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How many times does this need to be posted on here? Seriously about the 5th time I think I've seen this.

I doubt even Amazon would sell it under the cost to manufacture, these studies are stupid since they are taking a pricing guide and then estimating how many they're going to sell and coming up with a number. I'm sure they're relatively close, but the only way to tell for sure is to be Amazon and look at their books. Simple as that.

Cost to replace defective units, cost for support… all those little costs add up and make me think there's no way in hell amazon is selling it at a loss.

Don't try to kid yourself into thinking they expect to make up for it in media sales either. That just isn't good business sense. Particularly when your product is different enough from the iPad that you don't need to hit that magic $200 price tag unless you are going to actually make money on it.

They're making money on it with every sale. It may not be a lot, but they're making money.
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Ya that is a good way to sum it up, thanks for the brevity. I'm finding that even my thinking has been clouded with complexity, which leads to my large rambling posts. I'm trying to imagine a world where everything is more elegant from the ground up, which is perhaps possible now that we have hindsight, and then apply that to my own work.
Snap! Never thought to install Dropbox on my web server! I already have a folder in Dropbox symlinked to my main local web directory. There must be some big gotcha that I'm missing...
keep in mind key money its also an incentive to not bail after 3months of living there. As unlike the US you can terminate your rental agreement at any time with a 30-60day notice and dont have to pay rent until end of contract or someone else moves in.
Disambiguate, please? Sean Parker now has a twitter account.
That's exactly the point. They pick "victims" that would potentially be able to fight off the lawsuits in court but to do so would cost more than to just settle.

A company like McDonalds keeps lawyers on retainer and are paying them regardless of whether they're battling patent trolls at the time or not so they'd be guaranteed to meet in court.

Having the "loser" of a frivolous suit in court pay the other's fees would resolve this issue in a hurry.
Was not expecting a NYTimes article on this.
Interesting - since this started as a hobby, any thoughts on open sourcing the client or server code or documenting the client/server communication so the community could build clients? I figure folks would be able to pretty easily reverse engineer it with the web client now, anyways.
When does Adobe decide to buy vs. build?
The github.user and github.token settings aren't used by git, by the way - they're used by any tools you might use that can use the github API. They aren't required for pushing or pulling over ssh.
I shed a tear today.
Ah, thanks so much! That makes perfect sense. I was using the https link that bigbucket provided initially.
Hi Thomas, definitely agreed on the first. Our bidding model competes with Groupon's value proposition in the local services industry (hence our repeated plugs for the low rates you can find through a bidding site). We just think we can often find consumers a better deal than can be found on lots of daily deal sites.

As for the market intelligence, we're not a data provider. Actually, this is the first post we've ever written that surfaces any of the data we have. We have a data set that is pretty uncommon.

Market rates for local services are generally very opaque. We think the data we have on market rates for local services can be helpful in many ways (like this) to consumers.

Thanks for reading!

p.s. I'm Sander (thumbtack.com/who)
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just as i wanted to ask whether anybody knows was it developed by Oracle or bought from outside. I guess the correct answer - they will buy it as soon as somebody develops a scalable transactional key-value store with replication, failover and transparent partitioning support. Btw, how about making some good money by hacking such a store in the next 2 weeks :)
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An odd thing about all these technologies is that they are severely dumbed down versions of unix software that exists for decades. How is it "cooler" to write markdown instead of troff? "Dropbox" instead of <strike>nfs</strike> rsync? Text files instead of a database? Node.js instead of "insert generic server here"?

Maybe people consider that 'hip', but I don't see how any of these 'trends' have any viability for more than, say, 12 months[1]?

[1]: http://fashion.about.com/od/latesttrends/a/trendover.htm
While I am totally on the side of FF here, it's hard to call a blog post titled "The BBB is a F&#ing Scam" an investigative blog post. The BBB may indeed be a F&#ing Scam (I have gotten horribly burned in the past for reporting something to the BBB), you gotta admit that the language in the blog post is pretty incendiary.
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So that means you're working with an unsaved, untitled file until you're completely satisfied with the post? That doesn't seem very safe. Unless you're saving your drafts in another location and copying them into your "site", but if so, how is that any harder than just "git commit -a"?
Last month's rent means you've prepaid for the final month of your rental. In the US, if you're in a region where this is legal/accepted, when you give 30-day notice you don't owe any money for that final month.
Diggnation started when I was a freshman in college. Back then, what these guys were doing was truly new. They started the genre of long format internet video.
I can only assume the speeds he is getting are a result of where he is living. For a similar price I get ~95/50 in Tokyo: http://www.speedtest.net/result/1515164158.png
Maybe there's a market opportunity for a new business accreditation site. Though you have to wonder if anything short of a government entity or extremely well-funded nonprofit would be able to maintain its integrity.

Do I smell a Y Combinator success story in the future?
Thank you for the informative response. Currently, I have a rather nice (and pricey, but I received superb follow-up service from the local, non-chain shop over a period of several years) Italian frame with polycarbonate lenses. One thing that has slowed their replacement is that this model is no longer offered, as of some years ago. But both the frame and the lenses are reaching an unavoidable end of life.

The shop has changed hands, it appears, and also, extrapolating prices forward to today, they would simply be more than I'd be comfortable paying right now. But I'd still pay relatively more for something similar -- just without the final round or two of high markup.

This pair has lasted well over a decade. So I don't view the past expenditure as a waste -- both for the resulting durability and for the consultation that led me to this model. But, again extrapolating in my imagination, looking at upwards of a grand for a pair of glasses just seems extreme.

I'll have a thorough look at your recommendations. Thanks again.
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I declined to pay BBB when I started my business, but recently worked with a business that made me rethink the decision. This article reminds me of the vibe I got from the salesperson years ago.
It's important to step back and take a broad-based perspective. Are you complaining about something that saps you 5% (which can be annoying) or 90%? People complain about both, and it's not easy to tell which is the case just from the volume of complaint.

Across the software industry, we lose an incredible amount of time to the maintenance of bad code. The average professional programmer writes about 250 lines of new code per month. Most large software companies have zombie legacy systems that have ceased to grow but have one or more full-time developers only on maintenance.

So, yes, there is a problem. The way we are doing things, as an industry, is terrible. On the upside, this means that there's a lot of profit potential in improving engineering practices.
The weekly beta-testing and beer-guzzling show they have hosted for six years, “Diggnation,”

And

Their explanation for ending it: They’ve grown up, just like the Web has. “We started this show as kids,” said Mr. Albrecht, now 35

So at 29 he was still a kid...
Maybe not stupid, but I think their hubris is steadily growing.

At some point a patent troll is going to fly too high and set fire to the entire business model.
Obviously it really depends on the specific circumstances, but often it comes down to time, talent, and community. Sometimes the need is urgent, sometimes there's exceptional talent we'd love to join Adobe, and often there's a community that's not easily duplicable. I'd say all three played a role in these deals.
Hm. Good to know. Thanks.
Myself and my co-founder are only 17 which we realize is quite young. Any tips would also be greatly appreciated.
I never became comfortable talking to people without getting a visual perspective. Whenever I write something, I can put some effort in constructing a narrative and reworking it until I am somewhat okay with it. But I find it incredibly hard to "wing" a conversation without getting any visual feedback. It is less of an issue in these situation where I don't care about the outcomes or if it is just some repetitive thing. But creating a first impression via telephone is just something that I find extremely unsettling.
Many things about the OTC drug market in America are rather disturbing. 26k people per year are hospitalized from acetaminophen poisoning, and about two die every day. It's the scumminess of the pharma industry, with less adult supervision.
"Nerve uses Markdown's level-one header to demarcate the posts. It then looks for a bracketed timestamp in the header to distinguish posts that are public from ones that are still drafts. A password-protected drafts page allows me to preview drafts before publishing. Once they are done, I add the timestamp, save the file, and it's published."
Ya I'm beginning to feel out of the loop compared to my peers. But I've been down so deep in some things that I'm profoundly aware of how flawed they are. I need smarter tools and was looking to things like self modifying code as a way to help programmers explore problem spaces and then maybe we could freeze the solutions when they perform properly. I definitely agree that maintaining code is fully 90% of this job.
The patent is from 2004. http://www.google.com/patents?id=zi8SAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

I hope their greed gets the best of them. Here's a poll I created to get general feedback on this subject. It's so infuriating to me, but a lot of people seem to be indifferent on the subject of patents: http://www.wepolls.com/p/3363896/
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"How incompetent is the rest of their organization?"

Really incompetent in the last complaint I filed with them. Just basically threw it out without communicating why. When I called to ask why, no call back. Looks like these guys are on the way down - they used to respond competently and quickly to consumer inputs.

Looking at timing and tactics - its possible they are recently taking a page from Yelp - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau#Criticis... - sad.
That's the beauty of the scheme. They don't HAVE to win anything. They threaten to sue for $2,000 to $5,000 which is less than the cost of hiring a lawyer to defend. 98% of the people threatened pay up. Some miniscule percentage are incredibly cussed individuals who are willing to spend thousands of dollars just to be right... maybe they'll lose those cases. It doesn't matter: they're still making huge amounts of money.

The only threat to the scheme is having your lawyers be sanctioned for unprofessional conduct. If there was NOTHING behind the threat, this would be a real possibility (like, say, if you tried this scheme when you didn't even HAVE a patent). But as long as it's a plausible case, the threat works and it's highly profitable.
That's a consequence of memoisation. It scales better than the original code though.

Still, the original point (node is cooperatively multitasked) was clear. Anything beyond that and I just want to reach for better Fibonacci algorithms.
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Oh wow, that is an improvement. Their issue UI used to be pretty bad. I'm glad they've improved it so much. Might be time to re-evaluate using it.
Startups are more like a graduate math class. Most people aren't suited to it.

That's a good point. It makes me think I would have to start younger (and with more basics), if I wanted to help a lot more people figure out how to do startups. A little bit about my background might help explain why I'm thinking about these things the way I am:

Until I was 16 year old, my maths teachers told me and my parents that I just wasn't suited to the subject. I agreed with them! It seemed impenetrable and boring. Then a kind physics teacher finally explained what maths is really about, and taught me a few of the things I had missed in the last few years. Within a few months I went from nearly bottom of my year to easily top, and eventually got a PhD in pure mathematics.

This experience often makes me suspect there are large numbers of people who could be great in some field, if only someone would help them with the first few steps. Of course I have nothing to back up this suspicion with, and perhaps people have less latent talent than I like to believe. But then again, maybe not.

Also, I think your numbers are off.

Definitely. I chose them more to make my point intuitive than to reflect the reality of startups.
Not at all. I'm suggesting that your "conservatives are racist" trope is wrong and has always been wrong.

Yes, some racists are conservatives. However, if we look at who has implemented racist policies in the US, we find progressives and their allies.
But things like Internet access can't really be 'split.' If his ISP costs $62/month, then a person living alone wouldn't be paying $31/month.
They effectively bought PhoneGap so they can do this right now for mobile.
Meh, sounds good, as long as the do-not-call list is still applicable.
> By demanding a few thousand dollars, Innovatio ensures that, for many small business owners, taking up a legal defense won’t make financial sense.

What a load of crap. By only extorting a moderate sum of dough, Innovatio ensures that, for many small business owners, taking up a legal defense won’t make financial sense.
"Oracle NoSQL Database supports the ability to bundle a collection of operations together using the execute method, providing transactional semantics across multiple updates on records with the same Major Key Path."

In other words, ot supports transactions as long as the key-values are on the same replica group (as they call it). That's easy for them, since they just run a BerkeleyDB HA instance per replica group, and that supports transactions.
I think the second part needed to be long to make your point clear. I think it worked.

Since we aren't machines, sometimes we express ourselves in long rambling thoughts. That's okay and, when it's not we have Editors.
Download page is a perfect trollwork:

Oracle NoSQL Database, Community Edition

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license. Please see the license file in the downloaded
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Okay, I can read the license agreement once I download it. Let's download...

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software.
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To download the license I have to agree to it without reading.

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October.

Oh, so I can't even download it.
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Great to hear that one can have success without that evil telephone thingy!
These are some great suggestions for reframing the situation. Thank you very much and I will most certainly reuse them :)
I generally agree with you, but I think most engineers, even really good ones, would rather have extra cash at the current investor valuation, vs. more stock. Assuming your startup can raise 5mm on a 20mm pre, raise 7mm on a 20mm pre with a smaller options pool, and pay people slightly above market vs. slightly below market.

If your startup is a rocket with no problems, either approach works, but if it gets bumpy, having cash extends your runway, and helps you retain key people better than increasing amounts of declining stock.

Plus, having investors put more cash in keeps them motivated to help you longer, sort of like an author's book advance.

There is definitely under appreciated value to being "rich" in your 20s; driving a nice car, living in a nice place that you like, being able to go out to eat... and it really only takes making a marginal extra 10-20k to make a big difference.
I don't really understand why calling a key-value database a "NoSQL database" is incorrect in your opinion. It's one of the many data models (or lack of) that falls under this umbrella term in 2011.
The way the US legal system works, if you are sued then the plaintiff and you go to the court and make your arguments. If you don't show up, then they automatically win all arguments they make. Even if the argument is wrong. So you automatically lose, and then it moves to the collections stage.

tl;dr; Yes, they can sue you for buying a router. And win, if your high-priced lawyer doesn't show up in court on the appointed day.
Is this the successor to BerkeleyDB? Sure sounds like it.
I'm counting Revision3 is @ 27 shows right now.

If Diggnation gets 10% of the views and 10% of the revenue on the network, they are one of the top shows on that network.

Sad to see it go. It was sometimes a good time killer.

I wonder if Kevin and Alex broke up, or one of them has unresonable expectations.

250k viewers each week and 10% of network revenues is not reason of cancel a show.
You obviously know a lot about computing, certainly more than I do on the whole, but I'd recommend leveling up on PL design.

Self-modifying assembly code, in the bad old days, was not uncommon (as a performance optimization). It is, however, utterly unmaintainable.

I would recommend the book Types and Programming Languages. Also, you should spend a year in a strongly and statically typed language. Start with Ocaml or Haskell because they are "purer", then move to Scala if you want. This will give you some ideas on what infrastructural choices make feasible the development of software that isn't complete garbage.
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This is slick. Where did you get all the album artwork?
The market consists of people who arent constipated tightwads who enjoy light tech banter.
Someone should make some sort of organization that objectively tracks sleazy businesses like this so consumers have a place to go to find out about it before committing to use them...
Sprint runs a CDMA network. I don't believe Apple sells unlocked CDMA iPhones, only GSM. Maybe that will change when the next model supposedly combines GSM and CDMA antennas in a single model.
> I was making a remark on Oracle's insinuating tone "Your developers are probably poorly skilled, your not going to change that, using new tools require new skills, you'll fail at that because your not Google - don't even try"

That "insinuation" is mostly true.

> Regardless of my personal opinions, what happened to striving for excellence?

Striving for excellence in everything is bad business.

Excellence is expensive. In many cases, the expense far outweighs the benefits.
I must be an oddball along with everybody I know. The BBB symbol has meant nothing to me and usually rely on other sources to make a decision wether a business is trustworthy or not. IMHO BBB is pretty much irrelevant to the internet generation.
> I didn't make the comparison, you did

My comparison was not between foundries and music labels, but between selling fonts and selling music, stock art, etc. The point wasn't who was doing the selling, it was that you can do just fine selling at much cheaper prices to a much wider audience, and that such a model fits the reality of the Internet much better.

> I think foundries are as likely to lose money to web fonts as make it, because the people who truly value distinctive typography already pay for it

But prior to the web font services, there was no way for people to give money to the foundries to use their fonts on web sites, even if they wanted to.

And for those projects where an ongoing rental payment is not a suitable pricing model, there still isn't, which means the foundries aren't even accepting money from people who do value high quality typography and would happily pay for the chance to use it. I just don't see how that makes any business sense at all.
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They are in bed with the FTC so nothing will happen to the BBB. Total bunch of scammers.
Strange that my comment would be down-voted. Language wars are fun and grist for many a comment, but there is more to programming than languages.
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In case anybody is wondering: both Erlang and Haskell have very lightweight user-space threads built in, which are mapped onto a small pool of OS threads to take advantage of however many cores you have. It's very slick and fast, and probably the Right Thing.
Twilio has a service-oriented architecture internally. We leverage a variety of application stacks for different services.
Six years of weekly shows (320+ episodes) probably is a reason. It would be a grind.
Git works for publishing content too. No dependencies on external services, and it's very easy to use over SSH.
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And have a link to explain why.
I work for BofA, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only one that uses Haskell.

I used Haskell because I hate Windows, and Haskell lets me do all my work in a maximized Emacs session without having to install anything other than Emacs and the Haskell Platform. "When life gives you Windows, don't make lemonade. Use Haskell."
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Yes, 2/3 of my expenses are rent (including phone/electricity).
I find it wild at times that old fashioned companies like the BBB are so out of touch with the world today that they think a new company can not last long enough without their support.

It just goes to show that FeeFighters are shaking things up in both their technical field along with other business sectors. If you ask me, that is exactly what a start up should be doing!

Congrats FeeFighters for shaking things up.