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Is there an inherent reason you tip on the full price?

Yes, theoretically the higher your bill the better time you are having. (Think celebratory events as opposed to a lunch break.)

Is it a tax?

No, it's gratuity. You're showing your appreciation for the staff enabling you to have the best experience possible at that time (in theory).

If tipping is to support staff wages does that mean waiters who serve fancier higher priced food items are entitled to larger wages solely for the fact that their table happened to order a costlier meal?

Serving higher priced food usually means higher caliber of customers, in the tipping sense. For example, patrons of Denny's restaurants might tip well if the coffee refills are on time, but in a finer dining establishment, for example, service requests for something off the menu (like a newspaper) would not be out of the ordinary.
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Back of a piece of paper calculation and a hand calculator:

beta = 131376/19147

gamma = - 485151/95735

phi = 271932/95735

mu = 617333/95735

omega = anything, it's zero everywhere (?)
I know that waiters in the US rely on tips, but I think it's unprofessional to deliver bad service just because they think that they won't get a good tip.

Which is strange considering that people tip for good/professional service. Maybe there is a self-fulfilling prophecy somewhere in there :)
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Samuel Colt probably saved millions upon millions.
What you said in the first sentence of this reply was exactly my point - perhaps this didn't come across correctly in the post. I totally appreciate rails for how easy it makes things, and there's a reason that I chose it and continue to work with it.

The problem that I am bringing up here is exactly what you pointed out in your second paragraph - you can get away with not understanding it, which is very tempting for beginners. If your two options are (1) get off and running immediately without deep understanding or (2) take a long time to understand things before you start -- for a beginner, this is often an easy decision.

But in reality, it's important down the road to know what's going on behind the scenes, so you can be cruising along not knowing how things work, then when you run into a snag that you can't figure out, everything halts while you take an extended period of time to try to figure it out.
People didn't have to migrate though. I know we still have some internal VB6 apps floating around that work fine and do the job they were made to do. Of course they are on the 'upgrade to .net eventually' list, but so far there has been no rush.
Julian Sanchez called this the Redactor's Dilemma: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/12/08/the-redactors-dilemm...
Sounds like a pretty sensible practice.
Groupon failures, opportunities:

I see several things...

1. Businesses are not empowered the IT system of groupon should take the grudge work out of tracking groupon deals, educating those who get a groupon offer for business, etc.
2. The group IT system should empower the sales staff to be as flexible as possible in groupon deal runs.

I see is a combination of IT improvements and realizing that you are educating 3 or more distinct group s at once and the IT system has empower that approach.

Whoever, does that will at some point reach the efficiencies Groupon needs to reach to reach profitability as being more effective will all 3 groups means less salesperson time per salesperson per group.
If you are <30 you can find cheap plans 250$ or so.
I really like your idea but if Zipcar let you rent someone else's parked car, and you were late, they would almost certainly lose the stranded customer.

I know how much people hate waiting for a ride because my startup RideCell worked on real-time carpooling for some time before we pivoted to fleet automation. Even now, one of the main problems our product solves is reducing wait time for transport/service vehicles by auto-dispatching tasks to the nearest one, routing them intelligently, and making the wait more bearable by letting people track their transport/service vehicles (Think Uber for everything).

Of course, the fact that this is a hard problem makes it even more interesting :)
> Are people forgetting that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East?

What happened to Turkey?
I had expected Google Chrome Frame to be the first entry on the list.
State machines should be force-fed simply because they are the simplest computational model, and if they are sufficient for a task, to use something more complicated would be illogical. Indeed, in computer science school, they generally are force-fed, followed of course by force-feedings of push-down automata and various Turing Machines. (And if your web app is modeled as a very long tape, that is probably bad.)
I had a very similar experience at an Indian restaurant in Salt Lake City. Once the server became aware we had a Groupon we were treated poorly. Since that experience, I have resisted the urge to use Groupons as I would like to avoid being treated as an inferior.
Sounds like a "sponsored" piece of journalism.
What do you mean stop at steel?

Search for Tai Goo, Tim Lively and Wayne Goddard. Primitive knifemaking is another good term to search.

<a href="http://www.aescustomknives.com/>Ariel Salaverria</a> doesn't do primitive as far as I know, but he does have some tutorials for making some things that most makers buy/outsource. Tutorials for resin impermeated handle materials, like denim micarta.

This cool post showed up when I Googled "primitive knifemaking" <a href="http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/40386#.TfYp7UfW5oE...;

If you (or anyone else, for that matter) is interested in talking about this stuff, shoot me an email (it's in my profile).
What to think about when selling a Groupon
the problem being that "Tower Bridge Exhibitions" is not a trademark owner for "Tower Bridge". It actually seems like they are stomping on other companies trademarks by claiming the base name"Tower Bridge" when they don't have it as a registered trademark in any field of endeavor.
Are you sure about that? You think it is an obvious fact that doesn't need to be supported or argued about it is just common sense and I think many would disagree with that.
True - I guess no side can win this game in the long run :-(
In the UK, 10% is standard and entirely optional. 15-20+ is if you're feeling super generous.
I don't doubt that people that use coupons are probably statistically poor tippers, but this seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

If you expect someone to tip poorly, so you give them poor service, of course they are going to tip poorly!
Are you using 11.00? Other users have had problems accessing javascript-heavy sites with 11.00:

http://superuser.com/questions/234110/websites-not-working-w...
Something close to 'Eat like a human' springs to mind.
i think you're missing that the entire point of "tapas" restaurants is to rip you off in the first place.

"how can we get someone to pay for their entire meal as appetizers?"

some MBA student got a good grade for that one
I think the general answer in that the current generation of Kindle and similar readers were created to read paperback novels, not for technical documents. The same way it takes a lot of hard work to create a word processor for technical documents (compare TeX to MS Word), it will take a lot of work to create a good reader for such documents.
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Seeing as Turkey is vying for a position in the EU and it's part of numerous European councils, Turkey isn't generally considered a Middle Eastern country.
Israel is not "the Jewish people."
I love those things. Whenever I'm bored in a lobby, I try to find the secret "admin" link, and see if the address is the security code.

Long story short, there's a couple of buildings in Addison, TX that might still have "The Guild of Calamitous Intent" working out of a non-existent penthouse.
I would say that a pre-modern genocide would be done that was committed by roving bands of soldiers, rather than a bureaucracy.

A bit of research reveals I was wrong in my assumptions, though, and the Armenian genocide certainly counts by that metric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
If this is the case, then as far as my reading of the story goes, upon discovering that she was serving people who she believed would be stingy tippers, she behaved in a way that would make even a generous tipper leave nothing.

This seems counterintuitive.
This strikes me as a particularly un-HN-like comment. Accusatory tone is not a valued conversational technique here.

Be mindful of not slipping into the more emotional tone that some have observed nipping at the edges of the HN community.

(I don't mean to sound as if I'm speaking from a position of moral superiority, nor expertise with regard to the topic at hand. Just an observation and suggestion.)

P.S. For the record, I did not downvote anything. That is coming from elsewhere.
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wait staff in the US make around $2-3/hour. they aren't paid a living wage.

Not true. That's why we have federal minimum wage laws. If the wait staff are actually employed and not acting as independent contractors, then they are paid the minimum wage for their state. (Although I will grant that this being a living wage is definitely arguable.)

Edit: Correction - although not California (my state), apparently some states do allow minimum wages in the $2-3 range if employees receive tips [1]. For the downvoters, I only count about 5 states that do this, however. The original statement does not accurately reflect the majority of the U.S.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._minimum_wages
That pretty much stops any serendipity when it comes to people following you - very few people are going to click follow on a protected feed just to see whether they're saying interesting things about their local area or a technology are they work in?
http://plusapps.eu/Earthquakes-Monitor.html
I would appreciate some feedback on the landing page or the app itself (assuming that you own a Windows Phone) .
Thanks , George.
The slide deck is flash... Mmmm... Are u being serious when u say "web done right"?...
No, that's a fair comment. I have spent a surprising proportion of the past 10 years moving initialization calls from <random problem-causing place> into `main', so whenever I see a call to something like `someinitialization' I just assume it's in `main' along with all of the rest of them.

But it could easily be somewhere creepy and random, and the side-effects a bit hard to spot, making it harder to find.

(Which, of course, is why you should always put all of this stuff in `main' ;)
How exactly has Samuel Colt saved millions of lives?
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i give up
http://math.bd.psu.edu/~jpp4/finitemath/4x4solver.html
That probably means the company name is 'omega' or something like 'omega unlimited'.
I guess, but the behavior I have with books wasn't learned (outside of the obvious in learning to read, use a ToC, look up an index, etc.). Flipping back to a previous section is just a natural behavior -- it's flipping through a stack of anything. There's no analog in ebook devices. Perhaps there could be one, but it'd have to be a learned behavior, not a natural one, and thus will always feel unnatural.
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Do you tip before the meal then, or is this based on being a repeat customer?
I just tried this btw,

If you merge B and C you will only have a conflict if the changes in B and C touch the same regions of the file.

If not the merge is made automatically and the changes from both branches are reflected in the new file.
> The whole operation costed 5 rubles (1 US $)

If it only costs a buck to launch a commercial vacuum cleaner into space, I will eat a hat of your choosing.
The careers link jumps to corda.com. Does this mean the company name has already been solved?
As long as the reference implementation gets a decent head start, any re-implementers will practically be forced to maintain complete compatibility with it. This model works quite well for programming languages.
I hope we can contribute at least some part of the kudos for inventing tapas restaurants to the Spanish as well as the MBA students.
That's correct, although it does possess the only armed force in the world interested in protecting the Jewish people.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe for why this is important.
I was expecting something different. I thought this was going to contain solutions for building web apps at scale, but it's basically a way to build plain old websites with a somewhat nicer and more maintainable syntax.

Some things that I want to see solutions for:

* Implementing richer controls that can behave as if they are native to the platform (e.g. building a better date picker that is fully encapsulated from the perspective of the developer)

* Dealing with styling at scale (tens of thousands of lines, up to a dozen levels of element nesting)

* Encapsulating application modules so they are incapable of conflicting with other application modules (in structure, behavior and styling), and can have a separate lifecycle from the page they are loaded into.

To me those are the real problems in building web apps at scale, and I was expecting to see solutions for these.
As would Oppenheimer (nuclear bomb/nuclear energy). Benefits of nuclear energy are palpable. But even the A-bomb and it's use as a deterrent could be seen (loosely) as a positive force.

And Alfred Nobel (TNT). His prize notwithstanding, but TNT has unlocked significant natural resources that have improved the quality of life worldwide.

"I am become death. The destroyer of worlds."
Restaurants should either not go for Groupon. If they do, they have no business despising Groupon customers. Doing that makes no sense. It is they who decided to go for it in the first place.
> Have fun merging...

I just did. As long as the changes in branches B and C are to different regions of the file the merge is completed automatically. If not, conflict markers are places in foobar.foo.in for you to resolve there.

Not sure what more you could ask of your Version Control System...
All of these problems are solvable if you apply a bit of DRY, and use better languages. I would despair of trying to combine state machines and DRY without closures.

The final remaining "hard to read" that remains after DRY is usually a reflection of the problem domain, not the solution domain. That's a barrier you can't pass through; if you got seven states and ten events, you've got seventy things to deal with, one way or another. (Which doesn't have to mean 70 literal handlers, but does usually mean still quite a number.)
Does it have an exchangeable battery? I recently went on a four day hiking trip and switched off my phone most of the time, so that I would have power in case of an emergency. Only later did it occur to me that I could simply have packed another battery. I was thinking all complicated, solar chargers and what not.

For my digicam I have two batteries. One is always in the device, one is either in the charger or packed with the camera fully loaded. I find that works very well.
The author hasn't suggested XML for presentation, but rather for content.
> "...the only democracy in the Middle East? ...all religion aside."

One problem is that it's difficult to consider the question of Israel being a "democracy" while setting aside "all religion". (Short version: there are a lot of people in occupied territories that don't have a vote.)

Another is that there is a very good question of just how much can you let a country get away with just because they are or claim to be a democracy? That amount is surely limited (right?), but the question is, how much?
[FWIW, I'm a partner in a marketing/dev services firm and we do lots of this re-design work. When a client asks us to use existing content and just re-paint/organize it, we very clearly call it out as a "re-flow" so that no one expects miracles...]

There is a huge difference between re-flowing content (as ASB seems to have done) and re-designing/structuring a page (something we're working on with a client right now). If you 're-design' a page and metrics don't change, you know you re-flowed and that's sometimes exactly what you're trying to accomplish (re-branding; increasing existing customer trust/happiness).

That said, we see lots of people on the marketing, dev and design sides of businesses who, like ASB, don't seem to grok that design is about communication and not about colors and shapes. This often leads to re-design that doesn't communicate anything different or differently.

Increasing/optimizing conversion rate is rarely about the layout of content; its usually about the content itself, the motivations produced by the content, the avenues provided to users to engage with their new motivation and the flow/paint. Those who say otherwise are believe in green-button-FTW or think users can be tricked into clicking.

Edit: restructured, expanded.
I'm not suggesting Facebook is unchallengeable just that it will take much longer due to the enormous number of users. The exodus from MySpace took several years with about 1/4th less users. So a 10 year timeframe seems completely reasonable to me when you're talking about almost 700 million users. I just can't see how that happens in 4-6 years as you suggest. Facebook would have to stop growing entirely and begin losing hundreds of thousands of users per day to a competitor.
> You think it is an obvious fact that doesn't need to be supported or argued about it is just common sense and I think many would disagree with that.

I don't think it's an obvious fact which is why 7 minutes before you wrote this, I responded to a similar question.

Edit: Here it is

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649279
Cold weather events to persist as planet warms
attest (http://packages.python.org/Attest/) is a really nice test framework too. Feels much more natural to me than the usual setUp/tearDown pattern.
All restaurants are required by law to pay at least minimum wage if the employee doesn't make at least said wage in tips.
WWII is, in many ways, the demarcation point of the modern era. Almost every facet of life was changed. Women entered the workforce, agriculture and industry were more or less entirely rewritten.

In terms of genocide, it was the first one to use computers. It used systematic, organizational principles similar to what a business might use. It created a set of processes both to carry it out and to make the population accept and even participate in the unspeakable.
I wasn't aware tipping was all that common in the UK but here in Canada I would be wary of using Groupon for that exact reason. Personally I find tipping to be a nearly meaningless exercise (nearly because occasionally great service deserves a bit extra). Because I live in a country where we are expected to tip, restaurant owners do (and are allowed to with lower minimum wages) expect to be able to underpay their staff and let them live off tips.

It is to the point where most chains have a tipping system where wait staff tip out to everyone, chefs, bussers, etc so everyone gets a chip at it. If you undertip the wait staff can actually lose money.

I'm tired of being responsible for someone elses paycheck. Most restaurant waitstaff are merely ok, not amazing and not deserving of something extra, nonetheless I feel obligated to pay 15%+ anyways because of the culture.

Worse than this there are many here who despite the tipping culture feel perfectly free to never tip or undertip, leaving the rest of us to make up the difference (how do you think we go from 10% being a normal tip to 15-20%?).

It's for this reason alone and because I know most Groupon users are brutal cheapskates I will probably never take a Groupon for a restaurant. Though one persons advice to tip up front or at least let the waitstaff know you have no intention of only tipping on the remainder is valid and if you are going to get a groupon deal you'd do well to remember that.

What sucks about this whole anecdote is it means owners using Groupon are getting doubly screwed. They are getting one-timer coupon clipper who don't care about the crap service since they are never coming back anyways, and they are getting potential first customers who are not going to come back now because of the bad service. Even worse they will likely get negative word of mouth.

Of course there is a simple solution here, plan ahead and don't mistreat your staff by making them beg for tips. Personally I have zero sympathy for restaurant owners since they themselves are the ones who maintain this bullshit tipping culture.
Yeah, it all depends on how you use twitter.

I use my twitter feed for stuff which is too boring or offensive to inflict upon my entire facebook friends list.
Sorry... ASW? (Google isn't helping me either.)
Unfortunately, beta has come to mean "Private release to a select few individuals" to many people.

As for the bug reports in the review area, I imagine this is for a couple reasons.

First, it's the easy way to give feedback to the developer. I don't know of a way to provide feedback within the App Store architecture other than through the review process. Any other method has a chance of being painful. Being forced to sigh up to some developer site bug tracking system, and then getting sent email after email notifying you of every status update. Of course, I also have to search around for how to contact this particular developer with a bug. There is no easy method that I know of to do this.

Secondly, it's a sure way of getting the attention of the developer. Reviews directly impact the developer, and an email directly to the developer might not get a response as quickly as you want.

I'm not saying either reasoning is correct, or right. I'm not judging the reasoning. I just imagine that's the two biggest reasons for using reviews for bug reports.
Dude, i surve in Israeli army - communication corps , c41. There are lots of "top-secret" bases that are available on google maps & earth. The difference is that you need to know where to look for them , others won't be recognized as army bases ( e.g. shabak or mossad buildings )
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> there are a lot of people in occupied territories that don't have a vote.

Yes they do. In their own government(s). What are you talking about?

Edit: Oh gosh... downvoted? I feel as though I am on reddit.

Edit 2: They voted for Fatah and Hamas. They do get to vote - in their own elections. (Though not for a few years because Hamas and Fatah have postponed elections multiple times)
The Nook seems to go flat when I'm not using it, but never when I am.
"Tipped workers" are paid under different rules, and it varies state by state. They typically have a minimum cash wage ($2.13 federally and in NY for example) and an hourly "tip credit" ($5.12 fed/in NY) to bring them up to standard "minimum wage" ($7.25). They only get paid $2.13 an hour by their employer.

More here: http://www.paywizard.org/main/Minimumwageandovertime/Minimum...
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yes, you're right, what i said wasn't fully true for expediency's sake, but your statement isn't fully true either. federal minimum wage laws don't apply to tipped workers in the same way (iirc, it varies based on the state, i'm not sure).

if an employee doesn't at least make minimum wage after tips are considered, an employer is required by law to compensate an employee up to the point where they do make minimum wage. in theory.

in practice, this doesn't always happen.
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