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Why does everyone say 'travel' or 'volunteer' when these questions get asked?

<Hansonian cynicism> Because of the signals it sends about them. It says that they have high openness, are altruistic and have high enough confidence to go to strange places. </Hansonian cynicism>

Seriously, most people giving advice are (mostly subconsciously) doing it primarily to make themselves look good, or get the warm glow of being higher status than the person they are advising. This goes a long way to explaining why people are so eager to give advice, and why so much of it isn't good. Lots of good advice would be very unwise to give publicly because it sounds bad because it's cynical.

If you want to help people donate money to the Against Malaria Foundation and then go look at their video page [http://www.againstmalaria.com/Videos.aspx] while reminding yourself that your money has gone a substantial portion of the way to saving a life ($800 per life, IIRC).

Happiness resaerch suggest people get more satisfaction out of travelling than expriential happiness, looking back on it people are glad they did it.
The difference is, I can give a URL to anybody and expect my app to work on their phone, tablet or laptop, without installation, within a matter of seconds. Their data stored online somewhere means that their devices are always synced, and it doesn't matter from where they use the application.
Your response wasn't really constructive. A lot of people may agree with your comment but now that Andrew is at YC it'd be more useful to get his side of the story and learn something from it.
I'm very curious to know more about the terms for all these recent acquisitions. If I were Marissa Mayer, I would buy up a ton of the Series A crunched startups and bring them all together under the same roof, segregated as much as possible from any business unit that doesn't reflect the Google-esque culture she is trying to build. Eventually, once she has enough fresh talented bodies from acquisition, she could start moving the locus of power and business units over to these fresh talented acquihires from the old-timers.

I could totally see this being a convincing proposition if I were the founder of a startup that Yahoo approaches to acquire.
www.freeonlineapps.com www.freeonlineapps.com is a very generous person.
My guess is that it was worth it at that time. GeoCities was huuuge. It's where I started and many of the sites I would encounter at the time from search results were hosted on GeoCities. Ah, those were the days.
I'm very much like this. I create a completely different handle on every site I use. I simply don't use a service if my real name is involved: for instance, I completely stopped reviewing Google Play Store apps ever since the G+ integration. Even having my name publicly associated with some random app that I've used makes me really uncomfortable. It isn't really rational or anything, but it's nevertheless present. I'm just a private person I guess.
Can someone explain the title?

Quoting in case the overaggressive title changer happens to stop by: Vim is certainly worth more than 100 euro (vim.org)
By the way, for anyone interested in how the memory manager is implemented in Windows 8, I watched this video a few months back and remember it being pretty interesting.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-Windows-8-G...
1999!
Yeah, this is the stuff I dreamed of making when I was into motion graphics and video editing. Congrats!

Also, way to stick to your guns and post it on vimeo over youtube.
If you owned Yahoo stock, you might be more impressed. The price has risen nicely since Marissa joined.

Check out their weather app for mobile. It has high-resolution photos of your city in relevant weather.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-weather/id628677149?m...
On the contrary, Instagram was probably a much more valuable company from a pure user growth + engagement perspective.
Yes, it is worth more than a 100 euro, but you really couldn't use a better title?
"They excuse the fact that he killed people, because he is attractive" seems to be a sanity-saving reading of the anecdotes, here. The much more straightforward reason is "They are attracted to him because he is a killer."

You could find a hundred kids at MIT who fit his general description. What's your estimate on the mean number of Facebook groups created by fawning fangirls they each have?
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What side of the story? I'm not interested in hearing twisting of the facts. Everyone knows what happened.
Honest question, what would Yahoo do with Tumblr if they were to acquire it?
Yeah, I hate that.

I don't want to have to socialize my webgraphs to log into your shitty grocery list app. >:(
This is very relevant now because rumors are that Yahoo is about to buy Tumblr for over a billion dollars. If they only took care of Geocities they would not have to buy it all over again in Tumblr form.
Nonsense. Anonymity doesn't bring out the worst in people. The attitudes and opinions and intelligence of the person behind the comment is what brings out the worst in their expression, or style of expression online.

Don't blame the presence or absence of a number on the letterbox of the house for the behavior of the occupants inside the house.
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If you don't respect your co-founders then you need to either address the fundamental interpersonal issues or quit. Everything else is an excuse.

If you choose the former, it should start with a frank but non-confrontational conversation among all of you where you discuss what is and isn't working with your relationship. Don't overfocus on the business. The day-to-day of a startup grows from the relationship among the co-founders. That's always at the root.

For example, if the business model isn't working, why don't you have a relationship where you can say "Guys, this business model isn't working. We have to do something different. Let's figure this out."? Over-focusing on the business will result in a laundry-list conversation when everyone just unloads their grievances all at once. It's not productive.

If going into the conversation you feel the urge to let your co-founders "have a piece of your mind" then don't have the conversation. You need to be calm, in control, and aware of the real source of your own frustrations.

Most likely there's a long series of missed-but-unstated expectations, both big and small. You have to acknowledge your own responsibility in this situation, viz., as a co-founder you have a responsibility to bring these up the second they happen to avoid a "blow up" situation. Yet here you are, in just such a situation. You're partially responsible for that, whether your co-founders are actually idiots or not.

You have to be prepared for your co-founders to feel similarly about you. Avoid the trap of allowing the conversation to become a tit for tat. "You forgot to publish that blog post." "Yeah, well, you forgot to follow up with a potential investor!" etc.

It might help to reframe this conversation from one where you're going to tell them all the things that aren't working to one where you ask for help with the things you think aren't working. If you don't want your co-founders to be defensive then you need to be vulnerable -- probably much more vulnerable than you're comfortable being.

Good luck. Welcome to startups.
Would you pay for tumblr / any premium features?
AOL bought Bebo for $850M in 2008, and then sold it 2 years later for $10M:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebo
I was wondering who is going to make this first. Salute to you :D
I've felt this myself - said to myself and others a number of times, "I kind of feel bad for him" ... "it was really his older brother that was the psycho villain."

I would contribute that in addition to superficial qualities which may have swayed my judgment more than I've been aware, the mostly-unchanged narrative since the day of his capture has been that his older brother was the real sociopath/nutjob... that they both had poor family support and appear to have been vulnerably "alone" in the US... that Dzhokhar would have looked up to and depended on his brother, and that in a way Dzhokhar may not be an arch-villain so much as a treacherously loyal younger brother duped into acting as a sociopath/nutjob.

Presumably, we'll hear words from Dzhokhar himself in the future and come to second-guess our current judgments, but until then, his silence does himself a favor.

That all said... I do wonder how much my story above is really the majority of the thought process I went through, or whether it's just a shallow justification for a superficial judgment.
How could it have been worth it at that time? Look what happened!
and the 80/20 rule applies to your advice too, it's mainly just the volume.
It's surprising and bizarre to me how comments like this are common in the CS world. If you are okay with "stream" now being more than just a small river, why are you artificially drawing the line as to what exactly the term may refer to?
wow, sounds like GeoCities is really going places. i hope it works out for them!
I think this was part of what Larry Page was trying to get across yesterday after Google released a bunch of services that (potentially) trounced many hotly contested competing services.

There's been a lot of billions thrown around over some relatively uninspired ideas and it seems like a concerted attempt to create a false, easily manipulated, bubbly marketplace.
| Are they making acquisitions via stock swaps?

That's one way. There are ways for Yahoo! to create more stocks and sell them, or sell stocks that are currently held by the company.
I worked for Tripod.com back in the day, which eventually sold to Lycos for about $60M, just a few months before Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.6B.

Needless to say, maybe we should have held out a bit longer. The late 90's were a strange time indeed.
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Please add the date at the end of the title in future; I was like, didn't this happen in [1999]?
Really? Flash is more secure than HTML? Maybe we should just embed Java applets in emails? This still doesn't solve the "click a link that takes them elsewhere" issue that was brought up.
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For services I want to quickly try out once, if you just need a quick way to authenticate, I will look for a Facebook login button and generally leave the site if it doesn't have one.

Of course you also can't ask for any odd permissions either!
I think the first step is to stop caring about looking like an idiot. The trick is to be confident that you're not actually an idiot. Then you can look like one, and people can laugh at you, and you can laugh right along with them because you do look rather dumb, but you never think for a moment that you actually are an idiot. Tell yourself enough that you don't care what others think about you, and that what really matters is what you think about you, and you'll start to believe it and actually have that kind of confidence. If you don't have it, fake it until you have it ;)
> Look what happened!

.. it was poorly managed and basically left to die. Then almost a decade later it was recreated again by another company (Tumblr).
I don't believe I have the self discipline to complete these online courses. I start with great enthusiasm and after one or two weeks, everything's gone.
The reason why this happened in coursera was because I had two weeks free time and the course was of 6 weeks. After initial two weeks, I got a little busy and neglected everything from course eventually giving up on the idea of being able to complete it.
Love it! The suspense is fantastic - it forces me to concentrate on the current exercise and not worry about whats coming up next. Really great! I hope you will add more exercises, more compound exercises, lots of body weight exercises, from beginner to advanced, logins, tracking.. etc.. etc.. all while keeping the core simplicity of it all intact! =)
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

― Mark Twain
It should be noted that Geocities was a public company at the time with a market cap of $2.3b. But also that it generated only $7.5m in revenue the prior quarter.
This would be great for Tumblr. What other choice do they have?
What this tells me is that current perceived bubble isn't nearly what the 1999 one was, which is a good sign. Yahoo better take care of Tumblr and put extensive resources behind it.
I think the OP is trying to suggest that the lower limit of 100 euro to get into the Hall of Honour is much too low.
gimme some of that internet money
...and Bebo filed for bankruptcy a couple of days ago: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/05/bebo-fi...
why routine start at 26 sec mark and rest at 8 sec? Some don't want it but I really like to anticipate what's next, like in this app http://7minworkoutapp.com/
Unfortunately it appears that Facebook was prepared to pay almost anything to get it.
Stay out of Malibu, Lebovski!
> Vim is certainly worth more than 100 euro (original title)

The monetary value of a copy of free / open source software is effectively zero, provided that at least some people are distributing it without restrictions and free of charge such that it is readily available.
The web is still for documents. It's for a resource that lives at a URL. It's markup, not programming, and that's the very reason it has lived to be twenty years old and the main way that information is communicated. It's how we're able to hold this conversation right now — people are comfortable stitching together words in XML-ish constructs.

The people making games, applications, and lush webGL marketing demos are people who can throw lots of engineering resources at a problem until it does the thing they want it to do. Web dev has always been an insane mountain of hacks in order to get pages to render, but the attractive and democratic reasoning is that that extra effort is worth it if the maximum number of people can access the information. People on old computers, cheap smartphones, kindles, chumbys, whatever. The best computer is the one you have on you, that sort of thing. Access and ease-of-adoption are powerful things.

So that's why I see web components as something that enables people writing markup more than it empowers people writing giant javascript applications. This is so that people can add <twitter-tweet href="twitter.com/name">My Cool Tweet</twitter-tweet> tags to their wordpress blogs, and so that the people making that <twitter-tweet> tag can be confident that it will render and not look horrible on that person's blog. It's so that the complex, app-ish things can be abstracted away and added to documents with a declarative and logic-less syntax.

No amount of java applets would have ever made up for that.
What's interesting to me is that the advertisement is working. Backwards comparability!
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.v...

If you were curious.
Let's say VIM didn't exist right now. Could you imagine selling it for 100 euro?
Sunk costs are sunk costs, and opportunity cost is very real. Don't sink more into it if you don't believe in the future of the product AND the team AND the company as a whole.
Yes. Among them: Analytics that gave me some granular details on the path of a reblog. Ways to promote content that didn't annoy users (i.e. pinned posts). Security services to protect my site (two-step authentication, the ability to use something like Cloudflare). And group functionality on primary accounts, something Tumblr has never offered despite the fact that users have long asked for it.

I'd pay $20 a month for extra features, considering that's still less than what it'd cost me to host a similarly-sized Wordpress site and not have it crash on me during a traffic surge.
> Social login buttons delegate control of your users’ credentials to another service, rather than ensuring security yourself.

It is basically guaranteed that both Facebook and Twitter logins are more secure than almost any website that might offer one of their login buttons. How many websites have dedicated security engineers? Does mailchimp.com? I doubt it (but I'd be impressed if they do).

The other arguments are pretty reasonable; of course if you don't want to put another brand right in the middle of your login page, a social login button might not be for you. But security is almost an anti-concern: it's probably a win for your users in that respect.
when can i update the [stock] browser without the os? when google?
Yup. Still there. I sit just across from it.
Wouldn't you get lost in all the content? If you are free to read in any order you could get into a wikipedia-like situation where you keep opening new tabs non-stop and you lose track of the original thing you were reading about.

I generally agree with you though that having a SINGLE path through the course is too restrictive. It should be like in games: there is a main quest, but you can go on mini-quests on the side...
Given NFL players tend to be carefully trained and I would assume as strong as possible, why do they tend to have shorter than expected life expectancy? Or world class athletes in general? Doesn't that show that going to an extreme and being as strong as possible perhaps isn't actually leading to a longer life?
The thing I find pretty hilarious (sad?) is that many sites that give you the generic "username or password is wrong" message are perfectly happy to tell you that a username is in use if you try to sign up for a new account (geez, I guess they sort of have to!).
They cost nothing so are considered by participants internally to have no value and hence are treated as such.
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Edit the title to not confuse people please.
> If you’re using Twitter and Facebook for signup too you’ve got a bigger problem. A user’s credentials are then bound to another account on another service that could be canceled at any time, breaking access to your app without the user knowing

I'd never really thought about this. What do people suggest doing to handle this sort of use case?
Well, to be more generous, "They are attracted to him because he is famous and attractive."
Adobe Flex was also completely based on this "components" model. I would say that it is a useful approach, but as you suggest, not without its pitfalls. Adobe mxml was pretty much the same as this is: xml based markup, with custom components, these in turn implemented in a combination of mxml markup, AS3 scripts and css styles. I was a flex early adopter, and used it for some years. Later I abandoned it, mostly because I got tired of writing excessive boilerplate code in java-styled AS3, and also because html started to evolve. I can remember some tips. Please excuse my diffuse language, I am talking straight from memory.

- Avoid messy component structures. Keep component definitions simple. Use components hierarchies and keep nesting levels simple.

- On complex UIs, "application intention" can get lost in a sea of anonymous data bindings. Use good documentations practices. Avoid data binding spaghetti.

- On complex UIs, Use good planing for data binding. Because debugging it is "data binding hell".

- Know your components well. Sometimes components capabilities may differ slightly from what you are trying to accomplish. Trying to go against the components quirks, can be very expensive.

- Data binding is not the panacea. There are scenarios that are best served with other approaches.
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Nobody tell Red Hat.
Maybe try another country where people are shorter and men from the US are more attractive to the local women. I'm an average height average looking fellow from Canada. But living in Latin America I strut around like a Norse god. I'm dating a model right now - I never thought I'd say that.
Geocities worked quite differently from Tumblr. How would you transition from one format to the other, without pissing off current users?
The original wording was carefully chosen - things can cost less than they are worth.
I have to say, this really made me laugh pretty heartily, given the rumors of tumblr being bought by Yahoo.
Maybe it should be "Username or password in use"
While I agree it's dumb to only provide a FB/Twitter login, you should also keep in mind that I am much more comfortable with logging in on Twitter, mostly because most things I post or do on Twitter are implicitly meant for public consumption (ignoring things like DMs, which feel like afterthoughts).
> Does mailchimp.com? I doubt it (but I'd be impressed if they do).

They... almost definitely do. This is no small shop. They have 2M customers, over 150 employees. They have webpages like this one where they talk about their regular pentesting, required security reading for all employees that touch customer data, site certifications and vulnerability disclosure polices -- http://mailchimp.com/about/security/
But telling the user that their username OR password is incorrect is good practice though right? If you were trying to break in to somebody's account, it would be better for the person breaking in to not know whether or not that account exists, is a typo etc.
Geocities was my first website!

As long as no one ever sees it/knows it was me who made what was quite possibly the ugliest website in the world, all I'll have is fond memories.
Many in this thread have failed to consider these facts: Groupon is no longer the same company it was 4 years ago; you might be biased by being anchored to a $20 IPO price, which you should actually blame on the investment "banksters"; thousands of merchants are grateful for the relationship they have with the company; at least one YCombinator company has been purchased by Groupon. I bought Groupon in after hours on this announcement and I am proud to post my trade publicly.
Streamlining credit card payments is like improving CVS. It's still a skeuomorphic, Flintstones way of paying for something online. There are better solutions in the works that focus on innovating rather than renovating:

https://payswarm.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vX36Ntxxk
What effect would having "Stay logged in" checked by default on the number of failed login attempts?
I don't see why Yahoo would make any visible changes to Tumblr[1]. They care about the ad inventory; if they are smart they will leave the actual form of the site up to the people who invented it.

[1] although, as with Flickr, any changes that people don't like will thenceforth be blamed on Yahoo, whether or not it had anything to do with them
Thats why one should be skeptical with "public opinion" that is often taken into account in making decisions such as for example science or bio-ethics. Informed or expert opinion is better.
And the other two companys mentioned, Excite and AltaVista.

They sound like great places to work.
You can already do that. At least with Chrome. Are you referring to the old stock browser?
if anyone's feeling nostalgic, http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

try amazon.com :)
Well, Obama murders way more people with his Drones and yet he is attractive well spoken and very likable. And liking Obama is very sane.
Because closing Geocities doesn't piss off current users? If you ask me, Yahoo! should just have done it and damn the consequences!

In fairness; regardless of what Yahoo! did with Geocities, they'd still end up buying Tumblr.
Right now?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
Got to love those bubbles.
Reminds me of a conversation my friend and I had on the same subject. "He seemed intelligent, talented, attractive, well-adjusted - why would he throw everything away?" By far the easiest story to tell was that of a disturbed older brother coercing his younger brother into an act of twisted loyalty. But that narrative was created by the pictures...a halo effect run awry.