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I didn't say Meetup's users loved the change. In fact, they clearly did hate it - that's pretty obvious.

My point was that you shouldn't be afraid to do something that 95% of your users hate if:

a) those users aren't bringing in any revenue and are unlikely to do so ever

b) the other 5% love it and end up giving you much more in return (whether that's money or other things)
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It's shocking to think about the US Government's casual disregard for all the people that used megaupload legitimately, and indeed the FBI's disregard for the provision of documents that would be expected to be pretty much standard in most court cases. After all, the ability to see the evidence being put against you is a basic tenet of the justice system.
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Thanks! Sorry for the confusion.
Matt,

I hope you are able to take at least some comfort from actually knowing the cause of your son's illness. Some people aren't so lucky.

I had my own medical struggle while in the middle of grad school. Mid October a few years ago, I contracted a rather nasty respiratory infection. Among other things, I was severely fatigued and needed to sleep for extended amounts of time (think 12+ hours a day). The excessive sleeping didn't worry me while I was busy hacking and coughing, but when the respiratory symptoms had gone away a couple weeks later, I was still left with the extreme fatigue and hypersomnia.

Normally, I'm not one to run to a doctor at the slightest sign of any illness, but I began to get worried a week or so after the acute infection passed and I was still sleeping a minimum of 12+ hours a day. (I should emphasize, too, this really was a minimum, not an average -- I'd typically wake up around 8 am, go to class and do other things until around 2 or 3, come home and fall asleep around 4 PM and wake up and do it again the next day. One weekend, I think I was awake for a total of about 8 hours over the two days.)

I went through the usual struggle anyone who has anything that's at least mildly rare goes through, and, after visiting a sleep neurologist, I got my diagnosis: post-infectious idiopathic hypersomnia. I then knew this was a problem that was going to take months or years to resolve, and, for a while, I thought my life was effectively over.

But, the real kick in the teeth was that word, "idiopathic." There's a great line on an episode of House where one of the fellows suggests a diagnosis of idiopathic something-or-other, and House responds "'idiopathic,' from the Latin meaning we're idiots because we can't figure it out." So, there I was, with a diagnosis that amounted to "you sleep a lot and we don't know why," and the only treatment available was basically stimulants to treat the symptoms (which didn't work well at all -- I slept less, but I was walking around like a zombie by early afternoon every day).

Looking back, I consider myself lucky that it happened while I was in school, since I could have easily found myself unemployed and broke if I were in less flexible circumstances at the time. I'm also quite lucky that it resolved itself within about 9 months. I effectively lost a semester of grad school that I had to make up later, but I recovered, and it should never recur.

I don't know if what I had is what would be considered a "rare" disease by the strict definition, but it's rare enough that your average primary care physician might not ever see a case in his or her life, and a sleep specialist might see a handful. It's rare enough that there don't seem to be any studies or research available on the condition, on top of the obvious difficulties of studying people who effectively have to sleep 1/2-3/4 of the day.

So, back to my original point: my best wishes to you and your son, of course, but please take comfort in the fact you know exactly what is wrong.
CSS is a bad example of this, it's not like typical language code because you could have bits of css in many different files that all affect a single element. CSS is kind of like a language where mixins, monkey-patching, & aspect oriented programming are used to the extreme. Everyone who codes in this language would never go back to the main source function to modify behavior; they would instead write an aspect to patch it. Eventually nobody would know where the "main" code is anymore, all the code would be peppered in different files stomping on each other's toes.

Essentially, you could be a great developer and you could still output low quality css simply due to the way css was designed.
It's a stated tenet of most justice systems, but in the US even the justice system is politicized (elected public prosecutors?!), and everything politics touches becomes politics.
On Flippa they say "The premium membership is sold for $99/month. This is how we generate revenue."
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Stop giving the rest of us a bad name
How is this disrespectful?
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The problem is that by the time you reached the functionality of Opera with extensions, your browser is bloated and takes ages to load, and a large chunk of RAM.
Here's another reason: If you are doing work you know you are likely to port to C at some point.
Weird thing they seem to have completely misidentified the reason why their architecture was slow:

The bottom line is that a client-side architecture leads to slower performance because most of the code is being executed on our user’s machines rather than our own.

From a brief look I had at it a few months ago they were sending a 1.5Mb javascript file which contained a template for every single action you could ever perform on twitter. Because it was squished I assume it got invalidated a lot as they made any tweak to their UI. That seemed to be the greater problem rather than these mysterious execution times.

Seriously, who has ever had a performance problem transforming a bit of JSON with something like jQuery.tmpl or mustache? They ultimately seem to have thrown the baby out with the bath water.

Then again we had this discussion about client v server rendering when 37signals posted their new architecture, I understand there are advantage of doing the template transforms serverside.
Ok, you agreed with my original comment and then gave the example of Meetup, so I misunderstood.

I disagree with your reasons for making big changes that most of your users hate, but that's probably because we disagree fundamentally on how to build a business.
like all discriminatory anti-discrimination laws ... I don't see how you can fight discrimination with positive discrimination tbqh.
I'm glad we agree then!
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Although I can imagine this works very well for ecommerce websites and other things where there is a very obvious single measure of success, like for example:

* the user clicked the button
* the user signed up
* the user put something in their cart
* the user paid X

In this case, it's easy to create the feedback loop that is required for this testing method.

However, in the real world, things are not always that simple. What if you want to optimise:

* the percentage of users that returns to the site
* the time that users spend on your site
* the number of pages that they view in a session

I'm sure some of these metrics can also be plugged back into the bandit algorithm, but it's a lot more complicated.
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> Why (to me) sortofolio is a bad investment for a buyer:

I don't want to get into a debate about absolutism or anything, but that's a pretty bizarre statement. "to me" = acknowledging my own subjectivity. "for a buyer" = a generalised group. Weird.

> because apparently its not worth their time; but at the same time, according to them it takes zero involvement from their part.

They didn't say "not worth [their] time". They said that it didn't fit with their core businesses and as a result they are spinning it off. Those are two different things. Sortfolio has been running without engineering support for a while, but it still costs them hosting and support, plus the fact that they have a fiduciary responsibility for a product which they aren't excited about and doesn't fit with their core business. This is their iPod HiFi.

> Doesn't answer any important questions regarding the sale on flippa. Either its not worth their time or they are not telling the whole story.

I think they are telling the whole story at a narrative level but not at a numbers level. No information about whether customer data transfers, etc. I don't see any reason not to believe them when they say that the business is profitable and they believe it could be grown. It's an alien concept to most people that a business making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year isn't wanted by its owner, but it happens. It's a smart move. Sortfolio is a mental distraction. They aren't putting man hours into it, but that doesn't mean it's not at the back of their minds. Having $20k of revenue per month = giving a shit about who it came from.

> As someone who would use sortfolio this looks like a complete lack of confidence on the business/platform by their owners and has unstable future as a product, so why bother using the service?

That doesn't make it a bad investment for someone. It means you shouldn't use it yourself. It's debatable that 37signals' brand has made the platform what it is (a C+ or B- web service which generates revenue), but I know plenty of people who could take it and make it a six-month project to increase revenues and give it some more clout. Do you believe that fundamentally there is a market for this sort of product? If so then you have a great head start by buying Sortfolio.

> Sortfolio almost definitely exist as a platform and makes money simply because of its association with 37singnals. The product is nether impressive or unique.

I agree that its success to date has been largely defined by the 37signals brand. I find the product moderately impressive in its restraint. I'll be interested to see where it goes from here.
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Watch your sweeping statements. There are a LOT of Americans who support Julian Assange.
They are popular because of Rails among developers, most of business/non-technical people have no idea about they're affiliation with Rails (or what Rails is for that matter).
On the other hand, Basecamp is used widely by lots of small businesses and not only IT companies and it's fair to assume that most of their revenue comes from it.
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I would like to say NZ system in general, but there are exceptions. Generally though the judiciary is pretty fair and uphold the rights of ordinary folk and are not swayed by 'bigger interests'.
I'd say it depends.
I could easily say sysadmin, Xen virt, SQL server, postgreSQL, jQ, Illustrator, python, java, html5/css3, extensive hardware understanding, infrastructure design and I've been working for 5 years or something... The difference is it's my passion and I was in hardware and computers way before it became my job.

What in my opinion doesn't match with those offers is their part of the bargain - they want a super motivated multitool expert . for peanuts ...

By the way. you have to realize that's all resumé warfare, they think you're going to exaggerate and they hope at best that you can code .Net, have touched RoR twice, used Toad for Oracle three times and had to implement a very small web frontend for basic purposes - and maybe that you had to design birthday cards in Illustrator.

Seems more likely with 2-3 years experience, doesn't it ?
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Really? The ISP-PirateBay blockade was ordered by a judge based on existing legislation. The field of net neutrality, privacy, copyright/piracy is changing and complex: I don't think it is reasonable to expect full consistency now. Tell me which country is consistent, and is so democratically? At least the Dutch have set a course, and in my opinion it is a good one.

[I read your blog entry, sorry to hear about your knee but otherwise I find your story single sided and your statement that doctors get money for not helping is so crude and slander-like that it needs citation, in my opinion - if it were not for the fact that I have to email you to comment on the post I would have placed this part of my reaction over there.]
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Your comment is ignorant on so many different levels I'm not sure where to start so I'll start with the most _______ part:

* I didn't realize that anyone still considers Alexa to be even slightly accurate.

* You're confusing having a strong opinion as being resentful.

* Doing scalable is exactly what 37s has done for the last approx. 10 years. There are 2 parts to a "scalable business." 1) Can you acquire clients in a scalable way? 2) Can you serve them in a scalable way? Basecamp has thousands of paying customers and I've almost never seen an ad from them so that proves the are able to acquire them without a significant customer acquisition cost. They sell software. Do I have to say more to prove they can serve them in a scalable way.

* "it's not about your current revenues or status, it's always about you future expectation when valuing assets/companies/startups/businesses and that's how you sell"

I have a bridge to sell you that will generate a billion dollars in the future. Interested?

* "is shows one more time in which league 37signals actually plays." They are willing to kill a product that takes very little time to maintain and it generates $18k/month in profit. Think about that.

* I don't think they are going to end up selling it and will likely just shut it down if they will stand by their "sell by x or shut down" claim. Regardless, I think your comment says more about you than about 37signals or DHH.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

You should probably take this with a grain of salt, but at least the perception of corruption is very low in NZ.

This isn't the same thing as having a good justice system, but I think it's probably related.
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Well, Sen. Wyden has asked the Obama administration to send ACTA to Senate for ratification, but the Obama administration refuses to do so, and says ACTA, which is a global treaty, can be made and signed just by the president. Something about that argument sounds very wrong to me.
EITHER you made something great
OR you have nothing to show and then it's really personal

In the end, once you have something to show, noone cares about your resumé and they all want you on board because you have shown that you can deliver and are a low-risk, high-return investment.
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Every time I watch an episode of House or read a story like this I think "Why isn't there an expert system for diagnostics". The notion of a person being able to manage such vasts amount of knowledge seems ridiculous and cost-ineffective.

If you could enter a bunch of positive and negative statements together with various medical records, and have the computer being able to ask additional queries, it seems a good system would be able to narrow down a list substantially. It would also side-step a lot of cognitive problems we humans face.

Now, I'm sure there are systems like this but they probably just aren't sophisticated , widespread enough or don't have large enough database. Or have they simply not yet reached widespread use because they cost too much, what's holding them back?

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Awesome, it's great to see such a reasonable priced conference. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend; the UCL term starts on the 26th of September. Hope it goes swimmingly anyway.
Because TDD is about test-driven design. And functional tests don't do any impact on design.

TDD is about creating code in a way, suitable for unit-testing and creating code step-by-step, keeping each step small and all branches tested.

TDD does these restrictions:

1. don't write line of code until you wrote failing test.

2. don't write line of test until you wrote code that "fixes" failing test.

So, by these restrictions, you will always try to cover all possible branches of your code, all possible different situations and corner-cases. While with functional tests, it's very hard to do that.
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I totally agree: people do capitalize on experience at different speeds. That said, I think the op fails to put himself into the company's shoes. As one comment said, false positives hurt a lot, so these kinds of company will try to avoid them at all costs, even if it means weeding out very good candidates. Management consulting firms do that a lot for example.
The whole "won't tip as easily" thing is misleading.

They say it would take "a small elephant" to knock it over. You know what is the size & weight of a small elephant? A car...

Rolling isn't the major cause of crash injuries anyway, it's crush and impact injuries. While this is an improvement over motorbikes in these areas (as well as the critical one of weather protection!) it is nothing like as safe as a car.
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Its not one or zero, Its not like suffer on the short run to enjoy on the longer or vice versa.

You need to plan both for the longer and shorter terms in life. I wouldn't be OK if I get a exotic vacation every now and then but a horrible time when I get old. Or the vice versa.

I think whats appropriate in life is to have short sprints of hectic work schedule where you can make you moderately big cash, then save and invest a part of it for retirement. Enjoy the rest to the fullest.
"A second success story is perhaps the most unfortunate, but also most popular way to reuse compiler technology: translate the input source to C code (or some other language) and send it through existing C compilers."

Author forgets to mention the more recent "success" story of compiling languages to Javascript. That is a shame for the industry that such thing exists.
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> The best tool for this job was to improve the Ruby version by way of C extensions, or write a new C command that does this work for you, linking in the Git and SVN code directly. This has little to no new concepts, is straightforward, and would have given you the best compatibility and performance.

Favoring "little to no new concepts" at least suggests a bias against certain kinds of learning. Sometimes learning a new concept is the best way to solve a problem.
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That's the fundamental UX/IxD dilemma. You can design something incredibly easy for new users, but those same users ultimately become power users down the line. At the right time scale, I think all users will choose efficiency over discoverability. The iPhone is a great example. How long did it take people to realise that bulk delete was needed for email?
> In Q3, it was more the way jumping impacted your movement speed which was a discovery.

Not really sure what you're talking about. Rockets and grenades hugely impacted player speed in Quake 1, but not so much in Quake 3. Check the speed run of the following level to see what I mean:

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The quad damage'd grenade jump at 11:19 is mind-boggling. I don't remember seeing that in Quake 3.
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