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Having seen their previous releases, for me this doesn't sound like Anonymous. I might be wrong, but it smells like faked for me.
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I think that's because GV merely provides free texting without integrating other IM services.
Sorry to disappoint you. Unfortunately news YC eats up the subdomain. Probably seeing devblog.supportbee.com would have set the expectation that this is a dev post.

We do believe JS UIs if done right can be very usable. I think thats why Gmail is so popular right now. I would love to discuss more with you and push a post later.
No, you aren't. It didn't "sound like Anonymous" for me, having watched their previous releases on other AnonOps campaings.
I am disappointed after reading the article. Based on the title I expected to see some evidence. A business relationship that may not even be current and scrubbing the site doesn't count.
And then you eventually run into the plethora of web apps which will not allow spaces, require some combination of capitals or numbers, or tell you that your password can't possibly be that long... and then we're back to square one.
The N9 isn't being released because Elop wants his WP7 phones to win in America and the N9 would just be some strong competition. Especially since the WP7 phone they have planned looks just like an N9. Here's the line taken from Engadget's page that pretty much proves it in my mind.

"Decisions are based on an assessment of existing and upcoming products that make up Nokia's extensive product portfolio and the best way in which to address local market opportunities."
The word "upcoming" just keeps popping out at me.
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n9 was ok. and even then, years late.
Websites are marketing. The most lucrative demographic for restaurants tends to be the 20s through 40s crowd, which is also the most likely to use the web to find and make a decision on a restaurant. Lowering the friction for finding out key information such as hours, location, menu, prices, etc. also lowers the friction for deciding to visit a restaurant, and that's dollars in the owners pocket.
I think it's fine to ask the question here but I cannot overemphasize that something like this should be tested. Hopefully you are able to generate enough traffic to get meaningful metrics. You can even try different variations of the copy, videos, call to actions, etc.
marketing campaign or not, I think it's really clever. If all marketing campaigns were even half as interesting, we'd all be a lot better off.
As a watch wearer I agree. I would love for someone to really reinvent the product into something better.
I can't relate to this at all. Restaurants in my area have crappy sites, but none of them annoying in ways this article describes. They're just a bit old, or the text is too small, or the pictures are ugly. You know, the usual.

Is this SF local news? If so, why is it on HN?
Nothing but patents and IP worked pretty well for IBM while getting their act together.
"Is not like a Don Quixote type of technical problem"

Loved that phrase! All the way at the end. All in all I really enjoyed this talk.
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It also breaks building GCC due to an LLVM issue (it gives a nice internal compiler error). It's fixed in LLVM upstream, but nothing Apple ships yet.
It's not that simple. In the tablet space, for example, there is no such thing as an equivalent product of a competitor. The "value" of a product is more than it's technical specification, consumers have figured that out.
I think he was talking on the extreme.
Why do you think iTunes would care what DNS server you are using? I'm genuinely curious, as I would think that the DNS lookups are abstracted by the OS, and even if they were not, I cannot see how using a different (esp. a better performing) DNS server would hinder iTunes performance — especially since the original DNS isn't provided by Apple or anything.
It's interesting, but my hands keep trying to use emacs key bindings. Unfortunately, there are no pre canned settings and I didn't want to spend the time making an emacs binding override.
Now that I know this is Starbucks-funded

Do you?
Improvement: include some static counter, and only skip the free after a few million (billion?) calls. If possible, also make the thing random, and limit skipping free to a limited range of block sizes. The latter provides a nice false trail for investigators (hm, it is leaking only struct foo...)

Problem of course is to find a nice size range for the program at hand.
Your moral framework is questionable at best.
First, one of the best things you can do is let each developer choose their machines and give them a generous budget. Not only will that likely lead to the most productivity but it also puts the employee control as well as discourages complaints.

I don't have Java/Tomcat experience but have yet to run into a situation where a MacBook Pro was an inadequate development machine. I also don't understand "we're too big for Amazon".
Understood, but the owner of that Twitter account is not Starbucks' PR, correct?

Either way, I'd rather 'assume good faith' as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Currently I'm just curious, as I've been following the card story since before it got picked up by the more mainstream media.
There are lots of problems in this and no real solutions. If there were real, easy, or plausible solutions, they would already be here. The author says, "We kick twenty percent of our kids out of school illiterate, innumerate and socially dysfunctional . . .", as if... what? Those kids can be made more literate by more time in the school system that's had them for 13 – 16 years? How much of the responsibility is the schools, and how much is the individual's or the parents'?

Bear that in mind before you propose a large-scale, institutional, governmental, and bureaucratic solution. Before you propose that government is the problem, remember that these people are still people and you still have to live in society with them. There isn't a simple answer to the problems being described, and if your glasses are colored by ideology, you're going to miss that essential fact.

EDIT: Removed gratuitous and incorrect comment WRT the author.
What about a place like Google? Would you make an exception for them? The most desirable employers are generally so overwhelmed with resumes they just can't do prompt follow ups.
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agreed on the iteration point.

if we look at social games, they are iterating every single day. It's come to the point where Zynga can tell if a game will be a hit or not, purely based on the collective data that they've achieved, over the course of 4 years. Not one Zynga game has bombed since Mafia Wars.
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Slowly revealing new buttons is probably not a good idea, since UIs that change on their own are confusing; things are never the way you expect them to be.

Similarly, searching doesn't work well for beginners, because they don't know what to search for. If you only know what you want the result to be, and not how to get there, or what features you need to achieve the desired result, it's easier if you can just click on things you see, and undo changes if they're going in the wrong direction.

Microsoft tried pretty much everything they could think of in Word, attempting to do exactly what you're suggesting: make an app that works for professionals, but is discoverable for beginners. This is where things like Clippy came from. It's really, really hard to get this right.
Tell them you will attack on Friday but instead attack on Wednesday?
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I found this piece both inspiring and a little disappointing. Inspiring because of guy's vision and sheer determination. Disappointing because all three of his recent ventures sought soft bailouts to stay afloat (subsidies of some form or another).
Reminds me of Sony... Perhaps they had this someplace:
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I was thinking bigger.. how about a new car? electric of course. Completely different from what we know. A mobile computer we can travel in.
The current iPod Nano with bluetooth would have been killer. Wireless headphones tied to your watch... now that's wearable computing.
I appreciate that you asked in earnest, but the original comment conjures images of "trip-and-fall grifts" and "playing the long con". I usually look at big things like this in terms of where the money's going. But in the context of 'get unwitting customers to show up for free coffee when there's no money on a viral marketing gift card so that they'll spend money anyway', I'd ask 'where's the credit going' -- and no one at Starbucks corporate will claim creating a sleazy confidence game for some career leverage. And I'd also ask Occam for a razor.
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CDNs often rely on your DNS info to determine which node is closest to you and, thus, which node should offer the best performance.

Using a central DNS like Google's can do two things:

1) Break locality. Using 8.8.8.8 may cause CDNs to potentially direct you to a node that's nowhere near your actual physical location

2) Aggregate traffic on a node. The more people using 8.8.8.8 for DNS, the more people who may land on the CDN nodes associated with 8.8.8.8's location and thus that node may be more loaded than the one closer to you

[edit] Google even covers this in their Public DNS FAQ: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html#cdn. They offer 31 different locations, while Akamai may offer thousands of nodes (I can't find hard numbers, but they refer to 1,200+ points of presence here http://www.akamai.com/hdonline and 1,000 networks here http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/edgeplatform.html). You're basically constraining yourself to a small subset of at least Akamai's CDN by using Google Public DNS.
I just hope these nerds stay on their computers and don't attack any actual people.
It isn't at all something a company would be against if they didn't originate it - it's good PR with no downsides. They wouldn't care if every Starbucks coffee sold from now for the next ten years was paid for with one duplicated card, as long as somebody was paying for it all through that card.
I don't follow. Wasn't Larry Page the inventor of PageRank? And didn't he make it while still at Stanford?
Don't worry, it's not a violation because he was just joking. (Yes, I am indeed being sarcastic.)
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Sure it does. No true scotsman breaks down to a claim that some group has some Trait, then claiming that because some individual does not share the Trait they are by definition out of the group. I guess sometimes it's valid, but not here. Anon hasn't shown itself capable of an attack like this and if you look at the attacks by anon on scientology you'll be left wondering they were able to form a group identitiy with their fringe (core?) As it is.

Palish might be right that this doesn't sound like its from any of the main group.
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Those guys really need some PR adviser... Taking Facebook down (assuming they can do it) certainly won't make them popular.
I would go so far as to "bypass" the spec of CouchDB -- at least for Pouch -- by doing a sort of auto-compaction, clearing out the database of the previous revision at storage time, and only storing the latest revision. This doesn't stop you from doing an effective merge, it simply stops the original notion of Couch having multiple branches of the same document. Again, in the browser, to sacrifice indexedDB space, I think that's an okay step to take.

The real win will be when a WebWorker is able to run through a view and automatically add the results of that to a separate dbspace. It looks like viewQuery is the beginnings of that.
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Apple responded to my email. It appears they have pulled this developer's apps!
I'm saying that PageRank isn't the ranking edge that Google is famous for, and that if you applied the ranking algorithm as invented by Larry and Sergey to the web (even the web at the time, before everyone started to game Google), it would suck. It might suck a bit less than AltaVista, which was why they got funded, but it's not at all the quality that people have come to associate with Google.
Fake according to AnonOps:

https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101152229087657984
Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101152229087657984
Fake: https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101152229087657984
I'm of the opinion that the education system itself is one of the fundamental causes of the 13-20% that the author mentions.

Our school system is a factory that generates more of the tax generating working class that is told to shut up and do as their told. The kids are taught by age, not ability, they are taught to pass a test, not how to learn, they aren't taught life skills like personal finance, cooking, basic mechanical theory on how things work, and how to question authority and learn for themselves.
Well, yeah. Adding a cool metal thing to a hot liquid thing doesn't make that hot liquid thing stay warm longer. It's the same amount of net heat energy, minus the minor averaging effect the slightly cooler metal thing will impart. They're pretty but the claim of making your coffee remain hot twice as long is just silly.
Perhaps even at the very top? I mean this could just be a viral marketing campaign __for__ Facebook. Something to help them regain the street cred they are losing, something to prevent the inevitable myspacing of their business. Or maybe just a cover for planned downtime.
What a great idea to do it for him, but perhaps use Wordpress.com so he can more easily edit the result.
Ah. When you say 'the edge Google is famous for' I think of PageRank.
The detection process is somewhat wrong. In many sites, they store passwords in plaintext or reversible plaintext--but they send mere link to reset. So, you don't really know, how they're storing. IMHO, most of new startups store passwords for the sake of learning. Definitely, there needs to be some disclosure on how they'll store passwords.
They just did:
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Is it odd that the first thing that jumped into my mind, was running this on top of rhino to power a distrubted group of jvm nodes with no external runtimes or jndi requirements.

Edit: and then I read that it acts as a translation/functionality layer on html5 storage.
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If you're evaluating it against a full blown bug/requirements tracking system like JIRA, Fogbugz or similar it is fairly lacking.

If you want a dead simple, integrated, free (with your github subscription) bug tracking system that lets you close issues via git commit messages it is just what is called for.
Why wouldn't one make the comparison with the human genome? If the evolutionay mechanisms credited with responsibility for the jump from nucleobases to archeobacteria (which is still incredible, if true) can't be fully and comfortably accredited with the nucleobase to human genome jump then said evolutionary mechanisms are suspect. According to the notion of evolution inherently adding complexity over time, nucleobases to human genome just requires some very large time. If we do know this with such certainty, then my comparison is both apt and reasonable.
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Pushing JS, and HTML to the limit always feels like the biggest con of building javascript UI apps. The farther you move away from browser defaults the more hairy thing seem to get.

No doubt we are moving to a more dynamic client side, but I haven't seen the way forward yet.
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Most companies like enthusiastic customers, so long as they aren't too enthusiastic. Marketers like customers who respond to campaigns, but they get very nervous when customers take control of the brand on their own initiative. It sometimes ends up taking the brand in a direction the owner would prefer it didn't go. (eg. Cristal, Burberry)

In this case, you've got multiple people sharing what should be an individual account and the potential for damaging mainstream media stories if people feel like they're doing a good turn for strangers, only to have scammers empty the card. Not to mention that if Jonathan's Card is genuinely unconnected to Starbucks, his use of their trademarks would make the lawyers uncomfortable.

This may not be a full-fledged viral marketing campaign, but I'm skeptical that Starbucks would be so enthusiastic about it if the guy responsible didn't have a preexisting relationship with their marketing department.
I think you are both right, once you "de-identify" said resources and cash. That is, the constraint here is not cash but brains/skills/knowledge/time/effort. Many people simply don't know what is possible. I used to run continuously into this kind of problem when I worked for other people (guys who just don't know what is _possible_, not even talking about being able to do it).
Conspiracy theory in play: discredit Annon being all mighty if they fail in this Facebook attempt. Anyone can claim to be Annon, it is also a way to spot the real Annon.
Totally agree. This would be quite a coup causing self-destruction.
Do you feel that way with modern browsers too? We have not been paying much attention to IE compatibility but things have been working good in Chrome/FF/Safari for most part. Also, frameworks like Backbone help you write code thats easier to debug and more or less runs out of the box on most modern browsers
Identifying the problems is important, even if you don't propose a solution, though. In a situation like this, discussing all the aspects of the problems - not just as arm chair strategists[1], but actually going out and getting hard data[2] - would greatly help to define it, and, from there, it might become easier to find a solution, even if it would be very non-optimal. Giving up because you think that "If there were real, easy, or plausible solutions, they would already be here" isn't productive in the least - it's like giving up a project when you can't find a library that does what you need.

[1] Yes, I know it's ironic that I'm an arm chair strategist discussing how not to be one.

[2] Off the top of my head, some questions that it might be useful to know the answers to: Where do the 13 to 20% fall on the IQ spectrum? What media do they consume? Are they really as unmotivated as the author makes them sound? What do they do with their time? Is smoking/drinking during pregnancy common? What percentage of them are involved in crime? What do they spend their money on?
I've ben working on an extjs app for the past few years. My experience is slightly different. I've found development actually speeded up. The extjs components are pretty mature, which is probably part of the reason. Benefits so far are the ones listed in the article, and also a structurally lower cost to supporting different browsers (even ie6), and a much easier time validating the security architecture, because of the reduced surface between client and server. Oh, and our users are very enthusiastic about the improved usability of our apps. They keep asking when we'll move over our older apps to the new architecture.
Covering the entire triangle is probably impossible. I think it all boils down to a few variables, like how many features are there and how many "things" can attract the users's attention on screen. There's an inherent _contradiction_ between what pros and beginners need. A beginner doesn't want to be bombarded with options, and he probably would enjoy being lead a little bit along the way. A pro must be able to reach advanced options, and do so in a convenient way and would absolutely hate being annoyed with advice.

So you basically have two modes and the problem is you can't really flip a switch to move between them (i.e. "expert" mode is always a UI fail) or meld them (UI that changes on you is unpredictable and thus annoying). Beginners turn into pros. But it doesn't happen at an instant, it's gradual, and people become more versed in certain aspects of a program and not others, so there can't just be this global switch. And pros turn into beginners, given enough time since last use or a change of focus. So the way I see it you can either target one, or the other, or find a compromise in the middle - but realize it's not going to be a win-win. I really can't think of a good win-win UI example in the real world.
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Use a component driven framework that abstracts away the dom. You'll realize that it's the dom that makes things hairy, because it's too low level.
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