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Many fledgling industries have "evil titans". Look at oil, trains, telephone, social media. I'm not intimately acquainted enough with the actual events that earn Gates/Microsoft's popular ire, but if they hadn't earned the evil titan role somebody else would have. The work Gates is doing now I think makes up for any rough play he may have engaged in in the past.
As you said Bill Gates coming from a rich background which makes it even more amazing that how much he spends on charity (as a person who has never been poor)
Found via WAXY.ORG - don't miss the author's explanation on how it was planned and written - >

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Steve Jobs: "Thanks to everyone for coming today. Today is a big day. Today we release an update for Mac OS X that quadruples SSD performance and furthermore, all Macs will come standard with a SSD hybrid... etc..."
There is also a government enforced duopoly in broadband.

I doubt we would have seen the same innovation in chip design if the government restricted competition to the two dominant brands (Intel and TI, I think) when the industry was in it's infancy.
Cool but I'll never trust any of these things for SSH or anything else. SSH is something I want on my computer with no one able to log my key presses.
Trained in the sense that, over time, many of them have learned, or read or been told to pay attention to the URL for security reasons.
They are trained by their friends, by blogs, websites, (my bank website frequently reminds me to check the URL), articles in print media, etc.

Now, this doesn't mean users won't still be conned. But its important not to be blase about the worth of that accumulated knowledge. It takes a lot of time - and cases of fraud - before knowledge like "I should check the URL" filters down to the average user. This knowledge, having been thus accumulated, shouldn't be casually discarded, or undervalued, by those of us who do computers for a living. Its hard to train users to follow security procedures at the best of times, without changing the rules.

Examples of what I'm talking about, from a quick Google:
"look for indicators that the site is secure, like a lock icon on the browser’s status bar or a URL for a website that begins https:"
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt127.shtm

"A phishing site may look exactly like the real site, but the URL will look strange."
http://www.ehow.com/how_5236627_avoid-online-like-fake-paypa...

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/spoof.aspx

There are a plenty of examples of similar articles.
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I would agree to that a lot and history would justify it too, in Indian government's case.

But, making an overall generalization for "all" Indians is a bit hurtful, personally. There is no denying about the job boards things, but that generalization is not true, atleast from my personal experience of college life at BITS, Pilani and interaction with students from IIT's.
Get over yourselves , have you used *nix systems in 90s as desktops? If you not you can't compare Windows's quality with something else.

OSX wasn't even properly exist.
Offline community is such an important part of building online community, and Patron captured this well, but the part I really liked about this post was how they looked at the typical available options (hosting parties at a bar) and then took a perpendicular decision: Let's spend that money on our own terms.

If you've ever done event planning, having a catered gig at a restaurant, etc., can be extremely prohibitive, but renting a boat and using your own people can cut through all those overhead costs and deliver a better ROI.

I do wonder: With only ten people, what does Patron do if one of the 10 turns out to be a real creepy individual, ruining the experience for everyone?
My guess is it's easier to emulate a termnial in canvas than with straight html. Support for colors and such is probably easier in canvas.
So if I manage to extract money from you, governments and institutions with rough play it's all OK at the end of the day if I give some percentage of it to charity?

Giving to charity by way of the residue of the profits of a monopoly like Microsoft is a very inefficient process.
They need to yank out activex and bhos and focus on security above most other things. I don't know if they will though because of microsofts stance on backwards compatibility but it looks like they are trying to change at least.
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All they really need to get back in the game is to come within a lap of the lead browsers -- they don't need users to migrate back from Firefox and Chrome, they just need the "default" browser to be good enough that change isn't necessary.
An API that is subject to change should have a version number as a namespace somewhere in the URL. That way you can have different API versions running and it makes less painful to go forward.
Of course it was necessary for the Guinea to be worth more than the pound, since it was made of gold, not of silver. There is a method in the insanity.
For the extended ASCII characters (ANSI) and aesthetic of the DOS font.
There's an idiom where I come from. Roughly translated:

When the Devil gets old, he joins the abbey.
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You can buy and recharge Suica cards at train station ticket machines, so they're effortless to obtain. Having been to Tokyo twice in the past 3 years, the Suica cards are a godsend. I used them only for transportation purposes, but I saw stores that accepted them.

I had a Suica card that I bought the first time I went in 2008. I didn't use up all the money that I put on the card and kept it when I came home as a souvenir. When I returned in 2010, I brought it with me, figuring that there was a time limit on the validity of the card, or that I would have to get the card re-activated first. No, it worked just like it did when I bought it in 2008. When it ran out of money, I went to a Suica-issuing ticket machine and put more money on the card. So, don't throw these cards away.
Slightly OT, but I'd like to see a similar looking "box" where I can push a text output from a server (long polled). For example to push a tail on a log or something like that. I was kind of looking for that the other day, but to no avail - it's not a priority though, so I'll write it if I can't find one (I have little to no experience with "comet").
Odd though that people only seem to doubt the evidence when they want to do something!

Creationists doubt the evidence for evolution, but what do they want to do? Similarly the Holocaust "deniers". (Most don't actually deny the Holocaust, they dispute the scale.)

I've yet to see somebody say that scientists are divided on general relativity and therefore I don't need to worry about falling off this cliff.

I have known people who denied Einstein's theory of special relativity. They don't seem to want anything other than to argue about it. In fact annoyance over that was why I stopped reading James P. Hogan. (This was before he expressed his more controversial views.)

There are also a number of scientists who have doubted general relativity, and they are generally credited with moving the discussion forward by providing something concrete to test. GR has done well under those tests, but it was important to have reasonable alternatives presented. (It is worth noting that 2 of the 3 classical tests of GR match the first order predictions of any theory that reconciles gravity with special relativity, and gravitational redshift falls out of quantum mechanics. So the classical tests didn't actually test the theory very well.)

Nobody sane doubts the reality of gravity though. People who are prone to walking off cliffs because they think gravity is not real generally end up dead or institutionalized for good reason.
The problem as others have stated with including the tax is that if you have a multi-state presence, the tax rates for different cities, counties, and states are different, and sometimes are a huge difference (2-3%). I don't think it should be up to the retailer to foot the difference. But I do think rounding is an easier solution than a 37-cent piece.
Ask HN: Tips for someone considering Android app development as a profession?
I'm considering starting getting into Android app development as something I could do on the side until I could build it up enough to leave my current job. For those that have developed Android apps part-time or full-time, how much would a developer with several years or more Java dev (web apps and services) experience most likely make a year (at least based on your past experience in Android app development) for either/both (1) developing their own apps for sale on Android Market, and/or (2) developing Android apps for others on an individual contractor basis (not yet incorporated)?

In addition, do you have suggestions for pricing apps? The following indicates average price at ~$3.50 USD:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/android-market-pricing/ (I know it depends on the app's functionality and perceived worth to customer, but I also imagine people would be much less likely to spend $39 USD for an Android app than they would for an OS X/Windows application with similar functionality/intent.)

Finally, is it realistic to develop solely in an emulator without having a real device, and if a device is needed, what would you suggest as a lowest cost option to start with?
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Could you perhaps state those reasons?

[edit: sorry for asking. Didn't realize asking a poster to explain their reasoning was frowned upon here. ]
I don't know where you're from, but I can only compare to various other parts of Europe as well as South Africa. The UK is definitely the most card-happy of that lot.
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Bill Gates did bad things. Jobs, Ellison, most tech titans do/did bad things.

edw519 does not like Bill Gates worship.

Therefore, edw519 has something against powerful people.
ATM/debit bank cards? Often only a flat .25 a transaction, PIN only, and you can't chargeback just like cash. Online transactions need a PIN interface although.
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I agree that if your site metrics show large numbers of people set to buy but abandoning their purchase because the checkout process is confusing, then you should work to make it more user friendly.

But what I'm saying is every designer should be asking 1. How many people are having this unique difficulty and 2. Is it worth the time and COST to fix it? Moreover, will adding the information/steps to needed to clarify the process bore/put off the majority of customers who already know how to use this (for example, a tutorial that either adds an additional step or doesn't allow users to bypass it)?

A good designer should be able to plan for contingencies, but a good businessperson should be able to draw the line between pleasing a customer and watching their bottom line.
Then the tension is even more poignant, since making IE better makes Windows less relevant.
You understand that the app has been out for one day and it's free until the 20'th of September right? How much it will sell being a clone of scrabble is up in the air right now though.
> I don't know what this comment means

I think you're a smart guy and being disingenuous here, but I'll play along.

A market segment is a sub-set of a market made up of people or organizations with one or more characteristics that cause them to demand similar product and/or services based on qualities of those products such as price or function.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation

If there are users who will pay 2.99 but not 5.99, this strategy can still capture their value today, but simply pricing at a higher price will not. You posit that people will pay much more than 5.99 for an expansion pack for this game and I don't think you're in any position to know that about this game.
Excuse my stupidity, if you can, but does passenger (+nginx) hold any advantage before nginx + single multithreaded thin instance with ruby 1.9.2?
Ramen noodles, actually.
As I understand, he also met Warren Buffet at a young age through his parents and formed a relationship with him. (I think he was a friend of his parents and met Bill at a party.)

Not the worst person to have in your rolodex.
I read that article too and it only gave me more questions. Sure the owners wouldn't know who was using the system and couldn't lock them out. That seems to be the whole point of annonomizing software? Why does that make it insecure? If those are the only reasons I don't see why that makes it unsuccessful software (I personally have big doubts about their claims for annonomizing trafic, but the oblomovka article doesn't answer those questions.)
You left out most of the credentials that were listed in that ad. And I don't think that anyone believes that every SRE who has the paper credentials gets hired.

Also most SREs don't get access to the same things that this guy did. (What you get access to depends on what you're working on.)
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It's the best of a wiki, a website builder and a book.

We built this in response to our own needs. We needed a way to collaborate and publish but wikis weren't working for us. They were easy, but not easy enough and they are typically too ugly to use as a primary website.

The key innovations for us were:

Snap Editor: Click anywhere on the page and you edit in place. The page "snaps" around the text to let you know that you can edit. Drop dead stupid easy.
Table of Contents: In wikis, you end up with orphan pages. In normal website navigation, you are usually limited to only around 5 pages before it gets messy. The table of contents on the right makes sure you never lose a page and that you can organize up to 1000 pages. It is drag and drop all the time.

Site Decorator: Wikis (and many website builders) are ugly. We built a template designer that we know works because even our developers were making good-looking websites.

One thing we aren't sure of is how to sell our product. Is it a new type of wiki? Is it a simple website builder? Curious what you guys think.
Awesome. I'm hoping that you already have a library of HN entities and are using the JsonSerializer? Would it be possible to share that C# library or some client code?

Of course I could just do it myself, but it seemed like silly work going from C# > REST > C# :)
Stop freaking out. He wasn't suggesting setting up quotas. I read him to mean that he likes the idea of hiring women, which makes sense to me because that's how I feel about it too.

Any time the gender discussion comes up, a bunch of people suck all the air out of the conversation by burning straw men. Here, let me head some of them off: it's not your fault there aren't many women in tech; no, we shouldn't give less qualified people jobs; yes, there clearly are fewer women then men going to school for engineering and CS.
Once again, by moving a crucial portion of the game online, you can mitigate the effectiveness of a pirated game while being able to deliver content that enhances the game for everyone.

The problem is, what if I want to play it on a flight? Enabling this enables pirates. So, is this worth it?
Why wouldn't somebody receiving payment for a 100 pound transaction not take two 50s?
Yes, he had a few things going for him but to trivalize what he/Microsoft accomplished over the years with "no smarter and worked no harder" is quiet ludicrous as mega successes usually have an unusually perfect set of circumstances that allow the successes to happen, whether you're talking about Ted Turner, Oracle or Google.

The circumstances may be favorable but it takes good decisions and massive action to turn the circumstances into a multi-billion dollar, world changing enterprise.

I'm not a big fan of Microsoft and it's products but it's undeniable that Bill has the opportunity to improve the quality of hundreds of millions of people in a way that no one ever has.

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It tends to come into it earlier, here's a humorous example:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1883

It turns out that in even very young children, adults react subconsciously to the problem-solving behaviors of children. In an observational study adults were very quick to swoop in and help girls out when they couldn't perform a task, while boys were allowed to fail until success.

Of course, dismissing genetic factors outright is just as problematic as creating just-so stories and fitting evidence on them. Alas, the answer is usually more complex.

My point is that there are a lot of subtle cues that pervade our society. Girls know to like pink at ages younger than 3, and yet just over a century ago pink was mostly associated with boys (pink is based on red, a proper manly color). And even well-meaning comp sci folks often subtly make women uncomfortable (feminist theory calls this "othering").

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It's not a clone of scrabble, it's a cheat sheet for scrabble.
Jobs' wealth is lower than Gates because Apple raised more money than Microsoft did early on, and because he sold all his stock when he left Apple and is now compensated in stock options rather than in founders' stock.
A point with which I strongly disagree is that some public businesses are profitable so we should leave them alone.

A point which I didn't make. Improvements can always take place. But no matter; not all businesses I was talking about are monopolies. In fact, the telecom sector is free since 2001, and it's doing great, considering HTO possessed 100% of the infrastructure up to that point.

Incentives are given by management. It is extremely easy for any business to motivate their employers, as it is easy to lay off slackers. It mostly does not happen; this is a result of corruption, incoherent legislation, and poor law enforcement as well as financial and management review (among others). I've already mentioned those factors, I view them as extremely dangerous for our economy and I highly doubt they'll be waived in any reasonable amount of time. I think we mostly agree on this part.
> Neither major US political party seems to do better than 50/50 overall

I'm not sure what that even means or how you could measure it. Most political policies don't have tangible win/lose results. There are not often going to be actions that make everything peachy. Usually choices have pros and cons, and it's easier to get the public to notice the cons than it is to get them to evaluate the trade offs involved. Also, if the cons don't materialize within two years, the public will probably not connect the dots.

So watch some cable news, form your half-ass opinion and go vote.
An App Store bubble burst would probably be the best thing to happen to the App Store - the sooner the better.

1) A bubble burst weeds out apps that don't have enough intrinsic value to the customer in the first place (E.g. T-pain, fart apps, and so on)

2) Devs, entrepreneurs, and investors will be forced to evaluate and form actual business plans/models as opposed to "let's throw an app out there and make some money"

3) An app won't always be and shouldn't be the end all and be all of a startup business plan - it's another platform that allows you to reach out to more customers
I dropped out after my first year of law school, am I bitter about the $50K that I spent? Not really- I knew what I was signing up for and the experience taught me many things, the most important being that you should chase passions instead of money. If you're smart, driven and working on something you're passionate about, odds are you'll succeed- if you're chasing prestige or money in an industry you hate, your chances of success (or at least your satisfaction with your career choices) decline precipitously. Do I wish I learned this without spending $50K? Sure, but what's done is done, no use crying about it.
My personal opinion is that there isn't a need for this, but others have pointed out menupages.com, which I guess is really big. I've never cared to search for restaurant menus online myself. Even if you covered the city I live in, I wouldn't use it. Sorry. That's my critical feedback. It sounds like others do see a use for it though, so I could easily be wrong. I don't consider myself a "foodie" so maybe I'm just not your target audience. Do a lot of people call themselves "foodies"?
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for the fiverr thing, you offered shady seo techniques for money? if so, then why didn't you ever try blackhat or automated whitehat sites?
In the case of Assassin's Creed 2 your save file can also be saved online.
Eh, who cares? So he had a big evangelical moment and saw Jesus, great, wonderful. This book continues to contain information that can be useful to people, and this is the same "book-burning" way of thinking that is so prevalent in conservative religious communities. While the document is injected with immature content throughout in terms of the motivations for the activities upon which it instructs, it contains practical knowledge that can be used for good or evil.

This knowledge cannot and should not be erased because an individual, even the original author, has concluded that violence is under no circumstance an acceptable way to prosecute change.
Ninety-seven percent of the members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science accept the evidence for evolution...

I'm surprised it wasn't higher.
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The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like rejection of new knowledge because it contradicts entrenched norms, beliefs or paradigms. It refers to Ignaz Semmelweis, who discovered that childbed fever mortality rates could be reduced ten-fold if doctors would wash their hands (we would now say disinfect) with a chlorine solution. His hand-washing suggestions were rejected by his contemporaries."

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I don't know what "self-segmentation" means; I'm not being disingenuous. Do you mean "users segment themselves"? Because no, they don't; he created 2 segments, both wildly underpriced, and provided no rational incentive for customers to choose the more expensive one.

I paid $2 for _The Incident_ on the iPhone. Don't me wrong, _The Incident_ is a work of art, but it does not provide the same kind of value as a title as this game does; I play it in 4 minute increments on the elevator at my office. I am not the only person who paid $2 for _The Incident_.

You're right, I don't play computer games (well, I play Starcraft 2 since I bought it for my son --- actually, I bought it twice, so I could play it multiplayer with him; want to guess how much I spent for that?). Maybe this game just sucks and is only worth $6. That's not the impression I got.
Sure, people shouldn't pretend to be scientists either. This is just about the fact that people have the right to raise objections outside of the realm of science. "Are these scientists paid by politicians or corporations?" "Are these scientists a little too sure of themselves on this theory to be dictating our lives just yet?"