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In general I enjoy Paul Graham's essays. However, they all have the footnote problem when reading them. The footnote problem is that I can click on the footnote's number to read the footnote, buf I can't click to go back.

I am only commenting here because I can't find a more direct access to Mr. Graham.
It's less about documents being managed by conventional office suites and more about sharing documents through Google Docs as opposed to a corporate intranet (and I've seen ones much better-managed and worse-managed than Google Apps).

But the insecurity of desktop document suites doesn't give Google a free pass on having lax security standards.

Of course, this is my evaluation. You and your organization are welcome to use Google Docs if you are comfortable with their security practices.
Exactly, Dawdle cant forever buy used games for $40 and do nothing with them, they'd bankrupt. This is not real money multiplier (like in bank), because "new" money is not created "from air" but taken from other place.

So, for each used game bought by Dawdle either:
a) Dawdle lose $40
b) Dawdle sells this game to someone (in which case this is exactly the same situation like in case of GameStop)

For Dawdle to survive amount of cash lost by unsold used games must be smaller than amount of cash earned by selling new and used games (only count margins there, not full prices).
ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability

See ma.gnol.ia for an example of what can happen with a DBMS that doesn't provide this. That's a big reason why I use Postgres instead of MySQL. With Postgres, the database won't get corrupted by a partially complete operation.

On the other hand, MySQL gets better performance by skipping the whole ACID part... so if you are willing to work with this (i.e. you have a good disaster recovery strategy) then you can theoretically handle a higher load by using MySQL.
"A particular case I remember dealt with a struggling, family-owned company whose founder/CEO had just died in the midst of an IP lawsuit, etc. (I don't remember all the details). Imagine you are brought in to run the company. What do you do first, second, third, fourth? The challenges are legal, financial, technical, and interpersonal. There are multiple crises: which do you delegate, which have to be dealt with immediately, and which can wait? What information do you need and from where are you going to get it?"

And how do you know any of the answers you come up with to the above questions are the correct ones?

For example, "There are multiple crises: which do you delegate, which have to be dealt with immediately, and which can wait?"

So I say "delegate crisis one and deal with crisis two immediately". You reverse that answer. Who is right? I am sure two intelligent people can go back and forth for quite a while justifying each answer. Such questions arise in the social sciences as well.

If you have at least a simulation, you can ,(within the assumptions of the simulation - how these map to the real world is a separate discussion/debate) try out your "answers" and see which one works better.

In the absence of a vlaidating/correcting mechanism, how can you ever know what the right answer is or how good your "solution" is?

I've personally found MBA case studies of dubious instructional value (but great entertainment value). It gives you something to do in class, but how much does it really teach?

Where there isn't a way to judge the validity or otherwise of an answer, (in my experience) the most articulate person "wins" and since you are not responsible for implementing the answer in the real word and suffer the consequences therof, it is fairly easy to construct an argument for one ooption or the other. What stops this from happening in an MBA "case study"?
It's a conspiracy of course--that's what you want to hear, right? :)
But not necessarily by the person doing the purchasing. That's part of his point that isn't being made clearly. In Gamestop's model, they issue you a store credit so you have to go back to Gamestop. Once there, they pressure you into "saving $5" by purchasing a used copy of another game (through low buyback amounts, Edge cards, etc.).

In Dawdle's model, you get a higher buyback amount and aren't forced to shop at Dawdle. This user can then go buy the next latest title and repeat the cycle. Dawdle is trying to show how their model is better for both consumers and producers.
I've not got long :(
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I agree, the silly red box that talks about Gamestop being "incented" to push used games is meaningless. In fact you could easily argue the effect is the exact opposite of what is argued:
Because Dawdle does not give "credit" it requires the sale of a used game to continue the "money multiplier" process. The purchasing power to buy these used games has to come from somewhere but in the chart as shown that is never addressed, it is just a magic net add to the system.
Gamestop, by providing the credit up front at least takes the risk of having to eat some of that investment and thereby possibly subsidizing the sales of new games from reduced profit on sales of used games.
Still - either Dawdle bankrupt, or somebody is going to buy that used game from them (at least high percent of that used games).

PS. I wish them all the best, but these charts and description using words like money multiplier is just Wrong (tm) :)
Don't worry, I had to click on "enlarge" to really see it. ;)
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Easy answer: apply to both. Usually, you won't even have to figure out the answer to that question, the "market" will decide for you.

Just like YC, having been selected at TC50 or DEMO opens doors. Remember that VCs, corporate M&A people, etc. are swamped with requests from every possible geek who thinks they have an idea. They need to apply some kind of filter.
It's safe to assume Microsoft felt said manifesto would not help them leverage their many monopolies to secure another one in cloud computing.

If one could be certain of something about the manifesto, its foundations are perhaps "too interoperable" for MS to feel comfortable "collaborating" with anyone else. They have a strong preference to embrace, extend and extinguish whenever possible.

Each and every time Microsoft considered interoperability seriously was in markets they were not sure they would be able to dominate. Interoperability, for them, is usually just a plan-B.
Why do you think that Microsoft has a weak position in the cloud industry? If Microsoft really had a weak Cloud strategy, its competitors wouldn't be resorting to tricks like this.

I don't think anybody offers customers an easier self-hosted-to-cloud-hosted migration strategy than Microsoft. They are offering (or will be offering) all of their server-side products "in the cloud". Using Microsoft's stack, you develop your applications the same way, using the same libraries, and the same protocols, regardless of whether you are deploying to your own server or to Microsoft's. Most of Microsoft's competitors require you to rewrite applications to get them to work on the cloud.

Most of its competitors have very poor desktop integration, whereas Microsoft is integrating support for its cloud hosting directly into its its desktop software (including Windows and Office). For example, Windows 7 has a pretty sophisticated caching and synchronization infrastructure built into it so that desktop applications can work on documents/databases/email in the cloud with minimal latency. Microsoft Office already has built-in support for Sharepoint, which means that it has built-in support for Microsoft's cloud offerings (Office Live and Microsoft Online).
Which one is better?
See also hier(7) (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier). That's the OpenBSD man page, something comparable will probably be present on other Unices. (OpenBSD's pkg system installs all non-base packages in /usr/local/ , fwiw.)
Why wouldn't you be able to sell your Gamestop Game somewhere else? I suspect what is happening is that Gamestop guarantees to buy your game for a certain price, which would be great (as in being a real plus compared to ebay). For another beneficial thing about used games is this: maybe 60$ is too much for me for a game, but I know I can sell it for 20$, so it really costs me only 40$. Therefore used games are good for the industry - without used games I might not buy any games at all. With the guaranteed buyback price of GameStop, I know in advance how much a game costs me. Some people might prefer that to putting in the work to sell on ebay/Dawdle for an uncertain price.

As for the original case, it makes no difference who buys the used game, what people seem to care about is the amount of money spent for buying new games. And that is the same for GameStop and for Dawdle.
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I think the biggest difference between Dawdle and Gamestop is that people do more buying at Gamestop. I can't really see a functional difference. Even the quick math doesn't add up given the two charts. 1:1 New:Used, vs 3:2 New:Used. Maybe I'm missing something important.

Whether or not the company selling used games makes money off of it or pushes it is very small I would think. If someone wants a used game, they'll get a used game. In fact, at Dawdle, since the example shows games as selling for cheaper, I can see that maybe it would allow people to save a little more money for new games... or it would allow people to just buy more games.

What am I missing that makes this different?
That's a little misleading if you're thinking of it in ipv4 terms, since an ipv6 subnet is always a /64 (the entire ipv4 address space is only a /32). So really, since there will be no NAT, the DoD has only set aside 2^51 subnets for itself; a bit over 2 quadrillion separate networks. A reasonable buffer for growth.
In 2009, what does Microsoft have a monopoly on?
Macports generally builds the latest version from source. I've had problems with a few things in the past needing manual patching, but overall I like it. You can keep multiple versions installed, but only one can be active at a time.

Fink downloads pre-built binaries, but AFAIR, it can build from source, too. It also has a GUI interface.

That's about all the insight I can provide.
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Nitpick: a nonce is supposed to be used only once (safe against replay). I think you both mean the URL is supposed to be secret. I agree that there are many ways (e.g. web proxies) for a URL to become not-secret.
Is a bunch of traffic from one machine really the same?
I think an interesting related avenue of research would be investigating analytically the "emotional" content of the Internet. Johnathan Harris over at http://www.number27.org has made some great strides in the area looking at blog posts and global news content (see http://www.wefeelfine.org and http://www.tenbyten.org). While Harris has some very impressive visualizations of massive amounts of data I believe we are at that point that we can move beyond just looking at massive collections of data and begin to saw something mathematically about the patterns and characteristics that emerge from those sources. With the advent of cheap cloud computing, aka Amazon EC2, such detailed and massive undertakings are now possible by ordinary developers.
No, not at all.

I'm not suggesting people aren't voting for it, just that I'm not sure why they are.
You could get basically the same service, but uglier and slower, via webdav_svn and Trac. I did that for a while back in ~2005, but man was it slow. Maybe today, you could use Git with a cronjob that autocommits, pulls and pushes every minute or on mtime changes.
"Today’s UNIX and UNIX-like systems (such as Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.) allow you to create a special place in the filesystem where you can compile and install your own software independent of and without affecting the rest of the system."

Yes, that is called "/opt", not /usr/local. /usr/local is for local extensions to the operating system itself, not applications.
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Ah, I suppose this is why we should have done a little more exposition on the note rather than just target GDC attendees who already use the same terms - nothing is sekret on the intarwebs.

GameStop's margins on used products are 49%. They're 20.9% on new software and 6.5% on new hardware. [1] They make more money - revenue is meaningless, margin is profit - selling a used title at $55 than they do selling a new title at $60. That's why they're incented/incentivized to push used games at the expense of new games: that's the part of their model that pisses off the publishers/developers/retailers.

I don't follow the "magic net add"; the idea is that you start with $100 in cash and you move to the right over time.

[1] http://idea.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000095013408...
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I just decided to write a lot. Even if it doesn't make sense (http://blog.uncool.in/2009/03/26/episode-1-perspective-shift...). I suppose after a month or so of writing crap, I'll be able to loosen up my rusty writing skills a bit and my writing will become more natural.

You might want to try that.
> It turns out that the update has actually overwritten the Ruby binary she’s compiled with a different version, and her software no longer works.
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> This could have been avoided if she’d installed the Ruby binary in a safer place, and set her shell and her software to use that binary.

and then every time you try to work with other ruby-related software, it either picks up the new version in /usr/local or the old version in /usr or some random version in /opt/local that macports installed, and you may not be sure which. this problem gets much worse when you are dealing with shared libraries like graphics libraries. the autoconf junk may help by allowing you to specify something like "./configure --with-jpeg=/usr/local ..." but sometimes you have to override LDFLAGS and you're suddenly wasting so much time just trying to get all this stuff to work.

3rd party port/package systems for mac os just made the problem worse by forcing you to install duplicate copies of everything that comes with mac os because of package dependencies. i think a better solution would be to only have one version of the software on the system at a time. if macports wants to upgrade your ruby, make it delete everything in /usr/lib/ruby or setup symlinks to the new version in /usr/local/lib/ruby.
I agree with you, except that good software conforms to the user's expectations, instead of forcing the user to conform to its limitations.

If your application lets users restrict access to documents, it needs to restrict access to all parts of that document uniformly, regardless of how those parts are stored (embedded in the same file or spread out in multiple files).
We are two cofounders. We both had full time jobs. We worked nights and weekends for a year and got something out the door. Now that it is going well, I made a deal with my employer to switch to part-time. I consolidated my fixed costs (aka sold the car, got rid of cable) to be able to live on a part-time salary. The other cofounder is on an H1-B, so he doesn't have the same options.

We live in Cambridge, MA, so you can get by without a car. Food is cheap, and rent is in the range of $700 a month with roommates. So one should be able to live in Cambridge comfortable on about $1600 a month.

Once we get funding, we will both do it full-time.
Right - you're making our point. When GS buys a used game for $20, they re-sell it for $40 (49% margins). That means the value of the used product is $40. If you can sell it for $40 on Dawdle, a new game only really costs you $20.

That means your $100 in purchasing power gets you five new games: the publishers, developers, and retailers only benefit when you buy new product. We're trying to show them how used games can work in their favor if you cut out the GameStop middleman.

Edit: as for the uncertain price, we're working on it. With our StandingOffers, we might be able to find people willing to guarantee you $30 or $35 up front.

As an example of how that works, right now, I'll pay $25 for a platinum Wavebird (http://www.dawdle.com/product.php/wavebird-wireless-controll...).
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Overall, I agree that time management does not work for everyone in the same way. I certainly hate Outlook yelling at me 10 times a day about doing X and attending Y. Thankfully, I am in a position where I am not obligated to live by Outlook and can choose my own system.

I wrote a super simple webapp http://untodos.com/ (mostly for myself) that is pretty much the opposite of every time/schedule management app out there. I don't care about the preciseness of the tasks, I care about the priority. Inside my mind, I can't visualize 4:15pm-5:45pm Friday next week. The only time horizons my mind intuitively understands are today, soon, and whenever. My app and now my life is designed around that principle. After years of being burdened with feeling stressed and overworked, I think I finally have a handle on my busy schedule now and I know my stress is much lower.

My biggest gripe with traditional time management method is that you lose sight of the big picture and only concentrate on the small urgencies. We forget the important due to the urgent. If writing a book is one of your life goals, where does it fit on a calendar? I know where it fits on mine, in the "whenever" section. Once a day, I go over my "today", "soon" and "whenever" sections and move things around as I deem necessary.

I feel my view of managing my time is more encompassing than compartmentalizing. I am one person, I don't want "buy groceries" on a separate list from "meet clients" because both happen within hours of each other anyway. My life is one life, why have separate types of calendars and events. I thought deeply about what actually matters to me and realized that all I care about a task is whether it is "work/chore" or "fun/relaxing." As long as I have a bunch of fun tasks interspersed between my regular chore todos, I can manage my time well.

I guess the key lesson about time management is that you have to know yourself and figure out what works best for you. For some, it's Outlook, for some it's GCal synced with iPhone using RememberTheMilk app merged with iCal feeds from your fridge. And for some like me, it's just a no-deadline, no-reminder list of tasks with varying priorities. Find what works for you and grow with it. And if something doesn't work, don't blame yourself and personalize the stress as being caused by your inefficiencies but rather seek a system that fits your personality.
Based on my experience - Never do "exclusivity in a revenue sharing deal" unless they offer a significantly large minimum guarantee.

We had a joke in our company - 50% of zero revenue is zero. %age share doesn't matter in these deals...
Agreed. One of the things I like about this site is that most people avoid the inflammatory titles in favor of simple descriptive ones. That is not a trend I want to see fall out of favor.
Warning: All the "content" in that post is contained within the title line. Could have been a single tweet. Nothing certain, but rumored to be late May.
Rudolf Flesch recommended

http://www.amazon.com/Write-Speak-Think-More-Effectively/dp/...

choosing someone whom you'd like to write to and who would write back (a parent or a grandparent, perhaps?) and then writing that person a letter with lots of description of what you're thinking about and doing once a week. After a year of that, you'll write a lot better.
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Although they do have a big disclaimer at the top that the site is not quantified and they have sparse data for whatever reason.
magic net add is: to give somebody $40 for used game you must take it from somebody. For example by selling a new or used game to somebody.

This is not shown in lower chart, but is shown in upper chart. So in upper chart money are circling in closed environment(GameStop even takes some money out of it), while in lower chart there is some money coming from outside.

That is why these charts are meaningless.

You said your company has incentive to sell new games, because margin is bigger. OK, but if that is case, why at all you buy used games? Are you not planning to sell them?
Well, it's potentially a very dangerous thing for our ecosystem, given that our oceans are already in deep trouble:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sylvia_earle_s_ted_prize_wish_to_pr...
You should think about the magic net gain. You can not just buy games for 40$, there must be buyers of used games. These don't show up in your equations. There is only so much money people will spend for games, you can not create more.

I am not saying that Dawdle might not be a better deal for the end consumer. Certainly lower margins means cheaper games means more games sold. But I don't think GameStop are crooks, they simply have an alternative business model. They might be more expensive, but in exchange they offer a different service (guaranteed prices, no hassle with online selling of your game). I don't know GameStop or Dawdle, btw.
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actually seriously already the last one.
On one hand, you decry mismatched dependencies between independent versions of the software.

On the other, you decry 3rd party port/package systems because they use their own entirely independent dependency hierarchy for the purpose of wholly avoiding incompatibility issues.

Then you recommend that 3rd party port/package systems actually delete operating system managed components and replace them with their own.

This position is, at best, inconsistent.
> and you're suddenly wasting so much time just trying to get all this stuff to work.

Yes,I've lost hundreds of hours to this kind of thing.
I like that design (although I cant see the front) better than the coupe.
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No API, but you can buy it on 6 DVDs for $150:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-ar...

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This is insane:( I think WHT is the oldest community I've been a member of. Joined when I was 11, makes it 10 years!

This would make for a great case study though. It sounds like it has to be an inside job considering the hacker was so totally aware of all the backup infrastructure. WHT doesn't have tonnes of employees so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out if it was from the inside.
I find David Allen's "Getting Things Done" to be an excellent system for managing tasks.

I've been using GTD for the past four years and I can honestly say it has really improved my handling of time and tasks.

Additionally, it has really really reduced my stress levels because I know I haven't forgotten anything and I never miss anything important.
> Using Microsoft's stack, you develop your applications the same way, using the same libraries, and the same protocols, regardless of whether you are deploying to your own server or to Microsoft's. Most of Microsoft's competitors require you to rewrite applications to get them to work on the cloud.

The key phrase being "using microsoft's stack".

Open source versions of other cloud stacks are already somewhat functional. When they become usable, I can run them on my server.
I'm so not sure about that. The article cites a "dictator" (Steve Jobs) and the iPhone as an example. Isn't it because he created a product that is beyond expectations that the iPhone was successful? I'd like to have the point of view of Steve Jobs on that. Maybe he listened them complain about phones for hours before creating the product and that's why it was so good. As anyone have this info?