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Startups are significant investment. Are you prepared to undertake that? There's a lot of sacrifices to be made to be successful. And it really is a hard process to go through. Ask yourself that.

As for asking others, you should ensure that you will get a say and respected in the startup. Make sure that you like the people - you'll be hanging out a lot with them - and the idea, even if it's subject to change. You should be passionate about it.

Don't fret about the small details. People often fight about equity split numbers, for example. But at the end of the day, startups are bimodal; you're either going to make bank or nothing at all. A few percents really won't matter at the end.

If you love the product, the team, your role, and you're personally prepared to go through hell for all that...come on board.
Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"
Yahoo Mail didn't implement HTTPS until after Firesheep came out. With the length of time that these sorts of trials take, I imagine that Yahoo was still transmitting usernames and passwords over HTTP in cleartext when this all happened.
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I made something very similar to this: http://www.jotreminder.dotcloud.com/

I've got about 50 little notes. I hit the bookmark in my toolbar whenever I'm bored. It works pretty well.
i tried, the text said 2nd file is uploaded but the compare button is still disabled.
You now can set the privacy setting of your gender on your Google+ Profile
Until you get to home video. Which is growing very quickly.
The iPhone app has image uploading right now but now video yet. We've been toying around with the idea of some sort of followed hashtag system where you could see what other people are thinking about. We just don't want to accidentally end up as a twitter competitor.
By that argument the fact that dBase 4 isn't available for OS-X means the Mac isn't ready for the desktop.

People don't shift platforms to do what they used to do on their old platform - they do it so they can use the new things on the new platform.

angry birds does not count

Why not? I've played more angry birds on my desktop computer (in Chrome) than any other game.

(Edit: lol - I'm guessing Angry Birds is was got me the downvotes?)
My ex-employer (a tech consulting company) tried to on-board him & I am assuming that Matz certainly have received offers from many other tech companies too..
Kudos to heroku for making offer that excited Matz.., it is an interesting move by Heroku..
This is a good one. It reminds me of the "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it" that I blogged about last week or so.

I've also been thinking about it a lot in the context of my own business since launching http://decalcms.com/mockups - the "movement" I'm most fanatical about is letting content precede design.

The more I do it, the more I love it, and I have to say that finding that has really helped crystallise my business goals (and provided bucketloads of motivation).

Great post, TK.
He misses the plot a bit with the last sentence in the article:

It's unfortunate that a company that has built a business around copyright appears not to understand these basic facts.

I think when it comes to copyright and other IP and the actions of rights holders, it has become safe to apply the inverse of Hanlon's Razor i.e. never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice. Of course these assholes know what they're doing, they just don't fucking care. IP best practice is to assert virtually any right you can dream up, justified or not.

So, surely it is unfortunate to have happened, but that is not to say it is not entirely expected. More newsworthy would be if it hadn't.
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Border people who quit are weak-minded.
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I remember coming across this a few months ago. It's a great way to get some affordable solar light into a space, and seems like it would be great for poorer communities and places where electricity isn't readily available - so long as there's an available supply of bleach (though I suppose you could just regularly change the water).

My grandfather used to do this for lighting in a couple of storage sheds and part of the barn on his farm.
Kudos to them on a fine product and excellent execution but, wow, this seems pretty frothy. And I don't have a huge problem with some of the other big valuations (Square, AirBnB, etc). But DropBox is going to have to find some other interesting business for investors to see any of that money. Just storing files doesn't seem like it would fit that bill.
> having a 15-minute chat with the founder

How isn't that an interview?
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This is suicide. Goodbye MSFT. They're losing out on an entire generation moving to mobile devices, which increasing do not require a Windows license (iOS, Android, WebOS, QNX/Blackberry).
Currently we all have Macs and iPhones so that's what we're building right now. Don't worry once we get things stabilized a bit we're planning on making our API public as well as building apps for other platforms.
PopCap's games are extremely well known and particularly suited to mobile platforms like phones and tablets. If anything I'd say EA bought them for a steal, they are likely to earn back their buying price and more in only a few years.
I wonder how mass crowd sourcing of designs such as through 99designs, and even places like odesk where design can come very cheap, will affect this.

We've also seen an increase in aesthetic appeal of "themes for Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal which is bringing down the cost of looking nice.

Now that everyone's just gotten used to "pretty" meaning "genuine", I wonder how long it will take for all the s(p|c)ammers to catch up.
That a random article on the Internet can't cover all registrars? :)

Dynadot is IMHO the best registrar ever.

This speaks volumes:

Domain Name:WIKILEAKS.ORG
Created On:04-Oct-2006 05:54:19 UTC
Last Updated On:24-May-2011 23:27:29 UTC
Expiration Date:04-Oct-2018 05:54:19 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Dynadot, LLC (R1266-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
@tjholowaychuk: Check out context threading (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/syslab/pubs/demkea_context.ps) by Prof. Angela Demke Brown as an alternative to direct threading.
Wow. The people spoke and Google re-wrote all the gender specific language in their product to listen.
If the network was used as little as my parents is, and if this guy didn't have a network card capable of reinjecting packets, I can certainly see it taking a couple of weeks to get the number of IVs needed to crack a WEP key.
Depends whether he offers you the job at the beginning of the chat or the end. The former has happened to me before...
It's not hypertext. It's what happens if you double-click some text and wait approximately two seconds.
Yea CMU! Their tech is sick. I expect Amazon to snatch them up.
Nope, it shows up if I wait two seconds without doing anything else.
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Please stop with crap resume sites
Look -- jobvite sucks. Jobscore sucks. They badly scan my resume and butcher it. They don't take pdf uploads (at least not on squareup). I tried to apply at TellApart and jobscore not only wanted me to register but wants me to proof their crap extraction of my resume! (with the warning message that they show their bad extraction before my actual pdf resume.) Thanks, but no thanks.

Look -- if you want to hire engineers, put a person in charge of hiring them. Give people an email address. Accept pdf resumes. Don't run crap ocr/scan/extraction software. Don't dump me into a company (jobscore) that tries to, by default, dump my resume in a pool so other companies can spam me. I don't want to be spammed just because I shared my resume with you.

Thanks, an engineer looking for a new employer
You should have removed it from the site, assuming you're in any way responsible for it.
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Just for clarification, it looks like he stated "the combined value of the top 21 companies is $4.7 billion."
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The attacker more than likely just sniffed the credentials over the air. With the titles of the "hacking manuals" this guy didn't sound like a very sophisticated attacker. This would have been before the large movement to HTTPS for logins, and a Yahoo login would have been easy to sniff. Even with HTTPS, SSLStrip, Ettercap, and arpspoof makes short work of HTTPS logins.
My comment was meant to be (mostly) tongue-in-cheek but was perhaps a bit too harsh. As such I'll leave it there and eat the downvotes :-) Best of luck.
I really like this. I don't know how many miscellaneous files I have lying around my desktop filled with one-line lessons learned. I didn't have access to a computer for two years and carried around a pocket notebook. I think I added only twenty pages over the whole two years, but it was very pithy stuff. At some point I want to connect it up with Growl to remind myself of things. Any plans for an API?
I wrote a post about why Netflix is actually doing a good thing here:

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I work in the child care industry. and we did a newsletter with Comic Sans body text for several years, it was a very friendly font to use, also quite readable. Our clients liked it.

Given what I see in publications, design books and sites that some professionals call 'good' or 'cutting edge' design I have see far worse issues in approachability/usability/readability than using Comic Sans.
Being a dork and a lawyer, I actually looked up the DHCP protocol. This is the relevant part:

"3.7 When clients should use DHCP

A client SHOULD use DHCP to reacquire or verify its IP address and
network parameters whenever the local network parameters may have
changed; e.g., at system boot time or after a disconnection from the
local network, as the local network configuration may change without
the client's or user's knowledge.

If a client has knowledge of a previous network address and is unable
to contact a local DHCP server, the client may continue to use the
previous network address until the lease for that address expires.
If the lease expires before the client can contact a DHCP server, the
client must immediately discontinue use of the previous network
address and may inform local users of the problem."

So no there is no indication in the protocol that the clients should assume that the DHCP server will keep its promises after a disconnection from the network. Furthermore, if you use common sense there is no reason to make this assumption in most real life situations. In a coffee house somebody can always trip over the router's cable, for example.
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As far as I can tell, Google hadn't (yet?) implemented gender-specific language. E.g. http://i.imgur.com/1B5rT.png
> And this gets him eighteen years in prison? In most countries you get eighteen years for murder.

I imagine things work the same way all over the world. The prosecutor files every charge imaginable and then requests maximum time during the sentencing hearing. That's his job.

The defendant's lawyer then does his job and mitigates the damage.

Now, if the defendant is stupid enough to represent himself, pleads guilty to the charges, or doesn't put up much of a fight during sentencing ... well ... you end up with this.

Neither the judge nor the prosecutor have a responsibility to be nice. I have a feeling that they especially didn't have any desire to be nice considering what he did.

On top of all of that, kiddie porn is a big deal here ... I'd imagine the majority of the time is for that.
When you join a startup, you are trading potential salary (from a big company) for equity. That means you're making an investment, and you should ask all the normal questions an investor would ask: what is the company vision, what's the background of the founders, has the team demonstrated an ability to execute, how big is the market, how does the startup shape up vs. it's competitors, what is the current funding situation, etc.

On top of that, you still should ask all the questions you would of any employer: about the work, making sure you get along with the team, stuff like that.
This doesn't change the crux of your comment, but the post office does give them a price break; in fact it gives everyone a price break, all you have to do is sort your mail by zip code.

The way it works is if you send enough mail to the same zip code, then you pay a certain discount (a few cents per mail piece) if you package all of that mail together. The amount of the discount varies depending on if you sort by 5 digit zip code, or just 3 digit zip code prefix.
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You me reading the words right. He said, "two most popular", which they aren't.
As our first startup project, me and a friend created wudyadate.me over the space of a weekend. The idea was to create a fun and not so serious way to find out who of your friends would be interested in dating you.

Basically, log in with your facebook details, click on the people that you like. If they visit the site, and click yes to you, both of you will receive an email.

Both people need to click on each other in order for an email to be sent - if the affection is not mutual, no one gets an email (and no feelings are hurt!)
Not really. The DHCP server may have many valid reasons for reissuing a technically valid lease, such as it being restarted and losing its table of valid leases. As I pointed out in a response above, the DHCP protocol makes it clear that devices should re-verify their addresses after waking up.
I'm a huge fan of the Video Creation Contest idea. I think 99 designs is awesome and I think having a good landing video is just as important, if not more important(at least in the beginning), as having a good logo.
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You're oversimplifying.

'Posting child porn' for example turns out to be 'posting a single picture of a pubescent girl having sex with two young boys'. Note that we have not seen the picture, so the girls' age can be anywhere between 10-17 (age range according to Wikipedia article on puberty). Note also that this picture was selected for shock value, and no other child pornography was reported found on the guys' computer.

The death threat was to a prominent politician who probably gets such emails on an hourly basis by cooks from all around the country.

So basically what you're saying is that eighteen years is appropriate punishment for being a 4chan troll?
Why is a gender specific language important?
Surely not.

Copyright means that someone has the right to sue you. If there is no copyright, then it is public domain and anyone can do anything that they want.
Need help for Open Sourcing the CAPTCHA research project.
I have covered few points of CAPTCHA design in my presentation.

Here is my CAPTCHA research paper:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2754436

http://www.slideshare.net/desaiguddu/drag-and-drop-captcha-a...
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I really hope the people defending this sentence realize that the average time served in the US for murder is around 4 years, and I hope that they then strenuously believe this is far too short. I've been "emotionally tortured" as much as these folks were (especially given that they had the full support of lawyer's law firm and hired forensics specialists from just about the very start, it appears) and I'd much rather be emotionally tortured than dead.
Yes, but as explained in the post, that's a decent estimation for the value of the whole portfolio (of the 210 companies through S10).

This is because startup valuations follow a power law, which among other things means that almost all of the value in a portfolio will be in the top 10%. This round of funding is a good example of that principle - if TC is correct, then even among the top 21 companies, a majority of the value will be in the top single company.
Wow, my unlimited 2 DVDs out at a time with unlimited streaming just went from $13.99 to $19.99. Beginning September 1.
I'd like to save small code snippets with this. Would you consider adding some kind of markdown support?
The small print in paragraph 2 explicitly allows reusing the previous address until the lease expires.
We do not doubt the hard work put in by Facebook employees and the talent of their engineers. You have done a fabulous job in making Facebook and scaling to a massive user base. We love to use Facebook and are more than happy to acknowledge it.

The point we are discussing is about the policy implementation and its consistency.
First of all it is not new for Facebook to take away someone else's URL. See this post from early 2010 - http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/23/facebook-vanity-url-harman/ . Clearly the argument you have around "If we wanted it for our own use, we would have been up-front about that" does not hold much to the test of history.

Second, the work on Facebook-Skype integration seems to have started around November, 2010 - http://blog.greenanysite.com/index.php/2010/11/facebook-vide.... We all know software product life-cycles and how marketing pages are made/thought. Let's not discuss how that works.

Coming to specifics on this application disabling. Here are some facts to clear the air:
1. In sending Video Calling Invitations, we were not doing anything different from the following applications: Video Chat Rounds, Tiny Chat, vChatter.
2. When we exchanged some emails with the Facebook representative, we highlighted the fact that we being singled out when there were bunch of other apps having much worse policy implementations.
3. After three months of our reporting this, these apps are still functional. This demonstrates Facebook indeed had a vested interest in disabling our application.
4. Why would Facebook recommend developers to relaunch their application at a different URL when the application is known to be spammy.

There is no point trying to defend an error, which may have happened in ignorance or in intent. Nor is my intention to prove anything. We have merely stated the facts and it is for people to decide. We have moved on from this incident and as an organization we have far more important aspirations than to worry about a Facebook application.

I am responding to this, as I believe it is only fair to put the entire perspective in place.

Best, Nimit
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you have bigger problems if you can't say "no" to the guy who could fire you, in my opinion
Pretty arrogant to think that just because you're an easy hire that you're "the smartest guy in the room."

If you had joined Facebook in 2005 you might have been the best programmer, but you would not have been the smartest guy in the room.
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If anything it seems like Windows 8 will be a better fit for tablets than WP7. I'm not sure if porting Windows 8 "down" to tablets or porting WP7 "up" to them really makes a difference.

There is currently no reason why they can't have apps written for WP7 running on Windows 8 tablets, or at least make it easy to port existing XNA and Silverlight apps over. WP7 might have a nicer UI, but it seems like MS is giving Windows 8 full touchscreen support.
Threat to kill and perversion of justice are extremely serious crimes. So too is being a menace to society. And so too is maliciously causing distress.

The sentence is up to the judge, within the limits set by the legislature. The prosecution can push for a plea bargain by quoting scary totals, but the judge decides whether the worst case comes about.

Of course, IANAL/TINLA etc.
I'm guessing that if you backed up the queue that's about to be eliminated -- by saving a copy of the queue page to disk (as HTML, PDF, etc.) -- it would take you about an hour to reenter its contents into your remaining queue. Annoying, but survivable.
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In other words, "posting child porn" for example turns out to be "posting child porn". Full disclosure: I stopped reading here and downvoted you. I've also immediately revised my (previously more measured) take on all your previous comments.
At first I was annoyed, but then I checked out how much the cable company wanted and was happy again.
"In the data surrounding the threatening traffic, they found traffic containing Ardolf’s name and Comcast account."

What do you suppose this means? Did his decide to check his personal email while on his neighbor's wifi?
He was offered 2 years. He rejected it, claiming (apparently falsely!) that he was innocent of the charges. Having been caught seemingly red handed, the prosecution proceeded to throw the book at him.
Paragraph 2 only allows this "If a client ... is unable to contact a local DHCP server." Note that in the present example, the client started using its old address before even trying to contact the DHCP server and eventually was able to contact the DHCP server.
Cable, what's that? Wish I had a bill to help put this into perspective, but I cut the cord about 10 years ago.
By your logic here, there was little point in locking him up at all; he was already 45.

Interestingly, if you read the prosecution's sentencing memo, you see that protection is the core reasoning behind the long sentencing recommendation:

Barry Ardolf is a dangerous man. He uses his technical skills both to inflict harm and to avoid getting caught. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that the victims identified in this case are not his only victims. When Barry Ardolf is released from prison at the end of his term of commitment, he will do something like this again to someone else who has angered him, only this time he will be even more careful. The only way to prevent that is to incarcerate him for a very long time.

I'm absolutely inclined to agree with them. The prosecution earlier notes that even in this case, Ardolf's letter to the judge expresses no remorse for attempting to frame his neighbor for child pornography at his place of work, claiming instead that he had been "victimized" by the neighbor. Ardolf sounds criminally insane to me. I'm glad he was locked up before he did something far worse.