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OK, I can understand not being able to decide which idea to pursue, or not being sure if your idea is going to be popular. But not being able to come up with "good" ideas in the first place? Unless you are discarding ideas because you think that you did not come up with them out of the sky on your own, or you only are interested in completely unique ideas, which is ridiculous, then I just don't see how that can be.

If you can't come up with good ideas for a startup, then you shouldn't be running a startup. There are enough startups. Find someone who is smarter than you, or creative enough to come up with their own ideas, and help them.

Or maybe you are just confused about what an idea is. "Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKEgf0BV7Qg

Anyway I love talking about my many ideas, and if I had lots and lots of money, I think I would have several very interesting projects going on. But since I don't have money, I am just working alone trying to get a prototype ready for one particular idea.

Here are some free ideas:

justkittens.com : web page that just shows kittens on camera all day.. you can sign up and show off your own kittens, or browse kitten cams. Probably could make a hundred bucks a month just from Google Ads. Now, is this the first time that anyone thought of this, or the only one of its kind? No, but you could make it better than most, and probably popular. Is it a "good" idea? Sure, if you like kittens and have time to build it out.

justpuppies.com ..

Completely open source weebly/wix competitors: I am working on something like this, but I believe there is always room for better website/web application builders, especially if they are totally open source and easily extensible like WordPress and you can get some people authoring plugins/components. Mine is being built on Node.

Hydroponic gardening for your apartment/any sort of ultralocal food production: inspired by http://www.windowfarms.org/ .. or maybe even something more high-tech, based on in-depth knowledge of human nutritional needs and bioprogramming or something .. along those lines, fiber optic solar lighting, I don't see a lot of that at Walmart yet.

Solar panels you can install yourself.

A new non-linux, non-unix based operating system with a 3D HMD and VR glove interface.. like a "deck" from a cyberpunk novel/movie.. Maybe write the whole OS in CoffeeScript or something (slightly modified to allow for types or pointers to be inserted where necessary) . Find the specs and linux code for interfacing with SATA and ATI/Nvidia and start with that. I want to boot up to a wizard's tower or whatever 3D scene I specify, rather than a flat desktop.

Electric/Hydrogen fuel cell conversions for cars. Or little cars that run on electricity. Or charging stations for electric cars. Better batteries for electric cars.

An inexpensive LIDAR system.
Currently making 120K + some stock options. Small startup in the valley. Fresh out of Masters. Worked for a year (as a researcher in a lab) after undergrad.
Database administration is in my opinion the best route upwards from sysadmin. It could be SQL or NoSQL. Learn whatever your enterprise uses for persistence and how to scale it, how to back it up, how to optimize its performance, etc.

One step up the value-added ladder ...
Ahh... the good ol' news hook.

relevant: http://www.themillions.com/2012/04/the-berenstain-bears-and-...
It's actually a little dangerous for the Judge to be introducing his personal experience like this. The Judge cannot serve as a witness, and editorializing in a way that amounts to the presentation of expert testimony can be grounds for reversal.
Just before I clicked on this, I clicked on another HN article that was on Facebook about Zuck was an organ donar (wat?). I couldn't read it because I fully deleted my account about a year ago. I had a flashback, and realized, facebook is the new AOL.
A while back a blog post popped up here arguing that Chrome is a repackaging of a new Google bot: that Chrome was developed first as a crawler, then later repurposed as a desktop browser.

http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/

There's no real proof for this of course, but it makes this change to the Google bot's behaviour make sense and explains Google's massive investment of programmer effort into Chrome and everything surrounding it (e.g. WebKit/Chromium, V8, Chrome's update mechanism).
Indeed. The reason why I don't like HFCS is because its presence in a product says, "to make our profit margin as large as possible, we used a bunch of artifical ingredients that are slightly cheaper than the real things. that's just how much we care about you, the consumer." Have you ever heard anyone say, "we use HFCS because it tastes better than cane sugar?" Nope. So why use it?
Build your own dev tools. Now.
It is hard to believe that he has been a lawyer/judge for decades, yet is also an active programmer, and yet and doesn't know a thing about a language that is easily top 5 most commonly known and heavily litigated (Microsoft).

Judges tend to have ego battles with lawyers and like to show off in their decisions, trying to bluff and snow each other. That seems to be what this is.
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I am trying to use programming at work, but I feel the thing is seen as mere "IT" and that it has no consideration at all. Which is weird, as we are sharing horrors, now at my company (a multinational) is budget time. There is an excel file with 500 tabs (500) going around to collect the budget for each cost center.

I mean, when you start clearly overusing a tool, if you call yourself a manager you must realize it. You can't keep saying that your job is not IT because at the end your and others productivity depends on it. Somehow I start thinking that the way you do things is as important as the things you are doing.

Bottom line is, we will come up with a budget, everybody will work a lot over the 40 hrs per week, there will be lots of input and logic mistakes (most of them will be corrected, others not). But they will be able to check the 'budget done' radio button. And they will be proud of this achievement. I won't, because I will be feeling stupid spending time doing this kind of things in 2012.
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Hm, I guess Ted Turner is buying into the IPO?
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Wouldn't the open-access conditions of the 700 MHz band force Verizon to play along - at least to the point of activating phones purchased elsewhere?

Or to put it another way, if they've really stopped playing nice, wouldn't Google end up making that argument?
I like it. Much better than my suggestion.
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They won't. I still find it difficult to write good programs after years of practice. On the contrary, I think if they learn't to program just a little bit, they would realise how difficult it is to actually make something work, let alone, make it aesthetically pleasing. Programmers would get more buck for their bang.

Algorithms, Patterns, Domain Knowledge, Interfaces, Usability, Deploymemt, Infrastructure, Maintenance, Data Integrity, Debugging..... What makes anybody think this is child's play? And who has time? Hell, I am a freelance programmer and I don't have that much time.
They've managed to avoid electrocuting any of their users. Other than that, if they've done anything "competently" in the mobile space, I haven't seen it.
Thank you SlipperySlope.
Of course not.

And I don't want to hear complaints from people who haven't paid at least 500 million in taxes.

He has done much more for the us than has most people on welfare. They certainly haven't paid their fair share.
I completely agree!

The rumor I'd heard was that Courier was killed because independent teams created the device components. When put together it wasn't refined enough to pass review. Plus, they didn't see tablets as a viable market...again. Fingers crossed there was a much cooler reason.

I'm happy to say leaders from the Courier team left and started Paper on iOS. It is a dream to use and shows that they had the talent to make the Courier happen, if given the chance.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id5060038...

Ha, ha - agreed on the start menu as well. I really do wish MS well (they can't have not tested this, right?), as their plan is pretty much a Hail Mary pass. But these sorts of decisions don't instill hope.
Now+Free makes up for a for a whole lot of quality.

Joking aside:
Comparing only movies really skews the quality focus of the marketplaces to purchasers vice subscribers. Subscribers would be more motivated/less inhibited to watch TV series and would receive better value, than a purchaser. If that is true then iTunes would have a greater motivation to drive quality movies instead of series, and Netflix would have the inverse motivation.

I guess my point was that less arbitrary categorization would be a more accurate study. Delivery, Audience, Length, and Top Level Genres may provide more insight into the comparability of the 2 libraries.
If google thinks you have an account, they throw a login wall in front of plus, groups, etc. Visiting gmail and then logging out seems to help.
I don't think that 1 person in 1000 could do what i do no matter how many ruby/clojure classes they took.

Sorry if that sounds cocky, but whatever.

Programming is incidental to what I do, which is figure out how to use the deterministic execution of computers combined with the availability of data to solve some problem for somebody. Programming language/architecture considerations are an afterthought for optimizing operations.

This is like suggesting that because one learns how to type/write/spell, all of a sudden one is in competition w/Herman Melville.
Now just to get designers in the loop for some full on design/build action.
http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

I stumbled across this incredible article reading Jeff Atwood's now-apparently-controversial post on that subject I'm avoiding like the plague.

Back to the point, it basically summarizes what I tell all of my friends who gain an interest and want to learn fast. I've been learning for over a decade out of interest now since I was 12 and I will never refer to myself as anything other than marginally competent. I akin programming to math in the sense that the ceiling is not really there because there is always more to learn and thats what the majority of your (programming) life is spent doing.
Couldn't he put the file in Dropbox or Google docs get free downloads?
> I think the walled garden approach is never really long-term sustainable.

You don't think so, because ... ?
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And the implication of that is that no browser vendors were involved in the months-long discussion. If that's true, then that seems like a huge mistake on the part of the committee.
A firewall rule on your router should work?
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Having followed this case for some time now, I almost get the feeling that the judge is taking sides.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm definitely cheering on Google and find Oracle's case despicable and absurd, but still.
Chrome tells me: "This page presents non secure content. Load/Don't Load"

HTTPS issues ?
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Yup, same here, mobile devices must go through a g+ signup to get to the content. This aggressive pushing of g+ is why i won't use it, and nobody else should either.
If you are launching soon I would also recommend applying to App Star Awards (applications end on May 27, 2012) http://appsfire.com/appstar3/?q=appstar3

Here are is a selection of posts that provide great insights into the best tactics to launch and promote your mobile app:

[1] http://hogrocket.com/post/11566299341/tiny-invaders-story-so...

[2] http://iteratingfun.com/post/23127367529/shockingly-easy-way...

[3] http://toucharcade.com/2012/05/11/why-whale-trail-is-going-f...

[4] http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/05/10/the-beginners-guide-to...

[5] http://www.philterdesign.com/?p=491

[6] http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/03/launching-on-the-ap...

[7]http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregHolsclaw/20120319/166462/...

[8] http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2169475/4-Ways-to-Help-...

[9] http://philippseifried.com/blog/2012/05/01/lessons-learned-o...

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1.0 is too high since the original server is willing to serve a reasonable amount of content and that doesn't even really count as seeding.
This method of searching seems to be returning results:
http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/facebook

The CNN article was basically this mashable post:
http://mashable.com/2012/05/15/facebook-fad/
Proxy the transfers through the host site?

Oh, wait.
Ask HN: How do you deal with bottom feeders and undesirables?  
Sometimes they are good in giving insight on the direction a site should go but most of the time they want your site to go to a direction you don't want it to.

How do you deal with these guys without destroying your site's reputation for openness? Any good examples out there?

This is especially important if your creating a website that is for all ages. This group of people can be anywhere from spammers to people who use your site to buy/sell gold (you know those commercials) by just walking the grey area. They can also be those people who's main goal in life is to completely disrupt the community your trying to create.
The size of the library is important, but more relevant is creating value for the customer. In my case, both Netflix and iTunes shit the bed. I want an interface where my wife and I can sit on the couch and collectively pick out a movie to watch. iTunes and AppleTV offer a large catalogue, but never "sells" the movie. There are no user ratings or any other information to give us confidence (false or otherwise) to buy. Content is available, but not discoverable in iTunes. Netflix was once solid, but they oversimplified the interface and now there is no way to browse by genre.

That being said, I think there is an opportunity for something like "goodfilms", but I signed up and it combines the worst parts of itunes with the worst parts of netflix. I am not sure who it helps. Even the cute chart they present is deeply flawed from a UI perspective. They could have at least color coded the dots.
I'm very curious what it is in Diablo that's causing the issues. It seems a bit odd to me that they're experiencing issues this severe for two reasons:

1) Diablo was developed from the fairly unusual position of knowing it would face a launch to millions of users before development ever started. I'd have imagined having this "scale it to infinity" mentality from the starting line would have helped a lot.

2) The whole game is conceptually VERY easy to shard. Unlike WoW, there is very little interaction between players that are not in a party together, and the maximum party size is four.

I wonder whether the failures have anything to do with the achivement tracking/broadcasting. It's the only component I can think of that breaks out of these obvious sharding boundaries, and I can kind of imagine how large friend lists might cause problems. Additionally, it seems achievement progress was lost from the time leading up to one of the downtimes.

I know it's easy to speculate from here, and there are probably very legitimate reasons for all of this. As an outsider, it seems like these particular failures are things that, in general, just happen. Still, I would have expected Blizzard in particular to be better prepared for this. It's a bit surprising.
Pirating is sharing something not rightfully yours, not taking. Making and circulating copies is illegal, not receiving copies.
I know all about servers being under so much load that everything falls apart. Working at a nascent mobile ad network whose traffic doubles every month, and whose monthly number of requests amount to 10 figures, I know all about it.

And yet… I feel like Blizzard could have made an effort to make its single player game run offline. The multiplayer is fantastic, but give us something to fallback on.
This is why I always use a Chrome incognito window for everything I don't completely trust. No big deal in this case because I'm not logged in to anything when browsing. If a site prompts me to log in to Facebook or twitter (as in this case), I know something is fishy. Is it a bit more of a hassle? Yes, but not as bad by an order of magnitude of getting an account hijacked. My biggest friend is right-click and "Open link in incognito window".
There's a difference between someone who can change oil vs bore out cylinders, install a new ecm, change the crankshaft and pistons, change the fuel pump, pushrods and camshaft. You aren't a mechanic because you know how to change oil, you're a mechanic because you know everything else.
Not exactly your main point but I have to agree that there's nothing stopping Facebook from being the next MySpace. Seriously. Not a thing. I think at this point the massive user base and their investment (their friends, photos, life in general) is about the only thing keeping them from switching. But even that can be overcome by others simply by making the switch easier by importing that information (think using Facebook's downloadable data on you as a means to do that). I can see ads getting lots of Likes because others friends like Movie or Brand X but beyond those kinds of ads people on Facebook aren't likely to leave the site. In fact the whole site is designed to keep you there do ads are kind of useless. Likes are meaningless. They don't generate dollars. Brand awareness is about the best thing you can get from Facebook.

You're right. Intent is seriously important. People use Google search as a means to get to another source of information regardless of whether their intent is navigational or informational. People on Facebook simply stay on Facebook until they're ready to either get offline or go search google.
I couldn't tell you the first thing about Perl, or any number of other common tools and languages - and I've been programming for about 25 years. I've just used different tools so far.
Upvoted because I appreciate pedantic responses, but I'm familiar with PSU efficiency standards. I still feel confident saying it is nonsense to say that "We also custom-build all of our servers so they are 93% efficient" and would bet that this was written by a non-technical marketing person.

My overclocked I7 downstairs is also using a power supply that claims to be 90%+ efficient, and blows out enough hot air to warm the room. But this is from the processor, not the PSU. It would not make any sense to say that the entire computer is 90% efficient unless we were rating it as a space heater, in which case I'd feel safe claiming 99%+.

I don't even know what it would mean to say that a given server is X% efficient. A percentage of what?
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Check your logs, ladies and gentlemen.

Let's see how wide-spread this GoogleBot behavior is.

(edit) The earliest I see it pulling Ajax entry points on my sites is March 8th. It is accessing only some of the ajax'd content and the total number of these requests is ~20 times less than those for escaped_fragments.
The rich can afford to eat at restaurants with routines that simulate a robust meal without truly ingesting too many calories, and because it's healthy to do so, this is precisely what the rich do. This is why portions are so tiny at gourmet restaurants so the middle class balks at them as a total rip-off. In a sense you pay to be given pomp and circumstance and less food!
Haha the article that just won't die!

For those who are interested, there was a follow up to the article here: http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/google-stop-playing-the-ji...

And Dan Clarke did some independent tests here:
http://www.danclarkie.co.uk/can-the-googlebot-read-javascrip...

This was all back in Oct - Dec of '11. Basically we learned that Googlebot handles JavaScript and AJAX pretty much like a browser.

When it comes to AJAX, it appears to index the content under the destination URL of the XHR in some cases, while indexing it as part of the page making the XHR in other instances. Something about the way the AJAX request is made causes Google to treat it like a 302 redirect at times.

Standard JS window.location redirects also appear to be treated as equivalent to 302 redirects.

@dsl - I suspect you're correct. The Google Toolbar, Chrome's Opt-In Program, The Search Quality Program, and now Google Analytics Data (since the TOS change) are probably all being used to train the behavior of Googlebot when interacting with elements on a page.

Google also has plenty of patents related to computer vision, and their self-driving car is road-worthy... so processing DOM renders of the page ala Firefox's 3D View/Tilt is probably small potatoes for them.