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That's entirely possible, I never bothered to look at the junk IT installed on it. I also used the base Aero interface, which I suspected was a resource hog. I never tried to optimize performance since memory was free.

I also haven't ran XP with less than 2gb of ram since 2005, so I don't know what kind of slowdown xp experiences under resource constraints.

But my perceived performance equilibrium was about 2gb with xp to 6gb with win7.
I'm thinking it was a rhetorical question.
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You're being downvoted because it looks like you're blaming the victims. Everyone would seek out good information for making decisions in a perfect world. But we don't live in that world. Sometimes it's necessary to protect people from the worst tendencies of corporations.
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One important thing I got from this book is that we should judge economic policies not for the intentions they mean, but for the incentives they create.

I read a few (not too much, probably) books on economy both from the left and the right wing economists. An especially interesting turned out to be this one: http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-4th-Ed-Economy/dp/0465... (lots of interesting facts in it, valuable even if you disagree with the point of view). I don't have any strong opinion about which side comes closer to the truth, but so far free market economists seemed to have much better arguments and be more convincing.

The reason many people disagree with certain economic policies and favor others are usually quite obvious: it's less riskier than dealing with the unfavorable policy. Human nature is to try to resist radical changes, such as looking for a better job or taking risks of starting your own company or, in general, investing time or money in your own welfare. Thus, the poor would prefer to stay where they are and let the government do the job of taking them out of poverty slowly, by asking rich to pay more taxes, because it is less riskier than acting on their lives themselves. The rich don't want to be moving their assets elsewhere or invest in enterprises outside their usual boundaries, because it is riskier than actually lobbying for the tax breaks. The real question is not who is currently oppressed or "made" poor, but rather what the intended policies, be it tax breaks for the rich or their abolishment, do to help those oppressed.

My guess is that government getting more tax money will not necessarily put them to work effectively, because by definition government is less effective than businesses. It has no incentives to be so. One might say, that it's still better than rich holding all the money to themselves creating no jobs at all. Maybe, and maybe not. Would the society really benefit if the government took the money from the rich and waste them on creating artificial jobs the country doesn't really need, or, would it be better if the rich kept the money to themselves up until the time they could see the opportunity to spend it effectively, creating the jobs that the economy as a whole really needs?
Once upon a time, banks made money by charging interest on loans.

Banks don't have to offer checking accounts to make money charging interest on loans. I suspect what will happen if the government starts to get into the business of deciding what fees ought to be charged for this or that the banks will start charging a flat fee to have an account.

Once again "advocates" for the poor will end up screwing poor people.
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>I'm lucky enough to live in an English-speaking country, but I'm sure that if I lived in a country that typically sees long delays before localization, I'd find a way to get it early. Even if that meant learning English and engaging in piracy.

Well lucky you. Steam is no better in this regard than anyone else though; they do region lockouts. Valve doesn't with their games afaik, but Steam certainly does.
I agree that banks are predatory, but the fact that people can't keep ~$500 in their bank account indicates they are spending more than they are earning. When someone can't keep an extremely small amount of cash on hand at all times. it doesn't mean they are living paycheck to paycheck and just netting zero - it means they are accruing debt every cycle, and then struggling to stay cash flow positive in any way necessary.

So, if you ask me, the solution to America's woes in this regard is not to eliminate overdraft fees. That's just addressing a symptom. The real solution is a living wage for all Americans, or some other way to prevent poor people from sinking into debt little by little. Then banks wouldn't construct their systems like this, because it just wouldn't work.

Instead of patching bandaids onto the financial system, we need to lift people up from poverty directly. Want to solve overdrafts? Tax the rich and give the money to the poor.

As for BankSimple, that's nice marketing and all, but let's see if BankSimple becomes the bank of the poor. Can anyone get a free bank account with BankSimple and keep $0-$500 in it?
At least you have to be very careful where to shoot those lead bullets. You can't just pull through with lots of work without having some fundamental idea or vision of how to beat your competition. I think being lean is all about looking those small silver bullets in everything you do. I'd hate it if someone told me to stop looking for silver bullets.
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Another to add to the list of alternatives (this one has been serving me nicely as of late): http://middlemanapp.com / https://github.com/tdreyno/middleman
I'm assuming you are referring to Android. It currently has many features that don't drive ads. How much Android makes for Google and how it does that is a good question though.
One of the author's points is incorrect:

-When you use web search on iphone which ad network do you see ads from?

You do not buy an iphone to avoid seeing search texts as you still see them
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The article is dead on from one perspective, he was not the rest of the 99.99999% of the planet. So what worked for or was allowed for him simply won't work for anyone who's not paid the price.

If anyone has to gain the position to figure out what it took to be him.. try building just one company that was not just a quick flip.. try working out one extremely difficult idea against certain approaching defeat.

Building insanely great things will push you limits that the rest of the planet, to put it respectfully, does not even know exists. It also produces incredible shear stress that will make you appear as a complete psychopath to many normal people.. including employees, co-founders etc.. at times.. if your level of care is past what they have about the game.

" Now while hopefully the work appeared inevitable. Appeared simple, and easy, it really cost. It cost us all, didn’t it? But you know what? It cost him most. He cared the most. "

source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUsuY8JZJI&t=2905
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I'm not sure why people are downvoting you... I get what you're saying and don't completely disagree.

But I think it's worth noting, because I'm not sure if I got the point across: I was intending to overdraft on the final, large fee. The insane overdraft fees only affected me in an unexpected way because they go out of their was to also screw people on the order of withdrawals.
I'm not sure how that could happen. We have the source code, if they renege on the agreement then we just go do something else with it and sue them if they continue to use it.
$50k to $300K grants seem awfully low for research projects. Heck you can barely build a good app with $50k.
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+1, thanks for sharing.

Should I move, I now know two banks I should not dream of doing business with.
I had a bizarre overdraft charge from Suntrust, as well (although I got them to reverse it.) It happened this summer when I was closing my checking account with them.

The closing date was set to the day that the last scheduled charge was going to hit, and so they gave me my cashier's check with all the funds except the $25 for the last scheduled charge. But there was also going to be a credit for $0.10 in interest on the account (which was necessary to pay the $25 charge.)

Apparently the system was able to calculate all of that properly so that the debit matched up to the funds left in the account on the closing date, but on that day the debit was processed before the 10-cent credit. So they wanted to charge me $75 in fees because of a 10-cent overdraft that their system created!
I would like to disagree regarding the fact that over-draft fees are the realm of the poor. I've had the misfortune of being charged overdraft fees twice and both times were because I accidentally swiped my debit card and then realized I'd overspent. Both times, I wasn't spending more than I had. I had a substantial amount of cash in a separate saving account as well as my investment account. It was just my checking account that was low of cash.

As for BankSimple becoming the bank of the poor, I feel that it wouldn't be that big an issue. They site focuses on integrating technology for pretty much everything you need to do. Check depositing is by smartphone. There are no branches - everything is online/phone based. This will probably deter the poor to sign-up since people who have < $500 balance on their bank account probably aren't going about with a smartphone and a data plan.
The fact that banks collected 38 BILLION from customers in overdraft fees would seem to suggest that people AREN'T choosing to change their habits, even on such a simple thing as this.

Yes, by all means, make the banks stop gouging people like that (especially maximizing fee collection by ordering largest-to-smallest). But really, once you've suffered overdraft fees once, there's no excuse for suffering it again and again; especially not when there's such a simple solution as cash. As George W. Bush once said, "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — You can't get fooled again."
Consider iCloud — Apple now offers free-of-charge online services ad-free. It’s a sunk cost in the name of the overall experience for Apple device buyers.

BS, iCloud has paid upgrades, and I imagine those paid upgrades make the rest of the model break even or better, just like DropBox. It's not ad-model vs. devices-model, it's freemium product tacked onto device sales, further enhancing margins.

Glib, but wrong.
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Sounds like a great way to give your game a reputation as a bug-ridden piece of shit. This happened to The Witcher.

How about a delivery mechanism that uses technology in a sane manner and doesn't punch paying customers in the face with stupid bullshit?
I tried to get into it. They have wanted solid metrics, customers willing to buy, etc. And I haven't even started my project because I was in middle of university. I later decided to bootstrap, gut a lot of stuff and continue doing university.

Although they'll pay and train you once you get in, there's no assistance if you wanted to bootstrap. The person was very nice but said while it's a pretty novel project and nationally beneficial, that's how the program is at the moment.

It seems like they only wanted to fund small competing businesses, not innovative businesses.

You would be more better off with this scheme:

http://www.commercialisationaustralia.gov.au/
Time is rarely the limiting resource for a startup - attention is. Students (at least ones who want to somewhat keep up with their schoolwork) do not have more disposable attention than most working people. As a student, you need to balance your attention between 4-5 different courses, all of which have their own deadlines and assignments and new concepts to learn, and you'll probably be distracted by parties and girls and campus events and a social life. As an entry-level worker, you will probably be given a well-defined task to do and can focus on it, and once you go home, you don't need to worry about it.

I found it much easier to launch side projects once I got out of school, because I could leave my work at work and didn't really care about it anyway. I don't think I reached a level of distractedness equal to my college career until I made senior engineer (and hence have everyone asking me for advice) and started dating, 5 years later.
Cool. IBM finally has a CEO educated as an engineer running the company.
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Nor does there appear to be a way to toggle it from chrome://flags since it's not an experimental feature anymore. Is it worth opening an issue for this?
Yes, that's definitely evil. Mind you, you're not falling victim to that ploy again and again. Millions of others are.
I would rather depend on the market to correct the problem for people like you. There are many banks that will draft your Savings account if you overdraft your Checking account. Choose a new bank, and keep the government out of it.

It only becomes a regulatory issue because it is catastrophic for poor people. But once again, it's just a bandaid regulation if you make the practice illegal, because poor people will remain poor.
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After a long while of phone conversation, they told me "no". I went into the branch and talked to someone there. They also told me "no". Then their spouse walked in; I'd known their spouse for years it turned out! They wiped the fees out for me. That actually pissed me off a little more... But I certainly wasn't going to tell them that.

I've not overdrafted since.
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Interesting. I may be revealing some biases here, but I'm surprised that the performance of the C implementation is limited (I assume you mean slower) compared to the Java implementation.
Another trick: some banks count the purchase _authorization_ against your funds, rather than the _capture_, when you buy online. But the merchant may reject your order if the address verification failed. If you mistype your address multiple times, you've got multiple holds on your money. Even if the merchant voids the authorization, they conveniently don't process the voids immediately.

So you can end up with overdraft fees despite having enough money in your account!
#2 today could be solved with smartphones that relay their location?

ZigBee wireless sensors can be built rather cheaply if the intelligent components are centralized on the primary controller.
Is this what you intended? I see a like to Wharton's Strategic R&D management.
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Or you could just not buy shit that you can't afford.
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"Definitely the hardest year of my life, but I wouldn’t have it any other way."

The last line gave me pause and catapulted me in to the reply box when I had no intention of being here. But now that I'm here I'm going to give you my 0.02.

It is OK to regret the mistakes you've made.

There are plenty of awful things you did over the last year. Some were done with malice and some had more innocent intentions. Either way, I wouldn't accept "I'm happy where I am now" or "I've learned a lot since then" as a valid reason to not have regrets. Saying that you have no regrets shows a lack of awareness about how your actions have affected others and, in your case, borders on tasteless. You don't regret hurting her? You don't regret burning bridges with your past employer?

The reason that I write this is that I want to encourage you to not settle for aphorisms in place of real reflection about how you really feel about the last year. Your regrets shape your future. It's important to pay them their due.
heh, my phone conversations ended much the same. They told me to go to the branch where I opened my account as well. A state away. (As I mentioned elsewhere, I got them wiped off eventually.)
It's really a stretch to believe that Siri is how Apple is going to compete with Google and Microsoft on search -- Apple doesn't do search! Siri calls out to existing search services from Google and Wolfram Alpha to do the actual work.

Apple isn't good at services; iCloud may be the most satisfactory result after a long list of so-so and downright terrible attempts. There's no technology here that either Google or Microsoft couldn't do better.
Regardless of whether the amount is enough to fund scientific research endeavors (which range at > 250k/ year), Breakout Labs is a reflection of the current nature of scientific research.

The NIH or other foundations tend only to fund "safe" research proposals. Someone with a more radical idea with no funding resources is effectively shut down. 50k may not be enough to research something for a year, but it may be enough to prototype an idea. Win for creativity, win for science.
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding.

It is patents like this that render the innovative entrepreneurial market to a suffocating doom.

And no, it's not just Apple, of course - I'm not focussing on them particularly. They were just lucky enough to be the subject of this HN post.

Disgusting.
I first heard of Hubot from Zach Holman here:

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He also posts great stuff on his own site FWIW here: http://zachholman.com/
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"No war needs to be fought."

No war needs to be fought: If you want to allow evil people to either run the world or continue with atrocities. Because we are not always dealing with rational people, brute force is sometimes the only answer.
I wish people would not downvote based on their own personal opinions.
I hate this. I hate the way banks try to think up underhanded ways of screwing their customers (like cashing checks in largest to lowest so they can bounce as many as possible).

Having said that, the old "Store your money here so we can lend it to others" business model is not as profitable as it used to be.

Edit: Removed reference to interest rates.
I am generally against certification in most fields, but...

1) It's very hard to identify a good lawyer. If we (as true libertarians) did away with the bar exam, wouldn't someone create an exam so those unable to tell good lawyers from bad would have something to look at?

2) Don't we have enough (more than enough?) lawyers and law suits already?

3) They claim lawyers are overpaid. I only find this to be true in large corporate law firms.

Maybe a compromise is do away with law schools but not the bar?
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Part of me wants to say that is a paranoid view, but I must confess that the degree to which the purchase price ramps up so quickly is a source of concern for me.

$2M to $6M is a dramatic difference. It's plausible to say that they're trying to do a deal that sounds like $6M but is, in reality, $2M.
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I completely agree with you about the trust issue, but if nothing else comes of this I do hope it forces Valve to reconsider their stance on in-game purchases. EA is completely in the right about that, as much as I hate to agree with them.
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It amazes me that they didn't do this for the PS3. Many tablet are making the same mistakes today.
Very true. Some aren't inquisitive enough to find out why/how they're being screwed.
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I don't know if this is unambiguously a step forward from license sales or tacky ads... It could be just me, but don't "The Just-Buy-Our-Devices Model" and "just-buy-our-devices-and-look-at-all-the-cool-shit-you-get-with-them" sound a lot like the way computer manufacturers competed with one another in Elder Days?

Genuine question - wasn't there, myself.
Longtime lurker, first time OP. Apologies if it's poor form to post your own writing. I was motivated to write by an HN comment to the Fiplab guys a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979091
I see their changes, now, with their latest results. It doesn't look like the market really expected the lack of profit though, so it will be interesting to see where the stock ends up soon.

I'd like to own amazon stock for the long haul, I'm just not into spending quite the premium that the market wanted recently. If they get beaten down enough, it'll be time to buy.
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Very nice work Matthias.
What bothers me the most is that there are engineers who will use their creative skills in such a way.

Their precious human capital could be used to create further knowledge and advance progress, instead it's used to exploit.
I'm not too well-versed in research funding, but NSF CAREER awards seem to be around twice that (i.e. $100k to $600k) for a few years of funding. I suppose the recipient would probably be getting funding from other sources as well?

As for building a good app, I don't know if I'd expect a what gets produced by a conventional research group to be a nicely polished, ready-to-deploy app. Grad students are probably somewhat cheaper than developers too.
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Doesn't have to be ads. Suppose you run a restaurant. When someone asks their phone about restaurants nearby, how much would you pay to have your restaurant preferentially mentioned before other restaurants? How much would you pay to get access to a list of questions people ask about restaurant-related terms near you, and how the person reacted to the results? Did they ask further questions about your restaurant? Did they view your page? Did their phone's GPS indicate that they visited your establishment?
I have yet to read Steve's bio, however, based on the information that I have seen over the years from both large scale and rumor based media, I can say with confidence that he was a marketing wizard.

I have nothing to say regarding his demeanor until I finish Isaacson's work, but unless it turns out that he was another Edison finagling Tesla, I doubt my opinion will change too much.
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Why did this get downvoted? I'm not trolling, and if I'm wrong I'm interested in hearing why. One of the other three posts seems to be saying a similar thing, too.

I'm comparing against IE5 and Netscape 4 since those were browsers of the same era and neither was all that great in following standards either and they of course don't support newer standards created over the years. Wouldn't web developers be complaining at similar levels if a large percentage of users were still running Netscape 4?

Also, I'm pretty sure the poster is referring to IE6 the browser rather than Microsoft's Internet strategy around that time since it says that "IE9 is better".

I think my point behind making the distinction is that IE6 developers should not feel any shame; it was a decent browser for its time; Microsoft IE management (or perhaps MS upper management) from the time immediately after IE6 release hold the blame.