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The lawyers that I used to work with would advise merely putting the letter in a filing cabinet and taking no action on it ("Even if they have no case, having you flapping your lips in print just makes my job potentially more difficult later").

That said, I'd be inclined to write him something like this:

Dear CEO:

I received your letter regarding your belief that ma.gnolia.com is in violation of your trademark for "Magnolia" in the United States.

In the future, you may find that when sending a cease and desist letter, it is helpful to include pertinent details of your trademark registration such as reference numbers, a detailed sample of the registered mark, and what classification you are registered under. Your legal representation can explain the significance of these to you. Without them it is impossible for me to conclusively evaluate whether ma.gnolia could possibly infringe on your registered trademark.

As a matter of US law, your trademark is likely not to the word "Magnolia" in all senses, but probably scoped to its use in CMS software. As ma.gnolia does not sell CMS software, there is no possibility of market confusion with regards to the purchase of CMS software. We both have presences on the Internet, but frankly, trademark law is not a guarantee that you will be the only mention of the word Magnolia on the Internet.

You claim that "[ma.gnolia's] graphic appearance can be totally related to our CD". It is unclear to me that you are making a claim here based in trademark law. If you are, I would need a copy of your registered specimen to compare it to our logo to determine whether the claim is valid. That being said, a cursory inspection of the logo present on your website shows the word Magnolia. A cursory inspection of our logo shows the word Ma.gnolia with a giant flower on it. Your claim that these are confusingly similar is baseless as a matter of law.

Your lawyers are welcome to contact my lawyers if they have any other questions.

Cordially yours,
Maybe so, but whenever I follow a link to Fast Company, I'm always reminded how much I love their logo.
I suspect he is referring to the fact that Magnolia lost all their data a little while back due to a poor backup policy (I forget the exact details).
I can tell you that there are still a lot holes to be filled in, meaning there is a lot of potential for you to grasp market that they won't be able to. I don't think I can go into specifics, having been one of the original programmers on clicker.com, but going more towards the decision of allowing the users to decide, and not telling the users what they want, is a very good strategy. there is nothing wrong with changing directions based on what your users want.
That's a brave move, charging for the aggregation of content, and getting the community who pays you to help write said content.

I suspect if this takes off there will be a free alternative that takes this websites place in short order, regardless of how cheap it is.
> The guy did show his work to Microsoft, they said "Nice idea, yoink".

That's his version of the story.
He demonstrated pretty clearly that he had no idea what he was doing when he lost all the data behind the site, and then revealed that he had set whole thing up to run on OS X (a sure sign of a dilettante, as someone who had to administer other people's boxes running Mac OS X Server for several years) and that his backup scheme naively synced the in-use database files.

Now he's decided to change the name based on a ridiculously weak letter that anyone who'd even bothered to look at the introduction to the Wikipedia article on Trademarks would have brushed off with laughter.
i agree, sidereel is the best site out there for this, but the sad thing is the more popular it becomes, the less likely it will be good and have the best source and be able provide things that an 8m funded company can't. *hint hint.
Oh, I found their registration:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:ri...

Their trademark is for [Magnolia] is scoped to "in the field of content management".
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I think a good idea, would be to scrape sites like fatwallet, slickdeals, and others for content. The sad thing is I don't think the calendar view is enough to attract this type of community. Any other differentiators ?
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Third parties attempting to extend the software and sell access are intended to release source code. The only room for profit is in network effects -- any other attempt to sustain margins more than barely above actual costs would be tenuous, as someone else could come along and undercut you.

The copyright holder(s) that licensed their work under the AGPL are not subject to any such restrictions (no multi-licensing is necessary). There's no way to compete with them fairly.
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The details are worth remembering. They had an enormous database (half a terabyte or so) due to their decision to store cached content in database tables. Their backup strategy was to try to sync their live DB files to another machine over firewire. When the master database eventually got corrupted, they dutifully rsynced the corrupt files over to the "backup".

Once the database finally rolled over and died, they claimed to be unable to recover any user data at all from the hard drives. But it seems they never bothered to go to a vendor specializing in MySQL recovery. Offers of help from Percona went unanswered, at least in public.

Full disclosure - I run a competing site (pinboard.in). Magnolia's stunning negligence in securing user data, and Larry Halff's attempts to cast himself as a victim of internet trolls when confronted by his angry users, are pretty much what motivated me to start the project.
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The search session expires :)
But (for everyone else) if you run a search for Magnolia on that site it is the first (or second) one on the list.

I cant find the supposed Europe one.
Correct of course, although sometimes you can't edit the alias of a server, for example, if you're testing or demoing a load balancing configuration against a public site; that's what this is can be useful for.

Track the series of articles; there are a few more examples to follow.
As a high school and college graduate I've got to chip in say this is gunk. The author was motivated and ready to go to college. There are a lot of motivated high school students as well. They've navigated the curriculum successfully and got out unscathed.

I've talked to college admissions officials on this. Like so many before me, I was smart and ready to jump off the carousel. Fortunately, someone steeped in the game stopped me before I made a pretty bad decision. I could have dropped out, got my GED and started to apply to universities. And I would have been summarily rejected from the good ones.

Instead I stayed, finished up all my highschool requirements by sophomore year (and most were done by freshman year). Leaving me 2 years to take college prep, AP, and dual enrollment courses. All of this was done on the school board's dime.

The blogger speaks about the author like everyone has the opportunity to travel to Buenos Aires, enroll at an American University, and do extensive travel. Unless something changed, AU is seriously expensive and is usually full of the countries' elite. Having access to money buys you tons of things. One of them being a good education anywhere.

Highschool may have its failings but atleast everyone is given the opportunity to go. At this point, you're old enough to make choices and young enough not to feel the consequences. I always hear of how bored people were when in highschool. I rarely hear of anyone saying I took it up a notch and took the harder classes.

I was awed when I set foot on campus. I met people that were much smarter and much more accomplished than me. At home I was a a local hero for getting into a good uni. Now I was in a class of local heroes. Some did major scientific work (Intel, Westinghouse, ISF, etc.) before arriving. And others started their first dotcom while in highschool.

While I understand the idea of unschooling, I'm not impressed with the attacks on the public high school. I'm equally unimpressed with attacks on homeschooling. Both require motivation, and homeschooling requires a bit of sacrifice. I have friends that were homeschooled. None were socially awkward, naive, nor ignorant. They understood that their parents made huge sacrifices (loss of income and career) to provide that education.

The fact is, colleges, and now the military, are looking for smart, motivated people. Just dropping out and getting a GED doesn't prove any of this and might give the impression of the opposite.
Chrome Frame lets IE handle cookies and history and all that. XSS and tracking cookies keep working as they always have. Chrome frame uses the IE network stack to ensure this[1]. The canvas plugin and screaming monkey were both intended to be implemented using tags[2].

I expected a better response from Mozilla than this.

[1] http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/developers_guide.h...

[2] http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/07/30/no-browser-left-behind/#com...

Edit: Added [2].
I found it surprising that Raymond Chan's excellent "The Old New Thing" (http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/) didn't make it to the list, considering that it has a pagerank of 6 and it's quite possibly the most informative Windows development blog on the Internet.
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I disagree, the data was very interesting and it would be pity if they didn't release it.
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Yeah, your social bookmarking site did much better.

(My point here is that maybe things aren't as simple as you are making them seem. It is easy to critique other's mistakes, but it's not quite as easy to avoid them in the first place.)
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Well, considering that the list is sorted by descending pagerank (that is, popularity), you could check out only the first 10 if that's what you want.
What's their market share on servers? How much time do people spend on the internet?

Most windows machines these days are dumb clients to the web, so that fact that Microsoft provides the software for this doesn't seem like a huge win.
Did you look at the "really interesting link" enough to realize the benchmarks game website is written in PHP?

What difference does this make?

Did you look at that particular web page enough to see "PHP is rarely the bottleneck (HTML slides)" ?

This is just random user-generated content; every language on the site gets to link to whatever they want.

(As an aside, I am tried of the "my app can be slow because the database is slow". If you are not Doing It Wrong, your database is not slow, and your app can do other things while waiting for IO.)
This is a much better reply than someone else's a few levels up. You analyzed the mistakes and you decided to learn from them and create a competing product.

That is much more enjoyable to read about than "that guy is an idiot". I wish I could upmod twice.
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Okay, so you're essentially describing a situation where the copyright holder offers access to a "pro" version and a "vanilla" version, with only the latter being licensed under the AGPL?

I would certainly concede that this scenario would make it difficult for third parties to maintain feature parity, but that's a long way from saying the AGPL offers "no way of competing" with the copyright holder; writing features that are not present in any version would be an obvious starting point. (You also grossly misrepresent the market for "network effects", but that's somewhat tangential)
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Uh oh, actual facts?

Damn it, I just bought a pitchfork and really wanted to use it for something!
Clearly you know nothing about blogging! Letting facts get in the way of a hate session is simply not profitable!
The more you are drowning in stuff, the more you'll need them, so it kind of makes sense.
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Ask HN: How big is your IT staff? How big in YC companies?
In the second edition of my ebook "12 Things to Reduce Your Lead Time and Time to Market" I would like to know about the optimal percentage of IT staff depending on company type. Obviously there is a correlation between the size of IT and time to market (the bigger the better?) and I would like to include this in the next ebook. I've also created a survey monkey form

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It would be kind if you could answer 5 questions (30 sec max :-) Thanks.
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Obviously there is a correlation between the size of IT and time to market (the bigger the better?)

No, actually. It's certainly the case for start-ups that smaller is better. Smaller is more nimble, more creative, less politics-driven, and forced to focus on what matters (because you can't afford anything else).

I'd say a team of 2-4 technical founders/early employees is ideal, though it's certainly possible to do it with just 1. More than that and you'll spend more time managing staff that building things.

Of course, it all depends on what you're building, too. However, to reduce your lead time, reducing the team size is a good thing for start-ups.
It's not a user-centric app.

For example, since it charges for storage, it provides no way to quickly scan the logs and remove large attachments.

It's missing a lot of features which would make it more useful, such as some sort of way to flag people. When you have a few people on a channel, if you want someone to get a specific message, it's not possible to ensure that with the current campfire.
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Maybe things have improved since this post, but this was my experience.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550692
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Where do you think it stands right now? Is it like more in the JQuery/Prototype league or the Sproutcore/GWT/Cappuccino/Pyjamas league?

I haven't used YUI much. Just tabs and other basic stuff around a year back. So would like to know if it's becoming more like the other desktopUI-like pkgs.

P.S: I'm learning Sproutcore right now.
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They're gradually losing their patents. With any hope universities may have decent software one day.
I'm not a UI expert and definitely need to improve things with my site, but I've found that most non-tech users can't be bothered to do much of anything that requires a little thought. If you're not spoon feeding it to them, they don't want it. This is why drag and drop website creation is so successful.
That'll slow the car down, and bring it to a stop if the brakes are in good condition.

It's really simple to recover from a jammed open throttle (it's happened to me) - and I think it's the kind of thing that ought to be taught in driving lessons.

You have heaps of options, either knock the car into neutral, turn off the ignition (before the steering lock), stand on the clutch (if it's manual), stand on the brakes or as a very last option gently start to apply the parking brake.

Forgive my ignorance, but is a "state trooper" a cop? I can't believe an off duty cop would let the car get up to almost 120mph. Aren't they trained?
Oh, I even did not know there are bestcomments. Thanks for the link.
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I don't question the sincerity of the apology. I question its existence. Where is it?
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This is actually a pretty good overview of wave, hitting all the high points well.
Firstly, your going to disappoint some poor guy doing research on the size of his penis with your title.

As for the content of your article. Really liked it.
Some of the numbers in tables were a little hard to follow at times.

Other than that, I love these sort of articles which can point out some interesting tip bits of information which you otherwise wouldn't find. ( just assumed maybe )
you'll find others version of monster for other countries:

http://www.monster.com

Seems to have a few IT jobs for UK, France etc.
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A series of statements that are valid are logical. The conclusions can be wrong, as "anything follows from a false premise" (about the only actual statement I recall from logic lectures; see eg http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/implication.html).

Occam's Razor is unsound. The truth is not necessarily simple.
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I don't think the European farmers will get unemployed. They will have to adapt e.g. to higher quality. Organic stuff seems to be all the rage.

The farmers of New Zealand adapted, too.
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One interesting implication of this logic is that an ancient society could lower the price of books by achieving a critical mass of literate people. Because a literate person can spawn other literate people, and these literate people can in turn be set to work copying books which the entire community can then read, loaning them back and forth hundreds or thousands of times...

This explains how the ancient scholars managed to get anything done in the first place. It's all about the density. This is why the Library of Alexandria had so much stronger a reputation than the Library of Congress does today: The Library of Congress is great, but since each of the works in it is a printed work with potentially many other extant copies, it's not the same level of unique resource.

Obviously it didn't do you as much good to train a literate person if they then journeyed away to a distance where you could neither lend them your books nor borrow theirs. Not only would that person not contribute to your local library, but they would also be forced to spend a great deal of their precious education time copying out the two or three vital books that would sustain them in their isolation: The Bible, plus maybe one of the classical legal or medical treatises. You tended to end up with the same handful of books distributed over the landscape. Which suggests that the key problem which put the "dark" in the "dark ages" was not some kind of barbarian hatred of learning: It was the collapse of Roman civic society and the spreading of scholars thinly over the landscape. When the central authority with the power to collect taxes from an entire empire, drag those taxes to Rome, and use them to support a sizeable class of co-located educated people collapsed, so did the intellectual standard. Also explains why the centers of higher learning became associated with the Church: The Duke of Normandy could only tax Normandy, but the Church could collect tithes across political boundaries and pool them.

Application of this kind of logic to, say, Wikipedia or the open source movement is left as an exercise for the reader.
I like the fact that in Montenegro, they're changing from .yu to .me. Cute.
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Why the jargon? These terms do not relate to anything anyone is familiar with in any different context. This seems unnecessary.

I genuinely hope that http://xkcd.com/483/ (Fiction Rule of Thumb) doesn't apply to Google Wave.
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