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Yes. Plus, as someone else here pointed out, you can have a self-contained virtual "internet" to demo apps without needing an external connection.
Ask HN: an exit strategy of "quit after 2 years"?
Mistake 17: Lacking an exit strategy. "Have an exit plan, and create your business to satisfy that plan. For instance, I am thinking I might run my new business for two years and then get out of it. I think it's an opportunity to make a tremendous amount of money for two years, but I'm not sure [whether] it's proprietary enough to stop the competition from getting in. So I'm in with an exit strategy of doing it for two years and then winding down.

I had thought that an "exit strategy" was a trade sale or IPO; and the
no-exit alternative was a sustainable business (e.g. life-style business).
But the above makes sense, for a great opportunity that looks hard to
defend.

I don't like the idea of quitting after two years. It seems
dodgey somehow. I'd rather create a sustainable, living business.

But my start-up idea is a software library, and they are infamously easy
to reverse-engineer (e.g. open source). So an exit strategy could be to
make money for a limited time, then make it free. I'm
really lacking clarity on this... and would appreciate your new perspectives.

The above quote is from John Osher (serial entrepreneur): http://www.cpd.ogi.edu/mst/capstone/17Mistakes.htm

Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221750
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The reason maybe is that Nintendo focuses on ONE market and do a reasonable job in delivering what people want: good games. Goldman has different units in different markets all trying to make money: investment banking, securities, research groups, etc.
No, it wasn't. "popcorn" is the password after the reset that was posted on /b/. If you look at the screenshots, you'll see that her password was reset using the "Forgot Your ID or Password?" feature.

To reset a Yahoo! Mail password, you need the person's birthdate, zip code, and answer to their "secret question". That information is easily accessible for public figures like Palin. Try it sometime with your friend's email/screenname and Facebook; it's quite easy.
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I'd say yes. Traditional universities are the best equipped to make this curriculum freely available, and the web is making it easier and easier to do so. As a side note, I think Omnisio would be fantastic as a way for students to annotate lecture videos, and ask each other questions.

MIT has taken the lead in a huge way with OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu), and even without other schools following, that is a sizeable corpus of educational material for the avid student.
This is a solution looking for a problem. Writing a will allows you to settle your financial affairs as well (or at least try). You can attach a message to your will and it's much less likely to be sent out in error.

What I'd like to see is some way of easily granting access to your online accounts (eg gmail, facebook, flickr) linked to a will. You could keep all your passwords in an encrypted keychain that's synced with an online service and store a master password in your will. That way relatives and friends would be able to access all the stuff that used to be in hard copy letters, diaries and photos.
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I agree on the 'best equipped' note. They have the knowledge, resources, materials & experience necessary but. They'd potentially be their own undoing.

The problem is conflict of interests.
Ask HN: How are monopolies lost?
Speaking about Apple's fall in the 90s, Steve Jobs says: "Apple had a monopoly on the graphical user interface for almost 10 years. That's a long time." [1]

Then he asks: "And how are monopolies lost?", following with his explanation for the phenomenon, which I don't think is accurate, because he bases it on the supposition that monopolies are created by great products, which certainly has not been the case with Windows.

I read somewhere that monopolies are not lost: they become irrelevant. Although I don't know if that is correct either: at Apple's case, what made it loose its monopoly was not technological irrelevancy, but the commoditization of complements promoted by Microsoft[2], which offered a slower, uglier, less robust, but cheaper alternative for the masses, forging the base for the Windows platform that would create a vicious circle, "forcing" users and developers to use its graphical interface.

But I don't have much knowledge about the rise and fall of monopolists, and that's why I would like to hear your answers, besides the obvious answer of governmental intervention.

Do you agree with my theory about Apple's fall? And more generally, what other cases do you know of monopolies that were not lost by technological irrelevancy or intervention?

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041012_4018_db083.htm?chan=gl

[2] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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stagnation and complacency.
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Of course there's such a thing as bad publicity. Bad publicity is something your competitors can take advantage of. It scares people away; it attracts nobody new to your product. It raises round criticism when you spend $300 million for it.

Microsoft didn't need a typical ad OR a bad ad. They needed a good campaign. They got a bad one.
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Surprisingly, this is fairly hard to do with regular expressions. You really want to outsource this to someone else's library.

But, if you must, here's the regex from one library:
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Not exactly a one liner, though.
Stagnation isn't a good argument if you take Coca-Cola into account.

I don't know if Coca-Cola is a monopoly because Pepsi is a close substitute, but they are a leader in market-share in most continents, and if stagnation is what causes the loss of market-share, they would have been gone long ago.
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The genome describes a complex network. The concept of "one gene, one protein, one effect", a.k.a. the "industrial gene" (measurable, attackable by drugs, patentable) only applies to genes at the tip of dead-end branches of the gene interaction tree, such as effector genes (the enzyme that defines the colors of a flower, for example), and even then not fully (unknown interactions always remain).

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Good talk overall, though the format is a kind of annoying on the web. The one comment I would make is regarding his book suggestions: "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is not a total waste of time, but very close, unless you're completely oblivious to the idea of wealth.

Here's the only useful piece of info from it: buy cash-producing assets like real estate or businesses, not flashy cars or glitzy vacations.

A better book is "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis.
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Microsoft needs to control the conversation once again. They can't do that with ads saying "Vista is awesome". They have to come from left field, and that's what they're doing.

It's different, and only time will tell for sure, but I think it's possible that we're witnessing the beginning of a campaign that people will be studying in marketing schools for decades. I'm not sure if it will go down as genius or hubris, but you're definitely wrong in writing them off at this point.

The only bad publicity is your obituary.
They help a lot. They're different, which is not what MS is viewed as. They're making MS the topic of conversation, which Apple has been for 5 years now.

They're the leading brand in terms of sales, but mindshare is all Apple, and MS is playing catch up. They have to do something radical, and they are.
I think the people buying these are worried that the cash won't exist in 90 days. If the bank they deposit their cash in goes bankrupt they get nothing. The people buying the T-Bills are well above the $100k FDIC limit. Therefore, by buying the T-Bill, they protect their downside by betting the US government does not go broke in the next 90 days.

That would be my guess as to why they want to stash their money away for 90 days. After 3 months the buyer can find out which bank still exists to even take a cash deposit. Cash in the T-Bill and decide what to do. In the meantime, buyers have 3 months to figure out what to do in this market. Its almost like hitting a pause button with your money and giving yourself time to think this out.

ps. Not a finance guy here by any means.
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Registering image tiles to make montages also takes forever, and it's very parallelizable: http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~acardona/movies/48.avi
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I was considering a similar issue not long ago and decided on one call for the following reasons
1) user percieved speed - I can't control the users bandwidth, or memory, and two ajax calls means two pages being retrieved by the users browser, and then two different functions to place those pages into the users browser
2) error handling - what if there is an error with the image or comments? the user will get one portion returned, and not the other (minor disconnects happen all the time and usually it isn't detrimental, but the more ajax calls, the more opportunity for failure).

In the end I decided to do one ajax call and the split the returned data into two strings and place them on the page.

You can check out the results at www.HearWhere.com

Also, if you are always getting the image with related comments, I would suspect that they would both go within the same area/div of a page, so why split them?
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I totally agree on your points about "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". Very dubious advice overall. I was fanatical about those books, and indeed, had many of them. It took me a lot of brainwashing to shake many of his notions on wealth.

I will investigate Felix's book.
Thank you very much for sharing.
I mostly use it through twitterrific, when I have some down time and my phone is handy.
"What do you do if you want to short-circuit the process and make a million bucks in a couple of years? There is only one way in America to accomplish that reliably.."

Yeah, everyone who starts a business makes a million bucks in a couple years.

If your definition of reliable equates to the odds of a business making a million bucks in a couple years, please remind me never to let you babysit my child.
It depends. I don't think anyone sees OCW as a substitute for going to school at MIT.

I'd also argue that universities serve other roles beyond education. Universities are gatekeepers, and your degree has signaling value that free online classes never would give you. Further, the exchange of ideas & friendships developed on a real college campus are nearly impossible to duplicate when delivering free educational content online.
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In order for Twitter to start a subscription model, they'd need international SMS (something they seem to have given up on, as third parties now provide paid SMS bundling) AND IM.

Today, I opened my T-Mo statement, and there was a Twitter ad inside. Still no IM and SMS, though. No matter how big their user base gets, that looks like a show stopper to me.
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I guess I don't really understand the question. You're loading text based content, and an image, and you want to know whether or not to get everything in one XMLHTTPRequest, or to load two separate XMLHTTPRequests?

Why do you need a request at all for the image? If you've got the information you need and predictable URLs, you could use one XMLHTTPRequest, and simultaneously create an image in JavaScript and set it's source, right? This will obviously be faster than first going to your server, then creating the image in the resulting html. Of course, if you can't actually generate the image tag without hitting your server, then this is all moot.
By a new technology that changes the nature of the value proposition, for customers.

Warren Buffett seeks monopolies (like Coke). He avoids high technology because of the uncertainty of technology revolutions (they can still happen but less often; and even less likely to alter the nature of the value proposition - though note that coke, chocolate and chewing gum were new technologies at one time...).

- Schumpeter's theory of "creative destructionism"[1] shows how innovations can make monopolies irrelevant.

- Clayton Christiansen's "disruptive innovation"[2] is similar. He tracks the disk drive industry, and notes that incumbents retain their leadership through technology changes - unless they change the nature of the value proposition for customers. ie. no longer more of the same, but different tradeoffs. More precisely: a change in the ranking of benefits in the customer value proposition. e.g. Today's shift from HDD to SDD. [edit: he also predicted the 1.8 inch HDD to rise in a new market that valued its attribute ranking differently - pre-iPod]

- Geoffrey Moore's "Crossing the Chasm"[3] is a more concrete analysis about the adoption of innovations. He notes that once a leader is enshrined as the leader, the market actively works to support them, granting them leeway never given to the also-rans. He gives lots of reasons, but mainly it's mainly derived from observation.

This leadership has some of the qualities of a monopoly. It seems to be pretty hard to lose, except when the basis of it changes. i.e. when it "becomes irrelevant".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter#Schumpeter_an...

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/christensen.htm

[3] http://www.parkerhill.com/Summary%20of%20Crossing%20the%20Ch...
Only problem is that I would forget to use his system.
yes, the long arm of the arm will have its day on this one.
However, it is important to remember that most/all revolutionary behavior involves breaking the law. I'm not saying this was an appropriate thing to do. But obviously, whoever did this thought it worth the almost certain chance they would go to jail for what they did.

So, who's the better American? The ones who violate the law and try to effect change or the peanut gallery that kick back and do nothing?
Sure, you can say, "I vote". That is something. Its just that others obviously feel more action (even illegal actions) is required to effect change.

Note: I am a member of the peanut gallery. I just bitch and vote. But it is key hacker news that we are at a point in our history where others are deciding to take alternative action.
I bet I could make a million dollars by selling an ebook about how to make and sell ebooks..
Oh, and I thought the article could help me with my exams.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a weird book, but I took another thing away from it: practice making money. Since the article also mentions that, I suppose that is the reason it recommends the book.
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Stronger substitutes would appear to be a significant factor. For example, the erosion of IE’s dominance following the introduction of Firefox and others (although the barrier of IE being pre-loaded onto the majority of personal computers means this dominance will continue for some time). In this case not necessarily new tech, but better tech.
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Read the book. It's highly recommended, and makes all the points you do and then some, and even points out an interesting compromise model that attempts to cover everyone, but still maintain some of the good effects of having a free market.
I don't see how this is different from how test suites are already distributed. Perhaps I'm missing something?
I don't think stronger substitutes (Job's better products) are the correct answer - and as you observed, FF has only scratched IE dominance, not eliminated it.

Better product certainlly have some relevancy, because improving IE (IE7/8) will make it good enough that most people will not need to change, but we will never really know how low IE6's marketshare could go if Microsoft had not improved it - maybe it would still be good enough for most users.

At least, Windows was good enough for most users, even with better alternatives along the history - Next, BeOS, OS/2...
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I have been using Lua for almost 2 years now for web applications. Speed has never been an issue for my particular application (relatively small scale online research) - and I've often just been using old fashioned CGI technology.

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Your example's math seems wrong: the $10,000 maximum coverage could be hit by multiple people, so I'd be liable for potentially $100 x 100 in a given month.

More broadly, health insurance brings up the problem of asymmetric information. If I already know (or suspect) I have some illness, I would join this group just before I go in for expensive care, exploiting the risk-bearers. Some ways to avoid this problem: phase in benefits, force full medical disclosure to you, be able to detect fraud.

One possible benefit: if geographically organized, the community could negotiate bulk discounts from local hospitals and doctors. The business could make this mostly automatic -- grow your community, keep your community healthy => get better rates at the local docs.
I second the vote for "How to Get rich" by Felix Dennis. It's a great read and something a bit different.
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"...and that's where we come in. But it's not all bad - in what other society could a toaster and kettle even be having this conversation?"

It's not specifically a programmer cartoon, more AI philosophy.
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> Each course comprises downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts.

This isn't all that much different from a textbook, is it? The free aspect is cool but so is Wikipedia.

Being able to ask questions to someone who thoroughly understands a subject would probably make a bigger impact on a person's education.