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I'm not sure what's so confusing about this strategy - Amazon certainly wants to make money off selling content, and the fire is a content consumption machine. But, they also know how much extra $ prime users spend, and figured they could convert people to prime users by giving them other stuff. That doesn't mean it's not a product in and of itself - it's just also being used as a marketing channel.
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all these qualities will not entertain, satisfy, and please much more
than one wanting in them, like the greater number of those which are
commonly acted now-a-days. Nor are the poets who write them to be blamed
for this; for some there are among them who are perfectly well aware of
their faults, and know what they ought to do; but as plays have become a
salable commodity, they say, and with truth, that the actors will not buy
them unless they are after this fashion; and so the poet tries to
But to follow up on his point, if DDG were ever to become Google's size they would have little choice but to abandon their privacy approach as well... it's just not possible to make a profitable search engine with competitive quality without machine learning algorithms that use user data.
We created a complete bandwidth management product using iptables and tc back in 2001, with packages based on bandwidth, hours of usage, usage in hours etc. It was used by small ISPs.

lartc.org was the bible we used to traverse the path of achieving control and command the precious resource called bandwidth. Those days are long gone, but building that small product gave me a chance to learn about networking like never before and taught me a lot.

I owe a lot to lartc.org
Indeed, there is no need to use "varchar" with Postgres. One should use the modern "text" data type (which is like varchar, but practically unlimited).

Unlike MySQL's text datatype, it has no technical limitations; it can be used for fulltext indexing, it can be used with any table, and it is stored in the actual row (not externally).
> Ditto for "Lisp" vs Clojure, Scheme, Common Lisp[1].

Clojure is not fragmented, but both Scheme and Common Lisp are extremely fragmented. Scheme is probably one of the most fragmented language there is, there are literally dozens of implementations of it with various levels of compatibility[0], and it's actually gotten worse lately as many (if not most) implementations refused to migrate to R6RS and remained on R5RS instead. There are even implementations (e.g. DrRacket, formerly DrScheme) which forked/opted out the whole language.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scheme_implementations
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The interesting question isn't the raw number, it's what those 408 lines are doing - it's entirely possible that half of that could go upstream.

For some years, lots of vendors had patches to mess around with perl's default @INC order, all of which were distro-specific and not really generalisable, because nobody had bothered to submit the upstream change that would have got rid of that whole class of patches.

Now, I suspect the reasons for that may have been to do with perl's then rather slower pace of releases, so people didn't see the point when perl5 version 10 was apparently not getting any closer, but just because that reason doesn't apply to chromium doesn't mean there isn't a similarly convincing one for local patches.

It also doesn't mean there -is-; I've always been fond of local patches to software being corresponded with a distro bug and preferably with an upstream bug explaining the rationale; it may not avoid the necessity for the patch but it at least means the conversation that led to it is both visible and involved the right people.
> There literally security researchers that go and poke around of every release of everything [snip] in the software industry to find things like this

Fixed.
You should be using the new ARel scoping mechanisms introduced in 3.x. See xentronium's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3935050).
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If he had used the image of a Christian monk, that would have been fine with the vast majority of people. In general, a cartoon impression of a monk is not considered insulting, nor is it considered bad taste[1]. The image is used to associate the service with all that is considered 'good' about monks. As this reminds people that monks are generally seen as 'good' people, this in turn benefits the view people have of the religion in question.

If the net effect of him using this image is that people are favourably reminded of Buddhism, isn't that a good thing?

[1] Consider the number of hotels, restaurants, cafes and bars named after monks (/friars/priests/popes/apostles/...)
In easing this, I couldn't help but think of complicated derivative schemes.
There are. It's the main reason why "security through obscurity" isn't a good idea. There are people who spend their working days searching for this kind of stuff. Log files are probably one of the first places they would look for clues.
I can't name a single person who ever used "Legacy Filevault"; that's the "encrypt your home directory" thing from Leopard. This issue doesn't impact Lion FDE at all. Lots of people use Lion FDE.

Even the subhed on this story is misleading, and the lede paragraph seems to go out of its way to bury the true article lede, which is "if you're using FileVault home directory encryption, this impacts you" --- instead, it says "in specific configurations".

More generally: can anyone name a single case where ZDNet has broken a story we cared about? Even in this case, ZDNet is rehashing stuff published elsewhere earlier.
> Google should give people a way to opt out of the bubble.

Just sign out and clear your cookie every so often, or use an incognito window.
Thank you for the encouragement :)

I tried using Amazon's builtin wishlist feature, but never recieved a notification (I had the items in my Rankique wishlist at the same time and got one).

Jep, this is exclusive to Amazon, but I planned to implement BestBuy and whatnot if the concept seems to work (the backend is designed to manage multiple data sources).

What makes this system unique is, that I have no interest in squeezing everything out of a customer (that may be because I don't need to make any money from this). I try to minimize the time you spend shopping and I wan't you to pay the lowest price.

The replies here got me thinking, this is the first time I'm doing something like this, and I think I overinterpreted what Eric Ries has thought me about pivoting...

I'm increasingly feeling naive here... (which may very well be)
The headline is straight forward. I guess you are looking at it from a fanboi perspective.
Exactly. I haven't played many of these ported games, but my disappointment has come mostly with the on-screen controls. I don't understand why the writer of this piece mentioned that, but neglected to elaborate on how the key to making these games work is to find innovative new ways to interact with the game (or even consider plugging in external peripherals).

BTW, the classic X-Men arcade game is free in the Amazon Appstore today. Unfortunately, if you're going to try to play on an Android phone, it's going to drive you crazy.
The value proposition of the site when you visit rankique.com is not clear enough.
Changing the headline to "Track products and get notified when the price drops" and making the headline bigger will help a bit.

Driving traffic to the site may be harder. There is no built-in customer acquisition channel as having one user does not lead to more exposure. It might be something that gets some word of mouth once it has made a user happy but that's something you should test.
Seems more like a QA problem to me, there should be some tests in the QA of a final release build that makes sure all the debug flags are turned off.
I wonder if the logic behind this is straight-faced usage ("people will find it useful when shopping") or marketing ("this sets us apart - nobody will really care, but it will grab their attention").

I hope it's the latter, because the former would seem to me to be a hilarious case of trying to compete with etailers at their game, without realising what a flawed strategy that is. But I've met plenty of people I can imagine thinking it's a good idea, so unsure.

Either way, the geek in me loves what they've physically done.
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This.

When I need a new pack of dry erase markers, I spend 45 seconds giving Amazon $5. Two days later, I don't have a dry erase marker problem anymore.

I don't really know how I feel about the future world that's created by universal delivery like this, but there's something wonderful about every "pick up x at store" chore being reduced to a few moments.
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Or maybe it's due to the 'rolling' shutter causing shear stretching as mentioned in the article
I'd love to answer that question, so I will:

It was a production bug where a customer's birthday was rejected as invalid. This was in Germany, which is relevant because it turned out to depend on the machine's timezone. You see, when Java parses a date, it computes all fields of a Calendar object and then does a sanity check on them. Some smartass had decided in Java 1.4 to have that reject daylight savings time offsets greater than 1 hour. Unfortunately, Berlin and the Soviet-occupied part of Germany had a 2 hour daylight savings time offset in the summer of 1945, because that corresponded to Moscow time.
Saying it's a failure at day one is a bit like saying "I built it, and they didn't come. That movie was a crock."
This did not came across harsh, this came across as a reminder to not give up so quickly.
I still think that what I said about sharing more stories of failure is true, but maybe the reason for my post was more of an impulsive reaction :/
it's much easier to record it without much shake and then maximize the effect of their algorithm after the fact instead of recording a bunch of versions with varying degrees of shake. They completely overdid it in my opinion, the example doesn't seem authentic at all to me (though the technology remains cool)
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Change its name. It's awful. The idea not so much.
Yeah, that seems like a no-brainer to me. Even my company's small 2-person software 2-person QA team has a release test to make sure all debug parameters are shut off. The software won't even run if a debug parameter is on without some special shim that only us devs have.
Someone should start a 90's era programmer's PAC called "DiskPAC."
Re-reading my comment it seems like I dissed Apple. I didn't mean to, actually I meant to say that OS developers (Apple obviously included) have a lot of patents that pertain to smartphones.
sorry.. but you are comparing apps to oranges (damn I thought that was funny). The difference is that neither the guy or the lady have developed/invented/created/whatever the oranges. If the guy is selling some hybrid or genetically modified version and the lady come in with some of the stolen tech, then I would take that seriously.
The last thing I know was they moved from Ruby to Scala. Did they move to Java without me noticing or do you mean Scala by Java (since it's a JVM language too)?

EDIT: according to Wikipedia the service itself moved from Ruby to Scala while search moved from Ruby to Java.
... is fine now. It wasn't at the time, for me at least. It truly was difficult for a lot of people to search for anything on it.
Exactly this - I will often go check up Amazon before I go grocery shopping, because I am a Prime member. Shipping is fast and free. In our area, we sometimes have the option for same day shipping, and products ordered in the morning arrive later that evening. Often, two day shipping results in next-day arrivals.

While Amazon isn't something I'd think of for groceries (we don't have "Fresh" in the area), there are things that it works well for -- deodorant, dog foods, that sort of thing, and where ordinarily, shipping costs would keep me from buying things online, Amazon has made that barrier go away entirely.

Now I prefer to shop on Amazon wherever I can. Even if the only advantage is one less bag I have to haul from the car to the house, that's often worth it enough for me to buy on Amazon vs. brick and mortar. I won't pay more to shop on Amazon, but for things that are same cost or cheaper, it's usually the way I go, if only to justify my Prime membership.
What I got out of the article seems to be more important than the number of users this could impact.

1. A vital piece of the operating system was compiled with debug flags intact.
2. Apple's lack of response on the issue.

I think this goes hand-in-hand with recent Kaspersky statement about Apple's poor security considerations.
That's my point. "Security" is a complete package, that includes good QA.
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This is not isolated.
fb's algo sucks. I was posting a genuine comment & tried to post it 3 times. It warned me with a popup, as in the article & the 3rd time, it warned me that i would not be able to comment on public posts.

IMHO, a more practical flow would be: warn the user 3 times, but on the 3rd & final time state that : this will be submitted for review by a human reviewer & if found abusive, your a/c will be disable for x days.

A genuine commenter would gladly agree to such a request.

FB has humans who could review this, or they could use Amazon's Mturk - ship off each abusive comment as a HIT which gets posted after the 3 warning attempts, & maybe send it to multiple reviewers(mturk workers) - & use a majority vote, to decide among the reviews.

Decision could be binary ( ban/no ban) or some reputation metric ( decrement by 10 points , & if no suspect activity occurs in the next x(30?) days, karma/ reputation to be restored to the original number.
I know that marketplace sales for Amazon in most categories is growing by 70% per year. That is remarkable.
I'm sorry, this is a tangential point, but I just can't get past the idea that you see saving games as a novel feature of The Legend of Zelda. Saving in adventure games goes all the way back to the original Colossal Cave Adventure. And I, at least, can't think of a major adventure game that didn't have saving.
I don't know about breaking stories anyone cares about, but sometimes they post stories I find interesting, just never about Apple
He most certainly should not let the opinion of a single person influence his branding. What's next, the Burning Judas Bar has to change it's name because some Christian is offended?

Not too mention the fact that this potential minority of users is just not interesting if this branding results in a large share of the vastly larger (for at least the next decade) Western market
Most of these SHOULD apply to politicians too.
I find it interesting how Apple is defended when they make security blunders, while Microsoft was heavily slammed back in the day.

It is simply inacceptable that a user basically reported the issue on their support forum and didn't even get an answer back.
looks very promising. some sort of rss/atom link would be great
Stephen R. Covey once said something along the lines of "In any given situation, you can be right or you can be kind. It's better to be kind."

What you said is correct. Said differently (i.e. in a more kind manner), it also would have been a good example of really helpful mentorship.
Hardly. People here routinely call themselves "Dev ops". They choose to go down that road and tout themselves as "One man shops".
I can speak to why there are alot of implementations of Lisp and Scheme.

Scheme seems fragmented because a lot of research work use it as the primary tool. For example, you have languages like Larceny which were primarily designed to study Garbage collections or even probabilistic language models using Church Scheme.

The ease in which Lisp and Scheme allows you to create new languages and perform exploratory work has spawned a lot of newer implementations.

And People also come up with newer implementations for a specific goal in mind. For example, Bigloo Scheme was created in order to enable Scheme programming style where C(++) is usually required.
It's a bit worrying that people noticed this 3 months ago, and there have been no fixes.
But players will buy this lazy shovelware because they know the name of the game. And as long as crap keeps selling, publishers have no incentive to change their behavior.

This situation should scream "Long Tail Opportunity." It means there's a mainstream that's stuck in a local maxima, and that everyone realizes the widespread suckage, but can't see the way up. However, there's a non-mainstream scene somewhere that's developing the next thing. Analogy: music industry and Nirvana.
From the main Scheme article on Wikipedia: "Scheme follows a minimalist design philosophy specifying a small standard core with powerful tools for language extension. Its compactness and elegance have made it popular with educators, language designers, programmers, implementors, and hobbyists."

Scheme is widely (mostly?) used as a teaching and research language in Comp. Sci. schools. This sort of environment encourages experimentation with the language itself, whereas Python and Ruby are more oriented towards practitioners who are more interested in using the language as-is, not experimenting with it.
That's a nice article. But I feel like tweaking something in it.

> The programmer should be able to use Unicode, so the source file _must_ declare its encoding.

Another Great Lesson we've learned, is to avoid clutter. So a reasonable rule, IMHO, would be that any standard Unicode encoding can be declared, but the lack of such a declaration is equivalent to a declaration of UTF-8.
I have to agree that if the headline was "get notified when a price drops" I might consider signing up, or at least be intrigued to learn more. However, "save money and time, while shopping online"... sure it rhymes but its a vague value-proposition that's being offered by a thousand other sites right now. It could be anything from a store aggregator to another etsy.
The difference between Jython and CPython may tell a slightly different story: with them, you have the same language but different implementations that may be more appropriate in one circumstance than another. If you really want to utilize threads to accomplish your goal, use Jython (yes, there are ways to do the same thing in CPython). If you want very fast startup, use CPython.

Maybe there could be a single, perfect language with different implementations providing the tradeoffs. The most difficult challenge may be bridging the performance/productivity gap between the C's and the Pythons of the world, but that may be a side effect of making multi-core programming easier. Amdahl's law[1] may prohibit that, though.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahls_law
Although, one thing that I certainly don't miss from when I was a Prime subscriber- all the boxes, and associated guilt.
Big Nerd Ranch guides are indispensable. Written by someone who was involved with NextStep very early on.

Watch the Wwdc videos, starting at 2010, and following with 2011.

Use ARC.

Pay attention to the Wwdc videos on core animation.

Spend time learning about delegates.

Don't shy away from Interface Builder.

Check the header files when documentation seems incomplete. They are a great resource.
I've also met bright people, mostly coders, who have told me they adore complexity. Even one young man who advocated hyper compact self-modifying code.
Are multiple implementations beneficial to the community?
At best that takes care of the security issues. The other thing that makes ActiveX an affront to the web is the platform lock-in.

x86 code is not suitable as a web standard. (And neither is the LLVM intermediate representation, for reasons expounded on in e.g. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/4...)
Rubymotion is built around a slightly restricted ruby that compiles to llvm. A non iOS focused version would seem to fit the criteria.

Along similar lines, Unity uses a slightly restricted JavaScript than compiles to Mono's CLR implementation, as well as Boo, which is a Python-like language that also compiles to Mono. Iron Python, of which I have no direct experience, is another example.

And of course there's Clojure if you're so inclined.
I can't recall a single instance of language being an actual issue when solving a business problem, and I've been programming for over 30 years. Discussions about language can be tiresome, but languages themselves havent been a problem.

The only real problem I know of with languages is that they don't die off fast enough. If the perfect language arrived tomorrow, it would be lost in the sea of languages anyway.

A language debate is a sign the there is an extra language lurking and it should die off. Python vs Ruby is a lively debate. I don't care which one survives, but do we really need both? The most curious debate of all is "Haskell?", a debate that seems to exist apart from any other language, the clearest sign of a lurking "extra" language.
I see.

How many interviews have you done along these lines? And how many products have you taken from idea to on the market, and by which means?
The name isn't related at all to your product, it's rather confusing. "Ranking" is in no way relevant to your service. Either choose a random name with no familiar meaning associated or choose one that is more appropriate for what your app does. I also agree that the tagline should be more clear.
Also, you got some things wrong:
- A HN post (or 2) isn't a launch, how could you expect people to flock to your app if they don't know it exists. Promote it properly;
- Launch =/= your first day, first days usually suck.

Keep going anyway, the idea is not so bad, although i think there are some other services out there that do pretty much what your app does (but again, that can be said for pretty much every startup :P)
Maybe that was a bit harsh, but I definitely got your point.

I overreacted and maybe this bit of public embarrassment was necessary.

Thank you.
Man, whenever me or a family has Prime, amazon is the first place we check. It's a great lock in. The trials and share with family functions help make it viral even.

Businesses love subscriptions too. Get paid even when they subscriber doesn't do anything? Yes, please! So now we've combined lock in and subscription.

We hear Zynga makes a ton of their profits from whales, so low numbers of prime subscriptions doesn't really scare me. Those are whales.

Amazon is a business, if they haven't already figured out this will make money and it doesn't end up making money, they'll stop after a while.

Makes plenty of sense to me. This isn't a big deal.
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>I can't name a single person who ever used "Legacy Filevault"; that's the "encrypt your home directory" thing from Leopard.

I tried it a few times. The saying "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" hit home for me the second or third time I had to waste time cleaning up a corrupted home directory.

The Lion version seems to work great.
The title sounds kind of bad, but he made it out with just a scratch and bruise (amazingly). The game links to the video of it.

It's an HTML5 game, so it's cross platform (play on your phone if you'd like)