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It's unlikely that AVOS had a choice. Several months ago, the former product manager of Delicious wrote about a few options for its future (http://uniquehazards.tumblr.com/post/2377362882/we-can-save-...), and he included:

> But ultimately the real challenge here will be the technology. During my time at Delicious we rebuilt the entire infrastructure to deeply leverage a number of internal Yahoo technologies. It’s all great stuff but not exactly easy to remove or replace.
From the actual source:

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/138973.html

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/139232.html

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/139356.html

This article is overly hyping the situation.
Here is the fundamental problem of competing against Google as a SW company. Google is an advertising company, as everyone now well knows. They have no problem selling SW cheap, or giving it away for free, if they can help their advertising business (either directly by hosting ads in the service, or mining data from the service for info to help target ads).

If you feel like your SW has actual value and charge for it, but Google has you in their cross hairs, you either really need a great product (that can't easily be cloned) or very strong network effects.

While I think DropBox is a great product, and harder to clone that most people give it credit for, Google I think is the type of company that could actually nail a DropBox clone. And with GMail, Docs, and Android integration -- could be a serious force.

I must admit I'm a bit saddened that the actual value of so much good SW is ~$0.
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>You may be skilled at your trade, but from the sounds of it, many of you are absolutely horrible at dealing with customers

I don't think a lot of freelancers realize the importance of sales/marketing/customer service. They are more than just easy classes in college and they benefit more than the greasy used car salesman down the street.

Quite often it's the difference between you and the competitor to whom you lost the job.
you can use selective sync
And even if you know how it seems like every time I log into facebook (admittedly rarely) there's a handful of new spam games making the rounds. It's a little frustrating that there's no blanket option of block all of the stupid game spam, or switch from a blacklist to a whitelist. I'd much rather un-block specific games than have to block every game ever made.
You are presuming physical access to the box in order to make the change in the firmware. If they have physical access, secure boot is meaningless. Secure Boot is to make it impossible for software to manipulate the boot process and install malware.
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While I do agree that the Ballmer's leadership style leaves much to be desired, another aspect is that the company marketing department is terrible.

The company highlights it's flagship products (Windows, Office, XBox, Devenv), but leaves all the little products by the wayside. I don't know how many people outside of enthusiasts are aware of, for example, SkyDrive and Windows Live Mesh. I'd think the company would do more to highlight the whole experience it offers as a counter to either Apple's or Google's offerings. Let the consumer know that Microsoft does more than just Windows and Office.
When an "analyst" comes to you and starts saying things like "if you know what to do ..." - this is the mark of a snake oil salesman. Next thing he will do is to ask you for money to learn about his "strategy". This guy is an idiot who wants to make a name for himself so he makes these kinds of statements to get attention. At this point the last thing Goldman Sachs wants is a total collapse of markets and economy.
The point of UEFI is to prevent an attacker from getting at your bootloader by preventing you from getting at the bootloader. If I wanted to create my own bootloader, I would not be able to. This is the same argument for the iOS App Store model to prevent malware. Make sure that only a select few gatekeepers have the keys to the kingdom.
Actually, YES == TRUE == 1 and NO == FALSE == 0.
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On the problematic side, the cheap boric acid solution (pun!) will likely be the most used. And this will be bad.

1) Boric acid will kill any insect that ingests it.

2) If you leave rotting fruit out, every nectar lover will drink it. From experience, this will be at least 50% honeybees.

So yeah, it will crash native honeybee populations too. If you are curious and want to see how effective it would be, mix up some bait without the poison. After a few hours, enough for every bug to find it, sit next to it for ten minutes. Count bees vs mosquitoes, you'll probably be disappointed.
You lost me. MS put out a product for free that was competing with other products for free. Are you really saying that is the situation here?
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I used to be that worried about things on HN. I'm not anymore and I think the best way to get to that point is to periodically kill off your user by changing the password to gobbledegook and then creating a new user the next time you want to post (and not doing this too often if you want to participate because you have to hurdle a few points after user recreation).

All of this is temporary, and downvoting imo is going to cause more anger than it does promote the reasons for HN existing.
I see, thanks for explaining. I suppose, as a large computer manufacturer, actively/proudly refusing the Windows logo wouldn't please Microsoft either.
I think having a "photography allowed" sign sets a dangerous precedent. Right now, you are allowed to take photographs anyplace that is not specifically disallowed by law. If these signs (or something like them) become ubiquitous it becomes only a small step to "you can only take pictures where you are specifically allowed to".

Much better, I think, to familiarize yourself with actual law (here's a good writeup for people in the US[1]) and to push back against mis-informed people trying to tell you what you can and cannot do.

[1] http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
Google has given away lots of stuff without success. Worrying about a big competitor "crushing" you just because they announce a product is a sign of productitis. Symptoms include ignoring marketing, customer experience, and organizational focus.
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Excellent. I was hoping they would eventually go this route, but it didn't look likely (though Scribd's move in this direction was a good indicator it would happen eventually).

I wonder how they'll fare against Speaker Deck (http://speakerdeck.com) once they get up to full steam. The experience at Speaker Deck is certainly prettier.
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Actually, I mistyped. I meant to type, "OEMs can always ship withOUT Win8 logo and not use ...". I've changed the post to now reflect that. Meaning that OEMs needn't ship certified Windows 8 boxes and can still use BIOS if they want.
But that doesn’t mean they want the stock market to go up.

Apparently, capitalism = rising stock market!

How ironic that he makes fun of Zero Hedge - a site that points out such absurdities!
The Yes Men have publicly claimed he is not one of them.

http://www.yeslab.org/rastani
For most people the barrier isn't cost, it's grasping the value of having backups in the first place. If using GDrive is even .000000000000001% harder than "save files in a folder", Dropbox has nothing to worry about.
Seriously, look at the design of the invite. Calendar says Tuesday (October) 4th. Clock says 10am. Map app says this will take place at 1 Infinite Loop. And the Phone icon makes it clear this will be an iPhone event (rather than an iPod Touch / iOS event), with one unread notification alerting you that there is something you must pay attention to.
They say everything in 4 icons. So awesome.
That would actually be a very interesting list. Hard to complete exhaustively, but a few relevant examples would be great!
And then what happened?
I don't understand the conclusions that article draws. It spends 90% of it's time talking about how important mosquitos are, and then says "but that doesn't matter". I also think it's pretty ridiculous to assume some other insect will just fill in the gap before we wipe out untold numbers of plants and animals.
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Sorry I gave my last one to cmelbye, but you might hit him up as I think everyone starts out with one invite.
Look at product from company with eaten fruit on the logo. How much can you change there?
What is interesting to me in terms of how this story is pitched is that Microsoft's approach to operating systems is shifting to be similar to Apple's, because one cannot run OSX on commodity hardware either.
Have a plan:

1. What do you want to work on next? Take your time, and write it down if necessary. List out all the cool tech you want to get your hands dirty with.

2. Have a deadline. Put down your best estimate of the date you going to walk out the company for good. Think of the time you need to update yourself with new tech, learn new stuff, get to know the right people, and start looking for opportunity.

3. Now is the right time to go out and meet people -- attend conferences, give out your email, linkedin account whatever.

4. Ask yourself where you want to work, or which company you want to go -- if not freelancing or starting your own.

Once you know what you want, when you want to go, and who can help you -- you are ready.

You can certainly drop off and go do some soul searching or travel -- it's really up to you, but I am just saying, you might want to start to work out a plan first.

Take it easy man.

:-)
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Note: This has been posted before.

I know the guy who wrote this from university, very smart guy and capable developer. He's graduated now and working on his own startup: https://www.ep.io/.
Rastani is not among The Yes Men.

http://www.yeslab.org/rastani
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Dropbox can take the approach of not worrying if they want. Standing on years of head start perhaps.

However: File sync strikes me as a lot closer to email than <insert failed acquisition here>.

Additionally, it seems logical to build/ship GDrive right into android.

I say again: I'd worry like hell.
If Benjamin Franklin had his way, we'd still think DDT was a great idea. Eagles be damned.
Nothing. Some do this. It's up to the OEM. That's Microsoft's point. MS isn't requiring that OEMs can't do this. If OEMs want to, they're completely within their right to do so. It's up to them.
Good god, finally. I'm no fan of Flash, but I'm not sure I've ever had a SlideShare presentation load properly and for what ever reason, people love to use them exclusively and I'm never able to get to the content in an alternative fashion.
I don't agree. For the client, this might seem not serious.

How do you know the clients that you want to work for?

Get to know him. As simple as that. What's his business? can he afford your rates? Is he ready to pay that rate or does he see the value of your work?

And then ask for details. Give a reasonable estimate. Alert them that your hourly rate is $xxx and beyond the details specified in the estimate you'll charge more.
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Ah, now that looks useful - thanks! And it supports AAAA records, thankfully.
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PG. I was at the NYCYC meetup last night and I don't understand all the attention of the valley vs. New York. The startup economy is not zero sum game. It doesn't matter which location is #1, There are plenty of dollars to go around and other then competing for dev and other resources (which while difficult is not the biggest hurdle a start up is going to face) what's the point of the discussion? Cities aren't threats to each other, it's not like the port of Philly competing with the port of NY/NJ. Shipping is a zero sum game, startups aren't.
this is a great book: Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse
http://www.amazon.com/Crash-Proof-2-0-Economic-Collapse/dp/0...

Is from a guy that have been predicting this collapse since 2006.
Avoid just sitting down and 'pumping out code' to solve the problem. Make sure what you're solving is really a problem, and is the right problem! This will take tech skill, personal skills and a degree of relentlessness. Often the person with the issue will not want to dig into what's really driving the request.
I am excited about this. Competition in the market is good for innovation and the price.
The roms weren't working when I tried it out. Anybody else have any luck.
> How is the good of the consumer going to be served by
> allowing rootkits to load even before the antivirus can?

So that 'good of the consumer' is served by being presented with a choice of either Windows 8 or OSX? With the possibility that the barrier to competition is too high due to the difficulty of getting keys onto OEM UEFI systems?
You are suggesting that sales and marketing people built all of the features and "coolness" that Facebook has but Myspace doesn't. There is no "just back end" in software development. It's largely a myth.
Speaking of being an armchair psychologist, has anyone actually speculated what conditions he has? I've seen people suggested he has ADHD but there's no way to tell. There's simply too little information about him to even make an educated guess. I guess we'll just have to wait til the biography comes out.
+1 for clarifying and fixing mate. Thanks.
(Bemused aside: mjg is now just a "Red Hat guy"? Sigh...)

Apologies if your mind is boggled, but you're entirely missing the point. The point to a secure boot framework is to prevent the running of untrusted software under any circumstances. Simply choosing not to install something doesn't prevent malware from installing it without your approval.

The question is what "trusted" means. Right now, it means Microsoft only. If you don't trust MS, then you get no protection against MS-signed boot images, even if you choose not to install windows.

See the point? Maybe you trust Microsoft. Some people don't. But more to the point even trusted actors sometimes have their keys compromised (c.f. the current mess in the Netherlands).

Some mechanism for user control over key chains by the hardware owner (or your mother's trusted proxy, I guess) is a critical component to any truly "secure" product.
I don't expect it to be announced here, but a full touchscreen would be nice... one without a physical button.
This article could be the press release (or footnotes to it) that Jobs never wrote or would write. What I mean is, when Steve Jobs announced a couple of years ago that Apple would go HTML5 instead of Flash, there was great oohing and ahhing but no concise explanation for those of us lesser mortals as to why HTML5 is the better path. And this article does it in a couple of hundred words.Specifically: 1) From iPhone to desktop, it's one and the same document; 2) Document files are smaller and load faster; 3) SEMANTIC WEB accessible. Our poor semantic web, so visionary and so non-starter. Perhaps the growth of HTML5 will save it.
Just out of curiosity, did any of your economists predict the US recession back in 2007, or the US housing crisis? From what I recall, almost none did.
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Things worth having often do.
Egyptian and Roman Empires? Where is your data suggesting that their collapses had anything to do with fiat money?

USSR? It's pretty clear that they suffered a lot due to economic mismanagement (i.e. inefficiencies due to how their economy was run), but that had nothing to do with whether fiat money was involved or not.

Zimbabwe? The causes of hyperinflation was a combination of a collapse of (especially) the agricultural sector and foreign-currency denominated debts. Both events were caused by political decisions, not by fiat money.

It is likely that all the collapses you mentioned (including the ancient ones) involve some level of economic mismanagement, where the productive capacity of a society was destroyed, misallocated, or left idle.

Fiat money was never the problem. If you disagree, please point out how fiat money was the problem, instead of only asserting it.
Did you read it? I ask because it's all rumour. The best they can get is that they 'fact checked' with two (two!) employees who were there and they refused to confirm that people were leaving in droves (and if you're familiar with how reporters work, I'd guess that the employees said something like 'What? No, people weren't leaving in droves'. )

Then there's the fact that the article is thin wrapper around a PI article about anonymous comments made on an anonymous (purportedly) MS employee's blog.

The only value that this article could possibly bring is to discuss Steve Balmer in general, and for that a self-post like "Hey, do you guys like the job Balmer is doing" would do a better job, and it would almost certainly sink like a stone. I'm actually embarrassed for this community that this made it to #1. Must be a slow news day.
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Just after the launch of SpeakerDeck(http://speakerdeck.com/)...
w00t, finally its here.
Welcome to NY from another Seattle-ite. Was at the event last night, didn't meet you though...
I'm pretty sure they're going dual-core processor as well (like the iPad 2).
I hear this a lot. Why do you want a full touchscreen?

I disagree only b/c this creates accessibility problems for some users.
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Of course, when it comes to official signs. But this seems to be intended to be stuck up next to 'no photography' signs to counteract them. I kind of want one of those shirts.
wow, that's just evil. TELUS (phone company here) has been running ads in really heavy rotation pushing the tagline "there's never been a better time to buy an iphone 4", and stating "offer ends october 4th".
Heh, HTML5. http://i.v3n.us/ASQf Guys, this is just a non-Flash version. But I guess blasting it out there with the HTML5 logo gets a lot more attention, at the cost of confusing non-techies about what HTML5 really is.

And trust me, this is a discussion I have ad nauseam with clients.

Regardless, I appreciate the move Slideshare.
Maybe 40 years from now we will know why eradicating something as obviously harmful as a mosquito can be problematic too.

Well sure, we'll know why when the aliens feel free to blow up our planet after we kill all the mosquitoes they put here.

http://hellyeahliloandstitch.tumblr.com/post/3095035674/eart...
To be fair, the GMaps icon always displays 1 Infinite Loop. Still, great catch.
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I really do not understand the issue with DNS.

It is a dead-simple protocol, and the level of caching at various levels between your server and the user would seem to make super-fast DNS serving irrelevant to the browser experience.

As it is, queries on a 2004 level server box running lots of other services are under 2ms on a local network, so really network latency is the issue...

having 2 simple 1U boxes colocated in NYC and LA, would cost under $200 per month and give you full control and the ability to host thousands if not tens of thousands of domains.
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where authors were paid a % of total ad revenue,

depending on how popular the page they authored was.

Do you think this would promote higher quality content ?
Direct link to the relevant blog post;
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There's basically two ways:

1) You go short the underlying market(s), that is you sell them. Individuals don't (as far as I know) have access to the repo (repurchase) markets. What you do here is borrow a stock, sell it, then buy it back later to return to the guy you borrowed from. If the market has gone down you can buy it back for less than you sold it, hence making a profit.

The other way to short a market is a) sell calls or b) buy puts. These _are_ available to the individual. A put gives you the option to sell a stock at some predetermined price. If the stock falls below that price (the strike) then you can sell it at a price above the market. You prob don't want to sell a call as this gives you unlimited downside if teh market rallies :).

There are also more complex strategies such as call spreads, risk reversals etc which give you varying pay-off profiles.

2) You go long (buy) assets which are negatively correlated with the market you want to short. E.g if the eurozone implodes will see the following: dollar and yen will appreciate against the euro, treasuries will appreciate. Gold would normally appreciate as traditional safe haven but the outlook for this is way less certain: it's getting hammered at the moment, partly due to underlying global economic concerns (ie industrial demand for gold will drop) plus people are having to sell gold to meet margin calls on losses in equities. this has triggered further selling by the chinese who are long gold and getting squeezed. Also the swiss franc would normally be a safe haven, but the SNB is defending the level of the ccy at 1.2 vs the euro to protect swiss exports and tourism.

The problem is that the yen, dollar and treasuries aren't great places to park cash: safe yes, you won't lose anything but rates are so low you won't really earn anything either.
I'd love to see Dropbox open up their platform for developers to build applications on top of it. Seems like that could entail all sorts of things, such as solving the friction between using web apps with large files, or groups of files. Imagine dropping files in a folder and then being able to manipulate them on the web, and save them back to your folder seamlessly.
Neither, really. Though I might not have been clear-- I live in a densely populated area where there's public transit and I don't use a car much. I grew up in rural areas where the spread-out method works better.

What doesn't work is trying to solve traffic problems by spreading everything out. In places that already are spread out, there really isn't a traffic problem to solve and communities can decide whether they want mixed-use environments or segregated environments based on other factors. In places where you already have a critical density (like Eastern MA where I live), spreading things out is no more feasible than a subway in rural Ohio. Right now, trying to drive from Cambridge to Waltham at 6:00pm will probably take 45-60 minutes due to traffic congestion. That's because of all the people trying to leave Boston for the suburbs.
If you don't trust MS, DO NOT INSTALL WINDOWS

If Windows is the only thing that a computer will allow, then that really isn't an option. It's like saying that when owning an iPhone you have the option of not installing iOS.

You want my mom to make an informed and
conscious decision

Dude, "mom" arguments are really retarded, IMHO in the same category as "think of the children".

I agree with security-by-default arguments, but let the user have the choice of overriding those settings -- it doesn't have to be convenient for power-users, it just has to be doable.

Otherwise the hardware ain't yours anymore, you just payed for an overpriced license to use it as an appliance.