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2 things;

- Apple would love to not getting jailbreaked, it's bad for them as well, yet it's not like they have a magic wand, I guess they do their best on this. It's quite pointless to blame Apple for that. AFAIK best track record is owned by Sony PS3 on this subject.

- Tons of people download pirated apps because they are getting it for free, they would never pay for them anyway.
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"I don't think there is any religion/ideology that discourage things like "defending property and people".

Pacifism?
Capital Vol. 1 by Marx is classic and still more applicable than anyone wants to admit. Ease into the terminology over the first few chapters, things are defined carefully.
How do you propose getting early feedback if you don't do a beta launch?
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From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

In Submissions

Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.

Further, the original Wired article was submitted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770094

There is some discussion there.
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It can help for git bisect for example to avoid having half of your commit not compiling properly because half the time you forgot to add one of the files to your commit.
Only for Vista and above. !!
Doesn't mplayer/mencoder also use libavcodec (i.e. ffmpeg) for many codecs?
X86 is not very well suited as platform-independent code, as the instruction set is way too complex and convoluted to allow for efficient emulation / translation. ARM assembly might qualify for this, though I'd personally prefer PNaCl as it is completely platform-agnostic.

(and anyway, why would you even want to translate from X86 to other architectures when translation from bitcode is already implemented and well-tested in LLVM)
Did this idea come from Reddit?
Agree, I don't care about words either. It's just when apply TC disrupt and such, they ask you those questions and I really don't know the difference. Hope everything can be simple. thanks.
Shouldn't you try a screen that is leveled with your head? Must be straining on the neck to look down all day.
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It's interesting to see the kind of heroes these guys have. Wonder if that is general for their generation.
This is off to the side of IE6, but I think we make a big mistake when we calculate costs that way.

It isn't simply a question of whether immediate revenue is greater than 2 days of an intern. The question is whether the projected revenue is greater than the support costs of that feature over time and the opportunity cost, i.e. "we can't do feature X easily because feature Y is in there." The fact that people don't calculate costs that way in software development puts many organizations in a pickle.
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In response to this Corin: Was your aim just to see how people respond, or are you hoping that in 3 months, a year's time it's being actively used? And, if the latter, still as a random "look what I made in a weekend" way, or a "woah, check out how much money this brings me"?

Literally just to see how people respond.

Money didn't enter my mind.
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This is getting somewhat off-topic but he's back.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-28-langdell-judge-...
Everything I've read suggests that a downgrade from AAA to AA+ or AA would have have little to no effect on interest rates. The only downgrade that really matters is from "investment grade" to "junk" status because that prevents many institutional investors from buying bonds.

Also remember that most large institutional investors do their own investigation and don't necessarily rely on the ratings agencies.
This is great!

I think the bigger story is how much popular web applications are dependant on open source operating systems, libraries and programs.
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If 50% of your customers are among that 2%, IE6 matters.

If you're a social media startup, the customers looking for social media solutions are probably also the folks who are NOT running IE6.
I can't speak to how good this particular example is, or any other similar solutions either.

However, if it can predict better than 50/50 (e.g. 60-70%) then that can certainly be useful. Take digital advertising for example, many advertisers want to target either female or male demographic exclusively. 60% might not be enough to sell adverts as "this will only be shown to men", but it might help you behind the scenes serve the most relevant adverts to people, potentially increasing click-through rate, and therefore the value of your service. Sure there are other examples, but my mind is stuck in digital banner advertising this afternoon.
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You're right, of course. There's a good book called "The War of Art" that I recommend to the OP, which is precisely about this.
I think that's a great idea. Particularly useful for Wikis and the like.
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No, I didn't use Reddit. It just came from my mind and want for a one sentence explanation to something.
There is a strain of Christianity called Anabaptist that are pacifist, and do not believe in using violence or coersion.
The only solution seems to be to write apps with an essential server-side component. It's pathetic that $0.99 is till too much for the cheapskates of the world to pay for somebody else's hard work.
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Metal doors are not really useful if all the houses are made of wood. Seriously.

I don't get it either, there was this fairytale about the big bad wolf, but I guess they must all think "hey at least it's better than straw", or something.

It's a really strange experience. You don't notice until you see the first solid stone house after two weeks of flimsy wooden cottages, it's a feeling, solid. "Stands like a house" is a saying in Dutch, meaning "solid as a rock", except in the USA it wouldn't make much sense :)
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Hmmm, it was more 'combatant' armed or not. The definition of what is and is not a combatant is rather blurry though, and ultimately comes down to the judgment of the individual soldier. Obviously a group of schoolgirls doesn't qualify, and a squad of advancing infantry does qualify, but in-between there are many shades of grey, and only the most flagrant targeting of civilians is prosecutable. As always, proportionality applies.

You're wrong about the reasons we wear uniforms today, although there is some validity to your remarks with respect to history. But these days, in the era of ubiquitous camouflage, the reason we wear a uniform is because the Geneva Convention requires it of combatants wishing to be protected under the Convention's provisions - from the International Committee of the Red Cross's website (http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/conduct-hostilities/meth...) :
"IHL includes a number of corollaries to the principle of distinction in order to secure the protection of civilian persons and objects. For example, it stipulates that combatants in an international armed conflict are required to distinguish themselves from the civilian population (normally by wearing a uniform) while they are engaged in an attack or in a military operation preparatory to an attack. In addition, IHL prohibits indiscriminate attacks and provides for the principle of proportionality, which dictates that the so called "incidental loss" of civilian life and/or property should not be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated. In order to implement the restrictions and prohibitions on targeting, specific precautions must also be observed by all Parties to an armed conflict."

For more information, you can try googling "Principle of Distinction"
Doesn't MWI just change the question "who decides how superpositions collapse?" into "who decides which world I see?"

I suppose that at least turns it into a psychological rather than physical mystery, but still a vexing one.
I hear argument #2 a lot but I'm not sure it's true. I'm more familiar with the world of commercial audio plugin development, where developers have been able to directly correlate big drops in sales with the first appearance of cracked versions of their software.
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No, actually it doesn't at all. And frankly, it is none of your business. It's important for giving certain types of loans, not for doing pre-paid transactions like renting a room for a night.

Credit information should be need-to-know, and you should be respectful of others' privacy (and perhaps more cautious of your own). You're nuts if you think I am giving you 7 years of address history, all my credit accounts, my spouse's accounts, and how much is on my mortgages, just so I can rent your guest house for a weekend vacation.

You can verify that you're able to put a reasonable deposit on my credit card, and that I'm not a criminal, and that's all you need.

I've actually been a landlord for about 3 years, and I don't even do credit checks on a 12 month lease. I've never had to keep a dollar of anyone's damage deposit.
In a nutshell, the problem is that as you add more arms (e.g., landing page variations) the amount of page views you need (i.e., actions tested), in order to learn reasonably accurate reward distributions, grows significantly.

Further, there are some other challenging aspects to this. 1) The environment -- visitors' preferences over time, your competitors' pages -- is very dynamic; 2) because you have to test and learn in the real world, your actions may impact your future performance.

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+1 for Langford. He and many others (e.g. Deepak Agarwal) at Y! are among the most prolific publishers on this topic. Check out: http://hunch.net/~exploration_learning/ for a good, but pretty technical overview.
There was story floating around here not too long ago that had IE 6 at around 4%. Incidentally, Safari was around 4%. I know a lot of devs that want to make sure things look great in Safari but don't care about IE 6 at all. Granted the obvious argument is that 4% of Safari users is a large percentage of Mac users, but it just goes to show how deceiving browser share numbers can be.

I'd also posit that while 2% may seem like nothing for a site with a small flow of traffic, it equates to a lot of money for a high volume consumer-oriented site. I run into a lot of this through my affiliation with Mogotest. During our customer development process I was amazed to find that several of the CTOs I sat down with will support any browser with greater than 0.5% share on their site. And these are guys that have definitely done their cost/benefit analysis.
What about the lying position? I have a couch next to me and i tend to relax with my ipad when reading stuff. Lying down feels more natural than the sitting position, so how about adding that one to the mix?
Some people believe that price and value are the same thing. Others, not so much. It's not inconceivable that Ted here holds the latter opinion.
Those of you who proactively whitelist, thank you for using your brain. This comment is not directed at you.

As a former tech/cust support worker, I hate challenge-response systems. The usual scene is this: (1) support@company.com gets an email (2) I respond via my address, djeikyb@company.com (3) I get a challenge-response email and have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get permission to email the bastard who initiated the exchange.

And perhaps some people think that whitelisting support@company.com is enough, when really they should whitelist the entire domain. It's common that email to a general address is parceled out to individuals.
If having the site IE6 compatible brings in more revenue then whatever they pay you for two days work, then it sounds like a pretty solid investment.
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So here is my current situation. I'm 28 year old bachelor with a BSc in Computer science degree, 2 years of experience as SAP ABAP Developer, and 4 wasted years as director of a business venture that failed. I am good at both programming and designing and can do a lot of other things but currently in such a depressing mindset that I am unable to focus on it for more than 2-3 hours a day. I have many startup ideas that are really worth trying but now I doubt if I'm gonna complete it if I start working on those. I feel like I have the talent but not the mental toughness to do any meaningful work. Lack of success for 4-5 years have dented my self belief.

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GStreamer is another option. While support for some formats is provided in GStreamer by using ffmpeg, it has independent implementations for many formats and a very different architecture.
Some good ideas here, thanks!
That's interesting, I'm sure not all of them would buy the original product but also I'm sure there is some lost. In $1 product the difference might be much different than $1000 product.

I'm also quite interested in hearing about hard data on the subject such as "We were selling 100 copies per month but after the pirated copy was out it decreased to 75" or "increased 150!". If anyone got them (or a link to such source) that would be great to hear.
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I have been thinking for a while now about the applications of bandits to financial markets (not so much the Q- and TD- learning approaches as I am a bit less familiar with them).
I will definitely have a detailed look at the thesis, sounds very interesting!
The difference in performance between using evolutionary approaches and bandit algorithms is complex and problem dependent. There is no "one algorithm is better than the other".

I've used both approaches for a different application and neither dominate the other.
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