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>especially coupled with the free 2nd day shipping

There's an added bonus if you live near a distribution center, in which 2nd day often turns into next day. In a handful of cases, I've had next day turn into same day -- ordering something before I go to work, and finding it was delivered in the middle of the afternoon by a specialty shipper like LaserShip.
No, AT&T is in the business of selling phone contracts. The actual bits themselves are loss leaders to help sell those subscriptions.
Interesting idea. I bet within some specific application domain, stemmed probabilities either diverge or don't across the board, so it wouldn't pay to conditionally stem term-by-term.
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I wonder if a ClojureScript LLVM backend would work.
Over the air HD in 1080i format is generally about 20Mbps. It looks pretty darn good to most people.

Yes, higher bitrate makes better pictures, but for TV, over the air is currently the best way to get network programming in the least compressed format.
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All of this is good to keep in mind, but the most important thing you can do while co-founder dating is to simply work with the person. You can talk together all you want, but when you start working together on something hard it will become clear whether there's a potential co-founder fit.
If simulation runs (and it should) in the different thread, then nothing bad happens.
"Wage slave" is an anti-concept used by individuals to rationalize their belief that coercive slavery can be morally legitimate. In order to do so, they must conflate voluntary impositions on freedom (doing what your boss says to obtain their property) with coercive impositions on freedom (doing what your owner says to avoid violence). At the start of the industrial revolution, the term was used by plantation owners in the South to attack factory owners in the North.
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If people want to code on the web that's great. If someone wants to provide a bootstrapped in-browser ClojureScript development experience, that's great too. I just don't buy your claim that ClojureScript's strategy is a disadvantage.

eval is fantastic - the power of connecting to server-side REPLs comes to mind. However given ClojureScript's clientside focus the lack of the compiler infrastructure on clients (to provide support for eval) is less problematic in my opinion. But you might disagree - and no one's stopping you from addressing the issue.
For a while, I maintained an exporter that would turn a BMML (or series of BMML files) into interactive HTML and JavaScript, which allowed me to customize the JS to provide that interactivity.

I discontinued it after Balsamiq offered clickable PDFs. It was more work to do the interactions in JS than it was to just clone the mockup and do each key frame as a new mockup.

http://vi.to/bmml/

This is otherwise one of my biggest beefs with Balsamiq: I'd love to be able to easily prototype advanced interactions, essentially with motion graphics, but can't. I suspect tools like Radi, Adobe Edge, Sencha Animator, Hype or Maqetta will eventually support both the "quick sketchy wireframes" and the "complex prototypes" use cases and replace Balsamiq for me.
My buddy wrote the article so I can't comment on his stance but I'm with you on the var self = this;

Like you I like to avoid the use of "$" character unless dealing with jQuerified variables
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This is not practical advice. Not many people here are building the cure to cancer. The best defense is to build a self-sustaining business where you don't need to sell it.
Thank you for bringing up the Rat Park experiment.

The Rat Park experiment is often conveniently ignored because it essentially debunks a lot of common 'wisdom' regarding drugs. It's hard to villainize certain drugs as 'bad' and evil' while endorsing others in light of the Rat Park experiment, which shows that 'bad' drugs aren't chemically 'bad' - they're just taken in a 'bad' setting.

Fortunately, the theory is now becoming harder to ignore, because that's the basis of a lot of effective modern drug treatment, which tries to identify the underlying cause of drug addiction (the environmental/behavioral problems that cause an individual to abuse drugs), rather than focusing on the drug use itself. That's not saying that drugs don't have a physical impact - they do - but if drugs are being used as an outlet to compensate for environmental factors, then removing access to those substances will just cause the underying problems to manifest in other (potentially worse) ways.

It's the difference between treating the symptom of a disease and treating the disease itself. Yes, you might want to take cough medicine if you have lung cancer, since it'll help with your symptoms, but you'd be a fool to think that that's going to cure the tumor that causes you to cough.

This theory is very powerful, because it means that you can use the same techniques to treat drug addiction and other psychological ailments like PTSD, anorexia and self-mutilation, which are themselves often best thought of as psychophysiological responses to environmental factors.

Interestingly, if you really want to use physiological symptoms as the basis for determining whether a drug is addictive or not, then alcohol is probably the most addictive substance known to man. If you ever want to give yourself a scare, look up some of the symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal (which can actually kill you, after a long and painful bout of delirium tremens and worse).

TL;DR: Addiction is best thought of as a mental response to environmental factors. So, in a sense, it really is 'all in the mind'. Or alternatively, not at all in the mind, and all in the environment. Whichever way you prefer to think of it.
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> M&A guys can smell it when you really want a deal, and that makes them want it less.

This seems perverse, but I'm guessing that there's some kind of economic intuition these guys have gained from being around deals all the time? Something like, "Wants a deal == needs it == a bad investment." This just seems to confirm that the best way to get money thrown at you is to not have a need for it.
We’ll be contacting Project Gutenberg with a link to this article...

The article makes good points, but makes them in a way that's likely persuasive only to people who already know about version control. Suppose you represent Project Gutenberg and you've never heard of distributed version control. Here's what you get told:

It’s downright foolish not to take advantage of the wonders a good VS can work with this sort of content: versions are revisions, editions are branches, commit logs preserve integrity and posterity, and an index of all changes is forever kept. Nothing is ever lost or overwritten, and the changes over time can be analyzed, indexed, and reviewed... [N]othing could be easier than forking the original, making your changes, then opening a ticket to propose that PG merge your changes back into their "official" distribution!

Some of this will sound interesting, but most will sound like gobbledygook. I also doubt whether the paragraph that follows-- which describes how a DVCS will make it easier for people who intentionally corrupt works found on PG to benefit from the future work of PG members-- will excite the sorts of people who rise to the level of decision-maker at Project Gutenberg.

In short, this is good advocacy for getting people who know about DVCS to help out PG, but it probably isn't good advocacy to get PG interested in DVCS.
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I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon without bothering to price compare. This consists mostly of items in the $100 or under range. The reasons are simple: huge selection, "free" 2-day shipping under Prime, and a near-frictionless ordering process -- I don't need to enter my shipping information and credit card information every time I make an order. And with subscriptions, I don't even need to place the order.

Prime has completely changed the way I shop for a lot of everyday items and for someone who lives in a rural area and is a 20 minute, 15 mile drive to the nearest Wal Mart, it's really made my life more convenient.
This was beaten to death on the release of clojurescript. I think the consensus is it's not worthwhile, since there are real benefits to google's closure compiler, optimization, and dead code elimination. But there's nothing stopping you from implementing it?
Facebook testing Android SMS integration, denies "spying" allegations
Exactly. So if you opened the sensor, then any Rumblefish claim is invalid...
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Conceptually, if very smart people did it, and other very smart people say it can't be done... that's what you're looking for for a deep moat. Usually that's going to be some sort of new mathematical principle in software.

It's excruciatingly hard to get funding if you do come up with that sort of idea, because the experts all say its impossible. ;)
Any downside for the company would be so short-lived it wouldn't be worth it. Like most ragefests, it'd die down at the next controversy and be forgotten.

They're not naming names because they value the lesson more than the temporary shaming.
Considering $35 comes from acquiring digital video content. Prime was making money until Amazon did that bizarre video play.
It's not exactly the _intended_ topic of the post, but I had the same reaction. The author seems to want to evoke a sense of calm or slowing down, but the transition between the scene and the diagram-laden advice is really pretty jarring. The weak transition reminds me of the E-Myth, a book which grafted a gratuitous, saccharine narrative onto its small and fairly obvious thesis.

Whatever the calming potato pond is supposed to do here, the subsequent jargon storm undoes it. If "The Startup Owner's Manual" reads like this article (a weird mix of narrative and startup-ese with italics strewn about like a Christopher Walken monologue), I'd be hesitant to spend 40 bucks on it.
It looks very interesting! I'm very curious to see what cool new deals you will bring!
So, this is a VPN implemented as a linux kernel module that's somehow not open source?
> The Company might well become very cautious about trying to redevelop the technology, precisely because of the NDA.

I seriously doubt it.

> In a somewhat-similar situation in the mid-1990s, Rockwell International got tagged by a jury for almost $58 million for breach of an NDA concerning circuitry for improving data transmission rates over analog cell phones.

What fraction of revenue was that? For a semi firm, that sounds like small-cost-of-doing-business when compared to cell-phone revenues.
! Would love to find out :) It's a open goal to make ClojureScript pluggable.
Does the data not persist between visits? I used this yesterday and it highlighted some posts, but today I got on HN and nothing is getting highlighted.
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I believe the issue people are having with this is that its a bit condescending.

These guys built a mobile app and node API in 20hrs based on something that - they believed - is general common-sense among any city dwellers (avoiding bad neighborhoods).

If you think you know a better way of approaching the problem, then the general response in the hacker community is: build it yourself.

Asking to change wording to something less offensive is fine... but calling them out for not being socially concious and not trying to fix a problem that has affected cities for centuries is a bit of a stretch... especially considering it was a weekend project.
I needed to speak Greek, Latin, French, or German, and German philosophy isn't quite as universally bad as the others

While I am myself not quite sure if philosophies can be at all qualified as good or bad, I am quite surprised to discover that the author apparently found a way to qualify the philosophies of whole countries and all their historic evolution as good or bad. Statements like these somewhat undermine otherwise interesting ideas.
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Well as some one once told me "In some bits of America its still a bit like that" And in Chicago its "a Lot Like that"

What I think (and ime not going to be popular here) the USA needs is to totaly reorganise local govement far to may things are decided at too low a level for a modern and efficient state.

This meens radicaly doing away with "states rights" it makes no sense to have multiple sales and local income taxes - think how much monney would be saved by having a single sales tax.
I've got a pair of Sennheiser HD-490 Live's which use the same ear cushion as the HD-495 and I can't find any place online that sells them.

It may just be time to bite the bullet and purchase a new pair of headphones. It is not like they haven't given me my moneys worth and then some!
Work wasn't considered something apart from social life. Basically, if something needed to be done, you did it. Things weren't nearly as compartmentalized as they are now. Agricultural lifestyles mean that life and work are much more integrated than they are now, because they had to be.

Which has pros and cons: people lived much more on the brink of survival, but a local area was also more self-sufficient. The trade we've made is to take risk of dying from starvation during a bad year where we are not self-sufficient enough for risks related to specialization, meaning we now have the equally uncontrollable risk of being screwed by a NYC financier or a DC bureaucrat.

It's also important to distinguish between different cultures and different time periods. A peasant in 15th century England lived a very different lifestyle than a peasant in 2nd century China.

Edited to clarify.
I'm the other cofounder of Teamly. Matt is very kind to describe me so nicely, but I feel just as lucky to have found him. As well as being extremely inquisitive he gets stuff done, and is as passionate about Teamly as I am. We clicked straight off, and that's why we're putting in so much effort in finding the right additional cofounder to join us now. It's far more than about technical skills, it's about fit and passion.
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The email I sent included several paragraphs description of the benefits to PG and the problems that DVCS would solve.
> This just seems to confirm that the best way to get money thrown at you is to not have a need for it.

Law of the jungle: If it runs, chase it. If chased, run.
> considered KDE, but looks like someone decided to make the whole thing really ugly since the last time I used it

Poor theming is the last reason you should use another DE. KDE makes it very easy to retheme.
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I would love to use clojure as a data analysis language. Although incanter is nice, it's slower than I would prefer. Perhaps being able to use a use a non-java linear algebra library would help?

If so, this seems like a great first step.
I wonder how much of this is down to policy changes, and how much comes from increased IT fingerprints, monitoring, etc.

In other words, has the motivation to catch leakers increased, or is it just the capability that has increased?

I think it's probably a mix of the two; I reckon some earlier administrations would have clamped down on leakers as hard, if they could have.
However, Fred Wilson (Venture capitalist) does advocate something of the sort:

"You can't monetize web services very well until you have an audience of scale. Jason Calacanis suggests that 10mm monthly uniques is where you have scale. I think it can be less in some cases (highly targeted services) and more in some cases (social nets). But every ounce of time, energy, money, and brainpower you spend on thinking about how to monetize will take you away from the goal of getting to scale. Because if you don't get to scale, you don't have a business anyway. "

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/01/twitters-busine.html
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You (and I, for that matter, at 17 packages) are outliers. Even amongst Prime members, most people won't get anywhere near 30 packages in a month, ever. The only reason I do is that I don't leave the house much (and hate doing so anyway). Most people would pick up a watch battery on the way home from work -- I go to Amazon and hit "Buy now with 1-Click".
Should restaurants pay for the gas I use to get there?
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Scientist weren't willing to bet this phenomenon could reappear in 2012 but they should have.
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This looks very handy for adding details to the upcoming election results. Thanks!
What kind of districts do you need? The CensusShapeConverter can easily be extended to grab any of the data from the Census, which you can browse a list of here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/tgrshp2010.ht...

And yeah, you're on point about redistricting being a complete f'ing headache. Do you know if there's any centralized government source for maps of redistricted precincts?
Yeah, probably. That's something that's fairly easy to measure for any given data set, so you can check to see if it's worthwhile before you do it.
The problem here is that the local government is being too inflexible--that's not to say, however, that a higher-level one would be any better. I assure you, the problems in getting a federal change of policy--were it necessary--are far in excess of figuring out a city.

If the market really cared enough, they could likely sway the local government. If the product was good enough to justify that, then it would likely happen. Any failings thus probably stem from some mismatch in market and product.
In addition to the free shipping on 2 day delivery or the $4 next day delivery we purchase a lot from amazon on our chase/amazon credit card due to the 3% cash back on purchases from amazon. We pay the card off every month and then by the time Christmas rolls around we have tons of points to redeem. We also typically buy gas (2% back) and a few other large recurring monthly expenses on the card for the 1% cash back. I wouldn't use it for anything that I wasn't paying off immediately though as the interest rate sucks. The combination of prime and the card have significantly increased the amount we spend with Amazon.
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I've got some people running Lubuntu (LXDE + Ubuntu), but I think I'll gradually switch them over to LXDE Mint, since it seems like a much more cohesive experience.
"$35 comes from acquiring digital video content"

The digital content should not be considered in Prime membership cost. People buy into Prime membership for the free shipping, not the digital content. Rather, free digital content is meant to give people's foot into the door of Amazon streaming platform.

The digital content is more of a market development cost for the fledgling platform Amazon is creating.
I'm surprised this was (according to the TC article, so grain of sand) Dropbox's first acquisition — for their valuation and size it seems like they'd have started that ball rolling a year ago or so.
I thought that it used Flash for the sound.
Care to provide more detail?

"Outdated thinking" might mean NIMBY nuke plant aversion, or it might mean infant cannibalism--without providing more information we have no idea what you're talking about.
"Coderwall is a striking modern profile for developers. Standout and be recognized for the awesome things you're learning and building."-From their website.

Throwing this out there: awesome developers could and probably should be able to make anything that coderwall could offer in terms of awesome profiles. IMO the best way to stand out is to build your own website with some open source stuff, put up your projects, and have a few links to online accounts that you put a lot of effort into making useful. By using coderwall, it looks like a developer would be only gaining access to people who are too lazy to look through their awesome website.

There is a Mark Twain quote that is escaping me that would really apply here. Something to do with crowds and what to do when everybody else is doing or thinking something.

EDIT: They have a very pretty website though. Kudos for that.
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Yeah you can return stuff...right until they decide you're an unprofitable customer and drop you like a hot brick.
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I just signed up for it using my github account, and it suggested the skills "Loving IE6" and "Visual Basic". Erm, WHAT? I can't remember when I wrote my last line of Visual Basic code, and I'm certain I haven't touched any on github.

The idea is nice, but the implementation is a bit of a downer.
What, that naive people should be fooled into moving into bad neighborhoods? I don't think that is really a promising solution.
Sounds great on paper. In real life there's a certain degree of collusion between the major carriers, and it's possible AT&T could convince Sprint and Verizon to play the same game. It's also possible one of them had the idea to begin with, and AT&T won't even be the first to implement it.

After a couple of years you might get a class action lawsuit far enough along that the FCC says the whole thing is perfectly legal and it doesn't see the problem. Or the carriers might backstab each other for secret reasons. But this matter cannot be trusted to the market.
OK, I dont know much about start ups (I lurk here because of the quality of stories and comment), but here in the UK what I see often are start-ups who seem to rely on the idea that they will run at a loss, often large loss, in the expectation that they will either float or get bought up, rather than perusing a model where the start-up can be profitable on it's own. I've worked for a couple during ye olde dot com boom!!!

OK, I understand that model and I can see the sense in it, but does it not set up a situation where the start-up is so dependent on some one buying them up that they can get over keen once potential buyers circle, resulting in them becoming vulnerable to the iffy behaviour of bigger businesses.

Seems to be a critical point in the business, where the founders can run in to trouble, for reasonable human reasons. Perhaps some sort of help is required in this area?
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Thanks rgbrgb! ;) What do you think about AppFolder?
Not entirely fiction. Newspapers used to have fewer ads.
I would recommend Mercurial for such a project. It's much more graspable by non-nerds than git IMO.
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If I remember correctly from another article, they suggest those skills so that you go in and correct them. By doing something outrageous, they get you to react and fix the
"problem".

Did you put in new skills? If so, then it is working.

Link here: http://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-23-hating-on-IE6
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It is a brilliant use of a simple psychology concept - Sunken Cost. People tend to go further to justify the sunken cost. The Prime members become Amazon's captive audiences. Same thing with the Costco/SamsClub members.