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For Emacs users, there is the wonderful package Smart Dash Mode: http://malsyned.net/smart-dash.html

It takes a pretty good stab at whether you want a dash or an underscore, based on context.

It's a whole lot easier on the wrists.

(The only problem is you start to wish you had it everywhere, not just in Emacs.)
Is there really so high demand?

Yeah i's Facebook, but they are already valued so high and they have a lot of risk factors. Nobody has any idea how they can grow further. It's like 2000 all over again, just that "So many users" and "They know so much about us" overtook "It's the internet" as the justification.
It is a special case in other languages, in lisp it is one of a very few highly consistent rules
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My friends in the pizza shop business tell me those two nights would be about half the week's revenue and the majority of profit if the other five days are used for intensive prep work and administration.
I find it weird that people are arguing that the title isn't part of the original article. As far as I'm concerned "Please Don't Learn to Code" is his opening argument.
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A valid question but I'm going to make the judgement call and say that opinions that take the form:
"You should not do A because you are a member of group Y and Y's aren't good at or don't do A" are not okay.

Your girlfriend was probably quite satisfied with a kitchen that had been promptly cleaned and that made her happy.
However if she ever voiced the opinion, 'You should help me clean up', to your younger sister then that wouldn't seem okay to me.
There could be cultural differences at play here I suppose. The British seem to have a knack for queuing which may be missing in other cultures.

I live in South Africa, and I have definitely seen improvements in traffic when certain lights are out during rush hour (4-way stops on highways in particular).
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They have them in a lot of European countries, we call it "the green wave".

There's also another trend on the rise: cameras that take photographs of license plates at an interval of several miles. If the calculated speed (the average) is larger than what's permitted you get a ticket.
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The reverse claim has just as much explanatory power. That is to say: The active person may be active because she is more thin, and the sedentary person may be sedentary because she is more obese.
Related:

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http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/16/wave-accounting-12m-series-...

http://waveaccounting.com/blog/wave-12-million-series-b-fund...
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It would be better if the IAB et al used uniques + time-on-site, rather than raw pageviews/impressions. Most medium-to-high-traffic sites have effectively infinite inventory, and some portion of that almost always gets sold as remainder.

For pagination, why not count a scroll-down (and thus viewing of an extra ad further down the page?) as a pageview? Or, again, time-on-site or time-on-page or something that better reflects user attention.
> learn about UNIX alternatives to Active Directory and Exchange

Can you name one, good alternative to Active Directory and Exchange that runs on a Unix platform?

As someone that spent almost a year trying to find an answer to that question I can tell you that there isn't one. These are the areas where Microsoft is still above and beyond anything else out there.
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I'd love to see you perform some more tests (10, 20, 30) now that you have settled into your new website - for the good of the Internet!

Mileage, I'm sure, will vary depending on the audience.

Our company serves organisations of all sizes. I reckon a 14 day trial period would improve (at least the immediacy of) our conversions of small business customers, but it would simply cause difficulties and annoy our enterprise customers, often with a team of people involved at varying levels who are often spread over the world, resulting in a slow ramp-up to testing.

Targeting different trial lengths at different stereotypes of lead would be an interesting project...
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I didn't know there was a problem. I wasn't showing any displeasure.
There used to be many model-caching plugins for Rails, but few if any made the transition to Rails 3. The record-cache gem looks interesting and flexible, though I haven't tried it:

https://github.com/orslumen/record-cache
What are the user click results of displaying the pagination as shown with the "Full story" option?

Maybe this is one of those things where the obvious answer isn't what users actually do or prefer for some reason.
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I've heard him make the same statement and had the same thought. Is there any downside for them to add a BitTorrent option? Maybe it's just that they can't track the number of downloads?

If that's all, it seems like a small price for drastically reduced hosting costs. And if there isn't already, there should be a protocol for "distribute via BitTorrent but ping the original seeder to let them know".
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It would be an interesting project, but possibly detrimental too! Play with your own baby, leave mine alone : )
You could buy a iPad pen for better signing and sign checking.
Interesting tips, I'll be sure to try them out.
After using Lotus Notes and Open Office, and trying to use Google Docs to make presentations and write reports, I have nothing bad to say about Microsoft Office anymore.

p.s. try inserting a nice video into a presentation made using Google Docs, and decide if you'll be happy showing said presentation to your clients.
There's not really much difference in evaluating the measure of success of online advertising and other mediums (minus coupons), but that hasn't stopped the buying industry/consultancies from holding on for dear life to action metrics and selling a bill of goods to people like Pizza Delicious.
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In Europe the card acceptance system will need to read the chip, but not enter the pin. The best solution is to accept the signature on the panel. This is what izettle have done. Its a u-turn on chip and pin but the only way it can be done as you cant pass the pin through the app for security issues. In larger outlets no doubt a wired card reader will be used and the pin will be entered into that reader as current systems do.
I wouldn't wish PHP on anyone - even a bastard ;)
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A platform where you just run ads and then see success simply doesn't exist. It is the quality of advertisement, the targetting, follow-up marketing, landing pages, and a lot of other elements that also impact success and ROI.

The equiv of this story on Google would be that they ran ads, got a few hundred click-through to their website but nobody signed up. What would you pinpoint as the problem in that situation?
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Yes, we have those in the UK called SPECS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECS_%28speed_camera%29) although these are generally (only in my experience) used temporarily in roadworks etc. which have a temporary lower speed limit.

I believe France did this the low-tech way in the past with toll roads (get a ticket with the time when you enter a toll road, pass it to the booth when you get off, S=D/T and caclulate if you have a speeding fine to pay as well)
You can write a bash script to edit the server configuration files to add a new virtualhost, copy the required files depending on the platform, and restart the server. It really shouldn't be too hard.
> Those ads went viral.

People use the word "viral" way to much
I don't get it - there are some free password managers, but what's that to do with me not wanting to constantly type in my (long) master password on a soft keyboard, clicking through, and copying username and password to and fro?
>BBM has statuses for delivered (the message has arrived on the recipients device) and read (they have actually opened it). It's very very useful.

BBM will tell you if a message was delivered successfully, but it's also capable of telling you if a message was read. The catch of course is that the user can control whether or not they want people to see if they've read the message. Ditto for iMessage.
Square has a good product name, because it's memorable, and it fits the device (it's square!)

On the other hand, iZettle is neither memorable, nor makes any sense.
They don't know that, they just didn't like the smell.
On a more serious note, a system which would probably solve this problem is to let users tag comments with one of a set of categories. E.g. the slashdot system (funny, insightful, etc) but user-initiated. Combine that with per-user settings on what type of comments they want to see and you could simply hide any jokes or less relevant information.
I was in Berlin in December, with my fiance, to check it out as I was considering it as a potential place to work for a few a year or two.

It didn't resonate with me. But everyone has their own experiences. Below are some of the good and bad from my experiences:

1. Transportation is amazing. Not having a car is a non-issue. The most I waited for a train was 10 minutes.

Drinking and smoking are allowed in the underground stations. Personal freedom often trumped collective consciousness.

2. Rent is cheap. But I found the city rather ugly. When I asked a resident why they have so much "bad graffiti" she commented that it was to make it ugly. Further questioning and reasoning was that ugly correlates to cheaper rent.

3. So much dog shit. Perhaps because there are a lot of dogs. They are very well behaved. But the poo was everywhere.

4. We stayed in Kreuzburg. It's trendy. Which means that it's mostly occupied by unemployed artists. :P

5. I speak very poor German, but Berliners are incredibly friendly and mostly patient.

6. It doesn't really feel like a big city.

7. They had some nice galleries and museums. Architecturally I don't think I saw anything significant, or that sticks out in my mind.
I reduced my trial period for Planscope from 30 days to 14, and have already seen a dramatic uptick in sales. Unless you're doing something that takes a long time to really shine (like KISSmetrics), 14 days is more than enough to demonstrate how things work and see if there's a fit.
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It's amazing how many businesses seem to completely not understand the concept of advertising. It doesn't matter where your clients say they heard about you. It doesn't matter how many people actually clicked on your ad. Advertising is about name recognition.

And it works. It's just not very easy to directly measure its effects on a small scale.

It's one thing for a couple of guys running a pizza place not to grasp this concept, but for a large corporation like GM, it's simply preposterous.
imho, changing the habits of drivers would be extremely costly.
Your's is a fantastic book. Downloading Wikipedia pages, counting the images on the NYT homepage, reading xml files, all within a few hours represented some extremely good learning.

It's a very refreshing approach to loops and if statements as you say.
I disagree. These systems will just take over as by design they are like a Trojan horse. Sure i think that Europeans are less easy going than their us counterparts, none the same I think these apps will take off with or without a pin. Furthermore once you have signed and paid once your card details are securely stored and their is no need to use it ever again. Just like purchasing on-line you can just use a consumer app to make payment with out the need for the card - and as such the pin and even signature is irrelevant!
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Interesting POV -- you can get away without traffic lights in the country or in places where other forms of transit (ie. public transit & walking) are more prevalent than cars. You can do so in the city as well, by installing expensive street features that have huge downsides in snowy climates. But, many of the arguments used by the advocate in the story are bunk.

An example re: Pedestrian accidents: "People think traffic lights are a guarantee of safety but the latest audit from Westminster City Council, for example, has shown that 44% of personal injury accidents occurred at traffic lights."

Sure. Pedestrians generally cross the street at the crosswalks, which are placed next to traffic control devices. And many of those accidents are at intersections that lack directional control -- the driver doesn't pay attention, turns right and hits someone crossing the street.

The guy is right about a few things -- the regime of controlling traffic and handling peak demand is very inefficient. That's a feature of urban sprawl.

The problem with cars is that you get the "network effect" with respect to road capacity. Unlike computer networks, expanding capacity is alot harder than pulling a cable. Plus, if you have a two lane freeway or bridge, and you expand it to three lanes, traffic patterns will adjust and congest that road again. The New York City metropolitan area is a great example of this -- the driving suburbs of NYC extend nearly 75 miles north of the city at this point. People on Long Island literally commute over 2 hours to get to Manhattan via car and train.
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It's bad enough with traffic lights [1]. If you take them away, then it's like an idiot free-for-all out there...

[1] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=854_1337054851
Anything but developer. I don't build houses.
My US credit cards work fine here in Italy.
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Hell yes! Marcus Povey for mayor!

This is one of those things that just annoys the hell out of me.
+1 for server teams! sysadmins never get appreciated enough.

However, as far as the Diablo 3 launch goes, some thoughts:

+ Blizzard have been doing this for years

+ They know how many people have pre-ordered and pre-installed the game

+ The game is singleplayer, yet they decided upon this online requirement (no offline play, thanks Blizzard)

All in all it's pretty annoying to purchase something and not be able to play it because they simply haven't upgraded their infrastructure for the load they should have expected.
Interesting, according to the stats, if you have = sign done with out the shift it would have saved another 20% of the keystrokes.
Heads up, if you're an American going to Europe, be aware that attitudes to living on credit or via credit cards are at times very different.

In Belgium and the Netherlands, it's not usual to see supermarkets even taking credit cards, and some restaurants (!) don't either. This is changing, but slowly.
> set out to build his carreer on lies

You may wish to turn down the hyperbole, it's obscuring whatever point you have. He's not "building a career" here, he's teaching a class about historical hoaxes. What better way to teach than to demonstrate?

> does he also encourage lies in academic publications?

He's not encouraging lies at all in the first place. He's using carefully crafted lies as, like one of your repliers said, an intellectual vaccine against actual hoaxes.

He's helping inoculate his students and those aware of the hoax against gullibility in the future. How is that not a net benefit?

> I really question prof. Kelly's idea that expanding the skills base in the disinformation field is for the public good.

I think teaching people magic tricks enables them to deconstruct the magic show in front of them. Teaching them how hoaxes are constructed teaches them how to recognize and call them out in the future.

> Clearly it is to disable/discredit/damage/destroy the free exchange of valid information on the internet.

That's not clear at all.

It's interesting, you say "valid information" as if there's a clear way of recognizing information out there as valid. But there isn't. THAT's what his agenda is: how do we tell the real from the fake?
I thought the first chart, the number of commits per language, was interesting.
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How big a feat is fooling Wikipedia? I doubt I look 50 pages per year.
What happens when these institutional investors lose Billions in a short time? There will be lawsuits over lawsuits.

If Facebook drops over 20% this year, shit will hit the fan.

They don't wan't to take the blame, but have no power inside Facebook either. I wonder how they react, Zuckerberg can get powerful enemies here.
Another sysadmin reporting in. OP doesn't have a clue.
this is completely incorrect. the majority of (non-adsense) ads are still sold on a CPM impression basis. the rates you get will be better if you have a solid click through rate, however.
Stock prices are also influenced by supply & demand. The situation you describe works for just one company paying no corporation tax, but if every company suddenly has no corporation tax, every company's profits increase, so relative demand should stay the same, leaving prices the same.
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Yeah, it doesn't take much to break even on Netflix at $7 a month. They have BBC Sherlock for instance, which iTunes wants $7 an episode for. So that's three months right there.
> teaching wrong history on the internet

That's not at all what he's doing though. The hoaxes are later revealed as such by him, if not sooner by a disbelieving audience.

You seem to view this as though he's permanently altering history books, but I think that's completely erroneous.
So there are quite a few things that Pizza Delicious didn't do right with their Facebook ads.

1. They target people who like Italian food. They don't target people who like Pizza. 15,440 people in New Orleans have liked Pizza on Facebook.

2. They don't target people who like other Pizza Outlets. Or other local restaurants. If a resident likes one local outlet, he is more prone to like other local establishments too.

3. They disregard targeting friends of people who already like Pizza Delicious. And by doing so - they don't use the most powerful feature Facebook has to offer: social proof.

4. That they do any kind of targeting beyond geographic targeting at all is probably erroneous for their type of business. Seriously - if they were running ads offline, would they run an ad in a magazine about Italy? Or would they run it in their daily local newspaper? Pizza is something that has a wide interest. There is no need to restrict based on any kinds of interest.

5. There is no benefit in Liking Pizza Delicious on Facebook. No special Facebook offers. Or discount coupons. And yet they were expecting people to like their page and come visit their place right away. Their call to action is weak. You can't expect facebook likes to convert into orders straight away - when you don't even ask for an order.

6. Their measurement method is very inaccurate. Asking people where they found out about you has been proven to be very very inaccurate. Instead, give them a coupon and track based on that.

7. There was a total mismatch with their online and offline metrics. Do you ever like a page on facebook without knowing about that brand from before? Yet, they are tracking the number of Likes online. But asking people how they found out about them offline.
flyers distributed in the zip code where the Pizza Shop is located is a fraction of the price, and targets the residents. For some niche, local businesses, flyers still work
I used to argue that insurance companies would push for them, because self-driving cars would reduce accidents.

But the cynic in me wonders if they will be afraid that self-driving cars will push insurance costs down so much the insurance companies will lose out.
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I love it! This is exposing the flaws in Wikipedia and shows us why we shouldn't trust it as fact.
In my experience, checking the signature just doesn't happen in the US. In fact, most of the time you seem to be given your card back before you even give them the signed receipt.

Checking the signature was the norm in the UK before chip-and-PIN.
This isn't how it works in the UK. Here, staff inputs the order details, etc. on the iphone which is in a special case with a chip & pin reader and a keypad on the back. You insert your card, turn the iphone over, and enter your pin on the physical keypad which ostensibly separately transmits the transaction to the processor. Seems like a really nice solution and is something these guys should be able to leverage.
I think everyone here is missing the point. The dongle and the card swipe/read is merely a short term Trojan horse into changing payment. Further more it is a means to the end of cash payments. If you imagine that these apps will become the "Facebook" of commerce and how that can happen you will see the bigger picture. These apps allow everyone to pass currency using a device, sure they need a card right now as that is the "old skool" method we all respect. Once the card is swipped their is no need to do it ever again. Both parties are registered on the app and thus the "mobile wallet" has been created. Next they will role out "self serve" apps and cardless payment.
What we are talking about here is merely a means to an end. Sadly it also means that these apps will Facebook commerce and while they are doing that they will put eCommerce on the back seat. Wait and see what happens.
That's probably true; opening 6 or 7 nights a week would certainly not triple their business. It would, however, give them a lot more open-time to accumulate repeat customers. Whether or not that works out in their favor in the end depends on how leanly they can run on those slow nights.
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