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This is nice - if you know the meaning behind the term. But RIM is an international company, so not all of their costumers know this all to well.

I as a non-native speaker was definitely not aware of the term, so my first association was "play" - I am sure there are many more like me. This is definitely an unfortunate choice of a brand name.
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Is there a reason you avoid using the same company for hosting and registration?
That sounds like a pretty modest valuation compared to all the recent craziness.
namecheap.com is good if you're looking for something cheap (e.g. you've got 50 domains to register).

Gandi.net is great if you don't mind spending $15 per domain.
Piracy will be a problem because marginal cost of distribution is ~0. There's not that much money to extract from distribution anymore because the industries are not providing that much value. They only really provide value to the few artists that they promote well enough to become megahits. Artists that try to play that lottery generally get what they deserve.

Industry wants you to conflate its incentives with artists' incentives, but that's never been true.

Again, musicians need to focus on where they can actually provide value. Recorded music isn't it. They'd be better off considering it marketing. They should be happy that distribution is now basically free, instead of previous situation where they basically had to pay labels for it.

The means to create music is getting cheaper all the time, and there are more ways to fund it than ever before.

In short, the old business model doesn't work anymore, if it ever did. Find a new one.
I think you are absolutely right that this is only going to be used when other means fail. Why would anyone lift standard materials for a sky scraper with an aircraft when they can use a crane?

But once you start doing construction the advantages of quadcopters (mainly control) starts to get outweighed by their inefficiency. Regular helicopters are far more efficient - large rotors are exactly what you want for heavy lifting. The strongest helicopter I know of is the CH-53E Super Stallion, and that is a single rotor aircraft (even though it has multiple engines).
"making me more money in 2 months than my day job was paying me for an entire year!"

Day job of 50k / year, over 2 months, so per month 25k. 'Making money' = profit, otherwise I could be 'making' 250k / month by opening a BMW dealership and selling 2 per month - which in the real world would bankrupt me Very Quickly.

So, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but didn't you say that you were making 25k or more?
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Not even close. What an incredibly sensationalist title from PC Mag.
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I'm curious to know if the domain was in REGISTRAR-LOCK at the time. According to GoDaddy's policies, they relock after 30 days, so it's likely it was locked. http://help.godaddy.com/article/410 (obviously an outside domain transfer is not the only option for takeover)
> There is also not much stopping you from using PHP, Python, Ruby, or anything else with a REPL as your daily shell, but bash is the most popular and works quite well for this problem domain.

This is relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3637668/336455
In short, there are some objective reasons, not just popularity.
This is scary, I have all my domains with godaddy!
Hey, didn't know you were on here! I run quietspeculation.com. Incredible that you're doing all that. Can't wait to get my mat design to you.
This seems to be last time updated in 2003. The situation should be a little different today with Pyhton 3.
Well, in the U.S., spending money is seen as speech, leading to many absurdities. So spending money in support of various abhorrent things is apparently the same as just talking about it. Except if it could be construed that you are supporting terrorism, of course, since then all constitutional protections are off.
I transferred all my domains to moniker.com and have an account rep that calls me if any odd activity occurs. I doubt this would happen with them. They allow you to lock down your domains so that it requires offline authentication to move them. Been with Moniker for 4+ years.
Problem goes beyond just css-tricks.com. I've been following David Walsh for a while, and apparently his domain has been nabbed as well, along with DesignShack.net, SohTonaka.com, and InstantShift.com

https://twitter.com/#!/davidwalshblog/status/142645321791586...
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1and1 might not be popular here, but they're pretty cheap ($8.99 for .com), they have sales regularly and they throw in private whois info for free, plus your domain is locked down by default so the sort of thing described in the OP shouldn't happen.

Never had a problem with them in almost 5 years.
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To add to this, Kumar McMillan's talk, "Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified" (http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/) is really good.
I love it!

And that is the reason I still write in Python or Lisp when I don't need something (Hadoop, Lucene, etc) from the JVM ;-)
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I am very thankful, this is awesome. My wife, on the other hand, doesn't know you but she hates you already.
A question to the SV hotshots on here: is there a social stigma in the valley around developing for companies like zynga? Or does nobody really care? When a load of devs meet each other in a bar, does one "admit" that one works for zynga, or simply say so?
I remember reading about this happening to a few other design blogger websites over the last few weeks. I'm still trying to wade through the "I hate Godaddy" posts to find if anyone has any idea why this might be happening. I'm guessing weak passwords.
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Except that 1.7 billion people joined the Internet since 2000.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
I agree. Rewriting public history causes lightening to fall from the sky and strike you down. Also everyone then hates you. This is what I've had problems with Git UI's the in past... They try to make git easier and as a result tend to hide, or gloss over, very important details. Rewriting history is a non-trivial thing to do and should be done with the utmost care.
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For decoding a byte string, I prefer bytes.decode("utf8"). Note that decode takes an optional second argument that says what to do if an invalid byte sequence is encountered - by default an exception is raised.

Also, I think http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html may be a better reference than this article.
Totally agree. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the onus is on 'intellectual property' proponents to justify their position, instead of vice versa. It does not seem obvious to me that people have a natural right to make money on intangibles.

Even copyright and patent law wasn't in inception about natural rights, so much as it was about 'encouraging continued creation,' but I've yet to see convincing evidence that intellectual property rights actually have this effect, or that lack of intellectual property rights discourage it.
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1) IPO: I had already left and moved on to my next startup when the IPO happened. I put the money in the bank.

2) Acquisition: Stayed with the company for a year until they changed their minds and discarded what we had built, (this was the dotcom era, but we weren't a dotcom). I put the money in the bank.

3) Acquisition: Again, after I left for my next startup. Money went to the bank.

4) Acquisition: Stayed around for 3+ years until the PHBs took over cmopletely. Went to another startup. Put the money in the bank.

I've been amazingly lucky with my startups. Financially, each one made my life more comfortable, built a nest egg, helped pay for my kids' education. I keep saying "this is my last startup", but I keep going back. I am now in a position that I could "retire", but I'm at startup #5. This is my last one, this time for sure. If/when I do retire, I'll still be hacking interesting software, even if it's not for a company.
Another vote for Moniker. I transferred everything from GoDaddy to Moniker a couple years ago after GoDaddy pulled some other asinine stunt.
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School and part-time student programming work took up 40-60 hours a week, and I put in another 20 on our business on top of that. Got barely ramen profitable by graduation, which let me keep from getting a job for 8 months while it ramped up enough to start actually supporting me.
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I used name.com for a website once. I used them for my DNS also (because I don't know how to set up a separate DNS) and they parked there own auto-generated crap at everything except the www subdomain. Apparently, if you are savvy enough to set up your own DNS this isn't a problem, but I wouldn't use them because of this.
Me too. No issues after many years of namecheap.
That's more like buying a different phone. You don't have access to the internals of the shipped device, so you decide to use a different one.
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Browsing at the store, the playbook didn't seem as responsive or the UI very intuitive. Just getting back out of an app seemed like a chore. In fact, I'd say it seemed to be the hardest ui to navigate of any of the tablets I looked at.

So maybe owning it and getting used to it takes some time, but it would take a lot of convincing for me to think about buying one after the quick store browsing. Most of the people around me didn't seem very interested in it, either.

Does it have a kindle app?
We use JAX-RS as a primary web framework in our current project and honestly I can't get happier! We use Guava for low-level basic stuff and Google GSON for JSON serialization. It seems to be on par with Jackson from ease-of-use point of view:

MyType myVar = gson.fromJson(jsonString);

JPA on a back, some basic IoC in the middle (nothing fancy). Mockito and jUnit for tests.

All in all it's just a bunch of small layered classes with some bits of annotations and no xml. Well, one web.xml file with single servlet declaration for JAX-RS :)

With good IDE (they all are great this days), Maven for dependencies, well-known practices and modern APIs Java isn't that scary or cumbersome anymore. It's just a nice small language. A bit verbose without closures and type inference but still Ok.

I should note, though, that we generally use our Java layer as a service provider. We keep main bits of logic on a client side in JavaScript and call Java either for transactions and data, or in cases when something is hard to do on a client. It's just easier that way.
i have built a startup on the side while working full time still. due to the fact that we are 3 partners, the money is not enough to quit my day job but it's getting there. we have grown from $0 to $200K in 2 and a half years while all 3 of us do this part time. i did all the development and sysadmin work and the other partners took care of the marketing and business side of things.
I imagine that would depend on your position in the company. If you're a product manager you might face some stigma but if you're a software engineer I doubt anything matters other than the technical challenges you face. (And Zynga operates at a scale that would definitely create technical challenges.)

*disclaimer: I'm not nor have I ever been in SV.
I heard that Unity (the game SDK) and Marmalade SDK can now be used to create apps for the PlayBook (as well as iOS, Android, etc.)

Developers who use those SDK's might make a PlayBook version just so they can be the "only fish in the pond" (unlike other app stores, where it's easy to get lost among the zillions of other apps).
Agree. Had a hell of a time getting OAuth to work on my iPhone Netflix app. Just hours and hours wasted.

I have an Instagram iPad app which was a breeze to implement. IG does a great job documenting their API.
The tool is pretty awesome but the whole presentation is worth watching for anyone doing WebGL dev.

I have to say, being able to see what each drawcall is doing individually and see what each pixel goes through made me drool. I'm going to use this everyday now.
They are close to break-even per SEC filings: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=P+Key+Statistics
What matters is whether or not the operator of the TLD is within US jurisdiction, not the purpose of the TLD.
Conspiracy does not mean that you carried out the act, or even that you tried to.

Besides, people die after someone shouts fire in a crowded theater, but it's still speech.
" If someone downloads music for free and uses the money saved to go to a concert, they are consuming more in terms of other people's labor for the same price."

Though due to the higher distribution of the content (since its at no cost to the consumer), more people are discovering it, and more people are going to the concerts. Lower margins, higher volume.
Thanks. I still have a question, though: if the FBI can seize these domain names, does that mean they can seize any domain names? I'm a little fuzzy on the control/management scheme here.
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Theres a pretty basic flaw, I can draw over the rocks.
I did say marketing/sales is the exception.

Not bothering to commit code? If it works, and you don't have actual customers yet? Then yes...it's just busy work at that point.

Community/Customer Support? I dunno about you, but customer support is only required for less than 1% of users. And even then it's usually a case of 1-2 sentences.

Paying bills? How many bills do you have as a startup?
I think we're being trolled.

"Great stuff, faster Web interactions, but let's not forget that that universal access using any software is why the Web took off in the first place." Has he any had experiences where a site served only SPDY clients?
True, I was having some issues with bubbling the events up correctly while dragging over the canvas, so I wound up just merging the rock images in once dropped. That's also why you can't move them once placed.

It's something I'll be fixing when I get the time.
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Dreamhost is definitely fantastic for customer support, but after a recent email exchange, I learned that they don't have a timeline for when they'll upgrade their password system, which does not use one-way hashes. Password reminder emails contain the password in plaintext. If you're reading this thread and are concerned about domain security, I'd suggest looking somewhere other than Dreamhost for the time being.
Is there some kind of nationwide high school "math club" or something? Kinda like the Science Olympiads, or the 24 clubs there used to be (or may still be) At the college level, I'm sure there's something too. I'd try to find that type of organization, and reach out to their national office. From there, and what type of "contest" or promotion you'd like to try, I'm not really sure. I'd try to reach out to math teachers as well, ontop of your direct audience (I'm assuming the kids) they tend to have a big influence on what their students are exposed to.
So, in that case, the FBI could seize any domain as long as the operator is within US jurisdiction?
Except that Zynga actually makes profit.
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I bought it but it triggers the discrete video card in my 2010 MBP whenever I view a change. That makes it impossible to keep running or it will drain my battery twice as fast.

I do like the single view but it really needs to have the timeline.
It really is a nice device, I was pleasantly surprised since I was expecting something closer to a BlackBerry. If I didn't already have a tablet I'd strongly consider the PlayBook.
> Just getting back out of an app seemed like a chore. In fact, I'd say it seemed to be the hardest ui to navigate of any of the tablets I looked at.

Swipe up from the bottom edge of the bezel to get to home screen. How is that hard? Personally I really like how PlayBook uses the bezel for UI.

>Does it have a kindle app?

Not that I know, it has a Kobo app. No side-loading though.
I just recently found out that dream host stores it's passwords in plaintext! I'll probably be looking to transfer away from this simply for that reason. If you haven't set your panel security to use email confirmation to let new IP addresses log in, I would strongly recommend it.
People admit it, but usually there's kind of a 'haha, yes, I have no life' disclaimer that goes along with the acknowledgement.
For those looking for something more like Sinatra in Java, check out webbit: https://github.com/joewalnes/webbit

Here's an example of a simple Websocket chat server: https://gist.github.com/1421652

Disclaimer: It's an open source project that I have some commits to
Time to betray some serious virtualization ignorance; when do people use QEMU outside a datacenter (presumably for mapping multiple virtual machines to one physical machine)? How often does one need to run binaries compiled for another machine architecture? And setting aside banal scenarios like running Word on Windows inside Linux, when is a guest OS useful?
It's an interesting idea. It seems to me that so much of the revenue side depends on scale. How can you monetize something if you aren't sure how its going to be used etc? The user experience often drives how a site can be monetized... you know?
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Seconding the recommendation for gandi. They have very strong policies in favor of the domain owner. They also provide nice services such as email hosting for your domain. I use their server hosting as well, which works quite well, though not fast.

Also, they support quite a few good causes (https://www.gandi.net/supports/); they fund Debian's DebConf every year.
I'm from India, we make money in our currency which is Rupees (INR). I do know that 'making money' = profit and that is exactly what we are making. I'm not selling BMW cars. I write code which takes my time but needs no money, host it on GAE and AWS, which is not so expensive and so make a very good profit.

Yes, you are misunderstanding what I said by pushing those figures.
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The website might seem pretty crappy, but they have really good customer support, plus the best API I've found. If you're looking to register domain names programmatically, definitely check them out.
I agree on the drank their own Kool-aid thing. I have a friend at RIM and I've been trying to tell her RIM is in danger since 2009. But back then RIM was still breaking their own revenue records every quarter, but that was obviously a matter of inertia Internationally that they've got because of their years of popularity in US. But they should've seen that that advantage will only be temporary, unless they release some products that can really compete with the iPhone and Android phones.

But they never did. Even in early 2010 (before their sales started crashing down) RIM was pretty much "worry-free" according to my friend working there. This was clearly a matter of vision and leadership failure.
I don't think you understood my point. If Switzerland's economy financed movies and depended on the revenue from those movies to employ people, their government would have a different view of people downloading free movies and music. It is a different aspect of intellectual property rights, but the argument is the same in both cases.
No it's not. Zynga has 200MM+ monthly active users and a revenue run rate of $900MM. It's nothing like 1999.

You may think Zynga is overvalued, but if so, I'd be curious to see you put that in the form of a quantitative argument.
Likewise, I've had a good experience with 1and1 for something approaching a decade. My GF and I have a couple dozen domains. Whenever she has a new creative idea, she gets a new domain.
Good call, but in the U.S., according to Wikipedia: "The Shabani case illustrates that it is a matter of legislative prerogative whether to require an overt step, or not to require an overt step in any conspiracy statute."

So conspiracy without an overt act is not constitutionally protected.
Would locking your domain name at GoDaddy help?

http://help.godaddy.com/article/410

I am just wondering for my personal info, I have lots of domains hosted with them
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"Of course, I don't hear a lot of negatives about Switzerland."

Apart from being a country that gets much of its wealth from hiding the blood money of dictators and criminals? Right.
Tech company IPOs do not imply a bubble.

If there are lots of successful, profitable tech companies that are not IPOing, then something else is wrong.
Yeah, it is probably a good thing that there are less than two weeks to submit an entry.
One thing to note about EasyDNS is that last I checked, glue updates require human intervention, and IPv6 glue is a good way to confuse the humans on the other side of the support channel. If you don't use glueful delegations, then you probably don't care, but this is the sort of thing that's harder to tell upfront.
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I moved my domains away from GoDaddy primarily because I grew tired about all the desperate upsell spam they sent me ALL THE TIME.

Secondarily I moved because they are so big that if anything happens to my domains the chance I get to speak to a reasonable person are practically zero.

Find a smaller registrar, make sure you can get proper support from them, then move your domains there.

(Recovering a domain you have lost is orders of magnitude more expensive than taking steps to reduce the chance of it happening in the first place)
The difference that Michael Muchmore and PCMag are (deliberately) failing to understand is that while these new features are currently only implemented by chrome, this is only because other vendors have not yet implemented them, whereas with IE6 MS prevented other people from implementing them. This is what "lock-in" means.

There is absolutely nothing stopping MS from copy and pasting huge chunks of chromium into IE tomorrow. That was not the case with activex.

Like others have said, this article is trolling us.
It's still 10x sales, while Activision Blizzard is valued at 3x sales and EA is valued at 2x sales.

It's probably not outrageous per se, but it's certainly on the high side.
I think it's an internal number based on all those factors but they're probably weighted and decayed.
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