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I had no need to pirate Darwinia when I got it for 5$ in the Humble Introversion Bundle, along with 6 other games. (Could have gotten it for 1 cent).
This is useful data to see. Thanks for sharing.

If you're willing to say, how are you calculating the $4.63 value from each conversion? Perhaps worthy of another post otherwise...
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It isn't even a zero-sum game with your direct competitors much of the time. For many software businesses, almost all of your marketshare will be stolen from competitors with names like "email" and "scribbling on pieces of paper." Similarly, for a small community newspaper, the biggest existential threat to your business is neither the other local papers nor any of the larger newspapers in the area — it's public apathy toward the whole product category. If you're in a market like that, and the other guys go out of business, that is not really good news for you.

For many businesses, "a rising tide lifts all boats" is the most accurate description of the field.
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A spelling mistake, sorry. I wasn't correcting someone, just pointing out why his posts were getting down voted.
I know - it's amazing huh? I can't believe how useful this has been for me.
"But being setup as an LLC vs. a sole proprietorship offers you significantly more protection."

IANAL: I feel this depends on whether or not the LLC has two or more members. When an LLC has one member who is active, it's not much better than a sole proprietorship. Having great legal protection is a myth about single member LLCs that needs to be broken. It's relatively easy to pierce an LLC's corporate veil. Then again someone may prove me wrong. You need to talk to a lawyer.
My story was in 2005. 6 years before the humble bundle.
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A great idea with a link bait of a headline. Either way, thanks for the tip!
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Are those two comparable, though?

Independent music on Itunes, for example, has a fixed royalty. From what I gather, a 0.99 song has the same 0.70 royalty you're talking about for apps.

The CD example you're talking about is more like boxed software, which suffers from the same transparency issues.

The big difference between the two are that store shelf music is basically the same product as downloaded music. Unlike apps, which are on different devices, serve different purposes, and have a very different price point than boxed software.
I'm always amazed that more people don't recognize the Cube as one of the most successful design manifestos in corporate history. Unlike the successful-in-their-time Candy iMacs, the Cube introduced a hardware design DNA that permiated virtually everything that followed it. Those traces remain clearly visible today - more than a decade later - in what could be fairly described as the world's most valuable product line.

For Jobs, a private or merely theoretical manifesto wouldn't have been enough. Apple designs everything from the concept to the manufacturing process to the unboxing and initial startup experience. For a something to be a true design reference, it had to cover all these bases. That means it needed to be a real product that actually shipped. Which it did.

If you measure the return using everything that followed its lead - which includes the flagship store - it has recovered its investment a bazillion times over. Whatever else the Cube may have been, it was not a mistake. The one-button hockey puck mouse with the too-short cable? That was a mistake.
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That is the best argument against GO I have ever seen.

You now have to mix up your exception code and your normal code (or, as I suspect most people will do, ignore the error return value).

Did they kill stack traces too?
I'm not familiar with the author, but this reads like a 'how to lose twenty pounds with only an hour of exercise a week!' blurb.

I don't care if the advice itself is sound; without data and actual proof, its not worth much to me.
I enjoyed the post, and it reaffirmed a very interesting transition away from resumes and toward actual work. Now that blogs and github are so easy to start, why would I want to read that someone has extensive programming experience and good writing skills? If you do, it'll already be on display.

That said... I actually generally get an interview with many of the startups I contact through a traditional resume and cover letter. I've been hired by some, rejected by others, but I believe it usually comes down to how well I handle a series of difficult technical interviews. They're usually around algorithms and data structures, and often test recursion. Threading is also a commonly tested subject.

Are these tests highly rigorous? All I can say is they're pretty tough for me. I've run the questions by other programmers, some say it's tough, others say it's not so hard, many just get so interested in the problem that they start working on it.

Anyway, I'd still say that the best way to get hired by every startup you contact is to be a pretty badass programmer, with a very strong grounding in algorithms and data structures, recursion, threading, and be ready to show you can apply that stuff in a very short amount of time under some pressure at the white board. It's just my opinion, but I believe I know very, very talented programmers who have been passed over because of their performance during these interviews.

Here's something good to take from this blog post - if you are a good and productive programmer who has trouble with the tech grilling, definitely make an effort to put some work out there on blogs and github, it might make the difference. Maybe the threshold for the technical grilling is more forgiving when the hiring team has more to work with, better examples of a candidate's ability?
IANAL so this really depends on the person's specific situation i.e. like what state is the business in, how many members there are, and so on

imo if you want more protection, you need a C-Corp or a more than one member LLC... there are caveats to both routes and everyone should talk to a real lawyer about this or books from say NOLO
lol. It's true though - I was about to hire a PA until I figured this out.
I get no cookie warning - can you explain what you thought I should see?
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I went to Berkeley with EECS major and from what I could see 1 hour per week would be impossible unless you manage to somehow avoid taking any of the difficult classes, which would need to be done very strategically. Maybe you spent time in office hours instead, or having friends explain stuff to you, but I would include those in "studying time". If I'm wrong, I'd love to know how you completed major programming assignments in say compilers or operating systems, or prepared for your algorithms exams with just 1 hour per week. Sometimes it took me a couple hours just to fully understand what the professor had assigned due to language barrier (theirs), grammar (theirs), and other issues.

I also took an upper division economics class at Berkeley and that took far more than an hour of studying. Even at community college I studied my econ classes for more than an hour per week. Unless you have a photographic memory I'm not sure how you can avoid it and still get good grades. Please explain your technique.
I guess the issue is elsewhere - there is a group of people that think that copying is the same as stealing, and there is the group that can see the difference.

I belong to the second group. Let me try to explain it to you... Would you rather that I stole your car, or just copy it?
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In researching one for my own startup, one I came across is http://www.patentinsurance.com/ .

I don't know much about them except what's on their website, so do not endorse them, except to say that I would like to enroll my company in either their service, or a similar one soon.

The offering I am most interested in is what they call "IP Defense Insurance". Basically, in the event a troll attacks, this provides a war chest for my court defense costs.

(And hopefully, gives me a chance to maul those punks in court so hard, they regret ever looking our way.)
... what?

Like I said, the things you're saying are either vague to the point of misleading or you're extremely confused about some very basic things...

I'm a huge fan of "web techonologies". Seeing as Go is a great way of writing web services that back web apps, it's a pretty good fit. There are thousands of things that aren't possible, and never will be with "web technologies". Every web technology is hitting some web service somewhere that's powered by code that does not run in a web browser.

"Solving the Cloud API problem" sounds like... well it's sounds like a bunch of jargon speak.
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Or you know, you could not use apache.
Or it could just be that the turn signals aren't wired in to the computer system. On my vehicle, the wiring for the turn signals is pretty basic, there is no computer involved.
I'm sorry, but this is a highly naive point of view. You could have had an iPhone in 2005 for an amount of money you probably wouldn't be able to part with. These products still have to be produced in quantity and therefore supply chain innovation is just as critical as the design and engineering itself. Apple doesn't market it that way, but the disparity in cost to sell price is one of the reasons they have been able to do so well and fund their next endeavors.

Apple doesn't design and build buildings, which are expensive, time consuming, and generally done in small quantities.

They design products meant to reach millions of people and as such design and engineering of that feat is innovative in its own right.

Your statement, taken more broadly, would dismiss the work of companies like Tesla and SpaceX. Their goals are to bring their unique products to a wider market providing a next generation experience.

I mean, I guess it would be cool if it was just Elon Musk rolling around in his single space ship or Tesla Roadster. But it's much more exciting that this can be the case for many people.
Either way, it's adding value.
apachectl -t?

Why go ghetto? You should be doing something like "/sbin/service httpd restart".
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What books document paths and approaches that failed?

Stuff that counters the "worked once for me" quality of so many how-to business books.

Only reading success stories is horribly misleading.
I just bought Coda 2 thinking it had improved by leaps and bounds. It's just the same thing, more or less. What site actually has urls ending in .php these days? How can you preview pretty URLs? It's just a total waste of money.
So it makes web pages. Dynamically, programmatically. Awesome. [wanders off and deletes perl cgi-bin running on NCSA server]. I love it when computers make my life easier and return my precious leisure time. Please accept my apologies for my inherent lack of insight.
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Of course I learn about this great tip a week after I converted all my calendars over to iCloud. Does anyone know of a comparable feature in iCloud calendars?
we're moving from apache to nginx + php-fpm + apc on linode. as well as all the stuff recommended by pagespeed. jquery cdn, gzip, css sprites, pngcrush, js-min + concat, css concat, async script loading via LABjs. the improvement is quite remarkable. sometimes i blink and miss the F5 refresh flash and wonder if the page actually reloaded. craziness.

one funny thing pagespeed tells me is that google's own analytics ga.js needs a longer expire time than 2hrs, they should fix that especially for scripts loaded from common cdns (especially their own) since web authors have no control over this.
This is honestly the best advice that there is.

About 11 months ago, my MacBook Pro was stolen from my house. I didn't keep a password on it as any of my secure files were encrypted, so the theif did use it for a bit. I had installed Prey, similar to this author, and a keylogger on the computer, so I was able to collect copius amounts of information about the theif (name, address, picture, phone number, email, usernames, passwords, etc.). I had more than enough info to catch the theif including the address of where the computer was being kept. I relayed everything I had to the police officer in charge of my case. Basically, it was an open/shut case, he just need to go and get it. To make a long story short, he did nothing. He never pursued the case at all and I never got my computer back.

After a few months of inaction by the police, I did the best thing I could and ssh'd into the computer and rm -rf'd it so the theif would have to reinstall the OS and I wouldn't have watch someone else use my computer. I would have retrieved the computer myself, but I was very aware of the theif's criminal record which mostly included assault, unlawful possesion of a firearm, attempted murder, etc.

tl;dr - If your computer is stolen there is little to no hope for retrieval, so do everything possible to prevent its theft.
True. However, the problem is that that disclaimer is often a used as a loophole for not giving useful advice.

For instance, here's a foolproof plan to ensure that every piece of software that you write is 100% bug free. If you follow these two, simple steps, every piece of software you ever write will be perfect on the day it's delivered.

All you need to do is:

1. Write a program that looks through your source code and finds all the bugs in it.

2. Fix all those bugs.

I keep telling this to people, but they're so stubborn that they won't make these two changes in their build process. So, if you ever find a bug in someone's software, know that it's not because coding bug free programs is hard. It's because they don't have the self-discipline to follow through on my simple prescription.
> "Give your music away for free, hope for success, give a concert, make money."

If it were always that simple, wouldn't everyone be doing it? You'll never see an unsigned band making its fortune off an arena tour, for one. It wouldn't be able to afford to organise it.

A lot of bands that want to do it for a living will gig the usual local circuit until some label rep picks them up and funds an LP and bigger tour.

People will like to think they're no longer relevant, and a response to the old-hat ways of the biggest labels (Sony, EMI, etc.) has been an upsurge in indie labels. Much like game and book publishers, they do serve a purpose in giving bands they like a break, thus allowing them to put out a record or two and gig on the wider circuit. Those bands might never have had the finances to do that originally.

Hell, I was in one such struggling band a few years ago.

Anyway, I don't think selling music is a broken model. But I do think that other ways to empower fresh, unsigned bands are necessary. Much like technology has empowered entrepreneurs and helped many a startup scene to flourish.
Can the lack of automatic turn signal be due to some legal implications? Like for example, the car falling in the same position as other car with assisted driving technologies.

Or perhaps it's just a quick way to change the car's route?
In that case, why don't you just put 'throws Exception' on all your methods?
But of course an escrow upon completion doesn't work if the project starter actually needs the funds to deliver the project... which is kind of the whole idea of kickstarter.
Facebook will figure out the ad problem - and that's the problem.

They're seemingly profitable now on ads (not 100B worth), and through innovation, testing, & learning revenue will grow or at least not disappear. Advertisers will understand how to use Facebook effectively as an advertising media.

The major problem is lock-in. Facebook's users attract other users, which all attract advertisers. Once Facebook and advertisers uncover a breakthrough in effective social advertising, competition for users becomes critical. What will Facebook rely on to keep others from eating their lunch?

Simplistic, but, Google has search and apps. Facebook has....reluctance to change? Which might just be enough, until its not.
I see a search toolbar plus the Chrome-to-phone functionality (the iOs version of it). Moving along...
I believe he was testing the config, not restarting the server.
Indeed. I'm always amazed that people break the issue into two sides:

Humans have changed the climate and we need to reverse it.
OR
Humans haven't changed the climate. Nothing is wrong.

I think it's pretty clear that the climate has changed. It also seems to be pretty likely that humans have probably had some role in that. What we need to do is to move on from placing blame and figure out what we should do about it.

I like to propose the hypothetical discovery of new information that undeniably proves that humans have had no hand in climate change. Suppose we learned that this climate change is completely natural. What then would environmentalists want to do? Try to reverse it anyway?

My hunch is that we're probably better off spending trillions adapting to it rather than, perhaps futilely, spending trillions trying to roll back the odometer.
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You can easily be held to the same standards as musicians. Just quit your job, release open-source tools and earn your living from a donation button on your site.

Or figure out another way to make money aside from working for a company and selling products. Since you don't like the app store, you should exclude that from your possible sources of income as well.
> Error: Cannot establish a database connection.

Aaaaand I think we're done here.
Curl is incredibly useful. However, I noticed that your line above was truncated prematurely.

curl -w "\nTotal time: %{time_total}\nTime pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer}\nTime starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}\nSize download: %{size_download}\n Speed download: %{speed_download}" www.example.com
I completely agree with this.

I work at an investment bank, which means my workday starts at 6:30am and don't usually get home until 8 or 9pm. However, I still manage to come home and work (or play, really) on other projects.

Having interesting projects to work on (as opposed to articles to read) makes a tremendous difference on personal motivation.

Work on something you are interested in and this won't be a problem.
> it is a patronising and demeaning comment.

To be patronizing and demeaning require intent. You are reading intent in my comment that simply does not exist.

The article is low-quality because it does nothing but tear down strawmen. No one is arguing that people can't have opinions and defend them. No one is arguing that people should accept bad ideas or code just to be nice. No one is arguing that opinion is a democracy (!?). The whole thing is setting up a false dichotomy and then praising Linus and others for not being accommodating wet noodles.

Since the main premise of the essay is this false dichotomy, I noticed that my first sentence disproves this premise by counterexample. I didn't write this comment with a patronizing or demeaning attitude. I can see why you would take it that way, because I can see a person writing a thing like that with a snarky attitude, but I did not.
The delicious irony is that I see a database connection error on the page.
That doesn't even make sense. Stealing is stealing regardless of whether it's something physical or something digital. Just because humans invented a new way for things to exist doesn't mean that products in that form aren't being stolen when you acquire them for free by downloading them off the The Pirate Bay.
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Totally agree about building something that's defensible, and network effects is one way.

Just wondering, how does Dropbox have network effects?
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I work for a financial-services company and I still think investing in the stock market is crazy. There are people who spend their days figuring out how to separate "investors" (basically, gamblers) from their money either without getting caught or in a legal-but-underhanded manner. I know I'm stupid enough to have my money taken from me without understanding how, but I'm not stupid enough to actually subject myself to that.
Same here, though I am more interested in how one could quickly collect a list of companies that have undergone that specific leadership change. Proprietary or public database? Google? Old-fashioned human memory?
IIRC, Patrick has said that posting interesting technical content to get links to his site was part of his promotional strategy for Bingo Card Creator. For example, that's why he hosts A/Bingo there even though there are very few elementary school teachers interested in split testing their websites. Even more to the point, he actually publishes his entire sales and expense data for the product at http://bingocardcreator.com/stats, which is likewise quite uninteresting to his customers but catnip for the HN crowd.
Apple's real innovation is in supply management (well that and iTunes)

Anyone can make a thin smooth aluminium laptop. Being in the position of making the premium priced top of the range product, while paying far less for your components than your big box competitors and having such a stranglehold hold on supplies of those components that you can keep competitors out is amazing.

It's as if Audi not only made great cars - but also had all the worlds supply of tires and engines and was paying half as much as chevy for them!
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The App store has 600k apps. Every app I sell already has dozens of competitors. Giving back to the community with advice is only going to raise my profile and potentially help others.

Copycats are not something to be worried about unless you managed to find something very easily copied, hasn't been done before, and also is very profitable. That is a very small slice, and when people notice you at the top it won't last long anyways.

I think Bingo Card Creator is a great example. There are tons of copycats here, but he is selling more than ever. Presumably all the links he gets talking about his story help his search rankings.
All Facebook has to do is tie the advertising platform to having a business page on Facebook to force businesses to spend something on ads. Individuals should be able to use Facebook free but not businesses. Once that happens the stock will go way up.
pretty sure pagespeed tells you to minimize http requests. that's one of the top things. one of the points from what i remember was to combine js and css files.
I don't think this is a good idea:

- Facebook Personal: If there would be a market for this why didn't they introduce this already?

- Facebook Pro: What would they be getting for this money? Facebook is already selling branded pages to corporate partners for much more money.

- Facebook Private: This would be openly admitting that people don't have full control over their privacy on Facebook already. Doesn't seem like a smart move to me.

- Facebook Enterprise: This is a totally different market with different needs. There are already different strong competitors out there. Also, I don't know if Facebook is the best brand for this. It's more associated with distraction then productivity.
That's a lot of engineers for the industry to suddenly absorb.

More "old-fashioned" companies will not balk at hiring a 30-year HP veteran, I think... So long as he's knowledgeable and capable as anyone else who's worked 30 years in the industry.

It's concerning, however, when one interviews a 5-8 year veteran who has less skills than a new grad. Don't get in that rut. :-)