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Goddamnit, startups. I should write a post of my own about this because it really pisses me off.

Here is my advice about startup names: Stop It. Seriously though, stop it. You know what I mean: the cute little misspellings, the nonsense words, the dropped schwas in your words...Stop all this bullshit before people begin to think every startup is, like yours, nothing more than hot air.

It's that simple: stupid name, stupid business. Your cutesy little letter drop / intentional, web-domain-grubbing letter substitution name speaks volumes about the probable quality of your business.

Look at Chinese search engine Baidu （百度）. Startups of the world, I want you to read this shit: http://ir.baidu.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=188488&p=irol-homepr... .

In fact, thee of poor orthography, you read this shit twice: http://ir.baidu.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=188488&p=irol-homepr... .

You fucking soak that shit in because this is the best goddamn company name on the planet: "The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles". And this is China's most popular search engine.

You know why this is a goddamned great name? Because it took more than 10 seconds to make up. This name is so far removed from cutesy it is absurd.

If the only way, in this infinite plain of possibility that is the entire fucking English language, for you to find an unregistered domain is to misspell already-existing words, I feel supremely sorry for you and your business.

Sometimes in musing about the Turing test I think: this shit works two ways. This is not a test of computers at the peak of their creative intelligence, but of man at the lowest point of his machine-like worst.

You want a dime-a-dozen bullshit startup name?
Go here, press a button and BAM: http://www.dotomator.com/web20.html

Does the fact that a machine can make up your business's name in a matter of sub-seconds at all scare you into realizing the cheapness of it all? "Oyodo", "Topicpad", "Rhysero"...

Worthless, reproducible, empty.

Take a look at Apple, even. A soft, fleshy, human, fruit. When it first started, who was it competing against? IBM. DEC. Cincom -- Ugly, faceless, consumer-hostile.

If you've learned anything today, let it be this: take your goddamned time. Your rush to buy a domain name has clouded your vision of what your company is and could be. You have cheapened the potentially meaningful creation of goods and services by, ironically, thinking of things in purely monetary terms. The next time you're on the verge of dropping that silent 'e' and calling it a day, think about Song Dynasty poets and creative visionaries. Think about the entire history of human thought and the struggle to give meaning to a confusing planetary existence, and ask yourself: Wouldn't my name, which appears to be a cross between the words "Rhinoceros" and "Serotonin", be out of place here?

EDIT: any reason for the downvotes? Sure there was cussing, but what are the grounds for your disagreement?
hopefully they make the DSL similar to matlab. Having worked in matlab & numpy, I can definitely say that having numpy's syntax semi-close to matlab helped a lot when we do ports. It (porting) happens more often than you'd think.
Good, at least this clears up the confusion around whether they're killing it or not.

And the new interface is pretty nice IMO. Much easier on the eyes than the old one.
I use http://www.google.com/notebook, however it is closed to new signups and has no new development being done.

I'll probably move to Evernote or checkout some suggestions in this thread.
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Can someone explain the criteria for each of the tags given in the article? For instance, the "google" tag presumably means "if you google this term, the startup will likely be on the first page of results" (or maybe it means something else?) Is agreeability essentially the same thing (Eg: a unique word) or is it something else? What decides whether something is yellow or red in the "mis-spellings"?

We've got a really great name for our startup, and I'd like to evaluated it by other people's criteria (though, unfortunately, I'm not ready to mention it publicly, since we're still securing everything.) The "really great" aspect of it is a gut feeling, so, I could be wrong.
The problem wasn't a race condition, it was an improperly scoped variable. If a different variable name had been used, the failure would have been easy to identify. Testing for the result of something improper wouldn't be appropriate here, either.

But, if the environment is such that it is easy to manifest this condition, I would argue that such a test setup should definitely be considered, given the potential for failure.
There's no confusion. The two senses of the word don't overlap; they can be used unambiguously in their own contexts.

Unless you think people are also "confusing" things when they say "I like my coffee sweet" and "What a sweet little girl"--?

Or, I don't know, the ringing of a bell and the ring on your finger? Or a flat object, a flat note, and a flat for rent?

This is how language works. Not just English, not just a language. All language. Remember Wittgenstein: "Let the use of words teach you their meaning" (PI 220).
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It's simply interesting that this:

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May or may not call a bunch of functions. It could turn out to be a debugging nightmare.
Good essay, still fun to read.

I hid the bracketed comments and images. After looking through them they don't seem to add anything to the conversation. I don't want commentary on an article as I'm reading it.
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ok, maybe he fits some form of extremism, but labeling him as such still isn't enough to dismiss him. William Lloyd Garrison was called that, and so was Joeseph McCarthy. it doesnt really mean anything and it clouds the discussion.
I voiced some of my concerns in the other HN submission which I will repeat here:

The old system had flaws but it worked. Firstly, I'm not against G+ integration if it meant both products were improved. However, this change looks to me like forcing a whole lot of Reader users to begrudgingly use G+. Reader's social features were not improved; only removed other than a "share to G+".

Not replacing the following system with an interface into G+ so that you can view and comment on friends' submissions from Reader is annoying. Reader was my social network. Why are they forcing me to go open G+ in a new tab everyday to see if my friends had shared anything? That's the _very_ reason I use a feed aggregator. Google doesn't provide any way to view streams in Reader (to my knowledge. I would really love to be wrong here); the only way is probably to use a third party method with no guarantee to not break every time Google touches the G+ code.

Edit: additionally, when viewing shared items on Reader, Reader tries to get the article or picture in. Now, not only do you have to go to G+, it only gives you a link rather than try to fit the article or picture onto the post. Irritating.
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Oh, wait. They could switch my reader to new version, and then it wouldn't work, because I don't have Google+. Oh. Waiting.

Or I'm just giving in to mass of people, who are not glad with the product, which is not yet shipped.

Update: I have new version of Reader. And no social stuff. http://laacz.lv/tmp/oops-google-reader.png. Sweet, Google...
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This is terrific. This is newsworthy. Hope it gets legs.
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The Android app is REALLY crap. It does not sync so it is practically useless. Unfortunately, Google ignores all pleas for bug fixes. Because "hey! it is free"

What I am saying is do not get excited about the iPhone GMail app.
The mobile version (http://www.google.com/reader/i/) is not vandalized (yet). It is now my preferred way to access Google Reader.
Your notes are more or less similar to mine, definitely better presented. I see a common thread in almost all the stories by the speakers, product is the king and that's relatively the easy part. Everyone has company/people issues and your really cannot figure it out so the actual "startup" part is going to be a rush anyway.

Get the product right and eventually the rest of the things will fall in place.
I like it – would love to hear more about what motivated your friend to do that for us.
>> Sometimes when a solution of sugar and water becomes super-saturated, from it precipitates a pure, delicious, and diabetes-inducing crystal of sweetness, induced by no more than the tap of a finger. So it is, we believe, with the need for numeric and visualization libraries in Ruby.

Great point about sugar water. Totally on point.
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Totally agree. Plus 1. Good point.
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My general feeling coincides with yours, I can't see how someone can look at Ruby and say it's consistent, although it's not the up to the insanity of C++ or Perl (people only make it that way with a combination of poor judgement and dynamic metaprogramming). It does have some quirks that are at times convenient, but this whole notion of "consistency" in Ruby makes me suspect whether I can really understand where the author is coming from.
>> These days I think you're far better off with simple/short/spellable domains like: Fab.com, Batch.com, Groupon.com, Mint.com, Dropbox.com, Airtime.com, Oink.com.

Without a doubt. Don't leave out Orange.com and Hellow.com.
Crazy. Same thing happened to me. Good luck with the next project.
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Apologies for the "editorialized" title, but the actual page's title is lacking in context.
I agree completely. I hope this article has legs.
I pay 33% tax. Ill confess to being jealous of your 3.5%! However I support state subsidised education and the various other state funded systems we have (health for one) but yes, they do cost. It isn't someone else's money though, it's mine.
> (or maybe it means something else?)

I think it mostly has to do with loaded terms. If you company is called "cool.com", it's a loaded term and searching for something related to the company will yield a lot of false positives - e.g. cool cms.
EVOC Evocativity Conveys at least a hint of what it’s naming
BREV Brevity Shorter = better
GREP Greppability Not a substring of common words
GOOG Googlability Reasonably unique (and domain name available)
PRON Pronounceability You can read it out loud when you see it
SPEL Spellability You know how it’s spelled when you hear it
VERB Verbability The name (or variant thereof) can be used as a verb

Source: http://messymatters.com/2011/10/31/nominology/
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Now if only we could have started working on the education problem 10 years ago (and encouraged STEM instead of casting star students as nerds)...

Hindsight being 20/20 and all
No problem. Makes sense to me.

I agree completely. I hope this article has legs.
Perhaps not for an ICBM, but GPS is definitely a possibility on a missile. You could even build a DIY one with this http://arduiniana.org/projects/the-reverse-geo-cache-puzzle/
EVOC -- is it evocative? Does it seem to hint at what the company does or is offering?

Example: Textpayme, Counterexample: Amazon

BREV -- Brevity.

GREP -- Greppable.

GOOG -- Can a layman Google it? Nota bene, not really about SEO, only tangentially related.

PRON -- Can it be pronounced by a layman?

SPEL -- How easy is it to spell? Can you infer the spelling from the pronunciation?

VERB -- Can it be noun=>verb'd easily?

Example: Google Humorous Counter-example: A9

All of this information was constructed using what was in the essay by comparing the example startup/domain names.
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How/when do we get results if we applied late (do they come in a batch, or are they sent depending on how late the application was submitted?).

Thanks for your help--congrats to those in :)8; regards to those out :*(
The part of the story I don't like is where the boy gave up looking for the dog after an hour.
I see that you have been around for some time, and you tend to post "totally agree" style comments. Just so you know, the general etiquette here is to upvote if you agree, and don't have anything else to add.
Neither. The proper way to book merger-and-acquisition-related legal fees (along with other non-recurring professional fees related to the transaction) is as part of the basis cost of aquiring the stock. This increased basis cost is not reflected on the seller's side as increased purchase price.

Indeed, this is how legal fees related to the acquisition of any capital asset would be booked by a company. It's all part of the wonder and horror that is the modern tax code.
I feel stupid for bothering to come up with custom explanations. :\
Wow. Great article. This is big.
Where can you get one of these, anyway?
Ha ha totally. But seriously.

Wow. Great article. This is big.
There is a lot to read in here - and it all looks like good stuff - but wouldn't be funny if his (RMS's) warning panned out - time will tell.
To those who say one has choice - to use or not to use - well maybe - I believe that one of our basic rights in the USA - to vote - to elect who will represent me at the highest levels - is tabulated using closed source soft/hardware - such a shame - sometimes there is no choice.
How much you wanna bet you won't be able to use it with Google Apps (the paid accounts)?
Wow. Great comment. Agree completely.
There's a difference between being able to do something, and being able to do it with one click.
One of the key factors for us was trademark ability. Looking at the dropbox issue mentioned below supports this. Dropbox.com was registered in 1995 by someone who wasn't using it, but was acquired after (possibly as a result of) a lawsuit by the owners of the dropbox service...

We fail on greppability, possibly googlablitly (17million results) and verb ability. But we win on the rest.
That depends on how exactly you use something, does it not? If you rarely use something but it takes up space all the time then that’s a problem, especially on a phone.
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In this case, there is clearly a disconnect between idealization and the reality.

Today, Stallman's and FSF's real political and social influence is miniscule.

FSF had some impressive achievements in the 90s, but they failed to utilize the social capital efficiently and couldn't catch up with rapid ecosystem changes (e.g. software and computer programming becoming mainstream).

An example of this is tivoization clause in GPLv3 which is a nuisance for businesses and contributes to marginalization of the license.
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"It’s beautiful simple..."

I might just be painfully slow, but the implementation he described didn't sound anything remotely simple to me (though I believe it really is beautiful).
> This is very much needed.

Why? (just curious) SciPy is mature, popular, and has already been heavily peer-reviewed. Then there are R an Matlab and ...

What does SciRuby bring to the table that makes it stand out from the rest?
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Setting up deployment routines early is a seriously great tip. It took me years to realize that, and to start doing it.
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Curious to know what app developers are working on, or have published in the market.

Also please do share a range or figure of what you've made in terms of downloads, app sales (or in-app sales), ad revenue, whichever your model may be.

Thanks!
Do you mean computing an extinct common ancestor of a collection of species?
What do Apple use internally? iMacs? Surely they have a tonne of Mac Pros. Is this enough to keep them around?
I'm so happy to see people still doing this. (I'm also launching at least one (maybe 3 - sigh don't ask) apps this month.
And that is what happens when you throw static type checking and the other safety features of compiled languages out the window, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it.
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Ridicule and violent opposition may be a necessary conditions for something to be true (not sure whether I agree with that but that doesn’t really matter), but they are certainly not sufficient.
They never see the vision...
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What phone are you using? I use a Samsung Galaxy S I9003, and when I set up account sync, it starts a background service for syncing my gmail and google apps accounts, and is syncs and notifies just fine regardless of whether I have the mail app running in background(I generally don't since notification works without leaving it running).

Either you are using an older software, or you haven't enabled sync.
I disagree. It's impossible to have a nation of 100% college graduates. And it doesn't make any sense, either. Just like it doesn't make sense how much the 'top' 1% are making.
I think it's also important to add-- writing a "driver" for Couch is, basically, writing an API that essentially calls some HTTP library with some options set, and then parses the resulting JSON data.

For example-- Ektorp, one of the more popular Java libraries? Wraps the Apache HttpClient, and uses the Jackson library to parse JSON. CouchDB4J does something similar, only it uses JSON-lib. A good Java coder could probably write their own fully-functional driver in a day.

jquery.couch.js is basically just a wrapper to $.ajax().

node-couchdb uses the built in client library for node. A good node coder could probably write a fully-functional driver in an hour.

So I don't think it's a matter of "download the official driver" as much as it is "download your platform's preferred JSON parser".
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> I don't know of any freely available database where you can provide an arbitrary polygon of geographical coordinates and it will return the points within that polygon.

MySQL geo extensions do this, explicitly. See:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/relations-on-geometry...

I'll give you that you can only really do MBR queries, but it's easy enough to approximate this to arbitrary polygons (and functions to do so are google-able).

I've always felt that all the worry about Geo being hard was mostly FUD. You can easily build a highly location aware application on a grid system without even using any true geospatial index and indeed one of the largest local sites does (see my profile)! Shapefiles aren't really all that horrible either since Tiger (i.e. US Census data) has gotten a lot better in the past couple years. You can relatively easily hack together a geocoding service in a fews days provided you have enough caffeine.
This article was referred to by its author in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180593, but I think it warrants its own entry on HN. I was briefly toying with the idea of writing up some algorithms for determining the seven criteria, but just don't have the time.

For some of the criteria it should be fairly easy to come up with some formula (e.g. for Brevity the cut-off values might be 6 and 10, and Greppability could be checked by the results of an actual grep call), while others are more subjective (particularly Evocativity). But if someone wants to pursue the idea I think it would be a nice little tool.
Yes, I know JS in browsers is not multi-threaded. It runs multiple globals all on the same thread, as I said. Node is not multithreaded either; it could run a bunch of separate globals on the same thread as well, if it wanted to.
I don't know about the paid accounts, but my free account works fine on my Android. I don't see why the native app shouldn't work fine for Apps accounts on iOS.
"user session" is tough, indeed.

But doing global per request would not be that complicated, if desired.
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I just submitted your article to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861 -- I think you are too modest! ;)
Node itself (the core js library) isn't strict mode compliant: it uses octal literals for filesystem interactions.
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Just added to HN (hackernewsed? hm, not the best verbability here ;) ) as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861
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You're running your whole server in python. So yes, there is only one process and its globals are very much global. Note that you are NOT writing some program that embeds the python interpreter and then runs it on python code of your choice.

In the case of Node, it's embedding V8. It can in fact run JS code of its choice in an environment of its choice, set up new globals, etc.
Thanks for the pointer to NODE_MODULE_CONTEXTS!
My point is that even the narrowest measure of Europe's population amounts to rather more than 'a statistical error' as suggested above.
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