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It didn't exist before you asked; I wrote it in response to your question. I've linked it from the simplates page and from the index.

Approved your gg request. Have to do that for anti-spam. :^/
It sounds like you're being purposefully obtuse.

The catalogue shows you the goods but then when you go to pick them up you are pushed around the entire showroom (with the hopes that you'll see things that will go well with what you've picked out already).

The showroom's purpose for a customer is to show them things before they buy (or alternatively to give them ideas and fashion cues). If I want to buy a bed though I don't really want to look around cupboards, kitchens, children's toys, etc., etc., I want to look at beds.

From the companies POV the showroom is to show you things. For IKEA it is to show you as many things as possible with the hope that some of those things will look attractive to you. If you go in for one thing they are doing their best to ensure that you leave with other things too.

There's also a consideration of sunk costs. The showroom takes about 45 minutes to navigate, if you go around and don't buy anything it feels like you've failed somehow. The idea is that if you buy something then you haven't wasted the time. Indeed there are no exits except through till lanes. You are a customer, you will buy, leaving without buying is made as hard as possible.

They have alarms on inactive checkouts! Sneak out without buying and you set off an alarm; they're good at what they do.
A very nice tool indeed.
I visited IKEA for the first time last week.
I guess having all the names of items in Swedish is officially viewed as a feature. I think it's a bug as it's easier to remember a name than a (bar-code) number or a word you cant pronounce.
I needed a set of a particular item which always come in 4s. When I got to the pickup area they were all loose, I assumed someone had opened a box so I picked up a sealed box went to the self-service checkout, scanned, paid and left.
Hours later and 160 km away I saw that I had only paid for 1 item and had a box of 16.
The barcode on the box was the same as the one for each item.
Next time I'm there I'll take back the excess and pay the extra but I don't think it's entirely my fault so I'm not going to go out of my way to do a 300km round trip
I stay with my previous opinion of "when an interesting and significant project has an update and may not have been on the front page for some time, it seems appropriate to submit it".

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and there will be debate about this. I asked why it was flagged and I got a response, I'm happy being able to have conversation in which I've understood the other persons argument.
What's the gems-like pkg manager?
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Actually, in Australia and NZ (not sure on the situation in the US and elsewhere), empty threats to sue to enforce intellectual property rights are illegal (I am an Australian law graduate, not practising, this is not legal advice).

It's sad that folks like this seem to think that threatening to sue at the drop of a hat is a perfectly acceptable business tactic. It's especially sad in a case like this when the intellectual 'property' (it's so ephemeral in this situation that quotes are needed) concerned involves an idea that almost everyone who has thought about location-based services has had. (No offence to Andrew and the team, they seem to have actually executed it and executed it well).
In the past I've used the google charts API to generate QR codes.

Is there a benefit to generating a qrcode on the client side?
I think maybe the point of the parent comment, or at least the point that I see, is that there is benefit to the consumer in having things like trademarks be enforced.

Copyright and patents are intended to benefit the public by incentivizing creators to make more stuff. Whether that works is debatable.

But trademark is intended (or at least has the effect) of helping consumers identify a product's maker. If I buy an Acme Rocket Sled, it's because I've heard that Acme makes good ones. It sucks for me if I can never tell a real Acme from a fake one; I can't purchase with any confidence. And while maybe the blogosphere could help me find out where to get real Acmes, it really seems more efficient if we just outlaw making knockoffs and penalize those who do. If it's not Acme, I want it to have a different label.
Your comment resonated with me. My wife's very verbal niece could name 12 animals in a book of animals at 18 months. Her mother drilled her, and then they would take the book around to show how clever their daughter was.

I'd feel quite bad since my son was the same age and wasn't talking much, let alone identifying animals. The constant showing off and comparisons by my in-laws led to us taking him to a speech pathologist and to his pediatrician for an eval, to make sure he had no delays (he doesn't have any).

The other day, my wife realized that her niece (now over 2) couldn't identify the exact same animals, when they were in a different book, or using plastic models. She had learned the book, but didn't understand the concepts.

I've learned my lesson about comparing milestones. I suppose a professional may be able to do meaningful comparisons, but the average parent or grandparent cannot.
Thanks for pointing that out. I changed it to "the first and only rsync client in the App Store".

As an ios developer I completely agree with you. I was only interested in making rsync work on iphone/ipad for everyone but because of many ios limitations I had to spent much much more time coding the viewer.
If there's a word for "deriving effective practice from insane theory," it's probably something like "to rudstein." Biodynamic farming uses esoteric geomancy techniques like burying a cow's horn filled with powdered quartz, and when used in vineyards yields some truly excellent wines.
Welsh scientists 'barcode' native flora
Incidentally, one big company actually claims to have a patent on "secret admiring". I wonder how this will play out.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/11/jdate-slaps-zoosk-okcupid-a...
That is one of the things that almost everyone does.
BBC IT project to save £17.9m cost it £38.2m net
Having The Best Tools Doesn’t Really Matter
Nice phrase coinage, since google search says,

"No results found for "electable caste"."

- avoiding the pejorative-sounding 'ilk.' - but conveying the realm of demagogues who legislate unintended consequences along with their campaigns to save humanity from (depravity, etc.).
Wish you all best are results rollout!
From the OP:
It doesn't rely on external services which go on and off, or add latency while loading.
>that C is superior to full-blown C++

Couldn't disagree more. C++ has a much better type system than C. For many C++ programmers (myself among them) C++ was less about OO and more about giving C programmers the ability to create new types that have the powers of the built in types. I can have strings with proper string schematics instead of an array of chars that is null terminated by convention (i.e. can't be type enforced).
Ask HN: Can someone explain the economics of AppSumo from founder's perspective?
I keep getting these awesome deal emails - that if I were interested I would get them, about various webapps.

Buy 1 month, and get 6 months free, or pay $49 and get 10 apps in 1.

I would love to hear some real data from people that have listed their app with AppSumo and what the results have been like. What does your Acquistion Cost per Customer look like, in comparison to other channels (say Facebook, Google Adsense, etc.)?

Also, what is the rationale behind it ? Do you only do the buy 1 month, get 6 month deals when you know your Lifetime Value/customer is much longer than 6 months ?

What metrics would I want to look at, from the founder's perspective, before deciding what type of deal to run, and whether or not it makes sense ?

I understand how this could work for downloaded software, because the marginal costs per license is effectively 0. But for hosted web apps, kinda trying to get some real data about that.

Thanks.
That's a poorly written article. I'm still trying to understand it.
Welcome to the history of human civilization.
There is too much variance in app configuration, implementation and infrastructure to have a single tool for the job. I'm glad there's a functional gap - it leads to solving your 'issue' with code, making sure you have your own continuous integration process.

Another 'button pushing' solution from Microsoft is the _last_ thing we need. People follow 'best practices' that are not actually pragmatic for the need at hand far too much already.
Before I die I want to have a great life.
Just make sure you know COBOL.

I'm only half-joking.
If I posted all the vague legal threats I've gotten over the Internet over the years I could come close to filling up the front page of HN. Only one ever came to any sort of legal action - a case was filed and then dropped a few months later without further comment.

The appropriate response when dealing with folks that both don't have a lawyer and don't seem to have a case is to tell them to serve you and forget about it. They'll be forced to seek counsel, who will most likely explain to them the error of their ways. It's the kind of thing that doesn't work well when coming from you, for obvious social reasons.

https://xkcd.com/386/
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Broadcast.com? Myspace?
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Show HN: My cooking app that tells you what ingredients go well together
So it's all tempest in a teapot, like so many "scandalous" things that land on HN these days... Being able to change a user's password is quite normal.
There should be an option for "C was my first programming language and I used it exclusively for years - many years ago".
Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears
This is baffling...
Try radically changing your food intake (patterns and/or content). E.g., http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/12/interview-with... or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting ; When varying mine, I switch from periods of being a night owl to almost being a morning person, and from needing 8 hours to 6 hours (and also at different times - e.g. sometimes it's 2-9 am, sometimes it's 11pm to 6am)

Experimenting with yourself is cheap, interesting and rewarding. Not always easy, but definitely worth trying.

Also, read Seth Roberts at http://sethroberts.net/self-experiment/ - he (and his reader) report about a lot of experiments regarding sleep and mood; among those I remember: - eating lots of animal fat (bacon and/or butter) improves sleep. Standing on one leg for extended periods of time improves sleep (probably the easiest way to fatigue yourself into sleeping).
What specific examples do you guys use QR codes for on websites?

How well does it work (not in terms of recognition, but traffic generation, etc)?

I am looking for a use, but always come up with easier solutions that do not involved barcodes and image recognition on smartphones.
This feature's been available on modern browsers for nearly a year now..

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachme...
You're right, I meant that it's not strictly object-oriented, it supports multiple paradigms, with OOP being one of them. :)
I can see it being used with wkhtmltopdf (uses webkit to generate PDFs) so invoice generation or something doesn't require an external request.
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It seems like this could be either the second or third option, depending on how well you still know it. Perhaps the second if you still know it well and the third if you've gotten really rusty in it.

I can add the option if this doesn't make sense in your case.
ITT: a mashup of the reasons that made me decide to leave France. I'll be gone in two months.
I just hope the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is better...
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Sigh, are you trolling or new? OK, I'll answer.

The point of printing and browsing code is that it is easier and nicer than to read it on a screen (you'll have a portable with you at the cafe anyway to search, annotate, etc.) If you get lots of broken lines, it isn't readable.

Point was, you lose a capability with long lines -- a nice way to go over code. This is important for many of us.

Edit: Point jedsmith, write it off as grumpy-old-man syndrome. Sigh, I just can't get that this isn't understood by everyone, anymore.
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Email me (see profile) or fill out the form for an invite.

It specifically sets out to help people in your situation, because we went through it ourselves.
The direct link to the 20th Anniversary of Linux in Linux Foundation:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/20th/
Group Complete: Android Mobile Data Collection Platform Using ODK + CouchDB
It was intended as a witty remark, I only parsed for unitary conformance not for value and didn't bother to answer the question.

Perhaps you'd like to do it and provide the answer in these units?
I use it for our web-based warehouse/inventory system.
And stealing pipe is a common way to make extra cash in Ireland. Stealing is stealing.
That looks like a nice project, thx.
Have they already contacted everybody they're going to contact?
AVG Launches Dropbox Rival: Sync, Backup And Share Files In The Cloud
I touched on this in another comment and zefhous is pretty much on the money. Where I'm at we have a web-based interface for our warehouse, inventory and CSR systems. QR codes are all over the place and with our web UI's we use Charts for QR generation. This causes a bottle-neck when things are moving really fast on the floor. I haven't looked at this yet but it sounds like something we need.
That's true - but the charts API works without JS, and is inserted into the page as an image which could be seen as equally advantageous.

Still - it's great that this plugin exists.
I am curious to see their exit strategies.

Say what you will about Broadcast.com or Myspace, but their founders did quite well, giving up any delusion of building on online legacy through said domains.

Take the cash and move on.

Particularly with Groupon, I really don't understand how a global company can compete at a local level if a local 'Mom & Pop' groupon clone takes Groupon on. Are the economies of scale there? (Please note I am talking about smaller towns, not major cities like Manhattan, Chicago, etc.)
qr code is about easily passing data to your smart phone.

The most common application is give url to your phone. android 2.2 got a feature to push links from chrome to android phone.

with qrcode, you can do it from any browser to any smartphone.

One could write an plugin for that... one js including all what is needed. display a small icon on the page. when the user click on the icon, a large qrcode open, and the user can scan it and go on on its phone.

just suggesting
"Window bars don't offer any minimise/maximise window controls; however, this functionality is still available by right-clicking on a window's top bar. GNOME and GTK+ development veteran Owen Taylor explained the reasons for removing the controls in a comprehensive email. In this email, the developer indicates that workspaces may make it unnecessary to minimise windows."

I don't think I like that one. I minimize all the time even with workspaces. To relegate to a right click is just going to confuse the novice end user.
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I did not buy it in a tourist trap - am very aware of this as family does business there. I believe I was in this mall:
http://tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/04/photos-shanghais-pc-mall-5...

Pretty much nothing but locals. If you wanted to buy a PC, they'd sit you down on a little stool and offer you a drink, then fill out a form with you in Chinese. (Surprisingly, it turned out the prices were within 10% of the cheapest Australian importers [MSY/CPL] for many things - even as I was walking away they couldn't go lower!)

I did buy it from a smaller stall similar to photo #6. But it was still quite surprising to find it was dodgy - the mall didn't even sell pirated software! Perhaps if they can tell you're not local they pull out the knockoffs. Good point about the lean manufacturing - although the number of people who've encountered this online is what implied to me that it's a reasonably large operation. Hard to say, really.
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Depends...

AVI: Index is at the end, so it might play fine in a tolerant enough player.

MPEG-TS: Headerless. Will play fine in any player.

MP4/MOV: Index is sometimes at the end; if so, it might play fine in a tolerant enough player.

MKV: Has a header and index, usually at the start. Probably won't play.

Ogg: Has a header, but is indexless; might play fine in a tolerant enough player. Probably not though, as both Vorbis and Theora (the only things Ogg supports that are ever used) both rely on custom Huffman tables in the headers.
Yip for sure. It's too much to explain in a forum, but I've been meaning to post an article on how I've been using these technologies together. If anybody else is keen, just post a comment on the blog and then you'll be alerted when it's ready.
Gnome3 - Where did the buttons go?, and why.
It is difficult
Actually I have built similar systems, on a smaller scale.

Phone companies and financial institutions don't typically have messages which affect millions of accounts, for a start.

You're saying that as if it was a relevant metric. It's not. What matters is the number of concurrently online subscribers and the aggregate throughput. Twitter doesn't go and append to 1mio inboxes when akutcher sends a tweet.
Does it covers supersets of the spec? I understand not all of the .NET platform is part of a formal standard.
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Doesn't add up to me. If you don't want Honeycomb on phones then simply don't let anyone have Market, Gmail, Maps, and the other Google Apps if they are putting Honeycomb on phones.

If that's not good enough, and you just don't want Honeycomb on phones period... then you don't believe in open source.
His code actually _is_ a joy to read and use. Some of it requires more than a passing scan. But that's true of any code worth reading - if you don't need to scan it twice, it's most probably useless and bureaucratic, and could be done away with if a better design is used.
You're jumping the gun. The good ideas tend to be the ones which people bother to implement. You don't just pick an idea at random and go for it.

If you want to say 'the true value of many ideas which startups are based upon cannot be determined very easily due to conflation with other variables (luck, timing, expertise, effort)' then fine, but just say that (though that is hardly a problem exclusive to measuring the worth of ideas). What I object to is this 'good ideas are worthless' doublespeak which butchers logic and the English language.
I'm also not splitting hairs.

of course you aren't. We know this because you say you aren't. What you are is making a nuanced distinction between what you mean when you say "stores hashed passwords" and what is commonly meant by that.
Thanks. Feel free to tell Ballmer.
Well, I guess IKEA is not for you. I always went to IKEA with the understanding that I actually want to look at everything.
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It sure seems like the point was to take a gratuitous swipe at free market capitalism. And if it wasn't the lack of clarity regarding the actual target of the gratuitous swipe deserves at least a modicum of disapprobation.
The daily deal space is technically simple and has low barriers to entry - get a WordPress account and MailChimp, and you're more than halfway there. However, driving traffic and sourcing deals is ridiculously capital intensive.

Local Groupon clones around the world have been doing more or less well depending on their country's access to capital -- if there's sufficient VC available, they can hold their own, but if not, they've been getting steamrolled when a Groupon or Living Social enters their country.
Common Lisp - Myths and Legends
Ah, thanks a lot for the info, and for the link as well - that sheds a better light on some of the oddities I'd noticed in my phone!
AFAIK at least Gtk+ and WM theme switching has not been added to gnome-control-center on purpose, it has been moved to gnome-tweak-tool (which is probably not going to be installed by default).
IIRC from my time playing with Norton Utilities back when it was a real hacker tool, you only need to format the disk as usual then hand-modify the disk size in the MSDOS (2nd, logical drive's) boot sector. The FAT will contain all the entries needed for keeping parts of the file in correct order, and Windows will happily report the drive size from that field. Assuming the flash drive's firmware/circuit doesn't report errors but rather uses the low bits to address the sectors (laziest way to build a flash controller), explains how "only the last part of the file" gets preserved (i.e. not overwritten).

For the FAT to stay non-corrupt I would assume that Windows writes a full copy from its cache right after writing the file, that would not be an unreasonable assumption.

All in all: extremely easy to reproduce, no special controller needed. Probably just a guy that realized how Windows behaves after changing a couple bytes on the disk, and another that said "hey, we can make money off that!"
Radical Dynamic released a technology preview of their innovative platform Group Complete. May be of interest to those who are interested in the potential of CouchDB and Open Data Kit.
2004 was much further back than I'm remembering it. The most amazing part is that everything there has been REPLACED, not simply upgraded. If I were to tell you that in 7 years the monitors were slimmer, the servers fit x1000 the capacity in 1/2 the space, and the printers were all-in-one, you'd be impressed. If I told you that you could throw out your server and printer, and run everything entirely off of a laptop and the internet, you'd wonder how that's physically possible. It's amazing to imagine where we'll be even 5 years from today.
Social gold: the design of Farmville and other social games
You can drag and drop them too. Just found that out the other day.
Interesting article. I hadn't heard of the UK's ROCs (renewables obligation certificates) before. That sounds like a fairly convoluted and silly system. Wind power is a bad idea IMHO.
You could have made that point without the personal attack.
Amazon can. That has no information about how the nodes were allocated. They could have hand picked X rack of nodes that were all connected via the same switch, etc. You don't get that guarantee from AWS.
Ask HN: Can we safely not accept faxes?
Have we finally reached a point where the number of people with access to scanners and email is great enough for a business to justify not accepting faxes?
I love the extra hardware glued inside to give it some weight. Nice attention to detail!
It's along the lines of "if you were stuck on a desert island and could only have one whatever, which would it be?"

So if you had to choose one programming language to do all of your work in, which language would it be?
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Off topic, but I love how his website does footnotes.
I suggest skipping The Register's diatribe and going stright to the PDF. Not that The Reg is miscommunicating anything per se, just that it's annoying.

http://www.jmt.org/assets/pdf/wind-report.pdf