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The bottom line when evaluating whether to purchase this or not would involve doing due diligence and contacting the paying customers at the very least to determine how satisfied they are with being listed there.

The site is using auto-renewal billing and having someone not cancel is not the same as someone finding value in the service.

Also even though they would like to get $480,000 they should also invite any offers above $X. If nobody bids at $480,000 they will have to try to sell it at a lower price and it will seem like a fire sale.
Hands down the most important part of this comment is the touch pad. It's a real struggle to find a decent touch pad aside from you know who.
The studies have been done, and there is a much stronger correlation between past performance and future performance in private equity than in the public markets. In the public markets for active fund managers, there is almost no correlation. For vc funds, there is a decent correlation. My hypothesis is that the reason for the difference is information inefficiency. In the public markets, everyone is oerating with the same information, so it's hard to create a sustained advantage. In the private markets, one fund may have access to information (seeing companies no one else sees, knowing customer or acquirers, etc). Success often begets success because funds with successes get positive press which leads more entrepreneurs to go to them.
I sold a site on there for about €2500, and the acquaintance who recommended it sold a site for something like €10000.
Surely a lot of that value comes from the prestige and attention that accrue to 37signals, not because it's an amazing job board.
Congratulations Sean! This looks great, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.
If you care about enterprise you probably care about IE 7.
16% is very good.
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I understand that the social buttons are not useful for all, this is why they are hidden behind a click and dynamically loaded. You can completely ignore that link and enjoy the rest of the new features :-)
"if there is more information they'd be willing to release. For example, how many of those $99 customers are happy, how many have garnered business they can confirm came from Sortfolio, etc."

Best way to gather this information is to take the time to contact the customers directly being honest as to the purpose of the inquiry.
When is the best time to send emails?
My major malfunction probably boils down to "I don't know how to get discovered." And I have tried an awful lot of the things I have read you are supposed to do and/or which have worked for other people here. None of it ever pays off for me.

And I'm seriously feverish today. I don't think I really understand your last paragraph. But thank you for your gracious response.
There’s just no reason to determine the founding team actually warrants that investment.

I don't follow. If Mark Zuckerburg quit Facebook tomorrow and wanted to start a new company but didn't have an idea yet, would you invest in it?
Because this only affects PHP running in CGI mode, it should really only affect out-of-date systems. By default with Apache 2, PHP is run by the Apache 2 Handler (which isn't vulnerable). Even before that, mod_php has been standard for quite a while.
Anybody considering co-buying it?
I really like that the low brow look-at-my-cute-cat culture is taking over. You see, culture should travel up too.

All this "hi-brow" stuff is just manipulation or rehashed manipulation and narrative control coming down from the even "higher brow" newspapers, research institutes and political organizations. Most people wouldn't give a crap about most of it if it wasn't for their petite bourgeouis, keeping up with the "smart" people desire for acceptance or "what should I worry about today that has absolutely no effect on my life?" news junkie syndrome.
Does the haystack.com domain come with it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ?
Good idea, I think the best practice across the web right now is to let the user choose when they want a new tab. Just hit CTRL while you click to create a new tab.
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To turn this around, how exactly do you measure the risk of investing in a would-be entrepreneur?

If two otherwise equal entrepreneurs ask for money, and one has a product idea while the other does not, what is the difference in probability of business success between the two, assuming they both go on to secure the same amount of funding? If they are different, what is your reasoning for assigning different probabilities?
I'd be worried about the requirement to switch billing. I'm not sure there's a clean way to switch a customer from one billing system to another without requiring user intervention.

In general, recurring billing is a scam by its opt-out nature. If you aren't on top of your accounting, tiny charges slip by. When you spot them, you may be too lazy to immediately cancel it, so you forget.

It isn't enough to know how many users are billed, but how many users are active on the service and willing to jump through the hoops when they have to update their account.

Also, beyond the server requirements, consider the cost of a support infrastructure. It costs much less for 37signals to support one more project in their portfolio than for a new company to spin up a support team from scratch.
From everything I've read about Evernote and the CEO I think it would be very difficult to get him to sell. Facebook can obviously offer a lot of money (money that most people wouldn't say no to) but I think Evernote is in it for the long haul.
Are you describing the show Holmes on Homes? As a software developer, I find myself getting better at "doing it right" almost 100% of the time.
I see, I usually do ruby development so the webserver is then usually running as my user on my development machine (obviously that is not the case in production).

In your case, then I would just change pg_hba to allow all local connections as shown by moe above. (I would not set any password though since that is normally not useful or necessary for local development).
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I really wish I had that kind of money laying around, i'd would easily hand it over in a heartbeat. It would be such a shame for an almost auto-pilot business to be shutdown for no good reason other than its simply not worth it to 37Signals and while thats a perfectly legitimate reason, its so much potential lost for someone like me who would value it immensely.
I think it would be useful to know how much traffic / new signups come from other 37s sites vs SEO or links from other sites. That won't give you the exact answer of "how can it fall once it's no longer a 37s product", but it's a start.
"If TC39 or anybody else has an idea for a language, that's great. Don't call it Javascript because we have Javascript, and something else is.. something else."

wat.
I came on here to say basically this. Some days, especially when I've had too much of the same atmosphere, I find that going home and working from there via remote desktop can increase my productivity, if it's maintained for a day or two. Then, when I return to my normal office, I'm similarly productive -- and both of these are more productive than the day before that I didn't work from home.

The "work from home" is definitely a "your mileage may vary"
no worries, I know this will be downvoted, BUT this just shows how pissed I am. We wasted last 4 years so much...
You get the design, the branding, the code (it's a Rails app), the customers, and the steady cash flow.

You'll lose the branding, unless 37Signals decides that it'll keep linking and promoting it. Potential buyers and clients are coming from 37Signals; and that's why design firms are putting a high monthly fee on the product.

The design and code are by no measure worth $480K. The clients (and steady cash flow) will go with clients. Expect a cash flow crash by losing the branding, and also changing the payment system.
Speaking of frying itself, when mine got hot the keyboard stopped working reliably, and it got hot easily and often.
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It would help if you understood his reference, which I believe is the show Holmes on Homes. For example, Holmes the main character/contractor, had to rip off an entire roof (shingles, layering) of a flat-roof structure because it needed to have slight angles for the water to flow off. Otherwise any patching would not produce a leak free roof that would last for 20+ years like it should. I've worked on software projects where we went back in and completely re-worked the UI or re-wrote some data access layer stuff without a full rewrite. That would be a more analogous example.
I think the amazing thing about this post is it suggests an incredibly myopic view of the world. Even if you look at the most basic function of what a web site is and compare it with the non-web version, you see complexity. Billboards, magazines, newspapers, books, etc., all have incredibly complex and intricate development processes, much of which is done by hand. The tools are somewhat more standardized, but that is mostly because the technology is much, much older. You try going back to the first 50 years of those technologies and you'll find it is pretty messy.

The reality is that these things get complex and intricate because that is what the system demands. I can make a website in <1 minute. It's not hard. However, it won't stand out amongst the sea of sites out there, which kind of defeats the purpose. This is why tools that facilitate the process, while improving the quality of the final product, don't actually reduce the time it takes to build a site, because improving efficiency just raises the bar higher about what a quality site needs to be.
We contacted 37signals when they originally announced their intention to sell Sortfolio. Having bought and sold sites before we asked for some pretty standard information about traffic, revenue, etc. These questions weren't answered and we did not pursue the matter further.

I'm not surprised the site wasn't sold; the "business" of buying and selling sites isn't exactly very "37signal"-y.

With a price now available it's much more transparent for everyone involved; I hope though that this time they are able to accommodate due diligence.
True, especially the part about the need for great writing.

Unfortunately, re: your first point, that's a large audience, one which advertisers are happy to target. And I'm not sure good journalism was ever relevant to those with short attention spans or who don't read. However those folks have always been relevant to advertisers.

Advertisers are not going to save good journalism. Maybe good writers must do it, and maybe only for the love of writing.

Cost of distribution: zilch.
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I'm talking about blue-bubbled conversations under an "iMessage" heading (that stay that way in the history) showing up on the monthly cell phone bill as SMS traffic.

I see dozens and dozens of them and don't see how that could be possible if the phone verifies it delivered them via iMessage.
That looks too be exactly what I have been missing. I have yet to see details like that not spread out over 5 pages. Thank you!
You did a great job for the time. It has gone on to keep them happy for many years!
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If a manufacturer wishes to provide Google services (such as Google Play, GMail, GTak) with their device, Google will charge them a fee for their deployment of Android on a per-device basis.
I'm making the assumption there is a dedicated group of users that wishes to see the site continue.

Financing can be done through a bank loan, private lenders, or escrow account. If it wasn't against some sort of investor protection idiocy (in the US), they could probably hold an auction for shares, turn it over to a board voted in by the share holders and then get on with the business of running the business.

Organization of the community I would imagine could work to something like how StackOverflow operates in it's community aspects.
The "stay on the golden path" rule is unrealistic except in corporate Java environments. It will conflict with other more important focus points than security: disruption, be faster than competition, do things thee hard way, etc. (All things well described in pg's essays).

I would require all devs to read OWASP and make sure they understand the core, then they can tweak in, hopefully knowing what they do.
I was auditing my finances last week and discovered in the last year I spent over $300 on a tenderapp.com subscription that I had forgotten about. I'm inclined to agree with you there, especially when the target sortfolio customers are businesses, $99/m is easy to forget about until you're asked to renew your details. I wonder if 37 Signals will publish information on how many of their $99/m paying customers (although at $99/m that's only about 200?) actually login and use the site every month, although maybe they'll disclose that to interested parties.
I feel like this would be a good listing for latonas.com, Rick Latona has built a huge following of clients willing to spend in this range, http://latonas.com/
I don't believe for a moment he will shut down $200,000 profit with little maintenance.

It's condescending to suggest "I want it to go to a nice home but I'll close it down if I don't get x." If you're willing to entertain such thought then you do not truly value the user.
I don't see how getting proper lexical binding and trying to deprecate function scope is a bad thing.

Same for the confusing, silly dynamically bound this.
Ah, sorry, poor wording :) I meant to apply "all being lost" to encapsulation in general, not OOP specifically.
For a user that cares only about throughput and not about latency, it's not a DOS.
Hosting a paying guest? It could be illegal
The license plate thing is interesting. Why is it necessary to explicitly distinguish it as an autonomous vehicle?
I am an avid reader of the ES-Discuss mailing list and I have seen these "disenfranchised" developers this article is talking about, who blunder into the list with their fabulous ideas without lurking first, or searching the mailing list archives or bug databases, or the wiki. It's not hard at all to participate in the ES-Discuss mailing list. You just have to treat it with at least the same degree of respect you'd treat any other forum full of people smarter than you.

Now when I say that, I don't mean that just because they are smarter you have nothing to contribute, but you have to pick up your game a little bit and try not to be completely ignorant when you make a suggestion- since all that does is increase the noise level. But getting to that point is not the horrible insurmountable obstacle the article makes it out to be. It is not hard to not be ignorant.
No, that's the command for when your toilet needs to be replaced.

If the tub is too big, you do "git rebase --squash" a few times, followed by "git clean -df".
I think Chat is one of those core services, like Email that has standardized around one common standard. People use a wide variety of clients, and very different uses from basic to power user needs. The reason most chat services fail is that even if they have fantastic mobile and web clients, they cannot provide the sheer range of clients needed for the entire range of use cases.

At Chartboost, we've tried pretty much every protocol there is, but we still stick to IRC. It's the only protocol that has clients that suit all of us, from hardcore `irssi` to newbie Adium integration. There's also bouncers and solid local histories and it's easy to hop onto tech channels for some help and it's widely supported with chatbots and libraries for building your own chatbot. (eg. Ruby-IRC)
I'm sure your righteous anger will be extremely compelling and persuasive if you post it to es-discuss.

Wait I'm sorry I accidentally used sarcasm.
I just use fetchmail to grab everything (except spam) from gmail anyway but this:

"With the restore command Gmvault can recreate your gmail mailboxes in any Gmail account. All attributes such as Gmail labels are preserved and recreated. With restore, you will recover your Gmail account exactly as it was."

I would use it just for that! When I wanted to unify my email/calendar etc. under one account there didn't seem to be anyway of transporting existing gmail over. Gmail doesn't even have a way to do it if you decide to start paying them!!
Harry of Harry O Menswear. It was located on 2nd between Howard and Mission for many years and closed down fairly recently. Last I heard, he now works at Nordstrom.

He outfitted my husband and 3 of my close guy friends for my wedding, and he referred me to an amazing tailor. That and his stuff is actually really affordable. As I recall, a decent-looking suit was something like $300 total.
I wanted to compile it for my blog and post each article to HN, actually.
The question from a few days ago which gave me the wrong impression and which did not get, say, an answer giving a link to any of these pieces:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3923569

And I am apparently about to go to dinner.
Thanks for this, and I have read a bunch of them. I was more interested in some of the operational details and the data/numbers that founders can give.
Yes, because it is the same word, in a serif font, and is in all caps with an exclamation point at the end. There's no way anyone would ever write the word Yahoo that way without seeing it somewhere else first.

Or perhaps we can now rename "Correlation does not imply causation" as the "Yahoo! Fallacy".
Also, don't go with exactly "Protect your email", since it sounds kind of bland. Just something like that. Maybe "Safeguard your email". Find an exciting synonym for "protect"!
If you want to continue the thread, back i up with data. E.g. Deutsche Bank's Alternative Investment Survey: http://www.db.com/medien/en/downloads/2008_Alternative_Inves...

That shows the diversity of strategies (although not funds managed per investment category). "The SEC started regulating funds with less than a two year lockup" I.e. a pecularity to the US.
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This is really interesting. I'm planning my own limited invite-only beta rollout. However, this isn't the first time I heard it's a time-waster.

Does anyone else have opinions on this?
Police drones that can fly around your city for two days straight, self-driving cars that can crawl neighborhoods to take photos....

I am not sure I am ready or happy about this future. Maybe I am just old.
Interesting to watch here is the fact that this is based on a survey which is already contradicted by real quarterly sales reports from the major US carriers. If you look at the sales figures from the top three carriers (~80% of the market) you see that iPhones were 63% of their smartphone sales in Q1. There is no way that the remaining 20% can push the numbers enough for Apple to not have the majority of the Q1 US smartphone sales. The map is not the territory and a small sample loses to actual reported sales numbers in terms of which is closer to reality.
> The studies have been done, and there is a much stronger correlation between past performance and future performance in private equity than in the public markets.

Very interesting. Link?

BTW: Were the prices self-reported?
Yes, I probably would try make a small investment in his next venture; not because I think he can recreate the same wealth he's done with FB, but his FB journey suggests he can make money again. I would still regard this as a bit of a gamble though.

Would you put $10k / $100k / your life savings into his next venture without knowing what it is?
those people, who do they think they are? They think they created the language you love in the first place. Themselves. With their own hands. They're terribly sorry about function scope, var hoisting, and dynamic this binding, and ASI. These are obvious, horrible mistakes, that cause bugs. Changing an established language is a bit of a challenge though. These aren't outsiders who blundered in. They know what they are doing.
I read Xah Lee's article a good while ago. Emacs is the program I spend >90% of my time in, I first encountered it on a SUN Sparc Classic. If my memory serves me right, the SUN keyboard had META close to space and CTRL under the TAB key (where PC keyboard have CAPS LOCK). So, naturally, I grew up with the control key in that position.

When using Emacs on a PC, for the longest time I didn't remap CTRL and with the default position Emacs becomes quite awkward to use. On a PC keyboard, I used to have pinkie strain a lot when doing lots of coding. But these days I spend most of my computing time in front of my Dell Netbook and the keyboard size is ideal for this key mapping - so nice, in fact, that I'm wondering whether there are any external netbook-sized keyboards that I could use with my desktop PC.

Another comment on this page complains about the arrangements of the HOME/END/INSERT/DELETE keys etc. on most laptop keyboards. I've got to say that I basically never use them. Even though the SUN Sparc keyboard had arrow keys, at some point I disabled them on my keyboard to force myself to learn Emacs' native shortcuts for moving the point. Now my hands hardly ever have to leave the home row.
This is still a simple moral dilemma. Did ones work was copied or not?

it's less complex than economy when someone have to be judged for debt. it's less complex than forensic medicine when one have to be judged for murder.

stop acting like it's a secret circle only you were able to enter.

the million dollar legal teams will bring in experts, those experts will explain what's their expert opinion on the fact. the 12 average joes will decide, and life will go on. If you think million dollar teams can just pay experts to say anything, the other team's expert will point that out to that other team and other legal mechanism will punish the one lying.

now, if it were Google vs John Doe, then i'd be sorry for poor john.
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As an investor, you can judge the current market size, the potential, as well where that fits into current trends when the entrepreneur's idea is present. Those are just some of the factors that are generally taken into account when making any investment.
"We just want it to go to a good home". - Then a fixed priced is probably not the way to get there.

What's the ROI look like ? Lets say I absorb the development of the new billing system. How many clients will re submit there billing information ? If I leave it on auto pilot how long till I make my money back? 2.5 years ?

"With over 10,000 free accounts, there’s tons of untapped opportunity here in the existing customer base" Likely part of the buzz around the initial launch.

Pros: The revenue is there. The hosting cost is going to be affordable (low traffic),
Cons: billing switch (huge problem), unless there is value.

"We either sell it by July 1, or we close it down." - Close it down != a good home at all.

What's the operational overhead? support via emails? charge backs? bug fixes?
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On the mac, all of your data is in "~/Library/Application Support/Evernote/accounts".

You'll find xhtml files and images in there, one directory per note. (Additionally there is a clucene index, some ocr info, and "enml" versions of notes.)

Back it up, and you'll have a safety net for your notes.
Couldn't agree more. I use a Thinkpad X60 for much the same reasons (X-series because I carry it around a lot, still "bulky" compared to a Macbook Air but not to the point that it ever actually bothers me.) I really don't look forward to having to upgrade it some day.

Aside from the screen feeling a bit outmoded to me (although I like matte, LCD tech has come a long way in 5 years) it's an absolute pleasure to use.

So I was disappointed when Dell's announcement was about Linux shovelware instead of just saying "easy modular upgrades, quality keyboard, portable and light but solidly built." :/