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I worked with a domain squatter at a previous job. Seemed to be a completely slimy business. He would scour the GoDaddy domain aftermarket and after purchase usually throw up a "<site here> is closed for business, but we are working with investors to get things back online shortly" sort of page in an effort to extort more out of the people.

there are just some ways I dont want to make money...
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You know, there's nothing wrong with posters writing their own titles.
Let me copy+paste part of one of the comments to clarify high numbers of WTFs in Obj-C from the article, from Sammy Larbi:

For Objective C, I have some light to shed on that situation. If you look at the search results for WTF and Objective C (through github's search), you'll see there are a lot of references to Webkit, which has the Web Template Framework, which gets abbreviated to WTF namespace in the code. ( I learned that from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/834179/wtf-is-wtf-in-webk... )
I am more surprised it contains fullerenic particles (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene
or familiarly buckyballs) as well.
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Also, you can always fire them if they don't work out.

I'm guessing you're in a right-to-work state, in the UK and EU firing someone for anything other than gross negligence is very, very hard. Hiring someone who "just doesn't work out" is a huge risk for an organization that can't afford to shuffle them off into a "VP of Paperclips" position.
I wondered where those Amazon ads were coming from! This is definitely shady; to have websites modified without your knowledge is unnerving. With such a successful extension, there must be a better monetization idea than tricking users.
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I saw 5 years of my life flash before my eyes when I read this.

This AWESOME news. I got my GC a year ago and I quit 3 montsh ago to start something so it doesnt matter now but I would've killed for this 5 years ago.
He is right, though - assuming a BitCoin exchange rate of 10$. You can generate at most 50BTC every 10 minutes, or 300BTC per hour. So it is 300x24+10 = 72000.
Many employers use a university degree as a proxy to judge whether or not you're employable, not whether or not you are qualified. As the article rightly points out, it's easier than ever to get a college degree, both because there are more universities offering them than ever before, and because the requirements to get those degrees are lower than ever before. Obtaining a degree merely shows whether or not you have the minimal foresight and work ethic required to be admitted to a university, and the even more minimal determination and resilience to actually get the degree. Thus, many employers think "If you can't muster a degree, in this lax environment, you're probably not going to be a good employee."

That said, if you can prove you have that determination, work ethic, and competence to do the job, many employers wouldn't give two shits if you never got an otherwise meaningless degree. The problem is, there's not a lot of other great proxies to demonstrate those qualities, especially proxies that would save your resume from getting tossed immediately.

As to the "degree snobbery" thought, it makes a lot of sense for some employers to use universities as their recruiting system. Think about law firms that only hire Harvard law grads. Snobbery at its worst, right?

Well, say Harvard Law gets 10000 applicants each year. This group is already self-selected to a certain extent, because most people who don't have a shot at getting in don't even apply. Next, Harvard only selects the most elite candidates (those with perfect scores only have about a 50% chance of getting in). So, anybody who makes it out of Harvard, even if they're at the bottom of the class, has already been screened extensively. If an employer just picked totally at random from this Harvard pool, he's got an excellent shot at picking a great employee, because the barrel he's choosing from has already been screened for him. This can hugely reduce the amount of effort an employer needs to put into making a hire, and so, even if lots of qualified candidates are overlooked, such a system might still make great sense.
"I tend to loathe meetings even more than 37signals."

Not trying to be the grammar police, but after reading this sentence, I chuckled because I thought the author was expressing his hatred for 37signals :)
If you are getting too many worthless applications, you aren't writing effective job ads.
Probably the point was he didn't want to do business with them (at least not anymore after being asked outrageous 10,000$ for the domain).
This is the inevitable "truth/reality" our author is achieving to discover. These aren't easy lessons learned when working in finance or having early success with your first startup.
Posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2891722
We aren't talking milliseconds, we are talking seconds to 10s of seconds. At that point, you are risking bounces, which any business-oriented site should fear, even Uncle Bob's Burger Bar.
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As a frenchman, I definitively appreciate the customer service quality in the US. We need more Morton's over there :)
Except when it comes to its apartheid-like policies in the West Bank, but then again formally Apartheid South Africa was long accepted as part of the West too...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analog...
Cryptography is one of those things in life that never ceases to humble me.
The majority of smartphones sold on AT&T are iPhones. Had it been Verizon to do this then it may be attributed to Android. That said, AT&T could be reacting to the Facebook Messenger app. No one really knows.
As one of the founders of http://www.44con.com/ I'd be happy to chat about making this happen. We have everything we need geared up for this and could do it as a free or paid for conference.
I'm annoyed by domain squatters as much as the next guy - but how is this different than owning any other property? Do you hate the land owner that sits on vacant land waiting for it to appreciate?
Hard to tell anything from the site at the moment.

The up-front cost could deter a lot of people. Why not let people post and take a percentage of the final sale price?
Yes, you need text and images. The company I work for has been looking for a simple, fast, and good solution to make notes over webpage wireframes. I think this could be it!
Nope, the entire BTC network makes $72k every day. The larger your botnet, the bigger your share.
They can still play against Germany though.
Yes, because of the long-standing occupation of the Palestinian territories, the lack of rights afforded to the Palestinian Arabs living there and the ever growing Israeli settlements in and around these Palestinian communities, Israel isn't very welcomed by its other Arab nations.
I think your right. One (k,n)=(2,3) scheme for each group to unlock the (2,2)-scheme for the secret.

And the wife just needs to remember one key this way...
The price of the property.

The price for a domain name have basically been too cheap.
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jwz is just clueless about the current domain market. Offering $200 for dnacafe.com is a slap in the face and shows he doesn't know the market at all. It is not even worth my time to do a transfer/escrow for $200.

There are already tons of local businesses called DNA Cafe, and so the domain is worth at least $5k.
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I like the idea of having a service like this. However, I am worried about having one centralized service for this kind of thing. Interested parties, like certain government agencies will have a high interest in hacking it. I hope no one who really needs a dead man's switch as an insurance will use this service, if it ever get's big.
This is the start of an entertaining thriller. Someone should be working on the movie rights.
this is great article for someone to undertand how cryptography and AES works - but as all great explanations - it fails to explain some key concepts that take it from 0 - to "got it!" for me (hacker with absolutely no idea of how cryptography works other than simple caesar ciphers and stuff from childhood books) - this actually reminds me of the article in rjlipton's blog that also made it up HN a couple of weeks ago (http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/give-me-a-lever/) about the lever in any mathematical explanation. I'm going to use that a little leniently here and go so far as to say - the algorithm makes sense - but for someone who doesn't get cryptography - its the "key" that's the lever. I get the diffusion and confusion and most of the rest - that math is not the hardest bit. But how the key actually comes into being - and how the Standard ensures that only the 2 people in the conversation have the key - is what would really crack the entire thing for me.
Wait, are they saying I can create a company on my own, no holds attached and go work for it? (minimum investment etc.)

A few questions - does it let me build apps and publish them to the Appstore to make money? (Since that doesn't count as working fulltime for the company I assume).

How do they prevent Masters students who are on an OPT from creating their own companies and sponsoring a H1B for themselves? No regulations on the amount of investment required?

If both of the above are possible .. well, mind=blown.
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I'm not a "Microsoft fan", I'm just not a "Google fan" either. As it happens, I have clients who decided to use Google Docs in recent months, and I can attest that while they may have had a server running 99.984% of the time, they certainly did not have a useful, working service 99.984% of the time for us, so I found the comment misleading.

Given that the person I replied to has recently made several short posts containing obvious and often unsupported Google advocacy, I also found his posts dubiously motivated. I'd prefer not to get into some extensive meta-discussion here, I just don't want to encourage that sort of behaviour, and apparently neither do several other people who have since upvoted my original comment. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to posting more constructive things instead...
Israel is fairly European in a lot of aspects except when it comes to its occupation of the Palestinian territories and its denial of rights to the inhabitants of those territories. Israel's behavior with regards to the West Bank is so bad that it being referred to more and more as an apartheid situation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analog...
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They could raise prices in general, raise the minimum plan or have a pay-per-use ($0.2) like you suggested. I doubt there can be a acceptable price hike that can offset the decrease in usage volume.

Ultimately, these are stop gap measures and doesn't stop their decreasing ARPU from losing dollars to 3rd party services not run by them - text, overseas calls, apps, and media (songs, movies, ringtones), even voice calls and location-based services. Carriers have been projecting an increase contribution of ARPU from data services and text is a major component of it.

Anyway, raising prices to beat a downward trend is dangerous. Could make it worse.
So, I'm both a developer and a WoW player, but I've never done WoW mod development.

That said, I do know that WoW UI mods are written in Lua, and I also know that there's an interface-related folder in the WoW directory structure called WTF. If there are a lot of WoW mods on github, this could be related to Lua's outlier WTF status.
Can't help casual users, but for power users, this is a very handy tool to inspect the source on-the-fly:

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What's the technical term for this?

Ah yes. I remember: "pretty fucking bad, man".

If the Chrome team also have access to the source of these plugins, it seems pretty irresponsible that there's no audit process whatsoever. There should at least be random audits, particularly of popular applications.
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There were plenty of people paying the $29 price. And not one of them chose to pay $27 instead. I would have expected maybe half to do so. Maybe 20%. But none?
could it be that his secretary or driver arranged such? if morton's did that for everyone, that would seem like a loss considering there's no real contract for the transaction, too many things could go wrong. i think this customer must be a top spender so received special attention, don't expect to have this service if you're a regular blow.
Agreed. All we have is a vague title, and that's by design.

The last thing we need is folks going to their dictionaries and starting to create or use formal definitions for all of this. That kind of rigidity is what got us here in the first place.

Much better to adopt a general definition consisting of "in situ" and "rapid feedback" and then try a million experiments to see what gains traction. Theory is easy. Application is difficult. We need much more application and much less theory.
I hate the self proclaimed experts in those fields as much as the next guy. But...

I have stopped getting obsessed with it.

If you truly understand these concepts and are able to work with them in a way to provide real value either to your customers or your clients you will still be standing after the dust settles.

It's just a goldrush. Some people find gold most don't.
To be fair, he shared it with his cat.
Is there anyway you can make your product more useful for your users if their friends join too ?
Easier said than done, I know... but this is maybe the only way to generate more sharing.
Interesting. How often do you use Linux on it? Are there many touch screen applications? How do you find them?
Try our Woobius Eye tool, too, it's pretty neat for collaborative visual work.

See: http://woobiuseye.com

And a video of how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhox59Ia5yc
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It's rightful that women are lovely and unbelievably not the comparable as the ones from men. However, since roughly 10% of revenues from the golf nine are women, the most critical manufacturers of sport lodge does not put the mortal toil in females than men.
Wonder how many people are using Google's DNS service ?
I dont get how the guy is a parasite. He has a product and this guy wants it. An offer is made and if no agreement can be reached then it doesn't happen. It's called the free-market.

Or is it just because the guy wouldn't sell it for $200 that he's a parasite?
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In the New Zealand/Australia IT buzz-speak of the late 90's we called this a kit-kat approach because of this ad that ran in 80's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPu7NNRmGA&feature=playe... (Sorry for the poor quality it is a very old tv ad).
You're right that there's more to it to build a full working implementation (including generating and sharing keys). I tried to show that by dissecting HTTPS (TLS): http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h...

I didn't use stick figures in that post, but I used actual traffic with https://amazon.com. Amazon uses RC4, but could just as easily use AES.
I posted here before those comments were made. Perhaps should have posted there instead.
Aha, fair enough. I'm not a fan of the current manufacturer websites either — certainly they can and should be done a lot better — I'd just hate to lose the configurability.
No, they are not saying that:

"... business owners on H1-B visas could work for their own companies, provided that they work full time for the company and are treated like an employee. For example, the company could have a board that is able to hire, fire, pay, supervise or otherwise control the worker like they would any other staff member."

I don't know how many startups have a board that can fire the founders...
The world of PR and customer service are merging. It's customer service because, without a great, pre-existing customer service organization, this could not have been pulled together between Tampa and Newark.
This is an utterly wonderful counter to the original yuppie crap that governments tell us indicate a "higher standard of living", and the crap is driven by profit which we routinely give up our rights to protect.
I think it's just like social media... One more think for the press to talk about
Oh, I would never trust actual will-type stuff to it, that's for sure. But I certainly don't want a 'I died, sorry!' message going out to my mailing lists prematurely, either.
McCann on criticism of Gnome 3:

Unfortunately on the internet - and in free software in particular - we have a lot of people whose voices aren't heard very loudly, and we have to take their needs into accounts as well as those who are vocal. And that's very challenging to do and very tricky to know what the less vocal people are looking for. So we have to remain sensitive to both sides.

So McCann doesn't have to listen to complaints from actual users -- he has a silent majority that understands Gnome.org's design choices. How very Nixon-esque.
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WTFs per comment would seem to me like a much more interesting measurement. Eg. I'm pretty sure CSS's low rating has more to do with the typical sparsity of comments than the awesome sensibleness and consistency of CSS renderer implementations.

Edit: Also takes no account for the quantity of code in each repository. Languages that are used for large projects are at an automatic disadvantage.
The widget is great for generating a starter CSS template
I work with some domainers and they generally price domains by looking at the amount of traffic the domain gets and human factors (such as how short it is, how general the terms are, how hot the industry that it relates to is). As you can imagine, some domains get hundreds of offers, others get none. There are no real hard and fast rules about when to give up and sell a domain below the price you wanted.
There was already a book named Daemon that uses similar concepts. I highly recommend it.
That would be correct if a domain investor had hand-registered its entire portfolio, not if he buys and sell domains in the aftermarket.
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> Because when I search some shopping items in google, I always want to check them in amazon at the same time.

Seriously? You expect us to believe you maliciously hijacked user's search results and put in your own affiliate links just because you thought it would be "nice"??

>In the spirit of transparency

AKA "Now that we got caught acting against the spirit of transparency..."

>we should disclose that this feature does bring small amount of revenue to us

Yeah, no shit; but someone else already "disclosed" that.

>Since so many users don't like it, we already updated a new version(3.2.1) to remove this feature.

So what? You've demonstrated a lack of respect for the user's trust and privacy. Why should we trust a liar?
I don't understand why Bilski lessens the hope of software patents being done away with. It basically struck down State Street (a part of the ruling that the dissent agreed with) and affirmed the Fed Circuit's ruling that struck down both State Street and Alappat. Aren't we left with Benson, Flook and Diehr as precedent? See http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2011-07-28
Good of you to come out and apologise for it (and remove the hidden feature), but this kind of fails the plausible deniability test...

"I mistakenly added a feature that would show our referral links to half a million users in their search results" isn't really believable.
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I actually hadn't even considered that they might read my letters without me knowing. I simply meant that a server went bonkers, or some bad code made it live and they accidentally sent my mails early.

As for the informal, bit... I certainly wouldn't let my mother be informed this way. But friends? That's how I mainly communicate with them anyhow.
Not true. First of all, what does Tampa have to do with it? Twitter is real time.

Second, all that was required by Morton's to pull this off was the following:

* Someone following tweets looking for @mortons from people with > 10,000 followers.

* A chef in the kitchen ready to cook a steak.

* The manager of the restaurant (or even a waiter) with time to drive 30 minutes to the airport.

They had 3+ hours to pull this off. They could have done it in half that time.

I am NOT saying Morton's does not have great customer service. I also believe this kind of stunt indicates a propensity for great customer service. But does not guarantee it.
I agree with everything you say here. I wasn't trying to claim that people skills are actually meaningless or somehow imply that these socially abrasive engineers operate on a higher plane of enlightenment where they have transcended our pointless niceties.

I also know plenty of incredibly talented engineers who have great people skills. These engineers tend to rise faster and go further than the ones who are lacking in that area. I'm sure you have found this yourself.
After I read this article I started thinking about Kurzweil's documentary, Singularity. How much longer before we can all become immortal Cyborgs? Is singularity as near as he predicts? (notice the capital C in Cyborg. PWND.)
Well, I'm not convinced that it's mainly the environment. You noted yourself that he also talks about lower stuff like suspend not working. And suspend/hibernate not working is not the fault of Gnome. It's because of Linux itself. If he on the one hand redefines the Operating System as being the whole experience, he should not forget that the technical base defines the user experience even more than the GUI (The GUI s only important if the base is working). I doubt that with his vision of what an OS is, with his what i see as negleting the technical base, this would be better. I don't think that Gnome itself "has the talent to do almost anything". They won't improve the kernel that much when a base-function don't work, or fix graphic-drivers when their compositor won't work cause of a glitch in them. The DE is a part of the use of an OS, an important part of the daily work, but not the whole OS.

PS: Using Linux for years, I never had a system with working suspend/hibernate. And I still have not, using the newest Ubuntu on my laptop. Which really is disturbing when reading about a GUI almost forcing you to use that broken function.
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It actually makes sense that the carbon atoms would recombine to form every form of carbon in the high temperature of the flame before pairing off with an oxygen atom or two and flying off as CO or CO2.