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Affiliates as an industry standard demonstrate that you can run a profitable business with affiliates. In fact, there are affiliates for lots of businesses outside of online gaming nowadays. If businesses couldn't make money while affiliates existed, then affiliates would not exist.

Affiliates do not automatically get a chunk of deposits. Usually there are two options. They get paid a small lump sum for each new player, say $25-50. Or they get paid a % of the monthly generated rake (MGR) minus fees racked up by players.

I've survived for several years based on other players' willingness to play until they bust. But you can look at Las Vegas, Atlantic City, etc. for evidence of the sustainability of gaming.

Edit due to not being able to reply:
The rake sucks a lot for everyone. It turns small winners into small losers, or keeps consistent winners from being huge winners. It makes it so everyone gets less play for their dollar.

I know Pokertableratings has done some [very incomplete] tracking on player losses, but they don't have a record of every hand played.
As long as you get paid by the hour you should work those hours, be it at the office or at home.

If you don't want to get paid by the hour, become a contractor and do fixed price jobs.
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Have you checked out http://sgplus.me/? I've been using it for a while to cross post from G+ to Facebook and Twitter. Works extremely well!

(although the image that pops up in Facebook is rarely the same one I picked on G+).
Establishing sympathy is a good first step, otherwise you end up discussing with people whether there's anything to be concerned about =)

The thing is, we'll always need warehouse workers in one form or another. One form draws from the relatively less formally educated and puts them to work; if we go that route, it's morally imperative that we do our best to make sure they work in a workplace with dignity and a voice. Education of any particular worker won't help that, as s/he'll just be replaced by another.

The other form, of course, is to move from human to machine labor. In the long term this is the best route. (The question is then, though, what of the people who are deskilled and unemployable?)
I experienced something similar with the iOS in-app purchases but I did avoid damage like bad reviews, etc. Details here: http://crazyviraj.blogspot.com/2011/08/dont-let-apples-laten...
The requirement to explain why you need additional IP addresses likely just flows out of ARIN rules that say ISPs must be able to prove their customers are using addresses efficiently and with justification.
Is this referring to a leak distinct from the origianal wikileaks set?

From the wikileaks.org site: "The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February 2010"

Yet the nytimes article cites "the leaked U.S. diplomatic cable dated October 2010"

Is the actual cable available anywhere?
You can see who people have in their circles as a whole, but not in each circle individually.

It's certainly possible that someone you're ignoring will figure that out. I would imagine that's just the price you pay in cognitive dissonance for maintaining a relationship out of politeness. It's no different really from them eventually figuring out that you never invite them out to events, isn't it?

I'm not sure what you mean by invisibility. The service doesn't have presence except in gchat, which works exactly like gchat anywhere else, and you can set yourself to invisible. Outside of chat, if you don't post something into someone's circle, then you're invisible to them by default. Am I missing something?
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> they get paid a small lump sum for each new player, say $25-50

That's a small lump sum, but with a $100 initial deposit that's 25% to 50%. If that were the only deposit ever made and everybody asked for their money back after folding their first hand they'd be bankrupt immediately.

So the cumulative rake must be pretty high for that to work, unless the stickyness is huge and most people do multiple deposits.

Do you have any figures with respect to total rake vs payout over a sizable sample of deposits? That would be interesting.
The U.S. isn't alone; Israel also taxes income on a worldwide basis.
That's true for the U2410. The new 24" Ultrasharp (U2412) uses an LED backlight and has a typical power draw of 38W. Contrary to popular belief, LED backlighting doesn't lead to a better picture. It is significantly more efficient than CCFL backlighting though.

On a sidenote, and apart from the gains in efficiency, the new Ultrasharp doesn't seem like much of an upgrade, at least at first glance. What a shame/thank god I don't have to buy a new one.
My point was that regulation and scrutiny didn't prevent the likes of a Bernie Madoff providing a financial product and running a ponzi scheme.

In addition, the financial industry at large can legally provide all kinds of leveraged products which pass scrutiny and result in hefty bonuses (personal profit) but which can end with ruin for the individual and group investors because they are structurally unsustainable (i.e subprime lending had to come crashing). On top of that, the institutions which benefitted during the boom then turned around and asked the people to prop them up despite the questionable risks they took because the world could not afford to have them fail --we blinked.
My honest opinion is that the only solution here is to pack up and leave Apple's closed ecosystem, because they clearly don't care about their developers. If you are continuing to do business with them you are sending them a message that it's OK to continue to do this. If it's a Mac app, sell it on your own website; if it's an iOS app, rewrite it for Android and sell it there.
I suspect the author is experiencing Social Media burnout. I know I am.
Fancy meeting you here.
The U.S. census releases aggregate data. It's not so much anonymized as impersonal. You're right, though, I should have been more specific: it's impossible to anonymize location data, save by aggregating very large, amorphous groups.
I'm not sure what is dishonest unless the product mis-represents itself. Crippleware was big in the shareware scene all through the late 80s and 90s and still works today.

Perhaps Apple could allow a new category, but it is an honest model.
One difference being that your deposit with your bank is insured up to $250,000 (I think) by the FDIC. The bank has to achieve an accreditation to get this insurance and maintain standards.

Though I can't be sure, I'd assume that banks might hold a little bit higher percentage than what Full Tilt was holding.
FTP's case is an exception due to the ridiculously large amounts that the owners and executives were paying out to themselves. Amounts significantly in excess of the actual profits.

Rake adds up quickly. If poker sites only carried enough money to cover player balances, they wouldn't suffer.

Pokerstars is an example of a poker site that successfully paid out to players.
That's true. It's called "fractional reserve banking." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking ) In fact, most of the money in the economy doesn't even exist as physical coins or bills because of this.
> UDP (guaranteed delivery on localhost)

That's not something I've heard before. Is it generally true of localhost-UDP? OS Specific? Particular to your usage?
Yup, I got that sense too. Yes, G+ looks busy.. but throwing 1000 features and 100 programmers isn't the same as millions of active users interacting with your product. You can look busy all you want, doesn't really matter
And that movie was pre-facebook, he was not wasting time on the internet.
Can someone explain what the technical basis for Microsoft's claims against Linux companies is?
Hey ... it's kind of like, if you don't get caught cheating, then is it really cheating? I mean, if "no one" sees you removing clips of injured civilians, jerking off to pornography, cheating on your spouse, paying a hooker, abusing drugs/alcohol, stealing from your employer, etc. - it "must not count" then.
problem is that crippleware was, and still is, universally hated.
The only areas where it succeeds is where there is no other real competition.
I've only been interviewing for a few years so I don't have a large statistical sample, but I can tell you that within a few minutes I can usually only tell if they think like me or not. The rest of the interview determines if they can code regardless of my biases, and can actually get stuff done.
- "Cave" feature, where the troll can post as many messages as they want, but those messages aren't seen by anyone other than the troll
- Duplicate account detection - if the same IP address appears on more than one account, the account is auto-flagged
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/2011920...

Sheikh Ahmad bin Jassim bin Mohammad Al Thani has been appointed as new director general.

I guess their credibility is now completely out the window
I had an Intergraph machine like that back in the day. Same giant case, except in blue. I think that one was dual Pentium II, 400MHz, running Windows NT 3.5 or so. Came with a fast array too and a similar keyboard.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Setting apart the location-based services built into mobile devices, every time you access a service from either Apple or Google you're pinging their server with an IP address that has a certain degree of geolocation. This includes accessing a website using Google Analytics.
if your average player is 1-tabling, he's getting (maybe) 80 hands/hour. that same player at a rush table is getting 250 hands per hour. rush poker probably tripled their revenue. who knows how many times it multiplies their profits.
This reason is actually more likely, seeing that he is replaced by Qatari royal.
apparently it is actually from 2005:

http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/10/05DOHA1765.html
http://themeforest.net/ - http://DeviantArt.com - I usually contact the Designer straight if I like their Portfolio
I bought one of these machines around that time for a design company I was interning at. It's an Intergraph, obviously I have no idea which model. These machines were built to order, so it could have anything in there. That multimedia keyboard brings back memories, prolly the worst $100 I ever spent.

This machine would be running WinNT 3 or 4, most definitely not the MIPS build.
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Heroism is a question of character, not just results. For example, an assassin who gets cold feet when he sees his target's bodyguards is not as heroic as a police officer who takes a bullet to save the assassin's victim, even though both decisions save the person's life.

It requires a greater degree of selflessness to value two lives over your own than it does to value a hundred lives over your own. A fairly large number of people would consider sacrificing themselves to save half the world — that many lives lost is such a tremendous tragedy, it almost seems like an obligation. But few people would seriously think about exchanging their life for a stranger's — they'd say sorry, too bad, you got unlucky.
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They have to maintain a viable product lineup to create a smooth transition from their current PC software licensing model (and that includes their w8 app store) to a subscription or service-based model. If they cease to have attractive products for too long, their customers, who are getting more mobile as we speak, will easily move to their competition. And their competition doesn't have the burden of maintaining a lineup transition.

Throughout its history, Microsoft almost always won by persistence, by being there to exploit their competitors' mistakes (and, sometimes, inducing them). I don't see Microsoft having this luxury now.
Slightly OT: I notice that your apps are for sale both in the App Store and through your own site.

I'd be interested in hearing about your experience maintaining your own sales/fulfillment channel while also taking advantage of Apple's. What advice would you give other developers?

Thanks
It is a model which allows people to try before they buy, which also expands the audience and allows the game to spread. It is a good thing when implemented well.
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/10/05DOHA1765.html#par1

Great article - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/19/what_wikile...
Perhaps.

But the POS code is not written by Chipotle. For the company that wrote the POS it is customer facing as Chipotle are the customer. Similarly for much of the purchasing and other software they use internally. There would be considerable customisation though.

It will be interesting to see you post.
Global SIM cards tend to use VOIP dial-back tricks to use the "free incoming calls" features of most countries to make outgoing calls "free" as wel1 - but they still charge you for the outgoing call. I find this results in poorer general service (as sometimes the call doesn't connect), and you get seriously degraded call quality as a result.

After trying the Worldsim for a number of years I found a better solution for my needs: Get an unlocked phone, buy a SIM card locally, and then redirect a SIP # for didww.com or similar to your local number so people in the US can still call you easily / you can maintain your US phone #. You'll get the service quality of having a local provider (as well as the affordable cost), as well as the convenience of having your number from home. When you jump to a new country, just re-forward your DID. You will pay long distance for the DID forwarding, but it will be minimal for most countries (1-2c /min)
If you see a site that you really like the UI of, don't be shy to email the site operator and ask them who they used.
I ran a hermes bbs off a mac IIsi back in '93 in Los Angeles. Mostly gifs and warez, such as it was. That's how I ended up with Modelshop and started my path toward being a package designer. I was 13.

Funnily enough, the first board I ever went on was when I was 8, in 1988, and I figured out how to use my brother's TRS80-100 laptop to get online with its internal 300 baud modem. I dialed up a board that was in Alameda, according to the bbs guide I'd grabbed from the tandoori restaurant my parents took us to. I vaguely thought Alameda was part of Los Angeles (I think I thought it was Alhambra). Finally I got booted when the sysadmin got annoyed that this 300 bps thing was taking up one of his lines half the day. Meanwhile, I racked up a $50 phone bill to the bay area, which my parents were very not cool about.

It was all text. I was just looking for BASIC programs so I could figure out how to make pixels do things I wanted.
Not where I'm from it's not. A code monkey is mindless and interchangeable.
I'm pretty sure the blur is radiation interference from the monitor.
Accounts can look like they're coming from the same IP address all the time. If people access the website from inside a NAT, they'll have the same IP.

Cave is like a hell-ban, and it works when there aren't too many users on the system. The forum I work on peaks at 10k concurrent users with over a million accounts. It would make for an administrative nightmare (which is probably why the feature request tries to automate a solution).
Interesting, I would say depends highly on what you are doing, and how self motivated you are. With certain tasks, I feel a day in the office is as productive as a week from home. I also found it weird that everyone jumped on the efficiency bandwagon. I actually know people who work from home, and there are definitely a sufficient number of them who do very little productive work in a given day (not that it is necessarily different in an office).
Not sure I'd advise to those starting out today, except for the following cases:
1. You consider enterprise or other large sales, which are not comfortable through Mac App Store.
2. You want to participate in bundles or other promotions. Technically, you don't need a store for this but you need to create a version which can be licensed outside of Mac App Store.

Personally, I started selling ImageFramer (my first Mac application) in 2006, so we first had our own store and Mac App Store came second.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but it seems like this wouldn't really work with a web server that has several worker processes like uwsgi in preforking mode. Each worker process would be sandboxed to its own STATS object and attempting to serve the HTTP/Graphite server in its own background thread; all of which would be trying to access the same port.
I wouldn't say "completely out of the window" simply because the alternatives still don't come close to Al Jazeera's lack of bias.

It's of interesting timing - this ousting - especially with the theatre that we're about witness at the UN.
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Hiring people who know how to program is actually not hard. I also can screen for this in an hour, no problem.

It's everything else that is the problem. Are they lazy? Do disappear for days at a time? Will they not fix bugs in someone else's code? Will they complain NIH at the drop of a hat. Will they care to write all the ugly code we need to ship with, and not just the first 80% of the project?

These are the things that are hard to assess. But just knowing if they can code -- that's pretty easy.
This. When you own a DVD, you can rent it out as many times as you want and you don’t owe the studio another dime. When you have a digital movie on a server, every act of streaming it to a customer constitutes “copying”, subject to a license fee. And the studios want to milk that revenue source for all it’s worth and then some.
easier said than done. How do you distribute apps to people outside the app store?
Should it be radical? No.

Is it? In today's media climate? You bet your ass.
Seems like the last time I looked up the GFLOPS on my PC GPU it came in as equal to the fastest supercomputer of 14 years ago.
Amazing to watch awesome but forgotten technologies come back in newer, gigantically social ways. Like:

BBSes -> Facebook (with games too!)

IM status updates -> Twitter

The big one I'm waiting for is IRC, with Google+ heading down that path. I miss live chat rooms.
This would bring back some expensive memories for a few on HN I'm sure. I remember, as a multimedia trainee in around 1996-97, buying a 21" NEC CRT for $2,200 second hand. I couldn't give it away today, so it sits in the shed along with a few other CRTs.

Seeing Frank Pritchard's CRT "sculpture" in Deus Ex: Human Revolution certainly made me think...
That is exactly what I use G+ for, it's my work life, and tech industry circle. Facebook is more for the family network where I can't really post anything about development because my cousin that works as a chef wouldn't understand. And yeah you can use lists, but now the main facebook wall feed is a potpurry of a lot of things I don't really care for.
Using Chef with small Django apps
> for my board "The Pirate Cove"

I think I remember the name... Did you run ads on magazines like Nibble?

I always looked enviously at those ads. I live in Brazil and, at that time, using the phone to get to a local BBS was bad enough - doing long-distance would be ludicrously expensive...

There was a Hayes-like dial-out device connected to ARPAC, Argentina's government-sponsored X.25 network, we could access from the Brazilian state-owned telco's own network (RENPAC), but I already said too much ;-)
What does that mean exactly? You run a deficit budget?
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Once you start picking and choosing which rules are sensible, and which ones you can 'get away with', I think it's detrimental to society

I can agree with that entirely.
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>The concrete difference is that on Facebook I follow friends and coworkers, on G+ I follow Scoble, Tim O'Reilly, Alton Brown and other people who write interesting, public posts.

But I feel those use-cases have less overall appeal for everyday people. Everyday people want to see what their friends are up to, something facebook does very well.
One more question for you:
How would I have gotten on your radar screen when you were putting together your gift a while back?

(Trying to figure out the best market strategy)
Thanks again :)
Arrow keys also work.
50 startups TechCrunch was too busy to cover (while talking about themselves)
So what is "the best compiler bug ever" (slide 31)?
There is a followup post that covers the server-side here: http://blog.sociablelabs.com/2011/09/19/server-side-changes-...
From my quick skim of the complaint, it appears that the problem wasn't just paying insiders amounts that were needed to cover player balances (which would be bad enough). Check out paragraph 113:

113. Beginning in or around August 2010, Full Tilt Poker was often unable to find payment processors to withdraw funds from the bank accounts of its United States players. Instead of disclosing this fact, Full Tilt Poker secretly began to credit funds to players’ online gambling accounts that Full Tilt Poker had never actually collected from players’ bank accounts. As players gambled, and lost, these phantom funds, Full Tilt Poker developed an undisclosed shortfall of approximately $130 million owed to players that Full Tilt Poker had never collected because, in reality, these funds were never withdrawn from players’ bank accounts. The management of Full Tilt Poker, including the FTP Insider Defendants, operated Full Tilt Poker with the hope that only a small number of players would try to withdraw funds at any one time, and that Full Tilt Poker would regularly receive additional deposits in amounts greater than any withdrawal requests.
This follows the previous post on the client-side here: http://blog.sociablelabs.com/2011/09/16/javascript-changes-f...
The same way you did before there was an app store - through your website. As for Android, you can sell APKs through your site that people can sideload onto their phones.
I do. It's not that busy but even with just a couple of active friends it's fun to use. Just like Twitter three years ago.
The stated application, molecular modeling, often requires double-precision floating point, for which GPUs offer less of an advantage than for single-precision and integer operations.
Interesting that he comes down in favor of Snap. I've been looking at the Snap vs. Yesod question for my own projects, lately, and there's interesting arguments both ways. Yesod is big and comprehensive, with four or five custom DSLs that have compilers implemented in Template Haskell. Snap is tiny, really just a routing engine and server with a small template library tacked on.

Yesod reminds me of Rails, while Snap reminds me of Servlets + JSP.
If by "quite a few" you mean "less than 10," several of which had previous worked together, I'm not sure that it qualifies as anything more than process ignorance.
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I can't tell you how much more I would value someone who takes 4 weeks to build something that works 100% of the time over someone who takes 1 week to build something that works 95% of the time. Something that works 95% of the time is worse than useless IMHO.
It's open for everyone, meaning you can sign up without an invitation.
That is still wildly beyond the level of effort which will be required to do a 3D print job in only a few years.
Having read your comment before reading the article, I was looking for the sex references--and still had a hard time noticing them. I think you may be oversensitive.
I would suspect www.CrunchFund.com to be on that list.. Since it's not TechCrunch or related to Michael Arrington at all.
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