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Great! I hope this gets big.
34 years of uptime. Fascinating.
The German law is worthless in this regard. It gets you nothing, nowhere. You need a warranty.

Apple Care is properly awesome but you shouldn’t buy it in the store, you should buy it on ebay.

(I would complain about the salesperson. They are definitely not supposed to be pushy. You encountered very abnormal behavior. I have never encountered pushy employees in the Munich Apple Store. Sure, they will ask whether you want Apple Care, but just saying no was always enough.)
Without citizens like this to assert and reassert our rights in the face of violent psychological bullying at areas of great injustice, nobody reading this would have any rights at all. I don't get to call this country mine as much as she does. The fact that psychological blitzkrieg is the response to holding up a screening line means something is terribly wrong here.
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This never came up as an issue for me. I've been using DNSMadeEasy (that is, a DNS service provider different from the domain registrar) for a while.
Also CloudFlare. You can use the DNS service without the security, performance and caching features.
An interesting discussion of what's coming. I agree that suppliers are in a race to the bottom unless they can provide added value, but the author seems to fixate on algorithmic pricing as the ultimate determinant of who wins. He mentions Amazon in this context, but does not mention Amazon Prime, which is just the sort of value-add he's talking about.

I think Bezos saw this coming a long time ago and so he got Amazon ready to be more than a simple rock-bottom-price retail outlet. People love Amazon, and once they get Prime, they start buying from Amazon because all the hurdles have been taken away. In the meantime, Prime offers them additional benefits like streaming movies & TV. I don't think you can really look at the future of retail without this offering looming pretty large. And I don't even have Amazon Prime!
It's a compelling idea. It takes someone with enough technology to accelerate an asteroid to a reasonably percentage of C, and aim it accurately enough. If a single expansionist civilization that is xenophobic enough reaches that technology level, anyone else could expect to suddenly find an incoming planetkiller at a speed that'd make it really hard to do anything about it other than try to get as many as possible off-planet. If the victims manage to save enough people to remain viable, presumably they'd be rather shy next time out.
True, Sony gear is utter crap, but things like lost recommendations are too invisible to make other people take notice. While a few people will chime in on any thread to mention that they, too, have been boycotting Sony since the rootkit, it's hard to get any sense of who is doing what.

Contrast that with GoDaddy, where outsiders can tell how many domains moved, how much of an exodus is average, who made good on their promise to move.
Check the libraries in your region and/or ask the biggest one whether they could buy it for the library -> free option.
He answers "yes" for 98% of companies, which seems to be a reasonable guess, if not too low of a percentage.
sometimes reviews at amazon are annoying. I was reading reviews for a men's gps watch. somebody gave it 4 stars and mentioned that (s)he would've given 5 stars, if "the product had women's model too". It doesn't make any sense. it is clearly mentioned that the model is for men - why write the review at all? people have weird expectations
"Also, as some people said before. This attack on Godaddy maybe a godsent diversion for SOPA supporters."

Are you taking a position on this? Or are you content to just hint that others might possibly have done so elsewhere...maybe.
* The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

* Dune, by Frank Herbert
Xenophobia. Hit us first before we get powerful enough to hit them.

And it doesn't need to be the default - just a few bad eggs, and everyone else would need to be careful.
Yep, I explicitly mentioned this bit in the article. Then again, when your thread performs some long blocking call and you want to kill it, you're out of luck anyway. The advice in the post is directly applicable to problems where the blocking calls aren't particularly long.
And as a bonus they get to stress test their servers ;-)
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And wants a Great Firewall of America to block the sites which aren't under our jurisdiction....
I've used NameCheap ever since I found out how horrid GoDaddy's service and slimy policies were. NameCheap has always answered my noob questions with haste, and I've never had any issues with them. I have no connections with them other than being a happy customer. If I didn't already have all my domains through them, I'd switch them over.
Go Daddy is totally insignificant in the scheme of things. The list of SOPO supporters is very deep and monopolizes many industries. Can you work out an effective boycott of all major record and movie producers, all major television networks, publishers (Elsevier, Macmillan, HarperCollins, and various coalitions), pharmaceuticals and beauty products (Pfizer, PhRMA, L'Oreal, Revlon, etc), banking (Visa, MasterCard, American Bankers Association), sports (NFL, MLB), Apple, and Microsoft?

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

Hurting Go Daddy over this is fine, but I suspect it is inconsequential to whether SOPA passes, and most of the key supporters aren't concerned about boycotts anyway.
The biz dev guy from n-control is on the case
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I never said that I disagree with civil disobedience. I just don't agree with this woman's perspective on exactly what transpired in this situation.

I've worked for the federal government my entire adult life. If you want to convince them to get rid of the TSA, the side asking for the change has to appear blameless.

The way bureaucrats make decisions is not logical. If you give them 999 examples of the TSA breaking the law or violating basic human rights, they will simply shrug and say "remember that one time that woman went to that airport and purposely tried to get arrested? Yea, well these other complaints are probably from people just like her."

To make it clear, I don't like the corrupt, incompetent, abusive illusion of a democracy that we have built for ourselves in the United States. Unfortunately, the scumbags at the TSA has been put in charge of our Nation's airports. Unfortunately, if you want to board an aircraft in the United States, you have to submit to being processed through the security checkpoint. Unfortunately, if we want this to change it will be a long and painful process.

This woman's efforts will have no positive impact on the effort to get the TSA disbanded or reformed. Being able to recognize this doesn't make me a freedom-hating fascist. I would appreciate it if you didn't try to imply that I am.
A general approach to concepts in programming languages is called, obviously enough, concept programming. See http://xlr.sourceforge.net/Concept%20Programming%20Presentat... or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_programming for more info.
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YC alum. Thanks.
Actually, her behavior (and narrative) is similar to that of "sovereign citizen" types who imbue all sorts of psuedo-legal meaning to the U.S. Constitution and what they think it allows them to do. Not all sovereign citizen groups are violent but there were two police officers murdered in TX in 2010 and several militias operating under this philosophy.
I know you weren't sent by GoDaddy. Which makes your contribution to the discussion all the more baffling. You're advocating for them for free? I suppose every hot button issue has to have its apologists...

I'm not jumping to any conclusions. I could very easily see by way of whois lookups that 4/5 of my domains had their contact records REMOVED from the whois entry, and stuffed off in a supplemental url provided in the whois record, which required a captcha defeat in order to access. This simply doesn't follow the ICANN whois spec.

I'd say you're doing a lot more speculation than the people on this thread who have been impacted by GoDaddy's ongoing slimy behavior.
I am not asking for tests, I am asking for advice. I have never used oDesk, and, frankly, I do not know if anybody the is from the "West", or, if there is, if anybody from the "West" can make a living on oDesk.
Actually, that seems a good question to ask: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396585
It's free on Kindle, so it's now on my Kindle. Thanks for the tip.
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Wow. Thank you so much for the link.

I remember a few months ago, there was a flux thread. A couple of people were lamenting over the fact that it wasn't available on iOS. I even e-mailed Marco over at Instapaper to see if he could implement the feature.

Now that it's available, I'll finally be able to use my iOS devices at night!
Ex-air force. She was extremely well-spoken and knew exactly what she was doing. I applaud her - everytime someone stands up to the farce it keeps us from forgetting that this is still an issue to fight for.
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I cannot find a fundamental difference in the thought process of Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden, Francisco d'Anconia, and the rest of that group. In fact, at the end of the novel, they all share a virtually identical philosophy, they all develop into Rand's ideal character. As for the other group, they are all greedy lazy parasites who want to do nothing productive and live off others.

One character, although not a major character, which did not seem to fall into those two groups and which seemed to have some development potential was Cherryl Brooks, but as soon as she had a conflict to resolve, Ayn Rand chose not to develop the character, took the easy way out, and had her commit suicide.
Yes there's definitely the prime vs non prime vs 3rd party price differences.

But are you sure there's no evidence of what he references? He seems pretty explicit, and it seems a very odd conclusion w/no specific evidence: "prices on offer to different customers varying for the same product, presumably on the basis of the customer's willingness to pay more for goods in prior transactions."
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twitter's revenue model is the promoted suite

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/10/promoted-promotions.html

that is what they have been focusing on for the past few years and it is producing a lot of revenue now
Ask HN: is it possible to earn a living US wage at oDesk?
I wonder - is it possible to earn a living wage by freelancing at sites like oDesk or eLance? And I mean US living wage, not Eastern European living wage, for example.
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| you need something more than being mocked and misunderstood. you need traction, usage, momentum, etc.

Companies that have traction, usage, momentum, etc and ARE NOT mocked and misunderstood certainly outperform the ones that fit those criteria and were mocked and misunderstood.

Nonetheless, if you look at all the variables that could play a role in a company's success I doubt "mocked & misunderstood" has any predictive value over a large enough sample.
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"It's made more addicts"

Or maybe existing addicts feel more comfortable being identified now that they aren't going to jail?

"drugs are a personal choice"

In the US, drugs are not a personal choice. I'm fine with you saying you don't want to pay for treatment of drug users, but why are so many of those same people (I don't know if you are in this category) so willing to pay to incarcerate them, which has been shown to have much, much higher costs, both in terms of actual dollars and in term of social costs?

The fact that I can go to jail for a small amount of weed says drugs are absolutely not a personal choice. But you are right, they should be.
Attention Startups, -- great opportunity-- you could be at the forefront of enriching yourselves with the money of America's poor and addicted! Of all the problems out there to be solved this is truly the one opportunity not to be missed... :(
Thank you, didn't see that.
Just love how some people's default is to be a dick instead of just simply saying sorry, we tried and things didn't work out.
I believe many of these staffers keep tallies of calls and their topics, so it could still have some impact. Making the calls unique is definitely a good way to keep them from being ignored.
GoDaddy has coupon codes for renewals.
"More recently we've seen comparison sites with customer ratings to supply metadata about, for example, supplier reliability: but these tread dangerously close to defamation in some cases: see for example the class action lawsuit against Yelp (alleging extortion: dismissed, but shows the shape of things to come). Price comparisons are relatively safe."

As someone intimately familiar w/3rd party seller feedback on Amazon, I can tell you that the feedback there is taken very seriously by 3rd party sellers, by customers, and by Amazon. If a seller drops below a rating threshold, they are warned, and if the poor ratings persist, they're given the kiss of death: their "Featured Merchant" status is revoked.

I've never heard any suggestion of these ratings treading "dangerously close to defamation."

IMO, online feedback / reputations are very successful at rewarding good sellers and punishing bad ones. So this paragraph is a pretty weak dismissal of customer ratings as a way of proving a value add.
GoDaddy often has percentage-off-order coupons that would work on renewals.
Yes I forgot to point that out.....The blocks are not directly related to individual features....For example one block can deal with Network Requests and it can use another smaller block to cache data....One block for managing thread pools.

But I guess one could create a mapping between the set of blocks and the set of features.A feature then would be complete when all its mapped blocks satisfy their test cases.But I am yet to see a project management system based on this approach.
Coupons for GoDaddy renewals are generally available if you check RetailMeNot.com or other such sites. The codes tend to change every month/quarter, but I don't think I've ever renewed with them for more than ~$9.
It may be that I entered the domain and EPP info into the namechaep form with some spaces (foo.com, x$fo!ss) and the namecheap form code was too clueless to realize that no EPP code is going to start with a space.

I also discovered that I cannot automatically transfer azhackers.com, apparently because it triggers some "bad, evil, we don't like it" domain name filter.

Are they really that upset with Arizona? :)
this is how I would imagine a right-wing domestic terrorist to act right before they blew themselves up.

Have there actually been any right-wing suicide bombers? A quick google turned up only the fellow who flew his plane into an IRS office building as the closest thing to a "right-wing" suicide bomber, but I"m not sure that qualifies.
I'm a self taught web developer and the way I learnt is by just start coding. Write mini applications, like login and sign up. Build it like a Lego, put small pieces together to build your structure. You will be better off keeping the UI design to the last.

One of my hard learnt lessons is that web applications has to be designed from back to front and not the other way around.
Understand how CSS works, theme templates are great and are cheap to buy (themeforrest) but if you didnt know how to manipulate the CSS then you will be left with a lot of frustration.
Namecheap has a history of ignoring and fighting abuse complaints from lawyers trying to shut down free speech with spurious trademark and libel claims without a court case. GoDaddy has a history of immediately pulling DNS of a domain after spurious complaints without a court order. This is in line with how Namecheap has operated for years.
Seasonal work, summer hours, school and other needs take precedence over what a family spends money on, on a month-to-month basis. Pay-as-you-go electricity is common in some western countries and it is not unusual for there to be days where the family cannot afford to top-up until pay-day again, where food etc comes first as a primary need.
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Part of this has to do with the complexity of storing cookies in WebKit. The SDK wants to redirect to the FB app if it's installed since that is pretty much guaranteed to have the user's credentials. Safari is next most likely, since it will have the user's session cookie stored. Finally, the in-app web view is the fallback of last resort.

This complexity seems to be an attempt to save the user from entering text in a tiny form to sign in. I don't know that it makes an actual user's life easier, but it certainly doesn't help the developer.
>> which she sees violations to the Constitution

If she disgrees then she should organize and conduct a legal protest.
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I've been with Namecheap for most of my domains for a couple years now. One of the surprisingly awesome extras:

Dynamic DNS

No more need for DynDNS or another third-party DNS service for this simple but useful feature! Once enabled for a domain, you can simply use an update client to regularly update the IP Namecheap servers point to.

See Namecheap's knowledgebase articles to enable and use it: http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/category.aspx...

Update clients:

ddclient (unixy) - http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient

inadyn (unixy) - http://www.inatech.eu/inadyn/

Namecheap's DNS update client (Windows) - http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...
There's always the ability to tweak specifics for your setup that aren't available in many platforms.

IMHO, you shouldn't use a PaaS unless you know how to set your stack up. Essentially, if you don't recognize or have respect for the convenience you're being given (by going through a platform) then you'll potentially make bad decisions down the road. Personally, I prefer to learn how to set it up and scale it myself initially which helps me better understand what to look for in a platform.

Plus, there's something fun about putting all the pieces together and watching your apps come up (especially if you don't normally handle this part of the stack).
With the cost and control advantages of cloud or owned servers, PaaS seems like a tough sell. Setting up and administering servers has become much easier and continues to improve.
It needs to be said that Google and Facebook are perfect, no-brainer advertising platforms. Mass audiences + natural use behaviors that can be monetized via ads + user analytics and segmentation capabilities = beaucoup advertiser bucks.

But it's a mistake to look at a typical startup and assume there's some sort of magical "monetization switch" that can be flipped when sufficient scale is achieved. If your platform isn't a natural fit for advertising, or for other forms of monetization, then monetizing is anything but easy.

Scale isn't sufficient. It's necessary in a lot of cases, but in and of itself, it doesn't guarantee anything.
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Is it worth the $29.99 to upgrade my iMac from Snow Leopard to Lion?
The odds of a terrorist attack aboard a plane are so low because of heightened security. Get rid of it, and those odds are likely to increase.

You can't possibly believe that. First, she read the freaking Constitution and was treated like a terrorist, and there's a name for that - and it's not security. Or American. Second, that "heightened security" is - with the exception of keeping cockpit doors closed - 100% pure, unadulterated bullshit. Liquids in a plastic baggie? Give me a break. I get so tired of people not willing to think for a minute.
True, but there's a big difference between "jailbreaking makes these things possible, where otherwise I would be screwed," and "jailbreaking lets me get things for free that I would otherwise have had to pay for." The GP appeared to be about the former.
And what shall the PaaS providers use for their web servers? PaaSaaS? :)
Ah, okay. So they're offering you cheaper prices, but on more expensive items?
the side asking for the change has to appear blameless.

Right there, you have your finger on the rot. First, why should there be sides? Second, why is it important to appear blameless instead of appearing right?
But don't forget that almost all of the startups are in the 2%.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation doesn't really handle TSA-related issues (they might be interested in customs officers demanding access to your laptop without needing cause, but that's a different issue).

A better choice would be the ACLU.
I think that's all correct, except for the Twitter account, which I believe was created by another disgruntled customer (Nathan Stansell) a few months ago, following a similar exchange with Paul Christoforo. It looks like Stansell is now retweeting messages related to the new controversy.

http://www.natesnetwork.com/Poor-customer-service

"2:45 am. Created a Twitter account just so i could Tweet a comment and link to Mr Paul Christoforo at Ocean Marketing.
@OceanMarketting - Am i still one little person out of Millions sir?"
Thanks for expanding on that kcl.
I wish I could go into that depth in the article :)
I admit to skimming this, but there are a couple of things I see wrong with this.

1. You can see a spaceship from the next solar system for sure. But it would take years for you to see it.

2. I doubt the future of combat will involve humans. I envision giant fleets of spaceships that are too big for humans to control. Thus, I forsee space combat as being driven by complex algorithms.
Oklahoma City? Although I suppose that wasn't a suicide.
Sure, but why make it easy for them and keep the domains under US jurisdiction where they don't even have to go to GFA lengths? Why keep your domain in a country with poor-to-nonexistent privacy laws?
Apple devices tend to have one primary dimension of choice so that they have products at various price points On the iPhone/pad it's memory size. On computers it's screen size. But it is simpler than others, true.
GoDaddy no longer on SOPA supporter list.
I think Hamilton nailed it when he talked about kinetic weapons and 'wasps' (aka small bots that can move in ways a human occupied ship can't)
I upgraded to Lion for working with Xcode and IOS 5 SDK. Since then had issues like slowness, not hibernating properly and even once had Hard disk crash (not sure for though due to Lion), generally slow compared to 10.6. I use my mac for development purpose.
Yeah, and I like that despite it being (apparently) a one-man job, he decides to threaten "I have about 125 dedicated people to run PR , Blogs , Articles , Videos you have no clue who I am."
Pretty much every university professor I've had is hell-bent on wikipedia's destruction. I've even had professors threaten to fail people for using it as a reference.

While wikipedia does have some errors, most of the mistakes seem to come in the form of someone sabotaging a disliked celebrity or organization's page. In light of this, it seems to me that most of the topics a student would be likely to write about for a term paper wouldn't be affected. Universities should always allow students to use wikipedia for one of their references, but they should also hold students accountable for the information they take from it.
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My favourite space combat scene is the one on the way to Home in Protector.