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They did. Curse runs ads on their website and client, and does a revenue split with addon authors. The idea is that hosting your addons drives traffic to Curse, which drives up their ad income, so they give authors a bit of it to incentivize them to continue sending traffic to them. I think the exact split is based on your addon's install base through the client.

The end user never pays for the addon. They can pay for a premium client subscription, which gets you priority bandwidth on patch days, one-click updating, no ads, and that sort of thing, but you're very solidly in paying-for-service territory then, and there are still fully functional free methods to get the same addons. I think what Blizzard mostly wanted to avoid was an environment where some players could gain an advantage over others by purchasing some addon, and they didn't want the in-game experience turning into an advertising slum.
Wow, that takes me back. It's sad to see so many of those videos have been removed in the last three years.
I resemble some of those remarks: I also can't program and I also happen to be female. And my questions tend to not get much feedback. But I have a long, long history of falling on my face in that regard, starting well before I ever heard of Hacker News, so I don't think it's "them". I'm pretty darn sure it's me. I participate anyway. It's been a growth experience and I like it here.

YMMV, and probably will.
You mean like biology, or psychology, or how chemistry was for centuries, or medicine, or how physics was for centuries?
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A lot of people were not seeing that, which is probably why Apple was able to launch a 10" $500 tablet without any competitors in the market.
Sorry if you feel this way. I have no control over what title someone will submit my story as. My title was the counter-claim of the article I was rebutting.
But cafes aren't really selling books -- they're selling coffee and cookies. A lot of people seem to just hang out in book stores, without buying anything, so I really wonder if the cafe business model will work out long-term.
I don’t understand why you are contradicting me. I think we agree. I was talking about the state of Android tablets – specifically their UI – right now, even saying that I expect Android to improve this year. I don’t expect Android to remain as bad a fit for tablets as it is right now in the future but iOS has undoubtedly had a head start. (You could argue that Google has already demonstrated that they can catch up with the iPhone so I’m not sure how predictive such a head start is.) That seems to me to be exactly the same you are saying.

I’m not sure how you then arrive at the conclusion that the iPad is just a huge iPod touch. Its apps have a different UI, making use of the larger screen (as you said), so it is different, at least in that respect (and I wasn’t claiming anything more).
If you are selling ads directly (just as hard, if not harder than selling your product) - it will depend. You would have to get huge CPM's with your traffic for it to make sense.

If you are going to use an ad network (adsense, etc.) you will make almost nothing. Way, way, way less than the $1,200 you are currently bringing in.

Here is what I would recommend: Offer your potential clients a free trial. Let's say 30-90 days. If your product is valuable to them, you will be able to convert them to paying customers. (Like your neighborhood crack dealer. Give it away for free, get them addicted and see who comes back for more! Its a proven strategy.) The key is to get them using your product.

Also, there is no rule stating that you cannot show display ads/text ads AND charge for your product. The only people who complain about ads are hipster/early adopters. If your customers are not redditor types, you can most likely have your cake and eat it, too.
As an ex-hardcore player I'm amazed at how easy it is to have fun in Cataclysm now without even raiding. And it's actually enjoyable treating heroic instances as I used to treat progress raids - reading up on a fight at a time, watching videos, working towards gear through points but with absolutely no obligation or time commitment.

It's awesome - though the biggest change I've made is moving to the USA, where I absolutely cannot raid as the European guild I'm in raids during my workday. (And the latency).
Yea, I know. It is the PR 2.0 age, trying to control the message is just obsolete and fundamentally flawed nowadays. Believe me, this is not the only problem it causes.
My resolution for 2010 was 1280x800, so for 2011 I go for the full 1920x1080.
I think the issue is that (for some, at least) reading is much faster than watching the video, especially combined with the additional loading times.
There were tablets on the market before Macs.
How much input do you actually do on these websites? Facebook, for a major example, is just a sentence or two for each status update, and a word or two for the chat messages.
The iPad popularized the Tablet market, it didn't create it. Tablets have existed since 2000.
I know about five (non-techies) that got Nook Colors and a few people that got Tabs (3 to be exact). It´s probably partially because of the stronghold Verizon holds in my area so AT&T isn´t worth it... there is literally no AT&T service within a 10 mile radius of my house and school. I only know one person who got an iPad; well someone that posted on Facebook. I´m not sure I get the original argument.
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Although not a tablet in the current sense, I´ve been happily using my Maemo-powered ¨Internet Tablet¨ since before Apple made touchscreens.
a laptop isn't the way it is just to house a keyboard. It's that way so you can sit it on your lap with the screen positioned to view it.

I'm not gonna hold a tablet in my hands while I try and use it.

(I spend the vast majority of my time sat on a sofa with a laptop).
Well, by admission you're not a very good programmer, not interested in a career in development, and, you loose interest & give up when discouraged. Why on earth would anyone want to partner with YOU? Get real.Sounds like you want somebody you can trust to finish your projects and make you some $$. Even your friend knows that. Why don't you?
I was married over 20 years and the divorce was amicable. We treated the relationship as a private matter and nobody's business. My oldest son has said that when he was a kid, he couldn't comprehend stereotypical jokes about interfering in-laws and the like because he never once saw that in his own family. My ex was career military, so we didn't live near either of our families. That simplified that aspect of it. But I imagine we would have drawn pretty clear boundaries in that regard anyway, even if circumstances had been different. What goes on in the marriage has to be between the two of you and the rest of the world can go screw itself. If you can get that piece right, the marriage can withstand quite a lot, for many years.

Congratulations! I hope this is happily ever after.

PS: If at all possible, call when you are going to be late. That will go a long way towards letting your spouse know that you do really care about them even when the business is making demands on your time. It took my ex too many years to get the hang of that one.
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That depends on whether you think "literally" is modifying "asking" or "shot."
myspace has 1 100 employees ? What the hell are they all doing ... ?
> each accompanied by the typical deafening silence as to why, exactly, they don't want yo

In my experience, it has been pretty easy to ask why they don't want you. Some larger companies have policies about not telling you, but any small company probably won't mind answering a polite email with a reasonably straightforward answer. And in larger companies, you should be asking each individual interviewer for a business card to follow up with a thank you email, so you could reach out to them directly; they aren't as sensitive to the HR policies.

You get an email saying "We're sorry..." and you just reply "Thank you for the opportunity. If you don't mind, I'd appreciate any information you are willing to share about your decision. I'm always looking to improve myself and rely on your honesty to identify my grow areas. Thanks!"

What's the worse that happens? They reject you again by not giving you a straight answer? The whole point of learning to handle rejection is to take advantage of the fact that much of the time you can win just by showing up to the game.
Switching to ads is a very difficult way to sustain your current ~$1200/month, much less grow it.

I created a bedtime calculator called http://sleepyti.me that usually brings in about 10k hits per day. At that rate, I earn between $10 and $20 per day, or $300-$600 per month. Although I consider that revenue to be an astounding success, it is less than half of what you're making right now through the few customers you have.

I agree with cabinguy that a free trial system seems to be your best bet. Don't pull a bait-and-switch with the prices, but offering a 1 month trial that shows how easy and efficient your app is seems like a great way to hook potential customers. Maybe your price point is a little high, and you could be willing to let customers wrestle it down to, say, $200/month. Pricing is difficult, and especially without knowing your niche it's a little hard to say, but the rule of thumb is that if people say it's too expensive, it probably is.

Alternatively, you could meet somewhere halfway and offer a six month "special price" at $100/month or something to see if you can hook people in that way. Either way, I wish you the best of luck!
The animal rights group I work with, Compassionate Action for Animals (http://exploreveg.org), has several technical tasks that we could use help with.

I'd say that top of the list is helping us convert from Plone to Drupal. This involves working on a new information architecture (though I've started work on it), a new design, and converting all the existing content.

I'd also like help developing VegGuide.org (http://vegguide.org). It's kind of like Yelp but focused on vegetarian- and vegan-friendly restaurants, grocers, etc. The site is built with Perl, using the Catalyst framework. Unfortunately, it's using a crufty old ORM I built, which makes working on certain features much harder.

Contact us (info@exploreveg.org) if you're interested.
Marco Arment, John Gruber and company are so obnoxiously biased against anything that is not Apple that it isn't worth clicking on any links pointing to their sites. It's deja vu all the times if you do - no one can compete with Apple, everyone other than Apple is doomed. Ad-nauseum. With implausible or otherwise manufactured/subjective beliefs sometimes sprinkled in there to make them feel like logical reasons. There isn't anything insightful there - just bigotry.

"Neither Google nor Microsoft will ever be able to tailor their software to other manufacturers’ specific (and varied) hardware devices as well as Apple can (and does) with theirs."

Really? Marco Arment can predict the future? Do we lose all hope that people will do anything better than Apple? Even in Marco's little part of the world it sounds outrageously short sighted. You can say what you want against everything non-Apple and that would of course be your opinion (as opposed to universally accepted truth) - but this is going too far, even for Marco Arment class of people.

He goes preaching about Apple's integrated experience, "superior everything" and ponies - but you know what the whole world is not buying the iPad universally - Samsung sold a million Galaxy Tabs, Androids are already outselling Apple worldwide and reason for that is not that the people buying them are stupid - people just have different needs and tastes. Banging on the "teh superior AAPL drum" with a sad tune of everyone else's suckiness for ever is not going to change that.
To avoid reposting the exact same message: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2056896
I assume you (reasonably) count webmail as "not leaving the browser". Typing emails (or Facebook messages or whatever) is much more pleasant on a real keyboard than on a virtual touch-screen keyboard. Seems unlikely people are going to give up typing in droves.

What does seem quite plausible is tablet + peripherals - the tablet basically assuming the role of the old mini-tower computer, angled upright on a stand for desktop use, with keyboard and mouse hanging off it. (In fact if you also hung a monitor off it there's no reason you couldn't do that with a regular phone.) I think tablet + dock + keyboard may well become a popular home computer setup in the next few years.
Where to begin. I was a designer/artist, my work from 2006 http://detrus.nivr.net/ When I seriously started at the too late(?) age of 23 I had a lot of motivation, plunged ahead into semi-serious programming projects like a Flash 3D engine, made visible progress, ultimately got overwhelmed and demotivated.

Building seemingly simple common things like flashy sites, wordpress plugins, themes with some show/hide effects, sidescrolling 2D games, image pans, charts can turn into a nightmare when you have no foundation. Simple bugs can take weeks of work to fix.

These are the kinds of projects n00bs want to do, but it can take a lot more code or effort to do these common things than most can handle. With 2D sidescrollers you can run into localToGlobal problems and if you suck at math, have no clue that you should write a separate coordinate engine instead of using the API for screen positioning, nightmare ensues.

When I strayed from the tutorials I was lost. When I saw example code, I was usually lost. There were very few examples that would give the right foundation in the context of building a thumbnail site or 2D scroller. A lot of the code was horrible and I didn't know it. I've seen people here starting with Ruby that have better luck. I've seen people starting in JS that have it worse.

Figuring out this kind of crap took months. Yes I still think it's all crap. Learning resources are usually made by people with years of experience, who have long forgotten what it's like to be clueless. Programming languages, APIs, frameworks, engines, are geared for those with years of experience. By programmers, for programmers, or at least for people with a science/math slant.

It can be fixed with effort on the scale of jQuery for every single domain. Meanwhile many people who try will lose motivation because they'll fail to accomplish anything presentable after weeks of effort.
I'm not sure of the origins of the zenny/ascetic minimalist idea either, but it certainly is present, and not a figment of my imagination (http://cultofless.com/ is an example, so is http://www.farbeyondthestars.com/minimalist-freedom-how-to-l...). And that's really the sort of thing I am talking about. It's not immoral to have stuff, and I feel this "stuff is immoral" vibe floating around from some proponents of Minimalism). Some stuff is worth keeping, and lives that deal in physical things simply need physical stuff. Be prepared, as the Boy Scouts say.
Sure, I agree it's always worth asking and as I said the key is obtaining as much real-world data to go on, so if you can get it, the feedback is invaluable.

I have had many, many incidents where they have given very brief, obviously untrue feedback which seems likely to be the result of a careful HR policy.

In fact, I have in the past done exactly what you suggest and got a reasonable and very useful response :)
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Some are in offices outside USA but still, you have a point, that's a whole bunch of people.

So Newscorp is Murdoch right? Fox, etc. ? Ah okay Wikipedia says yes.

He bought it for $580 million in 2005. I wonder if he'll get half that...

(and even more interesting, Myspace is HQ'ed in 90210-land Beverly Hills ?)
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Allegedly Samsung have sold 1 million Tabs within 2 months of putting it on sale. [0] This isn't as fast as the ipad, but it does demonstrate that there's a market for non-ipad tablets. One of the things thats quite important in this market is that Android 3 is meant to be rather tablet oriented, and I think that will address his concerns. There certainly are a lot of cheap, poor quality, android tablets on the market at the moment but if you look at the Android phone market it also went this way. Initially people thought it would be loads of cheap asian cloners and it turned out that the best selling android phones were actually the high quality devices.

Now I don't want to start some 'Android vs iOS' discussion, buy whatever product suits your taste - thats your choice, but I do think its a little bit hasty to write off tablets from other manufacturers at this moment in time. Perhaps I've misunderstood and he is only talking about the present - but it seems like the author thinks there will never be a serious competitor.

[0] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9199678/Update_Galaxy...
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Apple sold a bit more than 4 million iPads the most recent quarter that they released sales reports for.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab has sold well over 1 million this past quarter thus far. The Android OS also does not officially support Tablets until the upcoming Honeycomb release.

By that comparison there isn't a PC market either. Macs certainly aren't even close to selling at a rate of one-third of the Windows machines right now.
Exactly. Right now I'm stuck on ~10 kilobytes per second (yes, in 2011). With the loading times, the time it takes me to decide whether or not something is pertinent to me and my goals is far greater with videos than with text.

Then again, I suppose I am an edge case. I mean, most people on HN wouldn't have such substandard connections.
> But there are some compounds in some kinds of alcoholic beverages, mostly red wine, that are thought to be beneficial. Of course, you could get the same benefits by skipping the fermentation process and just drinking grape juice.

That assumes that those compounds have the same effect when in grape juice. That's not a safe assumption--it would have to be actually tested. It sometimes turns out that other things consumed with a given compound affect things like how effectively it is taken in, or how efficiently it is used. That's one of the reasons, I believe, that nutritional supplements have sometimes been found to not be as effective as getting the same amount of a given nutrient "naturally".

This is probably also why attempts to find "magic bullets" in foreign cuisines have generally failed. We might determine that in some country, they consume a lot of X, and even determine that X is responsible for some beneficial effect they have that we want. Then we start consuming X, and don't get the effect. X might only provide that effect when coupled with other things in that country's cuisine.
I was liking this page back in 2010, noob.
Those things you threw away also have a 'remarkable psychological effect' when you need them.

"Where'd I put those snow chains?"

Possessions make life simpler.
The 404 page on Blippy is worth a mention too - http://blippy.com/404
"I don't understand what people like KirinDave are referring to when they discuss Minimalism." Everything that this comment isn't.
Is there a way to watch an offline movie with the media player?
Keep in mine that many sites use the Google version, so if you do to, some of your visitors will get it "free" (from their local cache). The caveat about not using the "latest version" stands. And for the gods' sake don't use the actual google Ajax loader API, it's an extra script to load. (Include the above URL directly, not by doing a .load() on something else.)
I don't know which nook he is referring to, but the Nook Color is an Android tablet basically with their e-reader software installed. Its not quite as clear cut as all that.
Uh, I'd think it speaks for itself. Milton Friedman is pretty well known - he was a leader of Chicago school economics. This is a TV series that he produced that explains the mechanics of the free market.

What is it you want as way of explanation? I figured Hacker News is a place where people might be interested in capitalism.
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It looks like they compress the RAW recording down to 1GB per minute. http://www.4klondon.com/faq.html
Certainly valid points, but that isn't even a fraction of what it would take for me to blanket label something as "bad software."

Apple definitely took more time polishing the edges of iOS than Google did with Android. Game creation is also a bit lacking with regards to features that developers have access to. That's really the only criticism I can make towards Android having used and developed for both extensively. My list towards iOS on the other hand is much lengthier.
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The first one was registered by a local newspaper: http://www.thisday.ng/ (current domain: www.thisdayonline.com)
It's all part of the culture of entertainment we've developed, that is surely partly to blame for the economic situation that western societies are finding themselves in. These anecdotes about individuals extrapolate easily to millions of people who are fixated on various ways to waste time.

I played WoW for about six months when it first came out, and since stopping playing it (and most video games in general) I've often wondered what our society could achieve if the immense creative and mental exertion spent on games was spent on tackling real problems instead.

Certainly some people are working hard at meaningful things and using games as downtime, but I suspect they're a minority.
Woah woah woah, a there's a movement for this?

I think I'll go found a movement based on coupon shopping. Be one with the discount.
Have actual consumers purchased a million galaxy tabs or is some portion of that million unit figure inventory that carriers have purchased but not necessarily sold to end users?
"worth a mention!?"

It gets a golden award! My cousin and I spent a good 5 minutes poking, prodding, chasing, and otherwise abusing that poor unicorn all over the screen!
I once developed a web based time card system for $3K.

I'm certainly not comparing that to a system for all of NYC but $60M ballooning into $700M that's completely insane.

How can anyone imagine that the complexity of a time card system could approach that of air-traffic control. Is this sort of thing due to the total technical incompetence of our leadership ?
I don't code because when I was a youngster it didn't exist at all. On the other hand I wonder why a lot of coders can't play music. It seems like the two things are so closely related except with music it's more like writing code with an audience. You don't know if what you wrote works until you get to the end of the piece. Every time.
If you were talking from 1999 that statement might be true. Not in 2010. Even the biggest Apple fan Walt Mossberg says Windows 7 is as good if not better than OSX. That's what I am happily running on my 17" MBP as OS X has no working high DPI support and that kills my eyes @1920x1200.