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one of the reasons you hear about more amazon folks in starups vs. MS is that MS generally treats developers very well so they tend to stay around. Amazon is not such a great company to work for, at least according to the people I know that "did time" there.
I have a feeling: since Android is porting it's software to many hardware manufacturers, it will have long term wide-spread consumer adoption ( ala Microsoft Windows, back in the day ).

Forgive me if this was as obvious as 'water is wet'.
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This twitter business is a joke. Over-hyped much?
Try sources like the Baen Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library/). There are plenty of current titles available legally and for free there and elsewhere if Gutenberg doesn't suit your tastes.
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Seriously, if you have that much traffic, just use adsense.

And kill your downloadable product - it serves no purpose business-wise except to tempt you to take steps that will reduce your traffic and by extension your ad revenues.
That's right but it's a pity that PDFs by default don't even include their unicode text content nor the correct sequence of words. They're good for document fidelity viewing and printing but horrible for further processing and even for interactive tasks like copy and paste. We urgently need a PDF successor.
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There's a much simpler reason, which doesn't seem to be even mentioned in the article: You can't test-drive a car online. If I'm going to spend $30k buying something which I'm going to use for the next 5-10 years, I want to try it out -- or try out a very similar model -- first.

Then again, maybe I'm just weird. I think people who buy condominiums before construction starts are crazy, too.
the obligatory 1997 RMS essay: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I find it very nice to be able to sit at a coffee shop or restaurant and read a newspaper

Really?
I've always wondered how people cope with the sheer size and format of these things. I hardly ever read a newspaper simply because the involved acrobatic puts me off. Especially on the breakfast table I much prefer a simple magazine or book that I can lay down or hold with one hand.

You ofcourse have a point with the spilling/dropping issue but I think a kindle could easily be made robust enough to survive a certain degree of abuse.
But "National Socialism" was the name because that's what sold at the time; the ideology was Facism.
To be clear, this isn't directed specifically at the person who wrote the blog post but from my point of view to be valued in the startup you have to do more than tell everyone else what to do. Passion and vision are great, but you should be able to use these to practical value. Anyone can say "let's make this really awesome video game where you can do anything" but unless you are actualy coming up with some practical direction for the team your "vision" is useless.
Together with increased cloud elasticity we'll have to have a much more accurate billing scheme based on fractions of a second usage, the vendors of cloud services will have to address that as well as the actual performance issues.

At some point you'll see for instance web based applications that fire up a cloud hosted vm per user session, much like you see an httpd process fired handling a single request right now, there will be no 'database' per se for 'your' data, just your VM for that app on ice somewhere when not in use.

This cloud thing is only just beginning, and even though it is the worst abused buzzword of the moment I think in the long run it really is the future of computing for everything that is geared towards services.
It's already unblacklisted. It didn't take much, this was just a case of one stupid Wikipedia administrator.
Yet you still got massive upvotes. Well done!
No one said they just stand there are shout words off a task list.

How many non-technical founders do you know? There are a ton of successful ones out there, and when you meet them [as long as you don't say what you just did] you'll understand why they are successful.
I don't know where the author has been for the last 10 years but it has been possible to buy new cars online for at least that long. They'll simply be dropped off at a dealers lot near you.

It is also one of the cheapest ways to buy a new car.

In America you may not be able to buy a new car online, but the world is a lot larger.
"and USA is stuck using obsolete weights and measures"

Read that again, and tell me how it makes any sense whatsoever.

Obsolete: 1. no longer in general use;
I can see how this seems to be a bad idea but executed correctly this can be a success for Microsoft and this also means that they probably shouldn't just copy Apple's concept.

What kind of Products does MS offer? Computer Accessories, MP3 Players, Game Consoles, Software and lots of advanced technology (and probably more...). The question now is how to ideally showcase this assortment. For the Accessories, the Music Players and the Game Consoles this is pretty easy even though it might be hard to find a concept that integrates the different crowds those products are aimed at. It gets more difficult with the advanced technology and software.

For the advanced technology (e.g. Photosynth, Surface etc.) I would propose a kind of show case where you let people play around with the products and enable them to find out what you, as a company, are capable of. For the Software I would propose a kind of shop in shop concept. I would partner with Hardware Manufacturers like HP and Dell and let them showcase their computers in a way that is probably similar to the way Apple does in its shops.

I really think this could work out even though it for sure isn't an easy endeavor.
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ah, but then there is google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=riderofgiraffes

"User Profile for: riderofgiraffes
UserID:	383529
Name:
Email:
Registered:	1/11/07
Occupation:	Mathematician
Location:	UK
Total Posts:	350"

So much for that vague reputation, unless of course you've been fibbing ;) and / or someone else liked your moniker as much as you did, but I somehow doubt there are multiple riders of giraffes.

I fully agree with the above by the way, it feels just right.

I always tell my kid to distrust all sources of information, including his dad (there is a pardox in there somewhere) and to gather his own facts if the issue warrants the effort.
There's not really a coherent distributed system for the torrent files, but there's not really a need, the ad-hoc system works pretty well.

The real problem is tracking the active clients -- without widespread DHT trackers like TPB would have collapsed under their own weight years ago. As it is there's frequent timeouts and massive response latency. It doesn't help that the software running the trackers is almost universally awful PHP garbage.
They won't make it cheaper than if you had less house.

Actually, more mass (book mass, or any other kind) does make HVAC cheaper: http://static.monolithic.com/pres/rvalue

The California Handbook for Solar Energy is the only government publication we have been able to find which takes into account the thermal mass of the concrete when measuring heat loss. Simply stated, the concrete acts as a heat sink which slows the passage of heat back and forth through the wall or roof assembly.
first off, this is not about 'base 10', it is about interesting patterns found in series of digits, similar (but different) interesting patterns can be found in series of digits in other bases.

Secondly, if every time a mathematically oriented person stumbles upon something interesting instead of figuring out why they would respond like you just did mathematics would grind to a halt really quickly. After all, that's how math started - that curiosity about patterns - and mathematicians really can't help it but they have to figure out what causes this. There may be a trivial answer, or something profound may be found out, who is to know in advance what will come of it.

To everybody else the circumference of a circle may as well be three times its diameter.
In your volume example, imperial units only divide cleanly for certain factors (e.g. 2 in your example), from certain starting points (e.g. two pints) and within certain ranges (keep dividing a cup by 2 and it stops dividing cleanly).
Because it would expose the oddness of the language micro-benchmark: current Safari with Tracemonkey scores 5x what Firefox 3 does.
I'm not 'on twitter', but I think you could do worse than to simply spot new and popular music and run a chart that is accessible to everybody else.

That in turn you could integrate with last.fm, pandora, daz.com and so on to make it look good and give extra background information. Link it to itunes or amazon and you might even make a buck.
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What do you mean by 'unicode text contents'? Of course, text
in PDF could not be pasted, but it's not a format intended
for "editing', we have plain text for this. PDF was created
to distribute text documents, drawings, and so on in a way that it will look exactly the same everywhere. But unlike
postscript, it includes some high-level features like word
indexes, protection and so on, so you can search inside PDFs,
add notes, place interactive elements - things impossible in other formats at all.

Thus I don't really understand where the problem with format itself is? If you have suggestions regarding features needed, take a part in ISO comittee.
"Especially in Europe where the most read printed news sources are tabloids"

That must be a europe where I don't live. In England and Germany maybe, but most other countries actually have a surprisingly large 'regular' newspaper distribution network (in Amsterdam in any newspaper stand you can find newspapers in 3 or 4 languages). And even in England and Germany the tabloids aren't seen as real newspapers by the majority of the people.

They fall somewhere in the gray area between news and entertainment.
linkbait and utter bull, Twitter did not file an IPO.
When you're spending money like there is no tomorrow and you still have to really find your business model I don't think that qualifies as being in a state where you don't need external cash. Twitter needs it worse than a junkie needs a fix, without external money flowing in they would probably not last another 6 months.
Well, look at youtube, bleeding money until the buy-out. The VCs investing there did fine iirc.

Sometimes losing money and gaining marketshare is a valid strategy, but you have to be reasonably sure you have a winner and you have to have a pretty good idea that you will be bought out.
second that. I personally don't even 'get' twitter but I'm happy they got their investment and I'm sure that if they play their cards wisely they'll do just fine.

Everybody that is second guessing them here should go and prove that they can do a better job, for now the twitter folk are doing a better job than 99% of anybody bitching about them. You wished you were in the possession of even a small share of that money burning machine. They've been very selective about the rate at which they dillute which is showing quite a bit of restraint, they've already rebuffed several buy out offers so it looks like they know what they're doing and they are playing their cards very close to their chest.

Watch and learn.
Simple, No one but the USA (and Malaysia or somewhere) uses them. So, the USA uses them, and they're not in general use.
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Yep, I'm most familiar with England in Germany where the most widely read newspapers are in fact tabloids (Bild Zeitung, Sun, et al). But that wasn't really my point: it was that the line between "published source" and "blog" doesn't say much about quality, illustrated by the fact that popular printed newspapers in some European countries are, well, horrible.
The other trackers will upgrade their hosting plans and will appreciate the extra ad cash.

Also here at least here no one downloads stuff from tPB - especially since you have great local trackers (which however require seeding) with users on the LAN you are connected to; its normal to see speeds of 3Mbit/s.
This is a bit like saying if Google went away that web search would go with it. Google's far and away the dominant service, but if it disappeared it'd take the universe about 4 seconds to recover and switch to another service.
No! It also allows you to tell the world what you're doing - in 140 characters or less..
Well, there isn't a week that someone complains about that to me and I always find a reasonably good short domain name for their project, so to me that's not true. Also, I'm one of the lucky 676 people that have a two letter domain.
I can confirm that this was exploited by a number of students in the Cambridge, MA area, who -- in order to reduce individual risk and consolidate the work involved -- pooled their money and reinvested the pool monthly. One pool I know about (~8 people) reached ~$250k.

Seems like quick cash, but it turned into a lot of work: printing 150k tickets in a way that they looked hand-filled out, pulling the winning cards, cashing them in, and plenty besides. Once enough groups got wind, the margins dwindled over the course of a few months to "not worth it".
If its US, its BAD!

If its European, its GOOD!

If it has been decided by some unaccountable academic pin head committee to be forced down the throat of others, its GOOD!

If its been around for the better part of a 1000 years and used by common folk in their daily lives, its BAD!

Hmmm.... I see a pattern here. If its used by people who think they have a RIGHT to be free from being FORCED by others to do what they would not otherwise do, its BAD. If its the consequence of arbitrary Governmental decree and enforced at the point of a gun, its GOOD.

In my opinion, there is no amount of rationalization that will make this good.
I love Jacob's Ladder to death, despite the fact that it once gave me vivid nightmares. Or maybe because of that.

But the ending really sucks. The last minute of the film just fucks the whole thing up by being so simplistic--in a sense it makes the whole movie easy to dismiss. It should just end at the stairway.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4218389/Jacobs_Ladder_(1990)...
You aren't. I don't get it either.
Lists like this should really contain links to torrents of the films.
What surprises me is that everybody thinks that this is the only instance of such a thing happening.
exactly. Some things simply can not and should not be privatized.

The prison system is one of those.
Yeah, that's the good thing about stable APIs and ABIs.

But why bother?
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If I'm going to spend $30k buying something which I'm going to use for the next 5-10 years

Would it be safe to say that people tend to keep cars for a long time because cars are expensive? If cars were sold the way Dell laptop computers are sold (no test drive, shipped to you door), they might be less expensive. If cars were not built to last so long, they might be less expensive. If people were to buy cars more often, they might be less expensive. If people were less willing to keep old cars on life support, new cars might be less expensive.

If I'm going to spend $30k

Not every car costs $30,000. There are cars that cost $4,000. http://www.google.com/search?q=india+popular+cars Even in America, there are cars that cost as little as $10,000, which is less than a Dell laptop computer can cost.
If PB shut down, then it could take bittorrent with it. But in the sense that a new protocol emerges, not in the sense that bittorrent stops working.

Also note that there is a multitracker extension on the bittorrent protocol. And PB seems to use it.
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Chile is one of the best South American countries. It has a lot less poverty than its more socialist neighbours. Here is a quite from WP:

> Currently, Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations.[5] Within the greater Latin American context it leads in terms of human development, competitiveness, quality of life, political stability, globalization, economic freedom, low perception of corruption and comparatively low poverty rates.[7] It also ranks high regionally in freedom of the press and democratic development.

During the Pinochet era the economy grew and created a stable base for the current day Chile. The economic policies of Chile has not changed course from the Pinochet era.

> and some parts of mainland China

China is screwed up and has many problems. When you compare China now with China pre-1978 you will see that people are a lot richer and more well off than they were then.

> Singapore

Compare Singapore with its neighbour Malaysia. Singapore has a high GDI and a lot less social problems than most other countries.
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Yep. But it stops at ... one ounce. So a gallon can be divided cleanly by two seven times. It's naturally no coincidence that a gallon is 2^7 ounces. :-)

I'm in favor of the US switching to metric (I'm American, but have lived in Europe for the last 7 years), but just trying to give some context on what I believe are some of the niceties of the Imperial system.

A "cup" is a much easier notion to get your head around than "about 50-70 ml".
I wonder if Github's ultimate plan is to make money from something other than charging for storage.

After all in the long run, while charging for storage is immediately profitable (and so a good way to sustain the business), there may be a bigger pie hidden a little further once you reach a critical mass of users...

Then it would make sense to charge as little as possible, to increase usage until you reach that critical mass.

I can't quite figure out what the bigger pie is for Github - but then I haven't spent that much time thinking about it. Anyone got some ideas?
Fair enough. I know a couple of non-technical founders actually and they seem to be focusing on sales and marketing + VC connections. I don't get that impression from some of the founders I'm reading on HN though. I certainly appreciate the stories but the impressions I get, and this may be incorrect, is that they are taking credit for the "design" (in the overall looser sense of the term) of their product when they have just given broad reaching goals and let the actual employees make all the little decisions that make or break the product.
~250 founders of 102 companies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlj3xKyChg

We need to add another 100 ghost founders to account for the extra $5,000, so that makes it: ~350 founders x $5,000/founder = ~$1.75 million invested, so far.

Y Combinator has (I personally believe, but do not necessarily know to be true) additionally sunk capital investment into:

* Beans and rice
* A building and associated land in Boston
* A building and associated land in Mountain View
* Utility bills
* Travel expenses
* Legal fees (including 102 incorporation-fee packages)
* Accounting fees
* Misc.
Your painting analogy is really solid. There is a remarkable range in the way that software needs to scales and that captures it.

Doesn't it depend upon WHAT it is that is produced?

A productivity issue that doesn't get discussed often is the bridge between software and the people who work with it. For example - developers often draw the line at "works on my machine" or "I can deploy it to production" or "I can work out bugs". But these things don't take into account the scenarios of customers, deployers and support operators - documentation, logging, troubleshooting and the amount of time spent by those customers and anciliary staff doing those things. Effectiveness at these things is generally far more important than whether a programmer can write something in one day or five, but the typical developer is a blinkered creatures.
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Seems like imperial is used http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
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He's describing High Concept.

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Pretty cool. Perhaps they should make it a bit more like http://shortformblog.com/ . Now that'd be pretty rad.
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I would think the "freemium" model works fantastically for GitHub.
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"I don't know where the author has been for the last 10 years... the [cars] will simply be dropped off at a dealers lot near you."

The article is about it being impossible to buy a car straight from the manufacturer.

"In America you may not be able to buy a new car online, but the world is a lot larger."

As the first word in the entire article is Americans ("Americans can buy virtually anything over the Internet, (...) but a new car"), I don't think the author was trying to write about the situation on the global scale. But even ignoring that, articles of American origins often limit their criticisms to those within their own country, same as British and Australian journalists often write about problems with their own.
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A bit too much information in one page... Too many columns, but that's just a personal opinion.
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It didn't do that for me, with either Konqueror or Firefox.
those kinds of things scream "automated"
I agree, for an "Article Skimmer" using a grid layout was not the best choice as it kinda hampers skimming through the news...
the title is "Why You Can't Buy a New Car Online"
This s a really nice interface. That said, doesn't matter if they have best interface in the world, readers are going to be really annoyed if they keep asking people to log into read articles. That and their paper edition.
the title is "Why You Can't Buy a New Car Online"

Thanks for the reply. That is the title, but there are three pages of text to go along with it.

The first word of the article mentions that this is American-centric and somewhere in the first few paragraphs, the author clarifies that he or she is writing about buying a new car without a dealer.

It is interesting to learn that you have been able to buy a new car directly from the manufacturer where you live. Do you know if the dealers complained when this came about? Also, do friends and family members buy new cars this way now?