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I agree, I'm a very compatible person, but there is nobody I know that is similarly skilled and interested in starting up an idea. I have a lot of long-time business contacts (from freelancing) who sometimes have very great ideas and even data to back-up the potential success of it, when they know a competitor for example. They want me to do it all the software-architecture, coding and sometimes even the design, but cannot invest themselves into it, except for connecting us to the potential customers they know. I once had a co-founder who at least did the business part of thing (man he was really good at it), but he stopped when it started to become fruitful, due to severe illness of his mother. Well and we never made things on paper, which concerned me, but not him.

I've one friend who I could do co-found with, but he wants to move to another country and work for an infosec company and won't have any spare time then, nor has the risk-taking ability that's required. Well, because otherwise he'd stay from start to finish of the product and not hunt down his the career-path as fast as possible.

If you cannot reach your co-founder by call, he should not be your co-founder. I have made the experience that people who once prove that they are unreliable, remain unreliable. I also made the experience that people who you really believe are your friends, may see you as a riding horse or tool. When the time comes that you realize that by getting fooled heartlessly, this will shock you, because loosing trust in a friend is one of the most shocking experiences in live. When you've read this far, you should definitely NOT hesitate and do an overly early reaction, my experience is also that things often change the complete meaning, when you don't share positions and feelings. I'm fair but hard, you can be whatever you want, but do not be naive or a tool. Stay smart and sweet-tempered =)

How did you inherit that much money?

I hope nobody died, but in that case you have my heartfelt sympathy! Do not think about the money now. Stay with your family and ignore that you have a little more cash in your bank account for a while. Take care!

I agree with @mattgerboth, but I'd invest things first in order to raise the health and living quality of myself and my family to normal (no luxury).

This part is up to you, but I'd save 40-50% in order to buy the stuff required that you need after you've bought that 0.5-1mm$ company for half of it's price (everything is possible with hard work, don't just accept the first offer blindly). When you know that the company is making profit, just help the company manage itself, because too much management is what usually makes things worse. You could also hire somebody who is knowledgeable in that area unlike those SAP Business Analytics bullshitters...

Regarding family. You've not told anything about it or yourself. Don't you care to let us know about it, or do you want to remain as incognito as possible?

wow, just installed this on Linux, disabled the flash plugin and flash doesn't crash anymore yipiii :)

It appears that the flash testing site doesn't work with it though: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Now I have 0 Plugins Enabled in Firefox. It's perceived about 40% slower though. :/

Thanks I didn't know about www-plugins/lightspark =) Gonna compile/install it, because adobe-flash is crashing for me all the time.

I'm glad DRM isn't globally accepted by the W3C Consortium, but I'm sure beneficiaries like Google, Adobe and Microsoft heavily try to subvert that state.

s/Windows/Linux/g

thanks :) I, Gabe Newell and many others would like to see this happen.

I have lots of experience with CMS and have also contributed to a CMS and still do QA. Yes, Sir it is a very important decision unless you give your users a very easy way to replace it for the front- and backend. People really often come and want to extend things in the backend, that leasds to customizations and some companies prefer white-labeled CMS's.

Don't see it as a mass-product, just because it was offered to a mass of audience, like the HN Crowd, who certainly bookmarked or shared it with friends. That won't make it a mass-product. The future you have to deal with is that more people jump into the DIY-Bandwagon and given the opportunity present their stuff to a huge audience. Which in return either requires improvements, perfectly deals with it (making it a part of the web-toolchain), or neglects the idea/product.

     • The good thing about this development is that you will get more free stuff that you can try out, remix, fix and break things to your liking (given that's it's opensource).

     • The bad things is that you will have to eat the bugs in your soup, sir. You can scream for a new soup, but there is no guarantee that you'll get a new one, unless many people like you are unsatisfied, or you make your voice heard on the media.

Constant flux is something you have to deal with in IT, but that doesn't mean that your hard learned lessons are gone. They are more valid than ever and you'll be amongst the few who still understand it. The DIY-Culture is only trying to understand this on a personal level and wants independant, more rapid innovation.

The reason for all that bases in our frustration with the world and the internet that allows us to go out and "fix it for the rest of us".

> What if they are not trying to get into the identity market?

I have never seen a site using MySpace OAuth login on the wild.. They certainly have no interest in it.

>My question is: What is their hook?

A good question. They kept their initial spirit: "Customizable homepages for Artists and Musicians." – But never overhauled the system to make it better, or useful than a Facebook fanpage. Only a redesign happened, when it was already too late. You obviously can't keep operating a `2000 Style` website 10 years later for the mass market. Myspace apparently has no hook.

Why can they do it better than some random bootstrapped people? They can't. They just have been there for longer than Facebook, which gives them a disadvantage, because people have a the original Myspace brand identity burned into their memory that will not go away, regardless how often Myspace re-writes the UI.

Ok, that sounds bad.. Your and @kjs3's (who appears to be hellbanned) comments agree on the point that these people should be avoided, right?

Recently a "radio moderator & business developer" asked me to join a conference with talented people for "free", but it appears that he's passively recruiting too, but by bringing people together in a room and letting them pay for being there.. that smelled a lot like scam.

Eat that SONY!

This is how you really make a Game Controller.

BitTorrent Please! Why does it cost so much? They grabbed our data for free and they have enough free Bandwidth. Let's assume they are greedy, then they could at least offer it through BitTorrent. DVD's for that amount of data is ridiculous. I don't even have a DVD-Reader…

Can't afford buying all that + shipping to Europe, but would like to play with the Data for my NLP Project.

That's a cool idea and I made only 1/3 of that.

Made about $200-$350 every 3months investing no time at all. Last year I started feeling bad, because I didn't do anything and made the menu free. I wanted to sell other stuff, but never had the same motivation to be honest.

I made a menu for a customer, then decided to sell it for $1, but the system didn't allow that (no micropayments). So I just made a dozen additional colors of the menu using Photoshop and sold it for $15 for 2y.

Bill Gates invested in at least 5 Battery Startups who could revolutionize the capacity problems of the large power-grids worldwide: http://gigaom.com/2013/04/02/bill-gates-investors-back-sodiu... Soon replaced by graphene super capacitors..

How conservative do you sound when you promote Thorium reactors in a solar cell thread? ..some people have heard enough "positive" things about nuclear power now. There are cheaper, more reliable, regrowing and more efficient technologies that Nuclear power fans simply ignore. Nobody said that the power generated by nuclear fusion is lower than with green power, but definitely at scale.

Maybe corporate damage control..

Do any of you guys have infos on what crypto they used and how? I've never heard about Ziptr.

actually it's provable that the weather is partly controlled, at least in Germany. http://www.br.de/themen/wissen/wetter-meteorologie-rosenheim... No need to be a conspiracy-theorist, it's simply true. They use that to avoid hail damaging the crops.

They clearly can manipulate the weather, the question is to what degree and when do they do it and with what aim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification

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Nah, why OSX only? I'd welcome them porting it to LLVM Clang, so that we can run it on all platforms with more speed and natively. Linux ftw :)

@krapp thanks for asking. I have no real evidence, except that he worked closely with military and you cannot be against your feeding hand. See interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF6hOMY2vxA So obviously he is pro USAF, but that didn't mean he needed to portray the US Government in a good light in StarGate SG-1. He showed the USAF in a very good light though. He also supports the Greenpeace (Sea Shepard) and Charity.

You're right.

I only remember Stargate SG-1 that very early on dissed the NID (=NSA) and other agencies (but I rarely watch TV). They went so far to criticize agencies and senators and many other privately working corporations as control addicted, corrupt and inhuman moneybags. Senator Kinsey was exposed telling lies to the voters like: "We do the best a christian can for our God blessed America", just to get their votes. Even though he seemed to believe what he said, the actions he made were all but "christian". He willingly destroyed an entire solar system, just to test a bomb. The arrogant evil joy was truly revealing his real character. He was obviously an opportunist, who collaborated with evil aliens just to remain in power. And that last part sounds like our governments, who sell our data to other governments, when the price is right.

That's why I really admired how this was the only series (except star-trek) where most stuff, contrary to most beliefs (imho) was a pure mix of fiction and actual ancient history. Although it was clear that Colonel Jack O'Neill had strong prejudices against the Russian and communists in General (and russians always died first) he had deep respect to them as a Soldier. To me it looked like the authors tried to express some of their true thoughts, but were often forced to change or include parts into the script to reflect a more positive America, that really stood out. Unfortunately Star-Trek was very pro American, which is hard to believe, because a developed human in the future would most probably see all of us as greedy, barbarian, war-hungry hypocrites and not focus one just one continent.

I thought upvotes and downvotes are for moderation. It's so childish to downvote someone just because you're not of the same opinion.

That is a great way to damage Samsung for Apple. Initially contracting them with a very high-volume and then dropping off to zero. Samsung will make a huge net-loss, if they don't partner up with Microsoft(=Nokia now) or Google in another big deal.

Great, thanks for this awesome contribution!

Oh, I didn't know that it's so extreme.. thanks for reporting back, I appreciate it :)

Thank you! I am curious about the trade-market too

hahaha you're so evil, with 999 persons having thought this, you say it publicly.

human subject a892857 identified with probability to get hit by bus -> starting assisnation drone to increase efficiency. Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, will be Chief Execution Officer.

The fact they open Calic makes me hate them. They could have gone in every sector, but not in the one that is there to actually improve our life. They will algorithmically help kill much more people efficiently. Money powers the healthchare system.

This made me curious! Why did you do this? To create a database of "signatures" to be used in your contact-list?