business over it? ;-)
One of the most helpful and active members of HN, who's helped out a lot of people here and is an inspiration to a lot of us for having built a successful business from scratch in a space ruled by Google.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paraschopra
Put it on monster, not here.
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"But making movies and books and other forms of unnecessary art still makes hundreds of billions of dollars of revenues every year."
Everything else being equal, I would not choose these markets. Why? Because these markets are too sexy and too crowded: too much people write games and books out of enthusiasm. (I was one of them.) If you are a game enthusiast, sure create an indie gaming company. But if you somehow can get excited about a business problem which is a pain point for some people, then it is better to choose that imho.

I would say:

Make something people need, and avoid overcrowded markets where a viable business model became problematic (e.g. free is the default) because of oversupply (like tools for professional developers)
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the original term has become somewhat diluted over time

It's not the original term. OOP started with Simula 67 and then split into 2 branches: the Alan Kay brach and the Barbara Liskov branch.

Alan Kay coined OOP for his branch, but the name caught on. So now OOP can refer to any descendent of Simula 67. Even ones he didn't have in mind (C++ is on the Liskov branch).

The thing is: the branches aren't really compatible philosophically. That's a big reason for the amount of confusion that exists.

In Alan Kay land objects are sub-computers that receive messages from other sub-computers. In Barbara Liskov world objects are abstract data with operators and a hidden representation.
>lambasts IE9 for supporting a compatibility mode (while not mentioning that other browsers also have a quirks mode)

I thought that quirks mode was to accommodate non-standards compliant markup. Also, isn't compatibility mode to fudge things to work by accommodating errors in the rendering engine?
Then they don't want it.
It's interesting to see that since Jacques left HN his articles seem to dominate the front page whenever he writes one (which I'm quite happy with since I like reading them).

Maybe we're subconsciously trying to make him come back by flooding his server with requests for attention.
Einstien was born on 14 March 1879 - so the date there must be his birth date

Edit: the second date there is 1896 which makes him 17 years but that marks sheet seems to indicate 3 or 4th grade - so not sure exactly which grade the marks sheet was for?
RVM can generate wrappers for Passenger. So you use a separate gemset for each app on the server, generate wrappers for each gemset, and then in your web server config you pass the right wrapper to each Passenger directive. You can't use more than one Ruby with Passenger, but you can use as many gemsets as you want.

You can probably do similar things with unicorn, mongrel, etc, but I'm not sure how those work :)
My point was to highlight the subtlety of the CNN statement, alluding that the very concept of looting is alien in the Japanese culture, so much so that a word does not exist for the act. It is false, of course but the announcers lack of syntactical skill is used to make a semantic interpretation of the Japanese, and directs the audience to make a equivocation: African-Americans loot.

No one here is saying it, but as an African-American, that is what I heard.
"We've discovered that even owls don't stay up as late as developers."
We tried to go for something simple yet slightly amusing. Not sure if we'll change it before the 20th or not.
That really depends on the provider. Verizon seems to have pretty comprehensive coverage. There were some very public horror stories about their customer service a few years ago, though, which could turn out to be a downside.
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After the incidences experienced by reddit (http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html) related to the reliability of EBD I'm wondering what are alternatives and which one do you have experience with/recommend. Maybe it's just EBD that has to be avoided?

(I've used AWS for some batch work but never for hosting a webapp, but now I was planning to use it for hosting a webapp (either directly or via heroku))
This poster was prominently displayed in one of my math lectures at university.

http://www.allaboutmovies.com.au/images/pictures/store/E/ein...

He is of course not implying that he is bad at math as many students believe, but rather that the math he had to cope with was much harder.
We did not edit the post. The role is 'software engineer' and we have multiple positions for that role.
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They only record once a month?
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I guess we just see it differently. The event in high school was obviously an important motivator for Jordan, so much so that he thought it important to bring it up again. I have the same events in my life from high school and early college and if I was giving a retrospective on my life, they would certainly be included. Bitterness is usually accompanied by anger and cynicism and Jordan did not display either of those.
What's so surprising about this? He's a busy man.

When was the last time Chad Hurley used his YouTube account to do something? How often do you think Zuck is on Facebook?

This is truly absurd. I don't often try to rain down insults at TechCrunch, but this is over the edge.

Everything from the SEO-ified headline, to the factually incorrect content, to the intellectually insulting bar graph, to finally the fact that there really isn't even a story here even if the claims might be true...is just annoying. This is over the edge.
Storing stuff must be a constant issue. The ISS always seems cluttered.
It can't be set to 256 because it's only 8 bits.

(Edit: on reflection, if you know enough to know about the forwarding chains, I'm sure you know that TTL is 8 bits. Sorry.)
Pretty sure that's incorrect.
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Some ideas:

- which subjects make most sense to expand into (math, science, languages, ...) ?

- maybe there is an opportunity to have former teachers create exercises for you (as freelancers). They have a lot of experience creating exercises, after all.

- including subjects like math could make it easier to expand to other countries, though I don't know how different education systems are (maybe the UK, Germany, France would be interesting as they large markets but of course there are other factors like fragmentation of the educational system in Germany, for example)

- as someone else has already suggested make it attractive to invite your classmates to your website. Rather than offering cash maybe free months (after their current subscription period) or discounts if enough students from one class sign up would be an option.

- maybe offer more options to obtain classroom membership, e.g. sponsored by parents, more than n people from one class signing up, maybe even local businesses as school sponsors but that could have the negative side affects you mention about ads)

- maybe offer "gift" memberships and free months if a group of students sign up at the same time, things like that?

- would it be attractive to people offering private tutoring to have a "group" membership for their students (e.g. up to n students/year) which includes seeing results of their students) ?

- maybe including other subjects provides an opportunity to raise prices, i.e. charge separately for additional subjects but offer a "all subjects included" premium membership.

You have not included a link to your site (or I missed it ?), would love to take a look.

Good luck with your business (and your parenthood!) :°)

(I'm more of a developer who cough failed with businesses twice so my suggestions should be taken with a grain of salt)
I never heard this memory thing. In any case it is a bad excuse for you to not even try anything.

If memory specifically bothers you, buy a book about memory techniques. They are fairly easy to learn, and a lot of special techniques exist for memorizing people's names.

I went to a talk by a memory trainer once and he said this is THE main thing CEOs always want to train: remembering people's names. Guess it helps when dealing with employees.
This is one of those suggestions which I usually decide to file under the sub-heading "hey, all we need to do is write some software which understands English!".

Right now this matches a definition of "hard" which is very close to "can't be done" despite whatever Jacques may say :)
This has a few roots:

* It's said he didn't speak till he was (I forget) ~8. I'd believe it - speech develops at different times, and I doubt it has any reflection on adult intelligence.

* He joked that his math wasn't very good. That makes him modest, not a bad student.

* He didn't know how to do the math for non-Euclidian, to develop general relativity (though he did have a vague idea that he needed a curved space, and what it meant, and he vaguely remembered doing it at uni - which shows he wasn't too ignorant), and had a friend help him get up to speed.

* He was probably not the sharpest mathematician in the room, once he was famous enough that every room he walked into would quickly become crowded with the sharpest mathematicians in the world.

* He may not have really liked school, but he obviously liked learning.

Most importantly, everyone likes to think that you can succeed without trying.
Para, you did edit the post.
A very forceful title that is unfortunately backed up by very little in the article content.

The article made one valid observation: the historically extended update cycle for Internet Explorer could be a problem when combined with the incomplete implementations of CSS3 and HTML5.
If you read between the lines, "if you read between the lines" almost always means "if you make an educated jump to conclusions."
"Bounce Evolution" is supposedly the best game available on N900. Although N900 itself was never a successful platform but the game had immersive quality, just like Angry Birds.

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See also:

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The key point in the article is that he's not so busy that he doesn't use Twitter all the time. I think your point would be more valid if Hurley or Zuckerberg were using another service 10 to 1 over their own.
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Not so Good: Build it and they will come.

Good: Make something people want.

Better: Make something people need.

Even better: Make something people need and know that they need. If they don't already know, someone will have to help them know. That someone might be you and helping them will take sales and marketing, a significant consideration.

Even better: Make something people need, know they need, and are willing to pay for now. Competing against "we're not ready, maybe next year" is tougher that competing against any competitor.

Best: Make something people need, know they need, are willing to pay for now, and has their hair on fire. Leapfrogging to "let's just solve this problem now" is often the best (and most fun) way to deploy.

[EDIT: In response to some of the replies to this thread: This is not about "guessing what people need", worrying about competition, or assuming "if I need it, others must too". This is about getting up off your butt, talking to people, finding out what they must have, and building it for them. There are people everywhere desperate for solutions to their problems, and I promise you, they're not finding them. Sure, you may scratch your own itch and hope that someone else needs it, but this is a lottery approach. Most start-ups fail because they built something no one else wanted or was willing to pay for.

There is absolutely no better way to find out what to build than finding customers first. Please don't be like me and learn that the hard way. There are great apps everywhere that nobody uses while people suffer because no one is building what they want.]
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I've been trying to use the libraries found at http://www.jsoftware.com/trac/base/browser/trunk (svn co http://www.jsoftware.com/svn/base/trunk/), but I can't seem to be able to load anything:

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(I tried with absolute paths too)

Any idea what I might be missing? And do you know the license of the libraries?
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Respectfully disagree.

Twitter's more akin to Email. Much more of a staple product.

It's like comparing how often Hurley emails/texts with how often he likes things and uploads videos onto YouTube.
> Also, you probably don't actually need a 1e-8 false positive rate

Absolutely not. I just wanted to demonstrate that even if you do want a very low false-positive rate from your filter you don't need a very large data structure, contrary to jeresig's fears. Bloom filters are very, very space-efficient.
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I don't know about Einstein's memory, but I do know that people often mistake having a good memory for obscure facts and above average verbal ability for intelligence.
Maybe you could hook up with high school libraries. These are turning more and more into media-centers where school kids use computers during periods they don't have classes. Then you could scale up to a school-wide license. Oh, I'm Dutch as well, so at least we're talking about the same educational system.

I also like the idea of comparing it to private tutoring, which parents are definitely willing to fork out some money for.
You comment is also trash.

I have a Win XP desktop (besides my Ubuntu one, on which I spend most of my time lately). It's legit (paid money for it), all the software I care about runs on it and I never have had it infected with a virus (in 3 years since I bought it). So tell me, why the hell should I upgrade from the most popular OS on this planet and PAY for that upgrade? Because it doesn't conform to the perfect world you want?

And if IExplorer 9 won't run on it, that's fine. There's always Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

And about compatibility-mode, having that mode in IExplorer 9, but disregarding compatibility for Windows XP is inconsistent. Not to mention their competition is doing the exact opposite.
NY seems to be a strange choice for a non-US company, in recent years most international IPOs have been going to London rather than NY due to the immense cost of listing in the US because of SOX.

More than anything this seems like a sign of a bubble, a huge number of games companies are listed in the UK (also Zynga and FB investor DST) so you have analysts and investors who know how to price these sorts of companies.

NY on the other hand has far more unsophisticated buyers (mom & pop investors), if you wanted to push a consumer product company to a price beyond which the financials indicate is sensible, NY would be the place to do it.
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He was probably not the sharpest mathematician in the room, once he was famous enough that every room he walked into would quickly become crowded with the sharpest mathematicians in the world.

This, I can't help thinking, would be a good problem to have :)
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> How often do you think Zuck is on Facebook?

Honestly? I get the impression he at least looks at it (is that enough to be "on" it?) daily.
if it's a big deal to make that change then their underlying architecture needs a review.
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"if they want it they need it"

Disagree. I want a new 2G iPad, but my 1G iPad works well enough and I don't need it. I would like one but I'm not going to express that desire with cash.

I see where you're going but I think it's an important distinction to make, especially with consumers. It's easy to take a sharp rational mindset and project it onto the fish in the stream... but that may not be the best model for predicting how they think about your products.
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First, "professional" and "amateur" should be defined to better make his point. Also, the examples are anecdotal.
He probably doesn't know, because it wouldn't be on a résumé.
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