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People are afraid of being placed in a situation that's totally alien to them. It's not as alien -- it's not as big a deal for you to go through an art gallery and chat up yuppies as it is for her to go through a convention center being gawked at by nerds.

After my girlfriend and I had been going out for six months or so -- this was five or six years ago -- I got her a laptop and a wacom pad. She was a painter -- she'd never touched photoshop, illustrator, corel or anything. I tried to teach her how to use them. She got so frustrated, at one point she held the laptop out a window and threatened to throw it down six stories. But she's amazing with it now -- she's actually one of the highest-paid, most in-demand freelance illustrator/designers I know. I knew she had the skill.

But to this day when I talk about getting her to sit down and see something of the code I write, she gets a look on her face that I know not to mess with. I'd love to walk her through what I do, but I know she understands as much as she needs to, and it's not compatible with the way she thinks. It doesn't do anything for her. That's alright.

My point? It's easier for us to go back into their world than it is for them to understand ours.
There aren't enough people saying it: You lucky bastard.
I wonder how many people really care? I know we do, but most people don't read blogs about ICS, and are happy to finally have a smart phone that has fb and the real internet.

I have a nexus one, which will not be updated. I don't really care, but it is not my main phone either.
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I can't imagine it'd be that hard for a corporation the size and global breadth of Apple to find workers in their European, Australian, etc. offices to do "overnight" shifts during their daytimes, and I've known Jewish/Muslim/atheist/Hindu/etc. folks who love holiday pay.
Yes, but is the iPhone popular just because of the updates, or is it everything else.
When you submit a link it would nice to have the similar link check list the last 10 most recent post from the root domain. This would allow for slightly different urls being submitted for the same articles or story.

A list of 10 similar titles would be nice also, as the submitter may not have the time so do an indepth search for a similar article or may be limited by platform.
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Oh sorry, at least we collectively will catch everybody.
This is great for an individual user but what about a whole department/company of Macs?

Good karma to anyone that knows some good Samba config-fu to prohibit/direct-to-null the creation of .DS_Store files on a SMB share.
Call me stupid but I use Quickbooks Online from Intuit - why, you might ask?

Because when it comes to accounting and having these processes outsourced I make sure that it is a familiar an interface as it can be for my accountant.

The online version syncs to my banks accounts, paypal and but it does not auto sync to freshbooks.
I deleted all indices referencing those entities before starting the entity deletions.
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If you use vim and git, you should check out Fugitive, which adds loads of really useful Git integration into Vim:

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The last five vimcasts go through what this plugin can do, and are really worth the time:

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The 'do one thing and do it well' doesn't necessarily mean command line programs. I would much prefer a binary -> library and bindings to various other languages through that library, the command line is a very sloppy integration tool compared to programming languages. Shogun-toolbox currently fits what I want except for the licensing.
I have a feeling that the people that are promoting the end of the "war" are casual users or would like to be. Has any REAL experience with Drugs? I have - my family was ripped apart by drug abuse.
Drugs alter your brain - addiction is VERY powerful. If some drugs were legal, MORE people would become addicted and crime will go up for people to feed their habits.
I had "vaccumed" all indices referencing those entities before issuing a delete. Albeit, there was only once index per purged entity type. So this would not explain the 20x write operations.

Also, note that the deletions were through the "Datasore Admin" app, which was recently added. It is different from the classic Datastore Viewer.
Well, looks like this is dying now so I'll say this: I'm glad I didn't get positive feedback here. I appreciate everyone being civil while still letting me know this isn't very good. In all honesty, I think I was lazy in putting it together. Getting this feedback really helped me to figure out what to focus on next, pushed me to iterate, and it has me motivated to not be so lazy about it next time around. Maybe this will come around in a few months in a much improved form. Thanks everyone.
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While I agree with Branson's arguments in general, the statistics he uses to support them seem very suspicious to me. He appears to be picking and choosing particular statistics that support his claims while ignoring others. For example, he talks about low marijuana use after saying that Portugal had a relatively high rate of use of hard drugs, which to some extent compete with marijuana for use.
Solution:

-less models/SKU (by a multiple fold)

-less customizations (ie use stock Android)

That way you can focus on making your customers happy.
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I do care, it is my main phone and it show Google is deaf to that too.
It looks like they did reach out to them, according to this post at least: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-trans...
Somebody forgot to enable the sarcasm detector. Really.
Because GoDaddy lobbied for it with money, helped write it, and is exempted from it.
You misunderstand how GAE indexes work.

There are two kinds of indexes:

* multi-property indexes which you configure via datastore-indexes.xml (or yaml). You can remove these by removing them from the xml/yaml and vacuuming.

* single-property indexes, which you decide when you define your data model. You can't vacuum these, and they are defined on a per-entity basis. The only way to make them go away is to re-save the relevant entities without the index defined. Note: multiproperty indexes require single-property indexes on all the properties covered.

These single-property indexes are almost certainly causing your high write op counts. You really should examine your data model with this new understanding; by removing unnecessary single-property indexes, you may be able to dramatically reduce your bill.
Maybe they should start selling phones instead of carrier products...
Ah-ha, for some reason I hadn't thought of actual fake real objects. That explains most of the companies on the list.

Do people buy fake Fords?
I would imagine that because just as they need to have the ability to transfer out, they also need to transfer in. It would make sense to whitelist in the event that there is an overwhelmingly large amount of transferring in.
It's funny because their marketing is exactly one of the reasons why I have never even considered them. But I am probably not the target market. Or am I? (straight male)
interesting point of view.
"Blogger misunderstands how indexes work on App Engine."
I'm really sorry that I haven't been able to respond to all these thoughtful comments in a timely fashion. I feel like a bad mannered host that leaves the party while the guests are arriving to celebrate his birthday.

Just so that you all know what's going on (and without trying to justify my bad behavior, which is in itself unjustifiable), I'm a divorced dad from Brazil, and all this happened while I'm in the middle of a road trip alone with my 6 year old son. This is the only time of the year when we can spend a few days together, and I can't (and wouldn't) abandon it. Furthermore, infrastructure here is not 100% and wireless/3g internet access is not ubiquitous to say the least.

Anyway, please know that I'm attentively and thankfully listening. This community always surprised me and today you really made me feel welcomed here.
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By and large, the law firms shouldn't be on the list. Some lawyers wrote a letter arguing that the Constitutional concerns around SOPA are non-issues; Rep. Lamar Smith and co. used that letter as a basis for including many of the firms on the official list of SOPA supporters.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/09051617180/law-fi...
Wikipedia has a few citations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_parity#Solar_power

The key detail is that the cost per watt for PV on the open market dropped 40% in 2011.
The best part about your original question is that it can be answered provably in only one way

That did occur to me after I had asked the question, but I decided that there was still a sufficient spectrum of possible answers that I should keep the wording. For example:

"No you're not, I feel that way too."

"I used to feel that way too, but then it occurred to me... [useful discussion follows]"

"Who knows? But I think you're mistaken because... [useful discussion follows]"

No answers, in which case the number of votes on the question could be significant.

So given your patronizing tone and thinly veiled elitism, I'll happily take the side of the argument that you would force me to prove through induction, for the simple satisfaction of calling you out.

Um, you're welcome?
Interesting. So does that payment stay through GoDaddy or does it pass through whoever I transfer it to (namecheap, name, gandi, etc)?
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GoDaddy not only helped write #SOPA they are also exempt from it. Scumbag
"Finally, you can set up Pinboard to auto-add bookmarks from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Instapaper, Read It Later, and Delicious."

Links from people I follow on Twitter would be a killer feature, as would 'links I have already followed' from Twitter.

It seems kinda hard to imagine that a one-time $9.58 fee can really cover costs and leave some living expenses left over.
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If I had to guess it's because they're $0 phones and often come bundled with inexpensive unlimited texting plans.

If you're a thirteen year old girl that sends a hundred texts a day, which is actually the average, then a you'll want the one with the physical keyboard.

Plus, the Blackberry Pearl doesn't look that bad as far as phone gadgets go. You can even pick from a variety of colors, something which the Android and iPhone offerings lack without spending extra on a case or stickers.
I think both of you are on the right track but may be mistaken regarding who stands to profit the most from continued prohibition.

Both local law enforcement and the for-profit companies behind our jails profit enormously from the US having the highest percentage of population incarcerated of any first world country. The majority of individuals currently doing time are in for drug-related crimes.
Thank you for your feedback! Coming from the corporate world, I am just looking for nuance in terms of best practices that startups use to stay lean nowadays and your comments provide. I was thinking along the lines that employees might not want clients calling their personal cell phones, which they would give out since they are visiting client sites. I guess we can use Google Voice or some such for that purpose? Or perhaps, in this particular case, we will wait till we have that problem instead of jumping in front of it.
Of course you're right in a sense, but when people say "businesses should maximize shareholder value", they use "value" specifically to mean financial value.
This does not change the fact that ESPN's law firm working with other big law firms wrote large chunks of this bad law just the way their clients wanted it.

Or that lawyers at law firms don't just willy-nilly write or sign these letters for free, they do it on behalf of their SOPA-supporting clients while receiving a paycheck from the law firm who their SOPA-supporting-client has hired.

Again, that's why I made the point about sharing law firms. All it's saying is "I'm not doing business with these lawyers who I think are being paid by clients to help them censor the internet."

And though the law firm isn't saying "our entire law firm supports this law," they are saying "our lawyer looked at this law for our client and she did find constitutional problems with it even though that is not the position of the entire firm." As I explained below I can understand why the latter isn't so troubling to some but I think the incentives these firms face are the same once they are in the business of protecting ESPN's interests.

And it will not change the fact that startups not working with ESPNs law firm will 1 - Give business to lawyers who do believe censoring the internet is unconstitutional & 2 - Remove an obvious and blatant conflict of interest.

I'm just saying, do we really want our startups to be working with the same network of big law firms that helped Disney extend copyright law duration to infinity 100 years ago? These big law firms obviously have their interests in protecting old streams of business -- I would too.
JSON lends itself pretty well to compression as well so a binary format might not buy you as much as you think.
This looks beautiful guys, well done.

I've been looking for something like this for a while (compare to say hummingbirdstats.com which is also neat).

I will need to learn Ruby.
Perhaps we choose dichotomies such as the article suggests because they serve as useful points for further discussion.

You offer many examples of companies that do not fit the two extremes of Spolsky's article. Where would you place them on the sliding scale you mention? Both have grown quickly and taken venture captial. I would place them more toward the Amazon side of the scale.

Very little in the world is black or white. Conflict and disagreement happens quite often. What you do about conflict and disagreement is the important part.
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This doesn't strike me as one of the classier communications. Does it resonate well with other people?
Thanks for the reference. I've added a note..
Funny !

When was the last time you observed real court proceedings and saw a laywer dishonored? Many of them act in bad faith every day.

You ignore historical examples dismissing them with excuses, your references are (essentially) PR speeches and the conservapedia (this thread http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?121000-Conser...! might enlighten other readers, but it is irrelevant to reality in your own planet).

If courts worked as you believe, the SCO/Novell fiasco would not have dragged for the years it has (it's still not dead!).

Yes, honor exists. But you have failed to demonstrate that the course of american society was significantly influenced by the concept of honor.
The mine in San Bernadino isn't back in production. You're talking about Molycorp, and their Mountain Pass mine. It's scheduled for the end of next year (http://www.molycorp.com/AboutUs/ProjectPhoenix.aspx). And I believe that's with extensive federal loans or loan guarantees.
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Thank you for your feedback!

I must confess that I'm a (unhappy) lawyer by profession and decided to change paths this year (when I turned 37, so I'm probably one of the oldest guys around here ;)

Being so, the technical part of things, which is what I've just learned and am experimenting with, is where I focused. No marketing, SEO, social media, etc. I was just enjoying learning to code with a project that interested me. I don't even have a blog setup for Aherk!

I loved your ideas, especially the cold-emailing productivity blogs/bloggers, and I think this is one of the things that I'll focus on over the next few days.

Once again, thanks a lot!
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You have that right now. Every computer with a web browser has a JavaScript interpreter installed; but at some point some knowledge of programming, or a desire to learn it is required. The web browser is a gateway to that knowledge and learning, so, other than opening a text editor and getting stuck in, it's all there, ready and waiting.
Aw thanks! Fixed!
Ah, I didn't realize you had to put yourself in first.
Anyone else using group messaging instead of Facebook?
Several members of my extended family have recently gotten iPhones. It seems that when it hit a critical mass of the presence of at least one iPhone in each of 5 families, our Facebook use dropped to zero. Everyone converses in group texts via iMessage. And photos and movies that used to get posted to Facebook, now get texted. Group text has far fewer features than Facebook, but it seems to serve our needs better. Maybe it's the holidays, but our total amount of interaction seems to have increased since switching.

I like to watch what my non-tech-savvy friends and family do as a bellwether for the masses. Is anyone else seeing a surge in group messaging? I installed Kik last year, but deleted it when none of my friends or family used it.
Great read. There is a subtle but important difference here in that it's an artificial advantage (government subsidies), and potentially a short-term one, versus that permanent natural foreign production advantage proposed in the article. The oranges in that story would always be half the price. There's no fundamental reason that these will stay under cost, and indeed, it seems unlikely that they would.

In the long run, it may be cheaper or more beneficial to develop a domestic industry in this, with all of the benefits that that comes with, even if the upfront price is higher. It doesn't seem like a good idea to let foreign goods be subsidized to the level where it will kill your domestic industries and reduce your country's ability to operate independently, especially if that's one of the goals of the subsidies.
That, and GoDaddy is one that many internet users are primary customers. We can try to boycott Wal-mart, but most of their customers are not ones that know what SOPA is, let alone that Wal-Mart supports it.
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I'm not trying to suggest that the iPhone is more popular because of the updates. I'm suggesting that the iPhone is popular because Apple tries to make it a really nice experience for most people. Offering updates for a reasonable period of time is part of this. Abandoning your customers as soon as the money has exchanged hands is the antithesis of this philosophy.
Volume. Namecheap's query level was probably quite low in the past as people were likely transferring from a variety of registrars, not a single one en-masse.
Try using odesk or elance to do a moonlighting job to make sure you like it first. odesk has tests you can take for objective-c and iphone development to make sure you know your stuff as well.
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There's even fewer standards for how to present the address in the WHOIS data. You leave something open to the end user and they will always get very, ah, creative.
Generally each registrar has their own format, but as there's thousands of registrars, some of which have various formats for different types of registrations, there's a confusion of possible layouts in what is generally assumed to be only for record-keeping purposes, not data-interchange.

If you've ever looked under the hood at a WHOIS parser you'll see it's filled with nice, neat code, a series of extensions, and then a whole pile of hacks to deal with hundreds of edge cases.
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There's contact and there's contact the right people. I have no trouble believing both sides here: Namecheap contacted someone at GoDaddy who didn't know what was going on and didn't relay the message to the relevant people.
When the Olympics are somewhere, the seem to trump any civil liberties in place. Happened here in Vancouver, will be in Londo, in Sochi, etc.
But the problem isn't the carrier or the vendor. </sarcasm>

To paraphrase Gruber or Siegler: this is what open means.
One other thing to point out. I just realized that my original post somehow had text cut out (my first post). It was supposed to mention that we would love to get away with spending only ~$800-1200 per employee but would not mind spending more for productivity gains.
My guess is fake Ford parts.
What do you guys do? It's hard to provide adequate feedback without knowing what it is you guys do. As a result, take what I say with a grain of salt and apply it accordingly. Every situation is vastly different.

Unless you guys absolutely foresee a need to do phone support, this isn't a necessary factor. In our case, we had employees take calls with their own numbers (many chose to do this on their own regardless). That isn't necessarily the best option mind you, and it depends on how much control you guys want to exert in tracking calls and all sorts of other factors. Alternatively, we had an Ooma box with multiple lines for taking calls at the office. That isn't necessarily the right setup for you guys or anyone else, but there are certainly different approaches to consider. Many found that having to carry two phones was unnecessary and a pain (in our case).

But unless you absolutely need to do phone support or constant calls, it seems more of an unnecessary cost due to personal wants than to serve a need. All I'm saying is make sure you guys are spending money because you feel it serves a purpose, not because you guys can. Best of luck.
Freaking GoDaddy! Now I hate them more. Ridiculous attempts at saving grace via PR on their end. DO THE RIGHT THING and admit you did something wrong (supported SOPA) and apologize to the internet before we swallow you whole.
That's not a bad idea. Every employee is different. Just don't assume that two monitors make everyone productive. Find out what each persons' needs are and assess accordingly. Some may need more than others and some may not need anything.
There probably aren't complete knockoff Ford cars, but there certainly are counterfeit parts.
Feedback for the MacOS version:

- It asks for admin privileges with no explanation.

- Then it spends a loooong time installing, again with no explanation of what it's doing or how long it will take.

- It's installing things I already have (ruby and git) and I don't know if it is clobbering them.

- It adds a folder to the Applications menu with one useful entry (KidsRuby.app) and a bunch of internal files. There is something called kidsirb.sh which opens Xcode.

- There is barely any learning material inside the app. I don't see how I would actually learn the language from this. Sure, if I'm resourceful I could probably find that material elsewhere, but then what is the point of using this over vanilla IRB? Not a lot.