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For those interested Letter Gothic is available from several online type shops but be aware that since the original was released it has been reissued as both fixed and proportional variants. Additionally, it looks good out of the box on OSX but under Linux you'll want to ensure that you are running a font config like Infinality.

I own the monotype version of regular and bold, they work well, but other variants might be worth trying out. http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/monotype/letter_gothic...
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The OP doesn't seem to be able to take any personal responsibility for his ideas flopping. Can't put one iota of blame on himself.

I've spent enough time to know that the culture of a 'corporate' work environment forces you into a particular way of thinking

They can't appreciate the idea because they don't understand the technical details

Perhaps my cofounders had their judgement clouded by creating one too many PowerPoint decks or Excel models

Do you think maybe it has at least a little to do with a) your idea b) the way you're selling the idea or c) you?
So that's what it's been called. Lately I've been having people trying to schedule interviews with me about their service.

It's so incredibly annoying, because it wastes my time, and I get to learn that they are considering charging way way way more than I'd ever want to spent, so I stop using them regardless.

It's like a lose/lose scenario. I get the impression their pitching out different money numbers to try and see response, but when you say something clearly off the wall, I just stop using your service.

I don't want there to be some possibility a month or two down the road that you're going to try and up the price to one of those insane ones you asked me about.

So far for me, "Customer Development" is the single largest turnoff for any application.
I am curious: where do people buy rugged computers used by armed forces? They are normally horrendously expensive, but, if one could get them for 50% off the price of a new one, it becomes much more interesting.

It takes the idea of battle-tested code to a whole new level ;-)
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You're not concerned about fragmentation so long as there's a "lite" fallback. Got it. Let's see how this plays out. It may be that browser vendors with hot websites have to make the "lite" experience as good over time as their proprietary one, so they work fairly with the standards bodies.

Again, for this thread, per the leaked memo, that was not the plan with Dart. Coming to a standards body late will not work -- it may get a spec, but not Dart support in other browsers -- unless Googe has near-monopoly power.
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Maybe it's just my dirty mind but it looks like a boob.
Does this apply to folks with personal blogs like Fred Wilson and Mark Suster or just big corporate blogs like TechCrunch and GigaOm?
Hey copyright hoarders. We had a deal. The society granted you a limited time monopoly in exchange for the works going into the public domain after this time. You broke this deal by hands of corrupt politicians. I do not feel obliged to keep my end of this deal anymore.
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To be more precise, they're failing to deliver the whole package, the hardware ecosystem that goes beyond the CPU. I.e. their chipsets are both discrete and at least initially very hungry (Intel normally uses old fab lines with older processes for chip sets).

They aren't even trying to do the SoC thing, for marketing reasons the Atoms won't do ECC (ARM can) and for whatever reason they won't accept more than 4 GB of memory, which is the one place they have a fantastic lead over ARM (besides being Intel compatible :-), which has just decided to follow Intel's history in doing a PAE diversion before maybe someday doing a real 64 bit version.
PTSD. Sorry.

That training is about taking people out of civil society and giving them the ability to engage in behaviors that would give others (quite rightly) pause. This is not a place to look to generate well-rounded citizens that do not see violence as a way to manipulate others.
Note that the next installment will presumably be business-focused. Two unbalanced views may more-or-less balance out.
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That's the official rec. from Google, but it doesn't seem to be the case as it's been changed to allow all. What was it when this was posted?
It's in our nature. We'll spend an hour writing a script that would save us maybe 5 minutes of work, but for us that's a net gain because the work is instantly finished the next (theoretical) time the problem comes up. We get it beaten into us as developers to never repeat ourselves, so if we see it happening in other things we instinctively try to abstract it out into something easily repeatable.

While on paper it might not be worth it a lot of the time, I find it starts to pay off emotionally when I'm deep in the zone hacking on a project. You know the feeling, when you have to interrupt your marathon coding session to quickly take care of something maintenance-wise. I remember a command that came up when I was "wasting" a weekend looking up bash tricks, and then hop right back into what I was doing. Otherwise I would have had to come to a complete stop, spend a good portion of time solving my issue, and then likely the rest of the day is shot because my concentration was broken and I'd rather just triage e-mails instead.

In short, my mental attitude has improved the more I learn tiny productivity tips, because of how they compound into one another to keep me doing what I do best: crank out quality code.
Because that's what people are willing to pay for it.

In this case though, the Kindle version is fairly expensive compared to most other Kindle books. Between the high cost and the fact that on the Kindle itself, you won't get it in color, and would have a small screen size, I think I'll pass, or get the paper edition. Sure, there's Kindle for PC or the web thing, but... the paper edition is likely going to be laid out in a 'beautiful' way.
i agree with you, especially on not including MapKit
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I was looking for this and am not disappointed. I defy JGC to graph that more clearly.

Meanwhile, while I agree pie charts are poor for comparisons of area of slices, or of varying sized pies, but believe the average person understands the slices well as percentages of a whole. As percentages of a whole they are glancable.

Further, n the "sausage" charts, the for and against are NOT readily comparable, as they do not start from opposite ends. The "Other" should have been graphed in the middle, allowing the balance of the two ends to be understood and comparison of both positions against the other two bars to be understood.

Charting well is hard.
This has been studied, I don't have the stats but it may have been in the context of Gears: users don't install new plugins lightly. Distribution deals could be bought and paid for, but that is a long road (see ChromeFrame).

Also, NPAPI is not expressive enough to enable a new programming language VM to be integrated on par with JS. Big deal, Google can write browser/OS-specific code? They tried with Gears. It's hard, and versionitis/unfrozen APIs bite hard.

Take these two points together and the NPAPI route is not going to get Dart widespread adoption outside of Chrome, any time soon. So would web developers use it if they had to compile to JS for too many visitors?

I doubt it. CoffeeScript is a transpiler and it may actually speed up code compared to writing in JS. It is popular, with slick RoR integration, but it's not taking over the world from JS.

Dart's new semantics (at least new number types, per the memo) will result in slower compiled-to-JS code, although the win may be programmer productivity. It depends on how much slower, but the first barrier with compiling is getting devs to put up with the toolchain pain.
i had never heard of AFNetworking until today. definitely going to try it out.
I used to love the Singleton (anti-)pattern. It's a huge improvement from using your AppDelegate as a global storage area, but it still encourages sloppy code. I find it the code much cleaner when you pass in the objects a class needs instead of calling up the singleton from all over the place.

There are some legitimate uses for singletons, but if you need a singleton macro, you're probably over using it.
Are there any real empirical estimates for retention rate? No offense, but the 10% itself seems high.
What most of these negative articles are neglecting to mention is 2 things:

1) Businesses that exist solely because of daily deal sites

2) Businesses that have successfully leveraged daily deal sites but won't share their stories

#1 is a lot more common than you realize. I know a photographer who makes 6 figures teaching workshops that would have been impossible to market without daily deals. He essentially created a business based on his deals. There's an old woman in SF's Chinatown who gives "ghost tours" of the neighborhood by selling $25 Groupons. Before the daily deal sites came along, she was a waitress...now she pulls $70-$80k a year setting her own schedule and doing something she loves. Again, impossible to market such a thing without Groupons. I recently attended a class on coffee/tea appreciation. Hugely successful for the owner, and lots of fun for attendees. He told me this was only possible because of daily deals...he had no notion of "regular customers" or "full price" customers before the deal sites came along. His business simply didn't exist.

#2 Businesses who successfully leverage the deals model aren't going to go blog about it or tell you exactly how to replicate their success. They're afraid that if competitors find out their little secret, they'll lose their advantage, formula, etc. The truth is there are lots more businesses who've been successful with this model than there are "victims". You just don't read about them because successfully leveraging daily deals is almost a trade secret of our time.
I've been thinking about doing this for a while - I basically have one that I use for my personal projects, but I could clean it up and document it and use make it a public boilerplate.

What features would you guys want?
Here's what I'd include:

* Robust JSON parsing examples feeding to a..
* Speedy list view
* Grid and List Menu Views
* DataTask examples
* Splash screen
* Palette values, Gradients in XML
* GeoLocation Snippets
* Nice defaults for text appearance
* Background service example
* Internet permissions

Anything you guys would want?
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Am I the only one that thinks of the Microsoft collaboration software when they hear "Groove"? That just sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Plus, I didn't see the connection between a conch shell and "groove". I actually couldn't tell it was a shell with the colored lines wrapping it - I couldn't tell what it was.
Well if you aren't failing you're not trying. I think we as Americans, I can't speak to any sort of European or other experience, have grown up with this attitude that makes us very afraid of putting ourselves into situations where we could potentially fail. For instance, a few months back when I began working on my startup when I would tell people about it one of the biggest responses I would get is "I wish I had the guts to try and do something like this" or "Aren't you afraid".

One of the best quotes I've ever heard about failure comes from the Teddy Roosevelt "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
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The issue is that it's being shared from the same account. I know about Shared Folders and use them extensively.

In a nutshell, here's what I want:
- Install Dropbox
- configure account #1 : mypersonalemail@example.com
- configure account #2 : myworkemail@example.com

I don't want anyone at work seeing my personal email because it is, well, personal. No-one at work should need to know about my personal stuff unless it really is personal. Dropbox doesn't seem to understand the value of this.

I want to keep my work life and my personal life separate and many new services don't seem to understand or value this.
If the secret to success is failure, NYTimes should be the #1 newspaper on the planet.
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i 've thought the reason Microsoft has to announce earlier than apple is because the hardware partners need the extra lead time. Apple has the luxury of working software and hardware in parallel, Microsoft and to some extent android gets shown to select partners on a very long lead time, and then gets released to everybody about 10 months to a year early.
Do I need to create a new world to get things like strongholds, towns, and mine shafts? Or does it randomly generate on my existing worlds after I updated the game?
Maybe it's just because I read this before I looked at it, but I agree.
(Note that rushrez is in a related market, selling Facebook/Google/Yahoo/smartphone ads for restaurants etc when the businesses need more customers.)
Surviving getting shot and stood on by an elephant? Quite impressive.
I'm not the author, but I'll give you an answer that may justify this crazy pricing scheme.

Amazon takes a 70% commission on Kindle books priced above $9.99 or sold outside of selected countries (e.g., USA, UK, etc). They "only" take 35% for books sold in such countries AND priced below $9.99.

You may think that $22.79 is a magical number they pulled out of their asses. But multiply $22.79 * 30% and you get $6.84.

If they priced it $9.99, they'd get $9.99 * 65% which is $6.49. So less royalties for the publisher.

Now... at $9.99 the book would certainly sell more copies. However, if you consider all the copies sold outside of the selected territories will have 35% royalty regardless of how low the price is, and the fact that a $9.99 ebook cannibalize your $25-35 physical book sales, the option of pricing your Kindle $20+ no longer sounds crazy.

Some publishers outright opt out of this race (e.g., Pragmatic Programmers).

I love Amazon, but they are literally gouging authors and publishers. They should have a flat 30% rate, Apple-style, and let the market decide at what price they'll buy books. Alternatively, keep the flat rate and place a cap on the price of the e-books sold through the Kindle platform (e.g., $10 for fiction, $30 for non-fiction).
So here is my solution after giving it a little thought:

Instead of a base template project, we need a modular system for adding dependent packages on a case by case basis similar to python eggs and ruby gems. Just a simple set of command line tools.

Then you could build a central repository of formula scripts for adding frameworks to your project (maybe something simple like how homebrew just uses really simple ruby scripts and built in git awesomeness to keep it up to date and power a good portion of itself and allow others to submit forumlas via pull requests).

The formulas could pull down code from these various project's hosts on an as needed basis and they could be downloaded right into a standard "/vendor/" folder in your project directory when installed. A file would created with install info and time it was pulled so you could easily update the project later with another command.

Then maybe update (or maybe not) update your project file to reference it, add target dependencies, add header search paths or copy file operations for frameworks, etc. (This could be done by generating a base xcconfig file that links in xcconfig files provided by each forumla install into the project).

All these packages could be added to this system and allow the user to search and find great libraries, install them, keep them up to date, and whatever.

(If no body else does this, I may end up do it actually)
Why return the primary key when performing a secondary index query instead of the whole record? This seems like it would add an extra round-trip. Would it be possible add a flag to return the whole record?
I wish instead of following Apple's "plate of glass" interface someone had went with the "keyboard first" approach. It sounds like you are headed in that direction. I really thought Blackberry would be the one to do it, but they went with the crowd. I guess I was hoping for a true successor to the Psion Series 3 & 5 lines.
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Ah, now I see what you mean... I circumvented this by using my work email to have invitations sent to, but accepting them from my personal account. I'm not sure if the people in the share can see my email address, though.
The primary "technique" that special forces training uses is just simple exhaustion. It's humbling how much being exhausted can make you re-asses your priorities - and even if you don't quit, you know that you wanted to. Being that exhausted and knowing that rest is nowhere near in your future can be psychologically devastating. The things you listed are probably used, but they're not the primary training method.

I have never been in the military, but I've training Brazilian jiu-jitsu and some mixed martial arts for many years now. Practices can be tough.
> even if Microsoft does manage to ship by fall 2012, the calendar still gives the Apple and Android development projects a huge lead time to out-innovate Windows 8

Odd they left Linux out. By the time Win8 hits the shelves, Ubuntu will have iterated three times - its Unity desktop will be on its fourth release by the time we reach Quaint Quetzal or Quirky Quail, Gnome will be on version 3.6, Fedora 18 will be the favorite of Red Hat lovers and even Debian may be able to iterate over a couple Toy Story characters. At the same time, FreeBSD 10 will be well on its way.
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I would guess that it's a whole lot of reasons including the reasons you stated. I would also add a couple (and there's probably more):

Round is structurally strong (which, when it comes to aerospace engineering, is really just the opposite side of the "light weight" coin).

Symmetry of shape and mass makes the stability and control equations a hell of a lot simpler to deal with, and a round shape makes it easier to be (nearly) symmetrical in more ways than with other shapes..
I couldn't tell what is it without inspecting it closely. No point of focus. Too many colors. Fine details in close proximity. etc. etc.
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Ask HN: What's the point with so many stupid people in the world?
Have you ever tried to sit and write code in a bar? It's nice. It's a hell of a lot more conducive to creativity than working in an office cubicle. You got your drink, you got your smoke. You sit at a table with wifi and a plug and you're invincible until about six drinks in. You look out over the patio at the mountains and you think...this is what life's all about.

Then at about 6pm the soccer game starts. Suddenly, the owner of the bar comes out and unplugs your laptop, turns on the TV, and cranks the volume up to 7000000. Even though there's no one there. You say, "Man, that's too loud." And he says, "when they show up, that's what they're gonna want."

Sure enough, about 3 minutes before the game starts, the patio goes from empty to packed. People are trying to move your table, your laptop bag. Then suddenly they're all staring, slackjawed, at this stupid TV that's blasting the same shitty commercials it was showing yesterday, last week, last month.

HN readers, I'm sitting in that bar right now, trying to write a piece of code that crosses a Quaternion with a euler matrix. Why? I'm an alcoholic. My girlfriend has a massive infection, and I'm stuck in a tourist town until we can travel again. Why? Because I smoke. Because I won't work in an office. Because I hate doing anything on anybody's schedule other than mine.

Every night for a week, my nice quiet place has been invaded by British YOBs that just scream and howl at the soccer game on TV as if it means SHIT. They're all here on vacation, and their flight cost about 30 pounds. And you know what? I finally understand what it means that there are too many people on Earth and nothing to do with them. If I had to watch any two of these people having sex with each other, it would probably fuck me up for the rest of my life. What do you do? You can't kill them.. you can't make them work more than 50 weeks a year... my GOD man... could anything be a bigger waste of AIR???
That's how we reward the early adopters.
Another reason is to assure their corporate clients they don't have to move to Apple or Linux just now because their next OS will be well ahead of their competition. And that with everyone betting on the demise of the desktop, storage-heavy PC.

Windows Server 8 will face competition from RHEL 7, Ubuntu Server 11.10 (or 12.04) and FreeBSD and OpenSolaris-based OSs (ZFS is great).

It will be ugly.
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Thanks for the reply. I agree that there are indeed cases where daily deals do make sense. We actually highlight zero fixed cost businesses as being an excellent candidate for daily deals, which is almost exactly the walking tour you highlight.

We don't mean to infer deals do not work, but rather opportunity costs are very important to consider.
yeah, I didn't go out of my way to find the cheapest price there. I just searched for "authenticode certificate" and that was the first result.
With every other world generation update, it generated the new stuff with newly made chunks. So if you have explored a huge section of the world, it won't change. But go beyond, and you'll get the new stuff.

So go for a walk :)
Exactly! I can't agree more on that. I can get a job which will give me trise as much as I make now with my startup+freelance jobs. But that wouldnt give me satisfaction. I suppose even seeing how people react on what you're up to on scale that Google operates has to be cool.
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Overall a better analysis than much of what we've seen previously. However the author still makes the mistake of stilting the data in his favor. For example, I've rarely seen a restaurant offer greater than 50% savings. Further, not only does the 40% "regular" rate sound high, it ignores that the Groupon might have produced an extra or quicker visit. The turnaway rate is probably closer to zero given that at-capacity restaurants are unlikely to run these deals. While the redemption rate is not ultimately factored in, it should be pointed out that Groupon has cleverly finessed the issue by making "expired" Groupons worth their paid value.

Finally, we should begin to take into account that deal economics are beginning to change in the merchant's favor. Savings rates are going down (ie 40% savings) and merchants no longer need to pay Groupon 50% of the difference.
We have not seen any good numbers, so we stuck with the assumption nytimes uses. 10% does seem generous.
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Genius - book tours over meals? I'm there.