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It's a shame about Yelp. A great product with truly valuable content, entirely stagnant.

For one thing, it's awful for discovery of new places. Want to find a high-rated restaurant near you that serves a specific dish? Well, have a good time wading through random crap entirely unrelated to that. My favorite recently was searching for ice cream and getting a hospital, because someone's review mentioned how the cafeteria didn't have any.

Beyond that, what's the point of contributing all this content to Yelp? The value of the site remains constant whether you review zero businesses or 100. Back to discovery, Yelp is working with an enormous corpus of data at this point. You're telling that we can't compare my review behavior against others who've reviewed the same spots and shake out a few recommendations? Users and businesses both would really benefit from this.

You could even make things more interesting for more accomplished users, handicapping individual restaurant scores based on past review behavior.

It's a great tool for vetting if a restaurant you've already discovered is actually any good. But when you look at all the unique opportunities it has to really redefine how people find and choose food and other businesses, it's hard not to shake your head and sigh.

I discovered Yelp when I moved to the Bay Area nearly two years ago. The product has only plateaued in that time, while my opinion of it has steadily eroded thanks to its flaky search boning me during mobile food quests. Don't even get me started about its obnoxious nagging in the mobile app to get you to use social features.

Is it really worthwhile for investors to buy part of a company with a mostly bi-coastal, American userbase whose product's best days seem to be behind it? Is it just a "Hey, invest in us, we're kinda Groupon-y because we make money from local businesses" kind of thing?
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Looks like they're finally up - just got my order in. Not sure if it corresponds to anything, but my order number is just below 1500.
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During the signup/checkout process they ask if you're porting a number to republic, so I'm assuming they support it (or will in the near future).
What you fail to realize is just how much fun it is to whore yourself out as a 'food snob'.

Don't know about you, but everyone I know (I live in Seattle mind you) loves being the critical judge. Yelp isn't so much about discovery as it is a facebook status bar and karma generator.

In my experience, the actual reviews on Yelp are entirely hit or miss. I've been to well-rated places and had miserable experiences. I usually rely on Urbanspoon for actual reviews. Yelp is more of a hipster circlejerk.
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Well, it could also be set up as an option pool, etc. I don't think it adds any significant friction.
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You are quite right, of course. One should only tolerate such quick and dirty solutions if M is much bigger than n - but then, that is often the case.
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Computers can probably learn English as soon as they have learned Lojban. (Does that make sense? Assume a program that can understand Lojban. Then write a program, in Lojban, that understands the basic English grammar and the major exceptions. Then add the ability to deduce minor exceptions.)
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I agree with all these points, except with respect to Twitter. There is one case where I have seen Twitter impact SEO and that's in getting a new URL indexed fast, and in local SEO... Lots of tweets about a local-related page from people whose (legit) accounts are located in the same region seem to help for local keywords.
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Out of curiosity, would something like this render the problem moot? http://www.meritline.com/super-mini-cigarette-lighter-gps-bl...
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Let's assume they just have to describe in it sufficient detail to someone with technical skills who would implement it for them.

I'm pretty sure it would still suck because they wouldn't know to translate their intuitive understanding of how to leverage social dynamics to gain popularity with how to facilitate them in software. But it's hard to be sure, and would depend on the latent design skill hidden in your "popular person".

I think most people don't know how to approach software design, even from a UI perspective. It's hard even for professionals. You would have to get lucky with a person who happens to get it intuitively.
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Wow, this is awesome. I prefer using a desktop program for multiple checking, but this is very nice looking. Thanks for the resource.
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Yeah. Have to agree with you here. I just tested this recently , getting a few hundred retweets of an obscure URL ranking on page 4 for an obscure term and it moved to page 2 within a few days. I suspect Google may not be getting Twitter data directly (or getting it as fast as when they had the direct relationship), but, at the very least, there's a strong second-order impact between pages earning lots of tweets and getting ranked.

Our latest public post on this is here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/do-tweets-still-effect-rankings but we'll continue to test and try to get more definitive answers.
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I think Patrick was referring to traditional page rank and general search results as opposed to local or news.
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Well now you're talking about morality. I honestly had no idea that that's what you were referring to in your post.
Wow, amazing to hear that it's finally here. I have an email from June 22, 2010 confirming my invitation request, hopefully I'll see something soon.
and thanks to you too for writing this so that those of us who don't have the benefit of being there can learn as well :)
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Suggestion as many has pointed to swap the Orange and White color.
And one request, can you put HN link instead of direct article link as i want to view the discussion on that article too.
I'm not Patrick, and hopefully he'll chime in to answer as well, but one thing to note is that you CAN specify the preferred URL (e.g., www.example.com or just example.com) in Google's Webmaster Tools[1] to let Google know which one you prefer.

Obviously, if you set it to be just example.com, don't have all your promotional materials link to the other, and somewhat less obviously, please be aware that what you set as preferred for Google doesn't necessarily mean squat to Yahoo, Bing, AltaVista or whomever.

I'm not as qualified to touch on the rest, but thought this might be at least a little useful.

[1] - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
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A "Hello World" example might take a while to pan out.
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Even if you place an order, it looks like the wait time is 30-60 days...
That all sounds reasonable... but you'd think if somebody was going to squat on some IP address space, they'd pick somebody other than the DoD to mess with. :-)

Actually I do that quite often as the DoD's IP allocations are fixed and well known. I figure that since nothing on my networks should ever be talking to the DoD anyway, the worst that will happen is that DoD spyware can no longer phone home. No big loss :)

Wait, maybe I shouldn't have said that on a public forum...
This "inappropriate use" thing seems to read a little sketchy. Especially because further down in the TOS in 18(b)(iv) they state it's a violation to "modify any software included in any Mobile Device(s)."

I know they probably won't fine you $500 or charge you exorbitantly if you root your phone. But under the terms here aren't you're basically agreeing that they can if they want?
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That is pretty shocking that you could mess up a chisel... that seems like something people could figure out a single good design for and repeat for eternity.
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> It appears they weren't able to design their site to scale quickly under high load.

Or just that they did not optimize for that.
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Yes, you're totally cool to use either site.tld or www.site.tld. I'd recommend using a 301 redirect of one to the other (Google and Bing are pretty good at automatically canonicalizing these, but not perfect).

The trouble comes when you segment content to subdomain.site.com. The domain authority engines assign to a root domain may not always pass to all the subdomains, so you end up with subpar rankings to what you could earn.

As an example, we launched the Beginner's Guide to SEO on guides.seomoz.org and moved it after a few months to www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo (where it currently lives). It had earned tons of links prior to that move, but the day after the 301 back to the main domain (away from the guides subdomain), it jumped to #1 rankings for all sorts of terms, including "seo guide" (recently got beat out by Google's SEO guide and is now #2). This was a good illustration of the power of keeping content in a single sub/root domain location for us.
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$0.45 per bill? Surely that wasn't the shipped price you were looking for - stamps alone are 0.44 each... On top of that, it's a very labor intensive service.
You've just described the business model of a surprisingly large number of consultancies. One man's obvious is the next man's "magic". AFAICT businesses are happy to pay for this sort of thing, so I'm not sure who deserves blame here.
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

This book takes takes this approach with a number of its examples and projects.

And I think the book is a good introduction to programming and Python.
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I know you have a image preview on the site. Returning that through the API would be cool too.
This is pretty sound and basic SEO if you want to spend your time making dozens of very basic wordpress blogs about particular topics to grab some easy money.

Nothing wrong with this if you have time on the weekends, heck this could even be a fulltime job as the income will slowly climb.

However, this 'trick' is quite old, but probably new to some people...
If true, I believe it would be healthy for the mobile web.

There are still developers out there who believe that Adobe will come up with a decent mobile Flash experience, even though it has failed to deliver on those promises for the better part of a decade. If Adobe just comes out says "Not gonna happen", we can all move on and invest our time and energy in technologies that actually have a future.
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It's very nice to see Adobe embracing open standards. I look forward to the day when I can completely give up Flash (for Hulu) and Silverlight (for Netflix) completely.[1] They are the source of almost all the issues and browser crashes I've experienced.

I never would have guessed it in the 1990s, but in this day and age, native applications and open web standards are the way to go. Java held such promise for time, as did flash, etc.

I wonder if their declines are due to their essentially proprietary nature, or due to poor technical choices made by their stewards. (though the latter could be called an example of the former.)

[1] In fact, since Hulu is doing so much better than netflix these days I think we'll be giving up netflix completely before too long. I would have thought the ads would be an issue, but Hulu has streaming down solid, and Netflix for whatever reason is more flakey.
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It wastes energy - a lot of it. In the manufacturing, in transportation, and tied up in capital equipment.
Why not have some fun with it - give it to an interstate trucker, or to your Aunt who is heading off to Australia...
My colleague will be meeting one of Adobe Senior VP's in a few weeks. For sure I'll send him a few questions to ask. A lot about HTML5.
i noticed that too. it builds the contact link, so the obfuscation is to hide the email address from spammers.
Any complaints about their solution? It seems good from where I'm sitting, assuming Sprint has good coverage.
Probably not.

It was previously known as MS11-064, a Denial of Service bug. Someone expanded on the vulnerability and got remote code execution out of it.
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thank you for the explanation. I'm really sorry but I don't agree that this is the way going forward. You claim that serializability is not needed to achieve consistency. I agree up to the point that it's only possible if the conflicts are recognized and transactions aborted.

What is the benefit here? As an application developer I need to restart the transaction and hope it's not going to fail again - hence I'm serializing the execution on my own...

On top of all this, when it comes to constraints in relational model they can be complex and the probability of failing transactions is just going to grow. I can see this working only if I start relaxing on my constraints and redirecting transactions in such a way that conflicting transactions are coming to the database already serialized.

What about restarting transactions within NuoDB transparently as soon as an update conflict has occurred?
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Unfortunately, users are still going to be demanding for a while that their online flash games work.
Flash has been dead tech walking on mobile ever since Apple passed on it after years of vapourware promises and getting nowhere fast with performance issues -- ones that still persist today on the devices that actually have a Flash player.

Jobs especially was roundly criticized for his public stance on this, but in the end, he was proved right: Adobe never could get Flash working properly on a low-powered device.
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It is basically a hack that combines VoIP over WiFi with Sprint cellular service, the latter of which is limited as described in the TOS.
I really hope Adobe can make the transition to a standards-based world fast enough for them to remain a significant player. It is so hard for a mega-company to wean itself from the fat margins of a proprietary world they created.
This part sounds like cargo cult black magic: "This works for .com (.edu, .org) domains, but not for non-US TLDs like .co or .ly." Does Google really discriminate based on TLDs?
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Cool, thanks for the info. I still wonder what happened to the Russian security researching who was tweeting about the fifth 0-day and then vanished...
Did Adobe ever put a serious effort into mobile Flash development? It seems they were more interested in blaming Apple for the lack of mobile Flash than actually doing the work required to make Flash a remotely viable option for mobile devices.

I wonder, what was the catalyst that caused Adobe to admit what everyone else already knew? Perhaps they saw the 5 year anniversary of the iPhone on horizon and figured enough BS is enough.
Since Adobe's fat margins were from authoring tools, presumably that opportunity still exists. AFAIK none of the existing HTML5 authoring tools are close to Flash in power.
I don't know you and what you say won't give you more credibility. Your points are subjective because they fall under theories.

Don't point them out like facts.
Is it wrong that the first thing I though when I saw that page was 'Twitter Bootstrap'? Think I need to get out more...

nope, i see a site with a black bar at the top and blue buttons and it reminds me of this:

http://i.imgur.com/31kwM.png

it looks generic and i wish people would use bootstrap as more of a guide than a complete theme.
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> I'd prefer that applications used my RAM since unused RAM is just wasted electricity.

I... but... er...

This is probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on this site.

You could write a two line C program that allocates all the memory on your system and then sits in a loop doing nothing, but then you'd be wasting even more electricity because your hdd would be reading/writing to your swap space. :|

> I'd rather have it used than have to fetch something from disk or the network.

Modern operating systems do use your free memory for cache. Linux will regularly chill at 90%+ memory usage (the majority being cache that can be freed instantly when other apps need it) and Windows has SuperFetch which does basically the same thing as I understand.
They've already been making this transition for at least a year and probably planning it for even longer than that -- look at Muse, look at Edge.

Adobe doesn't give a crap about the Flash Player for its own sake, it was just a loss leader for their tools business, which anyone who has been paying attention would have noticed started leaning towards html and away from Flash a while ago now.
According to the article, Adobe isn't giving up on Flash altogether. They're simply admitting that Flash does not and will not work on mobile devices.

The people who currently play Flash games on the desktop will continue to be able to do so. However, if a game developer wants to offer a good mobile experience, they'll have to make it using web standards. And if they're going to do that, why build it again in Flash for the desktop?
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FDR took office in March of 1933, which looks like when things got better.
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It looks like this newly submitted article is reasonably thoughtful and informed. The distinction between job categories vulnerable to globalization and those less vulnerable is interesting, and points out that some college-degree-requiring jobs may be increasingly outsourced.

But degree-seekers decide whether or not to get degrees at the individual level, and sometimes after already deciding on a career. I've not posted in some of the other recent threads about the supposed uselessness of college degrees, and I want to provide a different perspective on the issue. While reading about IQ testing research, specifically directed to the issue of IQ tests as qualifications for being hired for full-time employment, I saw the striking statement that at ALL levels of IQ, an engineer will enjoy better career prospects than a technician. In many business corporations and government agencies (perhaps there are some exceptions), the distinction between being hired as a "technician" and being hired as an "engineer" is mostly determined by the absence or presence of a college degree. The lifetime earnings difference (remember, this is for persons with the same IQ) between a technician and an engineer is more than enough to justify investing in getting a college degree in engineering.

I do not claim this generalizes to the difference between an "office assistant" and an "office manager" (which perhaps is also defined mostly by higher education credentials) but that would be an empirical issue to look at. If college study has signaling value in the job market, and perhaps also provides some practical training for being in one job category rather than another, whoever you are, however smart you are, you may be well advised to seek a college degree.

For the more college-skeptical view of Charles Murray, see "Down with the Four-Year College Degree!":

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Anyone consider the idea that maybe they put up the current message as a ploy to perpetuate the image that demand was overwhelming? Seems to be a solid strategy for drumming up more publicity.

Seems to be somewhat possible considering their other marketing materials.
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Does anyone know what phone they are shipping with this?
When you own both the authoring tools and the runtime, the world is your oyster. Sure, HTML5 authoring tools suck today, and it will be a huge boon if Adobe leads the way to the promised land. But the barriers to entry for others to then go the same way is so much lower than in Adobe's previous environment.

Well, it will be very interesting ride over the next few years!