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Very impressed by the launch page. It actually got me to go through the whole process of Tweeting, Facebooking(?), and sharing. I'll definitely look into the privacy policy service when I get in, myself and some of my clients might have use for it. On another note, have you thought about commercializing the Viral Launch software? Seems you did a much better job than Launchrock, and I know I'd pay for it...
Nice job, but it needs error handling for price entries. Invalid entries are skipped with no notification. $0.99 works, but $.99 doesn't. Only handles $ prices (e.g., no euro).
Wattvision is making the 'no display' bet, instead opting for a smartphone webapp, or our full website. Check us out at www.wattvision.com. We're just whole-house energy monitoring, right now.
There are plenty of people who pay between $10 and $100 a month to have access to a dedicated seedbox in order to maintain ratio requirements on private torrent trackers. These people are a clear example of existing willingness to pay for access to content. Whenever content providers figure this out and can provide a service that has similar selection, availability, portability, and quality, they'll be sitting on a goldmine.

Resistance to change can be blinding. I have my doubts that such a service will exist anytime soon, however much sense it might make for their bottom line.

EDIT: this is in reference to TV/Movie industries, where this is much less of a solved problem than games and music.
A plus for minimalism, but I don't see who this is for and why they would use it?

What's your market?

It's not ebay or craigslist. You'll never get enough buyers and sellers together; then there is the fraud/scam issue.

I don't think it's existing merchants with websites.

So who is it?
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Not shipping doesn't imply no costs. A company could produce many million units of a product but be unable to ship them for regulatory reasons, for example.
I'm not familiar with the author, but from the post, I gather he is from Europe. Is he working freelance gigs in the US while on an H1B for another gig? If so, I would be careful, things like that can get him banned from entering the US for 10+ years...
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Methinks this is the core of why Apple is so successful: they do everything RIGHT. By not looking for shortcuts and silver bullets, they minimize things going wrong.
Thanks for this and getting the smaller startups to on this as well.
...It's a Monty Python reference. The point is that someone has enumerated a list of fairly substantial things and then, quite absurdly, discards them.

http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/whattheromans.html
You should try going to CMU School of Computer Science. Being a student at CMU is a lot harder than working at a certain large tech company I interned at, for example.
When people use #hashtags in Twitter is this like a command on the command line?

Do you think there was much debate at Twitter over whether users would be able to understand and effectively use #hashtags?
I'm a tremendous fan and frequent user of various StackExchange sites, and I've been looking for places to use a tool like OSQA or Coordino.

I wonder, though, about the scale required. My sense is that for sites like StackOverflow and Hacker News:

Quality = Quantity + (Filtering, Sorting, Ranking)

The software provides the second term, but I wonder how many responses or frequent posters/commenters one needs to have sufficient quantity. Any data on this?
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Here's a stack exchange question about retail boxed games with Steam activation:

(http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/30550/11676)

>I finished both games and I was thinking of reselling them or giving them to a friend to play. However, these are both Steam activated games that had a required Steam registration code I had to enter -- and validate on Steam -- as part of the installation.

Here's the website for CEX - a UK shop - with second hand PC games:

(http://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sortOn=sellprice_desc&mo...)
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And if we exploit available nuclear fusion and fission, we could generate more waste heat than the total energy available from the Sun. At this point we'd have no other place to dump heat but outer space itself.

Of course, by this time it would be energy-cheap to expand beyond Earth.
Genius is not somebody that makes you believe that you 'need' something that you actually don't, those are mere leaders of the consumerism religion. Geniuses were people like Pitagoras, Newton, Gödel... you know, people that opened whole new science fields just with the power of their minds. Please don't insult them with your first world cheap heros.
I read the Wired article about this, and was loving it, and then: "Indeed, the Nest will not only do its learning thing in your home, but also report data to a web site."

Really? Does every goddamn thing have to report my habits out to the internet now? Wtf. (Too bad, because I love the idea. Maybe you can turn the spying off.)
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I think "soon" is a bit overly optimistic. DVDs are on the way out, yes (though a lot of TV shows are still only available on DVD), but I really don't see blu-ray going anywhere for a while.

Besides, I like having the physical media, even though it's not the most efficient, and I don't think I'm alone in that. I think it probably appeals to a lot of consumers.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter if they become obsolete in a year. The ones I've purchased aren't going to suddenly stop working because the technology has moved on and the players will be around for a long while for this reason. Heck, you can still buy a VCR for about $40 and VHS tapes have a much shorter life than a CD. When the players start getting hard to find or too expensive, it will be a simple matter to transfer the contents of said disks to a hard drive.
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I know perfectly where it comes from, I have access to google too, and the quotes remarked perfectly that the quote was not yours. I was replying to your intention, not to the literal text.

EDIT: this reply actually looks more personal than I wanted it to be, and given your clarification, have my apologies...
While i find Apple products really well made, they have only given us minor technical innovations (unibody construction, 3d desktop graphics, sensible touch-based apps, etc?). In fact, you could remove apple products from the world, and we wouldn't be missing anything essential technology-wise. Yes they did match the technologies right to make amazingly desirable products, just like expensive cars match technologies without introducing major innovations.

I would rephrase the pythonesque quotation "But apart from the polish in sanitation pipes, better scrubs for doctors, yellow paint on roads, cleaner baths and lighter shields for soldiers, what have the Romans done for us?"
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Thanks for the nice words. The text entry area is pretty buggy right now. But we do store invalid entries so people can go back and edit them.

We'll have warnings showing to users when a line can't be parsed.
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If FaceCash were legal in CA you could use it to send payments. Right now it can only be used in MA, SC, MT, NM, AL, and ID. LA and WA are pending.

See http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/whitepapers/heldhosta....
I think it's always questionable to approach people as if their personality traits can be selected a la carte, as if there's no interdependence between them.

"Well, I love the world-changing products with the amazing attention to every detail that requires extremely difficult execution of the highest order. Oh by the way, could I have that delivered to me in a nice and laid-back manner?" Sorry, life just doesn't work that way.

I'd be willing to guess that a lot of the personality traits that made Jobs an extreme asshole at times were essential in enabling his success.
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If you're referring to our VPN software, the version distributed by the vendor would crash upon initialization every time for a good year after Vista was released. I presume they eventually released a version that was stable, but my company had already decided to skip Vista by that point.

As to the applications which wouldn't work with XP SP2, WebInspect was a specific one (they eventually fixed it), but I recall there were a few others (basically any scanner that used raw sockets).

As to researching alternatives, I don't work in IT at my company, but if you're testing out a new version of the operating system that you deploy to all of your employees, and the VPN client doesn't work, you don't research alternative VPN solutions. You just decide to hold off on upgrading several hundred thousand systems until everything works.
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I think you're being very presumptuous about what his role was at Apple. You're portraying him as nothing more than an exacting editor, yet there's plenty of evidence to suggest he contributed ideas and direction to Apple's products. And as others have said, as CEO he was more responsible than anyone else for one of the most remarkable turnarounds in business history. Oh, and I don't think any manipulation of customers was required. Just a focus on making great products.
Love the idea. The execution is perfect. Really caught my attention because I'm developing my own store builder.

Works magnificently well for techies because we are all familiar with store admin areas, publishing a site etc. Great if techies are your target market.

For an average Joe it might be a bit confusing. People may not even realise they are building a store, and instead think... 'Why can anyone just add a listing to this page?'

To help with this a guided tutorial may be useful.

All the best.
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All good pg, we know you're busy and we appreciate it.

Personally I'm planning on dropping by Scribd and maybe Greplin if I have time. I'm hoping it'll be a bit more intimate than the craziness I expect at Airbnb and Dropbox.
I'm pretty sure their vendors would disagree.
lol, you're not the first to ask it ^^
Agreed that Govt. here is clueless, but I'd appreciate you not lobbying for them to take more of my money to give to your startup.
I'm sure the employees and shareholders in the know are taking it with stride -- in 6 months they'll look back and laugh.
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Great example. Before Twitter, Google had already begun the re-education of the masses to use text-oriented interfaces with things like "label:" in Gmail search and "filetype:" in Google search.
Because it just so happens that this is where we are.

Earth can only sustain so many people, and since we do not currently have a viable way to get off this earth and/or to terraform other planets (hell, we can't even agree on a common plug to use for household appliances) it looks like it will remain that way for a while.
How about a small merchant with a bricks and mortar store that wants the most friction less way possible to list goods online? Business people are busy. If it takes 30 sec to set up a store that's a big win.
so, you need to give them everything for free at the fastest bandwidth possible.

The only way to stop piracy is:

1) give all of your stuff out for free
2) have a service that can't be pirated

The reason big companies don't want piracy to become mainstream is because at a certain point, it becomes part of culture and "normal" to just pirate something, which means they won't be able to charge money for it (everyone will expect it for free). This is exactly what is starting to happen.

Back in 1999, there was no antipiracy technology, yet piracy was just as rampant as it is today. We have: Last.fm, Pandora, Youtube, Grooveshark, etc,etc. Yet, people still pirate music.

It's funny because back when Napster first started, everyone said that the artists weren't getting treated right, so that's why they were downloading music. Now that any artist can pretty music start a website with no record label, those reasons have changed.

I don't think it has anything to do with any of those reasons. Nobody wants to spend their hard-earned money on something they can just as easily get for free.

This parallels many of the people protesting wall street: Just as investing in an education doesn't mean you are guaranteed a good job, investing your time and effort in software, music, and movies doesn't mean you are guaranteed a profit.
This is what I'm wondering, too--- does everyone have to do self promotion or will there be a global directory/search capability?
Completely true. It's always worth paying up for good engineers. Good engineers with lots of friends - even more so.
So it's your thinking that my intention was to compare Steve Jobs to the Roman Empire (an apple to an elephant), and it was not my intention to compare OP's remark to absurdist writing in The Life of Brian (a piece of writing to a piece of writing)?

Well. Okay then.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't, since that's how GAAP accounting works. For revenues and costs directly related to a product, you don't book them until the product is shipped to a customer.
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This is an MVP. As such I think it works marvelously. Bells and whistles can be added later and if they're added with the same ideology of simplicity first then this could be a real winner of a product.
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Thanks for the feedback. Excellent points. We're going to be doing plenty of user testing with shop keepers and market stall holders in the coming months.
It's a great idea, I hope I can find it in my bookmarks again when I can swing around to it. :)
Yea I was hoping they would reallocate the money they are currently spending. For example, they give over 60m a year to private VC firms which 'manage' the money by making very few investments. They've also committed almost as much to Commercialisation Australia which doesn't seem to go anywhere.

The current government programs are costly and not yielding many results. I'm hoping they could take a fraction of that for programs such as the ones in Singapore or Chile and get far better results.
Piracy has never been more convenient in gaming than the traditional route, even with DRM. How convenient is it to download 4GB, follow cryptic instructions, apply a crack, be banned from online play, be unable to update patches, etc. I'm sure a small few pirate games due to DRM reasons but price is the main reason.
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I would use jruby if I were to build a product that:

* has a web interface: take advantage or Rails
* needs scientific computation like machine learning and such: take advantage of the java platform libraries
HN's interface and ranking algorithms are still optimized for a much smaller number of stories than it gets these days, so it's annoyingly easy for very interesting stories posted in off-peak hours to get slaughtered by average stories posted at a better time. This one was apparently submitted around 6 a.m. Silicon Valley Time, which is probably before the majority of HN's readership was awake (and even the East Coasters who were awake would probably not be getting their HN on for a couple of hours).
> you shouldn't emulate anyone except yourself.

I couldn't disagree more. "Myself", insofar as I want to "be myself", describes my values rather than my habits. I often meet inspirational people who are very talented in ways I admire, and usually this is because of their habits, their wisdom, facts they've learned the hard way.

I do my best to notice how they've achieved this, and imitate whatever meshes with my personality, my priorities, and my values.
I don't think you needed to provide that link/quote. It's got "PRESS RELEASE" printed right there at the top of the article.
At first, to overcome the chicken and egg problem, it will be "bring your own traffic". As we grow, there will be global directory with search, with emphasis on your local shops.
Here's a quick list of some other folks taking a swing at the Internet-enabled thermostat space: EnergyHub, EcoFactor, Proliphix, EcoBee, Inthrma, Suntulit, and GE's "nucleus."

Nest clearly has some cool differentiating features like "time to temp" and some interesting learning / AI technology. If it delivers on claims of 20% energy savings and they can bring the price down (that must be the plan, I'm sure) I can imagine it being broadly adopted. The challenge with thermostats is there are a few different wiring standards, so you often do need a third party to help you, which introduces a pretty big barrier to adoption. They also seem to have a strategy to lower that barrier, which is cool.

As someone who's been in the energy space for over two years now, I'm excited that Nest is bringing some much needed consumer attention our way, and I'm excited to try Nest!
99 designs is a good place to start if you need a quick, simple fix. http://99designs.com/
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Wishing Intuit would acquire them, right?
The end of DEC was the end of an era.

Alpha was (and possibly still is) one of the most elegant cpu architectures ever designed.

It just arrived too late to save DEC and that's a real pity.

DEC pretty much pioneered interactive computing and for that alone we all owe them a great deal.

It's weird how the DEC legacy got passed from company to company, now HP owns it, like an old cupboard passed on through inheritance.

Engineers went to both Intel and AMD.

Being able to engineer CPUs at that lefl is probably not the kind of skill that will see you without a job from time to time, those must be very desirable people.
Evernote is a fine tool to retain content for later retrieval.

I use http://www.evernote.com/about/download/web_clipper.php and later add additional comments where needed.

I also use a pocket size Moleskine to keep ideas/thoughts/daily-journals. Some of my coworkers/friends refer to it as my Dr Jones journal.
Ah great thanks. Shame there's no IRC server password support just yet it seems...
What do you mean by "them"? It was shot by a Google+ user not Google.
I used a ruby script to auto submit to google bookmark. It took me three days.

Google bookmarks has always been able to import from Delicious. It still works even after the crappy Avos rewrite.
I'm assuming this is open to everyone? Or is it only open to people who received invites to Startup School?
7 billion people, on one planet, all clumping off into groups and pulling in different directions. I wonder how long and at what population point we seriously, as almost a whole, understand functioning as a planet and as human beings as opposed to screwing each other and raping our tiny blue dot.
when did it happen?

edit: 7 hours ago

p.s. publications aren't required to cover everything... is this insinuating some conspiracy theory
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As long as you're "doing what everyone else does" you're ok.
lol. Great thinking.
1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB HD are micenuts. You couldn't buy less than that if you tried. Hell, you could run it on a phone.

Windows 7 is faster and much, much nicer on any computer made in the last 2-3 years. I'm not a Windows fan by any means, but choosing to run XP over 7 in 2011 is incomprehensible.
A combination of things that isn't optimal:
- Text files, named by date, in a directory called "notes"
- Items in my to-do list in Astrid (app for Android)
- For things I've thought a lot about, either text files of their own or pages of a notebook (the latter being rare).

I was actually thinking about building an app to deal with this. However, EverNote looks appealing and I should try it out . . .
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Crazy moves like "heavy spending on warehouses, data centers and digital-content offerings"

An online store buying stock and building infrastructure !!!!! Crazy , they should be borrowing money and paying themselves bonuses before going bust - that's what Wall St wants
Or that Wozniak was empathetic while Jobs was apathetic towards his coworkers' concerns in this certain instance. Generalizing either of the two as saints or satans based on this instance alone would be quite shallow...in this certain instance.
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A G+ user and Google employee. From his profile:

"I work at Google as an Android Software Engineer, primarily focusing on anything graphics and animations related."
That's great, thanks for sharing.

"Very importantly, we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.... I believe if you don’t have that set of things in your corporate culture, then you can’t do large-scale invention. You can do incremental invention, which is critically important for any company. But it is very difficult — if you are not willing to be misunderstood. People will misunderstand you."
Oh yeah? I'll see your ruby campfire chatbot and raise you another http-aware coffeescript heroku chatbot: https://github.com/abachman/pat-the-campfire-bot

Ours can even receive web hooks. For example, it tell us when someone makes a commit on one of our Github repos: https://github.com/abachman/pat-the-campfire-bot/blob/master...

Pat has done a lot for our morale.
Very similar to a tool I created a while back: https://github.com/ashleyw/convey

It's <100 lines of code, and really quite primitive; if you request hello.css, and that file exists, it serves that. If it doesn't exist, but hello.sass does, it'll compile and serve that instead. Same goes for .haml and .coffee files requested with .html and .js respectively. No configuration, no required file structure — just prototype as you would with just HTML/CSS…except using the compiled templates you love!
One minor note:

" Direct3D 10, for example, only supports Windows Vista and Windows 7; it's not available on Windows XP. The continued widespread usage of the old operating system makes it much harder for developers to depend on these new features: every time they do, they rule out the ability to sell to half of all current Windows users, and that's a bitter pill to swallow."

How many devs who would like to use the features offered in D3D 10 but not 9 are realistically going to be selling to people running XP? An outdated OS with outdated hardware and users who are behind the curve on upgrades does not seem to be a market that people implementing rich graphical features would be targeting.
>>I had that pesky school to finish!

Why work at it while already doing the startup?
A bit more interesting bio at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/technology/ibm-names-a-new...
Nearly shit myself when I saw the price tag on some of those! Looks nice, but damn. A $250 thermostat is fairly reasonable, but a $5k toilet is way outside the WAF (Wife Approval Factor).
God, investors are idiotic. Amazon spends money to upgrade its infrastructure, stock price plunges 12 percent. Rational!
I'm afraid I don't understand; why don't you research alternatives? Is it a training thing?
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Its been awhile since I took an accounting class, but lets say my cost of producing the kindle fire was $20 and my expected ability to sell it was at $15, I would book my kindle inventory at $15 on the books even though its acquisition cost was higher (i.e. you put it on your books at the lower of acquisition cost and expected disposal value). This has only been part a GAAP since 1990 though.
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