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The term "micropayments" is misleading when the article's canonical examples are $12 and $19.99.

My idea of a micropayment is about $0.25, so a minimum $0.05 fee is way too steep.
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To add to the anecdata - I switched everything across to duckduckgo.com about the same time ago and am incredibly happy. The fact that duckduckgo sends me to google when it runs out of ideas helps, but I'm finding myself needing that less and less as I go.

At this point I use google occasionally simply because I finger-macro Ctrl-T,Alt-D,google.co.uk,Enter before actually thinking "if I hit Ctrl-K I'd have duckduckgo search already".
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I do some e-commerce (secondary to our core business) and the fee usually works out at about 5%...
Why not just use username/password? It sucks in well-known ways and quantities, and usually less than the alternatives.

Just be sure to store the passwords properly (bcrypt or somesuch).
Missing apps is like being BeOS: you can be the best OS in the world, but without apps you are not going to sell.

App-less, you are nothing in this product segment.

Besides, their Mac support is not that great, no support for syncing calendars. This is not 90'ies anymore, you need Mac support at this time to get the teenagers and cool people to use your product.
Can you explain more the risk? I'm in my 20s and considering to work like hell and not going in an opposite sex relationship. I have friends, though.
I went through Genf20 using your link and it looks very appealing. Would definitely give it a try.
It's down 7.8% this morning (pre-market), so you may be right.
Google groups for feedback? Really? You have to make it easier than that.
I think everyone has his own definition of the word. It'll depend on what happiness to him is. If he's happy with his family, so happiness is having a family.
I'm not sure what the value added is. It seems like it's a social calendar yet there's a note saying you don't have to share it if you don't want to so I'm confused.
Agreed. I like how some companies get around the long name problem. The http://regionalhelpwanted.com/ sites all have the url http://[regionalname]helpwanted.com/ and the tag-line "long name... amazing results". Even if it's a longer name, it's memorable if you hear a radio ad.

Of course, everyone wants to be a household name like flickr and all.
Some reports suggested that [considerable] money was part of the deal. Do we know for sure whether this is or isn't the case?

"Microsoft invests $300 million in a strategic partnership with Nokia" is a lot different than "Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0."
They should drop the 5cts and take 5% only for purchases less than a dollar. Use that as good PR to spread use of micropayments for purchases under a dollar, which is in reality what a micropayment is.
A minor quibble, but I found the resume on the front page distressingly square. Also, an example resume might be useful to convince people to sign up.
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I've used Paul Irish's boilerplate and I can attest that even if you decide not to adopt it outright, you can learn a lot just by reading through it.

HTML5 is one of those ever-changing technologies where what was once considered common-practice is now considered deprecated. I think this is often the case with a fast-moving, widely distributed technology. Paul does a great job of collecting a lot of wisdom and maintains it in an easy to understand format. It also does backwards compatibility right. Helped me out a lot.

Edit: Also he's a really nice guy. :-)
... as Google hovered with their Android rescue helicopters?
From your moral high horse can you see what the correct action to take is? More useless voting between two parties who take near identical actions?

Anonymous did what their target did. It was no more legal or illegal. If you want to punish them fine, but make sure you punish both criminals equally.

As we see in Egypt, fighting within the laws (which are just a list of rules made up by people in control) doesn't always give you the option to win.
Back when Java was my favorite language, I was once challenged to spend an hour looking at Objective-C and see if I didn't grok it in that time period, and then a week working with Cocoa-- and was promised that I'd love it if I did.

They were right.

I still believe Objective-C, paired with Cocoa is far and away the best programming language and environment out there. I've worked on the internals of windows, lots of C++, lots of Java (used to be my favorite), done .net, done a bunch of scripting languages, python, perl, lingo and actionscript, and lisp and erlang.

On the server it should be erlang (for serious code, for less serious use your favorite script)... and on desktop and mobile, Objective-C and Cocoa are really quite spectacular.
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I think these are actually pretty good fees. This makes it actually possible to sell something for 25 cents and make money. Yes, a good portion will be used in fees -- you will be giving up 6.25 cents of your 25 cents. But that's significantly better than traditional credit card pricing, and you still keep enough of the 25 cents that it shouldn't be the make or break factor (the volume will be).

It's still not practical for true micropayments, such as charging a penny or two, but this does make some business models and products possible.
I completely disagree with you. The only reason that you need opportunities to 'escape' is when you've picked a boring date such as drinking coffee. If you choose to go somewhere with somebody that is public, fun, and friendly - not a boat trip, mind you - then you are ensured no awkward silences, and even if the other person is super boring you'll have a good time.
I know some commenters support Anonymous because they would rather have that kind of chaos than government clamping down even further on the internet, and I agree.

But I think it's a false choice. Certainly we can acknowledge the mob that's Anonymous is a phenomenon that is not in our best interests. Surely we can acknowledge that having to choose between censorship and crime is a false choice, right? I don't have to choose between supporting the government in buying a new fire truck and letting my house burn down, do I?
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Nokia made a lot of mistakes in the past but I think the biggest one was not buying Palm/WebOS.They could have had a great OS and have total control of there future.
The last complain about iPhone I heard was from Norway: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Extreme-Cold-Causes-iPhone-to...

I would like to see statistical information how people perceive reliability of their phones. I have 3 years old Nokia smartphone and I'm constantly dropping it on hard surfaces.
This is really disappointing I have heard NOKIA has lost most of its market capital during this decade. what you say its like they were top European firm in 1990-2000 and now its has lost in competition with IPhone for higher end handsets and almost lost to samsung also.

Javin
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I really enjoyed reading this post, as I think Adam makes some excellent points. Whevener stuff like this gets to the frontpage of hackernews I get really excited, and make sure I carefully read each and every comment it gets. The reason for my enthusiasm for dating-related discussion can be easily explained: six years ago I cofounded a datingsite in the Netherlands which takes a completely different, and hopefully better, approach to online dating. And so far, the (dutch) online daters seem to agree with us: over the years we've consistently received very positive reviews (by members and the media in general), in stark contrast with what is generally being written about online dating. Since we have the ambition to move the concept to the US this year, I'm going to go ahead and actually start joining the discussion here by giving some details into how we've managed to address some of the issues Adam talks about in his post.

Our site, in a nutshell, basically doesn't allow members to seek out other members and message them to see if there's mutual interest. It's only possible to talk to people you've been matched to by our system. In order to increase the chances of interaction between the matched members we artifically limit the frequency at which one receives new matches. Also, we give very little information about the match. The system has good reasons to introduce the members to each other, they will have to find out for themselves what those reasons might be. This approach helps mitigate the issue of 'Hypergamy', as the matching system ensures the match works both ways. Furthermore it prevents spamming (it's just not possible) and deincentivizes fakers.

We can only get away with not allowing people to search for themselves because we have a great matching system. Adam talked about eHarmony's love-science-PhD's and noted a statistical approach would probably work better. That's exactly what we thought, and put into practice. By combining the information we have of our members (answers to questions, attractiveness scores, etc) with a feedback loop that tells us which matches actually work out (or don't), we can constantly improve our algorithm (think machine learning) to make better matches. We actually have spend years optimizing the crap out of this.

Now, for us to be able to have a fighting chance in the US, we need to also somehow solve the fabled chicken and egg problem. We managed to pull it off in the Netherlands (word-of-mouth mostly, a big plus of actually having a good product), but will have to do more to succesfully launch in a foreign market. If anyone here has thoughts about this and is willing to share, I would be very grateful.
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This is really a good news buddy though doesn't seem practical such as charging in cents :)

Javin
[url="http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/01/difference-between... title="Difference between FIX4.2 vs FIX4.4"]Difference between FIX4.2 vs FIX4.4[/url]
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We don't need to know math anymore because of calculators, now we don't need to know facts anymore because of watson.

I guess from their shift to broadcasting opinions that the "news" outlets saw this coming...
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Hysterical. How can you "disconnect Google from the internet"?
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I had to check to make sure I didn't sleepwalk and submit this because almost the exact same thing happens to me. I quitted my job 8 months ago to travel and work on my ideas. 2 months in, I fall in love with my current girlfriend. After a few months of long distance relationship as I traveled around the world, we now live together in the most romantic city in the world, Paris.

During the day when she goes to school, I work on my project. At times when I can't stand the loneliness, I get out and just hop on a random metro to read or observe people. At night, we cook, talk, and watch movies together. I'm having the best time of my life even though the future is a little scary to think about. I hope you enjoy yours as well, best of luck to your startup.
Or... Maemo was working, just punt phones out the door running that (with capacitive touchscreens).
The only two paragraphs that actually match the headline:

If we had to guess, it's probably going to be orientated around media or news, because they are so social. When you watch a television show with your friend, it's such an engaging social activity.

We think that there's a next generation of startups that are developing social versions of these applications, where what Zynga is to gaming, they will be to media and news, and we're really excited about that.
No project needs to use recursive make.

"Recursive make considered harmful": http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/
Agreed. His videos are also entertaining to watch (particularly both videos on things learnt from the jQuery source).
A third possible source would be bias in user samples:

If Bing users are on average less sophisticated (plausible given the assumption that less sophisticated users tend to use IE with the default search engine) they are more likely to click through irrespective of search results' relevance or the potential to improve a query.

What does the "success rate" of AOL's Google-powered search look like?
I can't speak from experience, but my perspective is that offshoring works great when what you're offshoring is the building of machine tools, toys, furniture, computer components and even whole computers, cars, etc.

I'm sure apple, for instance, spends a lot of time making sure that foxconn builds the iPhone right. But Apple is not offshoring the software or the design of the iPhone.

For whatever reason, software development is a competitive advantage that the US has.... for the time being.

I've worked with people from india, pakistan, and former soviet block countries as programmers. They can be great programmers, but the best results seem to be when they come here and work with american teams.

Which is why we need to get visa reform and let american businesses hire the people they need.

I think that the offshoring of this work is driven more by not being able to import sufficient engineers than by anything else.
I don't buy phones everyday, so maybe the most recent models are weaker, but I have a Nokia from 2009, and so does my wife. Our kids have taken them to the most incredible abuse imaginable and they're still working fine.

I had Sony phones, Samsung phones, all very fragile and sensitive to dust, water, being stepped upon, etc.

We don't have iPhones but we have iPads (which are a different beast altogether, of course)... the fist iPad to enter our home lasted exactly one day (it doesn't like being dropped from a table -- even a low table).
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From the article:

"To support the planned new partnership with Microsoft, Smart Devices will be responsible for creating a winning Windows Phone portfolio."

Ahh... did that Elop guy forget which team he was batting for? Does Balmer still sign his pay-cheques?

If I was a Nokia person and got told that now whether Windows Phone was successful or not was my fault, I'd show them where they could put their phones....

Are they victims of Stockholm Syndrome or what?
I dunno, anything over 18c gives you more of the sale than Apple would take with it's 30% cut through ITMS, and lots of people seem perfectly happy with that arrangement...

I agree that a useable way of saying something like "give me half a penny to read the rest of this article" would be nice though..
Spam much?
Microsoft hasn't been fast at anything?

edit; I'm not trolling. I'm just saying think about what you're saying. Who got out their next-generation console first? Microsoft was one year early!
Is the kinect innovative? Yes.

Is Microsoft really /that/ bad?
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> All of Kurzweil's predictions are based on extrapolating exponential growth.

Even worse... most are based in confusing exponential growth with qualitative enhancements.

As if, for example, the fact that we could get a computer with a mega-gazillion of transistors would necessarily translate in us being capable of designing smart enough algorithms to take advantage of it.

It's a variation of the old "we might lose in every sale, but we can make it up in volume"...
I sincerely hope that Elop sold all of his Microsoft shares before he joined Nokia, otherwise he could be breaking all kinds of laws right now.
He specified a North Sea rig in his memo. I don't know if he's aware (he is Canadian) but it's relatively common knowledge in this area that due to the low temperatures your life expectancy even if you make it into the water conscious and in one piece is under 15 minutes, less the further north you go. Sharks are the least of your worries.
The hard problem does not depend on our scientific understanding of the material world. Comparing the current situation in philosophy to the situation in physics 400 years ago is a false analogy, which doesn't take the fundamental difference between science and philosophy into consideration. Philosophy is about how we humans conceive the world, while physics attempts to describe a world seperate from our perception. As the failure of the object-subject duality has shown, that is impossible. There is no 'real', 'external', 'absolute', 'underlying' world to describe, because talking about it doesn't make any sense. We aren't brains in an 'absolute reality'. If you keep thinking about it in that way, you fundamentally misunderstand the key philosophical issues surrounding the hard problem.
Unfortunately with the goons at the department of "homeland" security now disconnecting businesses from "the internet" via control over root DNS servers... this seems kinda possible.

These actions are not constitutional, nor are they legal. And americans are going to have to stand up to their government or before too long it will be businesses like google--which evil as some may see them is law abiding company- forced to bend over for these interests, lest they be put out of business arbitrarily.
nokia is virtually non existent in korea, pulled out of japan, and is getting eaten alive in Indonesia by chinese phones, malaysia is building a wimax/android 4g ecosystem. and iphones are _everywhere_.

but nokia is huge, i get your point.
Say what you like, but up until the XBox ring of death debacle Microsoft made really good hardware.
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What has not been "shown to be useful" has not also been shown to be false.
Contrary to everyone else I actually think this is a smart move. Personally, I didn't find Windows Phone 7 too bad compared to an iPhone.

The only thing that Apple has in its favour is the RDF.

Nokia needs a differentiating OS, Android is not that OS. I don't think Nokia wants to become a bit part commodity hardware manufacturer. So Windows Phone 7 might turn out to be a smart move.

Nokia is in a position to capture the cheap smartphone category, a category that is still up for grabs.
What's up with the growing blue thingy (click anywhere)? It causes the form to shift downward, and I don't get the point at all.

Also, "sign-in or signin using..." is awkward. Finally, the drop-shadow and strike-through (soc-ia-l) is a bit much.
People who believe even slightly different things from each other go to war over their disagreements.

This is flawed reasoning, while men go to war over religion, they go to war over an assortment of dogma. If religion where eliminated tomorrow, a new dogma would take it's place and the killing started all over again.

I know it is flawed because I was guilty of it. I despised religion for war, but after deep reflection I realized that what I truly despised was human nature. This is hard for an atheist to admit because all their faith is put into humanity. To place the flaw at humanities feet is to admit faith in a flawed pillar.

Blaming religion for war and death is akin to blaming cars (with drunk drivers in them) for death. They are merely a vessel for the actions of humans. How humans use them is a reflection of that humans nature and without religion they would find another outlet for those desires. By blaming religion one is giving credit to the concept of god, for the atrocities instead of just seeing it as a bunch of dumb ass upright primates doing what humans do.

Anything else is holding out false hope that we are more virtuous than that. It is a common falsely held belief by the more intelligent of our species, due to the fact that we reason from our own perspective, those of us with higher reasoning like to hold out hope that the less intelligent will come around, when the reality is their are portions of our species that are only slightly less primal than apes. In some ways more.

The more intelligent project their understanding and their capacities onto the less and are always disappointed when they lack the capacity. This usually turns to blaming some dogma rather than blaming humanity.

I am constantly amazed when I watch the news at the primal nature of much of our fellow humanity, holding out hope of an mass awakening of that portion of humanity is fanciful at best. They lack the capacity to understand the nature of their primal ways. But to blame religion for that nature is to a cop-out at best and delusional.
Deadlocking on the import lock might be introduced by an innocent code that uses a library with function level imports.

In general globals should be written at a global level.
Here is a pretty good summary of all of this (And what Nokia is about to do in the near future): http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=204353
A Meego tablet might give some clue to Nokia having a plan for the future, other than taking billions from Microsoft as they attempt to buy their way into another market.
Good catch. Windows has never been the king of OS's ever. They've been spectacular at marketing to Corporations, etc., but their OS's have always been "within range" or worse than the alternatives.
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In Jamaica, Nokia phones, particularly the lower end models, are perceived as being very reliable. Drop them, throw them, wet them up, and they just keep on going. Battery life is good, too.
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Take two companies that are sinking in the mobile market and make them cling together for life support.

A sure formula for success. Bye Nokia & MS...
A one-time few hundred million would be peanuts at this scale, I can't imagine it affecting the decision unless it was quietly deposited to somebody's private Swiss bank account.
A fair bit of hyperbole and fanboy-ism happening here. Which is completely understandable.

It is pretty clear that WP7 is not Windows Mobile, that Microsoft does in fact finally get it.

Jumping on the Android bandwagon is not in any way clearly a better or safer move. In fact from a market perspective those waters are considerably more bloody and getting worse every day.

This is a desperation play by Nokia in the high end of the market for certain, but of all the bad choices they had available this may be the least bad. I is also likely true that there is no move they could make that would ever result in bringing them back to the heights of their past. Innovators dilemma in action.
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