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I worked in Austin, Tx in late 1999 right across from the Dr. Koop building. Even at the time it was amazing how much money they were spending/had spent on things like that. I'm not sure they even fully moved in after it was built, or if it imploded first.

Funny thing, I worked at a company that served the likes of ING and some other broker-dealers at the time, and was about break-even on that business. However, the lure of all the easy internet money was a siren's call, luring the founder to try and grow into a 'portal' to attract eyeballs. That didn't work out so well, however we were using Linux, Apache, Perl and only some pdf processing software required MSFT at the time, and a free copy of Sybase (no, I don't know why that was our db of choice, and it crashed as it was the 'free' version, not fun being the new guy/last man standing trying to recover the db on live servers). Even at the time, it was hard to figure out how Dr. Koop, Pets.com, Vignette etc. were ever going to make the money their IPO's drew.

At the time, Amazon was also a questionable affair, but they managed to make it, so it's not all hopeless. Some of the companies will make it, but so far my ability to pick the winners is pretty slim.
I think they should instead focus on making Metro appealing to develop on, rather than making it the only free option.

At least they still allow other compilers and any programming language.

I wish Ubuntu would step up their development resources game, so that it becomes less painful to do anything there.
You can use http://ddg.gg if domain length is enough of an issue for you.
Honest question: how open is Android? I mean, when you consider Play. Can you write/submit an end-user programming app like Scratch? I know we can always dev-unlock the device and install anything we want, but what about the kid with an Android tablet who wants to start hacking?

I'm worried about this move to walled gardens on all the platforms. The desktop is one of the last bastions of openness, but its not really evolving. Could we have cake (openness) and eat it to (app store where devs can make money, at least easily distribute their possibly creation-oriented apps)?
I'm quite surprised at the amount of vitriol for DDG in the comments here. I switched many months ago -- probably nearing a year now -- and haven't looked back.

I definitely appreciate the effort that has been put into privacy and simplicity. The zero-click box has come in handy at times (though I often find myself clicking through the box anyway, in which case it's a glorified top result, and that's okay with me). My most used feature by far, though, has been the bang syntax, to reference the Java API or search HN or check Stack Overflow or pull up a Google map or explore Wikipedia. I think the bang syntax experience might be frustrating for people who navigate to DDG and then type in a bang query... but if you've got DDG set as your browser's default search, the bang syntax is a nice timesaver: open a new tab (autofocus into the URL bar), type in your site-targeted query, hit Enter, done. I save one page load every time I do a site-specific search, compared to what my experience would be on any other search engine, and considering the proportion of my browser time spent in searches, I think that's a decent amount of time saved. [I mean, there are people on HN who quibble over how many keystrokes they can save in their terminal aliases, after all!]

That doesn't mean I think DDG is perfect; my major annoyance is results from content farms (same as any major search engine), but I'm hard pressed to find a search engine that weeds out content farms without sacrificing the features I like from DDG. The name doesn't roll as trippingly off the tongue as some other sites, but is it really that much worse than any of the other search engines (or names of YC companies, for that matter) and does the name affect my ability to use the site?

As you hyperbolically express your disgust towards DDG, please remember that you don't get any points in life for hating a product that you aren't forced to use and that other people find helpful.
Right, but that's different. That was a root certificate that was compromised: something you can use to make new certs. The basic certs themselves can be revoked, and are fairly routinely.

There is always a root of trust in a cert scheme (vs. a web scheme, say, which has no single point of failure but a squishier notion of validity). The reason it got caught is that Chrome implemented an independent "pinning" feature for Google's own domains (basically an independent root of trust) and caught the fraudulent certs.
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You have that option because some people have done the hard work of building Linux into a viable alternative. If we collectively do the easy thing and submit to these new controls those alternatives may cease to exist. I think these new walled garden platforms are a real threat to the open web.

But I applaud your willingness to put principle before convenience. I've been working almost exclusively on iOS apps for the last year and I really enjoy the platform but it bothers my conscience.
I know quite a few medics. I'm not sure they'd agree.
> - Too long domain name (with some skills and little money, a great 4-letter dot com is a no brainer)

They do have ddg.gg as a short alias to the full domain, though that doesn't address the .com suggestion at all. For that, they also have dukgo.com which I thought was another alias, but it appears that's being used for a community platform now.

I think it would have made more sense to reverse those two domains and have dukgo.com point to the search engine itself, and leave the more esoteric ddg.gg domain to the community platform. People invested in the platform would have an easier time remembering the "weird" domain than the general public (i.e. the folks who they need to use the search engine) would.
Agreed. It's unfortunate. I'm not an open source or freedom zealot but good gawd the open web is what gave birth to all the awesomeness we have. Take away "open" and we'll end up with a bunch of software on all of our mobile phones that's the equivalent of IE6 in 2012.
Perhaps HN is at the tipping point that killed Digg? I hope not. Or at least that PG enforces his right to ban people over comments that can only be described as hash and not constructive.
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Android is not as open as I would like, but most devices still let you tick one checkbox in the preferences and then install whatever you like. The tools are open and free and work on Mac/Win/Linux.

I think people wildly overestimate how much money the typical app can make in any of the app stores but I do think it's important that we find ways to make it easier to monetize web apps.
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Does the hacker crowd include the person who started the BH conferences? ICANN hired him and he's the one running the technical side of this farce.
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My recollection of Apple leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the iMac and OS X, was that everyone in the press was beating the drum of impending doom. I recall a coworker telling me that her financial adviser had recommended she buy Apple, and I thought she was nuts. Not that I had a shred of wisdom at the time, but I'm pretty sure a good portion of the public would have sided with me (hence the extremely low share prices).
Please use vanilla GCC as ubuntu (and other distros) stupidly edit system wide spec files to add things like fstack-protector.
If nothing else he got free food, correct? If each meal cost AOL around $10 then that's $10 * 3 * (2 * 30) = $1,800 worth of damages. This is not including any snacks / soft drinks / free gym / other perks that he might be snatching on top of that. If he caused that much damage by taking and then selling books from a local library we'd be in uproar.

Comparing this to RMS isn't fair either. Everyone knew RMS was staying at the university -- his postal address was literally the desk he worked at.

Just as this guy stole quietly doesn't mean he didn't steal. He has raised $70k in funding and then has gone on to steal at least $2,000 from AOL. This isn't just unethical, it's illegal.
It would certainly prevent me from recommending it to friends. Just too embarrassing.
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Facebook bans TPB links in messages too. And goatse.cx
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This isn't really a millions miles away from what Tim Ferris is suggesting in 4 Hour Work Week (which everyone seems to universally hold up as the best self help book ever ... I disagree) but going about it in a different way. I think all ideas like this have merit in certain circumstances, the trick is to realise that it won't all apply to your situation and that you should take the basic principles and see if it fits for what you want in life.
True, but taking Facebook as an example, it's IPO'd with a 100:1 P/E ratio. It would take 100 years at current earnings in order to pay for its current value. So, the question is: will they double revenue for enough consecutive years to bring that P/E ratio down? If they manage it, it will be a very impressive feat.

(for the record, I'm not saying it's a bubble, and I'm not necessarily saying FB is overvalued. I admit that they have a lot of bright people and are probably the best-poised company right now to develop completely innovative revenue streams)
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> Or this could be a relic of something the Sofa team was working on before the Instagram deal.

Probably. And the Instagram deal is still under review from the FTC for quite some time, so it'll be awhile before we see any major integrations, I think.
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If its not too personal, can you tell us how you manage your schedule and how it looks.
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No, they first stated that there's a difference in transparency, then explained they believe this results in a difference in trust.
I have been there the past several times (and will be attending this one as well). I have been able to do some like-minded people and I have done some networking. Mostly, though, it was just a fun social time talking about all sorts of various technical stuff. I would definitely recommend coming out if you have the time.
No. The FTC is probing the purchase, which was to close 2nd Quarter this year, so it'll delay that. That said, it's still very possible the two will eventually become one.
According to http://www.chillingeffects.org/about, the chilling effects clearinghouse is not affiliated with Google. They just happen to contribute C&D notices heavily. (Similarly, Google does not own Linux, but they contribute source code.)

There seems to be some conception that contributing to non-profits or charitable organizations is wrong if you have an agenda. I don't understand that; though Google benefits from legal transparency and an Internet without censorship, isn't it nice that they contribute to non-profits that help further these causes? Do you want more censorship and hidden government proceedings instead?

As a published author, I certainly value free expression more than a few extra bucks from my book. Without what I've learned from the Internet, I'd probably be flipping burgers for a living.
How will this affect applications like Matlab 2012 64bit, which require a compiler (such as in the Win 7 SDK) to be installed to use certain features such as SIMULINK?

http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2012a/win64.html

Will there even be a compiler they could licence from MS and bundle?
Near the peak of the bubble, I was at the gym in Phoenix, AZ. Two guys on the stationary bikes in front of me were talking. "I just bought AOL at $X today." There was a look of resigned exasperation between them over how high the buy-in was. "But hey, you know, it can only go up from here, right?"

That was about the time I started moving my 401k into bonds for awhile. :-)

Incidentally, for the younger folks, one of the interesting things about the Dot Com bubble was that it coincided with mass interest in online trading. I have no idea what the numbers are regarding the number of active individual traders now versus then, but at the time you'd go to a party and overhear tons of people self-identifying as day traders. Living through that taught me that I really don't know enough about finance to pick individual stocks, and since then I've left my money in mutual funds, index funds, and now an entirely managed Vanguard account.
I've said it in this thread already, but that acquisition is definitely not finalized.
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There are more "fixes" for cron than I can count. I interpret this more as a fundamental misunderstanding of unix utilities and standards.

Utilities should not print out anything that the user can safely ignore. If you want to print out more info, add a VERBOSE mode (-v or -vv ...).
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Do we have to pay the Windows Store registration fee to deploy a Metro app? Or is there still way to send out an .exe to our friends and colleagues?

Even if we get free development tools it would sucks if we can't share our work for free.
MaxCDN is NetDNA.
MaxCDN is their label for lower-traffic sites.

Edit:

Just checked, CloudCache is a NetDNA brand too. For anything higher than their max plan, they refer you back to the parent company.
Search engines aren't regulated, but clearly Google thinks it's legally safer to take down such links. I get the impression that some non-US sites don't comply with the DMCA (since they don't have to) and thus the copyright holders move their enforcement up the chain.
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Cloudfront's pricing is complicated and a touch higher than I'd like.

They may or may not have a good network, but I think all CDNs pretty much have comparable networks
Won't the first thing the kid with an Android tablet who wants to start hacking do would be to learn how any application can be installed in the device?
> > At a time where distributing media is as simple as one click, trying to make money off of distribution is just wrong.

> It may be practically difficult to enforce, but asking people to pay for the effort involved in creating content is not wrong.

Parent not argue that paying people for the effort involved in creating content is wrong. Parent argued that demanding money for the negligible effort involved in distributing content is wrong. Parent went on to suggest ways to make money from creating content.

In another comment, parent also pointed out that she or he, personally, makes plenty of money from creating software, without anyone attempting to make money off of its distribution. I personally am hopeful a similar sustainable business model may be found for music, some day.
It sounds like what is trying to be said is that the labels are somehow in the wrong trying to force people to pay for every copy of an mp3 album, but that since it is so easy to copy digital media that they should be allowing this to happen for free without consequence.
This may be the worst argument I've seen on HN in weeks.
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VS Express 2010 will continue to be available.

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4020222
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This is a very insightful theory and I really, really hope you're wrong.

Regarding students, though, Microsoft has DreamSpark, which looks like BizSpark for students (all the way down to high school students, apparently). They can get free access to VS and at least some subset of operating systems.
It's only Visual Studio 11 Express Edition which is limited to Metro. VS 2010 EE will still be available for developing Windows 8 desktop applications.
Sometimes the value can be in what you don't do, e.g. keeping things simple.
If you get into a dispute with Time Warner over your cable bill, do they gain legal rights to anything you write at home and publish on the internet?

If he used AOL computers (which it sounds like he didn't) they may or may not have grounds for a case but this is really stretching it.
This is a really detailed comparison and seems balanced. Thanks for that. Do you not use both in conjunction (R for the stats libraries and Python for the more general computing)? Having done some background reading (but without yet getting down into the weeds with them), that was my take on the relationship.

Edit: re-reading your last paragraph, I guess you're saying that Python can reach parity with R's libraries, at which point it's elegance and speed will win out. R's decades of lineage do seem to hobble it in terms of style and syntax, after all.
The public? The public has just stumped up the cash for the research, so adding the cost of hosting the resulting papers for perpetuity would be a negligible addition to the original grant.
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I develop extensively in JavaScript, and this is fucking retarded.
This 3 year "absurd generosity" is nothing more than a classic bait and switch Marketing strategy

As someone who is currently enjoying the benefits of BizSpark, you're completely wrong.

Your sense of entitlement is simply amazing. I write software, and I charge for it. I would never expect a package as complex and high quality as Visual Studio to be free. The fact that I can use it for free for three years is fantastic, and I'm grateful for it.
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Note how trivial these changes are in the long term. 1890 to 1920 = ~1% real decrease a year. 1920 to peak in 2006: ~1% real increase a year

Overall, it tends to bounce back to ~110 year over year, implying the long-term real price increase is 0.
+ Freelancer devs will be 'encouraged' to develop for Win 8, an argument can be made this will positively impact Win 8 sells, albeit it will be a difficult argument

- Open source development on Windows will take a hit

- Freelancers will either stick with older and less effective tools, or will choose to abandon Desktop

- Users will tend to get less new software for their Windows 7

+/- Will not affect big corporations, e.g. gamemakers, who use the professional version

- This will provide no additional motivation to bulk of the users (e.g. corporate, gamers) to switch to Windows 8

- This will further 'encourage' piracy of VS11
> Google has four colours in their name.

Yes, but just in their logo, that's ok because the rest of Google stands behind the expressive logo, is clear, has lots of white space, decent colors etc.

Now go to DDG: read header, blue search button on result page and green search button on landing, what the heck?? Strange colors in the text results and this ugly duck, sorry but getting a really nice duck on freelancer.com or 99design from a talented artist is a job of 500 USD.

> The length of the url isn't that big of a deal to me. I just type 'du' and the first url autosuggested is duckduckgo.

No, it's a big deal even if your browser provides autocomplete, The domain is everything: their brand, their name and will used anywhere and all the time. Just saying "check duckduckgo for searching this and that" or "i duckduckgoed my name" to your friend or colleague is too much communication overhead, too many syllables for something which is too important in our lifes nowadays.

And those both points bug me, because if they haven't done their basic homework on the frontend side who tells me that they done them on the backend side where it is more important (relevance algorithm)—why should I trust DDG's search results if they are not able to setup a proper brand communcation and interface?
I don't think DDG needs to take anybody's crown to be successful. It provides a service to a few niches, mainly the tinfoil hat types and to people who mostly use Google as an intermediary to find wikipedia articles or posts on stack overflow and want a low-friction alternative. Or there's me: I mainly prefer the keyboard shortcuts.

Anyway, my point is that 1% of the search market is about half a billion dollars in revenue.

It'll be interesting to see if Gabriel keeps up with the affiliate model or moves toward an in-house ad solution.
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For what it's worth, I found VS2010 to be so slow and prone to crashing that I reverted to 2008. Since installing the VS2011 beta, though, I haven't looked back. It's been great.

I work on C++ desktop apps, though, and they aren't huge. Your mileage may vary.
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From that one statement alone, I suddenly have a lot more respect for AOL. That was hilarious.
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