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If you define being "good" as having a quality product that's growing revenue/users successfully then the Steve Martin idea works perfectly.

Plenty of people have grown amazing businesses without being able to attract the attention of TechCrunch or Google's M&A guys.
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Right now, it is much easier to create directories in a script. You can't exactly do that with subdomains yet because they are hosted on DNS servers separate from the http server. That makes subdomain structure intrinsically much more valuable - it's guaranteed to be created by a human.

Maybe the nextgen frameworks will incorporate an easy way to create subdomains via a script?
I think it goes without saying that you should try to only make successful products, but I think what is being argued here is that many of the companies she is seeing are just 'follow the leader' type companies. Groupon was successful, so we'll do the same thing. There are a few social metrics companies doing well, so we'll jump into that market and see what happens.

What the author, I think, is saying, and what I believe personally is that if you do the same things that others are doing, you're guaranteed to have lots of competitors to duke it out with.

Strike out and do something unexpected, find a market or make your own.

It seems that many people think that creating a copy of another company with 'better design' or 'feature x' is innovating, but it isn't. Innovate in technology, business model, anything, but be innovative.

The reason she mentions the companies she mentions is that it is easier to remember the innovators than the copy cats (and often the innovators have greater success).
This article sums me up. When I started in my current job I had a really smart guy for a manager who was interested in hearing new ideas from his people and generally championed them. A couple of years ago we got bought out and I got a new IT manager with no real interest in technology or my job. Every idea I've had was ignored or shot down in flames. Unfortunately his attitude was symptomatic of senior management in our company.

I got disillusioned and got a reputation for being sullen and uncommunicative. I realized that even if I invented a perpetual motion machine he wouldn't be impressed (or even know what one was). So what was the point?

The happy ending is I got headhunted last week by my previous employer. My boss doesn't seem too worried about me leaving so I'm sure now I'm doing the right thing.
> nptl (read, any modern kernel) Linux processes are cheap

They're not 300-bytes cheap. They're not you-can-have-a-million-of-them-on-a-desktop-box cheap.

Erlang's processes are.
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I just noticed recently that I can view private photos of people who I'm not friends with and have privacy settings on. At times you may come upon a friend and view their friends. Many people still haven't upgraded to the new Facebook format but for those that have and display their 5 photos at the top, any user can click on those photos and arrow over via the FB app to see many more photos than the five shown on the profile page. I was actually able to browse several friends of friends who I was not connected to and see many photos that they probably did not want the public to see.

Thoughts?
The author's based his career around the ability to pervert search results - and apparently he's frustrated because this fucks up the results for everybody so badly that Google have to change their algorithm.

Sympathy? Not really. I hope he stubs his toe so hard they have to amputate his foot.
I'm not feeling a whole lot of sympathy for the SEO crowd that caused the spam clusterfuck in the first place. Search results are better. That's all I care about. If your huffpo/associated content clone isn't ranking first anymore, cry me a river. When I google something it means I'm looking for an informative site on the subject, not your useless crapfest.

Furthermore, this is now a few SEO articles I've seen hit the frontpage today with very few people in the comments seeming to like the article. Considering HN has a very respectable pagerank of 6 and doesn't use nofollow tags, could it be that we're getting spammed for backlink juice?
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There's a really great book written by an anthropologist living with a group of pygmies in the Congo. They literally have no leader. Very interesting and a similar vibe to that of PG's lion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forest_People
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I'm not a big proponent of advanced SEO and mostly stick to doing the right things (proper page title, good content, easy to read/type links, use of H1, H2 etc.) I don't make 100 landing pages or optimize my apps/sites for SEO by using all possible synonyms for my keywords. I don't do these things because they do not make my content better or improve usability but simply try to increase search engine rankings.

> You follow best practices. You get torched for it. You are deciding how many employees to fire & if you should simply file bankruptcy and be done with it.

Anytime I read any SEO complaints against Google, I notice this huge sense of entitlement that the authors and commenters have, as if Google owes them something with respect to search engine rankings just because they might be paying for AdWords or some other Google service. You have the full right to complain if your ad campaigns do not work as advertised. But it's your own fault if you have to fire employees because Google changed their primary search algorithm which tanked your traffic. Sorry. Google does not owe you anything even if their statements are contradictory.

> And the truth is, this sort of shift is common, because as soon as Google openly recommends something people take it to the Nth degree & find ways to exploit it, which forces Google to change.

The author hits the nail on the head right here and even suggests the proper method:

> The only ways to get clarity from Google on issues of importance are to:
* ignore what Google suggests & test what actually works

Don't try to read too much into how Google works from a comment by an employee here or an official blog post there. Just do what your site needs to function properly and most importantly offer something that people want.
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> I was suggesting that individuals who choose an academic life over a more profit-seeking life are making a more altruistic decision.

"Altruism is the renunciation of the self, and an exclusive concern for the welfare of others." (Wikipedia.)

Not so fast. Never confuse non-monetary rewards for no rewards.
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Sales taxes fund local infrastructure. Why should Amazon have to pay for a fire department that it will never possibly need?

In regards to the "fairness" question, put it a different way: It's unfair that brick and mortar companies can offer their customers immediate gratification and the ability to physically inspect items before buying. Amazon can do neither.
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Nah, subdomains aren't any different from directories. You can easily setup wildcard subdomains and all of them run off the same code base. I can easily have username.mysite.com show the user's profile the moment a user signs up. No changes to any servers needed.
"Non-immigrant visa" is a term of art. It is relatively straightforward to immigrate permanently into the US if you have an H-1B and can stay employed for a few years.
Freelance to keep the money flowing, while nurturing and slowly funding your goal (not only a dream) is the way to go.
few = 3 years minimum
then probably another 2 to get the green card (due to delays)
about 10 to be a citizen
China is #2

in 1990 the USSR was #2

The GDP ranking is not how you determine this
Don't make the mistake of assuming everyone on here is an American. I'm not from the US, and I'm reasonably aware of what my ISP is and isn't allowed to do.

Regardless, if what you're saying is accurate then the legal system over there is seriously fucked up.
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Joe, if you look at the Howto it shows when you setup the balancer you assign it to a data center (like NJ) and I assume it balances nodes only in that data center otherwise what would be the point of assigning the BalancerNode itself to a data center?

At least that is my thinking.
I'm responding to the moral outrage of the original post about how SV is too concerned with making money and running businesses, and not concerned enough about the author's pet charities.

I'm not against charity work -- I'm against other people telling me to do charity work.
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This sentiment is an insult to the hard work, blood, sweat, and tears that my YC friends and colleagues put in every single day.

YC is made up of brilliant, hard working hackers, designers and hustlers who are trying to change the world through building disruptive software. It's never been about flipping. It has _always_ been about making something people want.

Once you make something people want (which IS none other than innovation), only then do you have the optionality of selling or doubling down. This argument is utterly confused. In so many words: You can't flip something that isn't actually innovative. Because nobody will want it.
If that sort of page is cool, please give me back an HTML4 page I can just browse through without wasting several minutes waiting for the content to appear.
That's not unreasonable. Working as a professional programmer means a) understanding and solving other people's problems and b) operating under constraints not of your own choosing c) for 8 or more hours a day. That is relevant experience. I sometimes interview 22-year-olds who claim to have 10+ years experience...
Not intended to be an insult, although it's nice of you to go ahead and downvote every comment I made on this thread. Perhaps instead of taking a criticism of the industry as a personal insult (and reacting in kind), you could look at the meat of what I'm saying and address those points?

Edit: Sorry, not just every post in this thread, but every post I've made today. Wow. Way to represent YC. Stay classy, man.
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Sounds like it's about a 10x revenue buyout. Seems right on the money.
Matt Cutts wrote to Edmondson that he might want to try subdomains, among other things.

Matt Cutts isn't claiming here that subdomains are better than subdirectories, just that they are treated differently (which should come as no great surprise -- "different things are treated differently" isn't exactly a shock.)

Suggesting to someone that they try something different when their first approach doesn't seem to be working out is hardly revolutionary or headline-worthy.

But somehow this short quote manages to get a whole blog post hung on it, with the eventual conclusion that "the average webmaster is told to "sit and spin"".

The author took the lazy way out, appealing to emotion and outrage, rather than actually doing the experiments to see how google differentiates between subdomains and subdirectories.

Also: All we know is that it has been close to a half-year since Panda has been implemented, and in spite of massive capital investments virtually nobody has recovered.

Well, of course.

Panda was aiming to lower the rankings of certain kinds of content-suppliers. These sites weren't supposed to be able to just make a few changes and recover; they were supposed to be permanently affected.

Panda wasn't an assault course that Google built just so that a few webmasters could test their skillz.
Absolutely agree.

We're all passionate about great products here, right? And stories where great products win despite all odds are what I want to tell my kids at night.

But I'm going to be honest, given a lone founder, I'd prefer to invest in one with great connections and ability to excite people but who is a little clueless (though passionate) about the product. I know that's heresy, but hear me out here. Entrepreneurs almost by definition go into fields where there's a huge gap between how crummy things are and how much better they can be with a little work. And we know that a startup is not going to be as able to define a market as a huge company is. And it's actually better for them not to come in with a lot of assumptions about a fully-formed product that customers "must" love.

So it's honestly pretty important to get someone out there who is going to put the work into making those relationships and selling the product. I know people should rarely concern themselves with improving on their weaknesses, but I think this is one of the few counterexamples. Product and technology wonks really need to know they need to step up their bizdev game or have a co-founder who can do it to succeed as a startup.

To bring this back around to the topic at hand, learn from Dan! He was tireless in presenting Ontela to everyone who would listen to his pitch, and got really good at communicating the best message. And he got some good practice presenting to audiences at conferences before he went into startups (Dan, forgive me for this one):

http://www.google.com/search?q=dan+shapiro+they+wanted+to+st...
Does anyone have any statistics about the number of independent developers / startups that suffer a significant negative financial impact because of a patent infringement lawsuit? My gut feeling is that it's a very small percentage. A few years ago, I think Paul Graham wrote an article suggesting startups shouldn't worry about being sued because in practice it rarely happens to them.
The problem is that if you try to rewrite that example to avoid the comma operator, you either have to duplicate the update_thing(&foo) call, as in:

update_thing(&foo);
while (foo != 0) {
/* loop body */

update_thing(&foo);
}

Unnecessary duplication like this is itself a potential source of bugs - it's all to easy to update one but not the other. The other alternative is to hack up the loop to exit in a strange place:

while (1) {
update_thing(&foo);
if (foo == 0)
break;

/* loop body */
}

This is arguably even worse - the actual loop termination condition is not where you expect to find it anymore. Personally, I find the formulation using the comma operator to be completely clear.

Note that the bug referenced here is more about the subtleties of bitfield type promotion in expressions, and the interplay of bitfields with operators that evaluate to the type of one of their arguments, than it is about the comma operator. You can show the same bug using the assignment operator instead of the comma operator.

If you're going consign anything involved here to the "never do this" section, I'd start with any use of bitfields, and maybe also include mixing unsigned and signed types in expressions without explicit conversion.
I was really confused by the implication of this statement

is someone who has $25k in life savings "poor" or "wealthy"? I agree with you that its a sticky middle, but the post seemed to imply one or the other.
Why should Amazon have to pay for a fire department that it will never possibly need?

It's certainly in Amazon's interest that their customers have access to those local FD's. Even if one doesn't agree with the FD example, those sales taxes also pay for local roads and surely Amazon makes use of those.

(Lest I be accused of being a hypocrite, I do pay the local sales tax for internet purchases via the Massachusetts 'safe harbor' provision for small purchases and itemized listings of my larger purchases with my state tax filings)
Right, but it's still good to know that years down the line, jQuery 3.0 will drop support for IE 9 and you'll get a tiny performance bump.
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Well, the problem here is (assuming I'm understanding everything correctly) pretty specifically the combination of the comma operator and a bitfield. Of those two, I'd say the latter, even if superficially more intuitive, is probably the more obscure and advisable to avoid.

The comma operator, while not all that common, can be pretty useful in common situations, and can easily achieve both clarity and conciseness. For example, to iterate over a singly-linked list while keeping a pointer to the previous item:

for (prev = NULL, this = first; this != NULL; prev = this, this = this->next) {
...
}

I think this is a perfectly reasonable way to do things. Disallowing the comma operator due to an underspecified interaction with bitfields would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater, in my opinion.
I think r/programming used to be opt-out. (Wasn't it the first subreddit?) Might be wrong, though.

But yeah, I only use reddit for particular subreddits these days.
I do.

Seriously.
If you demand both reflections and the browser support, you might as well port the PHP code to Ruby or whatever else you're using.

Or use CSS3 and not worry about IE: http://www.webkit.org/blog/182/css-reflections/
Exactly my thoughts: nobody that cares enough about exactly splitting bills is going to pay for an app like this. There is the alternative, that has always served me well, called 'pen and paper' that is faster and easier to access. And as long as you don't care about a few $ up or down, sharing expenses is incredibly easy.
I can see that one of the ills of being popular is that there is someone somewhere to write a shitty blog post about every fucking file system operation.
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Remember Vuestar? They seemed to have managed to patent a hyperlinked image

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Even when they are doing things like open sourcing a video codec to try to inspire competition, I bet profit is still in their minds somewhere.
Wish I could help, but it sounds like you're both right. Is getting funded absolutely necessary for your project?
What's even more annoying is amazon damn well does have a large physical presence in CA:

a2z: http://a2z.com/ : SF, OC, and San Luis Obispo;

A9: near caltrain, and from their page, "As A9 is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, we have the strength that comes from being part of a Fortune 500 company, and the flexibility and energy of a Silicon Valley start-up."

I'm ambivalent about the exception to collecting taxes for companies without an instate presence, but this is pure bullshit. Amazon operates multiple companies with hundreds of employees in CA. Just like other companies that take advantage of what CA has to offer, they should be forced to pay the tax man.
That's a bit harsh. It was a popular page that centered around the brand of a popular company and caused their fans to perceive them in a certain light. It is natural to want to know if the removal was deliberate or not.
Indeed. Once upon a time I helped my grandmother migrate from DOS 3.3 on an XT clone (8MHz!) to Windows 95 on a 100MHz 486. Things that seemed obvious to me were a significant struggle for her, but being the intelligent woman she was, she managed to pick it up and excel.

As for the router's scheduling feature, it's for scheduling routing rules, so certain computers can't access certain destinations during certain hours. I've no use for it in my own house, but I think it would solve a particular use case for my parents, if only they'd be willing to use it.
Yes, exactly. As I said, between "lists" and "groups", they have all of the same functionality. They just need to improve the UI.

(The parent post also missed that you can pre-create friend lists, and restrict posts based on those lists. So it isn't as bad as it sounds -- but it isn't easy, either.)
Wouldn't that put it in the bss section and therefore not initialize it (but most OS's will probably zero out the page for security reasons)?

Ether way, as it's a 1-bit field, the value can only be 0 or 1 and is always > -3.
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Enough that they are happy to work for you.

And not the way frog creek does. You architec should be paid less than the programmers since they contribute the value, no programmer should have to be promoted to a role of writing less code.

Oh and I had side jobs in college. Yes, they count as years of experience, since that is a bullshit measure.
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