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It's not just a question of "cool", it's a question of relevance. A good friend of mine was issued a BlackBerry by her corporate IT department (part of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical firm). For her it's fine, since she's essentially a sales engineer for big pharma. She doesn't need access to a high end mobile web browser, or any of the other features you'll find on any 'normal' smartphone sold these days.

But, if her job was to build next-generation web-hosted services, her notion of what was possible, normal, and bleeding-edge in the mobile web space would be hopelessly out of sync with the hundreds of millions of Android and iOS users out there.
Surely you have to make an actual argument as to why it's useful though? So far all I've heard is "my friends don't use G+".
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I have to agree. The characters and situations have held up upon re-reading, but the explanations are very hit-or-miss.
"We hate tagging. Here's tagging!"

But grabbing page content and using it as search engine fodder is very smart. All the bookmarking sites should have been doing that from day one.
Apologies: I stopped reading the moment I saw the words "Miles David".
FYI: The DNS for kiind.me is just propagating. We'll be up shortly.
iOS has Exchange integration. Offer a BYOD policy with a $$$-$$$$/year subsidy.
That's the quake 3 match with team Avo, the same people who released the minecraft login exploit. (I say released, it wasn't found by them, as far as I can tell, but by Nodus, another griefing groups.)
Actually, I assumed he tried Googling the invalid numbers. And logging browser + geographic information in error handlers is standard practice.
Customers of what, exactly? I've not heard of anyone using Yahoo, except those that are holding on to Yahoo email addresses because they don't know it makes them look old and technically illiterate.
The rabbit hole goes even deeper. I would be even more upset if I had released said mp3 for free and you tried to make money from it. Figure that.

Sharing culture is much more complicated than just monetary values.
sending money P2P with the paypal app is fairly friction-less. Either way - this is great news for an industry (Fin-Tech) that needs more alternatives and more transparency
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I worked on video at Apple. While there, I once got a message on LinkedIn from some recruiter for Yahoo's TV widgets.

Here's the thing: That Yahoo even has TV widgets is why I will never talk to them.

If Mayer can shut all that bullshit down and actually do a small handful of things well enough for people like me to consider talking to them, I think she'll be one of the greatest CEOs in technology.

(I realize this post is embarrassingly self aggrandizing, but seriously, what kind of self-respecting engineer works for Yahoo?)
I'd prefer to see which products they kill based on data rather than just votes by employees.
That's a dead link.
They'll spend at least $5 billion on the project. That is enough money to completely remanufacture the entire arsenal several times using existing designs that are good enough.

They have been working on laser fusion since the 1970s, when they could test bomb designs by just setting them off. Indeed some of the early inertial confinement research was conducted using nukes as the radiation source.

Yes, it is true that the NIF data can be used to design and maintain bombs, but it is not required. We could provide a deterrent force without it. Therefore the real reasons are something else, my guess a combination of laser research, commercial and rocketry fusion research, and a large serving of national prestige.
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I guessing he probably tried googling for the IP address of the wannabe pirates in question, or their email addresses. Collecting email is normal for software sales, particularly when delivered over the internet and your IP address is logged pretty much anywhere you go online. If you aren't actively hiding yourself behind a proxy or using fake email accounts etc... it shouldn't be to hard to get some idea of who or what company or at least their ISP that you're dealing with.
Haha, Exchange. Try Lotus Notes.
Yeah, how dare the government build a viable competitor in the market. The nerve of being just as competent as the private sector!
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right, but you can at least hopefully prevent other people from asking. Comment Triage.
Poor isn't a single culture, but it's quite likely that poverty has certain consistent cultural effects which could contribute to lower IQ.
You can also click the X to the top right of the title text to remove the title and blurb.
Luckily, I had been using #tag on my Kippt bookmarks in lieu of them not having tags.
Neat. I'd like to see more of this kind of thing. Rather than throwing money at a problem, take an idea with promise and fill in the gaps with high quality production. The end result is a much more valuable product / company, advertising for your core skills, and a winning situation for everyone.

It also brings the emphasis back to products over abstract capital, which is great.
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In my completely uneducated view of the world, this situation is different because, whichever supermarket you pay at, you're cashing in on the skill and time which you previously contributed to society. You're also "voting with your dollar" and giving society some feedback about what it needs less and more of.

When you take something without paying for it, and that thing has a price, then you're saying that society owes you more than what it has judged your own value to be. That price of that object has been set relative to the price of your wages, in a long process of trial and error. Others need to work in order to pay for this thing, but you don't think that you do. That's how I see it from a moral standpoint.

I'm not following your train of thought in the second paragraph, but the statement "copying is needing" needs more qualification. And on the topic of needing: if you truly don't need something, then you should in fact let society "cut the fat". But if there was no one to make the software that you pirated, and if you actually never got to use the thing which you claim (I think) not to need, then would you have been just as happy? I think, if you use something that you "don't need", then you're just lying.

My own restaurant analogy for this is that piracy would be like a very stupidly run restaurant opening a free all-you-can-eat buffet out back, in addition to a full price menu. In the absence of a disincentive, no self-serving person would pay full price.

The supply of copyable software is infinite, but not the supply of time needed to make it. In order to make sure that B isn't undervalued, we can do any of the following:

- Artificially limit supply of A (drm).

- Find someone who values A more than you do (advertisers).

- Make people pay for B rather than for A (kickstarter).
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Jeff Atwood already tweeted that I should be made CEO so I'm not particularly inclined to demote myself. ;)
It's not as much fun if they do something that can trash data of innocent users. "The tree of evil bears bitter fruit" -

(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eo4Otm_TcW8C&pg=PT509...)

If the software thought you were running it under a debugger it would try to trash the disk. Unfortunately several errors made the software think it was running under a debugger even if it wasn't, and a few people lost data.
I am so, so tired of $x is broken. "$x is broken" is broken.
And this is why people continue to do these things. Sometimes it works out.
It reminds me back in the day of the 'to html' converter in Microsoft Word. If you had a table in the original document, the converter would needlessly specify all the typeface information in each individual cell...
From the apache site, "Apache Accumulo is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift." So, it's not like they started from zero, looks more like the early alternatives weren't a good fit. Furthermore i doubt any of the alternatives were very impressive in 2008.
But it's a profitable business, why should it have died?
I think you get the award for dumbest idea of the day.
The thing with tagging, when it's done by users, is that it communicates personal meaning and the users' interpretations.

When it's done by search engines, the user's voice is lost.

Now, yes, tagging is annoying in many cases and so I'll grant that it's "broken" – but I'd claim that removing the user's voice from it is not the best solution.

Is there a way to look at what I've tagged manually, previously, or any other classifications I've placed on other content and suggest meaningful tags for new content, based at least in part on how I've tagged stuff in the past?
Also: should the developers be in violation? I imagine it's a little like (sorry) kiddie porn, where, even if you're the kiddie, society doesn't want you supporting a community that it considers to be negative.
Because then I feel like I should be making that money. Also, there's the possibility (probability?) that in order to make money off of it, you're making it look like you made it, which my ego does not appreciate.
Customer lists, marketing test results, sales breakdowns, password databases, personnel files, you name it. Everybody is put under NDA to maintain these secrets.

Telling my dad about an invention without putting him under an NDA makes it unpatentable. It has nothing to do with trust. If you do not observe the proper legal forms, you are flushing IP down the toilet.
An evercookie is actually pretty straightforward to remove, if you know what you're doing with firebug/firecookie. The only tricky thing it does is persist a cookie in the sessionStorage of your window object, which isn't cleared when you clear your browser cache.
I've looked at many, many of these types of apps. Most are laughably easy to get around. Having one that only works on one type of browser when you have 4 different types is so easy to circumvent, it's not worth doing.
to buy design (...)

You don't buy design because it's not an asset. It's part of the process.
"Standard practice" for whom? The CIA? Gah! The very idea that some bit of desktop software needs to surreptitiously phone home in the event of an error really rubs me the wrong way. Not only is it wholly unnecessary but it's also a serious intrusion of privacy.

OP: does your software tell people up front (i.e. not hidden in some 10 page EULA) it's going to phone home? Do you allow them to opt out? If there is an option, what's the default?
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Typically LedgerSMB is hosted by people who know what they are doing regarding the software, or it is self-hosted on-premises by the customer. I know of a few hosting providers. One charges $20/month for the service.

We are running on PostgreSQL which removes most of the options for $3/month hosting anyway.

But we already have dependencies that require Moose and therefore there isn't much point in avoiding it.
Really? Why do you think so? :)
Tagging is broken, so you just add a # in front of it and call it a hashtag. Genius!
Hopefully without any visuals.
A lot of you keep asking what it is that Yahoo! does, which is a valid question, but you're forgetting about what they own and what they could do with their properties.

If there's one word that ties all of their more popular services together, it's "social". Tons of people still use Yahoo! Games, Y! Messenger, Flickr, Del.icio.us – all incredibly social communities. And Yahoo! Mail is still widely used.

I think their issue is that they lack an underlying framework from which these services should be stemming. With proper structure and integration, they could really give Google and Facebook a run for their money. Google has been trying for ages to utilize their Gmail userbase to bolster their social plays, and it's worked with varying success. Yahoo! has both the email userbase and the social communities; they just need to find a way to tie the two together into a cohesive social platform.
MPAA powerless to cloud services that let you torrent to/stream from? Discuss.
Not at all. Most people don't care about the frequent updates. I certainly don't. I get a daily update. There's simply a section of the geek population that likes to whine loudly. If you don't like Firefox's update cycle switch to Chrome.
Sadly, they sold Delicious.
I used to think Yahoo!'s days are over but it turns out it's hugely popular in Asia (Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan). Search engine wise it's behind Google but it's big when it comes to e-mail, news and all sorts of media content.
I don't believe it is a poor justification. It is a name chosen for this particular set of numbers. In fact, every name we've put on things in mathematics is "by definition". Real numbers, pi, odd numbers, perfect numbers. Someone found that particular definition useful, and others continued to use it.

In the case of prime numbers I believe you cited one of the best reasons of leaving 1 out of the set. If someone needs a name for "the number one and all prime numbers", they can define it.
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I use quite a few of their services, some for legacy reasons. I use Flickr, admin a few mailing lists on Yahoo Groups, and am just in the process of convincing my muscle memory to move over from finance.yahoo.com to finance.google.com.
I think he was referencing the Office Space comparison and Smykowski defending his job by saying he was good with customers.
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You missed out because of a typo. Congrats.
I've been experimenting with Dwolla lately. They charge $0.25 per transaction over $10 (and nothing for under $10). The downside is they skip credit cards and go straight for your bank account so you a) need to hook up your bank account to them (which I did for PayPal anyway), and b) unless you have money hanging out in your Dwolla account, paying someone takes 3 days for the bank transfer to clear (which, again, is going to happen with PayPal anyway if you use a bank and don't run a balance, like me).

My only real problem with Dwolla is their iOS app sucks, and their website isn't a whole lot better. But I've had no problems with their actual service, although I've only transferred a few hundred dollars so far.
Normally I'd agree with you, however I think OP has a good (implied) point that the underlying structures and culture need serious overhaul before any real product work can be done.
Everyone seems to be talking about the force-yourself-to-code part of this, but I recently read something about "write every morning" and as a tool for that this sounds appealing -- but only because my job is coding, not writing. Sort of like stretching before athletic activity, maybe?

The only thing that worries me is I have to inspect and trust the code to not do anything with potentially sensitive text. something local would be nice.
I am told by sports fans that Yahoo's sports content and fantasy sports leagues are quite good (I have no idea, please don't yell at me if you disagree.)

They also own flickr, which I'm sure you knew.

I am quite certain that people would care if these things, along with their @yahoo.com email addresses disappeared tomorrow. I'm sure you knew this too, because email is central to our online lives at this point.

So okay, you actually do know what yahoo does. What you don't know is their purpose. Google's purpose is to index all the worlds information (and then slap ads on it, but first one, then the other.) Apple's purpose is to make really great products, and then market them so well that people think they're even greater.

So, given what we know yahoo has, what's a consistent product story they could tell that would answer the question that comes up again and again?
This will either lead to the products currently employing the most staff being kept, or some bizarre Eurovision-style vote trading phenomenon.
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Yahoo produces web software that it gives to customers for free and then sells ads against. They are profitable doing this.

They valley makes fun of them because the valley doesn't value profitable businesses, the valley values consumer craze for a product.
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Yup. I'm hoping by hiring the best engineers/designers/etc and putting together great product teams, you implicitly get people who care about users.
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The same model is used for startup funding.
Google, Yahoo, and Apple's purpose is to maximize shareholder value. Those other things are just marketing fluff. Yahoo could do with some better marketing.
Will there be any other cases from you guys in the near future? Rainbow colored doesn't appeal to everyone.
You are actually right, the European take on immigration is awfully right winged when compared to American... It's due to the way these nations built themselves. US is a country of immigration, it literally constructed itself upon it. While Europe is a place of emigration, immigrants always were looked upon as strangers lurking around. But France also being a latin country, kept something of the Right of the Soil, mixed with the Right of the Blood from northern and eastern European people.

So it's quite bastard... problematic.

Your reading is quite unfortunately not totally correct. A child born or not in France is in theory undeportable, even if their parents are from Mars or undocumented (which seems to be the same to some people...). Actually, under 18 it's impossible to be undocumented... because there is no document to authorize a child to live in France, they all have naturally this right. No visa, nothing.

EXCEPT (there always a fucking horrible exception), if you came into France without requesting a Visa (that is not needed... but you must request it... go figure...) and entered France coming from another state of the European Union (thanks EU for your horrible immigration law). Then the kid can be sent back to the EU country he came from... which is free to deport the kid if the law of this country allow it. (Well except if he came into France without parents... then he is not deportable again).

But then the worse is to come. If the parents are undocumenteds... well, their kid is not deportable... but they are. It's been a long time France dealt with the "anchor babies"... and in the most hypocrite way. So the parents have a choice : Go with their children, or abandon their children... I kid you not. And I let you imagine what most of parents end up deciding... And no, the answer is not what most fox news talk show hosts would think, since they think that these parents only have those children to have documents.
It's sad... but we have problems with the far right since much longer than you... the damage they've done to our law is staggering.

So the final answer is yes. A kid of undocumenteds born in France, can be deported (""""at his parents choice""""), and then he will not be able to respect the 5 years requirements, and not be French at all.

I hope the actual administration is going to change something about that... but well.. I know the won't.
You guys keep amazing me. It saddens me when I see my job constantly talking about getting 'another' Glance account. I'll keep fighting the good fight for you.
Start by fixing Yahoo! Mail. It's become SPAM central, and there's no reason for that. Also, stop charging for POP mail access - is it really worth it? I've been a Yahoo mail user since the 1990's, but if anyone asks me for my email address now, it's gmail. Only because I know my mail that goes there will arrive relatively quickly, and I haven't had my account hacked by spammers ever with gmail.
Don't try to make Yahoo mail look like an online version of Outlook, it gets so cramped. An inspiration to start with would be something along the lines of how mail is viewed on the iPad, but available in the same way on the desktop (yes, many people out there, especially long standing yahoo mail users, still use PC's).
This is the company we've been building for almost a year now (part time for the first 10 months or so). Big thanks to HN for getting me into startups and getting me to go out on my own. It took 2 startup schools to get me to do it but better late than never.

If you just want to look at a sample page here's mine: http://www.glos.si/dan
If your business is based around mobile design, for gods sake give your site a mobile design!
Keep in mind that this is a top grossing app, which means most apps are making a tiny fraction of this. Even if it only took one programmer and four months, which is very unlikely, that's still in the range of a good yearly salary and it won't stay on top without continuous updates and promotion.

I'll say it again: the smart way to make money in the app store is to get paid writing apps for other people.
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This really confused me too. I still don't understand the innovation here, if there is any.
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Exactly. I think of my own apps as part of my online portfolio. I gave up a long time ago on the idea that I could support myself on app sales.
News about Steve Mann's assault in one of France main newspaper.
I'm currently contracting to a large organisation that has Blackberries only, Windows XP and Lotus Notes 7 as their basic worker setup. It is quite painful and is actually a consideration point for me to work elsewhere. And I wonder the inefficiency cost when you multiply this over 10's of thousands of employees.
I don't think he's there any longer.
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You, most of the HN crowd, and myself live in a world removed from the real world. I work for a company which sells fancy business cards and print products to dentists who easily spend more than $1000 on one order, and you know what? They usually have an earthlink.net, aol.com, or yahoo.com email address, and nothing in this world is going to make them change that. I tell some customers we can set them up with your own business email FOR FREE, and they simply politely refuse. Yahoo has the eyeballs of people who actually spend money, not people like myself who want free email and who are trained to never click on an ad.
Yes, I noticed that too, the journalist must have misunderstood that.

Don't see any rifle association there.
Making 4000 units a day and still not meeting demand is a nice problem to have, frustrating as it is for a lot of people.
Kippt, please do not offer "Log in with X" and then require a username and email in the next page. I know you want my email address so you can frequently send me newsletters that I don't want, so if what you meant was "register with X" then write that instead.
Perhaps, but this starfucker got passed off to the roadies. Happens all the time. The pride is a bit misplaced.

That was indelicate. What I mean is that Michael Arrington is not a kingmaker. If you have something to offer the world, get out and do it.

Don't play the sycophant -- it degrades you and fluffs the preeners.
Perhaps it was editorial, but in this interview if Miles likes it he knows exactly who did it, and if not, why he doesn't like it. It could be that he just didn't like things he wasn't familiar with, but it's likely that he had a clear sense of style and was versed enough to know his industry.

If he were a modern programmer he would hate Rails, but know exactly why the bad decisions were made.
12. Ignore #11 because it's dismissive and ignorant of the important components required to run a company that aren't directly related to customers or users.

Really. The author is a former Y! employee who's experienced firsthand what he thinks are a lot of the reasons behind the company's decline, and you step in with a snarky one-liner that basically says everything he's written is invalid.