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Not for long they won't.

Just in the consumer space right now they're fighting Google and Yahoo in web, Sony and Nintendo in gaming, Apple in mp3, Android/IPhone in smartphones.

Plus most of their money comes from lucrative deals with computer manufacturers. Sooner or later Dell, etc will realize that Apple is eating at their market share and Vista isn't helping and they'll start reconsidering their agreements with MS (and perhaps consider investing in customized versions of Linux)

All while Google Apps is starting to compete with their Office/Exchange offering on the low end and IBM and Sun are getting ready to step in at the high end with cross platform solutions. I'm curious at how MS is going to turn the situation around.
Nope. Myopenid.com; I don't know what all the fuss is about...
As a Brit who was actually an adult when she was in office (your answer suggests incredibly strongly that you weren't), and one whose legitimate non-violent political activities (and snail mail and telephone) were subject to monitoring by an agency of the UK government, I think bringing back Thatcher would be roughly equivalent to electing Dick Cheney to the premiership of the UK.

Power, of an absolute nature, unchecked by any constitutional counterbalances, and driven entirely by political fundamentalism, is what she introduced to Britain. It got us a Poll Tax, two wars, and all the excesses of Blair - including this one.
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I've been wondering why software companies don't do this for years. Hope it works!
Yeah, that's been on my list for months. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend...
Crowds are wise when they go in multiple directions. When they do and someone stumbles upon something good, everyone gets to take advantage. And, if they don't agree, there's typically no penalty. And, there's usually no cost to folks wandering off.

Organizations don't work like that.
I don't think it has liquid database scaling the way App Engine does. If you have to even spend a second thinking about sharding, partitioning, replication lag, etc. then you're not getting the same functionality.
This was posted in 2005. We know what CAME of it: C# 3.0 and Linq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)#Features_of_C.23_3.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query
"managing 20-30 large customers is significantly easier to manage than thousands of little ones "
Something I agree with wholeheartedly. I'm more of a hardware/embedded software type (I do wireless data monitoring) who hangs out here for the general software business insight, so my perspective may be different. But that's my goal: a small number of customers who each spend many $1000's per year. Right now I have one :-( But if I had just 5 like him I could grow my business much faster with the additional income.
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I'm 26, married with a mortgage, car payment, student loans, etc. The economy isn't going to stop me - my wife is willing to sell our house at the drop of a hat if we have to, move to another city if we have to, etc. You sacrifice short term for the long term gain, and if you're married to someone that supports you, they ride the roller coaster with you.
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Just like every other story, this one makes you wonder, if you haven't started up yet, why the hell not? Screw all the doubt and do it ASAP, the worst thing that could happen is that you'd learn some Python or Ruby. :-)

Congrats goofygrin and thanks for sharing!
But my idea is worth something lol

No seriously we are supporting the IYP industry.
I recall seeing a photo of the Clinton cabinet (I believe), with some caption about diversity.

There were blacks, whites, hispanic, men, women, but as I looked over the faces I thought, "Lawyer, lawyer, lawyer, not sure, lawyer, ..." and wondered where, exactly, was the diversity?

Arbitrary or superficial diversity is not a good goal.
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I've often thought that the mantra make something people want should be amended to make something people want to pay for. It's an important distinction. It's the difference between Richard Stallman and Steve Jobs, between Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates. I have great respect for all of those individuals, but I don't look to Stallman or Torvalds for business inspiration. I don't doubt that all YC companies have made something people want, but I wonder whether all have made something people want to pay for.
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What's the PhD part? What I like about Google's story is the PhD-technology-research that went into it (tho Woz wasn't a PhD student, I'd put the Apple story in a similar category).

Creating a $60B co from nothing is an astonishing achievement - but this one sounds like a business victory, not a technology victory. Although cool++, it's not a PhD-to-riches story - they just happened to be PhD students.

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html
"Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations."
I wasn't an adult, and my family weren't involved politically.

I don't want to veer off topic, but the RIP legislation has 'human intelligence sources' who gather information on terror suspects, and I feel this secret police squad is a huge threat on free speech.

I'm pretty sure that the cybercrime screenplay (a thriller) I sent to Hollywood in 2006 got me unwanted attention from the secret services, and even a veiled threat from a guy in a car (which then raced off) one night when I went to post a letter. RIP (2000) is terribly intrusive legislation, and possibly worse than Thatcher's.
Mozilla only does it for browser security bugs, which are a much bigger deal than the bugs Wil is paying $100 for.
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Who thinks or argues that it's "right"? As an American, I think we've been on a hell of a ride for the last couple hundred years, and I'm quite thankful for that.

I personally feel do not feel owed anything. I just hope if we're on our way down that we don't piss off enough other countries that {we, our children, our grandchildren} have it harder than it has to be when the tables are turned.
It's a pretty fine line between passion & obsession: kind of like crazy & genius, success & failure, etc.
Right, that is a better way of putting it. I imagine that is what the article was driving at, but I feel like it was lost a bit.

Also, to note, I was not saying you should not have altered the title, but rather that it seemed he was stating something specific to Aussie startups.
I like making money, and PG is an authority on the subject, so I enjoy it.
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Just show up, I'm pretty sure they said somewhere that this series is open to the public. It's at Kresge Auditorium, which is the same place Startup School was last year.
Like many people, I used to really like Perl 5 and I wrote some important code in it, though I feel that I never really understood a lot of its remote corners. But all I've seen of Perl 6 is its Wikipedia page, which I have just read. And now, for some reason, the image from this article is stuck in my mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_brother_where_art_thou

"Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball."

Somehow, Wikipedia's definition of the second-system effect feels incomplete without a link to Perl 6.

I'd play with Arc. It's small, young, designed to be comprehensible, and based on one classic language instead of on all of them at once.
Your comment makes the page scroll horizontally. It's bad Feng Shui.
Act like you're supposed to be there
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Of course, but they've already achieved independent wealth, why risk it? Extra money to them is just icing on the cake at this point. Investing is basically a hobby for them, and when their money starts to evaporate, it's the first thing they will (and should) cut out.
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IYP? The International Year of the Potato? Internet Yellow Pages?
If that's the case, then why bother to refrigerate anything you're going to cook? Why did people put it in salt (which kills bacteria in the olden days?

The reason is that microorganisms leave behind toxins that don't cook away.
I don't really disagree, but a startup trying to do business with a small number of very large businesses can also cause problems. When your customer knows that the startup is dependent on their business (to some extent), they have a lot of leverage, and many big companies will naturally exploit that.

I've heard lots of stories (and experienced first hand) how a big company that is doing business with the startup will demand lots of outrageous things and cause the startup to expend lots of resources just to keep them happy. The trick is structuring the licensing agreement/contract so that if this happens, you're compensated for the additional time you have to spend.
China has over a billion people, mostly ethnically unified, intelligent, hard-working, criminally non-inclined. America has 300 million people who are, in aggregate, a continental multi-national empire, as was the Austria-Hungarian Empire or the USSR.

Give it ten years, and we're #2.
> when you argue that it is right for you to be 'the superpower' you are also arguing that the rest of the world should be subservient.

Small problem, we're not arguing that it's right. And we're not arguing that you should be subservient, but we'll get back to that bit of projection a little later.

We don't argue that it's right, but let's look at the alternatives. China? Russia? The EU? No one? Yeah right.

Speaking of the EU, we've seen them in action. It's not clear that they're the best of that sorry bunch. We all know that if the US announced "hey, you're right, we're just here for the oil, so we're going to redeploy to cover what we need and let you take care of the rest", they'd be running troops into Iraq as fast as they could get transport from the Russians. (They really ought to have some ability to project force.) Then we'll see how Euros run an occupation. Most folks think that Germany is the most brutal, but I've got my money on France.

As a superpower, the US is basically a resource. Whenever something big needs doing, the question is "how do we get the US to do it?" If you don't like that deal, find a better one and take it. We won't be offended.

We don't want you to to be subservient. That's how the alternatives work. (Yes, I'm including EU and subdivisions.) Instead, we think that your responses when you ask us to do something should show some class. They should fall into two categories (1) "thank you" with as much "how can we help" as you can afford and (2) "on second thought, don't bother, we'll do it ourselves". And, we should hear the second a lot more from the EU. After all, 500M people and more GDP than the US should allow you to do most things on your own. (All that wealth and we had to handle your USSR problem....)

Yes, in some ways we do look down on you. It's because you're Monday morning quarterbacks. You want respect - get on the field. Surely there are some problems that you can handle. Show us how it's done.

BTW - We know that you're talking smack because you're not afraid of anything these days. We also know that that will change when you are.

Speaking of "sophistication", it's somewhat ironic that our subprime mortages had a bigger effect on your banking system. We're stupid, so we're supposed to get conned. What's your excuse for getting taken by rubes?
I agree, and I actually think it's the people who are very close to that line that are the most successful. I see the connection with crazy and genius but not so much with success and failure, as being too successful can't really lead to failure.. or can it?
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Independent Yellow Pages. Totally not glamorous :)
Not necessary. We both are responsible adults, not whiney children.
Yes. This is actually something that we have run into with at least one prospect already.

I have a pretty easy response to unreasonable customer demands: "Some customers aren't customers that you want." My partner agrees and so far it's kept our head in the right place.

We also are targeting some of the smaller clients so that we can a) polish our offering b) get some "street cred" and c) just make sure that we can make money in this space :)
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Thanks. We've actually talked compensation in reasonably concrete terms, so I'm really not concerned with it.

Right now, I want to get the business to the point where he can start drawing a decent salary to support his family. Remember, he's a long time friend first, partner second.
based on differentiation and branding

Heh. You obviously don't go to the dell website very often. They spend an inordinate amount of time trying to brand and differentiate various product configurations. It can be literally 5, 6, 7 sets of pages before you get to the "buy now" button.

Of course, it's all just CPU type + Memory Size + Hard Drive Size + Windows variant in the end, but they really, really try.
You say that now, but it's amazing how quickly responsible adults turn into whiny children. I don't think it's too much effort or cost to get a lawyer to make sure you have the legal situation on solid ground. You probably won't need it, but learning that you screwed up the hard way would really suck.
Doesn't really matter. For one, you have no way to predict whether or not it's about to plumment. And for another, you can (and, as a general rule, should) hedge any time you get stock from an acquisition, options, etc. Just buy a bunch of puts and you're covered in the event of a down slide.
Well I'm actually full time on my "day job" and part to full time on the startup (being ADD helps a bit LOL).

But this is basically the plan. Equity doesn't really mean anything unless the business sells, but when the business gets to the point where it can support founders drawing decent salaries then that'll be happening. He knows what I make now and what it would take to shift my focus and it's all within reason.
HP is the odd one out.

HP sees the future in services, just like IBM. They're fattening (ie: media-ing) up their consumer products to sell off their entire PC line in the next 3 or 4 years.
You know, I'm finding that thing all over the net and almost nowhere is there a link, other than the one in the presentation. Such is the hazard of hosting it via docstoc or any other youtube like service.

On the other hand, I made it just for fun, and it costs me nothing for people to see it, so I'd rather it get around. And it does have a link in it.
I'll just slash his tires <wink>.

I understand the warnings and I'll protect my interests, but I certainly am not going to lawyer up aggressively.
I'd say he'd be hard pressed to find someone to put up with his shit and to work on his system for what I'm asking for. Especially in our market.

In any case, I wish that people would find partners that they could actually, you know, trust. I am as cynical as the next guy, but damn people.
It's small, young, designed to be comprehensible, and based on one classic language instead of on all of them at once.

I like this. Nicely stated.
Isn't this essentially(or exactly) spec work?

http://www.no-spec.com/
Thanks!

The one thing I guess I didn't highlight well enough was that we were lucky to be presented with a way to change our business that would allow us to shift into a better market space. We were even luckier to recognize it and jump on the opportunity.

I think that a lot of the time people go heads down and start rushing in and when presented with an opportunity to shift, they don't see it or are unwilling to make the change.

I guess "Be Flexible" is what I'm trying to say.
I generally use http://iank.org/querysniffer/mysqlsniff-0.10.html to get real queries. Works even on remote databases you don't have access to turn on query logging. Not to say DTrace isn't freaking awesome. (Check out Instruments in the Developer Tools on Leopard if you want to see DTrace but through a GUI).
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I don't think the end of America's dominance is coming so much as a result of mistakes on our part as it is the rest of the world industrializing. We don't have some sort of monopoly on entrepreneurial spirit, hard work, or basic freedoms, and as those things pervade other large countries like China, they'll rise faster than us.

In fact, China has some serious advantages in the early stages. Democracy may be the only long-term viable form of government, but their current communist mishmash is much more effective at getting things done, and quickly. It won't last for ever, but it might get them to escape velocity relatively quickly.
Isn't the rise and fall of most of the large empires due to better weapons technology?
In http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html, Paul writes

So who should start a startup? Someone who is a good hacker,
between about 23 and 38, and who wants to solve the money problem in one shot instead of getting paid gradually over a
conventional working life.

So writing about startups is always implicitly about making money. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
I'm getting tired of these AJAX tutorials that keep popping up on HN. There's really not much to see here, move along folks!
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That's a clever analogy (to the "Homer"), and it stuck in my mind too, however, upon closer inspection it doesn't really hold water. Homer designed "The Homer". Herb expressly told the engineers not to tell him what Homer was asking of them -- just to do it.

With Perl 6 that's not so. Larry and Company are a group of very smart, talented, and dedicated developers who are working daily to create exactly what they think will make an awesome programming language... (and that's after extensive (an understatement) experience with Perl 5).

Anyway, thank you for the great reply. My hunch is that both languages will probably be "fun to drive" (in their own ways), though, how long it takes you to learn to drive it, and what you can do with it once you're out on the open road, may vary.

Edit: built Perl 6 (erm, Parrot and Rakudo) and tried it out at a very elementary level. Planning on putting a few hours into Arc this weekend.
Developing countries SHOULD develop more quickly than the first wave of industrialization. Instead of blundering through a variety of worse-than-modern technologies they should jump directly to current tech; instead of discovering how to build a power infrastructure they should learn from the leaders, etc. The closer they get to "caught up" the more they can contribute to advancing the wave of human progress, and the more they will also slow down.

If China's GDP increase was on par with the US's, something would be very wrong with China. (Developing countries that aren't increasing their GDP or even see it decrease typically do have something very wrong with them.)

(A lot of people seem to make this basic mistake. A developing economy has a lot of low-hanging fruit, long-gone in an industrialized country. If we could suddenly open a portal to 2050, we'd have low-hanging fruit in our economy too... but we'll have to get to 2050 the long, slow way.)
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Hi all, i would like to get some advice and opinions here. First, i live in Sydney, Australia and I have been trying to start a company for 3 times while i was in grad school and now working full-time. Each of those time, I found it really hard to start something while working as full timer. I found myself and the team totally burnt out and things are just not moving as fast as we want. And, as a result, the idea just never become reality. I still learn something out of those fail-times though.

But now, i am really determined want to make it happen. I am thinking of quitting my day job by the end of this year and take the plunge even though i haven't got a clear sense on what i wanna do and whether the idea might works or not. Somehow, i have the funny feeling that i would be able to survive. Well..the scary feeling is still there. :P

Another thing, regarding co-founders, of all those 3 attempts to start a company, i always had partner (not necessarily motivated one!). But, if i take the plunge to start-something up, most of my friends are not ready to take that risk yet either financially or commitment wise. So, i'm thinking i might just do it by myself.

The business is not necessarily web-start-ups that might take few months to develop and takes time to attract users. If i quit, i definitely need business that is more revenue-driven to survive as i only have 6 months saving.

Now, the question is, what should I do to improve my chance of success despite the situations (sole founder and inexperience)?

Thanks!
The article is about sql injection not buffer overflows.

But the advice is also simple: 99% of the problems are solved by using parameterized queries ( pretty much every language/db library has them )
Google doesn't run their development platform in Python, they just chose that language because Google App Engine was created by one of the Python gurus.

In order to hit critical mass, they have to accommodate the masses. Currently, the 2 most popular languages for web programming are PHP and Ruby, neither of which are supported. In my opinion, if they did support it, they would get more business.
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The actual deconstruction is here:
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A managing director of Draper Fisher Juvertson, Scott Lenet gave a talk at the University of Michigan on the same topic.

IMHO, the quality was better. Also, it's good to have sound/video attached to a presentation.

http://inst-tech.engin.umich.edu/media/index.php?sk=ess-w08&...

(skip ahead)
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Yeah... Param Queries also have a lot of other advantages in their usage too... As do the other techniques of using Stored Procs and Views.

I've always wondered why this isn't just a no-brainer.
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