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Better app discovery could help a lot: even if 90% of your potential customers are unwilling to spend more than $0.00 for apps, that still leaves literally millions who would consider buying if they were only able to find it.

It's not an easy thing to solve though, I think the promotion and discovery model should be changed fundamentally. First of all ratings and 'most popular' should be completely eliminated from the equation, because they are self-fullfilling and relatively easy to manipulate. I would like to see some form of syndication for apps, which suggests me apps that fit my preferences and use cases, which could (and likely is) vastly different from other people. For example, I would love to be able to find (by whatever means possible) more developer-oriented apps (either on desktop or mobile) for things I don't even know I could use. The current app store model provides basically zero opportunities for this, I can go to the 'developer section' in the app store and look at the top 25 apps but there my options to discover apps stops. There really is no way for niche apps that could find a decent number of paid customers to promote themselves.

Besides better app discovery, trial versions are really essential. I would like some kind of subscription service that lets me try literally every app I want, but only for one month after which I would have to buy it at the regular price.

Yet another idea could be to allow developers to join forces and bundle their apps, dividing the profits through some kind of agreed-on distribution. This way low-volume/high-margin apps that would be hard to sell in large numbers as standalone could piggyback on high-volume/low-margin apps.

Plenty of possible improvements.. At any rate I feel something needs to change, because the current situation is hurting creativity and decreasing the quality and value of many app categories.
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you cannot really compare a citizen to a shareholder
(if you cannot sell it, you dont own it)

1- not all shareholders have votes
2- as a shareholder your vote is proportional to your owner ship
3- you can sell your shares, you cannot sell your rights of citizenship .. to another immigrants for example

they are not the same .. they are just not .. maybe on the surface from far far away they look the same .. to you

maybe as a citizen it feels good to think you own your country, but you dont .. really you dont
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They're right, they just don't understand it doesn't really work like that.

In theory, being able to break encryption with a warrant is exactly the right scenario.

In practice, if you an break it with a warrant, someone else can break it without a warrant and can do so without your knowledge.
The semantics are reasonably outdated, but I wonder if part of this is due to certain things like using <section> might affect content placement and/or nesting (section classes are used only for cards so what if a card is inside a <section>?).
perhaps the sims would be a better test
You sure this is a top tech company? What top tech company mentions dress code (beyond something like "don't worry about it")?
Well, I meant why should one use this over bootstrap.
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The purpose of fizzbuzz is not to select for people with good programming ability; it's to eliminate people with no programming ability or knowledge whatsoever.
You would need 100 different jars with different counts.

Otherwise, you either get lucky on the first time and then you always know the amount, or you (more likely) loose the first time and then it doesn't matter.
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It is 28 times smaller? (mini.css 7KB, Bootstrap 199 KB)
Faster loading times on mobile come to mind.
There's absolutely no chance in hell the dude saying he sent a copy to archive.org would have stopped those reddit threads from foaming at the mouth. People want the code, not the archive.
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Are people honestly that concerned about North Korea?
I think he implied a "/s" there. ;)
Can they afford to turn away users?
It's worse than that. There is no such thing as an impenetrable firewall between the public and the private sphere.

It's one of the areas where libertarian idealism doesn't quite work in the real world. I can't think of a way to limit the political influence of business without limiting the size and financial leverage of individual businesses. A libertarian society that fails to do this will not remain libertarian for long, since suitably large corporate entities will become the state.

Why compete at all when you can just write your own laws and tap the public treasury?
Older browsers like IE are supported, just not fully. So they say at least...
It's just a bozo bit check to filter out the bullshitters and the severely incompetent. Doubtless there are better ways to do so, but it's such a pervasive trope among anybody who's paid attention to software engineering culture for more than five minutes that it's a huge red flag if you get blank stares and flailing when it is brought up.
Probably someplace like this:

The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines the most recent wave of this research – roughly since 2000 – to determine the best current estimates of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage.

http://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf
In the 10 years I've done LED lighting, Taiwan's LEDs may have better quality but the efficiency is horrid.
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The ability to predict the locations of celestial objects to high accuracy is one of the pinnacles of modern science. The approach, called "ephemeris", is pretty straightforward- the entire solar system, with all of its components, is modelled using straightforward physics and math (Newton's law, with some relativistic corrections). We can accurately predict the location of all major celestial objects to hundreds of years in the future (barring some unknown external influence).

Every single time we send probes to other planets and they collect more data (such as the non-spherical shape of a planet or moon), that data is incorporated into the ephemeris calculations and they become that much more accurate.

Now, were a rare, unpredictable event to occur- say, a rogue star entering the solar system with low albedo so we couldn't see it coming- that would introduce a change in the dynamics of the system that we couldn't easily predict. it;s not exactly a "black swan" (to use taleb's nomenclature) because we know rogue stars exist.

The predictions aren't perfectly accurate. We don't have total knowledge of every element in the solar system (tiny asteroids affect the motion of the sun, in a very long term way) so the predictions eventually fall off in accuracy.

It's still a long term discussion whether the solar system is a truly chaotic system, but we'll leave that to JPL and Minsky.
If you have lots of small companies that do not compete with each other, for whatever reason, we are still talking about monopolies.

If utilities are operated not for profit but as a form of charity, pricing of their services should be determined by how much they need to charge in order to stay in business (as low as possible). -> that makes arguing over pricing based on value irrelevant.
Progress for the sake of who?
Another Free Speech literally equals Nazis article. Are you serious? Yes, Cloudflare, like every other host, complies with the law, specifically when requested to by the very people whose privacy they are claimed violating. This article is bullshit, and the author should be ashamed, if not mortified for his career.
I think there's a market for a workstation like this, but it's the matter of creating the supply first.

people need to see it in action, and boss need to see that they can purchase it for their backend developers (non color requiring devs) and think "wow this will save me $$$ on developer distractions."
Maybe not today, but in a few months or a year, possibly. IE is dying and Edge is taking its place. Supporting IE just makes maintanance more difficult, doesn't it?
No, 107 does not permit flying beyond VLOS. That requires extra permission from the FAA through a waiver. (I have my part 107 remote pilot's license)
At least in the US, if you apply for the permit and have a licensed electrician sign off on the job when it's done, you can perform the work yourself.
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Would you mind sharing which tablet you bought? I had the idea this still wasn't practical!
That's an interesting question. Windows 10 Pro is running two systems all the time: Win32 and Windows Runtime.

UWP apps run in sandboxes under Windows Runtime, not in Win32.

Presumably there are some benefits from this, but it depends how many parts of Windows itself use Win32. For example, the new Settings app runs in Windows Runtime but it still hands some things off to the old Control Panel, which is a Win32 program.

I'd assume the eventual goal is to move everything to Windows Runtime, leaving Win32 to wither and eventually die, at least in the consumer market. I suspect enterprises are too slow to change for that to happen in business market.

Bear in mind that UWP apps will run very happily on the ARM-based Windows laptops that will arrive late this year, whereas Win32 programs will use a Rosetta-type emulation.
IE is, after all, a discontinued browser. While I'd expect most public-facing websites to provide support for it given the longish tail of legacy users, it's reasonable that some applications may no longer require that support, and it's good that libraries exist to fill this use case.
No, it was worse; it was a bug in the community that proved people aren't really willing to abide by smart contracts when they feel they lost. That incident split the community in half with one side willing to tear down the entire thing just to make sure the thief didn't get away with it. And now there are 2 Ethereums.
> The essence of democracy, that which literally defines it, is voting

No dude, party members in the Eastern Europe's communists countries also voted. Our dictators called our stalinism a democracy.

The essence of democracy is the rule of law and the individual freedoms of the citizens, which makes it possible for citizens to participate, the vote being a means to an end and not being possible without the rule of law and without those freedoms.

And I'm not assuming too much here, but within this context, my opinion is that if you haven't lived under some form of dictatorship, you don't know what you're talking about.
They were just testing immigrant fingers for aptitude on assembly lines.

I don't see why y'all are knocking the test, except for maybe the claim it measured 'IQ' (which is a questionable concept in its own right.)
Interesting, I just had diner with a French friend and his wife currently living in Hanoi. As we were sharing a nice peace or rare beef they told me that they could never have that there, and that in their experience the locals thoroughly cook their meet.
I have been to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi before for holidays and work and don't have any specific memories on the subject but the version I know of Vietnamese food thoroughly cook the meet.

Edit: I concede that Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are two very different cities and the proliferation of French like restaurant is more present in Ho Chi Minh City as far as I remember.
I love stuff like this and it looks fantastic, but without support for at _least_ IE10 I would be loath to use it. IMHO the value proposition of a CSS framework is that it saves time and looks good without having to think about it. If I have to spend time fighting browser bugs and writing CSS hacks to deal with incompatibilities and/or layout issues, that's the opposite of that. Hopefully the developers will add support for some legacy browsers perhaps as an optional addition similar to how JQuery does it.

Fantastic work so far to the developers that said. I will be keeping an eye on this. Good luck!
My understanding is that Bitfinex (a major exchange) can't process USD withdrawals so people are buying up cryptocoins with their balances, driving up prices. It is being compared to the situation at MtGox.

Many of the other alts have most of their volume on the exchange Poloniex which claims to be US based but offers no transparency on their operations. They offer margin trading. The fincen registration number listed on their terms page is not valid. The office address listed is for a corporation registration company in Delaware.

IMO the whole thing is a powder keg. At least it's exciting to watch.
I agree with you but wanted to give a data point that I have been self hosting with cloudron on digital ocean since almost 2 years now and I have had no problem with mail delivery.
LuaJIT limits both the number of registered callbacks [1], and re-entering the interpreter from a JIT'd callback [2] (it will try to detect and prevent JIT for such functions, but if that fails you get a panic).

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31042530/why-does-luajit-...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25924755/c-and-lua-unprot...
It sounds real nice which is why this idea is so pervasive but it just doesn't hold up to reality.

The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines the most recent wave of this research – roughly since 2000 – to determine the best current estimates of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage.

http://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf
This is at least the second article in few weeks of self-congratulatory, virtue-signaling-masked-as-history we've seen from Smithsonian.

From this article I see two takeaways:

1) Despite the tome of the article, this test seems reasonable. If we take as given that we don't want to accept adults mentally incapable of caring for themselves, this test seems reasonable, and the described level of exclusions, less than 1000 for over a million immigrants, it seems very reasonable.

2) HUMILITY. The people operating Ellis Island 100 years ago were as self-assured of their beliefs as is everyone reading this article today. Consider how foolish we will look in 100 years.
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No, and that's what I was asking. Have we reached the point where we can ignore IE?
Do you really have people apply that don't even know the syntax for a single language?
> Why would Uber allow discovery

That's... not how discovery works...
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You should be living in some other universe. Most of the corruption stems from the fact that cash transaction history can be spoofed easily. There is no way to link cash with your identity linked to the tax systems. With digital payment, all the payments to/from will be linked to a taxable entity.
> do such people apply to programming jobs frequently enough for fizzbuzz to be useful?

speaking as someone who does hiring at a large software company: yes, yes they do. In significant numbers.
They say that they support older browsers and, from testing it lately, I haven't seen anything odd in IE 10 and 11, except the way images scale in the card media sections, which isn't really an issue in my eyes.
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This would be great for a static, CSS-only site I'm developing (http://www.nothingofvalue.org).

However, the framework says its responsive, yet the navigation menu doesn't resize on small screens. That's a bit disappointing. I'd like to have something that will give a chevron or hamburger navigation menu without resorting to Javascript.
I don't work in hiring, but from what I've read online, it is unbelievably common.
I don't think I want to read comments like this.
There's no such thing as 'might' be supported. Either they're supported or they aren't. They might work on those browsers, right now, but if they stop working or if there are bugs and the library makers aren't supporting them, then they stop working for good.
Could I suggest adding 'use bootstrap properly' to this list (and perhaps link to [1] and/or the LESS/Sass source). Bootstrap is modular. There's no need for a 'light' alternative, and in many cases I believe using Bootstrap 3 from Sass/LESS source is still the better option compared to the majority of these mini CSS frameworks. More comprehensive, better browser compat, likely 1000s more hours of dev braincycles (just go take a look at all the Github issues for Bootstrap to see all the work that has gone into it).

(Edited to be nicer/more-helpful).

[1] http://getbootstrap.com/customize/
I totally missed it before your comment, but I think you're right, in particular:

> As with all IP, once created the value of a copy is pretty much zero. It's a simple case of supply and demand, the supply is infinite so logically the price is zero.

Read in a certain way (e.g. use of value vis–à–vis price), this is super Marxian.
Not if you want to design a site for any of the millions of government organizations out there who still require support for IE9+
I watched SkyDrone lie for a couple of years about how far song their supposed product was, so am kinda surprised to see them back in the limelight. Their website said "shipping next month" for over a year IIRC. I guess that sort of thing is the new normal...
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To play devil's advocate, there are plenty of businesses where companies sell loss-leaders in order to bring in customers, who then spend lucrative amounts of money on other things. Black Friday deals are one example. Mexican restaurants offering free salsa and chips is another.

On a larger scheme though, I agree that companies selling things at below-cost, can lead to anti-competitive outcomes that bankrupt any competitors without deep pockets. Uber's subsidized rides are an example of this. The WTO has rules against this when it comes to international trade. Perhaps it's time we adopted similar laws domestically as well.
Youtube has a video recording function, that doesn't work so well without the camera and mic
You could consider linking this up with open clip art.
Or use PoS to avoid the situation entirely.
It's an excellent blog post, although it's worth emphasizing that it is designed for the binomial case, where you wish to compute the fraction of occurrences within some events, such as batting averages. For continuous variables, however, it makes more sense to use one of the methods described in the original post.

TL;DR: One blog post is for Rotten Tomatoes and the other is for Metacritic.
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s/centralized gatekeeping/curation service/

Yes, it won't be as profitable as a walled garden, and it will live or die by their reputation. When the market races to the bottom, quality suffers and the risk of scams/etc increases. Eventually, this creates a market of people who don't want to risk buying a lemon. A store that carefully curated what they offer and/or offers additional guarantees about safety/quality/etc is a model that has been successful in the past.
Interesting idea, and something similar to the concept I am trying to build in the content curation sense. Check it out www.whattheyread.xyz - would be great to connect.
Serious logistical planning for the festival didn’t even begin until late February or early March

This is just so beyond the pale.

i did logistics for a collective of artists and this is about the amount of time you need to get a couple containers from Zurich to Torino.

Ironically, customs is not really the big issue, provided that you get the paperwork right, the t's crossed and the i's dotted. This blasé attitude about "don't worry about customs" would have made me run far and wide from any such project.

Amateurs!
I find this funny because your own email is on Google apps.