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No, they're selling brands that they have made that happen to come with the guarantee of a domain.
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I'm not sure there's even a slight edge in performance these days and even if there were, you have more options with Ruby/Python (e.g. IronRuby/IronPython for the JVM, etc.).
I see HN as the ideal target market. I'm sure this submission didn't occur spontaneously and there are many people in HN who can afford $250 for a seemingly good value.

I'd be surprised if most of the domains are not sold quickly.
Domain squatting with fancy window dressing is still domain squatting. I'll admit, however, that this is a very clever form of domain squatting. I begrudgingly admire the player here, even if I hate the game.

This is sort of like the domain-squatter's equivalent of department store mannequins: visual aids that help shoppers picture what the items could look like in practice, sparking their imaginations, and thereby convincing them to buy. In this case, the logos are really just giveaways to sell visually and tangibly what would otherwise be abstract names. Again: it's kind of a stroke of genius, but it's a stroke of genius in a questionable profession.

So I end up with very mixed feelings here. Kudos to this guy for innovating, and for doing a good job at it. But I fear the rise of a second domain-squatting gold rush, when/if a bunch of squatters copy this model en masse and set up squat + design sweatshops to crank them out.
I'm not sure I agree that this is such a 'superb idea' ...

As a founder, I want to personalise my domain, and design, and that means coming up with different concepts, and searching whois until I find a good match that's available ... The design then has to represent what the product is about in a non-generic way ... The designs on this site are far too generic for my taste

I can't imagine myself going to that page with a concept and saying 'AHA, that's exactly what I wanted' ... Possibly it could in reverse if someone is looking for inspiration for their next startup ...
I recently had a couple long car journey's to take, and was recommended to listen to these podcasts as I went along.

Loved them, really quite interesting ... and made the journey's feel really quick! So thanks :)

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I will be paying for the upgrade. It's a full digit release that's been a kagillion years in the making. I've gotten my $'s worth out of all the 1.X's to date.
K9 is much better than anything I've seen. It's all I use, all the time.
We started a new project a year or two ago and evaluated using Perl,Python Ruby and the main factor in the reason to use Perl was that the libraries for our particular usage cases where better in Perl than the others at that time. For LDAP and SNMP in particular there exists Pure Perl Libraries that are very mature, at the time similar libraries for Ruby and Python where just wrappers around C classes and not as mature (Might be different now).

Java might have been a good choice in this regard as well but our team was used to using Dynamic languages.

I would suggest that anyone looking at a particular language should consider what they want to achieve and then investigate the existing libraries etc to complete that task.

Having committed to using Perl we have had no regrets things like Moose and roles IMHO put it on par with Languages like Python and Ruby.
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Or you can just do this:

foo.step1 = function(){ do_some_thing(foo.step2) }
foo.step2 = function(arg){ do_another_thing( ... ) }
foo.step1()
# enjoy
Domain speculators selling at a fixed 'low' price.
It's annoying that they have purchased the domains, but there is no way to do this kind of boutique, pre-made branding without squatting the domains. So I'm not sure it is that clear cut. The logos and categorisation distinguish it from straight squatting.
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I think that would make a great practice at idea generation and learning about brand awareness: get a list of these and try to decide what the named company does. Then compare with others. I'd be interested to see whether there are any names that totally dictate what the idea is.
I have a couple side projects that I've sidelined until I can find a developer (I do design/front-end). We could have a joint project rather than you doing free work for someone. Let me know if you're interested.
Domain squatting has a fairly specific legal definition. We aren't squatting. We actually came up with the idea after being frustrated by domain parking and squatters and frankly the whole domain industry.
They volunteer their time anyway. They might as well do so for open access journals.
There is no name here that suited what we were looking for, but it has the potential to save you loads of time, plus the logo costs.

If I was starting out something new I'd def check here, and use this as a starting point, use the logo to start a basic site, get a letter head made and some business cards done - bang, hours save, cost of a decent logo save, headaches saved.

Plus, you can change your name when ever you like - people get so overly stressed about names, as though the .com is the most important thing.
By the results.
We are trying to add to the lean startup ecosystem, not replace $xx,xxx keyword domains that venture-backed startups can afford.
Was the information private? Autonomy is a public company, so a great deal of their financial information is public. (I haven't looked at the slide deck.)
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Thanks for the feedback. A newsletter of some sort is next on the feature list.
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This is my favorite podcast right now. The latest one, 'Typo', was amazing. Bill Hill was absolutely motivating, his passion is an inspiration.
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I know this is a dumb benchmark, but I think it backs up my general pt about performance above. (JVM/CLR implementations are interesting - are they widely used?)

python2.7.1: 2.0s
perl5.10.1: 1.3s
ruby1.8.7: 4.3s

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i = 10000000
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I'm not sure why wavephorm was downvoted. He rised valid point - on modern browsers a lot of functionality offered by jQuery could be easily achieved with pure DOM/CSS3/WebSockets.

In the upcoming years I expect jQuery to be replaced by more specialized and interoperable microframeworks like those listed on http://microjs.com/

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IMO, some of these domains are probably worth more than $250 anyway.
We are testing different price points. What would you feel comfortable paying?
while I am sure that someone out there can use the service, taking the time to come up with your own name and design should not be given up lightly. I do take issue with the "branding" implication that these domains purportedly have. Before starting my own company I spent years in an ad agency, and I can tell you that unless there is an unusual amount of serendipity involved you probably won't find a name and image that fits perfectly with your company goals and vision. A brand is a promise to the public which conveys your intent your services and your commitment to your product. Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Disney all do this very well for example. If you're not a designer I can see gaining design inspiration from this site. But in my opinion, take a little time try to come up with your own ideas to implement.
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In my opinion the site looks thrown together and incongruent.

The groupon starburst is trite (as are groupon clones but that is another matter). You obviously stole this artwork which strikes me as sleazy. That said, you are selling knockoffs so maybe it helps you.

I would kill the fixed green div in the corner. It distracts from your main content and it is redundant.

The shift from starburst background to #fff is a visual shock. I would soften the light bulb and add some borders.

When I opened the site in Firefox I got prompted to install missing plugins. Drop whatever is causing that. And whatever c.mouseflow.com is it's killing your load time.

The headline is worded well but the big serif font on that stark background is a bit painful. Go smaller and softer if you can.

Try moving the video player and the text around until you can fit everything into the center space. Right now the player is shifted off that canvas and that looks weird.

I would showcase the example website. Right now it's in an iframe, and the resultant UX is confusing.
Plenty of great short domains on other extensions - I got whi.im and om.gd for a couple of projects I am working on. Issue is whether the people who need to know, know that .im or .gd are domain extension - or if it will just confuse them and send them to whiim.com (which we don't own).
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I think people in social sciences tend to ignore the most obvious factor: military power. A successful campaign needs rapid coordinated efforts, which are best delivered by hierarchical models. And if you suck at war, chances are that your civilization won't stick around for very long.
Ugh! These are just glorified domain sitters disguised as a trendy start-up. Please don't give these people your money - they ruin innovation by taking up massive amounts of domains then selling them for huge amounts.
These people RUIN the internet.
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From searching and looking around a logo design can cost around $250 on its own, getting a domain to match a pre-designed and brandable logo is a nice idea and i like the concept, will i ever use this? Probably not.
If they knew the benefits of doing that, they'd learn. My wife did when I showed her. Now she knows what to do when she sees a website and thinks, "that's not what it looks like on my laptop".
And you are sticking it to that industry by ... doing the same?

It doesn't matter if you call it squatting or "domaining", in the end you are blocking thousands of domain names on the hope that someone needs that name so much that he will pay ransom for it.

(Kind of related: Anyone interested in a URI-dnsbl of squatted domain names?)
The video should talk about the results rather than the process. Imagine if I wanted to set up a deal site, would you tell me how to set it up as an introductory video, or do the feature tour?

For example, you have a tab where people can customize their colors. Tell them. Go through each of the main features, and explain how expensive it is for them to hire a technical person to build all this software for them.
The company authorised Weideking to take the ultimately unsuccessful strategy of turning Porsche primarily into a stock trading fund investing in VW shares, yes, and paid off his contract as agreed when it failed and brought the company to its knees.

The problem is that oversight and accountability is too weak. As CEO he was authorised to take actions which should've set alarm bells ringing with others, without apparent limit, and his contract (much like many others; Fred Goodwin would be a prime UK example) was poorly drafted so as to provide him with limited personal accountability for failure. UBS 'rogue trader' Kweku Adoboli is currently in custody awaiting trial for inflicting a serious loss on his company; Wendling Weideking was paid off handsomely for far worse. Boards need to take their role of executive oversight more seriously.
Perl probably creates about 75% of my income. That's working on current modern projects. Mostly we don't have to do too much wheel-reinvention because of CPAN. Yes it's worth learning perl.
One could argue that his corporate culture (cough-handlers-cough) is really American (cough-Microsoft-cough).
How much does this plugin cost?
Not huge amounts. $250 for a domain + logo is very reasonable.
I agree in some ways - but sometimes names can delay launches. I can see a small start up using this site to 'just get out there' - and worry about branding later.

Depending on what you are doing you can change your name/brand later.

Since /most/ start-ups fail, why not get to market quicker, with less cost, and less time/brain power wasted.
unBounce doesn't make award-winning landing pages and we don't make agency quality brands. We are part of the ecosystem-- each fits a need.
Maybe it's because people don't know that it's now more or less ready to use? I didn't know until just now. I signed up and it looks quite good, only a little undercrowded.
Great idea for them, yes. For us? Awful.
Most of the time I bet the logos (which are ok but a bit generic) won't match what you have in mind for your site.
These people are no better than domain squatters - they're an unnecessary tax on startups.
A number of times now I've abandoned ideas after being unable to find a domain name as they're all taken by squatters, it's saddening :(
I think this is really good for people in certain situations, e.g., you're going to pitch an important event with a new idea and you don't have a name or a logo. The design is nice and clean. My only suggestion would be adding share buttons.
Huh? A domain is worth around £10, not $250, not £1000 and definitely not $15,000+.
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Bodybuilding is also the only one that I don't really consider a "sport." It's a beauty contest. I think the prevalence of fads is higher because there's no objective performance metric.
I am a longtime proponent of PC gaming, although I do own a PS3 and Xbox 360. But the cost of getting a top-notch gaming rig is high. I've been building my computers from scratch since 1998, the last rig I built was just this past December and ingest parts alone a cost approximately $4000. If you were to buy what I built retail you can easily spend $7-$8000. However there are less expensive options out there. I think it's an indisputable fact that PCs outperform their console counterparts in just about every area. One area consoles excel in is the social experience. You do have a lot of options and PCs but the experience is not as streamlined as the Xbox 360. However from what Microsoft has been saying Windows 8 will blend the Xbox 360s and PCs social experience seamlessly. Love the wait-and-see. Interesting article though.
I love it. It's like themeforest for startups. Don't listen to the haters.

I have a lot of ideas I put on the backburner 'cause I'm busy with other things. The value in this isn't just the domain, it's the "packaging" of the entire first part of the process. I do this on themeforest too.. browse landing pages for one startup, but maybe buy a landing page that happens to be suited to another random startup idea, if I saw it.

Good luck to you, sirs / madams.
Agreed.
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Awesome stuff. You should put the source somewhere :)
Are you actually under the ridiculously naive impression that hard work = success? I thought that had been satisfactorily disproven years ago.
Very rarely will you find a domainer selling a .COM for less than $1000. If anything we are forcing down the price floor. Right?
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Although I'm in favor of open access journals for a handful of reasons, I think there are a couple of things working against the idea:

First, handling fees. As someone starting out in the field, there are a great number of journals that advertise (read:spam), and have handling fees. It feels very much like a scam, or a system were "success" can be bought.

Second, as one commenter on the article suggests, with a handling fee, the publisher is incentivized to print more. (There's an undercurrent of complain in my field that there isn't enough quality publication space, so this is two-sided, but is the cost of more outlets a lowering in quality?) However, with a subscription model, the quality must remain high to keep subscribers. (One might also argue that "closed" publishers want to print as much as possible to give more authors' schools reason to subscribe, but I don't know the level of this effect.)

Third, on a more personal level, living as a doctoral student—more particularly, with the budget of a doctoral student—even nominal costs can seem overwhelming. I don't see my institution covering "handling fees" in the near future, particularly with the amount of cost-cutting going on. The fees are less onerous for faculty, but present a slightly higher barrier for student entrants.
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with almost anything it's how you handle it that determines if it's good or bad. I think any business strategy to visit include social media marketing effort is cutting off for their legs. Really small businesses are having excellent success taking advantage of social media. This is a perfect example of how the Internet has democratized communications. Everyone who's interested can have a voice online. At least until someone tries to squash net neutrality, but that's an issue for another day.
>There is just no dispute that smart people working hard can put a few million in the bank after several years of all out toil in the Valley.

This statement is either utterly nonsensical and backed up by nothing or it's circular in nature (i.e. "How do you know they're hard working and smart? Because they put a few million in the bank", "Why were they able to put a few million in the bank? Because they're hard working and smart").
Why not just have the EDA tools understand (or have plugins that do) how version control systems work and provide diff'ing abilities? The EDA tool would have to provide the diff'ing ability but have API hooks for interfacing with version control systems.

LabVIEW can do diffs and it integrates with version control systems. LabVIEW is almost completely visual and it'll show you what changed between versions if you ask.
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Worth and cost are not the same.
lean startup ecosystem = not paying for things you don't need. plain language wins over every time. if a new business with little money needs a name and a logo for a fixed price, this can make economic sense. branding considers the audience and not the founders.
"I don't think there is anything particularly nefarious about their copyright policy (which explicitly allows authors to post freely available copies of their articles for non-commercial purposes.)"

This is no longer strictly true as of last year. IEEE now explicitly forbids authors from posting the officially published versions of papers. You can post preprints though, which are often better since it includes content you had to cut to avoid huge over-length charges, and any errata or updates.

Every year I struggle with whether to renew my IEEE membership, whether to continue to publish in their journals, and whether to review for those journals.
I remember talking about this at the startup guild. one of the founders had a similar idea and then tested a shorter period and had similar results. Three months seems like a long time. Why not one month or two weeks? also different people make different numbers of transactions - if you're thinking in terms if days already, why not have a 30 day free trial instead of transaction based so users will know when the free trial will end.

What's the plan for existing users?
you're assuming, that open access journals need a handling fee

distribution costs are marginal, it is possible for an open access journal that wouldn't take handling fees. it could be a non-profit organisation, or it could have other monetisation methods.
I take issue with your labeling of that particular view as extremist. Evolution guided by Gods hand is as nonsensical as the idea of each individual creature being hand crafted by God. They are both supported by an equal amount of science, I.e none, and should therefore be treated with no greater respect than any other extraordinary claim for which no evidence exists, I.e none.
It's funny that your suggestion is the opposite of the currently top-rated comment (which I didn't read, because it's a 1700 word essay without any capitalization).

(For what it's worth, I think you have it right.)
Totally agree - I actually just lucked out and found a simple temp name for a startup I'm working on. Trying to find a name has been a pain, and now its sorted in 2 minutes. I won't use the branding, but FINALLY we have a domain.

I'm sure they'll be sold out by the end of the day.
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I meant to say "in general performance", i.e. of a complete application. Micro benchmarks mean less than nothing in that case.

Python is obviously plenty fast: Blender (3D modeling application) is written in it. There is also Twisted and all that other stuff.

>are they widely used?

My impression is that they are. The JVM is everywhere these days.
Aside from raising the price issue they have also (apparently) caught the Autonomy CEO in a lie. ...which would make me a bit uncomfortable if I was about to write a 10 billion dollar check. Makes me wonder why he lied and what else he lied about.
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The Bill Hill interview was amazing as always. The rest seemed to be a lot more filler than other episodes though.
Or the COLA calculations include many areas where you wouldn't want to live. Where I live now has a low COL according to the statistics, but that's only because it includes the poor areas nearby. The only place anyone would want to live is very expensive, and more than some of the bigger cities I've lived in.
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The screenshot was made when DigiNotar wasn't yet bankcrupt. The reason for using DigiNotar is because of two things: 1) my sense of humour 2) makes it really clear why you might want a certificate viewer. Ok, maybe a 3rd one: Dutch government initially saying they could still be trusted for some certificates.

It is not the only screenshot with my sense of humour though
I call it lack of leadership. There was no leader who had a vision, and the ability to lead the team toward that new path.