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But I'm not the average person and my time is better spent visiting things of value, to me, in a foreign city. It doesn't make me any better of a person to visit Navy Pier, Pier 39, Pier One, Anthony's Pier Four or Piers Morgan just because a large dataset of anonymous people checked in there. And I don't need an app to tell me how great those places are. They hand these guides out at airports, hotels, free newspapers, paid newspapers and the internet.

tl;dr: Gowalla wishes they got some of that Where money. I just searched for "marijuana" in Amsterdam and it returned two results. One was the Hemp Museum. You're better off asking a surly local or a fellow tourist.
Honest question: If Recurly/Spreedly/Chargify/CheddarGetter is satisfactory for my recurring billing, why would I need Samarai? I'd likely just bring a merchant that has its own gateway to one of those services.

I'm currently looking at places like BrainTree which do it all (merchant, gateway, recurring) as they look far more enticing than gluing together a bunch of companies.

I suppose I'm new at this, but it's all very confusing. Why should I choose you + some merchant + some recurring billing service over BrainTree?
Yes, judges and juries are also flawed humans. But by that logic, executing a justice system at all shows arrogance. If you have convictions, try as you might, you will have some false convictions.

Imagine you have convicted someone of multiple cold-blooded murders and believe they would murder again. You realize that it's possible the conviction was in error, but you've done your best to investigate, present and argue the evidence, and the jury was unanimous.

What now? Imagine you keep this person in jail for 70 years until their death. Was that kinder than executing them? Is it worse to die, or to live every day in captivity for 70 years? Yes, you retained the ability to reverse the conviction while they were alive, but that ability has an expiration date. Once they're dead, you have given them a life of suffering instead of death. Even if you reverse the conviction during their life, you may have deprived them of decades of free life. You can't give that back.

This issue is tricky. I can respect opinions on both sides. And I don't think it helps to say "my opponents in this debate are arrogant."
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New features, atleast for us. The first set of features were easy to implement (to create the minimum viable product), but then things got more and more complicated. The old code base was slowly deteriorating due to lack of future proofing (ha! as if there is such a thing in programming), and we needed to rewrite large chunks of code. This was slowly consuming everyones time, and we were slowing down. Hiring more engineers gave us more man hours to continue to make the product better, while keeping the codebase tidy and maintainable.
I pay for Spotify, and I'm disappointed in the selection and lack of "radio" mode. No independent music (AFAIK) is on there, so often older CDs of bands are not to be found. I find I have to use turntable or pandora when I want to explore new music, but when I was a mog.com customer, they had a feature for that already.
one of the big things that helped propel paypal and square is the blended rate. Not finding a way to include amex in your single rate is a mistake.
I had to look up "Dear Sophie", and it was a great video. However, the underlying tech is just email with attachments - nothing new. Facebook's timeline seems to be quite a bit more, with a visual aspect and ability to comment, share, etc. It's probably been done before but far from a ripoff of email...
That's a great point - and I've been using that feature - and didn't realize it until you mentioned it.
Why can good programmers claim to be both good at writing and design whereas writers, under that taxonomy, are only good at writing? Isn't good writing inherently a type of good design, in terms of presenting an "interface" to the reader and adroitly arranging the elements?
Maybe Autonomy could hire Leo?
I chose ex girlfriends as an example, it could be anything in your past that was "important" but you would rather not have highlighted (e.g. jail time, gang affiliations, being a Backstreet Boys superfan).

They give you control to add / remove things from the timeline so it probably won't be an issue, I'm just curious how they handle those topics.
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This seems like an all up bad move. I don't think I've seen a string of worse CEO positions than HP. The Microsoft board is probably looking around and saying, "We could be doing a worse job".

I wonder if they could get Bob Muglia onboard. That would actually be a good fit for this role.
Where's the line?

Rating how good your past girlfriends were in bed?
Describing how you had the best valentines day with a previous girlfriend, and not with your current wife?

People like to believe they're special. Talking too much about ex-gf/bf's is a recipe for disaster. They can't handle the truth!

Do you tell your wife her ass looks big as well? ;)
From our perspective - we really really want to be international.

We would LOVE to deal with non-US companies and people and hope to do so soon, but for our particular business it's a bit hard right now. Creating relationships with credit card processors we trust (and that you should trust) is really hard.

Another part of it is honestly just that the US market is so big and we have room to grow here, and it's not as easy as it seems - For example, we have phone and chat support during normal US business hours. I don't know what we'll do when we have European or Asian customers. Other issues include taxes, currency and currency risk, taking payments, etc. There's a lot to think about there. We really want to do it, but to do it right requires a lot of thought, and we just haven't done it yet.
This in short is a great piece of design. Especially coming out of facebook this is amazing (well they now have one of the most talented designers so not that surprising).

However, as a business this is killer and shrewd. Everyone would want to save a log of their life. More app permissions to add to timeline > more auto posts in ticker > more connection for Facebook.

Well played!

Disclosure: I am working on something similar as a place for all the memories of your life (http://momment.com) so the above text comes in view of having actually thought about this problem for months now.
Just a thought why would you remove something that works for something that hasn't yet been proven?
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People think she's unqualified to run HP precisely because of her track record. During her tenure at eBay she made many terrible decisions that did long lasting damage and ultimately weakened the company. Furthermore, she suffocated any innovation within the company. HP was once a true engineer's company, it had the reputation of being one of the best places to work as an engineer, hands down. The board of HP needs to hire someone that can rekindle that spirit, and Meg Whitman inspires nothing but loathing in a huge swath of the population. Her gender has nothing to do with it.
If indeed some systems come locked down(secure boot) without an option to disable, couldn't Microsoft just make something like Apple's Bootcamp to boot alternative operating systems?
It looks tumblr-inspired. I expect tumblr to get back at them with a similar timeline.
"Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it."

I guess that means that Silicon Valley is the new Hollywood and the founders are the new movie stars. Sign of the times indeed.
You're displaying HTML parts inline. This is both dangerous and unreliable. A much neater solution would be to take the HTML and convert it to a PDF using wkhtmltopdf:

https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

Then displaying the PDF to the end user. You can then generate a PNG or something from the PDF using ImageMagick, although the PDF retains the anchor tags and the PNG wouldn't...

The way you're doing it at the moment, there are loads of ways of somebody malicious abusing the site.
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A pointer is a particular kind of reference (a value type that enables indirection), and C++ references are another (not very different) kind. A reference in C++ amounts to an immutable pointer.

Also, I didn't swap analogies: I traded analogy for metaphor. (A reference in a computer program is a conceptual reference in the real world.)
You're missing the key point of arbitrage: its risk-free.

Say you borrow $100k at 0% for 1 year. You then buy (at $1734/oz) ~57oz of gold. Next year, you plan to sell it and pay off your $100k.

But you've taken a risk. If gold is only $1500/oz next year, you're going to lose ~$13k. Of course, if its $2000/oz, you're going to make a nice profit. You're speculating on the gold market. You could build a similar position with gold futures, for example.

Arbitrage would be if you could take that $100k, and immediate buy gold in USD, sell it in EUR, and then buy USD with those EUR and wind up with >$100k. Then you're not taking any risk, because you can set up all those transactions practically at the same time (and the markets are liquid enough you know the prices you'll be able to buy/sell at).
C programs are reliable because either they're small, or, in the case of the few large reliable ones like the Linux kernel, they have undergone a tremendous number of eyeball-hours of review.
Many others have said this, but another way to make sure you don't fail at launch is to market before you write a single line of code. Start by building an email list. Plus, then you'll know where to find that first customer/co-founder as discussed in the post.
Or perhaps these people just repeat "this is tricky" because that's what they were told. These people probably also say that Java is slow and Perl is a write-only language. It's easier than having a real opinion.
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It's lifepath.me with features! Not necessarily an improvement.
1930 was not the first time murder and killing were made distinct, by a long shot. One ancient example is Mosaic law, which forbids murder, yet commands capital punishment for certain crimes (including murder). Actually, I'd bet that your point of view is a very modern one. Can you cite an ancient source for it?

There is a lot of unjustified killing in the world, I'll grant you that. But all killing is murder? I can't agree. If you see a suicide bomber about to blow himself up in a mall, and you kill him, saving everyone's lives there, I would not call that murder. I would call that heroism.
This. Imagine a piece of educational software set up like this--something where the child draws objects but has to use reasoning about what would be most appropriate. Maybe have multiple modules of 15 minutes apiece.

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Would have to be the system vendor, not Microsoft. Or rather, if MS could do it then the whole scheme is a sham, the authentication is supposed to be at the firmware level, not in the OS.

UEFI is turning into a huge mess. I'd look to the Coreboot stuff being pushed/supported by AMD as a much better path to the future, and try to think of ways to club Intel's NIH-adled brain into getting on board.
I moved here from LA. I found a small group of nice people, but it overall, it felt like I was in the movie Cruel Intentions
Ebay to hp next thing you know she'll be running for governor...

Those two business models couldn't be more different.
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A couple of examples: I can send an HTML email with a script tag or object tags referencing an external JavaScript or Flash file, and it will happily pull that into the page and execute it within your DOM.

Here are some demo XSS attacks:

http://dudmail.com/emails/162551?mailbox=xss
I'm not privy to details inside FeeFighters, but I'd guess the conversation went something like:

1) We don't have a lot of money to build this thing (Samurai).

2) We are in Chicago, IL, USA. We are familiar with the laws and customs in Chicago. We speak the local language.

3) The laws and language from Chicago, IL, USA happen to be more or less applicable across a very large and fairly wealthy single market. Merchants near Chicago, IL, USA tend to be in their offices when I'm awake and my kids are at school.

4) Let's start with that market and expand to others once we get the resources to do so.

Honestly, American startups don't purposely omit non-US markets. But when you're trying to get to profitability on limited funding, this train of logic will come up and you really need a good reason to decide to pick an unfamiliar market to start.
Moms were scrapbooking before nerds. This profile could do a lot for Facebook's growing older population.
> Where's the line?

Wherever you and your wife (partner) deem it to be.
> A reference in C++ amounts to an immutable pointer.

"Amounts to" is a phrase that lets you say pretty much anything. Eg: A pointer amounts to an int.

If you are going to say that it amounts to an immutable pointer, you should at least add a caveat about how int *const x; would be different from int& x;
On the mac, spotify often fails to play songs for me as well. The problem is an intersection of weird bugs and their lack of support for low volumes.

When Spotify plays an ad and you turn the volume down too low, they pause the ad and show a pie chart of time remaining in the gutter of the app near the repeat controls. They wait until you turn the volume up, where volume is the product of whole computer volume and their in-app volume control, to continue playing the ad.

Now, if you are keeping the volume low, perhaps because you have in-ear earbuds and don't care to be deaf, there is a very confusing bug where an ad won't play at all, and in fact, won't even start playing so you don't see the time remaining pie chart. Instead, you get a yellow flash message that says, "Can't play track" or song or some such at the top. If you double click a track to play it, it just flashes the same message.

The fix is to temporarily increase the volume above their minimum ad volume threshold and then hit the play button in the lower left corner of the app. This reliably fixes things for me.

Snow leopard, macbook pro, spotify 0.6.1.287.g64b130c8
The point about gold is not accurate. Arbitrage means going long and short equivalent amounts of equivalent assets. So it's arbitrage if you borrow at 0%, and invest in a CD at, say, 1%. It's not arbitrage if you borrow on your card and invest in a non-dollar asset like gold, unless your credit card liabilities are also denominated in gold.
Cringley, back in February 2011, got it right:
http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fi...

Apotheker didn't last long as CEO for SAP, either.
I guess going forward he'll have a hard time putting 'CEO' in his job title again anytime soon (if ever).
Feynman is wrong. Understanding something (technical skill) doesn't automatically make you good at explaining it (communication skill). Being poor at explaining something does not necessarily betray incomplete understanding.
This so could have been an Onion headline.
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Wonder what Freeman and Gelernter think about it.

http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
That would come at the expense of letting her be who she is.
Cool, I've signed up for the beta.

I'm curious though, you seem fairly upbeat about FB's entry into the space - does them doing so make you any less enthusiastic about your product?
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Of course she does. I don't even know with any certainty that she would dislike my having pictures of exes in my Facebook profile. I don't know that she would want any kind of explanation either.

What I do know is I roll my eyes every time a piece of mail shows up from her old IRA account with her previous married name on it. I know I would be uncomfortable with a bunch of pictures of old boyfriends and an ex husband mixed in with pictures of us and our son on Facebook. I realize she has a past and that's part of who she is now, but I am perfectly happy to leave some of those things in the past. I don't need or want daily reminders. I don't think she does either.

Given my own feelings about the issue, I choose to treat her the way I want to be treated.
HP's name of the game seems to be "One step forward, two steps back". Over and over. They are SO lost...
Facebook just announced their Timeline feature. The first beautiful interface from Facebook. A product with a lot of feel good elements but a great way for Facebook to integrate themselves even further into the life story of it's millions of users.

Facebook is trying to be a place for social groups to interact online and also for the individual self to be discovered. I don't think both can be done effectively. There's just too much noise on Facebook as it is. I think this feature, really just a visualization of the feed, will just lead to more stalker type behavior.
Isn't this basically what Path was trying to become?
The reason it's not available in US is the following:

"This new feature will be available before the end of September to Netflix members outside the U.S. We won’t yet enable it for U.S. members due to a 1980s law that creates some confusion over our ability to allow U.S. members to share what they watch."
The design of this About page looks remarkably similar to an Apple product page, the title font especially. Very well done.
I meant only to equate the core skill set of the three. Programmers aren't necessarily good writers of literature or designers of graphics, but neither are writers necessarily good writers of software, nor artists good designers of it.
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How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.
What do people think of Meg Whitman's record at eBay? She ran for governor on her record as CEO there, but eBay has always seemed to me like a terribly-led company, sitting on its laurels as first-mover and squandering opportunities to move into new markets while startups chip away at its core business.
"Nullability" would be that caveat. But that's an argument about C++, not an argument about references.
Meg is a really bad choice...
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It wouldn't break current theory, it would just mean that photons travel slower than "speed of light" and have non-zero rest mass. Constant c in relativity instead of speed of photons would just mean fastest speed possible.
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Right, it's derived from the Qumranet SolidICE product. That's one big credit to Red Hat, they've had a consistent record of acquiring closed source companies and turning the products into successful Open Source projects.
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The founders don't all have to be hackers. There just has to be at least one.
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Not like it hasn't happened before. Intel thought that IA64 was that way toward 64-bit, but AMD came up with the x86_64 that we use now.
This is a very nice thing to have, if it were detailed enough that I could scan it and reminisce.

But if it were that detailed, I wouldn't want it made public.

Can we timeline privately?
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In most other countries and with some cards the introductory low or zero interest rate is only on purchases and not on cash advances or withdrawls.

There are a few ways to get around that. You are probably breaking money laundering laws if you do, though - so, disclaimer.

Find a friend or family member who has a small store and merchant account, or setup your own merchant account in a company name, or put up an item on ebay with a buy it now. Create one or a number of fake products with realistic looking prices (some merchant terminals let you enter an arbitrary price).

Buy it with your new card and kick back the cash, minus the transaction fee.

You can then just keep bumping the balance to a new card when the introductory period is up - just pay the minimum payments (which are usually very low). Juggling to new cards with introductory rates is a lot better than applying for many cards at once. It just looks like you got sick of your last bank for poor service etc.
I completely agree. Meg wasted her time at eBay. eBay is a company and therefore we are not privy to a lot of the internal politics. Their acquisition of Skype made no sense.

When she ran for governor, the method by which she handled the fact that she had hired an illegal immigrant proved to me that she was seriously unfit to be anything but a Senior Manager.
Can you explain why?

(Otherwise it boggles my mind that you created an account solely for this post...)
A news article where both the scientists and the reporter understate the claims, publish the data, and ask other teams to please prove them wrong.

I like this. Most of the time the reporters overstate the research, the scientists keep the data secret, and the general public is left scratching their heads.
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I desperately want to believe that this will somehow enable us to live in a Star-Trek future, even though I'm sure it won't.

Would someone with some knowledge of physics care to break down the ramifications of this (if it's not some sort of measurement error)?

Please?
The firmware checks the OS for a signature - Couldn't MS make a tool that booted a signed bootloader or whatever pieces the firmware needs to authenticate and then passes the boot process off to the alternate OS...
No, as a borrower, inflation works to your advantage.

i.e. I borrow $1k at 0% for one year. I put the money in a 1 year CD paying 1% interest. At the end of the year, I pay back the loan with the CD's principal, and put the $10 interest in my pocket.

Even if inflation were 2% (or 10%, or 100%), I am still making money - no matter how deflated the value of the dollar is, I still have more dollars in my pocket than when I started.

(Inflation hurts lenders of money, not borrowers)
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> buttoning down a C runtime environment so you can be rely on the assumptions behind those abstractions is a chore.

may be hard, but not more difficult than creating the run time for any other language such as Java or Python -- and they are all written in C.
It's almost too late at this point isn't it? Their mobile/tablet divisions are dead, PC business is on the way out, billions down the toilet for Autonomy. Whoever takes over is basically either going to have to continue to play this crappy hand or blow billions more to turn it into something else/reverse this course.
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I'm amazed I'm the only one it seems that things this is pretty lame and not going to be that popular. People _already know_ your life story, that's usually why their your (at least close) friends. Do you really want to see your workmates "life story"?

For those that think this is genuinely going to be a good and popular thing, could you explain why? You probably all know much better than me, so I am interested to hear why people think this'll be popular (which they obviously do, looking at every other comment here!)

I guess it could be useful to turn Facebook into a dating site - is that the bit I'm missing?

Edit: To downvoters: I'm more than happy to accept I'm wrong, I'd just like to know why I am. Cheers.
I did this once when interest rates were above 1%. Currently risk-free interest rates are too low for this action to be worth it.