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I have, and they've been pretty good so far. Paying for just what you use is nice too.
You may find the Ledger[0] accounting program useful. It's a CLI parser for a specially-formatted text file, and should be pretty easy for you to integrate with your existing infrastructure.

I don't know what sort of API Quickbooks offers, but I'd be surprised if it's easier to rig up than appending to a text file and running a couple commands.

[0] http://ledger-cli.org/
I think you are misreading my intent.
I think it's a great idea and wish these guys success. But isn't eBay (and perhaps Craigslist) in a much better position to provide this functionality? They have enormous historical databases on the prices of things.
It's a tumblr issue. At first, I thought it may have been GoDaddy revenge since the transfer is still not fully complete..
.onion is a pseudo-top-level domain host suffix (similar in concept to such endings as .bitnet and .uucp used in earlier times) designating an anonymous hidden service reachable via the Tor network. Such addresses are not actual DNS names, and the .onion TLD is not in the Internet DNS root

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion
I've updated it so now you can list how many domains you'll transfer away. As of this comment, GoDaddy will lose 205 domains and 58 customers.
Apparently owner Ben is a bit of a dick

http://gawker.com/5488509/inside-the-low+paying-cheezburger-...
Good. They are climbing up the cliff of my opion on any company that supported this.
The lines are a little too narrow for the other parameters selected. But of course, any design guideline needs adjustment and human input, there are simply too many factors overall. Use method to create raw design, then refine.

This golden-ratio based heuristic is a good way to automatically come up with an initial model, and is therefore useful.
It helps raise awareness and reach others who are not HN and Reddit regulars too and by extension reach others several degrees out. That's the first step in affecting change i.e. educating others and getting the word out. If you don't attempt to do this, nothing will happen. Its not a waste. A waste is exactly what you suggest, sitting idle while shit happens and you choose not to do anything simply because you feel its a "waste". That's ignorance at its best.
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They also gladly accept PayPal, to be fair.
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> I think a large number of FF users would use Google search even if that required changing the default. I'd guess that it's on the order of 50%.

I think you're overestimating the degree to which the average user is willing to make any changes to any default functionality. Remember, these are the people who google "google".
I think we should keep them where they belong; in children's toys imported from China.
Wow. I've been referring to myself as self-taught because, well, I came from a physics background, taught myself Python using google, and started kibitzing on a friend's startup. But it occurs to me reading this, that I probably had more direct instruction than most CS students. We worked together for only a few months, but it was the two of us in a room every day, I showed him my code, talked through what I was trying to make work, he'd nudge me towards best practices, and I got better. I should thank that dude.
Good article. When I'm agreeing with someone from the Cato institute, you know things are serious.
wouldn't microsoft (bing), google, walmart, etc? I think this is why startups exist...
Its all running in your browser. So we actually compile the interpreters to JS using emscripten. We're working on ruby 1.9.3 and Python 3. And will hopefully be out soon.
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Seconding a comment on the linked url, but adding the url, for the lazy amongst us :

lambda papers (steele, sussman)
http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html

and btw, an interview of john backus : http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/Ora...

discussing amongst other things, the pros/cons of fp, and his issues solving how to fit IO; not mandatory but highly refreshing.
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Actually, Chrome gives the user a choice of search engine on first startup and does not have a default browser ( at least in the United States)
Ask HN: How do you prevent wasting time on the arbitrary details of web design?
I'm extremely detailed when designing user interfaces in order to be pixel perfect. On the surface this seems like a good quality to have, however, I find my self wasting hours on the smallest, most minute details. I also have a hard time making decisions about the layout that are quite arbitrary (meaning either decision results in an acceptable design).

How do you handle these tiny details and decisions? Is this a common problem for designers, or am I simply too indecisive?

Thanks guys.
It's not. It costs one year of registration, but you get a one year extension on your current expiration.
But you are one of many.
When I was growing up and learning about DNS, HTTP, protocols, and packets I really wanted to get my own domain, but being under 18, I had no easy way to pay a registar without a credit card.

Namecheap was one of the first registrars to accept Paypal, and this helped me get started when I was first developing my passion for web development.

I've been using them for years and plan to continue using them for a long time.
You don't have to wait for the expiration to move a domain. When you move it you get one year added to your existing expiration date, so you loose nothing by transferring early.
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Looks cool. I like the wannttt.com site design as well.
Woah, big leaps here. First, just because firefox has 25% of the browser market share most certainly does not mean that they provide 25% of google searches! What about all the searches through google's homepage, mobile, custom site search, etc, etc. A lot of people still use the homepage (I know, not very many amongst the tech savvy).

Secondly, whilst most of google's income is advertising, not all of it is income from advertising on their main search results page- doubleclick, adwords, etc, etc. Lots more stuff there.

I would place it for a rough guess AT MOST 10% of google's income comes from firefox.
Cocaine.
No, openness means you can take the Firefox source and release your own (rebranded) browser with a different search engine. This is exactly what Iceweasel is; in fact, I think they even use DuckDuckGo for searching, but I could be wrong because I don't have it installed.
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I make a small desktop app for web developers — for the Mac, and, recently, for Windows too. The Mac version is ready to launch, and has more than 1000 active users (and more than 10000 downloads), based solely on a word-of-mouth marketing. Many users really love it, and I want to start charging money ($9.99).

Here's the kicker: sandboxing will be a pain in the ass with this app, and I also have a plugin system implemented, but not published or in use, because that would be a PIA with Mac App Store too (so I want to launch first and figure that out later). Apple also did not like my icon, which is not an issue, but also a reason why the launch is delayed.

Do you think developer tools benefit much from the App Store effect? Should I simply launch with PayPal payments, or should I not blow the unique chance to build up a good App Store rating on launch (when many existing users will go and buy it over a short period of time)?
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Is there a peerblock list for SOPA supporting companies?
Congrats on the launch guys. We do something similar but for different online markets -- most commonly Amazon -- (e.g.: http://www.shopobot.com/tv/). One of our most common user requests is to provide this info for CraigsList and Ebay, so I'm sure you'll find success there.
I'm not sure how connected you are to the rest of your project.

But for me, I find that actually launching the product to users helps me focus a ton more. I stop caring about the colors of buttons, the positions of signup forms, and move on to the features that make the most impact.
They don't really have a choice about that.
Instead of one language, learn JavaScript and either Python or Ruby. Python or Ruby are similar, learn the basic of both and choose one that you like better to master.
For those curious about prices, I just transferred 42 domains (mostly .com's but a few .org's, .net's, and .mobi's) to NameCheap for $367 with discount code.

And if you have any domains that still have a few years left in their registration, that is supposed to transfer with the domains.
You nailed it. A lot of this has to do with bad habits. I know I'm one who will sit in the chair all day long and it really does me no good. Just realized this too! I sat in my chair for 4 days straight and never took a break and got nothing done. I took breaks and accomplished infinitely more.

But what I wonder about is what if you're not procrastinating and not getting things done? I'm currently in a situation where I work my ass off but somehow nothing is getting done. Progress gets made but it certainly feels like its not nearly enough. I'm wondering how people who work but don't accomplish anything can learn to get shit done.
I like this a lot. I would love to be able to code in the same online terminal with someone (I'm teaching someone Python right now and she's overseas), but I know collaborative editing is a whole different beast. I may even shoot it over to some professors in case they want to use it. It's better than taking a few minutes to boot up IDLE and can get people coding on the first day without having to teach them about the terminal first.
And PayPal accepts Visa/MC - how far does the contagion spread?
Glad to hear it. The one thing you can do with your friend overseas is share sessions (check out the share button in the upper right hand corner). Let us know if you have any other suggestions!
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A/B test them. Pick something arbitrary that looks pretty good for the initial version (like the initial top-ads color for Google's May 2010 websearch redesign was "Cosmic Latte", the average color of the universe). Make it configurable in the source code, either through template variables or frameworks like Sass. Then vary one parameter at a time and measure your business metrics, and do what the data tells you to do.

It's important for designers to get the big-picture stuff right, like page layout and interaction model. For pixel-perfectness, just do what the data tells you.
Hmm. last.fm's parent corp. CBS is on that list. I wonder what those guys think of the bill.
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Can I just point out, there is no way google and any of their experts are going to be neutral in this. Google has everything to lose and nothing to gain from stricter copyright policing. Just because someone is an expert doesn't mean they are neutral. I'm sure there would have been very many financial 'experts' from the banks arguing why the banks needed the freedom to do what they did...
From McCarthy's paper:

> When a free register is wanted, and there is none left on the free-storage list, a reclamation (7) cycle starts.

> (...)

> (7) We already called this process "garbage collection", but I guess I chickened out of using
it in the paper -- or else the Research Laboratory of Electronics grammar ladies wouldn’t let
me.
Dreamhost has an API for this -- contact me, email is in my profile. I have written a script that updates a DNS record with my current home public IP, before I got a static one.
Well, yeah, but anything is possible with regex. (EXCEPT PARSING HTML, I KNOW.) I meant more along the lines of your typical HTML/CSS markup.
That estimate seems pretty far off.

Well, it may well be 50% off, or even 80% off, but it does give you an order of magnitude. 100% correct numbers aren't really material: this is a really good deal for Google.

You are right that not all their revenue comes from search, and I should have thought of that. 66% of their revenue is from Google websites[1]. They don't break that down, but I'd suspect 90% is search (Youtube is probably a reasonable contributor but search ads are very expensive, and Google gets pretty good fill rates on them).

Mobile search is growing quickly, but they still "only" made $2.5 billion over the last 12 months from it (and also I presume this deal covers the Firefox mobile browser, which might not be popular now but Mozilla has been working hard on).

But yes, 25% market share is probably an upper bound.

I think a large number of FF users would use Google search even if that required changing the default.

It is possible that Mozilla could do a deal to change the search engine used on existing installs. I would hope they wouldn't do that, but it is something another search engine would probably have wanted to explore.

Also, about:home is the default home page on Firefox, and currently defaults to a Mozilla branded Google search page. That could be changed on existing browsers for sure.

All up, I agree that the $7.2 billion number is probably high, but it seems likely it would be more than $1-2 billion.

[1] http://investor.google.com/documents/20100331_google_10Q.htm...

[2] http://searchengineland.com/will-google-see-6-25-billion-in-...
Yeah, I will try that next time we work.
We've been investigating arbitraging Aeron chairs. We're finding they're very hard to lug around. We'll keep you posted!
A lot of these apply to all companies in general.

A VC-backed company's main drawback is that a VC's goals aren't always exactly aligned with a company's goals. A VC needs a $XX,000,000 return on investment. Even if a company's natural valuation would only be in the $X,000,000 range.

This puts the company in danger as they bet it all to try and go up an order of magnitude in valuation.
Great work evolving the product from where it was a few months ago!
Couple hours later, Hogan is faster than Handlebars:
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Precambrian fossils, once thought to be embryos, reinterpreted as something else
"nature has given us a remarkable blueprint for beautiful and effective proportionality...Evident in plants, animals, the shape of galaxies, and even your DNA..."

The author is buying into unfounded hype and mysticism regarding the golden ratio. Debunked: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
Obviously, they locked the comment section in order to keep the Internet a better and safer place, especially for children.
A lot of people still use the homepage

The default Firefox home page (about:home) is a branded Google search. Combine that and the Firefox search box and I would bet you cover 90% of the searches Firefox users do.

Anyway, even if it is 10% it doesn't change the outcome substantially - it drops the revenue to $3-4 billion instead of over $7 billion. Either way it is worth paying $300 million for.
I would say d3 would fit snugly with reveal.js: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/
For a great reply to this, read the chapter "Maxwell and the Nerds" in Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World". We can never do a good job guessing what eventual engineering applications will emerge from researching the frontiers of physics, which at each stage seems like the most uselessly esoteric pursuit possible. But we've been through this enough to know that the eventual applications are way more awesome than we could have guessed. Maybe we can revisit the subject in thirty years on a weekend trip to the Moon on a spaceship powered by feeding dust into a micro black hole and rendered almost massless with a Higgs field damper.
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Same here. I transfered all of my domains from Network Solutions to them about 10 years ago and have mostly been able to ignore them--I run my own name servers & hosting. More recently, I've been registering domains on namecheap, and this may provide the motivation to finally consolidate my names with a less offensive registrar.
Yes.

I also like Papadimitriou's textbooks: Elements of the Theory of Computation and Computational Complexity.
Lots of people probably have recommendations, but I've been using nearlyfreespeech.net for a couple of years for hosting my personal site. They're great.
I'm the only person involved with the project, so it's difficult because I have no input from anyone else. I also feel a strong sense of ownership over it, which makes me obsess on the details like button color, text positioning, etc. Overall though, I see what your saying. Those little details don't matter in the big picture.
I am planning to transfer my domains to nearlyfreespeech.net. The only thing stopping me is that I renewed them 30 days ago, and apparently you can't transfer a domain within 60 days of renewal for some reason.
I went hunting for "macbook pro i7" and every item I clicked on (something like 4 or 5) had already been sold. It does look like something I would use otherwise(EDIT: as in if I had a better success rate when I clicked).
This is likely the case with a number of the supporters. It's important to note all the companies who back out of their support -- which is an even stronger signal that not signing in the first place.

It indicates they were hoodwinked!
And namecheap sits back and banks on not opening their mouths and keeping their ideas with what the masses want. Not that I have anything wrong with them, they're a great registrar that everyone should switch to.
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Note that while Namecheap doesn't support SOPA, they clearly do support some form of new IP legislation: "not in favor of SOPA as it has been proposed", "... only a surgical strike is necessary." Whatever comes after SOPA/PROTECT IP - assuming they're defeated - Namecheap may well endorse.
From tallying up this "straw poll" it would seem H.R. 3261 would pass. I seriously doubt that at this stage, though it's certainly not cut and dried.
1) Create a company

2) Bid $300 million for Mozilla's search spot.

3) Raise $600 million, build search engine

4) Profit

(Yeah, in practice steps 2 and 3 would need to happen simultaneously)
The trick is figuring out how many users would use the Firefox search box vs would just enter google.com into the URL the old fashioned way (or would change the search box back to Google). I have no doubt Google is measuring that number and used it to guide their bidding.

My hunch is that Google is only breaking close to even with this deal (i.e. making $300M for paying $300M) and bid high just to keep too many people from trying Bing.

Plus, Google tends to act at least a little altruistic when it comes to the web [1] and may mind less being generous to Firefox.

[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia...
Yes, but mostly the bad kind.
Haha. I thought you were being facetious until I saw it on your about page. Now I'm not sure what to think :/
I use a Petzl headlamp when I go backpacking, they make great products. As a side note, headlamps also make great gifts, even for people that won't be using it for outdoor activities. Once you have one you find it can be used for all kinds of things, like when you are fixing something under the sink. I love using mine for reading as well.
This is what a lot of people are ignoring. If the CEO really believed that one infringing site could bring down an entire business, like people are claiming, then surely he wouldn't support the act. This is a very big show of faith in the act as it is written by someone with a lot to lose.

Or, I dunno, conspiracy theory about selling more domains. Occam's razor?
> The question should be how, not whether, we develop a
> notice and takedown regime in a responsible and responsive way.

I agree. But SOPA is not the answer. Apparently this author cannot conceive of a better alternative.
I agree about the importance of A/B testing, but it's not realistic to split test details like 16pt vs 18pt font, slight gradient changes, small text positioning, etc.

But you're right about designers understanding and focusing on the big picture. It's just hard for my mind not to get lost in the details.
Most sane people support sane IP legislation. It's perfectly reasonable for IP holders to want to have legal recourse against the bad guys. There are lots of people making a lot of money selling a lot of illegal merchandise online.

What people protest about SOPA is that it gives tools to companies (with a history of abusing the recourses granted to them by law) that are akin to a wrecking ball intended to be used as a flyswatter. Sure, you'll get the fly, but you're going to take out three walls, a couple of load-bearing columns, and an unfortunate cat in the process.
Very good point. I remember Dennis Crowley talking about the beginning of location based applications. Everyone at the time was trying to find a way to automatically track users.

Crowley's solution was simple: just let users track themselves by checking-in manually. Many thought it wouldn't work; that people could easily cheat the system. But so far it's been pretty successful.
Mozilla has been hiring quickly, and still puts some money in the bank. Most money is spent on employees.
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I am really looking forward to this. Handing it to my son and saying 'go at it - hack around'.
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Where do I end up if I dig straight down?
maybe I have this wrong, but it sounds like they heard the rabble rousing and made a well timed good marketing move. No surprise. But it does make me sad when a political stance is a marketing move.
Which is fair IMO. I wouldn't want to provide domains for highly immoral websites.
There is some interesting information here, but I am concerned about the terminology. For example: "Unlike some Washington advocacy groups that are predictably anti-copyright, ...." -- who would that be? After all, even, say, Richard Stallman could reasonably be described as "pro-copyright". I'm not sure how much trust I want to place in an article when the author gives evidence of not quite understanding its primary topic.
Grandparent comment is asking for textbooks. The Art of Computer Programming is not considered a textbook, it's a treatise.
We have pretty sane IP law already in the DMCA - IP rightsholders already have several avenues of recourse, including the US govt's warantless domain seizures. Anything new is going to beyond the DMCA, and probably far beyond. I am not in support of that and have a hard time cheering on any company that is in support.