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Colin, I think the most likely situation is that you are offered a great job by someone who doesn't want you to continue side work.

You'd have to make the decision between that well-paid dream job, or your commitment to your own business. If we are lucky, you can negotiate an exemption based on limited hours required to maintain tarsnap, and/or some contract fulfillment period (contract to customers, which does not exist presently).

Or you could farm the maintenance out to a trusted person, give them a cut of the biz, and stay on as a passive shareholder.

I'm happy that tarsnap does well for you, but we know it will be quite a stretch for it to match your potential for income and impact at a larger company. We hope it expands to meet and exceed all of your needs, and gives you other kinds of valuable rewards.

But we wouldn't hold it against you if you had to make personal decisions that didn't fulfill all of our wishes. You don't owe us that. No one does.

If you were feeling generous, you could offer customers a 1-year product EOL notice guarantee. Barring insolvency, acts of g-d, etc, that you pledge to operate tarsnap at full service levels for at least one year after notification of product EOL. That's more than most small companies offer, and more than enough for us to get our stuff moved elsewhere. 1 year might be too much.
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I tend to agree with the cynics who think that this a nice way of packaging a $300 bonus. It's not a bad thing to be doing, but I'm unimpressed.

Non-Lenovo-specific rant: I know there's a lot of negative attention being given to "bonus" compensation for executives and high-ranking bankers, and I agree. I don't like the bonus model (for non-executives) either because it includes an implicit penalty for leaving a job except at a known time. It's why, if you're in a New York startup, you can't hire anyone from finance in October through December (or from Google in February-March).

That said, the real fuck-up in executive bonuses and compensation isn't that good executives get huge bonuses. They should. I would rather have a good CEO getting a ridiculous package than a bad one. $20 million is chump change in comparison to the difference between a large company having a good CEO vs. a bad one. It can be worth 100 times that to have a good leader. The vomit-inducing criminality is that all big-company executives (even the incompetents and assholes) get million-dollar payouts, not for achieving anything necessarily but just for winning the social-climbing contest necessary to get those jobs. CEOs who actually build and maintain great companies, or who turn failing companies into great ones (as I hope Marissa Mayer does with Yahoo) deserve to get filthy rich. Shitty CEOs (most of them, since getting that job in most companies is mostly about social favor-peddling rather than competence) deserve jack shit.

The real problem with executive compensation is not a moral issue (if they're excellent, they deserve it, because they're capturing less than 1% of the value they add) but that it seems to have a negative effect on performance: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/pay-more-get-... .
> How do you prevent sales in the US if it's only sold online?

Just preventing sales from customers in the US app store would be a lot of damage. Google and Apple already have different products available according to country of origin. Billing addresses can also be easily checked.
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There was an article on HN about genius and if it could be replicated and one point was to just look at a problem in a way you normally wouldn't. Well, that's kind of hard since I'm me and I look at things how I look at them. While I'm great at connecting unrelated ideas, it seems I'm not exactly great at problem-hacking. http://www.creativitypost.com/create/how_geniuses_think

While not exactly as concrete of a plan, there's the Anthony Robbins idea of living with expectancy (ie, expect the next page you turn, door you open, person you find yourself beside to potentially "open the flood gates"). http://i.imgur.com/VE1Mg.png I've been trying this the last few weeks and while it feels good to think about, I'm finding so far that it doesn't work (for me). Maybe I rationally don't expect 'expectancy' to work...
Impressionist doesn't mean abstract. Have you ever stood ~30 feet away from a Monet? It looks just like looking at a regular painting, or better because he really tried to paint to the way your eyes and brain see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism#Impressionist_te...
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I use jQuery extensively and have done so for years now. Its a great lib that's really easy to use so I guess that explains to some degree its pervasiveness ( roughly 50% of top milltion sites according to http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript). But once you get into complex applications it becomes a nightmare - at least in my experience. jQuery UI is very limited and for building enterprise interfaces Dojo and ExtJS blow jQuery out of the water.

Is this 50% then everything that's not webapps with complex interfaces? Do any frontend devs actually use jQuery for user interaction (beyond slideshows and the massive amount of plugins)? Has anyone come up with a way to tame jQuery soupe and organize it into something maintainable on large applications?

I'd like to know what the community of js developers thinks about this and the future of jQuery, since for the past year or so I've more or less given up on it asside from simple frontend stuff and use almost exclusively Dojo and ExtJS for my apps.
>If they don’t — well, at least they’ve eliminated a competitor, and they still win.

Since when was Sparrow a competitor to Google?
haha love the typo "mindcraft" rather than "minecraft" (pg3, section 12).
John Cleese said pretty much the same thing about creativity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg

He talks of letting your mind "rest against the problem" rather than battering at it. Crucial are time and space, and a little bit of time allocated for just letting your head clear out all the day-to-day crap that's in there.
It outperforms Vorbis and AAC even at their (high-latency) forte, though.
Don't forget the antenna. In many cases, the antennas themselves have specific polarization and beamwidth/radiation patterns along with SWR that is directly tied to the frequency range of the antenna itself. SDR doesn't change any of this.
When patents are readable. That is, never.
You can't use this tool with PhoneGap - it's for styling native code.
I believe I already read this article a while back on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4007047

Anyway, it raises a very important point, not just for the advertising web but for IT in general.

it seems part of the catalytic nature of IT, that it does both increase efficency and reduce effectiveness of ads. because the increased exposure reduces the effectiveness in our minds, the omnipresence of ads online will cause their prices to fall, causing the need for more ads. it's like a death spiral. however I'm wondering then how could print and tv ads survive for so long? maybe one solution might be to actually decrease the number of ads on the web - to maybe one prominent, shortly displayed ad per page (could there be a study measuring the average screen/page share for ads in print and online media?).

or if that fails: IT costs have also been decreasing every year, hence even if facebooks revenues might stall, ever lower server costs might allow them to keep a profit. nowadays a one man show can in many instances run a small business on the web with thousands of clients.
Maybe I should stop using email while I'm at it.
Adverts-wise, anything that shows Google's content without making ad-revenue for Google is a potential pie-eater they can eliminate.
when comparing unacceptable impacts, we might try: http://mapw.org.au/download/nuclear-famine-findings
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I guess the problem with this is that in the days of app stores, internet everywhere , automatic updates and 0 day vulnerabilities software suddenly looks very fragile and susceptible to bit rot.

I remember in the late 90s there were still plenty of people around using Word 6.0 which was old at the time but still usable since MS allowed recent versions of Word to create docs compatible with it.

Now, if your favourite app gets pulled from the store (that your device is locked to), gets broken by an OS update or the developers simply release a non reversible update that you don't like you're in trouble. Not to mention the consequences of the vendor going bust or getting bought by a rival.

There seems to be a strong "C'mon just use an iPad and the cloud already!"
voice on HN, I guess I can understand why people are somewhat conservative about it.
Perhaps we should only pay for development of open-source software, so we actually own what we're paying for.
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That's a pretty stupid fucking argument, dude.
Or at the very least , a promise from the developers that the product will become open source if one of a number of conditions are met.
As a British person who voted Lib Dem, I'd need a lot more than a "promise" to quell my worries.
If you can find someone who can sprint 1000 meters, you have a real beast on your hands.
He has a good technical reason for not liking html mail, but the number of people who care about this are vanishingly small and a device maker doesn't really need to care about them. There'll be an app to come along soon I imagine.
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If it was part of the license agreement? I don't know how enforceable this would be in practice though.

Perhaps a neutral third party gets code access and a contract with the developer and users as to when/if it will be released?
This glosses over some important syntactic differences. For instance, a semicolon is used differently in C than it is in Pascal. In C, it's a terminator; in Pascal, it's a separator.
I don't use Sparrow so please correct me if I am wrong.

The applications are still fully functional and are working perfectly fine until Apple changes anything they heavily depend on or something replaces imap.

You own your copy of Sparrow and it still works.

Imagine you buy a BMW and in 10 years you cannot get the required fuel anymore. Does this mean you only pay for a new car when you get all plans for the engine and the whole construction or do you just buy another car?
(I know that the comparison doesn't work 100%)
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Fair enough, and no in fact I didn't read your post as pro-nuclear advocacy. I am just particularly keen to underscore the fact that, any overblown perceptions aside, nuclear weapons are definitely bad enough to be worth a bit more effort to halt their development and then eliminate them from our world.
I just came back here after reading: http://mapw.org.au/download/nuclear-famine-findings
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Thing is, Sparrow was relatively cheap. And as I understand, they had a team of 5. So perhaps they were not as 'self-sustaining' as we assumed.

I guess the take-away is that, if you're going to remain independent - you had best charge a premium. In fact, Sparrow already was a premium app - so it is conceivable they could have doubled or tripled the price of their product with minimal impact on the size of their customer base.
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In 1998 we wouldn't of complained - at least me.

It is 2012, and when I purchase software, I don't buy into the premise that this software is going to be static for perpetuity, and this is because of the fast-paced nature of OS, platform and web evolution.

I "marry" the software I love, and I am very happy to pay for upgrades. I upgrade my Mac the day after a new OS X version is released, not only that, but I use non-large company software every day for years: Panic, Bjango, Made@Gloria, etc.

When I buy software, I don't only buy into the software I get, but I support it because I think it has a bright and better future. If I knew the developer was to stop development going forward, I would simply not support it.

Going forward, if I find that a small/medium developer has received capital from an angel or VC, I am going to stay away from it (I already decided not to use Foursquare, Path, Highlight, Kik and many other mobile apps for this reason) - the investor will have the need to flip the company, whatever the outcome for the software is.
Or "Mindcraft" as the legal document describes it.
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You don't need AR, contact lenses etc. You just need a way to remove the screen and keyboard, i.e. a better way to interact with a computer.
I think the broader point that doesn't analogise so well with cars is network effects and compatibility.

Even cars from the 1950s are compatible with modern roads, also they can have a lead additive put into the fuel, or the owner can convert the car to run on unleaded petrol.

If your program is old and closed source (in this context , old cars are basically open source since they can be repaired by anyone with relatively standard knowledge and tools).

I never used Sparrow, but I'll assume that at least they worked with standard email protocols like IMAP and POP3 making a switch to another mail client feasible. Imagine instead that they had used some proprietary (and possible patented) web service API. Then their users would really be in trouble, and this is a sort of model many startups seem to be going for.
Firefox for Android supports Flash, fwiw.
For something as critical as email, "fine until Apple changes anything" is not good enough, given that Apple has a habit of changing things.
Well, the first line of the article is

> Facebook not only is on course to go bust but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it.

Perhaps that's just a juicy opening line to draw people in to the article - but it sure sounds like predicting a demise to me.

Some of the things the article says are reasonable - but I wouldn't bet a dollar on facebook going bust and taking the entire ad-supported web with it.
I understand they were trying to finalize the spec and weren't worried too much about the individual encoder decisions, but check out some of the code at the bottom of this convo, it's scary http://pbox.ca/16cbg
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You pay yourself when you save. If you live paycheck to paycheck, you never pay yourself.
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Obvious thing: Some security vulnerability is found which gives attackers access to your system or so.

Or: There is some bug which gets active let's say after year 2013 or after 10k mails or so.

Or: (I don't know Sparrow so not sure if this applies.) You have created/build some app-specific content/database (like have done all your mail tagging with Sparrow) so you want to re-use it on future Apple hardware. Now assume that Apple introduces some new architecture (like an ARM MacBook) or makes some incompatible API changes in future MacOSX versions. Either you can't upgrade your hardware/OS or you will loose the app-specific work.

Etc.
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I don't agree about a competitive mindset for negotiating salary, actually. It should also be collaborative.

Don't say "Why don't you give me a pay raise?" but say "What can I do to earn £Xk more?"

If the answer is "nothing" - find another job.

If the answer is "just keep doing what you're doing and wait 10 years until you get promoted to the level where that's the salary" - find another career.

If the answer is reasonable, and achievable within a reasonable period of time, do it and get your pay raise.
Agree; in fact every single proprietary software or technology I have ever paid for was abandoned or turned into a pile of junk.
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I had to double check the date on the post. Nope, it was written now. I am sorry, I don't see how this is news.
Wow you're really reaching here now, aren't you? The bitstream format and software are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License and the BSD license, respectively.

By your definition anything not in the public domain is proprietary.
No need to guess. Licensing info & source code are available at http://ios.wordpress.org/development/

The Vendor directory contains the third-party libraries they're using. All of them appear to be MIT or Apache licensed.
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But 'you are at the herpes clinic with your daughter' is more like the latter than the former, right?
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So to be clear, you admit that WebM isn't proprietary, but future versions could be? That's true of every open source project on the planet, that's how copyright law works.
I'm not upset about the acquisition. I'd be happy if Google was acquiring them to put extra muscle behind developing the app. But they are moving the developers to other projects. That means a fast, native email client for Mac isn't on Google's agenda. So I'm back to Mail.app or the browser. Gmail on Chrome is good, but for me and a lot of other users of Sparrow, it's not a replacement for the real thing.
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I don't believe that changes the situation at all.

An example of this is Quicksilver on the Mac. It's considered to be one of the best Mac apps ever and the developer who made it, decided to open source it after he decided to take a job at Google. Quicksilver development fell apart afterwards.

My point is that people who used the app did so because of the talent of the developer. A community can't always make up for that hole.
It can just be a simple contract, like this http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...
It's all about value creation. Assuming every party here is rational: Google decides to pay for the Sparrow team only because the potential value of these developers is much higher than the price they pay. And Sparrow team accepted the offer only because the big pay check exceeds the value all their own customers combined.

If we hate this, we can either make such talent acquisitions less attractive, or increase the value of software customers.

Talent acquisitions become less attractive when:

- The number of talents available increases significantly
- Economies of scale in software business is less substantial
- There's ethical pressure from online communities
- The act of "selling customers" (through data collection or ads) becomes less profitable or costs more (with things like DNT or ad blockers)

The value of customers increases when:

- More people are willing to spend more money on independent software development
- Access to software market is easier (with things like app stores)
- More revenue streams with higher payouts (like high-quality ad networks such as Deck and Carbon)
- Higher potential to get big (with VC money and building platforms/ecosystems)

The sad truth is, independent software developers tend to be less entrepreneurial than startup founders (but I don't think the line can be drawn clearly). They are only a little bit more entrepreneurial than consulting developers (which are even more likely to be hired by big companies, but we don't care much about them). Therefore they may not be willing to actively improve their revenue by taking risks, and hence the acquisitions happen.
Thinkpads have great quality but I have to say I have not seen any touch pads that come anywhere close to the quality of the ones on a Mac. Luckily I prefer the Lenovo "nipple" over a touchpad but most people hate it and bringing a high quality touchpad to a PC would be a big deal IMO.
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This has also been my experience. Phonegap should work for the subset of apps that could have just been done as a mobile app to start with. If you need to do anything that might push the device native is the only way to go.
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A lot of the complaints are about the fact that the Sparrow team had promised push notifications for the iOS client "with or without Apple". Now we get nothing.

I know, I know, don't buy an application based on promises, buy it based on what the application currently offers. Wise words, I have learned.
It's impossible to declare a work under the public domain in the USA. A creative work reaches the public domain only when its copyright expires, or if it's a government work.

Read up on the rationale behind the CC0 license for more information:

https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
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Let's get another definition. This one is from wikipedia: Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.

As far as I am aware of, any user of WebM are NOT restricted from modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering. The beauty of the current licencing is that it can't be revoked; it is already free. Google can develop future versions and lock it down (suicidal move, though), but as it is the community has its hands on it.
For simple stuff, easy tools are sufficient. And from what I've seen, it's mostly simple stuff out on the frontends. As you say, there are better alternatives when you need a complex JS frontend.
"Of course, I hope the hue and cry about this will suggest to google that Sparrow might be worth maintaining after all."

Or open source the app code? c.f Intellicad when Microsoft bought Visio
This makes me wonder if you could open source a project like this and still sell it through the App Store. Then there would be a paid version (that's easy to acquire and pay for) as well as the code being shared with the community. Anyone could still get the app for free, but I'd be willing to bet most people would financially support the project if given such an easy and integrated means to do so.
How would that be enforced for a download-only product? Also, there is another famous swedish operation which still hasn't been shut down despite enormous efforts by US firms.

edit: ok, any app store downloads probably could be shut down.
Yes, read the patent. It covers a lot more than that specific case, which is why the title is vague and is exactly why governments should step in and stop this madness.
That's probably because most websites aren't big javascript applications. They just use jQuery to add a little interactivity and Javascript into their pages. I use jQuery almost everywhere, because I am yet to develop a major a major JS based application.