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Both "index funds" and "ARM" is a gamble because you're advocating investing in them without regard to price. In both cases you're just buying something based on it being popular, not because it makes a good investment.

If you do the math and you are able to calculate your returns, in advance, with some reasonable accuracy, then you're investing.

If you're just buying something without regard to price because it feels good (including index funds) or fits your emotional state- then you're gambling.

I've got no problem with speculation-- which is informed investing in high risk / high reward situations, but that takes even more analysis, not less.
My own anecdotal observations suggest most laptops don't have a dedicated middle-click button, though most do emulate a middle click when the right and left buttons are simultaneously pressed.
elegant!
The funny part is that there's no competitors. So far nobody (that I've found) has chosen the path of creating a Windows repository of free software (Skype, Flash etc.).

But you're right, I need to show and support more apps. After I finished development I just put all my efforts in marketing and now, after one year, I'm quite tired of just adding refinements to the program - I would love for someone to just buy it so that it would really drive me to get back into development.
What Apple's got though, are credit card numbers. They can't really leverage credit card numbers to route around credit card companies.
The video is totally unacceptable, I know. My accent is horrible and I need a professional to do this for me. I just wanted something quick to show people how it actually worked - but I guess it's not enough for large companies.
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Fair enough.

On a side node, the VLTI should be able to produce a 2x2 or 3x3 pixel image of one of the russian or american lunar landers (14-foot wide). It would be a cool thing to accomplish to demonstrate the resolution of the VLTI...
Woah, I just noticed that when the mouse hovers over "Close tabs to the right" or "Close other tabs", the tabs that will close start to flash. (Chrome 9.0.597.67 beta, Windows) When did that happen?
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Characterizing paying taxes -- the result of the democratic process, etc -- as theft under threat of violence makes you a fucking idiot.
Consider teaching yourself to use Ctrl/Cmd-W. Once you've done that and some of the other shortcuts (like Ctrl/Cmd-T to open a new tab, and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift-T to reopen a closed one), you'll rarely need a mouse for most websites.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628170
Here is a library for putting chrome tabs into your osx apps:

https://github.com/rsms/chromium-tabs

Its basically the cocoa implementation of chrome's tabs ripped out and put into its own objective c lib. used by kod and other things mentioned in here. It includes all the seamless dragging and dropping of tabs between windows, everything the browser does.
If it's such a technical difficulty, how does Opera manage to pass it still?
This brings us back to the original "point" of precious metals. They are small enough and valuable enough to hold physically. You don't need to buy a gold ETF, you can buy actual gold.

And this is not just in case of a "black swan" event, it is a counter to the very high rates of inflation we're seeing.

You're right that ETFs have counter party risk, holding physical gold or platinum has little risk. (You can hold it in a safe deposit box, or in a very small cardboard box well hidden in your house and have pretty good surety that no thief will ever find it. Even $100,000 in platinum is very compact.)
Short answer, it depends.

Long answer, it can run some parts of it if you join them (e.g., separating tokens, counting probabilities, some tagging and even some more advanced stuff). You cannot however, run everything (for exemple, modules and functions depending on NumPy) and must deal with how to import/export data.
Agreed. I thought this was crazy, must be a talent acquisition.
The "human behind" was exactly my selling point. I wanted to show people that I have full interest in their success with my product, and that I'm passionate about my product and its future.

And I totally agree that if I'm selling a desktop application I should probably concentrate in making its UI simpler instead of my Websites UI... it's not a web-app.

These price-list requests are quite interesting, I would think people would like to know right away what the price is, but maybe that's not the case considering your experience - thanks for the advice.
the other browsers have this, but its only in chrome that the new tab retains the entire history stack of the original tab. so you hold cmd and press the back button, then in the new tab you can continue pressing back multiple times! only chrome does this, firefox fails.

only problem is, i have to cmd+click, i cant middle click the back button.

edit: you can also cmd+long click on the back button and get the same behaviour from the menu. why cant everything be this comprehensively functional?
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Houston is actually the 2nd biggest port in the USA and 6th biggest in the world. It's also surrounded by oil and natural gas. Phoenix and Vegas are weird ones, but most large cities in the USA are on a big lake, river or ocean, or some combination of those.
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how painful!

looks like AOL is making it pay for itself...
> But the truth is, all you need is the array holding the important values and all you need to do is document the function appropriately. "Don't modify the returned list" would be a good start.

I agree that over-engineering is both common and unhelpful in software development. On the other hand, I think you are too quick to dismiss encapsulation techniques.

The sort of defensive programming tools you mentioned aren't there because dumb programmers don't know any better. They are there because smart programmers know that sometimes they will still make mistakes anyway.

See also: failing to free dynamically allocated memory, failing to check return codes or handle exceptions, failing to exit a loop under the correct conditions, creating deadlocks in multithreaded code, etc.
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I don't think that someone who needs that software will not purchase simply because a font is not the right size, but how often do you get frustrated when wanting to buy a product when you don't know the price or can't find the checkout? I'm just saying that if you make it easier for people to buy, then they will. App stores (Apple et al.), music players (iTunes), games consoles (Xbox), independent software developers, massive online book stores (Amazon), internet marketplaces (Ebay), payment providers (PayPal et al.) have all done the work here. Have a look. I challenge you to find the smallest "Buy Now" button, then lets compare that to someone whom is actually making money on the internet. It's called usability.
Thanks for the points. One of the reviewers of the article (Hi Marijn!) made most of these as well. It was never my intention (or expectation) to make money with it, I just wanted to see the other side of AdWords since I might have a need for those in the near future.
The iPhone cannibal
How do you make an iPhone app that doesn't cannibalize its original business: an address and phone lookup service that earns its money on incoming calls?
The only reason I would click on an ad like in the example is by accident. (I'm not using adblock by the way.)
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I certainly cannot foresee 4chan gaming this NO SIREE.
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One word... "Fruity Loops"
I don't have any tips but you're very unlikely to find any good deals on the internet. I would identify a target area and devote 3-5 days just hitting the ground and running the numbers on places. You should know the numbers already so when you see a place you know whether it is pass/fail on inspection.

It's a universal rule of Real Estate that good deals never reach the paper, the internet or even the front window of the agency office. In fact they rarely make it past the first page of the agent's buyers contact sheet. Find an agent in the area you want to buy in, make it clear to them you are serious and give a definitive description of what you want to buy. Make it easy for them to do their job. Every agent wants to sell a place on the way back from getting a seller to sign up. Your number must be on the list of people to call. But don't give them a loose description or they will try and sell you the first piece of crud they find. Be very clear on the description and list out factors that will disqualify a property (main road, certain neighbourhood, certain type of construction, etc).

Start making offers. Sooner or later you'll end up with a place.
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Sometimes it’s better to be yourself and leave everything in its own place ;)
"Opera and Webkit implemented (very brokenly, in at least Opera’s case) a small subset of SVG 1.1 Fonts; basically just enough to pass Acid3."
- Forced registration + pay-per-use
- Forced re-installation (+payment) after a set number of successful uses
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Have a little brainstorming session and you will likely come up with a plethora of other possible implementation schemes... =)
From personal experience: I didn't make much progress in Haskell until I stopped using Scala. The problem is that Scala allows you to mix and match different paradigms and if you come from a mostly-imperative/OO background, you tend to use Scala as an OO language with some functional constructs.

To learn to program purely functional, it's best to jump into Haskell cold-turkey, since you will have to learn to think in FP.

Learning Haskell, optimization in a lazy world was the most difficult task. Often, I still have problems predicting how efficient particular code will be. The complexity of monads is somewhat overstated, though it doesn't help that some tutorials make something big and esoteric out of it. It is nothing more than a type class, that specifies how to combine computations that result in some 'boxed value'.
My bad with Houston. I must have been thinking of Dallas.

The factor with Las Vegas and Phoenix are that they are modern growth cities. You don't need a deepwater port to facilitate growth in a modern city, just a good airport, good road/rail links and good communications infrastructure. You could argue that Phoenix is propelled by retirees and golf players and Las Vegas by gambling - but the reason doesn't matter, just the fact that a city can be sustained does.
> What's an example of "more fine grained control"? I've used C++ more than Java or C#, but it's not apparent to me how removing a language feature gives you more fine grained control.

The point isn't the loss of "const", it's that the only access you do have to a class-type object in C++/Java/C# is via its interface.

If you hold all of an object's current state in private data members, then the only way you can change that state -- even if you can see the object and it isn't const -- is via the interface functions provided. If as class designer you just happen not to provide any interface functions that mutate the object (no set_whatever() calls, no assignment operators, etc.) then your object becomes immutable by implication.

The finer control the GP mentioned probably refers to the way you can also choose to permit certain specific types of mutation, by providing a limited set of functionality in the interface rather than direct access to the underlying values.
When you email people, they are not interested in your passion or anything else. They have a problem. They want someone helpful to fix their problem without trying to sell them anything. That's it. Don't be too chummy, don't be too cold. Just be straightforward and helpful - like a guy fixing a computer.

If you are too friendly, you often lose the sale.

Also, being a human behind it is not a selling point. It's not a differentiator. It's just the expected thing. Your product is your selling point, don't try to sell anything else.

People want to know immediately what the price is - but people who are communicating with you are a LOT more likely to buy from you (assuming you know how to communicate with them).
CAKEPHP it's 10 times easy to work with and the framework orientation to standards beats any other framework I've seen for PHP including Symphony.
The bake it's one feature that I could not live without, it builds the views, models and controllers for you with the basic View/ Edit / Delete functions all ready in place.
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But if someone is buying a $500 product they will not be side-tracked by small annoyances (like not being able to find the Download button). If they're interested they will most likely send me an email - which I hope is clear enough.
Ha. The ratio of buy/1 year rent is about 100 in Beijing.

This despite the fact that you are not legally allowed to own property in the first place - and that the average lifespan of a building is 20 years.
On another note, are those TC interstitials new? AOL is really messing up with them.
Sorry, but people love to throw the "legal" word around loosely alot. Lets be specific here? What "law" would this be breaking? Who would enforce it, and under which jurisdiction? What case has set a precedent? If this is illegal, then what about search engine caches, the wayback machine?
Wow. I just noticed the flash. They've put so much thought in to this.
I estimate that 10% of the users will go to other sources for information, because this type of ads are really frustrating. If I war an advertiser this is one type of ad that I will not want in my ad campaign, the users try to skip it as soon as possible, so in return I don't really get the result I would like to (conversion).
Thanks for your insights - but the main problem isn't for the app to make money, it is to generate calls to the call centre helping them grow their business. This is quite a challenge when users know they can get the answers they need in the iPhone app itself without calling the call centre for them..
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Maybe not, but it is certainly used as one. Everything from package managers (yum) to operating system installers (Anaconda) have been written in Python.

Besides that, the grandparent is right: possibly every situation where Python was used as a systems programming language, Haskell could fit in (and more).
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A great read is "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. The main ideas from it aren't about getting rich quick but rather minimizing your losses and securing a consistent return

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor
Thank god for google reader.
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and you seem surprised? Why?

Has not the choice of )Obama to reward bankers who got us into the biggest financial collapse of the world not told you who is boss? There was a coup lately, the companies won we as individuals lost and the US constitution lost
I don't understand this at all because for the non-JS version you should never be on https. If you go the http homepage, the default form submit is POST and HTTPS. JS changes the action, so if you have JS off it should submit to the non-JS vesion (via HTTPS and POST). Also, the non-JS plugins are also HTTPS. Please email me to sort out what is going on: http://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html
plus, you see the movies your friends, or people you just follow, like, not movies that people who have a similar taste for movies like...
Can you share your website? I would expect that patio11 is correct, since I wouldn't recommend it at my company just because the website doesn't inspire confidence. Maybe your case is special in some way? Are you actually making sales through some other channel?
Yeah, good fit, plenty of sentiment analysis to be done at Google. I guess when you have as much money as they do you can afford this kind of outlay to avoid some of the hit and miss of hiring the positions normally.
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I'm not so sure.

They probably make a good amount through both ad revenue and referrals from Fandango, not enough to justify 10 million, but they've said a few times now that Movies are just the first of many verticals that they are looking at.
years ago from now, the OP website is considered quite good.
I don't want to opt out as it'll turn adverts from rarely useful to never useful.
because it's not Argentina but Venezuela
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Actually, participants in a regional competition get a free ACM Student Lite membership.
Different tech (2D barcode scanned at register) and an indirect form of payment (pre-loaded card potentially linked to a CC), but Starbucks did just add national support for payment via iPhone (http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20029001-233.html). I'm curious, has anyone had experience (good or bad) with payment via mobile in Japan?
This guy's blog reminds me of Tucker Max, some proud to be a*hole who writes well and is hilariously entertaining.

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-to-lose-all-your-fr...
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Amazon launched grocery deliveries in the UK a few months back - and to pretty mixed reviews. Amazon are using third parties to supply the goods, so one grocery order might be 4 or 5 separate deliveries. As a result the general view was a) it's expensive as you're having to pay shipping costs for each supplier (some comparisons of a typical basket were double the cost of getting it from Tesco or Sainsbury) 2) it generates a large amount of waste as each order is in separate packaging and c) it's really inconvenient having to be in for all these deliveries.

So basically a big thumbs down.
I think you should move on from the website idea, especially if $500 equal to a monthly salary in your country.

My father has a software which sells for around $1,000, but doesn't have a website. He find clients (through his business network, word of mouth, a phone call...) and then install a trial version for them and guide them until they agree and purchase a license.

It's quite important to note that in my country $1K is equal to a professor salary; so that still a big deal for him.

You could do that with Skype, since (I assume) your audience is all over the world map. You may want to spend more time with your customers and to make the product works for them.

If you are selling many licenses, you may consider outsourcing someone to do that work for you. This strategy doesn't work for $0.9-$100 products, but works well for $500. Even if you are paid $100/hour, that still 5 complete hours.
This. is. fracking. awesome!

So much so that I want to give some detailed feedback:

* It is very true that all other "feedback widgets" on offer are too complex and full of unnecessary features (on both the publisher and user sides). This on the otherhand is no more, no less.

* I fond you by literally coming to HN, clicking the search link at the bottom and searching for "feedback widgets"... so there's a good place to start optimizing for potential customer searches.

* The only gripe I have is that it would be awesome (and kinda important) if the system emailed you whenever you got a feedback response or answer. The email doesn't necessarily need to contain the full user feedback, but just a notification and link to the full response on the site.

* Also once I signed-up and was presented with the code, there were no instructions at all. I've done enough coding/hacking to know that the code probably went in the <head> so that's what I did.... refreshed the page... nothing... moved the code to before </body>... refreshed page... nothing... searched for instructions on your site... nothing... finally discovered that you had to actually add a question before anything displays.

So obviously here, it would be an idea to have basic instructions with the code (e.g. "copy/paste just before </head>"). I'd also have the default "We hear voices. Do you?" question added to the user's account as a default that the user can then be prompted to edit. And thus you'd solve both the problems I listed above.

* Pricing: please don't charge anything for a basic implementation of this. Perhaps the free option gives you 20-30 user feedbacks/answers per month. Once you hit that limit, the widget just doesn't display to users (and thus no further feedback). Then you could stage it up... $5-10 per month for 50 feedback and so on.

Anyway, I hope that helps :)
Looks exciting, but at the same time, I am not sure if Apple is the company I want to have as the pioneer of this type of service.
I would certainly not welcome payment terminals that accept ONLY iOS devices, and from the article, it looks like they are doing exactly that.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding Square's business model, but I think it is more of an opportunity for them.

The NFC lets people with iphones make payments. Square's dongle lets people take payments. Square could make a new dongle that receives NFC signals and runs it thru the payment processing backend to let people take payments with their phones, the way they do for credit cards.

If Apple wants wide adoption, they will have to make payment taking an open opportunity, because there are so many different situations where people take credit cards now. So Square could plug into that, and would be competing with Apple to provide payment reception hardware and sofware to retailers-- which is the kind of competition Apple really likes, because Apple is in the platform business, rather than the "selling low volume terminals to retailers" business. So, I think Square will be able to plug into Apple's platform, just as they plug into Visa's platform now.
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OK - sounds plausible - but the website needs to tell that story!
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Every supermarket in the UK has a home delivery service, and has done for at least 5-10 years. I'm really surprised this isn't the case in the US [assuming you are in the US].
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Corollary to the author's point: Adblock is one damn easy way to improve your own user experience.
The downward spiral of ownership and value (happened to music, books are next)