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Book publishers make enough money off the title to produce _Freedom: A Novel_ by John Franzen in hardcover at $15.

By your logic, they have no business charging $75 for Harris' _Trading and Exchanges_ (a bible of market microstructure); Harris' book has a comparable number of pages and the same binding.

You are essentially advocating for fiat pricing, and against the market. You can make a consistent argument based on that, but it will wildly mismatch the way pretty much all of western civilization works.
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When you say "by way of Bangalore", do they have their call center in Bangalore? /just curious how many taxi dispatch services do this.
The music industry lost 10 years believing that DRM works and it may never recover. Now the publishing industry is looking to do the same . . .

Software is the only medium in which DRM has any hope of succeeding long-term, and that's only because it typically needs to be managed as a service. Video can tolerate it for now because the file sizes are too large to conveniently separate from the physical media, but that won't be true for long.
This is really true, and I think the reason is that it abstracts the problem away from the implementation, and forces you to think in 'problem-space' rather than 'implementation-space'.

When I sit at my desk coding, I tend to think in detailed, code (c/c++ for me) specific ways. My thinking is constrained by how I think the code might look.

When I turn off the screens and grab a pen and pad, I think in abstract, mathematical ways. Once I have a mathematical solution, it's easy to turn that into a practical implementation.
Outlook's market share isn't directly correlated to its capabilities. Many large organizations force their employees to use Outlook as their corporate standard.
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I think so. It's important because people theoretically can write plugins for it.

Writing a Flash player is a lot of work, and there's not much reason to do so if Adobe has most computers covered already.
The NY Times seems to munging my back button today.

How exactly do you get a stress fracture of your pubic bone?
How do you make the tea?
Dual 22" widesceen monitors. left is mac mini, right is Fedora. I use synergy+ to share the mac keyboard and Logitech trackball between the systems. Workspaces separate out distractions - 1 is a pair of gnome-terminal sessions with screen running on each and lots of vim. 2 is firefox + vimperator, 3 thunderbird, 4 xchat, 5 for virt-manager and 6 for misc stuff.

I ran xmonad for a while and found I really liked the full-screen orientation, but missed being able to cut and paste from terminals easily, so now its GNOME with everything full-screen. I've re-mapped the keys in Fedora to take advantage of the command key on the mac keyboard, so I can work most of the day without touching the trackball.
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i always heard it was a spoon. or was that someone else?
Wow, that's a lot of screen. And here I am doing most of my coding with a 9" netbook.

(Edit: Actually, I think it's the same as cool-RR's post elsewhere on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649828, just without the external monitor.)
Do many people have advice on things that can grow inside an apartment?

I've heard/seen various lamp-based systems that have timers and things. I was curious if there are any particular plants that would grow in the relative dark of an apartment if I could get myself a barrel with some soil.
People will absolutely provide negative reviews when they get screwed by a cab; they'll be sputtering and looking for anything they can do to equalize the situation.

But that doesn't matter, because this is the eBay problem; a reputation adequate to do business in the system is too cheap to establish from scratch to make losing one a major deterrent.
Hell yes. The same is true for the mechanical CAD market. Autodesk (the makers of AutoCAD) and Dassault (the makers of Solidworks) are intensely irritating to deal with. Their pricing is obscured, their marketing is heavy-handed, and for the price, their software is not that good. If I were starting a new software company now, these are the clowns I'd love to compete against. There are literally decades of pissed-off customers who want something better, but are stuck with these dinosaurs.

(Yes, Blender, Sketchup, and so forth. Not tailored for the industry well enough.)
Cheap is not the biggest advantage. Home grown vegetables taste better, especially haricots verts and tomatoes.

Some fruits are ridiculously expensive though like raspberries and blackberries. They also require less weeding than most vegetables and they survive the winter. From one blackberry plant you can get 20kg of blackberries. This can cost like €300 in the supermarket.
I think this is great advice. Part of perseverance is not letting anyone else tell you what you can not do but even more important is not telling yourself what you cannot do.
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Apple trees can be grown in pots. Also small fruit bushes (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries). Also beans. You can put these on roofs, fire escapes, windowsills and so on which are effectively underused and thus rent free.
Was the downvoter anti-muslim or pro-Thor?
Totally does not account for the amount of time it takes to plant, water, weed, fertilize, pest-proof and on and on. $735 to maintain a garden for a year? Sure, if you consider your time as zero-cost.

In my experience, those heads of lettuce are delicious, rewarding, and cost 10-100x what you pay in the store.
Most 3D modelers are solid modelers (i.e. I construct a solid cube or sphere). When I aggregate many of these solids together (and possibly do some boolean operations to them), I have a design.

Now I would like my 2D cuts. By this, I mean I would like to look at a 2D cross-sectional drawing of my design. This may be at the XY plane, YZ plane, or some other arbitrary plane.

Most 3D modelers can do this, but when you make the 2D cut, you're often exporting the cut to a new file. If you change anything in the design, the cut does not update, and you must "re-cut". This is what I mean by real-time.

Good 3D modelers don't do this well, and poor 3D modelers can do this exceptionally (I'm looking at you Revit). Some can do both, but they're incredibly complicated and cost tens of thousands (Digital Project)
I have a kettle with a separate infusion basket. You just put the mint leaves in there and cover with boiling water. You can also mix it with tea leaves.
Is that keyboard drawer comfortable to use? (it doesn't look so)
How about "leech" instead of "thief"?

That's a little more pejorative than I would like, but less so than "thief". We all take more than we give (leech) from time to time. Often we do this with the expectation that we will pay it back - or pay it forward. For examples, consider children, or someone receiving welfare, or someone who buys a cup of coffee in a busy cafe and then takes up a table for three hours. This is a spectrum, too: if your community thinks that you have crossed some line, you will be regarded as a thief.

I like the anonymous payback idea: it could be as simple as a paypal link on the author's web site. If that became widespread, it would be interesting to study the data.
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> Don’t worry about what you need to know in order to finish a project, you already have everything you need to start.

Oh. Do worry. Worry much. Because the time you spend down a road that leads nowhere may not be worth what you learn on the way there.
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Desktop computer, running Windows XP (looking to upgrade computer, and then move to Windows 7).

2 Monitors, 26" Samsung and a 22" Asus.

Most of the time, I've got open Sublime Text for coding, Chrome for browsing, Firefox + Extensions for debugging sites, Photoshop, and a few command prompts for mercurial and django commands.
I should clarify: I don't mean to say I want pricing to be flat by any means, even if my original post implied it. What I meant to say is that the ebook is not cheaper than the paperback or the hardcover.

Example: Cryptonomicon is $8.99 as a softcover, but, the ebook version is $10.99
It'll cost you a fortune in electricity if cough my friend's experience growing dope as a student is anything to go by.

I'm assuming your apartment has windows (or do you live in the dark?) so invest in some window boxes. You can grow herbs easily in those.
Architectural plans are drawn as a series of 2d plans: top-down views ('overviews' or 'blueprints', like http://www.the-house-plans-guide.com/images/floor-plan2.gif) + sections (colloquial for 'cross sections', a 'view' on the inside of a building, like http://www.the-house-plans-guide.com/images/cross-section.gi... .

The 'traditional' way of CAD for architecture is to draw a bunch of lines and circles, much like you'd draw a plan by hand, but on a computer. This is very error prone and labor intensive. Your client asks you remove a window, you need to remove it in several views etc.

The holy grail of architectural CAD is in a part of what is loosely called 'BIM', Building Information Modeling. You make a 3d model of a building and generate separate views on that, like cross sections and plans, but also use that same model to do e.g. earthquake simulations or energy efficiency analysis or cost estimating. Autodesk has a product called Revit that purports to do this, but it has a long way to go to really fulfill the 'BIM dream'.

This is a subject near and dear to my heart - working with architects and contractors who run around with A0 format paper copies of plans, who do cost estimates by measuring, with a rule (!) each room on the paper plan and calculate areas with a calculator on a piece of paper, it makes me die a little bit inside each time I get a quote and I see the areas or dimensions or whatever different for each fricking ocntractor, instead of using software that would do pretty much everything that they just spend a day on in a few seconds.
Sounds very Windows-y from the blurb (and good blurb it is too). If I had a Windows box I'd defo try it out. Especially for the range of glyphs it has, lots n lots. However seems Mac head and Linux dweebs need not apply unless they want to struggle a bit.
(I'm not the OP.)

"plans" means 2D overhead views of a 3D model. "sections" means 2D side views of a 3D model, like a cross-section. I don't know what "real-time" means here, but I'd bet that it means you can grab onto the plane that defines the cross-sectional cut, move it in the normal direction, and have the model update smoothly. (The non-real-time alternative is that the location of the plane is specified by a value in some dialog box.)
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I recently became a nomad. Just a Macbook Air, no external monitor, I switch between windows using Spaces extensively.
Ask HN: Please review my new app StatusDashboard
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I've been a fan of Chartbeat since day one, and I've been a consultant to the company for a year. I was thrilled to be invited as the first investor into the company, and the sky is limit for this startup.

ChartBeat is Google Analytics on crack. :-)
Read "Making Ideas Happen" by Scott Belsky. I am in the same position as you and have picked up some wonderful ideas from that book.

First: Nag, nag, nag! You say nudge, I say NAG! Nagging works as people just want to get you to shut it and they know the only way to do that is to get the task done.

Second: Are you absolutely clear in your goals and have you assembled a team which is aligned with those goals?

Third: There's the old adage of hire slow and fire fast. If you have done everything with one of the team members to get them on board and they still refuse to align with the team goals then you must let them go.
"Make something someone specific needs, launch fast, let users show you what to change, change it, repeat last two." -PG

Summary:
StatusDashboard is a hosted app that let's companies easily build a status dashboard for external services like SaaS applications and APIs or internal IT services like email, phone, wireless internet, etc. (similar to Google Apps Status Dashboard or Amazon EC2). The dashboard can be shared by link or embedded into an company's web-site.

There are plenty of alternatives (including rolling your own and open source offerings). But the target market for this product just wants it up and running now without any hassle.

Goals of project:

-Address a pain point I had (prevent help desk flooding when a service goes down)

-Learn RoR (Looked at Ruby for the first time 3 weeks ago...loving it so far)

-Learn day-to-day operations for the basic SaaS components, before I launch my "real product":
* Hosting (Heroku)
* Payment Gateways (Authorize.net)
* Recurring Billing (Chargify)
* Support (ZenDesk)
* Mail Transport (SendGrid)
* Mailing List Mgmt (MailChimp)
* Lots of other things (Adwords, marketing, analytics, community feedback, etc.)

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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MBP screen: Skype + email

Dell 24: Browsers (testing + docs)

Dell 22 (vertical): Code (Netbeans) + terminals
I have windows, but I also live next to some trees which makes direct sunlight limited.

I was hoping there was some secret vegetables/herbs that could deal with low-light. I guess that means things that would be possible to grow in the woods, like underbrush.
so, assuming that you're a dribble user, how do you rate the experience of using the service? How does it compare with showing screenshots to your friends over aim or talking at each other's desk? I'm intrigued, but i always find the more immediate, non-crowdsourced techniques have worked really well.
Mostly for grouping. In general I use SciTE for code, Notepad++ for everything else (I use zillions of text files).

Two separate applications give two distinct icons in taskbar, allowing me to switch fast between two groups (as opposed to figuring out which content tab in one editor has the right file).

Also, I like them both, and don't have a heart to drop using one of them :). BTW I do the same with browsers (and OSes, I keep "affair" with Ubuntu in VirtualBox).
I would suggest a demo link be available instead-of/next-to the Try It Now link button on the home page. I was interested in trying it now but I don't want to pay $10 just to see what it is. The fact that there is "No Risk" is not important to me at this stage.
We steep ours with black tea bags and mint, then ice it. No sugar needed.
I agree AutoCAD might be hard to use on a tiny screen per se, but the more important message here I guess, is that 3D object modeling/manipulation capability on mobile device (hardware and software) has come closer to what a desktop could offer to do something slightly more sophisticated than just bubble drawing and lame gaming.

Also, with the introduction of OpenGL ES 2.0 support in Android earlier this year, there should be no surprise the Android version should also come out very soon.
Leeching is more appropriate I think, though I still don't like it. It fits, because it encompasses the thought of "I wouldn't spend money on this, but, if it is free I can't complain too much".
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Making custom binaries for any device is better, Android, W7 or otherwise. A native application is always able to outperform a generic substitute.

Apple's non-support of Flash has forced content developers to put down their favorite hammer and explore other tools. It also forces content developers to port their applications and consider the format of the target device.

Microsoft has their XNA platform for Windows Phone 7, and I think that's a great thing, too, as it has been proven on the 360. You won't see direct ports from 360 to phone, it's too wildly different, but it makes developing easier. They're looking for high-quality native applications just like Apple.

If Windows Phone 7 supported Flash you'd just see thousands of trashy Flash games and most would barely work. The user experience would be terrible and people would get the impression that either the phone is slow or the apps are bad and not worth buying, either of which is a very bad outcome.

Like it or not, the walled garden approach is necessary to have some degree of control over the user experience. Other vendors will discover this if they care.
In the wonderful Steve Jackson game "Illuminati," organizations have orientations like Conservative, Violent, &c. Conservative groups are aligned with other Conservative groups and opposed to Liberal groups, Peaceful groups are aligned with other Peaceful groups and opposed to Violent groups, and so forth.

There's also an orientation called "Fanatic." Fanatic is a special case because it is its own opposition. So Joggers, Trekkies, and White Supremacists are all opposed to each other by virtue of being fanatic groups.

Fnord.
There is a link to the NYT article in the article you submitted. The article you submitted seems to be nothing more than a rewording of the NYT article.
I would guess that the more a person drinks, past a certain point, the more likely they are to lie about it.
But for architectural design, you want to work at a higher level than solids. You want to draw a 'wall' and then parameterize it - 8cm of outside brick, 2 cm of air, 5 cm of insulation, 14 cm of brick, 2 cm of plaster. Plus this needs to have the right hatch in 2d views etc.

Have you tried Chief Architect? It works rather well in this respect, it's really made for ease of use. I don't know how well it would scale for large projects though, I've only toyed with it for small residential design. Plus the estimating and electrical/HVAC tools are poor to non-existent.
How is wanting a choice being fanatical? Is the rhetoric really so poor that simply wanting the choice of using flash is considered fanatical?
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If by "open" you mean "approximately documented" then yes, it's open. There's a whole mountain of stuff you have to do to even meet part of the spec, and there's a lot left up to interpretation.

It's easier to write a fully HTML5 compliant web browser than it is to write a fully compliant Flash plugin.
Part I

I tried that: it was a super strong effort, didn't work, and was a disaster.

Too much in this thread is "dance 'round and 'round and suppose while the secret sits in the middle, and knows.". Since I've been there, tried that, "Oh he suffered terrible. Got the scars to prove it", I discovered much of the secret and will let you know some of the main points.

So, here's Girls and Women 101 for Dummies, That Is, Men. Hackers, listen up. Girls, not just like boys but softer!

Here are three simple explanations:

(1) Just what is it about motherhood people are finding so difficult to understand?

(2) It's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature.

(3) The strong parts of the tree are from the strong limbs, not the weak, sick, or dead limbs.

I know; I know; now it goes:

"Women, not just for babies anymore.".

Believe much of that, and I've got a great bargain on a bridge over the East River you'd really be interested in.

Warning: The ways Mother Nature has to fight back are intricate, strong, and deep beyond belief, well hidden, and very poorly understood. Why? Sure, now we want women to do men's work for more in economic productivity. A woman wants a nice paycheck as a source of financial security; her husband might also like the extra income.

I suggest that essentially just this desire for economic productivity goes WAY back, to whatever men and women did day by day over the past few hundred thousand years at least. The result was nearly always the same and remains so:

Women who did much on men's work were weak, sick, or dead limbs on the tree.

Or, for many thousands of years humans have tried to find, and occasionally have found, ways women could do men's work and for each way found Mother Nature quickly pruned out that part of the tree. By now Mother Nature has a huge catalog of well proven, fully effective, long never seriously overcome means to keep women from doing men's work. So, now for a woman to be good at men's work, the work essentially must be quite different from anything Mother Nature pruned out over the past few hundred thousand years. Lot's of luck finding such work now!

So just why don't women like real-time, object-oriented, multi-threaded, multi-processing software technology, with a dynamic inheritance hierarchy, active objects, transactional integrity, with an extensible hashing symbol table? Don't ask, but be sure Mother Nature knows!

"But, but, but, she has great grades in school, has a very high IQ, is very determined ...! She's AWASH in ability." Still, for nearly anything in men's work, better bet that Mother Nature long since found a way so that she couldn't do it. Do I have any strong, real world examples? Unfortunately, yes, some VERY strong examples.

Like we said back in Tennessee, "That dog won't hunt.". That's a fact, Jack, and that we don't have a detailed explanation for why doesn't change the fact.
It's really unfortunate that this pretty player will be only as a service - with a monthly fee.

I'm not willing to trust them with hosting the player and/or videos. This also seems to severely limit customization.
You are 100% correct.

Last year we would see trends like StarCraft 2 come out, so we made pages like this:

http://www.mahalo.com/starcraft-2-wings-of-liberty-walkthrou...

Which we spend and make thousands of dollar on, and then double down by making videos on our Youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzhojCvUYA

Some SEO folks claim we "spam" search engines, but the truth is we identify any page that gets over 1,000 views a month on Mahalo and we then spend $500 to $5,000 building it out.

The reason we are the #170th largest site on the web (and profitable), is because we use Chartbeat to find our winner and we DOUBLE DOWN on original content.

After we double down you know what we do?

We double down again! :-)

I love Chartbeat. It rocks. It's also helping us build out vertical Q&A sites like www.ipad-answers.com. We have three or four pages that break out on a site this every month, and we send amazing talent to those page and blow out amazing answers. Again, double down and double down again.

When you got the nuts you pound it.
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I didn't say people wouldn't leave reviews, I said they wouldn't have the same social incentive to do so as with other things that get reviewed. Other incentives (revenge) of course still exist, but the result is probably a heavy bias towards negative reviews, which can still make the system pretty unusable.

And this isn't necessarily the eBay problem, if you have to provide a driver's license or some other set of credentials to set up a driver account, and you can't just switch your handle in the system. The post was kind of light on those details.