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For every investment you make, you need to know what you would consider as a fair return on that investment and when you would call it quits.

As an outsider watching all the action FB is not a fair price or undervalued stock based on what they are currently delivering. So you need to know what is your risk appetite and how long you want to stay invested.

Short term I do not see FB share providing tremendous value (except the volatility that may be there).

Long term you need to bet on certain things they could do right and if you can stay invested for a long time trusting that a bunch of smart folks will figure out something of value.

how are they going to leverage their user base to venture into newer forms of search on various new devices?

What will their mobile strategy be? Will they acquire companies, say, the second biggest player in mobile ads space after google?

Would they venture into FB phone (may be of tremendous value considering it fits into their social portfolio)?

So it is a lot of ifs & buts similar to any other startup investment, except that they are not a startup anymore and they are going to have truck loads of money to execute.

FWIW, these are points I would consider before investing in FB. :)
You could use the same argument to say IP Address are obsolete because of DNS, but I don't think IP addresses or phone numbers are going away any time soon.
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Startup is hard work, 14-16hrs/day of work. While you're obsessed with your startup, reading as much advise/tips/tricks in the book, pushing your limits, making connections, pitching/ etc etc, I wonder how many of you actually manage to "live your life". How do you keep your gf/wife happy (if you have any), do you give time to your family, how to do you unwind, how often?

'Cuz personally, I seem totally pre-occupied with my startup 24/7 and often pretend to hear out my wife and rarely talk to my family. I do chill out once in while, but the itch to get back on my laptop is a permanent one!
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> anyone who doesn't already know C++ should avoid the investment of learning it

ACK. I know many languages, and my advice after using C++ for several years is: Don't dare try to do everything in C++. Use C++ only when it is absolutely necessary.

Just compare this C++ code

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=regex...

with this equivalent Javascript code to understand immediately what I mean:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=reg...

It's funny that this V8 code runs even 4.5 times faster (!) than C++ :)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/performance.php?test=r...
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I found the whole Tiny Tower situation pretty redicolous. Tiny Tower clearly copied a lot of concepts from games in the genre before it.
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> Where is that specified for REST?

I'll be the first to acknowledge that the REST specification, at least in Fieldings Ph.D. dissertation, is unfriendly. Here's Fielding trying to explain what he meant:

"A REST API should be entered with no prior knowledge beyond the initial URI (bookmark) and set of standardized media types that are appropriate for the intended audience (i.e., expected to be understood by any client that might use the API). From that point on, all application state transitions must be driven by client selection of server-provided choices that are present in the received representations or implied by the user’s manipulation of those representations."

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

In general, this goes by the tortured acronym HATEOAS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS

And REST advocates wonder why people have a hard time understanding it.

> I've seen plenty of self-described RESTful services that aren't even remotely discoverable.

You're right. Most services that call themselves RESTful aren't. I think the REST movement itself deserves a share of responsibility for how widely REST is misunderstood.

> service discovery is a very old concept and not anything new that REST brought to the table.

What REST brings to the table is the ability to discover your way through a service with no required background knowledge other than HTTP - which will be the transport protocol in (almost) any case - and some common media types.
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This is my biggest complaint with web discussions in general, and still seems to be mostly unsolved 15 years after I remember having this same discussion in the early years of Slashdot. Big usability decline over Usenet or mailing lists, where you could just mark stuff as read and not have this reload-and-scan cycle.
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I have posted many articles here. it still says manasnutcase (5)?
Hi,
I have 14 submissions on hackernews and 18 points (i found it by clicking on my name and then submissions)
But it says 5 next to my name - what does that 5 mean? Does anyone know how the points work here on Hacker News?
Once again both highly entertaining and highly unintelligible. Actually, compared to some of his stuff, this is close to entry level.
"What should I consider Suspicious?" "People Who:" "Act nervous or suspicious behaviour inconsistent with activities"

Whoever wrote this should go back to both English class (grammar!) and circular logic class (I should consider someone 'suspicious' because they have 'suspicious behaviour'?)
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On the other hand, nowadays everyone has a html parser/rendered installed on their computer, + raw HTML is easier to read than the format they are using.

I really wish they'd stop using it!
These guys are awesome, I wish I had the skills to work with them!

If you have the technical ability, I recommend applying for this - I've worked with them on other projects and they are really great guys - every venture they have undertaken has turned out well.

I am not part of this company - just an interested party :)
Thanks. A comment from that discusion, by yanw, points out that this may be more accurately construed as an anti-censorship measure.

http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country's law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD.

EDIT: I imagine it could increase censorship if this weakens Google's resistance to local censorship demands. Though content would still remain available at *.blogspot.com (I assume).
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Flipboard starts self-censoring if the user is using the app from China. The content guide for China does not include Twitter and Facebook anymore. Existing subscriptions for Twitter or Facebook are also automatically removed (and do not magically come back even after you leave China).
Thanks Playhard.
Any clue how I can see if any of my submissions were also marked as "dead"?
They did a good job of hiding it all from the user if you ask me.

Windows' security model is actually extremely robust and handles this sort of stuff really well. Take a look at this for a description of how it all works underneath the hood:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/win...

I think people forget to give Windows a lot of credit that it is due.
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This is the characteristic style of Raymond Chen. He is, in fact, a super clever genius and these things are actually completely obvious for him. I think his blog is a good reflection of the internal culture at Microsoft, and I mean a bunch of really clever people living in a bubble. And this post is nothing compared to some of his really technical posts. They're all very interesting reads however.
I do easily 80% of that list on a regular basis.

Feeling terroristy this morning.
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"Maybe I'm unique but my needs also include stuff like food, shopping, talking to friends, driving, running, clothes, and more."

You probably don't spend 8-10 hours per day eating/preparing food, nor driving, nor running etc. You may engage in those things, but you're not an expert in those domains.

The OP point was that there's many lucrative domains out there that don't have optimal solutions to their problems yet, but most people who do software all day only really understand the ins and outs of the software dev industry as opposed to, say, the funeral business and their unique needs. Yes, you probably have been to funerals, and even said "wow, i've got a need/want for better funerals", but really digging deep in to an industry takes a lot of time and effort.
He's not a user facing staff member and this is a blog aimed at very technical users only.

Why would he make the posts nice and cuddly? We're grown-ups and should be able to take it.

I have a lot of respect for Raymond Chen and have learned a huge amount from his blog. I wouldn't go slating him on this basis.
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Oh, absolutely. They don't know, and they don't need to know, unless they're wondering why it's slightly slower to go via winlogon to launch the process viewer.

And thanks for the link - that was fascinating. What a shame they bodged it the first time around and had to hack things to make it work!
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That gives me the urge to display suspicious behaviour just to make them lose time. As I live in France, it shouldn't be so risky yet.

Seriously, if more people where actively protecting their privacy, it would no longer be suspicious to encrypt one's email. But some people need to do it first.
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It's actually a preference on reddit, and one that (IIRC) is off by default.

In terms of breaking usability, people expect links to open in the current window/tab. Having them open a new window/tab is disorientating at best.
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If I was zuck, I would totally have my own version/skin.
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Switching SIM cards is perhaps not common in the US, but in Europe it's very common. If you take the Eurostar from Paris to London the people changing SIM cards as they come out of the Channel tunnel are not terrorists, they are people who don't want to pay high roaming charges.

Also, paying cash in an Internet café doesn't seem like unusual behavior at all. Many people who use them will be students and people traveling who may not want to hand over a credit card in a foreign country.
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Well yes, but this is not getting some bad support a few times; this is consistently bad hardware on our part.

I'm kind of wondering now if we are running different workloads; we are running very high IO and network stuff. Maybe we just hammer a lot harder on the disk than others are? With HP DL360s @ leaseweb we are running the same loads without any problem (since 2006...); 1 broken disk that ended up not actually being broken.
It's not circular logic. It's an appeal to intuition. When they say a suspect is someone who act suspect, they really mean "act in ways you feel is suspect". There, you know that if someone is glancing sideways, then your feeling suspicious is enough to mark that person as suspect (or so the flyer says).

Anyway, that's just as bad: it teaches you to be paranoid.
Am I the only one who read "huge round [ice] monocrystals of a metre or more in diameter and as hard as glass." and immediately thought "ice-9"?

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_Cradle]
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Even so, I tend to agree that it's not always as obvious to the rest of us - in this case it's not really clear that pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del switches anything to another user. Certainly the conclusion that the time is going into a video driver mode switch wasn't intuitive to me from the original statement, but I'm pretty sure I could figure out why an international package might take longer to arrive.
>> Clearly, in order to get Task Manager running on your desktop with your credentials, winlogon needs to change its security context, change desktops, and then launch taskmgr.exe.

My question then would be why is that option even present on the "wrong security context"? I don't really see how it fits the other options present in that context. It's probably there just because they felt bad alienating the users that were used to the shortcut.

So they creep in functionality into a well known keyboard shortcut, then make the well known original functionality worst because of the new functionality. Then enters this guy and blames you for doing it wrong.
Is this the 'internet of things'?
I think the word "Lotus" on this is going to kill it dead before it even gets of the ground. There is almost universal hatred for that brand (other than from a few people who paid for it and don't have to use products from that division of IBM).

It's literally like branding your new product with swastikas.
I'd argue that if most casual users see something isn't immediately available then they assume it's not there at all.
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Would you really? Not sure about that, I imagine he believes in the public product. However, if something is being tested on his account, then it's possibly quite a strong contender for release(?)
I bet Drew Houston wasn't spending 8-10 hours a day sharing files, neither was Zuck looking up student profiles all day long.

I don't agree with the notion that you have to understand the ins and outs of something to start working on it. See http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

Do you think all of Basecamp's customers are software companies because that's the only domain 37s knows deeply about?

Funeral directors use Facebook too.

I wouldn't think "wow, i've got a need/want for better funerals". I would probably notice some specific problem and think how to solve it. If software can help, that's great, otherwise I'm not starting an undertaking business any time soon.
I clicked around and got to a sign in page called "Welcome to IBM Connections". Couldn't find where to sign up or even if I can. Closed.
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Everything looses its meaning when the mainstream decides its cool.
I own up that I didn't know about Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Although I'm very happy that I do now...
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Would you care to elaborate how this would support SOPA?
I wrote a Greasemonkey script for this purpose:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/124778

Now I just need to figure out how to sync it between machines ;)
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SockJS-tornado can be hosted via HAProxy. If you don't need native websockets, sockjs will work behind any sticky-sessions-aware loadbalancer using comet fallbacks.
Awesome article, highly recommended.
I agree with youssefs, too. It makes sense that he would use something that everybody is using and testing the latest experiments on top of the public build.
That would be a valuable service for Heroku to provide, but being better connected also implies more likely for joint failure, even if Heroku does everything right, there is stampede failure risk (which is what happened in the last major EC2 cross-zone outage). In any case, I think if you are seriously pursuing 100% uptime, you can't outsource your redundancy.
Does that even matter to anyone? Seems to me about as important as if someone had leaked a google-doodle.
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Yep. Here's a quote by George Clooney about a conversation he had with President Obama.

"I talked with the president at one of those fundraisers some months back, and I asked him, "What keeps you up at night?"

And he said, "Everything. Everything that gets to my desk is a critical mass. If it gets to my desk, then no one else could have handled it."
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You learn it when you need the task manager of a remote server in Terminal Server.
Filing a S1 when business is slowing down. Genius!

Subscriber rates have fallen and the future is filled with uncertainty. Let's go Public!

Google SYWP changing the game of advertising. Panic!

Exit strategy for investors to monetize their investments.
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I concur. Having been forced to use the Lotus email client during my life at IBM, the name 'Lotus' does not conjure up pleasant memories.
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Also in win95, 98 and ME. In fact, there it directly opened the Close Program dialog
How did people collaborate on documents before google docs?
No, this could change how you use Facebook. A doodle doesn't do that.
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If winlogon runs in the same security context and the same desktop as explorer.exe then a key logger will be able to intercept all logins, and a screenshotter will be able to take screenshots of your login screen. Clearly you don't want that to be possible.

Or are you saying that they never should have made Ctrl-Alt-Del do anything else but starting the task manager?
I didn't even notice the LESS variables and built a dark theme in about 20 minutes by cascading over Bootstrap vanilla. Upgrading isn't an issue as long as you make customizations in a separate file that you simply include after bootstrap.css.

http://danneu.com/darkstrap/darkstrap.html
So you can kill a locked up full screen application. Or any application happens to have fubar'd your entire desktop session. Happens all the time on windows.
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It's all speculation, but I would say the search box getting larger (so as to look like Quora) does mean something, as in they might be pushing for search, which would be interesting.
Thank you very much, it is very useful to me especially since I'm about to integrate user handling in my rails app.
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> Although, I feel I should add, in all its arrogance, to the article that more intelligent people also tend to be night owls.

I've never heard this before; do you have any studies or citations to back this up? Would be an interesting read.
Ha ha ... Me too.
yeah, the Quora idea is quite possible. Where search drives the interactions. As I wrote, search is something that’s totally under-realized on the Facebook platform. There is no way to search and filter content.
What does this mean for blogger custom domains?
"Find people around you app - Nobody wants to find people around them and meet them. Trust me"

Install Grindr on your phone and you'll find that a huge number of people are very interested indeed in finding and meeting people around them.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643239

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615886

The first is pretty much exactly this same story, the second was a complete rip-off of it, and both have a lot of discussion. Again.
"Why can't we use other people work to create our own. If someone took my thesis and turned it in and got an A, I would be psyched for them and happy they used my work. It doesn't hurt me at all."

Not sure if this is devils advocate, but i'll answer.

If someone copies one paper, theres a legitimate argument that maybe it doesn't matter. But if copying in university was rife, people would just copy each others work and not learn anything, going through school for the monetary benefit only. Now lets say the subject is History, perhaps you don't care either way (short-sighted opinion, but the benefits are difficult to quantify). But now lets say this is medicine. All doctors cheat on their exams and research papers, so no-one knows anything, and even those who do bother to learn find it difficult to advance medical knowledge much further than the architects of all the original work.

So now does this attitude hurt you? Probably.

Games are far less important in life than professions like medicine. But Zynga must be one of the richest games companies around right now, and I'm not sure they actually know how to design their own games. Certainly i've never seen an original piece of work from them, everything is a rip off of smaller developers works, heavily marketed to eclipse the original creators. Who knows what this is doing to the facebook games market in the long term? (of course, the world might be a better place without so much facebook, but thats another story)
IBM is in no position to compete with Google or even Microsoft on this marker, it targets the slow and big companies that want "their own facebook" or their own "google docs" on their intranet, so don't expect this to be a consumer level offering even if it is on the "cloud".
Politicians talking about technology are beyond parody.

This is a thoroughly depressing article.
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Encouraging search will lead to more revenue.

Facebook's problem has always been that they are trying to convert passive users into active ones.

When you google for "watches", it makes sense to show you ads for watches; you've expressed your interest.

On facebook, you're interested in Fiona's party pics, not watches.

By increasing the focus on (social)search, FB are positioning themselves to take advantage of people expressing specific interests, instead of being as they currently are, passive users.
That's a fair point. Some NoSQL products do provide ACID guarantees within the scope of a logical record. That's usually as far as they go, though. So for transactions that cross logical record boundaries and/or are commutative (i.e., the "sequence of things" matters), you would have to build the outer transaction scope in the app tier. It can be done, but it's the kind of heavy lifting that RDBMS products do pretty well. As always, right tool for the job.
Welcome to the cloud. Where you still have to manually save your documents by clicking on a floppy disk icon.

Somehow I don't think Google need to worry.
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