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"Do people really associate a brands reputation with the content of the site on which they may be advertising?"

Probably. There's overwhelming evidence (in general; not web specific - but I'm not aware of any research which shows it doesn't apply online) which shows advertising context is critical in market positioning.

Have a look at the Tesco-Levi lawsuit from a few years ago, Levi a premium jeans company sued Tesco a supermarket to prevent it selling Levi jeans, because putting premium jeans alongside vegtables damaged the exclusivity of the Levi brand.

While I appreciate the example is from a different context, I believe there's no reason that the same principle don't apply online.

Another way of looking at it - think about the following scenario: Say a consumer was looking at a porn site and it contained an advert for a dating service (called A), and later on the consumer looked at their church's website and it also had an advert for a dating service (called B). If you questioned the consumer about which dating service was more "wholesome" I'm willing to bet the consumer would pick B over A the vast majority of the time.
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What is also important about the recently numerous gaga stories about how great apple treated them at their service centers is - "Why is that there are so many complaints?", first place.

I own a Mac and I am definitely pleased by their support. My hard disk crashed, top case chipped away due to a bad design in this version, Apple happily replaced this all in a day, in India. And as I write this my RAM is beeping indicating some hardware problem yet again and it has been just around a year. Now am I happy, definitely "No". You can't be making 10 trips to the apple store and still feel good just about how they treat you.

For the same money I could have bought a Dell or a HP, threw it away when i was not happy and bought another one. I would have still saved some money.
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I'm a big fan of Code Igniter-- I actually think you'll produce much better PHP code if you learn a framework. It's really easy to design poorly with PHP and a good framework can help build up good habits to take with you long-term.

CI is a light enough framework and you can diverge from it when needed to do lower-level stuff. It also has a great user guide.
"Like Robert Oppenheimer and his team of nuclear physicists in the 1940s, Brickell and his JPMorgan colleagues didn't realize they were creating a monster."

Comparing a JPM MD to oppy? huh?

This is why I don't read newsweek. argh!
+1, roommates. I did that when I was out there.

And +1 to your strategy of biting the bullet and paying what it costs to be happy, provided you can afford it of course. I'd prioritize keeping the commute short, because that wears on you every day. On the other hand, I used to work in Fremont and live in Fremont, and the commute was nice and short, and rents are decent, but... Fremont? Not such a happening place. At least a 20 minute drive away from all my friends except the one who was my roommate at the time.

So the ideal is probably to live in SF and work in SF, or live in Mountain View/Palo Alto (but not East Palo Alto, unless things have really changed since I left) and work there as well. Or live in Mountain View and work in your spare room. ;)
At University. They gave us handout sheets. The coursework used SQL and PHP to have an online register of school employees (eg, teachers).
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I don't mean to be rude, but every day thousands of people around the world visit their local Genius bar. And as much as you want to think that your Genius was just awfully nice, they ARE following strict guidelines about what they can and can't do. Not exactly news.
+1. My Dell fan was full of dust, so the notebook started overheating. I asked Dell (over their online chat) if it can be replaced and two days later a technician knocked on my door and took care of it. Total time wasted: 10 minutes.

PS I didn't even have to pay for the warranty, as you can usually get a 3-year at-home warranty from Dell for free.
Great for data centers?
Recently I played with Django+Python. One thing I found difficult with MVC frameworks is how to make memcached for per query more comfortable. Contrary, hand coded oo interface can handle that well. (You can always hand code memcached layer in your own model with MVC framework of course, but here I am arguing that framework should have a universal way to make the utility of memcached invisible)
Two things make me think Apple are not giving such great service -

1) A simple firmware update rendered your screen unusuable
2) They only replaced your battery because they had sold you a faulty battery in the first place.

They are not being nice they are fixing mistakes that should never have been made in the first place.
That's a pretty extreme case and wonderfully framed to back up your assertion, but even it is kinda wrong IMHO.

Dating sites in particular tend to promote the values their clients hold. If it's a dating site where "wholesome" is the clients primary value then advertising on a porn website would be detrimental, however a company like adultfriendfinder benefits greatly from advertising on porn websites.

What I assumed we were talking about was actual big brands like McDonald's or Nike. They, unlike dating sites, tend not to be as dependent on their customers moral values and so context isn't as important.
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Nice heads-up advice. Basically it could be summarized by 'Abstract, abstract and abstract some more' or if you're a Python aficionado DRY (don't repeat yourself).
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I actually learned it recently by writing a small app for the Google App Engine and referencing the python docs.

After that I started learning Django using the Django docs and http://www.djangobook.com/ and this kind of rounded out the python bits as I went along

Haven't actually made reference to an actual Python book yet
You're happy that you got a new battery for a laptop you can't use? I don't get it.

I have gotten good service at Apple stores, and (as in life) it pays to be nice to the person you're dealing with. Overall, however, I find them fairly confusing; hard to find stuff, don't know where to pay, etc.
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Thanks! That looks like it might be something we can use :)
The article implies that it is fairly warm in the tunnels, so unless the data center can be made cool...
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Many of those areas are mountainous infertile wasteland and forests that are mostly logged off. Shoulda just sold off the lower half of Manhattan last year ;-)
I think the DRY motto came from the Rails folks.
As my wife just pointed out, it's cheaper than a lot of houses in Palo Alto and way cooler!
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I know the post is whether to choose from Boston or SV, but I see your from NY. I been around the NYC startup scene for while and there a bunch of activity here and it only has increased since Wall St. decided to die. Brooklyn and Manhattan have a bunch of startup opportunities, even some startups from Ycombinator are located here like Buglabs and Frogmetrics. Not to mention organizations/meetups like Jelly ( coworking started in nyc), Meetup.com's ( located in nyc as well)NYC tech meetup, and http://www.nextny.org/. Obviously if you feel the need to move to Boston or SV I understand completely given there status in tech world but don't overlook your backyard as well.
If you want a big company example look at what Burger King did to McDonalds in the late-70s/early-80s, BK decided to position themself in the adult burger market and move away from the childrens market. BK stopped running adverts during childrens tv.

McD's own adverts carried on running in between kids shows, the context of the ads (in contrast to those of BK) caused McD to seem like a childen's brand. This allowed BK to steal a massive chunk of McD's market share.

McD's own advert harmed the McD brand purely because of context.

While there were clearly other factors at play here, the context in which those adverts ran was a major contributing factor. You could see how the same could apply today with regards to adverts appearing on children's websites, etc.
Though I agree that bad science and sensationalism do much harm to the case of climate change, there are many reasons to make the drastic changes to how humans operate on the planet.

For any of the people who don't believe in climate change, I say to tell yourself the story of how the rainforests disappeared and thousands (scientists say millions) of species were lots for ever, and why.

Go look at a strip mine, and try not to feel like what we are doing is wrong.

This summer a small plot of trees across from where I have coffee was mowed down for an olympic ceremonies park. Now I have no qualms about actually taking down that small plot of trees (it's maybe 1.5-2 acres), in a prime retail spot, and I live in a rain forest so loosing an acre to us isn't a big deal, we're surrounded by trees.
But the sound of those trees coming down, we were all in shock, and really when you see all the dead trees lying there on the ground, you feel ashamed to have supported it.

I also say to tell yourself the story of how your car runs, from the first bit of oil being drilled to the moment that your tires spin, and if you can honestly convince yourself that that is an efficient energy system, then you're an amazing debater.

I honestly believe there are huge errors in the science which is spread publicly, but it is the sensationalism of this science which is grabbing attention and causing people to take notice.
The negative effect is the backlash of non-believers have ammunition.
i changed it to default (on your first visit, before you have a cookie) to celsius for anything outside of the us. when you click on the answer you can toggle between celsius and fahrenheit and override whatever it picked.
I wish I had the math emporium for my entire degree and every single course, because the quality would of been better every single bloody time.
The store near where I live in New Jersey extended its hours to help me when my computer melted. I had a pretty severe problem and I was panicking - didn't have time to make an appointment - and they stayed open an extra half hour to make sure everything went okay. It was incredibly kind of them.

An undercover retail article said that Apple Store employees are given an incredible amount of freedom in the store: they're allowed to roam around and talk to customers however they see fit. The idea is that if you hire a Mac fan, train him only minimally, and free him from any sort of store restraint, then he'll be much more responsive to customers. It's a really smart idea and in my experience, it works.
twhirl should do this, and also add more social connections.

I don't need another Twitter app.
"Climate change has always happened."

Sure, supernovas too, but if there was one on the way and we had a chance to stop it we'd be damned fools not to pay attention.

"There's nothing we can do about it."

Bullshit.
Here's the bit I don't quite understand. It seems to me that CDSs are fine as long as you only have one degree of separation.

Example: if JPM loans Ford $1B, it can buy a CDS from AIG for that loan. However AIG cannot then buy a CDS for for the loan that JPM owns.

Doesn't this solve the issue?
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I've lived in SV for a year without a car. As long as you're moderately close to each bay area hub (like castro in mountain view, or university in palo alto), you'd have access to Caltrain and can go just about anywhere. SV is a very bicycle friendly place to live.
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The main thing Microsoft has never quite grasped is interoperability. Which is understandable, because (a) it's hard, and (b) it reduces potential sales by providing a level playing field. Traditionally, Microsoft has opted for vendor lock-in; Microsoft tools work best with other Microsoft tools, and poorly or not at all with competitors.

This strategy does tend to keep customers in the fold, and
provide more short term revenue. However, in the long term a lack of competition causes stagnation, both in the product and the market; and when a competitor does arrive, Microsoft suddenly finds itself woefully unprepared to fight back.

Most open source software, on the other hand, exists in a world of broad interoperability and heavy competition. Is it any wonder that certain open source products are beginning to nip at Microsoft's heels? Microsoft is still the 400lb gorilla of the software world, but one that's overweight with a heart condition.
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I think the point here is how they stack up with the competition. I had a unique experience a while back as my roommate had to fix his Dell at the same time I had to fix my Apple.

He spent... well, almost a full work day (!) on the phone, arguing with one rep or another, convincing them that something had broken, before they sent a tech out (to their credit, it was fixed then).

I spent... 10 minutes. I called, told them about the problems I was having, asked for a repair-via-mail, was promptly granted it, gave them my address, and was on my way. Yeah, it took 4 days longer than his method, but I saved myself some pretty major aggravation.
Um no. Mountain View is not the same price as SF. SF is far more expensive than Mountain View. My current apartment in Mountain View is on the order of 3x cheaper per square foot compared to when I lived in SF. When I was in SF, I was living around the tenderloin which is already cheaper than most "normal" places in SF.

My current apartment is only a few hundred feet from the Castro downtown and is around $1200 for a 1000sqft 2 bedroom apartment. I'd like to see someone find something like that in SF for the same price.
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actually, in defense of m_eiman, i don't think you are being completely fair. Though your technical abilities clearly outweigh his (and mine, and many if not most here on HackerNews), your response sounds somewhat insulting, and I hope i am just misunderstanding your tone.

You say this is a 'Classic case of a person with no security training or experience trying to do security'. That is not what m_eiman is trying to do at all. What is trying to be accomplished is to remove an security warning
when there is not threat.
Not everybody careas about 'certificate extensions',and I know i've never looked it up myself, but the point of the original 37 Signals post, and the follow-up post by m_eiman was to be able to reliably include non-https data in an https page (if I even have that correctly).

Anyway, the reason I wrote this is because I believe it is VERY important to support the discussion of these ideas, and maybe take the time to explain why something might or might not work (which you did at a very high level in your first comment), but it is really your second follow-up which serves to potentially prevent people from posting ideas that though somewhat flawed, could still have some merit.
And much bigger too!
But the truth of the matter is that these mistakes will be made, regardless, by everyone, not just Apple. Laptops in general have a failure rate that is actually pretty high.

Given that no matter where I go I can't avoid things being potentially broken, I'd rather be well taken care of, instead of not.
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As I commented on the blog, he fell into the trap of needlessly looping over sets of data.

1) Loop over MySQL result set in GetArray

2) Loop over array of results to format them in GetVideos

3) assumed loop over results to eventually display them to the user.

All three steps could be accomplished at the same time by simply using iterators.
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When I started learning PHP, after basic tutorials of PHP, I jumped on MVC framework called Symfony (http://symfony-project.org/). It's a great framework and the documentation is really extensive with some basic examples as well. You might wonder isn't starting with MVC was more extensive, but here are the adavantages I found -
1. MVC helped me to automate many things, so it was faster productivity
2. It showed me how to organize and structure the code
3. Though initially it kept details unknown from me, it was good because it didn't baffle me a lot initially.

Once I started get going with my actual application, I started reading more details of PHP as on when required. But MVC helped to accelerate my process of building the real thing instead of investing of time in reading tutorials.

Also, I found these tutorials are good for plain PHP - http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/ . It also explains the MVC and all. So you might want to read these tutorials, and then start with Symfony.

I hope this helps.
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Yes, in Canada our government doesn't believe in open access or competition, not unless it benefits the incumbent carriers.

Innovation in Canada is a bad word as we believe that the big carriers (Rogers, Bell, Telus, etc.) must be protected at all costs. The carriers win and innovation loses.

Don't even get me started on how startups are treated outside of the small but passionate startup communities.
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The 'helvetica' included with nearly all X servers is a terrible bitmap that maxes out at 16pt. Some windows installations also have a similar crapfest.

I recommend using font-family:"helvetica neue", arial, sans-serif;
Why would anyone subject themselves to using this?
Does that mean that the U.S. is already a digital ghetto?
That's true of traditional TV advertising, though I was under the apparently mistaken idea that internet advertising was what we were discussing.
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Implicit straw man: "Climates have always changed and they always will". Who is refuting this?

"There is no relationship between CO2 and temperature". Please.

The real shame is that although I believe that global warming is man-made I am genuinely open to being persuaded otherwise. But I've yet to hear a counter argument that isn't self contradicting, dishonest or full of cherry-picked data and ad hominems. It suggests the 'climate-skeptic' camp is dominated by people who have (perhaps involuntary) ulterior motives.
Maybe it does, but then you would be pissing off the 'free market'.

- AIG should do whatever it wants with its papers! Why do you hate my freedom?

Kidding aside, it's easy to think back and see what went wrong. But the truth is that a LOT of daily financial transactions, small to large, have several layers of buyers, sellers, lenders and buyers.

For example, in your example, why did Ford needed $1B? To sell cars to people and companies. And where do all these people and companies get money to buy cars? They borrow.

So what's the last layer? How many are allowed? What's its depth? All this stuff is interconected. Maybe it's one degree from a financial institution... what's a financial institution? Hedge, pension, banks? A company doing 49% hedge and 51% consumer savings is what?

And believe me, not matter how many locks we put, the finance people will find holes. They will do it because that's where new money is. It's their jobs to find it.

The issue then becomes how to identify, mitigate the damage, and close these holes. Which has its theories 100% in economics and its practices 100% in politics. Awesome.

But I ramble...
Ya, there's some stuff that sucks in regards to digital media in Canada but it's not like everything is ruined once a bill is passed. If a new C-61 makes it through, it will suck for a few years until people get annoyed and it will be overturned or amended.
Ok survey of the terrain, but WAY biased, and not very well-written.

If it wasn't for the fact that programming in Javascript is so obtuse

If Javascript is obtuse, You're Doing It Wrong. Javascript is a very powerful and expressive language—it's the browser API that's a piece of garbage.

data fields must involve a round-robin trip to the server

Wait, there are scheduling algorithms involved? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin

Word salad anyone?
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"And no one quite knows what it means to a generation of 2-year-olds to have slightly pixelated versions of their grandparents as regular fixtures in their lives."
That's one inhuman side of technology ...
He fails to mention Cappucino, which seems even more ambitious than the MVC projects included.
As for blogs, Tobias Schlitt is my favorite for PHP: http://schlitt.info/applications/blog/

For a broader collection of pretty good PHP blogs check out http://www.planet-php.net/
This should be a warning to those who are clamoring for "net neutrality". Government regulation tends to be justified by claiming it helps the little guy. It inevitably ends up being protection for the big guy.

Problems should be viewed as opportunities to make money, not as excuses to grow government. High prices should entice competitors into the Canadian marketplace. My guess is that the very government regulations designed to protect consumers now function to keep out these competitors who could offer better services at lower prices.
I see your point, but I'd say there is cherrypicking data on both sides. In terms of motives, certanily Gore and many scientists have been personally enriched by promoting global warming.

Sure humans have affected the climate, but I'm scared by the level of religious language and fanaticism:

"Repent of your carbon emissions!"

"The world will be destroyed in ten years!"

It used to be like 75 years but I guess people didn't really care so now they employ all these fear tactics. New York will be under water in our lifetime? Seriously? Many alarmists employ the same language that Pat Robertson does about the second coming and that Bush does about the terrorists.

As soon as I think I'm being manipulated by fear I get really skeptical. Al Gore IS a politician and his messianic message is demagogy as much as anything.
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> Bullshit

Facts please.
What do you do if your gut feeling tells you, with confidence, to study what rich people did before attempting it yourself?

Just saying :)
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