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+1 for Haruki Murakami. "Norwegian Wood" remains one of my favourite books ever.
Where exactly do you come up with these prices? It is pretty easy hit apple.com and see that an iPhone 3G is $99 and a 3GS is $199. This is what is killing Android -- the supposed price differential no longer exists and so they have to go head-to-head with the iPhone on features and ecosystem. For the former the feature list on phones at these price points are pretty similar, and on the latter Android does indeed get "crushed" by the Apple ecosystem.
Are you talking abt ICICI's bank website or payment gateway?
Their payment gateway is TERRIBLE. They have a captcha and the captcha code is apparently available in the source code

http://sushubh.net/2543-icici-bank-payment-gateway

I wouldn't trust ICICI with anything. Have found their systems to be typically poorly engineered. HDFC and Citi has been better
Thanks for the comments!

1) good idea with prices in different currencies
2) well spotted, you are completely right. Our mission is to let customers filter out the right recordings instead of watching several hundreds.
3) Good idea. Right now the information is found under FAQ
4) Yes, you can throttle recordings (record 1 out of xx visits)
5) We are specifically targeting people who also use GA. We already do some integration with GA, but more features are on the drawing board.
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I think I decided somewhere in the middle of my teens that "well read" wasn't something I cared to be... at least not in the traditional sense. I'd already been programming computers for seven or eight years, and tech was the kind of reading I was interested in. At that age business and startups weren't on the list (I didn't even know what a startup was and I wanted to be a long haired hippie hacker, so business wasn't interesting either). It was only when I hit thirty that business and startup books started to look interesting. Maybe it's because my hair decided that long wasn't what it wanted to be, in fact what it wanted was to not be.

When people ask me if I've read Robinson Crusoe or Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations, I can look them in the eye and say yes, but that's only because back in the '80s, someone took the trouble to publish them in comic book form :D

These days I read Pratchett.
Don't read the classics of literature. Read the modern day classics or even Genre classics; you will relate to them much more
You should try reading some science fiction. It's all well and good to learn about the day to day startup business stuff, but science fiction will give you ideas about what that startup should be doing in the first place!

My favourites are Neal Stephenson and Iain Banks. I always feel like I gained far more from their books than I put into them. Everyone's different of course but they're two authors I can wholeheartedly recommend.
TL;DL
The reason I mention a bookmark is to have it handy anytime you want to save a page to the homescreen, and because you can then create it from your Mac/PC and it can sync. Easier than typing it on an iPhone.
A favorite trick of mine forever: try all the books mentioned in the bibliography or notes of any book you like. Some you will not go far with; some you will love. It really helps to have a good library available to do this right.
Thanks for your thoughts and ideas, very useful.

Regarding crazyegg - as far as I know they don't do recording/playback functionality, but focus on click heatmaps.
The author meanders through several pointless studies and fails to answer his own blog post. Kind of like when women talk about anything (that's why men don't listen).
My opinion of Maven is the same as Winston Churchill's opinion of democracy: "It's the worst system, aside from all the other systems."

I've seen plenty of makefiles bomb out on systems that were different from the system they were written for -- it's hard to have that problem with Maven. And the idea of a versioned repo that stores multiple revisions of all of your components is awesome, provided you actually use it correctly and don't leave everything at 0.1-SNAPSHOT forever.

The problem it's solving is inherently hellish, so while there could be better ways of solving it, Maven's the least crappy one I've seen so far.
No longest common subsequence? Try that and then make it use O(n) memory instead of the O(n^2) of the simple dynamic programming algorithm.
Um, the article starts with "Women use 20,000 words a day, men only 7,000"...
Comparison: iPad Performance vs. Nexus One
Why you can’t sell usability, and what to do about it
Hmm, I've not seen anything like that in payments I've made using them. Only used them for the past year or so and generally like their services (including their branch-less b2 service)
Spoken with the conviction of someone with no content to sell except hot air.
Eating fresh foods isn't necessarily more expensive, but there's the common misconception that is and many people just don't take the time to find out otherwise. Often times, people who try it end up spending more, too, because they're not used to it and don't make a full committment to it, so all that fresh produce they bought sits in their fridge and goes bad, taking a back seat to the pre-packaged stuff they bought along with it. So there's another thing that can be seen by them as driving up the cost. They end up wasting a lot of food and thereby wasting a lot of money.

What a lot of them don't realize as well is that healthy food is more filling than pre-packaged crap. Your body is getting all of the nutrients it needs with less food, so you don't stay hungry all the time or need huge quantities, so you can actually buy less food.

Also, many people in poorer communities who are, for example, on food stamps, will get their $250 in food stamps at the beginning of each month of whatever and they think they need to go out and buy $250 in groceries with it right then, because they're on a limited budget and they think this will be an easier way to see what they have/need and balance that budget. So they buy pre-packaged stuff, because they can throw it in the cabinet and it will still be good 4 weeks later, or 6mo later, just in case they lose those food stamps or that minimum wage job.
5 different web browsers

It's more like 2 different web browsers. IE, and everything else.
Yeah, and then please take a theory of computation course before attempting to parse something like HTML using regexes. :)
The Great American Bubble Machine
I'm torn on the whole car thing. On one hand, I'm a born suburbanite who grew up with a car and have had one nearly my entire adult life. One the other hand, they are expensive and complicated and getting more so by the minute. I really don't want all that electronic baloney on my car. A car that relies on software - hmm. Not so sure about that. I'm looking for similar mobility and convenience offered by a car with less complication and expense. I wish carsharing was more widely available.
Just unearthed this article from my bookmarks. Very interesting read,
Sometimes "won't listen" is confused with "won't agree with me on it even though I bring it up more than once."
Good point.
We'll make sure that users can opt out (which seems to be the issue with GA in germany)

Other privacy measures:
- We don't assign an ID to a user, and no data is shared between sites.
- We don't track password fields or fields marked as sensitive.
- No data is shared with third party, except in general summarized form
I absolutely hate to cook, but I have found it's much easier to grab some fresh fruits/veggies and a handful of nuts or make a decent sandwich on whole grain bread than it is to heat up some microwave something. I think that's another misconception some people have. Fact is, you don't have to do a lot of cooking to eat healthy. Eating your fruits, vegetables and whole grains raw is healthier than cooking them and requires no more effort than a quick rinse in the sink.
Reminds me of this blog post by Felix Salmon http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/04/01/economics-w... where he concedes that most economic journalists, himself included, don't really read economic papers because they can't be bothered to follow the math.

That means they can get snowed by unwarranted assertions in the more plainly written introduction and conclusion and cite the paper/study as saying something it doesn't.
Well, you can specify which Java to compile against (and if the target machine didn't have the right Java, you were SOL anyway). The network resources is a good point, but I'd rather Maven try to go and get a dependency and get it 90% of the time than worry about making my users go and do it, or, worse, considering packaging other libraries along with my own source code. That's not cool.

I am confused about your comment about defunct project dependencies. My understanding was the Maven repos didn't delete anything, so if you can get the project, you can get its dependencies. I've never come across a Maven project that couldn't find its dependencies. Maven also wants to write to ~/.m2/ by default, so your users shouldn't have a permission problem.

It sounds to me that you are just scared about Maven doing all this other stuff that you never told it to do, and you have requirements that Maven doesn't fulfil easily. Maven is overly complex. Like I said, I intend to move to Buildr for my next project. However, there are problems that it solves for Java that other tools simply didn't, and Buildr and Ivy wouldn't exist without it and its repository structure, which Java sorely needed. I am willing to give it a pass for that. There's always room to get better, but I'd rather use Maven than Ant.
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I normally dislike "tl;dr," but I do believe this is the one place where it is more than appropriate. Bravo.
That isn't a catch-22.
I wonder if people are missing the bigger point here- this isn't just about selling your car, it's about understanding your real needs and living within them.

Few people have the courage to do this. Fewer still will resist going back to their old over-indulgent ways (spring water et al) once times are good again.
Steps On Winning a War Essay Topic
In the movie, Fatherland, that starred Ruger Hauer as an Nazi officer in an alternative future wherein Germany won World War II. Military students have long used military mistakes as a subject for /term paper, while students loved to use
Trust me mate, once you're on that $200k you'll be able to list any number of reasons why you'll expect a happiness dividend from $300k.

The highest-paid person I know makes about $700k/yr and to listen to him you'd think that making only seven tenths of a million dollars every year was the most miserable burden any man ever had to carry. My kind offers to relieve the load, needless to say, go yet untaken ..
Affirming the author's point, Burger King just added a new breakfast sandwich to their menu. In their advertising they are surprisingly open about its origins:

In a new 30-second commercial from agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky, BK's mascot, the King -- armed with a flashlight and donning a hoodie -- breaks into McDonald's headquarters in the wee hours of the morning to copy the recipe for McD's Sausage McMuffin with Egg sandwich. A voice-over says, "It's not that original but it's super affordable ... egg, sausage and cheese on a toasted English muffin."

http://adage.com/article?article_id=143106
What the hell. Here's my list of literature everyone should at least try (in no particular order):

Homer: both the Iliad and Odyssey

Sophocles: Oedipus the King (read it - far better than you might think)

Plato: The Apology of Socrates

Sappho's fragmentary poems (the translation by Anne Carson titled If not, winter is especially good)

Dante: Inferno

Shakespeare: at least one tragedy, one history, one comedy and one of the final "problem plays"

John Donne: a bunch but if none else Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed

Philip Larkin: he didn't write much; read the complete poems (if nothing else, look at "Born yesterday")

T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Return of the Magi", "Hollow men"

Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place

Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary

George Orwell: Any and all of the essays, but especially "Shooting an elephant" and "A hanging"

Stendahl: Red and Black

James Joyce: A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man

Andre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

I'll shut up, except to say that although I agree with some of the people on the thread that reading "great books" just because they're considered great is stupid, these books were all a joy. I remember them each pretty happily and return to a few of them now and again and just browse through for awhile. Some "great" books really are great, and if you're reading for yourself (not as a forced assignment), they're often well worth the effort (because, yes, none of them reads like a magazine article).
How long does it take to bike? I find that often the issue is the infrequency or inconvenience of public transit routes, not that there's any inherent obstacle to traveling without a car.
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If I do recall correctly if you do not require dynamic insertion/removal; That is, you can make do with a one time construction. You will not need to traverse pointers but can put the trie into one contiguous block of memory.
Thank you for providing this script, for all those of us too lazy to do it ourselves. :)

Now if we can have one that filters the functional programming posts, and the "I'm stupid enough to think I achieved something by cloning this trivial, yet major web service with this terribly unscalable new web tool" posts.

I'm all for the random tech news and bitching about DRM and software patents though. :)
oh, I'm sure they were just "fostering innovation"
Brian Kernighan on The Elements of Programming Style[video]
motorcycle / scooter? Or just a bike with panniers?
Why I read fiction
Your analogy is off. Using an iPhone/iPad doesn't harm me.

Eating all meals at McDonalds does harm you.
The problem, as the commenters to that question note, is that no one is really sure what it means to be "well read" anymore. Louis Menand talks about how the end of the consensus on the "canon" or lack thereof has played in universities (and their requirements) in The Marketplace of Ideas: where he notes that only a few schools, including Columbia, still have "great books" courses grandfathered in. (See my post here: http://jseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-louis... for more on the book).

Anyway, as a consequence most people, with the exception of Harold Bloom and some other literary conservatives, don't know what should be in the canon, or would rather fight about what it means to have a canon than to read it. This is in part related to the larger question of how English and humanities types think; there's a decent book on that subject called How Professors Think, which deals with the legitimacy crisis in English.

That's from an academic angle. As for what I think, I'm not all that impressed by the idea of reading things merely because they have been read, and therefore going from Plato to Don Quixote to Austen to Dickens to James to Joyce to Roth; to my mind, being well-read means reading books that are interesting, unusual, show something new about the world, and so forth, whether they're canonical or not. To me, very little fiction is of real interest before 1900—yet a lot of it is part of the "canon," that I have to put scare quotes around. Do you want to read that, or excellent modern novels that have, in my view, improved on what has been, like Ian McEwan's Atonement, or most of Robertson Davies' work, or Ursula K. Le Guin's better novels (like Earthsea), or Carlos Ruiz Zafon's recent novels (which are very highly plotted and very fascinating), or Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, or, or, or...

As you can tell from the way I've structured my response, I'd prefer the latter. To my mind, being well read means reading a lot and reading meaningfully—not reading a particular set of books.
I posted this on Pandalous, but since other people are posting answers here:

I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned any of Ayn Rand's works.

I highly recommend Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and her many nonfiction books. For an academic perspective on these ideas, I recommend two of Dr. Tara Smith's books (she's a professor of philosophy at UT-Austin) - "Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality" and "Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist."

EDIT: Why am I being modded down? I think these ideas are essential for any person to consider themselves "well-read". I am being voted down because a few people dislike (or misunderstand) the ideas that these books put forward.
There is a thread going on concerning how to become "well read." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1240262) This post is about why becoming "well read" is valuable. I wrote it yesterday, but another post unexpectedly got popular, so I didn't press the publish button then.
Just my two cents (and I didn't vote on your comment one way or the other), but that's an awfully big generalization. I put down a list of my must tries on this thread, and maybe you should do the same. People vary so much in their tastes that it's easier to point to the good than say "Don't read" this or that.
Submitted before as print version, defeating the duplicate detector:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=914827

And submitted even earlier by link from blog:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=673610

Hacker News thread about another columnist's take down of this piece:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=698421
It seems in the article the author suggests that in certain case tries is faster than hash table.

Yes, you are right about every data structure can be badly implemented. But some data structures are more easily to get wrong. For example, everyone have no problem with selection sort, it is just hard to get it wrong. But for binary search, some decent programmer may write (a + b) / 2. Same case for tries, people more commonly (intuitively) write things like node_t* child[26];
Good God Man. Get a microphone that costs more than $2, or edit your audio after your record it. There's WAY too much static.

Also, give Mr. Roboto a valium so he loosens up. ;-)
The post is very long. I hesitated before submitting it, and then I considered posting a half-apology/explanation of what I found worthwhile there. (Then I remembered that that's discouraged in the FAQ.) Overall, I think it's worth the read, but that's not for me to decide.

No matter what else is true, your comment about women is completely useless and unhelpful. If it's meant to be a joke, it's not funny. If it's meant to be serious, it's just depressing. (It's also irrelevant, since the author of the post is male.)
This is because he's not interested in answering the question. His main point, which people familiar with Language Log know (and thus the assumed target audience), is that the book The Male Brain takes common pop wisdom "Men Don't Listen", and proposes ad-hoc "scientific explanations for it".

The main point of this article, which is understood by readers, is to show that there is no real scientific basis for the claim "Why Men Don't Listen", despite what "The Male Brain" claims. This means going through referenced papers in The Male Brain (shown as red quotes) and showing that they do not, in fact, show what Brizendine claims.

So no, this article will disappoint you if you think you'll get an 'scientific' answer to the question.
An interesting meta question: I wonder how much people "pick their moments" to submit around here. I tend to post links as I see them, but I've definitely noticed a difference in results. (Don't post very late at night EST, for example.)
You're misunderstanding the analogy. The writer is a fan of closed platforms. In the analogy, McDonalds = Closed Platform. And, yes, closed platforms are unhealthy.

I know how to think. Thanks all the same.
A lot. I do mostly when I write something new or if I have something that is related to a meme of the day.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615846

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175223
Yes, yes, yes. I am seen as an oddity (family friends coworkers) for choosing public transit and walking over using a car. It seems like such insanity to clog the streets and air with car traffic like we do.
I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?
Safari doesn't like the returned HTML and nothing happens.
Capital punishment, though legal, has been reserved for the ["rarest of the rare"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_India#Law) cases by the Supreme Court of India. There have been instances when even serial killers have been pardoned. So it may not even be legally possible to pass such a law.
Give me a break. People writing XNA games are not on a level playing field --- at the platform level --- with people writing retail titles.
Contrary to our expectations, we did not find any significant differences in the ability of healthy men and women to comprehend emotional intonation. </quote>
My biggest problem with this is that his two counter examples of what media companies should be doing are silly.

His first example is the Economist, which is sponsoring the first few issues of their iPad version with ads. How is this innovative? Newspapers and magazines have had their content online for years now hoping that ad revenue would make it sustainable, it hasn't. Why is ad placement in an iPad app that much different? Because they can charge more for premium iPad ads? I'd argue that thinking suddenly the ad rates are going to jump dramatically (to the point of sustainability) just because the app is on an iPad is more delusional than thinking you can charge for content.

Then his second example is even more absurd. He cites NPR's iPad app/iPad friendly website. But there's no mention of monetization of the web content whatsoever. So in this example he's saying "good job NPR, you're not making a dime on your iPad content, that's the way to go". That's just not an argument in favor of experimental pricing (which the author tries to say it is).
No. That false claim (promoted by the same author who is taken down in this article) was covered in other Language Log articles.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003420.h...

http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog/archives/003607.html

And a summary of articles in Language Log about related issues on supposed sex-linked differences.

http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog/archives/003586.html
I was actually flipping through the channels lately and I saw a show where they basically reported that sausage has been getting less and less meat over the years.

i.e. in the 1940s, sausage was ~70% meat, in the 70s it was ~50% meat and right now it's about 40% meat.
Window Farming: Do it yourself veggie garden in your window
Make Your Own Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Chris Anderson
what about judy-arrays[http://judy.sourceforge.net/] ? they seem to be pretty seriously cache-optimized...
Maybe it's a secret that you can "have it your way" at McDonald's as well. I always order the big Mac without onions or pickles.
If you're going to read Ayn Rand, make sure you read "The Heirs of Ayn Rand," too. Puts her work in historical perspective.

http://www.mclemee.com/id39.html
Who wants to beat them?
Those $Bn corporations put tins of tuna, different beans, tomatoes on store shelves for pennies. They even go to the trouble of coloring the good value cans differently for me.
The same corps deliver basics foods like onions, potatoes, carrots, rice year-round for roughly the cost of transport.
All I have to do is open the cans, mix them together and cook for 20mins and I can have healthy tasty veggie food in about the time it takes to deliver a pizza.

And a big thank-you to all the people that buy the frozen ready meals that subsidize this.
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