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Which is strange because any app that can operate on more than one document at the same time opens a separate window for each document on OS X. Even Photoshop. This works well on OS X because of how OS X manages applications. Let's for a moment consider GIMP if it was a native OS X application.

First, to switch between different applications, OS X just uses application switching whereas Windows and GNOME/KDE use window switching. IMO, window switching is a terrible design decision because it clutters the application switcher and the taskbar/dock and breaks operations that should logically apply to entire applications (quit, hide, Exposé etc.) Another desktop OS that uses application switching instead of window switching is Haiku (a BeOS descendant). Anyhow, if GIMP ran on OS X, you wouldn't need to sift through a bunch of separate windows when you wanted to focus on GIMP. You'd just switch to GIMP the application instead of separately bringing each of GIMPs eighty seven windows to the front first.

Second, when a document based application loses focus, OS X will hide all floating toolbars and panels and all you will see are your document windows. In Exposé, too, all floating panels and toolbars are hidden. This would mean GIMP's myriad tool windows would become invisible when you switched from the GIMP to another application, or when you viewed GIMP's windows in Exposé. No more needles visual clutter!

Third, OS X has a top menubar. This means each of GIMP's windows wouldn't need to have a separate menubar. The global menubar would enable and disable menu entries as you focused on different windows.
Even easier if you want the whole thing, just right click on a mailbox and select "Archive mailbox...". It will save a copy in the mbox format in the location you choose.
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People tend to overestimate the likelihood of positive events. Being a member of Group B does give them a chance of getting a lucky meeting with some Group A luminary who can radically change their life. The problem is, there's a 0.1% chance of that, but they've thought about it enough and fantasized about it enough that they think their odds are considerably better - they think that by going to TED they've got a real shot at their dreams coming true.
The way you do pricing A/B testing is a bit more complicated.

1. You decide on your range of prices X through Y.

2. Set the 'normal' price to the high-mark at X, then offer users discounts on a scale all the way down to Y.

3. Remember, everyone gets the same discount at the same time. It'll probably give you the most information if you don't discriminate based on any factors.

Now as for legality, you can discriminate based on location---say offering different prices on games to Australians than Americans even though the exchange rate is nearly 1:1.

Or you can discriminate based on gender---say like a club/dating site offers free memberships to women, but not men.

Of course, this is not legal advice per se, and you should see your own legal opinion before acting on anything.

However, legality aside, people will complain if they find out that you're using price discrimination. That's why you're doing it as a "discount". Hardly anyone will complain that someone received a larger discount than them so long as there was an opportunity for them to get it too.
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I ran into this the other day when routing through Slicehost VPS via a SOCKS proxy (I was on a hotel's unsecured WiFi). Google.com kept redirecting to google.com.hk and was all in Chinese. Nuts. Even more strange was that my IP was showing from St. Louis, which is pretty far from China.
Agreed. He really crossed a line on that one. Standard operating procedure should be to NEVER reveal ANY information about a customer, even whether or not they are customers.

One more reason to shy away from Joyent.

Edit - Jed from Linode?! Hey! You sir are my favourite support person to reach, yet I rarely get you anymore.
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Canada has the highest per capita immigration rate in the world. Ever been to Toronto? Almost half of the population there is foreign born. Look up Demographics of Toronto on Wikipedia for some stats.
No, there are three people involved. X & Z are major donors, Y is the author of the post. For the 2009 conference, X nominated Y, who paid $6k to go. For the 2011 conference, Y applied and was accepted, but Z got him blacklisted.
Where did Machiavelli say that? Let's have a textual reference:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?auth...

Actually, not being a 20th century inspirational business writer, Machiavelli almost certainly said no such thing.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=entrepreneur&...
"Maybe you could start up a thread or write something that addresses your perceptions so it can be discussed"

i thought about it, but i decided that there isn't any point. the site is what the users want it to be and i'm not here to "educate" them.

great analogy, btw.
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I see you posting quite a bit here...you keep saying the same thing: "take the free upgrade that is being offered".

There also seems to be quite a few old textdrive lifetime members here.

Perhaps the best approach would be for you to outline the steps for those textdrive folks to migrate off of those servers and take the free upgrade you are offering. I personally have no idea how...so if you could explain it, give a link or some concrete information it would be helpful.

I for one would be happy to migrate if it means better servers, I just need to know how...I'm sure I'm not alone.
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The Sunday Times' article here seems to relate more to the fact he's about to get on their rich list ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Rich_List ). From their (paywall'd) article:
'Jonathan “Jonny” Ive [...] is set to reap an £18m windfall from Apple, the world’s second-largest company.'
'The windfall will take his personal fortune to more than £80m, propelling him into The Sunday Times Rich List. Not bad for a man who once designed lavatories'

The relevant bits to him leaving: '[Ive] wants to spend more time at a £2.5m Georgian manor house he has bought in Somerset and commute to Apple headquarters in Silicon Valley. He already has homes in San Francisco and Hawaii.'

'Friends say he is at loggerheads with the Apple board, who insist he stays in the US, especially when he may need to take over from Steve Jobs, 56, Apple’s perfectionist founder, who has taken medical leave of absence.'
Sounds a little speculative, that.

'A friend of the family in Somerset, who asked not to be named, said: “Unfortunately he is just too valuable to Apple and they told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them."'
Right. So an anonymous friend of the family? I get the feeling that information is being vastly distorted here.
That may absolve the app of responsibility, doesn't make the UI any better though.
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What I'd like to know is, did they ever find/catch the actual perp?
The "insignificant" gap gets more significant when you remember that the US spends on average more than $3000 more per student per year. It says that the US could cut costs by a third without hurting education in the least. Just where is that $3000+ going?
I'd love to know if there was a list too.
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It is funny that you mention "game theory, maximize, benefit and central decision structure". Because I can draw a rough analogy from game theory and argue why a central decision structure likely exists at least implicitly.

What we have here in life is a positive sum game and if everyone is trying their best to play an optimal strategy then it is likely that they are at least at a correlated equilibrium. This in turn implies some central shared decision structure. I posit that in modern society this shared device is the status-quo, the media, status worship, fame chasing and celebrities. This correlating device evolves or rather is naturally selected by the top of a society wishing to keep it so. Things did not get this way by accident and our values are certainly not all set in stone or irrefutably valuable.

So long as everyone follows the signals given as optimal by this correlating device/trusted mediator we achieve correlated equilibrium. If anyone deviates then all bets are off. This then highlights why it is so key that the elite behave and indoctrinate as they do. And gibes well with what nostrademons had to say. If people are not acting in a way that "sensible" people should act to get and then stay ahead then we fall out of the comfy equilibrium and the stability of the status-quo is lost.
I wouldn't. All you need is one person of a protected class to file a lawsuit, where they could potentially find some statistical anomaly in your prices as "evidence" of discrimination.

Why not show different prices on different days (i.e. have sales)... that's definitely legal. Sure people can "game" the system and wait a day for a better price, but those same people would hit refresh / clear cookies / etc. if they found that doing so got them a deal.

Logically you could reduce the A/B interval to hours or minutes and still call it a "sale", but the legal system isn't always logical...
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I have 8 priced at $1.99, same app different content, making about $225/day
As I get closer to completing my college education (its my last semester) I think what alot of posts like these miss is most institutions focus less on teaching you how to do something and more how to learn how to do something on your own.

- Its not about that ridiculous project you had to do that the professor didn't lecture on and is due Monday even through he only assigned it last Wednesday.

Its how you deal with that.

- Its not about the fact that you can drink yourself under a table and party every day and night

Its about how you deal with that. You could do it and fail out of many schools ,mine is one of those, or you could still do well. But either way you have to learn to balance it

College is the final playground. The last buffer between you and the real world. Its up to you to make it something that is worthwhile or figure out that it is not for you.

Also some of the best people I've met, the closet friends and strongest connections I most likely keep for life were made in college.

It wasn't perfect and there were things I would do differently given the chance but I wouldn't trade the experience for anything short of figuring out I had something of the caliber of what Bill Gate or Mark Zuckerburg found they had on their hands.
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Is it just me or does Offline Mail break in Chrome on Windows 7 with Priority Inbox installed ?

For the life of me, I cannot get it working. I have had to resort to Firefox.

I had tried to backup my stuff before, but stopped and this article caused me to re-evaluate that stance.

Now I tried again and remembered why I didn't finish last time.

Thoughts ?

P.S. Sorry to hijack the thread, but it seemed appropros.
The only other reference I found was this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kiam

Found on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-greenberg/save-the-entrep... with blekko
"You act like only very good dev's with 8-13 year of industry experience are any use at all with that attitude. Some things really shouldn't require geniuses to do."

You're overstating the claim. You don't need to be a "genius" to be productive in C++. Yes, there's a learning curve. It may even be a little steeper than in other languages, but it's entirely possible for a smart new grad to contribute meaningfully to a large C++ project. It happens at Microsoft and Google and thousands of other companies every single year.

This line of argument against C++ is entirely overblown.
In the past, I've setup Namecheap for them so I could transfer the domain between accounts if needed. If they knew how to setup the php scripts (back when I did php freelancing), I'd send them the related archive of files.

If they wanted me to set it up for them, I'd simply setup the hosting based on their needs and wants which I find to be quicker than putting together the documentation for them to do it themselves and supporting it if something breaks when they configure it.
I did almost the same thing, except someone created a symlink named "" (just an asterisk). I "ln -l"'d the current directory, saw the weird broken symlink, and without thinking did "rm ". The slow motion double take immediately after hitting enter was like a shot from a movie. "NOOOOOO!".
Most Japanese kids end up going to cram schools to make up for what the school system (both public and private) lacks. The system sucks---long hours, Saturday classes are being reintroduced this spring, and the cram schools are usually at least 2 hours long---sometimes as much as 4 or 5 hours.

And Japan still can't get into the top 10 of the Education Index.
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> don't ever depend on 'beta' programs for anything

Surely you already knew this principle.
My reaction is: So?

As a fan of both Tolkien and Evangelion, I find this sentiment to be pointless and tinged with misplaced agression.

You wonder why you should care about Tolkien? Why should we care that you care?
Just one - http://sws.cc/ , and a couple more on the way.

I'm using http://openframeworks.cc instead Objective C, and so far very happy with it.
just enable pop or imap and use a traditional client?
Search Google for "Steve Souders" and read some of his articles. He is the foremost expert on front-end optimization (and is the guru behind such things as Google's async-loading analytics code).

The main problem with the sites that you mention isn't the number of widgets/elements that they load, but how and where they load them. If you want to know more about this, though, you should probably read the relevant threads on StackOverflow.
Free upgrade sounds fine - when were these offered, and how would a person take advantage? I have one of the aforementioned permanent accounts (on jervis, even) and if migrating to a new server means that my site is less likely to fall over, I certainly would do it. However, I just dug through all the emails I ever received from Joyent or Textdrive, and none of them mentioned migrating to another server for free. Lots of stuff about how I could pay more to have more, but since things are basically fine for me (running http://imprompt.us and http://tracyfood.com both of which are low-bandwidth vanilla wordpress sites), I ignored all of that.

tl;dr: how can I go about moving my stuff? To where? And why am I in this handbasket?
From one of the very many forum posts on the exact topic:

"If you have not sent in a request and would like to get a jump on the migration, please send an email to support [at] joyent [dot] com with the following information:

- Subject line: migration request + plan type if known (startup, plus, premier)
- Full Name
- User Name(s) / Primary Domain(s) (please note new info if you want to change it at this time)
- Existing Server(s)

If you wish your username or domain name to be changed, please include this in the email and we will process when we send your golden ticket. Waiting until after your account is set up will incur a $50 fee and you will receive a brand new account (old one will be blasted).

Please do not send follow up requests as it only slows the process down. If you asked questions when you sent in your migration request, we will answer those when we send your golden ticket out.

Once you receive your 'golden ticket', you will have 60 days to migrate to the OpenSolaris environment. If you need the second account for more than 60 days, regular monthly charges will apply."
Guilty of "Typing UNIX Commands on Wrong Box" here.

I thought I was logged into my home server. Turns out I shut down the main web server. Oops!
Should I have spelt it "R-ing TFA"?

Are you asking me to explain what it means, or are you saying it's an invalid thing to have typed because it's not in your Webster's?
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It's a good time to reflect on what a coup the split from Odeo was. According to the article, Ev has more than $400m in Twitter equity plus at least $100m in cash... Lot of coin.

Odeo was VC backed wasn't going anywhere for a number of reasons, namely iTunes beating them to the podcast game. It did launch a side project called twttr though, which back then was an SMS focused app. Shortly after Ev bought out the investors in Odeo, spun twttr off to a new company and then sold Odeo which has still never done anything remarkable. Odeo's sale price was something like a million bucks, compared to Twitter's current $4.5b valuation. Talk about identifying and keeping the gems.
Agreed. I spent the last few months building my first Node.js app (and MongoDB) and I resonate with a lot of what's being said here. I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from exploring Node or Mongo, because I think both are amazing projects and have huge potential, but I do think anyone considering either should stop and think carefully before taking the plunge.

Things that stick out in my head:

1. What the author says about the Node community moving fast is absolutely true. Be prepared to spend time upgrading to the latest versions often or deal with dependency hell as you try to ensure you've got matching legacy versions of libraries.

2. Coding async is weird at first, but you may grow to love it (as I have). Over the months, I've discovered many cool tricks and patterns that help keep the nesting to a minimum.

3. Be prepared to fill library gaps, and submit patches if necessary. This means not being afraid to dig into the source code of the libraries you're using. Most libraries have limited documentation so often the only way to figure out how to use them is to get in there and see how they work.

4. Best practices may not apply. In the case of MongoDB, I had to redesign my schema in order to run certain queries now that MongoDB won't support until sometime in the future.

All in all, I'm really glad for the experience and will definitely consider both Node.js and MongoDB for future projects. What will really be interesting is seeing what I miss about Node/Mongo after jumping back into Python/MySQL. :-)
Nobody's saying that tests should be abolished. There've always been tests and there always will be. The problem is putting all effort into passing tests while letting all other aspects of education go by the wayside.

How do you measure creativity? Social skills? Should they not be taught because they're difficult to test?
I think maybe you should resort to an approach other than one can be basically summed up as "upgrade and/or shut up." I love node.js and by extension Joyent so please don't take this the wrong way.

Also I think I have learned from this thread that 'lifetime' service packages suck because after the company closes that deal they have absolutely no incentive whatsoever to do anything more for you as you've basically just agreed to become a burden for them forever.
Thank you for a good article, Travis.

Quick side note - you might want to add simple validation for sign up form for exipe.com - it currently accepts empty string as a valid value.
VisualWebsiteOptimizer.com had a great article on using A/B testing to determine ideal price for a product.

Here you go: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-test...
Jason - I don't know you, but you're making a big mistake by constantly referring to his service as 'free'. It isn't free, it's paid for. From a customer perspective, you should consider his account as 'paid in full'.

I completely understand that he's 'getting a great deal', and that he isn't currently paying you anything, and that he may well have lasted as a customer longer than you expected, but your company offered lifetime service for a fixed cost, and he bought it. As I understand it, this was to bootstrap your later efforts.

To constantly demean his position is as insulting to him as it is to your integrity. While you may feel like you're in the right here, I can guarantee that you've lost at least one potential customer, because I will not be using Joyent. I'm guessing that running potential customers away isn't your intent here so please, don't do yourself any further harm.
That's actually very cool! I wonder what kind of difference it actually makes with an application like GMail or Google Search SSL.
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>To even call this "Joyent" is misleading.

Wait, what? Who owns and operates the servers?
The problems start when you add a class to 10,000 elements on the page. And yes, I've seen pages doing this with jquery where the jquery overhead was what made the difference between a 20ms operation (not user-perceptible) and a 1s operation (very much user-perceptible).
"“The current system is just bizarre,” he said of the first-to-invent rule. “Imagine parking your car in a metered space, then someone else comes up and says they had priority for that space and they have your car towed. Under the new system, if you are the first to pull in and pay your fee, you can park there and no one else can claim it’s their space.” "

Wow. What a horrible analogy. Completely off base.

This bill is very radical, but there has been a call for reform for some time. I think this is the wrong way to go. The first person to reduce an idea to practice should still be the first person to get a patent. Making a mad dash to file @ the USPTO shouldn't be the way you decide who gets the rights to an idea. The decision should turn on who came up with that idea first.

My 2 cents.
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This cannot be argued. But many people conflate worth of skills and accomplishments with worth as a person. They over reduce the dimensionality of a superiority vector. And worse, assume transitivity of the elements composing said vector.
Uhh...am I the only one doing a double take at the fact that Chris Sacca has raised a $1+B fund ?

When did that happen ? How did I miss that ?

That's pretty...errr...frothy...and epic.

I never knew he packed that sorta heat. Congrats to him...but now he has the wonderful task of actually putting so much money to work.

I would love to be getting his 2% right now.
From over ten years of experience I can tell you that you don't want to be in charge of the domain registration and the hosting. Your customer needs to feel like they own this — otherwise if they don't pay a renewal fee it becomes your fault. The other problem is if you move on to doing something else you can be getting dumb calls for years to come.

By the way I'm assuming that this is a small client by the fact that they haven't already done this....
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