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I feel for you. You have good intentions and want to make something that actually improves the quality of education, a noble goal... The problem is that sometimes what people need vs what we want is different. We want to throw money at gambling, and tabloids, when in actuality we're better off spending that money on other things that could improve the quality of life.
He might be saying something false, but he's saying something he believes is true. They're not asking him for an account on some event that took place, they're asking for an opinion.

Lying under oath has to be a clear and deliberate misrepresentation of the truth. That can't be proven in this case. It's a perfectly valid opinion to believe that Google is successful because it was first, whether you agree with that opinion or not.
If you read Sean Murphys blog and the posts that he writes in Lean Startup Circle Google groups, he gives a lot of techniques on how to figure out what a user means when they say or do some particular thing.

For my particular startup I have a lot of users who say - "I dont think I would be a potential customer but I really want to be on the site when you launch". Then I ask them for money right there and then discounted 50% from waht we will charge when we release and have had a few people actually give us the money.
So we are going to launch this idea on Oct 15.
3D printers are a reality, but $600 3D printers that are low maintenance and come assembled and ready to go are certainly not.

I don't see anything on the Origo site suggesting they've solved the problems that have kept the UP!, the assembled MakerBot Thing-O-Matic, and other assembled home 3D printers above $2000. I also don't see evidence that they've made any breakthroughs in reliability or ease of use, or really anything more than renders and prose.
That looks like a total sham. In the pictures, every utensil is positioned so that it could be held there simply by gravity and friction.
And a 2007 story.
For me there are many real world cases which can't be handled without showing the user a fatal error.

E.g. - the developer asks for an runtime created asset that doesn't exist anymore or there's a condition under which a block of code runs forever (actually in this case the flash runtime stops after 15 seconds of activity and allows the user to kill it but it's still a "crash" insofar as the user is concerned.
Depends on your business plans pretty much.

If you're appealing to the very internet illiterate, the single letter brand is very useful.

However, there might be some problems; eg trademark issues in which case you'll lose the domain to the trademark holder. So, not only do you have a premium for the single letter but you also have to pay lawyer and court costs for it.
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Find Andrew or Aaron at http://www.carepractice.com/

You're gonna put in an effort though - they are a cash only practice but are keen on your kind of stuff.
> Even if Google's non-search products are objectively better, it can be a bad thing in the long run as the next generation of competitors are locked out by Google's dominance in search.

The problem is in how you try to fix this. You could just as easily end up hobbling google with nothing to show for it but enabling the last generation of middlemen to stick around even longer.

(Nextag and Expedia come to mind...)

> That's what the hearings and investigation are supposed to reveal.

Here's hoping. These proceedings aren't big on subtlety, so unless there's a smoking gun, I'm expecting mostly innuendo and posturing from everybody.
Jeez. That's nothing for an island.
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That might work for cookie-cutter, by-the-book managers later but it won't work for a founder, or anyone developing anything new.

I've hired construction crews before knowing about the area, and again after working in it myself. It's a night and day difference. And not because they specifically lied or even stretched the truth but because they didn't tell me what I really needed to know to make good decisions.

If all you want is "a blog" then you may be happy with what you get without more thought but if you want anything more complex than that you're going to need to understand significantly more about what you really want and how the constraints are going to impact it.
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Out of curiosity, who "offers" single letter domain names? The only two single-letter domain .coms I could find are:

x.com => Paypal,
q.com => CenturyLink (???)

Even if someone had the money, which organization decides who can register these?
I have USAA, and yes, this is exactly what they do (for some payees; others are actually electronic). My bank statement treats it as a check, and they have scans of the checks written this way. It's a bit of a surprise, because I'm writing checks that are numbered 200 or so, and the bank's Bill Pay uses checks numbered 900000 and up.

I don't care (much), because the bill is still paid, right? (Granted, it takes longer when they mail the check than when they do the electronic thing.)
Neat project. Good luck with the beta.

(I'll buy one whenever I buy my own house... )
Congress is spending time investigating whether this company has become so successful that it is a defacto a monopoly and has abused its position. These two questions are not settled.

Gibson was investigated along with other companies for price-fixing. That's more collusion / cartel stuff, but it also falls under anti-trust. The word "trust" is not an accident. When you do good work and capture the lion's share of a market, you are then subject to a much higher standard than otherwise. Even little things you do can kill whole markets.

It's not pretty, and I haven't made up my own mind. But so far this investigation does not appear to be frivolous or arbitrary.
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He's right though it depends what you mean by a "crash".

An unhandled exception due to referencing a null object that caused the Flash app to crash? Developer's fault, not Adobe's.

A crash that brings down the entire Flash runtime (and possibly the browser hosting it)? Adobe(or the browser vendor)'s fault, not the developers.

Even if the developer does something horribly stupid in ActionScript, the runtime should never die due to developer error.
What’s the W3C then?
I've been using Chrome's FlashBlock extension and loving it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiab...

For those who want to take melling up on this challenge (and I would encourage it because it's an eye-opening experience to see much your favorite websites depend on Flash, or not), this extension is a nice bridge.

Flash embeds aren't loaded automatically. Instead, a placeholder appears instead. Clicking on that placeholder loads the Flash file, so you can selectively choose which Flash embeds to see.
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I didn't know that! Fascinating. Glad they turned it into something awesome.
There is something novel about Assistly: it's fucking awesome.

As someone who has tried every single support tool available on the web, Assistly blows everything else out of the water.

That's why they won.
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The real problem with having a monopoly is that once you've got it, there's no incentive to keep having the "best product at the lowest price".

Look at the wal-mart strategy if you want an example. While there's competition, prices are low (sometimes even running at a loss). Once the competition goes out of business and you have a local monopoly? Crank those prices, extract as much profit as you can from your now-captive market.

Most markets have significant barriers to entry even when the government isn't involved at all.
The remedies tend to be forced divestiture (eg, Google forced to some portion of DoubleClick, I forget which one), full breakup (a la AT&T), or huge fines (as with Intel in Europe).

None of those are surgical. The breakup of Ma Bell may have helped competition, except that instead of a national monopoly we were saddled with a dozen regional monopolies. It's all a huge mess and I wish I knew the answer.
He's not suggesting that the stock price fluctuated as wildly as it did, and employees "revolted" against Leo solely because of webOS, is he? Did he forget that Leo did announce one other thing that day: that the hardware division of HP (which wasn't bleeding cash) would be spun off into a new company, and HP would be taking a gamble with software services? Dump something that you bought one year ago, who cares but the fanboys. Dump something that HP has been doing for decades, and heads will roll.

If you ask me, they should've given their hardware division more time to come up with a winning tablet, if not running webOS then running either Android or Windows 8 (seeing how HP and Microsoft are "intimate" partners"). Give the hardware division a chance to reverse course while it is still not a cash drain on HP. Then, if HP can't break into the high-margin tablet market, dump the hardware division.
Nothing is wrong with having a good product. The question at hand is whether dominance in one market is being used to kill legitimate competition in others.

It was the same with Microsoft 15 years ago, though AFAICT Google are nowhere near as nasty as they were.
Safe-to-spend is about your current obligations, and other stuff that would reduce your "really available" balance; there's more money physically in the account, in a true emergency you'll rob from tomorrow to pay today's emergency room visit.

Of course, now you need a way to pay for tomorrow, but there's still options: skip a bill or two this month, borrow money (from friends, credit card, payday loan, sell your internal organs), work overtime, or whatever.
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Millions of people go without Flash every day.

On their iPads, smartphones, etc.
Because the whole point of it being managed is that you can't crash it, and if you can it's a bug.
Some of these are really welcome changes for me (native JSON, bezier curves, TLS sockets, DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren).

And yet...

And yet I'm still planning on switching my web app to HTML5.

This is coming from a guy who's sunk over two years of development into Flash. It's not because the runtime is buggy and/or crashy (it is, but it's not that bad). It's not because it's so much easier to develop in HTML5 (I will dearly miss AS3 and generating art assets in Flash). It's not because HTML5 has more useful features than Flash does (Flash has more, and they're implemented more reliably).

I'm doing it because Flash doesn't run on tablets [1]. And that's what my users want. I don't have the time to develop three native clients for iOS, Android, and Windows 8, so HTML5 it is.

I will miss Flash dearly. I'm praying that between some combination of backbone.js, easel.js, raphael.js, and inkscape, I'll be able to build something as expressive as my old system.

[1] Those new Android ones included. I've used those tablets that "support Flash". It's a nightmare.
I dig the story, but why is the last message written in cipher?
SalesForce is piecing together social CRM: integrating social data into their CRM system. This will add to the monitoring (and in-progress publishing) capabilities from the Radian6 acquisition. The triforce is almost complete...
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Your startup failed because teachers hate technology? Your startup failed because you couldn't make teachers love the technology you were providing. Or you didn't go to the right people. Maybe you should've gone straight to the schools.
My desktop has already hit this point. Granted I'm not much of a PC gamer or anything, but prior to my current desktop I would upgrade and/or totally replace my main desktop system at least once per year. Now I've got a 4 year old desktop running on a Q6600 and Nvidia GeForce 9-somethingOrOther that I'm still insanely happy with. The only upgrade made to it in the past 4 years was replacing the system drive with an SSD.

Laptops are pretty much "done" for me too if you don't consider size/battery issues -- a Core i5 laptop is more than enough for pretty much everything I do and likely will be for the next 4+ years, but now I just need a smaller, lighter, more battery efficient one.
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I was a flash snob. I know AVM2 opcodes like the back of my hand. I wrote SWF and FLV processors. I fucking love Adobe.

Yeah, same here .. writing HTML and Android apps. Even our stock-take app for inventory control, I wrote it in SWT and deploy via WebStart.

I know.
> Browser vendors are innovating in some areas, but they are stalled by the standards process in so many areas that is impossible to create a platform with a coherent, unified vision the way Apple has with Cocoa or the way Python has with Guido.

Nobody actually wants that web; we'd have somebody's "coherent, unified vision" circa 1995, with a handful of updates every year or two. I like my web as a fierce competition between browser vendors to desperately catch up to their peers in terms of speed and features.
>>"Browser vendors are innovating in some areas, but they are stalled by the standards process in so many areas that is impossible to create a platform with a coherent, unified vision the way Apple has with Cocoa or the way Python has with Guido."

Personally I don't think he has anything meaningful to say on this particular topic. Hard to tell because he can't even keep his examples consistent. "... the way Apple has with [a product] or the way Python has with [a person]."

>>"Even if WebKit was the only game in town, it would still be crucial for it to have competent, sympathetic, benevolent leaders."

This statement, as well as others in the article and his apparent association with Apple-related things makes me wonder if he has this point of view because of the whole Steve Jobs thing they have/had going on. The fact that he doesn't even mention the W3C or the WHATWG shows his point of view is skewed.
Oh man this rocks so much, I've been thinking about tracking my spendings but have been too lazy. With this I can do it without even trying. Seriously, props dude
Considering that BankSimple is "just" a distributed interface to a mainframe system... that's an amusing statement.
Well, I agree that WebKit should probably be adopted in Internet Explorer, so Microsoft can once again innovate in the browser space while helping everyone. Maybe they should join Google and Apple in embracing open source software and committing their changes into a free project. Because then everyone wins, including Microsoft. No more IE6 nonsense.

We always have this question of centralized / decentralized. Whether it's social networks, or government, or the web. Flash was a centralized platform, and so what? Many people complain that iTunes and Flash etc. are not super accessible, and also that companies which exert influence tend to lock up their customers (except maybe Google and Yahoo :) The best example of this when it comes to the desktop was Microsoft. They wanted to get everyone into their ecosystem. Now Apple is the new Microsoft.

I personally think that "open source" should always be a competitor to proprietary stuff. Whatever the centralized effort would be, it should be open source. I personally think javascript-based technologies like the browser, jQuery, like PhoneGap and like Node.js are going to become more and more important. So what we really need is a standard ECMAScript that is implemented correctly everywhere, and we're pretty much there.
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This is sort of a cleaned-up version of his string of tweets from a year back:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/joe-hewitt-web-development/
My startup failed because I built it for the wrong people. I didn't mention this in the post, but I did approach schools in my area and offered a free pilot program. After a couple days of emails and cold calling I couldn't get a single taker.
That's pretty good info. I don't think $45/kg is to terribly bad. I think a lot of it will come down to who ends up funding/owning the devices and the supplies. If they go for the "razorblades" (or maybe more appropriately injket printer ink) profit model, things could go pretty poorly. Let's hope there are at least a few players that decide to keep things sane.
I'm not sure that I've ever applied for a job that listed a salary range in their ad. And, actually, my take is exactly the opposite of yours. Almost without fail, every ad I've seen with a salary listed was lower than I would consider.
Perhaps you already have health insurance through your spouse?
Wow. $3mm cap with 20% discount is horrible; I don't know of anyone currently raising money on those terms. There has to be some mistake somewhere.
My favorite was Dogpile.
edit: it still exists. I still like dogpile.
I'm not an expert how to write job posing (and Dave Thomas is an excellent writer), but this is more like "what a developer job posting should NOT look like" then "should look like"

Two important things and one less important:

* job description is more for system admin and not for a developer - your audience will be confused

* if you do not offer either health care or a pension plan, this is then essentially a contracting gig. You probably need to provide exact salary in this case. Probably you need go to hourly rate. In practice, there are only two type of jobs for developers in US: job fully loaded with all benefits and contracting gig. There is very little between.

* less important: too wordy and just too long without exact facts (you know engineers do not like
That's an interesting point, and one that I could easily imagine happening.

I suppose the only problem for the movie producer is who holds copyright on a persons face?

Imagine George Lucas & co. wants to make 'Indianna Jones 5 - the prequel' with this technology using a likeness of a young Harrison Ford.

The studio owns the likeness of the character 'Indianna Jones', but surely Harrison Ford owns the likeness to his own face (IANAL, but curious if there's precedent for this sort of thing).
Many of our non-technical clients have Github accounts and are collaborators on our projects - we treat the commit log as our way of reporting status updates.
In the vein of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", no teacher ever got fired for storing all of their students' data locally, whether on a personal PC or a physical gradebook. I have worked with businesses that do not want to store data in the cloud (Amazon, Salesforce, etc) if the data is at all confidential. They have a point: the risks of local data storage are serious but intuitive, whereas the average person has only your word regarding the safety of the cloud. And teachers, like doctors and bankers, have auditors that they would have to persuade to accept the new technology.

I would not be surprised if the post mortem reveals that some teachers brought this app up with their administrators, who responded, "That app would be handy for you, but if there is theft or corruption of your students' data, how would we defend ourselves in the ensuing lawsuits? 'The developer seemed reliable?'"
How about "The source code is available"?
Success does not come from Getting Real, or from Lean Startups, or from any other business book. It doesn't come from sitting in your room reading Inc. Magazine or Joel on Software. It doesn't come from great typography or presentations worthy of Steve Jobs.

I'll bet if you look at your server logs, you'll see that this post on Hacker News got you more traffic than you've had since you launched. I would guess you got about 35,000 humans listening to your story tonight.

Get it? It's a story. It's about the story.

Sitting around the campfire telling stories.

You can reboot, relaunch, pivot, A-B test, Go Lean and Get Real in your room until the end of time but until you have a story to tell you're not interesting and if you're not interesting nobody will pay attention: not poor teachers, not rich teachers, not anybody.

OK, congratulations, you have now learned one thing about business. If you'd like to learn another couple of thousand send me an email and come work for me in New York; it looks like you're a pretty decent product designer and programmer.
Could you imagine a HN island? I'm simultaneously stimulated and terrified.
Argh!!! You beet me to it.

No doubt this is going to be the most fucked up flash version ever... I can not wait to read about the sploits because the one thing you did not read about is the new 'executable stack protection' mechanisms.

I am just saying the 1980's called and they want their software back...
I am a fan of Joe Hewitt but this is crazy talk, especially coming from one of the heroes of the Mozilla revolution. It's as if he doesn't remember those dark days long ago when he was working on Firefox in what seemed like a lost cause, Microsoft was the defacto standard setter and single-handedly drove innovation in the web, it was awful. We must never go back to those days. I know Joe imagines some benevolent dictator or consortium, but it's just too risky. There's too much power in controlling the web and power corrupts. Look at what's happened to ICANN with the power they've been given. No, we must keep the power spread out, preferably we'd have more browser makers not fewer. The slow pace might be frustrating to the innovators on the cutting edge like Joe, but it's the only way.
Please don't ever do this, unless you wish to invite Dropbox's file syncing to destroy your repo.

(See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1964347/mercurial-and-i-g... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-... )
I have been flash free for so long I can not even recall when I last used flash...
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> Granted, if you were designing something from a clean sheet at this point you would never end up with anything even remotely resembling the Shuttle.

It breaks my heart government operations take so long to learn such simple lessons.
performant is not a word.
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Comedic timing. Hold back the punchline for just a little bit longer than you think you should, and you'll kill 'em every time.

Unless your joke sucks, then you'll just suffer an awkward silence.
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Indeed, people should be aware of both how widely it is used, so they can be outraged and call for a change. Namely - the death of flash.
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I also hate videos; they are too slow to get to the point.

With text, at least I can speed read and ignore stuff that is not important to me.
I love using GitHub Issues even as a single dev. I give clients read access to a repo and they can log feature requests or bugs they find. As a single dev I'm less inclined to manage and backup a server for my repos. Also, I try to delete projects I'm not actively working on from my drive so I'm less likely to tinker with stuff when I should be working on paying projects. Just my $0.02.
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