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No one who "wants to do a startup" and wants to learn how to program should even think about using Microsoft tools. Microsoft tools are complicated and expensive. The educational resources are expensive or non-existent. The incidence of Microsoft tools in startups is very low (in the Bay Area they are non-existent).
Wonder how much effort/time it takes. Seems like a huge potential for something like this geared towards children..especially on iPads.
Apparently this bloke hasn't been around artists or colonies.
Yes, however, the desired "lock-in" is to the tool, which sells, not the Flashplayer. People are used to developing with Flash Professional and have AS3 codebases, etc. If Adobe successfully targets HTML5 instead of Flashplayer, these people can (and in all likelihood will choose to) continue to use FlashWhatever Professional and even their AS3 codebases.

The player is merely a medium, though by authoring it, Adobe can advance the state of the art more quickly than the browser makers can agree on anything. This does make Flash Professional a more compelling environment.

But let's pretend for a moment that 95% of browsers got feature-coherent on the level of Flash. Why would Adobe care if the player were "all browsers", instead of Flashplayer?

Would they care because if they were targeting all browsers, they'd be effectively targeting a level playing field in terms of the base technology? Would it end up like Dreamweaver, which also targets a common base technology?

I'm going to argue "not necessarily, and in this case, no". And the reason is that anyone today can target Flashplayer. The playing field is already effectively level on Flash. Tons of software outputs SWFs. There are even Flash Professional wannabes, but they're not as good as GIMP is compared to Photoshop, and we know where that thread leads.

Speaking of that, consider Photoshop. It is hugely popular in spite of the fact there is zero infrastructure lock-in. Literally bazillions of programs can view and edit Photoshop-produced files. It's thriving while Dreamweaver, relatively, stagnates.

Dreamweaver's lack of dominance, IMO, is likely related to other factors. (I'm not sure why, but I don't know any professional web developers that use it.)

Iff Adobe could get Flash-quality and quantity on 95% of browsers using HTML/CSS/JS, I'll still bet you a pint they stop work on the player. Chrome 14 just added audio synthesis, so we're getting there!

Adobe's not going to stop working on the Flash Professional-style tools, though, even if it is outputting HTML. People buy Flash Professional for the features it provides both to the designer and for the end result. No one actually cares if there is a plugin in the middle or not.
That was wonderfully fun and indeed creative.
I'm pretty sure we've had 3D scanners since before 3D printers, but I don't recall off-hand how cheap they are. But great idea for a kids application with playdough.
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That was highly entertaining.

I think the best part was that I really had no clue what was coming next.

I wish some of the animations moved a bit quicker though. Other than that....bravo.
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Personally I don't think there's any doubt that Google's search quality has fallen down over the last few years.

There have been a few instances where what I was looking for was not found on Google and I gave up looking for it. Later (after a few months!) when by chance I tried the same query on Bing, the results showed up right on the first page. Surprised by this, I rechecked it on Google and it appears either on the 3rd or 4th page - something I would never check earlier.

Since then I started always doing a backup search on Bing for anything important, to see results I might have missed on Google. By now, I'm using them 50:50.

Also attended a lecture on Bing search, and learnt that their approach is a little different, which could acount for this observation.
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We've been using ASIHttpRequest for a few years now without issue. If the code's in place already just launch! It's rock solid for what we use it for.

If you've yet to fully integrate it then it may be worth switching but none of the one's linked seem as full featured and simple to use as ASIHttpRequest.

It's a sad day and hopefully someone else will take over the reigns.
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From Jeremy Stoppelman's written testimony, as posted on Yelp's blog (here: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2011/09/seeking-a-level-playing...):

"In 2010, Google began incorporating the content that it indexed from its competitors into Google Local without permission. Although Google had previously acknowledged that it needed a license to use Yelp’s content, it was now using it without permission to prop up its own, less effective product. In some instances, Google even presented this content to its users as if it were its own. [See Exhibit C]

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In response to our objections, Google informed us that it would cease the practice only if we agreed to be removed from Google’s web search index, thereby preventing Yelp from appearing anywhere in Google web search results. This, of course, was a false choice. Google’s dominant position in the market prevents services like Yelp from exercising any sort of meaningful choice in the matter: it is a choice between allowing Google to co-opt one’s content and not competing at all."
Wrong again.

The online services division has lost $9B since 2007.

"online services division" is not the same as "Bing".
It is a division which (over the years) has included several different products/services. Bing (created in 2009) is one of those services. MSN used to be (and may still be) part of that division.
>However, sites are just now starting to phase out IE6 support.

All this proves is that the IE6 monoculture had such an effect that it took a long time for the effects to disappear. But yes IE4 and particularly IE5.x introduced a lot of new stuff that did not become well known until years later, like the infamous XMLHTTPRequest.
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I migrated from Thunderbird to GMail, and from Word/Excel to Google apps.

The only desktop apps I'm still using, besides development tools and the actual browser, is a PDF reader + Skype + iTunes + the file manager + Gimp / Photoshop for editing my personal pictures (before uploading them to Flickr).

On my Android phone I use native apps for online services, mostly because bandwidth is a problem and native apps have better caching. But the web interfaces for Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are actually usable.

I'm not saying that everything should or will move to the web. It would actually be stupid implementing Photoshop in the browser.

But the web is clearly dominating my time spent with computers.
This class looks really intense. I'm so excited for this -- just look at that syllabus!
Totally agree with you. Using a helpdesk system does have a positive impact - I no longer need to track every mail, tweet & facebook conversation listening to customers & potential customers.

Which helpdesk systems did you evaluate & did you find them very different? I have been evaluating Zendesk, Freshdesk & more recently Assistly.

For a starter Assistly pricing is very attractive to me. But other than that do you find marked difference in terms of the support process for those that you evaluated?
Ha, I realize it is ridiculously immature, but I did that initially instead of the stick guy and died laughing the whole time.
This is exactly why Hubot was created in the first place. An excerpt from the original project README:

This is Hubot, a Campfire chat bot in node.js.

The goal is to make common systems stuff seem less like black magic by turning frequently performed manual processes into simple commands and making those interactions visible to the team via Campfire. Benefits:

• Fast access to server logs and machine information when something goes wrong.

• Everyone sees how common tasks are performed.

• Interactions are logged and available in campfire transcripts.

• Let's us do stuff from the phone with Ember when AFK.

• Can paste squirrel pics and stuff like that.

For new people starting at GitHub, they can kind of just lurk in the chat room for a couple days to get a feel for how most types of things are done because people are issuing Hubot commands all the time.

It's really powerful. Way more powerful than we suspected.

EDIT: Formatting.
I believe this concept was popularized by Shoutcast. http://www.shoutcast.com/broadcast-tools

Icecast is the open source version, from a similar time, 1998 or 99.
http://www.icecast.org
At first glance I misread the title and thought it said: "the return of in living color" - that made me excited.

When I actually read the title correctly, and clicked through to skim the article - that made me 'meh'.

You know who else thought they could make money by turning themselves blue? Tobias Funke.
I think the more common use case would be getting face copyright from someone beautifull , and building it to stardom.

I think if a major studio would want to build stars that way , it won't take them long.max a few years. so there won't be a long transition period anyways.
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> In order for monopoly power to exist, there have to be barriers preventing users from switching search providers.

That is incorrect. A "monopoly" is simply having a large enough control over the market that you dictate how others access that market. Monopolies are not illegal. Google does have a monopoly on search, Schmidt admitted that much today by saying they are "in the area" of having one.

Abusing your monopoly power is however illegal, and that's what Google is being investigated for.
I suspect most startup code out there is way too customized for their own purposes/environment. Plus would look like the wild west! (cowboy code everywhere!)
> "an open-source code model" (it even has the hyphen in the right place!)

I think in that case both "open-source" and "code" are modifying "model", so it's still not the same thing.

> And 1997 has a discussion about whether "open source cryptography" is better than "proprietary … cryptography" (and in which "published" is used as a synonym for "open source").

That's from the spook community, which uses "open source" to mean "publicly known information", and they're talking about cryptosystems, not source code.

> The word "source" is short for "source code." They aren't exactly distinct things, so that is really splitting hairs.

Someone could have potentially used the word "source" as short for "source code" in the phrase "open source" before Chris Peterson did in that meeting, but I haven't found any cases of that happening. Not a single one.

The whole point is that the phrase "open source" now has a specific meaning not derivable from the meanings of its component words, much like "source code", "pro-choice", or "death row". If a Congressperson declares that they're "pro-choice" but votes to amend the Constitution to prohibit abortion, or someone claimed that they were fulfilling their contractual obligation to provide you with "source code" by giving you the SKUs they use to order office supplies, you'd be justifiably angry at the deception. If you find a quote from someone in 1958 using the term "pro-free-choice" to mean "opposed to racial segregation", it does not make any less dishonest a hypothetical use of the term "pro-choice" with that meaning today.
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so, that's 200 million dollars a month? Nice.
I don't doubt that true leaks happen, but this one smells very strongly of a controlled hype leak. It also isn't even the first time this week that Facebook music's imminent arrival was leaked.
Wallaby: Convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML and reach more devices

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

It's woefully limited right now, but it's obvious Adobe's exploring that avenue.
> It's not a big leap to tack on "open" in front of that when you mean the source is available for inspection by those outside the person/company who developed it (i.e., not "closed").

Yet digging through Usenet, web, and mailing-list archives has not, so far, found a single example of anyone making that leap prior to the 1998 meeting.
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Certainly something to be conscious of. I should have made clear that for the most part, the code I'm talking about is from entities owned by myself and possibly one other person, a business partner I've worked with on multiple projects for many years. No outside investment or shareholders. This greatly simplifies the IP issues.
Was talking about stuff like this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/right-repair-law-pro
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The word "source" is short for "source code."

No, the word "source" is short for "source", as in ...

any thing or place from which something comes,
arises, or is obtained;

Like how sheet music is a source for learning to play new songs.

Who's hijacking the term now?
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Sometimes it helps to put a plus in front of every search term, that does at least prevent google from replacing the most specific term of your query with the least specific misspelling. That is especially helpful for programming terms that are minor variations of human language terms, just compare the searches

scala hlist

and

+scala +hlist

Thw first doesn't contain a single result that is relevant to the query.
As jahmed said, it could be used as a learning experience. In other cases, it was a valiant (or not so) attempt at making something great, that didn't work out for a variety of reasons. Depending on the scenario, it might be something that I'd like someone else to pick up from and continue, to fulfill the "I want to use this." itch, but I don't have the time/resources to execute properly.
Yes, I think it is, although I see a few challenges.

It is a huge amount of work to integrate disparate data sets and build a system that can efficiently handle many customers' requests.

It may be difficult to show customers how they can actually use it. Comparing two stocks isn't cool. You know what's cool? Comparing all stocks with realtime updates.

For the second problem, I mean that users won't use their imagination much to figure out what your product does. You have to spell it out in concrete, actually useful examples. This is a challenge between engineer-thinking, where general functionality is king, and user-thinking, where one particular goal and the path of least thinking/work is king.
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Thanks. I should have been more clear: The resources I was hoping to find would be the intro to entrepreneurship - the crazy up and down world of startups - type of literature.
Assuming your main product is on the web, you really only need a few things to do this right:

- Automated tests that run on push to any branch.

- Rolling deploys (no downtime) from any branch.

- Exception reporting system (Exceptional, Hoptoad, homegrown, whatever).

- Twitter search feed.

Push to a topic branch, wait for the tests to come in green, deploy from topic branch, watch exception notification and twitter. If everything looks okay after 10 minutes, push to master. If exceptions or twitter blows up, redeploy master.

You should be able to setup the whole system in about the same time as it takes to develop a majorish product feature.
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If this happens, you should take them up on the offer and see whether they notice when they try to initiate an introduction.
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Don't wait. Jenkins is literally one of the easiest pieces of web service software you could possibly set up. All you need to do to try it is download a jar file and run java -jar jenkins.jar. That's it!

I run it on my personal computer. I also set it up at our company, where I'd say the active user base is around 10 people. It's useful in both cases.

Jenkins has plugins for everything, and soon you'll be able to develop plugins in Ruby, and without maven, so if you don't have what you need you'll be able to add it.
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You can currently get 4G data on the Sprint network, without a contract, with a Clearwire plan. 3G service was recently capped at 5 GB and has high overage charges, but 4G is currently uncapped. Of course, that may change...if it does, I'm screwed. I travel full-time, and Clear is my primary Internet service, and I pretty regularly go over 5 GB.

My T-Mobile plan was grandfathered in with actually unlimited bandwidth, and I've made sure to insist that my plan remain unchanged through two phone changes (so I still have a "G1 Data" option, which is $24.95/month, but is actually unlimited and includes 4G data). So, I guess if Clear opts to screw their customers in the same way as Sprint, I'll be down to just T-Mobile. Wonder how long that'll last?
I share similar battle scars. As painful as these situations are, the ability to pick oneself up, dust oneself off, and get back into the game is, in my humble opinion, a great skill (as long as you take the knowledge of what worked, what didn't, etc. with you into the next endeavor).
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Thanks for the clarification, but legally you'll still need to assign the IP to your new entity?

By default, what happens to IP when the owning company ceases to exist?
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I want my marketing guy to be able to define emails that will be sent to my users based on queries that he should be able to build.

- If 30 days have passed since user signed in
Then send email A

- If user sends first message
Then send email B

As a developer I just want to send what a specific user do to this automation app and let the marketer deal with email automation:

- Just signed in (2011-09-10 12:41)

- Sent first message (2011-09-11 13:54)

- ...

Does such an app exist ?
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Future feature for jtv? ;-)
I'm no expert, but I gave my 4 year old nephew a set of GeoMag, and he was copying stuff from the manual (he can't read yet, but I can see the pictures), and doing a reasonably good job of it.

I was programming at 9, and using animation tools around the same age (very simple stuff). Kids are really good at specialising, so if they find 3d modelling interesting, they'll learn it, especially with such a simple tool like 3Dtin.

I think we shouldn't underestimate what each successive generation is capable of doing, riding on the wave of the previous generation.
There is a link in top left corner: http://speakerdeck.com/u/holman/p/how-github-uses-github-to-...

Seems like they are in some kind of closed beta.
On the first screen it will let you draw anything in place of a stick man.
It's important to note that it's not just about the financial cost of keeping a service running. For example, I had one service that I built over several months. It got some attention, but ultimately fizzled out. It comfortably lived on some EC2 instances I already had running, sharing resources for the project I had shifted into. However, the support requests came in from the handful of users, and while I wasn't able to make it a financial success, it would've been more of a disservice to those folks to provide a partially functioning, unreliable service rather than give them the chance to migrate away to a competitor that could better serve their needs.
The author is incorrect about that being html5 - it's javascript.

I did this over two years ago with the same js call - I work for a company with multiple buildings. Go to a web page and you'll see a list of conference rooms in the buildings you are closest to and their availability. Found a web page to batch convert addresses to lat/long - made it pretty easy.

Here's something I wrote at the same time that shows your proximity to a city zip code.

http://www.linquist.net/geo.php
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IANAL, but I use a pretty basic Asset Purchase Agreement between the old entity and the new to cover the IP. Again, since what I'm talking about is myself (and possibly one other person) as the shareholder, it's quite painless.
Probably the same thing that prevents you from making up fake checks:

1) It will eventually get reconciled through the clearinghouse and the extra funds reverted.

2) The lawman will come for you.
Oops.. replied to this one level up. Sorry. In terms of the original company ceasing to exist, I'm not sure. Before dissolving, I do the Asset Purchase Agreement.
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Yeah, I actually used Icecast as the backend. What I built was a downloadable client that scanned your music library and gave you a nice iTunes like-web frontend to broadcast and listen remotely.
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