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Here's my problem (going with one of the examples quoted, flying from Buenes Aires to Toronto): one of the suggestions is to fly to Montreal and take a bus. But what if I _don't_ want the hassle of going from airport to greyhound to bus, only to be dropped into the middle of T'o in the middle of the night? As it stands currently, I can get a refund only if I can find a cheaper flight; but in many cases it's hard to beat the price of a shitty flight + slumming it for 12 hours on the road. So you're SOL.

That seems to be accounted for with the three 'flexibility' questions contest creators are asked; whether they will fly with any airline including discount airlines, whether they'll consider ground transport to nearby airports, and whether they'll consider multiple stops and long layover times, respectively.
Okay thanks for the downvote, astine. I was making a general point about its market share http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/chrome-vs-firefox-g...
So how do you have a programming job in New Hampshire? This description is how I feel about Western Massachusetts.
Having peace of mind is a sort of safety.

And it doesn't really matter if someone is nervous about something for good or bad reasons.
Flash on linux has always been bugging and CPU inefficient..
That's true ramblerman, and actually I wrote some of this in the console window of Chrome. The real point I was trying to prove (mostly to myself) is that javascript can work as a server-side scripting platform to quickly create short scripts. Node is simply my interpreter for it (and more). That actually points out another bonus. I can POC something in javascript in a browser window, and if I want to graduate it to a server side script its mostly a copy-and-paste operation.

The post is mostly about convenience. I use javascript all the time. Now I can use it more. I love ruby, I just end up having to relearn it every time I use it because I don't use it often. Node is just the vehicle of that convenience.
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The Happy Cog design was short lived. We redesigned in house for version 2.7 in 2008.

> "blog software for the technically illiterate"

According to what metric? Not having the ability (and the huge amount of time) to roll their own blog software, or learn how to use Git and Jekyll? Try and look at the world from a broader perspective. Not everyone is a programmer, but they still have interesting things to say to the world.

> all the incantations necessary to scale Wordpress to reasonable scale

10 million page views a day is reasonable scale? C'mon. No combination of Digg and Reddit and Daring Fireball or anything else will get you even close to this. There is a selection of caching plugins for WordPress that'll get any site on shared hosting to easily sustain those types of real world traffic bursts. For people who do need a million plus page views a day, they're in "good problem to have" territory, and probably have long since acquired technical assistance, or have switched to a WordPress-specific host like WordPress.com, WP Engine, Page.ly, or ZippyKid which has high volume caching already configured for you.
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I'm not sure if this was intended by design or not, but why did you decide to put everything into one .scala file? I know Scala allows you to define multiple objects/classes in a file but it is pretty long and it would be pretty difficult to find what I'm looking for if I were to edit anything.

Otherwise, cool project. I too am also interested in graphs and Scala, so I'll be watching your project. Have you looked at flockDB from Twitter?
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Indeed. One can imagine an entirely different reaction if the app was called something like "Popular People Around Me" and had come out of the US startup community rather than Russia.
Target is not a social network, but I will play along. Target was able to discern pregnancy because of purchases made or not made over a span of months, many months. In the case of abortion there is a significant motivation to not wait; namely abortion laws but also social stigma. Expectant mothers purchased folic acid and other vitamins. There is not a recommended vitamin routine for an abortion. The same thing can be said for many other purchases made by expectant mothers. How are you going to separate abortions from miscarriages?
All credit to Facebbok - they make it exceptionally easy to do. Took me all of 90 seconds (and most of that was deciphering a captcha).

They seem to have a tendency to restore it if you so much as look at one of their buttons during the two week period after you "delete" it. Only after that it becomes "deleted".
Best tips I learned:

1. Call / email for price quotes - The biggest dealers (due to much higher volume/scale) tend to have no problem quoting you a price over the phone. Those that can't compete on price, tend to tell you to come to the dealer for a quote. If a dealer doesn't give you a price over the phone, ask them if they would like a call back once you have a price quote in hand so they have an opportunity to counter.

2. Be flexible - Don't preemptively narrow down the inventory available to you with specific features/colors. Get price quotes for the make/model you're interested in first and then start asking about feature/color/service differences, etc.

3. Set a tight timeline - I'll usually call around in the morning and tell dealers up front I'm going to buy this afternoon. I tend to get the most competitive quotes this way and it gives the dealer an opportunity to quote a price based on the inventory on hand rather than a general quote.

4. Get counter offers - Once you have a set of price quotes, call the dealers again and get counter offers for your best quote. Some big dealers are so confident in their offer they'll encourage you to call around and see if anyone can match it. You WANT dealers to start dropping out and saying they can't meet that price. If everyone counters your lowest quote, that price quote was too high.

I've learned that dealers usually know which competitor in their area offers the best price...you just have to spend a little time wringing that out.
Price wars: a way to transfer money from producers to consumers. If you're a business owner, avoid at all costs (no pun intended).
By default Dropbox keeps 30 days of old versions. You can pay extra to bump that up to "forever".
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it seems there are many tricks you can use: check out the first reply here () (explaining the batman equation)

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The one-file thing is because I'm new to the Scala build environment (although I have 2 years of Clojure and 2 years Ocaml + Haskell) environment. I was just delaying on that SBT/Maven question for as long as possible.

I generally split files around 500 lines, but for FP languages that may be a bit big.

Haven't looked at FlockDB. Twitter does a lot of cool stuff-- and they use Scala. I may consider applying if I decide to move out to CA.
True.

It's easier to fix people sucking if said suckage is easily observable though...
Since you are asking for fees when a user creates a contest, you should provide case-studies of savings on similar flight searches in the past (also include cost-benefits over other flight search engines). May be, even allow the user to extend the contest duration (with some constraints). Doing this should give a better assurance to the user.

I believe your service has the potential to do well in this market, particularly considering there are many variables involved in flight searches.
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There are plenty of good software people out of work. Hello, nice to meet you! Life is weird, and hiring is a very difficult process for both sides.
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That's quite like the idea I've been working on the last few weeks! My idea is like yours but for groups of people, more in a "newsgroup way".

Which technology did you used for the cross-platform client ?

Good luck!
I've just been learning quite a bit about the business of car sales. Car dealerships make most of their profit in the parts and service departments of their store, so it's definitely in your favor to run your best offer past your local dealership. They are more likely to take a smaller profit on your purchase in the hopes of having you get your scheduled maintenance performed in their shop.
Is this really feasible? It sounds incredibly dangerous. I'm gonna be pissed if he kills Tom Hanks in the process.
I didn't downvote you. But you should be aware that Firefox is still a substantial platform and it's market-share isn't shrinking very rapidly.
Just store it on the server. There was no reason for inventory information to be hosted client-side. If the data was stored on the server and fed real-time you wouldn't have the security issue. What you WOULD have is latency issues, which is the primary issue with Node-based games (from my own experience), so that's probably why they avoided it. In a real game, that's how you'd have to do it.
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Depends on what you mean by "backup".

Backup to me (and most others that I've talked to) means "I can restore all my data, my entire hard drive, and be back to where I was yesterday, so if I screw up my kernel tonight, I can just use the backup to revert to my pre-kernel hacking spree".

(to an average joe, it means the same thing, but not as much detail)
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I would ignore advice on commenting. Things should be clear, not commented. Docstrings are nice if you are going to generate some documentation for end users; googling for "string isempty java" is easier than opening up java/lang/String.java and searching for "empty" in your text editor. (But both techniques have their advantages and disadvantages.)

Tests are a great way to show what your library can do. I recommend adding those before you worry about documentation. (How do you know your code, as posted, works?)
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Whether you like or not copyright law still exists

Because the govt is receiving boatloads of money from the entities that profit from copyright laws.
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Hm, I feel like I've tried this and couldn't get the behaviors I wanted. How does this accomplish e.g. overloading control-C to copy across the system? You wouldn't want to map command to control, since you still want control-C to be control-C in a shell. Know what I mean?
Thank you.

I wrote a card game (Ambition) back in 2003 and I'm considering OSing the rules to that, in Scala. That might be a better read for intro Scala because the space (in a card game) is more closed. This is more abstract, with the NodeT's and EdgeT's.

Odersky's Scala book, by the way, is really good.
I never played Zelda. It reminds me a lot of the original Final Fantasy games. I thought that was what they were going for.
You just have to validate everything on the server.
If you're a programmer it's certainly possible you might have some pre-canned scripts to run -- perhaps telling nephew Susie she should have a great birthday and life once she turns 18. Maybe you have something to detect jokes your Uncle tells and add in a "lol" in a comment. Aside from being weird, is that socially acceptable? Should relatives help you do this?

This is the paragraph of the article that I found the most interesting from a sociological point of view (the rest has been covered many times in the past, and as other commenters have pointed out there are several services who deal with it). I wrote a bit more about it a while ago, as I think that this will become something potentially very real in the next few decades:

http://gardaud.posterous.com/digital-ghosts
Can't wait for this to happen and gain widespread browser support so I can actually use it.

JavaScript is a beautiful language trapped in a lame syntax, peppered with poor semantic choices based on what was considered "just the way it is" back then.
The keyboard is a huge differentiator.
In addition to tests, it's probably time to flesh this out by adding functions that operate on graphs.

It's also relevant to look at this:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/astar/0.2.1/doc/...

Notice how A* is implemented without any explicit graph object: everything is functions.

This is a model worth thinking about. There are an infinite number of graph libraries for Java. If your value-add is a query language on top of graphs, why not skip the graph representation and let someone else maintain that so you can focus on the query language?
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this job sounds like the worst of both worlds. A corporate job (you do what exactly you got hired to do) without the secure business model.
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I am a loyal blackberry user and personally feel it is a nice phone. However I am unhappy over the fact that the company doesn't seem to give a F888 to it's users. For example the cheapest Android phone in the market that act as a Wifi Hub but my blackberry curve 3G cant. Also, most of their OS update come separately for each carrier. That is outright nonsense. While Email is their strength they have done very little upgrades to their email interface.

One feature that I want to see is, the dates in my emails should be highlighted and I should be able to directly put reminders in the calendar application by selecting the date. iOS does it but BB wont.

I wonder how many SKUs RIM must be maintaining and this must be damn complex for them. Besides they should understand that their brand does not have any value anymore and hence stop seling crappy phones at such a high price.
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> the fact is people don't want to pay. Period. Everything else is justification.

This is a false and very cheap thought. For two reasons:

1) there isn't a thing such as "[all the] people". I know many people who don't want to pay, and I know many people who want to pay. you can't really prove even that most of the people belongs to the first category.

2) even if we assumed that "people don't want to pay", this wouldn't explain the examples of mainstream products that have been (successfully) sold by donation, which shows that there is a sufficient (at the very least) people that does want to pay. a couple of examples are radiohead and a comedian whose name I forgot, but also many others.
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I've never understood what problem Blackberry is trying to solve. They say the advantage is email. But isn't Gmail on Android much better than Exchange on Blackberry? (Not to mention cheaper!) Blackberry has never done statistical analysis to tell me which unread messages are most important, for example, but this is a core feature of Gmail.
I really appreciated the candidness on getting out of the midwest. I love home. Born and raised near Kansas City, Missouri and went to school at Missouri and Iowa.

But the resources and mindset aren't there yet to build a consumer-web startup. Zaarly is the best example and yet a large chunk of its team is on the coasts. Hard to tell the truth when you're a "nobody" as FAKEGRIMLOCK mentioned. But at the mythical FAKEGRIMLOCK is become easier to say what's on your mind.
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Im not saying Im a loyal customer, but I am stuck with BB because I loath 100% touchscreen, and BB offers the best keyboard experience by far.

I was deep down hoping for WebOS to work out, since the preliminary devices offered keyboards and a much better OS. Unfortunately we all know the story there.
Another option: If it were a better Android.

Aka, the performance, UI responsiveness, and battery life of iOS/iPhone, but with a FOSS OS, not necessarily Android (Embedded Linux, Minix, etc.).

And as a developer, a better development language than Java. C, Go, or just leverage Apple's Objective-C developer network with Clang's implementation.

All these things are pain points on my Nexus S. If someone could do better, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat, even if the app market is sparser.
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I came across one south of Washington, DC:

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I think this is one of those problems where it looks like a weekend, a week at most, job ... until you actually start implementing it.

That said, I would also love a backup system like what you describe. If it could also detect imminent HDD failure (say, the first bad sector pops up) and warn me that I need to backup my backups NOW. That would be splendid.

Furthermore, I don't really have anything to back up. Everything I actually need is stored on git/github, everything else is downloadable via torrents.
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I agree with your analysis.

As an example, Google allow advertisers to target what people search for, without telling you who they are.
Matt Cutts tweeting is how I found out.
If this piece of shit driod 4 drops connection one more time.

My blackberry never required a reboot to pick up signal - droids, yup.
That's because you're trying to have a debate with the Object Mentor guys rather than a discussion with me. Your problem with them isn't my problem, and neither are your misunderstandings. It is not my job to argue you into a better understanding of something you clearly can't stand.
the question answers itself: all of the above.
Why is it so difficult for people to "get you?"

You're clearly a bright a dinosaur and usually trying to give us a kick in the ass or some helpful advice. I always find it hysterical that so many people giggle at you and think you're a joke.
If you want feedback on the landing page, the white text on the light green background is really hard to read.

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No. Keeping the system from visually stagnating, and having fun with your users, is one of those useful ideas... Besides, I doubt the artists are taking resources from feature developers. If anything, they're probably sitting idle between roll-outs.
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Convenience. If you think that's not a relevant reason you're just being pig-headed.

I pay for netflix and Amazon Prime. In fact I would pay 2-3x more for netflix if they had everything. (Not even new stuff, but old stuff)

I don't buy dvd's because the value is not there for me. If I am just going to watch something once or twice, its worth ~$1 to me, not $20 like a new dvd.

I don't go down to blockbuster/Red Box because the negative utility of getting in my car and going to a store is worse than just downloading it.
You can use these 8bit tiles in your own project, its quite easy to switch the tile layer of any google maps site: http://blog.bn.ee/2012/03/31/how-to-use-google-maps-8-bit-ti...

I updated walksy.com to use these tiles: http://walksy.com/?8bit
I suggest trying CoffeeScript with node for more conciseness and expressivity, and one of the async helpers to mitigate the complexity of the "evented nature of node" -- letting you avoid huge nested callbacks.

These two things together completely transform Node, so much that I can't even imagine coding without them.
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I think I would disagree in the similarity to LttP--not that it's not somewhat similar, but because there are games that are much, much closer to LttP, and which I still consider "different." GraalOnline[1] is one example.

In fact, I would sort of call "Zelda-style 2D top-down action-adventure game with swords, shields, and various key inventory items that each serve an overworld function" a genre (a subgenre to Metroidvania games, in particular), in the way that tower defense and DotA games are also now genres.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/graalonline-classic/id3432979...
I understand the feelings toward the midwest, but you also made a reference that its not like the "coast" do you think there are other areas that are well suited for startups, such as boston, NYC, or Atlanta?
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re: generational difference in privacy attitudes. The older generations who grew up in small towns or tight-knit neighborhoods gossip(ed) about each other like crazy. Pretty much every aspect of their lives was public knowledge among their friends and associates. (e.g. If you wanted to know where the pretty girls were hanging out - just go out and ask someone.) The sense that there is safety in anonymity may have been something very specific to the suburbia generations (boomers/X).
> Or worse: without the full implications even being clear?

the implications of making this kind of data public are not going to be clear. The data can be combined with other data or mined later in unexpected and surprising ways.

Most people are surprised at how few data points are required to uniquely identify them. Most people will cheerfully enter their first name, family name and date of birth into any website that asks for it.

A while ago I heard the term "retroactive privacy invasion" applied to things such as good cheap facial recognition becoming available and being applied to existing archives of social photos or surveillance video.
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Well, the flash compiles to iOS binaries and I know at least one successful company who saved a ton because they didn't need a Cocoa programmer.

It seems that their strategy is to depreciate Flash Player and focus on compiling for js/iOS/whatever.
It's not confusing, it does the exact same thing it's always done since the 1980s. The zoom button in Windows is horribly broken though - all it ever does is make the window fill the whole screen! How wasteful!...

Considering the number of complaints though, you'd think Apple would introduce a preference setting, or another button or something. And in fact they have - in 10.7 there's a maximize button in the top right corner...

Except the new button is officially called the "fullscreen" button and to hear some people talk, the existence of the fullscreen mode is a foreboding sign of the coming iPad-ification of OS X...

sigh.