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> Doesn't the fact that they immediately want to unsubscribe make it quite obvious that the email is unsolicited?

No, not at all. Spam is typically defined as bulk and indiscriminate.
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At one point, they were pretty protective about WoW's economy. In vanilla, there were a lot of gold sinks, like skill/spell training costs, riding skills, etc. Those are sill present, but don't impact the game nearly as much. They're mostly vanity things like gigantic bags and non-combat pets. In-game currency was relatively rare, with most endgame bosses giving less than 1 gold per person.

That changed during the middle of the Burning Crusade expansion, where Blizzard basically decided that the gold sellers won, and that they were just going to flood the market with currency. They added daily quests, which were quests that gave reputation and gold every day to top-level characters, as well as more sinks, like a character title that cost 1000 gold.

At this point, gold is basically a joke, because it's extremely easy to get with a minimal time investment. Half an hour of play can get the player anywhere between 100 and 400 gold. It appears that most of the gold sellers have moved to selling epic tradable gear and items over gold at this point.
So, go work for a research institution that tackles a difficult, "noble" problem. Good programmers would be much appreciated.
I agree with most of the article. However the author suggests that the net reduces the ability for sellers to price discriminate. I think it helps both sides, and the outcome is in doubt. On the one hand it enables faster and broader flow of price information, but on the other hand it reduces the anonymity of the buyer. I think what we will see is an arms race between buyers sharing information and sellers creating all sorts of ways to individually vary the discount they need to offer.
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you can disable those GC pauses..how? the default eclipse.ini do not change it..
Well, some people show up on mine with whom I've never interacted save making/accepting the initial friend request: this would seem to indicate that recent interactions weren't necessarily part of it.
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So we have Patrick's described experiences about how A/B testing produces measurable results for him with only a tiny bit of theory.

Now we have the bandit theory ready for market, saying that A/B is not optimal.

I know you are thinking i am about to say "premature optimization". But instead I'll just ask what results to the group at untyped have to show versus Patrick's freely-available simple-to-implement proven results?
I wonder how many people who say this are the same people who'd pay for every one of the free services offered by these companies. I for one would rather have ads.
Some of their arguments seem debatable, but my biggest issue with stored procedures with Oracle is purely economic - It is MUCH cheaper to scale the application layer than to scale the database layer. Therefore, if you want to scale cost effectively, and you want to use Oracle, you should put as much logic in the application layer as possible.

The article says 'if you have millions of users, you should be able to afford decent hardware.' - that is misleading, because the cost of the hardware is miniscule compared to the cost of the Oracle licenses you would need.
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What methods did you use to determine how much the average user cost?
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To be fair, commercial DBMS are rather quite expensive. Setting aside one additional multiprocessor license for every single developer on your team is... prohibitive.
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What would you want to see in another browser that would make it worth switching away from chrome?
Let's ditch the term 'startups'
I'd never work for any company, because their whole purpose is to make money. How tawdry.

In other news, I'm starting my sophomore year of high school this month.
http://tastytum.com - One week event in Berlin to match hosts and locals over food.

Assumption is that an event like this might be less scary compared to AirBnB style of renting your flat away.

If someone is in Berlin and interested to host, would love to hear from you!

Others that are also trying in that field:
- Housefed
- GrubWithUs: http://www.grubwithus.com

Housefed tries to build up a community first before getting into hosting meals (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379797). We go the opposite road and try to validate our assumptions as fast as possible. I believe we can (in)validate many assumptions while extracting lots of information by running a one week experiment, which also doesn't cost us much either.

Feedbacks so far mostly through friends, but also reaching out to people on twitter (e.g: https://twitter.com/#!/lorenbaxter/status/96319791110946816)
Related to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832865

It's hard to say when the initial idea came about, but it probably existed in some form or another for 6-8 months before launching although no action was taken until around a month or two before launch.
Saying that Google's primary purpose is to serve ads is like saying that a government's primary purpose is to collect taxes. It's a means to an end; not an end in and of itself.
What kind of traction have you seen? I think it's a great product.
The OpenGL-nature of iOS was explained to me at WWDC by the head of graphics at Apple. But you can never be sure of anything!
The copyright lobby and privacy are on a crash course. As long as it's legal for us to privately exchange information, copyright cannot be enforced.
Well, a lot of early banking was developed for and by farmers who wanted to lock in a fixed price for their crops before the harvest.

And science and teaching are only possible because of the economic surpluses generated by trade, which is again, facilitated by banking. Teachers don't work for free! If anyone threatens their final salary pensions they go on strike!
The "Main Street Fairness Act"

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I think this goes to show how Microsoft misses the details. I never liked the round logo on my phone. I never new why, but it always looked off. If you want to view the old logo, it's still on the Microsoft Windows Phone page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/default.aspx

I just rebooted my Mango phone to see if I get the square logo, and I do. It makes so much more sense than the circle.

How did Microsoft not notice that everything about WP7 was square, and then give it a round logo, with a square inside.

Hopefully somebody there now is paying attention to these details.
I can't believe nobody's complaining about the missing dedicated search box. I thought that was everyone's big beef with Chrome. Then again, I haven't used Firefox in quite some time so maybe they've already dropped it.
I would most likely use the full screen view as I never need the menu options anyway (it's also how I use Photoshop).

I would likely switch back to Firefox if they executed this.
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I bought a Nexus S at the shop across the street from me. The price was the same as I could find online, but I paid an extra $40 in sales tax (NC).

I don't mind paying sales tax (I do enjoy having police, firemen, and teachers) but let's be honest - $40 is enough for someone to think twice.
In my opinion the best numbers come from TIOBE's index http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Python.html but as you will see languages have large shifts in their popularity. Currently in 2011, Python has been shedding popularity at a fast clip, but it has done so before so it is not reliable to use it in support of the argument that Python is loosing popularity as the overall trend has been upward. The thing I would caution is that the original post was asking why so many job seekers with python where looking and my summation was that due to language popularity NEW development house may not be adoption Python. In reference to you seeing Python in your environment I would assume it is because you already have Python in your environment so language selection has been made and many times there is inertia within the environment that makes language replacement a bad value proposition. I fear I poorly worded my original post when I was basically trying to say that languages go through a life-cycle of popularity and you may be seeing the result of NEW development houses opting for what is popularity because they don't have language based technical debt to consider. As well over the lifetime of a language it will shed adopters for other more popular languages. My summation was in no way intended as a critique of Python it would have been they same answer had it been Java or Perl. I was just trying to explain the life-cycle of language popularity. Which will always be an imperfect summation due to trends and resurgence of trends.
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Except my IDE doesn't require me to be editing while connected to the server to get all the useful refactoring/etc. tools. It only requires being attached to debug.

Admittedly in most SQL editors, you can open up the file, then connect the IDE to the database. But it's hardly seamless (particularly if you have multiple databases), and certainly isn't like normal development where the filesystem is exactly what's running, and is the only user visible copy. The tools just all feel extremely immature compared to any IDE I've used.

And to clarify, I'm talking about the dev SQL server, not developing in production.
I've wondered a lot whether ads don't actually add value. Seeing as the ads get more and more directed to you personally, knowing about something might actually be good for you.

For example: let's say I'm looking for "Animal Farm" online. An ad for the book "1984" might actually create value in this case.
Dramatic decisions are often criticized until people accept it and adapt.

I remember reading about how consumers wouldn't be able to adapt to a touch screen phone that didn't have a keyboard option.
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For the record, I spoke to this reporter for a couple hours, and even had him tell me exactly how he got comex's name (which I did not actually know).

He plays it up in that quote from his article, but it turns out getting the name was /trivial/: comex had a public Facebook account, in his real name, using one of his standard usernames. It is actually likely that he got the name before he even realized it was supposed to be "secret".

In fact, I even joked "fair enough; you know, I've never actually looked, but for all I know his personal domain name is registered to his home address by his mother or something": it turns out it literally is.

(It should also be noted that comex has agreed to talk to reporters before, such as for an article published by Reuters.)
Sorry, sometimes my writing style just comes out that way.

To make my point differently and maybe to make it more tech specific:

I would rather pay individual companies for software I want to run on my PC than to pay Microsoft a lump sum and have them give me a bunch of software they think I need (and then distribute the funds to the creators how they see fit).

It could be argued that it would be easier for consumers to pay only Microsoft, saving them the headache of creating relationships with multiple vendors.

Or it could be argued that the chaos of the market is worth the competition that ultimately benefits the consumer.

I like the bottom up approach because it creates competition and choice.
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No, the search box is still there, and I'm pretty sure the solution to that won't be what Chrome does. I remember hearing something about the address bar becoming a little modal.
Could not agree more.

There have been quite a few articles before that just cast Android in a more negative light then it deserves.

I develop both iOS and Android apps and this article is the first one I wholeheartedly agree with.

Both platforms are obviously going to have some gloss and some warts, but in the end comparing the two in a zero-sum fashion is like arguing vanilla is better than chocolate.
I'll be paying close attention to if this trend catches on. Blizzard is often a trailblazer in features it introduces (example: Exclamation Mark = New Quest, Question Mark = Completed Quest; Talent Trees).
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Comparing Java 7 Async NIO with NIO.
It works pretty well... except for software input method (the other name for the touch keyboard).

A simple example: make a webview that scrolls down and ends with a textfield a couple screens below. Activate Hardware acceleration, scroll, touch the textfield, boom, the textfield remains below the keyboard so you don't see what you type.
Deactivate hardware acceleration. Do the same test. Boom, the screen pans up and the textfield is visible.

Once you've done this on a xoom, try it on an iconia or whatever other tablet you have.

Enjoy the fun of Honeycomb hardware acceleration.
So we should get rid of state sales taxes (which were always a stupid idea -- why would a state want to punish businesses for doing business in that state, especially in border areas?) and make sales taxes federal.

Then, to compensate, we lower Federal income taxes and let states collect some more income tax.
I use an older version of Oracle SQL Developer as we aren't allowed to install the latest and I usually turn the autocomplete stuff off. Half the time it's awesome, half the time it takes several seconds, during which the IDE is unusable. This is most likely due to me being remote to the database which is about 1700 miles away.
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Why are people down-voting this parent?

The iOS Simulator is specifically refereed to as a simulator NOT an emulator. It simulates the iOS on top of OS X and makes no attempt to be an emulator. It is a decent simulator.
It is not always pure mark-up. Small businesses don't have the volume to be able to sell things at the low prices large online retailers like Amazon do.
Also: what about people outside the US ordering stuff to be shipped internationally?

Fuck, if it turns out the cheapest way to buy something is to have it shipped from Washington to Australia and then back to California, I'm doing that.
Very, very nicely done!

My own (minor) suggestions:

* Make the child note "inherit" the font size of the parent. For example, if I decrease the font size of a node, then create a child, have it use that font size rather than reverting to the default. I guess you could also argue the same for siblings. Or, as an alternative, provide a way to set the default size.

* Ability to change line thickness (and perhaps have the same rules apply as above for inheriting that thickness, where it at least goes to the next size down from the parent's modified size.)
The problem with PHP isn't that it lets you do dumb things. It's that doing dumb things is idiomatic.
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Yes but it's only been a year which gaves Sony a 2 years of piracy free gaming platform AFAIK that's the longest in a fairly popular platform.
Knowing that Quartz on OS X uses OpenGL, I'd assume it also uses it on iOS.
If Apple hires him, that will be the last time you see a jailbreak tool come from him.
No, the author is right. Quartz and Core Animation are built on top of OpenGL.
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We all know cell phone are popular, but what are the numbers?
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So... chrome?
Ahhhhh! Thank you! (minus the www it works - and we're fixing the WWW right now..)

Well, besides that, we are able to get a whopping TWO paying customers in the week since we launched. Which is better than a poke in the eye!
Before we launched, we had hard data from my old company about how much the users cost and how many resources they used (encoding, streaming, storage, etc.) We were able to use those numbers to calculate what our costs would be per user.
I disagree, Blizzard has done a good job with managing their in game economies and they wouldn't be so stupid as to screw it up by competing against their own players for control of assets, they stand to make way more money by just skimming off the top.
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Ads seem harmless until they start using your likeness to sell stuff to others or vice versa.
I was thinking about marriage proposals when I got to the page.

"Use ProposalMatic to save snippets of text that you use often and mix and match to create personalized proposals" This really struck me as odd...
Um, guys, no one supports IE6 anymore. The question is whether we should be supporting IE7 (answer: no).
I don't know why this technology is credited to either Nathan Mhyrvold or Bill Gates. They are investors in Terrapower, it isn't their technology. Investors don't invent the technology, they aren't working on it day in day out, they aren't sweating the details.

Though I do give Bill Gates credit for the great publicity job he has done on behalf of Terrapower, and I believe both he and Mhyrvold have done a great job in helping the company get to where it is (mostly I assume through publicity and contacts).

If the headline read "Paul Graham's AirBnB raises $116 million series B funding", would that make any sense?
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I don't understand why no browser manufacturer integrates tree tabs. It's such a great interface innovation, and everybody is just ignoring it.
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Personally, I think all these weird modern UIs look like crap, and the relatively standard Firefox UI on Linux is quite nice.
This is why I work for Kiva. There are lots of new projects with fun technologies, but at the end of the day, it's all about "saving the world". Plus, I end up meeting a lot of Google, Twitter, and Facebook folk anyways.
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I've used IntelliJ for previous projects, but I am definitely going to give Eclipse a spin for the next one.

The Visual Layout Editor seems like too much goodness to miss out on. Jump to 7:17 in this video for a demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq05KqjXTvs
Do you think the business would have worked if Node.js and MongoDB were not available, or are they absolutely essential to your core business?
And for me the Chrome UI is the primary reason I can't stand Chrome and stay with FF.

Whatever they do to the default layout in FF doesn't bother me, just keep giving me the option to put it back the way I like it. So far, so good... other than needing a plug-in now to get a bottom status bar.
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"Imagine a law that allows small software companies to opt out of the patent system."

That's a very interesting idea - startups opting out of the patent system, and then they won't be sued by other companies claiming patent infringement, but it will also mean they don't get to sue others for patent infringement either, even when they get to become a big company. It seems like a fair idea.
I don't think that it does. The algorithm makes it possible for users to see who they publicly interact with the most, but this information could be gleaned by viewing that person's wall postings or photo comments. Therefore, the algorithm is just showing you people that visit your profile and interact, which you could figure out pretty easily anyways, not people who visit without leaving a mark.
Okay. Now it's fixed.
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My inner nerd is furiously nerd-raging at the title since this isn't an iPad at all and I hate it when someone is wrong on the Internet.
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Except that they do. Ever wondered, for example, how Google, Apple, Microsoft or any other public company that makes products you are likely using got their main funding? (Hint: IPO.)