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Security usually isn't the reason. Typically they have old versions of large software suites (like SAP) which had a ton of custom development done by external consultants, worth millions of dollars. If they want to upgrade to a new browser, they need to upgrade to a new version of the platform, which in turn means upgrading all those custom developed solutions. The cost outweighed the benefit for a long time.

It's no longer that much of an issue though. IE6 is starting to die off in the enterprise space. Once apps get on IE7 they're easier to upgrade thanks to microsoft's backwards compat support in newer IE's. I'm hopeful that IE9 will get adopted more quickly than IE7 and IE8 did.
Long tail search traffic related to local businesses is the key here, not people attempting to navigate to Yelp through Google.
I know there are food programmes and soup kitchens --but those suffer from poor funding. I mean, I feel that we should make sure everyone has access to balanced nutrition (not talking gourmet --just good nutrition) regardless of why they might not be able to afford it themselves.

Fair enough. Well, if that's what you believe then I wish you well in your philanthropic endeavours. How much are you thinking of donating?
I'd be surprised if you suddenly got upfront charges for everything, stuff seems to be moving away from this.

A more likely conspiracy theory is that you access everything through some giant corporate proxy that is free at the point of use (which will not allow access to anything that goes against their corporate policy) but it will track every action you take on your computer and sell this data to anyone with a few $.
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I don't disagree with your diagnosis of the prevalence of armchair CEOing around here, but Yelp is indeed concerned about Google.

Yelp and a couple other companies forced in Google to a Congressional hearing where senators attacked Google over having too much power over other sites. Yelp gets a SIGNIFICANT amount of its traffic from google searches. So if Google arbitrarily decided to promote its own restaurant reviews from Zagat after a user search, this would crush Yelp's traffic.
What does this have to do with Occupy Wall Street? Taking the mantle of the "Occupy" movement while having a completely orthogonal point (which I sort-of agree with).

Sounds like the tradition media is at it's games again, helping to dilute the "Occupy" term to meaninglessness.
I can assure you it's not just 'I' that has problems .. just about every co worker and friend, family member I know has had issues with Flash .. it's common knowledge just how bad a piece of software it is. It's not a personal poke because I couldn't install the browser plugin correctly.

But, this doesn't mean you have to ditch your Flash skills, from all accounts they are working toward production HTML5 exports .. but I could be wrong .. if so, check out: http://www.sencha.com/products/animator/ .. I'm sure they will be more than happy to fill the void if Adobe can't be a...
Did they actually tell you this? I would think this must violate some sort of anti-discrimination law
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Maybe "releases tension" is not a well-defined phenomenon, or is just another phrase that describes "an emotional response."
I've been amazed how supportive the start-up ecosystem in Providence has been to us newcomers. This is really a phenomenal place to run a start-up and anybody considering launching their company in the northeast should give Providence a close look!
From your point of view, what you say is true.

From the company's point of view, they've invested in finding you, and getting you up to speed, and now they have to start over. Even if they get someone equally talented at the same pay, the company has lost that initial recruiting cost and investment. So from their point of view, that's what is being "poached."

That is not counting the time it will cost to do these things.
No it isn't. You can look at a visual element or style on another website and mimic it for your own.

You can't look at, say, Facebook and determine the exact code structure and replicate that.
If you are convinced that .com is parked domain mega-corp that you won't have to compete with, .co is OK if you can also get .net/.org, so can 'own' the brand.

Assuming you are startup where company name is product name, I think the more important thing is to be able to get the matching twitter and facebook ID, if you can get same same as what you are targeting .co for.
Don't think that is the case. It was limited to merchants in a few countries, but it was not limited to US customers. I once purchased a computer from UK using Google checkout, and I live in Norway.
It was very conspicuous yesterday that Apple & Microsoft did not show up on the anti-SOPA NYTimes ad:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/16/google-facebook-twitter-a...
This was Seesmic's original idea, short video messages, threaded into conversations, but for the web. iPhones are more intuitive and useful. Though I find myself more enthralled with FaceTime and enjoying focusing for a period of time instead of spreading it in bursts.

Good luck with this.
I guess quality can be relative then. I have some relatives that would purchase these high-calorie, refrigerated foods here and take them back home, and everyone would treat them as if they came from a restaurant, but I guess they're not as educated with regards to caloric intake as Americans (even though we have way lower obesity levels).
Thank you for your comment. Well, looking at the cost involved, I could possibly going to source it to India, Russia or some eastern european as it's less costly vs if it's USA based.

I thought about the project splitting, and the concern I have is exactly the same as your concern in term of code quality. When it's time to merge them together, it would be a pain if one code section is superior than the other and I would end up clean up the inferior one. And my other concern is that who would merge them together as I am not a developer. I could possibly hire a USA based developer to merge them together after splitting them, that's one possibility. But if that developer ends up cleaning up the inferior one, it would cost more at the end.
No, the company's representatives did not formally/explicitly say it. My resume just went into a black hole, where I couldn't get a response from anyone.

Later, some colleagues who worked there mentioned (after I'd found a job elsewhere) that it's something of an unspoken policy between the two companies, and was likely the cause of my experience.
this brings up a terrible question about the web industry.. How are we supposed to keep our faith in what we do when we are usually surrounded by clients who clearly don't understand anything about our job and will not be happy no matter how hard you work on a project ?
Could you explain what portion of this legislation has to do with charging 33 cents for facebook.
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Also conspicuous that Y Combinator wasn't on the ad. It's clear and obvious that PG and Y Combinator are in full support of SOPA.
One key reason I suspect is that you haven't been able to get SSDs in the cloud so their scaling up approach would be more difficult. Having your own servers means you can "NewEgg your way out of it" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243133 :-).
While not mentioned in the article, one annoying phrase that has emerged recently is "X for Y". "An AirBnB for music." "A Yelp for wedding dresses."

To me this speaks: "We aren't able to clearly explain what we do, but here's this other well-known company that solves a similar problem in a different market. We'll piggy-back from the recognition of their name. Look at us, look at them, and try to make a connection."
Did we find their area 51 yet?
This is very much not the cultural norm over in these parts. I'd be curious to hear your reason as to why you think that. (Genuinely curious, not passive-aggressive "curious.")

Particularly with specific regards to engineering, even things which are theoretically not within our control (e.g. the server going down because a technician tripped over the cable) are often inside our ability to affect (by picking a better provider, investing in a redundant setup, etc). This is good: after we know that things are generally within our capabilities to address, we'll address them, rather than thinking that it is outside the scope of our responsibility, capability, or authority.

(Semi-related sidenote: For hackers who enjoy theology there is a doctrine in Catholicism called subsidiarity which, as a quick gloss, states that responsibility for solving a problem begins immediately local to the problem and then bubbles up to the lowest level of societal organization which is capable of resolving that problem. That level is obligated to solve the problem rather than passing the buck up, where it will not receive sufficient attention, or down, where it will not receive sufficient resources.

I always thought, aside from being a good idea, this was virtually tailor made for programmers. It's like there is a papal encyclical on the canonical right way to do exception handling.)
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Wow, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

Not kidding at all here. You're basically executing off of an established, proven business plan.
The first thing that comes to mind here is the enormous red bullseyes that Target puts on top of all of its stores. They're visisble from airplanes and satellites, but their symmetry would make them less useful for calibration.

An example: http://craphound.com/images/googleeasrthad.jpg
That's a cost of doing business. Any employment relationship is a week to week exchange of services for money. Employees and employers do generally invest their reputations and goodwill in the relationships, but the ultimate distillation of employment is my money for your time.

The fact that some employers have more costly onboarding processes than others is a competitive disadvantage, not a rationale for demand-side collusion in the job market.
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Better yet, redirect all http URIs to the corresponding https URIs, and serve everything over https.
I am really worried for the future of the internet.
Those were all internet companies--internet freedom really matters to them. Microsoft and Apple, on the other hand, make money by restricting users' freedom and do not rely on the internet nearly as heavily. Their covertly supporting SOPA does not really come as a surprise.
When your browser requests the like button from FB's servers, the request includes a session cookie, and the referer header indicating which page the like button was loaded from. Super easy to log, though it does generate a boat-load of data.
This seems like a case of non-tech PR/marketing selling a tech product without sufficient understanding of the industry terms they're throwing around.
One of the great hidden benefits of those classes is to taste the flavor of the classes, should they want to apply to the university. I would particularly interested in the difference between Berkeley classes (SaaS) and Stanford classes (CS101 or ML)
Yes, there are food programmes and soup kitchens, just like they existed decades before. It seems that the problem isn't going away, so I have to make the assumption that maybe it's something wrong with the food programmes and soup kitchens?

On a certain level, when you are babying people and doing things for them, those people learn to depend on you and not learn for themselves. Initially those programmes were setup for the hardest hit people as a /temporary/ solution, but now it seems to have become a permanent one.

Just like lunch programmes at schools to feed kids. They shouldn't exist because it teaches the parents that they don't need to think about feeding their children something healthy every day of the year. It puts the onus on a school system which is usually lacking in funds, so it makes decisions not solely based on children's health. By allowing the school system to feed their child, parents have extra income to spend on...what? In the Bronx, my wife was seeing 6-7 year olds arrive to school hungry (breakfast and lunch programmes were provided) but had the latest Timberland shoes and name-brand clothes.

It's sad, but people these days need to be educated about eating and parenting.
You know what those companies have in common? They don't sell software. If your business is basically running a website, what do you care about piracy?

Not defending SOPA -- I don't have a clue about its intricacies -- but when a bunch of companies that don't sell software are against a bill that purports to try to do something about software piracy, I don't really see what the news is. In fact, these companies are all basically ad networks...
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Sure, problems can "barely exist" while being significant for the statistically small number of people whom they effect.

Rhinoceros attacks, for instance, are "barely a problem"... unless you're one of those poor unfortunates who is suffering from one.

Fun fact: wikipedia has a category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deaths_due_to_rhinocer...
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No criticism here, it's purely to sell it on to someone else, it's bull all the way until someone realizes they're still not making profits!
I had to re-submitted this post. But in the original post there was a comment by amatus:

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started wishing each other "Merry Christmas". I only let
the loop continue until I could stop laughing."
I think the reason most people are disappointed is that from the title they expected the article to be something that it wasnt.

I personally thought I going to get a break down of the pros and cons of being cloud hosted vs running your own servers.

The article ended up being completely non technical or quantitative and boils down to "we like to build our own computers".

Chalk it up to high expectations that weren't met :) That's not the authors fault.
That's only the most recent version of Flash and that assumes that a) it hasn't been disabled by the kind of conservative-bordering-on-ossified IT groups which still use IE6, b) the user has permissions to install the update, and c) the user reboots when prompted.

Flash updates are still a problem unless you use Chrome.
The membership of this group is basically a list of businesses that startups should be chipping away at. Let them spend their time lobbying, while you sneak up behind them and whack them on the head with your niche webapp.

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Adobe

Apple

Autodesk

AVEVA

AVG

Bentley Systems

CA

Cadence Design Systems

CNC Software – Mastercam

Compuware

Corel

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation

Dell

Intel

Intuit

Kaspersky

McAfee

Microsoft

Minitab

Progress Software

PTC

Quark

Quest

Rosetta Stone

Siemens PLM Software, Inc.

Sybase

Symantec

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> eliminating internal sysadmin staff completely (and outsourcing all the remaining sysadmin work to Amazon)

Man, this idea is one of the most insane things I hear. Amazon does not install your operating systems, Amazon does not install and configure you applications, Amazon does not troubleshoot anything related to the operation of the servers, Amazon does not do analysis on your traffic patterns and decide when you need more instances, Amazon absolutely doesn't care about how well your product runs as much as your own staff does, in other words there is no way you outsource your WHOLE sysadmin staff. All Amazon does is provide the hardware and network infrastructure to run on. It is not a magic bullet that says I don't need to have these people around. SysAdmin != server monkey - yes it is part of our jobs, but quite honestly it is a very very small part of it.

> Anyone that thinks that it's pleasant to spend time in a data center is insane

Call me insane because I sure do love spending time in a datacenter, it's one of the few times working in IT you really get to do something with your hands, and that does have a certain appleal to me.
SOPA is mostly about music and movie piracy and any site that allows you to upload audio, video, or files is a target.
Here's the Influence Explorer profile of the BSA:

http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/business-software-...
I agree that managers should stop pretend to themselves and others that they are perfect.
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Chrome Frame nicely addresses all of these concerns
Haha, I agree. I've never understood why defining your company in relation to another company makes sense. If you have a good business idea your company should be able to stand by itself.
Cheap shot. You can't win with this one. You know what would happen if they described the product in a vacuum? The top comment on the HN thread would be "Basically, it's like an X for Y."
Might get a better response on reddit/r/askscience
Does that mean Microsoft and Apple have to support any anti-piracy bill, without any regard for its consequences? Because if that's true, then they are no better than RIAA and MPAA and they couldn't care less about the Internet and censorship, as long as they reduce the pirated copies by 10% (if that).
Judging from https://github.com/applicake/ChuckTestar/blob/master/spec/ch... , it prints out "Yeeeeeeeeeeeep".

Amazing.
Based on Google's congressional testimony yesterday, it sounds like even they are willing to support the bill as long as it's changed so that Google themselves aren't affected.
Notice that the supporters are software companies and the opposed are Internet companies. Here is a theory I proposed yesterday[1]:

Microsoft makes the vast majority of their money selling licenses. So does the entertainment industry.

For years these industries (software, music, and video) grew to massive size by exploiting cheap duplication of digital goods and control over distribution channels. Now that further advancing technology has brought duplication and distribution to the masses they are franticly trying to regain control.

The opposing tech companies sell services and advertising. Copyright infringement largely doesn't affect their bottom-line and these proposed measures will be costly for them to implement and legally difficult for them to follow.

Google's lawyers bringing up the Wikileaks payment processor embargo as a preferred solution also supports this position. Google (and other Internet companies) aren't really trying to protect free speech or other perceived rights, they are merely trying to protect their own interests.

1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3246019
To me the important part of being "lightweight" is memory consumption and speed. The page performance is much more important than initial load time.
I've seen plenty of people point to the single-source vendor as a major concern. Given Adobe's failure to competitively maintain any platform they've acquired most people I know were careful not to put too much trust in something which could be discontinued at any point.
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More like re-emerged. Remember "Napster for X"?
Further to that, it's usually quicker to Google for "yelp las vegas restaurants" than it is to get to Yelp and then search or browse from there.
Actually a friend of mine interviewed for a "startup" that's in the same position. The company has little fear of going under from bankruptcy, but they have the startup feel with the random basketball hoop, video games, snacks, etc that bigco doesn't offer to their employees. They have autonomy to do their own iteration and that's what's preferred by the parent company.
Similarly, one of the most banging-my-head-on-the-table bugs I've ever encountered caused all SSL connections from my iOS app to fail with an unhelpful 'something is wrong' message.

Turned out my development iPhone's clock had just set itself back a few years, but I was so focused on the code that it took me a long time to figure that out.
I think there are two factors. Clients want solutions, not excuses and they can often do without explanations. So, taking responsibility to solve a problem will (generally speaking, on average, etc) work in your favour if you have remotely appreciative clients.

However, beating yourself up over it is best avoided.
If a company wants to avoid that situation, they have plenty of options available. They could offer employees long-term contracts, so the stability goes both ways. They could try to be more proactive in fixing the problems that make people want to leave. They could pull a Google and try to make their work environment so good that it's almost impossible to replicate.

For the most part, companies don't do these things, and then get surprised when employees leave. They want to have their cake and eat it too, and are upset to discover that the labor market works both ways.
Filing a lawsuit in a foreign nation costs six figures and up up up, exposes you to the substantial risk of losing due to home court advantage, and gives you the upside that the fly-by-night developer who stole your idea gets told in a very stern tone of voice to please not do it again. It is not a realistic way for you to cover the downside risk of getting your code stolen.

Want good news? Your idea is worthless, so it is no biggie if it gets stolen. The source code produced is likely to be overvalued at "worthless", so if one of your competitors gets a hold of it, you'll quickly be ahead of the game as long as you don't do anything excessively stupid like attempting to use that source code yourself. (You may succeed in getting code with actual value if you're really good at both picking your provider and managing the outsourcing project, which is ahem not a cheap, easy, do-in-your-spare-time endeavor.) No company worth building is at risk of getting knocked off by a cheap outsourcing company -- if all it took was enough monkeys banging on typewriters to make a software company, they'd already be doing it.

My bona fides: managed outsourcing operations for a few teams of a Japanese multinational for a few years.
Arrington's view of the original Droid is what tipped me fully into buying the phone. I think Josh's review of this may have cemented me for the Galaxy Nexus.
Please note how the "other" category consists of nearly half of the downloads. I would say that this adds a lot of uncertainity in this dataset. Without knowing the distribution of the OS-es that shows up in "other" this data is pretty much meaningless.
It's hard to say without seeing it. Implementation is everything, but opt-in-wise, it sounds like you're describing browser bars. Maybe it's time to resurrect browser bars for the social age? :) Good luck!
Why are all these recent tech companies that have gone through an IPO not able to turn a profit? Groupon, Pandora, LinkedIn, and now Yelp are all valued so highly yet they are not making money off of their services. If you have been in business for over 5 years and don't make a profit when are you expecting to?