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> 1) You keep using these words: rounding error. I don't think they mean what you think it means.

I've used those words once.

> You can't be dragged down because you have written all your code in a proprietary stack for each and every component...

No. But you can be dragged down with buggy, poorly engineered, and badly integrated tools.
good stuff. an article on B2C next? :D
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I read a little way into the article to see whether he'd explain the lack of axis labels or just how the graph maps to anything real. Nope.
The article is reasonable but the loops just annoyed me too much.
So much for how "social" and "private" they intend google+ to be.

Do not expect a conversation with close friends there.

it's an open mall. officially.

And the first people migrated from facebook boasting the privacy concerns.
I think a more accurate title is "prioritization is key to a healthy mind.". Forgetting is just deprioritizing, and only by prioritizing can our mind efficiently filter and process the most important information.
sorry about that, got the numbers from /.'s summary. should have know better.
Given Verizon's size, 2% seems a little high, but it's sort of within the range of reasonableness. That said, I see this as nothing more than a way to get a few million dollars per month for doing nothing. If it were really to cover CC fees, as you say, then consider the following:

1) This isn't a new service they are offering, and CC fees are nothing new. Why only start charging now?

2) The fee is actually only charged for some CC payments - recurring payments or in-store payments, which would still be subject to similar CC fees, do not incur the $2 fee.

3) Since the CC fees that were being borne by all are now solely borne by those using CCs (well, some of them at least), why are customers utilizing cheaper payment methods not given a credit?
"Defamation of people's religions" falls squarely under free speech in any country that has it. And if you consider "defamation of religion" a "violent gesture", consider re-examining your values. The attitudes you suggest would fit right in in countries still ruled by religious bodies, but they have no place in in civilized societies. (Any country that still places restrictions on speech, or intertwines religion and government, hasn't quite figured out "civilized" yet.)

Also, "unlawful" and "illegal" mean the same thing.

Now, I'd absolutely agree that defamation of religion can potentially offend people. And I suspect that if someone had a profile picture that defamed someone's religion, Google would remove that one too, because they want to keep profile pictures inoffensive to most of their target audience. That does not make such images illegal, though.

For that matter, promotion of religion can potentially offend people, but I doubt Google would remove profile pictures with overtly religious messages, because they don't particularly care about the small number of people offended, and they don't want the massive backlash from religious people, whose ability to stir up angry mobs has only grown with modern technology. (Oops, I've defamed religion there.)

Google could also choose to delete all profile pictures that contained the color red because they don't fit a preferred color scheme. If they did so, they'd attract quite a lot of complaints and ridicule, but they certainly have the right to do it.
How about Apple and Microsoft and Adobe? And 37signals and foursquare and Dropbox and AirBnB and literally every other company that has an internet presence and doesn't go nuclear to support this bill?
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If they're going to take up scarce public resources (i.e. RF spectrum), then the public has a legitimate concern in ensuring such resources are used in a way that benefits the public.
That would be suicidal...
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would using something like socialflights.com avoid all this hassle?
From the discussion of this on reddit, it seems to depend on whether or not the contract allows for addition or modification of "fees" and others implied that it could vary by state. Of course, IANAL and there were no sources cited anywhere.

I left 10 minutes ago to find the link and got lost, I'm not sure where it went.
Installing memory is probably a lot of fuss, especially for such a streamlined manufacturing process, and they can't post a fluctuating market price, so they just post one they can live with no matter the circumstances.

macsales.com has you covered otherwise.
They even buy back your old memory if you don't want it.
ironically, when i choose between a job in Europe or one in the USA, i considered a lot the fleeing freedoms here and in particular the hassle of international flights (since my family would be in another country and all).

ended up convincing myself that the way the TSA was couldn't get any worse :( that was before the body scanners
There could be worse companies to be compared to, but having that line attached to your name can get annoying. We've got friends who have the same sort of problem, and they're just hoping to outlast it by becoming the best in their field, rather than a copycat of someone else.
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I agree that the story is perhaps less important than an in-depth account of the DPRK's human rights abuses would have been, but I have serious doubts that millions of people are persistently imprisoned. What is your source?
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I've been saying this forever. Innovation is not just in the product; it's in the concept, and the way you describe it, as well. I'll choose not to describe my ventures in terms of everyone else's.
Incorrect. That image is banded around just to serve a particular viewpoint. There was already a capacitive touchscreen android device in the prototype stages at the same time. Look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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I'm from one of the poorest countries. I could buy my first smart-phone because of the availability of cheaper Android phones. I'm bit of geek because of the openness of Android, at least I'm aware of what software runs inside my phone. I expressed my true sentiments and my post was down voted. What a irony!
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This is exactly the definition of maximizing short term gain for long term pain. Customers need to be able to vote with their Feet (and dollars) to nip this kind of idiocy in the bud.
I hope this extra fee makes all existing contracts breakable without penalties or early termination fees.

The degree of cynical "squeeze more blood from the turnip" thinking is sickening.
Well put. The X of Y approach has that big disadvantage that might not make up for the time it saves in describing the product in the first place.
if instead of jamming they chose to build the theatre out of lead and posted a sign that said "cell phones don't work in here" then the result would be that people on call should not attend movies.
But how often does someone have to click through an add to get to Facebook?
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Here's the beauty of being Verizon: your phones are CDMA or derived technology, and will not work on any other carrier that does not wish to explicitly allow 'your' phones, and you easily can and do disallow other carrier's CDMA phones to work with your network. Your customers might be out of your current contract, but the only way they can get connected is to sign a new one.
Also had Comcast in MoCo, definitely solid internet, overall pretty pleased.
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Customers who have recurring payments set up are undoubtedly cheaper to service than one-time payers. They're less likely to fall behind on their bills, and getting customers to pay up after the fact costs money. This sounds like a reasonable charge to incentivize recurring payments.
My problem with this type of thinking is that is too easy for Y to swoop in and take over X for you. They have the team, reputation, and recent success. You, most likely, have nothing.

Examples:
"We are facebook for bicycles!": that's just a facebook group.
"We are Heroku for PHP/Clojure/Python":http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/8/3/polyglot_platform/

These are my best examples, but if X is just a feature that Y could implement or acquire, then making that comparison could be a major mistake. If they expand into your niche, then your X of Y idea backfires on you hardcore.

Edit: I saw that my variables were reversed at some places.
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Craft your positioning around the context of your audience. Do your consumers really care that you are X for Y? Hell no. They want to know what benefit you are providing them and probably have never heard of the other company you are referencing. But in the context of investors who look at 20 or more pitches a day? That's a different story. You are focusing on memorable positioning and also letting them know your business model is proven and scalable.
I have been peddling this quote all over, when the major news outlets claim it only effects foreign sites.

`foreign infringing site' = "if such site were a domestic Internet site"

The only reasonable response to that is WTF.
> The widgets you listed here are identical to their GB counterparts.

... shit, did they really exist before? Wow, I'm an idiot. I guess I never looked at the widgets menu very closely until I got the upgrade...

> Also, I find it strange you get such poor battery life. The battery life on my Nexus is far superior to stock.

It seems to be a (nearly?) universal issue - Google stopped the OTA update due to the battery issue. (http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/google...)
This is really great. One of the most daunting aspects of learning a new language has almost nothing to do with the language and much more to do with the surrounding artifacts (package managers, frameworks, etc.)

In almost any language community there is usually an established set of best practices and tools but this can be a quickly moving target, which leaves behind a confusing array of deprecated tools and frameworks that were once the community's preferred way of doing things. Having a running document that keeps everyone up to date helps immensely with adoption. I'd love to see something similar for other communities.
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> but if X is just a feature that Y could implement or acquire

Unless, of course, the feature that Y could acquire is yours and you crush it...then your position is pretty damn awesome (assuming you don't mind working for Y).
Generally true, but due to the cut-throat competition among Internet companies, we (and I guess almost all other employers) want smart people with the right skills _now_.
Smart employers concentrate on finding smart people

Is there some bot that posts this whenever someone submits a jobs/hiring post?
To me the big question is how we're going to scale up complexity. The million-line programs we have today are already an absurdity. What are we going to do, have billion-line programs? Anyone who can figure out to provide equal value with 100x less code (edit: that grows, say, logarithmically in size rather than superlinearly) is going to have an edge. Brute force won't work forever. Plus it gets extremely expensive as one approaches the limits.
Yeah, sure. At some level there's no news there.

At the same time...pretty much anyone is likely to have SOMETHING in their Internet history that they wouldn't be proud of, or that can be taken out of context.

What I really worry about is if a group like Anonymous or LulzSec or similar gets involved, that the smearing could involve evidence PLANTED on servers (hacking into a server and getting all the emails out puts you in the same position required to modify or insert emails into that same server).

If it really stays at the level of exposing skeletons and donating to opponents, then yes, I'd have to agree.
The OP does draw a comparison between his ideas and Moore's Crossing the Chasm. I agree there's a lot of buzz-like words thrown around, but there is substance here. There's an actionable suggestion for finding the monitizable pain (or any other term you want to give it). His plan instructs you to call a specific person, to convey a specific message, and measure for a specific success rate. I'd say this is useful and fresh advice in that regard.
Eric, ideas are cheap and execution is hard. I happen to believe that you're completely out to lunch if you think you could build this in a practical, scalable way that is useful in the ways I describe above.

However, I'm open minded and you seem confident — so if you believe that you're sitting on something, please feel free to share how you'd structure such a service. If you get it right, I'd pay you a lot more than $5, as long as it had the blessing of Dropbox (ie. doesn't get API throttled and isn't going to get cut after I integrate with your tool).
Google, as a company, is based in the US. Nearly all their man-power is there, and a lot (don't know about majority) of their servers. As a company, it is really impossible to stop being in the US.

Google were capable of moving out of China as they weren't very invested there and it didn't upset there investors.
I definitely think Python needs more opinionated guides so this is a win. I feel like Python does have enough "do it this way because". I think it has to do with the community just wanting to remain neutral. But you don't often get the best viewpoints when you stay in the middle.
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> Isn't this one of those things that are on the line where if just 1 person says it's offensive, then it should be treated as such.

I find your post offensive, but I'd never suggest that you shouldn't have the right to post it. (Hacker News would certainly have every right to delete it if they wanted, but I'd find that even more offensive.)

> It's kind of like if there were only 10 men and 2 women in a room, then by democracy, you'd probably end up with rape being OK.

Speaking of offensive, you just implied that at least three out of ten men would find that an acceptable outcome. I understand the point I hope you meant there ("majority rule" has serious problems if you don't preserve fundamental rights), but you picked a truly awful way to express it.
If things fell out that way, I'd agree 100%.

I just think that probably 90% of the current crop of politicians probably have SOME skeleton in their closet -- and it might not even be that they're a crook as much as something else that gets them voted out of office. An obvious possibility is to demonstrate that he or she is an atheist -- a HUGE fraction of people in the US won't vote for an otherwise qualified atheist. Is that a skeleton you feel would be justified in killing a politician's career?

This is also vigilante justice we're talking about, so an alleged skeleton could be someone posting an unsubstantiated rumor.

And keep in mind that there's absolutely no guarantee that the "replacement" who supports each group's agenda WON'T be a crook. Which means we're really talking higher churn, not higher integrity of politicians.
If they do that, the stock price of Google will plunge, and the CEO and directors of Google will be sued to oblivion. The vacuum created by a Google pullout will be happily filled by other tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) who, with less suicidal impulse, would be more than thrilled with such opportunities, even doing so with a straight face of "doing what's the best for our people". What a huge price to pay for "sending a message to Congress"...
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The only problem with private enterprise in building a heavy launch platform - is that they could be gone tomorrow, change direction or bought by a foreign entity - all of which could endanger an on-going space program.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like waste and this certainly is a large duplication of effort. However, I also see the concern that I am sure exists in govt/NASA.
Right, but they're not on the support list any more. Perhaps this is my cue to remove them from the crowdsourced supporters list?
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You've made at least a half dozen good points in this thread. I wish you'd write a longer piece on the topic and post it. This stuff is important, and you seem to be a bit ahead of the curve (or maybe it's just that I agree with you).
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You just need to know a few tricks of the customer service phone center game. Do these steps in order, stop whenever you get your way. Note that you must be willing to go all the way.

0) Make sure that the company only has a single payment mechanism on file for your account: a credit card

1) Call the company

2) Slam zero, pound, star, shout "AGENT" a bunch, and throw in a few swear words to trigger the system to send you to a live person ASAP

3) Ask to speak to someone in account management; preferably a retention specialist

4) Mention the materially adverse contract change

5) Tell them you'd like the change not to apply to you

6) Threaten to terminate your account, unless they provide an agreeable alternative offer

7) Refuse termination fees on grounds of materially adverse contract changes

8) Assure he operator that you will issue a chargeback for any such termination fees

9) Authorize cancelation of service

You should also keep a timestamped log of every person you speak to. This includes both their informal name and some kind of unique identifier, such as a phone extension number. Your log should include every material claims/fact you provided them and they provided you, especially specific numbers and identifiers, such as prices/rates, case numbers, and descriptions of processes.

Follow up: After you get your way. Call them right back!! Get someone else on the line and ask them to read to you your case notes. Call operators will lie to you to get you off the phone. Your case isn't resolved into someone totally different reads the case log back to you as you expect it to be. When you call, don't hint to them that you don't trust them. Tell them you got disconnected & ask them to read back the log aloud so that you are both on the same page. You don't want the new operator to be tainted by putting you on hold to go talk to the old operator.
...low barriers to entry?
I'm a pretty broadly experienced guy and, within my skillset, I can do basic-to-intermediate sysadmining.

I was born in 87 so I went through the era where people bought colos and servers and maintained their own web stack - though was too young at the time to ever get that notch in my belt.

I'm a power user who likes to tweak things and observe internal, often over looked processes. I don't like losing raw control behind a user friendly abstraction.

I'm interested in crunching statistical data from my own raw data logs.

Deep down, I don't expect my small projects and personal blog to ever cumulatively reach a server-melting velocity. (If they did, that'd be sweet, though.)

I own a Linode that I consider woefully underused.

Combine all of that and, for whatever reason, it just seems to me to be a good idea to at least attempt to roll my own web stack. At least, until something melts, is outside of my skillset, and I need to fallback to a quickly scalable, low maintenance, cloud-based solution.

That said, there is still a side of me that doesn't want to expend more effort than he has to and, ultimately, wants to tinker with new technologies and frameworks... so that leads me to the hunt for an interesting solution to lightweight API frameworks.

And, hell, if I take the hard road and find a solution with an advantage and is something that can be scaled, well, that sounds like a business idea to me.
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Hm. Never seem that particular term used for it before. My mistake.
"If X is just a feature that Y could implement or acquire, then making that comparison could be a major mistake."

Very true. This could be the case whether or not you publicly call yourself "The X of Y." I've always though that most companies fall in that category, even if they don't know or outwardly admit it.

So basically, we're all in danger no matter what.
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No Ruby, No Erlang?

Yes... why not... They're no longer the most important thing/deciding factor these days.

Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, Lucene are all written in Java and require some Java integration. I'm pretty sure there are bridging/interfacing library in other languages but I suppose most people don't really care about those languages. Stick with Java and move the train forward kind of attitude perhaps.

Spring Framework, Spring MVC, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, Hibernate/JPA2/Spring-Data and some Java-based DB migration library (Flyway) seem to fill the sweet spot that Rails had to offer a few years ago.

I used to hate Maven but now I think Maven is one of the killer apps/frameworks/tools in Java.
SOPA is all over hacker news and other tech feeds, but I have seen nothing on the television news outlets (CNN, FoxNews). Obviously, they want to see this slip through... they are all owned by big media business who are probably supporters.
Indeed, everyone has the "we're not liable if we terminate your service" legalese, but not everyone has the stated free speech mission statement on NFS's About Us page: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/

You're right in wanting to judge by actions rather than some CYA phrasing in a terms & conditions. NFS has a track record of backing up that free speech mission with action. And then there's Dynadot, who continue to host the wikileaks.org domain, and the DNS after EasyDNS dropped them. If Gandi has a similar track record, I'd love to hear it.
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They seem to imply they are already have a huge following of twitter users but how do they do it if the twitter account were just newly created?
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