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Here's where I struggle...

Everything you say about Groupon today applied to Amazon in the late 90s. They were accused of being a pyramid scheme. They were accused of bad accounting because they counted free shipping as a one time expense. They were never going to succeed. Fast forward 15 years and Borders is going out of business, Barnes and Noble is in retreat and Amazon moved beyond books to retailing everything - including the cloud.

My nature is to be a cynic, and I roll my eyes when people make up new metrics. I look for cash rather than an opinion on earnings. Even Generally Accepted Accounting Principles can be gamed, let alone non-GAAP metrics. But maybe this time they're right.

This isn't to say Groupon will succeed, but there is some precedent. Maybe they are more Amazon than eToys.
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dchest linked below. Their attack on AES-128 is claimed to be 2^126.1 operations.
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This highlights how much iPhone is tied to local carriers. South Korea is a market leader in mobile technology. Making it there means a lot in terms of the global marketplace. (Then again, I used to say the same thing about Japan.)
What marginal platform are you talking about? you know its available on Macs, PC, Xbox, and Android right?

You seem way off point with your analysis. Seems they are actively moving across every major platform.
> without doing any math whatsoever.

The pilot is doing a lot of calculations. It's just not representing sensory inputs and muscular outputs as numbers.
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The total cost to the industry of adopting AES was enormous

Part of that was the cost of getting rid of years of cruft, though. Dropping in a new block cipher which operates on 128-bit blocks using 128-, 192-, and 256-bit keys would probably be much cheaper.
I think there are a few classes of presentations where good slides can still convey 80% of the content of the presentation.

They tend to be meaty technical ones, which is the kind of thing lanyrd would likely be heavy on with all of the tech events they have.

Presentations with lots of live coding are likely not worthwhile.
The thing is he wasn't, he was only asked to be an employee. So, the developer still owns all rights to the code in this case.
" In its simplest form, Bunchify is an easy way to find people who share interests with you. Think StumbleUpon meets Facebook or Twitter. Our goal is to find people you can really connect with. Bunchify will let you share cool photos, links, or videos with people who actually like what you're sharing. No more searching for people to follow or trying to add new friends, we will do it all for you. If meeting new people isn't what you're looking for, then browse Bunchify and read posts about your favorite interests..... Now, we are going to make this as easy as possible for you by letting you log in with your Facebook, Twitter, or Google account!"

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I guarantee it produces higher quality books. You simply mean the market is saturated with mediocre books. When you open the floodgates, you get more of everything. It might be harder to find the quality books, but I guarantee there are more of them.
For 8-10% monthly fee. =)
There was speculation that that might have just been betas expiring, and not developers selling access getting their access revoked (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/05/apple-disabling-ios-5-be...).

> must own at least one app in App Store to be eligible for beta access

That doesn't work for many reasons. App Review, as if they didn't have enough of a hard time with a bad reputation, would just be flooded by trash from first time developers or contract developers/companies that just created an account. Apple could make it mandatory to install using Xcode, but in the past, Xcode upgrades have bricked devices where iTunes doesn't. So I have a feeling that's not really a priority and more of a burden. Plus, it's braindead simple to install and use Xcode to install betas, and anyone desperate enough to pay $10 but not $100 should easily be able to get around that.

I really think all Apple needs to do is to block reviews from iOS 5 devices. Developers running betas won't be reviewing apps in the store (that's incredibly hypocritical and cruel if so) so nobody's going to be missing that. This doesn't harm beta testers and devs that want to install iOS betas.
No it reflects national pride.

Samsung and LG are both Korean, and I bet that 95% figure is mostly those two companies.
The Fed isn't responsible for regulation and isn't a central bank like the bank of france or something. I immediately said, in that thread "if you mean the fed.." and explained why they have nothing to do with the noun regulation.

Thanks for the counter-condescension.

To the original point, they don't write regulation and it's hard to call a fixture of the last 80 years "regulation responsible for a recent incident", due to the fact that at some point there was a law.
Your proposals take things a bit too far without any real return.

Blocking access to devs who don't have an app in the store is counterproductive, because that prevents the developers from testing against the latest iOS and finding bugs -- which is the entire point of access to the iOS beta! Not to mention some devs might be working for other clients and not yet shipped something themselves (as in my case).

Requiring installs via Xcode would only be a temporary slowdown before someone figures out the secret handshake and hacks around it.

Blocking reviews from devices with the latest iOS beta installed should be sufficient to eliminate most of these unfair reviews.
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Previous thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2874301 although not a lot of comments.
the address on a letter isn't a substitute for a salutation; I typically start with a simple "Hi" or "Hello."
I've seen a lot of broken key management. People using MD5(passphrase) (cough OpenSSH cough) as a key, people downloading public keys over insecure networks and not verifying them at all, people distributing secret keys along with software destined to be run on hostile systems...

I'm happy to say that systems which try to generate random passwords do tend to generate securely random passwords, though. /dev/random has been a huge help there.
It doesn't sound like he coded all that much from the post. He even mentions that Cactus is a little bit too much work since there's not much of an existing community surrounding it. I was just surprised that it was the CTO of Amazon after I read the post.

S3 are kind of his "servers" no ;)
Agreed to a certain extent. The real question you have to ask is "If they hit their scaling targets, would it be successful", for Amazon, the answer was yes (thought there were significant doubts whether or not they could hit their targets). For Groupon, people question if they could be successful even if they hit their scaling targets.

BTW, people also questioned AOL for shipping all those CD's and counting it as an investment instead of a marketing expense.
Are you asking me to come? Is this a formal invitation? :)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-pa...
not even attempt to change one's behavior in a positive manner

No visible progress != not even attempt.
True, but the MID will very possibly go away or be significantly reduced in the future. During the debt ceiling talks, the proposal by the Gang of Six would have significantly reduced the value of the MID to many people. Of course, the proposal wasn't passed, but I think it shows that the MID is no longer viewed as untouchable the way it once was (as recently as a year ago).
I'm guessing that he's talking about this being exclusive to the Sony Xperia phone when he's talking about platform there.
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That is not true. When Google Apps don't work they just don't update their status page and ignore users. Last time I had to fight on forums (with other people) to convince Google guys that Google Docs was reporting 404 for many files. Finally the problem was fixed, but status page was never updated.
There is no official Apple retail store in South Korea--only resellers. This may be part of the reason, too.
Are they ex-Googlers or Google alumni?
Not sure if trolling. Either way, this is my last post in this silly thread of yours.

"reg·u·la·tion [reg-yuh-ley-shuhn]
noun
1.
a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
..."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/regulation

"The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.

Its duties today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, are to conduct the nation's monetary policy, supervise and regulate banking institutions, maintain the stability of the financial system and provide financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System

"Mission...
supervising and regulating banking institutions to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation's banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers..."

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(Emphases mine)
I'm always surprised how Tim Ferriss sells so many books. He's such an aggressive self-promoter it's shameful.
> What marginal platform are you talking about?

The Xperia Play.

> Minecraft Pocket Edition is now up for grabs -- provided you've got $6.99 to spare, and you're one of the folks who picked up Sony's Xperia Play.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/238162/minecraft_pocket_editi... (This is so clunky, I wish we just had Markdown).

Not only has he limited himself to Android (you notice no other mobile platforms in your list there) he's chosen to take an exclusivity deal from Sony so that it's artificially limited to only the Xperia Play for at least a month or two.
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Spoken like someone who has never needed a specific card or subsystem because that and only that works with mission critical software or hardware they need to run.
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The secret handshake is merely the Xcode Organizer. I actually find it easier to restore there than do the opt-click dance in iTunes.
Choosing Android may have been the path of least resistance, choosing the Xperia Play however is the path of "large amounts of cash up front".
Apple also doesn't like it when you fix an issue, release an update and mention that you fixed a bug which affected iOS 5 compatibility. I needed to change it say "compatibility fixes for future iOS versions".
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This seems pretty retarded. Firstly weight is not a measure of health and weight loss is not the goal (you can improve fitness without changing weight, just shifting weight from fat mass to muscle mass).

Secondly, Who can't remember how much they weighed last time they weighed themselves? It's such a pitifully simple piece of information where small variances are inconsequential. If you weigh about 110, and your ideal weight is about 85, you hardly need to know historically what your weight was.

Thirdly, the best measure of "weight loss" is how you feel, not how much you weigh.

I can see merit in recording something but I think weight is the wrong metric, or maybe weight isn't an appropriate metric when taken in isolation.

Perhaps if it were weight correlated with mood, diet, time (of month? day? year?) or various life events then it'd be worthwhile.

Perhaps sending a text: "110kg :S pizza" indicating you're 110kg, feeling stressed and the last thing you ate was pizza.

If the "request for information" SMS were sent out at some sort of "random sampling" time, then you could probably build some sort of useful statistical model based on mood and food consumption correlating to fluctuations in weight then use the feedback to reduce weight over time.
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Call me crazy, but I don't think 2 months of exclusivity on a game that's still in development is not a huge deal.
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What's more interesting is that, at least according to that graph, iOS market share has gone from 40% down to next to nothing in less than a year.
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> Minecraft for PC has existed for months.

> Minecraft is a sandbox building indie video game...It was released on May 17, 2009, with a Beta on December 20, 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft

Years, actually.
I am in very much the same situation. Something thing I've found that really helps me is just reading about shy behavior. I find that identifying an issue is the first step to solving, and reading descriptions of shy behavior often help me better and more precisely identify what to fix. One book I found to be quite helpful in this regard was "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Laney.
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It sounds like a different degree of phony. Phonies are all over the place and show up in many social situations. Many times it arises due to wanting to fit in.

In my weekly RPG, we had a new person join who claimed some experience with the gaming system, but didn't oversell herself and was eager and knew her competencies well enough to pick it up fairly quickly. That's pretty much the trick. Too bad the phonies you encountered (it sounds like) oversold themselves too much and couldn't keep it up.
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You guys are missing the modifier "once upon a time". It's true: once upon a time, some (at the then once-upon-a-time time) geeky reporters got some interesting stories out of radio scanners. And now, it's not geeky to own a computer. But once-upon-a-time (as in when some of us, yer elders, were kids), it was only geeky people what had them. Anyway, agreed with tptacek, completely.
Join a group that interests you on meetup.com. I did this a couple of years ago and it helped me out tremendously.
I recall recently reading about a clinical trial which was aborted recently on moral grounds - the treatment being tested was so effective they couldn't justify continuing to administer placebos. (Annoyingly, I can't find either the article or the name of the drug at the moment)

Since you seem to have a good understanding of the process, what would happen in this case? I'd guess something along the lines of "We've already established statistical significance, we can proceed", but wouldn't that potentially weaken the study of things like side-effects or long-term use?

Do testing protocols have provisions for this sort of thing?
What is even more impressive is that there are only a few active cell phones in North Korea that aren't Android powered.
Oh, Adobe... read the copy, then view the source.
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Nice designs!

I am a developer and would LOVE to be able to have good web design skills.

- What is the process you used for these designs.

- Where did you take your inspiration from?

- Did you use any color scheme tool to come up with your color palette?

- Did your design progress from top to bottom or from rough layout to polished design?

Thank you!
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I am one of those peoples who are dreaming to get their own startup done but are living in under developed country such as Nepal (Asia) where Internet hasn't touched the mainstream of people's daily life, what should they do?

Move to USA? Visa is a great issue for us peoples. Seed investment as low as 10K USD means 70K NRS (local Nepali currency) which means a lot where local rich investors don't understand what technology means.

Should I just leave the dream of my own startup and get a job of working on local outsourcing company that does the same outdated php/mysql websites for clients?? I understand bootstrapping is the way you might say, but that's like OMG, is it really possible that way?

I am just getting kinda frustrated now.
Yes, that should teach them a lesson.
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Android is Java based ... Minecraft is java based ... seems only logical Android is first. I don't really see it going to any other OS myself... maybe the Win7 phone when the xbox version is completed. I bet that payment from Sony was to convert it, I doubt they had plans to ship to xperia otherwise. If it sells as well as the PSP it will hardly be marginal.

And one to two month is hardly exclusive, its just a marketing gamble by Sony.
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I am pretty sure I predicted this on another post, and was downvoted (ahh...here we go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2853293).

I was wrong, not the US Treasury...but Justice department.

Here goes a roller coaster.
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An alternative fix would be to have the iOS version used when submitting a review. It doesn't limit "free speech", but it gives context on what the problem actually was.
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I don't believe this is something special to engineers. Hey, back home, in "less civilized" part of the world, you can be beaten up by waiters if you are complaining (being asshole) about meals at a restaurant.

In order words, "tact" is something you need to learn. Especially in internet world where doing something stupid is just a click away.
Let's abandon the therapeutic frame for a minute.

Is it possible that we really are frauds?

It may just be the nature of programming projects that nobody understands the full implications of what they are doing. And for the most part, what separates the successful from the unsuccessful is dumb luck.

So maybe you really ARE courting disaster every day, and there's something like a 1/8 chance every year that you'll do something so horrible that your clients or investors will hate you forever.

Look at the success rate of our industry. Let's set aside startups because that's widely acknowledged to be a field where much is unknown and unpredictable. Pity the non-technical CEO who just wants to computerize some filing system. It's common for 50% of these sort of routine corporate IT projects to fail. This is the thing we're supposedly good at. And yet they would never hire a plumber with a 50% disastrous track record. In fact, they probably would never expect somebody with a 50%-bad track record to even be able to stay solvent. But there are plenty of programmers or consulting firms out there with worse records than even that.
Customers and other employees. My employer (which doesn't expose customers to engineering, or vice versa) has a "no assholes" policy and it works fantastically. It seems very much that we'd honestly rather not hire someone than hire a social problem, and it's one of my favorite things about working here.
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>people downloading public keys over insecure networks and not verifying them at all

And note that SSL download public keys over insecure networks. Verifying them is why certificates were created
24 May 2011 05:26 AM

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2582733

Not news now.
I don't know if books are the best way to go about this.

I overcame my shyness with improvisational acting. Consider taking a class. Social encounters become a lot less intimating once you realize you can get away with almost anything as long as you have a smile on your face.
I did it, monocles included :) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2897549
You wouldn't want to leave anyone with the impression that they're mostly fine as long as their keys are securely generated.
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They should also ban reviews from jailbroken devices, where users may have installed custom fonts or other "features" for which you can't possibly test and account.

And yes -- any test Apple does for this could be defeated, but I expect most jailbreak developers would side with their app writing comrades and let it stand.
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To your first point -- some people do need to control their weight (or even lose weight), not everyone is in the same category with regards to health/weight/etc., And to be quite honest, I'm pretty sure last time I saw my doctor they told me "it'd be a good idea / healthy to lose X pounds..." -- that's fairly cut and dry to me, I need to lose some weight -- this service is just a method of tracking that progress while offering up helpful advice along the way.
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If you adhere to those rules the worst that can possibly happen is that you get better.
This is a great example of following the letter of a standard, but not the spirit.
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Hey there,

The core of the project I'm working on is built in PHP. However, we found that there were a few things that would make more sense in RoR, and there are many features in the future that will be better served as RoR apps. Basically, we are using mod_proxy to redirect to the Rails app.

If you'd like to talk more about it, I'd be more than happy.
If you do everything in the constructor and the destructor, and in the meantime store a generic instance (or maybe a list of generic instances) somewhere.

This can be a quite rare situation, though. But not impossible.
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