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Why Not? We do, in one of our product areas. The software products are sold at a fair price and most of our customers expect to use the products for many years into the future - probably decades. Thus we provide free upgrades for all users.

It helps on the maintenance front as well. We can "kill off" support for very old versions by encouraging such users to move to a later one.

Some software sales models depend upon selling upgrades - alternately you price for "lifetime use" and enjoy a long term relationship with your customers.
CEO pay is a very good indicator. You should also pay attention to perks. Not all compensation is in terms of pay.

A CEO to taking a lower compensation says to me they are taking the company seriously. It's another way they have skin in the game.

If they aren't willing to sacrifice a little for the end game, may mean they are either purely in it for themselves or don't have confidence in the company. Either one is not so good for the company.
Not sure all personalized genetics companies are created equal. You seem to be pretty misinformed about what we do.

* We indeed do conduct our own research and are currently collaborating with some prominent research institutions (Parkinson's institute).

* Why do we have to own sequencing equipment to be useful and/or legit? Does Google own the webpages they index?

* We give you much more than a "pretty writeup". This includes crowd-sourced research initiatives, ancestry and health communities, and many interactive ways of analyzing your own data. A ton more things coming in the future.
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Venturing off-topic, but...

game developers need to hire labs to test on the 150 most popular 3D cards

With this in mind, I find it odd that console games cost exactly the same as the PC version. Surely they can pass some of that savings (from only having to test on one machine) on to me? :P
Your comment came up second.
I hope you're not suggesting you should sacrifice healthcare though... bad idea.
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Floating & wave power is cool, but the offshore oil rig style datacenter was tried way back in 2000 and it wasn't a big success.

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Well, mostly I was just trying to see if they were headed in that direction... but there might be some logic in that SNPs do not always represent the functional differences in genes - they generally have their power because they are correlated with the nearby functional difference. The full set of DNA changes might be more precise in terms of really really pinpointing the right genes. But, I guess the true power comes with correlating everybody and their phenotypes together, in which case it doesn't matter if you're looking at unexplainable SNPs or not.
I agree. And those other "bots" who read the story in the first place and started selling are getting dumber it seems :-)
This is maybe a pretty half-baked idea, but could a language that supports partial evaluation replace a pretty significant chunk of most web app caching systems?

I guess the tricky part is that side effects (e.g. another process modifying the database) are pretty much unavoidable with current architecture.
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Oh. I get it now. So obvious when it's laid out like this...
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It is not very wise to take sayings at face value.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish! - Thats all matters I think.

Steve Jobs Speech: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
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Or the systems that don't think about that don't think about it because it doesn't matter one way or an other towards efficiency. There is such a thing as overthinking the interface.

The efficiency of well formatted data plus SQL or a sweet, sweet UNIX pipeline is so stupidly efficient compared to using Excel for the same task for any amount of data worth mentioning isn't even measured in units of orders-of-magnitude-better. Font and color selection doesn't even come into play with some user experience situations, and programs that attempt to control that when it doesn't make sense to seem petty and illfocused from the real goal.
Is there a difference between a "startup" and "starting a company"?

I ask because, "In Startupland, everybody should be working towards the same goal: that big juicy exit," couldn't be further from my mind. I know what that means to me (as does my team) in terms of access to venture funding, but I'm not particularly interested in an "exit". I want to build a service that's beneficial and worth paying for and that is responsive to my customer's needs.

Am I missing something, or do I need to change how I think about what I'm doing?
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I really talking more about expense accounts and other fringe benefits that don't necessarily benefit the business.
startups => exits

company => provides services and products
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It _is_ dumb to limit access to just the price information and checkout/purchase page based on browser type. That being said...

If the customers don't care about the W3C, they won't care about having to download another browser either.

The combination of professional and elitist ("clientele for whom ego and image are everything") has a good chance of meaning they are either going to _already_ be using one of the listed browsers _or_ will want to find out how to enter the exclusive club they are not a part of. Thankfully, a link has been provided.

Looks good, works on all browsers, is cheap (in time and money) to implement. Choose two. Someone else just decided their priorities are different than yours.

I'd like to see some places start to put claims like "You're still using Internet Explorer, which has increased our development costs Nx over other more standards compliant browsers. This is one of the reasons our products are so expensive."
It's neither. Both capitalism and communism deals specifically with the ownership of scarce goods. Software specifically isn't a scarce good.

But it's free market at its best. Both process and result.
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Not to worry. The general consensus is that the courts will not hold google responsible for piracy...
Wil Shipley says charge for upgrades: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/4/ (He is the dev of the OS X app, Delicious Library.)

I would say that not charging for major upgrades impairs developer-customer relations. Without upgrades, the dev has an incentive to stop working on their app and write a new one (and thus get a bunch more money).

I can't think of any well-known piece of Mac shareware that doesn't charge for x.0.0 upgrades.
I have a feeling this is has been talked to death, but i haven't seen it.

What is the range for core-member group size for which Slinkset/Reddit/HN - like is advisable. Naturally, there's a lot of squeeze room depending on the activity of member but... Anyone have upper/lower limits?
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The impressive part is that he did that while holding a speech. With his toes.
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Meanwhile, Spore was cracked on the day of release, and pirates are enjoying DRM free Spore!

You've gotta wonder - how do game developers write code BLIND?! Because they obviously all are, as they don't see how much people hate DRM, and that pirates crack it every time! Though I've gotta find out how to do it, I could work in the day - and contribute to open source projects at night while I'm asleep! Woah!
What about performance related pay? For example, pay directly tied to profits?
Not really. Caching is (in my understanding) mainly about reducing (disk) I/O, which is very slow. This is a database/persistence problem more than a programming languague problem. Partial/lazy evaluation prevents looking up things you don't need, but doesn't solve the problem of getting what you need as fast as possible.
Am I the only one who finds light grey text on a light grey background hard to read? This seems to be a common color choice these days, and it's getting as annoying as rounded corners and pastel gradients eventually became. High contrast text, please. I have to stare at and focus on this stuff.
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From the blogpost:

a recent article in Business Week, shows how, at least, one company was successful with their 8 words; that’s how many the Google team used with Sequioa Capital ... The bottom line is that you really need to understand your opportunity so well that you can reduce to 8 words and still have people understand what you are trying to accomplish.
By YC equation (5kn founders + 5k) 4 = 1 year bare minimum salary for founding team

$100-125k is pretty good for funded startup then i.e. as good as corporate salary
It's not OCD, it's CDO. And the letters are in proper alphabetical order, just like they should be.
I just finished my first big project using Mechanical Turk. Instead of filling out a page here, I turned it into a blog post: http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/09/mechanical-turk-now-...
If your getting on HackerNews strategy relies on linkbaiting and TechCrunch trashing, you've already succeeded.
I personally like the ask stuff.

I like the pipes idea alot though, can see it's use.
Why not directly link to the actual article?
If your CEO requires a healthcare-nanny in order to stay healthy during a ~4-year start-up run, perhaps you should be shopping for a new CEO. IQ codes for both business-competency and self-healthcare competency. High-IQ individuals with little money and no health insurance tend to be healthier than the average person. Linda Gottfredson details this further:

http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/pubtopics.htm#...
You know you've made it as a corporation when other corporations with twice your market cap are pushing the government to file antitrust suits against you.
Spore is not your average game. In fact, I would say that Spore doesn't fit into current classification of games as single-player vs multiplayer; thus brings state of the industry a step further. I.e. you can play your game in single-player mode just fine, but you also can publish your creatures with a press of a button so that they will be saved on game servers, other players can comment them on the Web and may encounter them in their games.

You have to prove your point if you want it to be taken seriously.
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Me too. I don't mind the crunch stuff being out but I enjoy the Ask stuff more than probably anything.

Also, trying to make this more like digg (with previews and taglines) does not help. I prefer the old reddit style that HN has today (and I don't prefer the new reddit style of reddit).
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Wait - you think TC50 is "high visibility low effort"? I completely disagree.

"How much work does it take to get in the TC50?" A ton - business planning, networking, product development; it's a lot more than just starting up in some private beta.

One question not asked is, "How much work is required the four weeks before TC?" Answer: all of your time.

Another unasked question is, "How much time is required the eight weeks after TC?" Answer: probably all of them for at least 50% of the employees since you must follow up and follow through (investors, demos, press, networking, invitations).

That's not low effort at all, neither pre- or post-event; it's probably 8-12 weeks of your time that you aren't doing product development or other marketing. I'll agree that it's high visibility, of course, but don't overhype what it takes to be included and have a successful event.
Great post! I am looking at AMT for classification training for a Bayesian tool we're working on and it sounds ideal for something like that. Thanks for the post - it helped me to make a decision :)
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"In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive."

OR they got bored and spammed to death such that they stopped using facebook. (My personal experience)
I think the article either leaves out a critical part of the speech or Peter just didn't cover it. That approach may be the right approach for CEOs of new companies that haven't taken big investment (like the TC50) or for first or second time CEOs of low capital requirement companies. I know he doesn't believe that for VC-backed companies or for companies in which the CEO brings huge value to the table in terms of past performance/experience/contacts.

Bottom line: you aren't going to be able bring in a proven CEO for $100-$125k a year. I don't care whether you're in Cincinnati, Boston, Austin, Silicon Valley - you can't expect someone who has a $15,000/month mortgage (as a proven CEO would likely have) and expect him to work for $8k/mth. "Hmmmm - over the next four years of my life, I can make $600k a year plus bonuses/benefits working for ACME Corp or I can make $100k a year with the chance to take home a $3m-$5m payoff..."
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It's not illegal to make money on the false info, but it is to post the false info in the first place. Was it accidental or deliberate? I guess we shall find out.

Although, at least the NASDAQ has a mechanism for canceling sales (for example if someone typo's on entering a price). Will they use that?
Some random thoughts, as a game developer:

AAA games as we know them will peak and then decline. The PC is inexorably moving towards a fully open-standard platform on which DRM-laden products cannot work. Consoles don't suffer the same problem, but by cutting themselves off from an open world and locking the hardware specs at a fixed low level, they force development costs considerably higher. The Wii points to a future console market that seeks disruptive hardware innovations over a market-share battle, but development costs mean that third parties will have few incentives to participate in such a market.

Also, games with a large engineering scope have an astonishingly poor track record. Games with a high content scope are much more likely to succeed.
And he quoted quite a lot from the article too - too much to claim fair use I think.
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California has ... very favorable laws and protections for tech workers

Why would that make a startup want to locate in California?
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First read your contract of employment - you might find that you do not "own" your ideas while employed (this might be location dependent). Does not stop you thinking and working of course but will require some effort to ensure that any "inventions" are deniable.
They do: you don't need to pay to upgrade your hardware every year ;-)
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The problem with SNP-based association is that, for the vast majority of disease-associated SNPs, the relative risk is only increased on the order of a few percent at most. When it comes to predicting the risk of an individual (as opposed to a population) developing a particular disease this is virtually meaningless. No doubt the current technology will appeal to some out of curiosity. However I do think that the vast quantities of sequence that will be generated by next generation platforms over the next few years will lead to the ability to usefully predict disease susceptibility of an individual basis.
The best way to do it is to make a modular design and hire people to work on it. Every day, you review the code they wrote for an hour. Otherwise you will hardly have the time for work, startup AND wife. Plan carefully, use the money from your job to create your idea and then launch small.
I fully understand your grudge towards DRM.

However, before judging on the qualities of game developers one should better understand the world that they live in. They live in the world of 20th century show business, not your 21th century web development world. That's the world where channels are narrow and the technologies involved are expensive. That's the world of "short tail".

There is a real need in at least two distinct parties: developers and publishers, and maybe others such as producers. As computer technology marches forward, it gets more and more expensive to master, which means bigger budgets, which means both smaller number of games and larger audiences needed to make a game profitable. Bigger budgets and larger audiences makes publishers increasingly more cautious, so they pressure developers harder and harder to subdue to their perception of mass appeal. On the other hand, publishers, in their effort to protect as much of their revenue as they can, enforce copy protection on the games they release, including DRM.

I think the developers in general are not fond of DRM, but it's not them who decide. The developers would also be happy to make richer games, but they get pressured into diluting their product so that it would sell. The Maxis Software and Will Wright have an outstanding track record of making innovative games that sell well, so they should have had as much freedom as it gets in negotiating terms with the publisher and developing the product the way they want, but if you followed the development process from the prototypes you will notice how it got diluted too.

Bottom line: given the current state of the industry, we should be happy to get what we get. DRM sucks and I hope that the publisher will remove it if public resentment weighs something (which I doubt), and it is certainly out of developers' reach.
This is story #17 on a variation of "My Candidate is more tech-friendly than yours"

The formula is simple. Whatever the board's topic, just add something about your candidate to that. Then claim it is on-topic. Everybody who doesn't like your candidate is stuck having to figure out how to respond, not wanting to get into a political discussion, yet not wanting to see the board go to hell either.

Ok. Ok. Enough already. Candidate X has technology Y. We can argue how Y is cool (or not), how X is cool (or not) or how X choosing Y demonstrates, yet again, that X is cool.

Substitute parameters and repeat ad-infinitum.
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Cubic Telecom were not acquired. It would have been big news here in Ireland if they had been. You can see from the founder's blog that they actually just partnered with Global Roaming: http://patphelan.net/cubic-telecom-and-global-roaming-allign...

If anything, it seems like they have completely lost focus on their original, supposedly revolutionary offering and instead fallen back on roaming SIM cards (not so exciting).

Their Crunchbase profile incorrectly states they were acquired (how convenient) and the ostensible acquisition value is oddly similar to the total amount of capital they've raised: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cubictelecom
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rms posted it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299226

I can't think of any project were I could make use of it but you've got me itching to try it out.
The number games in this article are without any substance, especially the estimates for the percentage of upgraders.

Other companies are using a tiered system, where you get free lifetime upgrades for the base version and you pay a fee for premium/business services (Jungledisk.com is using this approach). This way you can build a (happy) userbase and increase the trust in the company. Satisfied customers are more likely to upgrade to a payed plan.
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So whats the product? Some kind of music software?
This one was much better than the complex model of the evolution of complex models of evolution.

Also gets points for being more succinct than the famous Simple Model of the Evolution of Complex Models of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution, which ended, as we all know, disastrously with the model strike of '97.
Usually, the reason for staying at your full-time job while working on your project in your free time is that you don't want to take the financial risk of going full time on the project. I find it hard to believe why you'd rather stay employed yet use that money to pay others to work on your project.
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