samengland

How about selective door opening? That's used widely in the UK and Europe.

Wow... this seems like yesterday for me. Scary how fast things are moving!

But you wouldn't do that though, would you...?

I shouldn't think we'll see changes in the next couple of years really other than in the the manner of PR/presentation (as we already have with Tim Cooks frankly lackluster performance) - Steve will have had oversight of everything coming out in the next 2 years or so but obviously not the final polish - again it's a debating point

Also there's the fact that has he left some of his 'DNA' with Apple - has he set the company up in a good position to succeed after he is gone, or is this simply not something Steves can truly do? Was Apple too personal to Steve? Is it even possible to define what made Steve Jobs the person he is and in turn what really made Apple a success?

London, UK and Manchester, UK (remote is acceptable for the first few weeks until we have office space established and set up)

Symfony developers, SQL experience, front end experience (HTML5, jQuery, etc preferable but not necessary), experience as a software architect also preferable

http://postdesk.com/ (use developer contact form) We're a start up based around editorial, discussion and debate on line.

I think the problem, as you've demonstrated with your flippant comment lies with this new 'internet culture' (tied in with anonymity on the internet) which has led to the development of certain attitudes and changes in social norms and 'values'.

For instance, if you were standing next to someone, and you asked them a question, it would not be the social norm to say "google it" even if you knew the answer.

Either that, or the internet just gives the idiots that would say "google it" if you spoke to them in person and they knew the answer, a platform for themselves, when in real life they'd have no friends/get ignored/get punched in the face.

And I think that's exactly the reason points shouldn't really be shown...

Is upvoting generally a good idea in a community? What kind of commenting behaviour does it lead to?

Twitter appears to be the problem - further fragmenting discussion across the internet, not bringing it together.

Exactly. There is no point whatsoever in commenting on a multitude of blogs and website across the internet - then your opinions, views and contributions are fragmented in different places across the internet too; with no way to keep track of them, and no way to build rapport.

I think heavy, but not overly up-front moderation is the key to building a good discussion - this simply means clearing out comments which are superfluous - thereby creating richer, more readable content.

This is very true, most people fail to notice this.

For an event appealing to those "fresh out of uni" it's very badly timed. Most of us are still in exams, but only until the end of May. It should have been scheduled at least a couple of weeks later.

Wasn't this video posted to Hacker News just a few weeks ago?

You said it - you are indeed being an arsehole in your comments.

Firstly:

"...this could be a story about when _not_ to self-finance your startup"

That's easier said than done. There is absolutely no point in over analysing the situation and then concluding that TinyGrab should have got "outside funding" and "hired people that know more than they do" about the technology involved - because what is done, is done. You are seriously insulting the intelligence of everyone behind TinyGrab if you think they don't already know that version one was problematic. The point here is that the popularity of TinyGrab was never predicted or planned and that it grew from strength to strength entirely organically. At no point did they think about scalability from the outset - so they acknowledged the problem and were rectifying this with a full rewrite in TinyGrab 2. They we're simply unlucky in that they were unable to roll this update out quickly enough - they were hacked before they could complete TinyGrab 2, and therefore did the right thing and released TinyGrab 2 which was very nearly complete anyway. With the lack of income and voluntary manpower they had, they couldn't have changed anything in hindsight at all. So in that respect this was not "full of fail" as you so crudely put it.

Secondly:

What you need to do is put yourself in the shoes of those battling to actually keep TinyGrab online, and realise that they are actually trying their best to respond to every support request and resume the excellent level of service their users have come to expect - and frankly they've almost achieved that now.

What you also need to realise is that those behind TinyGrab are not in it for commercial gain - they are in it because they love the product and their users.

Since this is a completely free service they could have very easily - and might I add completely legally closed TinyGrab as of today, with no risk of litigation against them. They would also most probably refund existing premium users, but would not be legally obliged to.

What they have instead chosen to do, is keep this service online, do their best to get TinyGrab 2 to the bare minimum in order to roll it out completely, and work day and night as a team to respond to every support request and @mention on Twitter to keep users informed and solve their issues individually. I think this is absolutely admirable given their 300,000+ user base and could never be described as "full of fail" especially since the vast proportion of their users do not pay them a penny - and especially since those behind TinyGrab work in their own free time on the project whilst receiving no commercial gain whatsoever.

TinyGrab will easily recover from this over the coming days - all they need at this moment in time is some moral support and some understanding - a bit of slack if you like - not a bunch of anonymous, cynical, patronising and moronic nobodies trying to tell them how it should have been done in hindsight. As I said above, it's frankly just insulting the intelligence of those behind it - any reasonable person can see that they were fully aware of the pitfalls of TinyGrab version one and were trying their best to roll out version two. Give them a break.

Great response - if you want an in-depth look at what's inherently wrong with 'StartUp Britain', then look no further than this http://postdesk.com/debates/why-startup-britain-is-nothing-m...

Coincidence or not? This has just been posted on TC 50 minutes ago. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/karp-tumblr-quarter-billion...

This is the similar kind of advice that those behind 37 Signals give in their book Rework http://amzn.to/hkrGuU

Surprisingly - it wasn't, and we're still not sure how William was in fact discouraging their entire team...

The fact that William knows the owner of PostDesk makes no difference to the speculations made in the article about the future of Tumblr under Karp's leadership. Disclosure isn't really needed when the only difference is that he came to us to break the story as opposed to any other news outlet who would have said the same, or similar.

...and the friendships he had created

That explains a lot

MySpace didn't have these issues though - nor did Twitter (to this extent). It's also a relatively straight forward blogging platform though - it's not particularly hard to figure out how to allocate resources despite exponential growth. The fact is - responding to issues in such a manner might not affect the outlook of Tumblr immediately - but the fact that he does respond to emails like this might be a representation of his overall attitude towards running the site - one which might contribute to the ultimate downfall of the service.

We're not in the same space. PostDesk, as you should be able to see is a site where editorial/opinion pieces such as the one you've just read are posted. Unfortunately you're trying to uncover a conspiracy which isn't there - though I'll gladly answer any further questions you might have...

I'm the author of the article and I can honestly say that "SEO for keywords related to the founder, his company's name, and related variables" is not what we're trying to do. The article is simply speculation about what having a founder with this kind of attitude might mean - and it's also speculation as to the direction Tumblr is heading in under the leadership of David Karp. I just found it quite interesting. On a personal level I also found it disgusting how they treated William, a dedicated user of Tumblr who has never had a bad thing to say about the service until now - so I thought I'd speak out about it.

Just got in touch with William to ask if I could post up the original e-mail in its entirety - and he said that was fine. I've added the original email to the bottom of the article. http://postdesk.com/debates/should-tumblr-care/

Lets see if we can get enough members in this Facebook group so that Valve Corporation can be shown that there is demand for a new and updated version of Counter-Strike: Source in the year 2010.