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Because it works (despite the advertiser's whining), and provides a service that otherwise wouldn't exist.

It's funny; I've lived in both Paris and Seattle, two cities which have the expensive and difficult-to-maintain electronic public toilets which automatically clean themselves after every use. The ones in Paris are run by JCDecaux (same company who is doing the bike rentals), and although they are dreadful to use, they work (and have worked) for years.

In Seattle, the city was approached by JCDecaux to build public toilets in exchange for putting advertising near them, but were refused. Seattle decided instead to use millions of taxpayer dollars to form their own ad-free version. The toilets rarely worked (and in any case were constantly occupied by crackheads). 2 or 3 years later, the city cut their losses and unsuccessfully tried to sell the toilets on eBay.
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I'd hate the hassle much more than spending the $300.
I wholeheartedly agree with this comment. Eric Raymond is close to useless. He managed to attach himself to the free software movement, rename it and turn it into being all about him. And he's written almost no software.
Is there a way to find the TOS that was active at the time one signed up?
His autobiography is a fantastic read. Not only the business stuff, but his balloon flights etc.
Again, I don't care what RMS says, what he does is what is important. Simply read his re-re-revised EULA. His focus is to prohibit useful and valuable combinations of proprietary and OSS software by requiring the free distribution of the proprietary intellectual property content and abandonment of any applicable patents.

Which result has the most fundamental impact? The restriction to trading software artifact for software artifact no matter what or allowing modification by anyone who cares. For the former, there is no choice. For the latter, there is the choice to modify or not. I suggest the former has a far more profound effect on the final result.

Perhaps our disagreement is that I think the results are mostly detrimental and you think they are mostly good. The question is good for whom and for what reason?

I don't think that I am the one who is being one dimensional here.
HN automatically upvotes the previous post if you submit an EXACT duplicate URL. But some webpages live under more than one URL, and not everyone submits the canonical URL.
This is very interesting (your last link) in that in contradicts the NOAA data for the US - wonder why?

There has been controversy regarding NASA's climate reporting:
"Blogger proves Nasa wrong on climate change" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/...

"Warmest October Claim Was Wrong, NASA Admits" http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/24359/Warmest_Oct...
I might be wrong about this, but isn't it only considered a monopoly if the aforementioned company is using its massive usershare to shut down competitors unfairly? Facebook is a free service, so it's not undercutting other sites. They're all allowed to get themselves lots of users too, if they can figure out how.

The fact that social networks gain value with users means the solution isn't to "break up" a site like Facebook. That only worsens everything for users.
>> "But the mobile web will eventually just be the web. And a big part of getting it there is to get the tools that allow us to seamlessly consume rich media on the web onto mobile devices. To me that means Flash."

To me, and hopefully Apple, that means <video> <audio> etc - standards based media. Using Flash to do video and audio is a horrible hack. If browsers had <video> and <audio> 10 years ago, I think flash would have died off in usage just as Java applets have.
Why didn't he draw 4 different common animals instead of the same one 4 times?
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It's the most powerful statement all down his corporate line about how the boss-man really wants customers pleased. And the grins are a pretty good demonstration of how to measure the outcomes.

It's one thing for the CEO to tell it. It's transcendent to show it.
I used it to add the next Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting:

http://editconf.com/events/348:ruby-users-of-minnesota-febru...

Nice job on making it really easy to add events. Hopefully you have a plan for spam.

EDIT: I noticed you have at least a few duplicates, like these:

http://editconf.com/events/220:railsconf-2009

http://editconf.com/events/281:railsconf-2009
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How can 130 people say they are "entrepeneurs" when they don’t come up for their salary/living expenses themselves? If you don’t do that you’re an employee or not?
What I read between The Register's lines is:

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When I need to do something realtime, I connect users to my IRC server. Writing a client for IRC in Flash is very easy, I haven't tried with Javascript, I imagine you would use a keepalive connection somehow. Am I missing something by not using XMPP?
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Borked?
He's mentioned before that he's blabbed too much, back when he was trying to sell DropSend. So maybe that's just his thing, that he doesn't know when to hush it.
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Ah, yes, open source electronic medical records - a panacea for the health care industry. Vendors have been pushing this one for years, with little success, as they don't understand that the inefficiencies in health care keep a lot of people in work.

And inefficiencies in health records kill a lot of people just the same. But, you know, vendors don't get the market.
>> "Am I missing something by not using XMPP?"

You're missing hours of headaches working through over-engineered ridiculously overly complicated horrible XML protocol. Stick with IRC ;)
The result of an internal combustion engine is the transformation of heat energy into kinetic energy. Thermodynamics says this conversion cannot be 100%. Hence some of the heat is not converted. The "wasted" heat is not lost. It is simply not used.

To say the purpose of an internal combustion engine is not to use heat energy distorts the meaning of the words to the vanishing point by implying that the purpose of everything is not to use heat to the degree they don't do it.

The statement is "what it does". Its not "what it doesn't do".
Dishonesty and deception are attempts at short-term safety.

Honesty and transparency are long-term investments in the trust and good-will of your public.
Did you actually read the terms of service?
After I read it, I stopped flying BA and now fly Virgin Atlantic (where available).

Still want to try Virgin America.
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The timing of this article is ironic for me, since I just had a big argument with a friend about why I like Facebook less and less...

There's one thing about this that confuses me: with a change like this to the ToS, why didn't they alert me and make me confirm that I agree with the new terms?
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Simple, because the old TOS said they didn't have to. And why would they? "Hey we just changed our TOS to take even more control over your stuff, are you still okay with that? Yes/No"

And if you're using Facebook now, you should be okay with the change because it's not like much has actually changed with regard to how FB is going to use/sell your data.
I don't think we're talking about a data privacy issue here. Facebook's TOS, old and new, states that its rights to use your data are "subject to your privacy settings". The issue here is copyright, which is not the same thing.

Meanwhile, if you're saying that it would be great if we had a regulatory regime that recognized the reality of the Internet -- where anything you publish effectively belongs to the world and cannot thereafter be retracted or centrally controlled -- amen to that! But that's not the world we live in. We live in a world full of lawyers who mail C&D notices to indie filmmakers if they happen to photograph a building or a sign or a person without getting a signed release first; a world where a lot of modern art can't afford to legally exist because it costs too much to clear the rights to all the components of that art. Under those circumstances, I find it hard to blame Facebook for throwing up their hands and demanding a waiver before you publish anything on their platform.
Right. There's a name for locally run ajax web pages written in HTML/CSS/JS. They're called widgets. Now widgets can be cool, but Super Monkey Balls they are not.
Thanks for the advice. Would you consider 'yunar' to be a spell-able name? The name sure looks pretty, it's pronouncable, but something tells me it's hard to spell and hard to remember. I've been struggling for months on whether I should use it or not.
Yes, it seems to be increasingly common for founders to sell a little stock personally in the course of a funding round. At least, it was till the market crashed.

I don't have enough data yet to say how the recession will affect this practice. But my guess is that if it did decrease, the decrease would be temporary. The long term trend is that founders are increasingly powerful. Which means they'll tend to get not just the option to sell stock (if they want to) but other things they want, like remaining CEO.
If I'm not mistaken the Founders Fund allows the founders to get paid.
It is certainly harder to become a lieutenant of a drug cartel then becoming an executive at a corporation.
I consider entrepreneurship a part of my identity.

That I'm having to work part-time while building my own business only means that I'm not a self-sufficient entrepreneur yet.
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I disagree.

Facebook has one of the easiest, and certainly cheapest, methods to inform users of new TOS agreements. In contrast to your CC company, they don't have to physically mail an updated document. If the TOS change, the user can simply be presented the new terms upon logging in (the next login after the change, or course), and they have the opportunity to agree to the new terms or not. This is how some sites have tackled this problem in my own experience.

If they wanted to be really fancy, they could even highlight where the changes are via change bars or text formatting. I wouldn't expect that, however.
I wish your statement was applicable. Unfortunately customers could care less about honesty, they're mostly motivated by cost and convenience.

While you're out there being honest and open and making a solid living, they're people lying and being sneaky all the while making a killing.

Which brings up the question, is it better to lie now and make your money so you can be open and honest later in life? Or should you be honest now and wish/hope that your customers notice and reward you in the future?
You Wonder Why We Are In A Tech Bubble
And how many of our most successful hacker/entrepreneurs are former computer criminals?

I'm not just talking about breaking into the high school's web server -- I'm talking serious scam artistry. I know several Romanian hackers for whom this was a rite of passage while growing up. They all have respectable jobs at huge software firms now, often in charge of security or financial apps.
Yeah. They're very "You're not allowed to get mad at us if your stuff stays on the database after you're gone, because it's really hard for us to make sure it all disappears." If you're paranoid/have never used a site with TOS, that sounds like "We want to steal your creative ideas," but I assure you that if Facebook ever did something like that, they would get pounded hard and lose users. HN had this exact discussion with the Gmail TOS, I believe, and people were worried that Google would be stealing their emailed poetry.

Sites really aren't evil. You've got to trust me on this, most sites aren't saying "How can we potentially steal a million dollars in the off-chance that one of our users posts up a movie script as a note rather than, say, sending it off to an executive?" Rather, they're saying, "Look, we're getting a lot of people who're being dicks about how we keep their data so that if they want to return their account magically comes back, and we think that it's better to keep that data than to remove it, because that way the people who delete accounts stupidly can come back and be happy they don't have to start again. At the same time, it's true that we're retaining data we shouldn't retain. So let's just add to our TOS that we're allowed to do that, since most people won't care, and since it means we can provide a useful service that'll help more people than it will piss off."
I think the founders of every pre-revenue bootstrapped startup fall into those two categories simultaneously.

In my case I am living of the money from a previous exit.
Like Firefox did, just create an open source social experience and we will move our friends and family to a more open and secure place.

Never underestimate an angry customer...
That's kind of the downside to capitalism: more freedom means more people taking advantage of the system. The problem's that sometimes taking advantage leads to really cool stuff getting done. It's a mixed blessing as always.
"I love that here is this cry for revenue generation out of a company not even two years old, Relax, it is coming. Twitter Investor - Chaffee"

I'll add this to my dog and pony show that I have for investors. We'll meet, they'll blabber something about revenue and I'll just tell them to 'relax, it's coming'.

Should go over well.

Scary that these are the people with all the money who are funding startups.
Correct, my apologies.
haha, scares me too
I really don't think Facebook thinks their changing their TOS is a big deal. I'm sure they changed it because they had to, and didn't expect anybody to really care.

Also, I'd imagine that as an engineer, "Create the most optimal terms-of-service change page" is a bit of a drag.

Also also, if Facebook isn't intending to do this maliciously, then if they highlight stuff like the new lines Mashable's jumping on, they'll get a lot of paranoid users for nothing. If they are doing it maliciously, it's in their best interests not to let users see what's happening.
Make sure the client knows what they're doing with regards to a web presence: E.g. they can manage e-mail / hosting set ups. If they don't, they're likely to get burned, even with your advice.

I would advise getting a small VPS from Slicehost. Set it up so that it automatically backs up (they charge like $5/month to do machine replication, but having an always-ready-to-go daily backup of your client's machine should be a closer).

If you're going to go for old-school hobbyist shared-hosting, I'd suggest Myhosting.com or http://www.nobullshithosting.com/

I'd also advise you to stay away from Dreamhost.com. Their servers have terrible bandwidth, lose emails, and their TOS is ridiculously restrictive to the point where they can justify closing your account for any reason -- the primary one being that you're actually costing them more they're paying (e.g. using more than half the "promised" 500GBs of space their $9.99/month account gives you).
Cool, thanks. I'm glad you found it easy.

I zapped that dupe. If you find any more I'll be glad to take care of them also. Eventually we'd like to add a version-control style merge, but we're focusing on other things for now.
If I was on Facebook and a friend of mine started doing that, I would unfriend him for being a dick. If he tagged me in a low-res picture, so that all my friends looking for my photos would see a blurry me in the mix, I'd be pretty pissed off. Or worse: I'd ban the application, as is my prerogative, and suddenly I don't see any of these photos at all and that app destroys photos entirely.
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Title is misleading. No documentation of a tech bubble. Mostly a rant about social sites that haven't yet developed their business models (monetized themselves).

It's valid to be concerned about monetizing a social app, but... do you remember all the static that Amazon received for years about not turning a profit. But they built their base and a supreme market position. As of December 2008 Amazon was one of few online retailers to grow!

Be careful about the generalizations. Or the assumption that you can't later bring in the business types to ramp up the marketing and cash-flow aspects. Timing is everything. And is easiest assessed in hindsite.

Not to say that Facebook/Twitter don't need to seize that moment now... Just to say that some "bubbles" make good molds on which to build solid financial models.
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TweedHeads, it's really cute that you think that's why people went to Firefox, the whole open thing, but the average user doesn't know what plugins are. The big switch to FF came when it had tabs and IE 6 didn't. That's when I changed. It also rendered pages more accurately and loaded faster than IE 6. Nobody cares that it was open, and chances are people didn't care that it was secure. The idea of security is that you don't actively notice it.

Facebook is secure already, and nobody cares that it's closed. If it was a shitty site that was also closed, then maybe an "open social experience" would come in handy, but Facebook also happens to be the best-designed popular site that's ever been made, it runs oily-smooth, and it has five hundred bazillion users.

Never underestimate an angry customer...

Like the 10 million angry customers that protested when Facebook redesigned and lost its little guy logo? Or that protested that you can't change Facebook to other colors? Because I have friends that joined those groups, and they're still on Facebook. "Mildly irritated" customers can be underestimated, for the most part. They don't do anything.
From the looks of the teacher, I have a sneaking suspicion there are other reasons for the inmates taking this class.
Last I checked, there have been something like 200,000+ tech jobs lost in the last 6 months. Scores of startups closing shop. I think we're well past a 'bubble' by now. If Twitter wasn't having amazing adoption and growth, they wouldn't get a damn dime. And despite what is being said publicly, Twitter was probably required to seriously lay out a revenue model as part of the funding process.
I'd love to hear pg do a follow-up on this. Every couple years.
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Read up on the government of 1908, it was extremely corrupt.

Anyway, Technology is driving most of the social changes you're talking about. Something like 50% of the average persons medical expenses occur in the last year of their life which makes insuring the old extremely costly. The government pays for ~50% of all medicine in the US and most of it would not exist if a) it where not available and b) people where not living as long. The world would probably be more wealthy without that drain, but I don't know if it would be better.

I expect the government of 1908 was more corrupt than the government of today, people did not have the money to let government take that much off of them. 1908 introduced the Model T, before that modern roads where pointless in most places. I think the streetlight best summarizes government involvement, when 1000 people per hour are driving underneath them it's a extremely useful, but they are pointless in the middle of a corn field. Nobody is going to pay per light to see at night so it's really just a question of government/local groups or nothing. Saying public infrastructure is best served by private companies seems to miss the poor service they provide. EX: Cellphone coverage in the US. So yes taxes are up, but it's not like the money is set on fire we are getting a lot of services from that money.

When it comes to social organizations things like MMO guilds and facebook let people be far more social than the average pre car social club. While face time might be decreasing the average person is far more social today than at any other point in history. And considering how much more free time people have facetime might also be increasing.

Edit: Over the last 100 years the middle class and the wealthy have left city's and have only recently been returning. Murder statistics among the poor and they have always been high so correlating it with city living is missing the point. You can look at the murder rate in inner city's or the murder rate among high school dropouts and see the same trends.

PS: I think human nature has changed little over time, most social changes are a reaction to increased technology / prosperity and throughout history the rich tended to become fat, self absorbed, and decedent. The powerful / well connected become corrupt. And working people get stepped on.
I remember but also Amazon did have a valid business model... they just didn't garner the users needed at that time. Twitter and Facebook are still chasing there own tails thinking something will just happen.

And your right about the title, debating on changing it
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Wannabe indie publishers are everywhere. What I suspect is that they somehow cracked the advertising problem for such small publications. Maybe an ad co-op?
Are people really worried about this? The only reason this is in the TOS is so they have the right to keep running their data mining algorithms even after you delete your account, in case they find a new way to leverage your data. It's not like they're going to start selling a poetry anthology of your stuff or something.
Your right, maybe more appropriate you wonder why we were in a bubble?
Never mind. It's not worth debating if you're going to ignore what the other guy is saying.
Agreed, but it's also very easy to have the user agree to the new terms without throwing conspiracy-theorist-red-flags all around the Internets (tm).
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I LOVE the fading red around the "Add Event" button. Makes me want to add an event even though I don't know of any!

I haven't reviewed the rest of the app yet. That button is like the Hypnotoad.
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