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There is a major difference in the service model between google search and twitter tweets.

In search, you are actively seeking something out - you enter a phrase, it returns a result. This meshes beautifully with ads - because in the ideal, an ad matches what you're looking for, except it may want you to buy the end result.

Tweets, totally different. With tweets - you are effectively either pushing information to a specific group (your followers) or you are accepting pushed information from those you follow.

This is much more intimate of a conversation as the tweets you're accepting by following come from real people, or entities/groups that you associate/identify with or are otherwise interested in their info; such as a news stream.

To interject ads into this communication is much more akin to you standing at the bus stop with your friend and you're talking about where to go for lunch and being approached by some random stranger saying "Hey I think you guys would really like Coke!"

You already KNOW what coke is, so this random person is not adding any value to the conversation that you're having with your friend.

Between google and twitter, we are looking at the age old problem with content relevance in push/pull context.
I can see that - now you have a HN frontpage link, AND you can have a great rebranding campaign for the Germans in the future.
I listed a few: freedom, time and indulgence. More specifically, the freedom to pursue passion in life is often enabled by one's parents having enough money and stability. Time is mostly about leisure time. Having a job that supports work on open source is still not that common, so one is left with figuring out how to do this on your own time - and that depends on you actually having free time because you don't have kids, you only have one job, and you have the background knowledge (socially, tools-wise and background reading) necessary to participate.

So, that's how the whole world works, right? I am not saying that Postgres is unique here. I think we actually do a really great job. We have about 300 contributors every year, and only about 20 committers. That's impressive and shows how the contributors feel about our project. It is prestigious, interesting and fun enough for them to send us their code even though we don't give out commit access, and we subject everyone to a pretty difficult code review.

That just goes to show that if you ask a lot from people, they like it and come back for more. Or at least the people I want to be in a community with like it. :)

I am bringing up to my community that we could do a little better inside of Postgres. We could take a closer look at how we operate, and find ways of inviting people in that don't already fit our mold.

There isn't an easy solution to addressing privilege inside a community, at all. But I was at a conference last week, and a couple people asked me to write my thoughts down about meritocracy. It was not an easy thing for me to do.. I already see a few de-railing comments about gender.

But I continue to get support for thinking and writing about this issue, and ultimately finding more ways of getting more contributors. This is why I continue to contribute, and why I took a moment to make a gentle criticism of a community that I enjoy very much.
This seems to be what the IPad and Chrome OS are doing.

Here's where linux fails on this front. Often it doesn't just work out of the box. I have to figure out how to install proprietary drivers, then I had to figure out how to configure it to get basic visual features like the drop shadow around the top most window. There is still an obnoxious flicker when I use desktop switching, the sound stops working after I do an update, etc. This all happened to me on the last two versions of ubuntu on a dell optiplex. So I went back to my mac.
Ha! I see what you did there, eric.

http://i.imgur.com/WAwRx.jpg
This was a reasonable post when it was about it was stupid to mix up GoDaddy's corporate image with this stuff. But this:

> It's a good thing that I have all my domains with another registrar or I'd be forced to move them.

is way over the top. Nobody's forcing you to do anything. If you choose to buy into the "CEO image = corporate image" thing, then fine, move your business elsewhere. But I kind of thought the point of the post was that it's kind of silly, but yeah, people do conflate those things.
He didn't say he didn't use guns for killing people or animals. Depending on the circumstances, he probably would, as would I (and I've never touched a gun in my life). That doesn't imply support for hunting elephants.
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If second-order punditry is so worthless, why are we content to spout third-order punditry here?
Thanks for your thoughts! Made me think.

I brought up privilege, not gender diversity.
How can a plaintiff delay disclosing something like that to the defendants or the court for so long?
Good. I hope I never, ever have to read the word "dickbar" ever again. That is one of the most ridiculously stupid attempts at being "hip" I've ever seen.

"Dickbar"? What are we, 12 year old jersey-shore fans?
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Used to be some discussion in #startups @ irc.freenode.net, not sure if it's still active
Wow. Although giving your life this is implied, I never caught that that statement was so ubiquitous for recent startup job postings.

I hope this turn into the new job postings fax pau of "rockstar/ninja" proportions.
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following this logic it is time for Russia to launch a nuclear war against Great Britain.

(note: Lada Kalina is the newest and most advanced Russian car and the producer of the car is heavily supported and promoted by government:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGs_5gDXFn8&feature=relat...
Andy has done a great job with this. Although I keep wanting to dive into the features but get sidetracked, I can see that each new version is looking a lot slicker than the last one. Having it sit on top of gmail is inspired genius. Very cool.
Hollywood taking the Internet seriously?
All elephants are animals.

Not all animals are elephants.
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This guy has a point. Ubuntu's constant meddling with the Desktop and adoption of immature software as default is why I left it for Linux Mint. LM 10 has "just worked" for me so far, and LM Debian Edition also look spromising. By contrast, Ubuntu breaks a few important things every time they release a new version.

I don't plan to consider returning until Ubuntu Desktop Edition "stabilizes" a bit. But that doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon, what with the impending switch to Unity, and the rumored switch to Wayland, and ever tighter integration with Canonical's proprietary offerings...

GNU/Linux is already rock solid at the base system level, but some distros just ruin the Desktop experience.
Every couple of years I try linux for a week, then promptly switch back to the mac.

I had a G5 imac that I used for over 5 years without every having to reinstall the OS. I finally had to go through the pain of a fresh install when I bought a new imac this past year, but once every 5 or 6 years is fine. I'm still using my first gen macbook pro. I really want to use linux, but I value my time enormously now that I have 2 kids, this means I use macs.
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He's been pretty consistent in calling out the OEMs and carriers as incompetents who won't produce phones in Google's best interests. And jumping on how useless all their 'added value' has been.

Simultaneously he's been suggesting Google needs to make its own devices to really push a compelling Android experience. And he's been saying that for ... christ, about as long as Android has even been publicly around.

He's never really said "Google's going to give up on this 'Open Source' thing" that I recall, but he's been terribly consistent in saying things like this:

Android, on the other hand, strikes me as needing a course correction. There’s a separation between the software and hardware, and to date the hardware vendors are letting the platform down. It’s unproven whether this model can even work in the long run (where by "work" I mean "produce a phone and software platform with a state-of-the-art user experience").
http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/android_opportunity_addend...
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. But if that is the only example, is that more of a exception or the rule?
I don't know if it's anger so much as confusion over why they are closing off the source that (up until now) they've called 'open'.
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"The law inadequately infringes on people´s privacy"

I found this typo/mistranslation mildly amusing.
True. I am very happy with this discussion on HN, but I do hope others will learn from this and not be tempted to make the same mistake. I'd rather would have had an excellent review on TechCrunch and then lots of people signing up from all over the world, including Germany. This attention now is great, but obviously doesn't fix the false start. In the end it is so much better if people talk about the value you may or may not deliver, then discuss the name
If this is true, this is lame.
This is hilarious. Not sure about useful, but hilarious - yes.
If you're genuinely interested (and not just trolling): http://www.amazon.com/That-Every-Man-Armed-Constitutional/dp...
Isn't this recent move about changing that around?
OUr rebranding costs less than the $250 K color spent on their domain. But if I could have avoided our costs by selecting a better name to start with I would have.
Looks like redhat/novell/ubuntu should invest in multimedia codecs, sound architecture, wireless drivers and graphics driver support over all else.
Did you even read the article?

In last year's statement he says that there are different shades of "open", and this year he all-of-a-sudden decides that there's only one exact kind of open. Which conveniently happened only days after Google decided not to be as open just yet with their latest version of the Android OS.

Gruber changes definitions of terms to suit his pro-Apple and anti-Google agenda whenever he sees fit. It's dead obvious to anyone that isn't a blatant fanboy for either side (which is hard for many of the traditionally pro-Apple HN reader-base).
I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people.

Slaughtering an elephant might offend some of your sensibilities, but hunting in Africa is wide spread and as long as the elephant is not endangered, I don't think your outrage has a leg to stand on. The elephant was used as food and now crops are protected.

There are much worse things going on in America's food industry then this. In fact if anything if that elephant could feed the village I'd say this was actually a good thing.

I can understand how this might offend vegetarians but even then, it's not like the animal was wasted.
As far as I know, your friend actually invited you so he/she could get some extra space.
They don't do it automatically, you need to put your friend's email there or import your contacts from your webmail.
Not to mention they have excellent support for domains with different tld's and offer an SSL certificate free for one year with each domain.
I found an email in my inbox today from a competitor who are taking advantage of the PR disaster by offering a discount and a charitable contribution to anyone wishing to transfer their domains to them over this. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/za7G6.png
Here are few methods that I used for my company before it was sold last year:

Always Make Direct and Personalized Pitches to Publications: Approach the editors directly with a compelling message about what your company is doing for their readers. This should be personalized to their audience and you should take a look at a few past issues and reference articles when appropriate. You can take a look at their editorial calendar and see if your product fits into any upcoming issues as well.

Work from Niche Publications to Mainstream Publications: Pitch editors at niche publications that your buyers read. We used the following as stepping stones that eventually got us calls from CNN/WSJ. Start with well written non-promotional blog entries. Reference these blog entries when you approach your niche publications as evidence that you have something important to say to their audience. After success with some niche publications, use those articles to get you into a broader publication.

See if Member Association Relationships Make Sense: We sold about 20 percent of our services to schools. We were able to arrange an exclusive endorsement from some of the leading national educational member associations. We set up a deal where they showcased our product to their members, and it created a revenue stream for the association. This allowed us to gain further exposure within the media, and gave us a very powerful endorsement during the selling process.

I hope these are useful to you.

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There can be no explanation for this. I think we should all boycott GoDaddy.
I would agree with most on here, this is par for the course considering the companies branding already, which is pretty cheap low rent stuff. He's coming across as the "dickish" "most interesting man in the world" here. And I agree it should be a game warden duty to handle such situations, for the same reason McD's wouldn't allow old food to be eaten by employees, because it would increase the chances of there being more "old food." But the thing that really bugs me is the end, why not have it properly butchered and dispersed that way? Instead of something that reminds me of Bum Fights. Class is obviously not part of their branding in anyway.
Following in the footsteps of Thomas Edison? [1] I've never been a fan of the phrase "Any publicity is good publicity." But damaging the brand? I don't know that it rises to that level. Because the guy slaughter's elephants you think he can't maintain a credible domain registry? Now if he was running a shelter for abandoned big game animals, sure it would be a challenge but this is the guy who uses large mammary glands as a marketing tool.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29
"It's like calling a three-foot-high wave a "Tsunami""

In deep water before they hit a coast tsunamis aren't very high - in fact they can be about 3ft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami#Characteristics

As someone who co-founded a startup in '95 (and did the whole arc of VC money, IPO, acquisition, death over 7 years) I have to say that there are certain elements of the current situation that do seem awfully familiar.
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The motivation of pro-gun people generally falls into one of three categories:

1. Self/property protection
2. Fun/sport/hunting
3. Assertion of constitutional rights( and sometimes duty )

That said, this thread is in danger of political derailment.
Here's the NameCheap transfer offer

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/
I think that attitude is a bit harsh. Does it make him a bad person? I disagree. While I can't imagine doing such things, I understand that people have vastly different values regarding many topics and aren't trying to be evil regardless of how opposed the values are to others.

I agree that in this particular case its a bad move to release this publicly because he is a leader of a major company and shouldn't invite such controversy.
I think it's rather impractical to attempt to guess a stranger's intent. Drblast responded to the article by quoting a hypothetical statement of his own ("if I were to say X") and then quoting a supposed statement from the article ("but apparently it's ok to say Y"). You can interpret that 10 different ways but why? Isn't it simpler to point out that the article never made statement Y in the first place?

Incidentally, I find the point you make - meritocracies aren't ipso facto diverse - worthy of debate. However I don't believe it's the same point as the parent.
Thank you everyone.I appreciate.
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Actually it's an online web game with multiplayer.a gambling game that we have here in our country and not yet patented
As a fellow Hacker News user I am stunned by just how much overlap their was in our short list of places we are interested in applying. I deeply considered Python, Django, Sunlight labs, and Sencha labs.

I ended up applying for Sencha Labs. I might send in a back-up application to Sunlight Labs. My first choice organization was LispNYC, but they didn't get accepted.
This one is going to the top :)
That's exactly the point I was making.
> But as a user and developer, this is all about freedom.

You know, humans will form tribes around anything. And so of course they have around iOS and Android.

But come on. The only freedom this is about is Google's freedom to make a shitload of money on advertising on mobile.

This is why they want to be able control outside partners. This business of Android phones shipping with Bing set up as the default search? Not okay with them. Facebook getting in on the action, potentially able to serve way better, targeted ads than Google ever will? Definitely no okay with them.

The big difference between Apple and Google here is that Google is kinda full of shit with how they describe their platform goals. The thing I can respect about Apple:

They make no attempt to bullshit anyone on their goals. They're here to make absurd amounts of money. They have some basic philosophies about platform control that they're going to use to get there. In exchange, I get a predictable experience, outstanding long-term support for my devices and a solid ecosystem to develop in. I can make a decision based on these positions whether or not I want to participate.

Google's running their mouths endlessly about how "open" they are, trying to leverage a religious, OSS fervor, but they're exactly the same, just trying to own the next big chunk of the web so they can serve their ads alongside it.

I'll go with the guys who aren't trying to bullshit me.
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Well, GoDaddy is getting mentioned on HN and Reddit, so... mission accomplished?

Personally, I got fed up with their insulting commercials, horrible interface, and crappy service long ago. I've since switched registrars and haven't regretted it for a second.
The simple idea that there can be a large creative component to activities like programming or starting a business seems to invariably send this community into a full-on circle jerk.

Yes, it feels great, but please consider whether it is a worthwhile habit to cultivate.
The example in this post is the way I built a news feed for zazazu.tv except I used PHP instead of Rails. We stored each unique feed in MongoDB and then insert a reference to the unique feed to each user's stream (using Gearmand). Fast and pretty much as scalable as the site would need it to be.
So if I go read a couple weeks worth of daring fireball, I'm not going to find any posts disagreeing with something another pundit has written?

In my experience pundits spend the majority of their time explaining their agreement or disagreement with the arguments of other pundits, so it seems odd to define that as second-order punditry.

The author of the OP probably included some overdramatic language, but I thought the meat of the post was about why he disagreed with Gruber on a specific point. That may not be interesting to you, but I don't think it is categorically a waste of time either.
Well, see point #3 here. http://mattmaroon.com/2010/11/23/i-quit-hacker-news/

And here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800253

The comments and the moderation are extremely predictable in most cases regardless of technical merits of the discussion. A casual or statistical observation would easily reveal the prevalent biases, even amongst the crowd that prides itself on being objective.
Charge them a license fee to shoot the elephants in need of shooting, and increase that fee until supply meets demand.

Now its sustainable economically, if possibly not morally.
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Yeah. But maybe with multiple votes, we already effectively have this. The problem is that those votes are counted internally not as preference order but as total number of votes, adding to a user's general karma score.
It's an interesting approach, though let's be careful about how we define scaling -- with "full ACID" there are always operations that will make the system go pear-shaped, no matter how cleverly designed the system is.

Personally: I like transactions, but I'm not in love with SQL; additionally I'd like to have the options of:

- deploying systems, or portions of a system, that continue working when widely distributed over cheap, unreliable networks and running on cheap, unreliable hardware.

- Support large datasets (more slowly) but pay $100/terabyte instead of $LOTS/terabyte.

Of course, everything has its downsides -- which is why my stated desire for a do-everything DB is a bit of a pipe dream.
Transfer to:

Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer

1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove

NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/

Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well. They want your business and will make it as easy as possible.
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Keylogging your children is an admission that you've lost the parenting game.
A lot of it comes from hardware manufacturers and other providers. MP3 support on Linux was terrible for a long time because of all the patent mess.

Talk to companies like Broadcom or AMD / NVIDIA about making their components work much better with Linux, first. A lot of the issue is on their end, with not providing interfaces and drivers for distros to include.

Canonical, Novell, and everyone else try their best to include what they can for their distros but it's hard when the companies making these computers don't help much.
Does Linus control what people do with Linux?
This is not a new idea -- I have talked about this idea with friends for years. Having worked at Savi, Lockheed's RFID division - we had all sorts of ideas for how to use RFID.
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No problem. Actually just in case chrysb's answer is too vague, the reason you see this pretty often is that Dustin Curtis ran an experiment a couple of years ago, which was heavily discussed on HN, in which he concluded that adding the sentence "You should follow me on twitter here" made him get the most click through rate.

http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter....
Awesome. Gonna check it out once i get home. thnx
Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act.

Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess.

Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have participated in such an activity and filmed it for sake of his company, employees and customers, but I'm certainly not moving my domains over this.

There are probably employees there that don't like what he did either, but I'm not going to punish them for the actions of 1.