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Great article. There are various views on the best method of finding that startup idea.

The trap is getting caught up with the solution (the what) too soon. The process should really start with the problem and who you believe it impacts.

Next you get out the building (as described by Steve Blank) and speak to potential customers. This way you quickly evaluate your early idea and determine if anyone will use it and importantly buy it.

Usually a strong sign of a winner is when customers are willing to buy the product before it is even built - sell first, build second. 1

For more inspiration, read up on customer development and Steve Blank.

[1] http://sparknlaunch.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/a-smart-bear-ja...
If $10mil of the total is on ads, what is the breakdown of the other $30mil in spending on facebook marketing?
Important point here: You are not representative. If you are on Hacker News, you have probably been called brilliant at least once. You are almost certainly, given that you don't seem to be a non technical co-founder in a startup, in the top 5% of the population for mathematical/logical(not necessarily arithmetic) abilities.

That's because I learn to program. If people learn to program, they'll be more "mathematical/logical" too. I am "brilliant" through hard work and curiosity, not because I have high IQ.

Just because you find the calculations tedious does not mean that most people don't benefit from them.

I meant we humans suck at calculation. We are not like computers that can follow steps perfectly. Even when we know the steps, we often get the answer wrong due to our mistakes in following the steps.

From what I recall, most people forget a concept that they are exposed to once and only once.

What make you think it doesn't apply to me or to the rest of people on hacker news?
Ask HN: How to write hackers resume
This is second time I am writing resume, I am not very keen writing a traditional resume, I am planning for apply for few companies, as far I checked out in the web all companies wants to send out resume to mail ID. I am writing a resume in ReStructured Text(rst) and sending them link is it ok? I am not keen because I would like show my gihub profile, stackoverflow and other social links and send source code. How to differentiate normal tech company and hacker friendly company? How are hackers hired ?
Both sites have a Terms of Service that prevent the misuse of their resources. If you've ever clicked on a popular link to a file on Dropbox's servers, you may find a page that tells you "This file has reached its daily limit of downloads" or something along those means. Google likely has something similar with Google Drive.
Played it. A lot of fun.
Content will become scarce indeed if no one pays for it, unless clever side-channel monetization props it up. It is not clear that is desirable. Are you familiar with copyright's justification in the US Constitution, by the way? It is a time-imited monopoly designed to promote progress in science and arts.
Good to see that "Aguirre Wrath of God" is tops in quality and rewatchability.
Alot of people seem to think Google only crawls content found via ANCHOR elements, but for a long time they've been able to extract the path from EMBED, SRC, and other markup elements that indicate a remote resource is being included; but that's a far cry from being able to process and execute scripting languages and understand the DOM transformations happening from AJAX requests.

In your case, I'd suspect they were simply following the src of your: <script src="path here"></script> markup... though if you read the articles cited, we suspect they've been crawling and understanding JavaScript for a pretty long time now.
Love it. Nice job Joe.

Hey, listen, reading is not for everyone.

You need to be smart, like Jeff Atwood.

Can you believe that programmers look up to this guy?

What does that say about programmers?
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FWIW, If you ever need to conserve your high speed data plan, you can switch to 2G. That way you can still have your data on, but it is un-metered.
That's doctrine of first sale, not fair use, btw.
Do you want to either have some kind of coach who forces you to change? or to pay people to change? what?
I would say it's like a car, it helps people get to places faster but every time there is a bank robbery the thieves get away in a car
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I have a Samsung tablet where I really don't want some of their crud. (The device came with no less than 3 apps named "Music", and two named "Books".) I'd strongly prefer the vanilla Honeycomb skin and not Touchwiz, but I don't get that choice.

What they could have done is make it possible to turn off. And sell it in the Android market for other non-Samsung devices. (If it is that good then other people will want it.)
It's b. Producers pay radio stations to advertise their music. It is called payola.
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"given that 80% of the world's 7B residents live on less than ~$3600 a year" - Can these people afford computers or regular internet access?
1) GM is exactly the right type of advertiser for Facebook. They don't want you to buy a car right now, they want to get the brand in front of you. They, with all their resources, can't get it to work.

2) Google Adwords-style advertising is the absolute shortest line between a person who has a need and someone willing to fulfil that. To be worth more, Facebook has to either make "brand awareness" advertising bigger than "need fulfilment", or somehow figure out a way to beat Google at need fulfilment before Google heads them off. The thing about need fulfilment is that the user is already motivated to solve their problem, at this exact point in time that they're searching. You just have to fulfil that. That's worth pure gold for a marketer. Currently on Facebook the "need" is to get more cows, or whatever. To be "worth more" than Google, you need to use the social graphy thing to figure out how to get someone to spend money. But see #4.

3) I haven't spent one cent on Facebook, so either find a way to get me to spend one cent, or increase the value of the "whales" somehow.

4) Google knows a lot more about me than FB does. I spend every day telling Google what I'm thinking about, via the searches I do. Facebook, I might click a "like", or post a status. You can be sure that the things I'll "like" are a tiny subset of the things I search about. Google therefore has to hold back in which information they use about me, so they don't look creepy. Zuck would be happy looking creepy, but he's not able to get enough info to even begin to look creepy. [edit: so really, Google could make more by flicking a few "add creepy" switches. If FB desensitises us to that first, Google is still more likely to be able to leverage it.]

So, what would make Facebook worth more? Maybe if they leveraged the asset of having-everyone-on-board in a way to make the specific applications (e.g. search) irrelevant. They've done a reasonable job already, what with integrating it into websites, but that still isn't making them money in any direct way. Indirect ways are not going to beat the direct way.

So, Facebook is still a bit like Google pre-Adwords. We have a great lock, still looking for the key.

[edit: please tell me why I'm wrong. Really - I'd love to hear a way Facebook could win, would be an awesome lesson!]
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That's how. By giving them some basic sense of proportions.

ftfy.

seriously though, most of these people that don't fathom the work that goes into creating software don't fathom the work that goes into designing a car, or building a house, or just what it takes to get a product made in china to their door.
Here's the key feature of Numbers vs. Excel: It not only has multiple Sheets, but multiple tables per sheet. Besides tables you can for example add text fields and images to a sheet. This makes it much much more natural to create reports and it encourages to split up your huge tables in logical units.

Oh and one other thing: Modifying columns/rows is consistant over all iWorks applications: Alt + arrow-keys let's you insert rows/columns above, below, to the right or left. MS Office's inconsistency and lack of hotkeys for such an essential feature makes me rage every time I use it.

Numbers sure has shortcomings though: no pivot tables, very limited scripting support, limited filtering / data manipulation. That's why I look at it as a very good spreadsheet tool, but not a data analysis tool - that's when Excel and/or Matlab come into play.
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On business, The only score worth keeping is present/future. Past isn't really relevant, except for how it is prologue.
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> I have not seen a case of wrongful execution as bad as this

I have bad news. This is a "typical" death row victim story. There have been several others like him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230402380457556...

Over half the death penalty convictions in Illinois were found to be faulty.

http://deadlinethemovie.com/state/IL/index.php

There have been a total 18 innocent people exonerated on Death Row in Illinois.
Illinois has executed a total of 12 people since 1976

Prosecutors have no incentive to convict the criminal. Any plausible convict will do.
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We noticed this back in October: http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/googlebot-makes-post-re...

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It's actually T-Mobile's HSPA+ network, which is somewhere between 3G and 4G. In theory, it should go up to 45Mbit down -- I've never gotten more than 10, but that's still plenty for my usage.
Yeah MS business software is the worst, except for everything else.
That specific video came out in April, but we actually taped the video a few months earlier. Google continues to work on better/smarter ways to crawl websites, including getting better at executing JavaScript to discover content.
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This is probably the best of the recent 'don't/do code' blog posts. You don't need to be a guru but over time you can learn enough to get by and understand code.

If you are building a serious business, eventually you will need to hand over the real development work, to real developers. This allows you time to do what you're good at.
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What?

What on Earth does this have to do with vulnerabilities in the browser? Like I said, show me a single example of a vulnerability that is only exploited via a "true click". They DO NOT EXIST. It's hogwash.

I'll say again, I know what you're talking about. It is NOT relevant in this discussion about vulnerabilities.

Please show me an example otherwise.
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Excellent analysis, but I have one question. So if you cannot categorically state that APIs should not be copyrightable (how does this relate to previous industry efforts around clean room engineering and cloning, like the IBM PC/firmware clones and x86 processor clones? Why did those escape the courts?) , how does one even go about, on a item-by-item basis, of providing APIs should be copyrightable?

For example, take the Java package java.io used for reading/writing files among other things. How can you construct an argument that the structure of the API itself should be copyrightable? And what would be an example of an API that couldn't be copyrighted for that matter?
Page Brin and Schmidt own over half of GOOG voting shares, and intend to never sell off their majority stake.

I expect Jobs was similar, but what happened with his estate?
No one is saying that Facebook, as it currently is, is better or more effective than Google in terms of user monetization.

My point is that their current methods are terrible and they still bring in $4B per year. If they can actually increase the quality of their user monetization, then they certainly could bring in a lot of revenues.

Also, no one is saying that Google's current way of advertising isn't superior to Facebook. It's very effective, but Facebook doesn't need to be better. It just needs to make more money. Given the fact that it is has 1 billion users and the metrics indicate that they are more engaged for longer periods of time, it has plenty of opportunity for better monetization.

My point is that the OP was projecting Google's way of monetization thru search onto Facebook, and that's not the right. You don't go to Facebook to search, you go to browse your friends' lives, which is a different experience. It's like channel surfing as opposed to going to the library to work on a research project. If you try to buy ads from Facebook you can see right off the bat that it's not the same as Google. You don't select users based on keyword searches. You can select your users based on their interests, their age, etc. And this information is likely to be much more accurate than the information that Google distills from the sites you click on, etc.

If they can come up with a better way of monetizing their users through some better ad platform, or through better products and services, then they could make a lot of money, and they wouldn't be the risky investment that some people think they are. That is what you're betting on as an investor, that Facebook can actually improve their monetization. If they can't, then they are dead meat.

Full disclosure: I have no association whatsoever with Google or Facebook besides using their ad platforms, and my hope is that Facebook gets down to about a $50B market cap shortly after the IPO before I buy.
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I love information like this, and I think the OpenSignalMaps opinion is healthy. Basically, it's cool to have an install base this diverse and dynamic. Maybe this is because I come from a traditional desktop dev background where diverse HW and SW environments were just part of the game.

I recently co-created an automated web-service that tests apps on real devices, and of the thousands of tests we've run, the majority of the failures and errors are more general software development issues. Errors caused by assumptions about the presence of other apps or network connectivity or the inability to handle certain transitions like screen orientation are much more common than device-specific problems like CPU type. It does happen, for sure, but not nearly as often, and free services like ours seek to mitigate these errors altogether.
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Never thought about it because it won't happen.
Google took business from The advertising business.
Facebook is drying a different old business: communications
My definition of scripting is slightly different.

Scripting, as I learned, is being able control a host program in not-so-trivial ways with an embedded programming language, where the host isn't really dedicated to running programs. Consider Lua embedded in World of Warcraft, JavaScript embedded in the browser or even mod_PHP for Apache.

It's all still programming though.
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It is probably too expensive (development wise) to scale for this many concurrent users as it will only happen once (or twice in case of expansions) during the whole lifetime of the game.
"Billion dollar business" is a miserable failure at MSFT current size.
I can't stress enough how I admire and respect server/dev ops people. Their job is among the hardest and people definitely overlook their importance way too often. I wouldn't even know how I would go about finding them
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I saw that too. I tend to mistrust anything originating on 4chan, but it would explain the authentication server blowing up.

I'm looking forward to reading (hoping they release) a post-mortem on this.
Very similar to this categorization:
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Totally agree with this post. If they're going to build a long-term business, they need another model. The fact that they are now allowing developers to offer paid apps hints towards where they may be headed. Although, I don't see myself ever paying for a fb app
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> [hardware fragmentation is] exactly the fragmentation the consumer wants

Based on what? This is far from clear to me.

Users have flocked to a device with Just One Form Factor (iPhone), and its biggest competitor - Galaxy SII - is almost identical in this regard.

Users have some choice, yes. Users /want/ that choice ... much less clear.
And people got bored of the gimmick controller pretty quick, and it was too uncomfortable to use for standard game controls.
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I kind of take issue with the "No amount of load testing could adequately prepare the server team behind Diablo 3 for firepower of this magnitude".

If your load-testing does not prepare you for the worst then your load-testing plan is garbage.

They already knew how many copies had been pre-ordered and could make a pretty good guess how many copies would be sold and activated on the first night. Take that worst case estimate, now double it and test for that.

"But the cost of supporting worst-case scenarios!!" some may cry. This is where rented servers / cloud setups are useful for elastic scale without breaking the bank.

There are companies that can simulate load from users across the globe, I have no doubt that blizzard would have the connections / influence /cash to set-up a kick-arse load-test system.
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Before I started studying computer science in university, I was working as a laboratory assistant in a paint coloring laboratory. One of my tasks was to do colorant characterizations to our custom-built (the company had one programmer) application so the software can approximate formulae for hardware stores.

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I wouldn't want to read that code nowadays, but I think they're still using it in the laboratory.
Official transcripts are available, usually, but the transcriptionists are private contractors rather than employees of the court, and are hired by one or both sides to create a record of the trial for appeal - essentially the attorneys are outsourcing that bit. Most documents in a court case are easily accessible online at moderate cost (typically ~$0.08 per page, to cover the cost of hosting) but transcripts can be insanely expensive, running into the hundreds or thousands of dollars. It's a bit of a racket to be honest, but court-employed transcriptionists would either raise the cost of filing in court or require more taxes, and legislatures keep courts on pretty tight budgets.

I don't like the idea of court video that much...bad memories of the OJ trial.
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Another way of saying this is that the employees are well tenured.
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