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I thought it gets permanently deleted from their database when you delete your account..no?

Edit: why the downvote? it's just a question. Chilax
Totally agree.

What shoes have you found to work? I'm usually in nice jeans and a button-down shirt (no tie or blazer, most of the time), but haven't found shoes I really like. Thoughts?
I clicked on that to bookmark and translate later, and holy-crap-my-eyes-are-bleeding. And I thought some sites in the US were bad with ads.
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Kind of depends. For sneakers, I usually look first at Diesel or Fred Perry. Chucks aren't too bad either.

For dressier shoes, I think everyone has their own preference.
Up to this point, Whispernet gets relatively little traffic per-device (initial book download being the biggest bandwidth use). While there is the experimental browser in the Kindle, it had limited functionality and is fairly well hidden. With the introduction of Video on Demand and full web browsing in the Fire, I'm sure Amazon's 3G provider is hesitant to allow lifetime access to their network for a one time fee of $50.
I'm not in the USA, so I don't know B&N (although my company provides some of the hardware in the Nook).

However, B&N's main advantage compared to Amazon is its network of B&M stores, right? Now, the bet here is "let's lose money on the tablet, and hope that people buy tons of ebooks".

I'd guess that people for whom the existence of B&M stores is important aren't going to be the biggest ebook buyers: they'll be more into dead tree books, on average. If B&N subsidizes their Nook, and it's only used as a web browser, B&N has lost.
ISPs have been able to do this for years. It doesn't really happen because the outrage would be deafening.
From the video, I got the impression that they might even not be sending html, css and javascript at all. Instead they might be sending some javascript bytecode and a binary DOM tree.
Right, I was thinking it was more of a random walk algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk

There was too much randomness in his evolving. When I was evolving agents for my M.S., I used tournament selection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_selection) with an 80% crossover rate for the top 2 winners and only a 5% mutation rate on the offspring. I also started off with a population of 500 individuals. This approach seemed to produce much better results.
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I feel no guilt. Google's main revenue stream is advertisements, which I will never click on. Yet, I still use Google continuously. Does that mean I'm stealing? Either way I'm getting something for free and not contributing to their revenue.
I think that is exactly what the Silk cloud is doing: http://aws.amazon.com/amazonsilk-jobs/
? How does this relate to Samsung? Their related phone and tablet devices are priced nearly identically to Apple's offerings with nearly identical specs.
Kindle Fire: It's not about what it is. It's about what it does.
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I'll definitely pick one up once it runs CyanogenMod. My NookColor has quickly become my bedside tablet of choice.
What's more unsettling is the fundamental fact that any kind of social norm or expectation based upon the limits of our present technology is unsustainable.
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If Amazon does, in fact, act as a MITM, then that's a deal-breaker as far as I'm concerned.

Edit: The more I think about it, the more I think it is likely that they are just passing along the connection. SSL is designed to prevent MITM attacks. They would have to provide their own certificate which would cause browser warnings. They could write their browser to ignore certificate problems for Amazon certificates, but that strikes me as a pretty gaping hole.
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A lot of price comparisons are based simply on initial purchase price. If you take into account pre- and post-sale service and support, build quality, longterm reliability, resale value over time, to name a few, it's harder to simply compare purchase prices. I think there will also be some people who will end up with Kindle Fires who probably - secretly - wanted iPads. Santa will be able to save a few dollars this year...
To say this is to ignore the well-established history of retail upselling.

When someone walks into a Best Buy and tells a salesperson "I want to spend $600 on a TV" the standard practice is to show them what they get for $600 and then you show them what more you get if you spend just a bit extra. People often walk out of these stores spending more than intended.

By linking the Fire with the iPad, Amazon is (IMHO) making the same mistake. A consumer will look at the Fire and if the iPad is then on their mind they'll look at it and see what that extra gets them. Not everyone will buy an iPad but some will when they see it plays games, has a richer app experience, has a larger display and so on.

What Apple has mastered is aspirational purchasing. People want to own Apple products. The last thing you should do is remind your potential customers that your product is an inferior (albeit cheaper) version.

Amazon has done one thing right: they haven't created an iPad clone. Don't then lose that advantage by making comparisons.

See what's going to happen is in 6 months there'll quite likely be 9" and/or 10" Fires. They won't be $300 cheaper than the (then) iPad 3. This is where your earlier comparisons come back to haunt you.
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You're still only talking about current technical limitations though. Cameras are getting better, the recognition is getting better, and the trend is for people to have more and more information publicly available online. Maybe it won't happen in 5 years, but I can't see how it won't happen relatively soon.
> and it has a proper keyboard

This is my favorite feature of the kindle.

Before I used to read technical books in bed and I wasn't sure how much I was actually getting out of them. With the kindle I can make notes as I go and then review the notes later.

I find I'm retaining a whole lot more with the note taking ability of the kindle than I do by just reading a book in bed.

I've tried to use the iPad keyboard on the kindle app but it's just much slower.

I wouldn't give up the physical keyboard for anything.
Touché! :-)

Seriously though, do Barnes and Noble actually sell the Nook to international customers? They certainly don't market it over here, while Amazon have run quite a lot of TV and print ads. Buy the look of it I'd have to buy the device and books in US dollars instead of my local currency. These things don't give me the feeling that B&N are serious about sales outside the US, while Amazon definitely are.
Ah, the standard excuse for failed Scrum implementations -- you're doing it wrong.
Sounds like a "secure" man-in-the-middle "hack"...?
Well, hello there. Lean Brainfuck is coming right up.
Yes, they are. I don't have the example handy, so you'll have to take my word for it. My query was 'sqlalchemy "some quoted phrase"' and the first result didn't contain the phrase anywhere in the page.

Out of desperation, I tried a +, and when that didn't work I sent my first feedback to Google.
Amazon is on probably on WordPress because a lot of other high profile/high traffic blogs are hosted there as well.
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So to me there's two parts of introducing new technology that every group has to address: the technical advances and the policy around the new technology for consumers. Amazon is obviously doing a good job to help the technical side of it, but so far I think they're failing on the policy. They haven't mentioned the ability to shut off the split processing or use a different browser, and the answers to their privacy FAQs on privacy on their website are totally evasive. I think they're going to find themselves in a world of hurt if they don't start being more open about their policies, but who knows, it may end up not mattering to the masses.
I've been trying to find some rationality in all this. I think it's crystal clear. The REASON Marco has been using version 1.x since 2006 is because there IS no version 2.0.

It's NOT any of our faults that the upgrade wasn't there 6 months later. That was the developer's fault. If it had come out 6 months to a year later, the revenue generated by 1.x would have most likely covered his "salary". But that money was obviously spent somewhere else... at his discretion. Now we have people saying, "it's ok, we'll pay again." Sure, I used the software since 2005, but only because for most of that time, there was NOTHING better. In no way is that my fault.

I mean absolutely no disrespect to Textmate, its developer or anyone else. As a developer, I understand that rightfully, family, obligations, and more lucrative projects can get in the way of one's pet projects.
Source? Was that in the video? I hadn't read that anywhere.
Just a quick meta response because i see you're new.

You don't need to sign your posts as your user name appears above your post.
We (Patrick and I) spent a lot of time talking about this afterward. Really fascinating to think about the help companies will need in solving these problems.
"Timestamps could be used to map customers to their precise purchasing behaviors with infinite granularity."

Between debit cards and loyalty cards, this is pretty much already happening. In the US, I see few people using cash without the loyalty card (because the loyalty card gets you a discount.)

Of course, the remainder of your comment would require this new technology. And would be creepy as hell.
Looks pretty much perfect, provided they support bluetooth keyboards.
That is definitely a possibility, but not the common practice.

Most often, a feature is binned BEFORE any development occurs. In fact, I've only ever seen a feature binned after development started once. It was a feature that we decided was being introduced too early, required too much re-architecting, and wouldn't offer any compelling benefits to our customers. And it saved a LOT of effort and pain to cut the rope early.

Binning work in progress is not a good thing, of course. It's actually a failure on the part of the manager. But just as you expect to be forgiven your failures, so too must you forgive others.

> Scrum is designed to empower the business, not the developer.

Scrum is designed to help you as a COMPANY develop a better process for getting things done with minimal headaches. If as a developer you're opposed to the company and its direction, why are you even working there?

It's a question of priorities. Are you working to make a good customer experience or are you working to stroke your own ego? If you're not customer focused, you shouldn't be writing software for other people.
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The textbooks may be cheaper but if you're like most students and only use a textbook for one class its more expensive than buying the book used and selling it when you're done with it.
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Google does not ignore quoted terms.

Many times it seems like it does, to the extent that I've even gone back and replaced double-quotes with singles in hopes that the parser distinguishes literals.
Google couldn’t find anything and striped the quotes away.
Amen to that. From the Minecraft about page:

I've got a few plans and visions, but my only true design decision is to keep it fun and accessible. There's no design doc, but there are two lists; one for bugs, and one for features I want to add but think I might forget.

I make sure to play the game a lot, and I've built my share of towers, and flooded my share of caves. If something ever doesn't feel fun, I'll remove it. I believe that I can combine enough fun, accessibility and building blocks for this game to be a huge melting pot of emergent gameplay.
For those who remember the original AOL fat client, AOL 2.0 would have worked as a title for this post too.
What inabilities? Spotify reduced my "sharing" dramatically.
No, not just Europeans. Canadians will have to pay the same price for the device and power adapter, plus $14 import duties. I thought NAFTA should eliminate the difference, but it turned out not to be the case.

Other good things for geeks like Google Voice, iPhone, etc only available, or available first during initial launch, makes me want to relocate to the US.

Sigh.

That being said, Amazon.com's product page is really a nightmare for non-US customers. You'll NEVER find a link to the product page for your country. They only show it AFTER you click checkout and proceed when warn you that it won't deliver to your address.

Bizarre.
This story was submitted many, many times before finally taking off. Several commentators noted that the speaker involved was likely simply to be self-promoting, and most expressed amazement that the BBC gave him air time at all.

Subsequently we've had a post that the guy is completely unqualified to be commenting, and is just a shameless self-promoter.

Here are the items:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3039997 <- The original

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3041944

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3042404

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3042484

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3042543

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3042573

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3042871

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3042917

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3043146 <- 147 comments (so far)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3045980 <- Hoax!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3047116

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048464

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048578 <- This one!
Yeah touch has been around I have a sony reader that's at least 4-5 years old now that has a touchable e-ink display. The reasons they went with a lcd is color and response(refresh?) time on e-ink display. You can't watch a movie or play games or browse the web on e-ink kindles.
I may be an outlier, but the ability to compile to native code is the main reason I'm interested in OCaml. I already know enough VM-based languages, so having something that works close to the metal fills an important gap in my skill set.
See for example the "license policy" page [1], where it says, "We do hope to release a free 2.0 upgrade (which will require Leopard) but we provide no guarantees about this, we do not promise what features it may or may not include, we do not have any expected date of release etc."

[1] http://macromates.com/license_policy
http://www.streamliner.co/s/etX3i/amazon-silk-amazons-revolu... is where they say this
This is absurd. It's like worrying about charging your laptop in Google's offices because it increases their electricity bill.
I doubt they are merely "a bunch of car makers", I assume Porsche, with lots of money, hires lots of smart financial experts to do deals like this. You can throw money at a problem and be a money expert.
So, a man-in-the-middle attack is a feature when Amazon is the middleman?
From the clip I saw, Bezos looked awkward and nervous. He looked like the wind was already out of his sails, which doesn't help to create that rock concert environment if that's what he wanted. He paused a lot to wait for applause and got crickets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whOlvV3HYFM
Well, Google sensibly ignore quotes if it doesn’t find anything which is probably what happened to you. Would you rather Google to just display that it found nothing?
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This is not a replacement for an e-ink device. It's not even a competitor.
Do you have an opinion about what size Kindle (e-ink) is best for Web browsing? You'd think the DX would be better, but what about the weight?
The key here is to separate how we things done from how objectives are defined. Using Waterfall instead of Scrum does not inherently change who gets final say on what will be accomplished. If the project manager or project owner want to have complete control of what gets done, will little to no input, your process won't change this.

Scrum is about visibility, accountability, and continuous product evolution. It's about controlling what gets done, and when we do it, not who defines the goals.

It's your companies loss if they don't take the input of both the developers and customers when deciding what to do next.
a direct connection doesn't have a man in the middle. that's what direct means. amazon notices you're requesting an https connection and hops out of the way.
Well, not knowing what your opponents payoff matrix looks like or not even knowing how many separate opponents you have sort of precludes doing much in an abstract game-theoretic way.
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Scrum doesn't de-emphasize those things, bad programmers do.

I'm just following your logic here, which I agree with up to the point where Scrum has a negative influence.

I don't see how Scrum can encourage good programmers to write bad code, since it gives them all the room they need to write good code, and lets them decide how much time and effort they put into architecture etcetera.

Bad programmers however tend to get exposed by Scrum, since without anybody telling them they have to consider architecture, they will produce said giant snotball of hacks.
Suits aren't the only way to not look like a slob. Here are a few tips on how to dress for a "corporate" job without abandoning your sub-culture: http://www.waningmoon.com/corpgoth/survival.shtml and http://steampunkworkshop.com/corporate-steampunk-fashion
Nice example about how lack of information leads to volatility in markets. If you are looking for prescriptions to fix our financial markets, increasing transparency of trading would do wonders to eliminate speculation and refocus investors on value.
How "safe" is a browser like this when you want to login to websites? Could they get your passwords if you log to say Gmail through it?
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From what I've heard, it's incredibly difficult to manufacture the screen at that size.
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> Still, those B&M stores in America are incredibly popular

They're actually an albatross. Ask Borders how popular physical book stores are. B&N is only still alive because of its digital business. Barely alive too, Amazon is 150x larger in terms of market cap. Digital sales are up, physical sales are down and at the end of the quarter they are losing a lot of money.

The Kindle line is sold in Target. I'd wager Targets are more popular and will be around longer than B&N. Even better, it doesn't cost Amazon a dime to keep Target stores open.
This kind of article reminds me of bad PDF redaction and then the redactor being surprised that people can still read the redaction.

You don't stick text where a computer can read it and then marvel that the computer can read it. And if you want something truly hidden, you don't publish it.

If you're worried about Google's index, they'll obey robots.txt. Alternatively, customize your reply when you get the Googlebot user agent.
Here is a screenshot from 1:58 in the video: http://i.imgur.com/jcVOT.png

(If this is any indicator of the actual product), it says that the whole JavaScript processing will be done on the server.
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When you combine #3 with the free hotspot feature that allows you to not pay for that exorbitant home broadband connection, T-Mobile's a real winner!
I bought TM1 in 2010 knowing full well that people have been waiting for TM2 for half a decade, because the presumption for late adopters like me (and possibly the parent) is that we bought TM1 to help fund the development of TM2--if revenue is really the problem for the delay of TM2.

I bought Sublime Text 2 while it was still a semi-working beta because I saw the potential and wanted to support the developer.
I'm just getting fucking sick of it. This includes supporting a number of "normal" users on Google products. Of course, my/our opinion doesn't count. Nonetheless, Google UI and support (cough) are now actively pushing me away.
The difference is you could be identified when you arrive versus when you are checking out. Your experience within the store would change. For example, if you spend a lot of money then you might be greeted with VIP welcome wagon. If you don't, you might be greeted with a cold shoulder.
This is fascinating. Although "rules of thumb" for appealing and usable design are included, what is more interesting to me are points further down (both in the presentation and in the depths of perception) such as "Unconscious Processes" that have things like "the system uses food, sex, and danger messages to grab users' attention" and "the system matches the user's mental model". The mental model thing is so subtle and so universally applicable.
I use Google Bookmarks with Chrome (switched from Delicious) and you're right, you can't sync the two right now. See more here: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=10...

Edit - The above link shows you how to create the javascript bookmarklet for Google Bookmarks.

That said, you can search your Google Bookmarks by adding this to your search engines, more here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=77fb...
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To each his own. An MBA helps some people - the network is powerful coming out of schools like HBS and SBS. At the same time, a determined entrepreneur can create his own network and wow people with a great product.
While the conclusion that Neo4j is usually faster will generally be true for most such comparisons, the method to get to this result is very flawed.

Traversal methods are built-in for Neo4j, so those can be used for representative testing. The MySQL traversal methods chosen are very basic and don't necessarily reflect the optimized methods people will use in production.

Neo4j performance is highly dependent on caching. If it has to fall back to access the disk store, performance goes down rapidly, which can happen with a large data set [1]. MySQL optimization is a whole different horse. I suppose a BTREE might be the correct indexing solution to use here, but more information about the cache size would be good to know here as well.

With such performance experiments it's always useful to add a memory profiler to the discussion. Java VisualVM is a nice one that integrates well with Eclipse [2].

[1] http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Performance_Guide#Disks.2C_RAM...

[2] http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/vi...
- Small Kindle: $109 = £69.71 (without the US-only "special offers")

- 20% VAT: £13.94

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- Grand total: £83.65

- UK Amazon price: £89

Seems reasonable.

I suppose 6.5% headroom is more than strictly necessary for exchange rate fluctuation. But I suppose you might as well round up to give the price a "9" on the end.
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It looks cheap because it is cheap. It's a $79 Kindle, what do you expect?
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To clarify, this was only the first result. The others did have the phrase, and it was highlighted in their snippets.
Using Python Pyevolve framework:
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True. Good point. So it comes down to - which type of person are you? I stick by my original point - YC is the new grad school. MBA's learn all the theory of business, and YC throws you right into it. There's no better way to learn.
2nd this: for a big product rollout, this site URL presence & 'blog design' is so amateurish it feels like a phishing or SEO attack.