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Technologies/Skills: Copywriting. Persuasion. Sales. I specialize in email copywriting - email sequences, daily emails, product launch emails etc.

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Good thing Toy Story 3 is coming out. I was worried about Debian's future.
The trade-off is performance. If you don't build your application, you're offloading work to the client.

In the case of Svelte, you're also likely increasing the size of your site, since it transpiles down to simple JS instructions rather than abstracted framework calls.
Love this article, mostly for the snark. The first three are literally spot-on - I've signed up for more Launchrock pages in the last few weeks than I can count. I don't advocate being evil, but if it's as tried-and-true a success tactic as coverage on TC...then so be it.
Yup I actually agree with you. This whole native argument for me means speed when compared to multi-platform browsers, so if that doesn't turn out to be true, then there isn't much value in saying it (and a bit embarressing for MS).

My main point though was that all this talk has very nothing to MS introdcuing non-standard html5 in IE10, which loads of people seem to be implying.
<snark>I was just asking myself: "Hmm, do I want an environment for writing network programs, an asynchronous web server, or a web application framework?" But now I can decide based on a statistically-naive comparison of their concurrency performance!</snark>

Seriously, though, solve your problems by seriously looking at what the available tools provide, rather than benchmark numbers or "new hotness" stuff you see on HN. Each of these is a fantastic tool for an appropriate problem, but I don't think there is any problem where any two of these would be in competition.
> His first open letter in year 2000 to students titled About honesty and integrity.

This is the author's big conclusion? He just had to go snarky with it? The guy once wrote about honesty and integrity. That was TEN years ago; it's not some big scandal that he has now taken a couple products that were not available in the Chinese market and brought them to market as quickly as possible.

If you can get away with it, why not make your minimum-viable product a near-clone of an existing product that works but not in your market? That seems like a very sound strategy to me. Once he gets some traction and begins to see what improvements he should make in the context of his market, the product will begin to diverge.

If Tumblr wants to localize to China with an all-new Chumblr, then we can start fighting over IP theft. Until then, the guy is simply doing a service.

Blogs used to be superior to mainstream media because they gave the straight facts while avoiding the sensationalism that plagues modern day media. It's too bad the latest wave of bloggers are all wanna-be journalists.
Oh nice, hadn't seen that before! Looks to be the exact same technique.
Long answer here on Quora
http://www.quora.com/How-does-Gilts-business-model-work
From pg's Do Things That Don't Scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html)

"Stripe is one of the most successful startups we've funded, and the problem they solved was an urgent one. If anyone could have sat back and waited for users, it was Stripe. But in fact they're famous within YC for aggressive early user acquisition.

..."At YC we use the term "Collison installation" for the technique they invented. More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?" and if the answer is yes, they say "Great, we'll send you a link." But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. When anyone agreed to try Stripe they'd say "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the spot."

Might be worth focussing on onboarding.
I assume you're doing more than just serving up static HTML if your machine can't handle 100 simultaneous connections with a C2D.
> What does 'wanting a conspiracy' mean?

It means that people become so obsessed with "critical thinking" that they will never be satisfied. Every group telling them to let it go becomes just another brick in the wall of conspiracies surrounding them. Every shred of evidence just invites more questions about who faked it and why.

It's interesting to speculate on the motives, although somewhat mood. Some people probably enjoy just the thrill of thinking about these. Quite possibly, we have some circuits that engage in such speculation, and they do serve some purpose: After all, sometimes they really are coming for you. Maybe the ability to associate only with others that share your fantasies today is the real problem, because the trait itself evolved in times where it was kept in check by your immediate peers, whose rolling eyes would at some point get you to shut up.

This is rather detrimental for society because we no longer have any trusted sources of truth all sides of an argument agree on. Was the economy improving during Obama? "No, all those statistics are fake!" Is the economy continuing to improve? "No, the new guy is now faking the statistics!"

JFK, Area 51, Club 54,... these things have now thankfully passed the threshold of relevancy. But the problem is larger than ever before.
> they'd argue the risk for abuse is outweighed by the consequences of terrorism( I statement I'd disagree with)

Precisely, and I agree with your disagreement there. They tout "zero deaths from terrorism" as though that were the primary objective. It isn't. I'd rather die in a terrorist attack while living free than live in fear of the state.
More accurately: "desktop-based US website visitors who have the comscore panel software installed"

(Yes, comscore does have their website tagging program (http://direct.comscore.com/ ) , but last time I checked their measurement philosophy was still heavily panel-weighted)
Just wanted to let you know that as a fellow Indian, I find your experiences extremely traumatic. However, you did the right thing to raise awareness about the issue. I've written strongly worded mails to JetBlue (CEO and their CS Director). Commercial airlines cannot continue being dicks and ignore tons of complaints without affecting their profitability. I'm sure a personal apology from them will be forthcoming (with perhaps a refund for the extra payment).
> A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network.

Doesn't apply to GAE, which just runs from 1 or 2 data centers somewhere.
My company was acquired and forced to switch to Akamai. The speed is good, and service is decent. However, the interface is RIDICULOUSLY confusing and they tried to bill us for a ton of different features which our old CDN provided at no cost because akamai had to spend 'hours' coding to enable them on our account.

We currently store about 3gb with Akamai's NetStorage, push roughly 80TB/month in video bandwidth which is about 5 million video views.

We were much happier with our former CDN - BitGravity. They streamed video like no other and had everything ready to go a few minutes after we signed up with them. We also had a stellar support guy named Marco on our account who took care of issues within the hour when we emailed.

Also have a bit of experience with CDNetworks (formerly Panther Express) who were great until they got acquired. Now they have lots of downtime and a very very very annoying sales staff constantly trying to upsell.
Ok, thanks. So unlike Common Lisp, symbol resolution does not occur at read time.
>Why would fruits be more scarce for a non predator (as where human ancestors), than meat?

Because there exist more competitors for the fruits. There are more plants than there are herbivores than there are carnivores.
so long and thanks for all the fish, mootles :3
Definitely!

An in-person meeting is the best way. If you figure that an e-mail is worth X, then a phone call is worth perhaps 100X, and an office visit is probably 10000X. Politicians do actually want to know what people care about, and the amount of work you do to get in touch definitely factors into how representative they think your opinion may be.
That is why I got NoScript when the attacks were discovered

Although many pages do not work with it, so I disable it quite often

I wonder if it is possible to activate the mitigations only for the browser?

Or only for one user? I have created a separate user for the browser, so it cannot change my actual files
We don't do any paid ads and also don't use any Google products currently, but I think FB is more "evil" right now.
Any piece of data can be represented as a single number. In the limit your entire computer is a single number (all those 0s and 1s can either be interpreted as separate numbers or as one gigantic number).

If any data is ever illegal then by association certain numbers are also illegal.

EDIT: The Wikipedia article points this out.
Bernie's mistake was stealing from other rich people. Much safer to steal from the taxpayer.
One of the recent versions sends it from Clubhouse servers not the device.
Those signs are from our largest cities (500k-800k inhabitants). We just don't have such complicated restrictions, probably because we have a stronger separation between through roads and parking space. We just don't have any parking space that is used as a traffic lane during rush hours; if you can park at all in a multiple-lane street, the space tends to be clearly separated. Street cleaning happens during the day; cleaners just have to deal with traffic and parked cars.
It's all fluff. Make a great product, your clients will come to you.
Not that I want to promote getting parler on more screens, but for the purpose of general tech education the term “progressive web app”/PWA is used for websites which include a manifest for installation as a “native” app on supporting platforms, and offline functionality when used locally without a network connection. They’re “indistinguishable” from native apps because they’re basically electron for phones, except standards-based.
Well, they are basically running in an emulator (the browser), so it's not that surprising?
Correction: It's Google's interface. Apple is suing all of Google's hardware partners, but the software Apple is complaining about is Google's. It isn't in the All Things D article, but TechCrunch's coverage includes the important fact that the suit includes the Nexus S, which is stock Android: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/18/apple-sues-samsung-claims-i...
Didn't xerox trade rights for apple stock. Yes. I Believe they did. End of debate.
Didn't know you were in UK. Colo/Dedicated server costs are definitely higher than here in the US. You might want to look for another dedicated server provider rather than the cloud.

The best way to get good disk IO from EC2 is setting up using a medium or larger instance and setting up a software raid.
I don't think we disagree about the $99 upfront -- my interpretation of it is just that Apple has chosen to be a bit less aggressive than would be competitively optimal.

As for quality, I'd argue that at least 9 out of 10 people would judge the iPhone 4 to be superior in quality (build quality, app quality, usability) compared to any Android phone if given each phone for a few months.

You are correct about turn by turn, though the Mapquest 5 app for iPhone gives spoken turn by turn is 98% as good as Google's nav. Apple has really dropped the ball on nav and mail apps and that may account for 1 in 10 people preferring Android.

A friend got the latest/greatest Android phone a few weeks ago and returned it due to abysmal battery life. I really don't think the issue has been resolved... Is anyone using these phones before they are released? Why don't they ship with a battery that will last a full day? Another friend using an Evo 4G is getting 2 hours per battery and carries around 3 batteries just to get through the day. I didn't test this, but I think based on his usage that an iPhone 4 would last a full day with his usage pattern.
I think "shit like this" is fairly subjective, so you can see the rest of the thread for that part. I agree with MikeCampo, this was certainly not old to me, and I truthfully enjoyed it and would have never even found it without the repost.
Good grief. You posted this 7 times. That's obviously abusive and obviously a bannable offense. I'm not going to ban you because I understand how crazy-making it is to represent a minority view and feel surrounded. But please don't do it again. Also, you were posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments more than once before that. Can you please not? We're trying for something better than that here. The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I presume they were looking through criminal records in the US, not Guyana.
I have heard about a lot of people who have inadvertently carried things on flights, including a 12 inch knife on two separate flights.

Regardless, if someone is doing this on purpose, but without malicious intent, you may want to avoid naming them on a public forum.
Of course. But a lot of important and/or entertaining journalism has resulted from interviewers finding ways to get the interviewees to divulge more than they had initially intended to.

I just thought that the sudden segue into a completely different topic without following up on the initial question was pretty funny!
>I think Apple will put less emphasis on the Mac in the next years

Apple has already put less emphasis on the Mac. OS X has largely stagnated since 10.5 came out in 2007, right around the time iOS started coming into the picture.

And if you look at what's coming in 10.7, it essentially reads like they're trying to turn the desktop into iOS. It's not an approach I'm particularly thrilled about; interfaces that make sense of small, touch-driven displays don't make as much sense on huge, high resolution displays, IMO. But Apple is letting their UI development for the former drive their desktop UI development.
I totally absolutely completely agree the comments are very important. That's why the feed links to the comments in the <comments> element of each <item>. Your RSS reader/aggregator should give you a one-click way to get to the comments based on that info.
On the one hand, this isn't so crazy since employee pay makes up a much larger portion of expenditures than executive pay, so there's a lot more headroom for raises to the latter. On the other hand, executives make a lot more money to start with so the same percentage of raise translates to a much larger increase in pay so this is hardly "fair".
I agree. It should come down to "right tool for the job." All these religious zealots are disgusting at times.

Just because someone wouldn't use "it" doesn't mean one shouldn't use "it."
✓ STEM master race

✗ "mangina"

✓ GamerGate

✓ "female"

✗ Ethics in gaming journalism

✗ Literally Who

✓ "politically correct"

Meh. You can do better.
My opinion is that javascript should be opt-in. The idea that any junk website is allowed to execute code on your machine without asking or even the user being aware is a fundamental security flaw.
Not defending the original commenter, but to be fair, she did mention RSI specifically in the article.

I'd somehow managed to complete my first project course without making my RSI worse
Adding medical information would benefit those people more.
> But the forcing factor in the weight system is net caloric balance, which is also the easiest to control.

Are you kidding? Almost nobody who diets to lose weight manages to keep it off for 3 years. In the very short term (say, up to 6 months) people can control their weight via diet/exercise changes, but in the long term they generally can't. If we figured out what was going on and it turned out to be any of those other sorts of factors it would almost certainly be MUCH EASIER to control weight using those other factors than via diet and exercise.
Actually, no. Being able to purchase a book over a web browser and installing a native application store on your device are very different things.

I think you can argue that a browser itself is an app store (you download and execute (web-)apps with it). But Apple does not allow the installation of different browser engines, so you can still not install an app store on your device.
We're working on a very low-tech version of this at Zalando, here: https://github.com/zalando/aws-minion
I would recommend reading "Curse of the Gifted" [0]. Its a quick post, not a book, but during the teenage years where even children who are not gifted tend to think they know everything, it can help them make the most out of their formative years. I didn't read it until I was 20, but it had a profound impact on the way I approach knowledge and learning.

[0] http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20...
A little typo on the code example on the ListView docs page (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/listview.html#c...):

new ListViewDataSource

should have been:

new ListView.DataSource
but without patents nobody would ever make progress in software and innovation would be stifled
> I think Palantir is basically shit. Wait and watch.

That's a pretty bold statement.

I've worked with them as well, and definitely don't buy into the hype either. But when the latest financing round (~Jan 2015) has them valued at $15 billion, there must be something to it.

I don't know what kind of access their private investors have to the financials, but it's been reported they have 100s millions in revenue from USG alone selling their platform as enterprise software, which typically has a longer sales cycle but more "stickiness" once the customer has committed (i.e. they are less likely to purchase another platform no matter how bad the current one is). On top of that, the alternatives in this space just aren't very good, and sometimes hype and brand are all you need to make the sale.

That being said, I'm pretty skeptical of the valuations of all the tier 1 companies SamA mentioned, with maybe the exception of Pinterest, and think that category of the three has the most likelihood of losing him this bet.
Talk about perseverance... Really is inspiring.
No, it's just an extremely generic name and the employee looked up John Doe on the computer and it was already in there because of someone else who didn't want to give up their name.

I'm going to start registering that everywhere now, just to see how long it lasts.
It sort of seems like willful ignorance to not recognize that people living in a modern urban environment are surrounded by a vast array of chemical compounds that did not exist in meaningful quantities before the last century or so.
You talk about basic macroeconomics, the way someone might talk about 'basic finance.' I think that's the whole problem...
I know nothing about this; is the connector and protocol standard and common to all eink devices?
The second one is true for sure.
They do. You have to touch the steering wheel everything couple minutes to prove you are focused. Video: https://youtu.be/QNadmzp_9Ag?t=292
Are you saying that all flat-earthers are actually lying, and just there to troll?
My understanding is that they wanted to validate that the additional needle insertions through the vial doesn't damage the seal enough to cause contamination.
I really don't understand your both sides argument. One side takes advantage of the fact that zoning is a local matter to advantage incumbents at huge expense to society at large. It also creates the bureaucratic infrastructure that favors large developers who can pay bribes informally (literal bribes) or formally (impact fees).

The other side is all future residents who might want to live in a quadplex where a SFH exists today. Those people usually pay a large percent of their income in rent and "commute til they qualify."

How are both sides understandable? My claim is simply that a private individual should be able to buy a lot of land in almost any American city and build a quadplex on it. This was legal until very recently in our history. How will this be the end of the community as we know it?
> There are still places in Manhattan, Chicago, Atlanta, etc where you can do it, SF is no different.

The question is what's the median price of a salad. If median is 17, it is relatively expensive, even if it is possible to compile a list of cheaper cafes and restaurants.

Or put it another way: if you have to check for restaurant prices, that city is too expensive for you, even cheaper places exist.

> if you want to judge a city only on it's higher priced places or whatever, that's on you

I'm not saying is bad. If you want to live on Manhattan, prepare to spend a lot on everything, from rent to salad.

I think the author is saying: SF is expensive, and they cannot afford it. And that's good reason to leave. And that's good reason for other people to avoid moving to SF.

> TL;dr- "17 dollar salads" aren't a problem unless you're trying to write a disparaging blog about a city you moved away from.

Well, if for 17 dollars salad you could buy low crime and low poverty, that would be OK. But these things combined are enough reasons to write a blog.

Anyway, not going to defend SF or criticise SF, just triggered by arrogant statement "Nobody is forcing this guy to buy a $17 salad", which is not far from "if you don't have bread, eat cake".
I'm aware there are different romanization systems but not sure which is which. I've corrected Taehongdan. I guess it should say Paektu not Baekdu too?

Update: Paektu appears to be the DPRK spelling. Source: http://sori.org/hangul/romanizations.html#Roman_Consonants
Sometimes there's no good reason, but the common case is:

It ensures you are captured as a lead and establishes a human connection. Serious buyers have no problem getting on the phone.

The fixed price you were quoted is a starting point for negotiation. It's the "book price", aka the chump price. You're leaving money on the table if you're not haggling with them or finding a way to get a better deal.

Enterprise culture is to negotiate price. They have purchasing teams - multiple people whose entire job is to get a better deal than whatever is listed on the website or the first number quoted over the phone.

These people are hard nosed and have zero problems calling for a price. A good purchaser on a big enough deal would rather hunt down your sales team on linkedin and start talking than accept a list price on your website.

As an aside:

How many people would hang a sign around their neck with a fixed price when looking for non-contract employment?

How many slap a fixed price on the side of their house during a sale?

Fixed prices are in some ways the anomaly; haggling mostly disappears when the cost of negotiation exceeds the benefit of price discrimination and products and customers are fungible.

Personally I love fixed prices but most business does not work like that.
The upgradeability could mean you save money in the long term even if each piece is substantially more expensive than its dispoable counterpart.

Of course, asking people to trust that long-term calculus for a new product from a new company is nontrivial.
Elixir tends to have sophisticated libraries around what you really want that are plug and play with distributed erlang. (Phoenix pubsub/tracker/presence). Horde/swarm, etc.
As an Android user, how much of this should I be worried about? I assume Google won't be pushing for this as much as Apple is? What can I do to reduce app tracking on my phone?
But apple (and Android) allowing search providers to bid/buy that default spot is a barrier to entry for new search providers and only makes the dominant search provider stronger. How could a new Google emerge today when people lazily accept the default? When Google started there was not built in browser default - users had to manually type in altavista.com or google.com.