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That first paragraph was as good as unreadable thanks to all the miles, gallons and Fahrenheits.

11.8 inch ... times about 2.5 is umm wait it's a link, maybe if I hover it, no they didn't put metric in the title tags either.

"In one millisecond, light travels 186 miles", which is about the same distance as a million squirrels put head-to-toe. Why not measure in squirrels? It makes about the same amount of sense, except that "one million" is a nice round number, unlike "186".
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Since changing the congestion window doesn't increase the total number of packets for an HTTP request, for your Comcast example to cause problems there would have to be massive synchronization of the start of the HTTP requests.
In a (possibly flawed) attempt to cheer you up: be aware that you basically say

- failing is frowned upon in Germany

- I do not want to run that risk

- so I will not try to start a company

Thereby effectively continuing the mantra "do nothing you could fail in".

I think that entrepreneurship has got a lot to do with "acting in spite of" and would not assume the situation in the US (I don't know personally) to be like there are happy parties where people are celebrating crashed businesses...
Can we get a sanity check from someone with actual background in this area? Seems like this would only work point to point in a line of sight manner with no obstructions. While still cool (satellite TV/Internet comes to mind), it's hard to see how you could adapt this to something like a mobile phone.
This paper should help: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/groups/optics/...
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Well, let's first scope "OK": Among artists it's a professional courtesy that the medium is public and the realization is private. It recurs in plenty of spaces -- for example, in comedy it's okay to joke about airports, but it's not okay to steal someone else's joke about airports. So the scope of "OK" here is "professional courtesy among artists."

Now we can answer why it is that way. Why do these comedians shun peers who steal jokes? Well the first reason is that it leads to crap. So, this sometimes happens with movies that are intended as comedies: ten different creative voices all try to push the jokes in a certain direction, and what you get is not extremely funny to 10% of the population -- which would be success -- but is only a little funny to 100% of the population -- which is a failure. So by taking someone else's joke and mixing it into a hodgepodge of other material, it stops being so funny as when it appears in the context that it's supposed to be in.

But I think a second reason is that we nurture ideas. It takes effort to turn an absurd concept into a good joke, and it takes effort to take an abstract idea like "coding with other people" and turn it into GitHub. When a comedian tells someone else's joke, there is a false pretense that they have spent all of this work to develop that joke for themselves -- and they haven't done any of it. When Eddie Izzard says, "This is my friend's Christopher Walken impersonation, and I'm nicking it, and he knows that," he's disavowing this aspect of the joke, and therefore it's more acceptable and can be used in his routine without too many eyebrows raised. The frustration is with people who steal almost every joke and achieve success with that -- not with people who steal one or another joke when they think it deserves to live on.
No, it means the author wrote about something that exceeded his short time memory. If he really thinks Germans are not very well represented in Silicon Valley and therefor they are bad at entrepreneurship while he is happy that Germany ignored some of them with whom he can make a start-up, then he is out of his mind. Obviously Germany DID have many good start-ups because that's why so few had to go to Silicon Valley and the German industry is in such a great position.
I think this says a lot about the English-language focus of a lot of startups. Failure to cater, through language options, to individual countries will result in a demand for services that do and the Samwer brothers are meeting this demand.

Is the price that companies such as GroupOn pay equivalent to the cost of localising their own offering? Maybe so and it may be a good deal.
I am a total relational guy, BTW. But the fact is that there is a mismatch between how you have to think when doing SQL queries (thinking in sets) and OO programming (thinking in instructions). Anyone who has dealt with stored procedures written by app folks understands what a mess you get when you try to program one side in techniques aimed at the other.

While NoSQL is a good choice for some environments, namely ones where ad hoc reporting is not likely to be needed and where other methods of interop are preferred (LDAP being a great example of something that could benefit from a NoSQL back-end), the fact is that this actually shows that, more often than not, you lose more than you gain by getting rid of the mismatch....

IOW, I think it is a moderately weak case for NoSQL in some environments and a strong case against in a much larger number of environments.....
"Hey, look! They're making money with my knowledge! How they dare to do that?"

Welcome to real world.
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No, that's well known, and is only half of the rotation. (A rotation of the angle between the electric and magnetic fields.)

This is apparently something new, not sure what though - it's not something I ever learned about with photons.
Congratulations! Y Combinator missed out on a good thing here but you are strongly positioned for another run at it, I'd say. With the recent Game Closure funding, HTML5 gaming is proving to be an incredibly hot space.

It's only me and my brother working on this and we're based in London.

As you may (or may not!) know, I run HTML5 Weekly and a few other newsletters and have mentioned Scirra's work from time to time. And.. I obviously didn't do my research till the other day when I discovered how (with respect) "small" you are. Your company's image and all of the projects you do make you guys look about 10x bigger than you are - so well done on that.

It's hard to get Twitter followers (we're still figuring out how to run our Twitter really)

You have to make hard, long term decisions when it comes to Twitter. From what I see, you're mostly focused on responding to people (good), mentioning your own blog posts and releases, and then retweeting occasional HTML5 gamdev related stuff.

What you're missing is the "secret sauce" it takes to become a thought leader (hate the term or not, it means something ;-)). Retweets are, sadly, a bad way to build an audience, whereas tweets of your own work well.

The trick, then, is to rig up something like Buffer and load it up every few days with tweets relating to ideas and technologies you want to push (Guy Kawasaki is a total master at this, BTW.) Become known as THE account to follow in the HTML5 game development space, perhaps.

Accounting isn't fun and we'd rather just pay someone else to do it for us

Right, but you really have to be careful here, especially being in the UK and primarily, I'm assuming, selling to the US. It introduces a number of complexities, especially when you get into VAT, and you either need a super clued up accountant or to keep your own careful eye on what's happening. Perhaps in 20 years most accountants and tax men will know the Internet well ;-)

If people dispute you on Paypal you should resign yourself to the fact you can't win

Unless you're sending out physical product, having a no quibble refund policy/guarantee will make you a lot more $ than it loses you. In my experience, at least.

Got our first print review in .NET magazine

Did you actively pursue that or did they find you?
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You believe the system in the US was designed to collapse?
He wants it. He wants it so bad. But even when he puts in the work, has the drive, and tries so much success isn't there.

This is the flip side to every multi million dollar exits of some social widget or TechCrunch rah rah bullshit or the stock buyouts of a collapsed firm.

This the reality in the tech game. Not everyone wins. I know this, I felt this, I felt the highs and lows.

But something isn't working. Many point out to trying too much, too hard, psychological, depression, so on so forth. These comments here ring a bit hollow because they dismiss what Zak already wrote. He is a smart cookie, he knows the sickness, he knows the cure. The only remedy is change. Not only change but be brave enough to also accept change. The metaphorical come-to-Jesus moment is nigh.

Then take five minutes and really think about this and see this for what it is. This post has been read over 9000 times--almost a third of all tech workers in the city of San Francisco--and rallied over 80 comments with people even arguing whether suggestions are mean sprited. Meaning: you are not alone.

Others get this, others empathize. Because we are the community that wakes up every morning and want it bad too. That in itself is pretty amazing.

What's the real solution? No one can give you that. It's going to be personal. You're a startup vet. Deep down you know what to do. Success is not a straight line, it's meandering, it's failures, it just is.

Cheers.
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I understand the motive and for sites like Etsy, charging to list certainly helps with some poor quality (it doesn't stop bad listings initially, but eventually when your stuff does not sell you don't come back).

However, a lot of people genuinely think what they list is good (just watch an episode of a talent show audition and see how surprised people get when you tell them they are shit).

So you'll still get loads of people submitting, but you'll have the added time-sink of dealing with those people who thought they were good enough, lost the $10 and now opened a case against you on PayPal.

My advice would be (if you're going down the charge route) to simply charge everyone for submission and don't give the money back whether they make it or not.
Although one key difference is that EE kept the IP for all the user generated content, but all SO content is licensed under Creative Commons.

http://stackoverflow.com/faq#editing
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Every time The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. Luckily, this is usually not the case.
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Tip #1:
Start yoga immediately (hot yoga preferably).

Find a 30 or 40-day challenge, and start going every damn day. Even if it's the only thing you do in the day.

I'd suggest Bikram to kick your ass into forcing you to letting go. The routine + regular space you create for yourself + endorphines and healing it will allow your body do will change your mindset within 1 month's time.

This will create the space for you too, to do all of the little things that you felt like you couldn't get done.

Maybe I should connect with people by bringing other founders to yoga classes. I'd actually love connecting with people that way. I'm living in Kingston (Ontario) right now, though planning to travel the next 3-4 months looking for technical + other people who we have a good rapport with to join me.

Let me know if you're open for a visitor and to be dragged to some yoga. :)

Tip #2:
Therapy can help a lot, not medication-based, but talk based. In my opinion medications poison your mind and lessen your overall potential (not forgetting the hit and miss with finding one that 'works' for you, and realizing newer studies show they're not really any better than placebo for most people). And you can reach the same level of flow in life with proper support and doing things every day to take care of yourself.

I've been seeing someone for over a year now, who's an Innerchild/Regression therapist - really just looking at how you react and feel in different situations and helping you release past things that you are suppressing and are holding you in a certain pattern. I'm unimaginably farther ahead in my self-awareness and balance than I was a year ago.

Tip #3:
Upverter looks fantastic. I'm jealous at how far along you are with it. I'm at least a year away from reaching the same place you're at with your company, with having a team, and product at the same place (and that's with some luck!).

If you want some unsolicited design tips.. let me know. The tour I think would work better if you just put it all in a scrolly. I think you'd find you'll expose more people to all of the information (continuing to scroll is much easier than having to click around).

Happy to see a fellow Canadian sharing on HN!

I have a few more little design thoughts if you'd interested.

Otherwise, you're on track - just start yoga - and let me know if you want me to visit and drag you the first few times. It's nice to have expectations set by someone who's been doing it 4 1/2+ years, and I also did a 200-hour Hatha yoga teacher training in the summer.. so I'm a little qualified to offer yogic advice. :)
How illogical is this....LOL
I think the threshold would be, did Linode take "reasonable" precautions in protecting the servers in question. Just like the landlord or bank. So long as they take reasonable precautions, they can't be held liable.

You can expect for your landlord to keep their copy of the key in some sort of lockbox, but you aren't going to expect them to keep it in a pressure-sensitive safe, guarded by movie-style lasers and a German Shepard.

You expect a little more security out of your bank.

The real question is: why were services that act like bitcoin banks storing their coins on Linode in the first place.
Is it just me (finance background, ent.) or is the IPO scene becoming unfathomable. Groupon went public despite losses looming in the air (they tried to cook the books remember?) and now Yelp going public despite it's history of operating losses. When did it become acceptable by the investors to invest in companies that have not shown a profitable business model?

It seems like the wall-street investors have become the ultimate VC firm (willing to invest in unprofitable businesses) without realizing that actual VC firms invest in unprofitable businesses fairly early in the lifecycle which warrants their hopes for a turnaround and a potential payoff. But to invest in unprofitable company years after its founding seems ... well .... unfathomable, unless investors believe that the company will be able to do something it hasn't been able to do so far: make a decent profit. Would love to hear what you guys think.
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It's funny how Fab complains so much about having their business model cloned when Fab itself is just one in a long line of flash sales businesses with a landing page style that is so common you can get it as a SaaS.
I think you may be a little off here. The statements in the thread seem to indicate that the compromise was not based on a vulnerability in custom software, but compromised credentials. You can certainly argue that the management console should be protected by two-factor (and it should be), but their software doesn't seem to be at fault here.

I would be willing to bet that they have had the system tested by external security contractors and scanned with automated scanning tools. This seems to be a people problem and features problem not a vulnerability problem.

I guess we just don't know at this point. You may very well be correct. I guess if you want to use an open source provider, just make sure they are running OpenStack (openstack.org).
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SQL is a language that is not particularly well defined, nor essential to solving problems. What you're referring to as a "well defined way of thinking" is the relational model. There have been relational databases that did not use SQL as their query language, and although they're not widespread, the same points the NoSQL community makes against e.g. Postgres could be made against them.
Salaries are not the issue for engineers. But for production blue collar it kind of is. That plus the fact that automation is really starting to kick in.

I mean in 30 years from now, can you see construction workers build houses the way they do today in most modern societies?

I certainly can't and yet some young guys today is going to choose to work in that field because that is what they think they can manage.

I mean hell even the creative industry is feeling the heat in many ways.

Danish healthcare is a plus but I think it's only a matter of time before we will see the end of it.

It's unsustainable because you can never put enough money into healthcare. 100% taxes arent enough to compensate.

The US system is broken in many ways but so is the Danish. It's just not visible yet.
It's yet another implementation detail that drags the reality of RESTful web service development farther away from the principle that it's easy because it's based on HTTP and we already know HTTP.

I'm not writing this to dump on REST. I still think it's the right approach to build a web service over HTTP, but I'm also conscious of the diminishing returns on each incremental step toward pure RESTfulness. I'm just trying to make a web service, and suddenly I'm defining new content-types?

For a client, is it worth the trouble to learn a new content-type to determine what's a hyperlink in my JSON response, when they can just look at the response and see something like the following?

GET /articles HTTP/1.1

{
"articles": [
{
"url": "/articles/1",
"title": "This is my first article",
"pubDate": "2012-01-05T08:39:47.625000
},
{
"url": "/articles/2",
"title": "This is my second article",
"pubDate": "2012-01-13T11:07:35.219000
}
]
}

After a while it starts to feel like the HTML v. XHTML debate.
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Exactly.. Of course it won't be super-easy to replace SO but at least the information is available. They even post data dumps.. cool =)

If they are cynical, they might change license for new content after the community has gained enough traction. I'm not convinced people would stop using SO if they did.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/
> The kebab is a Berlin invention

Wait, wat? Kebab is middle-eastern food with hundreds of years of history. 'Doner kebab' (the popular one in a bread) is Turkish. German sausage has nothing to do with it.

There are lots of ways you can serve kebab/shoarma and none of them are 'wrong' per se. The popularity of doner and roll is probably just a matter of convenience for customers and business owners. The sauce thing was just an observation, and frankly I don't know how what local influence made it served that way in Europe.
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No, like most of the companies mentioned in the article. Zalando was a Rocket Internet incubator participant.
True. The problem with that approach in the US is that our laws demand an "objective" approach to dealing with this stuff. We don't trust police to make subjective decisions.
We've got billionaires in Germany, too. But those guys do invest their money in shitty financial products or odious investment deals (lookup Schickedanz Quelle). As starting a company is a matter of attitude so is investing into startups.

There are platforms like seedmatch for example which generated 100k in 46 minutes from various people, so there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Being German myself I think the Samwers are an embarrassment. Unscrupulous copycats like them should be outlawed by the German startup scene.
The original paper: https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dcvoting-fc12.pdf
I think Stack Overflow will be better in the long run.

For instance I don't mind ads that are relevant to me, like book recommendations. I also wouldn't mind complementary services related to Stack Overflow.

There are more options available right now than in the early 2000 that could earn them revenue without upsetting the community.
I'm not sure it's more asinine, but in my town there are sometimes lights where a major road intersects a single lane road with almost no traffic. But typically these lights do not have a traffic sensor, so they just regularly interrupt the flow of traffic on the major road. We also have lots of untimed lights.
A true comparison isn't really possible. The closest would be a premium movie channel; HBO, Showtime, Starz. Those cost more than Netflix and have a much smaller selection of titles.
Tell me more? I've never heard of the Samwers before and am eager to learn more.
I wholeheartedly suggest a combination of diet and exercises (many can be made at home). I recently discovered Nerd Fitness, a blog directed to nerds that is getting some attention (Steve Kamb, the man behind it, gave talks to Google and FB) and it is pretty much changing my life.

I am not saying that this is the cure, but from my experience with depression I think that much of it is related to physical activity and general welfare. And a good diet (paleo works very well for me) and fitness can help a lot.

http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/02/23/a-newbies-guide-to-ne...
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We try quite hard to keep our stack homogeneous. We're Debian Squeeze from dev through to deployment, except for a very few Lenny services which haven't been upgraded yet (and won't be, until the service itself is replaced).

This means that getting a new service up and running should, by and large, be trivial. There's no discussion over what the best platform for a given service is, it's just a question of how to get it working on Squeeze. If we have to package something up to make it deployable, that's what we do.

Anyone coming to an arbitrary system knows what the tools are, and where to look. It's very, very simple.
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There seems to be a rising tide of the CQRS-crowd understanding how their ideas have been received in the community-at-large and trying to undo the way that so many have taken it as "all applications should be architected like this". I just hope the message gets home.
Don't know much more. I read the article and recalled convos with a few German friends in Accenture when I was consulting with them.
yes, but how can the need for ROI (on the $millions invested) not hurt the current user experience?
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> "Hey, look! They're making money with my knowledge! How they dare to do that?"

> Welcome to real world.

Have you READ the fucking article, or just came here to post your "cool" one-liner reply?

Because in the article he mentions the REAL WORLD case of Experts-Exchange. And he mentions his hard earned REAL WORLD experience that such things don't end well as commercial entities, because when they are pushed for monetization they become closed and/or ad-circuses.

He also suggests using a distributed model for such sites.

You know, like, Wikipedia, which also exists in the REAL WORLD, but is not in it for making money with our knowledge, but for building a non profit community for knowledge sharing.
Well, with the arrival of Project A ventures, you may not have to worry about getting them outlawed - now that an alternative exists you will probably have more people siding to the route of original ideas anyway.