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"I wish we had enacted policies against squatting back in the '90s."

What would your suggestion be as far as a policy that could have stopped domain squatting?

I can't think of a scenario that you could have that would allow someone to purchase a name but then not allow them to sell the name. So what you would end up with is names that are registered but have not found their way (through the free market) to the best possible use.

People tend to think that if the name they wanted wasn't owned by a squatter who was trying to sell it it would be available when they decided they wanted to use it. It would just be sitting there and not in the hands of someone else for a non squatting purpose.

As recently as 2001 I remember attorneys asking if they could use the domain law.com because "I type it in and nothing comes up". As if nobody thought of using that in the prior years or something (and this happened with many names actually).

I'd really like to know your thoughts on this.
My personal opinion is that if you don't trust these people to be honest and don't think they are dedicated, they probably shouldn't be working for you in the first place.
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>RIM definitely needs to get out of this market

If RIM gets out of this market I think they're done. The next generation is going to be about ecosystems. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are all offering seamless access to their data, through their cloud offerings, across a wide range of devices. More than ever people are going to be using a single brand or OS just because it is easier, which is what post-pc devices are all about. There won't be many that will have a RIM phone and have an iPad or Amazon tablet just because data management will be a pain.
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You sounded as though you were enjoying the West far more -- getting outdoors more, meeting lots of people, etc.

As much as you were like a fish out of water it sounded like a period of solid growth for you. I'd have stuck it out further :)
I wish there were more proactive comments on newspaper websites. I think communities everywhere are missing out on a great opportunity to communicate, exchange ideas, and bring real change to real problems in their own towns. Most of the time newspaper comments (in my community) are about how illegal immigration is to blame for EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING.

Commenters tend to rally behind the bully and pick on anyone who has a different point of view. Most of the time a reply to a different point of view starts of by first insulting the commenter and then explaining why they are wrong about everything.

Funny how we never leave high school....

(I work for a newspaper... )
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I wouldn't want to work at any place where the Levenshtein distance between the title on my resume and the title quoted by my supervisor was a critical part of the hiring decision.

Well, "critical" might not apply... maybe it's just an early filter by HR. This filtering out of people who lie on their resume will have a few false positives, but even the best filters are going to have a non-negligible false positive rate -- it's enough that they mostly work, as long as you're swamped with mediocre and inappropriate applicants.

With thousands of resumes coming in daily for a position (I'm guessing), some semi-automated winnowing must happen, and any test you devise will have some potentially awesome candidate crying foul (though such an awesome candidate is probably not in your pool of applicants today, or tomorrow).
There are lots of different variables that influence adherence, including but not limited to:

- expected or actual efficacy

- regimen complexity

- knowledge, commitment, and ability

- doctor-patient relationship

My understanding is that with HIV a lot of money has been spent on actually implementing the adherence research in order to reduce the spread of the disease, whereas for most other diseases no one really cares. I think getting diagnosed with HIV also encourages some people to grow up a little bit in a way that getting diagnosed with high blood pressure or whatever doesn't, though maybe less so now that infection vectors are changing.
Thanks for your insight zach -- completely agree with your assessments on entrepreneurs and the importance of being together on-site
Silicon Valley has officially gone full retard.
Okay I'm not defending the IEEE, but I'd like to inject some data into this discussion. From their latest annual report, in 2010 their revenues and expenses from periodicals was $134.65m and $120.63m respectively.

Lord only knows how they spent $120m to curate a bunch of journals and magazines, but the $14m profit is less than what they earned in investment income ($25m).
Argh, very frustrating indeed. Yet another good reason to backup your online account data. Just because it's hosted externally by a "trustworthy" company doesn't mean your data will always be there.
There is so much pushing for de-anonymization from corporations and governments, that places like 4chan or reddit are those rare gardens of free speech in their purest sense that are most important to keep alive.
I would love to, but since I'm driving a car it's actually illegal where I live. But I do get to work an hour early and spend about an hour in a nearby starbucks coding, every morning. It's amazing how much you can get done when you work just an hour every morning.
Move on. Better use of your time, energy and wisdom to start on the next thing, than to spend it on trying to extract some money from the last thing. Move on.
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Your MVP worked perfectly, you put something out, gained valuable experience and now know that there is a market for hosted forums.

Go talk to the people that are interested and get letters of intent. Get something salable and charge them money. Who cares if a bunch of people who could roll their own forums in a weekend are interested, what matters are the 99% of people who can't and are willing to pay you.
Honesty is often overrated by geeks and it is very contextual.

The canonical question is "Honey, does this dress make my ass look fat?" The honest answer may be "yes." But that answer could be hurtful and result in a seriously pissed off girlfriend/wife for a while.

The easy answer is "no." Dishonest, but no hurt feelings. A better response is often to deflect the question entirely and say, "I think you look much better in that purple dress you used to like."

That's what Sam did here: he deflected the question before it even arose.
This is why I call my references and remind them of what I want them to say.

"Hi X, as we discussed I used you for a reference for a Quality Assurance Developer role from our time together at FooCorp. I mentioned our debugging of the priority inversion problem in our server, writing the kernel module, and working with you to integrate scripting. Thanks!"
Optimization, bleh.

Mining the tar out of Facebook's rather Orwellian data set? FUN!
Agreed! There is no CTO, no CEO, no nothing until things reach a certain level of funding and traction. You're just a team trying to build a product that is useful. And like Eric Ries says, you may miss the target the first time. You have to rapidly iterate until you hit the mark - then maybe you can give yourself C-level titles. I personally think they're too snobby though - how about just 'Partner.'
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I don't see this as more than a gimmick (a nice one, sure). You end up with mute, non-semantic icon names (single characters) in your CSS, single-color icons only. Vector graphics are nice, but then you might as well go for SVG.

The one valid use case for this is limiting the number of roundtrips & requests. But in the long term, there'll be SPDY (or some other similar protocol) for that. And SPDY fixes the problem for your whole app / page, not just icons.
If you want to give quick feedback, the dev posted on the Android subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/kva3g/hipmunk_for_a...
Related to the VirtualBox recommendations: Take the time to read the VB manual. It's actually fairly well written. Get to know the VB networking options; they're fairly extensive.

(And, of course, make sure you're not committing a "termination offense" with your set-up (and/or that you can maintain security as well as live with any personal consequences) nor are you forgoing any needed licenses or running afoul of licensing implications.)
FWIW, "Javascript with Rhino" supported co-routines, and frameworks like Apache Cocoon took advantage of this to play tricks similar to Smalltalk's Seaside. (That said, you might have meant something different, as Node and Rails are both web tiers, whereas Rhino is an engine like V8.)
Plagiarism isn't a crime (care to point out the anti plagiarism law?) I don't really care what the ACM says about it. Copyright on the other hand is backed by law and therefore is a legal matter.
Ideas are a dime a dozen, and there are some investors who will be duped by non-technical types and throw money at it but the solid businesses are founded by people who can actually execute the idea........sounds like this startup might be headed for the dead pool.
Very much true. I don't get the idea of complaining on the lack of depth of youtube comments, when most of the vids are just uploaded by some angry kid in the basement.

Speaking of quality, anyone having watched TV lately?
Totally love this article! Your company and your product have to BE ABOUT SOMETHING!!! Why should people care about you as opposed to the hundred of apps that launch everyday? You have to represent an idea. You have to represent possibilities.
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Thanks man -- reminds me of what Derek Sivers said: http://sivers.org/multiply
Good content, well edited.
> A) ridicule HP into dropping Autonomy bid

I don't think Oracle would do anything to benefit HP
Not everyone is tech savvy. They bank on the people who don't realize the implications of over-sharing or simply just don't know any better.

The youngest you can sign up on Facebook is 14...how many 14 year olds are really going to care or know that maybe they should not let Facebook and every other 3rd party application know every nuance to how they use the internet?

Also by automatically having new privacy features opt-out, i'm sure they realize that if they lose 200k people because of it, it's nothing in the scheme of things. Plus chances are 100k of those people will end up reenabling their accounts at a later date.
I am (was) a very heavy delicious user. Luckily, I backed up my delicious bookmarks a few weeks ago. The export function on the new site doesn't seem to work and if it does, I doubt all my bookmarks will be there.

I started typing out a long laundry list of issues, but it doesn't matter. Suffice it to say the new site is nearly unusable. There is nothing new that is useful for users or that would attract new users, nor is there any revenue model in sight.

I would be surprised if more than 10% of past delicious users stay with the site.
I'm actually keeping an eye on this post as well so feel free to post feedback here.
A colleague once had his official title be "Keeper of the Magic." This was in a fairly large company to.
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Sure - in case it's more convenient, you can get a transcript of the entire interview here: http://g33ktalk.com/post/10782097232/dag-tapad-interview-tra...
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I love the article. Thanks for sharing. I have been there before and it sucks.

I think the biggest take-away for me was this line:
"early on, it’s about commitment, honesty, and trust."

And that is why I decided to embark on an startup adventure with my best friends.
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$100, actually--BestBuy is now selling the 16GB Playbook for $299.
This is for unit-testing in V8 only: no DOM. I'm currently using PhantomJS, which is V8 + Webkit and seems to be a superset of this new "JS Test". I can't see any reason to add JS Test in addition to PhantomJS.
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I don't work and have never worked for RIM. However, from what I've read of it lately, I find it fascinating. From what I can tell, what happened was:

* RIM was a brilliant company with a ton of talented engineers and a few managers. RIM released cool products and became successful.

* RIM instituted a promotion policy based largely on seniority. This ticked off a lot of talented engineers and over the years they started exiting. At the same time it attracted the kind of middle manager who likes this kind of policy.

* RIM became bloated with management (two CEOs? two CEOs!), lost the last shreds of its talented engineers and started spinning out of control. RIM is large, and like any large spinning object, it is hard to tell that it's spinning if you are standing on it. The management cannot tell that they are out of control.
The problem wasn't intrinsic to coroutines as much as it was the way they made the event loop reentrant which is a horribly complex thing to track. In most cases like that you'd either suspend the loop or have coroutine local event loops.

Of course people like to point at the overhead of native threads and assume coroutines have similar overhead, which is total bunk. Ironically, event sources in node use a stack-like tracking element which brings back a similar sort of overhead you see in coroutines in Lua, for example.

I doubt we'll see node take another shot at coroutines but that's okay. Node will do fine without coroutines but it will come at the cost of making certain types of code a little less natural (same as eventide code in threads becomes unnatural).
I'm not claiming competition is bad or microsoft doesn't build similar stuff to others or that anything has been proven in court, red herring much?

Parent comment indicated that Microsoft should "innovate" instead of protecting their IP and apparent approval for any infringement of their other IP. I mean who cares about your other innovations everyone should be free to copy those, shut up and keep innovating.

As much as people at HN like to parrot the line that patents only stifle innovation there's a strong argument that they also encourage it and that innovation should be protected from pirates and copying.

If Microsoft believes their innovations are being copied illegally, saying "they should just innovate more" instead of using legal recourse is silly.

Similarly saying all Microsoft has is FUD is silly, who thinks HTC and Samsung are writing $100 million dollar checks to MS to avoid a spurious lawsuit?
Exactly, and more reliably.
lots of good points and very useful. Thanks a lot. will work on these
Disqus is already using a load of JavaScript, I don't understand why they couldn't grok for the color and then set it as a background color for some transparent icons, or some such.
Awesome, thank you!

Reading it again, my comment while intended to be flippant just came out as churlish - apologies for that, and thanks for sharing this information!
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Just to confirm this, at work (http://github.com/praekelt & http://praekeltfoundation.org) this exactly the problem we are up against in Africa.
Hmm, I think Python was an excellent choice; what other platform would you suggest? IMO being "superbly structured, documented and maintained" is not a magical property acquired by luck, but rather connected to the platform of choice.

Btw for performance, whenever pure Python is indeed "much too slow" (profile?), there's the option of C extension modules. The NumPy or SciPy libraries are good examples: used in hardcore numerical computing aka the epitome of I-NEED-IT-TO-RUN-FAST!, but still Python.

And not to nitpick ;) but GIL only affects multi-threading; other modes of "parallelization" are reasonably straightforward and some even built-in (import multiprocessing).
Not at all. It works fine for me and for all the people who use it and, eventually, make actual, real, contributions to the product. Your opinion has been noted and, if someone cares enough, the problem will be fixed. If nobody cares, it's your problem and yours only: if you don't solve it, nobody will.
understood. Will correct it. Thanks a lot.
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I echo the sentiments of those that say you shouldn't have gone to a space that was way above your technical competence if you don't have an existing relationship with a tech person. I know that limits your options but there are still ideas that are more appropriate for someone like you. Ideas like Groupon which rely more on commerce know-how rather than technical competence. Or a site like BusinessInsider, which can easily be done using Wordpress or open source solutions
The New York Times made a pretty good model.

1) Promote and recognize good comments
2) Remove offensive or non-constructive ones

This form of hand curiation sets down rules and expectations which the community at large than reaches for.

If you dont set down rules of course your discussion forums will disolve into petty nonsense. The loudest, dumbest voice always wins in a shouting match merely by employing a denial-of-ground strategy.
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Quick translation:

Daniel Bernstein (DJB) is a renowned systems programmer and a serious academic cryptographer. Many of the SHA-3 candidates are partly derived from his work, and he designed one of the eSTREAM finalist stream ciphers.

Bernstein, Lange, and Schwabe designed NaCl. NaCl is a high-speed crypto library designed to correct all the things that go wrong with "low level" crypto libraries like OpenSSL. This is a big deal, because OpenSSL is the current "lowest common denominator" crypto implementation and thus forms the basis for most crypto facilities in high-level languages like Python and Ruby. OpenSSL is extraordinarily error prone and itself has a spotty track record.

NaCl provides an ultra-simple interface (crypto_box_+) that handles the details of message signing, encryption primitives public key, formatting, &c.

It's been used by a bunch of projects already (also note that DJB software is somewhat inherently credible; he wrote qmail and djbdns, which have the two best security track records in all of serverside software). A bunch of very smart people have contributed to it.

NaCl addresses a bunch of serious systemic security pitfalls:

* It's hardened, fundamentally, against the "side channel" effects we know about today that allow attackers to measure crypto operations to extract keys. For instance: "NaCl systematically avoids all branch conditions".

* It authenticates messages, in constant time, before attempting to decrypt, which prevents attackers from exploring how the target is handling ciphertext (for instance, this prevents padding oracles in asymmetric and block ciphers).

* It handles the details of getting crypto-secure random numbers in a sane way, and also minimizes places in the design that require random numbers (for instance, DSA requires a random nonce in addition to a strong random key; that's something many people have screwed up).

* It makes extremely well-informed choices about ciphers and algorithms (it's designed by active contributors to the literature).

* It's crazy fast (crazy fast is basically Bernstein's current academic focus).

This thing is simple, it's fast, and it's designed to be safe by people who know what that means.

Start building language bindings for this thing!
It looks like this functionality has been ported to node, have a look: https://github.com/koush/node/wiki/%22async%22-support-in-no...
Apple apparently infringed on Nokia's IP which is why they wrote Nokia a multi-billion dollar check plus future royalties.

People love to paint Apple as the big bad patent bully but they have paid more in patent settlements then all these other companies put together. Apparently they're allowed to violate but Android gets a free pass because, you know, "open".
Not until we stop paying for DRM-encumbered content. Kindles and Nooks are subsidized by the sale of DRM encumbered goods. If we buy them and use only DRM-free content, we will exert pressure on Amazon and Barnes and Noble to drop DRM on books (or, at least, offer content in non-DRM-encumbered forms) and thus, generate the same pressure to others who require DRM.
I m used to Youtube comments being very rude and viscious often. It doesnt demand real users like Facebook argues it does, so i think you can have people say things they repress. I ve read some of the nastiest stuff on the comments. The majority of them I find are on something to do with popular culture as I think its a metter who is cool. So they swear alot.

About topics like Religion it is obvious well known fact it will provoke that.

I think it shows us what some people really think and whata negative effect of unregulated users can cause. So a thing i appreciate of Facebook valueing real users but yutube on the other hand has great content.

another difference is that facebook comments are limited in users and youtube , where a video has millions of views, your comments will most likely be seen by more.

Also there is no necissity to be friends on youtube with the commentator or video creater to make posts. So anyone can insult without any real consquences. Maybe you must add the video creator if you wanna post videos, only fans or constructive critics would come as the negative users will be easier traceable. I would not post something to a facebook friend like some do on youtube as ill be shunned.

So the users actually inddirectly monitor such ations. remember private pyle in the army in full metal jacket when he steals the donouts and they soap bar him. Like that but chilled.
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I doubt this is a sustainable market; surely, all web developers can't just sell to each other. The market for web development products can only be created and paid for by having a sustainable web product market for non web developers.

This is an interesting idea to me. Why not?

The group of "all people" sell to each other and no one else. Literate people could certainly make a living selling only to other literate people. In theory, why couldn't web developers do the same if no other customers were available?
> I think the quality of Youtube comments reflects the quality of the content, more than anything else.

So very true. Just last night I spent close to 2 hours reading the YouTube comments on some Romanian "lăutari" music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%83utari) videos, and learning so much by doing so. But if you were to move just slightly to watching a related music style, "manele" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manele), which are more popular in this day and age, the comments would go way down, at the point where one out of three comments is either racist or a badly spelled swear word.
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