Really depends on the contract you signed with them and the license agreement. If they own the product then you might be entering shaky ground re-developing it.
I'm surprised this article made no mention of the affiliate nexus laws that have been passed over the past few years. The law was first passed in New York requiring Amazon to collect sales tax from NY customers. NY claimed Amazon's NY "associates", affiliates earning commissions for sending customers to Amazon, represented a physical nexus. Amazon agreed to collect the tax in this case, but it opted not to collect tax in other states who enacted a similar law. Instead Amazon effectively "fired" all of the affiliates living in those states. In one case Fat Wallet, a major player in the online affiliate industry, moved their company out of Illinois because they lost many of their affiliate partners. Illinois didn't gain anything and lost a source of income tax. This has been a major issue in the affiliate industry as it cuts off huge sources of revenue for affected affiliates. Amazon is pushing for the federal government to step in partly because they don't want to lose their online marketers. Secondly, they don't want to maintain a database of tens of thousands of tax jurisdictions across the country.
I used to frequent these types of conferences a while back. I'd attend the larger evening events knowing who sponsored them. But when I got home I never thought once to review their service or see what they're all about. If the service wasn't recommended to me by a friend or in person I had no interest. I only went to the event to meet up with friends and possibly make new acquaintances. So in that regard I agree with the article. When you spend your marketing dollars feeding people alcohol, chocolate fondue and mini lamb-chop burgers that's what they'll remember. They won't remember your service and may never know what it does/did.
I think it really comes down to the initial monetary investment of the idea guy. For the idea guy to approach a developer with a $200 software package and $8/mo web hosting they've got very little vested. Asking the developer to invest what amounts to anywhere from $60-$150/hr of development hours is unreasonable. Now if the idea guy has invested thousands into data, a nice piece of co-located hardware, exclusive partnerships with reputable advertisers, etc. we might have something. The idea is worth very little in terms of investment. I think the equity breakdown can be broken down as such: 5% for the idea and the dollar for dollar investment by each party.
I think the code here is a very good example to get started with Python. It includes some very essential elements for interacting with external websites.
I began thinking single column. The content should be the star of the show. No sidebars or extraneous post metadata that gets in the way of reading.
I'm happy to hear you confirm this for me. I've been removing the sidebar from most pages of my site for the exact same reason. Not to mention that a sidebar generally only occupies the first screen you see. Once you start scrolling you're left with empty space below and content that's thinner than it should be.
That's a deprecated page. It says 2003 because I rewrote the site in PHP that year and had no dates associated with the scripts prior to that. The download link doesn't work anymore, but I probably still have the file on the server if you want it.
Yes, and you've got such a captive audience with something like mIRC. Back in those days you could write a decent script and instantly get users. Today you've really got to do something special to stand out in the development community.
I started an mIRC script site back in 1997. Young developers would email their scripts to me and I would write a very critical review of them. I did this for many months and the site quickly became one of the top IRC sites online. This momentum has carried the site all the way to 2013. While mIRC script traffic has steadily declined over the years there is still a strong community. We still have members posting mIRC snippets to this day. While I've been working hard to transition the site to more modern development platforms the mIRC posts keep coming. In fact I get a little embarrassed by all the mIRC content on the site. One thing I've noticed is that IRC is and always has been popular among very young developers. Many mIRC scripters are in their teens and some grow up to be professional developers. I've been watching them for 16 years and some come back and reminisce about their old IRC scripting days. IRC has been a major part of my life and has in many ways formed my entire development career.
> At the time of the raid, Stuart had about 20 clients, all of them outside the U.S. in Costa Rica, Panama, Australia, Jamaica, the UK, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere. Now he’s down to 10 clients.
Maybe this was the goal all along. Simply targeting this individual is enough to permanently damage his business. It might even cause others to have second thoughts about developing gambling software. Even if this doesn't end in a conviction the landscape of online gambling software will be altered.
SEEKING WORK - Advanced website maintenance and upgrades. Focusing on API integration, database management, full text search, eCommerce and jQuery/Javascript.
So ACE editor + GitHub API + Commenting and Liking. It's a very, very simple concept. I think mainly what it has going for it is the limited barrier to entry. I'm just not sure what the long term sustainability is. Mainly its lacking the personal network aspect. I have no way of finding the developers I'm following on GitHub.
I'd like to second this. You just can't ignore the multiplayer aspect of Minecraft. It's huge. Imagine if you put all the young developers on the same server and gave them access to this. They could write scripts to coordinate builds and cooperate with one another. You would need to make some adjustments to it though. You can't just place blocks without the player being in range. It would need an entire toolset to move the player. Imagine writing a script to harvest and replant a field of wheat. Or maybe a script to navigate a cave safely, killing mobs as they appear. This would really open up a world of potential. Look into Bukkit.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see this on the front page. It's a very basic site with very basic concepts. I'm happy to see HN honoring the hard work of a single individual. I used to enjoy sites like Techcrunch and Mashable for this very reason, but they've grown up and disregard the little guys now.
Not only is it realistic, but sometimes necessary. I have a 3yo and have been managing my own product since before he was born. I wouldn't be able to support him if not for it. So to answer your question, yes.
I hate to be the one to say it, but I didn't feel very inspired by this post. I felt the author could have been a little more modest about his accomplishments. It almost read like a resume highlighting his biggest development accomplishments. I don't think I can blame him though because I was just as proud at that age. If you do programming long enough, and particularly as a freelancer or independent, you'll become quite humbled. There are moments of pride and accomplishment, but it can be very humbling with all the competition out there.
I also had a lot of respect for Arrington in the early days of Techcrunch, but one event irreversibly changed my opinion of him. I was attending a Techcrunch event in Hollywood some years ago, either 2006 or 2007 if I remember correctly. I had gone to meet him to get his opinion on my current project. At some point during the event Pete Cashmore showed up and Arrington became livid. He kicked him out and was obviously very upset that Pete would even consider coming. So rather than meet young entrepreneurs he spent the rest of the evening focusing on keeping Cashmore out. It was quite a mess. After that I pretty much stopped reading Arrington's posts, not out of spite, but out of sickness that he could lack so much humanity.
A couple conferences later I actually got to meet Pete and he was very warm and welcoming. He even remembered my business and genuinely asked how its doing. A little humanity goes a long way.