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I'd be interested in Dahl's (or your) opinion of Alan Kay's STEPS project in this context.

"For example, essentially all of the standard personal computing graphics can be created from scratch in the Nile language in a little more than 300 lines of code. Nile itself can be made in little over 100 lines of code in the OMeta metalanguage, and optimized to run acceptably in real-time (also in OMeta) in another 700 lines. OMeta can be made in itself and optimized in about 100 lines of code."

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010004_steps10.pdf

and, btw: https://github.com/tristanls/ometa-js-node
That is such a foolish goal.

Why would I want anyone to take me "more seriously"?

Either I'm someone they'll trust, or I'm not. My clothing choices aren't going to make an ounce of difference after I open my mouth. I either know my shit, or I don't. And people will know.

If you really have to dress up to take yourself more seriously, then that's just sad. I'm sorry.
What made you decide to be acquired? The compensation? More resources to achieve the vision? (I remember your app has the chance to get even bigger with more negotiation and licensing power). Something else?
Nothing has jumped out as missing. I may just be lucky in this regard. Being of the sysadmin persuasion, I have many more bookmarks tagged "software" than I do "programming".
I believe people use corporate shells all the time for things similar to what you are describing. However don't take my word on that But you will still need to pay corporate taxes here in America. Good Luck!
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We weren't talking about balancing the budget we were talking about eliminating the debt and you didn't say 10-20% you said 5-10%. So do you have a source for the 5-10% or am I right that you just made that number up?

I don't mean to flame but I based my statement on facts not a desire to disrespect you. Namely the Total U.S. tax revenue which was $2.1trillion. 10% of that is $210 billion which is less than half the interest on our national debt

(btw - The U.S. deficit for 2011 was $1.5 trillion)

For the record I'm not trying to be holier than thou. I've absolutely guesstimated (aka "made up") numbers in the heat of the moment. But when someone called me on it I didn't try to be indignant about it
Agreed software is often way to complicated, especially Linux at some parts.

Ultimately we are developing the software because of one simple thing.

The user.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" -Albert Einstein
I like the occasional "common sense" article as much as the next guy, but this was a little bit too obvious, vague, and uninformative. Make a product that is interesting that has meaning and people like. Wow, really? Wait, I've got a better strategy, that is even more straight to the point: Make money, get rich.

Making something that people care about is a goal, not a strategy.
Css-tricks.com and nettuts.com both have beginner sections that walk you through html, and more importantly, building an actual site.

While they're not exactly like codeacademy, they're valuable.
The fading images are the most attention-grabbing thing on the homepage. I think they should be actual screenshots of the product in action, or something more compelling than whatever they are at least. Right now, I see some random graphs with generic world news, a bunch of social networking services, and then one thing that probably is your product, but it's kind of all randomly laid out and doesn't tell me a whole lot. Maybe instead, you could put in nice big text a problem the product solves and then alongside that, a screenshot of the product solving that problem.

The tag line doesn't really clarify anything other than the source of the name, which still doesn't tell me much about your product.

Beyond that, I'm not really your target market, so I can't do anything but wish you the best of luck!
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Hear hear! As a software developer, my trade is a ghetto awash with all manner of amateur-hour charlatans and language silos that are tantamount to pistol-whipped lock-in (I'm looking at you node.js). If you take a step back, the entire ecosystem of 'software development' is a chattering tower of Babel, all sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Programming languages, their frameworks, their libraries, their petty concerns are a mere vanity folly, riddled with re-invention, abstraction arcana, and deus-ex-machina hoopla. We have lost our way, straying so far from the path of the UNIX philosophy such that I must now 'whole-stack' an application instead of using the pipe character. A pox on the whole damned lot of it!

Some days I just despair of all the time I've wasted bustling and jostling, crushed by the sweaty masses in the ghetto. But if I'm honest with myself, I must confess I love it too. I love my programming languages, my libraries, the eight different ways I know to full-text search, to regex, to parse, to lock, to async. I love the smell and heat of the coal-face, the futility of it all. Stockholm Syndrome indeed!
Increasingly, the key is to main orthogonality towards your problem solving (like an eagle) within the decaying confines of a semi-bloated (often mostly educational in terms of what not to do) ecosystem.

Which means rewriting crufty pieces of your stack when certain thresholds occur. 'There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one' -- is something that happens in motion, iteratively, and which you do when you have time at all levels of the evolution that we call development.

Anyway, that's my two cents. Nice others are on the same wavelength, I think.
From my experience, using the webview in iOS becomes painful quickly.. It would be better if you slowly started learning objective-c, because that gives you more options once you become a little familiar with how things work...

And, just curious - you have priced the app at 1.99 - how are the sales so far?
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Whenever I see a prospective startup founder with no product and no customers calling themselves a 'CEO', it triggers a little warning sign in my brain that this person may be too self-important to work with.

There are definitely times when you need the title to make meetings happen, so it's not a sure-fire guarantee of arrogance. But it's still a warning sign.

At the last startup I founded, both myself and my co-founder agreed to skip titles until such time as they were required. When pressed, we were both just 'founders'.
How cheap is the fuel? Say, a space shuttle? I've heard a launch costs $450 million, but it doesn't say if it was fuel alone.
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There are some pretty big organisations that use Google Apps. For example, BSkyB use gmail for customer email accounts, and the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield both use Google Apps to some degree for staff/students.
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I don't understand why there is an exclamation in point in the article title and he has the price in bold red letters, yet at the end of the article he goes on to say that it's priced just a bit more than two other competing products. I say a bit, because if you are in the market for $100k analytics suites, what's another $50k?
Maybe it's because I don't buy much stuff, but I never understood the point of using credit for small purchases like getting a cup of coffee. I don't understand why people would use cash for that either (unless the coffee shop only takes cash/ charges more for debit). The same goes for checks.

Could someone explain it to me?
Dividend withholding depends on your home country, so the actual amount that the company would be required to withhold is between 0% and 30% (inclusive).

Really, the best idea if you want to do something like this would involve two companies: a foreign (non-US) parent company that does the actual business operations, and a domestic US company that solely handles US-based payment processing. Dividends from the US company to the parent company can be exempt from withholding (i.e, exempt from US double-taxation), depending on the home country of the foreign company. This sort of structure avoids much of the transfer pricing mess mentioned above, and the self-employment taxes that consultant fees would incur.

Jibjab, you should talk to a tax lawyer or tax professional to help you structure your business and business activities to minimize your overall financial costs (taxes, operating expenses, and otherwise). The money you spend on business planning will pay for itself. I am a tax lawyer, as is Mr. Hodgen. I believe Mr. Hodgen is located in Pasadena, California. My office is in Century City (Los Angeles, California), but my firm has offices worldwide.

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A question: how does the fact that these are revenues instead of rates play into this discussion? I.E., one of the arguments of free-market proponents is that lower tax rates can increase revenues by allowing the economy to grow-- which, if it were true for some or all of the economies, would actually undermine the point.

I'm genuinely curious about this, not trying to stir up a giant political debate.
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Good point he never even mentions node.js. ;)

But I do feel that node.js is Rayn's attempt to enlighten me and hopeful others. He doesn't try to hide everything like ports and the underlying c code. Its all there, and best of all in a language that is familiar(at least for web developers).
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They want their craft to be able to land on any surface. Two of their chief product values are modularity and versatility.

I toured SpaceX HQ just yesterday and saw this video (or some of it). The employee presenting said that landing on Mars w/ a parachute is not a good option. Powered landing makes their craft able to land on any surface.

This is a paraphrase; and I am not a rocket scientist, so don't quote me on this.
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These are not branded domain names. They are brandable domain names with a sample logo. A logo is not a brand.

The title here is misleading but the site does a good job explaining what they are offering. And I think that they are providing good value. When you are starting out the last thing you need to do is waste a lot of time and money on a name and logo. With this service, you just pick one and forget about it then move onto more important matters.
I think http://refactormycode.com/ might be what you're looking for.
> for doing something that everybody does

Are most people truly this unethical? It's one thing to look out for yourself and not take a bad deal (crap equity, undermarket salary, unfulfilled promises), but it's another to indicate commitment (signed papers, lots of talks, knowing the other person is moving across the country for this) and then completely flake out and bail.
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Part 2 of the report: http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/files/plutonomy-2.pdf

tl;dr: The US is not a democracy, the rich rule the nation by being hyper-consumers (a plutocracy economy, or a plutonomy).

Most of the Eurozone is not a plutocracy, and the difference between stocks and the housing marking keeps the rich rich.

If the housing market were to cool while the stock market accelerates, and the Eurozone economy to also slow behind the US, the rich would get even richer as a result.

The report is from 2005.
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I think the SVG box generator script that you wrote is a neat by-product of your production.

https://github.com/poundifdef/SVG-Box-Generator
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I don't think it is easy to expand to many countries with products that are sensitive to regulations, e.g. payment, and music streaming.

A lot of these services are not available outside the US. Last time I checked Google Checkout was limited to the US as well.

It is really annoying as I live in Canada and I cannot use many of these services.
Visualizing algorithms is unfair, because some people were born without vision and therefore cannot "visualize".
Typically "eliminating the debt" is interpreted as building a modest surplus. No one is claiming it can be completely done away with immediately. That simply requires balancing the budget + a few percent. It's true that my 5-10% number was an estimate, as was the 10-20% number; that is not the same as making numbers up.

Even the estimate that is most generous to your position is more than sufficient to support my argument. It could be twice again that amount (40%) and still not reach the levels of unworkability you posited in your original post, considering a number of other countries are under burdens more than 60 or more percent above the United States'. You can pick all the nits in the world but that fact remains.
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Not pointing the domains was an oversight. We will fix this soon.
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The thing about analytics is that it's BIG data. A single user event can cascade into multiple datapoints that you either have to keep normalized (like in the SQL example) or denormalize into something more manageable. The latter of which is really the only way to handle TBs of data, and it's not trivial. It's a fun job, but it's full time.
That was a great interview BTW. One of the better videos on Mixergy!
If the Silk servers add an an X-Forwarded-For header to the request, you might be able to do it that way. I'd be pretty disappointed if they don't, actually.
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I am struggling to think of a single piece of software that I interact with in my day-to-day life that brings me pleasure

Games, a game delivery system like steam or perhaps vlc for playing my favorite music, but even then, its the music that makes me happy, not the program playing it...

Ont he other hand, there is a lot of software that I actually hate.
How much would it cost to pay someone to write you an analytics suite? A lot more than $150,000/yr.

It's a lot of money for you, but it's not a lot of money for people that actually need something like this. (I use "grep" as my web analytics tool, because that's all I can need and all I am willing to spend.)
Not sure there's a ton of money to be made; solutions like what you're describing already exist and are in use at mature development shops that understand that they don't have to be afraid to roll out new code at 9:30 am.
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For comparison, many report paying over $100K a year for Adobe’s Omniture SiteCatalyst offering. I can’t remember what we used to pay for Webtrends Enterprise at my old job but it was in the same ballpark.

So, let me understand. The price is on par with industry standard pricing. So why is the title in caps with an exclamation point? Just go all the way with the title.

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Virgin Galactic only does LEO hops that last for ~10 minutes. SpaceX has actually sent a rocket in orbit around the earth and are on track to send successive launches to the ISS in 2012 and 2013. Just 'cause it looks like an Apollo design; there's a reason why they were chosen in the first place. It's cause they're simple and pretty reliable.

Also, I wouldn't bet against Elon Musk.
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The difference is that, for the duration of the callback, you know the state will only change in ways directly related to the functions you are calling. Between callbacks, anything could happen. But, at least you have an island of sanity within the callback. With coroutines however, any function you call might block for some obscure reason (logging some debug info to a file, for example). That means you can only be sure that the world won't move behind your back as long as you don't call any functions :)

I don't have a lot of experience in this area. I'm just reporting back what I remember hearing.
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Fantastic. Thanks for that. Any idea if the whole talk is going to make it online soon? I'd be very interested in watching it.
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Looks like Docco by Jeremy Ashkenas (CoffeeScript/BackBone.js fame) with some extra styling and a navigation bar up top.

https://github.com/jashkenas/docco
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The chart says total tax burden so I'm assuming it takes into account state taxes. The one chart indicates an average for the U.S. of around 26%. This would be a 2% increase from what it is today. In a $10 trillion economy this would be a $200 billion tax increase. Given that borrowing rates are so low right now an awful lot of money can be borrowed before the budgetary burden reaches $200 billion in additional annual spending.

I responded to your post in another comment.
Yep, it looks like anyone can get a USAA bank account even if they are not military or a spouse/child of a USAA member.

https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/why_choose_usaa_main

USAA's investment products, most checking and savings products, credit cards, life insurance, and shopping and discounts are available to other individuals.

The catch is that the remote check deposit feature is only available to people who are eligible for USAA auto/property insurance, and the criteria for that are the criteria you linked above. Not having remote deposit kind of limits the utility of the account.
Actually, it was because of a legal snag that, unresolved, limited my ability to be acquired, take investment, or continue bootstrapping.

If I had gotten the right counsel at an earlier stage (before I signed any contracts), I would have been able to go much further with it and, had I decided to sell, do so at a better valuation. I guess I shouldn't say much more than that since the matter is still ongoing.

Steinway was really excited about the app and was willing to work with me despite my predicament. It's been immensely satisfying to see the vision behind the app through with commercial music, etc. They've been great to work with.

But sort of a pyrrhic victory from a startup perspective! I wish I had gone with an incubator like YC or Techstars so that I had the advice/connections needed to avoid what happened. I think if I wasn't a single founder, I might have been able to. Lesson learned. Maybe next time!
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Totally agree that they should be reserving handles on the major services. In addition, it doesn't look like they've registered the .net and .org versions of the domains, which also seems like a no-brainer.
That is only true if web authors use that feature. If they do not, there is no penalty for failing to support it.
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Although I do think it's a nicely done app, I have to question its utility.

Not Hipmunk itself, just the mobile part. Is there really a large market for looking up flights on-the-go? I mean, if you're spending a couple hundred/thousand dollars on traveling somewhere, surely you'd think about it for long enough to break out a laptop before purchasing, right?

Or is there some other use to this that I'm not considering?
"I haven't read his rationale for the self-landing rocket stages, but I would guess it's about recovery costs."

At the press club he mentioned that a $50m rocket might have 200k of fuel costs in it, so if you can reuse most of it, you are way ahead on cost.
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They shot videos of all of the talks. They took their sweet time getting them up last year though.
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I think it's quite bad to focus on rates. Given that there are usually loop holes and tax incentives it becomes necessary to look at tax burden as a percent of GDP.

The people who make the argument you mentioned are wrong. If lower taxes always lead to greater economic growth then the optimal tax burden would be 0%. But this would mean there is no government and we'd be in an anarchy. Does anyone really think an anarchy is the optimal way to grow an economy?
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