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I'll have to worry about money eventually, but I'm one of those risk-adverse engineers so by the time I quit my job in the first place I'd saved up almost two years of runway.

I'm definitely still creating. Watch this space.
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Well, he was really good at "Call of Duty" apparently. Maybe they were concerned about his "mad skillz?"
Working on a crappy Fujitsu laptop for years didn't stop me either, but I don't go out of my way to defend it.

Your point seems to be that w3schools has a special place in your heart. Okay.
Are you familiar with FreshDirect? It's an incredibly popular (and profitable) service for grocery delivery in NYC. As the article mentions-- in big cities, this is a viable business.
When you're competing against social networks that compete for people's limited time, yes. I'm not going to update my Twitter, my App.net, my Facebook, my Path, my Google Plus, my Tumblr, my this or my that.. It isn't if it App.net is good or not, it's about convincing people to add yet another "obligation" to their social media life. There is incredible inertia with Twitter. People aren't leaving it -- they continue to grow and, as people add more and more followers, they'll be less likely to just ditch it for something else, even if John Gruber says it's "cool."
I needed a way to use Facebook Chat without seeing the news feed. Because, I would always impulsively and uncontrollably click on some link and then start going through people's profiles as a chain reaction. I now just use Pidgin to connect their XMPP server (group chat doesn't work though, they use their own proprietary implementation for that).
> Surprisingly well. I really don't understand why this project has been this successful.

No disrespect to Dalton but he's very well connected in the valley. If he weren't this idea wouldn't have made a blip on anyone's radar.

I also wonder and am concerned if everyone supporting the idea is in the valley echo chamber and in his 1st to 2nd degree circle.
Forgive me for appreciating what helped me grow.

> "Your point seems to be that w3schools has a special place in your heart. Okay."

Yep.
In disclosure, I'm a "backer" of app.net and am on the alpha. And as a hardcore Dark Knight fan, I can fall for any DK quote.

But while I respect MG's other writing, I don't agree with all of his conclusions here.

Some thoughts:

1. He states that "the web is simply not conducive to a user-supported service reaching the scale of a Twitter" to imply that success = scale. I actually believe the app.net could become a lot like HN - a relatively (web-wise) small group of people who all get value from the service - enough to pay for it. Does it kill twitter then? Probably not? But does that mean it's a failure? I don't think so.

2. Furthermore, let's examine this point that the only services that can get to scale are ad-supported. He certainly has good empirical data (facebook, twitter, etc.) to back him up. But in the software world, open, non-commercial efforts (e.g., linux, smtp email and more broadly the internet) have had gigantic impacts in terms of scale. As others pointed out, wikipedia is an example of a service in this vein. I think we haven't played out the experiment yet of what do open, non-commercial distributed services look like. I wouldn't give up on that. I personally think that any true communications utility long-term needs to be open (like email). app.net is still commercial so not fully there - but clearly (IMHO) more transparent and open than an ad-supported model.

3. MG also doesn't talk about one of dalton's meta-points which I also feel passionately about. The conventional wisdom seems to have accepted that an ad-supported future state - where ads follow us around, personalized to what they think we want, making us think our services we're getting are "free" when they really aren't - is the only possible future state. I know Tom Cruise got followed around by ads in "Minority Report", but that doesn't mean it has to be our future. I personally believe that humans will recognize over time the real cost of advertising and eventually converge to a more balanced world of paid and faux-free (ad-supported) services. I'm not saying ad-supported will go away - just that there will be choice (which was actually the main point dalton made in the first blog post he wrote on this topic).

Overall, I think Dalton should be commended whether his effort works or not. He re-sparked some very important discussions and was willing to take a chance on his ideas.
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Without going into to much politics about how Linus handles his responses, how many random questions a day would you respond nicely to until you just started writing things like "because I am right!"?

In terms of file systems I believe that both opinions have flaws. Who thought that giving the user the choice of case sensitivity was a good idea when creating HFS+? And to take it a step further, why create any kind of hierarchy? why not just define a "bucket of bits, being content" with a set of associated meta for an inode that defines structure and naming, that way everyone can have their cake and eat it. Or am I missing something?
Good luck, I'm excited for you!
For the "antisocial", you can do the same with Dropbox.
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Great quote from the article.

"My biggest advice to people would be key on the technical. If you learn how to use these machines—cameras and editing systems and stuff like that—then you will have the tools to do stuff creatively. There’s some people who turn up their nose to the technical side of production. It’s the dumbest thing that people do, because then you need to get permission and crews to shoot for you."
Wordpress isn't non-profit but they monetize open source software. So by nature there's a bit of balance in what they can realistically do to be "evil".
I don't understand why the founders "need" funding. If they have such a great business model and already have an alpha, then can't they bootstrap? If the idea is so good, then people should be just dying to sign up and give their credit card numbers. I mean, aren't people just dying to pay these guys $50?
But still, people are going to run apps on it and they are going to see the user interface everyday (which was vastly improved with Ice Cream Sandwich). They would never release this with Gingerbread if they really cared about user experience.
I find it pretty refreshing to have someone candidly discuss their failed ambitions. The selection bias of insanely successful startups on HN can lead to a skewed perception of actual success rates. These are the kind of posts I need from time to time to keep myself grounded in reality so I can make better decisions.
Hey guys! I made the site and someone brought the post to my attention. I'm out right now and probably won't be able to reply to any comments tonight, but of course all of your feedback is incredibly valuable to me and I'll try to reply ASAP.
If they're pretty exclusionary, expect devs to
get pissed off.

I don't see any reason to. They are a 3rd-party distribution channel. This isn't Google's AppStore on Android (or Apple's on iOS or Microsoft's on WP7). Sure it might piss of some people, but any decision will piss off some number of people.
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We have infrastructure. It's called AWS. The infrastructure of App.net is not revolutionary or even that interesting. Why do new social services need this infrastructure?
>The front page of wikipedia shouldn't be mainly comprised of a list of languages - that's useless to most people. It should mainly be about search.

How much page real estate does a page have to have devoted to what essentially boils down to typing a query into a search bar and pressing enter before it's considered "mainly about search"?
I was assuming this was like iOS' cloud system—saving a document to the cloud, but not accessing a real Dropbox equivalent.
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I would venture that a good number of games on Steam target DirectX rather than OpenGL, which means they would also need a rewrite for Linux.
Awesome idea! Wish you could set your current weight and your target weight you want to go down or up to.
Just verified, not happening with every account (at least not yet over here).
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yeah, even in my lifetime. Personally, I find it pretty amusing, because either they don't tell you what the drug does at all, just "ask your doctor about wonderfulonium!" with you know, pictures of happy people, or they do tell you what it does, the list off all the horrible things it can do to you.

It's funny; I moved out before Viagra came to market, and didn't watch much any commercial TV. Of course, I was bombarded, like everyone else, with spam and other online advertisements for viagra.

But yeah, the first time I saw a viagra ad on television, I was visiting my parents, and I couldn't stop laughing. I mean, this was something advertised in spam, and thus something linked in my mind to dubious 'penis enlargement' pills, girls who "saw my profile online" and 419 scams. Not the sort of thing you expect to see on broadcast television. (I'm not casting aspersions on viagra the drug... just the marketing I had been exposed to associated it, in my mind, with dramatically... less legitimate products.)
I totally agree that there's a selection bias for stories about successful outliers. On the other hand, it's not as if anyone is out there saying "Try it! You'll probably succeed!" Quite the opposite; almost everyone knows and admits that 9/10 fail.

Eric Ries has a great line in his talks about this. I'm paraphrasing it, but it's something like: "9/10 startups fail. I know yours is awesome so it won't, but the guy on your left; his will. The girl to your right; hers will. Same goes for their neighbours too."

Despite the failure, it was worth doing. I learnt a lot. About startups, about customers, and also about me. And besides, failing is faster than success!

Thanks for the kind words.
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W3 is killing it in the SEO department though. It'd be nice to buy those guys and use that google-juice for the forces of good.
Any particular reason why the app is only available in the US store, seeing that Twilio has international coverage?
Before everyone gets excited about these big numbers, I would like to remind you that even higher concurrency can be achieved with even lower CPU and memory usage using Erlang. These numbers are good for Node, but don't use this as evidence that Node is magical and much better at handling large numbers of connections than other systems.
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This is the article. Thanks so much Patrick! :)
I highly recommend http://dochub.io/ over w3schools. Not only does it source MDN, which is much more accurate, but it allows you to instantly search for whatever CSS property or JS function/object you're looking for. (The only thing that I find disadvantageous is that you have to know the name of what you're looking for)
quote from your link: "In some countries black or near-black has been employed extensively"

he also calls the shadows on a tree trunk black, so it seems he is not really arguing in favor of #000 but in favor of the use of very dark monochromatic colors, including true black. Also ALL of his examples are completely black/white or grayscale images of PRINTED or PAINTED objects, which naturally all do not achieve #000.

His views are entirely personal, as are our own. Personally, I found the #000 in his Next Logo to be the worst aspect of the whole design, since its extreme contrast suggests a low-tech print process or an old EGA screen incapable of more nuance. This is an aspect of most of his logos that I have never really liked, the same extreme contrast and blockiness that makes his IBM logo look more like an old ASCII display in someone's garage than the representation of a bold and powerful company.
Agreed. Domain name availability is very hard sometimes. For others it might just make sense. Example: if I created a webapp and for some reason wanted to call it Sendio, sendio.com is taken but I can always get send.io and run my app from there with a cool url
The 11px font on daringfireball.net seems like a notice board to the user. Get ready to squint, zoom in, or go away. I am not budging.
The keto and paleo options don't automatically change the macros yet, just the foods. ATM, you'll need to scroll down and move the macro sliders around manually
Oo! I like the system, but beginners wouldn't know what to do there. By that I mean, they would not learn much there without prior knowledge.
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There's no abuse mentioned in this particular article, and in this article it is exactly a "technologically broken" issue.

The article says that if a TV network's real, legitimately copyrighted feed, that they are correct in telling Youtube is copyrighted uses public domain video in some parts (which doesn't mean their particular feed based on it isn't still copyrighted), then other videos that use the same public domain video (from the original source, not off of the copyrighted feed) are identified as being the copyrighted source.
Hey App.net.. are you seeing this?
8 slices of bacon in a BLT (one of the suggested recipes)? Jesus! I knew Americans ate big portions but that's crazy!
I think it might just need more recipes. He added recipes fairly recently, and he's still building those up, so it might have limited options right now for cases with very specific constraints. Also, Greek yogurt is kind of a wonder food when you need high protein and low fat :-)
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Apparently heello.com is also attempting a comeback, no dollars required: http://new.heello.com/

Their interface was nice. They want to build a third-party friendly ecosystem but still base it on ads, I wonder how...
Everything you've said is true, but it's a relatively small industry, very custom (where linux shines), and little overlap with others.
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Well, Linux filesytems (ext2, ext3, ext4) are case-sensitive as well.
I suspect that sources like W3Schools, the O'Reilly Missing Manual series and DirectXTutorial.com leave out good practices to avoid overwhelming the reader.

This idea is sometimes called Wittgenstein's ladder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children - "My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them - as steps - to climb beyond them. He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it."
Oof yeah, I've got some rounding errors pretty much throughout the app that I need to fix. Hopefully none in the payment system :) (thanks for that, stripe)
I'm interested in this pricing psychology? Till what point would people say, "Fuck it, I don't care". $9.95? $14.95? or even $19.95? I think $20 bucks is pushing it. Maybe $15 might be the largest "throwaway" money for most people.
While I disagree with much of what is said in the article, I think this is an important point:

And the best services tend to sprout from the best
entrepreneurs. And the best entrepreneurs eventually realize
they need to build the best businesses, lest their services
die or worse — linger in mediocrity.

We need another Richard Stallman or another Linus Torvalds for the internet age. This time, however, it's going to be much harder for such people to appear because in this day and age it seems like it's easier to make a lot of money from software - you don't need to build another Microsoft - so software developers are much more easily tempted.
There is no name calling there. He's covering the bases of the commenter's mental state, then explaining the unfortunate circumstance he sees. The "maybe you" phrases could be interpreted as harshness, but I think it's more likely that they're to be taken exactly at face value, and that pg wants to call attention to this circumstance.
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> I absolutely love this stuff. The photos to me are strangely eerie, and even perhaps a little sinister.

It's actually reassuring to me. It's rocks. We understand rocks. I'm surrounded by them. There may not be a blade of grass, a gasp of air or a friendly face to greet us but at least there are rocks.
Oh no, if you follow the instructions on that site you're going straight to code hell. Yes it is very approachable and enticing, but it's wrong.
I'm not even sure this should be regarded as a 'failure'. You took a risk, approached it the smart way through customer validation, and realized early enough that it wasn't going to work out that you didn't damage relationships with anyone. This is actually showing a smart, intelligent process at work.
Step 1: Log into Google.com

Step 2: Block w3schools at http://www.google.com/reviews/t

> Sites will be blocked only for you, but Google may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall.
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And while you're at it, note that that Spotlight icon you clicked on isn't pure black either :p
I don't know their real answer, but I thought of it as a psychological experiment; people are much more likely to join a social service if it already seems to have lots of users.

This experiment provides a huge number of people a way to say "well, if there were actually X people on the service then sure, I'd also become a dedicated user". If they hit their goal, all those people will have paid enough that they feel emotionally attached to justifying their decision via using the service.

It just might work. A service doesn't need to have EVERYONE, it just has to have enough people to be more interesting for all its participants than the alternative.
Okay I've heard this from a couple people already and I think this needs to be said. For one these are the Navigation camera shots and have no reason to be any higher quality. The craft has only been on the ground for 5 days and hasn't initialized all 17 of its on board cameras yet. The one in particular interest to us is the MastCam which features true-color 1600x1200 stereoscopic CCD's, can shoot 720p video at 10 fps, can telescope out to objects seven football fields away, and detect a wide range of wavelengths. And before you complain about it being only 2 Mp or that it can only do snails pace HD that your camera phone can achieve I ask you to think about how resilient these cameras must be to the environment along with how slow our communication speeds are with the rover. With a max uplink of 2Mb/s for 8 minutes per day and a 32kb/s connection otherwise, 3D 1080p at 60 fps really doesn't seem worth the network resources it will hog from more important mission data.
This is the biggest issue I have with the playstore. Outside of the top 100, which are really mostly rather crap apps in my opinion, there seems to be no logical categorization. It's a huge pain to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Very interesting post -

Other than using a shrinkage estimator for the covariance matrix - what techniques would you suggest make sense for doing portfolio optimization?
what about other languages?
I have used http://www.gototaltrainer.com and it is really good. Not only do the meal plans they come up with perfectly within whatever constraints you set, you can also typically find recipes that are actually are enjoyable. It just seems like they have a pretty big database and a good algorithm to figure out the meal plan.
In fact, I prefer Dropbox's Camera Upload. With Dropbox, when I go home and sit in front of my computer, I find my photos as actual files existing on my computer. Google, on the other hand, is trying to make it very convenient to share them on Google+ and very inconvenient to download and store them locally. They don't even sync it to Google Drive as files. They are trying to eliminate the concept of "file" from the users' mind, just like Apple.
But real the problem is that text looks like hell on Windows in the first place.
Seriously? Getting VC funding isn't monetizing. That's not profit, it's an investment. I don't know if this needs to be spelled out, but generally when people make investments they expect the investment to be returned with additional profits on top. Or do you think the VCs are in the business of giving money away?

Breaking even on sponsored tweets is not a sustainable business model just because they got VC funding. If they can't start turning actual profits, that VC money will be pulled out faster than you can type a 140 character message about it.
Ha. Good point.
This 2011 TED talk was spot on: "How Algorithms Shape Our World"
PG, what do you think of the book?
I agree with everything but the last bit. If you throw away the ladder, doesn't that represent forgetting the information that actually helped you?
I feel you man...great talk!
Not related directly to the article, and therefor, perhaps a poor HN comment, but it drives me insane when people change the text highlight color -- especially to yellow. I highlight nearly everything as I read online. For whatever reason, I find white text on the blue highlighted background to be much easier to quickly parse without loosing my place.

The blue highlight is so ingrained in my browser mind that seeing yellow just throws me for a complete loop.
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We're doing a huge feature build out right now, and there will definitely be an option to delete your video as soon as you're done streaming.