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removing barriers to entry might make it easier to innovate but it also makes it easy to copycat and beat ideas to death. the first rage comic might have been funny but they just get worse and worse with each new iteration.
My thoughts exactly... Reddit is a misfit in the overall organization and with the current exponential growth it's experiencing, it's the best and most leveraged time to sell it off. Would be a strategically good decision IMO.. I'm surprised this comment isn't voted higher..
He sounded pretty serious to me. Do you have a better suggestion? The Mavis Beacon software does a perfectly fine job at teaching touch-typing.
Updated the document with a column giving the Soundex code (http://perldoc.perl.org/Text/Soundex.html) for just the first name (since last names are all the same. For the 593 entries, there are only 296 unique Soundex codes.

EDIT: BTW, the original form of the name is Brittany, so the top misspelling technically is not. This is one of the cases, like babe converting to baby where the misspelled and/or affectionate form became dominant.
I'm very sad to see it go, because I'm currently working at a startup in pier 38. It's a great space, even though it could use some renovating. The location is perfect, and being able to see the water directly when looking out the window makes for a great work environment.

I have a hard time seeing it remodeled as a hotel, or anything else—even though I've always thought vacant piers would make great spots for bars, nightclubs, restaurant and many other things. Most of the piers between the ferry building and pier 38 are vacant for the most part blight and urban decay. Pier 38 has the advantage of somewhat closer proximity to AT&T Park and the trendy King St, but that's about it. I have a hard time seeing how pier 38 will be different.
I guess that is typical in these big shareholder meetings, as in no attempt at a response? Sounds like they are all about saying everything is on track and not at all about the hard questions.
Agree. I am amazed at how most people just bash TechCrunch and leave the matter. No matter one likes it or not, they are the biggest tech blog and so very influential. TC's well-being is in the interest of the startup community.
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I would like to add the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/) as an incredible resource. It's obviously geared towards scripting but most of what it teaches is extremely useful for working in an interactive shell as well. I had been using linux and bash for years before I read it and I still picked up quite a bit when I finally got around to working through it.
You apparently missed the part where I said, "and otherwise works with people who have a substantial audience in order to advertise with them."

My girlfriend doesn't work the spammer role that you seem to be envisioning. Her job is to discover an audience that is actually interested in the products her company offers and to reach out to them. Part of that job is to manage the Facebook presence for products that have well over 100,000 followers. Another part, as I said, is to find relevant blogs and other websites frequented by visitors of an appropriate demographic as a platform for their ad campaigns.

I brought real information to this thread. There was no reason whatsoever for you to shit on that.
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> It seems like he is ready to finally leave TechCrunch, but doesn't want to frame it as a simple matter of leaving TechCrunch to become a full-time investor

I wonder about this. Even if you accept the premise that his priority is now his fund, it seems like Mike's formally leaving TechCrunch could have a nontrivial impact on "CrunchFund's" deal flow?
It might be true, though, that there is a large equivalence class of companies that can trade CEO's well, and interesting consumer tech companies are just not in that equivalence class. It seems like Coke and Levi Strauss could trade, for example, and be fine, or something.
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Well, I guess there's no memetically famous touch-typing tutorials software for Linux or Mac.

In fact, the only other memetically famous touch-typing software I know of is Typing Of The Dead¹, and that's not exactly widely-available.

¹: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead
Buyer of Reddit self-serve ads here, and I think that their approach is interesting, even exciting, and in the long-term potentially very profitable. Some of the issues come down to the ad averse culture (as you pointed out), not just of the community at large but even of the staff on the back-end.

There are great little ideas that are not being managed effectively in my opinion. For instance, it costs more to target a particular subreddit than the whole website, which is not particularly good for the kinds of small businesses that could really benefit from the service (there's also a daily minimum -- $20/day for site-wide, and $30/day for subreddit buys -- compared to Google, and Facebook's $1/day minimum).

Secondly, the true genius of the Reddit ad system is that your ad looks a lot like a regular submission. Think about the power of Adwords -- your ad looks just like the content your potential buyers came to consume anyway.

Thirdly, and here is the double-edged sword -- in the comments, a conversation (actually, a long-term, multiparty conversation) can build around your company. The power of this is truly great; however the implementation has been spotty. Every post on Reddit is submitted via a community with rules, and moderators. The one exception to this is self serve ads. What you end up with is a lot of spam and trolling in your self-serve ad, which defeats the whole purpose of having the comments in the first place.

Unfortunately, in my experience, the admins aren't sure what to say and fallback on free speech adherence, etc. although many posts and comments are taken down in various subreddits due to a lack of observance on the part of the commentor or OP to that sub's rules.

TL;DR: Reddit's self-serve ad system is a billion dollar idea in the making, but only if the culture of the community and more importantly the admins allow it to be so.
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I would say it's more like "Amazon + Google is the real Apple competitor".

Amazon brings to the table everything the article mentions but they are standing on the shoulders of Google.

Google did all the heavy lifting building Android. It sure is a lot easier to make a competitive tablet if you a given a feature complete OS instead of having to build it and eat the R&D yourself.

I am not faulting this strategy, only making the point that Amazon alone could probably not do this.
A good portion of these don't appear to be functioning very well in Chromium on Ubuntu. Is anyone noticing broken apps on other platforms?
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He's right when he says Unix Power tools "is the atomic bomb of Unix knowledge".
I do love that talk, but it all basically boils down to:
* Have a lawyer
* Have them create you a standard contract
* Don't ever talk without lawyering, to their lawyer
* Never assign rights of any sort "Until full payment is received" (At least for that point in the work)
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"just as there are those that can code PHP but could not code Java."

Really? The use of the word "could not" here seems kind of presumptuous.

It's possible that the "barrier to entry" for PHP is simply lower because there are more places you can easily run a "hello world" script, but once someone is setup with some kind of repeatable code -> deploy process "writing" the difference between "writing" one language and another is relatively benign.

He seems to be making out that Java is some kind of hard language to learn compared to PHP.

I learned Java before PHP (and after C/Assembly at uni) but I much prefer writing code in PHP compared with Java - not because Java is "hard" but because it's annoyingly verbose.

Perhaps what he's referring to is not so much people that "code PHP" but people that "get something running" based on existing software or copied and pasted module snippets (like installing Drupal or Wordpress modules).

That would seem to me to be more in the realm of running Macros in Excel or Word than actually being a "coder".

I seriously doubt that there's anyone who's capable of writing a program from scratch in any language that couldn't learn to do it in any other language.
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I don't think the gap between what he originally said and your response was large. I was rather surprised by his "ad hominem" remark, but the rest of his last blog was pretty much exactly what I would have expected.

DPP's a freelance consultant, and I suspect one with no shortage of business. He'd rather stick to projects where the technology he is advocating won't get blamed if the project fails. That's not really surprising.
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I think concealment is a big problem in most industries, and one of the main reasons companies try the "not allowed to discuss your salary" trick. The other one is so that people who aren't as well paid as others but think (or are) better at the same (or harder) jobs don't get fed up and either demand more or leave.

So... Ultimately talking about your salary hurts no-one honest and open. Because trying to prevent staff from being unhappy at being unfairly compensated OR having to pay a fair wage isn't either of those things.
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Well that's not actually how games are decided these days. It's often something like "did Z have queens blocking his ramp before the blue flame hellions got there?" or "did P get scout the tech lab on the starport and put down a robo in time?", even at the pro level. A lot of other games end with a two-base timing attack (e.g. fast blink stalkers). Good games will have some eco harass, but more along the lines of dropping 8 marines and killing several workers, or totally taking out an expo with infested terrans. I don't think I've ever seen a single worker kill be significant, or even multiple instances of similarly small magnitude. The APM and attention it costs to harass often isn't worth killing a single worker.

There's a lot of depth to SC2, but I think it's a mischaracterization to say that it's a game of such tiny advantages, at least at the level it's played today.
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> What kinds of permits do you consider bribes?

Just as engineering students learn skills while working summer internships, architectural students learn how to offer a bribe.

As it was explained to me: Everyone in the transaction must maintain plausible deniability. For example: For a house inspection, move a $100 bill from one pocket to another when something out-of-code is found. If the inspector tell you he'll overlook it, then the $100 is dropped someplace conspicuous.
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$382MM? Why did the investors consent to that? That's a lot more than is needed to stop worrying about the founders selling the company to keep paying their bills.
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If you were approaching me, a dozen 'letter of intents' as described above would certainly grab my attention. It proves 3 things:

* You're serious
* You're a good salesman
* There's a market for your idea
Just a single data point, but I noticed similar antics even from outside the organization. My company licensed our software to Yahoo for several years, but they stopped using it six months into the contract. The projects kept running and we kept collecting data, but nobody ended up doing anything with the data. Employee turnover in this division seemed like 6-12 months, and to my disbelief the Harvard and Stanford grad managers I interacted with had no idea what was going on or what they were doing.

I certainly don't think the concept of losing scope over the course of an enterprise software license or a project's life cycle is unique to Yahoo, but these corporate inefficiencies have been a serious eye-opener.
Howard seems like a cool guy, but I'm skeptical. How do these dinner events go. $65 seems like a high premium to just say hi when there's 10+ people there. Obviously I'm assuming a great deal.
I'd love to hear some opinions here on the difference between "angel" and "seed" funding.

From some information I've gathered by reading and talking to people, "seed" funding is for product development, right? You might have a prototype, but you really haven't been able to prove product/market fit yet for lack of funds? In that case it seems that some "seed rounds" (eg. Lanyrd and OnSwipe) are really large.

I also gather than the size of the investment is not what determines the "stage" of the round - ie. Tech Crunch reported $1mil in "seed funding" for OnSwipe. They later went on to raise a "Series Awesome" of some $5mil.

Then there's "angel investment" which seems to be much less formal and probably more likely in the tens of thousands than hundreds of thousands (or $1mil+).

What I'm really wondering is: at what stage are these companies with their products when they get these seemingly enormous seed rounds?

A lot of what I read about "getting investment" seems to suggest you need traction, paying customers, product/market fit, a track record of running successful companies, etc.

But then it seems to me (from the outside, at least) that some companies manage to get quite a substantial investment as a "seed round" which seems to be (again, from the outside I really have no idea what's going on under the hood here) largely to finish off an otherwise prototypical product so that it can be released to the target market.

It's my understanding that once you get to "Series A" you're basically not a "startup" any more (by the definition that a "startup" exists to find a business model).

As you may be able to tell, I'm thoroughly confused. Any advice or links to relevant articles most appreciated.
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Thanks for linking that, really neat. I just ran it, and after configuring to use command-arrows to switch spaces, it works really well on my MacBook.

In fact, rather than hitting the side of the screen, just a gentle tilt to the left or right is enough to switch spaces. The dynamic feels really good.
Supposedly the CEO and the chairman were on opposite U.S. coasts. Must have been pretty urgent though...
As joshu said, well put. You hit the nail on the head.

Of course, there was also a serious lack of vision and real leadership at the top as well, but that wouldn't matter with all the middle managers getting in the way.
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Please read an Accounting 101 textbook to learn why this isn't true.
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I think says it best.
I'm enjoying the social beatbox so much
In my 8.5 years working there, the "mission" of Yahoo that I came away with is to try to be everything to everyone--poorly.
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Nice to see Mr Spolsky taking it on the chin and not making excuses.

I would be interested in seeing an online version of any of the presentations. Pretty please ?
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To be fair, directly after the snippet you quoted, he had written "that they want you to build".
I'd love to see an online conference like http://www.mvcconf.com/ with the speakers who were signed up giving their prepared talks
I think 90% of the time this kind of thing is done it's because they're strongly considering selling it off. The rest is just excuses and standard corporate verbage spam.
It's sad, but the price really did kill it for me.

I've only ever been to a conference on my employer's dime once. $500 is a big gamble for me.

(I understand that companies sending devs to conferences seems to be the Done Thing in the States, but I haven't seen it happen too often in Sydney here.)
I love short, vigorous conferences. You get great ideas, and go home feeling energized and ready to try a bunch of new stuff you just learned.

Going to longer conferences (like WWDC, etc.) ends up causing brain fatigue after 3rd day of 5 - it's like the Gary Larson "Can I be excused? My brain is full" Far Side comic.

Also, the "hallway track" is what I get the most out of - conferences that optimize for that by offering meals and communal events on-site maximize this.
Sounds like a classic case of premature scaling. http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanfurr/2011/09/02/1-cause-of...
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Funny joke and all, but it got me thinking.
Why not some sort of gesture for undo like a multi finger scribble (similar to 'rubbing something out' with an eraser)?

Then I tried a bit harder & thought why not just use cmd-Z ;)
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By the time you spelt britney wrong, I would think Google will complete the whole name.
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It is one of those fights where you do not care who wins, you just hope for lots of bloodshed.

This reminds me of Henry Kissinger's realpolitik comment on the Iran-Iraq War of the early 1980s: "Pity they can't both lose."
You seem to be associating all of 4chan (and moot) with the wildly infamous subset of culture that exists on b/. It isn't all about Anonymous and troll memes, there's plenty of bubbly happy content and silly stuff on 4chan, and this site seems to fit into that side of it. I will agree that the content seems pretty weak right now and the design looks fairly childish, from the stickers and the colors to the layout. If they are going after the tween market, it might be a gigantic hit. If they are hoping to capture the power users that made 4chan what it is today, I don't see that happening.
I would have much preferred a $99 conference; I saw the announcement of this year's one and was seriously thinking of attending since I was likely to be geographically nearby this time, but $499 was really a bit much for me. I can drop $99 for a one-off day out, but $499 really seems like you need a company paying your way to it for it to be interesting. I guess this is a big difference between the nature of StackOverflow versus an Oracle Users Conference or similar.

Sounds like one major problem is that they really need Joel at the conferences for a bit of "star power", but he obviously doesn't want to spend half his year flying around to SO conferences. Not easily solved, I guess, but I hope they come up with something.
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Nearly all Solaris systems I've worked on and set up have a sun freeware or CSW system set up on them with all the standard "linuxy" tools installed, so the change isn't that weird.
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> The list of Yahoo's problems are long; and C-level people are not high on that list. "Vision" is also not a problem for Yahoo, if they'd just let the engineers just do their fucking jobs!

I've got to disagree with this. No one inside or outside of Yahoo seems to be able to concisely state what Yahoo does. There are dozens of properties and various initiatives, but no real statement of purpose. There's too much confusion about direction, about what Yahoo's goals are, or should be. I don't think the internal guidance is clear enough, either.

I think this is a distinct C-level problem. And if managers aren't being held accountable, that a C-level problem, too.
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> The shell derives its power directly from the OS

Indeed. After using it for quite some time without really thinking about it much, I've only relatively recently come to the realization that the shell is, in many ways, simply a thin very UI layer wrapped around the kernel's syscall API, and I think the awesome utility of the shell speaks to the quality of the design of that API.
lol, I was in there for that. nice beat indeed. Don't forget to stop by in a week or so, we will be adding new features.
Reminds me of my first meeting at Yahoo after I started at WBR.

I was a huge fan of delicious pre-acquisition and wanted to meet with Joshua to see if there was any way to tie music and our artist sites in with the service. I e-mailed him I think to setup a meeting.

We show up and our meeting is in the very, very back of the office in a conference room. Josh is there as well as a guy is his boss and another guy.

We find out this is the first time Josh had ever met his boss (this is about four months post acquisition) and the other guy didn't know why he was there, but the meeting had showed up on his calendar.

It was singularly awkward.

I used Yahoo back when it was still on the stanford.edu servers and called "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"

I social engineered my way into the old wooden building when making a documentary on how people in the service sector were dealing with the "information super highway" in 1999 during a conference.

A lot of great people and great technology went into that company and came out of that company. I hope for at least legacies sake someone can figure out how to turn it around. The misguidedness is not new however, and I have lots and lots of stories from the last five years of dealing with them.
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Indeed. Merch definitely hasn't reached its full potential. And that /r/dragonage sponsorship was indeed paid; I wish more advertisers saw the value of a branded subreddit. That's something for us to do a better job explaining.
Glad you liked it. We will be adding private rooms and saving/sharing beats within the next couple of weeks. Check back.