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The interesting part of this from my perspective is "my dad - a lifelong entrepreneur."

I recently saw that pud is a year younger than me, and we entered the job market at almost the same time with similar skill sets. Why did it take me so goddamn long to pull my head out of my ass and finally start my own company (at 35)?

Perhaps pud's acceptance of risk has a genetic component, or at the very least he was brought up in an environment where he learned to adjust to uncertainty.

He credits laziness - but we all know that lazy + smart = effective. I wonder if that's part of entrepreneurial DNA as well...
I agree with practically everything said in the post short of this part:

> It's my hope (for that's all I can do right now...) that some of the great minds at Google actually hashed out some of the issues from js, put down a formal specification and created the new language that's "like js", but better.

I disagree with this mostly because I had hopes for a fast lightweight VM that could at least support multiple languages. Now that it's clear we're not going to get such a VM, I'd at least hope that we get something as far away from JavaScript as possible. If you want "like js", then just use JS as the compilation target for the language like CoffeeScript does, but make it suitable to a different side of JS than CoffeeScript. For example, a language that is better at functional programming, to contrast Coffee's OO favoring approach. It could still be JavaScript like and implemented on top of it without major complications (maybe a lack of tail recursion 'optimization' might be a problem?)

But as for Dart, I'd rather it be something that doesn't translate to JS very well, so that we at least have a broader range of what can easily be done in a browser. Of course I realize that this probably wont be the case since they already claimed it would be a dynamic language with only optional type checking. At this point I'm just hoping it will be re-branded newspeak, because honestly, that would be a pretty interesting language as an option. Plus with Bracha doing Google Tech Talks, his language fitting the description fairly well, and his blog posts talking about a Newspeak -> JS compilers in recent months, Dart might actually have a chance of being Newspeak in disguise.

EDIT: By the way, I don't think Jash Kenas being more familiar with language design would have made CoffeeScript any different/better than it is. A big part of its success is that it's just a more modern day JavaScript, and the core design of JS wasn't really affected very much (scoping being the biggest change I think). This allows the generated code to be easy to read, and makes learning CoffeeScript fairly quick. I think both are major factors in CS getting so popular so quickly.

Oh, and as I recall, he did a great job of taking input from other JS developers through out CS' development process. So it's not really like he locked himself in a basement and created the whole thing by himself. In fact, he probably did a much better job at this than Google did with Dart.
God is just.

I talk with God, so I know He's very real. It would be easy for Him to make me win a lottery. That puts things in perspective and makes so me not blindwd by money when I look at the world. You need food clothing and entertainment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

Jesus argued with the pharasees. A rebel without a cause is sad, but with a cause is wonderful.

God says...
C:\TEXT\Brief\AUGUST.TXT

to the madness of the Circus.
But while he was miserably tossed therein, and I, professing
rhetoric there, had a public school, as yet he used not my teaching,
by reason of some unkindness risen betwixt his father and me. I had
found then how deadly he doted upon the Circus, and was deeply grieved
that he seemed likely, nay, or had thrown away so great promise: yet
had I no means of advising or with a sort of constraint reclaiming
him, either by the kindness of a friend, or the authority of a maste
God is just.

I talk with God, so I know He's very real. It would be easy for Him to make me win a lottery. That puts things in perspective and makes so I'm not blinded by money when I look at the world. You need food clothing and entertainment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

Jesus argued with the pharasees. A rebel without a cause is sad, but with a cause is wonderful.

God says...
C:\TEXT\Brief\AUGUST.TXT

to the madness of the Circus.
But while he was miserably tossed therein, and I, professing
rhetoric there, had a public school, as yet he used not my teaching,
by reason of some unkindness risen betwixt his father and me. I had
found then how deadly he doted upon the Circus, and was deeply grieved
that he seemed likely, nay, or had thrown away so great promise: yet
had I no means of advising or with a sort of constraint reclaiming
him, either by the kindness of a friend, or the authority of a maste

-----------------------
No business success is silly when reality is absoluetly FUBAR, not-in-kansas anymore absurd.
Aren't mazes supposed to have entrances and exits?
I'm actually seeing a shift in the marketplace to more Wordpress projects than Drupal.
> the guy who posted on Pastebin has offered no evidence that he's the one who actually pulled off these hax.

He certainly has. http://pastebin.com/jhz20PqJ

In particular, he claims to have signed the Windows calculator with the (his) Google key.
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Isn't that what supposedly Edison did, take cat naps and then go back to work? He probably did not know anything about REM and Polyphasic, maybe just discovered he was more productive that way?
How about that - I thought it was all about the binding energy curve: http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/fi/fi_bs/images/fig2_147...

where, as the diagram shows, fission comes up from the heavier elements (less energy difference) and fusion from the lighter (greatly more).
It's done randomly. They do a controlled test of a feature by turning the feature "on" for a window of time, and measure users' reactions in the control vs. experimental groups in real time. Experimental bias is minimized by the traffic being simultaneous, having a large sample size (visitors), and randomly deciding who gets put in which group.
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Even so, at a $4B valuation, Apple was only offering 20%. Try getting your new investors to swallow that pill.
The SGS2 has nothing in common with the SGS1 except the name.
They fixed everything. Seriously.
Seems like a fair price for a small IT company with a single product and an unpopular subscription model, but in today's market Dropbox should be able to get a better deal.
There is a similar bridge [1] in my parents' hometown (Man, Ivory Coast, West Africa). But over there, the legend says that it was created by spirits and that they come out at night to fix it. It's been there for decades.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_dorion/522774639/in/photostre...
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You're up at Columbus Circle?

I really have no idea what's happening with this and the news was just as a surprise to me as it seems to be to everybody else (I say this as a Googler).

I have to wonder if you'll stay where you are or you'll move to our Chelsea office at some point (which is very nice btw). That depends on if you'll be integrated into local or run as a subsidiary.

If you're integrated into local you may want to give some thought to what career path you want to transfer into. SREs (Site Reliability Engineers; basically a sysadmin/programmer hybrid) are what keep sites up here. Software engineers are the more typical programming route. I believe there is some interviewing that goes on to find the right fit for everyone but I really don't know how this works with acquisitions.

Anyway, welcome aboard.
I seem to remember Alec Guinness hit the jackpot on the SW franchise by demanding a % of the profit (gross?), so I assume this guy had a different contract. I suppose Guinness had a lot more pull and negotiating leverage than a dude whose primary contribution to the films was to be tall.
What, you're not looking for Christmas gifts for your friends and family already??
the lag fix had little to do with the rom, its voodoo lag fix (aka ext4) and then 8 month later or so, samsung finally fixed it in their rom (it was a bug with their file system, RFS) so any rom based on anything post gingerbread is now fixed (including samsung stock)
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Are you having to go thru software eng interview as well? I've heard Google interviews every one including employees who join via acquisition?
That was exactly the point I was trying to make. Thanks!
As a user of Windows, Linux and Android all I can say is "thank fucking god". It would have destroyed a perfectly good cross-platform product.

As a user of OS X and an iPhone, I had the same reaction. One nice thing about Dropbox is that it just works with all my Windows-using friends. It just works through a browser interface. I obviously like some Apple products enough to use them, but I too would hate to see Dropbox acquired by the company. I don't think it would be as bad as Cisco's acquisition of Flip (http://jseliger.com/2011/05/08/will-we-ever-find-out-what-ha...), but I can't imagine such a thing turning out well for Dropbox or for users.
So you are saying solar power isn't reasonable, then point to a project using solar power to generate power from solar energy cheaply? And, fwiw, I wouldn't consider wind turbines to be using solar power (every non-nuclear source would be if I did), but the tower is specifically concentrating the heat from the sun to drive the turbines.
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I live in Brooklyn, so this could in fact by advanced hipsterism.
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There have been lots of failures not only in the solar industry but in every industry, it doesn't mean we should stop trying. No one answer is the cure-all, but we'll never know its potentials until we fail and build on those lessons learned.

You can't predict how great the 10th generation of a product will be without knowing how the other 9 were
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The event mpm is experimental: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/event.html

Recent benchmarks show apache is a dog with high concurrency, even with the event mpm.

http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/apache-vs-nginx-vs-v...

Not sure about your nginx criticism. It's the darling of many high traffic production sites. Here's my weekly netstat off a low-end dell front end box on a gigabit link:

http://i.imgur.com/8fTg0.png

(The bottom right number is the interesting one)

My nginx config is pretty stock - standard reverse proxy to apache.

CDN's are gods gift to latency and I use several, but now and then you need an actual web server to do actual work.
Yes because he clearly knew they would be such a success at the time he was negotiating contracts. He made the standard contracts, which is what you have to do, because you can't just change the terms later based on how successful something is or isn't.

This isn't a case of Lucas being exceptionally greedy. Maybe its a case proving how 1-sided Hollywood contracts are, though.
I don't know how unpopular it is but I'm paying for the cheapest one and I haven't regretted it yet. Indeed they could release more features and blah blah blah but we gotta admit that dropbox's great thing is the fact that it just works.
> The gap between what you can do and what Larry Ellison can do isn't as relevant as the gap between what you and Larry Ellison can do and what your average single mom living in welfare in Durham can do.

Yes, but the income inequality measures under discussion say the opposite, which is my point. (Do the arithmetic. $10k to $200k, which is way more than I make, is 20x. Larry is way more than 200x past me in wealth.)
Here's the problem: if they do end up suing you, and you just accepted whatever provisions they put in their contract, you're going to be screwed. The first version of a contract always strongly favors the party providing it, it's not malicious, it's just the right way to do it.
pg has thought about this before:

http://www.paulgraham.com/ladder.html

"After all, projects within big companies were always getting cancelled as a result of arbitrary decisions from higher up. My father's entire industry (breeder reactors) disappeared that way."

My comment is that any Baby Boomer who read about physics as a kid (like me) heard about thorium DECADES ago, and is amazed that the blog writer has apparently never heard of anything that was written about before he was born.
I used to feel the same way, earlier when I was in a cushy job, waiting to get into my own startup. And I used to search for ways to avoid procrastination, wasting time etc.,

Then I just decided to quit! And got into my own startup. Boy!!! Now I am not finding time to do anything that does not help my goal of building a company ground up. I can see through my own eyes that it is just lack of a passionate goal and a worthy cause that has just tricked my mind into surfing & wasting time on internet.

So, my suggestion for you would be to take up a goal worthy of you. If you want to continue in the same job revisit your goal and one that is extremely challenging as if you are running your own company and not working for another one. Good luck!
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TFS is a below average source control system in an age when there are many better choices. VSS, on the other hand, is an active threat to all of your code.

At a previous employer, I was delighted by the switch to TFS, because it meant we no longer had to worry about the VSS file store getting corrupted and losing data. Now I'm on contract with another employer still using VSS, and we should be cutting over to TFS soon. Once again, I will be delighted. Because the below average is a welcome change from the flatly unacceptable.
I smell a followup post!
Give this a read too: http://gizmodo.com/5417318/my-6247-royalty-statement-how-maj...
Well said Brendan!

Like I said in a tweet this morning, I know those Googlers know way more about JS than I do, but if they think as per the leaked mail) that devs are choosing iOS over browsers because of JS, they have their heads in the sand.

Those choices are happening due to iOS as a platform not because devs are somehow so much more happier learning/using objective-C! The best thing that Google could do is to KEEP working hard on improving the browser platform like you guys are doing with B2G and they started to do with ChromeOS.

For example, I'd love to hear from the ChromeOS team exactly what in JS is blocking them delivering all the kinds of APIs that B2G is promising to deliver.

And on the server-side, some one should tell the hordes flocking to Nodejs that they are all wrong! As you pointed out, serverside everyone can choose to use whatever they want and given that choice, just look at everyone jumping on the Nodejs bandwagon. I'd love to see all those thousands of module that dev around the world have written in Go recently! (npmjs.org)

maks.
> It may well be easier if you're "old", since you've already had a chance to establish a career and make yourself hireable

You're assuming something about age discrimination....

> I can imagine it takes some balls to try to start a business immediately after graduating (or instead of going to college)

Huh? Why are you assuming that a youngster is less hirable/desirable after the biz that they start fails? They're not, they're more hirable/desirable, at least in the US. (Of course, if they weren't very hireable before, that may carry over, but we're not talking about those folks.)

> unless you have a pretty good parental safety net.

That's not particularly relevant.
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While I agree with you, the article is about Return of the Jedi which was released in 1983 - six years after the first Star Wars movie came out.

So by the time these contracts were being negotiated with David Prowse, the producers of the project knew that the movie was likely to be highly successful.
I just want to quote something you said for the sheer awesome implications of it. "You can also implement process/procedure into it, if you consider yourself popping lambdas off the stream, and which lambda is Next can be guided by choices in the current lambda." This. Is. Powerful.
"... I accuse the corporations, who oppose the moral rights of the artist, of being dishonest and insensitive to American cultural heritage and of being interested only in their quarterly bottom line, and not in the long-term interest of the Nation. ..."

There's more, including calling any such distortion of [his movie?] art as barbaric.

http://savestarwars.com/lucasspeechagainstspecialedition.htm...
Eeeehh...I'm not so sure about that. Palantir, Dropbox, and Heroku are all examples of startups that solved massive technical issues (mostly with redundancy/stability) that keeps their competition at bay. Would you want to recode Dropbox? Would you like to take a stab at one-upping Palantir's massive effort in the next gen of financial intelligence?

Hm, I think I need to go back to the drawing board with this post. There's something good here but I didn't quite get it across.
> Why isn't there an enterprising law firm going through the credits of all the Star Wars (and similar-vintage films with ongoing commercial potential), contacting every person on the list, and telling all the retired ones "There is a pot o' money with your name on it if you sign these papers which let us sue them for residuals on your behalf."?

Because they'd lose.
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I don't think the GP was implying a purely random process, rather the fact that if there are 20,000 games submitted for the bundle, your chances of getting picked are pretty low (akin to a lottery). As an indie dev, you have some knobs in your control (how good you make the game), but many knobs won't be.
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What segment of the marketplace are you referring to? Corporate clients, large nonprofits, government and .edu doesn't seem to be using wordpress for much.
Well, if we scaled this expense level straight up to a billion impressions, pinboard would be bankrupt instantly.
> Ski resorts run thousands of HP in water pumps and air compressors to make snow, and they do it at night mostly because they all have power contracts with lower prices at night.

Umm, no. They do that because of customers and "night is colder".

Agriculture, specifically pumping water, is an example that supports your argument.

> Energy usage at night is far smaller than during the day, so much so that we have an excess at night because of all the plants with constant output.

Until we start charging lots of electric cars then....
This is probably true on the small end of things, and I've had discussions around Drupal vs. Wordpress in enterprise-ish environments, but Wordpress is still not a serious contender in the enterprise space.

I'd be interested in talking to the folks at Automattic to see where they're trying to take things though. Seems like everybody wants to play in everyone else's space. I have a sneaking suspicion that by the time all of the major open source CMS projects are on an even keel the target will have moved and frameworks will be "the thing".
Not the link you're after, someone has already provided that but I found "Why I started Magnatune" really interesting. http://magnatune.com/info/why
Looks much improved since the last time I looked at it. Last time, it looked awesome except that customers had to provide bank account information to pay with it, which will instantly drive away a huge number of customers. Now it looks like they accept credit cards, too, which makes it a viable contender.

In particular, they now have everything they need for the "lightweight payment system market". They still can't address the surprisingly large "I want to pay but I don't have any kind of credit card at all" market, though.
Competition is always welcomed in this market. Don't know how much users are going to use checks instead of a card, and the example only seems good in prices comparing agains authorize and paypal for small transactions, not big ones.
Many years ago I tried and abandoned Zendesk for this very reason.
One line at the end stands out:

"Google is of course interested in new our vehicle for survey dissemination"

There is something there. Surveys are worth a hell of a lot more than a targeted ad and right now not managed by just a few companies (rather badly too).

I know Google have looked into surveys before (think CAPTHCA or paywall alternatives), maybe this is it?
I know PJ, who runs Noca. He's been working on it for several years (it used to be called Paybl). Unfortunately it suffers from the same problems as every other payment system in California that is regulated by the Money Transmission Act, which is to say it's basically illegal as of July 1. Then again, maybe he's changed the business model in some way I'm not aware of.

See...

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Fifty-Days-Payments-...

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/whitepapers/heldhosta...

This isn't the first time I've seen a "finally, a real PayPal competitor!" post on Hacker News. I don't think people get it. There isn't going to be one any time soon. PayPal raised a hundred million dollars. It has licenses in 45-ish states and Washington, D.C. that cost about ten million dollars alone. It supports multiple currencies. The dot com boom (and the comparative lack of regulation at the time) is just about the only thing that allowed PayPal to exist. Venture capitalists (and banks) know better now, and they're not enthusiastic about investing in red tape just so Jamie Dimon and friends can make more of it.
> For Secure Check(tm), the merchant needs to have a business checking account in a bank in the United States. And consumers can only pay with a checking or savings bank account with a bank in the United States. Currently for VISA/Mastercard Consumers can pay with Visa/Mastercard issued by a bank in United States. We are however opening up to accepting International cards/Checks soon.

So basically, no, this isn't a real competitor to PayPal at all.
Hahahahaha. I agree with there never being a truly original idea, but there are ideas that the original developer can take credit for, unlike me, since I'm copying the concept right out.
They do charge the $25 sign-up fee, which they can increase and follow the AppStore Model. + they are stil lgenerating revenue from Google search results and AdMob, which most of the Apps are using.