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This is not entirely true. When you short sale you are still essentially selling shares (although you don't own them). Someone else is still buying these at the price you sold for. If enough people short a stock it will act as heavy sell pressure and drive the price per share down just as it would if everyone decided to dump their existing shares. You see pps go up a lot when all of the shorts start covering because they have to "buy" the shares they sold back causing buying pressure.
Here's the Reddit discussion - http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/no6b1/go_daddy_n...
Except that if you read the problem statement, you'll see that tee doesn't meet the requirement of 'taking advantage of all available I/O parallelism'. Tee writes to each output file sequentially.

Given that their core business is data-stores that take full advantage of emerging storage technologies (such as flash), this seems like pretty relevant question.
Go Daddy does Netflix.
Too late. The damage is done, in my opinion.
How many times has it come in useful since then?
I can't see how unions are good for anybody. They certainly seem to have crippled GM for a long time. If the workers force the company into unreasonable levels of benefits, it falters and they eventually lose their jobs.

I'm all for fair play and sensible regulations, but if the company can't forbid the workers from quitting, I don't see how it's fair that the workers can forbid the company from hiring someone else.

I much prefer being on my own for negotiations. I intend to be one of the best workers; why tie my fate to the average? And why tie the company to me if they can find a better employee?
"Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties."

Doesn't that kind of imply that GoDaddy is less than concerned about the rights of domain owners? Guilty until proven innocent, I guess.
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there is no job security with that, way too stressful for most people...if it's official vacation, it'll actually be a vacation to enjoy
I cannot trust a company who changes their philosophy based on how well it impacts their business.
Yeah, and this is the one thing I didn't see addressed in the article at all. It doesn't have to be about "interesting problems," it's that your entire business model is based on something that no tech-savvy 20-something wants to support.
Really tried contact some one in France in August have we?
If you build it, they won't come. That generally only happens in Field of Dreams the movie. It's all about marketing. Putting your App inside the App Store alone isn't good enough. It'll get you some sales possibly but if you want to rocket your growth, you need to be more strategic about marketing.

Having said that, I don't see any real compelling reason why I would personally want your App. If you're going to compete with other reading Apps, whats your advantage? Do you even have a small number of people who love your App who can help drive feedback and promote the App without being asked (this is one of the first steps for any entrepreneur).
They're pretty busy on twitter right now responding to practically everybody https://twitter.com/#!/GoDaddy
Yes, they can just continue to lend their name to shooting elephants and misogynist ads.

I seriously doubt this is going to have much of an impact on them. So this one particular instance came back to bite them, good to know for them that pissing off techies is bad for business but animal rights people, devout christians and women ( all of whom have complained about various other parts of their business in the past ) don't have any impact on the companies actions.
I agree. Let's focus on company, one at a time. Hopefully, with enough momentum, including big names, things will have to get better.

I have been calling companies I am a customer or have been a customer of, to withdraw support if they want to keep me as a customer.
If many people short-sell a stock, it increases the supply of that stock and reduces the demand (an increase of people wanting to sell it) which drives down prices. Short-selling isn't price manipulation, it's the inverse of buying a stock, which drives up the price.
Businesses run the government. Money controls business.

This happened to be one of those issues where it was very easy to clearly show the company that their particular actions would not be tolerated. Not only that, but the difficulty of moving your support away from them was tremendously easy as well.

Because of limitations, not all industries enjoy this sort of free market-esque lateral movement. Comm companies, for instance, enjoy the benefits of an established infrastructure to keep other players out, and to keep you contracted with them, even under anti-consumer behaviors.

This was just a case of all the pieces lining up just right, and the market actually aligning with consumer demand.
This is good for multiple reasons. One, it shows people that their voices do matter. They can contact their vendors and express opposition and if there are plenty enough of them, they can exert influence. Two, it shows other companies that there are enough people out there who are against SOPA that a big vendor like GoDaddy has had to flipflop its support for it because it threatened their bottom line. It will at least force them to have another conversation about withdrawing SOPA support.
Yeah, lots of switches use telnet too. Most of those are (hopefully!) on a backhaul private vlan though.
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The dictionary basically defines "ninja" as someone who is skilled in stealthy movement and camouflage. Interpreted by me to mean someone who can sneak in and do the job without being seen.

Given the innate ability to do the job of programming from anywhere, at any time, I am of the opinion that many programmers can meet the description of ninja. I know in my career, I have worked closely with several people whom I have never actually met.

I do think the usage of ninja is silly, myself. But I do understand that it is more descriptive than just telecommuter, which still seems to imply some physical contact with others.
This is hilarious!

More translations that might make your day:

> In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.

Translation: we said some pretty stupid things yesterday.

> Go Daddy ... worked with federal lawmakers for months ... legislation first introduced some three years ago ... entire Internet community ... ensure the integrity of the Internet

Translation: we've been neck-deep in this legislation, and will be pushing the next version of this bill too. Seized domains would have been a de facto transfer to Go Daddy.
Is cross-posting links an attempt at getting karma/upvotes?
Humanity is already a blight on the face of the Earth. Maybe we should be restricted to fucking up just one planet?
The Internet Wins: GoDaddy Flip-Flops On SOPA
> The best coders I know (including agavin, who comments below) are all insanely hard workers

I'd +1 this if I could. This is the instinct I've had for a while, and probably also the key as to why it is so rare.

I suspect a key part of it is learning how to work effectively, and avoiding burnout in the process, neither of which are trivial to achieve.

Thanks for the comment, extremely interesting!
Unless I am misunderstanding you, your second question makes it appear that you didn't read the material cited in spot's response to your earlier post. If I'm wrong, could you perhaps rephrase your question?
It's amazing how dramatically wrong these are. I was worried that Google might know all about me. Now I'm more worried that it thinks I'm someone else.
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I read their statement, and it seems like lip service. The culture of a company/philosophy of the CEO doesn't turn on a dime.
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The downvoting says you hit the right spot.

I have to go now, changing the world trough e-commerce.
This is the right outcome, and they should be commended. I think SOPA is awful, and they were on the wrong side of the argument. Subsequently, they listened to customers and changed their position. (Yes, it’s self-interest, just like you and I engage in.)

One should resist the urge to say “yeah but they’re still awful people” unless one is willing to bring the same passion to everyone else on the list of supporters.

Again: correct outcome and for the right reasons.
Well not necessarily.

Bad publicity has an impact all its own at most companies. For example, they have a whole Marketing department trying to get their name out there in a positive light. When their phones light up with every member of the press wanting quotes (press contacts they've spent years working on their relationship with) the executives have to get together and talk about it and come up with a unified response that won't blow up on them like CarrierIQ.

It's a big big deal for a public-facing company. Bigger than, say, a small decrease in the rate of new $2 account customers.
Right. It seems effort in this direction would be better spent making it easier to learn emacs as it is than trying to make it something else. The world is filled with CUA mode editors, many of them don't even suck. Users who truly want that are very well served, and emacs isn't going to bring much to the table. People who actually want emacs' features like it the way it is.
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People never liked godaddy to begin with, so it has become the ideal effigy for the movement against SOPA, but it sends a message to the other companies on the list, they could be next.
Optimizations off in the release build would be one thing, but it's like this in the latest patch. Over a month of being out and 4+ patches and still needing? optimizations disabled does point to a bit of incompetence.
I agree with a lot of people here. This is clearly a direct result of the harsh public backlash they've faced from the community. This statement can only be taken at face value until they do much more than post a public statement rescinding their support. We should continue pushing them and they should publicly speak against SOPA to its supporters and in Congress. They need to walk the walk not just talk the talk.

I am, however, a little confused.

Wasn't the goal of the campaign against GoDaddy to convince them to no longer support SOPA? Isn't this a small victory? If people in the community are not going to support them no matter what they do, where is their incentive to change behavior? I understand the cynicism but we need to also reward companies doing the right thing, even if they took some wrong turns along the way.

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Ask HN: SMS Payments - What's the easiest way? 
I am selling a product for about $5 and they have to activate it with their phone. What I'd like to do is offer a free demo and then when they send an SMS to our number to activate, it will ask them "Do you agree to pay $5 for this product?" then I can bill their mobile provider. Similar to the ring tones service, or even the Red Cross donation.

How do I do this? I understand the programming, but I don't know of any service that does this.

I thought about asking for their credit card number over SMS but that seems a bit insecure. Thoughts?

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Why is everyone so scornful? I am not suggesting we forgive and forget, but shouldn't we be a little more understanding? What's with the "no flip-flop" culture we have nowadays?
Lets start with congress
When you consider that in the UK NI is 11/12% and that covers the NHS and your state pension plus SERPS (second state pension) and unemployment benefits.

I knew a guy who emigrated to the USA and was working for CITI and was paying a bigger % of his pay just for his health cover.
Because the abstract concept pays your mortgage.
Its an attempt to getting two smart groups of ppl talking about equal weighted topics....

Karma is a benefit...

carry on...
I think that "confidence" bifurcates once you gain experience. There's confidence in your ability, and there's confidence in your accomplishments. The former tends to decline, because you realize there's so much more out there that you could be doing to but just don't have the time or mental capacity for. The latter tends to increase as you rack up projects and see people use them.

I thought I was hot shit when I entered college, and I had the test scores - but no tangible accomplishments - to prove it. And then I tried to convert those test scores into tangible accomplishments, and found that maybe I wasn't as hot shit as I thought I was. I think I'm significantly dumber now than I was as a 19-year-old hotshot fresh out of high school. I can see all the alternative ways of doing things, and all the mistakes I made, and all the mistakes I'm still making. And looking ahead of me, I see all this complexity and all these challenges for the things I want to do, and I didn't see that when I was a wide-eyed kid, and it makes me feel pretty stupid.

But looking behind me, I've done some pretty cool stuff. FictionAlley.org. Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours. Ported Arc to JavaScript. 2 products for somebody else's startup that never went anywhere, and a startup of my own that also never went anywhere. Wonder Wheel & Search Options. The websearch visual redesign of 2010. Google's Authorship program. Google's first canvas-based homepage doodle. The [let it snow] easter egg.

And I think about how I just made tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people happy last weekend, and it feels pretty good. So even though I don't know anything, I must be doing something right.
This sounds a lot like Joel's Duct Tape Programmer:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html
I set up a Namecheap account and purchased a domain yesterday. No terrible upselling, pretty straightforward shopping cart (not a fan that it didn't take Discover, but no biggie). Overall, it was a pleasant experience.

I'm a longtime Go Daddy customer and have several domains with them.

I've thought about moving from GoDaddy, but never made it a priority. But I finally got motivated enough to see the process of switching might not be as painful as I thought. Now that I've seen what else is out there, it's go time. As my domains expire in the next few months, I'll switch them over to Namecheap.

At least for me, it's too little, too late this time for Go Daddy.
I don't think they should be commended for backing away (only after huge public outrage) from a position that was despicable in the first place.

I'm happy to forget about them for a while longer.
I say still boycott godaddy, just for having supported SOPA in the first place. The problem is Godaddy still does support and only pulled out, since threats of boycotts were made by there customers. LEAVE GO DADDY
But now the question is whether this is just damage control or if they really support anti-SOPA efforts now. Either way, they learned not to fuck with the Internet (their customers).
'Great' doesn't mean anything if not a relative value. So saying you are great just means saying you are one of the best. That's all that counts.. who cares if you're not as good as the mythical uber-coder?

Sure, once you reach the other side of the bell curve, you realize you don't know anything, compared to everything there is to know, but that doesn't make you anything less than great.
Some earlier posts:

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Fantastic. I guess now we only have shady business practices, misogyny, and animal cruelty as reasons to not do business with GoDaddy.
You preclude the possibility that perhaps people will only act when it actually gets as bad as SOPA.

Just as a company is motivated proportionally by money, a person is motivated by proportionally by how much something affects them.
Debugging is almost always about uncovering wrong assumptions, but I don't see how you can do without assumptions. Every line of code assumes certain state of the program that it operates on.
Until GoDaddy makes an official public statement to Congress, the transfers are still on.
> fiduciary responsibility

"Fiduciary" derives from latin words meaning "faith" and "trust". You could reasonably rephrase it as "duty of good faith". It's just as vague as it sounds. It does not mean you have to do everything that's best for "the bottom line", either in the short or long term.

In fact, absent actions that amount to fraud or deception, or that clearly breach laws, bylaws, or contractual arrangements, it is virtually impossible for shareholders to sustain an action for breach of fiduciary duty.

Not supporting a bad law that is not in the best interests of the world is not even close to a breach of fiduciary duty as normally applies in a corporate context.
The “Tilt” 3D View looks so cool! But it's nice to see Firefox getting Developer Tools.
"You guys are supposed to be entrepreneurs."

Huh? We are hackers.
Health insurance makes employees "sticky".
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This is great! We should do this to every company on the list until there's no one willing to publicly support this nonsense.
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Hah. I just reloaded HN and clicked the comments here -- I've had a few drinks -- I thought this was the same article along the lines of "Go Daddy Supports SOPA", until I read through the responses.

This just shows what a couple thousand mobilized, highly motivated geeks can do in six hours. HN is solely responsible for this. Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple's factories in China. Or the massacres going on in Syria, for that matter. Something more important than whether that elephant-murdering bastard is a 99%, or a 100% asshole.

But, credit where it's due, this isn't the first time I've noticed a shift in public perception within 24-48 hours of a major HN freakout. I won't say how much money I've made buying or selling based on watching this phenomenon -- not a ton -- but it's recently been more than I make at my day job. It's a shame Godaddy's not publicly traded, or we could've all had some fun with it.

This is the place where the people who man the engines spend their time. And when the engineers are pissed, shit breaks. Never mind that engineers are just as often wrong as everybody else, just think of HN articles as events that bubble, and figure out if they're going to be ignored or not by the larger program.
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"I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on #sopa is unacceptable to us."
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I wonder how much of a hand in this Google had? They have a relationship with GoDaddy and I think they were unhappy about this too.
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This is an interesting problem. I have a few suggestions.

1. I echo the other people that the description needs some work. Its not very compelling above the fold.
2. I think you can get rid of the announcement about your Christmas sale and fill that space instead with a better description. Its doubtful the "80% off" text is a worthwhile marketing strategy compared to the space it takes up. That strategy usually works best when people know the price of what they are buying beforehand. But people probably don't know what your app was priced at beforehand, so they're unlikely to think they're getting any sort of deal.
80% off my favorite grocery item is huge. 80% off something I've just heard of? Not so big. You can use the space better.
3. Improve your screenshots. Marketing is about creating an image. You don't need the instructional shots with the hand in there prompting people how it works. You need amazing, awesome, cool pictures that make people go wow. They'll figure out how it works. Wow them first.
4. I would raise your price to match your competitors and keep it there. Or maybe just below them. People don't do a lot of price comparison on the App Store (at least I don't). I just bought a $400 phone, I'm not wasting time seeing which app is the best deal to save a few cents. I'm searching for the app that solves my problem and I'll buy it. If it solves my problem, its worth it.
If I had to hazard a guess, dropping your price doesn't gain you any ground over your competitors as much as it loses you sales. I would put the price back up and leave it there. Don't put your app on sale again.

Lastly, I would say some people are right when they advise you to let this one go. You're stuck between some well funded, good competitors and free. Its not a good place to be. People buying apps like to go with the leader because they feel it must be good, because other people have bought it. Or they like to go free because they're cheap. Unless you have the marketing budget to convince people you're as good as Flipboard or all the other apps more popular than you, then its likely you can't put enough effort into this by yourself to make a big difference. In purely economic terms, if you put in 700 hours of marketing work, you would probably make less money than doing 700 hours of freelance developing. You've learned all the lessons you can learn from this app, use your time instead on other things with better returns.

I would advise putting in a bit of work to make everything look good and fixing any remaining bugs, then move onto something else. Its not a failure not to be #1 when you're a single person. Some business niches just require more capital, whether its a marketing budget or development time, and you might not have it.

Don't quit, just study your next project carefully. Pick the one requiring the least development time, having the easiest marketing strategy, with the highest return. Until you have a company with 50 people to do all your work, that should be your strategy.
Don't be fooled, people. I will believe GoDaddy when they provide proof that they have indeed stopped supporting SOPA. They claim that they've been working with lawmakers for months; what is to stop them from publicly "withdrawing" support for SOPA, while they continue to support it behind the scenes?

Until SOPA and its offsprings are dead, keep the pressure on GoDaddy and other supporters of SOPA! Don't let these weak public statements distract you; there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes.
While I agree that their ads sucks, I don't think they're misogynist. Like every ad, they're targeted to a specific audience.
Do they actually say that in Tennessee?
I can't believe all the hate going on. They publicly admitted they were wrong and changed their stance. I don't care if you are a gigantic corporation or not, that takes guts and I can at least respect that.

There's no doubt they did it to stop the bleeding, but they still did it. And that's what we want right? For SOPA to lose traction, and for it not to pass. Yet it seems like this has almost become a dump on godaddy festival. Please don't lose sight of the reasons as to why we as rational internet using human beings did this in the first place.
> Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation

Go Daddy wouldn't be my first choice for who I want representing the internet to the government.