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Not weird at all. It's a documented phenomenon in marketing research: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3150288?uid=3739744...

Since its effect is directly proportional to the cost of the purchase in question, it would make sense that relatively expensive objects, such as smartphones and computers, would trigger a correspondingly stronger negative reaction to criticism of said product.
like a boxer: roll with the punches and keep your hands relaxed :)

Hold it tight, keep your arm stiff...and get ready to clean
What is your prime directive?
I'm also a Prime member but the main reason I go with them is to reduce risk. It reduces the risk that I will by a faulty product due to the reviews and return policy and it reduces the risk that I will drive to a store and be unable to buy what I originally came for which may necessitate another trip.

I also use Amazon for "groceries" just not fresh ones. In the past I've bought snacks, ramen, and peanuts from them.
What if I just want to take a few foreign language classes? Does a percentage of my income as payment make sense?

Or I'm self employed and want to get another degree at night just because I can. Does a percentage of my income as payment make sense?

What if I studied art history, but the side project I was working on after classes was acquired by Google for $30 million and now they're paying me $200k/year as part of the deal. Does a percentage of my income as payment make sense?
Though you're still left to deal with your destroy callbacks/observers, if you have any.
I think shared hosts have already enabled FastCGI for all php files

Something like this: http://test.fastcgi.com/drupal/node/5?q=node/10

At least the shared hosting I use (bluehost) has warned me they were enabling this. In 2007

Still, for most uses, CGI works fine.
If you've got the time to spare, even a passing interest in philosophy, and haven't read it already, I can't recommend his History of Western Philosophy highly enough. It's delivered with a tone that really imparts a sense of Russell's enthusiasm both for the subject and for teaching; I've never found 900 pages easier to read or more informative :)
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Let me guess... they were addressing hypothetical scaling issues for a site with < 100 users? Instead of optimizing the conversion rate on their homepage and mailers?
It also looks like the stabilized video is magnified a little bit. Regardless, these tools are really neat and they are still in their infancy. It's good to see that GooTube still believes in user-generated content.
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Yes and no.

Yes.

* they encourage competition, which leads to better implementations

* they help the language reach new niches (e.g. on the web; in embedded systems; ...)

* they encourage language standardization, which reduces risk to users.

No

* they dilute community effort -- only so many people can write good compilers and runtimes

* they can lead to fragmentation and incompatible code as languages diverge, increasing risk to the success of the language overall.

* they confuse users, further hurting adoption. Particularly beginners have trouble knowing which implementation is a good choice.
Tangential comment here; it's a bit sad now that blogspot redirects the * .blogspot.com URLs to use the country-code version based on the reader's presumed geolocation. Normally a "* .in" link would imply that the author of the article was from India or wants to be associated with India, but for blogspot links in HN it means that the submitter read the article from India or wants to associate the article with India. The difference causes some confusion in me.
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I'm a big fan of NetNewsWire (http://netnewswireapp.com/)

The designers very explicitly set out to create an interface you could navigate with one hand, enabling you to slowly drink your morning coffee with the other.
I don't know about ML, but Lisp is incredibly fragmented. Here's a short list of significant dialects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#His...
I'm not doubting that there is post-purchase rationalization. It's just weird to read it from my comment. You think the functioning of OS X's home directory encryption makes me feel threatened because I'm a Mac person?
1. I've said this in a few other threads regarding naming. In the vast majority of cases in picking a name, it boils down more to founders and their personal issues with liking a name than the brandability and success of the name itself. There are some basic rules that matter but overall, being stuck on a name is more you than it is because the company couldn't succeed on a different name.

2. Given the situation with everything described above, I STRONGLY recommend you move on and find a different name regardless of any emotional attachment you may have with this one if you want to avoid issues later on. It's simply not worth it.

3. Asking to do a lawyer fight on this now doesn't make any sense. Unless you got a ton of money to burn for the sake of burning it, let go of this.

You may not like hearing what I have to say but honestly, its not worth it. Keep building, compete, etc... Just rebrand.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Merely my own personal thoughts as an entrepreneur.
User 'sohn managed to say the same thing in far fewer words downthread.
Disagree, if a student wants to pursue computer science he/she should have a lower interest rate than a philosophy major. There is a much higher likelihood that the CS major will pay back the loan soon.

There is a bit of a naivete among college students, that having any degree from "X prestigious university" is enough for the big boys to respect them and give them a high paying job. As a consequence I know many graduates who end up working as waiters etc. Perhaps had this tradeoff been made more evident from the beginning, they would have made different choices.

The student isn't deprived of their opportunity to get involved in low-value fields, but that low value is more apparent, which should help their decision process.

And more high value graduates, with higher incomes and a better ability to donate back to the university would probably increase revenues in the long run.
You're not taking into account plan prices. All three iPhones come with a $70 plan, right? Well even the "free" Android phones can come with plan prices of $20. I don't know how much of a big deal that is in USA, but in the rest of the world it's a huge deal. Almost nobody has plans than go over $20-$30, except maybe in UK.
Your success isn't tied to your competitor. Build and release.
It can be argued that, at no point we understand the problem fully and complexity is natural in any software after some development progresses.
Companies are STILL pulling moronic moves like that. Cooke, a cinema-camera-lens company, decided to call their electronically coupled lens technology "/i". Yes a slash with an "i" after it. Try searching on THAT.
The discussion of formulas for pricing risk and forecasting methods is a great (if unintended) example of the problem with student loans: any government subsidy will distort price signals in unintended ways. Even if government tries to price in risk (which is a good idea), the signals will only be as good as the regression analysis, will still be subject to political pressure, and will still concentrate rather than distribute risk. A poor forecast of the future demand for philosophers, or the decision to train more teachers for the public good will still result in human capital misallocation, even if it's not as bad as the current system.

Compare this to private loans, which use the price system and mechanisms like futures markets to evaluate and distribute risk. Instead of one formula to price risk, many formulas compete and the information they contain is aggregated and summarized by relative prices. Risk is distributed among many lenders instead of concentrated in the hands of government.

The worst possible equilibrium seems to be the system in place now: price signals are distorted by subsidies that cover most of the loan market, while private lenders serve those whose educations are so expensive that they aren't covered by already-generous government subsidies. Private lenders encourage these students to take out risky loans, while strict rules on default shift the risk to borrowers.

There are all kinds of alternatives to student loans, but they will not be competitive while federal subsidies continue to distort the student borrowing market. One of my favorite ideas is human capital contracts (here's a good paper: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa462.pdf), which would work like equity instead of debt. Students could sell "shares" of their future earnings to investors in exchange for the start-up capital for an education. There are lots of potential pitfalls with this model, but I think it aligns the incentives of lender and borrower (or investor and future earner) in a much more positive way: investors would have strong incentives to help students succeed that do not exist under the current debt-based model. Unfortunately, big subsidies are a big barrier to entry: there's no reason to offer equity when one can easily obtain a subsidized loan.

I chose to attend a large state university on a generous scholarship and graduate without debt rather than attend one of the more prestigious schools where I was accepted and take on student loans. So far, I think it was the right choice. But if I had the necessary capital, I'd start a Y combinator for students: find students like me who would otherwise stay in-state and finance "prestige degrees" at an Ivy or other top university in exchange for a share of future income. The model would operate very much like a start-up incubator: providing mentorship and advice and placing students in well-paying jobs after graduation would have a direct effect on the profitability of the investment. It's just a matter of figuring out how to pick (or make) students who will succeed.
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Contrary to what the author says, ZeroMQ is actually a very good and powerful tool for building dynamic topologies - no idea why he decided that it biases your design towards a "static" network.
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That's it. Normalisation is about correctness.

Every other aspect of software development using RDMSs will attempt to challenge decisions made for correctness' sake.
I went to iguatemi shopping in sao paulo to test this stuff, it it apparently work, there's no rocket science behind it, because, you're not allowed to take those pieces from the hanger since they are a simple "thermometer".
Be careful when you search domain name through godaddy
Found an available domain name that I like through godaddy.com this morning. When I decided to purchase, the domain got taken by somebody else. Now I have to spend $3,000 if I really want it back. I suspect godaddy actually sells your search data to third parties or it just take the name if they like it.
Do you mean that, for example, studying law would be more expensive because there is a high probability of future income? Whereas, say, astrophysics would be very cheap because there's a good chance that you'll stay in academia?
Don't we all do that to some degree? There isn't a fixed drop off point for "too much complexity" that's fit for everyone. Consider programming languages, are APL or Prolog "wrong"? Or, compared to something like Oberon, are Ruby, Python and Java?
But now that people are more gullible, it seems like a fine idea.
Anyone have recommendations about the linked book?

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-...
An interesting idea is for the types to be inferred, but not everytime you compile the code, but only the first time, then the compiler edits the source and adds the infered types. Or an IDE could do that.
Really. Why not use some of that money to buy target ads on facebook? Google ads for whatever your opponent say is important?

Somebody googles 'health care reform romney' -- wouldn't it be a much better use of money to put up an attack ad on Romneys position here than to buy a millionth of a tv add? You can directly target the voters who are worth fighting about (those who haven't decided or who are still on the fence, rather than the rednecks who would never vote for a black guy) and you can measure your performance in those ads.

Remember you don't need to convince everybody, you just need one more vote than the other guy -- and so long as you do that, it doesn't matter if you got that vote by a completely dedicated fan or somebody who was offered a lollipop to vote.
In this case are you talking about a language as a semantic and conceptual entity or are you including a language as an implementation? Ive had to rewrite code in C/C++ a couple of times because my Python solution wasnt fast enough.
I know Network Solutions had (still does?) done this. But as far as Godaddy, I've used them to check for domains (even if I buy through them or not) and never had that issue. It could just be coincidence in your case. Although that's just my experience, I could be wrong.
"I've been interviewed by ZDNet people (we avoid press now)."

Curious if one of the reasons for that is that it makes you a target?
There are great reasons to have Prime like carrying in less groceries, but it's irrational to buy at Amazon to justify your Prime membership because doing so doesn't provide you any additional benefit.
too extreme. I like the concept: less students would be funneled into liberal arts majors that don't have a high return if the schools realized that they could get a percentage of every bill gates they spit out.

some cs and engineering programs are shut down because they are the most expensive to run. this would reverse that trend.

seems kind of like VC applied to schools. but then the schools would have to be completely free: we are giving away a percentage of our company, we share in returns with our investors, but we sure as hell aren't paying them.
I'm guessing that with the advent of the Kindle, there is a large segment of customers who have a Kindle but not Amazon Prime. Having the lending entices Kindle customers to subscript to prime, which in turn entices them to spend more at Amazon in general.
Linux is the PHP of Unixes and Apache is the PHP of webservers. And now we have covered the whole LAMP stack :)
Yuri you are real close to the exact roadmap that Bezos envisions

Extend it a little more..not just fulfillment but building the product as well..the whole stack as a Vertical Business Machine to create business..
Rule #1: never look at the current relative strength. Look at the trend.

(otherwise paraphrased as - never try to catch a falling knife)
uhhh no, opposite. the university would have a greater incentive to foot the bill for your law degree because lawyers will probably make more money, therefore giving them more money.
It would help if web frameworks that have precious little to do with MVC would stop trying to piggy-back on the term. For example, if your model, view and controller have a control flow that makes them three layers in a stack, with the controller sitting between the model and the view, then your architecture is not really anything like MVC at all.

The common architectural pattern for web apps where you have a request handler that talks to a database and then generates its output by filling in a template is popular and widely applicable. However, I think the way some of these frameworks tried to hijack a well-established term for publicity in the early days has come back to haunt them now they are better known. Today, if someone wants to learn how to use these web frameworks, particularly the common underlying concepts and design skills, and searches for "MVC", they find a whole load of other information that doesn't really make sense in the context of web apps.

Similarly, anyone who really does want to learn MVC in a context where it is more applicable -- including designing larger JS-based applications that run primarily in-browser, for example -- comes up against a lot of material that is in some cases almost the antithesis of MVC, which doesn't help there either.

When the most common reasonably simple architecture beyond PHP's everything-is-a-template starts off at such a disadvantage, it's not really surprising that many people struggle to understand the basics and just stick with PHP's "it just works" instead, despite the other disadvantages they suffer in making that choice.
No, but as you can probably guess, I played far more text adventures than I did console games.

In any case, I think what we're really disagreeing about is what qualifies as novel. In your opinion, new to console games is enough to call a feature novel even when that same feature is familiar in PC games.

In my opinion, implementing a standard feature from PC adventure games in console adventure games doesn't qualify as novel. That's especially true when, as you note, saving is a feature required to get nontrivial adventure games off the ground.
It's the title of the most-upvoted Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please...
tpacek is a person who says things about Apple. Not all people who say things about Apple are tpacek.

Saying "people defend the products they buy, sometimes wrongly" is not in any way controversial, and wasn't (in my opinion) about your comments.
Also it has guns.

Of course if bitcoin and freenet became the way to interact and do financial transactions over the internet then those guns will be all but ineffective at anything.
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A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to unnecessary complexity.

There, fixed that for you.

'Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler' (Einstein, as quoted by Niklaus Wirth.
It was like a CS hazing experiment.

An old hand programmer once told me he could figure out whatever social/psychological pathologies from the code of the programming shop that wrote it.
>You're the one person I know, now.

Which means nothing at all, especially since hackers are not known for their extended social circles. It's also the dictionary definition of "anecdotal evidence".

If you want to gauge how many people used the old FileVault, well, one of the ways would be to compare old FileVault support mailing list traffic to the traffic for lists of other OS X offerings.
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Don't we all do that to some degree?

Lots of musicians go through a stage where they are trying to see what they are capable of and make music as involved/complicated/ornate as possible. Many of them mature into musicians who try to find a few elements that work together.
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Here's an article which says that public transport byelaws meant that carriages had to have enough room for hats.

(http://www.inlondonguide.co.uk/who-are-londoners/bowler-hat-...)

> Taxi design at the time (horse-drawn cabs - Hackneys) stated the height of the cabin had to accommodate a man wearing a bowler hat and like many of those bye-laws, they remain in place today.
"scripting languages" was the commonest blanket term. then it fell out of favour and people usually refer to "dynamic languages" now, which is a lot broader a term and doesn't really single out just that family.
MySQL will silently truncate it without throwing an error however.

It will indeed, for folks that prefer that or haven't looked into enabling alternate behavior. Set STRICT_TRANS_TABLES (for InnoDB) or STRICT_ALL_TABLES (for any storage engine) in MySQL's config and it'll throw the following error instead of silently truncating data:

[Err] 1406 - Data too long for column '[some column]' at row [XYZ]

Does that help?
Ah yes, the old "the suit is dying" clarion call that everyone hears once every few years.

But suits will never die, and neither will ties. They, frankly, make men look better. A suit that fits well makes a man look slimmer, taller and more broader-shouldered. It accentuates his chest. It hides fat and bad composure in ways that T-shirts and polos never can. Ties also make you look taller, and add fantastic unity to the collar.

The main reason hats are dead, still, is because there's no gray area for them to come back. Fashion cycles: you have wider ties, then skinnier ties, then wider ties again. But if you stop wearing an accessory completely, it's harder to bring it back. Say, for a second, that no one wore two-piece suits. But people would still wear oxford cloth shirts, khakis, and blazers, which is only a few hops away from a suit. You can wear varying degrees of formal wear, but there are two options for hats: wearing one, or not wearing one. Which means that the man who wears one suddenly finds himself in a start minority...unlike someone who wears a suit in a room full of khakis and oxfords, which is slightly different, but not THAT different.
"Does this mean that Google has given up completely on net neutrality? This is a very bad notion."

Wow, break out the tinfoil hats.
>Given that we have a plurality of OS X users on HN (according to the last poll), it's not surprising that post-purchase rationalization is a common response to such articles.

"Post-purchase rationalization", even if we are to take the sketchy "studies have shown route", goes for major stuff, not for each and every fault or bug in a bought product.

People ARE able to talk ill about their products, and in fact Mac and Windows and Linux users speak ill of their systems each and every bloody day. We even have mottos, like "FTFF".
Even for some goods which are more expensive, once you add in Sales Tax (although that'll be solved soon enough) and gas for the car, and especially a quick time is money calculation, I would bet Amazon is cheaper overall every time.
JUST MY VIEW:
Python probably didn't get popular when Guido released it. I was using it 10y ago and it already had a lot of libraries and "batteries included" then, but it was still far from mainstream.

I think it got mainstream after the RubyOnRails Wave that made a lot of (mainstream) programmers (that only use what other use and/or is popular) accept dynamic languages. And when BackSlash came (Ruby is Slow, RoR is full of Magic) python w/ django was the dynamic lang that clinged on shore. Not accidentaly since it already had pretty clean core and a lot of libraries (it always had more libs than ruby). Now everybody uses it.

If you look at the similar languages w/ a lot of libraries and bindings php/Perl/Ruby/Python it's not weird that it's popular and I would say that it is the simplest/cleanest.

Which ones did you mean as simpler?
Given that the article is pointing out a security hole in OSX, any attack of the article is an implicit defense of Apple.