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First time I actually made any money through the web, I was 15. I had a fan site for my favorite NHL team and sold a couple of copies of (I think) NHL '99/2000/whatever it was at the time for Playstation through Amazon's affiliate program. I think I made all of 75 cents but it amazed me that you could build something over the web and have money trickle in like that. In a sense, it still amazes me.

I started my first company at 22 back in 2006, building myspacesurveyfun.com into the pre-eminent site for those viral surveys that used to be passed back and forth over MySpace (and still do to a lesser extent on Facebook, blogs etc.) along with a few other related MySpace profile add-on sites. Although I wasn't able to scale it into more than just a profitable sole prop, I made a good chunk of change, learned product development & how to manage a team of freelancers. Plus I was able to leverage it into a full-time SEO gig and now a pretty healthy career in the business.

Now I'm 27 and setting the groundwork for something epic. But ultimately, ideas/execution are what win. Age is just a number.
Good job. This just gets me more excited about how advanced browsers are getting, and that more tools are available to further unleash a designer's creativity.
Just read this in the Week http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e3e18a60-9c71-11e0-a0c8-00144feabd... I see the point, the language isn't just the words, the grammar, the combinations of the words, but the intricacies (hidden details) of odd mixes which comes under wit and so on.
My first thought was that this was the original Adventure game coded in Prolog :S
I can't see more than 1 or 2 of those as an improvement.
Browser-based IDE for writing webapps 100% in JavaScript
Yes. I did enable gmail themes in my Apps dashboard a few months ago and this isn't being treated different to other themes so far from what I can see.
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Age 15 : I had a porn website and was making 200$/m

Age 17 : Humour website, 30$/m

Age 21 : Facebook like website, 5000$/m

I'm 22 now, soon to be graduate in mathematics. But thinking about leaving math and launching a web start-up...
I was 12 or 13. I had a Soviet ZX spectrum clone. I was writing BASIC programs for my friend's dad who ran a local home-based bootleg movie broadcasting station.

My programs displayed the upcoming shows and announcements. There was a calendar, a database, graphics, animation, a back-end menu. It was good stuff. Mostly BASIC but essentially had a lots of memory PEEKs and POKEs as well...
It was delivered on cassette tapes. The payment was computer books, electronic components, tools (volt meters) & music. Good times.
I wrote it all as coffee script- Doing translation ads another layer of complexity I wanted to avoid this time.
This guy doesn't seem to understand that you can merge your main branch into your feature branch constantly if you want.

This makes all of his points invalid.
Not a security expert here.

Doesn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication do this? Also the server could store the nonce in a session.
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I'm guessing it's not "at will" with no penalty but "in the event of ownership changes, non-payment, or with X noticed for the payment of Y liquidated damages', with Y being really large (and you can tell from the announcements that have come out of hulu the contracts have terms).
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Then open source the crypto portion. Problem solved.
I'm sure Google will add more features
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95% of the code is client-side javascript (i.e. coffeescript)

However, the server-side code is pretty complex for an app like this too (read up on creating a large zip file on App Engine some time) but I write very compact code...

I'm almost embarrassed to say it's 700 lines of code on the server-side :-) since it feels wrong for so few lines of code to do so much.
Could do lookup tables like the old CADET system did.
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/IBM+16...

In some situations you may be data rich but function poor. Like embedded devices where you have a limited instruction set, 128bytes of RAM, but access to megs of ROM for program/data.
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Not to mention the famed Microsoft-Intel "Wintel" alliance.
Started selling baseball cards at 8 years old. I had this database I'd put together with a software package called Q&A and I'd input the monthly data from Beckett's to see how cards were trending. It was all cash, of course, and I remember my mom being a little shocked when she found my money stash.

I used the same database, Q&A, to track where I caught fish on the lake we lived on to figure out the best spots given time of year, temperature, bait, etc.
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Or complain enough such that you, and all your friends, stop using the service. It's an even more effective way to convince the company to change.
They can integrate themselves into their products (positive efforts) but they can't block their competitors in any way (negative efforts). Takeover just has to be totally positive.
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Well, if they treated employees better to start with, they wouldn't have to deal with this.

Customers yelling at staff? WTF? I don't think I've ever even considered yelling at someone at their stores. Who pulls that sort of crap?

To put in 40 hours consistently, but be told you're not 'full time' is insulting. I'm not even sure it's legal in the US (is it?).

Not having a say in how things work is apparently the "Apple way", but as they expand in retail, they'll have to deal with these sorts of issues. Would be better to be more open and inclusive with your staff from the get go, to avoid unionization efforts to begin with.
These kinds of lawsuits don't make it fun for the consumer. Weren't patents supposed to be good for society?
Its called Single A Theme BTW!
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Has testing new startups become a game for people?
We only have one social platform today worth building on, facebook. Let's hope this will change.
Am I the only one who thinks Google didn't really plan on winning anything? I think they were just making a statement about the ridiculousness of patenting an algorithm. But, I'm probably wrong.

You can't patent innovation, although you can attempt to stifle it with patents. If you're going to sue me on the grounds of patent infringement, I can go work on something else, but you're just going to be left holding your bag of patents. Like a bully on the playground, sure you've got the ball now, but nobody wants to play with you.
I do. Ever since finishing college and traveling frequently, I use it all the time to call family back home. It's more convenient than any other videochat solution and infinitely more personal than a voice call.

After visiting family in another state, they also picked up a FaceTime-compatible device (iPad 2) to easily videochat with my family back home.

The fact that you DON'T have to create an account (other than your Apple ID) or maintain "status" (a la IM) makes it much friendlier for my Luddite-inclined friends and family.
I still have some hosting clients from 15 years ago when I was 14, if that counts :-)

To be honest, I spent most of my childhood and teenage years building and making stuff, just not for money. Lots of programming, etc, that I make money off now rather than pennies on the dollar as a kid. I guess this squarely puts me in the geek camp rather than entrepreneur though.
So you think they didn't know?
Parsing JS becomes a bottleneck when the web page throws a ton of scripts at you.

Last I profiled, something like 30% of the pageload time for gmail in Firefox was parsing the JS.
As a TextMate user, I love Sublime and I'm trying to migrate over.

The built-in project-wide search is extremely slow (it seems to search absolutely everything and consumes 100% CPU while doing it) and seems unfinished. I really miss AckMate (https://github.com/protocool/AckMate/wiki/Usage).

Also, some files with canonical names (Gemfile, Rakefile) don't have file extensions nor shebang lines, and so Sublime can't determine the language for syntax highlighting. Is there a way to fix this?
> the files as transferred on the web are all UTF8

Except they're not. There's a ton of ISO-8859-1 out there, as well as Big5, Shift_JIS, and so forth.

So Gecko canonicalizes all input to a single encoding; that happens to be UTF-16 for various historical reasons.

Note, by the way, that since some non-ASCII characters are syntax-special in JavaScript parsing it in UTF-8 may not in fact be simpler to do fast, because locating particular non-ASCII chars in a UTF8 stream is a bit of a PITA.
24, and I was terrified that no one would take me seriously. It turns out that this is one of those worries which we exaggerate the significance of.
That optimization never existed for <script> loads in Gecko in the first place.

And it turns out that the optimization is overrated, especially for the common case of the 1MB file being in your cache anyway.
I should think it is good if you have someone who can deal with people like VCs in native-like English. I should think it is a serious disadvantage if you have nobody in your core team (i.e., someone who can act as the face of your company) who speaks better than globalese.
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Although I'm no fan of walled gardens, I have much greater faith in Google adopting an open, federated protocol, given their track record, than I ever had with Facebook. And if they did, that would push Facebook to adopt it as well.
I think this could be huge. My experience with building on the FB platform has been so dramatically negative that I gave it up and really no longer trust them (I'll take a look at this new platform they're working on, of course) as a platform provider.

I think Google, with their track record of APIs and platforms like GAE, could really light a fire under them that'd be beneficial to everyone.
I'm not entirely sure, but the ways that it ties with gmail that I can discern is that you get email notifications, and that the top bar that has the gmail, calendar, documents,... links has a little notification icon in the top right.
dsl's right, that wasn't it, but thanks for trying, ddorian43.
That's a point most people don't seem to remember. I can see what Google has on me, for the most part at any rate, and opt to destroy it. Contrast that with FB and I really have no clue what data they have on me.
A level is the most advanced school-level qualification awarded in Britain and by some British examiners to overseas students.

Typically, a student studies towards three A-level subjects for two years as ages 17 & 18; not so long ago AS levels were introduced which count as approximately half an A level, allowing more subjects to be taken in less depth.

British school leavers with thee As at A level are highly accomplished among the world's school leavers, but an A at English A level is not really close to native-like English.
Ask HN: OK, my project is complete, now how do I promote it?
So I've "finished" my project.(http://www.textbookcentral.com.au/) From design to completion to scrap and redesign to completion, version two.

The website lists almost every university course in Australia. Students can opt to join a mailing list for a course, and will receive periodic updates about new buyers/sellers until their expiry preference.

I put it live yesterday, but now what do I do? How do I get people to use it? How do I promote it?

For version 1 (http://textbook-central.appspot.com/), I was giving out pamphlets, sticking flyers onto walls all over my university. I won't do that at the moment because there is a semester break until the end of the month and not many students are at university. So hmm.

It'd be great if you also give me some feedback as well.
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I'd done the basics prior (selling things to friends, trading) but my first real startup was at 16. Like the general comments here, the biggest fear was that I wouldn't be taken seriously.
Age 7: Lemonade stand

Age 9: Created a 'museum' in my bedroom comprised of all the interesting things I could collect (geodes, baseball cards, trophies, shark's teeth, etc.). I charged $.50 for admission.

Age 10: I made and sold various Origami pieces in school. Prices ranged from $.25 - $5. It became so busy and disruptive that at one point, the teacher instituted a classroom-wide ban on Origami.

Age 18: Created and sold hemp jewelry ranging from $15 - $50.

Age 25: Began freelancing graphic design / front end design. Made enough to live off of for about 18 months.

On my 27th birthday, I joined a profitable startup as the 10th employee. We're now very profitable, and have 33 employees.
So true. I am an avid TeX user btw. I'm actually addicted to the appearance of Knuth's Computer Modern fonts really though.
Rooting for Google+ over Facebook is like rooting for MC Hammer over Michael Jackson.

Get outside and get a life.
That's my point -- you can change stuff and people will deal with it, as long as it's better.

Take an extended tour of OpenOffice for an afternoon, then use Office 2010 for a few minutes. It's no contest.
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15 - Started in high school selling home-made (non-drug) cookies, making $100 a week profit.

16 - Started a business selling cheap Chinese MP3s online, but it failed.

18 - Sang on the subway with a friend for $100 a day, 3 days a week.

19 - First SEO consulting job, made $400.

20 - Got job at a sustainable denim start-up as assistant director of marketing.

I'm not sure if any of these count by HN standards, of course.
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we do parts of what you describe:

an app is indeed specified in a quite abstract way (http://framework.joshfire.com/doc/0.9/gettingstarted/overvie...), however we don't go as far as implementing automatic transforms from multiple panels to a composite one for instance.

these choices are left to the developer but we make their implementation easy.
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A follow-up on the actual research here:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3233
I wonder how companies will view this, too - if they block Facebook to keep employees from wasting time, what now?
Titanium from Appcelerator does allow controlling native components from javascript, however the base UI definition is not HTML AFAIK.
insecure much?
I would think Google collects plenty of data behind the scenes which they do not share with you, like Facebook.
I've been trying out http://cloud9ide.com/ recently. Auto imports from Github and Bitbucket. Pretty nice, quick and beautiful.
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This is all good, Apatowian . Its smart and go 'forward to a rough road, but meets the raunchiness. It also sports the best scene is full of gut because of TX in Austin Powers.
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"Well first, I don't think competitors kill companies and services. I think the vast majority of "deaths" are self inflicted."

I like this line, and it amplifies my feelings that in order for plus to be successful, it will require not only the polished product which is being introduced but also something that the other services lack.
That is if you plan to run almost the same code on all platforms

Two counter examples here:

- For devices without a JS interpreter, app is executed server-side

- Progressive enhancement / Graceful degration : some platforms can have more features than others
I'm curious to see whether they'll base their API on OpenSocial. After all, it is a Google-based "standard" that's seen updates right through late 2010. It would certainly give them an instant base of apps right from the start, and an obvious transition from iGoogle to Google+. They could however unceremoniously cut it off and come up with something new to replace it.
You can have plenty of entrepreneurial fun from any age with a bit of street smart without selling lemonade, which would get you a kicking here in the UK.

I've managed to in the last 20 years, apart from my regular grind: clear out schools of old equipment, broker Sun kit on ebay, sell land rover bits, do structured cabling, fix people's laptops, build electronic kits for a fee, dig holes, build sheds, unblock drains, refit DIY stores, distribute fireworks, flatten boxes, skip diving + ebay, selling fruit picked off scrub land, destructive furniture testing, car washing, copper recycling and returning trolleys to a supermarket. Plus probably more things I've forgotten.

I've worked at two successful startups so far and TBH they weren't as fun as most of the above things.
You can't necessarily block information, but you can drown it in disinformation.
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Has anyone got any more up to date figures than these http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/utf8-web-growth.html from 1998, when UTF-8 + ASCII was already 50% of the web? I think there is a lot less ISO 8859-1 than there was back then.

I also think that for Javascript files, almost all will be ASCII, with some UTF-8, and little else. JSON is of course only allowed to be Unicode, and I suspect that almost all of it is UTF8, although that will not generally hit the Javascript parser I presume (although maybe Gecko also normalises it?).

Locating non ASCII chars obviously is an issue, but no worse than the line feed issue mentioned in the article. Doubling the size of the input is generally a big performance hit that will be much more significant.
I really like the idea that there won't be "one social service to rule them all": I know that Facebook and Twitter serve different purposes for me, and I'm also occasionally active on niche social services like LinkedIn and Goodreads. But I'm concerned that the pain of managing multiple friends lists will force one or two "winners" which try to be all things to all people: it's much easier to hook into Facebook's existing social graph than build a new one, but I honestly don't want Facebook to contain all my life.

Google+ seems to be trying the "all things to all people" approach as well, and I'm similarly skeptical of it at the moment. I'm still trying to feel out where it will fit in my own usage: if it finds a purpose other than just "Facebook replacement" I will probably use it, but otherwise it may be too difficult to escape the network effects.
The US government guarantees my bank account up to (i think 200k) There is no Internet Government that guarantees my bit coins.
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Hi HN

Here is my MVP. I am looking for feedback concerning the site, the app and the application.

I am also looking at marketing, and while I created the app for myself, I would like to know what market would be interested in it :-)

site:
http://www.displayator.com
Yawn. There is no shortage (36^63 combos). Everyone who keeps saying this just thinks they are entitled to the best option available. Again, you ignore the proposed solution which fits your goals but don't like where the result takes you. You're just ignorant and want to complain, you don't want a solution, you want to just be better off for yourself.
I think you are missing what he is actually doing - he states that the part he is wholly responsible for is just one tiny part of the whole, and that all the other credit given to whom is wrong. His first statement is meant to be a bit ironic.
I sincerely don't think any company will successfully "become the platform" in perpetuity, They'll just make obscene amounts of money while their star is shining. But I do think good can come from this.

As Facebook, Google, Twitter, (the stillborn?) OpenID and others compete to be the "company that handles online identities," everyone else can just focus on what they do. They don't have to run massive databases of users, just allow a trusted third party login and let people at the good stuff.

Aside from that, I don't really care too much about it.
I agree. The middle ground is better than writing no tests.

I do think it's more than a few minutes though. The problem is when you do a big rewrite you've now sometimes got a lot of failing tests. Do you go back and delete these tests and write new ones? Or refactor the test code? It's just a big distraction because sometimes you're "holding the program" in your head, as PG would say, and to worry about tests might cause you to lose your focus on the more important code.
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"it feels wrong for so few lines of code to do so much"

I love this line.
Social is too important for one company to control the market. This is a great start for Google+, but Google is fighting with one arm behind their back given the network effects of Facebook.
It looks like a good start - I'll follow up on github. Thanks!
Isn't GMail a sufficiently powerful "private messaging" feature? You can send a message from anyone's profile if they've enabled the "Send mail" feature. Plus GMail already supports a federated protocol, so you can use this profile "send message" feature with any other mail system you want.
With 3.0 and 3.1 being developed chiefly with tablets in mind, I don't find that too surprising given the popularity of phones:tablets.

(Edit for correction. 3.x is not solely for tablets, just primarily with them in mind.)
It seems interesting, but I find it tries to do "too much"; Like with the AppStore, the SQL console etc etc.
Nice, just signed up. Will be playing around with it for a while today. I wonder if either IDE could benefit from my feature idea from this post a day or two ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2715066 )
make a twitter account. Start following everyone who has anything to do with australian colleges and tagging them in posts about your website.

Find education blogs and comment on their posts.
For those already actively using GMail, Google Calendar and other Google services (including Search), the fact that the Plus Bar on top allows you to share links and keep notified across the web is a very big difference over Facebook. In that sense, already I see it having a better staying power than Facebook.

Also, anecdotally, I am rarely logged in to Facebook constantly because it serves me no useful "productive" purpose. I catch up with friends and family only when I'm done working. With Google+ it is going to be that much harder because I'm always logged in to check mails and organize my calendar.