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"I get the impression kids are a bit slippery in that regard."

True. Come to think of it, I'm middle-aged and I'm still like that.
No, look at the quarter results of Apple. Their revenue is selling hardware stuff. Digital content is relatively a small amount. I also find "artificially scarce" a very biased description. The App Store has an unbelievable positive impact on the developer ecosystem. And if books/gamecartridges/printed newspaper are replaced by digital stuff we shouldn't deride payment for that. Look at ebooks or Amazon kindle. These are good things. The scarce thing is really your favorite band making a kickass song, investigative journalism instead of astroturfing and GRRM writing the next ASOIAF novel in less than five years.

About Googles "superior business model": Ultimately it is just advertising. The product which is sold is you. I don't want to sound polemic, I have tons of respect for Google. But this is a strong realization most never make. Because of that I avoid to being to dependent on their services (maybe I will move my email from gmail to icloud).

EDIT:

Oh, never mind. I just read your other reply to kawahe. You clearly are enlightened and are not bound by the chains of tyranny. I am out of this discussion.
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Well, I certainly looks to me that that is what he was saying, and given the opportunity he did not back away from that position, he doubled down on it in his response. So, downvote away I guess. But the whole thrust of this argument seems ridiculous to me. There is nothing special about macs that enables this strategy, and it's a stupid and expensive strategy that gains no benefits over a standard backup routine.
@dberube

I have used same method to collect beta tester for one of my idea. Google adword has given amazing reults so far. Thats why i am interested to know if cost factor the only reason to choose microsoft adcenter over google adwords ?

Does it give more ad impressions for less price + better click through rates?
The simplest lessons are often the most difficult to learn and internalize to the limit of it becoming second nature ( or intuition ). Brilliant dad. What a great story. Thank you kindly.

Fathers are so, so, so important.. here's an interesting excerpt from the recent Steve Jobs bio :

" It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn’t see. "[1]

Connect the above with the speech Johnny Ive gave at the recent memorial :

" we shared a giddy excitement spending months and months on a part of a product that nobody would ever see, well not with their eyes. "[2]

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Exclusive-Biography-ebook/d...

[2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUsuY8JZJI&t=2905
I looked into this a bit (I wanted to take the same ideas and package them for elementary schools to teach to students).

Vending machines are far from ideal, although they're still plausible if you have a friend who owns a car repair shop or something similar with a few steady workers plus customer traffic.

If I was doing it today, I would take one of the single-serving coffee machines. Some of them have coin slots, pricing controls, and protected inventory. They're a bit expensive to buy individually (a couple grand) but might make sense to share the responsibilities and decisions among a class or a group of family friends.

Because of the smaller footprint, also easy to add to a teacher's lounge, office, etc and it's possible the manufacturer would cut you a break for doing something so PR-able, especially if you turn it into a repeatable school program.

Drop me a note if anyone decides to pursue something like this -- I'd be happy to help where I can: developing the curriculum, yelling at suppliers, or coming up with new lower-cost hardware.
FLAC has been supported by Rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/ since 2005.. I remember using it in my iriver H300, iPods were supported as well
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> > > > They set out to make the most money

> > > they set out to build the best device

Surely it's equal parts of both: Apple try to make the best products (in order to) make the most money (in order to) make the best products (in order to) make the most money (in order to) make the best products (in order to) etc etc...

In the sandpit where Apple plays, you can't have one without the other. A beautiful symbiosis of business and craft.
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Jeff doesn't know C. Should he learn C was an ongoing topic in Jeff and Joel's StackExchange podcast, which was actually somewhat entertaining. Time for another episode.
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Doctors don't buy software on the internet. You can't validate the idea that way. The sales cycle is long and their buying process is totally different from the "convert on the net" SaaS model. I did a startup called Maviq in 2008 for the patient reminder market. There is a v. high barrier to entry in this market for startups.
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This looks good, congrats on getting it out there!

Does it autodiscover feeds on sites you visit? Can you subscribe in-app? Those are the things that I've yet to find in an iOS feed reader - I seem to have a very old-fashioned "if someone's interesting subscribe to them" workflow, instead of this new-fangled "if something's interesting, send it to instalaterous" thing that is everywhere now.
This is amazing. Usually parents try to teach kinds about mature life by making them do chores or get higher marks in school. And yet what do you learn this way?

That life doesn't reward you for this no matter how many chores you do and how good marks you get.
I'm tired of the term "artificial scarcity". First, do you understand what scarcity means? The supply of content is unlimited. Putting a price on content is not creating "scarcity". Consumers make content purchasing decisions based on the scarcity of their own resources. Second, what is non-artificial scarcity? All scarcity is artificial.
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That was just an example, not the basis for the process.
What about machinima style videos?
Slightly off topic, for any SO employees here, have you all ever experimented with using mono-fastcgi-server for any part of your sites and what were your findings? Assuming any of your code compiles under mono.
The quality of the people coming to the site, in my experience has been the same.

I actually have better CTR on adCenter compared to AdWords for the same ads on the same keywords (marginally better).

So it's really come down to cost for me. In my experiences it's consistently double or more for the top keywords in the bunch.

I've personally never run a massive campaign to drive tens of thousands of visitors to a site through either service. My guess is, if you need high volume of people quickly, you need AdWords.
I responded to this in support on my Advogato diary. A quote: "be aware that if you regard yourself as supportive of women in free software and on their side, but you are vocally undermining of said women when they face this sort of shit, be aware that you are a fair-weather friend and some sort of a backstabber."

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Can you define what you consider a "high conversion percentage" in this stage of testing?
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There are already solutions, e.g. http://startingline.en.alibaba.com/product/502176603-2121315.... I'm sure you can find more, RFID seems a rather obvious technology for this kind of thing.
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However, if these trends continue in the longer term Apple could start to suffer from some of the same negative network effects that plagued them in the PC era. If their market share slips too far people will start perceiving them again as a niche, luxury brand too different from what their friends and family use.
I actually like to add an intermediary step between the landing page and the e-mail form: a "Create an account/Buy now for $X/month/year" button. When people click on it, they get a "Sorry, we're not done yet, but give us your email and you will be notified once we release" + the email form.

Not only do you know people are potentially willing to pay X dollars for your product, you can also do a multivariate test on different amounts or pricing schemes to see if they convert differently, giving you some rough idea how much your idea is worth to them. I always add a "Make an account for FREE" as well, as a baseline.
Could you explain what you mean about string + vs StringBuilder? I'm guilty of this one.
Your question seemed future oriented --- "will be" rather than "is".

Google is a rather broad company --- they do search and web advertising of course, but also blogging, e-mail, video hosting, money transference, operating systems, etc.

Who knows what products they'll come up with next year?

You seem to have been expecting us to focus on something more specific.
Ya business as USUAL is what apple is known for. Ya right.
The parent was talking about the MF part of a MFC printer being nonexistant for the Mac. Hell any printer with a USB port will work on a Mac. Any $50 printer can do that. But when you spend $200+ on a network MFC most come up short on the Mac side.
It might be a good idea to organize a brainstorming event to figure out how to attract more students/graduates to startups. When I worked in the financial industry I was involved in running grad recruitment schemes, so I'd be happy to chip in.
Keep learning, keep reading, keep building empathy and understanding, keep piecing together an understanding of what people mean when they say privilege and why they think it's important, learn more about the history of feminism and of the different approaches to feminism, skim some articles about intersectionality; over time you'll notice more subtle forms of sexism, develop a better vocabulary for identifying it, and develop a better instinct for what you should do.

Examples off the top of my head: sometimes it may be as simple as noticing that people keep unconsciously interrupting a female coworker for no real reason, so you casually and non-condescendingly form a pause so she can finish talking - or maybe you're helping pick speakers for an event and you've thought of a person who happens to be a woman who would be great to round out the day, but she hasn't submitted a proposal yet or whatever, so you email her to ask if she's interested. And of course you also keep a friendly non-condescending eye out for men who similarly may be getting unfairly ignored or underestimating their own skills, but that kind of subtle social support often already comes naturally for people dealing with their own gender, and it's also somewhat less common for men to be randomly assumed to not know what they're talking about, etc.

In other words, being an active feminist is just generally being a decent human being, to women and to men, but also including a well-informed eye toward the biases left by generations of discrimination.
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In Belgium it is indeed illegal to send unsolicited mails, IF it is sent for publicity reasons. The law includes a definition of publicity, the gist of which is "promoting goods, services or a company". It's the sender's task to prove that promotional mail was solicited.
While you may not be able to validate the idea of the service in isolation, you can however validate whether or not there's a market for a service like this sold over the internet.

In many cases, someone may consider it worth excluding an otherwise potentially profitable idea if the sales cycle is long and the buying process is different from the "convert on the net" SaaS model.
Are these the only options? Is it just about money and business?

Do you have a family? Maybe you should start one. Or is there a neighborhood kid that could use some mentoring? Teach a seminar, or write a book. These things may not make you rich, but it may make you happy.

All I am saying is make sure you're asking yourself the right question, because of you're not, the answers you get aren't going to help you.
Well, the problem with doing that at this stage of the process is you risk getting the initial price completely wrong and nobody clicks it.

Even though, if you had priced it just $20 lower, everyone would have clicked it.

So by putting price in the mix before you even identify a willing market, you risk missing the ball completely.
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That's good advice. But you (OP) really should talk to a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing.
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I think that entrepreneurship shouldn't necessarily be an end, but rather a means to an end. For some it is th end goal but I'd wage that this isn't the norm ( outside hn of course ).

Figure out where you want to be in the long term and find the best way to get there for _you_. Entrepreneurship might just not be th best way to get there. And I think that's alright as long as you get where you wants be.
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Apple might win the next quarter, because of the launch boost of iPhone 4S, but it will be their last one. After that it's all Samsung all the way. And no, Apple isn't competing with the Android manufacturers on every price point. This is a common American fallacy, thinking that the contract price is all that matters, and that it's the real price of the phone.

But an iPhone 3GS still costs around $400, while Android manufacturers can make even $100 phones today. What this means is that the iPhone 3GS will still be sold on an expensive contract, while the "free" Android phones will be even on $10 contracts.
Pretty easy to be immune to spam when most of the interactions are between known people.

I don't know why FB and other sites doesn't adopt a 'secret handshake' code for friend requests. It would eliminate all of the unwanted requests if someone only accepts the secret handshake.
I think she is saying if I want to be B, and B is Bill Gates, then I want to be Bill Gates, therefore the question "how can I become like you, Mr. Gates?"
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Ah, that's why. I have a slew of sites I use for Wx (just amateur- boating, interest, and so on).
From all reports it is true. Apple has the highest margins in the industry. People may not like Apple or it's products, but their business savvy cannot be questioned. Locking in certain manufacturing lines for years has made it near impossible for their competitors to compete and still make any money.
Running on a macbook pro with i5 dual core 2.4 ghz, it uses 1 core at 100% in firefox and manages:

1.7 fps

It's cool, but I don't see any real world applications. Anyone got any ideas?
There was a beta test over the past month - I should have included you. They are both very interesting features and I'm going to take a crack on trying to implement them in the next releases.
Reminds me of a story of a similar family, posted on everything2.com a while ago after a long discussion of how to rip off soda machines by using coins stuck to fishing line or pouring salt water through them:

http://everything2.com/user/Trilateral+Chairman/writeups/Rip...

Lots of life lessons there.
We have not, has anyone ran any benchmarks/tests comparing the mono GC to the Microsoft GC? I am pretty sure we would need to change large chunks of our system to run it in mono.
I think this is a good suggestion. Even worse than people using the vote button to save stories for later: I've found myself occasionally voting on articles because I assume I'd like the article, without reading it.

I scold myself whenever I catch myself doing it. But I bet others do the same thing.
Actually, there's absolutely wrong with using + for individual expressions; it is actually the correct way of doing it (a + b + c + d compiles to String.Concat(a,b,c,d) ) - the problem is if you are doing this in a loop, where you get a lot of throwaway strings from intermediate concatenations. In a loop, you should concatenate via StringBuilder.
Commenting systems go bad when site admins ban account users without notification or warning. It's a lack of respect. And then the lack of respect gets reciprocated with the creation of sock puppet accounts and trolling.

Why do you think Lamer News exists? And it will succeed with the help of HN admins. Bank on it.
You just need to do rolling deployments to make simple things like that go away.

Roll out a deployment to N machines (like say 10), run self checks (you have those, right?), if everything passes give them standard load. Over the next K period of time, periodically check up on them. After that, roll over to N*2 or N^2 nodes, continue until you have rolled out to your entire cluster.
Another vending machine story - why ripping off soda machines hurts
Good thinking on the coffee machine. A former housemate worked in a corner shop and mentioned that the coffee machine had the highest percentage markup of anything for sale there, in the order of 1000-1200% if memory serves me correctly.
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It would be nice if that were true, but actually network effects and path dependency mean that the best products will rarely "win" in IT markets where those factors dominate (see arguments about who has the bigger app store, or developer base, or patent portfolio, or pile of money).

I hope people don't lose their sense of surprise that Apple is "winning" with nice products or start to think it's inevitable, history tells us otherwise.
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I like HN's feature of showing new comments at the top, it gives me a chance to see something that would otherwise be hidden.

The chance to collapse a tree of comments would be a welcome addition.
Pre-installed Apple applications are a whole different league from, for example, a pre-loaded unremovable trailer video for Confessions of a Shopaholic, which actually came on the last phone I had before the 3GS.
I think it's more of an (impressive) mental exercise - if the code can be made straightforward enough to run on javascript, the future applications can only grow from there.
I like how you cut straight to the ad hominem and kept it up the whole way through.
Not only you need a codec designed for streaming, you also need it to be resistant to bit errors. This is a big technical issue that most people do not understand when they compare voip targeted codecs with cellular codecs. In regular voip communication, you might encounter an occasional dropped packet, but by and large, most packets make it to their destination and they arrive there intact. Voip codecs are designed with this scenario in mind. In cellular voice communication, a device has to accommodate for frequent bit errors in the packets it receives, and codecs are designed to cope with this (otherwise you'd get an inordinate number of bad packets that have to be dropped). This is why you need significantly more bits to achieve the same perceived audio quality with a cellular codec that with a traditional voip one. Yes, you can do regular voip over a mobile data connection, but the results will be substandard in less than perfect connectivity scenarios.
Rob - how old were you when this started and how long did this venture last?
So what you're saying is that she made the right decision. She found a community that supported abuse (by ignoring it) and she left that community. Everyone should do so.

But think for a moment what happens when people DO pile on a troll. The troll gets what it wants: Attention. The best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them. They die from lack of attention.

But beyond that, if the entire community attacks a troll, 1 person at a time, it turns into a very hostile community. By the time the troll has had enough, everyone is very angry and the forums are very ugly.

Instead, the moderators should be handling it. That's their job. If a moderator handles it, the troll ends up going away fairly quietly, without much attention. They don't get what they want, and the community doesn't have to turn ugly.

And nobody should have to alert a moderator. They should be patrolling. Again, their job.

So if you want to blame anyone for this, blame the moderators. They were the only solution to the problem, and they failed.
It's the Android encoder written in c++ cross compiled to JavaScript, not much of a mental exercise.
Not to say it's not cool :)
The front-page of HN is a filtered list in and of itself. And I for one actually like the result.

Some people would like to see a different filter and thus create one, because they can. That is indeed not something you can, or should want to, prevent.

But the fact that some people create their own filters is not a motivation to not tweak the HN front-page filter in such a way that the front-page matches the intended goal (pg's goal in this case, presumably adopted by the majority of HN readers, more-or-less codified in the guidelines) as closely as possible.
Even if a small group of them think they can be totally more productive by doing things their own way.

Hence the proliferation of units under the "special forces" banner. How many do they have in the US now, regular SEALs, SEAL team 6, Rangers, Green Berets, Delta Force, Marine Recon, those guys in the boats (SWIK or something), the USAF has like 10 special forces units too.

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Really interesting and well written. I particularly liked the part when the author said not to show feature as if they don't buy the silver bullet, they won't buy your product.
Samsung is indisputably more "tyrannical" than Apple. The corporation has unsurpassed political influence in South Korea. For instance, scumbag Chairman (former CEO) Lee Kun-Hee is a nepotist and admitted guilt to political bribery in 2008. Guess what? He paid his way out of jail time and was even pardoned by LMB in 2009.

Samsung also has tremendous media influence in the nation. The company influences the media by giving or withdrawing advertising, giving scholarships to journalists, or suing the critical media. As a result, their corporate misdeeds get swept under the rug. The company uses the press as a means to control the press rather than sell their products. Samsung accounts for almost one-fifth of the entire nation's GDP. It's no surprise they are the nation's largest advertiser.

Corporate influence in the USA is nothing compared to the influence of the chaebol in Korea.
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So i have to develop a demo for my friend who was accepted into StartupChile. The idea is you as a publisher pay people for tweeting your posts, articles and so on.

How do you do this?, well you buy a subscription package and then put a twitter like code on your site (yea i copied the twitter button :) ), the new twitter button, when clicked, lands you into a twitter like window and let's you send a "payed tweet" and you get like $0.15 or something like that.

Would anyone use it, do you think it would have success?
Sure they have, and as long as we count parts and phones, rather than revenues, or better yet, profits, they will always be "bigger" than Apple, in that sense.

I have a feeling they'd rather be more profitable though.