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Uhmm... they can and did.

English might not be your first language, so I want to be sensitive of this. We have what is called a turn of phrase, or a memorable statement which represents an idea. In this case, when I say "you can't do that", it is similar to how your boss might call you into his office to complain that you deleted the company's production server. He might say "you can't do that", even though you obviously just did. What he means is "you really shouldn't have done that, and you should have known better."

Why should they not leverage the crazy traffic they have?

They can and should. What I'm representing is that the way they have chosen to leverage that traffic is confusing. Selling Android apps on a PC storefront which also has its own apps causes confusion as to whether or not the apps will work on your PC. In this case, they specifically use the name Android in several places, and I didn't see anywhere that it said "works on your PC" or "doesn't work on your PC".

It's a good time to do it since the masses unfortunately love Angry Birds

They've had a webapp store which sold Angry Birds for the PC. Combining the two caused me confusion. If it causes me confusion, it likely causes other people confusion as well.
I had a co-op position while at school, and I found the opportunity through the school's co-op/internship office. They had system like Monster where you could post your resume to positions, except they were only looking for interns from my school.

A friend of mine just got hired as an intern at my work. We needed someone and I knew he was looking. Everything worked out on both sides and he accepted.

Expectations for interns, at least in my experience:

1) You're going to get trained. There's a 99% chance you don't know what we want you to know

2) You're going to learn quickly, because otherwise you're gone in 3 months and that was worthless

3) You're going to be given a project (or piece thereof) that realistically can be finished or mostly finished by the time you leave.

So what I'm looking for in an intern (I did screening of applicants at my last job to replace myself as a co-op) is a willingness to learn, reasonably smart, and good time management. The latter 2 you can approximately screen for in GPA, or GPA + outside activities. If you're excited in whatever we do that will give you a big leg up, or if you've done something approximately similar to what that is.

My last job would also only seriously look for applicants in spring, though we did interviews year round. In summer we'd start hitting other companies' rejects that couldn't get a job for that summer. Fall was hit or miss, depending on if they wanted to start in spring or summer. Summer was more promising because it meant that the students thought ahead and were already looking for jobs.
Off-topic, but related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion (as much as I hate patents)
"Hey I hear there's this things "hackers" can do to make your internet work. But I'm afraid they'll steal my credit card information. Is this article right for me? Also, Friends is still a TV show" -- this article
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The key is telling if the app works on PC or Android or both or neither. They're selling them from the web, on your PC browser. They have previously had a webapp store which sold games just for your PC browser. Now in this store, they use the word Android as well. So are the apps for PC, or for Android?
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It's even worse on my screen (Win7/Chrome). The font is bolder on yours, which makes the text slightly reasier to read.

http://i.imgur.com/Pz8tl.png
I think he means the "change the world" vibe we get from a lot of startups. I think its great YC is broadening its scope into more traditional businesses.
Very relevant, IMHO. I don't want to hear "think of the children!1!!11" as an argument against patents any more than I do for or against anything else.
Most people can barely do one. It takes a special type of person to do both.
Wait until the bill comes.
Indeed. Pagination is one of those things not broken. Please don't fix it!
Facebook filter:

Situation: I have over 1,000 friends and ff several hundred twitter feeds. I end up seeing too much bs (spam ads, useless topics, and miss out on important info. Good events, interesting posts) I want something that can sort out my twitter feeds and facebook feeds and show me whats important while de-emphasizing od even junking the rest. Sort of like a spam filter for facebook and twitter
I like Carsabi, but for some reason their name is really forgetful. I don't know why...but I was looking for a car like 2 months after I saw their post...and for the life of me I couldn't remember what they were called
Most of the big startup law firms will take clients, usually with some sort of referral / partner interview, on a fee deferred-fee basis, especially now. They give you up to about 5k worth of legal work, which you have to pay if you raise money or generate revenue. If you go bust, they just write it off.

Off the top of my head, check with Gunderson, Cooley, Fenwick, WSGR, etc.
To do this would make acquisitions all but impossible, if every last whim was adhered to. No company does that, not zynga, FB, google, no one.

Especially in Zynga's case, when they are quite used to people having side projects. What the author didn't mention was that Z has a standard Prior Inventions addendum. I should know, our company was acquired by Zynga, and 100% of the offer letters were accepted. Several of us had prior works and side projects, including my cofounder, and we simply listed them.

What he wanted sounds like some specific addendum that called out his app and maybe made some forward looking promises about it... Or... Something.
Off topic, but this makes me wonder what kind of weird social engineered virus one could propagate through google docs spreadsheet by people just blindly filling out a sheet when instructions are posted In a random blog post.
Sometimes I think I'm the only person who doesn't see scroll bars anymore. Does your mouse not have a scroll wheel? Does your trackpad not have 2-finger scroll?
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I don't get the relationship to music piracy. When people were sharing and downloading music on a mass scale they were getting for free (illegally) what they would have ordinarily paid for. Other than major content publishers, who license their work, what small hobby blog pays for each they lift from a Google image search? The majority of Pinterest users wouldn't normally buy cute cat pictures or inspiring photos for web use. Even if you implement micro payments I think it would kill photo sharing.

If they are suggesting they will pursue Pinterest users than the rest of the internet better line up for prosecution right? If I upload one of these pictures to Google+, Facebook or MySpace and share it there it's the same situation no?
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Thanks, I appreciate it! We'll be iterating as fast as we can.
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Reddit has solved this problem.
"What if Google builds the same product as yours tomorrow?"
Strictly for the sake of curiosity, how large of a custom piece could you produce with and without seams (e.g. another commenter asked about creating a custom floor)?
Isn't the coefficient on 'T', the predicted 'mastery' variable, pointing the wrong way in the final logistic regression? And 'E', which is just getting 85% of the exercises right, is completely dominating all the other stuff (exponential moving average, etc) they did in the model.

So while all this is really cool, and I like the idea of doing EM on missing data (I've done it myself), it doesn't seem like it actually adds much, if I'm reading that right.
Haha! Excellent quote. Are we talking about life or juggling, or wait, business? ;)

Never gave much thought to my early interest in juggling or the juggling books I read when I was young and how it could possibly be later related to my approach to life and career.

I'm a modest juggler at best, and still young in my professional career in the tech world, but that quote and general sentiment gives me new perspective on how my opinion of failure was shaped growing up.
First off, the author misrepresented some facts. Groupon is NOT profitable. Nor is Pandora or Zynga, and Linkedin trades at roughly 900 times earnings. And I suppose this is a matter of debate, but I severely disagree with his depiction of these as stable companies. Pandora is operating in an ultra-competitive market with razor-thin margins and enormous overhead. I personally doubt they are going to survive much longer. I'll go out on what some would consider a limb and put Zynga in the same category, albeit one that will survive a bit longer.

But to his point about a possible bubble- I think it all depends upon exactly how you define this thing we call a bubble. If you compare the climate of today's dot com startups with that of the 90's, certainly we are nowhere close. Very few internet companies are going public these days, and those that are aren't enough to create a bubble large enough that a collapse would mean more than a microscopic percentage of the market at large losing a substantial amount of money. Most employees are not paid entirely in stock, so you wouldn't see a whole class of people go from millionaires to penniless in a matter of days.

However, if you define a bubble simply as a disproportionately large number of businesses in a particular industry being obscenely overvalued, I think we've been there for a few years. I don't think it will end abruptly from a string of bankruptcies or a market crash like the last one. I think it will end when the market becomes sufficiently saturated with businesses creating such a small amount of value that other industries become more attractive for investment. When the money leaves, people will pursue businesses in those industries.
The program lasts for three years. Something to consider, sure, but three years can be a long time in startup-land.
So how is Federal copyright laws give the author of any copyrighted work (which includes photographs and copyright attaches automatically as soon as the work is created) the sole and exclusive right to publish and reproduce such work. not keeping up with social norms and technology?
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The word "literally" never gets old, does it? Oh wait...
Yep - Craigslist does not allow scraping and blocks IPs sucking up content. Even AirBnB created their initial listings by scraping Craigslist though. Guess you can do it until they notice - and hopefully by then you have enough traffic of your own.
You know, reading this article half of me was thinking exactly this – it's so goddamn conceited and selfish to write something that says "treat your hackers like the supermen they are and allow them to do whatever they want whenever they want it or else you are stupid and don't deserve them". But the other half of my was thinking: My God, I need to get this to my boss stat.

I don't really consider myself a hacker, but when I'm sitting in front of a computer I expect to be doing one of two things: either I'm solving problems and stretching my mind, or I'm loafing off. If I'm not given work that involves some sort of interesting challenge, then I'll be spending a big chunk of my time cavorting and goofing around. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing; I spent a month in an intensive eight-hour-a-day writing program where probably five or six hours were spent looking at YouTube videos and Facebooking. The mind needs its down time. But when the idiotic gruntwork piles up, I find it harder and harder to actually do these stupidly simple things. It feels so pointless. I don't have an especially short attention span, but if I'm to spend six hours in front of a computer, I want to spend that time doing something meaningful, or at least creative. If I wanted mindless work, I'd at least like it to be physical or social in nature.

I've been trying to implement a site since August, and it's been an extremely aggravating experience. I had a rough design finished in two days; implementing it took three months, as I had routine task after routine task hurled my way, stopping me from making any progress. After those three months, I presented the site and was promptly told it was no good, the boss didn't like it – even though it'd been sitting in his inbox since my first week on the job. Now I've redesigned it and waited three more months to get extremely rudimentary feedback (on the level of, "you should put a button in that corner"), and now I'm finally allowed to implement it as an actual site.

I'm on the bottom of the list of "people who actually matter" in my workplace, and I'd feel irritating and self-righteous sending this link to anybody, but it nails every single aspect of why I find my workplace so frustrating. Everybody's smart and nice and doing big, important things, but I feel out-of-place and under-utilized. I could be a hell of a lot more productive if somebody even made half an effort to figure out how I work best in a team, but nope, I just sit in a corner and fiddle my thumbs and get told to post links to things on Twitter. (In two months I finish my position here; does anybody have advice on how I'd go about finding a less teeth-gritting employer?)
Pinterest is under the DMCA safe harbor provision though right? Copyright holders would have to pursue an infringer directly and issue take down notices. Maybe image recognition and a big notice saying the copyright holder has banned that image from Pinterest, contact them here.
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Bye bye scripting with noscript and scriptno. This is nifty but if people don't want ads people won't have ads. As someone who makes most of his money off of ads I understand the want to stop ad blockers but I rather just provided a good, clean experience and when an ad is blocked put up a nice message saying how I make my money off of ads and to please disable ad block on my website.

This method seems intrusive to me and like an "Ah ha! I stopped your ad blocker from working! TAKE THAT!"
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This is what I was responding to:

"... adoption comes down to the developers, all Mozilla can do is provide the tools."

I don't really care whether it has BrowserID or not. It just seemed that the parent was unaware that the game was a Mozilla project.
I'm not blind to the notion that patents exist to protect business (both big and small) however, I still can't help but think, when these sorts of things just end up hurting the consumer then something is terribly wrong! I guess the question becomes, "Overall, are patents good or bad for consumers?"
> well, the trouble with the real problems is the barrier to entry.

This has always been the case, and always will be, for every industry. If the market is easy to enter, you aren't going to make much money for very long. It is precisely because of this that companies that are attacking the easy problems or non-problems and are getting multimillion dollar valuations are making people nervous.
The first method is also working with Firefox and Adblock Plus.

I remember once Adblock became popular, there were few sites blocking users with Adblock, they calculated some elements height and if the Adblock blocked the ads in that element, the height didn't match. So they disabled the whole page and asked users to turn off Adblock or white-list them.
He acknowledges that, but if there was a way to see just the listing you're going to accept (of course that's impossible, so they show the first best matches) wouldn't you want it?
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The Pinterest backlash reminds me more of the google news backlash. Old school businesses lording over their content, not realizing that there is more to gain by sharing. The terms need improvement, but their service is a boon to sites with content to share.
I think its obvious... just limit the results to a sensible number.. perhaps randomize the last half...
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I'm a long time Java developer who recently move to .NET. What I love about Java when it comes to this particular issue: open source, is how easy it is to get the source code, documentation, and to navigate around given 2 assumptions:

1) You're using Maven + Eclipse (haven't tried in other IDE)

2) The source code is available (in most cases, they are) in Maven repository

Here's a simple example: I'm using Spring and Guava and occasionally I'd like to navigate to the method I use. All I have to do is hit F3 on the method call and Maven will download the source code JAR (and the documentation JAR as well) and voila: I can easily see the source code and navigate around. Ditto with the dependency of the dependency.

I have to say that Maven + Eclipse provide massive productivity increase for me and my team.

Now, I did .NET in the past briefly back when .NET was in 2.0/3.0 era. I recalled it wasn't obvious how to associate even the core .NET library (Collections, etc) via VS.NET.

How easy it is to achieve a similar workflow in .NET these days?
Even if "Speak for Yourself" is pulled from the App Store, it should continue to work for this girl, correct?
This is horrible. I've spent the last 18 months of my life developing an AAC text-to-speech app too ( http://ktype.net ) and have dreaded this exact scenario. I've built the app from ground up, solving each problem my users might face on my own - from my own prediction engine to handling unintentional multi-touch taps ( http://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20111105 ) without consulting any external sources. One tiny feature (say, allowing the user to change the size of cursor) could get me in the same position if some company owns a patent on it. It is heart-breaking to know that you are absolutely helpless to defend yourself against behemoths with lawyers.

By the way, the reason TTS AAC apps are so expensive (Speak for Yourself is $299, Proloquo2go is $189) is not just the developers. If you're using someone's TTS library (no good open-source ones exist), they can contractually require you not to sell your app under a specific amount because they want X% of your sales. And then of course the license fees to various patent-holders.

Patent reform isn't just about one-clicks and black-border-around-touchscreen tablets. It's about preventing the stifling of innovation. I built a truly unique feature in KType - guess which of the 2-10 multi-touch taps is intentional (i.e. based on the user's preferences, guess which one is the 'index' finger). As far as I know, no app or system can do this. Without this feature, users with speech and motor disabilities have a very difficult time using a touch-screen. I would love for this feature to be a part of all touch-screens, in the Accessibility configuration. That's why I openly described the algorithm the day I came up with it instead of patenting it. But I could be sued and shutdown because one of the many features of KType was broadly patented by someone two decades ago.

I dread being in an industry where trying to help others for barely any money can get you shuttered. I can make 10x more money making an ad/affiliate-network but I love seeing the look on my users' and their caregivers' faces when they are able to use my app to finally communicate after years of needing others' help. I hope this case ends well for Speak for Yourself but honestly, I'm not too optimistic.
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I found a bug.

I had my guy move to the other side of a barrier, and he did so by taking a path through the adjacent square - but then my view was in the adjacent square, my guy moved offscreen, never to return.

For such a slick demo, that was really unexpected.
Yes! Especially with more expensive software. My software costs £150: No-one wants to fork out this kind of cash without a free trial so I get very few sales through the Mac App Store.
Nintendo has never done any such thing. I'll write off such shenanigans as scare tactics until such time as an actual action takes place.

In fact, they go out of their way to tell you, when updating, if you have modified your console that the update may break it, and provide a way to skip the update.
I can't believe all the .net love lately.
What part of hosting apps on Windows was painful to you? I actually prefer to host my apps in Windows when I'm able and the technology stack supports it. I don't need to set up new apps often, but when I do, it's many orders of magnitude faster for me to get an app running on Windows vs. Linux.

Linux works great as a server OS once I get everything set up and configured correctly. I never need to think about it again. However, I dread having to set things up on a new Linux machine. There's always some hardware that doesn't install correctly or some config file that needs twiddling. Sometimes it takes an odd sequence of commands that needs to be run in just the right order to get things going. Invariably I waste hours on the internet searching forums every time I do this, getting more and more frustrated the whole time.

As far as Windows hosting goes, I find IIS 7 to be much easier to set up and customize than Apache in terms of hosting web applications. I find the uptime of Windows Server boxes to be functionally equivalent to their Linux counterparts. I also find it's much easier to administrate large groups of Windows servers because of the nice tooling. Things like Active Directory, SMS and SCOM make things pretty easy.
Yes it will continue to work for her, but the mother feels strongly that it should be still available for other children in the same position. If it does go into litigation hell perhaps open source is the answer, let parents build it for the device themselves?
I like that I can watch as people arrive.

Nice to see a real time view rather than call people to find out how far off they are.

Would be awesome to see a large number of people descend on a big party or similar.
Thought I'd get a discussion going - their pricing is surprisingly transparent.

Eric Ries is also on board as General Partner.

Is this the consultancy of the future?

Is this and the incubator model further "commoditizing" startups?
When people use the "think of the children" argument, they are usually talking about the hypotheticals. "Think of the children" when you let guns or drugs in the neighborhood. "Think of the children" when you legalize prostitution.

In this instance however, it is think of this very specific child. There is no hypothetical child here who might be harmed. There is a real, actual child who will lose her ability to communicate if this app is pulled off and remotely deleted from her iPad.
Some what of the same boat myself. Personal networking presumably isn't working for you. Try internmatch, hireArt and coderwall.You might even reach out to locaI companies and ask for an internship if they aren't offering one. Wish it was easier.
I am curious about Pair's user acquisition strategy, as the concept is (by definition) almost as anti-viral as possible. It seems like it would be much easier to create something similar for cliques, make it support up to 8 people, and market it to middle- and high school kids. And then enable anonymous inter-group (as opposed to intra-group) messaging, so that way there is a vector of virality. Obviously a smaller market though.
For a second I was really excited about this, until I realised I don't have an iPhone. Not saying as a startup you should shift your focus on other platforms at all, but are you guys working on an Android app at the moment?
This guy should be a hero to all indy devs out there.
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