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From my brief browsing in the past its pretty obvious to me there's a lot of 'rough' and hardly any diamonds. Avoiding the scams is a skill in itself.

I don't think there is much possibility of making a success of a similar site for bigger cap web businesses, Thy are far less liquid assets and private sales would probably always be preferable to all parties involved once you're past a certain value threshold.

I really am not a fan of flippa, they have a great concePt and executed well yet they took the easy and (short term) more profitable route of allowing any old crap in. It's much like a lot of new online advertising platforms, there's a serious trust issue with all of the one ive seen where filtering out the scams, junk and misrepresentations is so time consuming and riskier it becomes not worth the time. I want to see flippa for quality small liquid sites (do they even exist and if thy do why would they be sold anyway?) and advertising platforms I can trust. Then I can start using these services.
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lot's of code running on almost all networking gear is 'C'. examples would be ios (csco), junos (jnpr) etc. etc. starent-networks (acquired by csco) which is a pretty significant player in mobile-wireless is also 99% 'C' based.
Banning things is always a difficult and dangerous proposition, no matter how much harm those things can cause if misused.

For guns, knives, drugs, and other more routine contraband, law enforcement action required to maintain such bans have their own costs. Law enforcement can at best selectively enforce such laws, because contraband is almost always hidden. As a result, privacy erodes as politicians and law enforcement want more ability to discover who has contraband.

If something is harmful enough and also rare enough or requires substantial skill to procure, like nuclear weapons or biological weapons, then there's the argument that banning those things improves the safety of society. I am not convinced that the legality really matters; the economics of procurement provide a strong barrier to random ideologues and nutcases from procuring such weapons, and if they can anyway it's doubtful laws would stop them; there's also much more opportunity for anyone along the logistics chain to notice something strange about their buyer and report it to someone, even if the transaction were legal. That can't be done with firearms or knives with thousands being sold a day. However, the consequences of nuclear and biological weapon use is so horrific that despite the economics, it still might be in everyone's best interest to leave them effectively banned.
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Can you show numbers? E.g. number/size of deployments, community size in terms of contributors and mailing list subscribers? How many other packages are dependent on the frameworks? (E.g. Hakyll uses Snap, gitit uses happstack).

Those are objective measures, but without measurements they say nothing.
I know, it's almost as if the evil-Zynga meme is just a false narrative perpetuated by jealous indie game devs and HN bandwaggoners repeating the same tired anecdotes over and over. Every time I hear something positive about Zynga (even peripherally), I just ignore it. It's clearly false.
> with the effect that people always download on the same weekday

What's so bad about that?
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Nah, you've called it. That's how it'll go down.
A growing number of researchers believe software engineering is now at a turning point comparable to the dawn of evidence-based medicine, when the health-care community began examining its practices and sorting out which interventions actually worked and which were just-so stories.

while I wish we were getting there, much seems to still revolve around anecdotal success and failure stories. There has been some great analysis posted here on HN, though.
Open Source work for free AND not giving away photographs 'for exposure' to for-profit businesses are both allowed in the the Should I do this for Free? flowchart

http://shouldiworkforfree.com/clean.html
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A common solution to this problem, is to make a 2 stage process, where step 1 is a request of "should I download?", where there are 2 possible replies: "no, check again in N time" and "yes, here is a token". Step 2 is then presenting the token to the api point for download, and getting the file.

On the server side, you don't even need specific instance tracking, just a simple decision based on current resource usage, and a list of valid tokens (optionally, they can expire in some short time to avoid other thundering herd type issues). Say, you set a max number of file transfers, or bandwidth or whatever metric makes sense to you, and you simply reply based on that metric. Further, you can smooth out your load with a bit of intelligence on setting N.

Even better, you get a cool side-effect: since the check isn't so resource intensive, you can set the time between checks lower, and make the updates less regular.

Now that I think of it: it seems that this would be a nice nginx plugin, with a simple client side library to handle it for reference. Anyone want to collaborate on this over the weekend? Should be relatively straight-forward.
Having var implies nothing about automatically making variables global. If you're familiar with Scheme, having var is like define and not having it is like set!. (If you're not familiar with Scheme, you should be ;). Go read SICP.)

Basically, having something like var lets you nest scopes. So you can have, say, nested functions and work with variables declared above your current fucntion but not in the global scope.

If you leave out the var, you'll end up with Python's idiotic scoping, which is annoying. (They've added a nonlocal keyword in the new version in an attempt to fix it, but it's still relatively clumsy and awkward.)

Coincidentally, if you use the strict mode in JavaScript (with "use strict";) it will prevent you from using global variables implicitly. This makes it even more clear that var and JavaScript behavior regarding global variables are orthogonal.
My point was that he's been successful precisely because he lets people freely use his images under the CC license. It's' more or less the cornerstone of his business plan. His work gets widely distributed and linked back to his site, which helped him build his tribe and sell other products and services.
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$500K is the bookings of Dental Departures...our revenues are 15% of this total

Full disclosure: I work @ Dental Departures
Woo-hoo - I win on the internets! ;)

Yes, that gets back to an issue I highlighted earlier, which is the need to reduce malpractice in the first place. There's a lot of ways to do it. I agree that unfortunately, we've decided that the courts are the right place for feedback.

Doctor review boards, for example, are woefully hesitant to chide doctors who continue to have bad practices. Politicians are equally hesitant to put the nose of "big government" into oversight.

Frankly, one of the reasons I'm in favor of nationalized general health care is that it tightens the feedback between the people who pay for health care and the people who do oversight.

Thanks for the opportunity to do the research on the topic and improve my own understanding.
I doubt they're coming after Chrome and Firefox. Given that they've never sued Linux directly (only companies that sell products with Linux bundled -- e.g. Tom Tom), they don't seem to have any interest in going after free software (or just freeware in general) directly.

More likely, this is to strengthen their case in the mobile patent wars, given that every smartphone comes with a bundled browser. In particular, they have an ongoing dispute with Motorola.
Hmm, that's true. I use them in the way previously described, but don't correct people on it, as it's too late for that. We can still save "it's/its" "their/there/they're" and "your/you're", though!
If an abstraction breaks, its not a good abstraction, in which case the Prismatic folks are doing precisely what you're advocating anyways, spending time getting things working rather than overengineering before they need to solve the problem.

My point though, is if an abstraction breaks, its not a good/real abstraction, and a new abstraction / solution needs to come into play. There is no reason why a data store library can't be parameterized (whether internally, or visible to the client user) over the semantics of the various backends and work differently in the underlying manipulations accordingly.

(note I am not saying that the prismatic folks are or are not doing this, just that an abstraction is only a good abstraction if you can't break it)

I agree that the underlying technologies do not have a uniform data store semantics. However, not preclude client side library logic that can provide a uniform semantics to these stores, and/or warning when they cannot.
For those who seem confused, this is an effort on the part of Google to take the energy and momentum from the anti-SOPA victory and turn it into something proactive. I for one applaud it. For too long, we have been taking a purely defensive posture, where we wait until the next existential threat to the open internet pops up, and only then do we get active.

We need to start pushing our own agenda -- one that protects the free exchange of ideas and innovation online. Let the MPAA and their allies be the ones playing defense.
Hey danso, OP here.

The evaluation is a bit light for some of the websites I've covered. If this one sold for $200.000, it means there are other kind of directories that can be very profitable, either as your only website or as part of a portfolio of niche earners. Not something your average software developer will think of I guess. However, I imagine directories can be a bit labor-intensive (I don't have one myself).

I wanted to show that for software developers it's also possible to make websites that are not traditional webapps. There are lots of profitable websites out there.
I think this comment by Tzctplus sums my feelings on the matter the best:

He gets it. The market is saturated, economics 101 says that will drive the price down, in extreme situations the price is close to 0, the mistake many photographers make is to believe that their skill (and they should stop using the word "art" if they are selling, it would be really useful to frame the situation) is still so unique that deserves an imagined level of compensation.

Photographers should understand that if they want to make a living it will be thanks to the value added on top of taking photographs, making good photographs is not enough, lots of people can now do that, and most importantly, the market is global and cruelly efficient.

The article's poster talks like if the digital photography revolution hasn't happened, people that have not managed to sell value added to potential clients should realize that the first thing in the road to charging something is recognition, which is what the guy of the calendars was offering (how many of you can boast to have had they pictures published in 20000 calendars? That would look great on a CV and would help you in the differentiation from the mass of photographers struggling to make a living from their skill).

You are saying below that they can offer compensation, and that is entirely missing the point, as much as I would like to charge $1000 for each picture I take (set your price, the principle is the same) I know there are hundreds, perhaps thousand of chums out there that would like to take half that, one third of that or less.

It is funny that you try to use an example below about restaurants without considering the whole picture: qualified chefs, waiters, etc. working in a fancy restaurant are not a dime a dozen, they also will use ingredients which are demonstrably scarce, that is the reason you can't walk there and set your price.

Photographers are not in that happy position just by the virtue of their photographs: any photo website, trade magazine (of which are many, yet another hint about the vulgarity of taking pictures nowadays) should be teaching a lesson to anybody holding a camera: your skill is now a commodity, and as such the first step to make a living out of it is brand recognition, which is what was in offer...

Once your name is Testino or some other person that is immediately recognizable and iconic, then yeah, feel insulted, before that? Be grateful....
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Everybody downloading at once makes for slow servers. The author probably could pay much less in hosting costs if everybody downloaded the file along a uniform disturbance.
God damn it, when I was ~14 years old I had a very popular anime website (~3M+ uniques every month), but I shut the website down because I got bored. God damnit, I wish I knew about flippa back then! I don't even own the domain anymore...
Great to hear that your parents had an excellent experience in Costa Rica!

I really think once people step inside a Costa Rican/Thailand, Mexico dental clinic their concerns of quality fade away.

Full disclosure: I work @ Dental Departures
And what position are they going for? The point is this – everyone can look at the current site and come away with a different understanding of the position/approach of Exec. The designer is working with the constraint of 1. the name 2. the product/service from what he reads and understands from the current site. Unless he has the brief or sat down with the Exec team, there's no way he can nail it down. And neither can you (unless, ofcourse, you know exactly what Exec is and their approach/target audience/demo graphics etc).

ie: They could target more than young professionals - what about people who have disabilities? Maybe they can set up a weekly Exec service for groceries for handicapped people. Exec is a startup and they're no doubt iterating their product, and customer discovery and all that jazz. I feel it's unfair to look at a site, then comment on the design, when neither knows Exec's target customers (even when Exec is still discovering themselves).
It's not obvious that the next generation of politicians will be much better. Using computers, including iOS and Android devices, is not enough. Technically minded individuals who understand how those devices work below the surface are still unlikely to go into politics.
Server load goes really high on that day, and if you get more popular, you'll need more servers and hence more money.
>fix the market

There's nothing broken with the market, it's the business model that needs to be fixed. And by fixed, I mean scrapped and replaced by models not dependant on selling non-scarce goods.
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Did AOL really sell patents to make a "comeback"?
Nobody said you aren't allowed to share it, I simply disagree with you. As I said, I use a very similar pattern in a large project; I've used new/this/prototypal style OOP in other projects; and I prefer the traditional new/this/prototypal style.
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Isn't that something that nginx/varnish should easily be able to handle? It is just a static file download after all...
And my point was that this guy is probably doing the exact same thing (that's how the essay started - talking about letting people use his photos), but isn't happy about it.
It's also something of a hold over from larger electric devices. A poorly designed laptop can mess with your local radio reception and networking equipment, but a poorly designed 50KW electric motor can disrupt radio transmission over a much larger area.
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I also really hate this argument.

I'm what you call a serious amateur photographer. I make images because I love the process of creating and sharing art. Telling me that I shouldn't ever share my work because it erodes the value of others who have an entirely different motive is borderline price-fixing.

If you, as an established professional, can't compete with hobbyists and newcomers trying to break in, then you might need to find a different business model.
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Are the merge operations performed within a transaction for the backends that support them, or is atomicity of merges not desired?
I got teary after watching this. If that lad can get up on that stage, there's no reason why the people here can't succeed with a startup.
You're missing the argument. Obviously, Exec can position however they'd like. But positioning as a luxury good in an wide-open market with mainstream-market pricing is not a particularly great strategy. Do you know what the fully loaded cost of a full-time PA is? Way higher than Exec'ing jobs. If they're targeting the market of people aspiring to have FT PA's, they're leaving a shitload of money on the table and needlessly narrowing their focus.

This thread is a good case study for nerdly misconceptions about marketing. I suspect that to a lot of HN readers, "marketing" means "what feelings you're expected to have while using the product", like, "this is gold and black for the same reason that Github has Star Wars imagery on their 404 page". No. Marketing is first and foremost about subsetting people into groups, predicting what those groups will pay for a good or service, and then picking the group. The "feelings" business serves that goal, not the other way around.

So, first, you'd want to decide "am I going after the same people that Hertz #1 Club Gold is" (ie, the kinds of people who spend 5 figures a month solely on travel expenses) and then say "let's class up the website a bit".
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There is certainly a correlation between IP litigation and a company's decline, and the scary thing is that all companies decline sooner or later and think what would happen if IBM for example started to become desperate and started to sue everyone who might infringe in any of their patents, they could completely stop half of world's economy for years.
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A credit card is a revolving line of credit, and it's useful if you need more control over when you pay your bills(e.g. paying the hosting bill on the third week of the month instead of the first). Note that I'm not advocating that you carry a balance from month to month - only that you have more control over cash flow if bills are getting paid on your schedule.
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I don't think you interpreting that chart the same way I am.
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YouTube. The second most visited website on the Web that has yet to generate a profit. A cost center for Google.

Also, I hear rumors FB is acquiring Instagram for $1bn, which would be interesting for Sequoia.
If I get no sales, I get paid $0 since it's pay per performance. I usually get $40 as commission per sale.
O'reilly used to print their own as well, iirc.
Really? Once I saw the page, it made me think of "execute". But maybe I have just spent too much time programming.
Harshaw: we actually see roughly 30% of our patient base receive dental implants. The vast majority (95%) of our patients do not receive immediate load dental implants. They receive their implant and then travel back for treatment 4-6 months later (after the bone has fused to the implant). The great part is they still save money even with the second visit and this includes the cost of their travel.

I appreciate your costs to become a dentist...I've felt the burden of student loans and it is tough to dig yourself out.

Dental Departures is globalization plain and simple: dentistry & medical services are no longer immune. The labor, overhead & cost of materials are less expensive overseas than in the United States (for the same quality of care).

Full disclosure: I work @ Dental Departures
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TIOBE's methodology is skunky, but there's an underlying truth to the results. C really is that good.
Instagram is acquired by Facebook
Oh yeah, the Sagan thing. I was thinking more about the Voyager picture. Insignificance and all. Being the richest person on that speck of dust in the corner there doesn't seem like such a mighty accomplishment after all.

I like it better than my previous use of, "quid ad aeternum". Whatever. Something tells me its not that important either way...
All story's only have one ending.[1] As long as it's entertaining there really is no need to try and wrap things up.

[1] And then after a while, everyone died.
I subscribe to Happstack's mail list. It has < 1 message/day on their mail list.

Looking at the Snap framework google group there were 7 threads in March and 1 in April. Yesod has had ~15 threads in April and seems to have averaged ~2 threads/day in March.

I am busy at the moment. Perhaps you can help answer your own questions and add to this.
It's a little too late for April Fool's isn't it?

It seems strange that they're deciding to keep the Instagram social network up as its own independent social network, that leads me to think that their acquisition was really for their big data talent and not just to squash a smaller social network. I wish Mike Krieger's tech talk was more than two days away now, so we could hear about how they're going to merge with Facebook's big data issues too.
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Encrypting and authenticating cookies allows the web app server (or server farm) to store some session state in the browser rather than hit the database for every little thing. This can have a huge positive effect on scalability.
I also thought it was a play on how nerds verb that particular word; I "exec" my garage cleaning job like I would a Unix process.
I agree that a purely platonic relationship between a man and a woman is impossible. If exists I suppose not that the brain of the people implied is fundamentally different than mine but rather they have developed a part of their brain that masks their now unconscious desires. From those desires will grow a head-start appreciation for the other sex (or same) that those of the your sex (or other) will not have.

If your desire is quenched then not much will happen. If it is not, then you will of course search for ways to quench it. Dopamine. The result depends on vision of the world. I have personally left behind the race for women and now focus on the race for coolness, if you will. Ultimately it is the same either way to my feelings but in my tribe coolness is better than sex.
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Can anyone hear the flush sound?
I think it's cool and bold that he's sharing specific features of Instagram that they plan to preserve. It's bold because it increases the PR cost of changing those plans.