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You are right, MVC means different things to different people, so whenever someone says "MVC" I try to stop them right there and ask to explain what exactly they mean before proceeding any further.

Martin Fowler has an excellent write up on the history of MVC and related patterns (and resulting confusion) in http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html.
Really?

Why aren't they making any money with it now then?
>If ARM becomes dominant the idea that Microsoft can simply restrict access because that's how it was done in the past (even citing Apple as an example) simply means they can restrict a majority of all hardware sold from running a different system, extending their monopoly control through partnership agreements to a new generation of hardware.

If iPads take over computing and desktops(along with Microsoft) die, won't the same scenario play out? Also, if ARM becomes dominant, won't a secton of the ARM devices be iPads and Android tablets? Why do you think Windows RT tablets will be the majority?

>While ARM is now beginning to adopt a similar boot system (in UEFI on RT devices) it's not carrying with it the openness we once enjoyed with PCs. This is the problem.

As an aside, ARM is different in the sense that each ARM SoC needs special drivers and coding.
HTML5 enthusiasts - this is your chance (and probably the only one) to prove that it is suitable for mobile. iOS and Android are remaining native.
> Without closures (or anonymous blocks) event binding can be very tedious; and without deferrables (also known as deferreds or promises) the idea of treating individual operations as objects in their own right doesn't make much sense.

Of course, MVC was developed and popularized on Smalltalk.... which had both of these notions...
Doesn't for me. It also doesn't prevent you from ahem changing your mind if you say no, though...
> file copying from a share/network is immensely better

How can something like that have room for improvement? Copying a file from one place to another is and has been a solved problem for decades now.
If I was being called out as a liar after being very public about a business deal, I would lose my sense of tact also.

Seriously, how much of the hate is from folks that will never have this opportunity, wouldn't do it the same way even if they did, and just want to complain?
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Wouldn't it be better to simply have a Gig-E port?
See my post for a big list of valid reasons. You're taking my comment out of context and trying to make it appear like that was my justification -- it wasn't.
'Error: You need to have cookies enabled. Learn more.'

I have cookies enabled. Pretty much out-of-the-box Chrome here. Even in incognito (which still allows session cookies, yes). Works fine in Firefox.

Very nice once I get in though!
Yea, having done a two small projects in it now, my brain is starting to adapt to it a bit. Maybe a bit easier for me than for some, since I never really bought into MVC all that hard, so I'm not having to break too many habits.
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It won't prevent it, will just reload automatically when the page expires
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dfp = DoubleClick for Publisher (helps publishers run the ads that advertisers buy)

dfa = DoubleClick for Advertisers (helps advertisers buy ads)

OpenX was an open source ad serving platform you could install on your own server, but AFAIK the company behind it has more-or-less killed the open source product and is instead pushing a closed-source hosted ad serving solution.
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I was going to shrug at this until I looked and saw messages from individuals personally reaching out to me including from a startup incubator.

That was a slap in the face. Thanks for absolutely nothing Facebook.
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I've never lived in VA, but when I lived in CA, Safeway made it really easy with their specials, because the price tag said right on it what date the sale price was good until.
It's definitely a cultural thing, but England doesn't sound that different from America. From what I've read, a Japanese person would likely find it 'shameful' that you tip at all, even for a great job, because it implies they don't take pride in their work and only did a great job for the money.
Perfectly, especially in this case as there are hundreds of CRM's available. In other cases I'd probably say the same, only that it's sometimes hard to be passionate about a clone. Make sure you're in it because you want to improve where someone else failed and not because you think it could be a money maker.
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Thanks for your comment.

Honestly, I just wrote what I had on my mind that moment, without much meta-thinking. You are probably right, in hindsight should at least have phrased it less direct.

However, without disregarding your concern: Should I refrain from posting at all when what I have to say boils down to "I don't believe your story"?

Would you also have reacted to a politely phrased comment saying the same thing?
I like it! Somebody said once the ultimate app would help people get laid. I'd imagine helping college kids find beer would be a close second. If you could only combine the two.....

My only question is this: how are you going to get traction? So I use this to plan a pub crawl with my friends. Why would I tell anyone else about it? Why would I ever come back?

Cute ideas are easy. Traction not so much.

I live between UVA and VPI. Great to see some local startup ideas appearing on HN.

ADD: Sort of a random idea, but I wonder if you couldn't do a reverse auction for drinks. Kind of like groupon for drinkers. Something like "If 50 people promise to show up and each order $20 worth of beer, what price would you sell it for?" Not only would this mean more beer cheaper for the kids, it would also mean that wherever they went would be a pretty rocking place with a good number of people there.
The "market" is the advertisers, so definitely a threat. One reason Facebook seems different is that it's more naturally social, but the truism remains: if you're not paying, you're not the customer. That WU pinned an ad-free account at $10/YEAR tells me TWC was likely not happy with them as competitors.
Problem here is I have to go to the site every time I want to check for drink specials.

Why not some sort of push interface?

I've had this idea in the past, where people sign up to your SMS "newsletter" that lets them know about the best drink specials that night. Sort of a text-based Groupon for fratboys.

Bars and promoters could then pay you for access to your list, provided they had a good deal at the time.

I'm sure SendHub would love to help... in fact, I think I've told Ash about this idea a few years back :)
The controller shouldn't be updating the views. The views should be observers of the models. The controller updates the model, which triggers messages from the models to their observers, the views. They would then would then reflect the change in the model.
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It doesn't fit. The RJ-45 connector nearly the same size (possibly larger) than the edge of the retina MacBook Pro.
Are you asking for feedback?

Right away my big question is: What am I doing here? What is my question/problem and what is your answer? I understand neither from the questions leading into the page with information. I understand the information, but not the specific problem you are answering for me.

If this is the why (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116422/Screenshots/25.png) it needs to be MUCH larger and explained. Don't make me think, especially if I am looking for booze.

It seems like you guys have great info though, interested to see where this goes.
Definitely mailing lists are too "mechanic" in their way of working. Some people receive weekly emails even after years of having stopped to use the service. Regarding mailing lists, there is a need for more "organic"/"humanized" user experiences. For instance, it would be interesting to have some specific rules according to the recipient's behavior. For example: if the recipient never opens the links featured in the email, an email like "Are you still interested in this?" could be sent after some time...
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Microsoft is getting greedy. Seeing the success of Apple and of Google's Nexus products, it seeks to do the same by releasing Surface. Microsoft's greed made it completely forget the role that its OEMs had in its own success, so much so that it neglected to tell many OEM partners about Surface until the Friday before the announcement, and to many others didn't tell them at all. If Surface does not sell like hotcakes, it will be big trouble for Microsoft, and they won't be able to get out of it by firing anyone.
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The others aren't even that good, with the exception of Jotly, which is a brilliant parody of review apps. Vooza is amusing but not brilliant, and it doesn't say anything about them. Still, Apple haters would enjoy it.
DFP: Dart for Publishers
http://www.google.com/doubleclick/publishers/dart.html

DFA: Doubleclick for Advertisers
http://www.google.com/doubleclick/advertisers/dfa.html

SSP: Supply Side Platform
http://www.adopsinsider.com/ad-exchanges/supply-side-platfor...

Open X: Open source tool for managing ads on your website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenX_(software)
Twenty seconds into the "Snazzy Room" video, I decided that I do not ever want to have anything to do with this company. Seriously, who thought that playing to every stereotype of an unsavory salesman was a good idea?
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Two things (I'm using the mobile version): I wasn't actually sure what the site did until I finally got through all the pages. I understood that it was supposed to help find cheap beer, but nothing about how. I initially thought it was some sort of loyalty program. Two, it took way too long to get to the end with each question being a full (slow) page load, plus there was no indication of how many steps there still were.
I can't say from personal experience having only met the team behind it and many founders but can refer you to a number of people that know a lot about it.

I've heard it's on par and similar to the 500 startups accelerator in Mountain View and they work together quite a lot from what I've seen.
We are still on mixpanel because it is hard to extricate ourselves, but obviously that isn't the long term plan.

I can point to mistakes I made such as the higher posting. In our case some extra numbers are sent with each event and the values of those numbers are interesting. (One example is the volume level of the device.)

With Google Analytics where they term this custom variables all you get to see is the average value which is spectacularly useless. Mixpanel would show us the distribution, but only for a particular event type. We have about 20 different events, so working it out across all 20 would be too tedious.

Today we only use mixpanel as a receiver of events. We export the analytics data from them and then work on that locally. Unfortunately they only provide an export every 24 hours. We do not use any of their other functionality although we did try.
Sorry dude.

When a publisher (pub) sells ad space to an advertiser, there are at least two sets of servers involved. There is a publisher / sell side ad server (pub adserver) which picks which ad to show in an inventory slot on a page view and generally tries to optimize for the publishers income, plus does publisher side reporting. There is a advertiser / buy side ad server which does cross publisher reporting; allows the advertiser to control, change, and update creative; tries to do frequency capping; tries to do cross channel reporting; and tries to optimize on the advertisers' behalf. These are generally not the same server. Google's ad server were basically purchased from doubleclick. DFA is doubleclick for advertisers and DFP is doubleclick for publishers. Openx is a competing publisher ad server. Atlas is microsofts advertiser ad server; it competes with dfa.

An SSP is a supply side platform. It's a service that basically replaces a pub ad server and attempts to get as much money for the pub as possible by switching between ad networks and possibly trading off between guaranteed, network, and rtb. It basically is a saas stack that replaces a publisher ad server. An SSP will often also attempt to prevent first party data leakage.

a DSP is a similar beast for the demand side and can start to replace an advertiser ad server.

From my perspective (and I think many pubs) there hasn't been much innovation between dfp and openx. Hence the movement to SSPs.

First party data is, in a nutshell, the fact that a user visited a site or a page. From this you can derive all sorts of things such as the purchasing interests of the user.

guaranteed is presold ads, the most lucrative for a publisher
Possibly, but I've used only an Ethernet port on my laptop three times in the last year and I don't think I'm that far out of the norm.

Once 802.11ac comes out Ethernet might finally be relegated to "the cable that I use to hook up my base-station to my ISP's router."
The problem I see is, that it is really difficult to understand the OR sphere from the outside. While one can identify the need for some regular software product (App, etc) by just watching and participating actively in the market, this seems almost impossible in OR.
That's awfully vague.

Find something that you or someone in your life use--or would use if it just did XYZ. Work on that.

If you have a certain skill set that you're looking to hone, tell us about that and maybe someone could offer suggestions.
It's logical, if you're looking for drinks you'll probably want to have cookies.
Coming from mobile (iOS) my first impression is:

????

6+ taps and I still had no idea what I was supposed to be doing nor what I was trying to get. Maybe I'm just gettin old...
Weather Underground did gather data from a variety of sources (http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/index.asp) and displayed more fine grain results that the "regular" person who cares about weather would never look at.

I have Weather Underground, The Weather Network and the default Apple Weather app (which pulls from Yahoo I believe) and I always found Weather Underground to be more accurate on both a large scale and in their hourly reports.
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He was anticipating the argument that succinctness leads to unreadable code. Perl is a language where you can choose to be so terse as to be nearly unreadable.

I don't think he was trying to claim that was idiomatic perl. Rather he was saying that clojure is succinct and still very readable.
It is not about being lazy or shady. It is about encouraging accurate information from real Facebook accounts based on the information users already have compiled. The site helps you meet new people based on that information and gives you the opportunity to eventually become Facebook friends. You need a Facebook account attached to become Facebook friends.

Right now it is based on common interests and location. In the future it will likely look for other data that similar connections can be made on.

Airtime recently launched and they are following the same model as it turns out due to their close alignment with the Facebook community and the data it provides.

There are plenty of "meet new people" sites out there where you enter whatever you want about yourself. This is a different angle on that which provides functionality leveraging Facebook which Facebook itself is not going to provide.
The worst thing about Facebook is that you probably have contacts that don't appreciate the severity of a lot of Facebook's moves. So you keep the account because the communication is nicely convenient.

Thus you continue to use it, given several alternatives, as the best of a bad bunch (because no-one uses the others).

This never bodes well.
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Personally I respect them for taking the time to create a video to recruit talent instead of a the usual thoughtless ad on craigslist. Someone who puts as much effort into hiring as they do one selling seems like a smart company to me.
It's more than a definition issue.

You haven't used MVC, you have probably used Model2. The post we're discussing is about MVC.

http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/09/rails-is-not-m...
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Interesting! Anything that uses .NET technologies? I'm only looking for something that is extremely simple.
Me too! Can I make a request for Portland next? :)

It seems like the easiest way to keep prices updated would be to have an iPhone and Android app (or maybe just a good mobile site) where users or store owners looking to drum up business could add prices for new specials, flag expired specials, etc. Similar to the way Google Maps stays up to date.

Also, does anyone have any insight into just why beer prices are so incredibly variable? It's not uncommon for prices to vary by 50% between nearby stores or even at the same store, depending on the day.
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> It splits controllers into operations and events.

The original MVC designs and sample code all had views and controllers observing models through an Observer based event pattern.

The operations were the controller units. The events were not.
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Yes, I kinda attempted to keep it vague. As of this moment, I'm transitioning into management (or so have been the last month), and I need something to keep me entertained...

Using C#/Java, maybe some front-end stuff would be ideal. Or possibly getting into Ruby/RoR.
I've never heard anyone say this about C... If I've heard it said about C++, that was a long, long time ago.
I cannot downvote. This entire conversion is out of line though as far as I am concerned (primarily because it brings out posts like the one I responded to).
HN has this culture of entrepreneurial voyeurism. When a unique scenario like Sortfolio gets posted, we like to watch how it unfolds and learn from the process.

While we may say we want to learn the from the process, the vast majority really just want to see what was done and then tell everybody how they would have done it differently (and implicitly more correctly) ;)
The mobile version of the site is pretty tough to use. It's only temporary while Apps are in development(Hopefully ready by the end of summer).
"The first girl hired by the founders, she's responsible for renaming the vision once known as "cheapdrinks.com" to the much swankier The City Swig."

I'm going to have to say that I think "cheapdrinks.com" is a better name for this service.
I hope they keep the ad-free subscription model. I've been a paying member for years. Browsing weather ad-free is such a relief.
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We're working on building an app that will be able to send push notifications with personalized suggestions based on how you've used the app before. As in, if you typically look for draft beer it will send you the best draft beer special on that night.
Actually, I suspect you could rotate the graph 45 degrees clockwise and have the vertical axis as "code for profit (high) vs code for fun (low)".

The horizontal axis would just be popularity.
The issue should be unambiguous to all not blinded by hatred. Now kindly knock this shit off.
> They buy a tablet

Actually, they buy an iPad. Much like you buy a Mac (which is just an exceedingly well designed and built x86 PC). Yet, people don't go to Apple stores to buy a PC - they go there to buy a Mac.

> Is dual booting phones and tablets such a big differentiator that people will pay a premium for them?

Thanks to licensing, it's more likely users will pay a premium for a tablet that doesn't dual boot, that cannot be upgraded and that cannot be repurposed to run anything other than older Microsoft software.

> Hint: 99% of users don't care

And, as we all know, millions of Lemmings cannot be wrong.

> This really shows off your inexperience and lack of knowledge.

I will regard that as an insult and not answer.

> Dell and Compaq wouldn't exist today

Like Commodore, Atari and Apple never existed, because, of course, because computers started to become useful with the advent of MS-DOS. In fact, the x86 PC (and Microsoft) would not exist in its present form if it weren't for Dell and Compaq and a host of other makers who built commodity hardware. Without this huge market, Microsoft would have to address a myriad of platforms and be unable to concentrate on a single one. Before it became clear the x86 PC would be the mainstream of home computing, they even backed the MSX consortium which was all about compatible (read "commodity") hardware running Microsoft software.

It's possible to differentiate around Android. It's not possible to do the same with Windows. It's simple as that.

If you could grasp the concept, you would have by now.
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This reminds me of last year when I had a chat with a homeless professor in mountain view. He knew way more geography than the average person.
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