fractalcat

Yes. Just yes.

I recently wrote a privacy policy for my new startup; I think it complies with all but two of those guidelines (lightbox and standardised). Any feedback would be appreciated: https://theescortcompanion.com/privacy/

I use dnsimple (http://dnsimple.com). It's not one of the cheaper ones (US$3/month for DNS hosting up to ten domains, US$14/registration), but it has a nice UI, JSON REST API and support that doesn't suck.

No. Definitely not. However, I would pay money for a no-DRM HD video file released under some kind of CCesque license that gave me the legal freedom to, say, watch it with a friend. (I know this will never happen).

So it is. Must remember not to read news at 0500. -_-

The NYT only found out about this now? O.o

Steve Pavlina (http://www.stevepavlina.com/) has some good stuff on training willpower (willpower is like D-Day, a huge violent bloody assault which was used to establish fortifications on the ground so that you didn't need to launch a huge violent bloody assault every time you wanted to get things done). Use willpower to build habits that will stay with you even when you have the mental energy of a marketroid.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

On hacking while stoned: http://hack.org/mc/texts/inspiration.txt

Also, I'm not going to name names, but I know several non-famous (but very accomplished) hackers who swear by it.

Security isn't just about lack of buffer overflows. It's in the way users interact with the system, and the way they're encouraged to interact.

In most Linux distributions, the user is encouraged (by the design of the system) to, in almost all cases, either install cryptographically-signed software packages vetted and maintained by the vendor; or download a source package and compile it themselves. In Windows, the user is encouraged (by the design of the system) to download unsigned binaries from all over the Web and run them.

That's why I'll never consider Windows to be comparably secure to modern Linux distributions. Sure, you can keep a Windows system airtight, but the way the system is designed makes it require effort, so users, in general, don't.

To everyone who's saying his university entry at sixteen is implausible: actually, it's fairly common. I started uni at sixteen (B of Technology, RMIT). So did my best friend (BCS, UTS). My partner started at fourteen (BCS, U of Canterbury). Anecdotal yes, but it's not exactly unheard of.

Title is misleading. I routinely 'dodge' this - all it takes is disabling caching. If you understand how caching works, it's trivial to conclude that it's possible to use etags for tracking. It's the same with the CSS-based browser history attack - if your browser is storing data, and it's possible for a server to tell you're storing it, it can be used to track you.

I make just over 50% of that (about US35k, full-stack web developer with one year of professional experience and no degree).

(cross-posted from the blog's comments - didn't realise they're hidden by default)

Just a few comments (from a developer/entrepreneur's perspective):

> I hate asking around for help.

We all do. Asking is hard. But if you're aiming to be a successful entrepreneur, you will have to do things that take you outside your comfort zone. That's the whole point. Bite the bullet, swallow your pride.

> There are so many job boards and most of them are useless.

Yep, that's exactly right. Don't use them. If you want to find great developers (and you're not Google), nine times out of ten you're going to have to do the legwork yourself.

> “I’m looking too. If I found a good software developer, I’d take him. Sorry!” Not cool.

That sounds fair enough to me. Good developers are, as you've discovered, rare. If they're putting the work in, they deserve the payoff - why should they give up a potentially valuable employee just because you asked?

The common theme here seems to be that yes, building a company from the ground up is really hard, and it's a ton of (sometimes frustrating and thankless) work. If you have faith in your company's ability to succeed, you need to do whatever's necessary to get them there.

I think there's a potential precedent in the reversing of the original PC BIOS - it was deemed that what was effectively a reimplementation of a closed protocol was permissible.

And, IIRC, there are still mixed results regarding the extent to which EULAs are enforcible.

Does XY Combinator take 6% equity in the relationship? Does this include part-ownership of any potential offspring?

Question: why do you use the phrase 'exclusive private beta'? Are you going to be evaluating and rejecting the majority of prospectve testers? If not, 'exclusive' is just meaningless marketspeak.

I found myself in a startup last year with web applications to write and no idea how to write them; a colleague pointed me to GCU. I didn't find it very useful at the time, but in retrospect this was simply because I don't have the attention span to watch videos and the textual content is pretty basic and limited.