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Ubuntu is unstable precisely because it's a close fork from Debian unstable ;)

If you want an environment with long term stability, you might want to move to Debian Stable, which exists for this very purpose, and these days is typically as easy to install as Ubuntu.
CEO Bob Parsons' sickening behavior is reason enough to quit Godaddy, but by coincidence, I'd already decided to transfer my domains to Namecheap. Here's why 1) Godaddy's domain admin web site in almost un-navigable. Beyond being an awkward design, the site makes it difficult to avoid purchasing add-ons I do not want, 2) Godaddy's grossly sexist advertising, 3) namecheap is cheaper, even without this promotion, 4) namecheap has more features (e.g., mail forwarding) included in the basic fee, 5) Goddaddy robocalls me. It's possible to opt out of robocalling now, but that doesn't make up for all the robocalls in the past.

Done. Checkout on namecheap is slow. I wonder if they are getting a lot of new customers.

I feel sorry for Bob Parsons being so ignorant. Of course, I am ignorant too. May everyone become less ignorant.
>This seems to be what the IPad and Chrome OS are doing.

I agree. However it's MUCH easier to just work if there is only one hardware platform to develop for. This has been responsible for a huge share of Apple's reputation for "just working" and reliability since the beginning.
Where the hell are you guys getting your pizza from? Even with a retailmenot coupon, pizzas still come out to like $20 each.
My first experiences with MP3s on Linux was with RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 4 - Fedora 9. Yes, it was always possible to install the restricted codecs, but only recently were those instructions and processes made easier (and now, with recent distros, automatic). Maybe I was doing it wrong, but asking a user to install "restricted codecs" for something that Windows Media Player can do automatically isn't good for making users feel comfortable with your system.
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I agree. Looks more like a flashy demo than anything remotely resembling a usable graphic art application. While interesting, I see no value in the 3D layers feature.
I go to Babson College and run into similar situations to this everyday here. For those running something techie (which I assume considering we're on HN), I don't understand why people cannot balance school and work. Not to toot my own horn but I've been running a web design firm (pulling mid 5 figures this quarter for me), gotten a 3.3 GPA and built out a new product http://upout.com.

You don't need to drop out to do well. You just need to sacrifice some of your social life and television (and Facebook).
Wise and benevolent? I wouldn't encourage this behaviour from any company. It's risky and has a high chance of completely alienating your users if you don't get it exactly right, and and something breaks.
What I find most distasteful is the lie that he "saved a village and fed them". That's just bullshit.

There are more guns in Zimbabwe than most other parts of Africa. If the locals really wanted that elephant gone, it would have been machine gunned by two guys arriving on foot.

What really happened here is that a hunting party arrived, killed an elephant and left the carcass for the locals to eat.

What a hero.

PS: I spent my childhood and early 20's in South Africa and we hate this great-white-hunter tourist shit, but it sure pays the bills if you're the driver guide or booking agent.
>I can understand how this might offend vegetarians but even then, it's not like the animal was wasted.

I think you're confusing vegetarians with people who dig frugality.
Why do engineers tend to optimize prematurely?
Let's see who this outrage is coming from:

1) Someone who has never gone hungry for a single day in his/her life.

2) Someone who has consumed 100s of chickens, many cattle, and many other animals so far... Most of which have been literally tortured all their lives.

3) Someone who has never gone to Africa to help, but sits around all day posting his/her opinion on how things there (and everywhere else in the world) should be done.

I'll give you a secret. Want to change the world? Change yourself. It's the only way. Stop complaining. Stop finger pointing. Stop exerting yourself on others.

But yes... I do agree that it would have been best for GoDaddy to not post this.
That's a really good point. And it reminds me that there is a really cool book titled How Mathematicians Think[1] that goes into much detail about how mathematics is a creative activity and not just a mechanical process (as some people seem to believe.)

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/How-Mathematicians-Think-Contradiction...
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Wow, this was unexpected. Since NFC and QR codes have some overlap but in general fill two very different roles (unless you're talking about a putting RFID chips into magazine adverts I guess), there is a missing piece of information.

I'm going to speculate that the missing piece is related to Microsoft patents or other patents around 2d bar codes.
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I don't understand this at all. What is it you want from the New York Times, exactly? A more restrictive paywall so that you can't view things you find on twitter? Or just no paywall at all, and a pony?
"Mark wrote a paper about this ten years later, after physicists had published thousands of bogus papers using bogus statistics."

Agreed, but to be fair a lot of non-physicists were also doing this. For example in their excellent review article http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062 Mark Newman, Aaron Clauset, and Cosma Shalizi show that a claimed power law in bytes received per http request was wrong. I'm not going to defend the sloppiness of physicists, but I would note that other fields don't fare as well in this either.

And I wish you or Mark had written that paper earlier too!
Full disclosure: Current Velocity Resident, 4th year CS

I've met brilliant CS students and brilliant SE's, and complete morons in each program. Degree title is irrelevant, it is the quality of person that determines the quality of hacker that leaves each program.

Having said that, while the core curriculum of the programs is almost identical, the SE curriculum contains a lot more non-CS requirements such as Chemistry, English, and Ethics. This makes their workload much heavier, without making them better software engineers.

In CS, we get a lot more freedom. I usually have one or two electives each term, which means I've been able to take courses in economics, entrepreneurship, music, biology, and others. It also leaves a lot more time for side-projects, which are what really make you a better hacker.
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Thanks very much for your thoughtful response. Two of your three points were part of our strategy, we just haven't been executing as consistently as we should. Your point about member associations is well put. I'll definitely take a look at it!
>Does it make him a bad person?

yes. While i think all killers are bad persons, i see how a necessary killing may be up for debate. Jumping at the first chance to kill and doing it willingfully indicates that the person is a moral trash.
Will it be $699 like the desktop version of Photoshop?
My Dominos does a large 1 topping for $5.99.
Microsoft Execs Bitter about iPad
I was looking to apply to Chrome (were I worked last summer) but It didn't get accepted neither.

Did you pick up one of their ideas or did you wrote your own?

Good luck.
Umm -- YES! Sexist advertising campaign = Silly, but I am not going to choose or drop a registrar based on that. CEO shooting an innocent animal = A company that I don't want to do business with.

You aren't trying to say that showing some scantily clad women is equivalent to killing, are you?
Ultimately, this is why I'm looking for another registrar. How can I reasonably recommend them to clients? The first thing you see on their site is a photo of a girl in a tight t-shirt, and text at the bottom that says "Aligators nipping at your ass? How to hang in there & enjoy the ride. PLUS a smoking hot crazy blond." It's ridiculous.
There are a couple of different problems here. RedHat is actually pretty good in that they only include open software in their distribution. I, and many others, would not trust the OS nearly as much if they included things like Flash or other binary only blobs. These binary blobs could be doing anything. We know Flash works against the user's interest, and who knows what other binary piece might do?

Secondly, how would they license? Most of the code they could license requires a charge per copy. RedHat , Ubuntu and most Linux distros encourage the free redistribution of their disks. You can download it for free(aside from bandwidth charges which RedHat is not involved with. They don't even know how many copies are really in use. So, either they would have to change their whole distribution model or they would have to pay for something that is fairly nebulous. Fluendo has published a version of the MP3 codec that can be distributed for free. They purchased a license that has no per copy costs, but that is unusual to even have that as an option.

Finally, the RedHat company produces the RedHat distro for commercial use and the Fedora distro for home use. There is an active community of Fedora users who happily use it after 5 PM and you can find how to get most codecs working in Fedora, if you search a bit. The freedoms associated with Linux make it much more pleasant to use that any proprietary solution available today. I would also say Linux is more powerful and easy to use, but I can see how not everyone would agree about those, since your experience and workflows can drive those comparisons. OpenSolaris was making good progress. It is a shame it was killed a little before it got to the point where it was usable for everyday duty for the average person.
I have thirty domains registered with GoDaddy. I'm taking all of them somewhere else now - just need to figure out who the best competitor to go to is.
I'm doing Brooklyn's Best in arlington, tx or Rocco's Pizza in Fort Worth, TX, both around $8/pie.
Hitch hiking on your observation, perhaps Twitter should start by monetizing search. When you search Twitter for tweets about the Japan Tsunami, maybe you do want to see ads for charities or radiation pills? Maybe when you search for Justin Bieber you are interested in concert tickets and music downloads?
Dumbo = innocent;

Elsie = delicious;
Personally, I like the explanation they gave in the article: "It is the shape the oceans would adopt if there were no winds, no currents and no tides ... magnified nearly 10,000 times".
Exactly. Vegetarians have problems with killing...period.
That would be really annoying if my friend and I weren't talking about Coke. But if we are talking about Coke, then I don't mind a stranger chiming in with "Hey, since you're talking about Coke, here's something you might like", as long as the stranger's message is highly relevant.

Twitter has got to find some way to monetize or they will die. Simple. I wouldn't mind a few highly relevant ads in my timeline if it means keeping the service free. They already know what I'm interested in. Or, others might value the service enough to pay a small fee to not be served ads. Either way, right now we're all getting something pretty great for free and it's not sustainable. I would rather get served a few ads for products that really interest me than see the service go away altogether.
Functionality seems good on the key component, but when I went to submit my fifteen minutes worth of work, I didn't supply a title and it kicked me back and CLEARED all my captions. You just lost me.

The captioning mechanics are good (awesome even), work on the form entry and general UI.
GoDaddy CEO Shoots Elephant, Injures Brand
TV and Radio - even Pandora is intrinsically passive.

So while we are "OK" with it in those mediums or activities - those are passive activities in which you basically view/listen to whatever content they choose to put on the stream.

Search is 100% active, where twitter is a hybrid - but the problem with ads in twitter is contextual relevance + value.

They will either clutter a conversation which you follow, or lack context and relevance thus just driving you mad.

Instead, I have suggested that Twitter needs to stop trying to monetize its current incarnation - but needs to build upon the platform and pivot a bit.

I sugggest that due to the fantastic job they have done in gaining both wide adoption but also mass appeal with celebrities and influencers, they need to expand the platform to provide more content from those users and then monetize with revenue sharing.

Basically, you would have tweets coming from Lady Gaga in the current form the do today - yet if she wanted to tweet about her new album, a link she could send would drive all the traffic to an exclusively announced twitter page with details of the album and the ability to buy it there. Additional ads could be placed on that expanded content page by twitter.

Album sales go to lady gaga - the ad money goes to twitter.

--

They need to build out a blogging platform that allows for deeper, richer content.

Tweets are great for high-level, hyper responsive communications and awareness driving, but the fact is that no matter what you think of tweets and their succinctness they are too small to convey 99.9999% of information people want to convey. Tweets ALREADY serve to make groups aware of something, then drive them to more/better resources for information about that event.

IMO - Twitter needs to acquire. Tumblr, posterous, whomever. Mate the products and provide ad-rev channels based on the two.

@Jack could oversee ensuring that the two properties welded together maintain a level of simplicity and elegance - but greater functionality is needed.

If twitter revolutionized the micrblog, expanded to miniblogs and allowed very simple, concise miniblogs and maintained a level of control over the presentation (ala facebook) They could be exceptional.

Of course, there is the outstanding issue with stability, but that will be fixed I am sure...
"If you're not commiting any crimes..."

That line of thinking has been used to stomp out liberties since before this type of technology event existed. It's also ineffective in that anyone planning a crime can easily circumvent such measures and even use them to their advantage.

* edit: grammar
Agreed. There are millions of people getting scammed and ruined by fat-cats everywhere, and an elephant is what it takes for people to get mad?

Wake up, everyone. I hate asshats like the GoDaddy CEO just as much as you do, but this self-righteous indignation is at The View levels right now.
I hate godaddy to death, guys, but I use them because they offer most tlds around the world easily (me, ly, at, to, etc)(that's the only easy thing they do)

If you can name at least five registrars with world wide reach please do so, so we can have a better option next time.
I hate automatic semicolon insertion. They complicate the language. Here's the rule for a language that uses semicolons to terminate statements:

1. Semicolons terminate statements.

Look at the rules for Go semicolon usage[1] or Javascript semicolon usage[2] or Python newline usage[3]. They're not simple. Entire essays can be and have been written describing the complexity introduced by saving programmers that single keystroke.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I want my tools to be simple. I would much rather type a thousand extra semicolons than spend extra hours internalizing the statement termination rules of the languages I use.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr...

[2] http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons

[3] http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html
the worst part about this is that it totally worked on me. I now know about their video.me product.
Besides, Jillian Michaels and Danica Patrick are willing participants.
GoDaddy will need an extra sexy ad campaign to calm the crowd.
Maybe Danica Patrick will ride an elephant.

Elephant killing aside, I can't use GoDaddy's hosting/domain control panel. Settings feel buried under layers of links and is just confusing.
I'm a former customer of name.com.

I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but the thing that drove me away was their spammy DNS.

Example: I had valid DNS records for mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com but they were forwarding ANYTHING.mydomain.com to one of their ad-ridden pages.

I can kind of see an argument for having that when a domain has just been purchased and there is no valid content yet. But doing that to an established site makes ME look like a spammer.

tl;dr - if you're using name.com's DNS, you might want to see if they're hosting spam pages on whatever.yourdomain.com
What do you gain from using this vs using GMT for everything?

At least with using GMT universally your clock still works.
If you watch the show and listen to what is said you will see that there was no libel. Tesla are wrong and probably just hungry for some publicity - they have not been getting much of that recently - the "saviour" of the US car manufacturers have found you have to ship a quality product in volume and thats hard.

The program clearly says that it was their "calculation" that on the Top Gear test track the car would only manage 55 miles. The other "issue" is that J.C. said on the show that the brakes had failed on one of the test cars - I suspect that was not something they made up but was a real (perhaps transitory given how the braking system works) problem.
Eating your own dogfood is such 2001-dotcom-bubble thinking.

I have no problem with people/companies calling something a mistake where another would put PR fluff. At least it implies that your users/customers have legitimate standards other than "take it and like it."
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Would you allow me to install video cameras in your home to record what you do? I promise I would delete the recordings after a 6-24 month period.

If you wouldn't, why not? Do you have something to hide?

[Yes, I know this is rhetorical]
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>Any fair observer would have to conclude that Android is still "open."

In my opinion, any fair observer would have to conclude that Android is still about as open as it always was. This isn't necessarily hypocritical; I have never viewed Android as "open".

Now, personally, I think that it's more customizable and flexible because it isn't mature enough as a platform to be able to afford to lock down APIs. Not that I think that the end result of an API should be to lock it down, but orthogonality in a SDK can be very beautiful, as it is with Cocoa touch.
The audacity of charging from day one.
That depends on so many factors really, but it's common to see money go into an option pool (that dilutes everybody's stock) as well as a fixed percentage go into the pool (which dilutes YC shares as well) -- meaning that if Sequoia comes in afterward and takes 20%, it dilutes the ownership shares that I have, as well as the ownership stake YC has.

The important bit is that they're in it just like the founders are -- if the founders get diluted, YC gets diluted. If the founders go broke, YC goes broke. If the founders make money on an exit, or a liquidity event, then so does YC.

You can argue all day long about 6% being 'greedy', or 'predatory' or whatever you like, but from what I understand, the value they add far exceeds the amount they take, and means that they're invested in your success.
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Almost every CEO in the country is responsible for killing "innocent" animals, since most are not vegetarian. Most are paying others to do it for them and are eating it themselves, but why is that morally better?
I also transferred all my domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap in the past year and never looked back. I was tired of having to navigate a maze of circa-1995-UI pages filled with upselling. Want to change your DNS settings? Oh, look for that teeny tiny link in the corner. Want to turn on domain privacy? That'll be another $9.95, and you have to log in to a different site with a different username+password to manage that.

Admittedly, GoDaddy has a genius business model IMO. The confusing UI is what probably makes them their bucks.
Cool and all, but.. revolutionary?
I think a large majority in the world is in the "I dont mind paying 2 bucks now and then but dont make me go searching for a solution on a technology forum because I couldnt care less about how to get it to work".
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its $150K my friend ;)
For you, possibly. For everyone else, "dick" refers to Dick Costolo.
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I wish I could do the same to all my reviewers for my iPhone app.
I think he was referring to number theory, which would be a lot more obscure if not for public-key cryptography.
I doubt that even a video of Parsons raping small children would affect their sales. As long as they are slightly cheaper than other registrars and offer the same functionality, they will always have customers. People don't vote with their wallets, and have very short memories anyway.

(DNS is something I consider too important to delegate to the lowest bidder, but I am apparently a minority.)
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They emphased the data with a factor of 10.000 to get the differences through, so I'd guesstimate the weight in the ballpark of a gram (0,0022 pound nugget).

As for what it's good for, the article has a good example: "Now, with Goce, we can unify this so that we don't get the sort of surprises we had when they built the Channel Tunnel and discovered a half-metre offset between the UK and France."
That seems pretty true compared to the alternate platform which results in things like this http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/659211315/almost-on-the-app-st... and this http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9207641/Apple_rejects...

And it seems like nothing has changed with the latest changes to Android. Care to elaborate?

Edit: And how is a IO keynote 'an entire marketing campaign' ?
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Well, I'm pretty sure this won't be a popular response, but anyway.

Firstly, I'm not really referring to this specific case. I think the video is tasteless and in many ways vile. However, I want to comment specifically on trophy hunting.

In my opinion, allowing big game hunters to pay for trophy animals is an important and integral part of animal conservation. In many impoverished African countries, their is little to no government funding to conserve animals.

Yes, there are risk factors. But personally, I believe the additional amount of animals that are killed due to the argument of excess demand is a lot less than the number of animals saved by the increased funding for poaching prevention.

Furthermore, I believe the economic benefits of this to the local community hugely improve the lives of the local people (who I believe are a lot more important than the elephants, as important as I think the elephants are), and that this improvement will decrease poaching.

To summarize:
- I agree that Trophy hunting can have negative effects.
- However, I believe the positives of Trophy Hunting offset the negatives in two major ways:
Wow, thanks for drawing that to my attention. I was calling "formatTime" on the text parameter on accident, so when it was trying to run the function on just text, it was returning NaN.

I've fixed the problem now, very sorry you lost your work :(