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I'm guessing in the $750k plus range...unless they've owned it for years.
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Here is a more informative and graphical view of what has happened:
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Be warned! Google App Engine Pricing has gone up by as much as 500% since Nov 7. The code is based on GAE and you just need be warned that if you spend time and build around it, be ready for some crazy billing. I'm talking from personal experience :(
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Your latter input is appreciated, but I'm not sure being a "full-time consultant" qualifies you to answer this question, which is almost certainly directed at those with less daily flexibility. If my site explodes in activity while I'm at work, I can literally do nothing to sop up any problems that might arise, unless I decide to try to cash in sick time and head out early, or sit on my hands til I get home. A fulltime consultant faces none of these issues.
"domain squatter is someone who registers domains with the intent of flipping them for a profit"

Not true. See this:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property00/domain/legislation.h...

(The definition I gave is actually more broad.)
I've been using Domain Discover and I haven't had any problems.
I haven't worked much with OAuth on the iPhone, but what I hate is that, when it's embedded in apps, it makes phishing attempts pretty much undetectable for end users. I see a Facebook login form pop up in a UIWebView in an app - is it really Facebook, or is it some other site? I have no way of knowing.
heh, this happened to us a month or so ago. we even got a ransom note!

(TLDR: godaddy eventually came through for us)
Moral of the story: If you're on SVN right now, abandon it as soon as possible. Moving even a 2000 commit repo is no fun, especially when there are more developers involved.
I think it's more of a cultural difference. "Engineer" just doesn't mean the same thing south of the border; it means more like "developer", or perhaps "technical employee".
I've got a Playbook, and I completely disagree with you.

The lack of apps is a symptom, not a problem. The development environment is very poor, the app store itself is slow and badly designed, and it's missing important glue like Android's killer universal share screen.

They didn't want to cannibalize their phones, and missed the fact that their phones are going away - and that phones, computers, tablets are turning into a spectrum of connected devices that are expected to do more or less the same things but in different form factors appropriate to different contexts.

The hardware itself is pretty awesome, so that's not at fault. And there are neat UI touches like the active borders. But overall, it's just a terrible operating system, and they didn't have a clue what it takes to create a developer ecosystem. Even the apps they do have feel like cheap knock-offs. Have you played Angry Apes?!

It's no wonder that RIM's now talking about pushing its enterprise lock-down functionality - its only real selling point at this stage - to iPhones and Android devices.
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There are a few option parsers in node that do automatically generate usage. However, this is actually quite problematic if you have a lot of options.

Check out https://github.com/harthur/nomnom, it may be more to your liking.
Congratulations to the Django team. This is a big step towards to the adoption of python 3. The more big libraries that are ported the sooner we will see wide spread adoption.
Another thing Zynga is great at (and a business practice others follow) is the outright copying of other product's game mechanics and concepts. Hopeful coat tail riding doesn't always pay out. coughMinoMonsterGalaxycough
Groupon had to cheat their numbers to appear like they were making money. Zynga, for all their fault, don't need that.
We may not need the publishers or the industry infrastructure, but I would argue we definitely need the artists.

However my belief is that eventually music and eventually film will morph into primarily a hobby or very small business over time.
nope, oAuth 2 is still a pain to use. all of the oAuths are developer hostile, they make authentication a many step process with many potential fail cases.
I don't agree with what you are saying but more importantly the same is true for .org .info .us and any tld overseen by ICANN.
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When the shutdown of Google Translate API was announced, a few months ago. (Just the API, note. Not the tool itself).

It was saved because people care enough about the translation API that they're willing to pay for using it.
After Django gets ported, the only thing keeping me from jumping to Python 3 is PIL. PIL has indicated that a 3.x-compatible version is in the works: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
A coworker had a playbook. He said he "was _not_ disappointed". The selling feature was that the OS looked like OSX, as opposed to "the usual crappy android UI".

He didn't really have an answer for why he didn't just get an iPad if he wants something like OSX on it.
We use HasOffers as well and its a great system. After trying lots of other affiliate systems including trying to build one in-house we are finally happy :)
Or Beer sites.
You're right. Anything governed by ICANN. And I'm not agreeing or disagreeing about the control issue just pointing out the for example .org .us .info etc. would be in the same boat.
The big problem with oauth is how inconsistent everybodies implementations are. There isn't a good library because there are so many edge cases where API's implement it differently.

It's a developer hostile mechanism, but unfortunately it's the best option out there for granting subset access to an API with easy token revocation.
Ha! That was my first thought as well. Google tells me that Salesforce bought it from Microsoft. One can only hope MS was a bit hard up that month, and thus susceptible to some hard bargaining?

There are so many domain names of new companies that instantly cast an image in my head of a handful of people sitting around a conference table, shaking their heads and subtly grimacing but still mustering up optimism about the compromises they're making with a domain name.

well, it sure is quirky, but that'll capture their imaginations, right? the walrus evokes a kind of avuncular humor, as well as a kind of powerful muscularity, both of which are very appealing across many demographics

well, launching with the dot net is a bit risky, but we're an internet underpinnings kind of company right? That's what dot net is for, I believe, and anyone who goes to the dot com will realize they're in the wrong place pretty quickly

well, sure, we'd have to spell it out letter-by-letter in a radio interview, but who does radio anymore? in a conversation, you'll just give them your card. and in google, once we've got some traction any of the natural misspellings are going to work just fine anyway. the sound of it is just awesome, the three Xs make for a powerful text logo, and the dot com isn't squatted or anything

oh, but come on, who's going to read it like that? someone with a sick mind, that's who, but even then, doesn't that just add a little spark of interest to an industry that otherwise has a pretty boring image

well, it sure is a boatload of cash, and we could probably launch 5 startups with just the funds that are going into this domain name, but we've got the resources right now, and if this thing really takes off that'll be a drop in the bucket, right? Really, really takes off, yeah, but i've been crunching the numbers and
IMHO: It was logically weak and largely anecdotal. It made reference to a study where the name was changed from a woman's name to a man's name. We don't know when the study was published. We don't know if that was just one example out of many that conveniently illustrated her point.

All the rest of the article was based on her own experience (sample size: 1 woman) and nothing else. This makes it very different from the anonymous post on Reddit recently about salary negotiation. In the case of the Reddit post, the author had hired hundreds of people and probably was talking about a statistically significant sample size.

Very weak article overall. I would have commented on the Atlantic about it, but there's no comments section.

The correct rebuttal to the OP on Reddit would be a double-blind study where women and men with the same résumés were interviewed for the same position with subjects given the same HR instructions as the OP. The men and women are each broken up into two groups (for a total of four), each employing the salary negotiation tactics described by the OP.
I have to say, that is an excellent point. I've never really considered the overal addition to societal utility that free distribution of a non-scarce good creates.
From an IPO standpoint, I see a strong similarity between Groupon and Zynga... both were high-flyers that ran into profit problems and are now desperate to get access to the public market funding before their business model peters out.

I wish the best for the rank-and-file at Zynga, but I feel like the IPO is rushed, and that usually isn't a sign of success.
I really like nomnom. It's a super tight way to define options and commands.
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We help thousands of brands with retargeting and, yes, the results range from "holy crazy crap" to "hot diggity dangermouse." We offer an easy-to-use platform, great ROI, and powerful personalized advertising (eg, LiquidAds.)

Like secret_target says, partnering with a retargeting platform gets you much wider reach and better results than working exclusively with a single inventory pool like Google. (Google has the monopoly in search, but not display...)
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I assume entertainment budgets are a constant percentage of total discretionary spending. So they go up as income increases with economic growth.
It would be awesome if someone came up with a class that used Skype or some multi-user video/audio remote solution.
Was FarmVille a direct ripoff of FarmTown? Absolutely. Was CityVille a direct ripoff of the city games before it? Not even close.

The personal attack is hilarious. Mike Sego is a good friend and to think that I would outright copy his game is deplorable. When our product releases in the next few weeks, you'll see how different MinoMonsters is.
I read it as Moral of the story: don't switch from SVN unless you have good reason OR small team with not a lot of commits.
I have a degree in Computer Engineering, but I've never got a PE license either. The important thing is that I don't ever call myself an Engineer. I am a programmer, or developer, or whatever; calling myself an Engineer would be dishonest.

I don't think it's backwards thinking so much as an important distinction between how Canada uses the word "Engineer" and how much of the rest of the (English speaking) world does.
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It's amazing the authors of the paper didn't realize they were disproving their own conclusion with their results.
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I'd argue that the credibility of any institution comes not from its refusal to shape its message but from the openness and verifiability of any claims that are made and/or focused on. WL is part of a new kind of journalistic movement, it's not an anthropological organization.

The credibility of WL depends on it's willingness to be transparent about its processes and to let anyone who reads the fine print determine that the PR headline was fundamentally accurate. The need to even write headlines presupposes that 5-7 words can offer the gist of what the full document states. It's absurd to think that an unbiased headline could possibly exist, it's just a question of what the headline writer thinks is important.

Incidentally, this is the same credibility metric that I'd apply to governments, which WL is helping to usher in by offering a way to measure government claims with a BS-o-meter to reveal what was propaganda and artifice intended to make people draw specific conclusions.

It's up to the reader to figure out the truth, but the pretense of 100% neutrality is overrated. Think about it, lots of people believe that major newspapers are neutral. The key is that WL provides the raw data so that over time it can earn credibility. This is something that even the most respected newspapers refuse to do.

Even though I'm generally a supporter of WL, I'm the first to admit that its PR approach began as naive and has progressed to what I'd call "emotional". But WL is also very much a startup and will gain experience that lets it earn deeper credibility over time (or not).
Freaking awesome. I have been watching the Python community slowly move to Python 3 and to be honest it seems like the smoothest and most well planned transition I've gone through.

Really early on they said Python 3 would break backward compatibility. Normally I'd bitch and moan but they gave us plenty of time and knew it would be a slow process.

Hopefully everyone will move to python 3 soon and we can just leave 2.x cleanly.
One would assume that they are clever enough to have built in safeguards to prevent anything going too long, or using too much processing power.
Ah, so it's two separate arguments, a moral one and an economic one.

1. I disagree. I'm curious as to the precise moral dimension you're talking about here.

2. You're kidding yourself if you think you can stop it, or that by plugging your ears and closing your eyes you can make it all go away.

Most of your argument seems to be that because artists rely on selling copies now, that it must always be so. The fact is, artistic expression predates copying technology. Art fits into the technological capabilities that exist, not the other way around. Before image copying tech, artists made paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and sold them. There were other business models as well, like private and religious patronage. In ancient times, oral poets travelled and essentially gave live concerts. Dramatists had state sponsorship. Many of these business models and even entire mediums died out as our technology changed. That's what happens.

Maybe authors as we know them will figure out a way to survive, or maybe they'll die out. Same goes for filmmakers, musicians or any other artists. There's nothing special about the particular art forms we have now.

I keep talking vaguely about alternative business models because we're at a transition point. They haven't been invented yet.

"Nobody's going to invent an ingenious new way of making money out of music. There's live performance or there's selling intellectual property. That's it."

That's the spirit! You'd better tell Amanda Palmer, though, I don't think she got that memo.
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This is the exact same advice I give to people who want to become physicians, particularly surgeons, having watched several people go through it. It's only a rational choice if you know you'd never be happy doing anything else.
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Yes!!! I was hoping to have pay-per-impression advertisement that would pay the bill but apps which don't offer wordy clutter are not allowed to have ads. I was rejected by adSense, BuySellAds, and adBrite. Sometimes I think we build Internet for robots not for humans.

I have ~100 visits per day. That costs me ~$0.10 per day.

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Thanks for such a detailed reply.

I had briefly met #1, #2, parts of #3, done #4. I think I've been spoilt by python.

Maybe I just need to try to do some real work on Clojure and pair with someone who knows.
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I definitely see the value in this consistency. But do you think that over time the two lines will ever intersect? Maybe hiring manager == actual manager just gives a head start, but it's more about finding the right manager for the developer?
I mildly protest this advice because it is possible that one really, deeply enjoys the process of starting a business but they would not know unless they try, so it could very well be worth giving it a shot if you're in a position to do so.

Then we can consider the advice of another philosopher, John McCarthy (coined the term A.I. and "discovered" lisp), "If it doesn't work right, we can always try something else."
Good essay. I actually just started something similar, though since I don't watch TV or have another source of news, I am going to keep reading my RSS feed and the front page and occasional new pages of HN.

One thing I disagree with, but only slightly because you seem to have mis-used the terms, I agree with what I think you meant:

>Schedule your content consumption routine and be reactive than proactive

Actually, when you set your own schedule for doing things you are being proactive. Reactive is what you stopped when you quit checking new emails as they arrived. More generally - Reactive is responding to outside triggers; Proactive is working toward your own goals and setting your own schedule.

I tried to leave this on your site's comments but Disqus, as usual, was screwing up.
If you don't practice, it doesn't matter how much talent you have.

Exactly, greats don't just show up great. Carmack is considered great in the field of graphics programming, and if the Masters of Doom book is correct he is a mix of tons of talent and lots of practice.
Legally that may be what domain squatting is. However, colloquially, domain squatting means registering domains that you don't use just so you can sell them again for profit. While there may be no legal recourse against such domain squatters, most people would still consider it domain squatting and ethically dubious.
I believe it is possible also, good luck!
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I am diagnosed with OCD (Pure-O) and ADD, so I am prescribed VyVanse (an amphetamine similar to adder all) for daily use to get me running efficiently. I find it really enhances my ability to be productive and code. In fact I now seem to rely on it to program which isn't the best thing to do. I am curious as to how many other hackers on HN also use performance enhancing drugs to do work or bang out code. If so, have any of you come to rely on it to do anything productive?
How can Americans still want to "play it safe" when every single one of the GOP candidates besides Ron Paul said they would extend the Patriot Act, too, in the last debate. It's time for radical change that would actually turn this trend around of stamping over the Constitution and rights.
I built a service for monitoring SSL certificates (https://www.certician.com/) in my free time, although it's not yet profitable. I'm hoping it will be someday soon.

The feeling when a new customer from across the country signs up is a pretty good one!
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Was Greg Wilson teaching the Software Engineering course? :)
You can argue the morality of it all you like, but practically, piracy (or free distribution) isn't going anywhere. It's too easy to copy digital goods. The entire internet is built on copying. Everything you use is copied several times just to get it to you.

You're not going to stop it, so if you are an artist or author you should try to find new ways to make money. Crowd-sourcing is one way. Hell I'd pay several hundred dollars to George R. R. Martin to get him to hurry up on his next book.

Edit: Accidentally wrote Robert Jordan instead of George R. R. Martin
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I worked on NERO 5 years ago with many of the same people as well.In fact, we were the first batch of [then] undergrads join the project.

I am very glad to see that the project has continued and is still going strong.
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I am in a similar position. I'm 26, my girlfriend is 27. We're both medical students doing our clinical rotations. I'm near the top of my class in med school and my girlfriend is similar. We have a 4 year old daughter as well. I'm currently working on my startup and keeping my girlfriend happy.

Some tips:
- Weekends are not for your startup. Weekends are for your wife and kids. I work on my startup after I finish putting my daughter to sleep at 8:30pm. I finish working by 11pm or midnight.

- Your wife is going to be the one picking up your slack. Make your life easier by making her life easier. For me that means taking on more responsibility around the house(I'm vigilant about dishes, cleaning the bathroom, and doing laundry). I do this stuff as soon as I get home so she can play with our daughter instead of doing housework. This keeps my girlfriend's stress levels down and makes my startup seem less burdensome.
- Take on tasks that require you to sit around for long periods of time. Today I took our car to get serviced and coded in the waiting area.
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doesn't really make sense, the NYC area is starving for talent + I dunno where they got it, but most techies in this area aren't that entrepreneurial.

chances are this will end up driving salaries up by 10-15%, and will end up hurting most of the startups here by making it infinitely harder to hire/retain talent

A smarter move for them would be to open an office in Boston, since then you'd be able to tap into all those grads from MIT
For a long time I realized that there was a cognitive disconnect between what I meant when I said 'retire' and what people heard. This captures the 'after you don't need to please someone else in order to fund your daily life expenses' mode that I think of as 'retirement.' I know I'll be hacking new things and reading interesting papers and writing code right up until the point where the EEEG straightlines :-)
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if you have (or could have) problems working your laptops (you cant install apps, you dont want others see your personal project stuff on your pc etc..), you still can:

* work in the cloud (virtual server, ec2 instance, web based tools etc..) using a internet USB key on the train

* use another OS instance in a virtualized environment (i.e. virtualbox installed in a usb key) and install all the stuff you need in this VM (im not sure you can do it w/o admin priviledges in windows)

* boot a linux distro from USB key so you still use your laptop but completely without touching your original OS