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Actually, if you have spare time, you should include those who pirate your apps in whatever usage measurements you already do.

With luck, you can probably discover why people pirate your apps. Maybe due to price, or that your nearest competitor has a better user experience, etc.

You can try to fight it, by making your most used features something which needs App Store authorization, but I suspect that will just piss off your customers who already paid for it and they will start putting 1-star ratings in the App Store.
Initial feedback from using Verbling for 30 mins:

A feature of this site is the ability to instantly connect with a partner. However, there needs to be a way to switch partners instantly. For example, I was speaking to someone who had video and microphone problems and the only way I could switch was to navigate back to the homepage and start again. I also didn't find the automatic matching, in its current form, an advantage over personal selection. For example, I only wanted to speak with girls around my age. Allowing the user to set criteria for partners (e.g. age, gender, region) would be useful, along with the ability to switch as desired.

The second key feature of this site, compared to alternatives, is the use of video. However, I didn't find any benefits, e.g. in terms of usefulness for language learning or fun, from the use of video over just voice/text communication. Staring at the head of a stranger for the duration of the chat didn't add anything. Need to add some feature or features that make the use of video an advantage and relevant for language learning (this would also encourage people who want to engage in video chat to simply switch to skype once introduced).

I didn't find the suggested topics feature very useful, as it isn't hard to come up with such topics on your own and simply going through suggested topics one by one with partner led to a conversation that felt awkward and jilted. An alternative idea: add some interactive role play puzzles that the users must solve by speaking the foreign language with the user. For example, you could shows a street map with a route shown to one user, and the same map with only the initial position to the other. The latter user must then ask the other user for directions to determine the correct route . Or a restaurant role play where one user is the waiter the other the customer, and the latter is told the dishes they must order, which they must communicate correctly to the waiter. This would lead to more realistic, two-way, conversations, be a lot more fun and be genuinely useful in generating conversation between two strangers.

At the moment, it doesn't offer anything compelling over sharedtalk.com in terms of finding language exchange partners, nor does it offer any of the learning material for which I find Bussu useful. On the plus side, I did find the site easy to sign up for and use, and the call quality was good (call quality on sharedtalk is generally very poor, which is why, even in voice chat there, people almost always suggest moving to skype - hence sharedtalk acts more as an introductions agency).
I think you underestimate the power of the monkey suit! :)

Good point, though.

I made the assumption he was already milking traditional recruiting channels (monster.com) without any success.

However, I'd guess most people who are using traditional recruiting channels aren't going to be in a financial position to work for a bootstrapped startup. It would only be people currently employed and looking for another job that would be eligible.

Have you actually found startup talent for bootstrapped startups using traditional recruiting methods?
The fix is in. Can anyone confirm?
Me too. But perhaps it have harmed the cases he was working on. Never underestimate the incentives.
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Don't assume that Slater authorized this. Lawyers on retainer do this sort of stuff all the time while make-working billable hours for themselves. One thing I've learned is that you really have to watch what your lawyers are doing or they'll end up charging you $350/hour to publicly embarras you.
Great quote:

I came to think of it this way: Google doesn’t have enough irrational people working there, and the rest of the world doesn’t have enough rational people occupying it.
annnnd it's crashed.
Yes, fair enough. I was using it as a "B or C grade" as in "beef grades" in my mind, but I realize what I typed was about actual marks from universities. I totally agree with your assessment :)
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The DHCP client acts as expected. The behavior observed by the post author occurs before DHCP negotiation executes. I know this seems like a technicality, but it's the truth. The sniffing and assumed use of an IP address occurs outside the DHCP request/response cycle. It's used ahead of time, and discarded if the DHCP 'request' request is denied.

The only people bent about this are people who have any idea what's going on behind the scenes. In the rare cases where this is a problem, the issue is quickly resolved. If this were a "real" problem, we'd have seen a lot more issues by now. The Apple discussion boards would be lit up with complaints. They're not. This is a non-issue. Only pedants are stuck on the fact that there's no RFC for it.
If we are able to modify the DHCP server to do something sensible, why not modify default router settings to issue /16 addresses instead of /24? Or even 10/8? There's plenty of RFC1918 space to not run out.

NAT state tables won't have to stretch that far as they can time out unused connections just like they do already.

Would there be any unintended side-effects with doing this?

If you don't like the NAT, go ahead and issue IPv6 :-)
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In terms of justice, 18 years is kind of steep, but on a visceral level I just can't feel bad for a guy who tried to frame someone as a child pornographer. You're dunzo buddy.
Yeah, that's pretty much correct, except for this, referring to corporate usage: "Because Windows infrastructure has been used and perfected for so long, I do believe they will still maintain a majority stake in 10 years."

That's rotting too. When those kids in college with 70% Macs go into the workforce, and are used to 1) everything in the cloud, 2) computers that actually work, 3) not being subject to the IT department for login problems, problems caused by malware, problems caused by anti-malware, Exchange problems, and so on, you think they're going to put up with Windows? In the last ten years of my working life, I've been at companies going from all Windows, to Windows + Mac + Linux, to a completely Windows-free environment. Even our marketing guys are on Macs and google mail/calendar. They still have Office on Macs, but google docs is displacing that quickly, because sharing Office docs sucks.

I think Microsoft experiences its first quarterly loss within 10 years.
While I agree that emotional torture is a terrible thing. Still, do you think eighteen years is really fair?

Now you claim the guy has psychopathic tendencies. I won't argue for or against this because I'm not a psychologist. But even if he does, this can never be a reason to lock him up. In western society, people are punished for crimes they commit, not for having a certain psychological profile.
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No, you don't have to be ok with it. I'd just not hang around someone like that. Calling the cops seems excessive.
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An article was published today on this very topic: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/to-catch... which refers to a report done by Melb Uni. Not sure how they came up with the data though.

Personally however, I put a huge amount of stock in a site's design (Reddit excluded).
Hmm, interesting. I've never heard of it.

EDIT: Apparently it only works on Windows, so I'll be sticking with Dropbox.

EDIT: Thanks, I had missed the Mac option. But to me, they cheapen their Live Mesh brand by association with Windows Live ID and Hotmail.
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+! for Clothes Horse. They've been hosting fit parties for a while now to collect a ton of data on what fits who and are turning that into shortcuts for sizing.
>>>>Have you actually found startup talent for bootstrapped startups using traditional recruiting methods?

Yes, I do this all the time and have found many great people for startups. It is a fallacy that great people are not looking for work through traditional methods such as job boards. Many people seem to think you can only recruit them via social networking or poaching or something.
This optimization does not cause IP address conflicts. If a DHCP server is not correctly keeping track of lease times and ensuring that addresses already assigned are not reused while the client still has a valid lease, you can get IP conflicts regardless of whether or not their are any Apple devices on the network.
It's not an open-source project, but I've been using the following to brush up on Python and teach my daughters some programming:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans

http://projecteuler.net/

And, I am getting ready to 'port' some old AppleSoft Basic games from when I was a kid:

http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
Years after it first came out, I still see loads of access points vulnerable to this ridiculous hack:

http://www.kaisersblog.com/2008/07/hacking-thompson-speedtou...
@kliment: I'd love to see a better machine at a lower price than $300. Seriously.

I've spend the last 6 years trying to create one and if it ends up there is already one out there, I'm going to feel like a real fool.

You'd be surprised, it doesn't wobble terrible. In fact, it doesn't really wobble at all. There are 2 cross pieces in the back of the Y-axis at the top (one vertical, one horizontal) and then a full box under the work area which is tied in to each of the x-axis uprights in both the front and the back.

You can see some assembly pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardford/sets/721576228624053...

You can see some more pictures here (these include the full box under the work surface): http://keen101.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/progress-on-shapeoko...

If you have a suggestion to make that particular section even more ridged, I'm all ears. Not having an engineering background, I'm always interested in other peoples ideas! After all, I just made this up :-)
Why is this very common and historically well attested use of the word psychic a pet peeve of yours?
It seems it's more about giving focus to the ruby dev effort, and (paraphrasing from Matz) getting feedback from Heroku as to how ruby can be adapted to fit more comfortably in a cloud computing environment.
Not that I want to be pedantic, but since we're being pedantic...

psy·chic

1. of or pertaining to the human soul or mind; mental

psy·cho·log·i·cal

2. pertaining to the mind or to mental phenomena as the subject matter of psychology.

via our friend dictionary.com

If sarcasm went by my head (and I think it may have, since you said irregardless), please ignore this post.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

I admire Zed. His angry rants make me laugh. His ability to pump out decent code is brobdingnagian. He's usually right.

But of course, part of what makes his rants so funny is that even the minimum niceties are dispensed with. I'm not sure if that means Zed can be inserted into a team of ordinary folk without wasteful drama from people with hurt feelings.

I understand Zed's work mostly takes the form of freelancing. That's probably the best fit.
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It's very interesting that the creators of Python and Ruby are working on PaaS hosting solutions for their languages: Guido at Google App Engine and Matz at Heroku.
Windows and OSX, but not iOS (yet) or Linux (probably never).
On the other hand, grades are a decent proxy for diligence on a job.
I would love to have heard an investment pitch to Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary about databases!
There was a very good and very detailed talk given by Tony Cass from CERN at the LISA 2010 conference. The talk gives a much more in-depth look at the environment at the LHC. The link below has the audio, video and slides from the talk. Look for "The LHC Computing Challenge: Preparation, Reality, and Future Outlook"

http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/tech/
I keep seeing Redbox mentioned. Financially, it's a rational decision to split consumption between Netflix and Redbox. But I believe that most of the appeal in Netflix is the convenience of getting the movies at home, without having to go outside. It's 87F here in NY right now -- do I REALLY want to leave my AC'ed room and go get a movie? Probably not. Disclosure: I'm a VERY early adopter of Netflix streaming, first through the browser and then through a bluray player I purchased 3 years ago.
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Like I noted in my original post, I read the article wrong and thought the guy kissed his own son rather than the family's. So my bad on that one.

As to your question, I guess it depends on the person. I wouldn't mind if it was a women for example. If it's a guy, I'd at least go have a chat with him. If I wasn't happy with the situation I'd ask him not to kiss my boy like that or tell my kid to avoid him. I'd certainly not assume he's a child molester right off the bat and call the cops.
Nice idea, it's like a journal. I don't know if it's because I'm an introvert, that I would enjoy something like this more? Although it's fun to play with once, I don't know if there's anything here to keep me coming back.
I can't say I'm in love with the color scheme of pink and gray. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but something bothers me about it.
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I don't see how this has anything to do with what Apple is doing. If you reboot the router and it starts issuing addresses from the beginning of its range, it is likely to issue addresses that conflict with the existing leases on the non-Apple computers.

If a DHCP server gives out an address, and then gives it out again before the least has expired or the first client has relinquished it, it is going to cause a conflict no matter who made the clients.
This totally makes sense. "Pretty" websites take much longer and are much more expensive to make. If you're putting lots of time and money into a website, odds are way better that it isn't a scam. There are VERY few scam sites that don't look like a scam site with poor english or terrible stock photography.
Yes, sarcasm, to both commenters. It was about shifting connotations diluting original meanings and not so much about pedantry. I stopped fighting "begs the question" years ago and simply accepted that it means something different now. We've lost psychic the same way (see great-grandparent post).
This one was finished before anyone from HN jumped in. New one here: http://nvll.me/uTgv
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Yeah, except this seems more like a "don't forget this lesson learned" kind of site to me.
Using the website isn't honestly that great of an experience, but the iPhone and Mac apps keep me coming back for sure. Every time you put a thought in, you get one back from the past. It's always an interesting surprise.
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You're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and putting yourself into a tiny minority that most web devs will be starting to ignore in the coming years.
Random graph walking can be random, but it is not always. The following paper on random walks on graphs as a tool for derandomizing probability algorithms gives insight on this, as well as the probability of a random walk on a RANDOM graph being a random sampling: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nati/PAPERS/expander_survey.pdf

Wikipedia's page on random walks is also pretty insightful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk
The use of 'haven' instead of 'having' made it impossible for me to complete this article. I would have expected a higher quality of writing from a Stanford graduate.
Awesome! I use their service all the time, I'm glad to see them doing well!
I meant erase the lines but keep the placement of the text in the columns, not just the order of the labels, but the actual positions of them, so that you could connect them with lines again if you were so inclined.
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Yep, that's the example I had in mind.
It seems like success as a programmer (or at least Internet fame) requires doing a lot of side projects. Do you ever find that doing the shit work at work saps your interest for side projects? Like if you have to look at another line of code you'll scream?
Same here, and I also have AdBlock, etc., so I just wanted to confirm.
He's just spelling outside the box.
Cool idea. I was just thinking today that I wanted to write down my thoughts more often. I feel like I come up with good ideas in small bursts but I never organize them into categories or build on them.

I would suggest to improve this site is to have valuable feedback. That is, instead of randomly sending back ideas, how about sending them back in a somewhat organized fashion that helps people build on ideas? I just think you can do something more useful with the feedback rather than simply being arbitrary.
I'll oblige your curiosity. Here's what comes to mind right now...

The sin that takes the cake was Facebook's attempted smear campaign against Google:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/05/12/facebook-bu...

I can't currently remember other acts on a similarly questionable level. Most don't sink that low, and are "only" irresponsible, such as allowing newly-created accounts to be used without first verifying the user's e-mail address:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/10/being-eric-schmidt-on-faceb...

(Was this security hole ever closed?)

Facebook is a pioneer in on-line human interaction, and a reckless one at that (not a good thing). Privacy is one area in particular where FB keeps pushing the boundaries and exposing its users to new dangers. Is the company clueless about its users' privacy needs? Are FB's goals at cross-purposes with its users' goals? It's hard to tell which of the two is a better-fitting explanation.

Other FB actions aren't evil or irresponsible, but are still careless. One type of carelessness is FB's willingness to throw away users' valuable information. For example, FB has been announcing its intention of wiping out membership information for old Groups as it archives them. Does FB really think this is in users' best interest? (I value the Groups I've joined through the years, and most of them will apparently have their membership lists purged. This is not the only case where information I value was/will be destroyed by Facebook.)

Another sign of careless is FB's apparent unresponsiveness to user feedback. I understand that it's hard to be responsive with a 1 : 250,000 employee-to-customer ratio. I understand that many aspects of customer service would need to be automated. However, because of this, FB needs to be very careful about how and what it automates, as exemplified by stories like this one:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/facebook-tak...

Incidentally, I really appreciate the fact that you are personally responding to FB-related complaints. Keep it up! (I hope you don't become too discouraged.) Make no mistake, I've greatly enjoyed using Facebook and derive great benefit from the service. However, actions like the ones I've mentioned chronically fuel my distrust of and annoyance at Facebook.
The appeal is in the long tail. Most discs I get from Netflix can't be found at a Redbox.
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You make a good point. There's no utility in announcing that you're going to redesign something. When it's ready, launch it and then get feedback. It's 2011, screenshots don't cut it anymore.
Ruby is popular in the sense of Rails and the tools that it has spawned to help us web workers better deal with the web...my 02c
Or on some operating systems, I highlight the word, right click, and select "Look Up in Dictionary". I would add to Almaviva's observation, that webpages should stop trying to do things that others do better.
I imagine they could spend a little more on marketing.
Only on the client ;)
damn, that's genius. it would take a lot of cooperation from huge entities though.
I'm not a legal expert so please correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik the US system essentially treats individual charges as individual crimes when it comes to sentencing. Note that a lot of other legal systems don't have such clear cut 'stacking' of sentences, because there is considerable overlap between the charges they correspond to.

Legal details aside, my question was more about whether it's morally right to sentence someone to eighteen years for the crimes described in the article?
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They much too often skip the who's usually right part but nail the first half.
Kinda fluffy. I'd like more insight as to what topics are covered in the book, it could be interesting or really predictable.
Personally I think it's too short. Intent matters a lot, this person did not just do criminal activity for his own benefit.

No, he did criminal activity in order to make someone else as miserable as possible. This is a special level of heinous and deserves a much more severe sentence.
I'd bet that Dropbox is that largest S3 user in existence. Custom rates are very likely.
Visitors have the option to register a user account, which eliminates the spam filters.
That's cheap.

What Linux developed by a company today isn't "controlled by a single vendor". What does that even mean? CyanogenMod and countless other AOSP-based roms seem to contradict that implication anyway.

Not sure what the criticism is regarding the hardware vendors. That'd be like criticizing RHEL if a distributor sold machines and locked it down to only allow RHEL to boot. Does that reflect on the project itself? No.

I suppose you can criticize them for not using GPL3 (as it would prevent the hardware lockdown) but you'd be criticizing a loooot of people in that case.

(A defensive reply to a "witty" bit of snark earns downvotes and silence. Shocking.)
Before assigning an address to a client, a DHCP server will ping the address first to make certain someone isn't already using it (this behavior is even documented in the manual page of ISC dhcpd); therefore, it is only clients that join the network and assume their old lease is still valid (sniping it from one of the new clients that accidentally ended up with the IP address that used to be leased) that will cause this behavior.
I should note that registered users get to skip the captcha. Right now the site gets around 1,500 visitors and 3,500 pages a day, and growth has been steady and incremental for some years.
Fit parties! Excellent, sounds like they're on the right track :) I bet you could lure a pretty good seed of testers by offering free beer. Even more testers by making it coed. Actually, how do you go to these parties ;)

I thought of another use for this article. It would make a good interview question: which of these products would you be most proud to be a part of?
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