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He'd still have access to his books if he'd installed the Kindle desktop application and had synced all of them down to his desktop.

In fact, something is a bit weird here, because whatever books were on the Kindle itself should still be there. There's no mention of it having been remotely wiped.

Edited to add: I don't want to minimize this issue, though. Because being locked out of your account means you can't buy books or grab the freebies that pop up. Right now I'm suffering a bit like that due to account confusion I need to resolve with Amazon. Seems I have an older account they won't delete and from time to time Amazon gets confused and sends me to it -- and the first time that happened, I thought all my books were gone (the older acct never had books). A phone call straightened it out. And now I must do that again.
Last I checked their adCenter required Windows and threw up a complaint about nonstandards compliant browsers (like Chrome). They are completely lost.
In Chrome, entering text into the middle of the page and hitting enter or the search button results in nothing happening.
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Look, I'm normally pretty easy going, but it's just like to say it's people like YOU that are ruining the internet. I really wish all the SEO-cretins would just go find something else to do with their time.
Have you thought about trying the yellow background as well based on your comment about how some people think it's the best result?

I have to admit I'm split on the ad. On one hand, I feel that it's deceptive, because I expect ads to look like ads. When they start to blend too much, I feel it's "cheating". Similar in a way to how I feel when a crafted-to-become-viral video ends up being an ad for something.

On the other hand, I'm thinking "why not?". The site allowed you to have such an ad and people are looking for a product similar to yours, so…

It's definitely skirting the line…
You also have competition from the big guns with access to stuff like machine readable news feeds:

http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/financial/financ...
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You probably have AdBlock on.
A trial of this nature could end as a fantastic promotion for Grooveshark, assuming they can survive it.
I don't want to be the "yeah, same thing happened to me!" guy, but I had an awful experience with E*trade, back when their stock went down I decided to move some of my money to Bank of america... That wire took about three years to complete, only a few months ago they freed up my $100k account, which was not getting interests from them or anything, they could never tell me what had happened, they said "something" went wrong with the wire and so they locked my account.

Needless to say, I'm not doing business with them any time soon!
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It depends on the technology that you use but many runtime environments allow the IDE to provide environment like configuration in the project properties, I tend to like to use that approach over specialized config files because the project files are wholly separate from the code base. For example the JVM allow you to send flags to it on initialization, Netbeans and Eclipse provide an interface to manage those flags from a development perspective, to the JVM they look no different than environmental variables and therefore the absence of the project files means that it transparently gets that configuration from the environment. I am a fan of that solution over specialized config files that are developed by the development team.
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In general when dealing with the cloud, I agree. But DRM often makes doing this very difficult by design.
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That's mine.

I can't imagine writing for another publisher after hearing about all the awful things that happen to people's books. I'm very lucky. Sounds like you had a really rough time. :(
Is it safe to assume that eBooks will eventually go through a similar lifecycle as mp3s? Where, at first, publishers force DRM on items sold, but eventually give in because of customer complaints and demands regarding stuff like what happened in this article?
I have a Kindle 3, and I only use 3rd party content, i.e. none of the 100ish books on my kindle were bought from Amazon. None have DRM. I can read them fine.
It wont. No legitimate developer would replace JS with it if that requirement existed.
What's wrong with OKCupid's matching algorithm for me is that I can't get to use it at all! I just can't log in. I've been trying for the last 2 months, they just keep saying "Sorry, we're having technical difficulties right now. Check back later.". I have searched news for an explaination of a major OKCupid outage and found nothing. Is it just me?
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Once upon a time I was an engineer totally scornful of effective marketing, but I have gradually gotten over it. After thinking it over, this is aggressive but within my comfort envelope. The ad is honest about being an ad, makes a straightforward commercial proposition (“Sign up for a free trial”) to an audience that I think will respond well to that, and is pretty true by the standards of marketing copy. It is designed to catch clicks only from people interested in signing up for a free trial of Bingo Card Creator, and sends them straight to a landing page where they can do just that.

I wish there was a way to dynamically generate the image such that I could provide a more exact star valuation, but in the context of a sponsored placement, “Rated 5 starts by lots” is both non-specific and true. Lots of people have used BCC, and when I ask for star ratings in internal surveys I get something like 4.8 on a volume of hundreds or thousands. I think this compares favorably with “9 out of 10 dentists agree” and other pretty banal marketing copy.

Your ad is obviously designed to deceive the user into thinking that it is an organic listing. Evil.
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It's true, but that's a valid way to approach the question. The problem is that grandparent will have more misses (people who legitimately believe that the earth is larger than the sun by the assumed metric) than hits (people who think outside of the box by using a different metric).
I disagree. I would rather ads blend in and disappear than be flashing in my face. If I click on something that sounds interesting and it turns out to be an ad, then they did a good job with it, because clearly it's something I'm interested in. If I'm not interested in it, the back button is easy to get to.
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Amen. Given the current scarcity, any decent developer can easily find a job further north.
What he said was that Dart will compile into JS.

Natively run Dart will (otherwise, what's the point) than the JS it can be compiled into. What I forsee is some kind of conditional that will allow Chrome to run the Dart code, and other browser get served the compiled-into-JS.

Demanding an extension installation is a no-go.
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I don't doubt I'd probably have a very similar experience to yours with my device. It's entirely possible that I could use it as intended for the next ten years and never experience a single hiccup with the service.

I guess worrying about those edge cases just kind of comes naturally, perhaps a little too much personal experience with Murphy's Law?

Perhaps really my chief complaint boils down to the stereotypical issue with DRM: If I paid for a book, why do I need your permission to read it?
Because the structure is initialized, the compiler has to lay it out in memory, and fill out the fields.

If it was left uninitialized, it would've simply reserve space for it, but won't allocate anything in memory (compiler memory), and then the linker is just going to increase the BSS section (uninitialized data) with it's size.

Later the program may or may not run. Some systems might allow many gigabytes of uninitialized data. Others simply won't.
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I'm sure many of these same concerns apply to the Kindle

Not really. I have a Kindle 3, and have loads of non-DRM-ed, 3rd party books on it.
I agree, predicting purely on lagging information is no good. We had this comment before and that's why we are currently working on distinguishing between a news stating a fact that occurred in the past, present or future. With that, we'll be able to present what the market thinks of the future price movements. For example, an author saying: "we expect copper to surge in the coming months", would be recognized as a future statement and factored in the future bullbear index. Or something like that.
Except that the existing developers aren't all doing fine with SVN. As referenced in the post, both CouchDB and PhoneGap (existing "workhorse" Apache projects!) prefer to use git, but have met with strong opposition from the ASF.

The time to allow for Git usage is already here. It's not just pie in the sky forecasting -- existing projects are being held back by bureaucracy.
I think that it's silly to blame the user because they waited a month. You have no idea what was going on in that person's life to cause them to wait that long. You also don't know that person's personality. Maybe they are a major procrastinator. Maybe they are phone phobic.

To say that the person was obviously in the wrong/doing something shady/to blame just because of how long they waited seems like you're really stretching to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt.
For one, when your trying to disrupt something doing more of the same everyone is doing is probably not the right way to do it.

Service providers talk, they talk to their customers they talk to their competition - otherwise they provide a shitty service, which doesn't bring in much money, which gets you out of business.

Imagine this conversation:

Provider Alice: Hey I just got my first daily deal out the door. Hope it recuperates the steep cost in the long term.

Provider Bob: Cool, where did you do it?

Provider Alice: Groupon Clone X! Because...

Provider Bob: Nice, I do all my deals on Disruptive service Y, which costs me only a fraction of the Groupon Clone X.

Provider Alice: Motherfucker...

What I'm trying to say is that this market is a race to the bottom and will probably enter the schoolbooks as an example of a dead-end business opportunity.
I was surprised to hear about Dart. A closer look at Google's other new language (Go), shows a statically typed, compiled language that can be safely sand-boxed. For example, look at how Google has included Go in AppEngine. Additionally, there has been work at compiling Go to another project of theirs, Native Client (NaCl). It still seems like this might be a good match.
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Turn off your phone in the mall? Yea, right. Now there's great advice from someone who's in touch with modern reality:

1985 - If I don't see you again, I'll figure you ran into your friends and went home with them.

1989 - Meet me at the fountain at 6:00.

1992 - If you need anything, see Linda at the Gap. She'll know where to find me.

1996 - If there's an emergency, beep me and go to mall security.

1999 - Find a payphone and call my mobile phone when you get hungry.

2003 - Call my cell when you're ready to leave.

2006 - Post any good bargains on my Facebook wall.

2008 - Follow me on Twitter to see what I'm up to every 7 minutes.

2009 - Foursquare will let you know where I'm at.

2010 - Just check the Groupon emails I sent you to see where I plan to shop.

2011 - Text me immediately if you see a line anywhere. It's probably an early unpublished Black Friday special and we should get into that line now. I'll stop by REI and buy a tent and sleeping bags; you get some protein bars and Gatorade.
The issue I take is when they're blatantly trying to makes ads look like legitimate content.
Algorithms are core CS and I would definitely recommend taking them prior to other courses. The best way to know what to take first is to take a look at course prerequisites and the program tracks:

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I meant Kindle books, from Amazon.
We are looking into adding time information. See me reply to jnorthrop. Essentially, we are working on distinguishing between a news stating a fact that occurred in the past, present or future. Also, a time horizon has been requested before.
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IPO one week. Dead the next. So much for Angieslist.
Is this just a ruse to get us all to disable AdBlock for his site? :)
Whenever I buy a book from Amazon, the first thing I do immediately after the purchase is strip the DRM and store a copy of the unprotected .mobi file. I'm concerned about Amazon's new announced ebook format that I'll lose the ability to do this. If and when that happens, I won't purchase anymore books from them.
The physical world is quite different. If I have my phone with me, and on, then I can do things which I might not otherwise do. If my wife were expecting and nearly due, or my client might call, then I could shop and still be available if needed.

This adds another factor - how much do I want to be tracked?

For web sites I can (and do!) have different browsers for different tasks. I use Firefox for Facebook, and regularly write FB cookies on Safari. But in the physical world of this example, I can't work around things by getting two mobile phones.
I also have been extremely happy with my kindle. The closest I have to a complaint is the limit on the number of devices that can be authorized for certain books, and even that is normally reasonable. The cloud based reader accessible through a browser also makes that restriction less painful (though I wish they would enable highlighting...)

But I still have concerns about the DRM. Amazon seems extremely stable, but things in tech move fast. Even if Amazon survives, I may eventually want to move to a completely different reader from a company that doesn't exist now, and the DRM will make it hard to take my library with me.

I love the cloud drive player Amazon rolled out for MP3s, but I have it redundantly backed up on 2 harddrives. With the Kindle content I don't have that option.
This is a good example of the problem with review articles and it's very well done. Totally straight-faced until the part about children smoking.

However, I think the use of nicotine as a performance enhancer (not smoking though) is a pretty interesting subject. I've tried chewing nicotine gum and using a patch just to see if I noticed a difference (just a brief experiment I would never do it chronically). I did. Much better concentration, focus, energy etc.

I'm curious to see how the "electric cigarette" phenomenon goes. That would be a way to deliver nicotine without the other risks of smoking.

From what I understand nicotine is a carcinogen on its on, but I don't know how strong of one it is.

It would also be fun to see if we could synthesize non-carcinogenic molecules based on the nicotine molecule with all the positive performance enhancing effects.
Six hours later: yeah, didn't think so.
Thanks. But do you trade off this data that you generate? ie. do you eat your own dog food?
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I understand, but when you say "ruining the internet", I would prefer deceptive ads that blend in than those that make my eyes bleed, which is often the case with banner ads.
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requires the user to learn an unusual programming language
and a dozen of inscrutable keyboard shortcuts.

It doesn't require that, but up until now the only people that cared about "customizable tiling window managers" were people that wanted to do so. Most of these window managers are created by programmers/terminal junkies that would prefer that most things be a text interface. Just look at ratpoison and stumpwm. They're made to have an Emacs-like interface to the window manager. How accessible is an Emacs interface to a non-technical user?
There are other, more popular ways to game the system that have nothing to do with the algorithm (cf. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ekd1o/iam_my_own_okcup...).
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That part actually surprised me quite a bit. I was taught in school that there are five continents (Eurasia, Africa, America, Antarctica, Oceania). I was also told that this is an arbitrary and unimportant definition, but I've always believed that to be the common convention.
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The default xmonad session just launches xmonad. Usually people want other things like pulse-audio, a power manager (like gnome-power-manager), etc launched.

This is why people want to use XMonad as Gnome's window manager.
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The difference is I can't adblock text.
F3 was Reveal Codes, iirc.
As far as I can tell, the Nook is perfectly fine with non-DRM'd 3rd-party EPUB's and PDF's (the only limitation being the amount of internal storage on the device allotted for 3rd-party stuff).

I have no idea if it works with DRM'd 3rd-party content, though.
It isn't, which is why I'm surprised more people don't opt out of those things.

Both physical analytics and electronic analytics are reprehensible, imo.
> what guarantees do I have that I can still read those books if B&N goes under

As the MSN Music shutdown (and others) demonstrated, quite possibly none at all. That's how DRM works.

There's no DRM media allowed in my house. I plan to live a lot longer than most companies' digital media divisions will!
I thought one of the reasons that people didn't like ion3 was because the developer was really unpleasant.
Irony of ironies... all the images on his page are blocked by adblock.
You should make a dating site advertising that as its key feature.

Most everyone who would join it would be a giant nerd, even moreso than OkC, but that'd significantly increase average compatibility!
If they called it Digital Permissions/Privileges Management, sales would suffer and we all know that's worse than the winds of Hell.
The author's response to a comment destroys the article's credibility by saying the difference between '==' and '===' is purely stylistic. I think somewhere down the line the author started to run before he could walk and that'll definitely come back to haunt him.
Microsoft has long since lost the ability to shape the face of the web. While they do contribute to w3c here and there, at the end of the day the webkit and firefox teams are going to control where it goes. The question isn't whether or not it has Microsoft's support, the question is whether or not javascript is flawed enough to put the effort needed into releasing a new scripting language engine with browsers.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
It says "sponsored placement", which is true because the website put the ad right in the middle of the organic results.
I've had the opposite experience as you. While the kindle is a very sexy device, all it really does well is the reading part. However, pretty much every e-reader does that part well.

The thing I hate most though is the whole Kindle experience. Buying e-books from Amazon is kind of scammy since there's no confirmation page when you buy books and there's no way to turn off one-click for kindle books. Also, I wasn't able to find where to refund the book at all when I clicked "buy" thinking that there would be a confirmation page.

Also, the syncing is kinda broken because if you click a link in the book and end up in the appendix, there's no easy way to reset the furthest page read. Finally, epub is such a "free-ing" format since I can purchase books from Google books as well. Sync is just a minor convenience since e-book sellers will usually let you re-download the book anyway if you've purchased it.
Dude, what non technical users? We're talking about Linux window managers.

I'm a technical user. I program for a living. I don't care to learn Haskell in order to use a window manager :P. This is all I'm saying.
Your point about being a loser is exactly the kind of thing that hurts people more than helps them. Don't get me wrong, I get your point and the way you put it really makes sense. Yes, I'm sure failing can lead to depression and I have no doubt that it happens. But consider this.

Very often the very thing that creates a "loser" is not a personal failing but actually a symptom of depression. People will fly off the handle on me for not citing a study but it's the best I've got right now. I'll take my own case. From birth I was as happy and normal as anyone. Smart as anything, lots of success, and so on. Suddenly depression comes out of nowhere. The symptoms of depression brought me to a point where I could no longer work, study, or do anything really. It also led me to self medicate and become an addict. That's the point where my situation fed my depression and made it worse much like you describe.

Stories like this are very common from the depressed. Everyone fails at some point but that failure doesn't always lead to depression. People just pick up the pieces and move on.

So while what you say could likely be true for some, it's most likely not true for most NAND even if it is, that line of thought prevents people from seeking the help they need soon enough if at all. They come to think that they are flawed and weak which then feeds the depression beast and on top of it they believe that they can somehow snap themselves out of it and become "strong" by sheer will power.

Your comment also implies that there's no difference between situational depression and other forms of the disease. You could also read it as saying depression is the same as being really really sad. I know you didn't mean it that way and I can't blame you for it. Honestly, people who haven't been there will have thoughts like these. That's why I always argue for more education and it's why the professionals keep shoving the "it's a disease" line down our throats. Because people who don't have the experience are inadvertently doing harm to those who need help.

And you're right, I might have been just a touch sensitive. It's not that I take it personally. It's just that having seen myself and others in that situation I know that they'd cringe for fear that some poor soul will take it to heart and actually try to will their way out of it instead of seeking help.
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The analogy carries: there are things you can't do or are more tedious when you're opting out. You have to whitelist things for FlashBlock and AdBlock, your preferences aren't saved in private mode, etc. Moreover, I can still get your IP address and correlate your browser fingerprint, with reasonable confidence, to other visits you've made while using your private browser.

Likewise, you could easily have a cash-prepaid phone you use for times you don't want to be tracked and use Google Voice to forward calls to it.

The point is, you really can't opt out of tracking on the internet as easily as you're suggesting.