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Is this all Perl has to offer?
What a joke of a web framework.
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If you're passing through revenue, though, it's often not counted, though it seems to vary by industry and exactly how it's passed through. For example, Paypal's revenue is only its fees on transactions, not the entire volume of transactions that flow through Paypal: its role is a facilitator, and its revenue is what it gets paid for facilitation. The same is true of marketplaces, typically; eBay's revenue is its fees, not the entire volume of purchases that happens on eBay. Groupon arguably has a similar structure, in that they're a marketplace facilitating sales, in which case only their fees should be revenue, not the total volume of goods whose sales they facilitated. But it's arguable.
He has aesthetic taste, just for other things. He's the Steve Jobs of system internals.
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Well, IMO, "human nature" is to vague a term. I would say, it's more like, the tendency of majority to look for simplistic numbers/variables/quantities(P/E ratio,quarterly earning etc..). which pulls the public corporations towards local optima.
You sound like Ron Paul. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul
And not take on too much debt to begin with.
Apple recently tried to curb this by preventing reviews from promo codes. Looks like they just Bought the apps outright.

These review scam aren't the worst of it. A lot of good reviews won't necessarily mean good sales for your app. I've seen tons of apps with five star reviews languish in the app store. The bigger worry to me is companies like appmagenta which promise a certain ranking using bot downlods.
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Global variables in 2011, surely modern Perl... NOT!
People lost their jobs for choosing this framework.
"Surely there is such a thing as a piece of code that generates very legitimate warnings, but happens to compile to something that appears to work under at least most circumstances."

Yes. The most trivial example is probably (C++):

Foo* foo = malloc( sizeof(Foo) ); // warning: void* to Foo*

But this is entirely valid as long as Foo is a POD type, or as long as you use placement new afterwards.

The most annoying warning ever is probably:

while ( true ) // warning: conditional expression is constant
{
foo();

if ( bar() )
break;

baz();
}

Thanks, compiler! <facepalm>

It's silliness like this which has caused many people to kneejerk ignore every warning ever. But in doing so, they don't realize they're throwing away a lot of free data about their codebase, while also encouraging dangerous coding practices.
Groupon subscribers jump to 115 million
Well, that's kinda the point: in predicting Hastings wouldn't be relevant, they were predicting that Netflix would not notice the decline of the DVD (or at least not know what to do about it), and wouldn't start offering a streaming service. But in fact, Hastings did see this coming, and so they started a streaming service. So the article... swing and a miss.
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Fu-ki-meh, actually, which is why I don't really get it.
America will fail because kapitalism fails. At least the forms of kapitalism we have knowdays.
A common idiom to use here would be for(;;) {...}
It's very interesting to analyze the greek word for employment, working which is απασχόληση (apasholisi).

It comes from two words απα - σχόληση (apa-sholisi).
The first part of the word απα (apa) is used when we want to give the opposite meaning so απασχόληση (apasxolisi) is the opposite or the lack of σχόληση (sholisi).

So that does this word means? It comes from the verb σχολάζω, sholazo which means study. For the greeks working was inferior to cultivating your mind, going to the gym or the theater. Studying for them was whatever had to do with the culture of the mind or the body. So employment or working prevented you from studying.

Aristotle has said:
- "Ασχολούμεθα ίνα σχολάζομεν" (asholoumetha ina sholazomen) which means that we are working in order to be able to study. More or less he said that we work in order to have the means to improve our body, soul and mind and not just work to live.

That's what the Greek said. (not the modern ones of course :) )
I haven't gone to much further with it, but it is very handy: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC11
Would you extend that to companies as well, jailing the owners of a bankrupt company until they pay off its debts?
"1.OOP (Object Oriented Programming)

Objects can access the data members and the functions of any class. She is the object , your house is the class, members are your family and functions are the chores."

The hell is this? Flagged.
Like most futurism, there's a strong incentive in this kind of journalism to publish long-shot predictions - Dow 5000, that sort of thing. If you're right, you're a genius, and if you're wrong, you're just one more wrong prediction in a very large pile.

Bad strategy IMO to make a list, though.
Truth! That dodges the warning nicely.

But check this out:

#define SOME_MACRO( foo, bar ) \
do \
{ \
foo(); \
bar(); \
} while (0) // warning: conditional expression
// is constant

That's the only possible way to correctly enforce using a semicolon following a call to SOME_MACRO(a,b);

Most insidiously, you can't wrap the macro with #pragma warning (push, disable, pop) because it's a macro. So the warning can only be suppressed where you call it, not where it's defined!

That's why I globally disable this warning in all my projects. I've never been saved by it, and it's sucked away enough of my life.
By way of disclosure, I'm one half of the founders of http://www.44con.com/ and my co-founder is a DEF CON goon.

I can't talk about the wifi there, but what we're doing for 44Con is reason enough not to use the wifi. We will be logging everything on that network and running it through netwitness gear. We won't have a wall of sheep, but unless you're certain your transport is encrypted, your details will be captured and stored.

At DEF CON it's worse - you can't assume that your GSM or any form of RF connection is secure. Fake ATMs, Rogue cell towers and RFID hacking have all been done before there. It's the nature of the atmosphere there.
If everybody else is offering a 70% discount and you're offering a 15% discount, chances are people aren't going to bother looking at your offer. Also since there is a certain amount of hassle and risk (if its a business you've never used and heard nothing about) in using Groupon from the customer side of things, I'm guessing most people won't bother if the discount is to small. Saving 15% just isn't worth it, especially if you're saving 15% at place you're not even sure you really want to go to.
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One of the latter's more enduring motifs actually ended up as the title for the type of TV show Orwell coined the word prolefeed for...

Brave New World is probably actually the more relevant book to today's hedonistic, rampantly consumerist world. Even if the slightly tongue-in-cheek references to 'his Fordship' seem a little quaint we certainly haven't lost our tendency to worship distantly superrich media personalities. Then again, we're probably too busy checking our Facebook feeds to go back and read it
Google Wave wasn't a data-synchronization protocol.
This is nice, but unfortunately the protocol itself is a second class citizen, and isn't being structured as a synchronization protocol.
This is a discussion about engines. Your comment is non sequitur.
Unless they get one big, honkin' corporate sponsor, any commercial-television follow-on to Cosmos will be broken up by commercials. Cosmos was done on PBS, which meant they could write for longer-duration episodes. 12-15 minute morsels will be more difficult to follow.

And if they assume that people's attention span are about that of house plants (which sums up Fox sports and the rapid-cut crap), it's going to be rather lightweight. If this is coupled with the "show rather than talk about" trend I've seen in Nova, it's going to fail as it'll take too much time to get the points across.
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Which has 34 5-star reviews, 546 1-star reviews, and none in between.

This is pretty ludicrous :P
Capitalism happens.

Except that the net economic effect of this kind of reckless activity and their subsequent collapse extends to people who have no idea what a Groupon is or does.

If it was a system that touched only those who actively engaged with Groupon, it would be a different story. But that's not how things work.
The solution to SMTP is simple - an IMAP outbox. Anything placed in that folder is automatically sent by the mail software (and then placed in your Sent folder).
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I think it will take more more then 100 years but I agree generaly agreed.
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Do they remind anyone else of the fake app reviews from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855140 ? They're coming to get us next!
Its fairly early when you compare the install base of the dumbphones vs. the smartphone. (1.4 billion vs. 450million) but i agree that late 2012 will be where the window for 2nd/3rd places will be locked up until the next big disruption.
Okay - we're obviously moving in circles here.

- No, I don't agree that those sites are designed around your use case. You argue that way because you use it that way and it works. I use it differently and - it works. It's a social network, not a stalker heaven.

- I don't even have a profile picture on Facebook. Your use case breaks again, although I do use my real name there, for now. Or should there be a rule for mandatory 'real images'? Maybe with some criteria about the exposed part of the face, the expression? Like on a passport in a variety of countries..? Oh, oh.. I know: I'm again breaking the usage here. Because the use of a profile picture (and a public one at that) is inherently important for social networks.

- If people, as you say, use pseudonyms everywhere outside of social networks, why can't you find them based on those? You still failed to list _one_ sensible use case that is broken when people use whatever name they want for their account. Except for 'Hey, I remember this dude from college'. If someone wants to connect with you on Facebook they'll make sure that it's possible or give you the right handle. It's no 'right' on your side to find them by information you deem sufficient. And it certainly doesn't break the sites: They are about social circles, not phone books. The latter needs full names so that you can look up my number (if I want to be listed). The former is about a collection of people that connect and exchange over the internet. Those probably already call themselves 'Timmy', 'Bobby', 'Tom' whenever they hang out even if the names are 'Timothy', 'Bob' and 'Thomas' - and they don't need their last name. I cannot even comprehend (ignoring any agreement here..) your view of this issue.

- If those sites have been replaced by Facebook, please - feel joy and glory because Facebook wants the same as you want and I couldn't care less about that site. Why exactly do you care about G+ doing the very same thing? You have your real name network on Facebook. Why don't you enjoy the place over there and let the more open minded among us try to talk some sense into Google?
It's very sad to see certain individuals try to overshadow the interesting work going on in the Perl community.

Congratulations to the Dancer team (and to everyone else working on interesting projects: Mojolicious, Catalyst, Moose, MetaCPAN etc. etc.)
Sigh This again? Seems like the press does this story once a month.

"If you don’t have a copy of WordPerfect 2 around, you’re out of luck."

Dunno about WP2, but my copy of LibreOffice purports to open WordPerfect files of indeterminate vintage, and there are various other formats in there that I know go back 20+ years, and I'll be very surprised if ODF 1.0 readers disappear between now and eternity.

And of course, for us English-only types, plain ASCII files work as well now as they did in the 60s. I expect UTF-8 will likewise work at least as well in 2050 as it does now.

Physical media degradation/obsolescence is the only thing I would worry about, and then not that much for anything that's already been brought into the Internet age.

Storing lossless encodings of every film ever made might be a challenge, but text? No. A little care is all it takes, and I do mean a little.
The article itself: http://www.fr-online.de/politik/meinung/der-mensch-denkt--go...

Blog entry about this: http://blog.die-linke.de/digitalelinke/anti-google-pr-in-der...

Follow up in a startup blog: http://netzwertig.com/2011/08/05/mangelnde-transparenz-uber-...
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Speaking of tracking pundits' predictions, whatever happened to Maciej Cegłowski's website, Wrong Tomorrow? www.wrongtomorrow.com seems to no longer be up and running.
Groupon's biggest issue as far as I can see is that the value of their cut of the deal will eventually be heck of a lot closer to $0 than it currently is.

They are exploiting a market inefficiency (the gap between small biz and their potential customers) and it one that is closing rapidly via a multitude of sources, and not just from competition within the daily deal sector.

And although this post title is clearly being deliberately provocative, one thing is true: there are going to be plenty of businesses and deals currently being lauded, which turn out to be total disasters (as there were in previous cycles - Enron, AOL Time Warner, Excite@Home, Webvan, et al). It is certainly not unthinkable that the Groupon IPO is going to be one of them...?

(the amount of money that has already been taken off the table must be a near-deafening warning bell)
Feedback/crit on new photo sharing startup, PicYou.com (beta)
Hi All

PicYou is a new startup aimed at the photo sharing niche currently in beta phase. Looking for honest feedback and crit please. Basic pitch below:

PicYou.com is website offering users an easy to use and fun platform for instantly sharing photos online including integration with social media channels, custom filter effects on upload to enhance images, and social networking elements. The idea is similar to the iPhone app Instagram but enhances the concept with access from any web based device and a wider scope of features.

We plan to monetize the service through traditional display advertising and sponsorships with custom branded photo filters that allow sponsors to spread brand awareness and provide users with a unique filter effect to use on their photos.
At a glance, I see 2 on this page http://www.google.com/search?q=moderate+photos+api
You could also do (A) via (B). Gradually shorten the patent duration for software patents until you get rid of them entirely.
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> demo paid apps

As a developer I so miss this possibility. "Lite" apps and in app purchases are not the same as old school trial versions.

It's even worse for the Mac app store as trial versions have been around for decades on the computer.
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That particular objection seems easily answered by debtor's prison combined with forced labor. Hell, people could be let out for 8 hours a day to go to their old jobs. The important part is that the privilege of spending money on anything but the most basic of needs is revoked.

(Not that I support debtor's prisons or anything, there're just a few ways in which they could obviously be done more intelligently).
Interesting, I just tried compiling this with gcc 4.4.5 and got no warnings:

#include <stdio.h>
#define ADD(x, y, z) \
do { \
z = x + y; \
} while (0)

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int z;
ADD(1, 3, z);
printf("z = %d\n", z);
return 0;
}

If your compiler complains about the do{} while (0) construct in macros, I'd be inclined to treat it as a bug and complain to the vendor.
Blame those sites for that, there is no excuse for not offering alternative login options.
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Also, the limiting factor on businesses hiring is not (just) the cash they have lying around, but the demand there exists for their goods and services.
To me the only real problem with Google attempting to "do everything" is they seem to be bad at doing real business in any space other than their core ad business. It's as if the billions they make from ads dwarf other activities to the point where they cant be bothered to earn the millions they could make with other activities.

For example Google Analytics. From Wikipedia;

> Another market share analysis claims that Google Analytics is used at around 49.95% of the top 1,000,000 websites (as currently ranked by Alexa)

Having used Google Analytics on a relatively high traffic site ( http://www.local.ch ), it has some serious shortcomings, such as limits on API usage and accuracy of the data or even basic technical support. We'd be more than willing to pay an "enterprise license" fee in the order of a few hundreds of thousands to address this but Google isn't interested, which is maddening. As such they squat on the analytics market, their free offering acting as a barrier to entry for innovative competition, while failing to innovate themselves. The strategy with Analytics seems to be that it should support the ad business and nothing more.

The Android Market is another example. The market dynamics are different, but again Androids primary purpose seems to be to supporting the ad business again. That seems to be reflected by Googles fumbling of the Android Market to the point where Amazon feels it's worth attempting.

Similar stories apply to many other of Googles products; Groups, Blogger, Picassa, Google Desktop and to an extent even Google Docs - the appearance of "we're already rich - why bother?".

As such, outside of it's core business Google is basically a "Market squatter", blocking entry to others while driving customers mad with incomplete offerings. Can't help feeling if they could solve this by getting serious about monetizing those side products.
The premise of this article, that Groupon is the next Madoff because it has already scammed many of its investors, is calling out some pretty powerful investors as idiots. This isn't saying just that participants in the IPO will be getting scammed, it's saying that the last rounds of private equity got scammed too.

I somehow doubt that this simplistic analysis trumps the thinking of major investors putting hundreds of millions into Groupon. Don't you think they were asking about customer acquisition? Don't you think they asked about why the initial investors were taking money off the table?
One of the nice things about virtualenv is that it installs a copy of pip into every virtual environment you create. If you always have one of the environments active, there's no need to even install pip globally.
For a Ponzi scheme to work it's important that the early investors not cash out for a long time. They see their investment rise in value and talk about it but don't cash out until almost the very end.

Sounds to me more like Groupon is going down already, at least it's being talked down. I could be wrong but I'm wouldn't buy any shares even if I could.
It might win hands down now, but probably not for a 1000 years.

Lisp certainly includes certain 'timeless' aspects, such as lambdas and homoiconicity, but other features (like conses everywhere, IMO) are simply implementation details of the time Lisp was first created.

I'm concerned that Lisp advocates, by repeatedly saying that Lisp is the final step in language design, the ultimate language,...etc might distract some from looking for additional, newer, insightful concepts in computation and language design.
Good to know, thank you so much! Would you mind testing with -Wall etc? (And any other "give me more verbosity!" settings)

It was a poor design choice by Microsoft. All of their compilers emit the warning when using the highest warning level.

Thanks again --- if GCC never warns, then I feel much better about globally disabling it.
This app (by yet another developer than listed below), called Locketize your iPhone, has 32 five star reviews and only 4 one star reviews. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lockitize-your-iphone/id45266...
Hi, is there any mirror where I can read the post?, the site seems to be down.
My Apple 27" Display was one of the best hw purchases I made lately.

The display is simply gorgeous and its the first time that I don't frequently wish it was bigger. I used a 24" DELL before and apart from it being extremely ugly compared to apple's, many times it was insufficiently big for my needs.

For example, when programming in vi, I have lots of splits (sometimes more then 10) open in the same window. I find it more effective to see various related parts at once then to switch b/w buffers all the time.

Other times I have a vi, browser and a terminal with autotest each occupying a third of the screen (vertically).
I also just found out that "pianobar" is a cli for Pandora.com.
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I don't get any warnings with -Wall and I get a "unused variables argc and argc" with -Wextra.

Changing main's signature to int main() eliminates all warnings at -Wextra.
Except for when you DO want to install a package globally. Utilities like pyflakes and fabric, for example.
examine this by economic sectors:
primary - extracting products from the earth
this sector has seen consolidation (farming) and has been chasing lower and lower returns with higher input costs (see gas fracking for example)
secondary - manufacturing
offshored
tertiary - services
offshored / massive incumbents from decades of M&A who stifle competition.
Quaternary - intellectual
massive cuts to basic science research, libraries, etc..

please read the above with all the caveats which should apply to hysterical internet posts.. :)
This is why there should be an opt-out of the patent system, or they can simply say all new companies can't be affected by older patents. It would be a pretty good transition - not perfect, but about as good as it gets.
Intressting, I'm from switzerland :)

In our system you need to have health care insurants. Its alot to pay but as far as I can tell we have one of the best systems and everybody really gets good treatment (my father is a doctor my mother is a nurce and my sister is studying medicin). Witch seams not to be the case in america (I watched Sicko, other then that I have know knowlage).

I can only compaire to some other europen countreys but when you get hurt in italy for example the first rule is to get to switzerland as fast as possible.
sounds like the investors already knew what we are starting to figure out; it isn't going to last.