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Arrington mentions 2 ways to look at it (both from the investor perspective), but there's a third - entrepreneurs raising a stiff middle finger to investors who have fucked them over (or tried to).

I'm not saying it was the case with Gowalla, nor am I saying all VC's are assholes. Just saying that it it's another motive for deals like this.
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See also Sony offering to sell Vaios without the bundled junk for an extra $50.

(http://www.pcworld.com/article/143677/sony_removes_bloatware...)
Is it a coincidence that the last version of Firefox that will ever run on PowerPC macs is being surprisingly resilient to those calls to upgrade?

I'd be curious to see how many of the 3.6 laggards really are on old macs and are simply unable to upgrade until they budget in some new hardware.
I got the co-op job that I'm doing in January after the interviewer quizzed me on interrupts for 20 minutes. I was like you when we were studying interrupts wondering why I need to know about such low level abstraction but lo and behold it ended up getting me the job. I had a friend who used concepts from the Automata Theory course (arguably the most esoteric and least practical course in the Comp Sci curriculum) on his internship. You never ever know what you're going to end up using in industry esp as an undergrad, therefore having breadth in your CS knowledge is important.
Cycript definitely looks very interesting. :) I could just put nice JS api on top of ObjC calls, which makes it just perfect for writing apps. :)
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"Paypal has no legal or even formally self-elected responsibility ... "

Paypal may or may not have any legal responsibility there, it makes no difference.

I think a lot of people overlook the underlying business model of Paypal. They're betting they can do a better job of fraud prevention than the entrenched credit card processing industry, and by doing so they can offer credit card facilities to more (read "higher risk") people.

What that means is that if you do _anything_ that might be even tangentially related to things that look like credit card fraud, you're opening yourself up to all the well documented risks of having them stop you withdrawing money from your account for 180 days.

If you're doing anything other than delivering physical goods to credit card billing addresses via 3rd party trackable shipping, you need to make sure you're fully aware of the risks you're choosing to expose yourself to using Paypal. If you're using Paypal for donations, preorders, digital goods, downloads, conferences, consulting - anything where you can't give them a FedEx tracking number (or equivalent), you're opening yourself up to a world of hurt in the dispute resolution process.

Surely I'm not the only one who looks at almost all of these Paypal "horror stories" and thinks "Yep, I could have told them they had that coming."?
Some artists alternate tours that way. The last two Iron Maiden tours, for instance.
Elsewhere[1], saurik says he got some flak for using the "donate" button without being a non-profit. He suggests that changing the wording away from "donate" ("help out", "contribute to", "support" may all be ideas) solved the problem.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3318170
I've noticed in my industry that those who can't program, manage.

Those who manage, tend to blog more because they have less to do in front of a computer.

Kind of a useless and filled with false assumptions.
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One can hope it destroys the brand for power-users. It's been a while since I've been using windows, but in the past I've trusted download.com when I needed some piece of freeware. I'll be more careful now.

What about all the the open source projects hosted there? A quick search shows that they offer VLC and Firefox - are they clean?
One of the highlights of this article was hearing how SV Angel thinks about this. It was sane, pragmatic, intelligent and succinct.

I haven't yet had a chance to work with them, but my opinion of them is constantly increasing.
Is there a reason you don't just use the various email to sms gateways provided by the carriers?
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Parakey investors got ---they’re--- money back and a little more,

Arrgh. I have nothing constructive to post about this, but this mistake annoys me.
I would hate to look a gift horse in the mouth but, whom will be retaining the other 20%? Just curious.

All considering I'm interested -- I operate a hosting provider and would love to take this off your hands to help out the users and keep it rolling.
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I would like to retain the other 20%
I would love to use Firefox but I can't bring myself to do it. Firefox got really terrible and bloated and whenever I use it I am just waiting for a hint of terribleness to appear. Then I switch to another browser.

The main thing Firefox need to do is drop the version numbers all together. These numbers should be for developer's only. I could even argue developers do not need the version numbers and could work just fine with feature detection.

The fact is that most people do not care what version of Firefox they have. All they want is Firefox Latest. The latest and hopefully best version of Firefox will allow for the fastest and smoothest browsing experience. When I hear FF7/8/9 is out I sigh. Firefox automatically updates now, why all the grand announcements, especially considering for the majority of users the changes between 7 and 8 are fairly irrelevant background changes that won't be noticed.

Chrome is on what now? v15? Does Chrome continuously shout about how version 15 is out? No.. it just updates.. the user doesn't really know about it. The user doesn't really care about it.

Please.. just call the damn product [Firefox - no version number on the end] and be done with it.
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It is owned by the acquirer.
"[...] tech companies build their products with rails: Linkedin (I think their main "product" is written in Java), Twitter (who dropped a lot of Ruby code for Java/Scala with a thin web layer left), Amazon (Their "product" is written in Rails?)"

I wish people would not bend the truth in such a way for marketing purposes.
Here's the right way to behave, in two simple steps:

Step 1

Company management (in this case, the founders) have a fiduciary obligation to get as much money for the company as possible. In the sale negotiation, they should discuss the price of the company first. If the buyer tries to talk about their compensation, they simply decline to engage in the conversation, saying that their obligation is first and foremost to the shareholders, so the company price is the first order of business. They should negotiate as hard as they can to maximize the value returned to the shareholders.

Step 2

Once the company price is set, the management/founders should negotiate the best deal possible for the team - both themselves AND the other employees (don't forget the latter). The company's already locked and loaded. There is no reason for the team to hold the screws to the acquirer at this point for maximum value.

There are two classic mistakes that get made. The founder mistake is easy to make, because the company will encourage it: "How about if we lower the price of the company by $X, and add $X to your retention package?" This is wrong and possibly illegal (but it's hard to get caught). Taking this sells out your shareholders and violates your duties as an officer of the company.

The second classic mistake is an investor one: thinking the employee compensation belongs to the company. Employee comp is for future services rendered, not past. There's no reason the shareholders should get a percentage of the founder-cum-employee's stock grant unless they plan to do part of their work for them.

tl;dr: get the best price for your company, then get the best price for yourself and your team.
No. There isn't an absolute reason.

It's not straight forward to implement. And will be more buggy for a while. Also, there's rumors that carriers shut down the gateways if the traffic is too high. Come to think of it there are a couple of reasons. But it's definitely worth trying.
No one is taliking about the users.

Maybe it is me but my 'moral antenna' says it wrong to leave users suddenly stranded.

Yes it was a 'free service', but the free users made it possible to get millions in investments. Users investest time and effort into making your service valuable.

Here is how I would do things differently.

Depending on the cost, I will have a shut down period of 3-6 months. Longer if possible.

I will make it easy for users to export AND import their data into a similar service. In this case 4sq. That is the very least they should do. The data from a users Gowalla account is ppractically useless if it is not put in context of a similar app/service. Telling millions of users "take your shit out by next month, thanks for your time" is not cool at all.

FriendFeed did it much better. Etacts is the worst I have come accross.

It is not cool for Gowalla, it will also not be cool for gmail.
"I don't envy Paypal's position here. However, their approaches are unprofessional at best..."

From one point of view, they're no more "unprofessional" with their customer service than Google. At least there was a phone number to call and a person to answer it - even if they were apparently not highly trained enough or authorized to solve the problem.

Paypal are trying to solve the credit card version of "web scale" - they've got their almighty "fraud detection algorithm", with the knobs inevitably turned towards "risk pissing off low value customers" rather than "risk letting through financial risk exposing transactions". When you want to let everyone with a hotmail account and a prepaid debit card become a "merchant", it's inevitable that there are going to be _lots_ of edge cases, and not nearly enough skilled customer service people.

If you can look critically at what you're doing, and it seems like it _might_ be an "edge case", you might want to think twice about using Paypal.
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when in doubt, you can't go wrong with Debian, and since you're already familiar with apt. if you want to be on the edge with packages, upgrade to 'sid' instead of sticking with 'stable'.
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To defrag your databases, first close Firefox then run:

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Analytics for me says, for the last month:

Firefox 8.0: 2.68% Mac
Firefox 7.0.1: 9.53% Mac
Firefox 3.6.24: 13.47% Mac

So it's definitely appreciably lower for 8 than for 3, but the closeness between 7 and 3 makes me wonder whether it's actually an effect.
life needs the friendlier conditions to first develop.

Primitive Life on earth developed on not so friendly environment with poisonous gas (No Oxygen - Oxygen is a byproduct primitive living things created), regular meteor showers and boiling hot waters.

If Life evolved here under these conditions, it can evolve anywhere with such conditions
If I read that without having read the original my eyes would glaze over with buzzword overload. So much lost information in the "generic" (or more correctly, vague) form. This is the sort of stuff I'd expect in a sales pitch, where I'm barely any better informed after having heard it, even for someone with domain knowledge in the area.

The original however is packed with specifics, most of which can be looked up if you're unfamiliar with (for instance I had no idea what NLTK was, but a single google search informs me it's a toolkit for natural language processing). They're not buzzwords, they're product names. It's clear and concise to someone with the domain knowledge.
Considering that the founders will be taking positions at facebook, these 'side deals' appear to be closer to salary/compensation negotiations than anything else. Just because you invested in a company, it doesn't mean you own the founders. While the company may not have succeeded, these guys are probably very valuable assets and should be compensated by FB accordingly.
You should be fine. Paypal explicitly allows the donate button for tips and things, even for non-non-profits (is that a word?).

The root issue here as far as I can tell is that regretsy is promising some kind of action (in this case buying a "mystery gift" for an unknown family) and Paypal has no way to verify that this is actually happening.

You are fine as long as you don't explicitly promise something. There's no way to claim you are running a fraudulent service if the money is out of goodwill for no purpose. There will be very few chargebacks to Paypal that claim "I gave jfruh a tip for nothing in particular, and he used it for something in particular."
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Steely Dan does a similar thing. Last time they were in Boston they did some along the lines of two shows that were specific albums from start to finish, plus a random collection of songs to finish up the show. Then there was a third show that offered an online-vote for the entire setlist.
Large size as well. Italy, for example, has manageable debt (at least in the medium term), if the rates on it stay relatively stable. However there were default fears recently because of interest rates spiking, which could produce a negative feedback loop. U.S. rates are extremely stable, in part because the federal reserve manages them, in part because of general investor confidence, and in part because the market is so large that it's much harder for any sort of market moves to cause spikes (and nearly impossible to deliberately pull off a speculative attack).

The US also has considerably more breathing room to pay it off via taxation if they chose to. A country like Italy, where the government already takes 43% of GDP in taxes, has much less scope to plug any budget gaps by raising taxes than the US, which only takes 27% of GDP in taxes (across all levels).
Useless trivia - crows do very well at this too, as does that entire branch of birds
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, right? So they should have public documents out there somewhere, right?
Debt is only important as a percentage of GDP. The actual debt figure is fairly irrelevant. It is when you stack the debt figure against the GDP that you see how good / bad the debt load of a country is.

The trouble Europe has is that a number of member states are drowning in debt. Their debt greatly exceeds GDP and it is getting worse.. for a country like Italy this is recoverable as long as the markets believe they can pay it back! As soon as the markets stop believing their debt interest will stay above 7%, they will unable to maintain their debt and will probably go under as they are too big to bail out.

This is where UK and the US differ. There is a strong belief in the markets that they can pay their debt back just fine. The interest on their debt is about 2% and everything is manageable.

At least this is how I understand it.
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What are you quoting from?
I see NFC as potentially good for profiles. At work? The NFC token on your desk is noticed by your phone and switches to your work profile. In the car? Bluetooth and GPS on. Leaving the car? Turn it off and remember where you left your car. Etc.
Also, have any of these people contacted paypal before using their services? I'v spent around an hour waiting for and talking with paypal support to make sure that I'm able to use paypal for my new project without any problems.
> Parakey investors got they’re money back

How can one write for a living and spell like this? English is not my mother tongue and yet I now the difference between they're and their, it's vs. its.

Or is this the result of poor speech-recognition software?
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Why the hell doesn't the lookup code work left-to-right, like you write CSS? Is there a good reason, or is it just there to make you eschew best practices after you learn them?
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I'm guestimating that you're off by an order of magnitude.

According to Alexa, somewhere between 0.6% and 0.8% of the entire web goes there every day.
Neither eBay or PayPal has evolved in any meaningful way in the last decade.

PayPal has been continually extending it's international merchant support. They may look like bloodsucking imbeciles in the US, but as an Estonian I am thankful for their support as nobody else cares.
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More to the point: if you pick the right distribution, there's at least a stated policy of not doing crap like this.

Debian has a social contract (http://www.debian.org/social_contract ), a constitution (http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution ), and a policy (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/). Each of these serves to describe what the Debian Project does, and more importantly, doesn't do. The social contract clearly states "Our priorities are our users and free software". Software which violates this principle will, at the very least, generate rancorous debate, if not be pulled outright. Odds are very good that behavior such as that CBSi / CNET / Download.com has exhibited would NOT be tolerated.

This is among the key benefits of using Free Software (in the FSF sense). You aren't the enemy or product of your software vendor. You are the goal.

I've got very strong reasons for believing that the Microsoft Windows applications model is fundamentally and philosophically incompatible with this mode of operation.

The Mac world seems slightly better, but it's likewise got some serious conflicts of interest, though there's far less a record of useless OEM bundling (forbidden by Apple) and force / drive-by installs. Mostly due to Apple's very focused attention on the end-user experience, if not freedom.
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Reasonable question, but no. Paypal's not responsible for that, and even if they were the "it's ok to use it for a sick cat" thing is clearly not about compliance with 501c3 regulations.
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This raises the question of whether you need a co-founder or a hire. It depends on the business.

IMO "40% is way too high for a designer" is too general. It depends on how significant a part of the leadership team they're going to be. Since you say you want them to "help out on the front end" - I'd lean towards guessing that you might need a hire, not a co-founder.
You can do it with lambdas, but it's going to be absurdly ugly: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/09/on-writing-python-one-liners....
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Makes a whole lot of sense to me. Text input in a browser should be handled a lot more carefully than text input to "regular" system applications.
This seems to a phenomenon unique to Windows and growing.

No wonder everybody complains about Windows being slow and full of popups and spam, almost everything you try and install on it seems to want to also install some free trial/browser toolbar/sign up for some online service etc.
Cool! Hadn't heard of that. Thanks much for the recommendation.
Dude, that is fascinating.

Is there some way I can contact you?
Download.com users are probably over-represented on Alexa simply because of all the tracking crapware they have installed.
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Nice work guys , it was fun learning like this. But when I had to go back after finishing the course , the share window , i mean the option to tweet and deploy still follow me in all my previous windows. It would be great if you can provide a close button :)
Bitcoin people are pretty eager to donate, because they want to support the currency. I developed a very small web site (https://cryptedmemo.com/), and have already received almost 2BTC donations. The site isn't even used that much.
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Basically, yes. US and UK have central banks who will underwrite illogical levels of debt while (supposedly) maintaining a certain level of credibility; the EU has a galaxy of central banks who, individually, cannot do that any more, and a central bank which is not allowed to even try.

I don't like to say this, but the only logical solution is the one put forward (half-heartedly) by Sarkozy: let the ECB be the European FED, a proper central bank with full powers at European level, so that debt can be underwritten by Europe as a whole. The collective credibility of Europe as a huge market and productive force is unquestionable, so this would stop speculative moves and stabilize the system.

Unfortunately, Germany is currently led by a chancellor who thinks she's running a Bavarian village, and would rather try to save her cows into a "safe barn" than to stop the avalanche from getting into the valley in the first place. This makes it easy for US and UK media to fuel doubt in the Euro, indirectly boosting their own currencies and helping themselves to artificially-low borrowing rates.

And I say that as a UK citizen who will eventually benefit from this state of things (through increased public investment, or rather less ferocious cuts by the bunch of aristos currently running the show over here).
I just went through a distro choice process. I installed various flavors of Mint, Debian, Arch, Redhat, Ubuntu, Archbang, Crunchbang, even went retro and tried FreeBSD again. I probably went through 20+ distros.

I really wanted to go with Arch but there are simply some desktop things I need and I want them to work out of the box and not spend days figuring it out.

Reasons I couldn't stick with Arch: things like Skype microphone, URL links in various apps able to open the correct browser, consistent key bindings, laptop power management. That last one was a killer for me. In the end, I've settled on Lubuntu 11.10. Lubuntu's LXDE setup is clean and light. It lets me stick with an Ubuntu repo system without suffering through what may be a multi-year Unity breaking-in process.
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The ideas in this article are eerily reminiscent of what people were saying in the late '90s/early '00s, particularly with respect to companies like Enron. Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article making the opposite point to this one. http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm

I suspect after the bubble pops we'll be reading 'the talent myth'-type articles in Forbes.
>""How about if we lower the price of the company by $X, and add $X to your retention package?" This is wrong and possibly illegal"

It would be good to clarify if this in fact illegal. If it is not illegal, than saying that it is wrong is subjective. In the case of talent acquisitions, the acquiring company has an incentive to focus more compensation to the 'founder-cum-employee' for retention and incentive purposes. I feel that it would be very reasonable for an acquiring company to use this as a negotiation tool (unless it is illegal, of course) as they are merely looking out for their own, longer-term interests.
Great. So can DuckDuckGo:

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Clickable and brings you to wolfram alpha:
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zero-click search is an awesome feature of DuckDuckGo
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