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I understand why the author is not willing to share much specifics (such as which free apps get him 4k+ a month in ad revenue) but he still at least could get a number of installs published.

I am skeptical because I know for a fact that some people don't tell the truth. We can only speculate about the reasons..maybe it's to generate more traffic or interest towards the non-free products they offer. I know a fellow (who used to publish a competing product to mine) who boasted online in an article about making quarter million dollars a year after just being a year in business. The same fellow just was trying to sell me his "quarter-million a year business" domain name for 1K a few months before:) In this case, numbers are much more moderate and believable, but still I am not taking this just at the face value, unless there are some facts I can verify, or compare against. The number of active users, for example, and in which countries (mostly) are generating 4K+ /month in ads?
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I have a Windows Phone, but I strongly suspect I'm going to return it tomorrow. Most of the important apps I need are there (excluding Words With Friends, my guilty pleasure) but some of them are horribly broken- Rdio, for one, doesn't even play music I sync to my phone. The maps app is also utterly atrocious.

It's not so much the apps that are missing, but the OS hooks. WP has a super-slick integration of Facebook/Live chat into the Messaging pane- it's how every phone should do it. But I use GChat, and AFAIK there is no hook for another service to add itself to the Messaging pane. Instead I have to make do with a pretty shoddy third-party app.
Build something for small businesses in the creative arts industry. I haven't seen a lot of innovation in online design tools for wedding and party invitations, but if you can work the font problems out, the time is ripe to use HTML, SVG and canvas to make a fun webapp for these customers.
Very cool! Cloud9 is, IMHO, getting closer and closer to being a legitimate choice for non-trivial development work. A few requests for this plugin, though:

* Allow me to remap my keys...especially <esc>. I prefer to use <C-s> for <esc> since I don't like reaching with my pinky

* I like that ':' takes me to the console, but why does it also enter a ':' character into the console? This means that executing a console command from the keyboard requires ':'+<backspace>+<command>...which kinda sucks

* Vimscript support? I realize this is completely non-trivial, but there are certain plugins that I simply cannot live without (yankring, for example...actually, just give me yankring and I'll forget about Vimscript support for now ;-)

Overall, though, I like what I see so far (you even implemented visual mode, yay!). Keep up the good work!
I would argue that's not quite the case. So if they solve different problems you could hypothetically use them in the same projects? Possible, but hardly the case in real world scenarios.
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> You're not supposed to scroll beyond a footer. It would look terrible.

Like this? http://i.imgur.com/kFZSo.png
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hele842000 is on the right track with testing your conversion, but you need to go beyond A/B testing. The next step is multivariate testing, where you change several parts of your landing page at the same time. Finally, there is the holy grail of customization: having the landing page adjust to not only the ad that brought the person to you, but also that individual's buying style and demographics. That way, your landing page will be more like a rifle than a shotgun.
> Having used Sublime Text for a while (which does what the article suggests and shows you as much white space as is needed to keep the display consistent)

Really? Was there some sort of option you turned on?

I'm a happy ST2 user (bought my license a couple weeks ago), but that's been one issue I've had lately. I can't seem to scroll past the bottom of the page. For now I've just been typing with my cursor at the bottom of the screen, but I'd love to move it to the middle. (as in vim's zz).
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Yes, I see the passive-aggressive reviews from OWS supporters. Rather than trying to make a difference, we have people taking the lazy way out and writing this garbage.
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No argument here - not arguing against data structures, or standards for manipulating them. Mostly saying I prefer "Programs that operate on ASTs" than "ASTs have methods to operate on themselves."
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Some people might have this experience. I'm not one of them. I love being an entrepreneur for the reasons he indicates. And I don't see or have those negatives.

John Petersel seems to have failed as entrepreneur (or maybe he never tried, which is even worse writing stuff like this...), but I think I make more money than him, have more free time, spend more time with my family, actually manage my company instead of 'doing everything myself' (as he seems to suggest). And I do what I love and have always done that. Life's too short not to.

Some people shouldn't be entrepreneurs, luckily not everyone wants to, but writing crap like this...
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I only wish it were so simple. I've presented correct statistical results for A/B tests only to have people try to argue me into accepting incorrect results that would follow from this logical error. If I knew less statistics, or was unwilling to argue with my boss, this error would have been made.

And another common variant of the problem happens when you're testing 10 variations. People want to do a pairwise test on the top and bottom right away, without realizing that, even if all are equal, the top and bottom frequently look different. Or the flip side of that error is that people see that the G-test says that there is a difference, and conclude that the current top one must be better than the current bottom one. Which is again incorrect.

There is a lot of subtlety, and just saying, "I have this statistical test that most people don't understand" is not really going to cut it.
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FB doesn't need to justify their valuation. They didn't set it. It's unfortunate that it's so high. I think their valuation is a weight around their necks. They're expected to "figure it out", and eventually justify it, and it's a lot of extra noise they'd probably be better off without. What they're looking to do (and what they have the potential to do) is very ambitious. Extra expectations make it even more difficult.
As early as 2004? Twenty years before that Wozniak and Jobs created an archetypal duo of technical and design co-founders.
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The author's attitude towards salaried work, let alone entrepreneurship, is awful. If that really is his attitude and I was his manager, he would be fired with in six months.
100% absolutely.
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Makes me happy. If you want to change something like handheld wireless voice communication then take every advantage you can. AWS is a big one, in that you don't have to manage your own data centers, the underlining hardware gets continually upgraded, and you will realize the improve performance without doing your own hardware cycles. They can focus their effort on improving their product. If this is a hit, then they will be forced to improve AWS latency, or find innovated ways to make their product better. I don't think they should put that effort into building out their own end points.

Who says AWS cannot manage these large virtual end points. There are already have several AWS West, AWS East, EU, Asia, etc. We might see a time where they are closer to you. Maybe even a perring agreement away ;) Exciting times.
Great observations about how proximity can stimulate entrepreneurial culture. We are also experiencing this in Chicago right now...
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Any chance you could link to it? I'd like to read the previous discussion, but I'm having trouble finding it on HN...
That point was made in the article.
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Thank you for your detailed advice! I will definitely consider opening up older campaigns to test them carefully. I figured however - if Amazon isn't converting profitably when I send very product specific ads to it, with millions spent on conversion testing, how could my site stand a chance?
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Facebook also limits the number of times you can change your DOB, though I'm not sure what that limit is.
Then it snaps back though, right? Rendering it a bit useless.
Your point, as I am understanding it is something along the lines of, "as a responsible employer, it's incumbent upon me to gather as many data points about a candidate as possible; sure some of them may not correlate strongly with whether a candidate will be successful or not, but every bit helps me get a full picture." It's an understandable position to some extent, but here's the reason I think it rubs people (myself included) the wrong way: people discriminate between their public (read: work) lives and their private lives. Some of your data points are public, some are not. For example: the reason that no one has an issue with you calling my boss to discuss my history if I'm applying to you for a job is that you're discussing the public face I present at work each day: "Is this guy reliable? Does he make deadlines? Can he talk to clients or customers?" In other words all things that directly bear on how well I do my job. GPA is—to some extent simliar—it's the most useful metric in dealing with candidates who don't have work experience, and the underlying question is the same: this candidate's "job" for the last four years was getting her CS degree, so how good was she at it?

Social network stalking is a bit of a red herring. If a person has bad enough judgement that they leave a public record of (crazy|nasty|racist|sexist|etc.) sentiments, that's one thing. But would you the employer ask me the job candidate to friend you on Facebook because I've restricted my posts and photos to being viewed by friends only, and you want to rifle thorough them to find evidence anything objectionable? I doubt it. To me this is the same thing as asking for my credit score: why should I reveal my personal life to you? [1] At the risk of drawing too broad a point, this kind of thing is part of a continuing and subtle erosion of employees' right to their own private lives. Companies that ask me to work indefinite 60 hour weeks as a salaried employee are of a piece with those who want to know my credit score: they are companies that are asking for more of my life than I feel they have a right to, and I will pass them by. You may be OK with losing candidates who don't want to provide you their personal data, but if a credit score really is only a secondary (at best) data point, why risk losing an otherwise-superb employee over it?

[1] To those who say "a credit score isn't all _that_ personal, I think of two examples right off the top of my head. I decline to hire applicant A because his credit score was low. As is his right by law under FCRA, he asks to know if that was why we declined to hire, at which point he may then say "My credit score is poor because my wife left last year and I'm putting 3 kids through school," or "I'm HIV+ and my last job had terrible health insurance." There are lots of very personal reasons a person my have a bad credit score, and by basing a hiring decision on that, I'm forcing them to revel them to me if they want the job; that personally makes me very queasy.
Yes, but this takes time and we don't have experience targeting competitive words. We have a bit of long tail traffic (1000> month).
> It seems like the Python community has been slow to adopt git, perhaps because Bazaar and Mercurial are written in Python, and perhaps because GitHub uses Ruby.

For a lot of people in the Python world, choosing a DVCS just means picking what CPython picked (hg). At the time, that decision was at least partly due to the fact that git had poor Windows support, and less about the languages involved (GitHub/Ruby weren't a factor anyway since it would be a self-hosted git install).

If the decision was to be made again today, most people I've talked to think git would be the choice.
This. I often get stuck in communication with people because I tend toward abstraction and they toward being more concrete-bound. I often get annoyed with people when they get hung up on stuff which is just irrelevant detail to me. "No, disregard that, it's not important to the general principle here, you see..."

But lately, I am gaining some appreciation for the detail-focused mindset. It's just two ways to look at things.
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Thank you for your honesty in amitting that Google and Apple do this as well. I simply think you're unaware of how standard this practice is in hiring today--not just for high-end tech hiring but for any position where they're attempting to predict reliability

To the point of the article, though, most probably don't eject someone from the process based on credit alone.
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Thank you for your honesty in amitting that Google and Apple do this as well. I simply think you're unaware of how standard this practice is in hiring today--not just for high-end tech hiring but for any position where they're attempting to predict reliability.

To the point of the article, though, most probably don't eject someone from the process based on credit alone.
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There are a lot of books that are only available through piracy. You can download 1 GB torrents containing more books than anyone will ever read in a year, and yet there are still major books like Dune that aren't available to Kindle users. The selection for older, out-of-print titles is even worse.
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May I point out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

Nothing to do with Google and I hope that all that are interested can find a copy of the original story which I remember quite well.... even though according to that wiki article it hasn't been republished in the last 45 years.
I really don't think history bears this out. The lesson of Apple seems to be people will accept DRM if you make it easy for them to buy. There were plenty of places to buy DRM-free music (including Amazon) yet people still went to iTunes because of its ease of use.

Of course Apple later proved DRM doesn't matter and people will pay for a DRM-free product if it's easy to purchase. But that's an entirely different point. As far as I can see the historical precedent is that DRM isn't enough of a deterrent for most people.
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Any chance we could get a review? I'm interested too but only if the service actually works. The fact that it redials instead of auto re-negotiates isn't exactly inspiring.
He mentions the poor battery life of the 11" to the 13" air, but IIRC a non sandy bridge 11" is comparable to the sandy bridge 13" as far as battery life goes.

I was pretty jealous when my friend bought a new sandy bridge 11", but in retrospect I enjoy the battery life of my C2D ULV.
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Huh? I would have thought that criticising HTML5 and providing valid reasoning means you think negatively about HTML5.

The problem is, the author hasn't backed up anything. There's no real valid criticism other than conjecture.
I think it may be a mac thing, since I've never seen a mac with a scroll wheel (although I'm sure they exist).
Also, they're probably hoping that people will have forgotten about the EU's disdain for Facebook's entire profit model[1], which could wreak havoc on their viability in the market. Facebook really needs to step up its game by developing some technology or business method equally as disruptive as they were to the social networking industry in 2004. I would imagine this could take the form of quasi-gamification, where the information people disclose and allow Facebook to use is treated as de facto currency for how they can interact with the site.

In that regard, users would receive the service in exchange for something of value to Facebook--information. Their current Statement of Rights and Responsibilities requires users to grant Facebook a "non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook."[2] To me, this is unconscionable, since the service you receive remains constant, while what you 'pay' (the consideration) varies with your level of usage. While one could reasonably argue that the quality of service you receive increases with respect to your level of interaction (i.e., you can't chat with friends until you connect with friends), there's a certain level of unforeseeability inherent in Facebook's intended use at the time you disclose that information (such as making a friend request, wall post, liking a page, etc.)

There are some even more troubling issues, as well. Interacting with third-party services via the application platform (by installing apps) gives those services access to your information. Once they have it, you're bound by their terms of use and privacy policies. I'd love to see the exhaustion rule/first-sale doctrine[3] discussed vis-a-vis data privacy, since I'm unsure whether it would apply to "data." We saw this discussed tangentially by the web sites attempting to create marketplaces to sell used MP3s[4]--the first-sale doctrine allows you to resell used books, used CDs, etc., but can it allow service providers to sell its copy of "used" data? What about the putative buyers of "used" data--are they bound by Facebook's Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites? All of these are questions with answers that could have an extremely disruptive impact on Facebook's entire profit model.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8917836/Faceb...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

[4] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110218/12432213167/yet-an...
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I own devices across the 3 major platforms, and have been using a WP7 for a couple of months. The problem with the apps isn't that there isn't enough, its that the isn't enough GOOD ones. Sure there may be equivalents of your iOS and Android apps, but chances are they won't have feature parity, or be as polished as their counterparts. And why would they? Until there is a good market share it's hard for developers to justify anything other than an obligatory WP7 app. Time is better spent elsewhere for now.

WP7 will grow, at present there is no disputing that the app market place is inferior.
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Who is the author? What are his credentials? What has he built? With a blank page for a bio, no other authored articles and a Google search that returns next to nothing, this article is worth just that - next to nothing.

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Valuing 25:1 against yearly revenue seems a bit high. I mean, I'm sure it'll still ride a rocket the moment it goes public, but I think it'll peter out sooner than most long term investors would like.
The point is to ask the candidate about the low score, not to immediately disqualify him for it. Again, this is no different than being asked to explain a 2.5 GPA, or a horrible review from a former manager. Now you have to recant a number of highly unpleasant issues with your past boss in an attempt to illustrate why it wasn't your fault. In short, all three examples are likely to take one into personal territory, yet we are choosing credit as the one to fight about. My explanation of that phenomenon can be found above.
So go bury your head in the sand on some other site where conversations are limited to things like battery chemistry then. I don't think anyone would really care if you did that.

Don't be surprised though when the intelligent, compassionate people you're conversing with start noticing and commenting on the big bad police state that's been descending upon them.