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Please note, I did not call mhartl a man of "no real ethics, a sociopath, dangerous, self-serving, and someone to distance yourself from."

I did say his ethics are weak, and I stand by this. Assuming he believes what he says, his anti-social position on the obligations of the corporation speak for themselves. And I did note that, when carried to the extreme, blind spots like the one shared by mhartl do, in fact, produce the litany of wrong that I mentioned (a position I REALLY stand by, having worked for people I wish I hadn't).

I did not, however, say that mhartl himself represents these extremes. That's an important distinction. And if, as you say, he is an honest, well-intentioned, and generous man, then perhaps he arrived at his current position for some benign reason - a lack of careful thought, or maybe an insufficiency of experience. In any case, people who share his lack of concern have become responsible for some very major damage. This aspect of his thought is not incidental to the problem, it IS the problem. Or, rather, it is an essential component of the problem.

Just consider what the OP is arguing. The faults of shareholder capitalism are not minor. Indeed, they have demonstrated a destructive power that has decimated companies, portfolios, and - at this late stage in the experiment - entire economies. This is not "creative destruction". It's shoot-yourself-in-both-feet-then-wonder-why-you-can't-walk destruction. And while we can demonstrate how bad it is now, there was no need to learn by doing. Had we considered the ethical failures inherent in mhartl's arguments sooner and more seriously, the crash of 2007/8 may have never come to pass.

Again, we're talking about a line of thought that has produced deep and lasting harm in the lives of billions - but not without racking up billion dollar gains for a microscopic minority who have responded by using their inordinate power to capture and corrupt the government we all depend on. This is really bad stuff. Historically speaking, this trajectory reduces citizens to subjects, and the weakest to slaves. Whether he realizes it or not, thinking like martl's supported the wrong side of political situation that has made itself the dominant evil of the day.

It needs to end, and the generation that does end it will probably spend the remainder of their lives cleaning up the mess. The sooner people disabuse themselves of the notions that allowed shareholder capitalism to spin so wildly out of control in the first place, the better off everyone is going to be - mhartl included.
I am not talking about "getting huge" at all, because I don't believe there is enough space in the market for 300+ (number of YC investments so far) huge (Google/Apple/Facebook/Microsoft) companies. I am, however, talking about non-trivial exits, ones that definitely put a founder in the "success" bin. Let's say, 10+ million in 4 years. I don't think it's possible to get to that point "on the side".
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This is great. I see that namespacing of events is on the TODO list and this would allow us to provide analytics to our customers.

Great work and very nice UI.
You're kidding, right? They didn't reverse anything - that "reversal" is PR chaff at its finest. Their congressional support for SOPA (the only thing that actually matters) has not been withdrawn.
That's neither here nor there. The point isn't that Samsung's sales will drop to zero — just that there is a lot of value in a good reputation. Apple has built its success on people loving it. If you piss people off and your competitor doesn't, you will lose customers to them, and they might very well make more money than you even though you have more plastic on the streets (which is the case with Apple vs. most Android manufacturers).
I don't have data, but I suspect that Walmart consistently does better than Nordstrom

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistently", but that doesn't actually seem true.

Over the past year (Nordstom did better most of the year): http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AJWN%2CNYSE%3AWMT

Over the past five years (Nordstom got off to a bad start but did better towards the end): http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AJWN%2CNYSE%3AWMT

Walmart and Nordstrom have similar stock prices, similar EPS, and similar P/E. I think it's fair to say that Nordstrom is doing fine.
My point wasn't whether you can purchase these phones there, although that you can, certainly does weaken my point.

My point is that Walmart is positioned as "Always low prices".

The Galaxy line is not positioned that way. The Galaxy line seems to directly take on the iPhone as its competition, not the low end feature phones.

Galaxy II S: $529, Galaxy Note: $600, Galaxy Nexus: $685. I think that's closer to your putative $2,000 phone than a $29 feature phone, especially priced in comparison to that iPhone. These are clearly high end phones segmented to a market that values that.

(Regardless, there is always this $50,000 Android phone: http://techspy.com/news/538379/the-50-000-android-phone)
Not allowing other registrars access to WHOIS is against the rules, regardless of what you think makes sense for spam prevention. If they have such a filter, it needs to go away.
I added a new domain on Namecheap after this fiasco began. If I were Namecheap, I would definitely go on the offense and try to get as many new customers as possible. The admin panel is nice and they seem fairly transparent.
Two clicks. Google is easy: click your name, click sign out. Facebook is slightly harder: click the menu triangle in the upper right hand corner, click sign out.
The VC firm in business for the fees was mostly a product of the Internet Bubble of the late 90s. There were still a significant number around when I wrote that 6 years ago, but in the last few years (and particularly since 2008) the bad firms have been ruthlessly pruned.

No VC whose name you recognize will invest in bad startups to get the management fees.
My wife isn't a programmer, but understands some of the stuff I do at a high level. I think that it makes conversations much more efficient. I can come home bummed out a little, she asks "what's wrong?", and I tell her that my code keeps crashing, or that I can't get some library to build, etc - and she gets it - end of conversation about that. It also helps out when I have to put in extra hours to get some stuff done ... she knows that this work can sometimes require a great amount of effort.
I don't think that murdering your rightful accuser and getting away with it is really what most people mean when they say "honor" these days.

Maybe honor did used to be more important, but it's not the same concept, only the same word.
I think sharing passion is great. Perhaps it isn't reasonable to expect unless you met through that passion, but simply 'entering your world', just a bit, is oh so important. What you guys did is amazing. You surely have a strong foundation in your relationship.

Unfortunately I just broke off an engagement to a lady who does event planning for a museum. When I met her almost 4 years ago she was working clothing retail on a hiatus from school. I encouraged her to finish her degree and to apply for internships before graduating. She didn't know what she wanted to do and the museum gig fell into her lap thru an acquaintance, but she loves art and consequently loves her job.

I went to most events she hosted over the period of a year she had the job and we were still together. I chatted up dozens of her co-workers, hung out dutifully, walked thru the exhibits with her as she explained them. I enjoyed it even though it wasn't my thing, it was fun to learn and I was proud of her.

During this period I went to two Startup Weekends. I asked her to come visit. Esp. the second one where my pitch was selected and I built a team of 7. I wanted her to see the final demonstration, to simply be there - for nothing else I was presenting in front of a crowd of 100 people and I was nervous. She would not come. She did "not like computers, that's your thing", paraphrasing. That was the major turning point...

It's not about learning to program, or to even take a passing interest or understanding. It's simply, "this is my life's work, please support me." I think if you can't get that out of a relationship that's a major red flag.
Perhaps as a lay observer, We can take your stand. But i would assume practitioners of the art would have a stronger grasp on subtlety and nuance.

Some art looks boring while others look vibrant. To the more experienced- the same paintings speak of control and ability while the other evokes childish garishness.
I don't think that's any different from most other institutions that "accept" people for challenging endeavors. If you are accepted into medical school, work insane hours, and then fail out, you still have the loans to pay back.
The smartphone market has also been exploding. I'd guess the majority of Android owners haven't made it through their first contract cycle yet (or in the case of tablets, device lifecycle). It'll be more interesting in 3 or 4 years where the trends end up as consumer awareness increases.

I did Android for two years, with 1.5 of them spent as an abandoned device owner. I gladly switched to a iPhone 4S. Likewise, I got my wife an iPad2 last summer due to Apple's support history. Galaxy Tab purchasers might be satisfied today with how the device ships, but give it two years. Those still stuck on 2.3 or 3.0 in 2014 when Android 6.x releases some killer features might sing a different tune about their satisfaction with Android and/or Samsung.

I'm also still expecting [but not hoping for] a security problem to hit an old version of Android. It's practically bound to happen at some point with millions of pretty capable computers with unique IPs, its too tempting to ignore. Without any support mechanism available the consequences will be worse than they had to be.
So you're really going to use the example of one of the most heavily government-subsidized businesses ever to advance the cause of deregulation?
It wasn't the first registrar I heard about, but it was the first register I heard about besides Network Solutions, which used to be a monopoly, and charged (IIRC) $70 per domain. GoDaddy was pretty damn customer-friendly by comparison.
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I also ran into a problem with GoDaddy when trying to transfer a domain name that was protected by Domains by Proxy. I first got a notification that I needed to enter into a new agreement, so I did. Then I got a notification that I needed to cancel my private registration, so I did. Then I got this:

"The transfer of MYDOMAIN.ME from Go Daddy to another
registrar could not be completed for the following
reason(s):

Express written objection to the transfer from the
Transfer Contact. (e.g. - email, fax, paper document or
other processes by which the Transfer Contact has
expressly and voluntarily objected through opt-in
means)."

So it looks like they're auto-rejecting domain transfers if you're using Domains by Proxy?
I moved all my domains from GoDaddy and one of them had trouble doing the whois information. I did it myself and it in fact did look different from my others. It could have just been the difference between a .org and a .com, but I entered in the epp auth code with the transfers and it helped it along.
Can you say a little about what it would mean for Whois to be "overwhelmed"? We're used to hearing about sites going down dealing with hundreds or thousands of requests per second, and as much as we'd all like to see GoDaddy collapse into rubble their transfers are probably more on the order of thousands a day.

How plausible is it that they could actually be seeing technical difficulties?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it really doesn't matter which language you chose, and that the fact that you find python less surprising is most likely because that's the language you know best out of the two?
I transferred 1 domain December 22. It is still with godaddy
There's another problem. I can't contribute to a CS project by modifying the JS, because as soon as the CS is compiled it will overwrite any changes I made to the JS. In a CS project, the JS technically shouldn't even be committed to the repository except maybe as a precompiled lib/ directory.
i'm sorry but this author has failed to point out the most commong cause for why a site goes down. it's not because of failing to cache...etc...most dbs will cache for you anyway... the main reason is because you probably are on apache and serving static assets directly w/o hosting them off a CDN or nginx/litespeed. if your page had 150 images/js/css combined, that's 150 hits hitting your server per page load. now multiply that by 100's or 1,000's+ visitors HN brings to your site at any given moment, ofcourse it will go down. apache isn't really good at serving static files, just relieving static assets off to cdn/fileserver is huge.
I got screwed by this rule once, when a guy who was supposed to transfer a domain to me naively changed the contact info before trying to transfer it. It was infuriating, but I came to this same conclusion. It doesn't appear to be malicious, and I can see it really helping some people out.
I disagree. This is the thing that gives this app "teeth". It makes it controversial and keeps it in people's thoughts after they've read the blurb on lifehacker. It's interesting enough to make someone mention it at the pub during a "new years resolutions" conversation etc etc etc. Maybe it doesn't appeal to everyone and would put alot of people off, but at the same time that exact thing is what makes it interesting.
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Chip prices change a lot depending on who you are (what you can negotiate and how much you want to buy). Apple is in a very special position as they have few products and a tendency to buy a part of their suppliers machines in exchange for guaranteed shipments and lower prices. The isupply table http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone-4-Carries... shows pretty different prices even for Apples own A4 which should have a flat factory cost. As for the mechanical components, I guess that the 10.80 figure is a decent guesstimate which could be off by +/- 50%.
I didn't read it, but I thought as much when I read "...companies like GoDaddy.com..." meaning the author had no solid proof. I'm no GoDaddy supporter (Dreamhost ftw), but this smelled like a reach to me.
It'd be cool to have a lisp that you could edit structurally with an iPad. Structural editing is a foreign thing when done on a keyboard. But it's 1:1 on an iPad. I know that's not visual in the way you meant. I just think it'd be easier to grok than syntax.

Also, Conal Elliot did a talk about how to visualize higher order programming. He demonstrates a UI for manipulating higher-order functions. I don't know how directly useful it would be but it's at least a good place to farm for ideas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJ8N0giqzw The demo starts at 22:22 if you just want to skip to that.
Well, and my town is mapped perfectly. The difference is that with openstreetmaps, you can simply go and improve what could be better. Of course it doesn't change anything about the quality of the maps, just that you have a choice, as opposed to google maps with which you could possibly be stuck with an incorrect map.

And regarding satellite view, how would you even imagine volunteers making satellite images? Basically anyone can get a GPS receiver and make maps, but I have yet to see an amateur hobby satellite in orbit. (I guess you could use R/C planes with GPS and cameras, but that would be incredibly time-consuming and not ideal at large scales.) However, even if you could do that, it's just not goal of OpenStreetMap. You can't use satellite images for routing, there is no legend, etc.

And I think that they don't allow external satellite images because of their philosophy on freedom - similarly to you having to explicitly allow installing non-free packages in Debian.
Lifehacker featured my app a few years ago too. The wave lasted for a few weeks and then petered out as you might expect.

My best advice is to start worrying about user retention in a hurry. 99% of people who come to your site from Lifehacker aren't going to keep using your app, but that's okay. If your scenario is anything like mine was, you'll have a steady (albeit much smaller) stream of traffic to your site from now on.

- Is your signup process as frictionless as possible?

- Are you collecting email addresses (for a newsletter or followup emails– Twitter does a great job of this with their "We notice you haven't posted anything lately" emails)?

- You now have some users. Get in touch with them and find out how it falls short!

Specifically, I have a lot of goals I'd like to achieve, but I don't have any compromising pictures of myself. I also don't like the idea of apps posting on Facebook on my behalf.

Congratulations and good luck!
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To whose benefit?
People who benefit from the war on drugs:
-The military complex, weapon producers. Terrorist need drug money to fight wars. Weapon producers need wars to make money.
-Pharmaceutical companies.
-Alcohol producers.
-Drug-lords/Cartels
-Anti drug agency personnel, cops.
-For profit jails.
The list goes on...
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I was actually thinking total profit over time. This chart probably captures better their performance over time, since 1/5/10 year charts depend heavily on how well you did in the period right before the chart begins:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AJWN%2CNYSE%3AWMT#

Or to put it another way, would you rather own 10% of Walmart or Nordstrom?
No other registrar feels it's necessary to impose a 60-day lockout. Perhaps it adds the feeling of a tiny amount of extra "security" to an already secure process - but 60 days is ridiculous.

There is no way to shortcut this procedure if you are the legitimate domain owner. If you use a privacy guard to avoid publishing your name/address, then you will run into this issue:

You aren't allowed to transfer your domain away while the privacy guard is in effect, so you'll need to change your contact information. Bam! This triggers the instant 60-day lockout, during which time your full contact information is visible.
What do you expect? "Our spies among GoDaddy's top executives have discovered…"? "Our team of highly trained accredited psychics has been informed by the spirits that…"?

NameCheap is no more capable of knowing GoDaddy's inner workings than we are. They can only tell us what they're seeing and draw logical conclusions from those things.
Does banning cell phone use while driving decrease the number of cell phone-related driving accidents? Are there numbers to back this up?
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Yeh, This has been the case for a while. It is because they cannot verify the owner, as the whois info is hidden behind DBP.

I've been trying to cancel my DBP subscriptions, to return my details to whois and transfer the domain. They don't make it easy.

I lost my account details, and am trying to retrieve my account. I filled in their form and attached my drivers license scan ... got an email today saying they need a scan of some ID :/
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Oh my. For those situations where you need a hash table, but only one?
Well I think one thing we can both agree on -- if you pay $50,000 for an Android phone you should get two years of guaranteed updates. :-)
Yes, I found this silly in all the same ways.

In the one talk I've seen Jack Welch give he said himself the only form of job security is customers. The article's author is attacking a straw man. He slams Welch's management of the GE as short sighted, but the only facts in support are the deterioration under Immelt's management.

Ultimately, in the long term customers and shareholders have aligned interests in most all cases.
Exactly how is educating people and giving them facts "giving up"? Equipping people to make rational decisions based on evidence and giving them the confidence to make changes - that's a slow process.

There seems to be a trend for humans becoming brighter and more socially connected. (See Pinker's decline of violence work.)

I'm making the assumption that those trends will also stamp out boneheadedness with regards to prohibition.
In the same area, there's also http://instantwatcher.com/ which lets you sort by Rotten Tomatoes, and New York Times picks.
Well, my first language was LOGO. I don't think that disadvantaged me when I started C. I think it's all about the approach (add in the fact that in school our teachers gave out chocolate for whoever got their program finished first).
I wonder whats gonna happen when this news reaches Techcrunch and other major internet news sites ,

or to some mainstream business publication like Wall Street Journal

its gonna be a storm
But see, it's not an either-or.

Nordstrom doesn't have to become Walmart, and not all phones have to compete as feature phones.

Certainly Apple knows it will die if it has to compete as a feature phone.

The question is how you stay away from competing on price alone, and the answers are usually through value, innovation, customer service, quality, and intangibles like branding.
Those sound like good things but as you suggest this doesn't meet the standard of beginner friendliness.

This would be something like clicking on an application called 'Ruby' in the applications folder and then a window popping up ready to start typing my script in. (If there are choices to be made, fine, just make it work with some default options and I can switch text editor or whatever later.)

The same set-up on every single Mac/PC, out of the box. Every resource required pre-installed and automatically updated with the OS.

No credit cards, no searching online, no knowledge of what is required beforehand, no obscure dependencies, no expert friend required, no need to read instructions about how to set up, etc.
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I think he meant to say "close your account" rather than "log out".
There's nothing wrong with having doubts. I feel it's actually immature starting a company without considering all the options. You're just being delusional then.
I think the tablet market will either be completely turned upside down when Windows 8 comes out, or iOS will just keep dominating. I hate to say it, but right now it looks like Android is only successful on phones, and it doesn't look like that is changing anytime soon. Come CES 2012 though, I may have to eat my own words.
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I know of no upwardly mobile, reasonably successful adult, 18+, who knows how to program.

Huh? Surely I'm misreading this or there's a typo here. If not, you've stumbled into the right place. Say hi to the legions of programmers on HN who are upwardly mobile and very successful.