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Yes I did. They even noted it was a known problem. That's part of why I was so eager to see if they had finally fixed it. I'm really hoping they do so in iOS6.
Honestly EA is "terrible" gaming company, but I can't complain too much about Origin. I got it when Battlefield 3 came out and I have had 0 issues with it. There's plenty to harp on EA about without picking on Origin.
Did you read the original article in Nature before devising your ad hominem?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...

They certainly had access to the original data. To quote:

> To address these concerns, when findings could not be reproduced, an attempt was made to contact the original authors, discuss the discrepant findings, exchange reagents and repeat experiments under the authors' direction, occasionally even in the laboratory of the original investigator.

There are quite a few other studies which raise similar questions statistics about medical research; e.g.:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11600885
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n9/full/nn.2886.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895435605...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e31818131e7
Google Street View cars have many ways of finding themselves in our world and knowing what is around them (which msftguy have kindly specified) but I guess GPS navigation is its primary instrument and without it it will be unable to drive anywhere. Device like this - http://www.jammer-store.com/gj6-all-civil-gps-signal-jammer-... - or maybe other one can easily block its GPS signal and stop it in case of emergency.
When iOS was introduced, Apple had existing OSX customers. Microsoft does not have so many tablet enterprise clients that have to drag the desktop metaphor along just to appease them. Their enterprise clients didn't have to dictate what the XBox was. Tablets could be just as free of legacy as it.
This was coming and it could really be disruptive, but brick and mortar businesses closing down isn't the only option.

For example, they could start asking brands not to allow online sales if they want to be stocked; I can easily see the more expensive brands only being available off-line. Or they could ask people who enter the store to pay for a redeemable voucher.
Though I agree that modern art is mostly pointless, I actually have prints by Rothko and Pollock. I've dashed through countless modern art museums around the world, but there are a few artists and styles that consistently make me stop and stare. I can't explain why I like these works. I didn't know nor care about the artists' background or philosophy. I didn't buy it to impress anyone or make myself look artsy. Oddly, I don't like most other color field art. I don't even like Rothko's darker work. There's something about his big bright color fields that appeals to me. Is that art?
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Are Grave QR Codes The Next Big Thing?
Can you pin how much data from a table can be placed into memory, or does the whole table need to be placed in memory? I can see settings that limit the transaction log memory usage, but no way of reducing the actual amount of data in-memory.
Awesome read, I'd love to see an update on his projects (since this was from 2009)
I disagree completely. I tried the RC a few months ago, and it was abhorrent, but the image from just a few weeks ago was very usable.

I somewhat dislike the 'chrome' of the UI (I think it's hard to determine what is a button and what is just flair), but I've been running in 'Windows Classic' mode since XP so I may be an outlier.

They made that tile menu more transparent, to the point where you don't have to ever see it again if you don't want to, and many of the components that were Vista-y in the older RC have been polished for the newer image.

I'm not going to go out of my way to upgrade to Windows 8 like I did for Windows 7, but I also wont be downgrading to Windows 7 like I did with Vista (to XP).
Money talks!

Selling a game at 87.5% and earning $5 > selling a game at 100% and earning $0. EA chases the cash and talk is cheap.
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IPv6 — It’s inevitable
Have you studied Plato and Aristotle? There are arguments behind those opinions. I disagree with them, mind you, but it's easy to just scoff at the past for holding presently unpopular opinions.
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> I never remember the names of rarely used apps:

On the same token, I never remember how to update the PATH variable in Windows, but in Windows 7 if you type 'PATH' in the search box on the start menu, it pulls up the 'Edit environment variables' screen as a search result.

MS has done their research, and is making slow, incremental progress on making their OS easier to use.
I rarely buy stuff online, but I do worry about what happens to retail areas as shopping continues to move online. There's nothing more depressing than one of those run-down unrenovated malls that nobody bothers to visit any more, half empty and half filled with shops selling china statues of dogs. Now imagine a world where even the nice malls look like that.

I'm probably over-extrapolating, of course. The reason I hardly ever buy online is that if I've already decided I want something then I'm willing to throw in a few extra dollars to get it now rather than later. I can't be the only one who feels that way. There are some things which will continue to be much easier to buy instore than online.
Typo: Windows XP doesn't send Renegotiation Info extension if without patch MS10-049 applied.
o/t,

jgrahamc, when does the spdy beta start? :)
I continue to hope that more companies will take the lesson from Apple and start doing more in-house engineering with a focus on quality and not the race to the bottom.
At the moment they would be able to do that, but there are bills constantly being introduced (and so far, luckily, shot down) to Congress calling for mandatory data retention. The current bill calling for this is HR 1981:Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1981), introduced by Rep Lamar Smith of SOPA acclaim.
If MS didn't do a radical redesign now and then, people might catch on to the fact that they're being sold the same thing over and over for each new computer they buy.
It looks like this is a fork of MySQL. Did they actually pay Oracle for a proprietary license or is there a source release hidden on the website?
Amass some followers, then sell the likefarm (for a few cents per follower). The new owner will then replace the likefarm's content with their brand or whatever they wish - and it will look as if the brand has X hundreds of followers.

This practice is in violation of FB's ToS, and ethically questionable - but there's just enough money in it to make this worthwhile for the likefarmers.
Wow, for a moment there I thought I was on reddit.

I don't play games, so don't use either Origin or Steam. But even I can see that branding EA "hypocrites" is exactly the same as accusing a politician of "flip-flopping". They made a call, it was the wrong thing to do, so they've listened to feedback and have now gone another way.

What's the problem? Are you really complaining about Origin selling games for less money? Perhaps you'd prefer it if they cancelled the sale and put their prices up?
What 3rd party app ecosystem? Honestly I've never used anything outside the netflix.com client.
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Is it just me or does this entire product smell like it was designed for the sole purpose of extracting money from less than tech-savvy investors and clueless institutions?

The bullshit-bingo-lingo on their homepage is mindnumbing.

Meanwhile their actual software seems rather underwhelming, bordering on SnakeOil.
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This is a good example. That's why only time can tell apart the real art from posing art. A piece of art is like a finding in science, the value of it is defined by its influence in the history going forward.
This is a good article. I have a few issues with price-reduction for existing customers, though, that I want to highlight. I think it's fantastic that OP got the desired results on customer churn, which was his goal - but I'd categorize pricing changes as "gray hat" retention improvement with regard to the overall health of his business and future revenue. Here's why:

On price specifically: In a subscription business like this one, you have to meet a minimum utility requirement in each month that a customer is able to cancel if you want to retain customers. Each customer's minimum utility is different and could even be comprised of different factors/features depending on the breadth of the product offering. But there is one factor that cuts across all of them: price. A significant element of churn is price because the initial purchase thrill may decrease over time and result in customer cancellation requests at a certain point in their lifecycle. So, cutting price is kind of an easy way to reduce churn in a subscription model...particularly because people bought in at X and are now paying fractional X. Boom - happy customers. Also, price-cutting is habit-forming, and the customers who received a reduced price will come back asking for more reductions in time.

On features: Multiple times, I've seen the "get more people using our product" as a good way to reduce churn. I won't comment on permission customer marketing and whether or not what OP did was legal, but the results of a feature like this are great, and seems like he added more than just this one. He added improved functionality and invested in his product at reduced prices - great deal!

On onboarding & cohort analysis: OP was right to focus on onboarding features and adoption to improve stickiness among new cohorts. He would have also been smart to raise the price for new customers if he materially improved the product (which it sounds like he did). Over the same time period, he could have had newer cohorts of higher paying customers, making the older ones less important to the financials of the business. By "hiring" higher priced customers to increasingly recent cohorts and continually "firing" older-lower-priced customers, the balance of his revenue would have shifted to these newer, more valuable customers over time, making the older-less-happy customers less important to his business. That's how you really turn the crank on a subscription business, and if your onboarding is good enough to continually improve retention in new cohorts, you've really nailed it.

Overall, I don't mean to be overly critical of OP's choices. I aim to highlight where optimizing for customer churn alone can harm the financials of the business, particularly around price-cutting for existing customers. He's doing lots and lots right with his cohort analyses, onboarding improvements, and assumptions about churn impact of new features. However, we're in business to make money, so these have to be balanced with the health of the business itself.
Not true. While some of the radio spectrum has been reserved specifically because of the lack of absorption in the atmosphere, the 1420MHz line is the famous 21cm line frequenctly measured by cosmologists to look at the epoch of reionization. It is due to the hyperfine structure of hydrogen, and would not be of unique importance to our civilization.

However, we don't broadcast anything. Any broadcasts from earth would hugely overshadow any small signal we're trying to read.
I seem to remember most people taking issue with Origin's TOS/'Spyware', Customer Service, and itchy ban trigger if you should ever venture into their forums. Not the actual program itself.
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How DragonBox an educational app beat Angry Birds in the AppStore [interview]
yes, we have commercial licensing agreements in place.
Has anyone had any experience with both ghost and phantom (or any other options I may not have found), and know how they stack up in terms of rendering speed/etc? I'd imagine they're fairly similar, but if that's not the case I'd be heavily biased towards the faster of the two.
Same here, I use the Wii app as that's what's connected to the TV. I never watch netflix on my computer.
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This has annoyed me as a user. I use SkyDrive to back-up all of our images but I CANNOT do this while on my iPhone otherwise it thinks every image is the wrong date.

However, when I connect my iPhone to my Windows box and I manually navigate the photos the image taken date is still accurate. So I grab those instead.

It's a huge pain in the ass.
RIP, Nokia (1865 - 2014)
I generally disagree with the OP and agree with your dissent, but do you not think that the OP could be more charitable read, not as "suppress certain kinds of replies", but as "don't exploit known cognitive biases, and punish people who seek to exploit them"? I'm quite comfortable downvoting naked appeals to emotion ("please won't someone think of the children?"), because I don't think they add anything, and are harmful to, the conversation. I think the OP is making a similar proposal for anecdotal contradiction. Both his examples are chosen well in this light: non-medical replies to a study that found a weak correlation. To me, the contradictions look more like a strawman: the argument they attack seems to be that coffee consumption will, in 100% of cases, cure Alzheimer's, a claim the study never made. I'm not sure we should privilege (or penalize) anecdotal contradiction on anything other than the merits of its argumentation, but in many cases I find that to be extremely weak.
I think an oft overlooked point is the distinction between art and good art.
"Is this art?" is a boring, answered questioned. "Is this good art?" is what everyone is actually interested in answering, but seems to confuse it with the former.

Yes, art is whatever you want it to be. As soon as someone intends something to be art, then it is so. But that gives it no higher status than anything else. However, a good piece of art usually is interesting, elicits emotion, and enriches the consumer. These are fairly subjective terms but they can still be roughly gauged within the context of the culture.

Anytime someone asks, "Is this art?", just say, "Yes, of course it is, and it is good/bad art because of x/y/z." Don't let that question distract you from what is actually at hand, rather than semantics.
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Motorola Buys Psion For $200m
Thanks for the suggestion! I met you half way :)
Do Startups Need Peer Review?
The diagram was fine; I didn't watch the video. I'll hit it up later.

p.s. Isn't a totally reasonable business model for a truly faster DB engine "free, everywhere, bought by Oracle?"
Aside from SNI (which the article mentions HAS to be submitted in plaintext) you might be able to randomize the supported ciphers. Just like faking the User Agent String, you might be able to randomly select a cipher suite equal to that of another browser (and that your browser supports as well).
It's a sad truth that it costs more to run a brick and mortar business than an online one.

But the way I see it, a customer will enter their business and identify products that are of interest. Those people have the technology to compare prices in real-time in that store. If that price was no more expensive, what incentive would a customer have to not buy it there an then from the store?

In the UK I've felt the quality of a customer experience has gotten worse. Staff ignore you when you are actually trying to find a product, but bug you when you're 'just browsing'. More often than not I'm left with the feeling that they just don't want my money by the lack of helpfulness.

Brick and mortar businesses are selling a service, not just a product. That service is a person to help you, products to see in person before buying and stock to buy immediately. But at the end of the day, it will probably come down to price. If they simply can't compete on price, then the outlook doesn't look good.
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From Nils in the comments there:

All developers should stop integrating netflix in their services and concentrate on the competition. They have nothing to lose as they are not allowed to make money using netflix anyways.

Can anyone see this going any other way? There will be no 3rd party apps supporting Netflix anymore.
The signature for them is that they start off with:

eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d))...

I've seen them most commonly used in not-quite-so-legal streaming websites online where their biggest problem is blocking robots from scraping their site and losing their advertising revenue.
I noticed you're using tornado but appear to be using the standard (non-evented?) python redis library. Does using this library block tornado's event loop? Did you look at other tools like brukva[1]?

[1] https://github.com/evilkost/brukva
I'd prefer it if the head of Origin didn't make statements about protecting IP and not shortchanging developers only 2 weeks later to change his mind.

It was a stupid statement to make to begin with. He accused Steam, the most successful digital games distribution service available, of going about their business the wrong way and that Origin wouldn't make the same mistake.

I think this is more of a complaint about the way EA do business. What was the point of DeMartini's original comments? Who was he trying to appeal to as it certainly wasn't gamers.
I disagree with the author's assertion that the following point means you can't sell an app that uses the Netflix API:

"charge, directly or indirectly, any fee (including any unique, specific, or premium charges) for access to the Content or your integration of the APIs in your Application,"

It seems pretty clear to me that this point says that you can't add additional fees to include the Netflix API data in your app, or charge an additional fee to enable such a feature. Nowhere does it say that you can't charge for an app that includes the API.

However, that no enterprise-app statement is quite odd. I wonder what the specific driver was for that addition? There was likely some straw that broke the camel's back there, and it would be entertaining at the least (IMO) to learn what it was.
Google+ launched in the 2nd half of 2011, no mention of it in the article, but I'd think that'd have to be at least partially responsible for that increase.
Has anyone seen a small independent store that has a way to order from their own website, in the store? Above the book, have a qr code or url that points to the item on their site, but they get it in 3-4 days later. 'Buy it now off the shelf' for a fiver more than that.
You can view the article that quote comes from here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-06-ea-origin-wont-...

> DeMartini agreed with this position: "What Steam does might be teaching the customer, 'I might not want it in the first month, but if I look at it in four or five months, I'll get one of those weekend sales and I'll buy it at that time at 75 per cent off.'

> "It's an approach, and I'm not going to say it's not working for Valve. It certainly works for Valve; I don't know if it works as well for the publishing partners who take on the majority of that haircut."

If you mention Steam to someone it's likely they'll think of Steam sales, there is a huge following of Steam sales on reddit etc and I don't think EA wants to (or ever will) become that. I'm not sure if he really meant they would never do sales like this, I suspect he meant more they would not become a core part of the service, Steam sales are a core part of Steam.

Origin has had sales before this interview, I have an email from March when they did a (very public) 50% off sale and they did a similar sale in December last year. There's a big difference between a few older games at ~75% off and having half of your entire inventory at 90% off, including games released 6 months prior.
Any reason why a "company" would be more needful than a "project"?
Hacker News needs to slow their brain out or they'll burn out in a year. Nobody is perfect--that's what I'm trying to say. I see constant Hacker News posts and commenters trying to make themselves feel better by putting others down. Also, there is the constant navel-gazing--do you people ever actually work for a customer? A circle jerk won't feed you or cure your cancer--don't forget that.
I think that happens a lot with smaller purchases, like a pair of cheap headphones or something like that. With larger dollar purchases, after you factor in the price difference and taxes (assuming free shipping), the price difference can be significant.

That said, you have some big box stores flourishing, like Costco - why does Costco thrive while Best Buy struggles? I think it's the experience at the store, history with the store, and general approach.
If you've ever tried to use SQL on a large, but fittable-in-memory dataset on existing row databases, then you would not be underwhelmed. Existing non-finance-industry solutions suck for things like mid-size trading queries, or (in coinlab's case) work setups that require periodic, frequent table scans.

You can buy something like kdb, but that costs $70k a year and requires that your engineers learn some extremely new semantics if they're only used to SQL and (choose any popular language here, Python to C++).
Here is a name-and-shame site for services that store and send passwords in plain text (or any reversible encryption): http://plaintextoffenders.com/
This post conveniently assumes that "company" means "wildly successful company".
I should clarify... Yes org-mode has todo features, including calendering, scheduling, etc, but listen some of the talks Carsten Dominik gives where he explains his rational: http://orgmode.org/talks.html It's core is as an flexible note-taking app with all those features as extensions to the core, just like the document links, and timestamp features.

In theory, org todos are born as notes which you later realize are actually todo items. Taken in this light, it makes sense as a text editor extension rather than an app in its own right.
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Netflix's problems with user history may be relevant here:

http://www.reelseo.com/netflix-privacy-problems/
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I went to the MOMA recently, and one piece was literally a piece of cardboard with some silver spray paint and a few holes in it. My response was, "I could have done that. There's no art to it." That and many other pieces could have benefitted from an explanation. I see no problem with people "reading their way" through a museum. I did that at the Met, because I was curious about the background to many of the paintings I saw. (Which, by the way, I was in awe of.)