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There needs to be a better solution than deleting your profile and starting from scratch.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/ should do just fine?
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I threw my smartphone out 2 years ago. I got another one only a week ago and don't use it, it is sitting in my drawer. Best decision I ever made.
FYI this actually happened: http://venturebeat.com/2010/03/03/life-investment/
Grass-fed beef is leaner than fattier corn-fed beef.
Here is a slightly modified version, http://goo.gl/kYIBX this proves that love is complicated (jff).
This sounds like a really cool idea! Will give it a whirl
I think you might be somewhat lonely in this good will campaign for SAP.

In my decade-long career as a lawyer for customers who buy enterprise IT, the only company that I consider more obnoxious across the table than SAP is Oracle. If you are doing business with these companies, you pretty much deserve what you get. I've seen a few CIOs lose their jobs when ERP falls apart (it almost always does, for a variety of reasons).

I'm not saying there isn't a bunch of useful technology, but these aren't technology companies – they're sales organizations, and that side of the business is not pretty. I can't understand why anyone does business with obnoxious sales organizations like these in 2011.
I'm saddened by the fact that this is #2 on HN.

The entire thing is one big fat straw-man argument. The author (the bored one) didn't even mention FB in the article in question. The author (the attacking one) pulled that out of thin air based on little more than:

>From what I get of her article, if it’s not Apple or a startup, she’s not interested

Then he proceeds to refute the argument that he just set up by enlisting stats...not even convincing ones at that.

And finally whether something is boring or not is entirely subjective. This angle is as pointless as proving to stamp collectors that collecting stamps is boring.

I agree with his point in that the glamorous companies get attention at the cost of others & that this is a problem. The manner in which it was done however is a fine example of:

>a crap piece of journalism
What a shock that a body building website would say that. I can't believe it. Let me ask Microsoft if I should use Linux for my servers or not, hold on BRB.

The reality is that an hour of cardio is going to burn many, many more calories than 15 minutes of lifting. Now, if you hate cardio and can't stand to do it for an hour, but you love lifting, then obviously you're better off lifting. But if you can learn to enjoy cardio, or if you want to do the workout that's the most effective for burning calories, you should be biking/running.
That's true, if it was a group of three young people starting a new business, I would be more forgiving than about a multi billion dollar corporation with hundreds of engineers and millions in resources.

It was a mistake, but another word for a mistake is 'negligence'. The fact that something like this can happen illustrates systemic shortcomings at the company. Millions of people are depending on them to enforce the privacy restrictions Facebook claims to enforce. Facebook encourages you to store highly personal data, and as such, they have a responsibility to be more careful. Facebook prides themselves on constantly pushing changes to their software. More safeguards, testing, and perhaps slowing down the software development cycle a little would not be a bad idea.
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I do it all the time. You can add a "gift address" in Paypal.
Thank you. I didn't know that before.

I'm in the UK and one of my companies is in the typical start-up bind right now: we want to take on-line payments, heavyweight Merchant Account and Payment Gateway services are a bureaucratic nightmare to set up with lead times often running into months, but the cheap 'n' cheerful services like Paypal have terrible reputations for customer service and reportedly a tendency to steal merchants' money arbitrarily.

Does anyone here know anything about whether, in practice, such horror stories are mitigated in the EU by PayPal's registration as a bank?

We don't see them as a long-term prospect for handling our payments, but today we'd settle for something we can set up in hours rather than weeks so we can launch our service and get some sort of trading history going. If nothing else, that would deal with a lot of the headaches of applying for the more "serious" services, which tend to be very risk-averse if you approach them as a start-up with no trading history and wanting recurring payment authority on credit cards to implement your subscription model.
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You would need a better-than-human-pilot AI for that. Until we get there - and are able to reliably demonstrate that, you'll want humans in the loop.
AlertPay is a good alternative. Fees are a bit high, but there is no such thing as a "limited" account, unless you send/receive fraudulent funds of course.

The problem is that AlertPay is not accepted by many online services. Once that is solved, I believe that it could probably compete with PayPal.
Out of curiousity, what is the best way to end a multiple day fast? It would seem to me that eating too much at once or eating the wrong thing would make someone feel sick.
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A lot new businesses, especially SaaS like services, need recurring payments and only PayPal offers those. For one-off payments there are indeed a lot of alternatives but few are available world-wide.
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To get the full, full size image try changing from _n to _o. I haven't checked it on the links exposed by discussed method (I'm going to work in a minute), but it's how "Download" link for photos works on normal Facebook photo browser - if you upload a high-resolution picture to Facebook, it's available with _o in the name.
Interesting, I've yet to see such a nicely streamlined code-to-deploy process, in a browser. Cloud9 + github + heroku comes close (and is more powerful), but the initial cost of getting hello world working is much higher than bloc.
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I suppose it gets into philosophical debates about AI, but I don't see any reason in principle that we can't describe at least some kinds of computerized systems as exercising something described as "judgment". We already have one existence proof, the human brain, of a system that can exercise something we call "judgment", and I don't see a strong reason to believe that it's due to anything magical about the human brain in particular (like a soul or something along those lines), rather than just being a complex reasoning system that's able to balance many contextual factors.
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Keep in mind that with most of these free services the users are the pawns. If you're not paying, or getting paid, then you are the thing being traded.

Companies exist to make their investors and owners money. Gowalla did not exist so you could check-in to places. It made a check-in service because they thought that was their most exploitable money-making opportunity.

Don't fight this. You won't win and will only frustrate yourself.
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"I have no idea what they actually do"

For ERP applications (which SAP is arguably most famous for) you are basically getting all of the "standard" features that you require to run a business in one highly integrated (and usually highly modular) package. This will include, at a very basic level:

- Accounting (general ledger, fixed assets, accounts receivable, accounts payable, budgeting, consolidation, maybe treasury)

- HR

- Payroll

- Supply chain/warehouse

- Manufacturing (processes, bill of materials etc.)

- CRM

- Interfaces (including web portals, EDI, perhaps direct links to manufacturing systems)

- Many many others...

What arguably makes this all rather complex is providing all of this functionality in a way that can work across a large multi-national organisation - for example, the accounting and tax rules in different countries can be very different. Even the basic technical challenges of getting a Tier-1 ERP working in a global company are non-trivial.

Factor that these things are highly customisable and you can perhaps see why they have to be so complex.
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Wow Really cool idea...let me give it a try....any discount coupons?
> How are fifty thousand people agreeing to pay $19.95 for it, if they've downloaded it for free instead?

They haven't. They've agreed, in advance, to pay $19.95 for the creation of the album. You then create the album. You take all the payments of $19.95. Then you put the album up for download.
Where would my children have to live to need technology to choose a bakery? It would have to be a place with either thousands of bakeries to choose from (not likely), or, more probably, a place with almost no bakery.

If you have to drive 30 miles to find a bakery then it makes sense to try to find out which one is worth the effort.

Which makes me wonder: is this an American problem? In cities where

1. almost anything is accessible by foot

2. driving is extremely annoying and expensive

you have an enormous incentive to choose services based on proximity rather than their current Yelp rating (or lack thereof).
Awesome. Thanks for the link!
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As you said some of the issues have been fixed already - and hopefully we can put all this in the past soon - but.

Whereas Firefox still gains users, it doesn't gain them as fast as the competitors and it seems to me that it is due to the bad press (even if from uninformed users, or from Google 'evangelists'). The bad press mainly came from the update issues, even thus some are gone now.
That's the point I was raising.
That's a bit like saying "I had to get a pay day loan at 27% per week interest, I had no alternative and they fucking know it".

It probably means you're doing it wrong.

Either that or you don't have enough starting capital to do it right.
I think the word you're looking for is "obligations".
Mobimorphic is a tool I created for rapid generation of mobile websites/web apps using a drag-and-drop interface. It's not intended as a replacement for custom web apps, but rather to provide a quick way of "mobilizing" content that you already have. It works on iOS and Android (more Android testing is needed, though; it works on the cheap Android phone I bought for testing and on my Kindle fire, but that isn't anywhere close to full coverage of that platform).

It can handle all the usual suspects -- web feeds (RSS and Atom), Twitter, Flickr photo sets, video and audio podcasts, YouTube channels, Google calendar feeds, phone dialing/SMS, and a number of other resource types, including user-generated HTML and iframe-embedded code from other sites. Facebook is present, but needs more work (it just launches the Facebook mobile site rather than being an internal resource like Twitter…working on rectifying that).

You can use one of the predefined themes, or create your own custom theme and/or app icons.

There are obviously some limitations due to the capabilities of specific devices. Phone calls and text messages won't work on an iPad or a Kindle Fire, for instance, some video formats aren't playable on certain platforms, and so on.

You can see a demo app and create your own app at:

http://mobimorphic.com/

No charge right now.

I had originally planned to write a social media toolkit to build apps for Titanium Appcelerator, but decided to see just how much was possible to do in the web app format.

Have fun, and let me know what you think.
I don't think buying COTS or GOTS actually saves the government money in the long term. I dont have actual facts to back this claim of course, but it's just from many years of experience in this scene.

Many times the requirements of an agency/office/mission are too specific for something off the shelf. The solution has to be either completely custom or a mix of COTS/GOTS. And when you have a mix you have integration. Software is a smaaaaalll part of the equation in government. It's the solution engineering (read: consultants/contractors) that cost the most. And I bet you'll always need/want highly skilled engineers for all sorts of roles. innovation is one, but keeping missing critical systems alive and operational is important too. what qualifies as 'mission critical' is another subject for another day, and can vary wildly depending on who you talk to...

However, a lot of times, the requirements are truly simple, or simply met. And I think that's why you see a TON of Drupal being used in the gov these days. For many offices, that's all they ever needed. But even that's a smaaaaaal part of the pie. The government is huge! You can't imagine how many thousands of software projects are all going on at the same time right now...
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The management team of a failing company owes its first and most important responsibility to its employees, to make sure they're as well taken care of as possible.

Following that, it owes its investors the maximal return on their investment.

The users got their service for free. That was the deal: they use the site for free, in return for using the site. Any other obligation is a fiction. I might just as productively argue that it's the user's fault Gowalla failed --- punish the users for going to Foursquare! Except that's stupid, because Gowalla and its free users don't have any obligation to each other.
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That makes sense for security fixes and other internal issues. I would love an update that makes things faster. What I object to are auto-updates that change the user interface. In my opinion ANY interface changes should be user directed. If the new interface is better in some way, take the time and explain why.

EDIT: spelling
true, but i meant that most people reading HN are likely to be running the 64 bit version
Java #1 sought after Linux skill? Interesting, though author qualifies this with his POV: "I was initially surprised that Java was the most referenced skill area, even over Android and C++. But then when I thought about it, it seems that Java is everywhere you look these days, even if it isn't called Java (such as Red Hat's Ceylon language and Android's Dalvik virtual machine). This also seems to enforce the notion that Mono--and C#-- development is falling more out of favor on the Linux desktop."
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Thanks for the reply and the link. Our software is different than stocktrak (from the looks of it) - our's is more geared towards corporate finance as opposed to investing.
I don't think we'll ever see it.

There are too many hurdles to overcome. The psychological and liability one for actual plane manufacturers.

+ it just doesn't make sense economically. Pilots get paid fairly little now, and as automation progresses, the salaries will go down to ~40K(so ~80K for the 2). At that point, it's really not that much money to give passengers the extra sense of security.
Come now, I didn't say that FB is insignificant. That would be ignoring the biggest social trend in the 21st century! What I'm saying is that the consumer press community spends 99% of its time talking about FB et al., who are interesting, cool but haven't got a proven commercial model, and 1% of the time talking about (and denigrating) SAP et al., who run the real software that makes businesses run.

And in the meantime, the global economy is going down the drain and Bubble 2.0 means that investors are throwing more of our savings down the drain. Some of the latest startup IPO valuations have been ridiculous.

Yes, my primary income is SAP consulting, but that doesn't mean I am not interested in wider IT issues. Facebook is a very relevant trend, but social media is a fickle partner, and the crown has changed hands several times already. Valuing it at 19x earnings is nuts.

Please do take a look at the innovations that SAP are doing. I look at wider market trends and I think what SAP is achieving in innovation is well beyond what Oracle/IBM/Microsoft/Google are doing right now. You may be surprised.
And? Higher-fat proteins create satiety faster. Eating more fat doesn't make you fat.

If it it's lean beef that you're after, specify "lean beef", not "grass fed beef". There are plenty of retail cuts on a corn-fed cow that are plenty lean. A corn-fed tri-tip is going to be less fatty than a grass-fed chuck. If you're aiming for lean protein, your cut selection is way more important than which cow the cut comes from.

(Incidentally: I eat almost all grass-fed beef these days, since thats what my butcher sources --- but unlike pig and chicken, for which the local versions are clearly superior --- I can go back and forth on whether corn-fed beef is better or worse than grass-fed. Grass-fed is tougher and always seems to have that aged beef funk, which is sometimes welcome and sometimes not.)
I would never use Bitcoin. Mostly because the currency has a tendency to be so volatile. I've seen it worth $30 one day and $3 the next.
I love that I'm finally old enough to read an article about the Internet and have absolutely no idea what it's talking about.
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Bitcoin? No way. We might as well use Facebook credits. Getting Aunt Martha to trust some sketchy form of 'money' to make an online payment is going to be exceptionally difficult. Imagine suing for damages in bitcoins -- it's not a legal currency anywhere. It's a digital version of trading goats.
Thanks for the feedback - I'll try to incorporate something along those lines and let you know when it's finished, perhaps you can let me know if you like it.
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This is generally good advice, but avoiding carbs is unnecessary. There is basically no compelling evidence that avoiding carbs causes people to lose weight faster than other diets, and there is quite a bit of evidence that properly consumed carbs help muscle growth. Carbs before heavy weightlifting make sure your glycogen stores are replenished, i.e. you are more likely to hit your reps.

For some people, compliance with a low carb diet may be easier. I.e., it may take less willpower to stick to a low carb diet than a low fat diet. But that's the only benefit, and that benefit depends strongly on your personal tastes in food.

Making sure that calorie in < calories out is the main thing you need to do to lose weight. Calories in > calories out + sufficient protein is the thing to do to gain muscle. Everything else is small change, only worth thinking about if you are a bodybuilder or boxer.

The fact of the matter is that we were far thinner than today when we had an extremely high carb diet.

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> A single word or a short phrase may be enclosed in quotation marks to indicate ironic use.

Normally, yes. But the primary use of quotation marks is to quote - in a direct response to something someone wrote, you come across as either dishonest or stupid if you claim to be using them ironically.
Thanks - I'll keep that in mind (and I agree - real life situations with examples are much more interesting than regurgitated textbook material! [not suggesting that's what A VC's MBA Monday's blog is whatsoever]).
I really like the iterative approach you took. Did you find it odd to overlay the artist photo with the help? My first thought would be to point to one of the artists with the tutorial, but I think your method works better.
Here is an article summarizing research on the nutrition benefits of grass feed vs. grain feed beef http://www.bulletproofexec.com/grass-fed-meat-part-1/
Ah. I even read the "oblations" as "obligations" in my head. Thanks for pointing this out. It's fixed now.
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After the first page I was waiting for the "but seriously" part of the article. Are we already too young to remeber WebVan? And the promised method of investing in developers never really materialized.

Anyway, I don't think this article is going to help the author find the "technical cofounder" he's looking for. The fact that he even uses that term pretty much guarantees that he's not going to find a 10xer, even if that mythical creature existed.

I for one can't wait for the social bubble to burst so programmers can flow back into the currently neglected branches of software development - we're getting old and lonely and could use some fresh talent.
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Uh huh. In what way meaningful to human health is the fat from conventional beef better for you than the fat from "organic" beef?

The fat in local protein is way, way better than factory-farmed meat. By which I mean, it tastes much better. The fat from the pork chop of a responsibly raised pig tastes like bacon; the fat from a supermarket pork chop tastes like melting plastic.

Buy local/humane protein. Just do it for real reasons.
While I'm not interested in taking this, I am very curious as to the metrics and trying to sift through the data to find useful information, like the number of unique SMS addresses sent to, and how many times on average each user sends messages, and to how many students. Is it a teacher sending to 1 class of 30, a lecture of 200, or the entire day's worth of student (multiple classes, but it's the same assignments and due dates). If anyone picks this up I would be willing to try to sift through the data or add the logging code to get the data (email in profile). I don't know what the stats page already has since it's breaking on me.

My immediate thought was to try to shift as many messages to email as you can, either through email direct or email->SMS. Then you could split the plans into X emails, Y SMS per month for $Z. That way you could tier the plans, potentially creating something for schools to buy to let all their teachers use.
I tend to agree. If the founders shutdown the company and started a new one, there wouldn't be much fuss. So if they shutdown the company and get a nice signing bonus to join Facebook, that seems the same to me.

If I were an investor in Gowalla, I certainly wouldn't be thrilled with it, but I would at least try to own the fact that my investment failed. An investor should be most pissed at Facebook. This is the equivalent of recruiting away Gowalla's employees one at a time with big piles of cash. As the last employee is recruited away, Gowalla effectively becomes an empty shell. How much can investors get for the shell?