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> But enabling a "don't make me think" approach by default would lower the barrier to entry.

Isn't that Buzz did and everyone found creepy?
Recruiters don't need PhDs, they need to be perceived as caring (and the most straight way to acheive that is to actually care).

I agree although I do believe a lot of clients are jaded by their own experiences with poor recruiters. If I pick up the phone to speak to a candidate almost all will take my call and answer my questions however when I call a prospective client for the first time they are usually skeptical as some receive dozens of calls a day from recruiters all claiming to be the best in their respective field.

The key is differentiating yourself from the herd. Hopefully this blog will play a small part in doing that eventually.
What I don't understand is that Google, being an accredited ICANN registrar [1], is not its own registrar, just like Go Daddy or Name.com.

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Have a short form blog an a different domain that you own and is permanent. Mine is at fredwilson.vc and hosted on Tumblr. This is where I put the things that fill out the story but don't belong on a long form blog.

I've never quite grasped the value/purpose of a "short form blog". Looking at Mr. Wilson's doesn't really help — a daily photo, or a quote or two? I suppose I could put stuff like that into an aside[1], but twitter seems way more convenient for such things.

Maybe I just have limited bandwidth for the "social" thing.

[1] http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/
The fact that random peoples' posts on Google+ show up as 'google.com' here and elsewhere is not good for Google's ownership of its messaging. On the other hand, their use of the blogspot.com domain for official news suggests they don't care, but on the other other hand, what is 'googleusercontent.com' if not a separation of what's Google's from what's everyone elses?
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I understand why those persons send you that email (not that I agree with it). Wild guess only one or two of the CVs had the personal details removed?

It would seem to be an excellent scam and since there are 80k visitors to HN, it isn't strange that a few tenths of a percent of the userbase should have encountered really unethical recruiters and be mad enough to do something about it.

Just the way things are, I guess.
No but knowing who you are makes you trustworthy because if the code installs viruses, you can be arrested. You are no longer some anonymous person in Eastern Europe.
Help me out, because I've never been in a position to be "recruited" for anything technical.

What does an unethical recruiter do that ends up screwing over the recruited?
Wild guess only one or two of the CVs had the personal details removed?

100% accurate. I can only recall one specific CV that had redacted all the details of who he was and the companies he worked for, there may have been two but that was it.

It would seem to be an excellent scam and since there are 80k visitors to HN

Possibly. There was a huge amount of info there that I could have used to my advantage but I think part of the reason I had such a high response rate was because my profile at the time had a high karma level and I had been actively contributing to the community for a while.
This strategy may work for those cases where the troll has a claim of questionable value but what about the cases where the troll holds a meaningful patent and has a valid claim?
Given that I'm from germany too I have to agree. If you want to watch movies and TV shows in their original language illegal sources are almost the only way to do that. I'd gladly pay for netflix or something similar, but i'm not allowed to.

And don't get me started on music streaming - when people talk about those lucky europeans with their Spotify accounts, we germans are still left out - thanks to the GEMA i guess.
Old and inaccurate.

New and accurate: http://help.hover.com/2011/07/07/hover-secures-passwords-wit...
Tech-savvy != early adopter. It's true that tech-savvy people are usually early adopters, too, but it's not always the case. For example, I'm also tech-savvy and I have a very good sense of when a technology has huge potential - and I felt that about Twitter in its very early days, because I knew it is going to be big. I even made an account. But I've never really used it, mostly because I didn't really get what it's for and how I should use it. Similar story with Facebook. But I've never really liked the product, either, so I used it, but mostly by forcing myself to use it.

On the other hand, I'm an early adopter of Google+, and so far I love using it. I suppose its purpose is similar to Facebook and Twitter, so you can use it in a similar way, but like I said, I just don't like those products. Google+ is much better designed and easier to use, even for non-techies.
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There are a couple of options.

I could phone your previous employers without your permission on the guise of taking a reference for you and use that opportunity to build credibility with the potential client.

I could contact you and find out where you are currently interviewing and approach those companies with stronger candidates.
We don't run any auctions and the bulk of our portfolio was acquired on the open market as part of corporate acquisitions (i.e. we bought businesses that owned their own large portfolios). Cybersquatter? I'd love to know how you are defining that term. Usually reserved for scumbags that sit on other peoples trademarks, I can assure you that Tucows is not cybersquatting. If you mean have registered a domain name you want before you thought of it, then... well, tough. We're actually using the vast majority of the names we own as part of our premium email business, etc. These aren't just parking pages etc.
For major players I think it is likely to scale precisely because of the pervasiveness of patents in the area. Those companies with substantial patent portfolios (many of them as you pointed out) gain nothing by suing each other and so most of the time they don't. The case that would indeed be a concern would be if there were a company with no patent portfolio that the others could all pile onto and freeze out. This is possible but it does raise the question of how Apple was able to enter a market with such heavy existing IP holdings. A point worth remembering is that patents don't have to stop you innovating but rather oblige you to redirect your innovation. So if you want to build another 'me too' product there may well be IP issues to navigate but if you do want to truly innovate it is unlikely to be a major concern of the kind you describe with everyone else holding patents in the area.
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I'm sorry but users aren't going to upgrade to iOS 5 for the same reasons they haven't upgraded in the past: they just dont care.

Unless a user is actually frustrated with something, they won't bother investigating how to fix it. Most of the time they probably won't even know there IS a fix unless someone tells them.

Users aren't going to want to use an iOS only messaging service, and they certainly won't want to use two different services depending on who they're messaging. This has already happened before with FaceTime; some people used it and found it interesting but there was no mass appeal because not everyone has an iOS device.
This got me thinking that gplus.com would be a good domain to put all the G+ content. Unfortunately it's taken, and is used for a community site: https://www.gplus.com/About-Us
I sense a lawsuit in G+'s future

edit: I've submitted it to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2754271
From a comment:

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That's funny: when I was a kid (a few decades ago) the concern was that kids could see naked people. Now, apparently, the concern is that they could be seen naked themselves.
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Right, but even among techies, how many care that Google owns Youtube? Youtube was the preeminent video site long before Google bought them. Its growth was organic. Google can't afford for G+ to have organic growth. It needed the couple million early adopters it got within the first week if it was to have a chance, and Google is a trusted name for average users. That trust will be huge. You can't really compare the launch of a new social network to that of a flavour of soda. G+ is not pretty much the same as facebook, and it's not a commodity whose sales will be determined bybrand recognition and marketing. It's a service whose popularity will be determined by the level of engagement of its initial users and how motivated and successful they are in getting others to join. Saying "it's from Google" is probably a pretty big selling point, there.
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G+ name already used for community site
I hope Color bounces back. I don't like all this hating on them based on pure speculation and no insider knowledge.
The issue is that circles need configuration themselves. They serve two purposes: targeted sending and receiving from people. The receiving bit needs the ability to add filtering.

Facebook has this same issue. I want to get updates from my "friends" but I don't want everything they send. Just whatever is relevant to the context I added them for in the first place.
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That doesn't surprise me at all. It almost seemed as if Oracle is asking for so much to make the accusation seem more real, and make people think they are right on this.

I suppose that sort of worked for RIAA when they asked for $75 trillion from Limewire. They did win, although they only got $100 million from them. Patent and copyright trolls are quite pathetic.
That isn't the genius of iMessage. The genius is that it's built in, activated by default and seamless with SMS. If my recipient has iMessage, it sends over iMessage. If my recipient does not it sends over SMS.
>The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it.

No its not. I've been seeing a lot of "Oh look, even the plebs are using it" attitude about g+. Of course they are, its GOOGLE plus not some obscure startup only techies with their ear to the ground have ever heard of.
Please branch out into stickers! I just had a conversation with a founder yesterday about where he gets all his startup stickers (by going to events, of course). But not all of us can do that.
If that's the case, why didn't everyone start using Buzz the way they've started using Plus?
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Is it hard to make a web app that makes at least $1,000 a month?
Will Hollywood shoot themselves in the foot just as the same multinationals did with music? Yes

Are they also destroying the very quality of thier product just as they did with music, Yes. As the music companies gravitated to only hiring the stupidist most vain and illiterate 'artists' (hip hop morons), the movies are slowly but surely gravitating to slock like M. Bay and JJ. Both of which excel at grinding out total cliche cinema.
There is no meat here. Just use an editor and in 30 years you should be able to program, don't use tools. That's all.

Hey boys, poor content for HN, the only valid point is who is the author of the post.
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@peroni - this is a little offtopic, but hopefully not too much, and I'd like your opinion.

Many other creative disciplines offer agents/managers/handlers for the 'creative' - think sports players, writers, actors, bands, etc. I've been wondering if a model like this would work in the tech industry for developers. I'm not sure developers would go for it, since many tend to have a 'DIY' attitude about everything.

What I see in the agent model is that someone follows you and your career for the long haul, and finds you work that helps advance your careers (gets you better parts in projects, better gigs for the band, etc). I've never met a recruiter that has kept in touch with me for more than a month or so after a successful placement. They're only working for the employer, because that's who pays them.

Would developers be willing to fork over 10% of their pay to an agent who negotiated better pay and benefits for them, helped get better gigs, etc? As attractive as this model sounds on paper, I'm wondering if this has a snowball's chance of working.

Thoughts?

Oh, and thanks for your offer to the group, even if it was abused by a few people. I do this occasionally for members of our local php user group, and it's fun to help people understand how to promote themselves more positively. :) Never done it on the scale you did, and can't imagine the time/effort involved!
There are plenty of times in which what the computer is told to do (and consequently does, as is their wont) is not the same as what the user might WANT it to do. Compare the computer: "The user runs this program, the program tells me to wipe the hard drive, I wipe the hard drive", and the user: "I just downloaded Medal of Honor and I want to play it".

Another example: the computer: "The user entered 'rm -rf doc', I delete ./doc/", and the user: "I want to get rid of 'Documents/' for the 23rd time today and execute 'rm -rf doc<tab>'".

The discrepancy between "do what I say" and "do what I mean" is part of where security lives. In the above cases, that would be a virus scanner and your favourite *nix command line trash utility, respectively. Other examples can easily be imagined. Just because a user tells you to do something doesn't mean they want you to do it.
Great article---I once used the "slopegraph" in a paper to show how the types of gov't contracts (e.g., fixed-price versus cost-plus) is different at each step of the litigation process:

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How do they serve different purposes? It's just a grouping of friends that is common among many people.
When they came out with Buzz, they didn't redo the entire interface for every product so that it would integrate well with it.

Even if Google+ is a total P.O.S, people would at least notice it unlike Buzz.

I was unaware for months that Buzz even existed.
Or you can go iOS route and allow users to install only the apps you've approved. Here, the user doesn't have to worry about installing a virus/malware but it results in a walled-garden situation.
What's your background - software or design? Did you do the design yourself?
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/605/ :-)
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Actually, iMessage is a great example of Apple taking a succesful third-party concept and making it their own in the OS, like Dashboard (Konfabulator) before, they now do the same to WhatsApp, only this is iOS only and Whatsapp is crossplatform.
It doesn't.

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WhatsApp (http://www.whatsapp.com/) lets you do something similar, and to any other smart phone.

I have enough trouble manually updating my iphone's OS and manually syncing it while keeping all my apps and media. The thought of them introducing more automation terrifies me.
Because buzz sucked? "Whos using it" is a different metric than "is anyone using it".
More discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561
Google and Microsoft both are registrars.

The answer to your question is likely that MarkMonitor specializes in corporate domain management, and the services they probably offer make it worthwhile to not do everything in-house even at these major tech companies. I can only guess at what might be involved, but I mean hey, there must be a reason, right?

It's not just tech companies (Apple and Microsoft included) that have them listed as registrars, it's companies from my bank (Chase) to my ISP (Time Warner) too. The portfolio, so to speak, of MarkMonitor and their clients says a lot. Especially in the face of cheap .com renewals with Go Daddy :p
> A random woman in the audience getting offended is silly and useless.

I don't think this is how "getting offended" works.

She felt angry and offended, not because it served a purpose, but because that's how she felt. Are you only offended when it's useful? I think I'd have been pretty irritated by the presentation as well (and I'm a guy), which suggests to me that her reaction wasn't some personal idiosyncrasy. Kagan should, in fact, pay some attention to what happened here & why, if he wants to be invited to give more important talks.

And if he does or has been thinking about that, that would be useful, after all.
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Exactly! This isn't about format but about content.

A movie on DVD without the menus and warnings is still a movie on DVD, but better.
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> If I pick up the phone to speak to a candidate almost all will take my call and answer my questions

Well, yes, candidates don't have much to lose by talking to a recruiter, and the potential reward is high; for a prospective client the potential reward to talk to yet another recruiter is low / nonexistent, since they're probably already in business with one, and one is enough?

But that doesn't mean candidates like recruiters more than clients do; they have different incentives.

(What you're trying to do is great, BTW).
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Unfortunately, there are many facets of this discussion that stumble accross each other.

1) Stonebraker is an industry troll that likes to shamelessly advertise his current products while pointing 'problems' with the state of the art. And he usually emits clueless opinions about subjects he doesn't deal with.

2) In spite of Stonebraker, voltdb engineers are doing a serious job, and the product has its value;

3) It's virtually impossible (and high risky) to change the infrastructure of any company the size of Facebook/Google. As any software engineer research shows, it'll take years and lots of money to change a large code base and deploy other data management system. Of course, Facebook is using HBase now for new products, but the current MySQL based systems should account for millions of lines of code. It's worth to spend time developing new products or refactoring old code that is working?

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