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Blockquote. There are many times I would like to do a blockquote and have to either "quote" the quote, italicize the quote, or use

preformatted quotes.

Each of the alternatives has drawbacks.

I would humbly request pg to add the email convention "> " at the beginning of a line to format as a block quote.

> This would be a block quote. It goes on as long as the paragraph goes on. Note that each line does not start with "> " - that would be unnecessary since that is already done with the preformatted syntax.

This would no longer be block quoted.
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Agreed. Our page sucks and needs some serious work.

We just did a push so the code should show up in the right place. Let me know if that's better.

If you or anyone has issues / questions, noah [at] appsumo or call me 415 886 SUMO
I think that it's most important to know what you want yourself first.

If you know that, then you can easily spend your money on the right things for the right reasons and, thus, spare yourself from owning all kinds of cool, new, luxury, status, or whatever objects that you only bought because you wanted to be cool or successful or you thought you wanted them.

For example, I don't need a new car, a high-end mobile phone, or the ultimate gaming setup with a ridiculously expensive graphics card. They wouldn't produce much extra value to me so I don't feel justified to pay for them. However, I do love photography so buying a new DSLR and a set of lenses instead of a pocket camera was well justified even though the money spent on the DSLR was probably ten-fold.
My claim is that if most of the countries of the world were Anarchist then someone threatening that would be met the same way threatening democracy is met today.

Democracy is continually threatened all over the world and no one does much about it without some sort of explicit self-interest.

* There are existing Anarchic systems, e.g. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/06/...

I would classify that as primitivism, despite the presence of agriculture. It's certainly not a satisfying answer to your claim that we can have anarchism and still hold onto computers and the internet.

The actual problem with it is that it's on small scales. The largest examples probably being Spain and part of Russia during their revolution. In the case of Spain literally everyone joined together to stop the Anarchists. We don't have large scale empirical knowledge because people in positions of power don't want us to.

For me this is the strongest argument that there is something to the idea. If it were a fatally flawed idea the smart thing to do would be to let some high profile country try it and watch them fail. Then the book would be pretty well closed on the matter.

If the entire rest of the world was operating as a cartel, yes, the smart thing to do would be to let anarchism fail by itself. As it stands, setting up an anarchic society--especially in the middle of a revolution or civil war--just means there's tons of competing factions, each of which is better served by taking the anarchic territory for itself rather than letting it fall to a rival. At least unless the anarchic territory is more difficult to conquer than it is worth.

Lastly, the bases of the idea is a moral one. Why does anyone have the right to be over anyone else. Given the levels of corruption in government around the world, this strikes me as a valid question.

I used to have moral problems with this too, but ultimately it doesn't matter--I'd rather limit myself to making small changes on the real world we have to generate better results.
Yes, you can do that but sometimes it's not very obvious if you are not a master with css, html, and photoshop.
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Well - usually this is the case. You see - society indeed tends to call successful people geniuses.

The others get to be called "autistic savants".

/sarcasm

Some say that Edison was not a genius, and that Ford was not a genius, etc...

Myself - I'm chock full sick of "geniuses" who would of made it if they would of made it. Thus I'd be way more inclined to root for the Zuck than for the mass of people that claim that he fracked them over.

Rooting for the underdog might be "noble". But lets face it - most of the underdogs don't deserve to win.
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You're absolutely right. I will make sure this gets reported to the correct people.
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Wow, the author seems convinced of the veracity of the idea, so what mentality is it that '[looks] forward to continuing this conversation!' rather than actually EXECUTING it?

Or is that too much hard work, unsuitable for members of the 'feminist technology movement'?

Yes, I'm scathing. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Awesome utility/bookmarklet.

I've noticed some slowness but it may be my side due to applicaitons and tabs open. But awesome..
What is the "usual metric bar with which games are critiqued"? I am pretty sure that is your opinion because there is no metric bar that all games are measured against.

Game reviews do not use a good game checklist to explain why a game is good or bad, they give their opinion. You can say Zynga games are bad, but supposing that your opinion should apply to everyone is arrogant.
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I think this is the best source of webapp ideas. So... what's pissed you off lately?
In your first paragraph's example ("Simply when the network will be broken the cluster will not work at all.") you are sacrificing availability.

In the rest of your post, you seem to be sacrificing consistency; one server is down, and thus not receiving any updates from the other servers when data gets updated.

I'm not sure you understood the point of the article, so I'll try to restate it: When part of your system goes down (and it will), you can choose between refusing requests, in which case you sacrifice availability, or serving requests, in which case you sacrifice consistency, since the part of the system which is down cannot be updated when you update data, or cannot be queried in the case of data which is insufficiently replicated. You _cannot_ choose both, since that would require communicating with the downed server.
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And if you thought the majority of Republicans didn't want the same thing on all those points, within some wiggle-room on definitions and chauvinism over which party's policies to do roughly the same thing are better...well, you'd be surprised talking to them, then.

Likewise, you and most other Democrats would probably go, "Hell, we want that, too!" if a Republican listed off eir concerns about national security, countering terrorism, balancing the budget, reducing waste, etc.

And when the rubber hits the road, even fewer differences come up. The Republicans never carried out their boast of dismantling the Department of Education back in the 90s; by 2000, Bush ran on the promise of further centralizing education and enlarging the DoE, both of which he did. Republicans acted as if Obama was going to cut and run in Iraq and Afghanistan, if it didn't turn out to be possible to simply surrender to Al Queda; this has, to say the very least, not happened.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who works in the industry.

Keep in mind Akamai was founded by an ex-mossad Sayeret Matkal expert who "coincidently" was seated right next to the terrorists who flew Flight 11 into the WTC.

The US people must demand a new 9/11 investigation.
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"About Face" by Alan Cooper is far-and-away the best book I've read on interaction design.

Don Norman's books are also worth a read (though more difficult to immediately apply to creating software).

For general visual design "The Non-Designers Design Book" by Robin Williams is an excellent tutorial to teach you how to be, as you say, "not horrible".
i recently quit quickbooks online because the site went down for over 24 hours within the first week of my signing up
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What is the best way to structure independent contractor equity compensation and what is an acceptable range?
I can see the point about "in the middle of nowhere", but aside from invoking classist and rural vs. urban prejudices, why should it being a "double-wide trailer" change anyone's opinion?
Can you recommend any books on "human factors"?
This is definitely the case for me too (Using Chrome on OS X). You can sort of fix it by right clicking and then restarting, but it works exactly as expected on other websites. Good job OP.
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I'd never get into Farmville or a MMO because both classes of game just look dull and time-consuming, but I agree that from that point of view they're pretty much the same.

The only thing that annoys me about Farmville and related games is the way they rely on getting people to spam their friends for viral growth. Now, I put them all on "ignore" as soon as I see them pop up so I've never got more than one notification from Farmville itself, but I have to keep on blocking all these damn games.
Hmmmm, I don't see the difference when I refresh the page. My suggestion would be to place a divider between each row in the table, similar to the <th> row.
Possibly, but first they'll file a tax lien, allowing them to garnish your wages or bank account etc., and make your credit record radioactive until it's lifted. If you've ignored a court summons, that might result in an arrest warrant providing for you to be taken into custody at a police stop.

In general, you need to owe them quite a lot of money before they will go to the bother of looking for you, which is expensive and risky; it's a lot easier to just publicly flag you as a tax debtor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_lien
> in systems designed for network partitons, like replication to mobile devices or laptops or whatever, AP is almost always the right choice.

Although it is pretty much the only choice for general purpose file sync, it's still not a good choice. It is difficult to train non-technical staff to deal with inconsistencies on resync, and they don't want to have to deal with it. I've had success with Synctus precisely because it guarantees consistency (it is CP, and any one node keeps the A for a given file). Of course, this only works for mostly-on systems.
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There are plenty of metrics, like engagement, enjoyment etc. etc., but there is some very tangible metric bar by which games are measured, it's called peer approval.

By what metric are other art forms judged? How are the Oscars awarded to movies? Who chooses the winner of the Booker prize? Or the VMAs? Peer approval.

Zynga doesn't have peer approval from many game designers. This article highlights some dissenting opinion, but there's plenty more out there. Just Google it. Their infamous speech speech at GDC Awards show doesn't help their cause either. [1]

Note I am careful not to say "games reviewers" because reviewers are writing for their audience, and that core game audience usually does not intersect with Zynga.

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20002221-52.html
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For all we know they may have done this in the past and nobody ever paid. I mean, they didn't pay $75 a year and now they have a damaged house... seems like a good chance they won't pay afterwards when the amount is a lot higher.

It isn't like they allowed people to die in the fire, it was just a house. Just like if you wreck your car without coverage, you will be the one paying for it.

In the end, I'm sure this isn't easy for the firefighters (as the linked article mentions), but they have to make sure they provide the best service they can to those who they serve (their own town).
$200 in credit? Now I might just buy this :)

I do question AppSumo's longterm strategy. It seems like they are trying to make a deal so damn good by adding more and more stuff. But for me, I don't go so much by quantity as quality. Meaning, I'd sign up for $42 for $200 in twilio credit regardless of the other offers which aren't attractive to me. But there may be folks who would sign up for uservoice regardless of the other offers. So I guess appsumo may be shooting themselves in the foot by combining so many offers vs. just focusing on a kickass offer at a time.
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> Well 'Violet Blue' is my girlfriend,

I guess that may have been a little predictable from TFA, but I'm regularly surprised by the folks who crop up at HN. I've been reading both your and VB's work for years, it is a funny coincidence to discover there is an relationship between you.
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One possibility (not sure if it's been done) is to try to understand what the players themselves think of the game. Some WoW players love it, some kind of hate it but continue to play it anyway for various reasons, ranging from addiction to sunk cost to social pressure, others vaccilate or are somewhere in between. How does that compare to FarmVille players or to Starcraft 2 players or to slot-machine players?

Self-assessment isn't a perfect metric either, but differences in self-assessment between players of different kinds of games might give something interesting. I mean, if you go only by money made, the slot machine is still the best game of all time. Which maybe is true on one axis of "best", but it seems weird to argue that it's the only possible way to discuss games. Is looking at the top-grossing films list the only possible way to discuss films?
For me, it's a close second to "Swordfish" for movie depictions of computer programming (at least the way I do it at home).
That is what the word art came to mean post-Romanticism. Pre-Romanticism, the distinction was made between art (craft/skill) and genius (inspiration). See Critical Theory Since Plato if you're interested in reading how past thinkers approached artistic creation.
I loved the bundle idea! Two suggestions:

* Not everyone is familiar with everything. Can you add a section to the site that better describes what the included services can be used for. I don't mean full-blown tutorials, although links to these would be great. Right now the descriptions are just publicity blurbs for each service.

* Can you add voting so that people nominate what services/books they want to see in the next round of such a bundle offering, if you want to continue this startup bundle idea.
Thanks. I'm committing that change now. I'll update when it's live in a second...
I agree. (all these observations are about movie Zuck, not real Zuck)

He's not a punk, me's more like someone who has been bullied, pushed around, and ignored his whole life and he's not going to take it anymore.

He might be a genius, but that's not what's special about him. It's his determination to succeed at any cost. Lots of 19 year olds are geniuses, but most know when to quit.

Sure he's a billionaire, but there was only one line in the movie where that was even relevant (An extremely juicy line, I might add). He was after power, success, and influence much more than he was about money.

I couldn't decide if the movie portrayed him as a sympathetic villain or a tragic hero. Probably more like a real life complicated person going through an amazing journey.
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> "I think more people spend time using computers in the office, rather than while on vacation."
There you go, you're thinking about the wrong people. The iPad, as a consumer product, is aimed at home users. Business users have different needs and they absolutely run into more of the iPad's limitations.

The example is set on vacation just to get you into the mindset of a home user: computing for pleasure, family use.
Car sharers share across significantly more categories than non-car sharers – 11 versus 8 categories on average.

Which is odd, because car "sharing" isn't really sharing in any normal sense -- no more than Avis about car sharing or Hilton is about sharing rooms.
It wasn't a large home, invested with generations of family sentiment, threatening a tree-lined street of houses. Put more bluntly: the property damage we're talking about here may have been minimal; to the person suggesting that the residents should have been allowed to pay, say, $5000 to get the department to help --- well, that may have been 40-50% of the value of the structure.
Even stone and brick houses have flammable components. Even a completely non-flammable concrete bunker would have survivability issues with ventilation and temperature if surrounded by a forest fire for any significant length of time.
I don't want anyone telling me I can't build on land I own just because I can't get fire protection.
Realistically, a legal measure can be considered a popular choice, even democratic, if it was put forth in a ballot, or if the law makers and politicians that proposed it have argued for it in public fora.

What we have here is a crew of GOP politicians who came to power on biblical and national issues; having been financed and propped up by their regional and state offices. The people there, like most everywhere else in the U.S., vote in lock step with their "traditional" parties, for/against issues than don't relate to them on a daily basis.

People will happily vote against their own self-interest because they're under-informed, and held emotionally captive by politicians who invoke moral and religious argument to further their agenda.

Did these people choose to have a dysfunctional fire department? No. They chose less taxes, and smaller government. The GOP, instead of thinking of what's best for the people, decided to stick by their philosophical guns and deprived people of functioning infrastructure.

I will grant you that specific house was outside their taxed jurisdiction. But then comes the next argument: why hasn't the state stepped forward to help its remote citizens? Why hasn't the state of Tennessee dictated a policy of full, state-wide coverage for fire and rescue services for people in remote areas? What's philosophically unacceptable about a state dictating to its cities and towns that they need to support those satellite households? If not, why hasn't the state collected fees from those households to insure them?

Get my drift?

When a gang of politicians has free reign to act out its wildest political fantasies and govern by its most idealized rules, well, shit tends to happen. This is what I meant by "maintaining intellectual consistency". It wouldn't harm ONE TN politician to tax people in remote areas, not ONE. But they chose not to.
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I'm having trouble understanding why it should. The main thing that is difficult for me to accept is that the fire department was there, within rock-throwing distance of a fire, and did nothing except make sure the neighbors who were covered were protected.
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the thing of it is that it'd be a whole lot easier now, with modern smartphones having a decent amount of cpu and good cameras.

It'd still be really difficult to do the true "pre ISBN" books just 'cause those are difficult to identify even with human help. often the printing/publisher/ etc... info isn't on the amazon page, and that sort of thing is huge when it comes to values.

But for the post ISBN (or the SBN? what was that called? the american book number, before it was International?) things would be much easier; yeah, you've gotta ocr a string, but with today's smartphones, that'd be pretty easy. then you just come up with a list of editions or what have you. You'd still have the problem of amazon's info about old books being not great, but you'd at least duck the problem of getting a different book with the same title (which is more common than you think.)

Really, if I were to enter that market now, I'd definitely focus on the pre-barcode books, just 'cause as far as I can tell, the software for dealing with barcodes is pretty good, and I think modern smartphones are now powerful enough to do the OCR and other stuff required to deal with that sort of thing.
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I've tinkered around with doing something like this for SC2 replays, and it's actually a pretty difficult proposition.

SC2 replay files only store the low-level commands issued by the player: selecting and deselecting units, movement and attack commands, build commands, the like. It doesn't contain any information about resources or units produced, since that's handled by the game engine.

In order to figure out what actually happened in a given replay, you've got to either re-implement the SC2 game engine, or code-inject the SC2 executable to grab the information you want while it's playing the replay file.

Since the first task is monumental, and I have no experience with code injection, I shelved the idea until there's something like the Chaos Launcher[1] for SC2.

[1]: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Chaoslauncher
Tough, is what I think. Build wherever you want, but expect to pay extra for putting fire departments in the position you're putting them in.
This is why I'm optimistic about smaller reactors like the B&W mPower reactor, or China's HTR-PM pebble bed reactors. They're meant to be cranked out in bulk, identically, and shipped out to wherever the site is.

The AP1000 also looks like a pretty impressive attempt at standardization, since it comes mostly in the form of factory-produced modules that get assembled on-site.
And, it's probably prudent to note, directed at Israel from the US.
> stumbled

Well, no, I was well aware of that argument. But I'll take it in the spirit it was intended. ;-)
Great comment. We've tried it both way. Just experimenting to see what people like most..

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