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Are you kidding? 80% of 'enterprise' systems involve a spreadsheet that is (conceptually) a database. Some business users use the words spreadsheet and database interchangeably. Almost every enterprise system I've build involved Excel as one of it's data sources. Users often give you requirements in terms of excel formulate etc, or ask for screens that are 'just like excel'. Microsoft has even recognized this and now offers 'server-side excel'
as part of office 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel_Services

I'd suggest that if this product wasn't a success you either didn't understand how end-users currently use spreadsheets as a 'poor man's database' or the marketing let you down.
i thought most hosting companies who still use centos do so because of cpanel or other control panel software that handles handles php very well itself.

Which ones don't?
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Fabulous.com for portfolio holders. If I recall correctly, you can design specific protocols to unlock/make changes to a domain with them with your most important domains. http://fabulous.com/informationcenter/index.htm?formdata%5Bq...

NameCheap.com is the best retail registrar imo.
Considering most hosting companies use cPanel and PHP/Apache updates aren't taken from the operating systems repository, this doesn't matter.
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Something I've been pondering lately is whether there's a viable niche in internationalization as a middleware library & service: it takes a lot of effort to get right, it's tedious stuff (as I discovered when trying to document postal address formats for most of Africa and Europe), and it involves a lot of domain knowledge that's completely irrelevant to the actual core business of most SaaS vendors.
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I once read a blog post of the creator of the buttons of gmail, and all was custom. What was more surprising for me, was that different teams in different apps (at that time) didn't seem to share UI components like those
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I am not a lawyer or accountant, but what I recall from my accountant telling me, it's probably easiest to do it in whatever state you live in for an LLC.
Eh, it's an interesting line of thinking.
The issue was never killing babies.

Precisely. Fertility labs kill lots and lots of fertilized embryos and conservatives never bat an eye.
Everything seems to be working now with the link. There is a link in that article. I don't think that my google reader share was in my google+ I know it is. I know that I shared that article in may, and google+ didn't come out till last week.

I wasn't attempting to sound alarming either, I just thought it was odd that something I shared in google reader is now appearing to be in my google+ feed, especially because I didn't choose to share my google reader shared feed in google+.
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No doubt we did a crappy job marketing. Also ran out of money before being able to implement the full vision/feature set.

We built it a a desktop application too which I think was a mistake. Getting people to download and install things is hard.
I completely do not understand the mysql upgrade requirement.

They are not using any queries that are not supported on mysql 4.1 and for myisam use, 4.1 is faster than all later versions of mysql until version 5.5 (which is not available yet on many control panel based servers like cpanel).
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I don't really get this. Conceptually, haml IS html. Sure the syntax is a bit different, but it's hard for me to imagine that a decent programmer would get hung up on this. Same with coffeescript really. If a cleaner syntax on top of a language scares you, you don't really grok the original language all that well in my opinion. There are certainly arguments for sticking with vanilla html/js, like the potential minor hassles of dealing with file conversions and debugging generated code, etc., but fear of a new syntax that can be learned in 15 minutes is a weak one.

Edit: I do grant that js to coffeescript is a bit more of a leap than html to haml since coffeescript actually introduces some new language concepts.
This tells it all. Looks like they were developing it for at least 1 year, I'm guessing they had something to the tune of 4-6 people (if not more) actually working on the development.

Still, if they keep up this revenue for a year, it could end up being some very nice returns. Will they really be selling ~$1m a month, or will it taper off soon?
This probably ought to include the heat lost through the walls of the cooler, which is the big ice melter for outdoor picnics. (After all, you can put the beer in the fridge before you go out.) I did some of these calculations at http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-Decembe... with a somewhat larger cooler in mind.
Interesting. I'll see if these can be useful to me.
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Cliff notes: RIM should port or license its email system, app and BBM to iOS and Android. They can "own" the mobile email market across all devices.
Yes, that is why it should be done by domestic startups and teams 'right on the site'. So, YC's model doesn't work here - they fund only US-based startups (because it is quite difficult to fetch a profit from aboard =) but this one must be an international one. (same as that network of Google offices around the globe).
Or competing with Microsoft in this domain is still extremely difficult. As you point out, Excel still has very strong mindshare.
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One could argue that Perl 5 has gotten interesting again lately, and that the versions since the last edition are responsible for some of that. Smart match, given/when, a number of refinements that can reduce ambiguity, etc.

And, of course Learning Perl is often a new Perl programmer's first experience with the language...it's good for them to learn current best practices from day one.
Agreed. I've really come to love minimalism in languages. It's somewhat like economy of words in poetry. There should be sufficient syntax to get the desired meaning across, and nothing more. Even though I haven't used jade yet, it's the cleanest looking markup language I've seen. I would also a appreciate a cleaner alternate syntax for json to complete the picture.
I don't know about this. Their new pricing scheme seems to imply they are after larger players -- like major brick and mortar stores who don't want to mess with keeping their own hosting infrastructure up and running. Google needs to make enough money to guarantee 5 9s uptime...something GAE is not even close to offering today.

We're definitely too small for that scheme and so are many folks. The funny thing is that our recent traffic spike would have gone over our free quota (easily), so we would have ended up paying Google some money for the scaling. But because of the ridiculous instance cap we never even hit the top of our free quota that day.
Waiting with excitement for this to get into Debian.

You're going to be excited for an extended period of time. I hope you've got a strong heart, for your sake.
Funny, because they seem to get quite a few referrals from craigslist.
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One thing I'm not sure about with these job queues - how do you handle cases like having to drop down to C++ to do a chunk of work that cannot be done in JS, without blocking the interpreter?

Or would you just submit that work to a separate external process over something like RabbitMQ, and handle the return when its done?
I can assure you that there exist some scenarios in which it will take more than 10 minutes. However I can also assure you that there exist some scenarios in which it will take less than 10 minutes. Thanks for trying it out!
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I agree, the part on the little red light telling you not to talk was disconcerting at best. I can't help but envision a slippery-slope wherein soon computers are regulating all aspects of our conversations, at which point they cease to ever be meaningful.
Realistically it was more like editable gopher than excel - or that is what it was meant to be anyway, we didn't get to implement the editing functionality.

I still very much like the idea of being able to build lists from web based API's with only a handful of lines of Javascript.
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Right. How many shared webhosts support OpenVPN?

Yeah, of course you can use a VPS, but then you could have used FTPS-only mode in your own FTP server in the first place...

So I guess our conclusion is that most shared webhosts' security is simply crap because they only offer upload via FTP (plain) and HTTP/webdav (plain) and that you should use your own VPS.
The properly examined overprotective option is to use a service that doesn't require such age restrictions.

Any recommendations?
Yes, and to add to that -- even if they don't -- that market is still ripe for taking and we're thinking hard about it at Tout.
Damn. This actually reads like Science, even though the frequent bolding makes it look like an SEO advice email. Guess I'll give the paleo diet a shot.
"Ghost Tweeter" seems inaccurate since the accounts are for organizations or public figures. Sure it's interesting that an Italian-American female is tweeting on behalf of an Islamic Imam but it's just like any other media outreach job. If the tweeter was intentionally crafting an alter ego or pretending to be the person/organization that would be an issue.

The author touches on Nate Weiner but I definitely think he would have benefited from a "ghost" tweeter.
To activate SSH on your account, you are required to dump your password into the free-text area on a support ticket (see http://support.jumba.com.au/kb/questions/45/Do+you+offer+SSH... ).

Given they do this sort of thing, even if they did do fancy hash comparisons when I called them, they still have people's passwords hanging around in plain text elsewhere on the system.
I try to carry my notebook as much as possible. It's always in my messenger bag. I've never really needed to access Pivotal Tracker on the go, but there are some nice looking third party mobile apps if you need to.
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There must be a better way to enforce password security...
With all of this discussion of password security lately one question I have is why browsers send the contents of a "password" input in plain text at all. Why not have the browsers preform a preliminary one way hash before even sending the data to the server.
True that this is definately not the entire answer to the password storage questions (I know Bcrypt, Bcrypt, Bcrypt) but it would at least be a step in the correct direction and if done properly it would probably eliminate the current epidemic of sites choosing to just store passwords in the clear.
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It's complicated but I think he's right. What it does is it raises awareness - especially amongst younger crowd that is more interested in vandalism than political activism. In a way this is a gateway into the whole privacy/security/activist culture.

It will bring many young people over to the dark side, where they will slowly start learning about events and people participating and sacrificing for joint causes.

And many of these young, rebellious people are tomorrows leaders. Who may through sheer vandalism and rebellion, gain their first cause.
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What I mean is whether there's a niche for a single entity whose job it is to be knowledgeable about all the sorts of issues you can run into in trying to internationalize software and services, whether they be local tax issues, best practices for translation layers in a software stack, cost estimations for freighting products.

Like, i.e. an all-in-one service: build your SaaS platform against our framework, and we'll handle all i18n issues on this given list, for this given set of countries and languages, including payment handling and shipping, and take a cut. A successful startup often doesn't have time to deal with its own internationalization before local competitor clones get the jump on it (e.g, Ebay, Groupon). So what I'm envisioning is a company that acts at a higher level than the usual outsource-to-the-translator-agency routine, yet has product-ized its offerings enough that it's not locked into the consultancy business model.
I think this perfectly illustrates the trade off of leveraging existing connections. I'm sure this list would be similar for any other "social network" that doesn't launch from scratch and build their user base exclusively by word of mouth.
If you kept saving them anyway it could have been del.icio.us.
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I wasn't aware that Heroku currently supported anything other than Ruby or node.js, and after looking through their site I can't see anything about Clojure or the JVM either. Does it support JVM languages now?
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The Celadon Cedar stack has "undocumented" support for leiningen projects (Clojure). I'm not sure about anything else though... That being said, a big selling point of the new architecture is that they should be able to add new languages/frameworks fairly easily, so maybe we'll see some other JVM languages show up.
I'm not trolling when I ask, because I have zero experience with it, but what advantage does BES email have over a properly configured Exchange 2010 server?
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Name.com is great. They don't try to obfuscate the UI to make it more user friendly. Straight access to the DNS records, simple clean design. Here's an old link to a comment I had discussing them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766590
Don't forget apps like Grindr. It's hyper-local, which is a whole new niche in this space.
Do these appear to be Google buzz stats to anyone else? Why did it redirect to zuck's buzz?
Here's a thread discussing DNS registrars from last year:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766439
Based on my understanding, most "properly configured" Exchange 2010 servers are inside of the corporate firewall sealed off. BES/BIS (whatever the name is) gives secured access to outside servers.
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What's to stop me (possible hover CSR, co-worker, whatever) from simply reading a high-profile customer's password and transferring all their million dollar domain names to me later that night when I get home from work?

I have a pretty good memory. I bet I could remember 5-10 simple passwords and email addresses without writing anything down. Chances are the idiots use the same password for their email anyways.

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People have been making relatively similar arguments for awhile about how RIM should just switch all their handsets over to Android, then rewrite BBOS as an Android skin akin to HTC Sense for the enterprise.
I lived there for five years, and recently moved away.

Plus: highest concentration of intelligence on the Eastern seaboard. It's pretty spectacular.

Minus:

Warning: what follows is my own opinion based on my own experience, and YMMV, but:

Coldness. People don't really connect. They don't really have friends. They don't "hang out," or if they do the conversations are either technical or about the weather. Try to talk to someone about anything emotional, or far out, or speculative, or... anything other than brainy topics or the weather... and you're very, very weird and people look at you funny and go back to the weather.

For the first two years I lived there I thought it was me. Then I had this friend who lived there... total social butterfly, way more than me. After he'd lived there for five years, he had more friends in New York than in Boston. He moved to New York. I went and visited him and after being there for three months he had like twenty friends.

The entire Boston area is cold and anti-social, especially the MIT/Harvard nexus.

Somehow I don't think the specs are going to help, because I don't think it has anything to do with social ability. I got the distinct impression that being friendly was considered a mark of low social class.
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I wouldn't put RIM into 'survival' mode just yet.

Sure they're are taking a beating right now. They were a powerhouse in the early smart-phone wars, and they don't seem to know what they are doing, which direction is up, and lack a clear vision.

But I believe they have a huge ace up their sleeve that is being somewhat ignored. QNX. Not as the operating system for their devices, though obviously that is important too, but as a popular embedded operating system 'in everything from in-dash radios and infotainment systems to the latest casino gaming terminals' (from the qnx.com website).

Blackberry has a history of making some pretty good hardware, and they have systems embedded in enterprise (BIS) and consumer devices (QNX). Those who are only seeing the currently mediocre products I think are selling RIM short.

I don't own a Blackberry but apparently I interact with RIM products everyday.
What does Google get from +1?
Is it for the search engine rankings? Is it for targeting to more clearcut demographics with ads? (which is a huge business)

Is it usable for anything else?
Let's get real though -- which would you rather have in your next car? A QNX operated system or an iOS system?
I think they use Google Web Toolkit for things like Gmail.

Example:
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Second all of that about Gandi. They also seem to offer more TLD's than most of the mainstream US-based registrars.
If I work there I'd have to get a Facebook account.
Twitter Firehose was never about Realtime Search but more about adding an additional signal to their crawler and perhaps to Google News.

When the Firehose was enabled, it was not surprising to see GoogleBot immediately after a new link was posted via Twitter.
I am still, after about 7 months, trying to wrangle emacs. I've basically settled on the path of least-resistance: lispbox: http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/

I really, really want to be able to use emacs for everything, but setting up slime and my own custom .emacs is just too complicated with too many spread-out resources to manage on my own.

Yay for lispbox in all it's limited-usage glory!
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Here, let me twist it a little more.

I got sent an invite today. Curious, I followed the link to see what it was like. It told me I wasn't allowed in because my browser was unsupported although of course Firefox was supported. My browser is Debian unstable's Iceweasel. So I gave up and did something else.
Interesting link. I took a read of that chapter, and found this paragraph additionally enlightening:

> I say that the conduct of Manlius is more praiseworthy and less perilous for a citizen who lives under the laws of a republic; inasmuch as it operates entirely for the benefit of the state, and can never favor private ambition. For by such conduct a man can never create any partisans for himself; severe towards everybody, and devoted only to the public good, a commander by such means will never gain any particular friends, such as we have called partisans. Thus this course of conduct can only be of the greatest benefit and value in a republic, as it looks only to the public good, and is in no way open to the suspicion of individual usurpation. But with the system of Valerius, quite the contrary is the case; for although it produces the same effects so far as the public service is concerned, yet it is calculated to inspire doubts and mistrust, on account of the special devotion of the soldiers to their chief to which it will give rise, and which might be productive of bad effects against the public liberty, in case of his being continued in command for any length of time.

So Machiavelli is basically saying in the context of a republic, it is better for a commander to rule through terror/harshness (what the article calls power) rather than respect. The reason being is that gaining respect will cause the commander to gain friends (the person commanding via terror will have none/few friends) and make that commander a risk to the state by being a potential tyrant.

Given this, it's not surprising that Machiavelli advocates Manlius over Valerius, since the behavior of Valerius is in the end disadvantageous to everybody else.

However, does this really apply to a company? Most simply aren't run as a republic, but more of a benevolent dictatorship. So even if a if a manager does rise up to be the new CEO (a "tyrant"), it's probably because whoever appoints the CEO (the board?) thought he would make a better CEO than the last guy, so in the end the company is the one that benefits -- not just the individual.

In fact the article later points out (on the second page) that the CEO who ruled through harshness/terror was later kicked out for poor performance. Maybe commanding through respect is better for companies after all?