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John Gruber has the following to say on the topic:

Copy the App Store receipt from any legit Mac App Store download — including from
any free app — and paste it into a bootleg download of Angry Birds, and it’ll run.

This isn’t true for all paid Mac App Store apps. For apps that follow Apple’s
advice on validating App Store receipts, this simple technique will not work.
But, alas, it appears that many apps don’t perform any validation whatsoever,
or do so incorrectly, like Angry Birds. (Angry Birds checks for a valid
receipt, but doesn’t check to see that the bundle ID for the receipt matches
its own bundle ID.)

Apple should test for this in the review process, and reject paid apps that are
susceptible to this simple technique.
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It's a reference to civil war era america. Elaborate user-generated-content metaphor?
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VRML was the interchange format of choice back when I worked on OpenSG at Iowa State. OBJ was too limiting.
I hear you. I do not have any answers, just sharing my experiences. What I end up doing is following a cycle thats larger than the 24 hour cycle.

What happens with me is that I cannot get my mind to switch off. It races from one thought to another, and the conversation, if you can call it that, keeps going on. I am tired and have my eyes closed, but my mind is awake. In this mode, I can blank it out for a minute or so. But some stray thought will break in, and that's that.

But what I find surprising is that, I can feel a sudden and clearly demarcated change of state when all that 'talk' stops. Like some sudden exponential decay. Once that happens I know I will fall asleep in some ~10 more mins. It is this sudden and clearly perceptible change that intrigues me. If I can somehow hit that state then I know I will do fine. I dont know if anyone else have had this.
However if some distraction/noise kicks me off that 'quiet' state, then the entire process has to start all over again. But this is very different from the case where a thought breaks into my difficultly enforced one minute lull that i spoke about earlier.

I can clearly identify which of the two states I am in. I have always wanted to study my EEG pattern to see if that is also reflected there.
But you're also comparing animals to humans. Sometimes you can't even compare humans to humans. There are matriarchal societies out there (albiet few).
"As of 30 March 2010, OKWS is still being maintained and worked on. See our Release Plan for more details."

http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws:releaseplan isn't very reassuring

Neither is `svn co svn://svn2.okws.org/ok/okws2/devel/3.0 okws-3.0; cd okws-3.0; svn log | less`...
Salesforce buys Dimdim for $31 million in cash
The last thing anybody should want is a direct brain interface that prints whatever you happen to think.

Also, it's nice to be able to slap the backspace key really hard.

Say no to psychodongles.
Press release here: http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/...
Until somebody writes a tool to automate the process and make it single click capable.
They own the data. It is their ball and they can basically say "I'm taking my ball and going home".

Facebook, twitter, linkedin, google. All of them are in the data business and sell that data to make a profit. They don't really care about the devs as they just see the devs as a way to bring people to their ecosystem; the more small apps people write, the more ways they might be able to get data. But, if they get big enough, and all of them have, they can cut you out.

I understand building a business around someone else's data (cottage industry), and I would never say not to do it, but it isn't without peril. Though, I would do it in a heartbeat for a lifestyle business that I knew I could pivot on or build another if it failed.
That's exactly the same impression I got, and with that mindset, it is a great read. He's doing something that I've always wanted to do, but haven't had the motivation or money to do systematically.
Salesforce buys Dimdim for real-time technology
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Would that work with signed binaries?
There are so many things they changed for the 2 different test scenarios that I don't think that we can get anything out of the test except B is better than A.

This experiment doesn't really tell me much except that maybe it helps conversions if people learn about my product more rather than just asking them to sign up right off the bat. And that is a BIG maybe.

If they ran an experiment which all they do is to change the text from 'Get instant access' to 'Watch a video' and the results are significantly different, then we probably would be able to draw more from the findings.
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An interesting accidental finding, but of course first this must be replicated. Other issues about experimental research

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

may also need looking at here.
It's one click and a password to buy from the Mac App Store whereas Steam takes five clicks and no password (if you have it set to remember).

Apple's store is no revolution in my book, far from it, but at least they put that Amazon One-click patent to good use and made the process easy.
There's an article, incidentally, on Tim Fenriss' website

www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/09/19/paleo-diet-solution/

it's a chapter of the book "The Paleo Solution" by Robb Wolf which basically answers the question "what is wrong with gluten".
Based on my experience with AnyNewBooks.com, I can tell you that pastors are phenomenal at this. It's stunning how many books by evangelical preachers have dozens of 5 star reviews the very day their book is published.
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct (with each state adopting their own, perhaps different rules) allow a lawyer to disclose confidential client information to prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm. MRPC 1.6(b)(1).

So the lawyer may have kept his confidence, but may have had the option to disclose.

Unfortunately, not the steel trap that Bill was looking for.
I still feel like it's not simple enough to be practical. I'd only really use a button that submitted the form behind the scenes. I think the extra step of filling out the fields is likely to drop my submission rate down to times I really get pissed off :)
My employer switched health insurance providers three different times over the past three years and NONE of them had the ability to accept pdf's (fax or mail was the only way to submit flex plan expenses).

Like the other posts have mentioned, $.99 for five pages is reasonable (I would use it at that price).
I was confused at this too.

The fact that a major manufacturer like Phillips is releasing a line of medical products around this very use case should tell the author that it's not ridiculous. Outside social norms, maybe, but the whole point of the book is that Ferriss is trying things that are unconventional and seeing what works.

I got one of these lights as a gift, and it's been great. I was a bit skeptical/curious as to whether it was just placebo, but it turns out there's evidence that blue light helps the body schedule melatonin release.
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DimDim web conferencing acquired by Salesforce for $31 million in cash
http://m.prnewswire.com/news-releases/salesforcecom-acquires-dimdim-113029849.html

Better link, this submitted from my Droid. Acquisition for $31 million in cash.
I loved my >24hr cycle. Dating, marrying, and having a kid totally killed it. But while I was single my bedtime would make a full circuit of the clock every week or so, sliding back a little each day. I never had such good sleep in all my life. The waking was good, too. The only time I'd set an alarm was when I had a flight.
I don't think Farmville needs Facebook to exist - it just needs a way to stay constantly connected with the player to continue the "social loop." With Facebook out of the picture they'd have much more freedom to interact with their hard core users.
A user who does this and is successful will no longer have a need for the dating site profile, or to pay the monthly fee for the site.
Once you get to doing real tasks, I think that this is very definitely true.

However, from my experience TAing intro programming classes (2 of them, both targeted at non-CS majors) the syntax is still a huge roadblock for a lot of people when they're learning to program. When they're learning, a lot of people spend so much time worrying about the syntax ("how do I write it?") that they don't get to the much more important "how do I solve the problem?" without a lot of prompting.
My platform is called the Internet.

I'm still subject to some rules, but a heck of a lot less than the gardens you guys develop in like Facebook, Twitter and AOL.

I included AOL, because while it seems ridiculous someone would do that today, people used to until they got horrifically burned, and I think it'll be the same with non-decentralized platforms like FB and Twitter in the future.

Once again, my platform is the Internet.
Perhaps you're thinking of the Two Generals Problem?

Two armies, each led by a general, are preparing to attack a fortified city.
The armies are encamped near the city, each on its own hill. A valley
separates the two hills, and the only way for the two generals to communicate
is by sending messengers through the valley. Unfortunately, the valley is
occupied by the city's defenders and there's a chance that any given messenger
sent through the valley will be captured. Note that while the two generals
have agreed that they will attack, they haven't agreed upon a time for attack
before taking up their positions on their respective hills.

The two generals must have their armies attack the city at the same time in
order to succeed. They must thus communicate with each other to decide on a
time to attack and to agree to attack at that time, and each general must know
that the other general knows that they have agreed to the attack plan. Because
acknowledgement of message receipt can be lost as easily as the original message,
a potentially infinite series of messages is required to come to consensus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
From the looks of things: Comcast et al.
Wikipedia says OKCupid launched in 2004 - are they still really a startup?
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Is your objection just to C++ syntax in general (in which case: total agreement) or something particular about OKWS? It seems pretty self-explanatory, as far as C++ goes:

okclnt_t *make_newclnt (ptr<ahttpcon> x);

This declares a function that makes a new client from an http connection. It returns a raw pointer, so I presume the caller is responsible for the client lifetime. Whereas the connection argument is some ptr template, which I expect is a ref-counted or otherwise managed pointer, which suggests the client will keep the connection object alive. This is copying the ptr value, which if this is a ref-counting ptr would do an unnecessary extra ref-count during the function call, so they might want to pass it as a const-ref instead.

okclnt_simple_t (ptr<ahttpcon> x, oksrvc_simple_t *o) : okclnt2_t (x, o), ok_simple (o) {}

This is a constructor to make a simple client from an http connection and a simple service. The only thing unusual is that a _t suffix usually suggests a typedef, and I don't think you can use a type alias to define a constructor.

I haven't looked at the API or done any web programming; I thought it was interesting what I could tell from this snippet regardless.
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Their revenue model is: (A) one AdSense ad per page, and (B) rewriting URLs to append their own affiliate link (if an affiliate code does not currently exist).

For the record, Delicious alternative Pinboard also has a revenue model, whereby they charge each new user a certain amount, and then also have a premium offering whereby bookmarked links are archived.
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It says a lot about where our industry is in right now that Ferris is celebrity for us. There's a lot in common between the 4 hour body and the 50 billion dollar Facebook.
Where else would those parameters be than in the page source?
Obviously Twitter does not want you to copy "their" data to Facebook. They don't get any money when you do that, and they want money. Hence, a problem.

There are several ways to get around this. Be a middleman that publishes to both Facebook and Twitter (a reverse FriendFeed). Or, sell a software product for the user to use to move his own tweets to Facebook. A user obviously owns his own content and can put it wherever he wants. A third party app, perhaps not.

(Also, why not just get tweets via whatever method the native UI gets tweets from? Do it from AWS if you are concerned about an IP ban.)
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Today I downloaded the Android development kit.

Good for you. Freedom is always prettier than a nice UI.
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I just finished reading Skunk Works, and actually the biggest contributor to stealth technology IS the angles and the shape. The materials definitely help (or hinder, if you get them wrong), but thing #1 is having the right shape.

Aerodynamics relies heavily on having a good computer-assisted flight system, since stealth shapes tend not to be aerodynamic.
Use duckduckgo.com. Its pretty good with excluding spam. And with a new service there is an indicator of how spammy a site is.
Because it's an entire OS update. It includes not just the Mac App Store app, but all the underlying functionality to enable it.
They own the data. It is their ball and they can basically say "I'm taking my ball and going home".

Maybe, but that would make them assholes, especially from the perspective of the user. I'm trying to use an app to post my tweets to Facebook, and Twitter is shutting the app down because, as the reasoning goes, my tweets really belong to them? You might say "that's what you get for using someone else's service", but by that logic I should just have my own server in the living room because otherwise Posterous would own all my blog posts and Hacker News would own all my comments.
It's definitely matured enough, and Rovio initially intended to release a paid app alongside the free one.

However, they still haven't, and given that press release from a month or so ago stating they were on track to earn $1m per month from the "free" version, I'm starting to see why they haven't. I doubt they'd make anywhere near as much ongoing ad revenue if they released the game for a dollar or two.
The post Civil War South, actually. Sharecropping wasn't really a thing in the North, and before and during the Civil War, there wasn't very much sharecropping because slavery was more cost-effective.
P.E. of 105 is fine, as long as they can

1) Grow at a crazy rate (which I doubt they can)

2) Increase their revenue with the existing userbase (which they can do, but not at 5X)

They can also reduce their spending, but that alone will not take them to a reasonable P/E.

Basically, their valuation should be at 15-20 billion, at best.
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Also see http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-grains/ and then maybe http://www.marksdailyapple.com/gluten-celiac-disease/

Several people have referred me to Mark's blog in the context of paleolithic dieting. I've been going through the archives, and it seems pretty solid. Of course, like many blogs now, it's really half blog, half sales funnel for information products.

(Which is totally cool, but it sometimes overshadows the fact that the blog posts themselves are valuable.)
Most advertisers don't have the budget/time/patience to run and manage ineffective ads across multiple sites. Especially when you know your Facebook users have a mindset of 'fun', i.e games, chatting, photos. Sure, some companies have huge budgets (oracle), and some companies are just trying their luck (small CRM company), but that's no way to have a very profitable advertising platform. Sooner or later these advertisers will leave for greener fields. After all, what good is ads targeting, when the users ignore the ads to play games/look at photos?

As far as cost for ads is concerned, I don't think Facebook stands a chance. Google can undercut Facebook anytime with their 30 billion dollar cash reserve.
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>And after several products from several manufacturers have proven the change to focused-single-task to be not only palatable, but even preferable and popular.

And these devices have all had relatively small displays with totally different input methods, which is my entire point. It's the same mistake that was made in the early days of mobile devices in reverse. I don't believe that interface paradigms are one-size-fits-all. Totally modal interfaces ala iPhone/iPad make sense when you have to maximize display efficiency, but they don't make anywhere near as much sense when you have 20"+ displays with megapixel level resolutions to work with.
Tracking movement in 3D using dead reckoning is apparently very inaccurate, with the iPhone sensors I wouldn't expect it to be accurate for more than a few seconds at best. I visited a startup working on the problem a few years ago, and they had problems even with dedicated hardware.
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Sites like Hacker News and Reddit provide for their users one or more ‘front pages’ containing interesting posts that have been up-voted by the community and are popular at a particular moment in time. However, out of these posts, the user is unable to configure the topics on which he wants to see posts, and the themes that he doesn’t want to see.

that is exactly what subreddits on reddit are for. subscribe to the subreddits you care about, unsubscribe to the ones you don't. your front page will then be customized to show you stuff you'll want to read.

do many casual reddit readers not know about this?

the only difference here seems to be that a single link can be tagged with multiple tags, as opposed to reddit categorizing links with one category (though the same link submitted to multiple subreddits are linked together through the "other discussions" tab, but discussions are separated).
This is a good design. For a project I've been working on recently, I've organized it as a set of loosely-coupled async applications. That way, I can run them all in one process (with ZMQ inproc messaging), or run them all in separate processes (with TCP or Unix sockets), depending on my needs for reliability (more uptime because I can deploy-and-restart one tiny component at a time) or memory usage (all in one address space = more sharing). It's worked quite well; I love being able to stop one component, deploy a new version, and restart it without affecting the rest of the app or losing data. It makes "oh, this process seems to be behaving oddly right now" much easier to work with -- SIGTERM the faulty component, watch it return to normal, debug without stress, commit fix, run tests, deploy new version, SIGTERM again, problem fixed. Relaxation driven development, I'll call it.

But what I don't see is how this applies to OkCupid and web servers. To me, their website looks 99% static, with a web form that sends messages. The "secret sauce" is all offline background processes that builds recommendations, sends email, etc.; certainly nothing to do with HTTP. And once your website is nearly static, you stick a cache like Varnish in front of it, and you can serve pages as fast as your system bus can stream from memory to the network card. All without writing your own web server, and without using C++.

That said, it is the nicest C++ app I have ever used.
Bill wanted to tell someone, but only one person. The problem is that you can't tell one person because everyone has someone else that they will tell. Someone always has a higher allegiance to another than you. Maybe it is different for married people, but then we get a chicken and egg problem. How can you find a partner to marry when issues like this, kept secret, keep you from having a long-term relationship?

He tried to trust people at Trinity but they spread his secrets. He knows that doctors and counselors have allowances for when they can disclose information. He probably floated personal information his whole life to people to see if they could be trusted. I bet each secret came back to him from another party. He couldn't find a person to trust so he didn't disclose his ultimate secret.

He only wanted 1 person. He could deal with 1. Maybe years later 2 people, but for now just 1. Not 1 in an anonymous posting online. Not 1 in a chat room. 1 right in front of you.

The problem is that there isn't 1. Some people can deal with that, being open and all. For some, the quest for 1 is the goal, and realization that there isn't 1 is hard to take. It doesn't help.

I read a lot of me in that letter. I am 29 now. Will I make it to 30? Yes. 35? Maybe. 40? ...
Crap, I have an app that was build long, long before display guidelines existed (heck even hash tags didn't exist yet!). No time or energy to fix it.

And honestly, that style guide is ridiculous. Way to alienate your earliest champions, Twitter.
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Progressive relaxation and/or self-hypnosis tapes work for me, if only to anchor the state that "it's time to sleep now".
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People often get this backwards. Emotions are the lines and reason is the colour. It's very had to colour outside the lines. Most of the time the picture of our lives is drawn by our emotions.
Ditto. I used his diet a couple of years ago and lost 20 pounds in a month.

Haven't read the book yet, but I'm really looking forward to it.