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"A safe shopping experience and excellent customer service are why Amazon's shoppers are there. You want to sell there because it has shoppers. For that, you take their policies that built that audience for you, and you love them."

The policy is 30 days as stated on the site. The also make no mention of the fact that they don't actually have people supporting their sellers.

Maybe Amazon needs to show the realities of their policies instead of allowing small businesses to base their business there and then abruptly shutting down their account with no recourse.

Oh, and the best part is that they froze >$5K for over 3 months.
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It seems to be more of an Internet Culture thing than a Software Developer thing. There's a huge industry of C/C++/Ada/Assembly/.NET/JVM programmers out there, behind the scenes. Many of them are working for big companies, and big ol' companies generally aren't cool with their employees even talking about what they do online. You know that old 'the opinions expressed in this blog are my own and do not represent the company I work for or their investors or their advertisers" spiel? That's considered lenient.

But the Internet likes to talk about itself, so here it seems the only world is Javascript. And this corner of the Internet likes to talk about "tech startups", which is a very broad sounding term that actually refers to a very narrow set of almost exclusively web-technology companies. Not much hardware coming out of YC.

Additionally, this is somewhat of a "get rich quick" crowd, and nothing gets you a bigger market faster than a 'web app', whatever you define that to mean. It was always hard to get the average computer user to install desktop software, let alone pay for it, and that hasn't changed much.
Tokyo Stock Exchange uses the "itayose" method for its opening auction:

http://www.tse.or.jp/english/faq/list/stockprice/p_b.html

But yeah, it wouldn't be a good method for an every-N-seconds auction.
+1. The fear that APIs would increase noise can easily mitigated by providing filter for source application (just like FB allows to block posting from apps). Regardless of the noise issue, the fact is that most people do not their presence exclusively on G+ and no one likes to copy-paste their posts across multiple social networks. G+ is losing out on lots of valuable data by worrying about noise that otherwise can easily filtered out algorithmically.
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This was a really stupid article.

Basically, by the use of the word "lazy" the author meant "not lazy" in certain areas and by "dumb" the author meant "not an asshole".

That was a 5 minutes of my life I won't ever reclaim...
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Upvoted because there is no such thing as too many semicolon-related threads :sigh:
To your question: Chris is very talented and well known in the Clojure space: I use a few of his open source projects, good stuff.
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I understood it as a piece of software that runs in a browser, not necessarily a webapp. Could be local code that runs in your average browser, could be a stripped down browser that only runs this app, or it could be a native app that includes a webview as it's main interface.
Made this over a handful of nights and weekends. To use, take a screenshot of the Draw Something drawing you are trying to guess and import it into the app. That's all!
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What happens when you travel abroad and your phone does not work?

I am wondering if Gmail could implement security questions to avoid cases where the 2-step verification works against the user
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There are lots of good points made here, but I'll add one: write the environment in itself. The original vision for Smalltalk is that you would be using some application, get curious about how it worked (or want to change it), press ctrl-C to start a debugger, start reading code, start editing, get curious about how the debugger works, press ctrl-C again, start reading code, start editing... That smooth progression from application user to programmer to tool developer was a conscious design goal of Smalltalk (also of Lisp), and has gotten lost somewhere along the way. Once you take responsibility for your own tools you quickly learn to use your new-found powers sparingly, but it's a completely different feeling being a programmer in an environment you can modify than being a programmer in an environment someone else made and you can't touch.
I hate paying taxes as much as the next guy, but I don't think I would go to these lengths to avoid them.
Dead horse but, without being able to see upvotes, Chris has no way of knowing if 2 people agree with this or 200. This is a wasted opportunity to help.

For what it's worth, I agree, especially on the t-shirt. I stopped reading after $20 because (a) I sure as heck don't want a tshirt and figured everything else would include it, but that doesn't matter because (b) I have no desire to "invest" more.
Now, I'm not trying to incite a native vs. web flame war here, but I believe that building separate native UI layers would have actually been much better. I hope I can provide some constructive criticism on the native app for the Mac:

The app, as it stands, does not behave like any of the others on my screen. This greatly increases the startup cost for me, since it doesn't follow the idioms I've already learned (and which I'm concurrently employing in these other apps).

For instance, the code editor doesn't behave like any other text editor on my screen (including the Xcode and TextMate source editors open alongside): Ctrl+Arrow doesn't navigate; double-click-and-drag doesn't select by word; my services are not available in the contextual menu; etc.

The keyboard shortcut for "change tab" that works in all the other tabbed windows on my screen does not work in this interface. The same goes for zooming shortcuts, "find" within the source editor, etc.

Then there are more fundamental disconnects: there's a "save" button in the interface, for example. That's an extremely rare thing to see in a Mac app. In fact, as of Lion, the user should never have to explicitly save.

Now, of course, building a native UI layer (in terms of design, not just ABI) would be a great deal of work. You could reasonably argue that it wouldn't be worth that work, but I'd just like to point out that it would indeed provide a much better experience.
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I agree. I was eager to contribute but saw the page and didn't do anything. The rewards just seemed kind of stingy and the target seemed high. It's software, zero replication cost. Everyone who contributes should get a copy, and additional rewards should encourage additional generosity.
Pervasive end-to-end encryption is the only way to defeat deep packet inspection-based spying, throttling, and censorship, which is increasingly popular among governments and ISPs (and even end users e.g. Firesheep). The overhead of encryption is actually tiny, contrary to common perception. It should never be optional.
Firstly, the Google Authenticator application does not require a network connection. See: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1...

If you are planning to be without your phone, you can always disable 2-step verification temporarily: https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Finally, if you lose your phone, you should always have your single-use backup verification codes to allow you to login.
> The way to convert a number to a string? Append a string.

You can always call intVar.toString() if it pleases.
> a native app framework on top of. Net or JVM

We may need a new word - these platforms fall on the "managed" side of the native/managed split, but on the "native" side of the web/native one.
What I really want is for the second factor to kick on only in suspicious situations, e.g.:

* I'm logging in from a computer that I've never logged in from before

* I'm searching my mail history for terms like "password"

* I'm opening an email that appears to contain a password-reset link

* I'm messing with my mail-forwarding options

* I'm accessing messages in bulk

But I do not want to have to do second factor just because it's been 31 days since the last time I've done it.
It's arguably accurate; a UDP text-based protocol could drop that key sentence. Nonetheless, it's wired. What did you expect?
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1. It's worse than it sounds because home prices include land. If the article is true, it often costs more to build a home than that home plus the land is worth.

2. House prices are still inflated. Adjusted for inflation, houses probably cost two to three times as much as they did ten or fifteen years ago. What has made home building so much more expensive that the inflated home prices do not cover the costs of building them? It's not labour; the unions were broken by the importation of illegal immigrant labour in this time period and the labour costs have gone down. So why are the costs so much higher?
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"monetary incentive in inventing a very innovative languages"

I will be astonished if you can cite a single example of a programming language whose inventor was inspired by the possibility of language licensing revenue.

Note that implementation licensing revenue does not count, as implementations are covered by copyright.
It seems to me that NaCl stands the best chance of reviving "code to the metal" programming in a web environment.

1. It is more cross platform than most native code today - the same assembly runs on win-mac-linux without recompilation.

2. Has cross platform audio+3d (no AV input yet, but soonish I guess)

3. Your code runs in a web environment and is launched with a link, so you can leverage on the GUI support available in the browser.
What happens for IMAP accounts? e.g through Mail.app or Thunderbird?
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Ah, I see now. I was indeed mistaken, thank you.
No linux distributions that matter are shipping Apache 2.4 yet. E.G. Ubuntu 12.04 will include Apache 2.2.22.
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It was also called "web browser" one of the last times it was tried. Those became quite popular I believe.

Flash has done quite well actually, but one flaw is that it is completely tied to the web browser, so it doesn't provide a really native experience. AIR would be a better counter-example. Also, flash is quite unreliable.

Java applets had an addtional problem in that they required a huge standard library and took forever to start up. I'd suggest instead to download the standard library on demand.
I put a copy of the single-use backup verification codes into an alternate dropbox account I have (that isn't linked to my primary email address). Figured if I'm somewhere with enough internet access to get to gmail, I'll be able to get to dropbox.com and get the codes.
Chris: Just wanted to say "Good luck!"

Also, I saw you mentioned a patched Clojure compiler for column information. Did you use my patch? :-) Let me know how I can help with Clojure and ClojureScript contributions. I find working on the compilers to be a lot of fun.
This worry seems a bit overblown to me. If your email is that important to you, you should follow these steps:

1. Use a unique, long, random, secure password.

2. Don't tell it to anyone.

3. Use an email service that stores passwords hashed with a salt and a secure hash algorithm.

And you will have nothing to worry about. If you are very paranoid or traveling a lot, you can add:

4. Don't log in from insecure devices.

5. Make sure nobody's filming your fingers when you type your password.

If you're actually concerned with these two, you probably have bigger issues and are already taking more precautions like 2-factor authorization or so on anyway.
If it's worth $50, give it to early-adopters/supporters for 50%, because unlike buying something for $50, they don't get it now (and there's many a ways for a project to not deliver). In this promotion phase, it's good to have exciting specials. (e.g. Notch's 50% beta Minecraft) Marginal cost of software is zero, more users = more evangelists etc.

Saying "license" looks non-free. I guess it includes the closed-source plug-ins (?). Good to clarify.
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So I guess we don't quite know yet. Will be interesting to see how he implements it! I just can't see myself using something browser-based as an ide but I suppose if it runs in an embedded "webview" that could be best of both worlds.
This is encouraging developers to leave their jobs at 5 and possibly use their time to build open source, creative projects. I highly doubt people pounding away long hours at their jobs writing commercial software are the ones also contributing to these clerk-to-programmer tools.
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You're assuming I mean working late into the night. :-)

I would say that a motivated person is okay with staying 5-20 minutes late occasionally when trying to get something done that they care about.
> Hey, This Sounds Like a Pain!

Yes, because it is a pain. Try going on a vacation, you know the one where you don't use cell roaming. SMS is out, so then one must find a Wifi hotspot to use one of the smartphone time based tokens (edit: seems the token don't need a network connection, could have fooled me). And those time based tokens go out of wack if your phone didn't sync the timezone properly to match Google's setup, so every token ends up not working.

Use the print out backup verification codes on a piece of paper? No, because they are single use. So you end up using up all your backup codes depending on the length of your vacation. I've used 2 step for a long while, I liked it, but I really could not get used to whipping out my phone every time I needed to check something related to Google.

I've had other hiccups such as mobile provider down, phone died etc. Maybe my best option was to keep all the backup codes on hard plastic with checkmarks next to used backup codes and secure them the same way I do my banking cards, maybe, I'll just try this one day.

If one is going to jump through all these spy-style codes might as well just change your password on a regular basis, forcing all previous sessions to invalidate.
Ironical as it may be and as the author mentioned briefly in the article, "there is an app for that". Google provides an authentication app for at least Android and iOS.

I personally put my phone in "airplane mode" for the trip (still waiting for that market changing deal where you can travel easily across the globe and call/use data without being robbed by your provider) then use the authentication app. I also carry my authentication codes during the trip and they should be enough for even a longer trip, if not, I can generate new security codes during the trip using the security codes I already have with me.
Agreed. One reason I use it is BECAUSE it runs the same across all platforms, and is the slickest editor on all of them. I do development in multiple OS/environments daily.
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I think this is great, but it doesnt appear to be enabled for the freebie google apps for domains service.
I would love to know of any other sites too.
As of right now the $15 option has 0 backers. There is really no benefit to donate below $30 right now. I don't see why giving everyone beta access would be an issue. It gives some value to the lower tiers. Invite priority could still be from greatest to least but that last tier would see something eventually.

Being able to only pay the difference when buying a licence is another option.
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I really, really wish I could use per-site password authorization without using two factor auth.
"You should start thinking of security for your email as roughly equivalent to the sort of security you'd want on your bank account. It's exceedingly close to that in practice."

Actually, I want (and arguably already have) better than that. In the last 4 months I have had two unauthorized debits from my bank accounts: one a result of a mail thief stealing my rent check from my mailbox, the other an error made by a bank employee. In the 15 years I've been using email I've never knowingly had any of my email accounts hacked.
Is there a middle ground where you build a web app, and then offer a desktop app for people willing to install it? For example, I want to write some lesson planning software for teachers. It would fit the web app model well for many reasons, but there are compelling reasons to make it a desktop app as well. I plan to build the web app first, and with traction offer a native app.

This seems to parallel the current trend of building a web app and a separate dedicated mobile app. It's extra work, but done right it makes a powerful suite of ways to distribute your product.
You would use "Application-specific passwords", basically a one-off password used only for your IM or E-mail.
That's exactly what I've been wondering about enabling two factor authentication for something I use as often as email.

Apparently you can print a series of one-time use verification codes that work any time to sign into your two-factor account. Stick a few on a card in your wallet and don't forget to generate more before you're out!

https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
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on the contrary, musicians spend an aweful lot of money.
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It's in the article, but basically you just generate app-specific passwords for each one, which you can revoke at any time.
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You generate a application specific password and use it instead of your real password. Works like a charm -- just set it up on my phone.
It's not terribly complex. The answer to your question is no.

If you ship a language with implementation and would like to prevent others from implementing it, you should not be able to and fortunately even under US law it seems you cannot.

The motivation for a state-provided monopoly on "inventions" was to foster innovation (and we should be clear this institution is a state intervention in the market and has nothing to do with "natural rights" and such). The ability of patents to provide society with this benefit is debatable but fortunately there's clear consensus that patenting/copyrighting/owning ideas is bad. And a programming language is essentially an idea rather than an artifice and it certainly seems intuitively obvious that giving people ownership of language would get really nasty, really quickly.
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What corpus did you get your term frequencies from?
"Web browser" downloads and runs compiled bytecode instead of html/css/javascript now (as the gp is suggesting)? Without a special plugin? Huh, news to me.
I was wrong - the domain administrator can enable this feature in the settings. I apologize for the noise.
Yes, but that should be on the Kickstarter page.
The sucky part is that nothing enforces their app-specificness. It would be neat if I could generate a password that only works from my home connection. Or only works for GChat, but not other services.
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Yes, I could be accused of being a rampant fanboy, but this is just so different from my experience having an out-of-warranty no-AppleCare 15" MBP with the same issue being replaced (for free and with minimal hassle) that I find it hard to believe there isn't more to the story.

Reading the previous entry, it sounds like he brought the thing in only once it was good and dead (months after it started glitching) and then wanted a no-questions-asked replacement, and refused to follow their diagnostic procedure which might have cost some money in the event that the GPU was not the thing keeping it from booting. He then literally walked out of the store without a word after not getting his way.

It seems like by assuming bad faith on the part of the people he dealt with he ended up bringing it about.
When you reach a point where you have, say, half of your backup verification codes remaining and for some reason your timezone is that far out of sync that Google Authenticator no longer works (and for some reason you can't just sync your clock), then simply generated new backup verification codes and print those out. It seems like a pretty weird assumption that your clock will go out of sync and you won't be able to even manually sync. If you can get online to reach a Google login page, why can't you get within 30 seconds of the correct time for Google Authenticator to work?
I rather doubt there will be that much point in that. Based on what he has spoken of the architecture, doing 3rd-party language support should be extraordinarily easy. Putting more languages into v1 will really only push it back -- the actual lua support should probably be done by someone with experience hacking lua.
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They also have access to the link graph, so they probably use that for clustering instead of looking at the text. Pages with lots of inbound linkers in common are likely to be similar.
I had to re-check the date of the post and it isn't 2006 but 2012 !!! Three observations:

1) If your users aren't using a HTML5 compliant browser then they should update. Supporting a multitude of outdated browsers is just way too big a workload.

2) Using JavaScript/AJAX intelligently reduces the load on your server. Why generate all that HTML on demand at the server when you have a dual core CPU with a couple of Gigs of RAM twiddling its thumbs at the client end?

3) With mobile apps, your users will thank you for minimising the amount of traffic your app generates. Why push down full pages when only the data needs to be sent?
Assuming you were able to use half the backup codes, since you have internet access you can always generate a new batch. I've been using 2 pass since it came out and it's honestly not that bad for the sense of security. Some banks are already using this system.
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