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If Google wants to find first document in series, they should have RTFM. There's relationship that specifies exactly this — no need to twist meaning of prev/next:

> Start: Refers to the first document in a collection of documents. This link type tells search engines which document is considered by the author to be the starting point of the collection.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links
To pour on the skepticism, even if a small business does create jobs, one of the time-tested laws of small businesses is that most of them fail, thus destroying the jobs they created. On the whole small businesses are much closer to a wash in terms of job creation than we're likely to admit.
Wonderful work, jgc. I remain, as always, impressed by your efforts to bring proper attention and respect to our intellectual forefathers.

A tip of the hat to you, sir.
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Fast forward works in google search results, which doesn't use rel="next". I suspect that Opera does it heuristically, so if it sees a link with the text "next" it will use that.
Looks like a typical spam filter block. Go to your spam folder copy a url and send an email containing it and you should get the same response.

There's the question of how the url got on the spam filter blacklist, but it could easily have been an automated process.

Plenty of startups have issues with their invites getting marked as spam. Doesn't mean it's a conspiracy.
This is not my interpretation of the Google blog post[1]. If your search result is on page 3 they'll send you to page 1. This is undesirable to me. Please call me out if this is an incorrect interpretation.

[1]http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/paginatio...
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Which clearly indicates to me that the fault lies with consumers at-large. We, the proverbial and collective we, are far too forgiving of the mistakes committed in the provision of services on which we rely. Relatively few people will be spurred to action over this and will dismiss it out of convenience to themselves.

Also not to be overlooked, Yahoo knows that the pain involved in migrating one's email address is enough to retain all but the most idealistic of customers.
Even more, why does Sid Parakh believe that Bing will "likely" be better over time? He doesn't even qualify his own statements.
A spam filter should act when one account sends several similar mails to numberous accounts unrelated to the sender.

A spam filter should not act when a hot topic is `trending' -- being send around from multiple accounts mostly to accounts related to them (with existing history of communication).

A spam filter acting on mere global volume of a keyword is a prime example of solution more troublesome than the original problem itself.
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If rel=next is missing, Opera guesses based on link label. There used to be a fast_forward.ini file with list of all recognized names ("Next page", "Proceed", "Forward", etc.).
Awesome to find you through here man! Must be well over a decade ago that we messed around with Quake mods.

Your name rang a bell the second I saw that URL.
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They are losing money because they are pouring money into buying that 15% with advertising, deals with mobile carriers, etc. The division also has thousands of employees.

Bing is not like a small but scrappy startup who can make a profit off their small market share because they are lean.
I think that some politics are definitely in play. American news will often feature photographs of fallen US soldiers, though this is as far is it will usually go. You end up knowing how many soldiers have been injured or killed, down to the last man or woman. Meanwhile, you're lucky to hear even a wild guess as to how many "others" have died in the same war.

Part of this is obviously going to be due to better record-keeping by the US where its own casualties are concerned, but the part about showing photos of recently-killed American soldiers is unapologetically nationalistic. Mind you, I'm not saying that the fallen should not be remembered, but I am advocating a more complete approach to the matter of the effects of war.
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Can you explain why you think Bing would be a better bang for your advertising dollars? Because less users would mean lower ad rates?
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Very kind of you. Here's the BBC's version: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15001514
The article is a bit light on content beyond what's conveyed in the title. The question I wanted answered is why should there be One True Version for all size? I was looking for support for that claim (beyond "they got criticism for not doing it that way"), and didn't find any.
They're prettier and easier to use, and the fact that you can pay for it makes many businesses feel better.
While Google reputation has been superb so far, at least for normal users, their push for Google+ may change that.

It's kind of "all in" move by Google. If Google+ succeeds, their brand will be even stronger, and as king of data, search and social they will stay leaders for the long time, giving them possibility to attack other market segments too.

But if Google+ fails, Google brand will be severely damaged, and normals could go somewhere else.

All Microsoft has to do here is to wait for the outcome and actively try to sabotage Google+ efforts by working together with Facebook.
You may mix up with linux (which does not save the FPU state: that's why you can't use most floating point operations in the kernel).
He creates his own job, so he creates one job.

His statement is a fallacy, if you use his little trick(his small business = 0 jobs) and multiply by the number of small business you have a false statement: "small business creates no jobs".

We know by simple statistics that small business in fact create most of the jobs, even if they only employ themselves and their family first.
The biggest indication this is not malicious is the benefit/risk ratio. If someone at Yahoo decides that talking about Wall st. protests should be silenced, they will, first of all, only silence a small fraction of the traffic - this is the no-single-point-of-failure nature of the Internet. Second, when they get caught (any subject large enough to be meaningful to censor will have enough tech-savvy protractors to detect this) they get hit by both the Streisand effect and the humiliation.
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The replies to this topic are the most ridiculous programmer-equivalent of Internet-toughguy posturing.

Have you seen the people, money and time resources NASA put into the code which runs on space flight hardware? The reviews on reviews on reviews, the exactly specified every code path, the complete tracking and investigating of every bug in their codebase ever and checking all of them for wider applicability... and they don't get 100% success in years of applying their processes to a comparatively small and limited codebase.

Wasn't Zed telling us about how 37 signals restarts their Ruby in Rails processes every day due to instability and memory leaks? Guess that makes their lower-than-100% success rate multi-million dollar generating software "worse than useless", eh?
I think a lot of is placebo, too. I bet people convince themselves they're enjoying things more because they consciously know they're getting "higher quality". It would be interesting to do a double blind study to see how many consumers could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p.
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I've noticed the same thing. One of my startups targets an audience that is less tech-saavy than normal (teachers/parents) and Bing/Yahoo AdCenter is my predominate source of traffic. I have the exact same ad/campaign running on both AdWords/AdCenter and the latter generates more traffic at a cheaper CTR and CPC. The trend holds true for organic search traffic as well. This demographic still loves using Yahoo/Bing.
At the distance from the screen which people generally watch TV, better resolution than HD makes no perceptible difference - it would be pointless and wasteful. At closer distances, such as those involved in using computers, higher resolutions are perceptible and so not irrelevant. Hence they exist for computers and not TVs. Sorry, no reference right now, may add one later
Thief was one my favourite games of the day, and I even played with the editor to create levels (unfortunately none ever released, but it was still a lot of fun - if frustrating)
That job has already been created. A tax cut will for him will not magically mean he will decide he has enough extra cash to create a meaningless job.
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This is sort of like asking why we need to bother to produce a careful English translation of the works of Stanislaw Lem. Why not just paste the Polish editions of all of his works into a big spreadsheet, one word per row, then sort it alphabetically by word, feed it through Google's translation bot, and upload the long list of words to Bittorrent? Then the world can have all the words Lem ever wrote! All we'll be missing is their order.

What's wrong with this project? Everything. It's not going to serve anyone (except, perhaps, a very tiny number of Polish linguists), it's a terrible insult to Lem, it's a terrible insult to Lem's audience, and it reflects very badly on the intelligence or taste of the person who carried out the plan (i.e., me).

My understanding is that the plans for the Analytical Engine resemble any other set of unrealized preliminary plans: They're incomplete, they're out of order, they don't make great internal sense on the surface (because Babbage and his collaborators didn't bother to rewrite all the old notes every time they had a new idea), they use archaic terms and convoluted expressions for concepts that are now simple (they weren't simple concepts when they were first being conceived, a century before they were realized in practice), and therefore they aren't as impressive as they could be if, say, a bright and motivated historian spent some time piecing them together first. But, of course, I'm no expert on the Analytical Engine; I'm just guessing based on a few rumors I've overheard. If only I could pull an actual expert out from behind this nearby curtain!

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[god I love the internet]
I would have sided with you before the news that showed US and EU companies are building net censorship tools for governments. They have been exposed in Syria, Libya and Tunisia but how could they not sell services to democratic governments too ? Saber-rattlers have been talking about cyber-warfare for several years now. Some of the millions spent on this buzzword was probably spent on equipments that can block messages with a deniable excuse.
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okay, maybe something is.
For C# I in fact thought of what is in the above quote and wrote my own: https://github.com/ane/DotCheck

It's not yet very advanced (sometimes the library is a bit messy), but it provides the basic QuickCheck functionality.
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I would trade all of those features for a case design that didn't require me to use a cover without shattering the screen and/or back. I had dropped my 3G/3GS dozens of times with just some scuffs- I've cracked the screen or back on my iPhone 4 thrice :(
Inadvertent my ass. I hope Anonymous retaliates.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Small businesses do not exist in a vacuum! They have partnerships. They use UPS to send packages. They use Microsoft to run their computer and Dell to build it. They buy supplies at Office Depot or Home Depot. Every dollar they spend on their business gets spent at a larger firm that employs hundreds if not thousands of people! One-man operations DO create jobs. They just don't create them in their own company!
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5 years ago, if you've told me there was money to be made outsourcing HTML forms, I'd have called you insane. Today I probably still would. Goes to show that sometimes the things we think are so worthless that noone would ever pay for might not actually be so.
I've been using the internet at work since 1997. But it was not nearly as ubiquitous as it is now. "Surfing the web" was generally something people did at home, on a 56k modem. A software engineer fixing the Y2K bug in bank software probably didn't have much access, and probably didn't care a whole lot anyway. Certainly, the movie made no mention of the internet.

And obviously facebook was merely an example. 1999 was pre-reddit, pre-wikipedia, pre-digg, pre-hacker news, and pre-twitter. Yahoo had just bought viaweb. Most of the people using the web today weren't using it in 1999, and most of the pages, services, and content that exist today did not exist in 1999.

The point is that no matter how distracting the internet might be, procrastination has always been an issue for developers.
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Okay here's my prediction from last year, maybe this time I'll be right:

Translucent Home-Button (maybe out of glass).

Contains multiple color LEDs for notification system. If you get an email your Home-Button 'pulses' green and so on.
Because it may be Google+'s "killer app", just like the wall or whatever was Facebook's killer app. Google+ may bring social networks closer to reality, through social video-chatting (and by social, I mean like in real life, doing it in groups).
I am not a founder, but I have wanted to start my own business for a long time.

I would have serious reservations about hiring somebody though. First you add a recuring monthly expense to your business, which can seriously impeed cashflow especially if the business has big cycles.

Thats not so bad though, the part I am most concerned about is being subject to an entire host of regulations, many of them very subjectively defined. Add to that the cost of reporting, the risk of lawsuits, regulation of working environments (no more working out of a room in your house, now you have to rent an office).

Personally I would be much happier hireing freelancers, since there is little longterm capital risk, they tend to provide their own tools and the risk of lawsuits is much smaller (as long as you pay them).

That said, most big corporations were once small and I see little danger in lowering their taxes even if we end up lowering the taxes for everybody else. It would be a good use of funds.
I've often wondered about the sucky pay issue - particularly for those working in London. I can only hope/guess that there are some benefits like subsidised housing that make these roles tenable.
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I like how their brand name invites writers to construct these headlines like Full Tilt Ponzi and Fraud Tilt Poker. A Google search reveals that a couple of forum posts actually have referred to them as Full Theft Poker which completes the set.

Which in turn leads to the inevitable mashup of nicknames: The eponymous Fraud Theft Ponzi. Zing! Pow!
I'm in the process of building out my startup - now at 13 employees. Would having 3-5% lower taxes give me an incentive to build out quicker, or change my plan? : NO.
Also, Babbage invented his own notation for describing the movement and interaction of cogs, levers etc. inside the machine. He used this notation to augment the static plans to describe the motion. He also constantly refined the notation.

What he left behind were hundreds of nice plans of the Analytical Engine all of which are incomplete. Plus he left his notebooks. Thousands and thousands of pages of jottings, sketches, and thoughts. Interpreting all that is going to be a lot of work.
Agreed. A little too early to conclude conspiracy. Verizon uses Yahoo as their email backbone. Did anybody have a problem getting a similar message out via Verizon (fron an account like xxx@verizon.net)?
Why would Toyota be able to get at this data without physical access? Doesn't look like there's evidence of radio capability, unless I'm missing something...
For me it was better results, combined with a clutter-free interface. By that point, Yahoo's page was filled with garbage that I didn't want to see.
I keep hearing that most small business fails. What I don't hear is what constitutes a failure. Plenty of people choose to make a little money on the side but those business tend not to last.
The point is still valid. Giving him a tax break does not mean he will start shipping more packages automatically. There has to be a market, first. It's demand-side versus supply-side economics. The only reason he would spend more is because he sees market opportunity, not because he has the money to spend.
Conspiracy theories make better headlines.
Personally, I feel product announcements should be made by the head of the team that developed the product in the company. That's what Google does, for example.

It gives some well deserved spotlight to that person for their hard work.

It also prevents the company from developing an image that it is entirely dependent on one person for all it's product development, be it true or not.
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Interesting. Can you tell at what % reduction you would start to see an incentive?
Interesting correlation! - Does anyone offer any suggestions as to why?
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I strongly recommend looking at Patio11's posts on this sort of subject -- also, he did an eBook sort of presentation on how he markets Bingo Card Creator that was sold on AppSumo that will likely apply directly to your business as well that I strongly suggest you find / get.

The gist of it was that he creates a TON of landing pages and SEOs the hell out of them (he talks more about how in the book) so that people searching for things like "custom wedding book" will find your page specifically targeted to weddings, and other people searching for "custom christening book" will find you with targeted copy for christenings, etc.

I think you have a slightly less niche market than BingoCC, and this is definitely a product that people will pay a semi-premium price for given the keepsake / memento vibe to it, so long as the product looks like quality (and it does), but otherwise, I think the two business models overlap more than they don't.
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The only reason to hire someone is to ROI on what that person costs. As Paul Graham has written, the most obvious example is hiring a sales person. If you have to pay a sales person $75,000 per year, plus benefits, plus office space and equipment, he/she has to be worth more than that.

If said salesperson can bring in $250,000 in annual revenue, and they cost $125,000 to keep around, well that's a trade any businessperson would love to make.

But what if the market size hypothetically tops out at $250,000? You'd never hire more than one salesperson because by the time you were up to three, you'd be losing money again. So, at that point, the government could give you a ton of tax breaks, but you still wouldn't hire more than one salesperson.
Ha! That's the first thing I always do with a new computer: remove all those stickers. Some Vista stickers are extremely hard to remove. That being said, my Air came with absolutely no stickers on it.
And then you have to deal with user who missed or didn't care about the notice.

And no, it doesn't matter how many engineers you throw at it. If an engineering hour can be used to make more money elsewhere it should be.

Frankly I wouldn't have cared about Safari on the nonmobile website.

But that is just me.
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I wish the relevant services would use a term rather than "online". Online and offline have specific meaning regarding backups - you can have online backups locally.

I'm not sure what other word would work though... Internet-based is too long. Remote might not be understood by Joe Sixpack.

Heck, I'd even let them get away with using "cloud" here (normally mention of "the cloud" makes the hand-of-doom twitchy).
Re: versioning, you can dump the registry in text format with regedit /e and save it to a text file. It's true that you can't keep an svn directory with config files like in Unix, you can still get the same with a few batch scripts that call svn update/regedit. However, more importantly, you hardly ever need to because you can do most of your server management centrally so that you never have to manually work with the registry.

Secondly, it's only true in the most simple cases that you can edit config files easily. First, all config formats are different - from the bizarre (Sendmail) to fairly sensible (Apache), but each one requires separate tools/scripts. Secondly, most of them are quite hard to automate - for example most config formats ignore white space, but writing a robust 'parser' in bash/sed/awk is a major pita and something you can never quite get right. (this is what I alluded to in my previous post). I don't see how you can say 'I already have most of the tools' - you need to learn the syntax and then write a complete program to parse the files. For example, you need somewhat of a state machine to parse/edit Apache VirtualHost directives. You need to write a complete editor from scratch each time.

I'm not sure what you mean with the last line. Just as with a properly set up make environment, you can compile a whole Visual Studio project with a single command from the command line. There is no way to do a bunch of things 'automatically' on Linux either (compile, run test, deploy, whatever), you still need to code them into your makefiles/deployment scripts.

(I've written software on and admin'ed Linux for coming on 15 years and I've written Windows software for over 10 - I have quite a bit of experience with both. They both have good and bad sides, and I run my personal servers on Linux myself. That said, the arguments used here against Windows are plain false and reek of Slashdot-style fanboyism).
Yeah, customised workflows are great.

Resources can always help though. An SSD vs a HD, 64GB of ram compared to 1GB, 16 fast CPU cores vs 1 slow core, will all help with development. Things like integration servers and such can help too. A testing rack of 30 mobile devices is another useful thing. If you have 100 times the amount of processing power as a standard macbook pro I can assure you, a good programmer will be able to use it to increase their productivity. Even something like a backup internet line could save 1 day a year. Fast backup and restore tools could save another 1-5 days per year.

There's one script that helps a lot with improving productivity...

sudo echo "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" >> /etc/hosts
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This makes me think about an interesting attack vector ;-)

If you want to silence emails in email provider Y about subject X, you send email to many accounts of Y about X. Then you have the accounts report the messages as spam. Now every email to an account of Y about X goes into the spam folder...
If I'm looking for one paragraph in the middle of a long sequence of pages I want to be taken to the page that paragraph is on, not the first page.

A web-log is, for a lot of people, a historical (chronological) record. For these cases rel=next/prev makes sense to semantically create a relationship between individual post.