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Thanks for clarifying. There is no question that the scamville series was great journalism and a tribute to what they can do when they put their minds to it. Of course, I didn't know about another outlet passing on the story due to advertiser conflict but that certainly doesn't surprise me. By the same token, I wouldn't be surprised in the least to hear examples of Mike doing similar things, though it's probably more likely to be a relationship conflict. One of the great hallmarks of classic journalism was always the firewall between advertising and editorial. It's always seemed that professional blogging has almost prided itself (in a mostly unsaid way) with the breakdown of that wall - or perhaps they were all just too small to care. Even news behemoths seem to be rather captured by the enemy these days, or at least have lost a lot of the fervor that defended the split 30-40 years ago.

I feel conflicted about TC's voice, and I doubt I'm the only one. This isn't a new feeling, I've never been a huge fan - but it does seem to be worse now after the AOL acquisition. That doesn't mean I'm willing to not read it entirely as they clearly develop some good stories (be they third party or not). A lot of the rest gives me real pause before I click on a story of theirs in an aggregator. Between the almost zero content posts, the blind brand boosterism, obvious collusion in some startup coverage, hit jobs on the competition and petty stories about what bad thing some AT&T call center rep tweeted - it's a real minefield.

It's too bad that the startup and tech world doesn't think itself worthy of a quality paper like the finance industry does. While clearly there is more money in new york, there is certainly enough flowing in silicon valley to support some real subscription journalism. Perhaps the problem is that it's off message - you can't support quality subscription journalism in your corner while attacking it everywhere else. Maybe some day someone with a big exit who loves news will take on the challenge and give a shot at becoming the Murdoch of the west coast, willing to subsidize quality if that's what it takes. Heck, maybe even Arrington could do that - they seem to share a particular brand of crazy - it's just that Murdoch mostly keeps his in other people's publications.

Such a thing probably wouldn't start off with a bang, but with a whimper. It might even be as unremarkable as a popular tech blog slowly and quietly raising their own internal standards over time.
My buddy is 40 years old, not very technical, but he's one hell of a mechanic. He's been making his living off buying and selling cars off of CL since the recession started. Just an anecdote. I'm not sure an "improved UI" would help him. So many entrepreneurs are mad at CL for whatever reason, but the main one seems to be jealousy. They would rather ruin it than allow it to continue.
This has nothing to do with personalities or personal issues, I am rating him professionally in the scope of being a blogger.
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My impression was that Woz developed apple 1(which gave apple some funds) by himself(with jobs only encouraging/pushing) and developed a very large of the apple II(which made apple a multi million dollar company) and then not much else. which was one of the first personal computers and was transformational(helping introduce personal computers into the world including a wide variety of clones. Jobs was the team head who designed the first mac(which was transformational in its own way-one of the first gui ) personal computers). At least according to foklore.org a decent number of the brilliant people working for apple on the mac and other projects were there in a significant part because they fell in love with woz's work.
If you've not only created a UI element in JQuery, but then also open sourced it, and ALSO ran usability tests on it with some friends, and written up your conclusions, I'd hire you immediately.

Unfortunately almost nobody has the combination of these skills (dev + usability + the willingness to get stuff like this done).
Interesting, and very close to the implementation of Etags.

On the upside, it means that files that haven't been changed won't ever be rerequested without needing a round trip to the remote server.

On the downside, you clutter up caches with "dead" but not yet expired files, and you have to deal with scripts every time you change files, which is likely to decrease the reliability of your site and provide a new point of failure.
I don't think "because Techcrunch said so" is good enough.
It also serves to separate the curious from the non-curious. Getting everything wrong is a fact of life and can happen to anyone.
One caveat for those conducting business from California is that you have to pay the CA $800 franchise tax even if you incorporate in another state. This seems to be something people don't catch after filing it do-it-yourself Delaware co's/LLCs online. If you're running your startup from California, incorporating in Delaware technically exposes you to costs from both states.

The CA tax is waived in just a few cases. For example, some types of corporations (not LLCs) are exempt in the first year, and an LLC that is dissolved before the first year and meets other requirements may also be exempt.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

Reference: http://www.ftb.ca.gov/FORMS/misc/1063.pdf

(Also, we're lucky to have contributors like grellas in the HN community. Thanks.)
Thats fine. Professionally he's a hack. All insider info from pals. He bullies and tries to scare people. I've seen it many times. Plus its all personal with him. He does hit jobs on companies and people he doesnt like.The guys a wannabee journo. Just another lawyer who hated it.
It is an interesting point but somewhat well known.
It explains the proliferation of designer bags in China and in Japan. It is one indicator of social proof.

Though to be honest I do believe a well designed suit stands out significantly. It is very easy to tell a 5000USD suit from a 100USD suit.
Good to see the Apple "defend the flag" alert list getting used to good effect this morning.

No, they're not fanboys. They're .... just ... enthusiastic.
I think point 7 needs a slight bit of expansion.
-> Don't allow anything sensitive to be accessed from the outside world.

Creating a vpn takes seconds and provides a very strong wall between everybody who isn't you and your vulnerable services (ie. sql server/etc.)
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I'm not taking sides but with Compete.com's history of bad data I wouldn't trust it that much. Here's another reference from Google Trends for Websites:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=techcrunch.com%2C+readwr...

According to Google TC's traffic is down a bit but nothing as dramatic.
I am on my phone now (and, while its heart is a Linux kernel, it doesn't have a terminal, bash or tail. Maybe if you don't expand the wildcard tail will detect new files.
The site may be retro, but we think the data is great. Historically, its been hard to get and build on -- but we think it doesn't have to be that way because exchange postings are public facts and thus should be public propert that anyone can build on. Yahoo pipes was in theory a way of making this available for 3,000 developers -- but the RSS feeds were very incomplete and missed huge chunks of data becuase they are updated only every 15 minutes at most, and only for 100 postings at a time. When thousands of postings are streaming by, that's impossible to build something rigorous on top of.

We've focused on creating a Craigslist firehose equivalent to the Twitter firehose so that the good data can be enjoyed by all, regardless of how you feel about the site. Its developer accessible at 3taps.com/developers, and the fruits of that access can be seen at craiggers.com. Bottom line is that regardless of how you feel about the site (which grosses MUCH more than $50M a year based on the stream of data we see), the data itself is pretty darned interesting.
omg please turn development mode off antirez. Are you trolling me?
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The questionnaire is for a little bit of research for a project I want to work on, and I'm looking for how people are currently doing certain things in their development workflow which will help decide initial features for the project I'm working on. I will also publish results sometime next week.
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/onix10.pdf Link, as the internal page viewer is, well, claustrophobic.
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I have had the same path that you describe. Started learning Rails and quickly realizing that Sinatra handles most of my needs, and is faster to get started with. It is also helpful to separate my ruby learning with understanding the rails framework. Will check out those resources!
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The irony in the OP is that he is a blogger criticizing another blogger for poor quality and his own post is complete shit.

A proper critique of Techcrunch would look more like this:

Take some real traffic and social network stats

Take a sample of stories from 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 years ago and compare volume, subject matter, stories about startups to show a trend in topics covered, etc. Produce a nice graph showing how the # of startup stories has decreased. Overlay it with traffic stats.

Show examples of startups that launched without Techcrunch

Show examples of other tech conferences, other sources of startup information and how they compare, new upcoming blogs

Show examples of stale writing, poor writing, where tech issues were not correct. Do this using quotes and links.

Substantiate each one of these points and conclude using all this data that the influence of Techcrunch may not be what is once was, then pontificate what the future may hold.

Writing a proper story would require effort - it is a lot easier to take a screenshot from compete, call somebody a dick, submit it to HN and appeal to the masses.
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I don't follow V8 version to version, I'm a little bit curious: I notice each node release has a newer V8 version, is this just grabbing a newer version of V8 as a general practice, or is there specific changes in V8 applicable to node?

(The may be a question better asked on the google group)
Funny.

In my freshman year (7 years ago) I was an efficiency and premature optimization zealot, despising anything that wasn't written in C/C++.

Then I met a hacker that told me how awesome dynamic language were (in particular Python and Lisp). I told him "but they are some 10-20 times slower than C!". And he replied "Yes, but it takes 10 times less time to code. If the outcome is not fast enough, you can spend the rest of the time optimizing". Since then, Python has been my language of choice, relegating C++ to the optimization of the (few) bottlenecks.

Why is this funny? Because that hacker was antirez :)
There was a whistle-blowing insider article in the Daily Mail (note: proceed with caution) a few months ago. A graduate who had been working for a council planning department in London for a year decided to spill the beans. Basically they only worked a few hours per day (some actually took their phones off the hook and took naps), it was impossible to fire anyone, they went to lots of nice catered 'workshops' for traning, and despite the terrible inefficiency they had absolutely no budget problems: whenever someone wanted to build sonething in the borough, they had to pay £2000 for a simple 'consultation' (basically just a meeting, no research beforehand) and then wait months and incur more fees for their application to be processed.

Apparently architects new their game though so they would respond more promptly to them.
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To give you a concrete example of why it is necessary to prematurely expose unpopular ideas, in Australia there was a proposal within some circles to log all internet traffic. What do you mean "log all internet traffic"? Do you mean like HTTP URLs or IP addresses or what? Is it only against bad people or based on keywords or what? Well nobody really knew. What was known is that bureaucrats had been holding meetings with ISPs to discuss something about data retention.

In this case, what you're dealing with isn't just an idea anymore: it's a proposed policy. Academic freedom does not mean making policy in secret.
You're absolutely right, I did conflate 'closed' and 'private'.

But what about my second point? You can download your facebook data. Or is it not 'strongly portable' enough, in your opinion?
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The Sinatra videos from screencasts.org are also really good and they're free. I'd been considering subscribing to Peepcode, but with screencasts.org and railscasts.com I'm now not convinced I need to.
As the community grows, the definition of what's interesting to it gets more vague and distorted, like a drawing on a balloon that's continually inflated. And if it grows quickly, the graybeard:newb ratio drops. Both factors make it harder to enforce the interesting-ness norms.

I think this is a version of (or at least, related to) the concept of Eternal September.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
You might think otherwise, but most bloggers love the trolls. It was always the troll comments that would get called out across the office.

It is a lot harder to write technical stories. You could write 4-5 stories a day about startups or other news, but a tech story could take all day to assemble.

There is definitely an opportunity in a Techcrunch-like blog that is more technical. It just requires a lot of work and patience. The only way to build up an audience is to write frequently, and producing 3-4 good articles a day is difficult.

Most VCs love talking to bloggers. Their job is to network and to be a hub of information - so I don't know why more bloggers don't simply introduce themselves and ask. There isn't really an impenetrable wall there - it is just a matter of finding them and reaching out. They are definitely the best sources.
Another good example of a big, high revenue/high profit corporation that isn't a Delaware corporation is Microsoft. They are incorporated in Washington.

I believe that at least at one time (early '90s, when I got this information from my corporations professor in law school--maybe it is different now), Delaware was basically a rocket docket for complex corporation cases, such as shareholder lawsuits against large public companies. That was one of the attractions of them for large public companies, which might be worth adding to your FAQ. Who wants their cool merger delayed by many years over a suit from grumpy shareholders?
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People can argue back and forth over exact reasons why TC is or isn't "over", but the fact of the matter is that at this time last year I found their stories interesting and hit the site at least twice a day. Now I show up once a week and I'm just not very excited about their content. How or why is for other people to figure out. I just think it's boring and borderline tabloid journalism now.
As per point #3, remember that you amortize the cost of r&d along some payback period. As such it does effect your margins.

I do agree with your point though. Decreasing development time is the means to the end of making more money out of the product and making a greater return for your (money/time) investment.
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This article should be entitled, "Why failing to hire an attorney was my worst mistake." It's easy to think that some googling and reading statutes will get you where you need to be, but there are very real pitfalls and tax traps out there that attorneys are far better equipped to help you avoid.

If you're not serious enough about your new business to pay for professional advice - you're not serious enough to start it.
I agree, and I mentioned in below in another reply, there is definitely an opportunity to create a blog that is more technical and aimed more at the developer/tech/entrepreneur community.

There is an audience that is only interested in about 10% of what is on TC, but have nowhere to go atm to find more of the same.

There isn't a blog that really epitomizes the types of stories that are featured here on HN every day. There isn't an outlet that dominates HN news as much as Techcrunch dominates the Techmeme crowd.

The problem is that the audience wants both quality and volume. You can't get away with just a post a day - and producing at least 3-4 good quality tech/dev stories, 7 days a week, is a lot of hard work
you'll learn more by trying than you will by trying to pick up bits and pieces of "what works" from hundreds of different industries.
Just switch to Bridged networking in the VM and don't care about port mapping at all? (It will have its own IP.)
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Excellent write up, George. Even before the "where" to incorporate question, people need to answer the "if," "when," and "why" questions (and some others).

In general, many/most "startups" don't need to incorporate until one of a handful of triggers fire, such incoming investment, upside valuation event on the horizon, tax reasons, launch to the public, especially if the project/site/app is risky in terms of liability, some others.

Like many other real options (the option to incorporate or not, then where, in this case), it's often better not to exercise them early (except for the special reasons that mean otherwise).
So, he never writes about the Google/facebook rivalry?
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/take-a-deep-breath-google-f...
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/facebook-google-contacts/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/facebook-slaps-google-openn...

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Who gets to make the decisions?
Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial is a good start http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

Also Railscasts is a fantastic resource.
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I don't think you're contradicting humbledrone here, just pointing out that there are various ways to assess business impact. I suspect the OPs real complaint was that issues don't get fixed unless they have an immediate business impact. Otherwise, I think I'd agree with the observation that issues with no business impact aren't worth fixing from the company's standpoint.
Of course tools and technology definitely matter, and do influence culture, which also matters, but if someone sent me a letter like this one I'd be genuinely relieved it didn't work out.
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IANAL either ... but directors of companies do have legal responsibilities, and is it possible that the authorities could choose to purse the directors for failing to fulfil those responsibilities.

In the UK at least I believe you can be prevented from holding directorships in other companies, which may mess things up for you personally in the future even without a financial impact.

Not sure what happens if all the directors in a company resign?!
I am generally happy with iOS but here are the three things I would like to see:

1. The option to encrypt ALL user data.
2. Get rid of the iTunes requirement. A post PC device shouldn't need a PC to operate.
3. Multiuser support so I can let someone use my device without giving them access to all my stuff.

That said, I don't expect to see any of these from Apple (except for, maybe, number 1).
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> I only took basic stats courses in college, but I know enough to know that's nowhere close to a big enough sample size to be statistically significant.

Just like you can't get a statistically significant result about the 300 million Americans by phoning a few hundred people.
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Spot on. And, if I can add another aphorism, real programmers finish what they start.
Yeah sometimes i feel TechCrunch is biased. I am not comfortable with people who write news on behalf of some company. We expect them to write the real news rather than supporting some and reprimanding others.
I think they do understand that. It is, however, nontrivial to edit compiled JavaScript. There might also be legal complications to editing the scripts...
with enough responses, apple is effectively crowd-sourcing usage patterns (the usual error rates apply). so, if one app is getting reviews that are way out of line with the crowd-sourced usage pattern (when compared to other similar app's patterns) that might trigger a "lets go look at this one" flag at apple.
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