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Another approach, if you want to create something for a lucrative market but you're not a user, is to co-create your product with customers. This piece on how to identify a monetizable pain is great:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanfurr/2011/11/18/nailing-th...

Clay Collins also advocates for a similar approach that he calls the "interactive offer":

http://mixergy.com/collins-interactive-offer-interview/
Sublime Text 2 has both a Python API and a plugin that makes it act sort of like VIM. Frankly, the plugin is pretty bad if you're used to VIM, but there's active development on it (it's open source [1]), and it's apparently good enough for many people. If you want to try this out, there's also a plugin that gives you an Ex-Mode [2], which I gather is something VIM users might want (I'm frankly not sure what it is.)

[1]: https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage

[2]: https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx
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Oh, awesome! Thanks! I might actually start using my iPad now :-)
Yeah the Pinterest engineer (Tracy Chou) said they were in the process of reviewing their approach to unit testing.
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Very nice. Having an option to view "Ask" would also be very useful. Apart from first page of HN, I also check Ask as there are interesting "Show HN" or "Ask HN" topics that don't stay on front page for long.
Web 1.0 was the web as a publishing platform with a sprinkling of limited applications that do all of their heavy lifting on the backend. Web 1.0 was about cgi-bin, it was about lycos and yahoo and mapquest, it was about geocities and "under construction" pages and Fortune 500 companies with static websites consisting of a handful of pages, none of them terribly interesting.

Web 2.0 was a dramatic reshaping of what was possible with the web. It was about the web as a full-fledged application and communication platform. Web 2.0 was about AJAX, and web-mail, and wikis, and blogging and commenting, and google maps, and sites with social features, etc.

In the Web 1.0 era if you wanted to share information with the world you bought some hosting and you set up your own site where you put up a handful of hand-edited html pages. If people wanted to have a conversation with you on the web they would have to email you or make a comment on their own site. In the Web 2.0 era you turned to one of many platforms (blogger, wordpress, web forums, livejournal, etc.) and you started blogging, or making podcasts, or making web comics, or doing whatever suited your fancy. And to have a conversation people used the same medium, they commented on your blog posts or they talked to you on a forum, or they commented on your flickr photos, etc.

Fundamentally web 1.0 is about static data from a handful of authors, web 2.0 is about dynamic data from a myriad of contributors.

Most of Web 2.0 runs on ordinary PHP and MySQL servers, the SQL vs. NoSQL division doesn't play a part in it.
It's well understood in the social gaming industry that if you want a hit game, you have to do one of two things: get an underground viral hit (very hard and impossible to predict) or you buy users through ads. According to a recent story, Zynga may be spending as much as $300 per user to be on top [1]. The actual number is irrelevent. The important part is they're paying more in marketing and ads than their competitors and see better conversion rates because of it.

Operations does play a huge part in keeping the customers playing (user retention), it's true. The game has to look slick and not crash. Their ops teams must be wizards. Their design teams, not so much.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494617
From the examples you mentioned, it seems sql is a better option for you.

sql databases scale pretty well too.
Alex, the site and app look great. Since your Twitter stream indicates that the site has been up for 6+ months, I'm curious if you can share any information about your personal vs. business signups?

I may be completely off-base, but after seeing all of the features you have to offer, my intial thought was you'd be better off positioning the app for professional teams instead of individuals.
Since when does NoSQL mean no ACID? I thought any key-value store would be considered noSQL, and many of those are ACID.
Thanks Charlie. (Had to do a hard page reload to see them, though. Chrome's caching is maddening sometimes.)
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Your points are domain e.g. search specific and the fact that you can get away with delegating the "SM" of the SMP to a cluster in the backend in "Google, and now Blekko". That's basically an economic model and for your domain, it works. It doesn't apply to everyone. The concern is that for general purpose computing the free lunch is over.

"Web 2.0 is the difference between a SQL server that creaks under the load of a million queries per day and a noSQL cluster that does billions of queries a day."

Right. No one is gonna sue you if your search results are affected by eventual consistency. The world is not just about "queries". Some happen to care about "transactions" at scale ..

I do agree that all the recent tech-pop fretting over this is a bit of a johnny come lately phenomena.
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Why not "events_users" collection for attendees map? What's the benefit of embedding attendees inside events collection?
I think it's because of its in-house past.

Backbone expects you to have your architecture already in mind, and your use case to be more or less similar to DocumentCloud's. Then it will really shine.

The problem is that docs don't really define the whole picture. So you need to figure out stuff yourself, and may unexpectedly find yourself ‘fighting the framework’.

I personally think this is a problem. Backbone really should be re-positioned and turned into a full-blown client-side framework, with more control flow inversion; so that a developer would be able to just create ‘a Backbone project’, customize a few things and be ready to roll.
No prob, I'd like to get a hold of a production Chromebook to see the impact of an actual dual-core processor.

Here's a SSD tweaking link: http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubun...

The CR48 does raise some eyebrows when you pull it out;
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Tuenti in spain has recently started doing this. Though it helps that they were bought out by telefonica (movistar). So complete data control is definitely on the cards.
In the Valley, very unlikely. I don't have any factual statistics to throw at you but in all the years I've lived here, from purely personal observation and interactions, with exception to employees of the local Microsoft division here, I have yet to run into anyone using .NET at all. Everyone is mostly a Java, Python, Ruby, or a PHP shop. However, you might have better luck in the Seattle area as that is where Microsoft is headquartered (Redmond actually which is close to Seattle) and more likely the startups around there maybe more influenced in .NET usage.
$5 billion is the value of the new shares that are being issued as part of the ipo. The valuation is expected to be between 75 and 100 billion, so essentially that means FB is selling between 5 and 6.6 percent of the company to raise the $5 billion. In that sense, it works exactly the same way that a new round of funding works from a VC. It doesn't however, mean that 95% of the company is owned by "facebook" since those shares can (presumably after some lockup period) be traded publicly. A lot of employees and investors, for example, will probably unload some of their shares on the public market.
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I would say the title of this link (and article) is misleading. Simplistically taken, it can mean that FB aims for $5B valuation, which isn't true.
Microsoft is one of the biggest investors in facebook. That's weird, isn't it?
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Some people (and companies and countries) need enemies to get that sense of clarity and purpose. Maybe that's because they don't take their own goals seriously enough. It would be good if they could learn, because wars, competitive alpinism, and recklessly agressive business are so destructive.
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What evidence exists that building a product that you would use leads to a greater chance of success? I can think of plenty of counterexamples of entrepreneurs that have built successful products for an audience other than themselves.
Thanks, yeah sorting and different categories will be cool to add next.
Why did they not launch as Amazon ?
In addition to the design work, I think there's value in being able to quickly browse through names that you know are definitely available and have transparent pricing.

I went to ConsultingHut.com and saw that it was still the default GoDaddy parking page. I would suggest adding your logos to each site, as well as a short note along the lines of:

Buy this logo and domain from Namella for just $199

Can you share some of your thoughts about how you plan to market the site?
Disappointed that they won't be selling things themselves. They are probably waiting for Government of India to approve 100% FDI in multibrand retail.
@davj: What resources did you use to learn javascript and to make this site?
This model would leave no incentive for anyone to innovate because the big bullies will take your lunch anyway.

Hence, intellectual property protection (or whatever legal term is right here).

If the current framework can't penalize Zynga for ripping off someone else's hard work, I would say the system is broken for this use case at minimum.

There's a line between inspiration and stealing, and I would say Zynga isn't on the right side of such a line in this case.

Apple, when launched the iPod (could take many Apple examples but this is from the letter) didn't make a more-or-less copy of an existing successful product. Took inspiration from the idea of portable digital music and took it to the next level. Significantly better product.

Google didn't copy Yahoo!, seriously now! They took the idea of searching for pages and took it to the next level. Significantly better product.

To say they copied is like saying anyone who invents a new dish has copied the very first cooked meal in history. Seriously? People have just gotten amazing at gaming the system than playing the game.
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I agree, parents should be asked to pay a small fee. The cost of a burger will not be bad. I am planning on starting something like that in my children's school if the head will agree. In order not to disadvantage the really needy families, I don't mind teaching such children for free, but that need must be proven in order to stop abuse.
i wish the amazon i used had such a clean interface.
I'm curious about this too. Does Amazon have a bad reputation there? They also seem to mention themselves as little as possible on the site... the Kindle is "made by Kindle" rather than Amazon, etc.

Yeah they've got prominent links in the footer, but it just feels like they've tried to mention themselves as little as they can as you peruse the site.
yeah, i noticed that - will have to fix it to differentiate job posts from other front page news, since they behave differently.
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So would it be ok to copy a site/game that doesn't have much traction if you have a better distribution channel and can get the copy traction?

In this case the original creator isn't hurt at all and actually may benefit. Would you consider this ok?

If it is ok, where do you draw the line?

So far from people's answers to my question "what is so morally wrong with this?" I do not think the reaction that it is so wrong is as cut and dry issue as we want it to be. But, if I am missing something obvious, I would actually really appreciate the insight!
Note the use of the word "crore" as in "We help you discover over 1.2 crore products."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore
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Because what they have launched is basically a price comparison site not an ecommerce destination. In that light, launching as Amazon.in would not have been good for the brand and/or might have caused some confusion, IMO.
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"Customers can discover over 1.2 crore products and 14,000 brands..."

I'm honestly curious: Is it prevalent to use units like lakh and crore[1] on Indian English language websites? I would have guessed that Western units like million or hundred thousand would be more common online.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_numbering_system comes in handy.
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Let's not get carried away, this is not true at all. Even outside of tech circles, there are plenty of people that have no interest in what Facebook offers.
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A crore is 10 million, not 1 billion.
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"Is it prevalent to use units like lakh and crore[1] on Indian English language websites?"

If you are exclusively targeting an Indian audience, then yes it makes sense. Indians calculate salaries, house prices etc in lakhs and (for rich people!) crores. If you also want non Indians to use the site, then you probably need to use "million", "hundred thousand", etc
That's one purpose of a thesis. The more significant purpose -- at least at a graduate level -- is to contribute to the sum of human knowledge. When academics are rewarded based on how many papers they've published in which journals, that's an attempt to quantify the value they've added to the system. Allowing plagiarism prevents assigning proper credit for original work, as well as lowering the total output of the system. Likewise, I think a lot of the outrage comes from the perception that the small developer is providing most of the value, but Zynga is getting most of the profit; not only is this unfair, but it discourages small companies from trying innovative new ideas, and the industry is poorer as a result.

Of course, it's entirely possible that the concept and design of these games is totally interchangeable, and the real value is in the marketing and analytics that Zynga does so well, which shoots that analogy right in the foot.
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Hardly. As of now it's more of a marketplace listing, like eBay India.
Your own article answers your question:

"The terms lakh and crore are widely used today in Indian English and Pakistani English."
Good point, but I think that is why there are more and more people preaching for teaching Everyone to learn coding. Education and support on how to help those users help themselves is how you can help. Anyway, there are far too few programmers to solve all the world's problems, so increasing the number of people being able to program something is a step in the right direction.
I agree that this is an impressive way to practice javascript, and a UX mistake. The best way to understand Pinterest is to think of it as porn for women. Pinterest works because deciding if you are attracted to something takes zero cognitive effort and the scattering makes the required text less bothersome.
Wow, what a great name.

I am so jealous that I didn't register it.
I'm jealous of their clean interface. Amazon is honestly a bit annoying to use due to the density of stuff that feels jumbled. That and their over use of really-super (sorry typograph enthusiasts, I don't know better) over-hinted font text images.
I imagine that if Windows mobile can start grabbing more market share then there would be demand for devs who could create apps on that platform.

Otherwise, I would hit Github, Twitter, LinkedIn, meet-up info, etc to see what sort of .NET activity is coming out of the Valley.
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IANAL but for web pages, especialy dynamic ones, "the year of first publication" seems to be a flawed concept. You could as well say the page is first published everyday.

About the presence of rogue engineers playing with copyright notices at will in big companies, some yahoo properties go through the hassle of manually updating the copyright notice every year under the explicit request from the legal department.
But they dont include flipkart
"Customers can discover over 1.2 crore products and 14,000 brands, and purchase items directly from hundreds of retailers including Homeshop18, UniverCell, Hidesign, Gitanjali, The Bombay Store, Fabindia, Bata India Limited, Dabur Uveda, Microsoft India Store, Reebok, and Amazon.com."

Flipkart is a notable exception. Also a simple Steve Jobs biography search did not list Flipkart as a seller. Great for other companies in the space, at least until amazon.in makes an appearance.
FDI has been a problem in India, and as far as I understand, Amazon can't do business here yet.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-30/news...
Just occurred to me: once it'll become too costly to consume, will people just start being creative and make things more? That's a benefit in the long run, I guess.
And when the legal department noticed the error they didn't want to go through all the hoops to get it fixed, as legally it has no meaning. Also, as we see many people seem to think that you need to update the year, so they might have done it on purpose even.
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It's not just websites. In India, You see it everyday on banners, bus stop advertisements or on television. It's common to read something like "A insurance, with benefit up to X lakh" in commercial breaks.