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Central servers must go. We must also disentangle presence management, identity, and services built on top of those layers. Access to identity must be layered and fully subject to user control.

I am personally remiss in this matter as I thought deeply about all this when ICQ came out in mid 90s (and even filed a PPA on April 1st 1997 with USPTO on my take on the solution) but did not advocate effectively enough for the (obvious) architectural remedies. Frankly it bugs me to this day and weighs on me like a still born child.
Just like a lot of lead generation/spam email campaigns I've seen, I'd assume a lot of phishing and scam email "campaigns" are strictly copy and pasted from a single source (ie, a forum post somewhere), with very few scammers actually putting any effort into changing it to be somewhat unique in favor of trying to get the message to as many people as quick as possible.
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So there's simply a fundamental value difference here. Some people love their families, friends, and free time to the exclusion of other things. To them, working is a means to an end. It doesn't actually mean they're not passionate about it, just that they have separated it to a different part of who they are and what they care about. I believe that was the point of the 501 Manifesto.

On the other hand, it's not strange to seek unity between your passion and your work. This is a great path for those who desire to have their material accomplishments define part them and is basically a necessary attitude for living in a meritocracy. It doesn't mean that you dislike your family, friends, and free time, simply that you feel that creation is also of central importance.

It's just different ways to self actualize. You can't compare them, really. You can accept the differences and work with people however makes everyone the happiest and most productive, though. 501 programmers may not have the same need to do exciting, groundbreaking work. They also don't want to spend the time. It doesn't mean you can't make use of them and make everyone perfectly happy. It may mean you don't want to actually work with any of them if you're trying to do something very difficult.
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I'm not redifining the term, economists are. Here is an etymology from dictionary.com

monopoly : "exclusive control of a commodity or trade," 1530s, from L. monopolium, from Gk. monopolion "right of exclusive sale"...

The people who have started using "monopoly" to mean "significant market power" and the like were doing a bait-and-switch to try to further an anti-business academic or political agenda. And most of the arguments you hear using the word "monopoly" imply the older definition that I'm using, but apply it to much looser definitions. For example, MS was never even remotely close to having a monopoly on operating systems. In fact, such a thing is not even really fathomable.

PS: The reason you don't need 100% market share to count as a Monopoly is once your competition can't meet the full needs of the market so you can increase prices which in theory causes a loss of market share, significant barriers to entry can dramatically slow this process down.

I didn't quote your entire paragraph, but I'm referring to all of it.

This kind of reasoning (which is reasonable and extremely common) is totally rationalistic (which is properly defined, by the way, as being an argument that seems deductively valid but is divorced from the way reality really is). I could talk about this at length, but I'd rather just give a short example for now. Imagine I'm a big business. If I'm consuming a particular kind of product as an input to my production, and one particular supplier charges a very high price, it wlll be greatly to my interest to either invest capital to produce it on my own, or (much more likely) seek out new producers to enter the market. If the existing supplier then tries to manipulate prices to drive the new competition out, only planning to raise them right after, I'll just see through it and continue purchasing from the new producer. A group of companies in my industry could even come to a mutual agreement of this sort to ensure that new competition enters.

The point is, in a capitalist (that is, politically and economically laissez-faire system), people don't just keel over when there are problems in the market, if those problems are actually big enough to be worth solving.
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Hi HN, I'm trying to figure out what Saas I'm going to build on the side. But as a self-funded single founder with no marketing budget, I want to go in a niche where

A) I will be the user and familiar on what the features will be and

B) I will have a chance to at least go level with the competition.

Take a look at list I came up below:

1. Collaboration (Campfire, Huddle)

2. Project Management (Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, Unfuddle)

3. Time Tracking (Harvest, Simpletimer

4. Invoicing (Freshbooks)

5. Accounting (Freshbooks, Mint)

6. CRM (Highrise, Salesforce)

7. Todo List (Too many)

8. Customer Support/Ticketing Management Systems (Uservoice, Fogcreek)

9. Knowledge Based Site (Uservoice)

10. Online Backup Service. (Dropbox)

I am familiar with these because I am a freelance developer and I have clients. However there are already existing softwares. What do you suggest? I'm afraid if I enter a niche that I'm not familiar with ex. "Invoicing for Architects" I will have no idea and I'll probably have no passion for it.

Edit:
Okay maybe not "passion for it" but "familiarity to it" because Saas are really not fun projects are they?
Why are they working on library things instead of language things? Half of the features they pushed out belong in user-land, not the core language.
Yes, this. There are plenty of great environments to do what you love, and do it "safely." And there are plenty of poisonous environments where your love of your work will be used to abuse you. I highly recommend doing a stint in old school print/ad shop. I know really great artists who completely burned out very early because their love of their work turned into 48 hour days.

I'm very sympathetic to the 501 cause--I generally don't work more than 8-9 hours a day, and my free time is spent with family and friends, but I do enjoy reading technical books (as well as many other types of books), and go through hacking-for-myself stints, too. There really is a middle ground here--it's not just two camps.
the problem with path is that theres no revenue model. it's just a silly gimmick
Agree with that and other points you made but one can also be concerned by some recent evolutions off Google. Their move toward a more "designed" ui, with hover popups everywhere, etc, is a bit alarming. Their catch up game with Facebook could be a slippery slope. The recent removal of many labs. And so on.

For me they can keep the benevolence as a priority only if they become more something like a great worldwide university paid by some ads in a search engine.
I've found that assigning a label to myself like '501 developer' is counter productive. My productivity and flow tend to come in waves.

I've noticed that there are times that I'm so interested in the problem at hand that 5:01PM just blows by. When I finally look up from the code, it's 7PM or later. In some cases this lasts for months, because the work is both interesting and rewarding. However, it never lasts for too long because of the inevitable cycle of software as it moves from being greenfield to brownfield.

During such times, I've felt less of a need to attend user groups, hack on personal projects, or do much reading outside of what I need for my immediate job. Between the job and my personal life, I was content with my time spent.

However, fast forward a few months and I'm back to leaving at 5PM so I can read and hack on the side with the extra free time. Over time the day job gets less and less interesting and then I start to look for something new that might trigger my flow once again. And then the cycle repeats.
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> ..., it's a terribly under-appreciated language.

I read somewhere that Java is to blame for that. As Smalltalk was finally gaining a footstep in the enterprise, Sun's marketing was able to convince managers to replace those projects by Java.

Eclipse design was initially based on Visual Age for Smalltalk. Actually you can still make use of a Smalltalk like browser in Eclipse.

>Fun challenge: try making a smalltalk app that isn't easily recognizable as a smalltalk app.

This can also be said of other GUI libraries. Back in the early 80-90's it was very easy to recognize Clipper, Turbo Vision and OWL applications, as the developers seldom changed the default L&F.
I'm fairly sure if I develop any sort of vision impediment in future years, Ceefax will have contributed significantly to it.
I've been using Firefox Sync on my desktop and Android tablet. Unfortunately, I don't think the Firefox Home app on iOS does passwords.
> (please don't mention some minor FB side-products; Apple has tons of innovative products but none of them is free).

Please don't rewrite your original comment after I've responded, not cool.
(Caveat: I'm a college student in undergrad, and certainly don't have the industry exposure of other commenters.)

I don't think that's entirely fair; I can pretty handily separate myself and other CS majors into those who spend their weekends/late nights doing hackathons and such, and those who pursue hobbies and activities separate from programming/development.

In my experience, the latter doesn't specifically have less zeal for programming than the former; it's just balanced by enthusiasm for other subjects and interests. The point that there are many 9-5 programmers who treat it as a career and nothing else is well taken; that being said, you don't have to be spending the overwhelming majority of your waking hours in a terminal or IDE to love programming.
I'd rather say that the reason behind it is that there are people who don't see that "either you're 501 programmer, or you love programming" is a false dichotomy.
I avoid caffeine, but mostly because of other issues...
aertel is still going for the mo. and you can see the pages on the web. which is handy for when the web is on a go slow.

http://www.aertel.ie/aertel/

tvs with teletext cost about £20-30 more last time i bought a tv but you got the money back in savings on buying tv guides as you could use teletext for the listings.
Have to admit that this increases my respect for Zuck. It breaks with the current trend towards this consensus seeking, "collaborative" management ideal, that sabotages bold moves.
>"If you build a really great web based product"

Assuming a really great web based product begs the question a bit. It's a pretty select group.
More specifically: IE on XP.

No, SNI is fully broken on all platforms. I tried it for a while, save yourself the headache.

It fails intermittently on all browsers (including latest Firefox and chrome) under various conditions. These failures usually manifest as "Certificate does not match"-warnings for the user.

I have not fully understood all scenarios, but a few seem to be:
Keep-alive connection to vhost A, then browser tries connection to vhost B. Loadbalancer doing funny things. Intermediate proxies doing funny things.
General implementation bugs (I've seen the cert-warning even on a freshly booted chrome for no obvious reason).

And let's not get started on mobile browers... (hint: the built-in browser may actually seem fine but the http-library in your app still fails intermittently, older androids [widely deployed] have no SNI support at all)

Do yourself a favor and either switch to a wildcard cert or stick with separate IPs.
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You are right. The fourth paragraph does give some teeth to the agreement. However, the broad language of the second paragraph still gives the assignee a lot of wiggle room to argue that they are not breaking any promises made.
IQ is not synonymous with intelligence, it is married to the 20th century philosophy of psychology and history of testing methods.

For IQ to simply mean the intelligence scale normalized so that average intelligence = 100 would take a big marketing effort amongst the education and psychology communities.

Even if it were divorced from the twists and turns of its historical development, it seems pretty clear that at it's best IQ can aggregate the values of creativity, lateral thinking, calculation, memory-retrieval, memory-storage, memory-organization, (even, despite tester's best efforts) domain knowledge together and replace them with one number.

I think that some of the "everybody learns differently!" stuff has jumped the fence and become an old wives' tale, but there has to be a happy medium between assigning someone a 40 column printout to summarize their intelligence and slapping one number on it.

[This is not to mention all of the shift in emphasis away from intelligence towards results and output based partially on Outliers, and partially on the idea that if you praise kids for an inherent trait that they have no control over that they will stop playing to win and start playing not-to-lose.]
It's amazing that the Instagram guys started negotiations at $2B. I guess when you're talking to FB you just pick a huge number out of the air. Why not $5B?
You could be a Leonardo da Vinci, though.
I somewhat agree. Frankly I'm no fan off Google, Facebook, or Apple. But pretending that one of them is more "open" then the other because they open source some software now and again is a falsehood: they are all for-profit corporations, with more in common with each other then what separates them, notions of culture aside.
Apple II assembly coder here, and the book I used is in your second link, "Using 6502 Assembly Language" by Randy Hyde. Mine had your link's cover, not the cover shown on Amazon:

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books/pdf/A2_Hyde_6502_Asm...

See also http://www.callapple.org/cat/ap0010.htm and http://www.amazon.com/Using-6502-assembly-language-program/d...

For Apple II details, supplemented that with a number of patterns books like Beagle Bros Big Tip Book: http://beagle.applearchives.com/books/big_tip_book_ocrpdf.zi...
That's why the next sentence starts with "All kidding aside..."
This naturally makes 501 types uneasy, because it leads to unfavorable comparisons.

Yes, about half the manifesto is reasonable, and the other half comes off like unmotivated students who get mad at the nerds for messing up the curve.
Not sure I understand what exactly you want from us?
What about if the phone can be rooted?
> Your goal is to put the other robots out of action. But not with weapons!

Hey! What's the fun in that? :P
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Work life balance? This aspiration applies to all industries.

If you have no other commitments (family, sport, TV etc), then you could spend all waking hours in front of a computer/smartphone writing code.

That feels like am unhealthy commitment.
Asia is more the issue than XP actually. XP is used in Asia mostly because it is easy to use a cracked version (i.e. free) and it runs most popular windows programs etc. (low hardware reqs too) So if MS just released a cheaper version of their OS in Asia (africa and south america too) of their OSes then we could all move on.
"I'm afraid if I enter a niche that I'm not familiar with ex. "Invoicing for Architects" I will have no idea and I'll probably have no passion for it."

Are you passionate about Time Tracking? You seemed to rule that out and others based on a crowded market, not lack of passion (if you really are passionate about time tracking you're a weird dude).

I'd suggest either telling us about what you actually are passionate about and maybe somebody can suggest a way to build an app within that vertical.

OR... make building a successful business your passion regardless of how mundane the pain point is that your SaaS addresses. Even if you do attack a vertical you might not be passionate about how much time will you spend past initial development in the minutiae of the niche? More likely you'll spend time writing code, tweaking landing pages, sales funnels, other marketing, etc... Can you channel your passion into that?
I'm not sure loving programming correlates well with people who put in long hours, though. One thought experiment: imagine programming were an occupation that paid a reasonable skilled-craftsman type of wage, but not a high-level professional type of wage, say $50-70k typical salary and no real prospect of big exits/IPOs. Who would still be in the field, and who would find another field? People who love programming would probably still be around. Heck, there are die-hard tech lovers who'd still be around if it paid $30k, the way artists stick around despite low pay because they'd rather do art for $30k than not-art for more.

But I would guess that a substantial proportion of the current tech workaholics wouldn't be, because they're driven by something other than intrinsic love of technology/computation/programming. Something more like a drive-to-be-on-top type personality, perhaps.
Actually the debate exists because some startups, notably Square, allegedly have culturals that frown on the person who leaves the office while the sun is still out.
XP is dead in two years (April 2014 is the end of any kind of support for it). I cannot see how it is in Microsoft's interests to put out new functionality for it at this point.

Any large corporation will have switched away from it by then (their risk assessments will force that), so that's the point you can start using the new functionality.
Indeed. I read FAST as a sort of olive-branch in security theatre. It seems that it, or something like it, will be used to remove porno-scanners and grope-checks from standard security. If 70% of people are passing through security without being hassled, their PR problems nosedive.

And frankly, though it's likely to be error prone and leave airport security still largely ineffective, at least it's move toward trying to intelligently identify risks. Rather that simply sending every single person through ineffective security. And lessening the load on the scanners and gropers can only raise their effectiveness.
Theoretically, the printed numbers you keep in your wallet can be used until you get your phone back.
JustinTV, Scribd, and Carwoo are more typical new companies.

Ebay and Amazon are more typical of large consumer facing companies.

Facebook does a great deal of SEO - it's how they compete with Linkedin for eyeballs.
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The article DOES address this, you just missed it.

> Given that none of these people would have actually committed a terrorist act yet distinguishing the innocent false positives from the guilty might be a non-trivial, and invasive task.

Invading the privacy of (or refusing travel to) the 99.99% false positives IS punishing the innocent. The article does not succumb to the false dichotomy you describe.
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You may have seen one of our games that was developed by a couple other UT students and polished up by us - http://wordwars.clayio.com (it's a good way to see our API in action)

We're looking for as much feedback as possible, so please do let us know your thoughts!
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Doesn't appear to be a binary available, only the source. I tried running it from Xcode, but looks like I'm missing some dependencies. I could track them down probably, but will probably just pass on it for now as it looks pretty beta.
mapv and reduce-kv are a great addition; not so much as a feature per se, but rather as a testament of the core team being on the lookout for design patterns that are actually symptoms of lacks in the language [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatu...].
Following the discussion on the SpaceX infrastructure, I did some didding on their homepage and stumbled over this article.

Seriously, being in this industry, that's more than just impressive. And you should really ask yourself what you do wrong...
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The article sounds like this requires you to sumbmit a cell number to Gmail. (In fact, I think merely registering an account nowadays requires a number, but I'm not sure about that.)

If you think that's the only way to get 2-factor authentication working, you're wrong. If you think there is nothing wrong with your email provider demanding info like cell phone numbers, you're wrong again.
I'm guessing many ambitious startups in SV are like that...
I celebrate the impulse that gives rise to this, but I am skeptical that it will work in the long run. The reason why is that these sort of documents are social contracts just as much as they are legal contracts - this is Twitter saying publicly that they won't be evil with their patents.

The problem is that this document has enough loopholes that it only slightly ties the hands of the patent assignee (Twitter, in this case). I understand perfectly why those loopholes are there, but I think that this will backfire at some point in the future when there is a "defensive" use that, at least from the outside, doesn't appear defensive. It could be because there is a perceived threat, it could be because the inventor agrees, it doesn't matter. At that point, the legal agreement will be kept, but the social agreement broken, and that will be devastating.

The most clever bit here is that this agreement is designed to run with the patent so that it makes the patents less likely to be asserted when they are sold. That is a good thing.

As it is, though, my favorite tool for this sort of thing is the Apache license. That allows everyone who is playing nicely in the sandbox to do so - but it also allows the patents to be cross-licensed effectively and defensively asserted against existing litigation.
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Hello, welcome back. New username I see.

Flagged, as before.