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From my understanding, there certainly would have been huge crack in the system had some of the big ones gone down just like that. This is because of the incest-like inter-connection between the major players; if one fails, it reneges on its derivative obligations, leaving several others' "naked" to risk. Those affected by this would have either lower credit rating or may not be able to fulfill their derivative obligations and so on.. domino effect.
So, agreed, some of these biggies just had to be stopped from failing (AIG was the king of them)
But what I fail to understand is that why is the government supporting these on an on-going basis? I would expect the government to strictly save them on the terms that they eventually wind down the operations or at least break up and sell to interested parties.
It is very important for companies to fail every once in a while; in this special case the govt. should have helped soft-land their failure not prevented it!
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While I'm not in favor of the reducing-world-trade argument, I have a hard time with the idea that using tax dollars to buy expensive executive perqs and pay hefty year-end bonuses is going to help the economy recover.
The size of D executable - 230K - is a quite big surprise.
Agreed. I was in the process of moving our small set of users to Google Apps Premier. The phone support and quick response time was crucial to convincing my boss to allocate the funds. I think such a change:

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is a dramatic change in the product. Hopefully they will give me a refund.
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I am fairly familiar with the backend (lots of bitter Socialtext friends), and hate to recommend it for that reason, but the UI seems nicer than MediaWiki.

Also, I like to shill Perl whenever possible. :)
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Presumably part of the conversion process to the kindle's format is re-flowing the text. Certainly from what you're saying its happening somewhere in the process as otherwise the formatting would be perfect.

Native support for pdf displays the pdf as it requests same as it would appear on your computer. This is basically the point of postscript/pdf. All you can do is zoom in/out and pan you can't reflow it or break lines/pages differently.
As others have said, never ever ever use google as your domain registrar. In general, you usually don't want to buy a domain name "bundled" with other services such as google apps or hosting. (Note: Dreamhost is a terrible host, but a decent registrar.)

Always always keep control over your DNS. If this guy was hosting with Slicehost or Linode, he would've had the option to point the MMX records anywhere he liked, and problem solved (or at least, temporarily contained.)

Lastly, I can say from personal experience that Google's support is shockingly bad. It is a deep and twisted warren of blind alleys, misinformation, and a million different paths that all end in "fuck you". You will not contact a human. There are no humans. Thousands of genius engineers engineered teh googelz to be perfect and human free for your utopian pleasure, and then they spent all day riding around on bikes and playing ping pong and eating free food and getting massages and inventing world-changing things. They're better than you. Google doesn't have problems. Ever. You must have done something wrong.

Please wait 5 days, and try again. If you continue getting this error, please contact support. Sorry, support is only available to Premium customers. Would you like to purchase Premium service? To purchase Premium service, simply log into your domain. Sorry, that domain is no longer active; if you have recently changed that domain, please wait 5 days, and try again. Contact support if you have any questions.

Their approach to customer service is to send their customers in circles until they give up. It's evil. Very extremely cruel and evil.

I use google apps for two of my domains. What can I say, their software is very well designed, and on the net balance, it's easier to manage than postfix. But the lack of support is a major down side, certainly. I wouldn't even consider paying a dime for any of their services without seeing some huge changes in their approach.
That's a great lead in to something I really wanted to discuss on HN.

I was in my ethics class today and my professor started talking about plato's cave allegory, how one can only know good by doing, not talking (he did note the irony of teaching a class about this), and other such topics.

Eventually he told a story that struck me as very similar to what you describe. He said he met a bunch of Cistercian
monks and talked with them a while and that the most interesting thing about them was that they seemed to hold no views about the world. They were supposed to be catholic, but they didn't pray anymore, they didn't seem to care about abortion (as an issue, not that they took a side), they didn't make any assumptions about god's shape. It was radically different from the popular conception of monks.

The professor said that the only thing that they believed in was that god was present, and that the universe was a wondrous thing to behold. They just basked in the glory of existence.

This surprised me, because I thought that the thinking of the most religious people would be radically different from the perspective of science. Both ask why, and have intellectual integrity about it. The major difference between the two is that science constantly asks "how?".

My professor said that the monks acted kind of like they were stoned. Perhaps the true difference between the two prespectives is that the monks are on downers and the scientists are on uppers :-).
>> all the land taken up by cities, highways, non-agricultural roads, railroads, and airports amounts to only 82 million acres - just 3.6 percent of the total.

> You conveniently skipped the outsourced bit (China.)

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Yeah, the bottom line is that things go wrong with Apps from time to time, and there are no human beings working there that you can talk to without upgrading your service.

I can't log in to the Apps account for one of my domains, and their error page says that no domain exists by that name, even though they are hosting email for it. It's a 30 second fix for anybody willing to look at it. But since I'm not paying for the premium account, nobody will even respond to my support mail.
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There are a number of other interesting (though perhaps dubiously supported) similar arguments (including this one) in his book freakonomics.
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I actually recommend playing with sqlite. It's fast and easy to setup. You can work with it via command line or use a web browser plugin.

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This is terrible, worse than people speculating about Steve Jobs' health, as an example of how low folks in our industry can go. (I know they're unrelated but the 2 evoke the same emotions in me.)

I desperately want Michael Arrington to cover my startup as well, but I still can't understand those that threatened or spat on him. Michael, I hope you return to regular writing after Feb, but if you don't, thanks for all the great work so far.
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"That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3".

Spitting is a long way past that point. Not cool.
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Wow!

I think that this indicates an incredibly cut-throat feeling in the startup world.

The state of the economy in general can't be helping.

How could this be different?
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I guess the person who spat on Michael really showed his level of integrity.

I respect the guy (Arrington) professionally, I've never met him so I can't comment on him personally but this type of shit is totally not cool.

I know you occasionally read this site Mike, so please come back when you've taken time off, even if its to take a more backseat role in what you do.
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I do have paid premium and a good amount of users, and support also was frustating when it came to a certain fairly technical problem to do with DKIM/DomainKeys signed emails being silently discarded. It went on and on in circles and even when escalated to "engineering" they failed to understand the problem. Finally I ended up implementing a horrible hack to receive the email.

Mind you, we have a fairly esoteric mail forwarding setup, but still one that their support documents describe as possible.

Haing said that I've been happy with how Gmail has been compared to a traditional UNIX-based setup in administration and would not want any other email interface.
Wow. He shouldn't have to put up with that crap. The whole death threat thing is freaking scary. Hopefully Michael doesn't shutter Techcrunch, but he's right. Something has to change.
And get your nickpick right! It should be "s/gmail/Gmail/" with a trailing slash.
Spitter was probably from a PR firm. Remember this post?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/death-to-the-embargo/

A little spit never killed anyone, and I would say any controversial figure is going to encounter that every once in a while. But the death threat stuff goes way over the line. The police needs to find that guy and put him in jail immediately.
I agree, it's a sad state of affairs, but

"I desperately want Michael Arrington to cover my startup as well"

I don't really get this... startups don't fall or succeed based on tc coverage. It might spike traffic for a day with some geeks. That's all at the end of the day.

Seems like some of this is TC's own doing - they have made people believe you have to get techcrunched, or you won't succeed - which is completely false.

I think they do a great job in the main though.
This is ridiculous. A lot of the rumors about him covering only recommended or friends of friends startups are just plain untrue. He does cover startups he invest in, but in the end, it doesn't help them that much (just look at Edgeio). I think people have an exaggeration on him being a king maker for startups.
I've never once managed to get through anything written by that guy. I can emphathize a bit with his readers...but then why are they reading him?
I don't think it's TC own doing. It might be a result of mismanaging TC's community, but I think it's largely disgruntled entrepreneurs that don't get press coverage.
It's times like this that make you feel a bit better about living your life out of the spotlight. I wonder how people like David Pogue, or Walt Mossberg deal with this type of attention. Come to think of it, they cover higher profile companies, and probably don't have to deal this this kind of crap. Most of the time.

The only equivalent I can think of would be the reporters at papers who cover the shady-side of the business world. David Baines (Vancouver Sun) was the target of a lot of threats and innuendo during his coverage of stock-scams in Vancouver, to the point at which he just stopped working in that space for a while.

Sounds like Arrington has come to that place. Let's hope he comes back from it.
I've had three things I've worked on get posted to TC, and it was totally useless. Traffic had minimal stickiness (lots of clicks to the frontpage and nothing else), and when I think about my behavior when I read TC, it definitely makes sense.

And yet, for all of those startups, getting the TC story was a milestone of sorts.

Its like getting your first hundred users, it doesn't define your success or failure outright, but its a big psychological hurdle I think.
No TC coverage is not on the top of the list of things I'm desperate for either. I'm just generally desperate for a lot of things ever since I started up.
Spitting in his face is going a bit far, but it's pretty difficult for me to feel sympathy for the guy. I struggle to think of a more dislikable, arrogant jerk. This belated plea for human-to-human sympathy falls on deaf ears, for me at least.

In my group, Arrington symbolises everything we hate about the "Web 2.0" greed culture. He's relentlessly promoted himself as the gatekeeper to this bullshit world of easy VC money, now crashing down around him. Good riddance.

If it hadn't been something as revolting as spitting, and instead say a nice cream pie to the face, I'd be delighted.
I would love to see someone hook up a Bayesian filter and some markov chain code to Gillmor's collected writings. Then have a free web service with an API that would allow you to develop Wordpress plugins to automatically have Steve Gillmore guest-post on your personal blog.
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Nope. Just flash. I just watched a 720p blu-ray rip on my 24" external monitor without any problems.
I don't like techcrunch, and i don't like Arrington, but i can't understand why all the hate? Spitting on people is not cool, and threatening their lives is even not cooler. The worst i ever did was just ignore all the techcrunch links here, i think that was enough.
but its a big psychological hurdle I think.

Completely agree, something I was involved in was on wired last year (twice) and I must admit it was a good feeling, but thats about it.

If anyone sees getting on TechCrunch as the goal of their startup rather than using it as a tool that can help them reach your goal, they have probably already failed - they just don't know it yet.
A belated thanks. Naming things is hard. We spent weeks throwing around ideas until that one hit like a thunderbolt.
This kind of reminds me of the T-Shirt Hell guy's entry a couple of days ago. Basically, everybody is just tired of the crap and they are taking time off or quitting. You shouldn't be assaulted for your opinion (and spitting is assault in the US AFAIK).
Our experience has been contrary to what others have said about minimal stickiness -- Techcrunch coverage has precipitated blog coverage and attention that each time has resulted in a new bar for traffic and retention. -- YMMV

Regardless of how valuable TechCrunch is to us or any other startup, the fact remains that violence and threats of violence against bloggers is utterly unjustifiable. People act like Michael Arrington owes them something, and that's the fundamental problem underpinning the latest attacks.
yup point taken... Press coverage is always nice, but not strictly necessary.
In some of these cases, I suspect the main difference is related to how the language's runtime libraries are linked to the executable. Chicken, for example produces a 15k executable. Running that executable requires the presence of a much larger dynamically linked libchicken.

As mentioned in the article, an executable SBCL core includes all of SBCL. Considering that Java and .NET produce "executables" that are actually executed by their respective runtimes, I think it might be more fair to SBCL to compare the size of a FASL. It's 828 bytes for a FASL compiled from

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har har! I tried to parse ONE article he wrote once. It took several hours and turned out to be an enormous waste of time. The results are here:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/items/2006/12/...

What I don't get is why people keep paying him to write this stuff (he's been doing it for years in InfoWorld) since he might be smart but he's clearly not a very good writer. My only guess is that the editors who hire him don't want to admit that they can't understand what he's saying.
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You mean Objective C on the iPhone, since you can do C++ on the iPhone too.

Almost definitely Objective C + iPhone if these are the only choices you have. It's helpful to switch programming environments once in a while to gain a new perspective.

What work do you do which makes C++ in high demand? Also, C++ isn't the language that separates men from boys.
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Can you defer the Phd? If so then you can choose to give the startup a go for a while and see how that works out without closing the door on the Phd. Personally I wouldn't give preference to the industry jobs unless they're really very good.
I agree with what joshu (delicious founder, but thats not the point) said last time this was posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448669

> Flickr tags are by people categorizing their own photos (that is, publisher-generated categorization.) Not people categorizing things they've found or aren't theirs. This leads to radically different behavior. Given this is a librarian, the second case is much more relevant and interesting.
The spitting sounds more like a lack of social skills than anything else...
My sentiment exactly. What I would really want is a good email client, like Thunderbird but with Gmail workflow - so at least it will support grouping emails by conversation ( but not the way TB does it). I wonder why no one implemented that yet.
I think you can build a broader network of colleagues and will be exposed to a wider range of ideas while pursing a PhD.

That being said, a PhD is a long haul and a lot of work. The good news is that you can always leave after getting a masters.
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That's way more than the guy deserves!

I'd never heard of him before Arrington brought him on board. He had a few pieces on TechCrunch that week....but I couldn't make it past sentence 3 in any of them. The titles don't grab you and he uses words like "thusly."

People like to read interesting stuff.

If your stuff's not readable, then it doesn't matter how interesting it is.
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For all we know it could have just been someone from Wales...

"Never ask for place-names in Wales, Baldric. You'll be washing the spit out of your hair for weeks". (Blackadder)
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This is true. If you don't get far more traffic from other sources than TechCrunch, I think you're doing it wrong.
Or a disgruntled European entrepreneur who didn't like the opinions he expressed at Le Web... http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/961885
"I write about technology startups and news. In any sane world that shouldn’t make me someone who has to deal with death threats and being spat on."

Something definitely needs to change.
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For a while now I've been wondering about the industry and the people in it, and this story just makes me question it all so much more.

It seems that the majority of people who work in IT (or at least, those that contribute to the various sites) are acting like they are still in high school. You've got to be associated with this person or that site to be 'cool' and a 'guru' and if you're not you're nothing. It's getting beyond a joke.

Congratulation, you got a mention on TC or HN, or you've been 'dugg' by lots of people. It doesn't mean your startup or product is actually good or useful you know. If that is all the marketing you are relying on then you've only got a 50% chance of success.

The whole thing even extends to people. I'm not going to name names but there seems to be some sort of god-worshipping to people just because they write a blog. Yes, I enjoy reading them, yes I pick up things from people who have done it before, but it doesn't mean they're some sort of superstar ... and I'm not even going to talk about the "we've just got a new CIO who used to work at Google brigade" (oh, he worked at Google, he must be a hero).

Thanks for reading.
I read it and understood less than 5%

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You can narrow down the choices to two:

1. Take the startup job. In the worst case it will fail. If so you would have gained so much valuable experience in programming + project management + finance + HR. With that experience you will easily get a Senior level job in any company. And that is the worst case. If it succeeds the returns will simply be atleast 10 times more than that of a career life.

2. Given the market situation do your PHD, perhaps working on algorithms for detect money launder. The idea is by the time you complete your PHD (3 yrs?) the markets would have turned around surely.

And if the PHD is not in one of the top 10 universities, ditch the idea and go for the startup.
That's a nice idea but the problem is it is difficult to get such chance in big company.
Internet fame is like "rock star" fame but without the rock star security entourage.

People begin to treat folks like Arrington as an object and not a person but by the nature of the job they do they are inevitably in closer contact with those that would treat them that way - than (say) a Hollywood film star.

I suspect that we will see more such incidents affecting key technology writers and pundits - fame is dangerous in so may ways.
There must be ways for Google, Yahoo etc to tackle this but whenever we've approached them its been a long drawn out process with us having to provide significant proof. We stopped advertising on content networks in the end as it made virtually no difference to our sales.