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Why optimize before they need to? They've done well so far with the current js loading and now they're optimizing b/c it's time.
It is a simple matter of contract law - it is an exchanged for bargain. In consideration of you getting access to the SDK, etc., you are agreeing to a non disclosure clause and paying $99, among other things. If you don't want to enter into that agreement, don't.

Shrink wrap licenses and related items are generally enforceable.
If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded, it wouldn't have been the destruction of parliament that would have been the issue, it would have likely been a full out campaign to kill every catholic in Briton by the most gruesome methods possible. The public reaction to the Gunpowder Plot was very 9/11 in terms of public opinion against the Catholics. In fact the Gunpowder Plot likely delayed the Catholic Emancipation by potentially two-centuries and increased intolerance towards Catholics quite dramatically.

Honestly if the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded, I have little doubt it would have turned into a massacre of Catholics in Briton and likely devolved into a full out war. Ireland would have received a full massacre for the guerilla war it had waged against Briton, and Spain would have likely come under full attack for supporting the Irish Catholics during that time.

It would be hard to see any result that isn't total war for a successful bombing. Ironically the plot was the worst thing to happen to Catholics but simultaneously the best outcome for the situation.
I believe the appropriate response after multiple provider switches would be "fuck this shit, it ain't worth all the worry" and just deal with occasional downtime.
How about quantifying this? How much did each of these jobs cost? Do you really think that the borrowed money wouldn't have created any jobs?

For example, we have stimulus-paid weatherization projects costing over $50k/house. That's economically stupid. We'd have been better off just throwing money out the window of passing cars.
Custom t-shirts
A very great innovation regarding t-shirts is a custom-made t-shirt. These days, there are many services or companies that offer printing of cheap custom t-shirts.
"It was a sexy place, filled with young, smart, passionate people. It was work to not to fall in love with your colleagues."

Yes, aren't all computer companies like this though?
Not sure where you're getting those numbers from. The article talks about paying 90% for a Best Buy card and selling it for 95%, while 1800 Flowers sell for about 70% (no CardPool purchase noted).
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I wanted to see some event online, but they wanted a cable-provider password. Umm, I don't have cable. If I had cable I wouldn't be watching TV on my computer.
> I am sorry, but I completely didn't understand your last sentence. I should make a story about who?

Sorry - I switched gears and started responding to your presentation.
There is the idea of an unconscionable contract but I think Apple's legal team has at least a good faith belief that their NDA does not fall under that umbrella.
I assume the "up to" applies to both the selling and buying. Not all cards will fetch 90% of the face value. Simple arbitrage.
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The reason I am confused is this: they still end up with something, sometimes, at least. Otherwise noone would do it. The question is then, why doesn't this become a reduced to absurdity example where past investors are always left with nothing. If they can be wiped out, why aren't they always wiped out?
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I'm having this odd headache contemplating an HBO series on sexy men and women in a California computer company called "SPARC Men" or something like that.
Ah, I guess I skimmed over the middle of the paragraph, and just saw the 1-800 Flowers at 30% off. So, I guess they're hoping to sell a whole lot more cards at 1-9% off than 10-30% off. I knew I was missing something obvious.
> Some government workers have great authority to impose things on people, but I don't know if I'd agree that it's typical.

Every paper-pusher can make your life a living hell. Every teacher and adminstrator can punish your kid. And, I haven't even mentioned police, DAs, judges, and folks who are supposed to exercise discretion.

Janitors and the equivalent are about the only govt employees who don't have considerable power. They're a small minority of govt workers.
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Ah, yes, the web site makes that more clear.
I'm curious about the decision to put a phone number on the site. Do you answer it personally? Is it worth it?
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Agreed, there's also variances in body fat and muscle percentages to take into consideration. I'm 5'10" and when I was 210lb I had less fat than extra lean beef. You, me or the girl can easily be overweight or underweight based on our body fat percentage, which can have a considerable effect on drug absorbency.

To be honest, I've worked outside since I was 17 and I still frequently don't get enough sleep. No matter what you do, I think teenagers are always going to be lacking in sleep because on average they need more like 10 hours sleep not 8, and the world isn't set up for that.
What stops a scammer from writing down the relevant card numbers, selling the card to CardPool (or any competitor), and then still using the card after receiving payment?
I'd be hard pressed to split my radio station into even 10 separate items, and that's probably my most equipment-intensive hobby.
There aren't that many 24-hour cable news stations in Germany that are broadcast around the world in a language that a fair number of people internationally can speak.
Thank you for making this something I can skim.
I wonder at which point "domestic terrorism" is instead considered "rebellion/revolt?" [1] I guess it's a hard concept given the media's decisive unanimity on the topic, but I do believe Great Britain probably felt similarly when we started killing the soldiers they sent over.

I'm not confident to which side I am on: I think the government is mostly stupid, not draconian to the people at large. It's hard for me to believe they are innocent at times.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Political_divisio...; sentence #2
After controlling for income and excluding religious contributions (tithe)?
Sun may be a tech company, but this is nothing more than titillating gossip of no news value whatsoever. Flagged.
Sadly... no.

Do you know that student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy until very recently? They were!

See http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DCS/loan.cancellation.disch...

And there was no wave of bankruptcy before this law; the banks merely saw a chance to utterly screw a certain segment of the population. And really, why not change this so you can then market such loans to people who probably oughtn't get them and then ruin their lives for forever?
Right. Because who should get an education but the rich?
You could make that same argument about someone driving above the speed limit...
To be the devil's advocate, most game console SDKs are sold at a much higher price therefore setting the barrier to entry much higher.

Apple iPhone SDK = $99
Sony PS3 SDK = $10,250 [1]

One could argue that $99 is affordable by most anyone. $10K? No so much.

[1] http://www.betanews.com/article/Sony-slashes-price-of-PS3-SD...
Sparkfun Electronic's $100k giveaway hasn't helped traffic in the longterm
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How many people are breaking the speed limit in an effort to 'coerce the civilian popular and/or US government policy?'
how the fuck is this number 1 on hn?
Yes... but come on. Examining a long term trend of transferring the costs of education from the public to the individuals being education and saying this is (solely, or even primarily) due to the ability of people to take out loans is silly. I'm not saying the availability of loans is entirely unrelated, but when was the last time you heard of budget increases to a public university in the USA (and no fake budget increases like in CA where the govt gives with one hand but takes more with the other; I mean a real net increase in per student dollars.)
And somebody actually downvoted you for saying so. At least twice. :-(
For some context:

The original announcement - http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=305

The aftermath - http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=322

I expected traffic after the promotion to be significantly larger, but there seems to be no effect. So the $100k really had no affect on the number of customers they have, and though it seemed brilliant at the time, may in fact be a failure.

The lesson: big publicity which doesn't last long probably won't get you anywhere.
I did my part flagging -- did you?
Second update: http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/50-7769&CAWELAID=2...

Looks pretty good at 2x$30, I'm thinking this is cheaper than an ethernet over power setup.
I don't usually approve of making light of tragedy like this; but in this case I think ridicule may help prevent recurrence.
Well, the banks got what they wanted. A big fat payout and subsidies from the tax payers. We hedged their risks. They don't need any propaganda. Now before the decision was made...
I'm annoyed by people saying things without saying things. Passive voice destroys clarity.

I edited it below. Apple does not state nor condone it. My revision is, however, an example how active voice exposes intent.

Why don't we write with conviction? It's not a stretch.

It saddens me we leave weasel words for the occasion we may be held to a position we once had.

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Outlook and exchange both suck.
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A good point- I wasn't at all fair. Now that I have thought about it a bit, I probably am in closer agreement. I very much like having open source software (and the source to such software around)- but I don't think I could in good conscience encourage students to subject themselves to the procedures and politics often inside such projects.
The true capitalistic thing to do would be to let the companies that took stupid risk go out of business. Instead they want socialism. It must be wonderful to profit from big risks and get bailed out when the risks don't pay out. I would take those "risks" too.
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Who's afraid of digital book piracy?
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It has no value, except perhaps to remind us that the people in these organizations are sometimes all too human. Even it's pure bunk, there's a grain of truth in every lie.

That said, this is so incredulous and out in left field, I'm not sure of what to make of it. It does feel that it doesn't have a place here.
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http://questioncopyright.org/promise probably a tl;dr candidate, but has a lot of good points.
The createid is the unique id of the user who created the record.

There is an N-N relationship between companies persisted in the RelatedCompanies table. Perhaps I should add a field to the RelatedCompanies table that is a description of the relationship: Subsidiary, Partnership, Spin-off.

When we start, we are probably going to start listing companies without really knowing how they are related. They are just a group of companies. I considered a self-join, but we may not know who the parent is and a company may be related to more than one company through some mechanisms I don't understand yet.
And about equipment related hobbies, I have like 100 electronic components in separate boxes , I lose the challenge right there
I would also add overuse of adverbs. Good to see you removed most of them in your rewrite.
Yes I have. If you think circumventing the procedures your workplace follows because you dont like them is going to endear you to your employeers then go ahead. Part of being in a workplace is following the rules. Dont like them? Then change them internally or leave. People who are not team players are not useful in the workplace no matter how productive they are individually.
Clever tactic for generating buzz.
This site is using an interesting invite strategy. It opens its signup window once a day at a random time and for only 15 minutes.
I agree! Date would be useful. People worldwide refer to historical documents in our system by their timezone, and I have to convert them to EST in order to find them. Sometimes I use the CPAN library Date::Manip or the Unix date command to do datetime conversion or math. But your website is much simpler and better than each of us coming up with such solutions on our own..
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My intuition tells me that a great deal of the traffic from free day was from people who don't know anything at all about electronics and simply wanted free stuff.

Some of them may be in it for resale value, but I know more than a few people who would take something simply because it is free.
3 points in 4 minutes; it seems to be working.
This site is using an interesting signup strategy. It opens the signup window at a random time once a day and for only 15 minutes.

Anyone have any other examples that are like this?
The shield on the back makes me think Police State. The cabin and the memorial obverse designs were much more pleasant. Maybe I'm abnormal.
It is not racketeering, which concerns illegal behavior outside the law, but more closely resembles barratry, which is the use of the law to harass.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry
And didn't you say that is not "propaganda"? What is your definition of propaganda? Maybe we can have a rational discussion if you declare what you mean by propaganda.
The militia movement in rural parts of the US, which the federal government more or less neutered after the bombing.
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With anything that takes any modicum of skill, you get what you pay for. Craftsmanship and intellect are not cheap things.
Incidentally, I have previously said here that "Check this out dude my iPhone can fart. Your lame phone can't fart, can it?!" has helped to sell iPhones. Now that Apple doesn't need that any more, and wants to move a bit upmarket, they put me in the mind of my favorite lines from Shakespeare (part of Brutus' soliloquy in Act 2, Scene 1 of Tragedy of Julius Caesar):

That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,

Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;

But when he once attains the upmost round.

He then unto the ladder turns his back,

Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees

By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.

(Spoiler warning: Brutus' solution to this is to kill Caesar.)
I must say I don't see anything going for this approach except novelty, and even then, I am unlikely to tell other people about the site.
Agreed. I left "overtly" with intent. There is something far more deliberate and newsworthy, IMHO.
I can see your point of view here, but if you're trying to "achieve political aims or to force a government to do something" it's implicit that there's going to be people around after your death to push your agenda, (or that you're going to survive whatever you plan is) to push it forward.
A lot of innovation happens in the shadows before metrics evolve that help VC's determine probability of success. It's only when the VC's can judge among a number of opportunites, that they will invest in any of them. Even with quite a number of players, there is still plenty of upside.

Innovators think, "I'm the only one doing this and it's going to change the world." Innovators think VC's want in on the ground floor to maximize returns on capital. Innovators think their ideas are sure things. But they aren't.

It's good innovators think that, because if they didn't, they wouldn't waste their time on their silly ideas that never go anywhere... but sometimes do.
A conflict of some type is necessary to bring in change. The people who benefit from the tax code will fight tooth and nail to keep the status quo. Luke warm sentiment will not change things.
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In reply to your edit, I don't notice the same behavior. When I'm not signed in, I can't save. But maybe if I'm signed in and then lose it, it will work. Who knows.

I am finally confident in saying will not buy another one of these games that require the Windows Live or full online support. I was really excited about Bioshock 2, but then I played for a bit and couldn't save. That fucking pissed me off. I had a bad attitude about the game from then on.

It's interesting. Before, DRM was kind of noticeable only to technical people (I mean, I didn't encounter any functional issues with Fallout 3), but the concept of being connected to the internet and not being connected are pretty well understood enough to the average player that I hope more regular players realize this is just absurd.
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I don't really know how successful a tactic like this would be, long term. It's certainly "unique" and fun, but (to paraphrase a presentation I listened to a while back), their greatest enemy is the "back button" anyway, and I think they're losing the battle. I clicked on the website, but there was no clear value expressed in it for me... "Forrst is a place for designers and developers to share inspiring code, screenshots, and links with their peers"... Don't tell me, show me!
I like cute ideas, but I think their target audience won't have time (unless they're procrastinating) to pursue things like this...

I clicked back, opened a tab, and went to reddit :\

Still, fun idea.
Sorry, but I don't think your version adds clarity. I think it obscures clarity in several areas. Perhaps I'm just used to reading corporate-speak :) I also didn't see any examples of weasel words in Apple's original version.
LittleGreenFootballs (a semi-political blog) has used random account creation windows for the last several years, to my understanding. It seems to heighten urgency, create a sense of exclusivity in the blog commenting community, and achieved the original goal of putting a big barrier in front of trolling the site. (You have to keep an eye on it for weeks, snag an account, THEN troll.)

I don't think I'd ever implement this myself, though.
His message is actually pretty valid and he has a similar situation to many Americans.
It may be out of necessity. Many merchant gateways that sites use to process credit cards require phone numbers to be published.
Clever: "Marked by wit or ingenuity." I personally wouldn't consider it witty or ingenious, but perhaps I'm missing some insight into what problem this solves in an ingenious way. Lacking that insight, I would propose the word "novel," as in "new and unusual."
I for one believe that this is far better than the virus-like StarForce et al. This allows unlimited installs, doesn't require disc in drive, and shouldn't cause BSoD. And if implemented well, it should be quite secure.

This is like saying that while the neighborhood bully likes to punch you, he has stopped kicking you when you fall so it's all right. :-)
I'm a foreigner living in America for now. The article writer is probably too old to realise this, but Facebook is a huge factor in blunting the transformation from foreigner to 'exile'.
I think it's more of a psychological hack, like when you add a more expensive option to a menu and people start ordering the second most expensive thing more than they would otherwise.

In this case, they're promising more than they're actually delivering right now but present you with a way to potentially get better access. It's not as strong as it could be, but I felt more of an impulse to fill in the box than I usually would with pages like this.

Vaguely related, I have a "coming soon" page at http://coder.io/ where I tried to integrate a couple of psychological tricks, but it's not as good as this one, for sure :-)
it's unfair for pirates to get a better game play experience than paying customers

I agree, but is the problem that those the cheating swine pirates circumvent all the hideous crap imposed on paying customers by the gaming company?

Or... Maybe the problem is the hideous crap imposed on paying customers by the gaming company and they should make the customer experience at least as good as the pirate experience.

For example, allow the game to work just fine offline and give you an option you can turn off to phone home when you have an internet connection. But if you turn it on, every once in a while you are randomly selected to receive a bonus of some kind in the game.
I'd like a site like crowdspring, except I upload pictures of my clothes and people tell me what tie/shirt/pants/suit go with each other.
I think "buzz" was a bad word choice on the submitter's part. In terms of using psychology to get your e-mail address to expose you to the site, though, I think it could be quite effective.
Yeah, I thought it was appropriate for a print specialist. It's a blog and it's her personal space, she can use whatever font she wants and it's totally fine. I did of course get so shocked by it i had to inspect elements and thought, "She's going crazy with her fonts here."

If you aren't a professional, stick to arial and verdana and the web will thank you.
I can't justify his method of protest but have some understanding of his frustration...

In behavioral economics there's the game called the "Ultimatum Game"

Essentially it's when one side thinks the deal is so biased and unfair he'd rather tip over the board and have both get nothing than accept what he considers to be a rip-off offer.

This guy decided to tip over the board...

There's another concept in communication called "no acknowledgement"... which arise when you are trying to get someone's attention and they just don't seem to notice you're there... which causes people to essentially start pulling their hair out with frustration.

SO...

It makes sense for politicians to be very nervous about citizen anger over perceived favoritism to the wealthy... and feeling like they're not being listened to.

This isn't political conclusion...

It's a scientific one!
The Sartorialist is great:

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> One scholar has asked why, if crowds are so suggestible, they don't disperse when asked to do so by an authority figure.

Huh? Isn't that just further justification for the suggestibility of crowds? I would argue that each person sticks together in a crowd because they see that everyone else is sticking together.

On the other hand, I think that an easy way to see crowd suggestibility is seeing people do the wave.