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Corda is an old company with an old enterprisey XML product.

Josh James bought Corda
http://allthingsd.com/20110427/exclusive-whats-former-omnitu...

Looks like he's trying to remake Corda into something useful.

Of note, both Omniture and Corda are based in Utah. When he went shopping, he didn't look far.

It's interesting that he doesn't have any non-compete agreements in place stopping him from competing with the $1.8B analytics company he just sold and resigned from.
For a local alternative try an HTTP sniffer. I personally use HTTP Scoop on my Mac, which does the job pretty well: http://www.tuffcode.com/

(I am not affiliated with TuffCode or any other HTTP sniffer).
{tl;dr} I would start identifying benefits that your app provides and highlight those. {/tl;dr}

If you're more specific about the feedback you're looking for instead of just generally, I could probably be more helpful. Are you trying to improve the design? Are you working at improving conversions? Are you playing around with layout?

I don't have a Windows Phone, but your landing page is informative and answers all of my immediate questions like "What is it?", "What can I expect?" but I think you're selling the features more than the benefits. A good analogy for this is like offering frozen lemonade in the summer and yelling "It's guaranteed to be less than 32F!" As a potential customer, I don't care how cold it is. I'm more interested in knowing that it will help me avoid a heatstroke during this uncomfortable summer.
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if you are mostly mobile (laptops and smartphones) then Line2 is a good choice. Its also the least expensive.
Correct. Design goes well beyond just aesthetics but encompasses the overall usability and customer experience.
Could you please clarify why whole grain flour pasta would not have nutrients? Unless you meant white flour pasta. And here is how to make it from scratch:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_wheat_flour

Grind whole wheat into flour with a coffee grinder: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1593906/make_lowcar... (you can also buy an expensive hand-crank version)

Whole Wheat Pasta recipe: http://www.sugarlaws.com/whole-wheat-pasta
Charge isn't a problem if I plan ahead and charge it before I go. But if I'm packing a few hours before my flight I'll look at my Nook and see that it's gone flat.
man , are you serious ?!?!?

How did US helped Jews in WW2 ? I'm Israeli , i know history of my nation very good. USSR really won the war, and release freedom for Jews , also giving 3 voices on UN call for raising a country. Oh , sure we fire lots of M-16 rifles. But don't forget about real Americas interests on Middle east
Absolutely. But I think there is a disconnect raganwald points out between the owners / managers who had the idea of going to groupon and the staff who feel it's effects.
SubSession (tab-specific browser sessions)
I feel like prettying your site up should only be a minor consideration when doing a redesign. You need to have clear goals, and some hypotheses on how to reach those goals. It sounds like his hypothesis was "If I make the site nicer looking, then more people will sign up and pay". By looking at the data he's found that isn't the case.

There's still a lot of other stuff to test on a site, only some relates to how it looks. Things like headlines and images/screenshots can have a huge impact. A nice design gives you a good base to work from, but shouldn't be the end. Throwing in the towel and saying "design must not matter" is the wrong way to go.

For example... their new site has way too much text, not enough visuals. Especially the features page. I would add some screenshots and try to use a more descriptive headline. Instead of "Features" or "Gory details" I'd try something like "We make WordPress run like a well oiled machine".

There's a Japanese word that represents the process perfectly, "kaizen". Committing to continuous improvement will end up in results eventually, fancy design or not. Design can definitely be part of the process, but it's not the only thing to work on.
He probably means asmallworld.net - an invitation only social network for internationally minded people
By the time you have a working C++ implementation, for all you know v8 and SpiderMonkey's optimizers will be generating code just as fast as your C++.

I dont think that's going to happen anytime soon.

But I agree that JavaScript is the way to go with this.
The prize is not that high to justify such a steep adoption curve. I mean "make A as wide as B is high" can be accomplished in javascript today.
It is interesting how few languages make state machines easily read when the appear in code ("what's with all the ifs?").
I know the provenance is Jewish, but it's used for Sunday here as well.
Haha love the points here Ben. Who knew the F1 could teach us so much? ;)
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Wisconsin is suffering from the political equivalent of a priority inversion bug -- there is a Republican majority in their legislature and a Republican governor, but enough of their house members are embroiled in a massive recall campaign that the balance of power is practically guaranteed to switch to the Democratic party come votin' time. Therefore, the legislature is attempting to cram vast amounts of right-wing conservative legislation through before their time's up. It's like QE2, but for legislation.

The point is, there's nothing rational about anything going on there right now.
I agree, but I also think that society has a path mapped out for kids: become a loan slave/worker drone. School doesn't teach entrepreneurship at all, and neither does university. So if left unchecked, the danger is that the kids will just be slurped up by one of the official "channels" and become another worker drone.

To be fair, some universities have tiny offices dedicated to creating businesses from their research, but I don't think it is very prominent in what tends to happen at universities. "They" are much happier if they can get you to toil for little money towards your PhD.

Also, I don't think it is really possible to be completely neutral towards the development of one's own kids. And I think it is OK to pass on some of one's values. They can always rebel if they don't like them.
This is mostly a description of state, not of state machines.

Status, published, or paid fields on your objects have little to do with state machines if the code is not written with assertions about the current state of the application. These fields are just... well plain state, and no machine.

One would learn more about state machines from looking at the Ruby gem that's linked to in the article: https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine
I disagree.

State machines are anti-modular: By clearly defining the transitions from one state to another and when outputs can occur I see state machines as making it easier to develop modular applications. I don't see how it inevitably leads to non-modular code.

State machines are anti-abstraction: If you're modeling a process then some things can't be abstracted. At some level you have to deal with real world situations.

State machine code is hard to read: That's a function of the effort made to make it easy to read. It's no different than any other situation.

In general I find state machine design to be helpful in literally controlling the state of an application. By limiting what an application does and when it can do it, via an easily understood mental model, it's a straight forward design technique.
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The internet brings people closer to facts than they have ever been in history; yet no proximity will ever exceed what you already believe to be true. IBM knowingly participated, and apologized only a few years ago, but never returned any of the profits. The distinction made throughout the responses here is that IBM knew nothing so are as non-culpable as someone who invents a weapon or a utility that is later weaponized. This is untrue, as you read, but that disbelief is part of what allowed the holocaust to continue. I read a narrative once of someone who was watching World War I brew, describing it as a non-event that would not transpire because he could not imagine people with top hats engaging in the brutish behaviors of their predecessors.
This looks like a neat idea. A nice extension would be to allow for a QR code entry that would invalidate itself over some criteria.
In presentation - http://www.slideshare.net/veosotano/axr-presentation-betabee... - slides 12 and 13, including new elements creation (http://axr.vg/spec/chapter/55). Didn't find anything on parent property in spec, though. Nesting is also planned (slide 15)
Well I generally only deviate from the restaurants I visit when I have done the entire menu. I try to try everything on a menu then I try a different place. I guess the model doesn't really work for me, I wouldn't generally try somewhere different unless I have seen the place and I wanted to try there anyway.

I guess that's me though, everyone is different. I have been stung too many times in the past with bad meals and I am probably the fussiest customer you will find. If I had been going to a place for years and they started serving bad meals, I wouldn't think twice about not going there again. I don't generally complain about a meal, not going there again is good enough for me.

I like the insight into the Groupon experience as a whole though, this is probably what would happen to me so I'm glad I had never taken the plunge.
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Not true. Waiters have a different minimum wage:

http://www.dol.gov/wb/faq26.htm

Question: Is it legal for waiters and waitresses to be paid below the minimum wage?
Answer: According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, tipped employees are individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages.
An employer may credit a portion of a tipped employee's tips against the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. An employer must pay at least $2.13 per hour. However, if an employee's tips combined with the employer's wage of $2.13 per hour do not equal the hourly minimum wage, the employer is required to make up the difference.
The employer who elects to use the tip credit provision must inform the employee in advance and must be able to show that the employee receives at least the applicable minimum wage (see above) when direct wages and the tip credit allowance are combined. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. Also, employees must retain all of their tips, except to the extent that they participate in a valid tip pooling or sharing arrangement.
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Portable thread libraries have existed since userspace threads were invented. That's really not news. But it's true that the C memory model (per the spec) was underconstrained. So various tricks like volatile had to be added, and when those weren't enough the libraries had to drop down to platform-specific assembly code like memory barriers, etc...

The point here is that they're just putting this into the standard and requiring specific semantics. This works because all CPU vendors have settled on a more or less consistent way of doing this -- synchronization is mature technology, basically. But it presumably also means that some older uniprocessor architectures won't be officially supported.
What about a .dot file? It's pretty simple.

digraph publish{
AUTHOR -> EDIT
EDIT -> PUBLISHED
}

voilla! a state diagram. What's that? you want metadata?

digraph publish{
AUTHOR => EDIT [ key="SUBMIT"
buttonText="Submit to Editor"
privilegesRequired="SBMT"
]
}

et voilla. The modularity can find it's way in the code implementing the state machine actions. Not sure what "anti-abstraction" means, but I find the above pretty easy to read.

Also, you get free diagrams via graphviz.
Congratulations IBM! What a wonderful 100 years it has been I can't wait to see part of the next 100 years and what you'll do.
this is true, but sometimes people bend or break this rule (most people don't, of course).
That was the exact one I was thinking of. I really think you should look at the source that I linked to though. IBM knew what it was participating in and has since apologized (though never paid for it).
Indeed. If you do not use a state machine in a situation like that, you either get very complicated code as well, or you conveniently do not implement some of the state transitions. That will always get back to you: "how can this ever happen?!"

State machines force you to consider all possible state transitions. This makes sure that transitions are handled properly, or they are actively made impossible.
I am personally seeing the growth from Mexico. In the past month, a large chunk of my cousins have added me. But like others have said, most of their updates are from the Spanish version of Farmville, etc.
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Is there an online OCR that can parse that? I suppose then one could feed it to Wolfram Alpha? I tried Google Docs, but it didn't convert anything at all.
Other factors like Facebook finding and removing spam accounts, users enabling privacy features, etc. seem like a much more likely cause.

I could see people getting bored / busy and not bothering to use it any more, but it's unbelievable that 1.5 million would delete their accounts in one month.
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I hope physical books don't disappear for a long time. Maybe once ALL books are available as ebooks in open format and without restriction on what I can do with them. I'd like the ability to trade, borrow, or resell my books.

Also, if there are the equiv 'used' bookstores that sell ebooks for $1.
I think the only thing you have to look out for is a "paypål" domain pointing to a phishing scheme... There are technical ways to handle this, but people have fallen for less.

I agree though, that in the name of progress, this is a good thing and makes the Internet more accessible to all.

Also, realistically, what URI's do you actually type in yourself besides Google?
I saw an interview with old Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the eponymous rifle. The interviewer asked him, are you ashamed to have created a weapon that caused so many deaths? He snorted in contempt and replied, I designed my weapon to defend the Motherland from Fascist invaders. And no-one can argue with that!
Yeah, I guess the article does say "worldwide" market share. It's difficult, as a US consumer, to develop a view of overseas markets because things are so different here.

In the US, the differentiation you mention doesn't even exist, because all phones here come with a contract. Even obtaining "no contract" prices is difficult, and when you do get them, you still buy a locked phone that can't be used on another carrier.

It's like dealing with an organized crime syndicate.
China is really a stumbling block. I've actually been thinking about the best way to penetrate the Chinese market... I'm thinking the strategy is to start young, and keep good relations with their government. I guess this is tricky, especially if the founders can't speak Chinese, and have no family ties.
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Actually this is true. Average tips are calculated when determining hourly wage. I worked as a server for 4 years in high school/college. My hourly wage was about $4/hr while the minimum in Florida was $6.25. My paychecks mostly went to paying taxes on my tips.
As destructive as the concealed gun has been, it has saved man from both beast and himself. The colt revolver was a practical device that allowed individual parts to be replaced, fired multiple shots in succession (as one inaccurate bullet could not down a giant bear), and was used by law enforcement and villains alike. The principles of interchangeable parts had a huge impact as well as the revolver as a means of protecting life and liberty.
The longer you work in IT, the more you realize that the last 40 years has been spent re-inventing IMS, CICS and VM. Where would be we now if we hadn't wasted all that effort?
Four equations, five unknowns, all linear. This isn't particularly difficult, just tedious.

Because there are more unknowns than equations, your solution should itself be an equation expressing one of the unknowns as a linear function of the other four -- omega = a * beta + b * gamma + c * phi + d * mu, where a, b, c, and d are found by chugging away using your favorite linear solution technique (Gaussian elimination, perhaps.)

I leave the actual solution as an exercise for the reader ;)
It's trendy to hate Facebook these days but I think it's more than that.

People want to stay connected especially people 20 to 30 years-old and how do they do that now? Smartphones, iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices.

Facebook hasn't lost the battle it's just become obsolete.
Here's the problem: scarcity exists on the creative side of the entertainment business, but it's scarcity by way of cost-prohibitive access. What's scarce? Access to $20MM-a-movie actors and $8MM-a-movie directors. Access to $200MM productions. Access to creating the "tentpole" movies and shows that result. All of these things require outrageous amounts of capital, and they're all dependent on the ability to monetize the end result by many multiples of production and advertising costs by way of theatrical distribution, DVD sales, licensing and merchandizing, and various other derivatives of the original work.

At least one major revenue stream, DVD sales, is collapsing steadily. This leaves box office and derivatives and licensing. Derivatives have never been huge business, or at least not a sturdy enough pillar to bear the weight that DVD sales have borne. And licensing has always been mere icing on the cake, except in the case of titles perfectly suited to it (such as Star Wars).

As the downstream revenue sources dry up, so too will the big production dollars, and so to will the scarcity of access to "Hollywood-quality" creative. At least for most companies.

What's going to happen? One theory is that we're going to see some sort of price discrimination at the box office. Big tentpole movies cost more to make than do lower-budget romantic comedies, for example, and so tickets to Transformers XXIV will cost more than tickets to Generic Sandra Bullock / Jennifer Aniston RomCom. (Arguably this is already starting to happen, if you consider 3D to be a price discrimination mechanism. Whether by intent or by accident, it functions like one).

Another theory is that we're going to see a hollowing out of the middle tier of the film and TV businesses. You'll have giant studios making giant movies, and you'll have tiny indies making tiny movies. But there will be no middle ground, because it will no longer be profitable.

All of this assumes, of course, that production costs hold steady or increase. And so long as there are folks out there willing to pay $20MM for a single actor or $8MM for a director, they will. But the bottom might drop out of that market eventually, too. Or it might stratify dramatically as outlined in the previous paragraph.
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I'm going to have to agree with him. It is a bit ridiculous that someone using the iOS 5 beta has their reviews go in along with the rest of them.

Apple should make it so reviews are only shown for the OS of the user's phone, so if I am on iOS 5 I can see the beta reviews, but most average joes still on iOS 4 would only see those relevant to iOS 4.

This also solves an issue of users still on iOS 3 with an app that may no longer be compatible for iOS 3 clogging up the reviews for they aren't relevant for most current iOS users.
I still think the notion of a 'collectible' book is a good one, but probably not quite as phrased there.

Pure pulp will, I agree, largely leave the printed medium. Items like Twilight may I suspect stay around as they're 'a collectible series' in spite of perceived literary merit, almost as posters or similar do today.

I've compared the future of the book here before to the future of the horse in the early days of cars. They will retain a luxury and a prestige with enthusiasts for certain specific applications, but their previous general usage will likely vanish.

What will remain in print? Some may want classic texts like Don Knuth's TAOCP, though personally for that sort of thing I'd always rather have an eBook. I foresee primarily luxury 'coffee table' books - lavishly illustrated, beautifully made, designed to be objects of desire in themselves, independent of their content.

Otherwise, we're talking legacy content. I have a 1980 copy of a huge, library reference quality world atlas that can be pried out of my cold dead hands thank you, and a few other similar volumes, but pretty much everything else would frankly serve me better as an ePub file on a home server that could get synched to my various devices.

As an aside - I would LOVE a historic online mapping service. The ability to view a map moving through time, communities displacing, rivers changing course, harbours silting up, whole countries appearing and disappearing, simply by selecting an area and scrolling along a time axis, would destroy my ability to achieve anything productive for a very long time ;-)
Also places that have more expensive food tend to have more people to spread the tips around on. The waiter splits the tip with the person busing tables, the person refilling your water glass, the host etc.
And developer sees something like this [authentic comments to my app in Android Market, not in AppStore]:
1 star - It won't even let me login, crap
5 stars - Thank you very much! It's the best app for . *

Only info which I get is that some users don't understand information on the screen - my bad, I should write it better - but I'm even not able to help this person.

When I get info from user (mainly by special feature which let user to send "bug report" to my by e-mail) about problem I usually answer in 5-10 minutes ;-)

I think the best solution may be to give to developers ability to respond to authors of review, maybe it should be done in this way that user which will set 1 star will be asked if she agrees to get possible response from developer or something like this. Everybody will gain something.
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You're rising some interesting questions. Mind posing them on the mailing list? That would be awesome :D Cheers.
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