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something like 90%+ of Marketo's customers integrate it with Salesforce. Of course Salesforce won't just cut them off if they have a competitor tool, due to anti-trust issues, but it doesn't necessarily bode well for Marketo now that Salesforce owns a competitor. Pardot is a fairly small piece of Exacttarget though so potentially Marketo could still be a target at some point.

Larger scale B2C marketing automation is generally much more complex than b2b. Ecommerce databases are generally less normalized across businesses, aren't hosted by an intermediary like salesforce and contain more data. Cross-channel retailers with physical stores track a ton of transactions and customers. I really don't think that any b2b marketing automation platform will make much headway trying to go b2c. Hubspot has some success only because they focus on local and small businesses.
Maybe. Then again, if the acquired individuals saw nice retention bonuses and pay outs on their equity that gave them some sort of (even limited) financial freedom, maybe they were the geniuses.
In any town with a lot of programmers (e.g. Bay area, NYC, Seattle, Boston,...) lots of people know each other and socialize. You'll go out drinking with your buddies and they'll say "company X just got a new contract - you to work with Alex at company Y didn't you? I'll bet if you called he'd be interested."
Playing devil's advocate... I'd love if Google were forced to have a physical presence after it started talking my money. I'm still using a phone with several flaws that i tried to return/complain several times but never found a phone number or email address that went answered. They just took my money and run.

Now imagine that for a 60k car.

Maybe it's just reasonable that the state protects it's citizens and demand at least one customer care or repair facility in its borders.

Imagine having to drive to California to a recall. If course that would be hard given Tesla reputation, but without enforcing a local presence, how can you be sure?
People "come up with this crap" by being literate.

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43.21 DEFINITIONS
(7) "Obscene device" means a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.

Sec. 43.23. OBSCENITY. (a) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device.

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm
Real journalists put people on the spot.

Their (the subjects) feelings dont matter. Go watch some 60 minutes Mike Wallace interviews.

If they can charm their way through the interview they win. If they cant well then we can all think about that.

But dont for one second think that a real journalists ideal should be to play host to technology bozos.

If being polite were a journalistic trait Nixon would still be in office.
How important testing is to them. Many "agile" companies don't actually incorporate testing in any meaningful way.
This is a pretty exhaustive list of network issues and the software/data problems they cause. Thanks!
Yep I joined one of those "titles don't matter" startups on a shit title.

Long story short, we got acquired and I've still got the same shit title while people who were "managers" of their 1-man team are still managers.

If I ever join a startup again (probably won't happen) I'm not in for anything less than fucking CTO
I remember the hype.
I'm seeing a fair bit about node.js and bobik, has anyone ever worked with either framework?
What's interesting, is the markup and tagging are very different in Bootstrap 3 from version 2. Which kind of breaks the "just get used to writing Bootstrap-style HTML"

I like Bootstrap a lot, but there is a cost to it, a lot of the time you are best off building from the less files in your project, and simply using them as-needed. I was actually surprised that a new version of a site I had in jQueryUI actually had a heavier payload with Bootstrap (including JS modules) than it did before. I still like Bootstrap's look better, but will be far more conscious of the load in the future.

Beyond this, in general, I only write my markup to target the framework when it fits the framework. There's still a lot of custom markup and CSS that goes into things. Beyond this, the look/feel are very consistent to different sites, which sometimes leads to a "oh, bootstrap again" feeling to things.

Bootstrap is a great getting started guide, but will restate the following... look at and understand the source parts in .less, make sure to use the mixins in your own code instead of replicating. And only use the parts you really need.
The thought process was something like this:

MP: "FUCK! OMGPOP's drawsomething is the number one game! COPY IT!"

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Legal: "Mark, uh - I don't think we can copy that one"

MP: "WHY?! - We've done it with everything else!"

Legal: "Yeah - but this one's too big, too successful. If we copy the number one game, it would be too obvious."

MP: "How much to buy it? I WANT IT!"

/stamps foot

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I picture an internal battle around wanting to copy it and realizing that there was no way to copy them without a PR nightmare - so they opted to purchase them for an insane amount... even though that amount was not reflective of their ability to maintain or succeed with future releases.
Not even trying.

Edit: no, that's too mean. But I like people who take risks, and I get defensive when people snicker at failure from their armchairs of hindsight. We should learn from failures, but not rush to say, "he failed, what an idiot!"
We could just look at the investors who put significant sums in. Crunchbase has a list: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynga

To be fair to them all, it reads like a who's who of the VC world from Brad Feld and Reid Hoffman through to Andreessen Horowitz, Softbank, and Union Square Ventures. I'm not sure any blame could be laid at their doors though, it was an exciting and high growth company and that's exactly what they tend to invest in (and what gets celebrated the most around here on HN.. growth > profits, a "startup" isn't really a startup unless it's growing fast and all that, etc.)
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What happened to Referly? That seemed like a good idea.
You're badly misunderstanding the history. The Japanese didn't participate in Potsdam. The Allies wrote the declaration by themselves as an ultimatum and issued it to Japan, warning the Japanese of complete destruction if they didn't fully accept it.

"Unconditional" doesn't mean "there are no terms." It means that the loser dictates no terms, while the victor dictates all the terms.
If a car has been on the lot a long time, then there's not a lot of interest in it. The dealer is more likely to accept any offer just to get it off the lot. For a car that's newly arrived, there's a greater likelihood (or at least a greater expectation) that several customers may be interested, so the dealer is better off waiting to see if someone is willing to pay more.
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It's easy to think that Bootstrap has revolutionized HTML, since the startup community often lives in an echo chamber. The sites we visit and the sites we make use Bootstrap, but let's take a moment to check in with reality here. Has there been a sweeping movement to use standardized markup for content? No. Is there really even a reason to? No. Like mddw said, is this (realistically) even possible? No. And finally, does this article have ANY substance or evidence behind it? No.
This seems really useful for everyone, not just in investors. Learning about customers/vendors is useful.
They have a few dozen games of varying popularity. The bigger ones need a non-stop flow of new content to be created. Zynga was very good at creating new tasks and items constantly, so there was always something to do and something new to collect. It requires new story lines, artwork, mechanics, localization, and support. Many of the games don't overlap, so each game needs much of its own team.

> You simply cannot meet investors' quarterly demand when your success is built on being "flavour of the month" business model

Sure you can -- just look at any company that's in the entertainment business. All of their products, from pop songs to to supermodels to blockbuster movies, have a limited shelf life and require hit after hit after hit in order to sustain the business. They stay ahead of the curve by casting a wide net, having a team that is good at selecting the hits, effectively bringing the product to maturity (like producing an album or movie), and marketing the crap out of it.

Zynga may have made many mistakes along the way and probably got too large to quickly. But they not the first nor last company that got a couple of major hits and were backed to produce more based on that record. Do it well, and you have Pixar. Do it poorly, and you join the massive pile of overhyped one-hit wonders.
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...but would’ve worked at Zynga for more than a year to get three months of severance.
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Sure, these signs are cute, even original. But without any honest purpose beyond being witty, they're frankly not adding value to the public. Yes, I would prefer to see traditional signs executed this way when needed in parks (where a posted sign is actually warranted) but I would ultimately prefer not to see any signs at all.
Do you recall why he didn't want to use it? As I see it, it's a useful tool, but I couldn't come up with any reason to specifically avoid it. Are there licensing or IP concerns when using it for a budding business?
There isn't anything to "take back" - other than Government sponsored monopolies or price ceilings/floors, the market is OPEN to you! There are many competent people building amazing companies, incompetent people getting paid well, competent people getting paid badly, competent people making lots of money and being fair with their employees. This (corporate) world is less black and white than you're making it out to be.

Realizing someone is performing or behaving poorly isn't a bad thing at all (it's how we learn!) but sitting on HN declaring that the nebulous "we" needs to "take back" our industry from leeches is absolutely ridiculous. Like the other commenter said, go build your own company! If you truly are more competent, fair, and mindful as a leader THOSE TYPES will flock to you.

It's what I'm doing. It's what many entrepreneurs I know are doing.
Just wanted to let the OP know that Rob and Mike from StartupsForTheRestOfUs (one of my fav podcasts) addressed your post on their podcast today.

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-135-m...
I am one of the first users of airpair :) Great service!
Especially at a company like Zynga, that at least as far as I know, had a fairly rigorous interview process. It's a chance to get a pre-screened engineer, possibly on the cheap.
It would be interesting to see if Dan Porter still considers OMGPOP a success under Zynga?!
That flippant tweet should have not happened, considering that the sale was pretty much a very successful exit for Dan Porter but not necessarily a great success for any of the OMGPOP people.
Sorry for coming across as a jerk. This is just my opinion, but I highly prefer striking-through the original content if you need to make meaningful changes to an article after its publication. Good on you for the post and your reasoned responses to the comments here.
Or he had moved his commentary beyond the original piece to include the commenters whose positions he was criticizing, which is how I read it.
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Who knows. I prefer to focus on what needs to be done to make things work.
If you're not enjoying what you're doing, and you're sacrificing so much to do it, then there'd better be some pretty big pay-off at the other end. Pretty big gamble to be taking essentially on faith otherwise.
Criticizing it is totally okay. What the OP said though was much more than "constructive analytical criticism" - there was a lot of emotion and ambiguous assumptions built into his statement that make very little sense.
> For east Asia, I think it has more to do with Confucian influence. Even when China was the richest/most developed country in the world, their schooling system was still based on rote memorization and repetition.

Good point. I'll definitely have to consider how that fits with my thoughts on Asian/Chinese culture.
That's correct. Which makes me wonder if rant = criticism + emotion? If yes, then he/she who rants does make good for an entrepreneur but only if that quality gets toned and put into action.

I believe there would exist some analysis/research around this already. For there does seem some evidence of great companies been built by people who were hurt, emotional or egoistic about their shit.
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I really enjoyed the most recent This American Life podcast as they revisited the topic of patent trolls (specifically Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures). Fascinating and terrifying.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/w...
Oh I have seen builtwithbootstrap before and its a wonderful gallery and example of what you can do with bootstrap, but I was mainly talking about the lazy one who just stick with the default designs and I seem to be seeing them more lately.
It's funny, we currently use ExactTarget and are working to move to SalesForce in a year
Bullshit. This kind of passive-ad-hominem is worse than worthless. If you disregard criticism of actions by people who aren't taking those actions, you're left listening only to people who are actually doing those things... and guess what? They're probably not exactly railing against their own paradigms.

Talk is only cheap if you're lapping it up in bulk from poor sources. If talk were always cheap, advisory boards and mentors would never, ever provide any value. So by all means, throw it away; disregard people based on who they are and not what they say. It's your own loss.

Just have the decency not to mislead people who are looking for guidance with your own cheap talk.
So you need to start your own restaurant before complaining about food?
This is what I got out of the article as well. Not so much using Bootstrap, just using any kind of modular code is what's important.

I work at a fairly large company and we just redesigned one of the sites and it was based on what I would call a "modified" bootstrap. Just enough to make a lot of the elements proprietary, but extendable to the rest of the companies websites who are all using different styles and designs. The future is really to move all these sites to this kind of modular approach.

It also makes it easy for incoming devs to get up to speed and keeps the code consistent. You don't have to come up with crazy class names and spend hours trying to figure out what the last developer was doing. In general, it just makes everybody's job a lot easier.
They should have discussed faster.
Once you start talking about a scale the size of the US, it gets rather spendy in a hurry.

Yes, but look at the long-term benefits. Under-privileged children end up costing society much more over the longer term.
At the risk of being (rather) trite, I would suggest that old saw, "Follow the money."

Someone was incentivised (for lack of a real word) to make this happen. I would look toward short term incentives and/or compensation.

Without getting into issues of culpability or "guilt", at a very basic level I can't help viewing the repeating series of these instances as simply being another form of "pump and dump".

They keep happening, because someone (or, a certain kind/role of someone) is making money.
I think it's because in the modern (say, post 1900) world, many inventions that increase utility (both for individuals and for everyone as a whole) cost a ton of money to research.

If your competition can instantly use that research, you may not recoup your costs, and thus have no incentive to do it in the first place. Drug patents are a clear example of this (although you might argue that altruism can also be a motive for researching drugs, in which case think jet engines or something).

Both individual and global welfare are improved if the drug is researched, but it won't happen without a government incentive; a drug has to be sold well above it's cost to produce + a small margin to recoup research costs, but it's possible for the competition to copy a drug once it's out and sell it for costs + a small margin and make a big profit.

20 years is arbitrary. In theory it's the number that the people come to as the best balance of allowing costs to be recouped without unduly hurting global utility due to monopoly, in reality it's a consequence of where lobbying takes us.
Or the even simpler discussion:

"They have a huge hit, and no money in the bank. Let's acquire them now, before they raise money, for relatively cheap, so we don't have to sink time and resources into developing a clone ourselves."

Too bad it looks like this theory didn't pan out.
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Is it possible that the 2-part series by This American Life ("When Patents Attack") had a tangible effect here?
Perhaps it was facetious to say that IBM can't build clouds. A more realistic viewpoint is that they don't have significant expertise building large commodity infrastructures.

There are definitely places where IBM plays well, but commodity clouds aren't one of them, at least to my mind. If you need a high-end computing cluster that's bigger than the max Amazon instances, that would definitely be a place where IBM could play, it's just not a place I see SoftLayer playing.

You're right though; There is more than one way to skin a cat or a cloud.
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There is a problem with the invisible dragon.

If your believer is aware that the strongest alternative to their belief that there is a dragon in the garage is that there is no dragon, they will tailor their explanations to your perspective. That doesn't prove they share your perspective deep down if they could just admit it to themselves, it just means they understand you.
Yeah - my first thought was: Is it possible that the 2-part series by This American Life ("When Patents Attack") had a tangible effect here?
The poor sap is probably stuck with keeping his new job. The horror!
2500 per life saved? The math doesn't add up. A mosquito net will sell on the street for around $10 (USD or CAD) in a 3rd world country (like where my wife is from - we bought a new one when we were in town - I got bit many times) - and that's with a good chunk of the profit going to the street vendor. That means 250 mosquito nets for $2500. So either mosquito nets prevent malaria for only 1 in 250 people, or a majority of that $2500 is going to waste.

And believe me, I'm not against foreign aid - but stimulating local economies, empowering farmers and local merchants, and even just travelling and spending money is more effective most of the time.
Sure, but that passage is about the political uses of the causal argument that happened to win (and that the OP thinks is incorrect). It makes no counterfactual claims.

dspeyer's point is a good one if (but only if) the article actually does make the two claims he mentioned. Does it? I don't remember.
"You get a rash of invites on LinkedIn, and people start updating their resumes."

When I was working at chumby industries and it was imploding, it occurred to me that somebody could probably write a really good predictor of imminent company failure by scrapping LinkedIn data and watching for sudden surges of activity from people working at the same company.

I'd be surprised if someone (or multiple someones) doesn't already have something like that running, even if just for their own private purposes.
More people stopped playing because they got bored. The fickleness of the public is the real danger in games like these, not the idealism of a few (which is a tragedy, as the latter would likely lead to much better games)
Yeah - I don't disagree on any particular point with you. My main point is that a certain degree of entitlement to use your original idea exclusively should inherently exist, and that the government would be protecting that right, not granting it. But 20 years? Yeah I absolutely agree - arbitrary, and way longer than it should be.
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Critical people, clearly.
I feel the same way. These are certainly funny signs, but they're completely useless and ultimately distracting from the park in which they're placed. I will, by default, sit on a bench (or the grass) unless I am explicitly told not to. I don't need an cutesy sign to tell me I CAN sit.
> There are plenty of people that think the government has unlimited money

Technically, any government that has sovereign control over its currency does have unlimited money. We have examples of governments utilizing this fact to disastrous results, but that doesn't make it less true.

> These people don't know that it is literal wealth transfer from one person to another

This isn't necessarily true. For state governments or governments that don't have a sovereign, fiat currency, it is true, but not for a national government like the USA federal government. If it were true, all wealth would be a "zero sum game."

You're correct about people's misguided perceptions about government spending and insurance companies, but it's also harmful when the pendulum swings too far the other way, and we don't want the government to spend any money because we think it only obtains that money via taxes.
I don't think what the developers are asking for is inherently not RESTful, as long as there is already a strict REST implementation. Adding composite resources in addition to the decoupled ones seems like a intuitive way to improve the usability of the API and the performance of the application (so there aren't so many API calls for common procedures.)
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when he says "use JSON where possible XML only where you have to", I thought it was funny, like developers out there are just dying to use this verbose behemoth instead of its terser cousin json. But anyways, I agree with everything you're saying just wondering if there actually are any devs out there who just adore some sweet XML (seriously) ?