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You can remove the branding with CSS rather easily. I've looked for any guidelines on that in their TOS, but I don't see any. I removed the big Disqus logo on from my comments page, but people can still see that it's Disqus.

Their guidelines for use don't seem to mention whether they're OK with people removing their logo; they just say that you can customize it with CSS. Whether that's ethical I guess could be an entirely different debate... that being said, if they explicitly mentioned that you cannot remove branding, I'd put it back.

Right. I think it's notable that karma and downmodding seems to generally take a back seat here. Very rarely have I seen something go -1 or worse that I still consider useful or legit. Generally, HN seems to favor commenting over downvoting, and that's good.

From the article: > "But if Apple fails in that, Steve Jobs will just pick up the phone and choose IBM Microelectronics as the fab to build the next generation of Apple’s PowerPC processors – a contract worth billions, but ONLY if IBM drops all legal action."

Uh, Apple doesn't use PowerPC anymore.

Ouch. At least images can be loaded after the text, and broadband (>1.5Mbps) speed would still load them in a couple of seconds.

I'm not an expert on pricing strategies, so this is just my opinion tossed out there: That's a reasonable, relatively low price point, so I think a small discount would be all right. But it depends on how many users you have, and what their current opinion of the value of your pro version (vs. the free one) would be.

I'd say it depends on the number of beta testers; you say you had a big beta list, so it might make more sense to offer a discount rather than just free versions, if you intend on doing anything at all.

Is the Pro version more featureful than a "non-Pro" version, or is the app itself the only version?

> For a business, only if you want to remain a business.

Untrue. Disregarding IE6 at say, 20%, implies that you only consider 80% of web users your target market. There's nothing wrong with that.

What are your skills? (What programming technologies do you know?)

I love my iPhone, but I still yearn for a device that will let me take notes as fast as pen and paper. By the time a note-taking application opens, I'd already have my note written down. (Application launch times already take iPhone apps out of the race.)

Though that's a little orthogonal to what you might have been trying to ask.

Ideas which change the world almost always create wealth. Ideas which create wealth do not necessarily change the world.

Give yourself enough time that you're confident you'll be able to finish the maintenance within that timeframe. I was bitten more than once by scheduling a maintenance window too small, and then becoming frantic as the maintenance window passed and I still wasn't finished.

These days I'm not concerned about Microsoft -- the companies that concern hackers w/r/t overtaking their product would be Apple and Google.

The article noted this: "They faulted cost pressures on keyboard manufacturers for not making keyboards more snoop proof."

So if this is true, at least it appears that new keyboards could be improved to block eavesdropping.

I love that quote.

It's an issue because the GPL is viral, and AJAX libraries are like any other DLL in practice. You can't link with DLLs that are GPL without requiring your own program to be GPL too -- that's why the LGPL was invented.

The GPL license would effectively require your own app's javascript to be placed under GPL too.

I've noticed that too.

Do you think this is indicative of the market in general? Will most previously-ad-supported sites be forced to have a premium model?

Exatly. We're often at a higher level of abstraction from the hardware now, but that doesn't mean our job is any easier; we're just tackling broader problems.

I don't know of any for what you're looking for, but a google search of the following yields your result:

George Soros "flash plug-in"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=George+Soros+%22fla...

Seems to work well for what it's advertised for.

I like the inclusion of local (IP-based?) results -- you should make those more prominent IMHO. At first I mistook them for Adsense, but it really makes sense to automatically find tickets for the closest venues for upcoming events.

I guess all you need is an X10 controller or somethingorother. Too bad I couldn't get it to actually change the filter and stuff.

Better yet, set Keep-Alive to something very low (1 or 2), so that when users load a page, any initial assets can still reuse the same connection, but you'll still drop the connection quickly to serve other users.

I'd settle for a laptop that tells my coffeepot to make coffee.

That's authentication/authorization info; it should/must be stored on the client.

Eh, Stephen Hawking seems to be doing OK.

That looks just about perfect. Too bad I don't have the min. # of daily active users yet (20,000).

Edit: I might be able to hold out on this for now and just use that when it becomes available. Looks very promising.

They had to -- they wouldn't be virgin galactic anymore.

It's usually better to get something out sooner. You can always go back and "tweak" IE if you have time.

Companies can thrive on less than 100% of the market; look at Apple as one example. You don't have to win everyone over to succeed -- and in this case, IE6 share will continue to decrease with time, so your market segment will increase likewise.

Don't kick IE6 users out, but don't go out of your way to make the experience flawless. If the issues are fairly noticeable, you can put a note saying "You're using an outdated browser; for the best experience please upgrade."

Few organizations have higher uptime requirements and so much money (literally) at stake... I'd imagine that it'd be tough to push through any kind of software/system change, let alone large-scale ones. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it.) There's substantial risk to upgrades like that unless they're flawless.

Unrelated: I am amazed that this page is now #1 on that Google search you linked to. Less than an hour, post to index? That's fast.