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Editorial support and guidance is traditionally provided by the literary agent, so there is another professional layer between the writer and the market to consider. Big publishers maintain links with literary agencies based on the agencies' reputation for signing and nurturing talent and delivering ready-to-publish manuscripts that will sell. This arrangement persists at least in the world of commercial and literary fiction.
I think the current email protocol should not be changed, for maximum backwards compatibility. The solution should be a web (or native, why not) client that does all those things based on the email content.

The difference would be giving feedback to the sender ("your email has been marked as important" or "your email has been converted to a task" etc.), with obvious incentives to convert to said email client. Thus, if both recipient and sender use the solution, this feedback happens in-app, without emails being sent back and forth.

There's a lot of room for creativity when designing a client. I liked someone else's idea of integrating with the various web apps such as todo lists, calendars etc. to keep from reinventing the wheel.
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Your comment nails the point. Email is to internet communication, as text files is to storing file data. It's the most basic form that's usable.

Sure, you could bolt on abstractions over it like doc/rtf etc. but at the most fundamental level you need some form of cross compatibility.
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> We appreciate our 22-30 days vacations, without any contact with the employer while enjoying friends and family.

Not in any company I've worked for. You're expected to answer emails, phone calls, etc. whilst on holiday. I used to follow along with this but now fight back by simply not taking my phone, laptop, or checking any emails but it's always frowned upon. Then again, it's not like they can sack me for it.
I heard that a technique at "France Telecom" to manage mail after holidays was quite simple.

1. Delete all mail
2. If it was important, they will contact you again.
This is pretty much a demo. I would imagine if PizzaExpress works with us or create their own passes, the user doesn't have to copy/paste the coupon code. The user can simply download it from an url.

On a side note, the waitress did check the coupon's content and expiration date. So it's better to use a real coupon.
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Something not being user serviceable doesn't mean that it warrants an antitrust process. The two things couldn't be further apart.

As to your first point, would you agree that, say, 95% of all devices are "locked to the death in terms of software"? Because if you think about it, you'll see it is quite true. Note that by this I don't disagree with openness, I'm just contradicting the assumption that Apple is not the norm here.
No framework approach only work for a one person team or very small team and by design cannot scale.

As soon as you try to bring somebody that will mainly "use" those tools/libraries instead of actively developing them, the tools/libraries becomes a de-facto framework to them, just a proprietary one with no community.

If/once you open-source it, it just becomes another framework competing with the other ones.

Basically: http://xkcd.com/927/

In short, if you are not rewriting everything new from scratch for every project, you are using a framework - only your own.
The issue is as much psychological and cultural as it is technological.

The 80s were a period of great diversity and hence progress. In that decade I used 6502 (BBC Micro), 68000 (ST), ARM (Archimedes), there were also Z80 and early x86s. There were many approaches to systems design, many competing ideas, what you might call a Cambrian Era (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion).

By the 90s, things settled down. People (as in, "end users", the people who ultimately pay for software) had figured out what they wanted to do, which is forms (screens for entering data into a database) and reports (screens for getting it out again, nicely formatted). Messaging, as in email/IM, is just a special case of this (and today, FB et al are just forms and reports). What was "good enough" for this was an x86 (which happened to be running Windows, but that's irrelevant IMHO) and that became the lowest common denominator. The diversity was still there in the form of the Unix workstation market but they spent all their strength competing with one hand and trying to standardize with the other. Meanwhile the relentless march of hardware continued on, Intel was swimming in cash and none of the Unix vendors noticed, they were all preoccupied. Now there is one architecture to rule them all (tho' ARM still clings on).

And we the developers are to blame. We fell into a comfort zone. The users wanted forms and reports, and that's what we gave them. Then the hardware gave us more power and we gave them bells and whistles too. But really, that is solved, has been solved for 2 decades now. Nearly everything we do with computers now, could have been done in 1990, and what they did then, we do the same now, except arguing over syntax, which of a dozen functionally equivalent "frameworks" to use, which ALGOL-derived language to use, which desktop to use with slightly different-looking widgets that do the same thing, etc etc etc. All this is just procrastination. None of these things matter. But comfort zones are, well, comfortable. It's like we climbed a small hill and stopped to enjoy the view because we are afraid of the mountain we have to climb still.

There are a few tantalizing glimmers now, of the "next level". But we wasted 20 years dicking about.
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Not the GP, but the quote gives undue importance to a number of websites that have been successful. You have to consider whether some early software (say Unix and the C compiler) was more instrumental to the transformative effects of software on humanity, or say the software written Xerox PARC, or the original TCP/IP work.
We need to rewind computing to 1990 and start again from there.
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In France, Germany and Denmark (where I have been employed) you can do this for something like 10 to 20 days (usually 10 days). But sometimes, you can do this but some of them need to be taken within 3 months of the next "holiday" year (the holiday year starts usually 1st of April).

It means for example, that with the about 11 holidays + WE + 30 paid holidays + 10 days from the year before, you can get a year with 51 days "unconnected".
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That is fabulous. I want to develop a site that shows statistics of a certain kind (won't get into that here), and it would be great if I could charge people a very very small fee to see them. I don't know if your product would suit that need as well.

I was trying to think of helpful suggestions, but couldn't really think of any. The only thing I can think to tell you is that if the business involves bitcoin, you could probably get a lot of loyal early adopters and raise some decent seed funding at http://glbse.com (however, it's a legally gray area right now).
Yes, this is my sense, too. I have 25+ days of vacation a year, and I take every one of them. My manager has more vacation time, and he takes every last day, generally to very isolated locations. Our CEO is known to go off the grid for weeks at a time.

If I travel for more than two weeks (my family road trips across the country each year), I do take my laptop, but only to work remotely between destinations. By "sneaking" in a few days of work here and there (like when stopping in to visit family), I can extend our trip.

My impression at other companies with less generous vacation policies is that many "rank and file" employees do disconnect during their shorter trips, but management generally doesn't leave the laptop/phone at home.
This is something you can use Zapier for: https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/trello

also Evernote:
https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/evernote
This one sounds like a bug report / feature request, how about turning it into one?
I was one of the first viewers of the Mixergy video interviews. I was with the site and a regular visitor from very early on and got to know Andrew Warner (Site owner) a little bit when the site was still quite small. Everytime i'd watch a video interview and interact with people on twitter thereafter i'd feel like i could take over the world.

But after about 6 to 9 months of doing this, i noticed i was doing more watching and learning then actual doing. So i started to cut down on watching the videos.

I dont watch them as often now as i try to work on my business and get something done, but i do miss the buzz because it really motivates you and makes you feel like you can achieve anything.

I think there's a certain balance to be had. I dont disagree with this blog post at all, and i think it's very wise and sound advice, and it's something that i have learned experientially over time. But i wouldnt want to discredit the motivating effect of "mental masturbation" exercises which in themselves can be helpful.

As i say, balance is key.
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I'm in Austria too, and as someone who suffered through 15 years of professional working life in California with no more than 4 consecutive days off the whole time (seriously), I can seriously say: thanks, Austria, for the time off. ;)

Lots of other things not to love about Austria (mobthink, Austro-fascism, the horrid city of Vienna, &etc), but the vacation policies are a dream.
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ha! Just hit my 1 year mark and got bumped from 2 weeks (5 days personal, 5 days vacation) to 3. Since things like getting sick and/or personal time are deducted from the balance, I had to wait until the end of my year to take a vacation (in order to make sure I had the time).

So all in all I basically got a week to spend time with my family.

Would kill for a policy like this.
Was mentioned on their blog a couple of years ago: https://github.com/blog/595-diff-your-gist

I'm convinced it's a management decision to keep gists simple. What I'm trying to gauge is - how many other people would find it useful to bring the full API to gist.github.com ?
There were some email interop tools built on top of it, including an email notification system from Google. I think it was an excellent solution to several problems, but the default client was just too heavy and slow.
Was it mature enough then to have been used in production at twitter's scale?
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Man, I still find myself reaching for

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all the time. How sad.
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I feel like google wave tried to tackle these problems as well.

Specifically, it was possible for people to join and leave a conversation much in the same way that facebook messaging threads work now.

While Wave did subscribe fairly heavily to the traditional message and reply model it also had support for wiki-style messages, so it was possible for a summary to be maintained in the top message of each thread. (The instant replay tool I always thought was very cool, too.)

And towards the end it did start to introduce some tools to encourage people to summarise information (although admittedly nothing revolutionary). I'm mainly thinking of its widgets for event organisation, date planning and voting which are always horrible to do via email.

I think Wave had a lot of problems and, it may be, that the problems it did solve it didn't solve well but I do think it at least tried and had a few good ideas.
But at that stage what you want is effectively a messaging client with heavy to-do functionality, rather than some transformative. Bolting the to-do functionality on is probably a lower-hanging fruit than a new protocol.

Ideally you'd need a protocol system that allows for multiple data formats to be specified through a plugin mechanism to cope with things like social networks and SMS on top of email, but then you're squarely in the territory of being at the whims and mercy of constantly ensuring the plugin works with the backend data APIs for the services (for social networks), and sticking to the letter of the RFC law for email.

It's a great idea, but as they say, going to need a bigger boat.
Very true, perhaps something along the lines of sublime text. So at it's core it's just a fast simple email client. Then have a really nice plugin system so people can create their own plugins really easily to customize it or add functionality as they like.

Of course non-geeks won't really understand installing plugins however others could create services (whitelabel versions) that have a bunch of plugins pre-installed so they work well out of the box.
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I can already see people hoping in with but publishers do so much more comments. This is true, but somewhat besides the point.

The point is that publishers, in their traditional form, are highly adapted to an environment that no longer exists. At its centre is a reality that printing books is expensive and is cheaper the larger the volume. Someone needs to speculate and invest money upfront to do the printing. Since larger volume is cheaper one big book is better than lots of little books. Risk investors also usually like to minimize investments so that they can know them better. This creates a push for volume and low risk. For that you need to increase upfront spend on things like shelfspace and publicity which then increases the pressure for bigger (higher volume) books. These upfront costs keep eating into (percentage-wise) what is left for the author. Since it means bigger sales, the individual author might be better off but as a whole, the pie doesn't get much bigger. Mostly the pie gets divided in a way that includes fewer authors and more things like financing, screening, etc. Since "publishers" became this amalgamation of services that make up most of the production and distribution price of books, it makes sense to keep adding services. Going from 68% to 71% is not the same as going from 4% - 7%.

Like software, music, video and anything else that got digitized, two things changed: marketing (promotion, sale, distribution) went online and costs went down. Marginal costs to near zero and capital costs to a flexible level (you still need to write the book, but there is no minimum print run). That removes the need for size, removes the need for risk management, makes room for lots of little books, and lots of other things that make the old publisher model somewhat redundant. The different elements get mixed up. Amazon/Apple are sort of lean publishers + retailers + publicists. Thats using the old terms though and they don't really describe the new things very well. Anyway..

Maybe in the future new leaner publishers take over. Maybe authors self publish but hire the services of publicists, editors and such independently. We don't really know.

At this point though it doesn't seem obvious that traditional publishers are any closer to the ideal version than self publishing authors.

There is also a wildcard in here that the product itself can be radically transformed by sales, distribution and consumption mediums. We know about magazines calling short stories into existence. We know about itunes causing a shift from albums to single songs. Maybe short stories will return. Maybe the future is £0.10 per chapter of a 1000 chapter/30 year page book (please nobody tell George RR Martin about this). Maybe its "subscribe to this author. Maybe copyright will die and free will take over.
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That sounds similar to the Steve Jobs Calculator Construction Set story (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...).

For the 90% of people I imagine until something much better is forced upon them they'll be perfectly happy with what they have, be it Gmail or Outlook. For the people who want a better experience, I imagine a lot of them will have the technical ability to strike forth and do it.

Essentially what you want is a backend message server and then let people communicate with it however they fancy with a high level API they can plug into their widget toolkit of choice if you go down that route. If you're into C++/Qt there's already a solution that does that (http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/09/21/introducing-qmf-an-advan...).
I don't know what the general rule is here. My employer allows my to save a certain number of vacation hours for the next year. However, these leftovers can only be used the next year. In other words, you cannot save hours multiple years, and then take a year of ;).
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I never thought of it like that. Rather then passively consuming content in the vague hope it will come in useful one day, or endlessly reading best practice guides or hot new trends/technology. But instead to search for the information as and when you need it.

Perhaps we over rate serendipity in the vague hope something will come along and solve a current problem, or more truthfully we're looking for distraction and legitimise it by linking it to work in some way.

Either way - it's given me a new perspective. Thank you Daniel, I always find your articles insightful.
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The drop-off rate is going to be much higher for Amazon than Paypal. Amazon payments requires you to have an Amazon account and signin to it to make a payment, with Paypal you can just pay by credit card.

If you're VC funded I'd go direct to a friendly merchant account provider (you'll need to put down a substantial deposit as you're in a high-risk business which is why this is only really an option if you're funded), otherwise I'd just go with Paypal (which is what most smaller marketplaces use).
It doesn't just apply to startup advice.

I've stopped reading articles or watching screencasts which, although interesting, is not immediately actionable. Instead, I'll bookmark it so I feel that I can get back to it when needed and I move on (in practice, though, I rarely go back through old bookmarks but its psychologically soothing to bookmark them).
I think it really depends on what problems you're trying to solve, and what you need to maintain an expert in; Needing a good understanding and overview of the holistic picture vs. if you're dedicating the next X months-years problem solving some engineering problem.
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> I don't know if your product would suit that need as well.

Somewhat. If you install my software on your server, you get a portion of money from my user's subscription. I call the model "microsubscription".

As for bitcoin, I'm trying to be as currency-agnostic as possible (not least because I'm in Australia). However I probably couldn't support it right out of the gate because the inter-currency exchange market is not as well developed as it is for major currencies.

For example, suppose I have website X, expecting to be paid in AUD and subscriber Y who wants to pay in bitcoin. At settlement time, it will be hard to find a buyer for bitcoin in AUD, so I will probably have to go through USD first. I'm not hugely keen on that because of the complexity and transaction costs.
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Why is Belin becoming so popular? I could be very wrong, but Germany seems to be relatively harder jurisdiction within which to operate a business (especially a start-up), with the extra bureaucracy and harsher privacy laws.

I'm surprised more American businesses aren't picking somewhere like Amsterdam if they're wanting to set up shop in continental Europe, especially with its lower immigration barriers for non-European entrepreneurs.
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>> Instead, stop reading this article (it's a waste of your time too), get out of your chair, and go and find some concrete problems and opportunities to measure yourself against.

This advice applies to at least 30% of articles on HN
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It's very true that you can't expect to build a startup in the Philippines solving first world problems.

The Filipino entrepreneurs I respect tell me that if you want to target the largest group of consumers today, your best bet is SMS. That's where the action is. AFAICT the RP is the texting capital of the world.
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