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This article misses a huge point, it assumes <10% affiliate fees are the end game for these startups. If one of these startups manages to get significant market share, what stopping them from building a supply chain down the line (or acquiring someone who has a good one) and using that to tripple profit margins.

It sounds to me that these startups are thinking "lets not waste a lot of money investing in a supply chain (ala webvan)". The quality of your supply chain might help you drive down costs, but it's going to do little to increase your market share.

The marketing and shop-front are the biggest factors that are going to impact market share, so it makes much more sense to focus the investment in those areas and outsource everything else until you're ready to expand. VC's aren't stupid, they're looking at the bigger picture.
That "place" is called the query optimizer, there's one in every RDBMS. We've done what you call "sharding" (partitioning) that way since the 1990s.
Looks great! The population of Saint Helena is NaN and also there is something wrong with the arrows..

BTW changing #hashcode based on the country looking at would be great too.
Very nice. I was wondering how difficult it would be to capture a particular state of the map (say UK departures) as a PNG for embedding or generating a PDF. Could you do that on the server side?
That's good, actually, that's something I've thought of.

Whoever gets it should pass it on or donate something else to the community. That would indicate a good and open spirit. :)
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Kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation.
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Oh give me a break. 21 states have laws against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and that's what I'm talking about. You can't, under the law in those places, discriminate against someone just because he or she is holding hands, kissing, or even having sex with someone else of the same sex. Your distinction is not relevant, and outside the meaning of the legal definition.

The case you bring up - services rendered - is only a part of what it means to discriminate. The Salvation Army says a man who is married to another man cannot be a member of the SA and therefore cannot be employed by the organization. That is discrimination in the workplace, and only legal because religious are except from those laws.

Pointing out that the SA will provide soup and compassion to all people, homosexual or otherwise, is irrelevant.
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Not sure why that got a downvote, it's not a dig at sqlite.
I appreciate your comments - thank you. I don't care about the karma for the sake of the karma. I care about the karma insofar as it reflects the sentiments of the community. I used to cross-reference duplicates of the same story because I thought it added value for people to see the different points of view from the different sources, and it helped avoid getting a split discussion with the same points made over and over and over again.

It became clear from the down votes that the community as a whole didn't want that, so I stopped. On the rare occasions I think it's worthwhile to put such a cross-reference I'm always a bit sensitive to the reaction. I've always tried to be a useful member of the community and not simply say "screw 'em."

My attitude is changing.

I'll say no more. It was meta-discussion like this that got me a deal of hate last time. If you want to say more, email me.
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The site is currently javascript only, the server is only serving static files, and the svg tags are generated in the browser using Raphael.js.

That said, I have already been pondering about this for a previous projects: http://populationpyramid.net and there are solutions : either export the svg tags through an ajax query to a server that would then render it as PNG, or create a script that would create the svg files directly from the data. I did not take time to implement this, though (I have to sleep sometimes...)
Just to be clear, if you read elsewhere in this thread it should be obvious that I didn't write it.
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The images are set to

width="1" height="1"

So they are not showing up.

Also I don't see a point to that project. I can just go to amazon and sort the business books by user reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A283155%...
I must agree with most people complaining here, it should work on ALL modern browsers (including IE9).

The implementation is not even great either, see this screenr I made: http://screenr.com/azAs
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Nice and interesting, well done! I also like the offline caching feature.

The only tiny imperfection I see it's in the lines connecting two countries, I'd like to see an arrow so I know if I'm looking at arrivals or departures.

Is there a way to filter the GMO database to see only the current migration flow (say, last 5 years)?
The current Ruby ActiveRecord is based on Arel, which is a relational algebra. Everything in Arel is necessarily set-oriented and the results of expressions in the ActiveRecord ORM language are the exact objects that went into the set, as long as they are truly set operations.

Same thing with aggregate functions and grouping.

Why do you expect the resulting object of an aggregate over source objects to have the same kinds of methods? That makes no sense at all. What should the 'name' of a record return when you've aggregated over the salary of many employees? That makes no sense in the original relational algebra, whether expressed in SQL or ORM, either. Aggregating is not a set operation and there part of the false dichotomy comes in: SQL isn't quite as pure and easy to understand as ORM opponents would have you believe.
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It makes me recoil in horror.
Have the same issues: I've need much more reasons and a very good call-to-action why I should sign up. Don't get me wrong but giving my Google credentials is a highly sensitive issue: this is not about giving you access to my Gmail contact list (I wouldn't care) -- it's about giving you access to comprehensive data of my company (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, AdSense, AdWords ... to mention a few ones)
I'm really grateful that you posted this.
I have tried to add arrows at some point, but it cluttered the visualization too much (especially for countries where migrations are quite local : limited to border-sharing countries).

That said, there may be a solution I did not think about.
Maybe you could try some sort of side project? If it's exciting enough it might motivate other areas of your life.
I would like to suggest a profile switch that reads 'hands off my search terms'.

Of course you'd need to be logged in for that but it would go a long way towards getting rid of the following pattern:

- search for something

- scan the responses, getting confused

- realization that google may have messed with the search terms

- scroll back to the top, confirmation

- re-enter query in a way that google will not mess with it

+google +please +stop +this
There's really no need for an updated versions since there isn't really anything to update.
> Turns out they are mostly just bumping the GPU which is useless to anyone with a discrete graphics card

I've kept my MacBook Pro locked to the integrated graphics card ever since I bought it, and never really missed the discrete graphics. I've maybe turned it on once or twice to try out WebGL benchmarks. OTOH I definitely would miss the extra 10% battery life.
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But what ORMs encourage you to do is to load a bunch of
objects and then use procedural code to do the real thing.

The exact same thing happens when you directly express the query in SQL. You load a bunch of objects and post-process them, to do what SQL can't do. Unless you count the various languages you can use in stored procedures in RDBMS's, but those aren't set-oriented SQL either.
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To resolve the question, here is a poll:
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Same here. It works fine without a www
But with a www prefixed, it reports ' Heroku | no such app '

Is it just me?
nice ! is there a way for visitors to vote on their favorite books & you order books based on that ?

maybe even add a few if you missed out something ??
It isn't just FB's problem, and it is not becoming a new Yahoo (it is becoming a new MySpace). ^_^

The vision should be a little bit broader (and scarier to those invested in it and its clones) - OK, every teenager in the world already has a FB page and uploaded some photos of herself and exchanged some stupid messages with so-called friend. Wow-impulse has faded away. Now what? ^_^

Don't even try to say 'the next facebook' - it will be 'just another social site', af FB was for MySpace or Livejournal's addicts. ^_^

What it could be? Ok, something like a cam on your clothes to broadcast 24/7 via some G5 GSM directly to some datacity which sends it back to your personal 3D movie hall (forget Youtube with a that crappy flash player)?

No, I don't think so. The time of the mass-exhibitionism in the net is, it seems, over. ^_^
For me it's off by more than 1 kilometre.
Every time you see someone announcing a CRUD app written over the weekend you pretty much know that there is hardly any business logic involved.

The example you give is a great one, it only gets more interesting when it is not just money on the line but lives. Think avionics software and the like.

That stuff ranks amongst the most expensive software produced per line of code because of all the audits and certifications that try to ensure that there won't be hidden bugs that somehow make it into production.
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This is really informative, and very well done to boot. Great work!

The colour scheme struck me as a little odd, though. It goes from darker (more migration) to lighter (less migration) but then abruptly to dark grey (no migration), making it harder to interpret at first glance. It would be nice if it were somewhat monotonic: bright colour = more migration, darker/duller colour = less migration, dark grey = no migration.
Agreed Complexity is a living day truth. I do agree that progess in complexity has to be limited for safety. i.e: there must be some limits(ex:safety factor in civil/mech engineering design, testcases in s/w engg.??) that have to be held for a long enough time. Ofcoures NNT writes for the masses, so opts for limits that majority of people can understand. And that usually is a lot more orthodox.
But what about the users and the creators of the web? What if they would feel that these standards would be necessary? Whenever one of the other, large companies takes this stance on a standard - Apple, Microsoft, whathaveyou - people begin complaining, but for some reason, this time, as well as several other times when it has involved Mozilla and their frowning upon certain standards (MPEG-4 AVC f.e.) it's all thumbs up and smiles. What's your take on this?
You could over impose three dotted lines with a different color/dot-spacing to each connecting line, then set a timeout and alternate their visibility accordingly, so you can get a "dots flowing inside the line" effect. Not sure if this can work with canvas though.
One of the reasons why stuff is so much more expensive in Europe than US. The prices are higher, so cash margins per sale still high even if percentage margins might be lower.

Now Europe is obviously a place where there is a lot of scope for these businesses.
Each time the regex that i'm using to strip console.log|error|etc calls from my source breaks a build, I try and find out how people do this 'properly'. I have yet to find anything other than a regex out there, so this time instead of patching my inevitably flawed expression I wrote something based on a JavaScript lexer (https://bitbucket.org/ned/jslex). It's no great work of computer science but I think some people will find it useful so I thought i'd make it my first open source project.
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every variation (that I like) of the .com domain for my business is taken. As is .net - both just redirect to landing pages. However, the .io domain is available and although my business has nothing to do with input/output, the .io domain sounds good.

Can anyone think of a reason to avoid .io?
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The app phenomenon on Facebook is all the more puzzling since it adds so little financially. This is something Gree and Mobage did quite well, eventually overshadowing Mixi because of all the revenue from in-house games, virtual goods and a cut of all platform revenue.
Agreed.
I am a very frequent user.
Yet most of my posts are shared solely with my friends.

In fact, almost everyone in my circles is doing the same thing.
So, I don't think calling it a flop does any justice.
It's bullshit like this which led us into the financial crisis.
I also found it odd how every cultural reference pointed (usually unhelpfully) to the corresponding wikipedia article. Didn't hurt the content of the post, it was just kinda.. odd.
did you know that employees yodel at the end of their company meetings

Sure hope that is voluntary or they have the Walmart management of the web. (google "walmart cheer")
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", or at least split the product line in 2: one that continues to double up the performance every year, while maintaining the same TDP, like they do now, and one where they maintain the performance, but cut the power consumption in half every year."

That is more of a tactic than a strategy. After 3-odd years, there would be a 10 times performance difference between the 'fast' and the 'cool' lines. Chances are there is room between them.

Also, I think is more economical to produce old designs at new technologies for the 'cool' line than to design new 'cool' chips from scratch. That would likely get you 90% of the goal for 10% of the costs.

That 90% probably is sufficient, too, as CPU power usage typically is only a fraction of system power usage. I think that applies even to most embedded stuff for which an ARM is appropriate (ignoring on-chip audio and video decoding hardware)
Must be your browser doing some autocorrection then.

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Aliases:

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Fascinating how boring data may be presented interesting and fresh by simple vizualisation. This remings me of the TED talk given by Hans Rosling about global statistics of population, mortality, internet access etc. Whoever made this map should contact mr. Hans, I smell collaboration there.
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Recognizable fashionable brands such as John Lewis do fine on their own and are not going to give up a large chunk of their margin to a middleman. The biggest challenge for the new business model is try to discover and push less known brands or brands with little/no online presence with high quality products.
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The only problem about that on GitHub is that you can't "unwatch" all the notifications while still watching the project. I'm watching 128 repositories and my news feed is just noise to me now. :-/
Really Responsive too and it all works in Opera or seemed to anyway, so many developers forget about Opera because it doesn't have the same amount of marketing as the others. But anyway Sweet Build!
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Hey Mike, thanks for the offer. I'd like your feedback on the design of the landing page of my site: http://www.myzeek.com/

- What do you think of the design? (I'm not a designer) Does it looks cool/boring?
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This is awesome really enjoyed it, spent about 20 mins checking out how people and moving around the world.

I would include a zoom function, some small countries are hard to find.
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Not all reasons for rejecting a standard are equal.
It's possible, but not perfect.

http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/
>Another turning point in the last 10 years is that basically any PC made since 2000 will probably be sufficient for what most normal users want. We get increasingly powerful CPUs that most people just don't need.

This is utterly ridiculous. My 2009 ASUS laptop struggles with Starcraft 2. I'm NOT happy with that. And it's not like I'm some extreme outlier playing FPS action games, either. I just want a to play a really popular, really mainstream game. The people who don't even want more power than a year 2000 PC are the old, the slow adopters and the boring.
Same here. I do use it to follow some people, also.
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It's not about "punishing", it's about incentive to get them to take their customer's privacy seriously.

If they would actually protect their customer's data well, they wouldn't get sued for security breaches in the first place.

While 100% security is impossible, they only need to secure their data so they can't get sued for neglecting to secure it enough.
If I want to do something that SQL can't do I don't use SQL. Using SQL is not an end in itself.

My rule of thumb is pretty simple. I use whatever takes fewer and/or simpler lines of code unless it's a lot slower.

The raging scalability debate is a different matter. I'm sure if you're Google there are good reasons to write more lines of code in order to scale better. I'm not Google so I can prioritize productivity over scalability.
> And if you need to prepend a + to query terms, that means for the given query terms, the missing word is rarely occurring and the overall ranking is low

Isn't that the point of searching: find a specific thing in a whole bag of other things? I don't use Google to find the Yahoo homepage (I know many people actually do; should we help them???)

If you were right, Altavista would have prevailed and Google would not have emerged; the way Altavista worked was, they linked the words in a query with the "OR" operator, so that any query produced at least some results, however irrelevant.

If you were right, Google would have done this from the start; why are they doing it now?

(Could it be because focus groups are taking over?)

Besides, what I'm complaining about is different from automatic spell correction; when you mistype a query Google automatically searches for (what it thinks are) the correctly spelled words, but it tells you about it and let you search for your original query with just one click.

Having "add" match "append" is done silently, without any visible option to disable it.

And if you have many words that you need to prefix with + it gets crazy; in theory there's the "allintext:" parameter, but if you use it often you get flagged as a bot and can't search at all.

I think I'd pay to have access to a "Google Pro" service where all these tricks would be disabled; no Instant, no fuzzy search, no nothing. Like 2001 Google.
Previous submition:
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How about drawing the arrowhead on the middle of the line? (And not drawing it on short lines. The arrowheads on the long lines will reveal whether 'departures' or 'arrivals' are depicted)
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You really only need a good small flat screw driver, piece of wire and pliers. It also has an added benefit of not unbeknownly breaking numerous laws or other local regulations.
It would be interesting to see someone lay out the complete endgame for Yahoo.
> I would like to suggest a profile switch that reads 'hands off my search terms'. Of course you'd need to be logged in

Oh yes please. A checkbox would be fine, too (you can disable Instant without logging in, why not this?)
People don't thumbs up and smile at all. Have you not seen all the complaints on Reddit and Slashdot about Firefox lagging behind on ACID3 compliance?
Absolutely. I think it's sad that we need to state this so firmly, it should be automatic.
Couldn't agree more. So many people buy things they don't need and then wonder where all their money went.
True. I should have worded it differently, stating that it is possible for them to turn the situation around.
None of my friends really are active on the network, so I find myself not using it.
Not only on ACID3 - any discussion about HTML5 video has plenty of criticism to Mozilla.
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Very impressive, nicely done! Spent a couple of minutes exploring migrant streams.

Minor nitpick: When I click on 'Macedonia' the origin point appears in Sweden. When I click on 'Serbia' it appears in Canada.
I'm not sure if .io has a disparate effect on users clicking on natural links. There few .io sites in the world (approx 100K according to http://goo.gl/hXm4i) so there is no clear line yet.

If it fits your project, is easy to remember for your customer segment, go for it.
I'm not exactly sure I understand what you're saying, but I wasn't commenting on his opinion of Google Instant. I was commenting about something else he said.
I signed and I am loving it so far.
I totally agree, that is the main missing feature in my opinion and the reason why I added a select box on top.

At first I wanted to use polymaps, which supports zoom and pan, but I found it difficult to draw on top of it (for the "arrows") and it lacked ie support. So I went for Raphael.js, but found it to cumbersome to implement zoom and pan.
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Yup. Same reason I don't do business with Nokia or Siemens (developing DPI Internet Filter technology for oppressive regimes in the Middle-East, which is slightly worse than this, IMO).
It's unfortunate to see what our police force has become.
Oops, I will fix that.
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You sound like you need break. Maybe you could take a couple of weeks off?
Reliability doesn't matter. What matters is who's using what. If all my friends are on AIM, then I'll be on AIM. But they're not, everyone's on Facebook, and uses txt/whatsapp/bbm when they're away from their computer. What I am saying is that I would like to see Facebook become the universal communication method between my friends and me.
I doubt a book this brilliant needs to be improved much.
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