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When most people are interested in some product, say like lights, lamps, ovens, dishwashers, tvs, cellphone's, dvd players, there three important "things" that will influence a decision on what to buy is(that i have noticed)(in no particular order):

1. The NEED/WANT for the product
2. PRICE
3. VISUAL APPEARANCE

I have also noticed(being a electronics/home appliance sales person for a year - extra university cash) that there is another "thing" that people look for and that's "ENERGY CONSUMPTION". For every ten customers i would get, 3-4 would query the energy consumption of these devices. I am not saying that price had no effect, but in today's world with escalating energy costs, fuel prices, more and more people are becoming conscious of the amount of energy they are consuming.

A lot of sites out there list products with each having a specs page to list the rated wattage(i smell some screen scraping coming). Are there people out there who shop for home appliances this way? i had a lady come to the store once, and she was looking for a dryer, after chatting for a while i could sense that the price wasn't much of an issue(within reason - i guess she knew she needed a dryer and there was no getting away from it). She eventually like a dryer with a 3000W rating(assuming she uses it for 4 hrs a day for 18-24 days a month, the yearly bill, yeah! is pretty high), but she based here decision on 2 things price, and visual styling. What amazes me is she did not work out electricity consumption, the amount of clothes she washes, how many people are in the family, i mean these are thing i would look for when buying a 3000W dryer.

I just can't seem to figure out if there are more people who would like to shop based on the energy consumption of the appliance? Any thoughts?
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Good luck with that. It seems any time anybody wants to redevelop land here in SF it's met with accusations of elitism, gentrification, and lamentations of losing SF's charming Victorian look.

Yes, I get that the Victorian houses are nice, but come on, this city has the most ridiculous housing supply situation I've seen anywhere. It desperately needs a huge injection of housing supply.

But of course, the city is loathe to allow any high density construction except for a few ultra-luxe towers by the waterfront, which solves none of our supply problems.
It'll take at least a year (maybe two) to ship EPUB3.0-ready devices. A large-ish, ongoing concern is with scripting. How would the security model for that look like?

Granted, Apple's recently gotten involved in the EPUB3 working group, and that may force some pressure on the group to ship. But the spec is rather vague in some areas, and I expect it to take some time to hash out.

I'd say that KF8 is equivalent to EPUB2. Maybe a wee bit better. But my fear is that it's good enough to warrant switching over from EPUB.
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Nah, it wasn't indexed, hence the necessity to build up such an index as the first step of the algorithm.
Looks like on the "people" page, someone was attempting to see if the Register input is sanitized? There is one name which appears to include some scripting..?
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I'm curious, why do templates suck?
If you've seen the other videos, they seemed to have heard users' concerns. There's a dropdown to control density, and on top of that density is automatically adjusted based on windows size. So shrinking a window naturally causes the UI to collapse, complete with subtle animations as it does so.
I'd like to point out in particular "Are We There Yet?" (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...)

If you liked this talk, then you will definitely like "Are We There Yet?" In it, Hickey argues that most popular object-oriented languages make similar mistakes by bundling identity, time and state into objects. He discusses how we might simplify programming by separating these components and rethinking each.

It has a similar theme but focuses on one concrete issue in depth. It has a similar philosophical style while remaining clear-headed and practical. And, in my opinion, it is similarly enlightening. If you couldn't tell by now, I recommend it :)
And then I would be paying extra for the OS X that I never use. Same problem, really.
"Can't do a premium version, since there are ongoing server costs."

Care to elaborate why the costs exclude premium version? Why couldn't the paying users cover the costs, while the free play is basically your promotion tool (like Dropbox).
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Comes out next week: http://www.amazon.com/One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-com/dp/159...
The previous article in the series might also be of interest - Entrepreneur characteristics: http://monevator.com/2011/10/07/entrepreneur-characteristics...
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So he validates the post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465882 posted here 3 years ago.

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Fair point, I don't know how these issues are addressed with the current technology .. but I do know, these jammers are out there and can be deployed by those who want a cell-phone free environment. Every location that I've seen them in has a big sign, usually, on the front door that says "YOUR CELL PHONE WILL NOT WORK IN HERE", or something to that effect .. its up to the owner of the technology to work out what to do in that case, I guess.
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My apologies for straying near politics but i think Yegge's just defined the best characterization of the 1% :P

> In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs.

The difference between this description and Yegge's later description of Bezos as being like the Dread Pirate Roberts of Princess Bride fame, is that Roberts is a clever human putting on a very clever show to develop a reputation which does work for Roberts.

Bezos on the other hand, by all accounts, actually does make people walk the plank. Whether he does it because he's a super-human alien intellect, or some other reason, doesn't change the fact that he's built up a climate of fear around him. If anything, describing him as a super-human alien disturbs me more than if he were acting out of the same motivation as the Dread Pirate Roberts.
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The following are some in-the-wild documents that exhibit these behaviors, and you should remove, modify, or beware before further use.

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It's pretty good UI to give more sparse so as to appeal to more general less technical population. Facebook was one of the early implementers. Look at kid books for an example of how long sparseness and largeness has been going on for.

Does Gmail offer an option to classic as a way to retain power/early users?
While I assume they meant the one product was search, it would probably be accurate to stay that the product is advertising and that they rest exists to feed the beast. But I doubt that was the innuendo of their rant.
IIRC there's a similar section in Microserfs but I could be mixing up things.
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If you want all schools to be open until six, you need to take it up with each of the thousands of local school boards in the US, along with the many thousands of charter, private, and other independent schools.

The federal government has no policy-making authority w/r/t education in the United States. And if such authority did exist at the federal level, the appropriate place to start would be Congress, not the executive branch.

In reality, of course, you'd never be able to create a universal policy to reflect your particular vision of how education ought to work, and that's a good thing.
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Got it.

Its such a pity he couldn't stick around another 5 years, after the Siri [r]evolution, which will probably result in the ability to digitize personality pretty soon ..
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A better way to handle this is to set up a wire transfer authority with your bank: you might need an overpriced business account to do this, but I have set one up with a regular home account. The way it worked for me, about 10 years ago, is that I needed to go into the branch to authorise each recipient account, but once I had that, I could make transfers with a phone call, with a PIN for authorisation. That was convenient enough, I dare say that most banks today have internet interfaces that might be more or less convenient than that.

If you are invoicing to Europe or other countries in the IBAN network (i.e., mostly S.E. Asia), consider getting a dollar-denominated account with a European bank: the fees for wire transfer should then be much lower than other routes.

Money brokers offer cheaper rates for wire transfers than retail banks. My wife uses E-Trade for international transfers and likes their service.
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Even less-nice hotels are good for cabs if they have a notable bar. E.g., the W usually has very quick service, but it's a hike from anywhere good.

After your first few months in SF, you develop a skill for sniffing out cabs. Good luck outside FiDi, Union Square, Market Street, Fisherman's Wharf and the feeder streets through North Beach, and the top of Nob Hill. There are a lot of cabs in the Castro, the Mission, and Cow Hollow, but you need to be ruthless in leapfrogging other parties.

That said, just use Uber. Don't bother with Cabulous and the like, because the inbound driver will flake if he's hailed and can drop the meter sooner.
If we're thinking of the same section, it's the start of the very first chapter which was also published in wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/microserfs_pr.html
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I think the biggest leap for Kindle was the Kindle 3 (aka "Keyboard Kindle"). If they support that, they should be fine. As far as I understand, the newer Kindles (touch, non-keyboard) use the same software and processor as the Kindle 3, so there is nothing preventing them from supporting it.

Besides, Kindle can render full blown websites and PDFs in its "experimental" browser, so some formatting enhancements in the Mobi parser should not be too much of a problem.

I hope.

Good thing Amazon is not Apple.
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Although it was a great read, to me it lacked a kind of authenticity.

The first Yegge post felt real, authentic, natural and fully charged. This second one although better formatted and edited, lacked something. It just seemed obigatory and bland.

It is rather amazing that you can feel emotions through words.

Or am I the only one thinking this way?
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Silly okay.. but I think it speaks to the culture. No one I know here in Arizona includes "after our series A" in their plans. A higher valuation seems to be the end goal for most startups in the Valley, and dramatically alters the way they do things.

Personally I would dread trying to outrun the burn rate funded companies operate under as 99% of them have no revenue or not enough to turn a profit.

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Edit: Although, apparently they have borrowed $15 billion from the Treasury Department, so I suppose that debt is taxpayer dollars:

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