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This is an older but relevant post from a former Google designer: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

More anecdotally, I find that the best design and illustration I've seen from Google is usually on a very small thing: Google doodles, the CR-48 pilot program videos and illustrations, the Google TV quick tour. Some amazing work has gone into Chrome marketing.

But it's almost never on a product. Their products often feel like the design was managed by committees of engineers. That's not to knock any of Google's product designers, but it often feels like they're not allowed to make decisions on anything that really matters.
Yeah, I was suspecting that much after posting my comment. Thanks for clearing that up :)
I think what the author is talking about is redesign and not reinvention. According to Wikipedia "Reinventing the wheel is a phrase that means to duplicate a basic method that has already previously been created or optimised by others".
What I understand and interpret is "method" implies "concept". Reinventing the "concept" of wheel does not make sense especially if your end product is not wheel but a car. The connotation here is more do with the focus than improving the current solution. If you fundamentally want to redefine the rolling motion of wheel with something else then I think the phrase applies more appropriately.
Interesting to see the responses about Facebook trustworthiness. Are there other payment companies out there that can compete?
I'm also always shocked by how consistently good the audio is, especially since as far as I know they're just using Skype. Hard to believe considering my own experiences using Skype. I always seem to get lots of of audio glitches from the software/connection (on very standard 6,000 kBit/s DSL connections), so I'd love to hear how he minimizes that.
I just met the brains behind Opani (http://opani.com) last night and they are a huge step in this direction.
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Google ought to also fund startups in Chile, Italy, and Australia. Lock down every single Mediterranean climate in the world.
If you pay me half the amount, I will come up with a better domain name.
His examples were about him essentially manipulating rules to his favor. I do not think they contain much substance and would only be beneficial in Wall Street and politics.
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The article is so True !.Consider even universities, Wearing a Harvard or MIT T-shirt is like a badge of honor . It identifies you as a member of an exclusive community .
It really seems to me that Google is failing to understand social media the same way Microsoft failed to understand the internet back in the '90s. So the question always is: what will Facebook fail to understand?
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Which surprises me, since a lot of the community uses darcs..
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Or use someone else's name, which may be what the owner of the site actually did. How can we know that the whois information is valid?
I think it's conflating a lot of stuff. It seems like he's talking about quantization, but I think he's actually talking about the actual MP3 (or any lossy) compression scheme. It's really screwed up. Actual MP3 will result in the 'rough edges' and all the nice stuff he describes.

Well, kinda. The hilarious part is that while we some error introduced that sounds kinda like noise, MP3 is actually horrible at representing 'noise'. See the sizzle on your cymbals.

I remember reading this article when it came out, and I wasn't particularly impressed by it then either.
If you are going to buy it, make sure you will use it. I can't tell you how many domains I bought and never used.
Okay, I'll take the alternative view: this is embarrassing for the OP.

What worries me is that the OP found the name Bart Burns on the WHOIS for the domain, and assumed (a) that's who registered the domain, and (b) that the information he found via a quick Google is actually Bart Burns. I can change the information on my domain to be whoever I want, particularly if I'm a scammer. Whatever I put in NameCheap's panel shows up minutes later. If someone doesn't believe me, I'll alter the registration on one of my domains. Just ask.

More interesting than that, however, is that the OP is completely aware that there are avenues of recourse for this and that he is technically able to determine who hosts the scraped domain. Rather than pursue those avenues of recourse, however -- said facilities have been keeping the Internet from devolving into a "wild West," at least in ARIN and RIPE regions -- this guy had to take a play from 4chan's book and attack possibly the wrong guy. If everybody did what the OP does, you're absolutely right: the Internet would be a wild West.

As an administrator at a very large ISP, I am completely aware that some people lose faith in abuse desk contacts. At my employer, we receive countless abuse complaints and we handle every single one. This is a pattern you will observe in ARIN and RIPE regions, but less so for APNIC and other parts of the world (with exceptions). Particularly for someone hosted with JustHost, a DMCA complaint gets the job done in hours. If it doesn't you can go after the ISP. I was never a fan of the DMCA, but this is a prime example of a use case for it.

Above everything else, though, even if the OP is right about the identity of the scammer, calling out the scammer's employment means the OP could be attacking his family. If I were the aforementioned company I'd cut my losses and terminate the employee for bad PR. Now the OP has potentially hurt the suspected perpetrator's family based on actions his family is probably not even familiar with. Because he copied the HTML for a site I've never even heard of. That's icing on the cake, to me, because I protect my family. With teeth.

In short, I am totally unimpressed by the OP's vigilantism and I am equally disappointed that it is so popular in this forum. Demonstrating this sort of arrogance to Hacker News is probably a good way to burn your bridges at the innumerable employers and business contacts that frequent the site.
updating, come back later...

The site in question has been updated quite quickly I suppose.
I would've just sent the DMCA notice. It's not a "whole process", it's a couple lines of text you copy/paste, put in the URL of your site and the copy, change the date, and email to the host. It'll take you a few seconds to modify and send out. Most web hosts have a specific mailbox for DMCA notices on their contact page or in their AUP.

Subject: DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement

The copyrighted work at issue is the text that appears on: [URL(s)]

The URLs where our copyrighted material is located include: [URL(s)]

You can reach me at [email] for further information or clarification. My phone number is [phone] and my mailing address is [physical address].

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

[your name]
[today's date]

Never once have I had a DMCA notice not result in the material taken down within 24 hours, even when the host was outside the US. None of them want to potentially be a party to a copyright infringement suit, however unlikely it may be that you'd take it to court and drag the host into it.
There's other perspectives, such as "The political scene is a complete and ridiculous mess as the bill for decades of feckless spending and promises is coming due and only one faction in one party is even capable of admitting that, and for that they are being burned at the stake." (Which I consider a plain-and-simple case of shooting the messenger.) The mess we have right now is politicians trying to follow the time-honored bi-partisan tradition of kicking the can down the road and discovering there's not all that much road left.
How far along is your project? Do you have a good feel for whether this is something you're likely to carry through to completion?

I personally tend to put too much time into looking for a domain name too early in the project (because it's fun to do, honestly). It's much better to at the very least do serious research first (competitors, understanding and talking to possible customers, etc.), and have done proof-of-concept work for technical challenges, and done some design on your minimum-viable-product first version before worrying about a domain name, because it's so frequent to find some serious problem during that process that will cause you to abandon the project (or perhaps realize that you don't find it as interesting as you thought initially -- if you don't have some serious passion for solving this particular problem, it's not likely you'll have the motivation to get through the hard parts of building a business around it!).

If you've already gotten past those steps -- sure, go for it. Upper 3-figures isn't a high number if this feels like a very good candidate.

I don't recommend buying it as an investment, though... There was an HN thread a few weeks back on the subject of assessing domain names, and in general they aren't very valuable. Yes, many names are taken, but there are so many businesses that are succeeding in spite of quite odd domain names (hell, thinking of domain names, what about "GoDaddy.com" for a completely random domain name?).
Rich Hickey is probably getting more consulting and training gigs as Clojure gains traction.

Martin Odersky is still a professor at EPFL but has founded Scala Solutions which does training, consulting, and will eventually provide Scala development tools besides the existing Eclipse support.

The potential use value of Go as a replacement for Java and/or C++ for in-house production systems is more than sufficient to justify Google's investment in the related R&D.

Walter Bright already had a pretty formidable track record before developing D so it might have kicked up his consulting practice a notch. The more significant financial impact for him from developing D seems to be more demand for seminars on compiler construction which he is unquestionably a master of.
I'm square in your demographic, so I'll try to give you some honest feedback.

1) Inventory tracking seems odd to me, unless its primarily to brag to other tea drinkers. I mean I see my tea every day, I know how much I have.

2) I really like the brewing tracking/suggesting. The amount of tea, length of steep, and temperature all make a big difference and it can be hard to remember which caused which flavors.

3) I'm okay with making my tea drinking schedule/habits public, but I'm not sure I really want to push each one out to facebook/twitter.

So in conclusion, my main enthusiasm for the app would be my ability to log detailed brewing trials, and to see what others have come up with. I would worry others might be taking loose or incorrect measurements though, so I'd want some assurance any public notes were somewhat carefully done.
If it takes less time to do it again yourself than it does to find and understand someone else's solution is that so bad?
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Reading the content of the article you linked, the first version had 9hp and was "notoriously underpowered". Most 2CVs actually came with engines around 30 HP. This car also weighed only 560kg, which is lighter than even a Smart Fortwo. Modern crash safety standards mean it's effectively impossible[0] to produce street legal cars that weigh less.

The fact that a car was once successfully sold in Europe with such a low power to weight ratio doesn't mean it would succeed in today's market. Consumer expectations have changed. They could change again, but there would have to be a good reason.

[0] Lighter cars could be made from more exotic materials, but those would drive the price out of reach of the average buyer.
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Dennis Crowley has to be one of the single best examples of jdp23's point. Google bought 4square v1 nee Dodgeball, and had one of the people with what seems to be the best insights into social / gamification / local in house. That he left so pissed at Google really understates how hostile Google is to people who aren't amazing technologists. Social seems to require a different type of person / knowledge / skills, and Google seems incapable of hiring, promoting, and supporting anything but technologists.

Letting dodgeball languish and pushing Crowley out of Google really ought to be the subject of a bunch of management self reflection and probably even some firings, all the way up to the CEO level.
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I haven't used it but I like the idea. Being able to create your idea in programs your comfortable with (photoshop) and then actually clicking and feeling the design is a valuable thing.
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If it's showing cracks now, it's amazing we've held up for 100 years after the cracks we had when Teddy Roosevelt was President. I'm trying to advocate for perspective; I'm not saying things are great or don't need fixing, but remember that things have been much worse in the past.
This is the kind of app that makes me want to hard mount an ipad in the kitchen.
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First, a comment: Friggin' awesome!

Second, a list of (hopefully helpful) criticisms:

(1) Re: Intro video. Way too long. Don't need to see the face of the founder. How can you use an ordinary hot water heater and discuss water temperature? At least pretend to stick in a thermometer -- or, better, use a Zojirushi or equivalent.

(2) Should probably have preset times/temperatures for different tea types that can be edited, to facilitate data entry (maybe you do, but I didn't quite pick up on this in the video).

(3) Perhaps I'm the only one, but I find data entry (including tasting notes) to be a major pain on an iPhone. I used to keep my cheese tasting notes on mine but gave up since I hated doing it that way. I suspect that people will not continue using the app if they find the most useful features require significant data entry.

(4) Key and very useful feature(brewing timer) is already included as part of the free Teavana app. Also the Teavana app has nice music while you brew.

(5) Killer feature would be tea ratings and the ability to share. You might also want to rate them based on vendor. Or, potentially very profitably, allow direct buying with the purchase automatically imported into the app. That's what my app was structured around. To get a more long-term hold you probably need to "go social" at some point.

(6) Hardcore tea snobs (this term should probably include myself) frequently brew tea in different pots, vessels. You might consider including this -- and obviously you would use different amounts of tea depending on the vessel.

Best of luck! Definitely a huge improvement over what else is out there -- and personally hope it makes it into an app not tied to iOS.

About me: I got into tea while working and studying in China and Japan and once built a (skeletal) Rails app for rating tea that I never released. I still think this could be profitable but am now instead n grad school reading about Tea -- and have also identified several favorite vendors such that I feel that I have everything I need at the moment.
I fully agree with this.

Moreover, the phrase "Don't reinvent the wheel" is not meant to stop you from reimplementing stuff. I just means that you should have a close look at what already exists before reimplementing it, so you don't follow the path of trials and errors that others have already gone for you. The best sign that someone reinvented the wheel is that the "new" stuff is completely inferior to what already exists. And this appears to happen quite often.

So in my experience, the phrase "Don't reinvent the wheel" is merely meant to counteract the NIH syndrome.
No they care about the individuals.
We saw something similar to this with AppJet, which was a Javascript Platform as a Service. They used the AppJet technology to build EtherPad which got so much traction, they pivoted and focused on EtherPad as their revenue generator. They later got acquired by Google, so that the AppJet/Etherpad team could work on Wave.
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Pure invention is overrated. While it's nice if a technology exists in a lab somewhere or in somebody's head, I don't really care.

Microsoft put cheap GUI computing on everbody's desk and broke the vertical hardware micromonopolies, commoditizing hardware.

Microsoft gave me run whoever's programs you want computing, no permission needed computing on everbody's desk.

Apple put touchscreen microcomputer app technology in my hand. I don't care if they didn't invent any bit of it, they were the ones who made it available and synthesized the pieces to make a whole much greater than the parts.

Apple put cheap mostly individual digital music in my hand. Who cares that they didn't invent digital audio, compression, or mp3 players -- they were the ones let me have them.

etc etc
The author is taking the phrase too seriously. I think he has a problem with people misusing or over-using the phrase. I think don't reinvent the wheel is a great phrase when a particular action is futile with respect to a much bigger goal, and is often due to the negligence/naivety of the person who's not supposed to reinvent the wheel.

When I was working on my undergraduation project and building a chatbot, I was trying to make it smart by querying Wikipedia. I started writing a web scraper since I had no idea how else to do it (I was new to web programming at that point since I was a total C++ freak.) My prof told me, "Don't reinvent the wheel. Use the MediaWiki API or something like Beautiful Soup"
"The main argument for 'piracy is not stealing' is that there is still an original copy."

No, the main argument for 'piracy is not stealing' is that piracy is not stealing. Stealing is the substraction of property, which piracy isn't.

This isn't stealing either, this is plagiarism.

If we don't name things with their correct names, we create false associations, and that makes arguing about those things needlesly complicated. It's hard enough getting a consensus on anything related to IP as it is, so we should avoid ambiguous syntax wherever possible.
Never once have I had a DMCA notice not result in the material taken down within 24 hours

I have!

The culprit -- whose copyright agent [edit]appears not to[/edit] respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. (I've caught scumbags selling books of mine online as ebooks via the Kindle store. Amazon don't listen unless you carry a big stick. My solution was to grab the nearest big stick, in this case SFWA's Griefcom process, but something like that's not really an option for most self-published authors.)

(In contrast, Apple -- same situation, only in the iBook store -- were the very model of efficiency and helpfulness.)
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I think the author has seriously missed the mark in the comparison of Google vs. Facebook mission statements. Google's mission statement is to organize the worlds information. Facebook is organizing your personal/social information. That is all facebook really is, a good organization of your relationships, photos, things you like, etc. etc. This is directly inline with Google's mission.
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>Mark my words: Any net neutrality bill will benefit the existing carriers, and stifle telecom startups.

Why or how?
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The fact that you feel like you have to make a comment about spending on a thread about net neutrality is an indication that the thread has developed at least some ambient toxicity. Notice how little it takes for that to happen! Just a couple seed comments about "Republicans" and we're off to the races.

(I'm not criticizing you).
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I wouldn't say it's boring. Not everyone has the patience science requires but for those that do, there's plenty of incentive to do disciplined data collection.

It's most likely just that the resources required to do it are still out of reach, unlike the python and ruby communities where your biggest expenses are a computer with a text editor and access to an internet connection.

Even some computing resources are out of reach for individuals, even if just barely. Amazon hosts public datasets, which is nice, but but the 500,000 instance-hours of HPC compute time needed to do analysis is not going to be in the budget of a hacker-in-the-basement (ie someone with no funding, whether it be from grants, revenue, or investment).
What about the "what is in a name" path?

What if, instead of regulating what ISPs can do with their network, there were a movement (read, "lawsuits") (using some new or perhaps just existing law) to stop anything past some previously normal level of traffic management from being called "internet service". So a teleco could give preference to their own, or affiliate, traffic, but that could not be referred to by them, or sold to customers, as "the internet". The position here is this: the term "the internet" has come to mean, through intent and common use, something that does not include, by definition, those kind of practices. Thus, selling a package with those practices and calling it internet service is deceit.

If I sold a "car" to someone and, when they went to pick up their new car, they found what anyone besides my team of salesmen would call a golf cart, that wouldn't be legal. Same idea.

I'm sure I'm being naïve, how?
Or they like opting-in to tell Canonical where they are located.
I'd love to see the numbers on this, I agree that it's usually long-distance travel that's the problem.

A typical single passenger automobile trip has about equivalent CO2 emissions, per-passenger, as a typical jet trip. (At least whenever I've run the numbers.)

But since the bus ride is less than the cost of gas for an automobile, I would think that the bus must be per-passenger somewhat more efficient. It's hard to get much of a discount on commodities like fuel.