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Which works very well on Windows, FWIW.
Wouldn't bugs and weather also be a problem if you had a defective building?
Perl has many features familiar to users of sh/bash. For admins who often deal with shell scripts, it's an easy reach to use Perl for all sorts of little things.

That said, I think you can still be responsible and use Python instead. ;) Might take you a few more keystrokes though.
$500 million of a stock you can't sell isn't much if you don't believe in it.
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We scrape them, and the universities and other organizations are pretty happy about it, we often get email saying thanks, links from professors and emails asking how much views they received, etc. These would get no exposure at all without sites like e! science news.
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Women are genetically predisposed to take hooking up a lot more seriously than we do. I'll spare you all the evolutionary psychology behind it, but suffice it to say that gay men operate just like straight men in that regard, but even if there were a million women on Loopt they wouldn't be doing that.
It's maybe much of what men try to do anyway. Still I never would have expected that Loopt was mainly about gay hookups.
Guess it's a good time to learn Python!
I don't know why they ever went forward with this. When your market share is 70% and climbing, you really have to watch out for these sorts of things. The relatively minor profits they would have made from Yahoo aren't worth making anyone in the DoJ think twice about you.

I guess when it came down to it, they decided that taking that risk was better than Microsoft ending up with Yahoo, which makes Yahoo's decision not to sell even more ludicrous. As Sun Tzu said (loosely paraphrased) figure out what your opponent wants you to do and then do the opposite.
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However, using 20% of your resources to pursue random projects is highly inefficient.
[..]
Well, our entire country has been taking 20% time for at least the past five years.
[..]
We’ve overspent, taken expensive vacations, built absurd homes (in both scale and
quantity), run our savings into the ground and skyrocketed our debt to
record levels.

Linking between Google's 20% time to our culture of hoarding and overbuying is unfair and tenuous to the extreme. The former produced a lot of R&D and contributed to the greatness of Google's products - the other was economically unsound stupidity by a consumerist society.

R&D can not be equated with wasting time and money. Anyone who does so is setting themselves up for failure when the economy rebounds.

Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.

More hours spent at work does not increase productivity unless you are actually producing for more hours (assuming your quality doesn't drop, which it will). France's productivity in the late 90s was a lot higher than the UK's, despite the former having an enforced 35 hour work week. Productivity and time spent at work do not correlate. Indeed, spending 10 - 20 hours more at work each week would probably hurt the economy further as people spend less on leisure activities.

If you skip everything until In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation. most of Jason's advice on what to do next is very good, however.
It never had many customers. You could pretty much upload a picture of your next bowel movement, create a login system, if you had the PR machine that is Guy Kawasaki behind it, get at least 80% as many users as Truemors.
[3] It's possible that companies will one day be able to grow big in revenues without growing big in people, but we are not very far along that trend yet.

PG: Can you expand your thoughts on this? Why do you think this trend is not very far along? What would help in accelerating such a trend?

After startups, this trend could have a significant impact -- meaning folks that start companies/early employees would like to stay longer at such companies, and still be nimble, maybe not to the extent of a startup but not a BigCo. either.
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Has there been any indication of how much he sold it for.

Looking at the Alexa, Compete and Quantcast all seem to show that the Truemors never got much traffic and generates a tiny proportion of what Now Public traffic now. Why is it worth anything?

Even better, if he did get a decent price, can someone tell me how to get a buyer to value my site using the same metrics? I thought not.
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Seriously...some bad juju there.

But the landing page http://emeteora.com/ isn't much better.
I get the feeling that people mainly upgraded in the past due to expanding storage capacity. Nobody really uses video, and other than the click wheel (which is now ubiquitous) there haven't been any other major feature changes.

They're now at a point where most of the models have far more storage than necessary for people's collections, so there's no longer any need for a new one. Once they get a 32gb Nano though they might get a bunch of people upgrading from a Classic to that.
The regulatory issues were very difficult, and I wasn't able to figure them all out before suspending the project. There wasn't an obvious precedent. My suspicion would be that if you built it, you could find some way to make money with it, but it would take years before the world would open up enough for people to, say, use it online.
Personally, I get a lot less done per hour in the 35-50 hour/week range than I do in the 1-35 hour range. But I've also found that this is mostly true when I'm working on the same project for 50 hours/week. Give me 35 hours of primary work, plus 10 hours on a secondary project, plus 5 hours on something totally different - and I do pretty well. Just me, of course.
"Nobody really uses video"

I don't know about that. I see people using the iPod for video literally everyday.

"most of the models have far more storage than necessary for people's collections"

Again I am not so sure because video can take up a lot of space and some people me) have a lot of songs.

One angle the article left out is the number of clones on the market that match all of the iPod's features and start at 40 bucks. The only thing companies can't touch is the app store but for 40 bucks these clones could be killers.
Nobody is immune from the recession, not even Apple. Look for their sales to take a hit because of high-quality low-priced iPod clones as well.
This isn't costing Amazon a cent other than maybe some small bandwidth costs. Nobody who knows enough to install a Firefox plugin for a bittorrent site never found themselves buying a CD unaware that they could have gotten it for free.
Sure, it's probably legal, but people need to make their own judgments on what should be kept private and what not. It's still a jerk thing to do.
As a recent ivy grad, I've noticed the exact same thing.
Certainly some people have large collections. Most people have a few gigabytes though. I'd bet 90% of their users can fit on a nano.

Where do you see people watching video? I've never seen that once, and I've flown a lot. I don't doubt that someone is, but video is a tiny portion of iTunes sales, and you can't really watch any other videos on one without a great deal of effort.
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Well, maybe the author was just in a predominantly gay neighborhood.

My point is, if Loopt is about meeting local strangers... I mean... it seems like "hook-up application" is logically the most common use of that technology.

Can't you set Loopt to only show you your friends, though? (I don't use it because my phone doesnt' support it, and I'm too cheap to upgrade before I'm due for a discount, but I've seen it demoed a few times, looks interesting.)
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I think that's python2.6
Exactly. In 1994, I was in the same town as my mail server. Since these were emails from professors, probably to other academic types, many of them probably used their school's servers, which would have been local.
So you're saying gene regulation controls cellular activity? Who knew.
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No. Read the rest of the essay - the factors that made large organization work are dissolving.
This is purely anecdotal evidence but pretty much everyday in New York I see people watching video on iPods.

Good point about iTunes but I would be reluctant to use iTunes sales figures to determine the distribution of media on the iPod. If you look at the total number of iPods sold and use that figure to calculate the total amount of memory in iPods sold, then you look at iTunes sales, you can reasonably conclude that a lot of the memory on iPods is being filled outside of the iTunes store.

Again, anecdotal evidence, but I have only known 2 people in my life who bought media from the iTunes store regularly. Everyone else I know gets their media elsewhere.
I think distribution is the key. You built a good product and ppl like it, that does not mean they will start using it. (Welcome to the real world, by the way).

To make it very clear, there are only 4 things you can do to tackle distribution.

1. SEO - Will not work in your case because it typically works best were large amounts of original content is getting generated. (think ugc)

2. SEM - Will again not work in your case because lifetime value of visitor is not much. Plus conversion rates are low with extremely low deal size. (Let me know if any of this is not clear).

3. Widgets - dont think how this will work for you.

4. Go B-to-B - I think this is the best option available for you right now. Essentially offer this as a service to hosting companies and domain registrars. Charge them a usage fees or an ROI rate. But this will require some real world busines development where the rules of the internet do not apply. If your tool is good, it could also be a nice little acquisition target.
You can't build a user base.
so much for pg's "high res" web market
Ask HN: Browser plugin install rates?
Hey from a first time poster, my new website is now in beta, and needs users to install a plugin..

Right now we get around 30% install rate for those who want to register (doesn't count the people who may be put off and don't register because of the plugin).

Any others out there using plugins can share their thoughts about how to raise the rate?

Any best practice examples?

Thx (from a first time poster)
Also anything else will NOT work. Bookmarking will definitely not. Noone uses bookmarks.
First thing I thought about when I saw Gabe's post was your site and how well it works, even though it is fully automated. Your last point is probably the most important one, and in my book that's an acceptable trade off.

One question. What's the speed of updates? I know techmeme wants to be the place where you go immediately when a news story breaks out. Would that be a problem (only computational I suppose)?
Here is one:

Large organizations will start to do worse now, though, because for the first time in history they're no longer getting the best people.

I believe this statement to be false. Sampling from my college class and my smart hometown friends, the most common careers are, in order: 1) Law School/Med School 2) Wall St. 3) Consulting 4) Government 5) Academia 6) non-profit 7) other large corporation 8) small business. Perhaps 1% are working for a startup.

This dominance by large organizations is historically weird. For most of American history, the goal of an ambitious person was to own his own business or farm. The really ambitious would aim to turn that small business into an empire. Statistically, the average firm size was far, far smaller in 1900, so most ambitious people would be working for small businesses. Anecdotally, my great-grand parents mostly ran a business or were self-employed. But my father and uncles were mostly "organization men", as are most of my peers.

I think relative to 1960, people today are more likely to work for small organizations. But the "organization man" economy of the 60's was a creation of the New Deal and World War II. We're still trying to unwind the consolidation of that era.
I thought he stopped blogging. Why does he pick his craziest email rants to publish online? Just to tilt the rest of us?
Updates are every 5 minutes, which is plenty. Faster than that I don't see the point.
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Google may never have expected the move to pass antitrust review. Even as a feint, this proposal sufficed to drive MS away from Yahoo, which Yahoo's management at the time also wanted.
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Also - Feynman's "What I cannot create, I do not understand."
I advise a different rank of priorities. If you can start a company now, do it, even if you have a ton of credit card debt or are way under water on a mortgage. This is exactly what bankruptcy is for. It does society no damn good to have you working for the next ten years to stay current on a mortgage for more than your house is worth. That mortgage represents misallocated capital - this is both your fault and the bank's fault. Dedicating the next ten years of your productive life to paying it off doesn't make that capital any less misallocated from the societal perspective. Much better to build something valuable for people in that time. This is what bankruptcy is for.
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I love GI Joe toys. I still preserve my collection like pure gold. The only time I lend is when a kid comes to my house. Just spreading the feel.
Interesting. Shame they are not available until January next year.
Nah. Disco became mainstream, yet launched from gay clubs, which are in fact hookup-applications. There are quite a few other examples. Apparently these things do cross over.
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I was in Japan recently and was amazed at the personal productivity of each individual when compared to the U.S. workers.

As a generalization, appearing productive is more important than being productive in Japan.
Yeah, that's pretty thoughtless - some of those guys might be in the closet.
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So is aditya="we"?
What a gross misunderstanding and over-simplification of the economic problems we're going through...
> If you're a college student thinking of getting trashed this weekend, or taking a year off, don't.

Isn't college students "taking a year off" the way Google and Microsoft were formed?
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haha. As much as I'd like to refer to myself as a collective entity of some sort, no, we is me and sander6 (http://github.com/sander6)
I mis-read this as "French" CS graduate wages down 20 percent :)
While I an advocating [...] stop–the debt associated with
unnecessary consumption, I’m very much in favor of investment in new companies, ideas and eduction

Investment isn't debt. When I found a company and sell stock to investors, I'm selling them a piece of the company - something I've convinced them is worth more than the money they're paying.
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That's just one data point. I don't have any numbers, but this doesn't seem to be the case at the big software companies.
I wasn't aware Ruby 1.9 existed. I thought the current Ruby version was 1.8.mumble.

Python 3.0 did just spring into existence while we were having this discussion, and it finally has proper Unicode support. So, there's one less reason to choose Perl over Python.

If Ruby has Unicode support in 1.9, and 1.9 were widely available, then I guess that'd be true of Ruby as well. But, I just went to the Ruby website and it looks like 1.8.7 is the Ruby version available. It doesn't have Unicode support, does it?
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These aren't really clones... the 'clone' music players were there long before apple brought out their music players.
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Sorry, no. I do most of my work in Python and would love to see quick Py3k adoption. But 2.3 was released 29-Jul-2003 and is still the baseline for portable code. Pythonistas are just as much a victim to the forces against migration as PHP and "other language" coders.

Just for kicks, try getting a stable webapp stack running on 2.6. I'm still not near ready to put that into production (and I run tiny, tiny websites).
The awesomeness that you'd get from an erlang kernel + OS has already been achieved in lisp OSes, such as the stuff from Symbolics.

It's possible, it works, and it's totally cool but worse is better ( http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ) and the brain-deadedness of the UNIX/POSIX way is about as bad (good) as it gets.

This, to me, is a reason to admire the Windows NT kernel internals... someday it too will be eaten by UNIX and people will look back on Windows for the novel features that it has and wonder why nobody brings them back.
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Hi guys, I want to know how much exactly do fresh CS graduate(B.Sc) gets in US nowadays?
I'm based in Japan, and we will get 2147 USD(200k yen) for base salary only no matter how good you are. It seems very cheap :( since the high living cost here. The yearly bonus is about 4~5 months of base salary, but you don't usually get it unless you are really recognized by the management team.

EDIT: I must say, this is also the same for big companies like IBM Japan, SAP, etc.
Actually the eating marshmallows thing is an allusion to having to eat the Google dogfood: there were new Google tools all the time that his team was forced to use.
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Scott Adams' (of Dilbert fame) experience on trying to turn around a restaurant he owns in the SF Bay Area.

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Right. And it's a huge pain to do video on an iPod unless it was purchased through iTunes (in which case it's dead simple but very expensive). Everything you find on BitTorrent or any other P2P source is in DivX or XviD, which it doesn't play. But any music is available in mp3 and does.

Hence I have to think that iTunes sales figures would greatly overrepresent the amount of video being watched, and they still put it at a paltry amount of overall media
I wouldn't put much weight on this.. it's a 3 sentence blog post without much backing.
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Yeah, I don't know. Probably. Just seems risky to even put the notion in the DoJ's collective head that you need watching for monopoly concerns. Maybe less risky than having a combined Microhoo competitor, idk. If I'm Yahoo and I think that one through, it would make me want to sell more, but then I guess I would have said "sold" the minute the original offer came in.
I was going to mention the same thing.. what's the point of his private list if he publishes most of them anyway?
Yeah, I don't think they're in the position to be throwing 9 digits around.
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Google App Engine uses 2.5.2 and that seems stable.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine....
I don't know much about Dave Ramsey, and he seems somewhat legitimate so far, but I'm pretty nervous about spending money with a debit card instead of a credit card. I want something with more fraud protection than a credit card.
It varies greatly on skill/pedigree (the two often, but not always, correlate). If you are poor to average you'll start at $50K-70k/year. If you're average to good you'll start at 70k-90k, and 90k+ if you're particularly good (about 150K is the maximum I've heard of, and that's more in modeling or quantitative development than straight programming). About a 10% bonus is normal in my experience, but that obviously varies based on skill/industry. There is also some give based on what sort of company/industry you want (e.g., I personally know someone who just this week turned down a six figure offer at a hedge fund for ~20k less doing AI research).

Those numbers are for a programmer in/near big cities (Boston, Silicon Valley, NY, etc). Revise them down ~10% for more rural/suburban areas (but it's harder to find work beyond code-monkey level at all in many of those places). And all this is based on my anecdotal experience, so figure there is likely some selection bias.

In my experience, between federal and state income taxes, FICA, and sales tax you'll lose ~50% of your of your income to the government. And we have to save for our own retirement (we expect nothing from social security) and our kids' college education (currently ~15k-30K/year tuition).

How are your taxes/retirement/etc in Japan?
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