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People who are looking at the revenue and think this valuation is outrageous probably have a fundamental misunderstanding of the CDN market.

$1 billion is high, but not outrageous.

Akamai is the market leader, and currently valued at ~$7 billion. They recently bought the most innovative player in the CDN market (Cotendo) for $250 million.

CloudFlare may not have huge revenue, but they have something that all the other non-Akamai CDN players would kill for: a huge, quickly growing customer base.

Their lack of revenue is a byproduct of their freemium business model. It's not a big problem, because CloudFlare can change the parameters in that model at anytime, and provided they are keeping customers happy it should be a fairly easy conversion to a paid customer.

People are used to paying for webhosting, and Cloudflare are already building reseller agreements with companies like Dreamhost to build these relationships further.

The biggest problem I see with CloudFlare is that they don't have strong (any?) video CDN offerings. At the moment that isn't a big problem for them (not many of their customers need it since most use SaaS platforms for video) but I would imagine it is an area they are looking hard at.
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There's hasn't been much research in this direction, but there are probably potential uses for OpenFlow in home networks. For example, apps or devices could use OpenFlow to give your router advice about how to handle their traffic, e.g. firewall or QoS rules. There's already an OpenFlow implementation for WRT54G routers, so it wouldn't be too hard to experiment with it.
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Stupid pay wall.
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Thanks for the notes!

I've filed one issue for a keyboard shortcut for change tab: https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill/issues/1380 and there's already one for find functionality: https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill/issues/968 .

Lion-esque save-constantly behavior would be a bug at this point. Map rendering would need to be instant and isn't.

Tying these changes to 'a native UI' though, doesn't make a lot of sense: none of these changes are impossible, or even more difficult, because the code is in javascript rather than cocoa.
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Surely, that should be add all the semicolons to bootstrap-dropdown.js?
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Agree about low information density of article.

Same general advice applies in engineering: do your best to attach yourself to a lab, and see if it catches your fancy. Best way to test-drive a career choice.

He's kind of down on textbook-and-problem-set coursework and large lecture classes. This is not universal. Some large lectures are large for a reason -- the professor is a star. And some textbooks are really good, and some problem sets are worth sweating over.
Times two accounts, times four devices, multiple browsers... pretty soon it's a once-a-week frustration.
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For one thing, patents can take a long time to be granted.

It's not unusual for inventors to have changed employers by the time their patents are granted.
I (mostly) agree. I think 2-factor is a fine idea, but I have friends who are still using something along the lines of "password1" on all of the online accounts.

A good first step would be reinforcing the idea that you should never use your email password for any other account. Few people will go through the effort of brute-forcing an standard-issue gmail account when they can easily download a bunch of pre-hacked usernames and passwords.
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This is good. Personally I would rather in a world where every so called "invention" is immediately documented publicly so that from that point on there is prior art and nobody can claim a patent on it.

Tipping the balance of offensive to defensive patents will definitely also help.
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Most of what we teach undergraduates is about the knowledge science is produced, rather than about the process of doing science itself.

Which is not entirely a useless endeavor; if you don't know about what has already been discovered, how can you build on it and go further? How will you know what has already been tried?
$10,000 for a logo (and link?) from the front page of a popular project like this could be pretty cheap SEO.

I know Apache (the foundation, not the software) used to have a problem with sponsors who were basically buying links. Apparently sponsoring Apache was cheaper than trying to buy links on comparatively ranked sites.

It looks like there could be at least one company on http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html at the moment that still falls into that category.
I feel the part about it being open source is either misleading or your description is just really vague, even after the update. First you mention the core is open source, then you mention we need a license for which we can pay as much as we'd like. Now that last part doesn't seem very open source to me.

Fair enough if you want to make money with this, that's your right and I don't think anyone will try to stop you. But don't say it's open source when it's not.

Could you explain, if Light Table is released, what will I have to do to obtain a copy? If payment is involved, please explain to me how it is open source. What license will be used (MIT, GPL etc, if you roll your own, please outline the major parts)?
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Do something you love is referring to creative passions. Find something creative you love to do and make it your profession. Think of the people making the games you enjoy and how many of them must enjoy what they do because of the obvious quality in the product they are producing. Try to find that for yourself.

If you only love consumption habits, try taking up new hobbies. There must be something that you will enjoy that is constructive.
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I've been looking but can't find a task management app that works both online, on Android (my phone) and on an iPad. I guess I can use the mobile versions of Asana, but I'd rather have a native app for my phone and iPad. Any ideas?
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According to me tools have practically zero chances of survival without communities rallying behind them.

This looks like such a cool idea. I think their primary concern must be to release a basic thing out first and then iterate over it. This way they will get both contributions and the product going.

Decide what your design goals are, define what code and quality goes in and out of your repo. Build something basic, release it and then iterate. Contributions and donations will follow. But if you are expecting mass adoption for a tool designed primarily for Clojure then, Clojure itself is in low adoption stage now. On top of that people who use clojure wanting to use will be fewer(Emacs + Slime really works well). So the initial payment model with only Clojure support may not bring them much money. This definitely has to be a platform like Emacs. And then the money can come from upgrades, major revisions.

Also it would have been nice if language used to extend this was Clojure itself.

We desperately need some modern GUI candy on an Emacs like editor which can be extensible by Lisp.
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Well, this has been evident for a long time. Mark Zuckerberg intends to rule Facebook, not by consensus, but by himself. When Zuckerberg was forced to make an IPO, he did everything in his power to minimize outside control. I also believe(not sure about this), that Zuckerberg still retains majority control of the company.
I am pretty much of exactly the same mind, down to my take on copyright policy, with a couple provisos:

* Promises should be kept. There's nothing unconscionable about conditioning a sale on "don't share this with the world for free" terms.

* Piracy has had a massive disruptive effect on the music industry. It isn't that technology simply devalued the professional skills of musicians (it did that, too). Much of what's happened to music with technology wasn't planned by the industry, but rather abetted by it once it started happening. That's why we have one dominant iTunes Music Store; they got to be the first mover on "downloading music not for free" when the whole industry was getting shellacked by pirates.

* The tech industry is fundamentally more heartless and efficient than the music industry was. Lowery thinks musicians had a better deal under the labels than the tech giants "by accident". It's not an accident: tech companies are much better at extracting surplus value than most industries, and they're merciless about it. And I think for the most part (with the possible exception of Apple) he's right: the tech industry could give a flying fuck about the economics of professional musicianship. The musicians could all go broke tomorrow; they'd get their pageviews somewhere else.

Ultimately, and this is pretty navel-gazey and arrogant so I apologize in advance, I have a diagnosis. At least with regards to the geek mindset. We're bullies. It's ironic, since so many of us got picked on in school, but the prevailing attitude among technologists is "if you can do it with a computer, it's pointless to reason about whether you should do it". Maybe it's because my particular field spends so much time discovering things people really shouldn't be doing with computers, but this is an especially aggravating and hollow attitude to me. It's bullying when you break contracts, promises, and the law just to get convenient access to a piece of music by a guy who's making less than a McDonalds manager; it's especially bullying when you tell him he should get a better business model. "Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself!"

Man, what I wouldn't give to hear Steve Albini's response to Lowery's rant. They had to have met; Andy Mason worked at Electrical Audio before he started ThePoint.com, where Lowery worked. It blows my mind that the lead singer from Camper Van Beethoven worked for Andy Mason in Chicago at ThePoint.com.
Just because you could make the same argument for any group, does not invalidate the argument. It speaks to it's universality. If getting them funding were the problem, it would call for a different fix.
The problem is getting them to apply, to make them aware the option even exists, and to get them to think like entrepreneurs to prepare them for the rest of a YC like process. We just come in earlier in the life cycle and are using a succesful business practice as a tool for social good. We got 5 new incubees over night, so they do exist, and we are rolling.
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There's been some discussion that you could run SPDY with a self-signed cert and it just wouldn't show the lock. People need to make their opinions on this topic known to Google and Mozilla before the security model is finalized.
Just FYI, when they say "completed" they mean "put into place". They took more than a year to build the structure and then put into place over the weekend.
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I've been reading HN for about a year and a half, and I've never seen a green username before. It was a fair question.
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Do you really think the legal picture would be any different if Android were under copyleft?
I have tried papermill. Its the most unstable app I have ever downloaded for my android phone.

It crashes randomly but most often when syncing or reading a article. I have send bug reports and contacted the author but that hasn't really helped.
That may be true and they could have out of this world potential but I can't think of any sector or business model where a P/S ratio of 4000 is anywhere close to sane.
You're not clear on how order books work, which, respectfully, suggests that your reasoning on this stuff is a bit suspect. The standing limit order prices the trade.

I can understand how upsetting HFT must have sounded to you (although to be fair, we're still shifting the good outcome from Bob to Alice in your best case) given that misunderstanding, but, no: to capture the 5 cents (more likely: 1 cent) between Alice and Bob, the HFT had to accept Alice's downside risk exposure. There was no (simple) outcome where Alice could have it both ways, scalping Bob for 5 cents in the best case but getting out at 10 cents in the worst.

I came to my understanding of this topic in a weird way (see downthread) but one resource I found extremely helpful was Larry Harris' _Trading And Exchanges: Market Microstructure For Practitioners_. It is the TCP/IP Illustrated of markets. Very well written, and well written in a way easily appreciated by programmers. Highly recommended. When I first started reading it, I literally didn't want to put the book down.
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If the customers and the way of buying is the same, Cisco will acquire and proceed. Dramatic technology changes don't kill incumbents if they are "sustaining" to their customers and way of doing business.
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It actually sounds relatively low risk ("What are you doing!? Moving the bridge like this here paperwork says. We never approved that! Oh must have been a mixup..")
That's how I felt, it's not scannable or readable at all :(
Yep, he owns 28% of the stock but 57% of the voting rights, according to the article.
Although I think your point about design is very astute, I disagree with your assertion that those who need to hear this are lost cases.

I have seen some insanely huge, hover as you scroll social sharing panels on blogs of people whom I consider to be luminaries in the field of technology and design. Maybe it's a case of outsourcing the blog design or using templates just because they are there... Let's face it: slapping together a Wordpress template plus Disqus comments and some other frills then calling it 'web design' is all too common these days.

I think that getting some dialogue going on the topic is very worthwhile and I ask that people like yourself, with such astute observations on the topic not take the shoulder shrugging stance and speak out.
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I enjoyed the article, think some members of this community will too.
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That's exactly what pro rata does.
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Could just open an incognito/private window.
You are right about it being hard to eat out. Anyway in case you are interested here is what my friend is begging someone to make - she says 'its a total pain to go shopping and come across a product that LOOKS gluten-free and you buy it then go on-line and find out it's been cross-contaminated at the factory. im wondering if there's some way the app can scan something so that i can find out AT THE STORE when i'm looking at the food.'
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The value is probably for a constructed bridge (i.e. includes labor), not scrap.
I find the lack of a . makes it more visually obvious what you are doing -- sending a message. Maybe something like foo <- doSomething would be more clear, but I always thought foo.doSomething sort of feels backwards, since you are sending a message to foo, not manipulating a property of it.
This argument only works when comparing a Prius to a Corolla... Which is the entry level bottom tier sedan from Toyota. I think it would be a bit more fair to use the Camry as the alternative car.

I'm a Prius owner and I didn't decide to spend an extra $6k just to get a Prius for the gas savings, otherwise I'd have a Camry. If I didn't buy a Prius I would have bought a similarly priced car because... that was the price range I was shopping in.
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... which is part of the point of this simplistic method : You're quickly able to pick the brains of all your (future, potential) competitors, without even knowing who they are, or researching what they're selling.

Maybe you can envision a higher-priced product with the same purchase rate (a win), or a lower-priced product with a vastly better purchase rate (also a win). But, using the assumption that there are people already trying to optimize their offerings in the market-place, the back-of-the-envelope calculation from the article is a quick sanity check.
Google builds in a solid six months to get all new hires up to speed.

Of course, that's the relaxed end of the spectrum. At a freshly-minted startup, I wouldn't be surprised if spending a week familiarizing yourself with the project's codebase (let alone the language/framework) was pushing it.
already outdated... they are already north of $4M. :-)
Use it as a mental improvement exercise to help improve your short term memory.
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Good point! It seems that what would make most sense is to move the sharing buttons onto the browser, no?

Mobile Safari does a great job of this with the bookmark/mail link to this page/add to home screen/etc. button, heck even Twitter is catered for as of iOS5. Maybe if desktop browsers had similar functionality we'd see less of this noise on the page.

Good deal that too: get the crud off the actual page and sacrifice but one toolbar button that (like the search bar) has a pull down with all of your selected networks. That makes it more elegant in appearance and opt-in by default.

...seems so obvious, maybe there are already extensions for this?
Yeah. it's all about perception. Since you refuel often, you see the fuel cost much more often than the actual initial car costs. It's constantly in a "top of mind" position for consumers. You can find the same phenomena across different fields. Like when you hear about people dying from cancer the whole time on TV, you may feel there is a great risk to actually get it anytime, while in fact, the main key factor to develop cancer is simply "age" (there are, of course, young folks diagnosed with cancer, but it's a clear minority).
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IIRC, you can make AIR apps using just HTML+JS. It has multiple modes (including Flash)- the HTML mode is a Webkit-based engine.