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We'll have to agree to disagree here to an extent. As I've said, there comes a point when all you're doing now is trying to hurt them. Whether you realize it or not, or whether you can acknowledge it or not, that's blatant bullying.

I whole-heartedly agree with the premise of not supporting GoDaddy on the premise you're arguing about. Like I said earlier, I'm moving my business elsewhere either way regardless of the fact that they've let up. But now that they've let up, blatantly rallying against them even more to damage their company or going out of your way to continue getting other companies to continue moving off of them when the original goal was to focus on SOPA itself (of which seemed accomplish as far as GoDaddy is concerned) is just personal vendetta.

As I said in my original post above, remember what you're fighting for. Continuing to destroy GoDaddy isn't going to help push the fight against SOPA any more or less at this point. Now you're just fighting in anger, in personal moral beliefs, etc. I perfectly understand where you're coming from, believe me. Hopefully you see what I'm trying to say as well.
I realize that GoDaddy has reversed their position on SOPA. However, to me and to many others the damage has been done. I've been with Media Temple for a couple of years now and have been extremely happy with the service and support. On the other hand, GoDaddy has been nothing but disappointing. This is just the culmination of 5 years of frustration.

We the consumer have enormous power over these rigid companies with interests that aren't inline with their customers.
I left the valley two years ago specifically because I was losing my sense of perspective; there is a culture and mindset that is found nowhere else in the world. Overall, it's probably a good thing; and I'd go back there if I needed to start a tech company from scratch again. But, it also leads to a very limited worldview, and I think it's risky even for startup founders to buy too heavily into the reality distortion one finds in the valley.

The number of people who are making clones (with slight differences) of companies no one outside of the valley has ever heard of just blows my mind. Sometimes I'd meet two or three people at one party working on the same stupid idea in different startups. It's too easy to lose connection with your customers when you spend so much time in an echo chamber.
You don't think it's a bit strange (read: corrupt) to be pushing a law you're exempt from but negatively impacts everyone else?
Yes, it seems obvious to web developers and developers that are used to working with databases and CRUD apps, but that's one set of skills over a particular domain. Game development tends to emphasise a whole different set of skills — those of efficient graphic rendering, for example.

A points table is no doubt a last minute add on in a field that certainly wouldn't be the expertise of a small indie developer (no-one goes into game development for their love of CRUD apps, after all). They needed a database so they used the most popular, in a way that probably seemed the most appropriate for their application.
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> i think is not my idea but why not first send self-replicating machines on mars wich will mine for materials

Well, we've got lots of people, but a significant shortage of Von Neumann machines.
No one owns Mars. Whoever gets there first and can hold it owns it. If Musk is first then it's his planet until someone else shows up to challenge him for it. If it's his planet he can do as he pleases.
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An AMI is basically a Linux (or Windows, if you must) virtual machine. You can pick a kernel version, etc. from many available preconfigured AMIs (both from Amazon and from third parties), install whatever other software you want, then save it as your own custom AMI. You do have to pay some (minor) storage charges even when it's not running. You also need to be comfortable with running all aspects of your server (upgrades, software installation, and so on). It's more demanding than just using a shared account that someone else has set up and administers.
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Oh, dear. Can we send you to Mercury, with no women, men, animals, or indeed any sort of multicellular organism?
Big Data will flood the planet in 2012
I think the point is rather that the punishment of GoDaddy with serve as an example to future companies. It is forgone that they will see the errors of their ways, when it affects their cash flow. But I think the point is not to make them see their error, rather it serves as a broader example after the fact when someone reviews the history of how GoDaddy screwed up. Accepting that they have seen the light now that it has hit their bank account, will only serve to show future companies that it's OK so long as you say sorry after the screwing.
It isn't as I'd the off lease used cars jut disappear. They get sold -- no one leases 2-5yo used cars, but buying a nice $50k car used after 2y of lease with better than new warranty and service for 25-30k and keeping it for 5-10y seems to be working pretty well for me.

What you'd really need for leases to get old cars off the road is a design for refurbishment and upgrade, like military vehicles, aircraft, etc. It is reasonable to think electric cars may go that way, with drivetrain swapped out for a new one, but that kind of design usually increases weight and cost. It probably makes sense to just sell used cars at a discount, or to scrap them.

The only way to get used cars off the road is a progressive inspection and road tax system like in Japan, and even them most of the old cars get exported and driven elsewhere.
Exactly. There's no need to equivocate, just call this what it is -- lazy and incompetent.
I begrudgingly got through all the legal speak. There is a lot out there that people are getting wrong (like those who claim the solution is to host outside the US, that's the exact opposite effect!) and a lot people are missing (like the entire section about statutory damages for doing harm to a person, yes they talk about hurting as in death/dismemberment from websites).
The much-delayed Angara also has variants in excess of 60T, though it's not clear whether these big ones will actually be built (they're dependent on demand, like the never-built Atlas V heavy).
It is Christmas early... thanks Lim! Hacker Monthly is a great resource for the HN community, keep up the great work with it.
oh, you just haven't looked hard enough.
It's not really about GoDaddy, or what their future position on SOPA might be. It's that if a company shows that they are clueless, people choose not to deal with them. I don't think many people actually "believe" that GoDaddy changed their official position. They're just not publicly stating that opinion because it hurt their wallet.

It serves as a lesson to other companies in the future. Unless GoDaddy becomes the most outspoken opponent of SOPA, their public opinion on the matter is irrelevant. Some companies need to be reminded that their actions have consequences. It's not much of a lesson if the only consequence of a poor decision is that they have to go delete old blog posts and make a meaningless gesture.
What a childish attitude. If I were Godaddy, I would continue to push legislation through if only to spite people like you.

Do you see where angry mob tactics get us?
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yeah with almost 100 domains, I'd love to move them all at once and save some coin.
Well to their credit begging is a better PR strategy than "it's not noticeable impacting our business, so we don't give a shit".

Although it appears that GoDaddy were to be exempt from SOPA, so they were just pro-actively pushing a law that would only affect their competitors:
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/sopa-hearing-wi...
I don't play around with domain control much, so don't keep myself informed, but if I were to register domains, it doesn't matter how cheap (or free!) GoDaddy was, just having seen their Superbowl ads, they're clearly not a company that intends to be taken seriously.

You can get away with that with beer ads because beer is basically entertainment. But domains are part of business, a core block. You need that to be reliable and serious. Doesn't mean your ads need to be po-faced, but it does mean that you have to exhibit some nod towards indicating you're a professional company. Nice tits are nice tits, but that doesn't make me confident in the technical nous - or perhaps more importantly, intended direction - of an internet company.
GoDaddy's leadership helped write SOPA, of course they dealt themselves into the bill!
So we should see lots of brains from goldsachs going to google?
Can you support that statement? If GoDaddy helped write it, then they are worse than I thought.
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Believe me, I fight for what I believe in. I wouldn't have the galls to post this knowing there might be some backlash if I didn't have some balls. Note I'm also doing so under my real name.

I don't disagree with the shadiness that various companies have chose to carried themselves by. And there certainly a lot of reasons to be angry and upset. I agree with you that there are a lot of fucked up shit going on out there. But you're now mixing two totally separate arguments and taking advantage of the situation to tear GoDaddy a new asshole in the process.

I am not defending them (this isn't about them specifically either) nor do I honestly give a shit about their business. My original intent with this post stands. The goal and sole focus was and still should be to educate others on SOPA, get the word out, and oppose it from happening. Not take out everyone/company along the way. That's unnecessary and irrelevant collateral damage coupled with a lot of anger from a multitude of things combined.
Great response, lots of good information, thank you!
It really depends where you live. In Maine, all grocery stores that I know of close no later than 9pm. I really think that is better too, especially since a lot of the employees are high school kids.
"- understand software at many levels (so-called "full stack" programmers)"

People should start using "multi-stack" to describe those jobs when PHB's decide they know best which technologies to use, and not surprisingly, they're all incompatible and different than last month's technologies.
Hmm, tough question to google but: I was going to blog about but: didn't get around toit. Look at static code analysis and runtime tools (debuggers) there's SO tags for that, python+code-analysis.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3883484/using-python-code...

Python has a very rich toolset, including inspect module,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568544/given-a-python-cl...

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/213898-drawing-inheritan...

Also (this thread)[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/334009/how-to-read-source...] mentions ctags, doxygen, tools like that. Reading test suites (and running code coverage) is where a lot of people start with new to them codebases. And python specific emacs and vim plugins, and python-specific IDE's, komodo and pycharm, at the tools they provide for folding code, showing module dependencies/call graphs, stuff like that

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My python's a little rusty, but could generate stacktraces, or use an IDE's stepper/debugger to show where you are at some point in execution of django code

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Finally [a book](http://www.amazon.com/Code-Reading-Open-Source-Perspective/d...)
It's not about intelligence as much as the kind of intelligence you have. I don't really consider myself a stupid person, but I don't know if I could go into, say, finance, even finance-related programming. I particularly doubt I could do a decent job and stay sane.
The proof I'll accept?

Publicly telling Congress that GoDaddy supported SOPA, but had to back off when customers told them it's a bad idea -- and that Congress should do the same.
Well, I was referring to the hypothesis that the release of previously sequestered methane caused the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event where 96% of marine species and 70% of land species died [1]. I think it's fair to say that a poisonous atmosphere is less habitable than no atmosphere.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinc...
I have a 2006.5 a4 (b7), and I'm always amazed driving around to like the b6 just as much. The only thing keeping me from driving this car until it completely falls apart in 10y is the relatively dated navigation system, lack of realtime traffic, etc. I'll probably get a model s and keep the a4 for road trips and a second car for my girlfriend to drive.
Don't just boycott GoDaddy. Kill GoDaddy. Make an example out of them
Isn't association with BSA, being that they are a copyright-enforcement arm, extremely relevant?
Now this is what I go to HN for! The most interesting part for me was that he did not focus on some huge strategy. Just individuals and small groups with clear goals and constant revaluation. Keeping in mind that the only thing kept between rounds were missions and those were constantly reevaluated as well. I think this is a vivid, albeit simplified, example of how successful organizations of anything should operate.

EDIT: grammar
GoDaddy's PAC Donations Focused on SOPA Cosponsors
This isn't behavioral modification. You don't need to reward GoDaddy for this change in stance after threatening punishment.

Let me state that again: You are under no obligation to pat them on the back so they don't feel sad that customers are still leaving and so go back to their old ways. If it were that easy for them to reverse (again) this decision, do you think they warrant a pat on the back in the first place?

They are engaging in a craven, cynical ploy to retain customers. There are no market-rules you need to play by. If you think that GoDaddy still stinks after this quick shower, walk away.

And I for one think they still stink.
Hi, I'm an engineer from Facebook's ads team. I worked on ads for Timeline.

The article's unsubstantiated premise is that Facebook releases products solely with its bottom line in mind. Based on my experience working on ads for Timeline, I'd say that this is antithetical to our nature. We optimized timeline for user experience (engagement) and released it not because of its impact to our bottom line but DESPITE that.

If you aren't convinced, look at the ads on Timeline, and compare to Profile. There were on average four ads per Profile page. Now there's two. People also click away a lot faster on Profile (because there's less content), but people now scroll around and navigate within Timeline. Photos are bigger, we show a lot more content. The resources to support these new products are expensive. If this doesn't illustrate our focus on engagement over our bottom line, color me surprised.

Just another point I wanted to clarify: Whenever money changed hands, even for organic content like sponsored stories, they are clearly labeled "Sponsored." If you don't see Sponsored, there was no optimization for revenue, because no money changed hands.

Ultimately, I think the author is exploiting a confusion between news feed and timeline. Sure, we will experiment with sponsoring organic content in news feed (max one), but they will be clearly labeled and things you can already see.

I just wanted to clarify a few issues that the author is either truly confused about, or is aware of but intentionally exploiting. I hope this helped.

If you have any questions I can answer, I'll be happy to clarify.
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The thing is, we would never have heard about this if the developer wasn't a pompous ass and tried to claim that the way he is doing it is "fine".
Robert Iger: Impersonating Uncle Walt - In January, Disney announced that Iger’s latest annual compensation topped $28 million, a neat 35 percent increase over the year before. This fall Iger became the newest member of the Apple computer board of directors. He’ll get a six-figure tip for the gig, plus a free copy of any new Apple product he wants. Unfortunately, some housekeepers who work at the hotels in Disneyland have been raining on Bob Iger’s Disney parade. They went almost four years without a contract because they refused to accept Disney demands they feared would force them to pay hundreds of dollars a year extra for health care. The original Walt Disney, the hotel workers union pointed out, made 108 times what his housekeepers were making in 1966. Iger now makes 781 times as much.

Read about him here, and then you'll know why Disney couldn't care less how we the people feel. Know your enemy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Iger
Do not think for a second that they were unaware of what support for SOPA meant. The lesson for them and others only gets stronger the more continued damage is done. Every registrar and SOPA supporting business watching this should see GoDaddy continue to lose customers despite this superficial about-face.

We're really not this stupid.
And it ensnares people who, left to their own devices, would have nothing to do with 'the trade' whatsoever.

I think this is why few truly good people go in to politics.
For newgy:

"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said.

Source is pretty credible:
http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_ite...
Right it is still important for the historical context. When people reflect on the GoDaddy incident, they will either say GoDaddy supported bad legislation and was brutally punished for it and the lesson will be learned by future companies or they will reflect on it and say GoDaddy took a gamble and bet on bad legislation, they apologized and where able to avoid accountability. By your continuing to remove your domains, you have helped that future lesson be the first narrative. It's no longer about GoDaddy and now about, what do we want the narrative to say.
really? I'm the guy that suggested the name 'stackoverflow.com' to Jeff, and at the time I suggested it it was NOT registered.

see: http://jcooney.net/post/2010/08/26/Back-in-the-day-preferred...
As they say: "there's no such thing as bad publicity".

This old maxim is particularly true when the publicity helps you to come up as the #1 search result for "domain registration" (or worse, links directly to your press releases), and most of your customers don't care about your position on SOPA.

Every seething blog post you vote up to the front page of HN sends potential customers to GoDaddy, if only to see what the fuss is all about.
In GoDaddy's 180º press release:

"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation"

"Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago."

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/23/godaddy-no-longer-supports-...
It's sort of ambiguous, but the sentence "Encourage friends, businesses, organizations, social media to take a stand along side us in the same way" implies voluntary cooperation. Without anything more explicit, it seems like they're talking about people voluntarily replacing their own front pages.
True for International Business Corporations (IBCs) and free trade zones in many places.

However, in Hong Kong you just pay local taxes on local income (8% I believe), and no taxes on overseas income (although if you're a US citizen it becomes a lot more complex, with Controlled Foreign Corporation rules, etc.).

It's much more likely that he doesn't want to face local legal issues in Hong Kong. i.e. "never sell no crack where you rest at, I don't care if they want an ounce, tell em: bounce".
[SOPA] Wouldn't we be better off if...
I understand all the backlash towards the companies supporting SOPA i.e GoDaddy but while hurting these companies individually may cause them to reverse course it doesn't really solve the big problem which is SOPA.

In the case of GoDaddy since domains are really a loss leader for them wouldn't we be better suited to take our time and money say $1 per domain and contribute it to a fund that would lobby against these sorts of attacks on our freedoms and the Internet.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for attacking those who are for SOPA but since money is really what does the talking (see GoDaddy reversal) if we really want a favorable result / solution in congress we will need to vote (push) more with our pocketbooks not just punish the supporters of bad legislation.

Thoughts...

EDIT: And if a company really wants to earn my business, (I have control of 200+ domains) don't just oppose SOPA, "FIGHT IT" and I'll glady stand with you and support you with my spending dollars.
I was thinking that at first, then I got curious why a 'happy holidays' message was on HN.
At the very least, I think GoDaddy put namecheap.com on the map this week. I know I had personally never heard of namecheap before the last few days.

GoDaddy probably won't release how many customers they lost, but I bet namecheap will be happy to tell us all how many transfers happened after all this is over.
I see. Sorry I got carried away then.

The problem with the public is that they don't want to be educated. Scientists and logicians have tried for decades to educate the public and they still deny evolution and global climate change. The public can only be scared shitless into things or "infotained" by public displays of drama and shock. That's how congress get us into wars and pointless "security theater" strip searches and hand swabs at the airport.

Which do you think would catch the -> average <- person's attention: (note: the average YouTube kitten watching, tv couch potato, "who's Carl Segan?", "I didn't come from no monkey", person)

1) Congress is voting on a law called SOPA which censors the US internet and can completely destroy free speech, fair use content, youtube, and fair file sharing.

2) Did you hear what happened to Godaddy? They supported some SOPA law on censoring the internet and got their ass beat. Now they're on damage control, etc....
I don't think GP was saying that the law had no reason for existing, just that its existence had an unfortunate unanticipated effect on microloans.

(If you wanted to outlaw loan sharking, you pass something like the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, not an "only banks can loan money" law)
Show HN: NoSOPA, a Chrome plugin that warns if you're on a SOPA supporter site
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How are you going to manage 172 domains without auto-renew? Unless you only ever buy domains on one date each year, the renewals end up spread out over time, so you have to check and pay every month to keep from losing things.

I'd move to Namecheap right now if

1) They took my American Express card, they only take Visa/MC

2) They would auto-renew my domains
Venus is hot enough to sterilize anything that even approaches its surface. Earth's most radical extremophiles don't even come close to being able to withstand that. Even life made out of many common metals wouldn't be able to exist because it would melt them.

Since we don't know the limits of what might be considered "life," I suppose we can't 100% say it's impossible, but that's why I said "life as we know it."
It's essentially impossible to own property in Antarctica, and very difficult to set up any sort of business there. Despite that thousands of people still visit Antarctica every year.