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Shouldn't be 'unfortunate' - PHP is a perfectly fine for this sort of thing. You can address the 'ultrascalable/node/nginx/caching/i've-got-2-million-users-on-one-server-running-on-my-ipod' type of user demands after you're profitable with this first version.

The 'self-hosting' thing shouldn't even be just about saving money - there's a strong case to be made for security/privacy by self-hosting this sort of software internally.
Just moved all of my domains from GoDaddy over to Namecheap. Interface is slick and very easy to use. First year for privatized whois info is free too!
False dichotomy. Unless you're saying that a developer is by definition unable to think about design.

A developer might not do as good a job at it as someone who focused their career at it, but I would be surprised if developers couldn't put together something that was at least passable if they put a modicum of effort into it.
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Its worse getting dropped into $USER_FRIENDLY_EDITOR_OF_THE_MOMENT. It's cool that the sys admin or the distro developer loves to use pico, nano, joe whatever, but I just want to make my change and move on.
I don't agree. The falling prices are holing me and many other frugale people back from buying electronics frequently. The reason people buy new electronics so often, is because there is so much improvement and innovation.
This probably wouldn't be a bad deal for Yahoo! I'm mean could it really get any worse for them?
I suggest using hg or git, neither of which have a lock.
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I didn't say a designated designer needed to do the thinking.
Domains by Proxy emails you credentials when you sign up. People don't pay attention to this delete or never look at the emails, then get pissed when they can't login.

Their hosting blows, but I've never had a problem with registrations.
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I moved away from GoDaddy a couple of years ago. Now I have a few expiring domains left on there.

Last week I got a notice they were going to charge me for a renewal, which I did not want. So I called the support guy. Twenty or so minutes later, he sent me to a link to fill out a form where all would be taken care of.

Except it wasn't. Just like my previous few encounters with GoDaddy, when I went to the link I learned some obscure detail about my contract with them prevented me from getting what I wanted -- yet allowed them to charge me in full. I'm not going to go into details. It's a perfectly reasonable request on their part. The problem is they have created this monster of add-on services and items, all with little footnotes and gotchas. And it's all geared to extract more money from me.

Last time I had a domain going to expire that I wanted to keep, I went to transfer it over to my new domain guys. The domain was expiring in a month, but I had to complete a GoDaddy form online to make it happen (sound familiar?). The only way to complete the form online was to check a checkbox. The checkbox said that once I checked it I couldn't transfer the domain for another 90 days. Fuckers got me again.

I could tell you a few more like that. It's always some finely-detailed bullshit that ends up with you paying them more. Last week they got me for around 180 bucks.

So now I plan on using the domain I couldn't cancel. I go to the DNS settings. Looks like the new DNS manager is overly complicated and impossibly to use easily. The "adventure" continues.

I swear I hate those bastards. I consider myself a nice enough person, and I have been disappointed by online services in the past -- no big deal. Some online companies "get it" and some not-so-much. But GoDaddy has crossed a line with me somewhere. I'm not sure if it's the used-car-salesmen experience I get checking out or the policies that exist seemingly to endlessly screw me over in various and sundry ways, but it's just a really, really, really bad service in my opinion.

Did I mention I didn't like it so much?
I used to work on Django project on a Mac. Dependencies like python-mysqldb can be quite tricky to install on OSX, whereas Ubuntu only requires you to type 'apt-get install python-mysqldb' and you're done.

More importantly, though, I do not like the idea of having all those services constantly running on my desktop system. I'm using Ubuntu for both development and deployment now and I still use a separate VM.
duh, reminds me of my long forgotten project, I got 15GB of 200Mio played games on FICS and 15800 games of grandmasters. Took too long for my AI to look through all of them ..
If true, they should've taken the money. I don't see much coming from that Scvngr team other than marketing themselves as the next ___ for ___.
This is kind of what I'm talking about. There is some subset of usability principles that you can "learn and scientifically derive" without actually delving in and becoming a usability expert, but that just makes you the UX equivalent of a cowboy coder hired because his uncle heard he knew computer stuff — you might get stuff done, but you will not be a substitute for an expert unless you actually become one.
And if a designer had a working product after the "architect" part, you'd see a lot more designer-only apps being built.

The fact is that a coder CAN get a working product up without the design-equivalent of "coding". They can lay out a UI just as well as an average professional designer (I would know), but the execution will certainly fall short of an average professional designer (I would know).

With that said, I'd always prefer to hire an excellent designer before building a UI, but I rarely will because I like to build more than I like perfect UIs.
I think the point isn't about speculators, it's about hoarders. If it becomes a successful, liquid currency, it will be in spite of those hoarding.

Coincidentally, with the market looking like it does, at an individual level it's absolutely the right thing to do to hold them, or at best to slowly diversify out, while still not using it for much purchasing. As long as it seems like the right move to hoard them, and their transactional use is a tiny fraction of the amount hoarded, they're not going to be a successful currency as he defines "successful". Closer to a ponzi scheme and/or asset bubble IMO.
Cognitive dissonance? Really?

Some people like Macs for mostly rational reasons, others like them for irrational ones.

Some people hate Macs for mostly rational reasons, others hate them for irrational ones.

Many will be ambivalent.

Get enough people on the Internet and some in each group will be #@$$holes to other people in the other groups.

In my case, a $1700 Macbook Air ends up costing about $70/month over 2 years, which is considerably less than I pay for shoddy phone and Internet service. In return I get a lightweight computer with a fairly fast 256GB flash drive.
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That would be an amazingly awesome writeup.
I think (and I may be wrong) - he gets to write off the donation now (probably amortized) to help his tax basis even though the $ doesn't go anywhere until he's gone...
Which is amazing considering how much GoDaddy is used for YC companies:
http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html?2011
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Actually, I think that is the perfect question to ask. Knowing what you want to learn about is a huge step in the right direction.

The author presumes that everyone interested in coding should have a high level of confidence already. I disagree, and feel that if someone wants to learn about a subject, asking questions about that subject is exactly what they should be doing.
I feel I routinely go the extra mile to make friends who know what I'm interested in. I go to meetups, I moved to a city where there are a lot of hackers, I participate in forums like this. I've kept myself engaged in the few software-related projects I've had to opportunity to be involved in, and those are some of my closest friends. I try to ask good questions. But there are no programmers in either of the buildings I work in. I couldn't make lunch buddies or work-out buddies with a hacker if I tried. Dentist? Doctor? Sure. Hacker, not so much. Don't get me wrong, I've got great work-out buddies, and by the Stallman definition, they're hackers, but not the computational sort.
"Occasionally they overlap in an individual" and "Surely a coder can have a good idea about how to lay out a decent interface" are basically the same sentence.
That's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. But, to answer your question, "Does this cause people to hold onto their money instead of buying computers, tvs, and iphones?" The answer is yes (with qualifiers). Many late adopters are late adopters because they are holding out for a cheaper price for those goods. From personal experience, I've done this very thing (waiting for prices to come down on a TV before I bought it). I put that money into something with a higher return for the time being.

But, the reason that's not exactly a fair comparison is that the currency itself (in this case, USD) was not deflating. Ergo, my "hoarding" was actually putting it into something with a better return for the time being, which was available because the currency was stable. If the best return I could get was holding on to my money (instead of putting it in some sort of investment vehicle), then that would be deflation.
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HP is shifting to a software firm...so yes, while killing off a hardware platform taints their reputation, I think this platform goes along with their new strategy.

That being said, I won't be hitching my horse to this wagon either.
If the execution falls short, I wouldn't say they did it just as well. Would you say a coder who creates a bug-ridden ball of spaghetti is just as good at programming as one who writes clean, correct, bug-free code, but just doesn't execute as well?
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I don't like ipods because it requires proprietary software get music on them.

I don't like macs because I can't get the mouse acceleration to work like Linux or Windows. It's like moving your cursor through treacle.

That's it.

Cost isn't really an issue, build quality isn't either because I don't abuse my stuff and usually bin it after a couple of years anyway.

Service isn't an issue because I can fix my own shit - software and hardware.

UI isn't an issue because I live on the terminal most of the time.
I've been using GoDaddy for years. Never had a problem. I dont' use their hosting, though.
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I'm not sure I see the value of a pure digital currency, anyway. My dollars are digital when I want them digital (paycheques, moving between accounts, bill payments), and physical when I them physical (ATM withdrawal, quick cash IRL transactions).
I'm really interested in this kind of "view source" business model. Is it working for you?

There's a strong case for self-hosted apps, particularly in enterprise and school environments, and it feels like open source shouldn't be the only model for that (it's not easy to run a business based on open source software). I'm glad to see that people are trying different approaches.

Best of luck!
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It turns out GoDaddy only issues the certificate to the domain attached to the hosting (which is somewhat of a stupid association, really, because it shouldn’t matter what domain you use as long as you’re accessing your content via a correct route).

If hosting with GoDaddy was the first mistake, this assumption was the second. The whole point of an SSL certificate is to say that the server you are talking to is a server that is authorized to speak on behalf of domain xyz and, as such, they are generally tied to one or more domains.
MacUpdate bundle offers 11 apps for $49
I'm not sure Krugman's reputation is as reputable as you suggest. Some might even call him a "froth-mouthed crackpot hurling ad-hominems". Not me of course, I wouldn't want to hurl ad-hominems in place of a real argument. Better to appeal to authority.
How useful is that information to _users_, vs. engineers? If the Mac is running then all that information - and more - is available via "About this Mac." If it's broken, then anyone who is going to fix it can also pop open the case and figure it out.

The lack of replaceable parts is perhaps lock-in, but the overhead for supporting some functionality (replace the DVD drive with something else, or battery with a fresh one) detracts from other functionality (lighter, thinner laptop with longer battery life).
Please fix the link. It goes the blog's homepage which makes it difficult to find the article later.
The idea that this causes 'hoarding' is highly questionable.

It can cause hoarding. It's not a given. But it can get into a downward spiral.

Does this cause people to hold onto their money instead of buying computers, tvs, and iphones? Of course not.

Are you sure? No one would argue that all people would stop buying all consumer electronics, the question is: what would sales be like with stable prices? I don't know how to answer it but I don't know how you can say for sure that sales are not lower than they would be with stable prices. Or rather, I am sure it is possible to construct models to try to understand the relation but I am doubtful that you have done so or have a particular model in mind. Please correct me if I am wrong.

The difference with a stable currency supply is savers and fixed income earners wouldn't have their purchasing power sucked away from them year after year--on the contrary, they'd become continually wealthier as the economy grows around them.

Generally inflation is priced into interest rates. If you look at countries with much higher inflation they tend to have much higher basic interest rates.

Krugman's arguments in the post are pretty brief, he's just stating his opinion and not conducting a thorough examination. Likewise, I don't find your arguments very persuasive but that doesn't mean that you are wrong and he is right.
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I've been using domain.com and they've been doing fine for me. No parked domains or anything underhanded. Although they do shove "private domain registration" in my face every time I log in, the rest of the site is pretty quiet and gets out of my way.
It's news because too many 'businesses' are still trying to save a buck by using a hosting provider like GoDaddy. If you are hosting Grandma's blog...sure, use GoDaddy. Other than that, spend a few more dollars for something that won't taint your business some day.
LOL, I think this might be a little bit ahead of its time. My mom still needs MomThisIsHowACellPhoneWorks.com
Such as wisty said, you certainly don't need any projects or open-source commits for an internship. Finding a developer is very good advice as you will find that most are eager to share their knowledge, so feeling like you may not have enough experience should be of little concern. We were all there at one point in time; sharing the knowledge is a gem to developers. Just get ready to move at a fast pace!
I may be missing something but I think you can do what is proposed with VirtualBox. I use it for my virtual dev machines and run them in headless mode. For example the command:

vboxmanage startvm "Name of VM" --type=headless

to boot an image up, takes about 10 seconds to be ready to ssh into (You can ssh immediately it just waits till it has booted to connect).

vboxmanage controlvm "Name of VM" poweroff

If you want to turn it off from the outside.
Again with the absolutes ... in some cases this is true, in some cases it is not ... if you're going into a market that's established and you want to make a splash, do you think that going in with a theme forest page is going to get you the buzz you need or get you laughed out of town?

It would be nice if you could always say ... x + y = z, but that isn't the way the world works ... having a nice design out the gate can get you far enough to be worth that extra $5k that you invest in it.
It just depends.
I remember when GoDaddy was the David to NetSol's Goliath.
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One thing that might be interesting to consider is wealth distribution over population growth.

Thought experiment:

Say our money supply is fixed (10 million dollars), and there are 1 million people in our economy. Everyone averages out to holding about 10 dollars. Everyone goes on a massive baby-making spree, and in 10 years, there are still 10 million dollars, but 2 million people in the economy. Average wealth is $5 per person. Either prices dropped (unlikely, demand has doubled in this ideal world), or everyone is averaging to be poorer.

To my mind that thought experiment demonstrates the need for the supply of money to keep pace with population growth.

I might be wrong, I am not an economics student, and there might be angles I've missed.
I'll second my vote for DNSimple. We were using GoDaddy before and we had an issue where they were returning faulty DNS records from certain hosts (which was such a pain to diagnose). After trying to deal with support at GoDaddy we were done.

We switched everything over to DNSimple and I'm happy paying them $3/month so I never have to look at another GoDaddy config/upsell screen again. They also have a status page (powered by Pingdom) http://status.dnsimple.com.
Now, many places on the web, like, right here, don't let you have an avatar. I wonder, what would be the effects of imagining you have a particular avatar?
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I hated using GoDaddy when doing development work for clients...I would never choose to use it for myself just based on my previous experience with them. I prefer self hosting on a fresh Ubuntu Server install on highspeed residential cable from a server I built myself..there's something satisfying about learning about all aspects of web development
>And most economic theory says that the more people spend money the healthier the economy becomes

Doesn't that seem like a bizarre theory since the economy is in shambles and debt-financed spending seems to be getting higher and higher (consumer/credit card debt, etc.)

I thought people were supposed to be encouraged to save, pensions, 401k and Roth IRAs, etc. Is overall economic health inversely related to individual economic health?
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What I find far more interesting about BTC is its decentralized and (mostly) anonymous nature, rather than arguments about fixed money supply.
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Say you need a tool to reorder categories. You know the best way to do this would be with drag and drop, but the theme only has table views! So you place an "order" field in a table view and hope for the best.

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very good point, I've been bitten by this one before
GoDaddy is so bad. My heart sinks whenever a client asks me to login and change some setting for them. They've managed to turn the entire process of every function on their site into a purist up-selling unusable monstrosity that confuses customers to such a degree they feel they need to pay more and more money.

If you want a good Domain host try http://www.webwiz.co.uk, the guy who runs it is very good and prompt at support, domains are a fair price and the interface is super easy to use. I have no affiliation to WebWiz but since moving all my domains over there it's been a lot easier.
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Wow, just looked at his book, "In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of American Economic Decline" (published in 1991, at the time when Japan was today's China...), and this guy is about as far away from my libertarian worldview as you can imagine. He believed that America's problem at the time was that it didn't have enough bureaucracy (which is especially ironic given how bureaucratic gerontocracy today is believed to be stifling Japan's growth). Hope his donation will do some good though.
I have used GoDaddy for their DNS services and have been very happy with their customer service. No issues so far after ~2 years. I may research other DNS though, comments of how easily they shut people down makes me nervous.

Note to Pinolio: I may have missed it, but I did not find a link to your service on your blog.
You don't need to take away people's purchasing power to encourage them to invest. If an economy is growing, there will always be higher returns in investment than in holding cash. Monetary expansion encourages unsustainable consumption and debt accumulation. Why is this preferable to saving? When people save, they don't do it with the intention of one day dumping the money in a lake. They are still going to use the money, just on a longer time scale for a better-considered purpose.
It's not actually very steep, it just looks like it because it's been at (effectively) zero for a long time.

If you look at the Java one for example, which is on a long downward trajectory, you'll notice that they've scaled the graph to fit the data. The 2-3% rise that both languages had in 2011 looks much bigger on the Objective-C graph than it does on the Java graph (where indeed it's just a small wobble on its long, slow descent).

In fact all of the top languages seem to have steeper slopes (often in both directions, and on multiple occasions) than the Obj-C one.
So you'd buy more electronics if the prices went up every year?
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I don't get the problem with hoarding. Most people don't hoard gold, property or tech stocks during times when the price looks like it's increasing constantly. There is a point where it makes sense to sell some after it has made some gains. In reality, unless buyers make a massive mistake in the valuation of BitCoins, the current gains in BitCoins value should taper off at some point.
A simple explanation...and probably the correct one.
Hello, I'm the author.

I mostly use OSX for everything. The only times I switch to the VM is when I'm having a hard time installing something (for an example, see my earlier comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2969509) or want to try a tool that's not available under OSX.

I admit the post would have been better with examples and without then unfounded critiques, taking notes for the next ones.
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OK, that straightens out most cases, unless you're posting something that doesn't belong to you anyway. AMA compilations are in, but meme picture coffee table books are out.
"What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich. And that’s not at all what is happening in Bitcoin."

Spot friggin' on, Mr. Krugman. Bitcoin's supply limiting design has added a psychological dimension that encourages collecting. Perhaps when Bitcoin reaches supply maturity the value will stabilize but for now its value just too unstable to be used as a currency.
http://seasteading.org/ is an idea on similar lines by the free market libertarians and http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ for the more communist minded libertarians led by Jaques Fresco.
> I'm not sure Krugman's reputation is as reputable as you suggest

I know that winning the Nobel Prize is not the end of the world and that there are often political motives behind these prizes (Obama anyone?), but between believing a guy who won a Nobel Prize in economics vs. believing a random guy on HN with no real argument, the choice is easy (to me at least).

To the best of my knowledge, Krugman rarely (if ever) hurls ad-hominems: he always tries to explain why he strongly disagrees with conservatives, tea party, or Obama. The adjective he uses for them almost always fit his explanations.