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Facebook Comments won't touch the ID/Echo/Disqus market share on dominant websites and popular blogs, but it will totally take over the long tail.

With no comment karma or other means of emphasizing the important content, the new Facebook comments plugin is going to totally kill commenting on popular websites like TechCrunch (which, amazingly, is testing it right now. The first post got >1000 comments. With such amounts it's just a lot of noise. If you are big, do it like they do it on Slashdot or don't do it at all!

On the other hand, it can be a real killer feature for small sites that normally would have zero or very few comments, with all interactions moving to Facebooks and Twitters or the world. Now with Facebook Comments, it can stay on Facebook and you don't care as you're still getting your comments back on your blog and the more people share it and comment on it, the bigger chance you get to attract new readers. Amazing opportunity!
'[...] I find it extremely tacky to use friendships to sell stuff '

Why? Most of the good products I hear about, I hear through friends. Much better than "traditional" advertising.

I'm guessing if the product itself wasn't any good, no one would bother "playing the game". The game is only there to encourage people even more.
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I agree with you, I should've phrased that differently. What I meant to say is that a lot of people using it will use it for something which would be better served using Erlang and this will definitely get worse when the tools and runtime improve. If you are using Erlang already , you will probably never move, but if you are new to it, you will be tempted to use Node.js instead, even though Erlang might be a better fit. That's what I meant; sorry for not stating that more clearly.
Out of interest, what file systems do synchronous replication if I don't want to move to Amazon RDS, etc...?
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По принцип консумирането на голямо разнообразие от пресни (непреработени) храни се оказва по-благоприятно за здравето, в сравнение с еднообразните диети, в основата на които са преработените храни. По-конкретно, потреблението на прясна храна забавя храносмилането и позволява по-добро усвояване, а също и допринася за по-добър баланс на основните хранителни вещества, което води до по-добро управление на клетъчния растеж, развитие и деление на клетките, както и по-ефективно регулиране на апетита и нивата на кръвната захар.
I've spent some time in Japan and from what I remember it must be the toughest place for a foreigner to start a business on the planet.

You have to have Japanese people acting on your behalf and then still 1000 things can go wrong.
> It also has a number of practical issues: someone could happily snarf down zillion-dollar blockbuster movies, yet dedicate all their taxes to some indie musician they like.

If a person thinks the level of production of zillion-dollar movies is OK, but that there should be more indie musicians, that would be a sensible thing for them to do. If lots of people think like that, then the sorts of information goods they like will become better-funded, and information goods that few people like will become less well funded, which is surely a feature rather than a bug.

The purpose of an economy is to make things people want; I believe my solution achieves that. Of course, I don't think it's the only way information goods will be funded, or necessarily even the largest one. I think the Coasian solution -- where people group together to commission a work -- is attractive, and will become increasingly important as the internet reduces transaction costs.
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Also, while I don't know any practical use, IPv6 support would be nice.
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I think that's the whole point - they're essentially threatening that without these fixes to make developing and marketing easier, they'll go and find a different platform that will meet their needs.
An interesting article. I am definitely guilty of ignoring all the non-English speaking countries, not just because of the language barrier, but because I'm fearful that I just won't be able to fit in well with the culture.
http://www.manager-magazin.de/politik/deutschland/0,2828,736...

Jeder Zweite will zurück zur D-Mark

Every second german wants the D-mark back

Date: 27.12.2010
Please post about your progress.
This is not only a fiscal issue.

This ruin was in the making for decades. While germans were busy figuring out how to produce better stuff for cheaper PIIGS were busy figuring out how to sell shit for more.

One strategy is hard short term, but bears long term dividends - the other is awesome short term but spells ruin in the long term and the ruin came.

And now the Germany is at fault for all the years of support, encouragement, warnings and leading by example to these countries? I don't buy it :)
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> Do you really believe that making better stuff more productively is something that only works for one country in the short run?

I don't, but I believe someone has to buy this production or increased productivity doesn't help anyone.

Your assumption sounds correct, but isn't the base of Germany's economic growth in the last years: Germany didn't increase productivity (at least not by a significant margin), but decreased wages (compared with it's neighbors). And this decreased wealth.
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Exactly! this means that german workers cannot get an increase of their salaries but some multi-national banks and cooperations earn billions. At the moment the european economy is more neo-con that the american ever was.
"I thought companies were complaining that they lost money by participating [in Groupon], which would indicate to me that it's not sustainable business."

Or it could indicate that for some companies, Groupon doesn't work. You can't really make a generalization out of that.
Did you not read what I wrote? How can a machine leak it's IP address if it doesn't know it?
hehe, never expected to find "fashion tips" on hn but what do i know. was just looking for new walking shoes, and these just might fit the bill. thx for the heads up, will check out one of the two stores in munich later today.

on a related note, i think these kinds of products (basics manufactured to high quality standards) have a huge future. "klein aber fein" can become big business given a newly global middle class. another example: leica is sold out everywhere, despite their rather high prices.
> If you didn't want this level of analysis, why the hell would you take a $150/hr engineer and have him screwing in shelves rather than call in the $12/hr maintenance man?

At the time of the incident with the screws, the guy was an intern...
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I get the impression Japan has a high rate of early adopters, which is something for tech people. Having said that, Facebook has trouble in Japan.
Working great here - Chromium 11, Ubuntu Lucid (10.04?)

I might actually start using this along with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done, rather than paper lists. We'll see...!
I just linked my Twitter account and have to say Greplin is scary fast on searches. I am not sure I would like another 3rd party indexing my emails, but will keep an eye on Greplin because of the twitter searches. I always wanted to search just my twitter stream, but I have never found, until now, such an easy and fast way to do it.
I don't think the question was "do you think others would accept it", if so the result would be nearly 100% like you said.

At least that's not how I interpreted it. I mean that kind of question is only asked in thought experiments :)

I'm pretty sure the original question was meant to ask each individual for his own opinion on whether or not it's ok.
Hi cmikec, is you the author of the site?

Google does not seem to provide any API for Gtask(1), which system did you use? scraping? By time seeking a way to integrate Gtask in my app.

(1) The famous issue 987 http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=987
A console is a very different biest from a mobile communication device, of which openness and interoperability is hugely advantegous to society.

Thus the line apple is toeing here is a dangerous one.

I wouldn't make the same argument for iPods, iPads or Macs.
Sounds awesome! Congratulations on all achieved so far and all the best moving forward.

Your mention of the restaurants sector reminded me of one of one of our sites that we built (mainly for experimental purposes) a couple of years ago. You can take a look at it at convenience and let me know if it (the site) and/or the associated data could be of any use to your startup. I'll be glad to help however I can, under a 0/100 split (0 - me, 100 - you ;-)):

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A person earning $550 a month in Germani (or most of Europe) may be waaay better off than a person making $50k in US. You have your education, kindergarten, medical care, social security, retirement, etc... Already covered - so with these $550 (and this is just not true, minimal wages in Germany are higher - this has to be eastern German minimal wage) you only need to get through month for food and utilities (quite a lot of people earning minimum wages are living in nonprofit apartments).

So it's not just black and white.

AFAIK $550 is something I can hardly believe to be true, except in Eastern Germany for people aged 40/50+ without any knowhow or qualifications.
No it's not free, I pay $15/month, at least you have posted stuff unlike your support team who haven't responded to me for 48 hours now. Did I mention that this is the SIXTH day my domain and email that I PAY for is still down with no one telling me when it will come up. Don't tell me it's free just tell me when it's going to be fixed.
Hi, yes, I'm the author. See this reply of mine to another comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2278963

To answer your question directly, I am not using an API and I am not scraping anything, I'm just framing Google's pages in a way that I found useful and productive.
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Interestingly Bieber's movie has a rottentomatoes.com rating of 65% and an imdb rating of 1.1.
From this follows that every second german doesn't want the D-mark back. Far from "people in Germany".
Also, this poll was done after a big campaign by BILD (german tabloid) that other european countries are bleeding Germany, which probably skewed results in favor of abandoning the Euro.
No you don't, I asked via a support ticket two days ago for an estimate, I can't even get a response from the support team. S I am frustrated enough to post here
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Completely incorrect statement, I never received an email to migrate.
That's funny, it used to be that one would never run faster than a 4-minute mile.
Try answering your support tickets instead of this forum, might make me less disgruntled.
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Nice you have a backup and recovery in place for your stats, shame you couldn't have one in place for your server
You sound like me in the final year of 6th form (last year of high school in the UK).

I don't really have time to write a longer answer right now, but I'd say - don't worry, your behavior is pretty much a rational response to your environment. Things do get a bit better at university, so it's worth making the effort to get into one with a program you like. (Caveats: one you like might not be one that's highly prestigious; university is better than high school, but not always that much better).
1 thing I noticed is that the longer version is REALLY cramped and a lot harder to read than the short version.

I'd suggest making a lot more white space in the longer version for easier reading.

The shorter version also has a headline, the longer kind of does but it's not noticeable.

Keep running tests - you'll find a winner! :)
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>Why would I want to spend a minute watching someone to type a line of code with all mistypes and corrections, when I can glance it in a second?

A lot of people do want this. A good screencast shows not only the code, but the thought process that goes into writing the code.

People have different cognitive styles and learn in very different ways. I thought this was common knowledge by now.
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I'm Israeli, so I thought I'd share on how the Army has a huge positive impact on entrepreneurship.

For a lot of Israelis who are smart, the army is a great experience that really helps them. For example, there is a very respected Programming Course in the Israeli army, which trains programmers for half a year. These programmers then go on to work on all the Armies' systems for the next 5 1/2 years. This course is called Mamram (I was in it).

This means that programmers in Israel are not only trained in a very intensive course for half a year, but they then go on to work on real-world (and often critical) systems, for 5 1/2 years. Which means there are many Israeli programmers who, at age 24, have 6 years of professional experience working on big, important systems.

Add to this that the Mamram course is very famous (most Israeli companies require programmers to either have a degree or be a graduate of Mamra). Also, serving 6 years in the army (and being in a course with 100 peers) means you get an incredible network of connections. I'm a good example - I'm working on my own startup with two people I served with in the army, and I know many people who either work at or run a lot of Israeli startups, just because I served with them at some point. I'm probably 2 hops from most startups in Israel, just because almost all of them hire programmers from the Mamram course.

OK that came out long. I only focused on the Mamram course since that's what I know best, but there are a lot of other fields the army is great for that have nothing to do with programming.
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Basically, it is this sentence:

> That labor must be delivered somehow and that's why there has to be a trade surplus.

How so? How can labor be borrowed? How can it be delivered?
The iPad 2 is almost here. Could it be cheaper?
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> In a true free market scenario with freely floating currencies, currencies in countries like Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece would have devalued. Germany's currency would have strengthened. This would have made German exports (to other EU countries) much less competitive than they currently are.

Well, even without free-floating currencies, countries like Greece could just lower the wages, which would in turn reduce the price-level of Greek products, making them more competitive.
It will take them at six days to do it and you won't have any domain or email in that time, but sure trust yourself to a joyent experience
Here's an idea.

Work on getting a more positive outlook on life in general. It'll get you very far :)
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They cannot all run current account surpluses with one another; it's a mathematical impossibility. Germany's current account surplus with other Euro-zone members corresponds exactly to a current account deficit; the sum of the two is zero in this zero-sum game.
congratulations, that's a nice achievement, especially at 15 :)
I hate to tell you, but it DOES make it true.

Because I personally deal with back and neck pain (fell out of a 25 ft. tree)... have personally used his products... and they personally gave ME relief.

I don't promote crappy products. I personally test EVERY single product I promote to make sure it's going to help people.
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You're right that it's not only a fiscal issue; it's a monetary issue. Ireland was ruined by low German-style interest rates making money far cheaper than it was before; that fueled a property bubble.

The gains to Ireland from 1990-2000 or so were real; the Celtic Tiger wasn't hype. Much of the gains in the past decade, however, were from too low an interest rate.
This entire comment is predicated on the assumption that getting rich is the underlying reason entrepreneurs build businesses. I disagree with this assumption.
Well it's great that you admit you might be wrong. 99% of people are so limited in their thinking that the thought of being wrong wouldn't even cross their minds :)

That being said, always understand that in marketing - it's not about YOU.

It's about the prospect.

Like I said... test something fancy against something longer (but written by a great copywriter... just because it's long doesn't mean it's good).

Let the test dictate who your market is :)
Let's hope not - or rather, I hope not.

I realize that a lot of people don't mind having Facebook, Twitter, Google, or other companies manage their identity, but I'm really not interested in giving one company that level of control over my online life. --My personal, professional, and online lives are separate, and although they intersect at times, there is no reason for them to become one and the same.
Joyent are the ones that have been processing my credit card every month for the last few years. What a fantastic deal this is, I get to pay $15/month and you get to laugh and comment on forums as thou this is a minor hiccup. I've built data centers faster than youve restored a server. sIX days and counting and you write as though I have been freeloading. Wonder if the English word "wanker" is known to you.
There is this one which seems the most popular at the moment. Put your weight behind that and see if we can get it where more people will see it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270790
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Jeremy - great point.

MOST people wouldn't throw it away if it was a good letter, and you would make a lot more sales.

The only people who would throw it away are those with very limited minds... who I wouldn't want as my customer anyway! ;)
Very happy with them. Balsamiq and BCC use it too.
The debt was cheap because the interest rate was too low. The ECB ran rates low to help Germany's sclerotic economy, and those low rates fueled borrowing elsewhere.

As to the idea that the monetary union was voluntary: the monetary union was a political project, not an economic one. By opting out, nations were to some degree dissenting against the entire EU project. Without some degree of fiscal union, it was probably a mistake; but it's unlikely such a union could have ever occurred without a monetary crisis. In many ways, the monetary union was a leap of faith into greater union, with the idea that we could sort out the problems later (never let a good crisis go to waste, etc.).
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"I just want him to be critical."

Why? When 99% of the media sledges Apple with no reason, why do you care if 1% supports Apple with no reason?

----

The thing that gets me about the Apple vs $var debates, is that most of the people screaming about how they hate Apple have never tried Apple. Whereas the people supporting Apple against $var have almost invariably tried $var and found it lacking.

One side brings informed opinions, the other brings baseless bile. Whenever I see that happen, regardless of the topic, I know which side of that divide I want to be on.

-----

True story: today I went down to the local $non_profit and helped out one of the guys get his new Apple laptop hooked up to the network and the network printer. The network worked immediately after entering the WEP password. The printer didn't work first time, so I deleted it and tried with new settings. It worked the second time. I also tried to persuade him of the virtues of buying a 1-2TB drive and using Time Machine.

It was so easy it was embarrassing.

I contrast that with some work I did with a startup last year. I bought one of their own Windows laptops into their HQ, and trying to get onto their own wireless network was a nightmare, even though I had a room full of techies to help. I strongly suspect that in the end the tech support guy just turned off the wireless router and left it off because it was too much trouble.

I'll do Apple support for love (ie free support for friends and family) , but you couldn't pay me enough to do Windows support. I fully appreciate the guys that do take on that thankless task, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Does that make me an incoherent raving Mac fanboy? Some would say so. But at the same $non_profit I stood and patiently nodded while one of the 70 year old blokes told me about his Windows experiences. At the end I fully commended him (he's running anti-virus, anti-spam and does regular backups) for his efforts, and I assured him that he was doing the right thing with the backups, to keep doing exactly what he is doing. I didn't preach to him about Apple at all, I don't see the need. If he's happy, let him be happy. If he is doing everything right but has some nagging feeling that he should be doing something else, I will reassure him that he's miles ahead of the rest of the pack.
...also learned that loyalty and commitment are more valuable than brilliance

While this was true in your circumstances, and some degree of loyalty and commitment are important, I don't agree that they are "more valueable" in general. For example for technical jobs, not everyone can learn them (or at least be good at them). It seems important to have people in the right places, that have already some vision and experience in their area.
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They're not being "replaced"... but video letters typically do help conversions.

And yes, great ideas about mixing it up.

That's the KEY to all of this. You don't know exactly what will work best - the answer lies in testing it out! :)
I'm testing the susbcription plan conversion rate with the free latest issue. Will work on the text and hopefully make it clearer.
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Very cool and an improvement, but I still find Google Tasks too limited. I'll stick with http://todoist.com
EXACTLY :)