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I suggest a checkbox to autohide anything that's orange on reddit. Would be better if i can set a score threshold.

If you're ambitious, perhaps similar checkboxes for other sites.
I'm wondering what you see the difference as? For me, every start-up is a small business (with various size visions), and every small business is a start-up.

Is it the size of the vision? (ie, a boutique cafe will only ever be small, while a start-up might be valued at $15B) Or is it the difference between leveraging effort rather than leveraging scalable code?
Yes, he said he wont be able to pay any cash till he gets it funded. I wouldn't really mind not getting cash, because the application indeed looked pretty useful. But like you said it's better to know an exact % of the pie if it does take off, cause otherwise I will be stuck to a binding agreement. I don't know the % yet, as this part was done over email to which I politely responded saying it somehow seems low. I am yet to hear back from him saying if its low or high, based on what the total share pool is.

Also, based on my current employment, if I calculate my wages as $75/hr, then his 1000options/40hrs come out as 25 options/hr which is like saying his options are worth $3(which is insane).
I wouldn't read too much into it. Could be anything. Typically companies like Amazon negotiate with the USPS to get better rates in exchange for designing the packages and labels to meet stricter requirements.
I've been using their trial for the past few days, and I'm very impressed. The real-time stats are very interesting. My only gripes have to do with the lack of a few API features, but I'm sure they will improve in time.
starting a porn site is much cheaper than 5k, unless you are generating content (photographer, equip, studio, etc). register a domain name, throw up some purchased content (acquired legally for a small fee per set), add an interesting logo and minimal/clean/cute CSS. Then get your mind "into" the industry (read http://fleshbot.com/) and try to get your site rank up on google. Place ads from black label ads (http://blacklabelads.com/) - google doesn't allow porn ads for 3rd party sites - unless they are for google search. Once you start having traffic and making money, then create a legal entity (LLC is best) and continue to revamp the site. Mind you this will NOT make you instantly rich - however, you probably can pay for the hosting fees and have a valid excuse to look at porn. YMMV.
Raise the price, let your customers keep you alive.

I nominate this advice for being tattooed onto the forehead of web startups. I heard something about a spot of trouble in the market, CPMs in freefall, waily waily waily? What if we stopped trying to be all things to all people for nothing and instead tried being pain relief to people who are familiar with the notion of paying money for that?

(I, for one, am raising prices in February, because I've been undercharging for years now. Silly me.)
The problem with startups comparing their potential success to Google is that your business model probably isn't Google-like at all.

The standard startup ad-based model is: offer content, show ads. This is not Google's model.

Google's model is rather: build up a massive 3rd-party network of ad displays, and then broker ads onto this ginormous network.

Google is not a ad-displayer, they're an ad-broker. Unless you want to tackle things much the same way, you won't be replicating the success of Google.
"Politics is the Mind-Killer" ->

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/02/politics_is_the.html

"Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy. People who would be level-headed about evenhandedly weighing all sides of an issue in their professional life as scientists, can suddenly turn into slogan-chanting zombies when there's a Blue or Green position on an issue."

Carry on with the discussion, but I was just in England last month, and "A study showed that the UK's poor is healthier than the US's richest and pay less for the privilege" is... ridiculous, mate. The poorest Englanders are wrecked up on cigarettes and liquor never leaves their blood supply, they're way overweight and suffer from the high prices of fresh produce due to the fact the UK is an island and they have to import so much stuff, and they suffer from the lack of sun. I'm in Bel Air, Los Angeles right now, and I assure you people are healthier here.

As for the HMS - most English people I know are split on it. Some think it works okay, some think it's a joke. Everyone has some complaints and ideas on how it could be better, and most people use it and are relatively healthy by historical standards.
Well, there's a lot of value in appreciating how your predecessors have failed. I think his objection is not so much against the list of ideas, but rather people who ignore the mountain of failed attempts in the same field, who seem to believe that they're magically different, and somehow destined to succeed despite the sheer number of failures in the past.
Maybe I'll do this later, but I always wanted to open up a hacker's place. I'd call it the Bit Bucket.

Part bookstore (~50 titles, classics only - W. Richard Stevens, etc.), part coffee shop, part decent hardware shop (FPGAs, GPGPU, blade servers, and half & full-height rackmounts you can convince your S.O. to let you put in the basement), and bar.

Also, a good selection of little parts that you'd normally have to ebay, a little selection of RAM, heat sinks, PCI cover plates, etc. I'd put it in a display where you'd normally see the baked goods.

I'd have no illusions of being profitable at this, but it'll give me something to do when I retire :-)
The trouble with trying to cross-fund ventures like that is it might diffuse the focus of your business. The way you succeed is by doing what you do best, which is ideally better than the competition and something that's in demand.

I'd say you're faced with a few ways of raising capital, one of which is investing in a porn site. While web sites may be web sites, I'd suggest that running an adult-themed one is more problematic than most because people will always think themselves clever and try and crack their way in past your pay-wall. Without the right precautions, this could take a fair bit of time to either set up or, in the case of breeches, to patch up the compromised accounts.

If you don't want to get directly involved, you might want to consider exploring what you can do to make money from that sort of thing without running a site yourself. For example, this friend of yours may need some technology developed for their properties, and as you have many developers on hand, it could be trivial to crank out something like that for profit without impacting your other project too badly.

That way you get better at doing what you're best at, such as development, without getting distracted over the long-term with other side projects.
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I don't get it... they offer a button that goes on a page so that users can share stuff easily. They claim to server 20b a month. It must cost a significant amount to run those servers.

How are they (and several competitors) possibly making money from this?
> By spending $650 billion we can make up that difference in output with the help of Keynesian multipliers.

Only if the multiplier is significnatly greater than 1. One of Obama's advisors made her bones showing that the multiplier for govt spending tended to be around 1 at and that the multiplier for tax cuts was around 1.5 both at current levels.

"at current levels" is important. If the multiplier is always greater than 1, the right thing to do is to have an infinitely large stimulus because the return will likewise be infinite. Does anyone believe that would happen?
The problem with these systems is they don't know what is significant state so they have to copy everything to the slave.

The way Remus gets round this is it bulk copies (upto 40 times a second) rather than on every change. So the master runs slightly ahead.

Terracotta is something similar for the JVM. I think they get round it by exploiting the fact the JVM knows what's going on so for example you could say I want only this field on a class to be replicated. (But I've never used terracotta so someone might have to correct me on that.)
One problem: coffee shops are a competitive business. This makes their owners what economists call "price takers". It makes them what the rest of us call "bankrupt".
I think you've got two options: Have a cofounder, or have a counsel. A counsel would be people you greatly admire that are in your corner during the really ugly, dismal, brutal alone knock-down kicked-in-the-teeth "where the hell do I go from here?" moments. And there'll be plenty of them.

I know not everyone is a Tim Ferriss fan here, but this particular blog post is brilliant:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/10/03/harnessing-e...

Having a counsel of people you can go to is a viable option instead of a cofounder in my opinion, but it's hard to put said counsel together without blazing away in business for a few years.
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> They never mention that American-auto company executives make orders of magnitude more than their Japanese counterparts.

That's because the total amount of money for executive compensation at US auto manufacturers is in the noise.

BTW - GM could probably handle the wages and pension if it got Toyota's work rules AND could concentrate on building the cars that it can sell at a profit and stop selling the ones on which it barely makes any money. The UAW won't accept Toyota's work rules at "American" auto makers and Congress insists on CAFE.

The folks who want an economy car prefer Toyota, Honda, etc. They'll only buy GM at a significantly lower price, which means that GM has to make money elsewhere. (And, thanks to the rule that says that GM's imports don't count toward CAFE, it gets to make them under UAW's GM rules.)
s/counsel/council/.

A council is a group of people from whom you seek counsel.
Random advice you'll need: Spend as much time as you possible can trying to get money.

Just start now. Get some money.

Do it. Get some money. Are you spending time getting money? No? Do it! Stop redesigning your website. Get some money.

Product's rough? Offer it for 20% of what you'll sell it for later, with free upgrades. Do it. Get some money.

Are you spending time getting some money? Spend more time getting money.

Man... get some money. Stop messing around with a logo. You don't need a logo. You need money.

Improving the product? I actually spend waaaay too much time historically doing product development. I understand. But STOP! And get some money.

Get some money, man. From customers or clients. Beg for money, barter for money, work for money, do way more than you'd ever reasonably do for some money.

Just get some f*ing money, man. Money means people value your things and you're on the right track. Get money. ASAP. Especially in your first business. Money means you can sell, money means you can get loans, money means the business banker takes you seriously, money means they break the rules and wipe off charges for you (or give you telephone wire-transfer access before you're qualified, which you need to pay people when you're outside the USA traveling, and trying to get money from some people in Berlin). Money means you get lines of credit, or net-30 terms instead of paid up front. Money means later, you can pay people to do the most horrible aspects of your business once you've fully mastered them. Money means you're doing something of value.

Mate - stop designing your logo and color scheme, and get some money. It's the only way.
> I expect the secret is finding the correct amount of growth and unemployment.

It's not clear that there is "the correct amount". There's probably a correct amount in a given line of work at any moment in time, but that's not actionable.

The problem with trying to guide the economy is that the guiders always have an agenda.

Remember "he meant well" is an insult.
I imagine the performance hit is pretty substantial but for things like VOIP or messaging servers this will make real HA possible on commodity hardware. Pretty cool.
I'm a writer. I go to coffee shops, sit there, and drink as little coffee as possible, staring into my little book while taking up a table and spraying a Cone of Introverted Quiet everywhere I turn. I am the bane of the regular coffee shop. But what if there were a shop that tailored their business model to me?

Instead of charging for food or drink, and then letting you have the space for free, how about switching the two? Charge for the table by the hour (or with a monthly subscription), and then have free little snacks and drinks to go along with the seat. Limit customers to those with a creative/insightful streak (yes, get resumes), and disallow anyone from sitting alone or ignoring the people next to them for more than ten minutes. Perhaps even invite famously loquacious people to hang out there (in the exact same way as the regular patrons do.) Thus is born a sort of "idea club"--like TED, but every day, and peer-to-peer instead of multicast.

On the same vein, don't buy newspapers (or anything else topical) for reading material; buy hardcover books, fiction and non-. Require that people read them out loud if they're reading (thus, basically, giving a reading of the book to whoever's nearby.) Don't have a wi-fi connection; do have a "room librarian" that will look up the answers to questions on a hard line, and is ready to explain the answers in detail. And so on.
> You only have to ensure that each variable has one definite type, i.e. it doesn't change its type throughout the program.

Yetch.
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Brendan Cully's masters thesis has more detail http://www.cs.ubc.ca/grads/resources/thesis/Nov07/Cully_Bren...

This was also interesting: "we believe that the high-frequency checkpointing mechanism we have engineered in support of Remus will have many other interesting applications, ranging from forensics and error recovery tools based on replayable history to software engineering applications such as concurrency-aware time-travelling debuggers."
Depends. There's often a fair degree of brand loyalty in coffee shops - people have their favorite cafe and don't really check out other places, because they like the atmosphere and want to support the owners. It's not like gas stations, where the price is posted prominently and you can just drive elsewhere.

Unfortunately, much of that brand loyalty seems to be to Starbucks, so the little guys don't get much of it.
Is this the lecture series?

http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=1426
You're completely right... ICANN is the true source of this problem. They have a responsibility which they ignore. Instead, they essentially print money by issuing new TLD's and handing out trials of domains for free. I hate ICANN so fucking much.

I've been saying that there should be some other DNS system that's decided on by users. That is, flip FireFox from "default DNS" to "newDNS" and now "googel.com" goes to "google.com", because that's what the majority of people have suggested it go to, not because Google had to register this to protect from typo squatters. It would never be the case that "googel.com" goes to some squattors "what you want when you want it" bullshit page, because users wouldn't stand for that. It would get voted off the DNS system.

This system would of course use the proper ICANN DNS to resolve the main sites like "Google.com." So, now we have the situation where if you want a domain, go ahead and register fajsdf90234890342.com with ICANN, then suggest to newDNS that "mydomain.com" goes to "fajsdf90234890342.com". As users see that it's legit, it gets set. If it's obvious parked domain BS, then you lose it.

Finally, this system could be implemented today, because it's backward compatible. Unless otherwise noted, a newDNS entry goes to whatever the ICANN entry is. If users flag it down, then it gets erased. If users flag their own redirection, it gets updated.

This would be beautiful.
web startups.

Well, we're not talking web startups. The demand/supply curve is omnipresent and sometimes lowering the price is the ticket:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=M&t=my&l=on&z=m&...
Google is an ad broker. A better comparison would be MySpace, which displays ads.
Never quit. Maybe change.
Sounds like a smaller version of the first Fry's Electronics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Electronics They did OK.
Eye strain or Asthenopia (www.strainedeyes.com) can indeed be stopped through small breaks, you can also use eye exercises (www.strainedeyes.com/eye-exercises) to help with your eye strain.
I feel very uncomfortable with all the financial derivatives - and derivatives of derivatives and so on. It becomes so abstract that it loses connection with what is going on in the real world processes. It seems counter-productive to me.
"Why didn't doing it for love work for the author?"

"Do what you love" does not have a second clause. It's not an argument. It makes no promises.

One of my favorite people in this world was a saxophone instructor. He loved to play. He was good at it -- stunningly good. He did the New York club scene, did session work, played backup for some huge names. But he never became famous, and never achieved wealth. He also worked a dozen different jobs, died young from a heart attack, and left behind a widow and an infant son. His funeral was the largest I've ever attended.

You can do what you love, and you'll succeed. You can do what you love, and you'll fail. You can do what you love, and you'll never be anything more than mediocre. Doing what you love does not automatically make you successful. But it might let you become a better person.
I think he loved the idea of owning a coffee shop, not actually doing it.
That's why differentiation and probably, not competing in a commodity business to start with, are so important.
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Most of Google's revenue comes from AdWords, the ads they run next to their search results, not from AdSense, their content network.

From their 2008 Q4 earnings report ( http://investor.google.com/releases/2008Q4_google_earnings.h... ), Google-owned sites generated $3.81B while partner sites generated $1.69B.
I like the idea of charging per table and letting the drinks and snacks be free, but I think encouraging and/or forcing a particular 'cozy' environment would be a bad idea.

As a college student I like to go to coffee shops to study. It's a great way to get out of the house, maybe meet people, and get stuff done. I always buy something there but I feel bad because I believe I stay (with my laptop on the shop's free wifi) for a long time - probably costing more than I've contributed with my purchase.

I would gladly pay a monthly membership fee and pop in and out knowing that I'll get whatever I'm in the mood for without any more expense. In fact, I would probably end up paying more for the 'free' drinks because I wouldn't show up enough to take advantage of the free food.

I wouldn't like it if there was no wifi or if the rules about talking to people and reading out loud were enforced. Of course customers could still be screened somehow. A membership card could be swiped or scanned for the drinks (maybe even tracked) and an ID and password for the wifi would keep the freeloaders away, and if any customer becomes too unprofitable (too many drinks or slipping drinks to friends) their membership could be easily canceled.
At the University of New Mexico's Engineering Library (Big main library also has these) they have these little alcoves with closed, locking doors that grad students use to write/read their thesis and so on; can't be bigger than 5x10 feet. They're hard to get and always in high demand. When I was an undergrad I wanted one but of course they weren't allowed for undergrads.
I don't own an iPhone or know much about them, so please forgive my ignorance on the topic.

What exactly does it mean to "crack" an iPhone App? Once cracked, you can simply send the App as a file to others, who can then install it? Or do they need this program to be able to install the cracked app?

And can you install anything you want (including this cracker) on an iPhone? Or can you only install things via the App store?

On a lighter note... what other UI, besides one click, could they possibly have made for a program whose only function is "crack this"?
I thought about pointing this out, but Google displayed ads on their site before anything else, and the ad network was an outgrowth of their initial success.

Anyone who has enough people wanting to advertise with them can create an affiliate network. Creating that initial demand strikes me as much more difficult.
> I think as long as you got along well with someone and they encouraged you to work, they could be pretty middling technically and still be a net win.

Hi!
> Because when you search through your email, it has to be already decrypted, so why bother?

Of course, there's a huge difference between "decrypted on my hard drive" and "decrypted as it passes through N untrusted mail servers".

Heck, it doesn't even have to be decrypted on your hard drive in order to be searchable; just use dm-crypt, or TrueCrypt, or PGP, or any of the myriad other full-disk encryption options.
I think PG describes the distinction quite well:

To be a startup, a company has to be a product business, not a service business. By which I mean not that it has to make something physical, but that it has to have one thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom work for individual clients. Custom work doesn't scale. To be a startup you need to be the band that sells a million copies of a song, not the band that makes money by playing at individual weddings and bar mitzvahs. -- http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
Ability to see your stats in realtime would be fantastic.
I'm pretty surprised it wasn't hacked via a vulnerable installation of phpBB.
As I sit in my cubicle day in and day out practically forcing myself to do work that I don't really care about, I often wonder if I merely love the idea of being an engineer rather than the actual practice of it.
Is this some sort of ploy to get us to visit that site?

It's simple: if you're not selling anything, whether it's goods, services, or ads, then you're not making money. Not all sites on the Internet exist for profit.
You know, I was listening to what Bob Parsons had to say back when this was actually posted, and he's a pretty sharp guy. And in complete contradiction to the GoDaddy site, he is a really no-BS type of person, at least that's what I gathered from his early podcasts.
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I think you love the idea of being an engineer working on things you like, doing them the way you want instead of forcing yourself to do what other people want, doing them the way they insist upon.
Sounds like something easily gamed.
For your first point, I know network solutions was caught [1] doing that. Never heard of GoDaddy doing it. Your other points, I'm willing to ignore for the benefit of /really/ cheap domains. They're not the car salesmen of registrars, but more like the grocery store, putting the candy bars in the checkout isle.

Disclaimer: I have 4 personal sites registered with godaddy. I was using a couple others, but I transferred them all to godaddy for simplicity's sake.

[1]http://www.dotsauce.com/2008/01/08/networksolutions-scandal-...