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Can we really say that we are individuals interacting with each other, when those that we interact with are only facets themselves?

http://bit.ly/P3zyl6
I was not arguing that a team based bonus is not also a good idea.

In my experience three qualities that are very unevenly distributed are motivation, initiative, and talent. Depending on the business some combination of these represents the ideal employee.
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3 days redesign of a brand for fun? Whatever you think about the result, this guy has talent.

I personally thought it was beautiful, really breathtaking.
But it did lead to better user experience. Imagine buying an iPhone which was unable to play music and videos or surf the web, and if you tried to do those things it would tell you to go and download an app for it.

The average user doesn't want to have to download some program to listen to an MP3. They want it to "just work". And that's what Microsoft did.
Yes, by Yahoo! Messenger I just meant the protocol and servers. I used Adium, personally.

I also used Google Search though I would try Yahoo! search every couple months. I don't believe the search engine is that much worse but I'd become accustomed to searching Google and understanding the results.
I think the hypothesis in #1 is that many scalpers just buy up tickets through regular channels for all big shows, going down the list. If you're not selling tickets through regular channels, people using that approach won't even have you on their radar, and may not consider it worth their time to go after the handful of events sold via "weird" means when they can just move on to scalping the next event on ticketmaster.com instead.
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I used to feel the same way, and now I feel that sentiment is pretty naive.

In our culture in the US responsibility is typically associated with adulthood. The more of it you have the more "grown up" you are. And you've probably heard phrases like: A boy becomes a man when a man is needed.

And there is a good reason for that. I've come to find that responsibility is essential for self-actualization as well as maturity. There is no success in relationships, in business, or in life without responsibility. By definition if you have no responsibilities, if nobody relies on you, then you don't matter. If you disappeared nothing would change and nobody would notice.

Also responsibility is found to be very psychologically rewarding. This part of the reason why people love having children and doing volunteer work. Being selfless is intrinsically fulfilling.

--

Now I share in the sentiment that there isn't much value in being responsible for stupid crap like paying bills or creating TPS reports. But being able to choose your responsibilities (a noble goal) is not the same as avoiding responsibilities (immature and selfish).
Voxeo’s Tropo API Now Firmly Planted in Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden
And number 2 is invalidated by the fact that the terms allow you to sell your ticket, just not for more than you paid.
> > First, every negative thing you mention there happens all the time, and it's done by straight people in heterosexual marriages. Where's the gay connection?

> There isn't one. You asked what the downside was to deleting legal marriage entirely.

So there's a downside to deleting legal marriage entirely. So there must be some smaller downside to disallowing it partially. Why are you for that downside?
Hulu phones home every time anything happens, so I use the add-on to watch for new activity and send it to Node. The Node server is actually pretty dumb -- it just adds people to a room, and "broadcasts" any JSON it gets.
Most likely, yes. I didn't mean to imply that you needed the skills of a designers; however, we do expect that our engineers will recognize when designs aren't translating particularly well into the finished product (for whatever reason) and be able to work with the design team to fashion alternative approaches.
Can you use NewSoftSerial for Serial Monitor output? The problem was that the Wireless SD shield connects the RN-XV directly into pins 0/1 (hardware serial) so I was unable to use the Serial Monitor.
For his shows, C.K. saw scalping rates as high as 25%, driving up the price of his shows for people who wanted to attend, by those who didn’t.

The only people driving up the price of the shows are people who want to attend. How could it be otherwise? People who don't want to go to the show certainly don't raise prices. If scalpers can profit, it means you aren't charging market price. Policies like the one described in the OP simply shoot the messenger.

If the market price is too high for some fans, have a lottery with an aftermarket. Once they see the market price, low-income lottery winners can decide whether they'd rather attend the show or sell the tickets to pay the rent.

It's not like these issues haven't been studied before. Do a few web searches, or consult an economist. If you don't accept that your naive economic intuition is wrong, you're going to make stupid decisions that often exacerbate the very problems you're trying to solve. (I'm looking at you, Burning Man.)
Difference being though is that you can submit a fix instead of having your report go to a private system in which you can never follow.
I really wish articles from this author would stop getting voted up on HN. Like the HP/WinRT article last week, there might be a valid opinion in here, but the language is so hostile and overtly biased towards Microsoft that it's virtually impossible to read.
It's not limited to + either. Hyphen, equals, dot are also valid at different email providers.
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Wow.

I am always amazed at the creativity displayed by those who so obviously have talent. It makes it all the more impressive given that Microsoft would likely benefit by taking this exact marketing route.

What they're doing right now certainly isn't working...
Deutsche Telekom Partners With Tropo To Expose Developer APIs for Voice and SMS
If you need a QR code to go to a web page, then all the info contained in a QR code is useless. Just show the url and let people scan it or key it in.

If it is an informational site, then wikipedia should develop and encourage the use of a standard wiki url shortener.

If it is a product, companies should also define an easy standard to shorten their products url.
Like Apple, Google is giving away its OS. Instead of profiting using hardware, Google sells ads. So, both Apple and Google are giving away Microsoft's core product and profiting tangentially in other ways.
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A 35mm handgun would be hilarious:)
It might well have obviously been a file sharing service, but by your metaphor, every hi-fi featuring tape to tape recording was at the very least a Browning Automatic Rifle.

[edit] Also, in a hell of a lot of cultures around the world possession of a handgun is not considered defensive, but lets ignore that point as it would break your metaphor, and not only did you politely ask me not to, but you also probably have a handgun. < whistles innocently while slowly sidling out of range >
Quite right; just saying that the type of "gamer-kid" who runs Linux is very likely the right mix of arrogant and clever to think (s)he can outsmart the Blizzard guys.
Thanks, already fixed. Chacha got it wrong and confused me until I found more authoritative sources.
Did it actually say you can get a refund at any time? The only place the word "refund" appears is here:

> ...we have the right to cancel your ticket (and refund your money).

So based on the article, we don't know if you can get a refund on-demand. All we know is that if he (his people) decide to cancel your ticket, you get a refund.
Not to get too pedantic, but you might want to amend that to "9mm handgun" or something similar. Apache helicopter gunships shoot 30mm projectiles!

But to address your argument - a large portion of the gun lobby and gun enthusiasts aren't necessarily uncomfortable with just a handgun for defense, but they are uncomfortable with a technically ignorant government deciding what is sufficient and allowable for that purpose. Similarly, what's to say a precedent established with Megaupload cannot be used to hamstring or shut down Dropbox or similar services? Though you can understand and make the distinction between the intents of the two services, can you trust a judge to properly frame why Megaupload is bad and Dropbox is good? Or for prosecutors, lawyers, and the assembled IP industry to not leverage any legal precedent to shut down what they feel like?
I am not sure you understand the argument.

#1 is like saying virus makers don't write virii for the operating system I wrote for myself...it just means I have an obscure operating system not necessarily a virus proof operating system.

If everyone starts going this independent route, you can bet that scalpers will shift their methods over to these new ticket purchasing systems.
Huh? Many sporting event tickets have the same terms (tickets cannot be sold for more than face value), but that doesn't stop scalping.
The thing is that his shows sold traditionally are sold exactly the same was as plenty of other tickets, through some big site. So, as a scalper, you just trawl through Ticketmaster (or whatever site in question) and buy tickets that look promising. You have your existing process and it works on tickets for anything sold through the site.

When an individual performer stops using the site, the only scalpers are going to be the ones familiar with the performer. That is, the sort of scalper that just goes through all the shows on Ticketmaster won't even realize that these tickets are an option--only somebody following Louis CK would.

Even if some scalper does realize, a relatively small show (I don't actually know the size of Louis CK's shows, so I'm just assuming they're not too big) will not be worth changing your process for. You would have to spend a significant amount of time figuring out the restrictions of the custom site he is using and how to best profit off them--there is no guarantee that this time would be worth investing.

This is basically like a small site using a custom CAPTCHA as compared to using a very common one. Spammers aren't going to bother with your site in particular, but if you use a common CAPTCHA they know how to deal with, they will spam even tiny sites.
The only thing I liked over the current ones was the palette in the first WP screenshot.

Left top one on http://www.minimallyminimal.com/storage/post-images/microsof...
IMHO, you missed by a bit; MS got lucky with MS-DOS.
This one's great as well for understanding RegEx FSM's: http://rise4fun.com/rex
Yes, this I agree with. And I think this makes the argument in your top-level comment (that he's too small fry to worry about a different ordering system) much more convincing.
The problem with most government budgets is that most of the problems are the pocket change. All the little things need to be cleaned up to get at the bigger issues.
Hey, I'm with Approve.io and yes unfortunately our site is a little bare at the moment. We have a full site which we will be releasing shortly. We're funded and past the MVP stage and will be launching August.
There's a discovery problem here.

An article on TechCrunch is more likely to earn your company reputation among your peers (other companies and investors) than do anything for your user experience. And the best start-ups are 100% focused on the user experience, not on their "inter-corporate reputation".

TechCrunch needs to actively search for these start-ups in their earlier stages in order to cover them. The best early-stage start-ups won't go to TechCrunch until they've already gotten big.
They are useful as a quick way to get to a web page on a device, if there's no short URL.

I don't use marketing QR codes, but I have used them for technical material.
#leaveyourlegacy
I don't call 2 years between IE5 and IE6, then 5 years between IE6 and IE7 and then 3 years between IE7 and IE8 a "better user experience".

Tell me again how tightly coupling the apps made things better?
(...from 6 years ago.)
I love that he's shaking things up. However, he needs to find a better partner to work with on the technology side of things. I tried to purchase tickets for one of the shows listed as available, and it then told me it was actually sold out. Another show let me get further, but then told me my session had already expired (less than 1 min later). Finally, I was able to select ticket options and no 2 adjacent seats were available. It was a lot of effort to discover what they could have told me on the show listing page, and I don't want to spend all the time it would take to check all the other shows.
I used a Visor in college for three years and I use an iPhone every day. I disagree. The UX difference is huge. The iPhone was a leap forward in UX when it came out. Sure, other people had capacitive touch screen at the times, but they also had their "UX head" up in the sand.

Comparatively, Microsoft's PocketPC PDAs of the time took many steps backwards from the Visor in the quality of the user experience. That's despite a multiple-times CPU power and RAM advantage over the Visor. I remember being dumbfounded at that. Putting out PocketPC OS that is less enjoyable to use than a Handspring Visor--that's not innovation.

Sure, Microsoft broke some new ground with .NET and CLR and C#. Sure, their Visual Studio toolchain got way better--after the competition from Eclipse and IntelliJ. Sure, their C++ compiler standards support got better--after GCC began lighting a fire up underneath MSVC (you could do just enough with GCC and mingw to displace MSVC in plenty of situations).

You can clearly see the "Windows must be everywhere" idea stunting Microsoft's growth. The problem is that the PARC UI sucks. Windows sucks. Mac OS X sucks. It sucks for the uninitiated computer user, who can't imagine what the hell "windows" are on the screen. Why are there thin bands of things that must be clicked on and some path followed (menus). Why did suddenly clicking in one place made the web page disappear (accidental click on a background app brings it forward). The modern operating systems are STILL a fucking minefield, waiting for you, dumb computer illiterate user, to make that unlucky key press or a click that loses hours of your work.

Microsoft has (or at least had) no intention of recognizing that and addressing it. Microsoft, having penetrated almost the entire tech industry and all the personal tech markets that were willing to put up with Windows, rested on its laurels. Microsoft's improvements were all narrow-sighted and thus only capable of giving up small gains in the market. That's not innovation, that's incrementalism.

This is why Apple's iPad is whipping the llama's ass. It's the uncomputer computer. There's no windows. There's no chrome or close buttons or colored bubbles. There's just the one thing you're working with on the screen. People have been waiting for this shit since the first time they had to swap floppies between drives A: and B:.

It's amazing to me that enough other companies haven't figured this out yet. Apple is eating the competition because the competition has their heads up their ass. The competition needs to step away from geekdom and design something fresh. We will have a true Apple competitor (don't know how soon--I say 4 years), and when that competitor comes, it will be blindingly obvious why nobody can compete today. It's the TRUST in a quality, unpunishing TOTAL user experience. It's fucking everything. It's the A to the Z. TRUST in that exploring won't rake you over the coals, but will be rewarding. TRUST builds the kind of loyalty that gets the people to stay and pay premium.
You can do the same thing with any compiled language, but I suppose that's a feature of Go since it's a compiled language.
The idea is to create specific psychological effects.

Suppose that of the three attributes motivation, initiative, and talent two of them are very much within the control of the employee and the other less so.

The goal of the incentive is to make the employee want to maximize all three rather than doing other things (such as wasting time, etc.).

Imagine the slow, cynical organizations that give everyone a 5% bonus year in and year out no matter what. Just show up, put in your 9 to 5, and collect your bonus.

Bonus/incentive programs are intended to create more of a dynamic. Yes it's more stressful but the idea is that it's worth it.
I'm quite sure that this developer knows the difference. :)

Still, this does smell like it's a "feature", where the event is thrown away in an effort to prevent accidental touches or such. I imagine the bug is being ignored because of the difficulty of fixing it without removing the feature in question.

Alas, I suspect that Apple's secrecy harms their process as well as ours: they probably live in such a bubble that they don't see these bugs as being problems. And I really wish Android was a better HTML5 alternative, but it's been problematic as well, as evidenced by Sencha's HTML5 Scorecards (we'll see with Chrome on Jelly Bean).
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The idea is to inspire people by showing how you can gain skills informally. Individuals featured on the front were either college dropouts and/or achieved their goals via informal education.

We will be adding quotes from them, videos with them and also will be highlighting others in the industry that have achieved their dreams by constantly learning.

Its not an ad play, but instead a way to just inspire. After all, we all seek mentors and get inspired by great stories.
I much prefer "responsive" Web pages to "mobile" sites. Many "mobile" sites cram way too many flashy graphics and bloated scripts into the client; compound that with features that disable zooming, and you have a UI disaster. Finally, don't forget URL fragmentation because of the "m.inane.com" nomenclature. "mobile" users then link "desktop" users to the "mobile" site, which is unnecessary.

Nonetheless, we're probably both guilty of selection bias.
Why do uninformed rants from SemiAccurate keep getting posted here? Come on Hacker News, you can do better.
You mean like the Pittsburgh startup ShowClix?

http://www.showclix.com/
Great work, although looking at them all together like that, Microsoft's 1985 logo appears to be the best of the bunch. I suppose design is cyclical.

I really like the "slate" concept, I'm just not sure it works as a button. Buttons should have roughly equal height and width. The slate looks very out of place on the physical devices themselves. Otherwise, it's great.
Chrome itself is fine. There just isn't a UI item to add it back.
Can you elaborate on this?

I'm not sure why it would make much of a difference whether someone excels at chess or poker.
It's a criminal case actually; commercial copyright infringement is criminal in the US (non-commercial is civil).
The criteria the NEA uses for funding work is unusually absent from this discussion.

And the comparative question, are differences in the results between kickstarter and the NEA significant? If so, are the NEA's results valuable?
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> A reasonable person knows an assault rifle is not for protection

Makes for pretty fun sport shooting, though.
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Cool - sent you an email. Would be great to collaborate / exchange ideas.
A ship that flips 90 degrees vs a multibillion dollar atom smasher.

I don't think we have lost that ambition.
Dropbox and Box are file syncing/backup services, and MegaUpload is a filesharing service. Both types have different legitimate use-cases. Youtube is also very much about sharing movies and music, but since youtube videos are publicly viewable, it's easier to monitor and take down. How is MegaUpload supposed to monitor a bunch of passworded "VacationPhotos.rar" files? Just because it might be a Hollywood movie doesn't mean they can take it down on suspicion.

There are music artists that have put their own albums on MegaUpload as a central place where anyone can come download. There are people like myself who put a collection of high res photos in an archive and hosted it on MegaUpload for any of my family or friends to download. Analogizing MegaUpload to an assault rifle is saying that there's no reason for civilians to have access to it, where there are actually many legitimate use cases for using a filesharing service for mass distribution.
I've set a Nexus, SGS3, iPhone4S and iPad3 all next to each other. Unless your eyes are truly fantastic or you're viewing an image designed to show off one or the other's exact display, you'll not notice the difference. At 300+ ppi (on all those displays) you're probably never going to notice a difference. Color quality, saturation, viewing angle? Those all matter far more than the sub-pixel arrangement. Just go look at an S3 or Nexus in the store and see if you like it.

Bona fides: I own an S1, S3, iPodTouch(2G), iPad3, GalaxyTab10.1 and Galaxy7. I work for a company that develops mobile apps and it's my job to know about these devices.
Microsoft's downfall? Downfall?

They initially missed the "Internet" and watched Netscape become huge and threatening. They initially missed gaming. Enter Xbox (which now actually also seems like the best VendorTV offering on the market vs lightweight and talk by the other guys)

They initially missed mobile and tablets. Hmmmmm. Now Windows 8 is right around the corner and CIO's are going to be enticed to have support just one OS across all devices.

The Miami Heat were down a couple of games in each series during the playoffs and had their end predicted more than once. I guess if you reject the premise what do you do with the details of the article?
He's just trolling. Assuming his film doesn't make $100M at the box office or win a bunch of awards he knows there's no chance in hell Apple is going to promote it for him.
Isn't a ban on scalping a violation of the First Sale Doctrine?
I'd guess it happens by the concurrence of a lep second and a leap second implementation bug. The bug without leap seconds would also not lead to problems.
For the average user, an included, well-integrated browser makes surfing the web easier.

Even if it's a PITA for web developers like me that they are using an outdated browser.
Ticketing has long been ripe for re-invention. The big problem is that TicketMaster has anti-competitive contracts with most popular venues.

Louis CK, in trying to do his own thing, is facing largely the same troubles Pearl Jam did in their own effort to end-run Ticketmaster: they're forced to play, in many cases, massively smaller venues. And that winds up excluding more fans than TicketMasters' fees and scalper's artificial price-hikes ever excluded.

As for scalping itself, it can't be "solved". Any feasible system needs to allow tickets to be transferred or gifted in some manner. [1]

And as soon as you do that you've provided the mechanism whereby a secondary sales channel can allow party A to sell party B a promise to transfer the ticket for above-face-value.

[1] To cover people buying X tickets for a giveaway, or one person buying tickets for a group, or people giving tickets as gifts, or people giving tickets away to a show they can no longer attend, etc.
The problem is that it's an unknown couple of months waiting for a device who's software we already know.

You can always "wait and see" on devices and you'll perpetually be waiting. Since the question was asked of someone who's on a 3GS and they want a new phone, "Wait 5 more months" isn't really a satisfying answer, in most cases.