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I think this is an incredibly interesting post.

Point of reference: My background is in software product management at Bay Area startups, and then I went to go get my MBA (finishing soon... hopefully...).

I mention the MBA thing because in my entrepreneurship classes, I'm often the only one saying that X should keep going with their business even when things aren't looking too bright (I've found that most MBAs natural inclinations are to exit a business because being making a startup work is exponentially more difficult).

With that being said, I think it takes a tremendous amount of maturity and awareness to know when to kill your startup. Personally, I think this makes you a better entrepreneur, and I wish you the best of luck on whatever you attempt next.
I don't see how anything would have been different with the ENIAC patents. They were found unenforceable on several grounds, and invalidates on several grounds, none of which that I can see would have come out different under first to file.

As far as prior art goes, it will now be easier to find prior art against patents. A summary of the changes is here: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/09/guest-post-defining-...
Here's the post, since his blog is getting hammered by Reddit right now:

I'm alive
Friday September 16, 2011

Just fucking barely. I'm at the air races in Reno with a bunch of friends and a horrific accident just happened. One of the very high end racers, going about 500 mph, lost control and nose dived straight into the audience. The news is currently saying that the plane missed the grandstand, but that's only technically true: in front of the grandstand there are several rows of box seats. It impacted right in the middle of them. I was in a box seat with my friends only 50 feet from the impact. I was watching the plane as it lost control, so I saw the whole thing. The impact happened so fast, there was hardly any sound: just one huge shock wave. No fireball. The plane, and many people, disintegrated instantly, right in front of me. There were bodies everywhere. No crash you've ever seen in a movie is even remotely authentic.

Update: it's already on YouTube. I was in the middle of the dust cloud you see around the impact. They're saying "30 serious injuries" but I know that's a long way from the truth. At least that many died instantly in the impact. I suspect that there were not a huge number of serious injuries. It was not a small airplane. You either died or you didn't. I didn't. My brother and I are still shaking.

Another Update: They're now officially calling it a "mass casualty situation". The plane was Galloping Ghost, piloted by Jimmy Leeward. It was a very cool, highly modified, P51 mustang with a very unusual approach to engine cooling. I doubt that this was at all connected to the accident - it looked like a control system failure.
I'm not clicking anything even before your summary of the videos I could imagine what the result was and I have no need to see that.

It's not so much the dead bodies it's the fact it was a sudden tragic event if this was the evening news and they were showing a video of the results of war I think that should be allowed to shock the audience.
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I don't understand why he has to stop the project just because ONE node.js process cannot handle more than 140K concurrent connections. If the goal is to handle millions of concurrent connections, spreading the connection load out to multiple servers is a must.

I'm doing something similar with node.js now to handle millions of concurrent connections. I use multiple node.js servers to handle it. Not only it helps in even out the load, it has the nice failover property. One node down doesn't mean the whole app is down. Clients of the down node migrate their connections to the rest of the nodes.
Not true, see here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586%28v=vs.85%2...

The vulnerability, as I understand it (I did a little research by examining one of the vulnerable applications), since we don't have any actual PoCs to examine:

notepad.exe, like many of the stock Windows apps, uses a bunch of system libraries.
One of those system libraries loads shdocvw.dll (an Internet Explorer related component).
shdocvw.dll has a delay-load dependency on a library called 'ieshims.dll'. On my computer, when I start notepad.exe, shdocvw.dll tries to load ieshims.dll, and fails, but continues normally.

This means that since ieshims.dll is not found in the app directory or the windows system directory, the search for it will continue all the way into the current working directory, which would make it possible for an exploit to put a payload in an 'ieshims.dll' stored in the current working directory (next to the .txt file), and it would then be loaded.

Assuming my research is correct, this looks like a security vulnerability introduced by one of the Internet Explorer developers, probably for some sort of compatibility purpose. They ignored the fact that IE is used as a component in many system applications, and basically added a vulnerability to every app using shdocvw (there are a lot of them).
First, phrases like "your understanding is flawed" and "maybe you just aren't expressing yourself well enough" are way outside the bounds of civil conversation.

Second, how would you unpack this sentence?

"Aren't black and white basically the same color these days?"
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Well, working at a startup is rewarding because you have a small team of peers, very little bureaucracy or management overhead, no legacy to deal with, etc. I don't think the analogy addresses the core reasons why you'd pick a startup.
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This is what Larry and Sergey said before Google became the largest advertising agency on earth:

"...But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant effect on the market. Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results...In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines"
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1. "If I were an investor, I would have to want to invest in us." That makes so much sense, I can't believe I've never thought of it in that light before.

2. Agreed.

3. "You probably have to make it actually worth my while."
- Specifically, is this money/equity? Or is there another dimension I'm overlooking?

4. If I'm understanding you correctly: you want to work with someone more passionate about figuring out how to solve problem X as opposed to someone who's passionate about using their proposed solution. Correct?

Thank you!
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...with a parachute just in case you want to get off right there.
Microsoft explicitly stated during one of the early announcement sessions that their Store allows you to release apps for a price of Free, and offer trial modes as well. They also made it clear that they support alternative business models, so if you already have customers through some other marketplace or you make your living off in-app purchases, you can put your app up on their Store for free.
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I'm never watching any videos of this nature. Life is too precious to glorify losing. I'm weep for all those involved in this tragedy.
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After reading more carefully you're some sort of recommendation/search engine. You take gobs of information about me and find the appropriate resources I need for the task I'm trying to accomplish. You don't make this immediately obvious... but I'm not certain how you might do this without more knowledge about how your product will work. I think the main thing is you need to offer a clearer value proposition. You help me do things, but how are you improving that process from the way I do it today?

Regarding optimization of your landing page, you probably should be spending more time working on the product. The formula for a good landing page is never entirely clear, but as long as you have your basic value-proposition you will attract good potential users. After you have your value prop identified and stated, optimization becomes an exercise in representing it in ways that appeal to the greatest number of people.

The feel of the site is slightly better than average. It's not bad, but the person who designed it either didn't spend much time on it or didn't understand good design principles (or both). But for a landing page (which is temporary), I think this is more than sufficient. If you have the resources to throw away (I'd first ask, why do you have resources to throw away?), then go ahead and do more with this site. But you really should be focusing on getting that product shipped.
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OOps, Yeah i meant "I am not trying to suggest"..
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Yeah, we agree on that.
A very interesting provision that has not received much publicity is the changes to joinder. Joinder is a procedure for combining lawsuits involving multiple parties. As Wikipedia describes it:

Joinder is a legal term, which refers to the process of
joining two or more legal issues together to be heard in
one hearing or trial. It is done when the issues or parties
involved overlap sufficiently to make the process more
efficient or more fair. It helps courts avoid hearing the
same facts multiple times or seeing the same parties return
to court separately for each of their legal disputes.

Patent trolls like to use joinder when they sue several different defendants over the same patent to have the suits handled as one suit. The patent reform bill specifically disallows that--you can no longer base joinder on just the allegation that the defendants all infringe the same patent (and courts can no longer consolidate cases on that basis unless the defendants consent).

When this is combined with the rules that went into effect a couple of years ago that made it easier for defendants to get venue changed in patent suits, and the net effect is going to be to significantly raise the litigation costs of the trolls.

Before today, the troll could sue many companies in one suit in Texas, or in separate suits and get them combined. Individual defendants might have tried to change the venue to someplace more convenient (such as where they, and all their witnesses, are located), but the courts would have favored keeping the cases together as one suit where filed, rather than multiple suits in multiple locations. Now those will stay separate suits, and many more defendants will get to transfer them out.

In addition to raising the litigation costs of the trolls, this significantly raises the chances they will lose their patents. If they sue, say, 10 companies and that results in 10 trials now instead of 1 trial, all it takes is for one of those juries to determine that the patent is invalid, and that's the end of future trolling with that patent. (You might think at first that it wouldn't work that way, because district court decisions just determine the result among the parties at that trial--they don't set precedent on legal issues or on facts between other parties, but it works different for patents. I don't fully understand why, but my educated guess is that it is because the patent office is sort of a party--the jury is finding that the patent office did not consider the proper prior are or misjudged non-obviousness or whatever, and so that changes the status of the patent itself).

Unfortunately, the joinder change only applies to suits filed after the bill was signed so this will have no effect on the Lodsys cases that have already been filed.
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My wife and I had air race tickets for tomorrow and Sunday right in that general area. They were box seats. That (likely) malfunction in Galloping Ghost could have happened when we were there, so we're counting our blessings tonight. But we feel awful for those involved. As stupid as these races seem, everyone loves them here. Part of me hopes they can continue.
I LOVE so much that #b2g and inferno are using the nice Linux Android base to quickly bootstrap new mobile platforms. Get the benefit of a large existing install base, choice of devices, etc.

I'll be interested to see if the other Plan9 inspired projects find a home in a similar circumstance. There's a surprising number of tools being fostered by Google and Googlers (in their 20% time) that harken back to P9.
There have been a several good posts about various aspects of this bill on Patently-O: http://www.patentlyo.com/.

These are a good counter to the vast amount of misinformation circulating about this bill. It seems nearly everyone has an opinion on this, whether they know anything about patent law (current and how it is being changed) or not.
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So head to khanacademy.org, start with algebra and work on all exercises. Then go to the other subjects.

I highly suggest you pick one particular graduate level math subjects and sounds interesting to you and make that your goal.
For #4 I think he is saying that your end product may be different then what you envisioned it as, and as such you must be willing to let go of certain things and to adapt to what is needed. Of course with that said you also have to understand that not all changes are for the greater good, and it's a powerful ability to realize which is which with context.
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If you're only talking about trust, then no. I've meet people with lots of hustle that I could never trust. I guess it's a package deal. I need to trust you, and know you have hustle.

The trust comes over time. But your past helps. What other partnerships have you been in? Can I talk to those individuals?

As for hustle...I should probably explain what I'm talking about. I'm an introverted techie who would rather be up till 2am coding than socializing. That's a great skill for building a product, but not so great when it comes to pushing it. So for me, hustle means that while I'm coding, you're out there building buzz and meeting potential customers and investors.

And finally, there might be trust, you might have hustle, but in the end maybe we just don't click.

Damn, it really is like a marriage eh?

So now I'm curious, who are you?
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Well then I do have one advise. Do get excited. And next time it happens, scream a little. Laugh out loud. Hug the person next to you. "There is no growth in comfort".
You need not to be a genius to immediately notice that doing i-- inside a for loop is.. OK just not very smart. ^_^
FYI, there is a setting (which I can't remember but I've always had it) to make all your Vim command completions case-insensitive.

:h cmdline-completion, it's possibly the ignorecase option.
thanks for taking the time to write this. it was quite an epic read, while listening to radiohead's 'everything in it's right place'.

That deleted comment was mine. My intention was to trigger some argumentation, but then @feral wrote something that sounded like he had a much more formed opinion that I did, so my comment felt unneeded. anyway, deleting it was such a bad call, sorry about that. lesson learned.

anyway, for the record and the curious, here it is (snatched it back from my cache):

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But to imagine that that self-aware technology will be anything but symbiotic with us is truly crazy.

Why is it absurd? I'm not arguing one way or the other, I'm just interested. I know very little about Ray Kurzweil's singularity theory (or AI research for that matter), the little I know doesn't sound that implausible. But it does sound quite dark, so if there's a reason why it's truly crazy then I would joyously hear it.

Edit: to be clear here, crazy or not crazy, I do not endorse violence.

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There's a new book out about the complexity of American law. It's titled "Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent" by Harvey Silverglate

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How would I find such a lawyer? So far, the closest I've ever come to needing or wanting an attorney is when I bought my house. At this moment, the only outstanding legal issue I can think of is that I need a will drawn up. Is that sufficient for approaching a lawyer and "seeing how it goes?"
As a (mild) counterpoint, I've worked in Win16 code bases that were a nightmare to port to Win32, Win32 code bases that had to be half rewritten to run under the Win32-like API of WinCE, Visual Studio upgrades that broke swaths of MFC/ATL/STL code, and so on. As an end user, I've run apps that were designed for Win95 that choked under NT4, XP that choked under Vista, and so on.

I'm in awe of the backward-compatibility efforts that Raymond Chen and crew have put forth and explained in their blogs. No doubt things could be much worse. But I'm still tired of fighting Windows APIs, both as a developer and as an end user.
Keep in mind, humans had absolutely no compunction about inventing antibiotics to selectively exterminate entire species of bacteria that happened to inconvenience us. I'd hate to have something so powerful with the same kind of power over us. Technology enhances our lives now because we have agency over it, not the other way around.
While I decided not to use backbone, there is a need for a more structured encapsulation and abstraction of functionality.

For example, if the architecture you'd like to build only serves JSON and HTML templates, and javascript renders the rest, you save a lot on bandwith and cpu. The html is cached in the browser, the server only needs to produce JSON. Add a JSON based, restful DB, and you have an architecture that really fits what the web is becoming.

The JSON layer is perfectly suited for being the API layer other clients as well - otherwise you might have a lot of crufty code on the server that has to be cleaned up for use by any other client (e.g. native iPhone).

BTW - I believe the author of ligament also contributes to http://www.sproutcore.com/ and jQuery
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I think it's hard to blame the incidence of fraud, which is as old as humankind, on Kickstarter.
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> But to imagine that that self-aware technology will be anything but symbiotic with us is truly crazy

What makes you think no one will deliberately make self-aware technology that is hostile to us?

There are currently, and always have been, groups that take an "ends justifies the means" approach to achieving their goals--goals which often involve killing others. It's hard to believe none of them will use self-aware technology in weapons, or that we'll solve all the problem that lead to the existence of such groups before self-aware technology becomes common.
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> But to imagine that that self-aware technology will be anything but symbiotic with us is truly crazy.

It took us thousands of years and the invention of the atom bomb to figure out how to live with other humans peacefully. Creating a potentially much more powerful conscious entity with its own volition, and without the weaknesses and limitations of flesh and blood humans, has a fundamentally unknown and therefore risky set of potential consequences.

> Also: what kind of lame anti-technology terrorist group posts its statements on the Internet?

That's a bit of a straw man argument. Everyone uses some technology, even the Amish. The question is what technology is beneficial to humanity, and it's fair to say we've invented more than a few things that hurt humanity more than they helped, like mustard gas and the electric chair.
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Watching link #3, it look like an accelerated maneuver stall: the left wing appears to drop (which I think would be normal stall/spin behavior for clockwise rotating prop) after the abrupt pull up, the aircraft rolls inverted, and there isn't sufficient altitude to recover.
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But was Yandex on the list of search engine choices that got disabled? Because if it wasn't, then does it mean Google is trying to absorb Yahoo and Bing's shares?
Money is important, but interesting challenges rank a little higher for me. If I'd be solving a really cool problem, I'd be willing to take a risk by accepting more in equity than cash. Fliko's comment covers #4.
Yeah, that's it. Well said.
Loser or not, it's absolutely rational. http://www.epi.org/publication/large-disparity-share-total-w...

The top 5% have captured 82% of all economic growth since 1983. That economic growth has been to a great extent the result of the productivity gains of the other 95% working harder and longer and more efficiently (with better technology). The bottom 60% have actually lost, on the whole, from their additional striving. Their return on additional labor has been negative.

It's irrational, given that state of affairs, to strive. It's exactly akin to the arguments people raise when you talk about 90% marginal tax rates --- who would rationally work more when most of their gains go to the government? Well, who would rationally work more when most of the gains go to the rich? We keep people working more through cultural influence, but that doesn't make it rational.
for those not wishing to see the videos (I'm in that group) here's two photos showing exactly what happened minus the gore

immediately prior: http://imgur.com/QuAnm

impact: http://imgur.com/CcS91
That's a good analogy - I've never heard that one before.
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The article mentioned the group praises Ted Kaczynski, so most likely good to read this essay if you want to see their POV.

Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
by Theodore Kaczynski

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/ethics/Unabomber.pdf