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There are a lot of reasons to do it depending on the application.

One that comes to mind from my own experience is if you need a valid email address for further transactions.
correct, the cert is for the domain, however in your CL posting you said you needed multiple domain virtual hosting. The cert is specific to a mail server hostname. It really depends on how you want the actual MX record and outgoing mail server setup.

So if you're hosting three domains: domainone.com, domaintwo.com, and domainthree.com, you have a few options.

You can set the MX of all three domains to mail.mymailserver.com, and have a single cert. However, that means all of your end users will have to point their IMAP/POP clients and outgoing SMTP server settings to mail.mymailserver.com, instead of mail.domainonce.com which might seem more logical to them. It also means that your outgoing mail headers will show the mail.mymailserver.com hostname, and you'll need to setup the right SPF records to avoid being flagged as spam due to domain mis-match.

Or you can set the MX for each domain to mail.domainone.com, mail.domaintwo.com, etc...

It really depends on your needs, and the needs of the client/users who are checking and sending mail, and how public you want the fact that all the domains are on the same server.

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1. Prevents typos (though bounced emails are not a big deal)

2. Makes it so you can't sign someone else up surreptitiously

3. Ensures the email they enter is real

Depending on the site, these may or may not be a concern. For some sites, the drop-off rate is worth the reduction in support hassle.
shouldn't there be some videos of their talks?
The googlers I've talked to have said they use gmail and google docs internally.
Good question. I'm kinda torn both ways. One advantage is that you know that the email they provided is valid so that if you do need to send them important updates it will work, otherwise there's no way to invite the users back if they haven't checked your site out in a while. There are compromises you can make like giving access to 70% of your site w/o email confirmation and the other 30% after email confirmation. I'm not a usability expert so someone else may have a better answer.
Oh, the free market can solve that too, you just don't want to be around when it happens.
While getting on the same page is important, intellectual blind spots are a huge problem for most organizations. People who think too similarly tend to miss the same sorts of things, and it's absolutely crucial to the success of any serious project that you have diversity in terms of biases and opinions.

To make a trivial example, if you're an optimistic person and you hire all optimists, you'll ignore some potential problems. If you hire all pessimists, you'll ignore some potential long-shot opportunities you should pursue. If you hire all detail people, you'll miss out on the big picture. If you hire all big picture people, you'll miss out on the details.

People tend to hire people they feel comfortable with and get along with, which tends to mean people that think like them and agree with them. So when assembling a team, getting a diversity of opinions and biases is something you really need to take seriously. You need people who can work together and be civil and come to agreements and who like working with each other, but you really do need to have a mix of people who think differently.

I have no real data on the subject, but my mother has done organizational development work using the MBTI, so I've heard plenty of anecdotal stories around the types of dysfunctions that develop at organizations that have too much of a bias in one direction.
If you're ever going to be sending your users email, you should have people confirm their accounts -- otherwise, you're just another "they opted in, really!" spammer.
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You're joking, right?

Google uses its own products. They live in GMail and Calendar.
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Couldn't you use betting contracts to implement a kind of stock market? You could certainly use them to implement most kinds of derivatives.

What about a non-equity market to finance businesses? Instead of selling equity shares, you are paying money to a company (and a broker) for the opportunity to bet that company will achieve a certain level of income in a certain period? You'd be able to bet both with and against that company. The former would be equivalent to bonds.
is that to say something about these companies that you didn't re-use them again?
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Gmail runs on the Google GFE/1.3 server, which is hosted on a Linux Operating System.
See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
What's new with iGoogle?
I agree. And it's not just types of analytical processing. How about hiring programmers who represent major different personality types, which have an innate difference in how they both perceive and respond to problems? Language knowledge, social skills, and algorithm construction is a given.
That was a good one.
But somehow it supports my argument, showing that any additional information (like how many of the lines are blank) brings some new value.
Don't require your users to activate immediately, give them a day to do it, and just don't give them access to anything a spammer would love to use - or limit how many times they can do it before they need to activate.

And after they have submitted their details (which should only be critical information — seriously, nobody likes long forms.), don't send them to a dedicated "Thanks for registering" page, its a waste of time for them for them, just take them to the homepage or where ever the magic happens, and present a banner above the content thanking them and giving any info they may need.

And overall, don't get too defensive on spammers; Lets face it, your not going to get much spam until your site is popular — so go easy and don't frustrate your users, and then tighten your defenses later down the line if required.

Those are my post-signup "rules". I love working out how not to annoy users even slightly — sadly a lot of sites don't do it very well! :)
You would need a lot of ram to service a million users on a single server and actually do something useful with them.
Input/output buffers alone would amount to a lot (Several gigs most likely)

I've run things up to around 50k in practice (Not erlang, java).

Stability isn't an issue really, mainly ram.
confirmation emails are useful if you're looking to verify ownership and existence of a particular email address.

not all apps need this, so not all apps would necessarily want to use it. but if yours does, there's not really a good reason to specifically avoid using them.

just a tool in the toolbox, as it were.
I think it's called "Dollar Cost Averaging." One trade a month, especially with a discount broker, is not going to break your bank. It also has the advantage of not being subject to your emotions, and emotions are responsible for untold billions of investor losses.
I strongly believe that if you want to receive email from a site you would enter a valid email address. At least thats how I do it.

For something like a paypal account, verifying your email address makes sense, if for nothing else making sure you made no typos. But for most simple sites the confirmation email seems like overkill and an unnecessary extra step.

If its to prevent spam, this is even easier to automate then cracking captcha. If its for making sure the email address is valid for future annoying emails. Just give people a reason to want email from you and they will be more then happy to use a valid address.

Quick registration and getting someone on the site as quick as possible should be the number of priority. Get rid of long registration forms and confirmation emails!
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If I may, I'd like to repeat and emphasize, these two points are very big, in my experience...

2. Makes it so you can't sign someone else up surreptitiously

For some sites, the drop-off rate is worth the reduction in support hassle.
I actually look forward to them cause I tag them so if I forget my login info I can just refer back to it.
I sure get the same impression. Start ups are for twenty somethings who are not married. If you are 30+, married
and with a mortgage then forget it.
From my pov those are anomalies, rather than the norm.
For every Google, Youtube and Facebook, there are thousands of startups with similar strategies that fail.

I think it is safer to go the long route and start small, working your way to the top, charging a price right from the beginning. If your application is useful, users will pay for it.
I wouldn't go that far. Startups and freelancing in general present definite opportunities and advantages. But the risks need to be aired out more. Mental preparation makes success more likely.
9% market share in US only. The edited title here in HN can be misleading.
Benjamin Graham looked for equities trading at less than 66% of their Net Current Asset Value.

Where, NCAV (Net Current Asset Value) = Current Assets - TOTAL Liabilities.

Note that Graham calculated NCAV using total liabilities, and not just current liabilities. By using only current assets he also excluded plant and equipment, and goodwill in his calculation of NCAV. This is important, because during liquidation all creditors will demand repayment, but the valuation of plant and equipment will be impaired.

The 66% discount to NCAV provided Graham a "margin of safety".

The modern-day equivalent of NCAV is "book to tangible book value". What you want is equities that have a "book to tanglible book" ratio less than 1, a debt-to-total-equity ratio of less than 1, a price-to-earnings ratio that is competitive with peers in its sector, and a "book-to-total-free-cash-flow' ratio in the low single digits.

See ExxonMobil, for instance.

You can find all of these valuation ratios on the Reuters website.
An expert writer can do a passable term paper in four hours. I've written over a million words in my life. As such, I can write a thousand words an hour in subjects which I have passing familiarity. (I might even be able to gust to 1500 wph) A double spaced word document with one inch margins is approximately 300 words. As such, that's nine pages in three hours, and an hour of pre-research.

Considering that these papers are mass-produced by an individual who has already researched the same topic before, putting together a term paper of note would not be considerably hard.

Similarly, I'll go back to my Object Oriented Programming final project. It took four of us half a semester to put together a game that would take me 80-120 hours now. (This was not a particularly competitive university.) This given program would be much better than what we turned in.

I'm sure an engineer with a decade of experience could put together a college project at an average university in a weekend.
Just FYI.

FireGPG (PGP with Gmail via Firefox):

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Enigmail (PGP for Thunderbird):

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The benchmark is very misleading as it's very cheap to open connections, especially when using non-blocking IO...

A good post about real-life performance of different comet frameworks:
http://cometdaily.com/2008/03/14/comet-gazing-maturity/
They range from 1000 to 20.000 users pr. node.
I can also confirm that
I think one way to approach it is to only require confirmation if they want to receive email.
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If it were a private equity market, there would be no regulation.
Trivial. Pointless. Get back to work.

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Every time MS nods at Yahoo the stock rises X%, and when the deal is obviously not going to happen it drops > X%. This is a really interesting way of battering your competition.
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Why stop there? I think the next wave is that the world will revert to a mainly agricultural economy. I'm sure artisans will make money here and there (repairing plows and so on) but they will be auxiliary...
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I was a gamer, but most 13 year old boys I knew weren't. In fact, once when a couple of my friends from my basketball team were over at my place they absolutely marveled at the cup full of various sided dice in my basement. They asked, "What's a dice with twenty sides for?"

Oh, and I'd have to say that the gamers I knew pretty much were on par with "trekkies who get married in Klingon garb". And so was I.
Yeah, libevent with http support scales crazy. I did a 4-5k req per second demo application last year. It took me about 25 minutes to write it (that was what shocked me most.)

Also a libevent server would probably fit the L1 cache. The data might fit in L2 depending of a function of overall throughput, message sizes, and of course the size of the L2 :)
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A similar question is why there are so many bloggers who needs me to fill in my email address in the comment form...

I understand that it is the default settings of most blogging software, but that doesn't make it right :-)

If anyone can come up with a single valid reason why the information should be mandatory, it would at least ease my frustration.
I am guessing that a lot of data analysis talent that used to be uninterested in trying to understand the world economy will now be much more interested.

We've had cheap computers and cheap internet access for a while now, but we haven't had as many people burned by the mismanagement of the world economy.

As I hear people propose what went wrong, I keep thinking,"Can I turn that into a useful metric?"

For example, I have heard that banks make their money mostly on fees much more than they used to, because they have become so quick to grant loans and then sell them.

This leads to the question: at any given time, what are the various significant ways in which banks are making money, and what is the allocation of bank profits into each type?

Now watch those ratios for shifts (both sudden and gradual) and ask yourself what might be going on when you notice a shift.

Does the ability to draw graphs like that currently exist?

If not, why not?
I work at a 10K+ employee company which is moving over to gMail, gCalendar, gTalk and gDocs.

gMail and gCal are a potent combination.
I think for some solutions the quality of data is very important, sometimes crucial. Think LinkedIn, Facebook, which are sites that count very much on the quality of the data they collect for advertisement purposes.
Facebook for instance enforces that you enter a valid email address to belong to a network (e.g. Cornell University etc).
Maybe someone creates a solution, a 3rd-party app which could do the trick (maybe even use Twitter for that). Ideas?? :)
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It felt like Paul was going to make a hard statement like that, but edited it.

But I was thinking, "If the economy is stopping you, you're not the type to start one."
"The claim that diversity trumps ability is defeated in nearly every real world test."

Completely false. C.f. The Wisdom of Crowds. The reasons why this is true aren't entirely clear, but empirical studies show that is true.
Gmail came out of the system they were already using internally.
Is this why co-working is important?
I am more productive when I'm with my co-founders in the same physical space. Hmm...
-Google, obviously. Anomaly.

-Youtube might have been fucked if it didn't get acquired. It was hemorrhaging cash like Pac Man Jones & Robert Downey Jr. trapped in a strip club.

-Flickr was _priced_ like a talent acquisition.

-Like most acquisitions, the Myspace acquisition has largely failed according to Google, their primary advertiser. Additionally, Myspace's contribution to News Corp's earnings have been piss poor.

I agree that it's a valid strategy (especially for a company like Justin.TV), but IMHO opinion most companies have tunnel vision when it comes to turning in to a real business. It almost makes them risk seeking. Although getting acquired is nice, it sure as hell isn't a strategy - it's a cop out.

I'm trying to come up with companies that tried this strategy and either worked (issued dividends continuously) or was acquired and actually benefited (i.e. was worth their acquisition price based on DCF) their acquiring company. I'm sure there are examples, I just can't think of any off the top of my head.
Email is still searchable, even if it is set to private. If someone types in your email address, they obviously already have it...
i'm not here to defend wordpress or their choices. i don't think that the information should be mandatory. but there are some features that make use of the comment's email address. i imagine askimet uses it.
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Why do you care what products Google uses internally? Without knowing anything about your intended use case, Google are likely facing a pretty different set of requirements, and they probably have a very different set of resources (e.g. they obviously have a lot of in-house expertise on how the Google Apps suite works).
I strongly believe that if you want to receive email from a site you would enter a valid email address.

You're missing my point. When sites don't require people to respond to registration confirmation emails, I can sign up using your email address, resulting in you getting a flood of spam.

This battle was fought in the early years of the spam war -- companies would send out spam and claim that people had asked to receive the email, and when anyone complained that they hadn't, the spammers would just say "oh, someone else must have signed you up". (For more background, see the spamhaus page on this topic: http://www.spamhaus.org/mailinglists.html)
Totally unrelated:

Clicked through to Bountii, and then onto their API TOS, and found this:

"[you agree not to] use the Bountii API to operate nuclear facilities, life support, or other mission critical application where human life or property may be at stake. You understand that the Bountii API is not designed for such purposes and that their failure in such cases could lead to death, personal injury, or severe property or environmental damage for which Bountii is not responsible;"

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I really like this. It's more open that Facebook's, and more powerful than Friendfeed, since it also show email activity (à la xobni)

And for once, they don't brand it as yet another social network or any other buzzword
Listen, I understand that this is the kind of thing you might expect to read in a 1998 edition of Wired and does not fit with the 'getting real' mantra, but (at the very least) eyeballs are monetizable trough advertisement. It's a time tested strategy that has worked just fine in other mediums.

Sites like youtube and myspace did not need to worry about the monetizing part as they got acquired quickly, had they not, maybe the story would be different. I still can't think of sites with a huge and active userbase that failed.
I'd look in my own backyard if I were Balllmer. dump everything that is average (msn, vista, live, etc.) and come up with brand new products, from scratch
You should become a limited partner at Kleiner; they share many of your thoughts.
Yes, that absolutely works -- if you have a site where not being able to send people email doesn't diminish the value of the site (e.g., Hacker News is fine without confirming email addresses; but for tarsnap, I need to send people emails saying "hey, if you don't deposit more money into your account in the next 7 days, your backups will be deleted" -- so for tarsnap, confirming email addresses is essential).
Intuitively that makes sense but I'm not sure if it's actually true. It's relatively easy to convince someone who would otherwise go into hedge funds to instead do a web startup with you. It's much more difficult, however, to convince that person to do a startup to the field of, say, ethnic pharmacology. That doesn't mean the hedge fund guy would necessarily make a bad partner for a web startup though. (Stereotypes about finance people aside.)

Also, I know pg says that not being able to find a cofounder after a certain point signals a lack of competence or a bad idea, which is generally of correct, but also realize that in some areas finding a cofounder is literally 10x harder than in others-- independent of the merits of the founder or the idea.
I remain surprised that Vinge does not appear -- to my limited knowledge -- to get the same attention that some other SF masters do. His works are excellent, particularly "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky".
I think the summary here is a bit too concise. I think the following six word summary captures the discussion far more accurately: "Make money, and avoid spending money".
Yes. Startups generally take 3-5 years to succeed. The economic situation that far ahead is effectively random, so you can discount it.
What if they paid you in a different way?
In some fields doing what you love won't pay your bills. But haven't you noticed that usually people that do what they love they are really good at it? And you keep wondering how he/she does it? A lot of people choose to work in a field that maybe it doesn't suits them or maybe because they have to because of the trends, but be sure that one day they will end up miserable and with no time to do what they really love because time may have passed.
No, no, no. I was going of the headline, which is misleading.
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I wish. Well, I would so wish if I could 25 year old Bill Gates.
Of the companies in that list the only one that I am sure actually turned a profit is Google. Youtube, Facebook, and MySpace don't have a business model. No idea about Flickr, but iirc they were acquired for a pretty low dollar amount.