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The way I see it, they have smaller (but frequent) company-branded bundles (eg, the FrozenByte bundle) and larger, more exciting numbered bundles (like this one - #4). The numbered ones always seemed to have more games, more hyped/well-known games and also sell a lot more.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I view them. As long as the numbered bundles can continue to include some big well known games, them I think they can avoid "bundle fatigue". But we will see, I guess. Its still too early to know for sure how repeatable it is, though it looks positive so far - I mean, $900k in one day is pretty good!
Very true. Much is already known about the rites/rituals/practices of successful students. It is a matter of giving timely feedback to encourage students to stay on course.
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this experiment only worked because it's "rare"

I said the same thing about the humble indie bundle, but they seem to be doing really well still!
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Hello everyone.

Looking at the 2012-2015 time-frame, what in your opinion would be the biggest opportunities for entrepreneurs?

Popular opinion blogs express that Gamification will see a rise, so will Personal Marketing with the help of Mobile platforms. Social VS Traditional forms of business will evolve to a more combined form of working. Lead Generation for sales/marketing is another unexplored area for automated solutions.

What is your take on these or some other untapped avenues where starters can look for traction and impact?

PS: I'm currently bootstrapping. It would be wonderful to have some perspective from such a mature community.
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Actually, I think if you look at the ratings Comedy Central has more obscure comedies. I am assuming that "non-mainstream" translates to small audience. Keep in mind that while Sunny started out as a cult hit, it's about to become the longest running live action comedy on cable. In contrast, last Thursday The Daily Show did worse than Sunny, The League, and Beavis and Butthead.

And if you compare to broadcast, all of cable looks non-mainstream.
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Because two points make a line and therefore are irrefutable (ha ha), I'd like to add that I also passed on those experiments and bought the DVD. It was $5, just like the games I tend to buy on Steam. But if it were $15+, I would have passed, like I have on the rest of his DVDs.
How can you expand beyond being international? Is their long-term goal to be an inter-planetary task service?

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JSP is an archaic template language. I'm on a project with JSP on the front end; compared to Django, Jinja, or any of the other Python template languages it's really limited and verbose.

It's interesting that LinkedIn chose dust.js as it doesn't get much attention compared to some of the other JS template languages (e.g. Mustache & Handlebars.js).
I saw this yesterday in demonoid, and was kind of funny to see that.

And some people felt more awesome, because they have bought and download the torrent "to save the site bandwith".
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It's interesting to note that 2008-onward is the perfect economic environment for Taskrabbit to have started in.

The tasks I've posted, for cleaning and office work, have gotten offers by Stanford and Harvard grads at rates of around $15-20/hour. Most Taskrabbits seem to have college degrees and they often bid at rates of around, or below, minimum wage in SF ($10/hour). They usually have tons of time available, not just an hour or two a day. This wouldn't work so well if unemployment weren't so high right now.

But as a product, it works amazingly well! I highly recommend trying it out, for anything you want done. You can google for a $20 off first-time user code. (I have no affiliation with the company.)
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Honest question. Is case (in)?sensitivity something people actually care about?
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The new alpha is still incapable of editing Japanese text.　Although at least this time it is probably a bug that is fixable, not a fundamental design flaw that isn't.

Pressing Return, which is how you select the kanji characters that correspond to the phonetic words that you typed, inserts the kanji as it should, but then unhelpfully replaces the Japanese characters with a newline. :-P

I don't personally care that much, though; TextMate 1 was actually pretty bad, IMO. It was slow and buggy, with nothing much special about it except its bundle system for extensibility. That was indeed a killer feature, but TextMate bundles can now be used by many other, much better, editors like Sublime Text 2.
My interpretation is that this was the cost of the cameras, cameramen, and venue (tickets, box office, ushers, sound setup, soundboard, lights, spotlights, advertisements). Basically, all the costs associated with getting people in the seats and the show on film (or whatever the cameras record to)
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I hear them martians is a pretty big target market.
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Heh, looks like it's a Microsoft email thread -- the Ship-It reference suggests so.
In general, more features are better. What is needed is user interface that organizes the assortment of features in an intuitive and user-friendly way.
Before we all agree that BASIC is indeed dead, I have a friend that recently reached out to me for some help writing an AppleSoft BASIC app for some CS course. Never figured out why someone is still teaching it...
django and neo4j are two of my favorite things -- I really like gremlin and tinkerpop, I haven't been keeping up with them the last few months. I've also been meaning to check out http://bulbflow.com/
I don't understand what you mean. Are you referring to some pro or con within BASIC or BaCon, or are you referring to the sentence being incorrect (given that "both" should be "neither")? Regardless, I like BaCon because it's easy, fast, updated regularly, and passes cleanly through to C. My black, British cat, Mr. Fluffer Wickbidget, III, also likes bacon. You may think that fact is not relevant here, but it is when you run out milk, as I now see that I have.
Good for him. Louie is hilarious.
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Do keep in mind that LinkedIn was founded in 2003, before many of the web frameworks were released. LinkedIn also uses a custom JSP compiler, as at the time the official implementation lacked many feature.
How many downloads per day does one need to be a Top Free iPhone app?
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This one video spanned three performances (Nov 10, 11, 12). Three nights in the Beacon theatre + audio/video engineers + equipment + set + lighting + production assistants + security + travel expenses + other stuff I can't imagine.

I'm sure it adds up quick.
This rings very true. I've interviewed with and turned down 8 YCombinator start-ups in the past three years. Of the 8, I would have been within the first 5 employees of 6, within the first 10 of the remaining two. They all offered below market salary in exchange for "huge equity". Thoe "huge equity" offers ranged from 0.35% to 2% (the 2% one offered me 40% of market-rate). I didn't mind, I was only interviewing to network and try to sell my $150/hour consulting services to them. (3 of them are still customers). Being an employee for a start-up is a sure-fire path to an early grave in potter's field.
I would justify that by pointing out that web pages tend to scroll vertically; even (especially?) in landscape aspect, the rendered page is usually taller than it is wide.

If you really need to just design the first screenful of a page in landscape orientation, then go ahead and draw a big horizontal line through the centre of the page -- label it "FOLD" if it helps, and just work on that screen.
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So why was this not more widely adopted? I mean, if you want to convince a corporation to adopt some business model, all yo have to do is show it's more profitable. Or is that naive?
I just spent my entire day tracking down a missing "var" that caused a bug only in Internet Explorer. I haven't written any assembly code since college, and I hope to reach a day when I never have to write or maintain native Javascript again.
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I love at 19:50 when he's talking about diversifying Apple's product line to have a bunch of different computers that each have a different emphasis in interaction. Not only does it sound like he's describing a business model that lends itself to creating something like the iPad, but he even uses the exact same car/truck metaphor he ended up using to describe the difference between the Mac and the iPad.
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This is quite offtopic, but if even programmers are using jpeg when they should use png, what hope is there for anyone else?

The images this generates have mostly flat areas of all one color - it should have been a png.
They can, but if they do, they're usually not called a "designer" anymore. Usually they're at least a "business cofounder", if not a "visionary".

Steve Jobs is arguably one of the best designers of this generation. He's almost never called a designer. He's called "the genius visionary behind Apple Computer".
I remember the day I discovered an assembly program that mimicked a memory wipe, but could be restored with a hotkey combination. I was so damn smug after that.
Wonder if he is including the S3 costs in there?
I'm just sick of reading articles like this because I've been there, and I've seen what "help" looks like, and I was worse off for most of it. "Help" is what happens when people hear you say that suicide is a choice, because they assume it's their duty to take that choice from you.
That's completely irrelevant.

Imagine there is a time when releasing music/video or any other form of media is done independently without a label and without DRM. Will people who release stuff in this way be hailed heroes and make sales because of of how they're selling? of course not. That's what is happening here with Louis CK. If the standard for publication and sale of media was what he was doing here we wouldn't even be having this conversation because nobody would be talking about it.

What Lil Wayne did has no relevance to my point.
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Apologies for this, there was a bug in our player which didn't enable HTML5 mode. It should work now - do let us know if it doesn't, thanks!
Thanks, I'm a responsive design fan and worked hard on that. Thanks for noticing. :)
Yeah maybe. I think the numbers are a bit weird then. He talks about making a profit of 200k, but then admits that ticket sales largely covered production costs, so is his total revenue around 750k with profits closer to 500k?

I wonder if HBO or CC paid for the special, whether he would still get 100% of ticket sales.
How do you demonstrate that a fan is more profitable with something more than speculation? In a way that can still be charted in a PowerPoint for the suits to see?
It should be noted that dustjs is not yet updated for node v0.6.x. I submitted a rather trivial pull request toward the end of October fixing the problem and another user has submitted one since then, but the author has not responded to either.

This makes me question how much the project will be supported in the future - but I suppose having a large company like LinkedIn invested in the technology is a good sign.

See: https://github.com/akdubya/dustjs/pull/36
Think about how much easier it makes it to write hard-to-read-code.

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Indeed. I hope to add the option to toggle each tweak as well.
I don't use it, although I have an account to appease my other friends' need to 'friend' me. How silly is that sentence?
Beauty is really in the eye of the beholder...
Besides Zaarly, what other local service marketplaces are out there?
The entire M.O. of the modern music industry is to shatter our preconceptions of just how short-sighted somebody can possibly be.
I think I'd like to be a "TaskRabbit" just to pick up some extra cash occasionally, not just because of unemployment.
"You only get to do this once. Is this the time?"

Have you ever done heroin? Get drunk with a bunch of kids you don't know? Skydive? Steal a car? Wake up in a hotel in Mexico? Sorry to be flip, but there are probably a lot of things you've never done that you'd feel rotten about the next day, but at least there'd be a next day, and you could do it again. "Not being" is an option, but it's a stupid one. I didn't like Raganwald's post either, because it's saccharine and condescending.

Let's face facts: Most people who don't want you to kill yourself are just scared that life's meaningless; when they see people around them committing suicide, it upsets their sense of everything being okay. That's why they tell you not to do it.

I say screw that. I feel nothing for people who kill themselves. I think it's incredibly stupid, but hey, that's evolution. If you can't find anything worth living for, do it. You've gotta be pretty dumb not to think of any other way to spend your evening, but the world's better off without dumb people. QED.
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Love the idea and would use the service, but sad to see that Harvard / Stanford grads are getting minimum wage :(
The two decades of experience we've had since the 90s, building things with exceptions, have fairly adequately demonstrated that they're not superior to return codes, despite their (apparent) theoretical advantages.
I don't usually talk about this, but your post speaks to something that most opinions on the subject never do.

22 years ago I went through a fairly strange time: I was depressed, disconnected, and feeling deeply alone. It culminated in a very violent suicide attempt. Despite all my plans and precautions I was found still alive and hospitalised. Being young and antisocial I never went back to therapy and for a few months afterwards I kept going back to the idea of trying it again.

The turning point for me was realising that suicide was in fact an option. Admittedly a pretty drastic option, but one nonetheless. Neither was it 'the easy way out', or 'for the weak'. Destroying one's own life isn't a spur of the moment decision, similar to deciding which tart one should have for tea, etc. Driven by desperation, or severe pain, it is a momentous decision and the consequences are irreversible - no one who really makes the decision does so lightly.

The understanding that it was an option, gave me a feeling of control. Since it was an option and one that I could take at any time, I had some level of control over my situation. If that was an option, then perhaps there were other options. I decided to explore other options. I haven't been there in 18 years but I still know what it feels like.

We are adults. At your worst times, don't be intimidated by ignorant misconceptions about suicide. It is your mind, you have the right to explore it, and you have the right to make whatever decision you feel is correct for you. Just remember that if there is one way of resolving an issue there may just be another way, one that is less violent, less irreversible; one that may just provide further options, one that may eventually lead to happiness, however remote that may appear at the moment.
Hiring a good person for cheap plus mucho equity is easier than raising money, at least when smart + learn in the job is a possibility.
Get a load of this kid.
The correction footnote seems eye-opening: Pew Internet and American Life Project estimates 16 percent don't have cellphones.
> try to figure out a decent Social Benefits system for the poor, to where poor parents do not feel the need to resort to prostitution, drugs, drinking, etc.

Why do you think that the lack of a "decent Social Benefits system" is the reason why they do prostitution, drugs, drinking?

To put it another way, you seem to be assuming that someone drinks because they're poor. Could it be (for some/many) that they're poor because they drink?
In SF, I doubt that police are ever assigned to pulling people over for cell phone violations. It is usually something like a cop hiding on a side street at the top of Portola late at night waiting for someone to run a red light, which is financially worth a lot more to the city (~$500). The reality is that a cell phone violation is not worth much financially to the city ($20-$50) and drivers ignore the law since it is pretty much just a slap on the wrist. [1]

So, instead of banning the use outright, which a lot of people will object to because nobody likes to be told they can't do something (ignoring the whole driving is a right motto). I'd just say, increase the fines to the level of a red light run and increase the enforcement. The only people who will object to the fines are the people breaking the law. ;-)

[1] http://www.cbdlaw.com/CM/Articles/WirelessFAQs.asp
Link for those who prefer lines that are not a bazillion characters long: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/freakonomics-wh...
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This isn't true any more. They recently announced faster frontend instances with more memory (http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/12/app-engine-161-r...), and I'm willing to bet this has been available internally since long before Thanksgiving.

I'd bet money that this app used the beefiest class of frontend instances.
Well an engineer doing everything is still an engineering founder, so why not a designer doing more than designing be called so?

I think the question is why do fewer designers take the plunge as a founder.
That wasn't meant as a criticism of LinkedIn's adoption of it, more my own circumstances and the fact that frameworks are still using JSP by default in 2011.
You'd need to know what conglomerates pay him. If the differential is not large, I could see the difference residing in the costs he paid. HBO doesn't have to develop a new website from scratch every time, and they probably have in-house production, reducing cost.
Yes, if the OEM decides to supply poor hardware and worse support, the experience is bound to be sub-par. However, this still supports my fundamental thesis: Linux's popularity is wildly decoupled from its innate quality.

If an OEM shipped broken drivers with Windows it would be at least as inconvenient. In fact, on my last laptop, this is exactly what happened: the audio system under Windows did not support one of the headphone jacks (there were two for some odd and unknown reason). From a tinkerer's point of view, Linux even has an advantage here: if there is some way to improve the situation, it's much easier to find under Linux. I have literally spent days searching for 64bit drivers for an external wireless network adapter on Windows; finding the same for Linux was trivial.

And to me, of course, the most important bit is that once I get everything working--it's gotten easier with each new computer :)--Linux provides by far the best experience.

How are the Dells that come with Ubuntu, coincidentally? I haven't seen them in retail anywhere, but I have seen them for sale online. If the support there is good, it could be a nice stepping stone going forward.
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I am pretty sure Maven was playing at the same level circa 2001, so not surprised to hear other AIs are doing just as well in 2011.

I guess it's kind of like chess: it's almost impossible to beat a computer, so it's effectively solved. Except when they play each other :)
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Just wanted to say thank you for posting this. I'm dealing with my own kind of problem (incurable disease) and have had almost exact thoughts for many years now. Couldn't have expressed them better.

Wish you all the best!
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It will be interesting to see the analytics of the sale in a long term model, and see if there is a long tail, or if it's just a stubby tail. Like many, I hope that it is long. But this is currently on a single website, and not through a major distribution channel (one of the initial appeals). If he gets the content onto other services, then I imagine the tail would be longer. He should get it on Netflix, etc, if a true long tail is desired.
I couldn't raise 10K to build a prototype. Had to earn the cash the ol' fashioned way. Unless a handshake and a smile can get money from someone you know, raising cash is frikkin' hard.
I guess that was a stupid question. Here comes the thought_alarm... ;)
How come we haven't noticed this before? That is, some of those logs were probably sent at some point to somebody who didn't exactly expect this kind of data. I'm surprised nobody found out sooner.
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Please change the title of this to "Important Open Source Projects of 2011" per http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Linkbait titles suck.
It might have went over better had you attributed the quotes to some "third party", like "Mr. ERB Exponent, December 2011". You don't risk personally offending the reader. The tradeoff is it might make the joke a little less obvious. (I might Google for "Mr. ERB Exponent", thinking it's a web persona who was notorious for expounding on ERB.)

Writing is hard.

(For what it's worth, the attributions didn't bother me.)
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It's not really burn out, it's the management cabal that likes to keep the body count high. There's a lot of mildly desperate people who really forced their way up into unstable career positions, and natural genocidal tendencies peek out every now and then. It's innate human behavior. History's purges were not by accident.
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