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I don't understand all the hate on this thread. Use Yammer at my current startup; used Yammer before at bigger companies.

Terrific product. There's a lot of features that I'd love to have, but this is a much-need space.

A social-network for work. i.e. a social network that people will actually pay to use.

Who has perfected that? $142m is really the start here. Looking forward to their future.
My new favorite that I use now almost immediately is simply, "If I were to give the core product away absolutely free, would people take it? If so, how enthusiastic would they be about getting it?"

It sounds ridiculous, but I have found it brings a quick dose of reality to ideas that I come up with on a whim that are subject to my own bias. For a grossly simple example, if I were to start a restaurant, there is a safe bet that it COULD be successful because anybody would accept food if it were given away for free, especially if it were of high quality. The rest of the process of building a successful restaurant is fairly complicated, but without a product people would be happy to receive for free, there is no business. The level of enthusiasm the people show for the core product is a good indicator of how much they would pay.

Contrast that with a lot of software/internet businesses and that question gets very murky. With a lot of the sites that I start work on I think "if I offered this product for free, would people be excited to get it?" and very often I realize my idea, while perhaps creative, just isn't solving a real need.
Why the fuck are people putting their bitcoins on servers that they don't control? That's just stupid.
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I am talking of the same thing. If you had that steady stream of incoming money you wouldn't even need your current job. You would have all the time for yourself, and more quality time for your family.
Yes, a provocative thought. But I don't really buy it.

I think it's clearer to see the distinction between an information model and a storage model: The fundamental goal of an information model is to provide a mechanism to convert input information into output information. But if the model is so degenerate that it just echos back the same data in the same format that was put in (at a different time), then it's probably better to call it a storage model.

The relational model is a logic system that lets us use predicate calculus to infer from one set of propositions taken to be true, a second set which is by implication true. That is, it provides a means to obtain encoded answers in response to encoded questions applied to a body of encoded facts.

And a KV store is clearly a storage model.

And there are some in-between, such as the CouchDB document store, that can transform one body of information to another, but also pay attention to physical storage issues.
Netflix just needs to raise their damn prices -- or offer a higher tier. Many of us were used to paying $30-$80 for our cable TV packages and another $20-$30/mo for Blockbuster. It's been about 7 years since I paid those, but now I'm only paying $8/mo for TV/movie entertainment in total.

I'd be more than happy to pay $18/mo if it meant I had 2-3x more content.

Netflix: $8/mo, Netflix Plus: $18/mo, and even Netflix Premium: $28/mo.

That they haven't done this is kind of dumbfounding.
I do this too.

It's quite lonely living alone in a single bedroom apartment. The little extra background keeps me from going nuts at times.

I find it easy to code while having the TV on or if I'm just toying around a small window on my display in the bottom corner. The secret I have found is to put on one of two types of shows: 1. Something you have already seen, I really enjoy 24 for example, having it the background when I'm familiar with it, but still enjoy it, helps. 2. Documentaries or something similar such as Top Gear or PBS shows are good choices.

New shows that require my attention or movies I have never seen, but want to just don't work for me.
A smarter move would be to offer their own streaming service, or even a download store.
Well...this will sound mildly insane but if i don't have something going it's like there's a bored 5 year old in my head that wants to distract me from coding. Of course there are segments of the video I miss but I follow the dialogue. It's how I watched most of Lost, for example.
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Very interesting Jose. Is Elixir used to develop production Erlang systems anywhere?
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It's not so useless when you remind them that, if they didn't tell you that when you first got in the cab, you're not obligated to pay them. That might 'magically' fix the machine.

In all honesty, though, I've never had that happen once.
Sometimes it happens that you have made all the money in the world after a hectic period of years. And by his definition "CTO" and "Chief Architect" perfectly fill in those roles .Anything more than that becomes delta. So you now decide to keep yourself busy in a less stressful job, for little money. And then do whatever you want to do, as you have all the money in the world to back you up. You can fail, get fired or go on long vacations without worrying much about your employment.
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> Netflix: $8/mo, Netflix Plus: $18/mo, and even Netflix Premium: $28/mo.

Hmm...that sounds a lot like how traditional cable TV packages are structured.
The last line of the article is priceless:

"No doubt, the State Department will officially adopt Facebook at about the same time the revenue-challenged site follows Friendster into social networking oblivion"
Up-vote to the original comment because it's not stupid or impossible, just unlikely.

We can only speculate at this point.

The simplest answer is probably that one of the staff was subject to a targeted hack and a 3rd party gained external access to the CSR tools.

Possibly for an extended period of time. <-- This is the concerning part.

It's relatively unlikely an internal staff member would do something this dumb (but, not impossible. we've had this happen _here_ where I work, with credit card numbers, but obviously the person responsible was caught almost immediately).
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Does that mean we can get rid of TSA and the Patriot Act?
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With Chrome in "civilian" hands by the millions the sky could very well be falling.

How many pieces of software on a typical computer hold information that, if it got into the wrong hands, could literally ruin somene's life? For the average Internet user the browser is the only answer. I can't understand why it is that it is wrong to demand at least enough access difficulty to frustrate a smart ten year old.

Here's the other problem: Google, as far as I know, does not make the user aware of the potential exposure. This can't be good.
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I don't agree with code is not readable. If the code is not readable, you really need to look at your naming conventions and abstractions.

Using documentation as an alternative to readable code is a pitfall.
> If a good name will make your idea or product even 5% stickier, it follows that it may be worthwhile to spend 5% of your time just coming up with the name.

I'm a sucker for a great name, but this is misleading. If something will give you an x% better outcome, it doesn't follow that you should spend about x% of your resources on it.

It depends entirely on the opportunity costs, yeah? You should spend time on your name only when you believe that thinking about names for another hour will do more good than coding or talking to customers for another hour.
The "value of money" for an individual begins to diminish quickly once it surpasses the quantity required to comfortably survive. If you make $250,000 a year, it would be reasonable to take a 2x-4x pay cut for a more satisfying job. If you make $40,000 a year that's probably not the case.
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Because giving out equity leads you down a path to going public? Not everyone wants to go public if you rather enjoy running your company as you see fit and just having fun doing it.
PCI-DSS is actually quite easy to get certified in. I would say the issue is Linode not protecting their customers but as you say it's completely optional and would incur higher costs.
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One thing that's pretty important too is PHP-FPM. I've been dreaming about this for a long time for my nginx deployments.

http://php-fpm.org/
The real problem with Twitter and why it has only caught on to a smaller subset of the population than Facebook is that its interface and usage are not intuitive enough. This example is case-in-point.
Oh, OK. Wikileaks can't possibly get ahold of sensitive data, emails and memos then.

Security is always bulletproof until it isn't.
I thought he transitioned to working entirely on Scrolls.
Can someone with a legal background comment on the viability of the victims taking legal action?
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That's a bit of a platitude, though, isn't it? You could say the same about anyone -- nearly all of us could be making more money, if only we'd give up family time, relationships, hobbies, whatever. But we don't judge those things in pure dollar terms, they're intangibles.

That's what makes stories like larsberg's interesting -- if we really were "just trading money for something else they valued greatly." then we'd see these types of stories more often -- but we don't.
I understand how this might be confusing to a third party, but Linode's response thus far makes perfect sense to those of us who have been customers for a while. We're pretty aware of the general parameters of Linode's internal systems.
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Sure, but you'd probably be happy to see the end of the rats.

Though it seems like even if the government eradicates the rats it will only be a question of time before they're back.
Agreed. I'm not sure why this doesn't happen. Maybe because the royalties and such get more and more complex with that sort of system? Can anyone shed some light on this?
Dunno if this is the right place to say it but there's a typo in the very first feature listing "taping" should be "tapping".
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Only if those violent people can locate the thief's physical location, which they can't.
I've been saying "cops need to walk beats" for years here in southern California. I interviewed in SF for about a week in October and noticed the same lack of police presence. Walk a beat, prevent crime. Hideout in car, take reports.
this will lead to 10x more piracy than Starz premium subscribers.

the flexibility of internet distribution has shown publishers and content creators that consumers will not stand for being sold a bill of goods - not as 16-track albums, nor packaged cable channels.
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Hasn't PHP-FPM been part of the PHP core for a while now? Since 5.3.3 (mid 2010) according the PHP FPM site.
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I'm more excited than my kids are for the upside down show.
If dynamic refactoring so easy they were doing it 30 years ago, but one of the best IDE makers in the world can't generalize it for the masses today, doesn't that tell you something?
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I think 5 minutes is too little time when you've taken offense to something. A day is usually the right amount. For idea consideration, I think 5 minutes may not be enough for some and may be too much for others.
Aside from the nit-picking fact that "optima" is a plural and you use it with a singular indefinite article ("an") ...

There is no reason to believe that this is an optimum. (That is, an optimum for its environment, or any extant environment. Since, of course, a very wide range of possible forms are optimal for SOME environment, like the environment with a mad god that kills all life forms that do not exactly match XYZ, but that sort of reasoning is obviously just silly). Anyway, blethering aside, my point here is that if you think existing species are at all likely to be "optimal" in any meaningful sense, you have likely misunderstood evolution.
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Looking forward to 12.04. I liked Unity in 11.10 despite the community backlash. They need to move the "dock" horizontal and on bottom though, and let you reorganize the dock even after an app is locked into it. Basically, they should recreate OS X's interface except without the silly widgets. Also, the software download manager is nasty-ish in 11.10. It gets locked up quite a bit without being able to see why, and you have no way to stop download/installs other than killing it or restarting. Finally, the lack of a screensaver in Unity nor the ability to easily change display settings by right-clicking on the desktop is stupid.
I agree with you but there's probably a big difference between your typical Linux user and "Uncle Pete" caricature.

Up until browsers it is unlikely that a single piece of software on millions of computers held the keys to someone's entire personal and financial life. Sure, some --few-- people might have kept that data in unencrypted text files, but it is probably fair that this was ver, very rare.

Today millions store access data to everything they do on the net, from financial to social, in their browsers.

Is it too much to ask that browser makers take the stuff seriously and give the user the option to protect this data?

Give the techies the option to turn it off if they wish. For uncle Pete it should be turned on by default.
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Well how much of "just trading money for something else they valued greatly" works in real life is worth pondering.

After a while most people will realize that your spouse/kids would rather need money not time from you. Its far better to have a rich dad/husband than poor one who spends more time.

Over time even the guy who made this choices will know that, every time he sees someone buying a new car, going on a costly vacation, sending kids to a Ivy league and all the big money luxuries. Inevitable peer comparisons happen, and things get out of hand pretty quickly.

You generally get to hear 'How I learned to be happy with little' kind of stories from such people.
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Not really. The movies which have racked in the most money of all time all cost 200 million+ to make. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/

The public loves and wants big budget expensive movies.
I he did it for selfish reasons, why would it matter if the money is deserved?
Horizontal docks waste a lot of precious vertical space on widescreen monitors.
Hollywood continues to punish consumers, and then complain about piracy.

It is time for statutory streaming licences.
>1.. Those of us working on technical areas often struggle to explain our ideas to others not as technical, in a way that avoids oversimplification and losing essential meaning. Sometimes you'll discover an analogy or metaphor or phrase that does both. Seize those chances, they're powerful.

Am sorry does both of what?.. Don't mean to nitpick, but this is a problem i run into regularly and don't seem to be able to find a reliable approach. So just trying to divide it into the factors involved...
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So? It wasn't price that made cable TV suck. It was the lack of on-demand viewing, alternate device viewing, region restrictions, commercials, etc.
Nope entirely new unannounced game. Scrolls is being worked on by other Mojang employees other than Notch and Jens.
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Can someone guide me on this? I am not aiming for very high rates, neither I want to complete with people working at $15/hr. I am good at this stuff and more importantly willing to work hard to make awesome apps.
Keys normally grant access so worst case once they're compromised you can take the server offline physically. Even private signing keys can be revoked though some damage may have been done.

With Bitcoin, once it's copied, you can consider it gone forever, irrevocably, in totality.
It is also good for staging new version of apps that you only want some users to have access to. I have been doing this manually by having the new version called 'staging' and setting it in the user session to redirect.

You could also use this for browser testing, where your test client sends a header that will redirect it to a clean datastore with the new version
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i've used BERT and Ernie extensively and it's generally just easier to mix them using REST. But my point is we use Rails in some cases when we'd rather do everything in Erlang and (Mochiweb | Webmachine) because there's no good Erlang web framework, and I could see Elixir being the language foundation for that framework at some point.
I understand what you're saying and I think we actually agree on a few points. I'm not saying that bootstrappers can target a market and not make money for two years. In fact it's the opposite. It seems that that's the kind of idea that's suited for VC if you can get traction in other ways (signups, engagement etc).

To me, the kind of concept that's best fitted for bootstrapping is one that you can build in a few days and make money with right away like a project I did recently called DomainPolish.

I guess I should have been more careful about choosing the figures I cited, but I really didn't mean $50 million vs a billion as hard numbers. I was trying to say that as a bootstrapper you can target a smaller market or a smaller problem. That's something that you can't do as a venture funded business.

That means that all of the people who get funded early on who might ordinarily target your small problem are off building businesses targeted at HUGE markets. This means less competition for the bootstrapper and a greater chance to capitalize on the market opportunity.

I definitely realize how hard it is to do this stuff and I didn't want to make it seem like it's super easy to build a $50 million business. I'd love to actually some time man you seem like you have a good amount of experience with this stuff. I couldn't find your email but mine is dshipper@gmail.com. Would love to hear from you.
Why do you think 10$ for all you can eat movie watching via Netflix is sustainable, when new releases at the theater cost $7-12 PER movie? Unfortunately the industry set the price this low and now it is expected to be that cheap. Since the price is going to inevitably go up, or Netflix will just lose more content, the public is going to have to deal with the increase, or the people who don't want to pony up will just have to cancel their service.
Cease and Desist letters are basically free to send. I'd try contacting and IP lawyer and see if its even worth bothering changing your name.
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And the Oneiric kernel is backported to 10.04LTS:

Installing "linux-image-generic-lts-backport-oneiric" outta do it.
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I agree. While it might take some time to get used to at first, I think it's worth it. In the end, you will be able to use more of your screen, because honestly, most applications are not optimised for 16:9 (/10) screens.
Trying to encapsulate what happiness (of yourself and other people) in an HN comment is going to fail.

Don't trivialise other peoples motivations because they aren't your own.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. $10/month is way to low to be sustainable. Netflix has to raise their prices since the content creators are squeezing them because they know they hold all the cards.
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Having hired many people over the years, I prefer reading a short, highly targeted resume. One page is ideal, however if your experience requires more room, add up to a total of two pages.

Remember, if you have to ask if something is relevant in your resume, you should leave it off!

Have you thought about supplementing your paper resume with a video resume? I actually just posted a blog article on the topic here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655510
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I like it, too, and just followed the site on Tumblr. Post again here on HN in a month (or sooner) and tell us how it went.
But software is a commodity, either that or you're not selling software, you're contracting out custom development work.