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I've never been attracted to SPDY as I have doing HTTP 1.1 pipelining for years before SPDY appeared. It's great for getting lots of data from the same source, though I don't know about the way typical webpages are these days with so many connections to pull-in offiste resources, many of which offer the user zero value (they benefit the site owner only). That's a problem with how people are deisgning websites. Not something that's solved with a transmission procotol.

SPDY did offer a couple of new things over 1.1.

SPDY wants to compress headers, but I asked "Why?"

What exactly are they planning to put in the headers to make them so big they need to be compressed? Normal headers are not large. And headers can actually be quite useful after pipelining a large amount of data when you want to carve into pieces later. They are like record separators.

Another new addition was de-serialization. But I see nothing wrong with receiving the data in the order I requested it. If the transmission is interrupted, at least then I can restart where I left off.

I'm just not convinced compressing headers or de-serializing adds such a speed boost as to justify a new protocol.

And now, with this exploit, I don't need to even think about SPDY anymore. Except has a potential security hole.

Sorry SPDY fans, but this is just my opinion as a dumb end user. Pipelining worked just fine before SPDY. Alas, no one used it. Why? Maybe because it didn't have a catchy acronym and a corporate brand behind it. I honestly don't know. Because it's efficient and makes perfect sense. I used it. And I still do.

I will never use SPDY, especially not now. (It's on by default in Firefox but you can disable it.)
I'm pretty sure that's the same business Las Vegas is in.
There do exist number systems where .999.../=1, however, they are not a strict superset of the reals. If it were, then any operation involving only real numbers would behave identicly to the real number system.

Also, this property is not a mere convention, but rather a nessasary result of what we want the number line to be. For example, assume that X<Y. Consider Z=(X+Y)/2. Z=X/2+Y/2. X<Z<Y. I have just shown, using basic algebra, that for any 2 distinct numbers, their is a third number between them. If that were not the case, then at least one of my steps must have been invalid.
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"Google Maps is not available as an iPhone app, but Google Maps can still be used on a Firefox browser."

I stopped reading at this point.
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And if it affects them financially you can count on that being forwarded their customers...
That would be nice, wouldn't it? (meta)
Am I the only one who think pg's view points appear to be getting more and more extreme, in some sense rather biased compared to his previous essays?

Zynga is definitely all about growth. It is fiercely focused on metrics, fiercely focused on growth. But as someone from game industry, we cannot agree that this model is THE model that gives the world and everyone value. If the game industry worked like the way pg describes in the essay decades ago, we would never have Diablo, Baldur's Gate, Grim Fandango or Minecraft. We would all be left with choices like Farmville, Monsterville, Mineville, forever and ever.

"Growth drives everything in this world."? Does it? All fads grow like wildfire too, but does it drive everything in world? Or a better question would be: should we allow it to?
It was only a theory.

Perhaps no one reads the actual patent document (as you say it's written in legal terms - so it's purpose is to establish the extent of the invention for the law). Perhaps what people do do though is look at the outcomes of patents like the devices or code and learn from them. My point is that just because some people (or even no people) read the actual patent document that doesn't mean that the knowledge doesn't reach those who might use it.
Predictable comment, IMO.

Quoting Betteridge's Law of Headlines is this season's "You're not Google's customer, you're their product".

I can predict with great accuracy whether or not I'll see it referenced in any given HN comment thread based on the headline (ironically, in this case if the headline ends in a question mark, the answer is yes. If the headline is asking something negative about Apple, the answer is double yes).
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An idea doesn't mean anything. It's the execution that's important.
I know, right. I come from Mountain View, which makes my ticket about 6+ bucks, but if I forget to "tag off", I end up with the 12 dollar charge. One day I was in a rush so ended up paying double, twice. That really pissed me off.

At the very least, if I took a train from Mountain View to SF, I should pay the one-way price, not the price of a full San Jose <> San Fran ticket.
I did not think about the definition of a startup too much but in fact I always thought about it as 'product business' as opposed to 'service business'.

Given this definition of a startup I don't want to start a startup anymore. My aim is a product business. I am into products which make me money when I sleep. Even if the income rate stops growing at $100.000 per year because of the relatively small market.
The conclusion "no facebook = severe social isolation" (including being cut off from ones own family) only works under the assumption that basically everyone everywhere forgot how to socialize without "social" and that interaction without facebook is somehow impossible or at least hard. This assumption is maniacally and laughably absurd. I can not even fathom how the planet might look where such a statement might sound reasonable.
I heard that's a big problem with first-time tourists to Japan. A lot of people lose tickets (or at least misplace them in their bags), which leads to lengthy fumbling with personal belongings and inevitable purchase of a full ticket for the second time.
> You'd make a great henchman in a totalitarian regime.

I'm not sure whether this counts as a Godwin
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> The problem with wall street is government regulation which is idiotically designed, and intervention-- in the form of bailouts-- that perverts the entire system incentivizing gambling.

Deregulation. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/10-years-later-lookin...

“Without the...repeal of Glass-Steagall...Washington might not have felt a need to rescue the institutional victims.”
I am not a CalTrain engineer and I have plenty of problems to work on which will make my users happier. But, I suggest that CalTrain engineers spend some time working on an obvious problem that so many users are having. Just because it's easier for them to require tap-off, doesn't mean it the only solution. Pissed off users means tap-off has to be not the correct solution.
Wrong, if you are the average Apple fanboy (and oh, don't get me started, there are plenty of those, I sit for lunch every day with two of them) you'll have the phone until the next one comes out. Why? Don't ask me, I guess it's the success of Apple's selling its brand as a 'lifestyle'.
The one big difference here though is that it's very hard to tell if a cloud service is ready before you subject it to real traffic.

A lot of the problems people are having with maps seem glaringly obvious and a lot of developers were raising red flags on this during the iOS 6 beta.
I was thinking it could be designed initially to be 80% compatible with English, in order to gain a high rate of adoption. then introduce changes every 5 years.
There will always be a demand for drugs. People want to get high. If drugs were sold in stores and manufactured under controlled conditions then people would know what they were buying. Dickie Sanders just wanted to get high not die. The rules are to blame here.
User education is NOT the key. As a user I just want a train to get me from A to B, without a hassle.

User education only works in complex systems, think nuclear power plant; that's because without education you could potentially blow up the whole planet.

Now, when it comes to trains, there has to be 0 education. Things need to function intuitively, even to someone who's never been aboard a train.
PG did state what are good metrics to focus on:
"The best thing to measure the growth rate of is revenue. The next best, for startups that aren't charging initially, is active users. That's a reasonable proxy for revenue growth because whenever the startup does start trying to make money, their revenues will probably be a constant multiple of active users."
Can't get on ft. Way to 'get it' ft.
Thank you for the recommendations. How do you think English speaker would respond to a version of English which had changes like: Each sound had its own letter and all spelling was phonetic?
Any font that doesn't ship with the default install needs some amount of tweaking to "get right". That said, like mentioned before, fonts in the Ubuntu family works well in all areas. Personally, I have been alternating between Ubuntu mono (bold) and terminus for a while now on the terminal and Ubuntu Regular as the system font.
There's a reason why people do not want to use their real names. Currently Facebook does not keep up with such promises. What has changed to make me have a leap of faith on Facebook?
Quoting Betteridge's Law of Headlines is this season's "You're not Google's customer, you're their product".

How is that not a true statement? A customer is somebody who gives you money. There's really no other definition at the end of the day.
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Well, yes, on the surface it is true, and clearly we can find real examples where it has worked out.

But, still, the statement seems to be an over-simplification in some ways.

That has been bothering me in the back of my mind for a few weeks, until Paul Graham wrote (just published) this: "A startup has to make something it can deliver to a large market, and ideas of that type are so valuable that all the obvious ones are already taken." http://paulgraham.com/growth.html

A "startup" idea in particular has to GROW! And the ideas that have the potential to lead to that kind of growth have mostly been exploited already. Of course, all the time, new things become possible, which is where opportunity for new startups come from.

So, perhaps you can build a "business" by just picking an industry and understanding its pain, but maybe building a "startup" is not so simple (except for the workings of luck, which of course cannot be predicted).
Without dividends, there's no reward for buy-and-hold investing, and no reason to pick companies that will actually perform well. Instead anyone who buys is gambling that they'll be able to dump their position at a fortunate time, which leaves them dependent on predicting the irrational market's perception of the company's prospects.
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- I do not know this person.
- I do not think this is a real name
What's not real about Facebook?
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It's amazing that a system like that has lasted. Good luck to you!
One of my recent weekend projects was implementing a simple command-line interface to the Azure blob storage in Haskell. It's not quite finished, but may still be useful to some. Check it out at https://github.com/ArnoVanLumig/azurify
We're their product. Advertising is the customer.
Yet today they stated they could get two developers for the price I was charging and would have to think about hiring me unless I was prepared to negotiate.

And that, in of itself, is a negotiation tactic. It might be true - but it's much more likely to be a method of getting you to drop your rates. You set the top level at $dayrate. They've now set the bottom at $dayrate/2. They're now hoping for something less than $dayrate as the end result.

If it were me I'd be saying something like "Well - that's great. We obviously don't want you to waste money, and I can be working on some stuff for some of my other clients. Would you like me to brief the new developers when you get them on board at my $higher_short_term_consulting_dayrate? Or are you happy managing the brief and project management for the guys you're getting in?"

(translation: No. I don't come cheap and can afford to leave this work. Also - you've already worked with me and know I can be trusted. How much extra effort is it going to be to manage the new folk - assuming that they exist?)
What's wrong with programers (developers?) Why US law does not want them on US soil? Are their wages to low so they would pull down the average in US?
I didn't say nor mean to imply that either statement was untrue, I'm just noting a pattern wherein certain meme phrases take hold on HN and then get over-quoted for the next 6 months or so. Referencing Betteridge's Law is currently one of the more popular current instances of this.

This is not entirely unlike reddit or 4chan or wherever, except the over-quoted phrases are some sort of startup/media/business wisdom rather than some geeky pop culture reference.
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- Venture Capital pouring millions into untried businesses.

- The crazy valuations.

- The recent complains of VCs that "Entrepreneurs aren't working on enough big ideas".

It all actually makes sense now. It's all in the name of Big Risk = Big Reward style ventures. Especially after defining a "startup" as a company meant to grow rapidly and to massive proportions. Not necessarily a tech business. Not an online store for your company. But instead an extreme-expantion-potential style company. I wish Startups were defined like this from the beginning.

It also further pushes me away from the whole Startup / Silicon Valley thing. Growing that fast means a lot can go wrong and there's very little time to learn from mistakes. I'm a slower thinker, I like to analyze and enjoy, learn and understand, build and live, not sacrifice my life and grow my company like a lunatic.

Thank you Paul. You've actually freed me from a dream that I now realize will never make me happy. I can finally let go of my plan to abandon my family, move to the bay area, drain my life savings, live in a shoebox, stumble from one conference and event to the next hoping to network and find my messiah & co-founder, try to get funded, grow my business to someone else's expectations, all for a tiny fraction of a chance to succeed and be either a slave to my own company or lose control of my baby and walk away with diluted equity. I think I'll stay here in St. Louis with my aging family and build my businesses slowly and calmly.

You freed me Paul. You gave me back my life, my real one.
Apollo. CRM is great for organizing and tracking but if you find yourself going to a CRM to figure out deal flow...your sales guy isnt doing a good enough job. Just like code repositories are important but not the first place you would go to for checking code quality (you probably would look at exceptions alerts).
I don't really think the connection that he tries to make between Facebook's real name policy and the need for anonymity for whistleblowers/oppressed regimes is really fair.
Facebook wants to be a social portal were you feed your desire to be seen and make stupid updates about your life and contact your friends when you go out with them.
I don't really think that Facebooks policies are crucial for whistleblowers :D

What should be done?
Stop using Facebook. Everybody has e-mail, it's quick enough, it's fun and people tend to think before they send off an e-mail (something i miss with instant messaging).

The niveau on facebook has been hiding under the table since i don't know when and that is true for their policies and for how people use facebook, so instead of trying to force the niveau to come out, how about giving up already?

If Facebook is such an important part of one's life that even while being unhappy with their policies you can't give up on the service, then that's just sad....
And yes...Excel sucks for managing contacts and deal flow. CRM systems are better.
That assumes that people don't ignore the constant surveillance and largely do whatever they were going to do anyway. Most non-geeks seem to do just that.

(Whether that is a good idea is another matter. Also, I still don't like Facebook.)
Growth is for startups. This determines the value of startups. Startups are only a minority but they get alot of attention. This is logical since to achieve the growth goal they need the publicity.

People have different understanding of success. Make your pick and don't care of the others.

Some people get confused one their goal or success target.
You can always take out market risk by hedging against the index. i.e buy the stock, short the index and bet the stock will do better than the market overall.
Rumors on Reddit that employers are asking for a Facebook presence pre-interview. What then?
I hadn't considered vocal origins, seems obvous in retrospect. Thank you
pg explicitly wrote that active users are a proxy for revenue (in an early stage startup). In the early stages of your business, measuring revenue is hard because there is not enough data points yet. But you need to measure something that approximates your potential revenue to judge impact of your actions.

First, let's accept that freemium is a good honest business model that by its nature is a good fit for many Internet services. If you build freemium model similar to DropBox, conversion to paid users is typically around 1-10% from the active users. Thus, it doesn't necessarily make sense to introduce a paid plan and implement integration to payment systems (a task which was PITA before Stripe) until you have a way over 10k active users. Furthermore, something like 30k active users might mean that you need over 300k signups, which will take a while if you don't have explosive takeoff. Thus it makes sense to approximate potential revenue by measuring active users, when your actual revenue stream is still not fully in action.

As I said in another comment, the same approximation philosophy works in enterprise sales too. You measure the performance of your sales pipeline, which works as a proxy for revenue even before you close your first $100k deal.
> It's not hard to imagine a near future, if not a present, in which a person's identity is entirely evaluated, shaped, and determined by a monolith such as facebook.

I don't think this is entirely correct. I think that facebook is better described as a catalyst for those who would do the evaluating, shaping, etc.
Why was this article written in pseudo-textspeak? Is that the style that guardian uses for technology news now?
It's x7 earth mass. The reason we've only discovering huge planets is because that's all our equipment can detect, so far (by wobbling/obscuring their sun).

For our solar system, only Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus would be massive enough to detect.
"7% through reinvestment and a later, VC-funded one at 8%, because that implies a weekly 15%"

Adding percentages makes no sense.

The rest of your argument is disproven by the number of VC backed companies that were late-comers but took over the market.
Your home PC isn't really on the Internet. It's on a crappy pseudo-network that happens to be connected to the Internet.

The hell are you talking about? I know I have a public IP address and am running several wikis, a Minecraft server and a Mumble server from my home, accesible via Internet (behind a firewall).

Next up is a SIP/XMPP server. Or maybe tent?
I don't think he's trying to make any moral judgements. He's just making observations about what actually works within the context of our capitalist system. Capitalism has produced this period of explosive growth centered around technology in the USA and Silicon Valley in particular. And if you are trying to participate in that ecosystem, then you should understand what he says (IMO).

There wasn't any part of the essay which says you should start a startup, or that it is a morally valuable thing to do.

I somewhat agree with you that capitalism doesn't produce optimum value for society. Zynga's maybe an example of that -- I'm sure the are worse ones. But as the saying going, we have the worst system except for all the other ones that have been tried. For all the Zyngas there are some pretty good companies too.

Also, I think your question is essentially hypothetical or philosophical: "should be allow it to?" Who's we? Short of an overthrow of the US government, I think this segment of the economy will exist for a long time.

If you want to have an interesting reflection on capitalism, read "The Idea Factory", about Bell Labs. That is the other end of a spectrum -- a single company holding a monopoly for 50+ years. But it actually produced immeasurable value. It's interesting to think on which model produces more value -- a monopoly where people are free from competitive pressures, or an intensely competitive market.
As a "Steve Jobs would", I'm pretty sure that not launching half baked products was very high in his priority list
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my guess is that 500best.com was taken.
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This is truly, exactly it. I don't expect my mother or friend to run a Tent server. But imagine Facebook were a Tent/Diaspora host. People would have left in DROVES by now if another, somewhat equal host could migrate their data in and provide better user respect.
My question is, should we really have "programs" to "integrate women into engineering disciplines"?
I thought exactly the same.
I don't like the way this article is written: it seems to mock the technology and it seems like it's written by somebody handling these units on a daily basis (and i guess most people do in our time) without knowing what they mean?
Any technical person would reminisce in great love for the toys we had back than, this is written in a complete ignorant tone.... maybe i am just oversensitive on this one. Who knows....
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It's written for The Register which has a much more relaxed reporting style.
While the definition "a company designed to grow fast" makes his point clear, it's not as accurate as Blank's. There are lots of companies "designed to grow fast" that are not at all startups. The "search for a business model" is essential to the definition of a startup.
CRIME works equally well against HTTP/TLS too when compression is enabled.
The educational system is fond of taking things to extremes. Lockhart's Lament (www.maa.org/devlin/lockhartslament.pdf) probably applies equally well here.

Kids need to know why humans write, and the joy that can be derived through self-expression and communication. They also need to be taught the tools to express ideas and arguments (as those tools become pertinent). Finally, they need to be shown how the ability to communicate through writing can be useful to them in achieving their own goals.

It's frustrating to see the educational system constantly bang from one extreme to the other when I would hope it would be clear that a balance is required.
Sure, Google, couldn't figure out how to make it cheaper than $100K per vehicle, but ChuckMcM on the internets sure can do it for "a lot less than $40K".
Then use it for exactly that. The point is if i use facebook for having a profile cause my employer wants me too then i can afford to (mostly) ignore facebooks policies on privacy or real name policies, because i want my real name to begin with and don't give them every crappy detail about my life...
or explain to your employer why you don't use facebook and see how he reacts!
I read once about some security expert who had to deny connections to hackers as part of his job and then instead of doing that explained to his employer that he is part of the hacker community and is speaking at hacker conferences etc and what he considers to be a hacker etc and it turned out to not be such a big deal as he thought in the beginning....
Yes when I saw Stephen King as the Writer for Shawshank Redemption I was surprised, didn't even know that was based on a short story by Stephen King. But the writer or screenplay was by Frank Darabont.