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I think you are mixing concepts.

First: new customers will forever know that the stated price is not the "real" price but a much lower amount
I think the "real price you are referring to is the production cost, which generally (unless is subsidized) is lower than the sales price.

Second: if a service is normally priced at $50, and you now offer it at $25, your customers, even the ones who don't go for the deal, will now think the "true" price is closer to the lower price than the previous price

What is exactly the "true" price? As far as I know an item is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

The only thing I can infer from your sentence is that a set of customers that won't even buy the product at discounted prices, have not yet obtained value from your product. Which can be in itself a great insight to work on the message of your product and hopefully be able to transmit value.

I think, that if anything, Groupon is a great way to flush out the low value customers from a CRM pyramid and focus on medium value customers and turning them into high value ones.
I immediately noticed that too. Their old design was very nice and it fit with the general theme of "Lift". This new one is just plain ugly.
You got a point, but a Brand is a bunch of products. You can bring the buyer in the store because of a coupon, if he comes back, it's for the service that you showed him in that store.

So the coupon is good to bring the customer closer to the place where he can listen to the message of the Brand.
So you're right about the price, but the income are always coming from the relationship, in any case, you won't have a chance to build that relationship if the customer prejudges you as an expensive brand.
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Its sluggish in Chromium 7.0.535.0 (Linux) but better in Chrome (Linux). Firefox did the job a lil' better than both Chromium and Chrome (although there is no reason for this!). Opera 10 (Linux) was the best.
Yep. One of the causes of the global depression of the late 1920s is that governments did not intervene sufficiently forcefully when money supply seized up, and by the time they figured out what was going on it was too late.

The Bush/Obama stimulus prevented a collapse of the global banking system although reasonable people are arguing that the stimulus didn't go far enough (since we still have 12% unemployment in many parts of the country).

If your opinion is that the deficit is the root of all evil, you probably feel that way because you have a bunch of cash in the bank. Regardless, the time to fight deficits is when you have money to fight it with (as happened under the Clinton administration).
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Dude, slap her around? Seriously? You honestly think this equates. Apparently your entrepreneur girlfriend is one of the few females you've interacted with. You absolutely need to bite back a little bit. Here's misogyny for you: 90% of women I've been romantically involved with will take take take until I put my foot down. Women seem to have no self control when it comes to selfish behavior.
Well, one reason could be suggesting that government spending is the necessary ingredient for innovation, which is faintly preposterous. The government spends a huge proportion of the economy's earned wealth, so, yes, it's going to be involved in a lot of innovation. There are no controlled studies showing that as much or more innovation would not have happened regardless. Moreover, innovation is proceeding apace even thought some folks seem to think the government isn't spending enough.
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You can report a policy violation to Google AdSense by clicking on the link in the bottom right corner of the offending site:

http://www.peopleofpublictransit.com/

I hope Google cuts them off.
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I found an interesting quote at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6216808.stm

During the mission his strong character famously resulted in a clash with his American commander General Wesley Clark.

When ordered to intercept Russian forces which entered Kosovo without the alliance's agreement he refused. "I'm not going to start the Third World War for you," he is reported to have told General Clark
On the Apple devices each app lives sand boxed in it's own directory, but apps can still access photos taken with the camera or saved from other apps. They don't ask for permission, but go through a standard image picker user interface provided by the system. I don't think apps can grab photos unless the user picks them through this widget. This way you know exactly what you are handing over. Direct access to the SD card is dicey at best.

It looks like compiled apps on Palm can also read the whole media directory. The neat thing with Palm though is any app can bring in scenes (a screen) from other apps, preserving the state of the application underneath, while passing back data. This way any app can selectively share with another app. On iPhone OS the only system wide widgets available are provided by Apple. I'm betting/hoping Palm will come back and give Apple a run for it's money, if the carriers don't cripple it somehow first.
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-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jackson#High_command
Maybe because I spent 14 hours yesterday throwing up, so I'm not exactly at my best. Besides, I think I did give a real example of it: Personal firsthand experience with individuals I have known. However, I know that anecdotal evidence is not generally considered strong evidence, so I tried to also reference something commonly said in hopes that would be better understood/accepted. Apparently, those hopes were in vain.
Oh dear, here's something I wrote over 3 years ago all up on Hacker News. Thanks for publicly shaming me!

Here we go. This was ironic, firmly tongue in cheek, over the top, joking. No, I don't think "females" are "too dumb to appreciate what we do". I know plenty of women that are way smarter than I'll ever be. Most of the points in this article can be carried over to a female geek plus male non-geek relationship as well (check the comments).

FWIW, this had been given the green light and agreed with by a fair number of girls both before and after posting.

Now, everybody relax and don't panic. Don't take the ranting of a 18 year old nerdy boy as truth ;)
Probably this in the <head>:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0;">
I might buy one too, for the toy value, but my mind boggles... what use is a GSM jammer?!

In a city, anyone with a web browser could do geocoding (address -> longitude/latitude) anyway.

Is there some military/criminal application? E.g. to stop automatic targeting or to hinder automatic GPS on cameras from kidnapped people?
I would say it belongs more to the people and less to the sheiks; that was the point I was trying to make.
This is a bad idea.

1) It's essentially spam, which Google works to prevent. It seems likely this will actually hurt Mozilla's rank in searches.

2) It's unnecessary. Google's results are usually fine. If you really want a page on Mozilla Dev Center you just add the letters "mdc" to your search, and it's the top result every time.
There are already jumplists for other applications. That's what I was asking about.
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I use Eclipse. For a while, during the Scala 2.7 to 2.8 transition, the Scala support was so bad I actually switched back to Emacs. Now it's fairly usable, though not as full featured as the Eclipse's Java support. I would also highly recommend you setup JRebel with Lift. It makes the development cycle go much faster.
The illusion of being in control is very appealing.
The techniques mentioned (personas, card-sorting, etc) are all well known "best practices" in user experience design. The large successful companies in the consumer space (Amazon, EBay, Expedia, etc) adopt these practices (or derive their own mix based on these).

Do startups use these? Some do, some don't. Depends on the time frame, the resources available, and the knowledge and skills of founders.

This is similar to software development methodologies (agile, TDD, XP, etc). Some coders at startups are aware of these software development methodologies and follow them diligently. Others follow their own loose interpretation of these.

Some startups are successful purely with the blind, gut-feel approach: one smart programmer writing code with no methodology, plus one talented UI designer likewise working intuitively without the detailed upfront work. Of course, many startups fail, or have severe growing pains (Twitter for example).

Methodology and process, whether in coding or in UI, helps reduce the risk and insure successful outcome. You can still fail, and many do. Also many teams (especially in older, stagnant organizations), follow these processes blindly, as empty rituals. Ceremony does not guarantee success.
The benefit is that you don't become overweight and obese. I lived in Korea for a year and those people know how to eat vegetables. They are filling and low calorie which makes it less likely for the sedentary person to put on weight.
Thank you very much for the help
Thanks very much for the advice
Thanks for pointing me to this
Which of the AdSense policies are they violating though?
And even better: combine with 'site' operator and "I'm Feeling Lucky" to ensure one click access:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anytimes.com+...
There was a link on HN a few days ago to this site[1] that automates that process, so you can cheat :)

[1]http://www.xltd.com/WikiMindMap/WikiPath.htm (but it seems like it does not work right now)
I think thats a really great idea.

I sure would like a 'hard way' courseware for C.
(in addition to my trusty copy of K&R C for reference)
I also recall this blog post from 2009: http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2009/11/myth-of-5-day-people-never...
Adding an SSH key was part of the sign up page on the website. Leaving blank only prompted me for it again.

Running "curl -k -u user:pass http://api.no.de/heart -X POST" gave no output. I'm noticing in my history that I didn't use https, I guess that's why it didn't work.

Why should I even have to jump to curl to request a coupon?
"Today, “offsets” are recognized as the most sensible and efficient way of bettering our world. " -- i don't understand the logic behind this statement.

"Discrimination is the root cause of almost every social issue in the United States." -- same on this one... Also, does it extend to India, given the India example mentioned?

While the site seems like it could lead to an interesting intellectual exercise and exploration, i'm not able to follow the logic, and i see questionable assumptions in many areas, imho.
You need passion, potential and patience to succeed with a tech startup.
GSM != GPS. A GSM jammer would block phones, e.g. in restaurants, cinemas, business presentations, etc.
I ended up buying it because Saudis bring mobiles into meetings. This would make a 10 minute meeting about an hour and a half long because a senior manager gets and takes a lot of calls, except when I'm in the meeting.
Well, thanks for the link. It took some extreme creative interpretation to get the intent and motivation of the writer. Whenever I read opinions like those stated by lzw I make an attempt to understand the social and economic situation the writer is coming from. Quite often one can then understand the forces that twist the logic.
Govt cannot monitor day-to-day illegal & immoral activities of big corporations.
It is better to breakup these corporations into smaller entities to promote competition and solve unemployment crisis.
I'd be interested to know by what standards you asses programing languages.

JavaScript has an admittedly clumsy and unnecessarily Java-like syntax and few built-in functions, I agree. But underneath there is a very elegant functional programming language. Who needs more built-in functions? Most scripting languages' built-in functions are just libraries written in that very language anyway. There's tons of such libraries for JavaScript.

A lot of the recent hype is due to node.js, too. Node.js is (somewhat simplified) a set of evented IO bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine. Those bindings enable us to build webservers using JavaScript. JavaScript was designed to be run in an event loop without any concurrency or blocking, which makes it incredibly easy to build software the scales reasonably well.

That said, I do agree that you should be able to use more languages in the browser. IIRC somebody has already ported Mono to Firefox which allows you to run tons of scripting languages in the browser. The next thing we need is standardization.
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It's not a direct link though. I can stuff my face with nothing but donuts for weeks on end and never put on an ounce of weight. Which is probably as irritating as someone who can't lose weight.
Agreed on 1). It's not unnecessary though. If you don't know what mdc is, you can't search for it. JavaScript is often said to be the most misunderstood programming language. I think this is because there is no definitive, easily findable resource on it.
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the point is you need to add mdc, people searching for javascript that do not know about mdc get sent to barely related sites at best, but more often misleading and wrong documentation
I just put them straight on the grill next to whatever I'm making. My wife does the more complex stuff when needed but that sometimes make me feel dumb. I can figure out most things on my own but cooking is something I just have no interest in learning.
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the w3c documentation is terrible, I mean the first function you see on the home page is document.write
For what it's worth, it is true that the average person will know nothing much more than "you're really good with computers". Yes, you may have the exception, but the exception it is, and it is not being mean to say so. (Perhaps a touch misogynistic to single out "girlfriends" for this status when it is, as I say, a general rule for all people, but it is still a true statement and that counts for something.)
To disable net access temporarily couldn't you just put it in airplane mode?
No, I mean eating. Part of eating is knowing how and what to eat. As discussed in the article, they're not eating vegetables and are choosing to eat things like fries or potato chips instead. You don't even need to cook most vegetables to eat them. In fact, for many vegetables it's better (nutritionally) if you don't cook them.
"Should accommodate X" means that you should not make policy that is unfavorable to X.

He's saying that the market should be open to all strategies. There's no statement in there saying that the market should stop favoring one or another strategy.

This comes because others have have implied that the present system is favoring HFT and he's basically rebutting those claims using this argument.
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It's not legal - UFC is going after them (and Ustream) hard for broadcasting their streams (see http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=mmajunkie-UFC_anti-pir..., among others).

DMCA says that Justin.tv is in the clear so long as they follow take-down requests - their page about it is http://www.justin.tv/user/dmca. In a nice turn, they explain about counter-notifications (what you can file if someone has sent you a DMCA take-down that you feel is incorrect) with the same precision and prominence, and suggest that they will forward take-downs to Chilling Effects for good measure.
"There is no way to deny internet access to a specific app that supposedly ‘needs’ it."

There is a way, which I employ to great success: don't install the app.

The SD card is a real worry, but I thought that apps are Sandboxed in a way - they might only see the files they created themselves? I would have to check - otherwise it would of course be completely broken.
Opera 10.62 in linux gives me this error:

Based on your current browser, you are not seeing all that this website has to offer.
For the best 'Never Mind the Bullets' experience, we recommend you install Internet Explorer 9.

Seems to work okay otherwise, but I wonder what, if anything, I am missing.
It is a direct link because I am talking about calories. There is a myth that there are people who can eat whatever they want and not gain weight. Everyone has a base amount of calories to work from and if you go over that amount you gain weight.
I don't think swombat was being mean so much as passionate (about good English, a worthy subject) and concerned (for the author, who badly needs to hear this). In other words, tough love!

Edit: it's probably worth pointing out why founders should care about basic grammar: not knowing it is bad for business. It makes you seem what Russians call bezgramotny (our closest word is "illiterate" but a better translation in this case might be "grammarless"). This makes it harder to impress successful people.
Can computers take the place of teachers?
The best answer I could find, along with instruction to do some things, was at the Joyent wiki: http://wiki.joyent.com/node:faq

Regarding specs of the service offered, it just says: I need more memory or disk!
"As part of our beta service we have one size Node Smart Machine available. In our tests so far, few developers have hit those limits. If you are running out of disk or memory send a message to support@joyent.com or try running Node on a standard SmartOS Smart Machine."
As I just said, I CANNOT gain weight. It is simply impossible. I am not alone. I have been 9 1/2 stone for the last 10 years.
Definitely a welcome change. The video list was getting pretty unruly.
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Is Alibaba a tech start-up? Of course it depends on your definition, but I would argue no, it isn't. (Just pause for a second here: how many businesses can you think of that _don't_ rely on technology of some description?)

Alibaba is a business that leverages the web to make it easier and cheaper for suppliers to find buyers and vice versa. An older version of this is perhaps a physical market, or a convention, or some kind of club or association, or simply your rolodex of business contacts. The guy that started Alibaba recognised that the web could bring together and match buyers and sellers on an entirely new scale, and at a very low cost: good for users, and good for building a huge company.

He didn't need to be a tech guy to recognise this. His business is _not_ technology. His business is one of the oldest, and most important of all businesses: introductions.

Of course, had he been a tech guy he could have maybe built a website. I don't know his background, but if he had one or more of the following - decent degree, cash or connections he probably didn't find it too hard to raise some money to hire some guys to code the site.

A tech business, I would argue, would be one developing or selling technology. I don't know - designing computer chips, or writing specialised compilers for example. For this kind of business, then yes you need to be a technologist - you won't be able to understand your product otherwise. But simply utilising technology maketh not a technology company.

So with this definition, absolutely - you do not need to be a techy guy to start one of these businesses (e.g a web-based business). In fact if anything, I reckon it's better if you aren't: technologists often spend way too much time stressing about and optimising the underlying technology, when actually what they need to be worried about is the business model that the technology is powering.

Edit: so an example of a "tech" business that isn't really a tech business: an e-commerce store. Let's say you just wanted to set up an online store to satisfy the increasing demand for ridiculous office/executive toys. Do you need to be a tech guy to do this? No: what you need is a sound understanding of your product lines, the market size, your route to market & sales channels and so on. In terms of setting up an online shop there's a million providers who'll set this up for you with custom designs, transaction processing and everything else you'll need to get started - just as there are all the other providers of services that you might need - legal advice, accounting, payroll, inventory management, CRM etc etc.
I think they tried to choose movies that are also about business.
The only one I disagree with is: "You care far more about current nearby events than similar distant or past/future events." That just seems rational to me. I spend more time developing opinions about things that are happening near, spatially and temporally, because those are the things I am most likely to be able to affect for the better.
I don't know how you can say that. Some medical conditions (like cystic fibrosis) are well known for typically causing people to be unable to adequately gain weight. My son was put on prescription enzymes and gained 20 pounds in a year after getting diagnosed. This was quite a large weight increase since he only weighed 103 pounds at the start.

Different bodies do different things with the same resources.

Peace.
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Most current news already happen too fast for me to affect things for the better or is outside of my influence.

By learning from past, when everything is settled down, I can prepare for future changes. By improving myself, I can expand my sphere of influence and make better decisions for things that I can affect within my influence.
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Why would there be?
Both the US and German rocket programs were started by privately funded researchers. The governments only got interested when they saw working equipment.

The same was true of jet engine. Neither the German nor British governments had the slightest interest in it until they were shown flying jet powered aircraft. The US government specifically told Lockheed to stop work on jet engines and concentrate on war production.

A number of privately developed computer networks existed before the internet. Heck, anyone with two computers tried to connect them together.
If you play a typical game in normal fashion, you lose when losing is typical.

If you play reasonably well in a game where modest success is typical, you will likely get modest success.

Most people who play absolutely their own game lose too.

Most big successes play a game where winning is typical and play it better than average.

There's a "sweet spot" of self-expression and following the crowd but it's still fairly close to the crowd.
why is this on hacker news??????
What constitutes a minimum viable product depends on the space. You still have a MVP even if you are in an ambitious space and building something with deep technology. Clustrix is a YC company and I assume they don't qualify as a bottom-feeder.
that's impossible. i fear i have to resort to causing bodily harm because of that.
Jesus. I hardly ever get annoyed by things on the internet, but seriously, wtf? This makes my skin crawl.
Having worked on Visual Studio, I can't speak for either product you mention. I despise the Windows user experience, but that's really neither here nor there.

> The best UX design, in my experience, is simply done by a smart imaginative person who uses the product in a way similar to the users

I agree. Which is why these techniques tend to be less useful in startups: you're working on a product that is far more digestible in size than, say, Visual Studio or Windows. Hopefully you're building something that is of personal interest or applicability to you.

edit: as long as we're picking on products the other person has never worked on, why is Picasa so incredibly ugly and hard to use? Same thing with the AdWords and AdSense consoles.
Twitter worm? Sex with goats?
Looks like twitter is having troubles again. Looks like a worm is posting the message "i love anal sex with goats" followed by a post with a link.