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Not if you need to pre calculate before some conditional checks, do something if some conditions are meet and you want to save state.

Basically it all comes down to organizing code. Removing 'continue' removes one's ability to organize code in a good way, as some see it.
This is awesome?! A viral marketing campaign directed at us! Wow.

Response from HN could be: "...we are flattered that he chose HN for his social experiment"
Fake or not, I really liked it. It was different and most importantly it made me feel good. If this is advertising I don't mind. It's a lot better than normal commercials I tend to ignore.

I just wish they didn't pretend that they had nothing to do with it.
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I like the Wikipedia suggestion most of the time: assume good faith. He works with Starbucks at his day job. He decided to do a hack using an API he was exposed to there. This is not exactly nefarious, even to the severely-damaged-evil-meter version of nefarious which includes "intentionally and with forethought committing the sin of marketing."

I have often used work technologies/clients at play and play technologies at work.
It is native.

https://twitter.com/#!/bleikamp/status/101150736989171712
I was writing the first lines of code for a game prototype while listening to this. I looked at the code I was writing, and promptly put it aside -- I was coming up with a nice advanced, performance implementation of dynamic octrees to represent the voxels my world is based on ... but why do I need that, before anything runs at all? Sure, I will need it in the future (although not the super, super optimized version until well into the future), but I should have this running before moving forward. I'm glad I watched this, and saved myself some pain initially.
You don't really understand protests do you? You could say the same about street protestors, endearing themselves to motorists trying to get home, or bus driver protestors causing chaos to those who use their services.
Nah. I don't know Jonathan, but I've followed him on Twitter for quite a while after reading his O'Reilly published book on iPhone web app dev. (I think he's also the guy who took over maintenance of jQTouch.) Anyway, watching the whole thing evolve on his Twitter stream, it sure seems sincere. "Suspected to be a viral marketing campaign" might be a more appropriate headline here.

Conspiracy theories are fun to think about, but too many things don't add up for this one. Thin evidence of it, a potentially anti-Starbucks agenda by coffeestrategies, the fact that Jonathan is a real live person with tons of professional credibility, and the fact that in order for it to be true, Jonathan would have had to pro-actively lie to all those of us who follow and trust him.

That's strikes me as exceedingly unlikely.
Oh, I didn't click the link - I just assumed he was being correct when he said "employees". Your situation is a little different, if this is a starbucks advertising campaign.
I wouldn't feel foolish at all. Regardless of whether it's a viral marketing campaign, it was a neat idea that seems to have caught some steam.

Furthermore, you hopefully gained something from those few hours of work, whether it's knowledge, satisfaction, or just a little more experience.
There doesn't seem to be any advantage really to having it on separate domains. Is there any reason you'd think it's easier to focus on paid users if it's on a separate domain?

There's other options, a private support forum (or forum section) for paid users, priority support (just highlight tickets or emails from paid users).

While it might be "easy" to export and import your data from free to paid, it's still an extra step, and much more annoying than just automatically having the new version available.
1) I read the 'The company later had its employees comment on my blog with fictitious postings' out of context. It's not referring to `Jonathan's Card` but to the `Pay it Forward` campaign. Just pointing that out since it seems like others were not clear on that detail either.

2) Calling those `Pay it Forward` posts "fictitious" isn't merited. I would not be surprised to see an employee of any company posting a defense of the company they work for.

3) Anyone on HN who read "but unfortunately failed to anticipate that I can see the originating IP address of incoming comments" and didn't say to themselves "how does OP know they were trying to obfuscate their identity?" should be embarrassed.

It's always a good idea to read posts critically, and it's always a good idea to accept the least cynical understanding of a situation until compelling evidence is provided to the contrary.

I'll consider this submission as bait until something substantial is posted.
I've been unsuccessfully trying to educate my wife about this behavior for years! The windows model of "app closes with last window" seems to be too far ingrained in her to change.
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If that is the case, then why did the company delete its graphic of the clients? http://mobiquityinc.com/clients/

Apparently, Starbucks is a client of theirs, and Stark is a VP: Mobiquity Vice President of Application Architecture.
does it occur to these people that we might become used to them leaking stuff and not care anymore? i, for one, don't care and don't know what they are fighting for anymore...
My question is why not just leave it pretending to be opened, then open it when you select it? Leave the dot on the dock, leave it in the alt+tab list, but don't actually have the process running. This seems like what they are actually trying to achieve: you remove all actual strain on the computer without breaking any promises.
Yea, personally I think disclosure is still important, but an employee that happen to like randomly astroturf is one thing, a entire campaign of astroturfing is another.
I know someone who went through 9 months and 7 interviews (including flights to Chicago and other regional offices) with Cisco for a director-level position, and finally got turned down.

Some companies are simply amazing at how inefficient their HR is.
"... that the thing is playable and that people will want it, all of which are much more difficult than to making the right decision about where to sell something" (At 49:06)

Make something people want is not just for startups.
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Ask HN: Creating your founding team?
We're a two man shop, UpOut, trying to raise a seed round (around $250k to $300k) within the next month or two. Therefore, it's time to put together our founding team. We want to bring on an extra 1 or 2 developers and 1 designer and give some money and equity.

Anyone have experience with getting employee 1, 2 and 3?
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Be Careful about changing your DNS settings if you use a CDN - iTunes, in particular, offers horrible performance if you use googles DNS.
> We can't blame Lodsys for exploiting the holes in
> the patent system. For that, we have to blame the
> system itself.

Translation:

> So long as something is legal, it is moral.

Or:

> We can't blame that serial murder just because
> he found a way to kill people that is perfectly
> legal!
The only "bad" thing in my eyes is the cover up, if it is indeed being covered up. However until it's proven otherwise I'm going to assume this is good old finding-shit-where-there-isn't-shit which the internet is oh so good at!

Even if the guy does work Starbucks (directly or indirectly) it's a clever idea, I enjoyed looking at it (and wish I could have taken part) and this won't change if it was some "viral marketing".
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Just to clarify, he's not using a Starbucks API. He's scraping the data from the user page. The API the card uses (for Twitter, for others to check the balance, etc.) is one he created for the project.

A company he works for, in a completely unrelated capacity (application architecture != marketing) has in the past, at least, worked for or with Starbucks. Whether that's ongoing or not is between Starbucks and Mobiquity, but even if they are it's no indication of a professional or personal relationship between Starbucks and Mr. Stark.

Jonathan's a friend of mine, so I'll take him at his word on this one.
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There's still the question of why Mobiquity pulled their client list from the website. That's either an eyebrow-raising coincidence, or they're not cool with casual visitors knowing there's a business relationship.
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I think that Apple probably has more of a leg to stand on when it comes to intervening because of the way their app marketplace is setup.
Yes, pre-C99. I'm going to have to try that now.
NSW paves the way for R18+ games in Australia
To me, this is no where as big an issue as not being able to copy files and skip the ones already present, which I was able to do in Leopard and Snow Leopard, but apparently I no longer should ever need to do in Lion. Thanks Apple.
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Did Twitter Just Kill Twitpic?
Dog people "23% more likely to be iPhone users"
I can't give you a reason other than speculation. The author of the blog post states that he had to go to Google cache to find the page in the first place, so there's no telling how long ago it was removed from Mobiquity's site.

It makes no sense for them to remove the entire page when they could simply replace the Starbucks logo with that of another clients. Couple that with the fact that we have no idea when the page was changed and it sounds more like removing the client page was part of a decision regarding the overall content of their site and not an attempt to hide anything.

A past affiliation between Starbucks and Mobiquity has no bearing at all on the current situation if it is not ongoing, and still doesn't imply any personal affiliation with Mr. Stark.
Congrats on the launch Stypi team. Just curious about the underlying tech. Are you using operational transformation (OT) like google docs does OR are you using an alternative such as causal trees (CT)?
So the company happens to be unaffiliated with Starbucks now, but is showcased because it was a past client?
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I gave Hcg Kore a wide berth before. I would not expect you to have an attachment connected with Hcg Kore. It's estimated that thousands of big shots in Russia to have the benefits of Hcg Kore. Hcg Kore is like a blast from the past.
The author of the blog post states that he had to go to Google cache to find the page in the first place, so there's no telling how long ago it was removed from Mobiquity's site. A past affiliation does not imply an ongoing one.

It would make no sense for them to remove the entire page when they could just remove the Starbucks logo, so it could ell just be a restructuring of the site.
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1. I'm willing to write and, actually, like PHP.

2. I don't have a CS degree, I'm a glorified designer eager to learn.

3. Now I know what right and left folding are.
Sorry, my response was worded a bit poorly - I'll edit it. I have no idea if they still have a relationship with Starbucks or not.
I'm inclined to believe this was a genuine experiment too, or at least a cool viral marketing campaign that I hope to use - for a free coffee :)

Out of curiosity, is Jonathan on HN too? It would be interesting to hear out of the horse's mouth here. I see a user with an ID of "jonathanstark":

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonathanstark

P.S. Not all Starbucks cafes accept this card/image. I tried it this morning and was told they don't accept this method of "payment."
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Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan
He is and yes, that is his account. I suspect he'll chime in when he notices this.
Haskell has definitely been the most rewarding programming language to learn for me personally. It's fairly unique in many ways, and really forces you to think in functional terms (unlike many other functional languages, which make it easy to drop back to OO or imperative style).

However, Scala was the "gateway" language that helped me grok the core functional concepts after a long history of doing just OOP.
I am not involved with Stypi but I think the key points from the article are "it wants to let native applications like Photoshop sync changes between multiple users" and that "they’ve laid the groundwork to let other applications sync".

In other words a text editor is one instance of an application that can use the underlying service. Think about that for a second. The concept of collaborative editing as a service that can be adapted to ANY application is HUGE. For example, an engineering CAD app would be more powerful with this feature.

Going further,if you consider that machines can also "collaborate" then it get's even more interesting. An example of human/machine collaboration could be a real-time reporting application.
We (New Relic) added a high-level "How It Works" video to our site during a recent redesign. Anecdotally, I know that many of our newer customers did watch the video and found it helpful in understanding our product.

We also use Olark chat on our site, which besides giving us the ability to chat with our customers easily online, we can see what pages the customers are visiting in real-time, during our chat. I've chatted with scores of customers this way, and it's typical for most every user to jump all around the site to get a good feel for 'how it works', 'what it does' and 'how much does it cost'. It's helpful if you have an obvious "sign up" link incorporated on every single page of your website, so no matter where on your site a customer decides they want in, they can do so easily.

I can say that adding that video did not hurt conversion, but it also didn't substantially increase conversions either. I do still think it's an important aspect of any new online service, regardless of your implementation (video, graphical, text).
there goes the big secret plan of locking Chrome, Mozilla, Safari, and IE dev teams in a small room until they start making our web developer lives easier...
Your comment is even more impressive because you (and/or Hacker News) violated an Apple patent in your comment above. See Apple's lawsuit against HTC - matching text patterns and turning them into clickable actions is patented by Apple.
Considering both Starbucks and Mobiquity are actively promoting Jonathan's Card, I'm inclined to believe the relationship is ongoing. (Frankly, this is the kind of thing that companies like Starbucks usually aren't cool with if they don't originate internally) But you're right, it is ambiguous.

I don't think it's unreasonable that they'd have responded by deleting the page, though. It's the fastest and easiest option, (perhaps the website admin isn't available) and excising the Starbucks logo alone would look awfully suspicious. Seems like exactly the thing someone would do on the spur of the moment during an "oh shit" moment when they realized a viral marketing campaign might be compromised.
I'm annoyed by Nokia's failure with MeeGo. The reasons it gave as to why the new management wasn't behind MeeGo were nothing more than excuses. They got that Microsoft's plant in there now. Their board is completely shortsighted when it comes to seeing the long term value it could have for Nokia. Nokia is abandoning it and has nothing in their portfolio of real value except some patents and IP.
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i just read that as mildly n00bish behaviour - he came to hacker news simply because the story was posted here and he wanted to make sure his posts were known to be from him.
I wouldn't bet on HTC and Motorola benefiting. Apple is suing them, too. Granted, those suits are mainly in the US, but if lawsuits continue to go well for Apple I'd expect Apple to keep suing.
This is one of the few times that xkcd.com is better suited to HN than to Reddit. If you want to hear more about the superiority of passphrases, a Microsoft blogger wrote a series of articles on them waaaay back in 2004. I've been using them since then -- they're elegant, they work well, and simple inspection shows them to be better than my dictionary_word+modifier standard passwords. (Which, to be fair, I should migrate from some time when I get a week free to go to every place I've ever used a password...)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/robert_hensing/archive/2004/07/28...
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who woulda thunk? ;)
Samsung is a very big producer of flash memory. While that isn't unique, if Apple has to fill their large requirements from other suppliers, those suppliers may decide to charge more (or have to charge more given other demands on their production capacity) if they know Apple doesn't have Samsung as an option...
I'll be moving to a MBP when the next refresh hits from Ubuntu as well, and I plan on running Windows in a VM if I ever need to. I'm sick of having to deal with Linux's shitty support for iDevices, as well as the awful battery life.
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Interesting you brought this up. Check out this mixergy post:
http://mixergy.com/brendan-blumer-accounts-ne-interview/

site is: okay.com

Serious money to be made...
Not sure how credible this is but the article does have a comment from someone saying that the twitter feed said the card had money when in fact it did not. They allude that this is part of the marketing ploy.

Did anyone else experience this?

My guess would be that it's just not updated in real time and they just happened to go at the wrong time. If we're giving the benefit of the doubt...
I think that would cause an infinite loop on most usages of do/while, thus making the problem (probably not the cause hehe) quickly noticeable.
Menus are way more than just text - the layout, relative sizing etc are often very carefully designed to Make More Money.

Salon had an article about this last year: http://www.salon.com/food/francis_lam/2010/02/22/how_menus_m...
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Wrong. Lodsys would like the little devs to pay the license fees and possibly settle after Lodsys sues them.

Having a defense fund would force Lodsys to actually do more than put up a front and go and sue each licensee... this becomes much much more costly either in time (serial cases) or money (parallel cases).
They have Obvious.com

http://obvious.com/
I'm guessing they're hoping Apple will bear the burden and pin down Lodsys.
I'm so angry for Nokia's decision. N9 was the first phone in several years which made me excited and proud of what Nokia's done. And now they dump it. For Windows Phone. Great.
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And this famous lawsuit was a famous mistake by Apple. They lost and they generated an enormous amount of ill will at a time when Apple couldn't afford that. Looking back, it is amazing to realize that people felt sympathetic to Microsoft as a victim of Apple's anti-competitive tactics.
An exception to prove your rule: I use Linux on all my desktops and servers. MacBook and iPad for demos and on the road. So yes, for those who watch my demos and presentations, they'd think that OS/X is the way to go.
If you want to be really funky, create your demos on Haiku (BeOS work-alike) !
You are correct that the Twitter feed isn't quite real-time. It only updates once a minute and the card was getting a lot of activity.
I've never tried Scala so I'm speaking from ignorance here, but that looks awfully hard to parse for a human reader.
I much prefer Haskell's:

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Whatever they'll do their best work on! Our organization doesn't provide computers (its not really a company, its a semi-non-profit entity and all the employees are contractors), but we use Mac, Windows, and Linux and a variety of environments within. Especially if you're a Java shop, OS doesn't really matter.
Are there programmers editors for other platforms that are better than what is available on OS X?
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FWIW, PageRank is a relatively minor component of the ranking algorithm (I dunno why people latch onto it...maybe because it's a public, patented, easy soundbite), and the core Google ranking algorithm was entirely rewritten by Amit Singhal in 2001. The ranking edge that most people associate with Google wasn't even written when Google got its funding, and its inventor hadn't yet been hired.
I have to think it can't be that bad a place to work; they at least have a good sense of humor. April Fools' before last they did this awesome parody of Gilt: http://www.groupoupon.com/
Nuance Plays Hardball in Voice Recognition
The article mentions all sorts of texting apps, but fails to mention Google Voice. My single favorite Google App and the sole reason I don't pay texting fees anymore.
might be, but keep in mind that Starbucks' PR may genuinely not have been "in the loop" about this.
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From the headline and seeing that you are a customer support company, I was expecting to read about how the different approaches can benefit users. Boy was I wrong.
But in a download-only world, physical goods would be perceived as rather inconvenient to obtain compared to the norm, somewhat negating the effect. (In PC gaming, this is arguably already true.)
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Anonymous Vows Facebook Destruction on November 5th 2011
From #AnonOps: "TO PRESS: MEDIAS OF THE WORLD... STOP LYING! #OpFacebook is just ANOTHER FAKE! WE DONT "KILL" THE MESSENGER. THAT'S NOT OUR STYLE #Anonymous"

That's not to say that Facebook won't be attacked, but most likely not by the people that form that Anonymous that WE think of when we think Anonymous. Although I suppose that any one or group could be Anonymous because of how they define themselves.
Surely there should be a preference to disable this behavior. I suppose there's not. There's a use case here were things are better left to the user. I hate it when software thinks it knows more than I do and thinks it's brighter than I am. I haven't switched to Lion yet and frankly, I'm don't think I'll do soon.
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We're definitely working on the documentation situation. We learned hard lessons with the 1.x series, which remained undocumented for far too long. If you want to send me an email and let me know what you thought was lacking in the docs (can be as specific or general as you'd like), I'd really appreciate it: colin at sproutcore dot com
Ah you must be young -- expecting mutual respect from tech recruiters.
If you're not editing the files, can't you just use Quicklook to basically navigate through them iteratively and intuitively? I've added plugins to support php and java. (IIRC from here: http://www.quicklookplugins.com/ )

You could have a 2nd app like a spreadsheet for "scoring"... in fact this is what I did when I'm reviewed resumes for new hires.
I call astroturf.