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The prediction on this site is that MySQL Enterprise will die: those people for who the data is vital and irreplaceable, and who need competent and responsive support for when something goes wrong.

For ISPs and website owners, it won't make a difference.
"If nothing else... Microsoft owns the desktop until they are unable to e.g. scare netbook builders to stop selling preinstalled Linux."

I know we discussed this the other day (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666787) but I think it's more a case of brand imprinting than anything.

When you have clueless people who buy new computers (which make up the vast majority of the consumer market), one of the things they look for is what version of windows does it come with.

To me, for another OS to actively take significant market share in this dominated space, they would have to overcome this preconception that consumers have.

To liken it to another industry, it would be like a new softdrink manufacturer having to compete against Coca Cola (with Apple being Pepsi) with their own cola brand. People instinctively go for one or the other when they go buy a cola, even if there are better products that are cheaper on the shelf.

That's really what it boils down too.

So while Linux may be free and a superior product (I personally switched to Ubuntu about 8 months ago) - it requires much more momentum than what the Linux community has right now. Which is a damn shame.
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I think that there's something you aren't realizing : the open source communities don't scale. After a certain limit, they tend to go downhill.
You can buy your way out of the line at the gate (first class boards first, despite the fact that this is decidedly non-optimal from an operational perspective), but the security checkpoint is not at the gate. The gate line is managed by the airline and is primarily concerned with ensuring passengers get on the right plane. (They saved me from an impromptu trip to Seattle when I was to the JavaOne conference. International travel does strange things to the brain.) Another concern is earning the airline money through rigidly enforcing the class system. (+)

The security line is managed by the TSA (an arm of the government) and its (stated) primary purposes are to ensure bad people and bad things do not get passed it.

(+) I watched the 2nd to last person onto the plane get yelled at for going through the left priority boarding line when she was holding an economy ticket, and holding an infant to boot. They made her back up three feet and go through the economy boarding line. It someone could have telepathically read my thoughts they would have probably taken away my Vast Right Wing Conspiracy card.
This is surprisingly common - http://www.eph.co.uk/resources/email-address-length-faq/#ema...

Some developers think even 20 characters is enough (the mean average email address length is around 22 characters)
Does anyone have any ideas how posterous intends to make money?
EU Advisory Group Proposes Tighter Privacy Regulation On Social Networks
My thoughts exactly. I never had a problem with email being in html format, nor with being coded by using tables. CSS purists don't like tables, but other than that, this topic is a non-issue.
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Fluffy.

Yes, there's a lot of overhead for writers. Just like for hackers. Some of it legitimate. Some of it more like ADHD symptoms.

There's no content to speak of in this article - esp. compared to what I seen here on HN about keeping focused. Author would do well to spend time learning from HN: his editors at LA Times might then be more likely to ask him back.
Links to all the memos cited are here:

http://boycottnovell.com/comes-vs-microsoft/gates-exhibits/

Worth taking a look at those links - the most interesting part for me was getting a feel for his casual writing style to his staff. Very blunt, but the quotes don't get it quite right - they're just excerpts of a line or two from longer, coherent thoughts. Worth taking a look at the originals.
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Let's face it, email is on the way out anyway. Its future demographic consists entirely of nostalgic hackers, antiquated corporate IT regimes and orphaned spambots.
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Try to convince the companies that rely for a large part on e-marketing. Trust me, that are a lot of companies.
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Its not that they don't make money. Its that in terms of innovation - and more specifically in hampering innovation - Microsoft no longer matters.

At least we like to think so, because we can remember when they were in the way of developing most anything cool.
Are there studies that show HTML-mails work better for marketing? Not saying there aren't but would be interesting to know.

They certainly don't work better for me, because usually they literally display nothing (since I have disabled loading of remote images).
I'm thinking it is unexpected side effect of the embedded client rather than site design.. article wasn't much of anything anyways.
Same here. I just didn't get Sugar.

I'd rather see my young son figure out a typical GUI desktop than a whole new concept which I feel is a dead-end, even if it's arguably better.

If they had made it such that within 5 minutes I could have made contact with some other kid with Sugar over the Internet, I might have been convinced to go that way. I appreciate that may not have been the designers' focus.
Being lazy can motivate efficiency. But efficiency should not be sacrificed with productivity.

Maybe it's just me, but I want to be productive as much as possible. Sometimes the desire to be busy keeps me busy when I accomplish little of worth. My daily photography blog at blipfoto motivates me to look back at the end of a day and see what I actually got done. It is motivational when I don't get lazy with it. Which brings me back to my initial point, if you can work smart, why not work smart at working hard (or is it work hard at working smart)?

Being an effective slacker sounds very oxymoronic to me.
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Microsoft has no innovation?

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/pr/projects.aspx (there are a few gems in there that have yet been "announced")
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Does a twitter name alone have value yet?
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http://search.twitter.com/search?q=i+got+new+iphone will yield slightly better results.
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How to make the web (experience) faster:

Don't use video to present a list of points. Although it's only a 3:30 video, I would rather have been able to scan a list of the quotes (with attribution to authors & their titles)... then I could have know it was only a list of opinions (not a reasoned analysis).
What do you use for literate programming? CWEB?
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Ask HN: Other pay-as-you-go hosters like NearlyFreeSpeech?
Hello.

Are there other truly pay-as-you-go hosters like NearlyFreeSpeech? I'm trying them out and like them, but am looking for another one for redundancy.

Thanks!
When you're "Urs Hoelzle, SVP, Operations and Bill Coughran, SVP, Engineering VP" I expect you to notice in a joint statement of intent.
The title is misleading - I thought this was a link to a twitter mash-up, not a "how to learn rails" tutorial that has nothing to do with twitter.
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Swombat, wtf is your agenda? Yes, the audio is changed because the new one no longer has him saying "I've written a bunch software".

If you're trying to back up a friend, you're being way to obvious. This is definitely not overblown, taking credit for other people's work should be career changing and in the downwards direction.

*Edit: the change was really subtle too, go to 0:20 on the original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CRI3X0pjaU
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A few months ago we created dinamicherosa.com, a fertility calendar targeting the Italian web. Since we started to got users and even if there are already big players in the international market, we are going to launch this English version of the site, with separated accounts and forums.

The point is, we want to do more. The good point about our system is that's very easy to use, but we could love to ear what are in your opinion the killer features of this kind of services that no one implemented already (it's ok if it is very hard to implement it).

Thanks for any feedback.

p.s. I understand HN is not exactly a place were there are a lot of possible users for our service so it's very hard to do feedbacks about it.
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As everything moves into the browser they become irrelevant. A large proportion of the 'cloud' runs on Linux and the client doesn't really matter so long as it runs a decent web browser and that can Linux, OS X or Windows at this point.
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I think they have value for branding.

Because the cost to register an account is just one captcha solution, squatting twitter names seems to becoming more common.
I strongly disagree with the #1. In my practice, volunteering allows you to secure a rewarding, easy-to-finish-on-schedule task preemptively, while mundane, troublesome and underappreciated tasks are subsequently assigned to other co-workers.

Also, by volunteering you show the boss you actually care and are always ready to work, making you a valuable and trusty employee. Which other colleagues must earn with hard work.

Pick your preferred tasks early and often! ;)
Eventually an old Nokia with a standard ringtone comes full circle as "ironic" with the hipster crowd.

::waits::

In the meantime I'll just have to continue enjoying only having to charge my phone once a week...
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Heh Outlook's functionality has never been my problem (though Xobni makes it better and Gmail handles conversations better). Instead, Outlook's performance is the big issue.
I also know nothing of the deal, but think your frame of reference is off.

At this scale and early stage -- both companies appear to be pre-any-revenue -- both teams should be most interested in the promise of long-term equity appreciation. Posterous isn't rolling in cash, and rather than shuffling around any cash balances either company has, all cash should be going to a longer runway. A pure stock-and-job-offers deal seems most likely.
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More about this can be found here:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.761750.1...

Essentially, he has a really good product that sees 1000 downloads a day. It's open source, and he can't afford to keep maintaining it for free. He's reluctant to charge money for it, and gives a good explanation as to why.

It sounds like he's so worried about disappointing people that he'd rather abandon the project entirely than do the logical thing: sell it as a product.
I think I spotted a small bug. When I triple-click somewhere on the page then it locks up my firefox solid for a few seconds. Other than that: nice work!
Additionally, it's illegal to monitor certain radio frequencies (wireless telephones). That bothers me a bit because they are passing through MY body and all.
You need to get someone to go over the English (record != remind, rapports != sex). (E purtroppo, io non ho tempo)

Also, requiring a login is kind of annoying for those who just want to test it out.
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I'm for government adopting the same best practices as would private firms performing similar operations. When all the post-9/11 distortions finally work through the system, we might go back to a regime where many/most airports handled their own security, with private firms, but to federal standards.
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Even as a Dutchman, I'm sometimes amazed how far we take our pseudo-socialistic tendencies :)

Seriously, if we implement this now, nobody will be bothered to ever come up with an innovative new business model for news. A big news corporation with no business model but a fat public life-line is just too hard to compete with...
Hello David,

indeed this of a good quality translation is an issue we must fix! It's particularly hard given that the field is very specific and there are a lot of medical terms.

About the login, do you mean we should create one-click disposable account where the user can later insert a username to create a real account? This can be a nice idea indeed. On the other side the registration is very simple so possibly even a fixed demo/demo account with one-click auto login can be enough.

Thanks!
I would make the front page contain the form to get started. Later, if you want, you can register.
Yes, but it's ostensibly more fun to figure out.
Just curious, why did I get downvoted for that?

Yes, it was snarky but how are these salaries ($7.5mio and $500k) not out of this world? I'm not after myspace in particular here.
Cool, but I would be worried about its remarkable similarity (functionally) to Apple's iWork.com. They serve the same purpose, and although Apple's offering has less features for now, it is integrated with their iWork suite.
What kind of background check can you get for $200? I doubt they could find out anything less obvious than past convictions or frequent visits to countries associated with terrorism.
Microsoft does some amazing things at MS Research. They have trouble getting them into products, and they have no taste - so they can't polish them well.

All their products constrain, rather than enable me.
For Dutch-speaking hackers (NOS Journaal Video):

http://player.nos.nl/index.php/media/play/tcmid/tcm:5-533400...
It seems like you should whitelabel this and try to sell it as a service to an existing womens or health care site.

Also, for the US, this site may need to comply with HIPPA privacy and security standards.

http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/st...
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A simpler version of 'Clear' -- just paying to 'cut' in line -- could be run on 'Paris Metro Pricing', as described in this paper about network routing:

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/paris.metro.minimal.txt

Specifically, make two lines. They are identical except one costs a small fee. As long as people can accurately observe queueing times, they'll choose appropriately to get a value in time saved greater than the out-of-pocket costs.
This is the classic example of a site that should not have any form of registration to try it out.

How about a big "try it" button, or better still a calendar on the homepage where you can click a single date and it will get you started. I mean that's all the input you need, right? Why force people to enter their email address twice just to see what one of these calendars would look like.

Once a user has had a chance to try it out and decide it's cool, offer a "save" button that prompts for an email and password in a lightbox.
If you want to see how it works "inside" I just created this demo account:

username demo
pass demo1234
The final major problem with brands is loss of trust. Our data shows that the amount of trust consumers place in a brand today is a ghost of what it was 10 years ago.

I remember the first time I bought a Sony walkman and it performed more poorly than a Sanyo of half the cost, then died completely. I opened it to try to fix it and found inside... all Sanyo parts!

The moral: Brands are (or were) more than a marketing gimmick. Putting a sticker on a white label product is not a magical transformation. Customers are not fooled. When someone dials your phone number for help, encasing them in inescapable machine menus, or connecting them to someone on another continent who's never even seen your product is not an acceptable solution. A good brand used to be a promise that this kind of nonsense wouldn't happen; No more, it seems.

In short, if you want the return of customer loyalty to a brand, try not sucking.
Ok we must definitely do this. Thanks a lot!
How the heck do you tie DRM into an email client?

Does the client make sure that you have the rights to view the email I sent to you?
I made it through a few pages... it's interesting enough, but frankly a lot of it is common sense (brand saturation, loss of trust, uh-huh, tell me something that's not obvious). I shudder to think how they compute a figure like "brands provide 30% of shareholder value".
Thanks all for your quick and helpful responses.

To those who offered help proof-reading, referrals, etc I appreciate your generosity and will undoubtably take you up on your offers. I'll reply to each individually.
Indeed if we'll find it's too hard to bootstrap it in a market that is a bit hard for us to enter, to whitelabel/sell it can be a good exit strategy.

Also many thanks for the pointer to the HIPPA thing, it's a good idea to conform even the Italian side to it.
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It can "expire" email after a certain time.
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To be fair, the people who do that would do it with any email client. Remember, your typical corporate email user was never on Usenet, has never been on a mailing list, genuinely doesn't know the difference between "reply" and "reply all", etc. It just so happens that these people get given Outlook and they use it. Or not, even, loads of senior managers, even at tech companies, have their secretaries send email for them and would consider reading 10 messages a day themselves "too much".
I don't know why, but sometimes I find myself unwilling, or, at least hesitant to profit from my favorite projects while others, have no problem.

Is it an art thing? Something psychological? Is he also experiencing this effect?
But the fact remains that it doesn't make much logical sense as a requirement (to do background checks of people who go thru the same checkpoint as those who don't get background checks); if they were forced into a bad business plan by the government, they were still silly enough to stick with a bad business plan and pray that one day it would suddenly start to work.
Generally, I would recommend that for a customer-facing site you either:

1) Have a copywriter who is fluent in the target language write the copy

2) Have any translated copy checked by either a native speaker or someone who is very, very, very, very good at the target language AND the problem domain.

I am not an expert in your problem domain but I am a fairly good hand at copywriting for software sites, and was tired of just doing native checking of Big Freaking Enterprise Apps, so take a look at this for some inspiration:

http://pastie.org/522774

You'll note that I made copious use of HTML markup. If you're writing on the web, you REALLY want to do that. It will make a world of difference in your conversion rates. Also, talk less about features and more about benefits to the user.

Also, in the US at least, PINKDY IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A MEDICAL DEVICE. I am SHOUTING because you NEED TO KNOW THIS. I wrote you a disclaimer in there but I am NOT a lawyer and offering your service in America exposes you to SIGNIFICANT legal and regulatory risk.
-Nice weather today.. :P

Seriously, my best method of starting a chat with a stranger is making a comment about something in the surrounding environment quickly followed by a question about the other person. Try not to talk about the weather as this usually raises a "red flag", ie I really want to talk to you but dont know how.

After that, it's mostly questions/answers as you start to get acquainted. Question/answer ratio in your speaking time should be around 80/20. Try to keep your answers relatively short, especially in the beggining, so that you don't bore your conversational partner. You can usually tell if he/she is genuinely interested in a subject as he will request more information about it. As for the questions let him/her finish his answer, nod, have an open body posture, copy his/hers with a 5sec delay and while he/she answers think of the next one. Give some time between his answer and the next question (his/hers or yours) but be ready to fire in case the conversation drifts off to that "awkward silence".

In any case try to remember that people like to talk about themselves (hence the question/answer ratio) but this isn't always the case, e.g. you have met an introvert (takes time to start opening up) or someone who's having a bad day (difficult to change his/her mood).

Finally, if you fail, don't sweat it. Find what/where the conversation went wrong change your tactic a bit (alter talking speed, think of better generally applied questions, humor) and try again. And don't forget to smile :)
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They don't work for me either, but we're in a minority. The non-techies seem to love HTML email. My boss, even, receives all sorts of crappy offers and adverts and forwards them on to me to "check out the bargain!"

We have clients that pay thousands of pounds a month for HTML newsletter services (not to us, at the moment). I like to assume they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't work.

(Don't 'they' say that only one person has to click a spam mail for it to be worth sending - is this not more or less the same thing?)
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That's great, thank you very much for your help! And about the markup, indeed the current homepage is very boring and there is too much text.

I guess that about the issue of pinkdy being a medical device I should check what fertilityfriend and other big players are doing about it. I hope it's just a matter of warnings and guidelines about security of passwords and data...

Thanks again
I'm impressed by the speed and frugal resources with which they implemented the site and the project has obviously been a huge success, but it is not true that it all had to be completed on that timescale. The release of the MP's expenses has been expected for months, if not years. A delay to the launch of the site would have invoked the 'isearch' law of project management:

"The worst delay to the completion of any project is the management decision to start the project."