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I'm still on the fence. (should this be a choice?)

They do have an exceptionally crappy web interface, and their marketing is distasteful.
On the other hand, I've called them several times over the last couple years for random support, and my experience with that has always been excellent.

So yeah, still on the fence. And all this Godaddy backlash has just a tad to much witch-trial feel to it. But man their web interface sucks...
"No. The one valid definition of a business purpose is this: A business should do what the owners want it to do. Otherwise, the notion of ownership loses meaning."

This is specious, not all shareholders are equal and most have no practical consequence from their shareholding because they hold too few.

Large shareholders are rarely, if ever, interested in being owners, they want short term tradeable instruments. Maximising shareholder value is pandering to the whims of these people whose goals are never in the interests of the underlying business.
They would drop the quadrennial 366-day leap years entirely in favor of an extra week at the end of December every five or six years.

and

The two men also propose eliminating time zones and adopting a universal time around the world to streamline international business.

indicate that there are some fundamental things they don't understand about business.
No. But I think people should make up their own minds.

The process of whipping up an internet hate mob with the aim of destroying <person>/<company> etc is one of the parts of the internet I detest the most. It's ugly bullying.

It rarely concerns itself with facts, just how big the internet hate mob can grow to and whether they can succeed at destroying their chosen enemy.
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It's wholly due to bad programming. Put the timestamps in epoch time - that never changes, then read them back in whatever your current timezone is. If you're in a situation like you were where timezones change frequently, you'll also need to record the timezone when the entry was made for reference.

Given that servers frequently changing timezones can be sorted out by a modicum of thought by programmers and is actually pretty rare in the grand scheme of things, I don't think it's too heavy a price to pay.
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For example, they'd make anyone possessing, downloading, reading, printing etc any of these emails a 'terrorist' and imprison them indefinitely.
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My peer pressure / herd mentality / mob detection shields always get activated at times like this.
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Please consider having an annual payment option ( discounted or not ) as well as a monthly one.

If its a service I've decided I want and I sign up for it, I generally want to pay once and then not think about it again for a year.

From the standpoint of a B2B purchase, the overhead of a book keeper or accountant having to keep track of lots of monthly subscriptions to services , which are usually in dollars and have to be converted to a local currency is an extra annoyance.

People wanting to pay you an annual subscription up front are essentially showing you that they are fans of your service and aren't typically as price sensitive as the monthly subscribers. Why not make it easy for them to give you money ?
That's an excellent point: "We'll need to be ready by Tuesday morning"... does morning mean 'sunrise' or does it mean 'time near where Tuesday 'starts'?
No, but I'm saying that if you care about your criticism actually accomplishing anything, those are certainly the best addresses to ring a bell.
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I already did when Bob Parsons killed that elephant
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So, despite the fact that GoDaddy helped write SOPA, never officially withdrew their support from SOPA, and even has special exemptions written into SOPA for themselves, it's a hate mob?
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That's me to a T.

I have purchased domain names from GoDaddy for years. And only from them, unless there was a TLD I required that they didn't offer.

Recently I started moving all of my domains to namecheap (before the SOPA shit hit the fan) for a variety of reasons. Mainly that I was being penalized by GoDaddy for aggressively SEOing my domains.

Just agreeing with you, that's it!
> Anyone that purchases a single copy can re-compile and re-release to the world for free.

I have licensed a lot of custom-built software under the GPL (because I used GPL'ed bits and pieces). None of my clients ever redistributed their software, most likely because they considered it a competitive advantage. Think about it for a moment and you'll realize it's not a big problem. For me, it's an advantage, because I could reuse the code I did in other projects, something I wouldn't be able to do if I didn't license the code under the GPL in the first place.

> Stallman doesn't want you to be able to charge for software

No. What he doesn't want is that programmers are able to restrict freedoms of their users. BSD allows that. GPL forbids that.

In other words, he fights for the users. ;-)
> Facebook lets you tone down updates and the like as well.

Well, that shows you how little time I now spend on Facebook. Never seen that. Where is it? I still can't find the options to do that, after clicking around like crazy. Unless you mean the person by person "all/most/only important" - that's far too much hassle.

In Google+ I've toned down the number of updates from my "following" circle that I use for people I don't personally know, for example, and I don't have to remember to adjust settings for individual people when I add them to that circle. Meanwhile, if I want to see that unfiltered stream, I only need to click on that circle, not on each individual member of it.

> Also, have you tried managing a page with Google+ yet? Let me let you in on a secret: they did not make it very intuitive.

I haven't, as I've never had any interest in using it, or in following any for that matter.
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Although I'd love to have a few bottles of your fat-free water, it's a bogus analogy. It's more like claiming "100% trans fat free" on a package of cookies. That the vast majority of eaters don't care about or even know what trans fats are doesn't make the statement less true, or less relevant to those who do know and care.

Android's openness is consequential to those who care about openness. And almost every Android user I know (yes, all fairly technical) likes that aspect and indeed takes advantage of it.

To such people, the open aspects -- both the fact that the OS is open source, and that they can install whatever apps they want without having to find a buffer overflow bug in the OS somewhere to exploit first -- are attractive.

The "vast majority of users" aren't the arbiter of whether or not something is consequential to me, or to the other people who generally prefer their systems to be more open.
In the process of moving 24 domains.
I left GoDaddy earlier this year, when Bob Parsons made his childish Great White Hunter video killing that elephant.

With the stories I've heard since about how GoDaddy already handles copyright complaints and otherwise mistreats customers, not to mention Parsons' support of torture, and of course SOPA, I can't imagine why I would ever consider giving them money—especially with how well NameCheap has treated me since I joined them.
Oh boy do I want to, but I need to figure out where to move them to! GoDaddy's support is in Arizona, clear, well trained, and answer the phone quickly, 24x7. Admittedly, I don't reedit often, but good/fast/easy support is important, and can be vital. I am not sold that the support will be acceptable with the others. I desperately want to move away from goDaddy, but don't know where to go to!
Yes. Regardless, protests like this never achieve anything apart from wasting peoples time.

If you don't like GoDaddy, or disagree with some of their policies, don't use them. It's the whipping people up into an internet hate mob unconcerned with any facts that I find distasteful.
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I don't think that it is Namecheap's duty to donate any portion of their profits to the EFF, CC, Deb, etc... If I want to support those initiatives, I will make the donation myself (and get the tax refund).

Namecheap does quite a bit more than GoDaddy in terms of protecting you.

To GoDaddy, you are some cow that needs milking. (re: fines for various "infractions" that GoDaddy writes up themselves).

To Namecheap, you are a valued and respected customer. This means requiring proof to back up accusations.
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Indeed, and I just got myself another domain Yesterday through Godaddy. They are really the Wal-Mart of domain name selling, disliked by snobs and hipsters but everyone will buy from them at some point.
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Here's a tip:
SWITCH, they suck ass.

Basically, the CEO hunts elephants ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy... ), they helped redact SOPA & support it, they are exempt from SOPA, have a bad attitude, refuse to respond to requests at random / throttle ( http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm ).

What else do you need to hear to not "be on the fence" any more?

P.S.: I don't have domains at godaddy and never will. I also don't tell you or anyone else to what company to switch, just to switch from them.
moving them as I speak...
Right, shared web hosting is what 99% of brick-and-mortar businesses have.
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I moved all my domains when the former CEO shot and killed an elephant, then gloated about it on video. It was both shocking and saddening for me.

Now the elephant killing is kind of a Voight-Kampff test I use. Anyone who isn't bothered with the elephant shooting wouldn't be my friend. I wouldn't want that type of person as a business partner or employee either. I don't think I could trust them.

I certainly wouldn't want to do business with a company that endorses or associates itself with killing intelligent, peaceful animals.

Personally, I want GoDaddy to GoDead.
M&T Bank.

We used TD Bank, based on my earlier personal banking relationship with Commerce Bank, but boy was that a mistake. Fees out the wazoo, bureaucratic service, and a creeping indifference to all but their biggest customers. They've been skating on the old Commerce Bank reputation for some time now.

M&T is much smaller, but they've been willing to bend over backwards for us, and treat me like a major customer, even when our balances are low.
No, I have more important things to worry about.
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http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html...

Since I have no control over it, I block Google analytics.
Namecheap. They're running a promotion right now, use promo code "SOPASUCKS". Have fun!
We need a "Maybe" option, eventually, maybe today - only have a few domains at GoDaddy, most are already at Namecheap.
I've heard excellent things about namecheap. I'm going to be moving a few less critical domains to them as a trial.
> relations and SQL are still not enough to guarantee you'll always be able to get the data you need; notably, when the data model changes

What data model changes are you thinking of? Relations and SQL will cope with reorganizations/restructurings of the data, provided the information content is the same. But won't cope if the information is different (e.g. info is deleted or added).

> "Only ChronicDB can run new applications and unmodified old applications against a master database without breaking anything." [from your link]

I like your points about undoable DELETE (do modern RDB's really lack that?); but the above quote is striking because it was the stated motivation for relational databases in Codd's 1970 paper: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

[from abstract] Activities of users
at terminals and most application programs should remain
unaffected when the internal representation of data is changed
and even when some aspects of the external representation
are changed.

[from conclusion]
In Section 1 a relational model of data is proposed as a
basis for protecting users of formatted data systems from
the potentially disruptive changes in data representation
caused by growth in the data bank and changes in traffic.

The paper discusses derivability, and how some relations (such as those needed by old applications) can be derived from named relations using a high level language (now SQL). The idea was that you can change the database schema yet still provide the old relations (this mechanism is now called "views").

I'm not saying ChronicDB has no role, just that this one particular aspect, in isolation, doesn't seem new. But if it facilitates back-compatibility in contexts where RDB doesn't work well, it could be a big win. Back-compatibility, like integration, is always in demand.

EDIT looking at the "schema migration" example (http://chronicdb.com/system/files/images/agility_full_snap_g...), it looks like a join, with renaming, and a type change... is the new thing offered in this example that updates are bidirectional (especially for the type change)? Or is it that both old and new relations have the same name, "customers"?
Then make the week 73 days long. You can rest on 7th day, and corporations would really like it.
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PNC - they were the only ones to listen to me (a small startup) and give me a chance. Their online tools could be better but I'm fairly happy with them.
Hello, GoDaddy employee.

GoDaddy needs to learn their lesson for the mistakes they did in the past and for SOPA.

I wish I could have downvoted you.
But it works, which is why they do it.
I cannot downvote you because I don't have that power yet.

I guess my defensiveness stems from me being in a similar field as a FOSS developer. I have seen far too many times that people prefer to "bitch" about an issue instead of even notifying me about it. In fact, people love to "bitch" about issues that aren't even there (as an example, the classic "Firefox is slow" is almost always a matter of somebody who has used and upgraded for a long time, resulting in an application with too much baggage - of course a freshly installed application will outperform 6 years of history, cookies, passwords, extensions etc.).

I really wasn't talking about "the flaw in some product", because whether it's a flaw is subjective and also whether it's a product is subjective. They are trying to force a discussion that goes against the very nature of the subject. That is the reason why the discussion is not appreciated - they cannot have the discussion they want and so they ignore mine.

As for "don't need to act surprised" - sorry, that's really what is happening here. I see a lot of people who are bending over backwards making the case that line numbers should have been there for 7 years ("now! finally they get to it! how crazy to take so long!") and share the cognitive disconnect that they apparently have a desire to moan about the FOSS process being broken while actually being witness to a situation where it worked.

Cue them moaning about whether or not "OSS projects [are] immune to criticism merely because you can fix them, given enough time?". No, they are not. This is an example where it worked. Don't act surprised.
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> It's an incredibly bad idea to allow SQL directly, for obvious reasons (would require executing user provided SQL among other things.)

Could you elaborate on this? I've been thinking about providing SQL access to a data-heavy service, but I keep hearing that you never should.

(Almost) all servers have granular access-control, views can further provide limited views of the data, SQL itself is mostly declarative, which makes it possible to analyze the queries before running them, and logging and setting limits on long-running queries is standard.
So? Google is "bad" because they provide a lot of really good services that are also well integrated? How dare they!
No, for multiple reasons:

* I never had problems with it.

* I registered my domains via google, I have no idea how to move to a different registrar, and I'm not motivated enough to find out.

* If I started to stop using services where I don't agree with either the company's decisions, or whatever their prominent staff members chose to do, I would have to stop using all such services, not only one. I would have to go offline and live in a cage, pretty much.

Just because I am using a service does not mean I agree with whatever choices the provider makes. As long as those decisions don't affect me, I honestly don't care, because doing otherwise leads to a path of constant anger and depression. Don't need that, thank you.
While GoDaddy is made up of complete schmucks I'd never do business with, and I believe all the hate is justified, it should be noted that there are no special exemptions for them in SOPA. The exemptions are for all registrars.
I remember Firefox also had Thunderbird ads on it's homepage at some point. Google could have done much worse imo.
They're cheap, they work, they're not going to go out of business....

Couldn't care less if their CEO likes hunting, or if they help the US government with its internet censorship agenda. Hate the US government for that, not random companies.
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"...line numbers to the view source (as mentioned elsewhere, you CAN see the linenumber already, just not constantly on the side) and having the suggestion come up from the community is already a valuable asset.".

In 2004 it was the same developer-focussed feature that it is today. I suppose it's only that today, the community is more concerned with developers and back then, people didn't mind as much. I still don't, as an n=1 example.
any references on that?
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He killed the elephant because it was destroying the communities crops, and the community got fed well from the meat.

I don't think it's quite as one sided as you propose.
The Safari homepage cross promotes.

The IE home page cross promotes and/or has paid advertising (depending on your market).

Even Firefox has done cross promotion occasionally.

I don't use Opera often, but I don't think I've seen advertising on their dial-page thing.

Is there some critical distinction I'm missing?
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Exactly the same for me. Except that I went with name.com.
App Store policies restrict what I can put on my own device. I do care about that.

Switching search engines seems pointless as they all have the same business model (maybe duckduckgo is different), but blocking all the tracking and analytics stuff solves this problem.

Facebook isn't a huge problem for me either. I basically use it in read only mode, blocking them on all third party sites.
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