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When I see Coupon Code the first thing I do is look on Twitter Search.
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Oddly enough Krugman just posted in his blog (I found it after posting this) about exactly this topic:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/wrong-and-right/
Drucker: I'd put off elementary school if I had my way. I am not a great believer in school. School is primarily an institution for the perpetuation of adolescence.
If there is only $100 in the economy, I can still owe you $105. To pay it back, I could start working for you and be paid $1 per hour. Now everytime you pay me $1, I would pay you back this dollar until my debt is zero.

In the real-world, with more than two persons, it would look more like this: I pay you back some amount of the debt, you spend this money and it propagates through the economy, until some part of it reaches me (in the form of a wage), so that I can use it to pay back more of the debt.
Obvious lies. Google is the lone white knight who is alone in a forrest full of trolls. Who wants to collect and sell our personal information...
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What time do you go to bed?

Do you ever drink, go out, etc?

I'm asking because I'm a morning person, but I doubt I would enjoy 'getting to it' at 5am everyday. Although there is allure to that amount of focused 'personal time'. Doing all that after day job would not appeal to me as much.

This thread has taught me more about how different lifestyles are than anything. I think the actual hourly rate of many people in IT roles might be in a tight band (until you've 'made it'). This would mean the biggest differentiator would be # of hours one puts in, with more hours typically being rewarded, either through higher salary or side job payments (tax benefit?).

I put in an average of 50 hours per week first half of the year and earned enough to make an average rate of $45 per hour.

Do you all consider it part of your job to listen to what's happening in the tech world, learn about personal productivity, etc? If these times were taken out and only time producing tangible output were measured, my average rate would go up, maybe to $70 per hour.

There's also cost of living. I'm not in the bay area, but in another pretty fun and techy place. According to bankrate I would have to make 2.2x to have the same quality of life in The Bay.

My free time is not (currently) consumed with projects. It's consumed by my GF, running, going out, casual reading, a couple TV shows. All this I think is a worthwhile tradeoff. And I need to be away from computer screens after a while!

It would be very interesting to gather people's net pay, hours worked for that pay, and MBTI (ENTJ here), to see what types cluster around what effective hourly rates, what types cluster in terms of total hours, etc.
That sounds to me like an application oriented switcher. The application is focused, not the document.

This has really annoying consequences in OS X where it trips me up all the time. For example, I open a pdf from within Safari. I finish reading and close it. I expect to be back in Safari: I'm not; I'm focused instead on a completely unrelated photograph that I'd opened ages ago and forgotten about.

Linux GUIs were traditionally all about documents. As they've tried to converge with Mac and Windows, they've become more about apps. IMO that's a shame, but there it is.
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This is very similar to the Groupon model... you get a deal (or a thing) while being being motivated to spread the word. Not 'sharing' so much as promoting. You're being inconvenienced (paying) and it allows you to edit the text.. so you can just say.. "I'm tweeting this page so I can read it rather than pay them. Sorry."
I don't know. Not sure if this is the final iteration but very cool that they're trying to figure out how to put value on content other than banner ads. Hope they figure it out.
That's nothing compared to how they could have it.

Imagine, I take a movie of my front room. The app calculates the lengths and widths of my room and everything in it based on something (perhaps perspective). I go to a furniture store (or online), and want to see how that sofa will look in my front room. Maybe I take a photo of that sofa, maybe there's a qcode on it. I want to see how that sofa will look, how it will fit into my front room. Will it be too big/too small? Is it too dark/too light/the wrong colour?

The biggest barrier left between buying some furniture is imagining how it will look and fit into the space you already have. Some people can't imagine colours accurately, some people can't judge sizes accurately, many people can't do both.
A Web App is more than HTML and PHP of course. There is an entire "stack" and if you're doing it all yourself you need to know something about all of it. You will probably find yourself needing to be at least somewhat proficient in: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP/Ruby/Python or similar, Apache or IIS administration, Linux/BSD/Windows administration, MySQL/Postgres/SQL Server administration, some dialect of SQL itself, etc.

I'm not sure how that compares to iOS but my hunch is that you can pretty much confine yourself to learning XCode and the framework. The water may be a bit deeper right at first than just tinkering with HTML or PHP, but the overall domain appears to be more limited, at least so it appears to me (I have not done any mobile development yet).
Was pleasantly surprised to see that :focus and :active sort of work in IE8. IE7 none.
Cool, but why is the default picture behind the sofa. It would make more sense simulating sitting in it.
Wadler's critique seems to be that Scheme is too imperative for his tastes and that programming ought to be more like maths.

In my opinion, comp sci is (or ought to be) about computers. And the underlying hardware of nearly all Turing-complete computers is imperative: there's a CPU which executes instructions one at a time, and which can vary which future instruction is to be executed based on the results of previous ones. I get the impression that Wadler, on the contrary, regards comp sci as a branch of mathematics rather than engineering.
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On the other hand, I was once told by a savvy marketer "You know you've got them when your customers think they're fucking you."

Make the codes easy to find (put them on Twitter and they'll get scraped by coupon sites), and you can get some traction out of this sort of thing.
I can't speak for these guys, but I can tell you my experience. I dropped out after 1.5 years since my career got started way early. Without a degree you lack security. In every sense of the word. Getting a job means I have to go the extra mile to prove my capabilities. I don't expect that my career will last forever (the supply and demand of programmers is in my advantage right now, but that could change tomorrow). Additionally, and especially here on the east coast people judge you by two things. Your title, and where you got your degree. Not having a degree becomes an extremely sensitive subject, and the source of a great quantity of insecurity. The combination of personal insecurity, and career insecurity leads one to strive.
I can't tell the difference between IM and IRC in Adium. It's the best non-IRC, IRC client.
I'm not arguing. Economics is so closely tied to politics that economic debates become just as tedious as political ones.

When I think of economics, I think of the quote by statistician George Box, "All models are wrong. Some are useful." Economic models are more prone to error than mathematical models in science because they are so complex and can't really account for the human element. And ultimately, their usefulness is subject to their ability to be implemented.
In two large organizations A and B, how likely is it that someone at B can find an email from a person at A to a person at B that appears to contradict some assertion by some other person at A?
Google is right: The smartphone “patent bubble” is lame
They're the only company to even submit an entry :)
Stop dreaming. Read Googles blog post.

Google wants to be secure by buying up patents and over turn the Nortel patent sale. They are just whining that they don't have a toy too.

Nobody is talking about overthrowing the patent system except for maybe people on HN. Google very seriously wants to be a player in this and have a patent portfolio. Read their blog post's last paragraph.
I don't get it. XMPP already has everything IRC has.

- Federation

- Multiple (persistent) rooms (Look up XMPP Groupchat)

- Permissions (think chanserv, /mode +ov etc.)

- Private messages

What am I missing? I'm hanging out on IRC every day, on multiple networks. No, I don't use XMPP groupchat so far - just to counter that argument.

The reason for that is, that

- XMPP clients usually suck in that area, in my opinion. So the protocol would be fine for me and I'd like to see IM tied in with groupchat/channels, but really.. Look at the clients and it's like really, really crappy IRC clients (to get back to your point: Yes, those UIs are usually following IRC designs, just with look like from a decade in the past)

- Adoption. For company internal stuff XMPP is great. If someone with high profile (GTalk? Facebook Chat?) would build a product based on this protocol, it would boost the adoption tremendously. On the other hand, as I stated a couple of days earlier in another XMPP discussion: As long as Google or Facebook are not supporting federation, they are not really supporting the core feature of XMPP in my book.

Did they reinvent IRC? No, XMPP did. Years ago, it's an XMPP standard. This is just an IRC client look-alike that doesn't suck completely.
Eliminating half the dev hours for trial and error (churn)?! Do they realize that most of software development is not the actual coding time? Having an EXACT and detailed requirements and UI layout is way more than 50% of the work.
Skype on Android has (had?) a very annoying feature which made me uninstall it: if you exit Skype, it will start itself up again after a few minutes. Even if you force close it from a task manager.

Edit: looks like it's fixed - Skype stays closed when you kill it. Would be nice if they added the ability to save your password though. Without it, I can't use Skype, my password is too complicated.
IMO what you call the "computational model" of Scheme is also a poor fit for beginning web programmers. The most straightforward model is exemplified by PHP: put a file on the server, type its path into a browser, get the page. Change the code, refresh the page. I'm not defending the language design choices PHP made, but it nailed rapid development and deployment. Every environment that requires a recompile or restart feels like a huge step backward in comparison. I want to see my changes instantly, dammit, we had it in 1995, why can't we have it now? :-)
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even though i have my qualms about andrew mason, it seems as if it were the bankers working on the IPO that are doing all they can to get it approved by the SEC so they can earn the fees and to cash out before the public is allowed to invest in groupon. and we are still figuring out if the daily deals model is profitable and sustainable.
back at d-cibel industries, i only worked something like 10 hours a week.
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Thanks for clarifying your point. I think this matter is subjective and there's nothing from my side to express.
you can literally throw just about anything on the app store and it will make a couple hundred a month

Do you think this is healthy in the long run?
Duh, if they were in on the group bid, they would be co-owners of the patents, so they couldn't be used against them. Google has a pattern of martyring itself over these sales.

Especially when they big the value of Pi for the Nortel patents. Don't you see them dancing around and wearing a jester's hat while doing it? They clearly not really trying to be serious about these sales, and then their eyes explode in tears when they lose.
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Most often webkit is being used because that's how you put multiple formatting styles in one UI component. It's the recommended by Apple way to do it. UILabel and UITextView will only be one font. You can't type this, then italicize the date. Instead, you just use UIWebView, pass it the string of html that formats your text the way you want, and you're off.
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Before Vista came out I managed to cut down an XP image to ~200MB in ISO form and less than 300MB on a "fresh" install on real hardware ("fresh" because it was Service Pack 3+ slipstreamed into the install ISO).

That was basically the bare minimum needed to run the OS on my laptop with wifi and sound.

Put something similar on my EeePC 701 when I got it, having a 6/7 second boot time on Windows was quite nice;
This guy calls out Google but admires Microsoft... a company worse on all of his metrics. Why?
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I work with a lot of retail stores and yes, if you add "Coupon Code" to the checkout page some customers will stop and start looking for coupons. There are a couple of options:

a) Don't call it coupon. Call it "offer code" or "referral code" or something that doesn't immediately scream "Discount!"

b) Why try to hide the codes? They will be easy enough to find on Google if they're available so instead, make compelling offers where you provide discounts in exchange for customers purchasing more or taking some other action. Look at rental car web sites. Most offer a "Deals" page where you can see coupon codes because they realized the codes were easily shared anyways.

c) Don't use a text box. Instead create referral links with the code embedded so that only people using the links will get the coupon code. This way, people without codes never see the option to enter one.

d) Check the HTTP referrer when a visitor first arrives and apply coupon codes as needed OR only display the coupon box when you know a customer has come from an advertiser site.

e) Proactively suggest offers that don't require coupon codes at all. For example, when a customer has $97 of items in their cart, display a message box offering a discount if they purchase > $100.
Just checking (and trying to make sense of the title) but does "Founder 15" mean 15 pounds (or kilos) of excess weight?
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So you are saying the money pool expands at the rate in which the Federal Reserve spends money, and contracts at the rate it loans money?
Yes, that's one of the options. With Linus now adopting it, guess more will follow !!
I understand perfectly what collusion means. Whether you interpret the situation as collusion or not is irrelevant. If Google interpreted it as collusion at the time, then it would be consistent with their actions.
Yes, a play on "the freshman 15", the weight you gain first year of college. Measured in old fashioned America LBS.
Yahoo has support for chat rooms (conferences). I used it both at work and with friends.
Which is why everyone should just drop out of college.

That's the point of the article, right? Oh, it's linkbait? Gotcha.
So wrong.

MSFT only invited them and Google turned them down flat. So there was not negative agreement that you are clearly inventing. Obvious that would be a raw deal, thanks for assuming that it would go that way.

Just so you know, 99% of business is not done for hristov or anyone else on HN's benefit. Inter business deals are usually negotiated in private. Especially if it was a preliminary offer.
edit: nevermind about disclosing your apps, just read your profile

Would you mind disclosing which apps you have written? Just basic curiosity, you can also mail me (see profile). I deduced most of what you're saying here and want to go on my own as well before I become an eternal wage slave.

I'm at step 2 of your list, my app is 80% finished so it's half done ;-). It isn't a weekend project and I want to polish it before putting it in the store.
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Pidgin is another multi-protocol popular option.
Clever, but steal some ideas from here:

http://tvcalculator.com/

Compare 4:3 and 16:9 content in the box as an option.

I use that to try to figure out what to get to replace my 32" 4:3 CRT TV (yes it's a dinosaur - I'm waiting for black friday). Oh and the answer is 40" 16:9 will replace a 32" 4:3 TV for viewing 4:3 content sometimes.
Am I the only one who finds this disturbing?
Wow, this is an excellent tool. Can't believe I haven't heard about it before now.
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Time to re-read Cory Doctorow's 0wnz0r3d, an amazing SF novella about body hacking. Full text online: http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/
I don't know whether you're naive or not. I do know that in 2010Q3, Universal Music was the Conservative Party's largest corporate donor: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-finance/party-fi...
Why even make them go to Google? Put a link right next to the coupon code: Don't have a code? Take our <a href="#">3 question survey</a> and get one now!

Then you can learn a bit more about your customers, and make them happier about buying at the same time.
Disclaimer: I have no ties to the project, no idea if I can find a use for it myself. But I somehow feel the need to defend them against this 'reinvent the wheel' thing.

No, they don't. If that project makes any sense at all (the 'Under the hood' page only defines what they used to build the frontend, not what the backend is) they are using http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html on the server.

Quoting:

"This specification defines an XMPP protocol extension for multi-user text chat, whereby multiple XMPP users can exchange messages in the context of a room or channel, similar to Internet Relay Chat (IRC). In addition to standard chatroom features such as room topics and invitations, the protocol defines a strong room control model, including the ability to kick and ban users, to name room moderators and administrators, to require membership or passwords in order to join the room, etc."

So - yeah. XMPP 'reinvented' this. First version is from 2002..

So these guys try to build a good and extensible UI for a feature that is available for a long time. Let's judge them by that, not by our 'get off my lawn, IRC is good enough' attitude.

Now, if we look at node.js chat examples.. Those are usually reinventing IRC (but again, those are trying to demo technology or build a good web client. Criticizing the protocol wouldn't make that much sense for these projects either, imo).
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Sarcasm can work, but it needs to be based on widely accepted truths that people can identify with.

Problems with great grandparent:

-Campaign finance is heavily regulated in the UK and about half of it comes from the state.

-UK media is less of a political frenzy. They have other things to talk about, like the premier league, or human affairs.

-The closest thing to US liberals language-wise are the Liberal Democrats, who are part of government. The closest thing to US liberals politically are the Conservatives (e.g., combating climate change is high on the conservative agenda)

-Liberals aren't gaining any seats in polls

That's a few too many errors for sarcasm to work.
I'm sure I've used a code from RetailMeNot more than one hundred times. It is a useful site and the success percentages are reliable.
I dunno. Git did not leave me with the impression that Linus is really good at making user interfaces.
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I'm glad Finland doesn't think they should "save jobs" and bailout their big companies. Paradigm shifts and temporarily killing some jobs are the only way to progress. I'm sure Finland will come out better than it was.
That's cool. Much better than the blah acticle. 袁哥 is actually a very skilled hacker and reputable in China. IIRC He works for NSFocus, NSFocus used to be the de facto operator of China's G.F.W., it was replace by another firm after a Taiwan spy issue.

edit: http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.com/2011/06/18-days-from-0day-to...
My last iOS app required the knowledge of Objective-C, the frameworks, HTML, CSS, & Javascript (because that's actually how you do formatted text, and javascript for event handling within that text), SQL for the local storage, PHP & MySQL for the server-side storage, etc.

I'm not saying either is harder, I think that's a fight for cats, but I did want to inform to your hunch from experience.

I think both web development and iOS development require the use of tools and languages that many don't know about at the start, as I'm sure plenty of people think, "Oh I just have to learn HTML & Javascript" and then find all of the things you've listed.
Generally, I expect it would be equivalent to the surface area of all objects.
our of curiosity, have you read "Types and Programming Languages", and if so, what is your opinion?
I just take this as an indicator that the barrier to entry for making $ is very low on the app store as opposed to web apps, which is my entire argument. If the long tail is generating a few hundred a month, how much do you think you can make if you actually have something good?
The question is how much and how long will it last in reality.

My last "forever" led bulb just died, it lasted 3 years.

I'm not buying a $40 bulb, even from Philips, unless it has a 20 year warranty.

I think I am going to try this one next, $15 but available in soft-while intead of just pure white and it's assembled in the USA supposedly: http://www.goldengadgets.com/gt-7d-7-watt-led-globe-light-bu...

Note the helpful chart on that page halfway to the bottom (should be near the top!)
Considering his ability to write OS kernels and RCSs, I'm guessing that his user interface design abilities are not very strong. Yes, it's a generalization, and maybe he's awesome at it, but they are very different skills.
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On the contrary, Copyright is a reserved matter to Westminster, and the Scottish, NI, and Wales devolved governments have no power to overrule the UK government.
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