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What I've heard is that under (relatively new) ownership - meaning Comcast/NBC, there is a new push to expand revenue, and since weather.com already 'owns' the mass market, the only way to do that is to acquire, and will be to acquire more, revenue generating properties.
I used Clojure and now I'm using a little bit of Java (and reading Effective Java) and I'm pretty glad I'm doing so: interfaces, generics, concurrency, data structures, mutable vs immutable objects, etc etc: most I just ignored when programming Clojure... and they are interesting to know IMO.

(I intend to return to Clojure/Python on the next project because Java really makes CRUD style web programming a PITA).
Richmond VA guy here, thanks for the site!
I do consulting for small businesses around where I live (Mexico). And since like 3 months ago I switched to clojure and I couldn't be happier. I used ruby then python before. Now there is one minisupermarket doing billing and inventories and backups and charging customers with clojure in Mexico and that number is looking to grow!
It is exactly this problem that I hope to address with this blog post, trying to induce more to cross the bridge between CS and OR. The point is that the OR sphere is really not that hard to understand (although ORites have done a pretty good job making it seem so).

OR as a field has always had the problem of ambiguity and definition. Some call it Management Science, some call it Industrial Engineering. But whatever it entails, it has always suffered from visibility, especially in the hacker sphere, since it's not consumer related.

I don't think it is impossible to educate/increase awareness of OR in the market. Surely, the market is still behind as it is currently being educated on the value of simple analytics and data science, but eventually, I think the opportunity looms large for OR. It just has that irrefutable added value. But again, we need hackers to truly bring forth that value.
Surely what his wife is saying could be classed as defamatory as well? Stupid move on her part, I hope she goes down as well and taints the case even further.
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Good company, or good cult of personality.
Indeed -- those unblinded by hatred of sexual morality, successful sexual development, and normative familial relationships will see the issue as unambiguous.

I find your attempts to illegitimately marginalize an opposing argument with such an elegant and sophisticated rebuttal as "knock this shit off" both amusing and demonstrative.
I'm sorry but you're moving the goal posts here.

>Friend isn't a permanent status, it's the people you hang out with and see on a regular basis.

In my post where I say "maybe once or twice a year" I am saying precisely that I do NOT see them on a regular basis.

It is not that I don't understand what you're saying, it is that you're not saying what you mean correctly.
Daniel,

You are actually spot on with a lot of problems we are encountering (and solving!) right now. we hope apps & push notifications will help spread the idea.

the auction deal is interesting too... but we hate the Groupon model. maybe giving the local businesses more control is a step in the right direction?
OpenX Enterprise is definitely being pushed hard. They also continue to work on OpenX Market, their exchange.

OpenX is not good, but yeah a good number of people are using them.
but have you seen the current landing page of http://cheapdrinks.com? we can't compete!
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While we're suggesting games, Go could be interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
we're right there with you. the browser "optimized" site we have right now is 180 degrees from what we want to be.

look for native apps w/ actual functionality soon!
Nothing I suppose. I don't think that html vs json was what MVC's[1] creators had in mind for it, but if the json is rendered in such a way that it has links pointing back to the controller, it is a view.

[1] Although were talking about Model 2 here, so thats irrelevant. Come to think of it, this whole discussion is pointless: we're arguing about whether views in a Model 2 architecture are proper MVC views...
> Somebody said once the ultimate app would help people get laid.

I've first heard that from an old jwz rant.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
The tabbed interface feels like tabs for the sake of tabs.

I want the cheapest way to get a bunch of folks drunk, with a couple of options.

"Cheap" liquor sorting doesn't seem great... I get 50ml vials at the top because they're cheap. Sure, I could filter by size, but what if I'm stocking up?

If you sorted by ABV / dollars, with an option to filter by Liquor, Beer, Wine Cooler, and Wine, you would not need any separate tabs and can add an additional two categories.

If you're married to the tabs, just put all the extra crufty UI on a separate tab labeled "hipsters".
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There just haven't been many notable Windows Phones lately. The most notable one to have come out recently is the Nokia Lumia 900. Meanwhile, Android has the HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Nexus, pretty much any Samsung phone really, and Apple is, well, Apple. The OS might be great, but the devices are forgettable.
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Also, if you're interested in "Hollywood accounting", I suggest checking out the book The Hollywood Economist[0]

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send us an email at hello@thecityswig.com! we always love to hear from yall.

the problem with virginia is the ABC regulations. we are looking to expand outside of the state soon - maybe DC, charleston SC?

Native apps with location-aware deals are on the way (we hope to even collect data on what you like to drink via webcams mounted directly in your fridge or facial recognition at bars themselves. are we kidding?!?!)
From the dev team here: all the establishments have a back-end editing page that they can access after we verify that they are the owners of that establishment. They can then update their establishment's specials. Some bars have jumped on this opportunity for free promotion, but we would love to see wider adoption! Until then, many of our grocery prices and unclaimed bars must be updated manually. Luckily, prices are usually changed on a regular schedule. Liquor prices in VA are publicly available, so that is easy.
My bet is that someone's bonus is tied to licenses sold rather than sales revenue.
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I've been working on this one for a while. Did a design myself, then shot it over to 99designs for improvement, then iterated again on the best version to get where we are now.

Feedback, suggestions for improvement are very welcome :)
And unlike the vast majority of company executives, this guy actually had comedic chops. Excellent dead-pan and timing.
How about you provide a way to generate an additional URL which would be associated with your own anonymous account rather than with an individual game? When this other URL is opened in a different browser (perhaps on a different device) you could associate that new session to the same anonymous account.

This way, if I know I'm about to terminate my browser session, or if I just want to move to a different device, I could do so without making an account.

The only problem is how to present this in the interface without confusing users and generating unnecessary clutter. I would probably put it near account creation options as an alternative.
Being in the US long-term is a good idea for a potential shot at Defense Department contracts.
Perhaps so. The point here is that there is a tie-in between wanting cheap drinks and being part of a crowd. The bigger the crowd, the more bargaining power you have. Also it helps folks get out and meet each other. So instead of just beer, they're guaranteed to go to a place that has a lot of activity.

Lots of ways to do this, I think.

Thinking some more about traction, I would try playing the social angle if at all possible. And I don't mean Facebook, I mean the idea that college kids want to be part of a group full of other college kids. They're very social. If you had some way of telling who was going where (or who was already drinking where) you could ping people who've used the system in the past with current opportunities. Stuff like "Hey, it's $2 beer night at Joe's and 42 people are there right now. Interested?"

Like everything else in the startup universe, this is going to be a process of hypothesis and experimentation. I've personally found that getting people to toss out ideas that sound cool is very easy -- and useless. It's really a matter of having the market validate ideas, not HNers. Here's hoping you don't have to iterate a large number of times.
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I was one of the first college kids outside harvard to get my eyes on facebook almost 8 years ago. This reminds me a lot of that.

When FB first came about everyone was chasing girls using AIM. People started posting links to their FB page on their AIM profile and all of the sudden we had a new way to chase girls.

The other college ingredient besides chasing girls, is going to drink.

A tool to sort by price/specials, plus the college level distribution of it, is spot on. I'd keep going with this idea.
I didn't mean you get your clients to try things without telling them. I meant get them into pilot programs to find more incremental places to acquire new customers.

In regards to creative, Avenue A | Razorfish was a combination of two distinct skillsets. Avenue A handled media buying which in most cases is more important to the success of a campaign than the creative and the Razorfish part was the "creative" side of the agency that worked on all of the campaign assets, etc. Both sides worked together to ensure that the creative was right for the audience (media).
god, we already know enough about hipsters living in Richmond.

in all seriousness, thanks for the input! we will be the first to admit that what you see now is not what we want the final product to be.

alcohol/$ is generally what we sort by. not sure how you are seeing the 50 mL airplane bottles, I'm not getting any when I play with the sort options. what were you looking at specifically?
There's a fix in the article.
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I passed on investing in this one. Possibly because I am stupid. Congrats Danny & co!
Greatest feature of wunder is access to local station streams like this

http://weather.barryt.org/wdl/index.html
http://weather.barryt.org/

Just some guy that loves weather.
My view is that the ad server business itself isnt a great business. The strategic value in Google buying Doubleclick was the market share of publishers firmly locked into Doubleclick as a platform, with all their ads flowing through that platform, and the corresponding opportunity to lock all of that inventory into a big ad exchange.

The strategic value of market share is huge when establishing an exchange. Exchanges are the purest network effects businesses that exist.

I agree that DFP and DFA aren't well loved by anyone. Im not even sure if the folks at Doubleclick love the product. But switching ad servers is as difficult for a publisher as changing keyboard layouts would be for you and me. Your whole process, and training of all your ad ops people just gets locked into the system you're using. This lock in is probably what makes it so hard to improve the product. But this lock in is what made Doubleclick so valuable to Google.

Google isn't the only smart operator in this space. Brian O'Kelley at AppNexus simply out hustled all of them to build an platform as important as Google's by linking all the exchanges together. Funny since he was of course CTO at Right Media.

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I'm not trying to do anything of the sort, so stop it. Your position is reprehensible enough without you trying to pull a stunt like that.

You have repeatedly asserted that multiple referenda shows your position is supported by the majority of Americans. All I'm doing is equating your assertion with that of the you from 150 years ago - the "social conservative" who doesn't believe a slave should have the same rights as a white man.

We'll say nothing about the fact that the trend of public opinion seems to be inexorably towards more tolerance and less bigotry, as that would just make your reliance on popular opinion even more farcical.
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In this case global support means the multi-national mobile telecoms of industrialized nations. In other words, all the mobile providers scared of a world where Apple, Google, and Microsoft call the shots and squeeze the profit margins that used to be protected by government bandwidth licensing.

On the other hand, I have a hard time comprehending how a platform like Mozilla that's slow enough on desktops can make headway in the mobile space. Clearly WebKit is ahead of the game and is open source as well. I'm reluctantly using Mozilla on the desktop.

HTML5 technology is the future of browsing for sure but lets not turn it into the Java of mobile technology. Native apps have a proper place just by virtue of the performance gains. Putting everything on HTML5 is not only expensive in terms of bandwidth but also processing power, therefore a battery drain. The bandwidth and more importantly the battery are the Achilles heel of mobile.

Also, where does this leave developing countries that are far behind and mainly surviving on WAP phones?

I just find the framing of this press release as nothing but unwarranted hyperbole that is more an corporate alliance where your enemy's enemy is your friend.
Relevant passage:

But with a groupware product, nobody would ever work on it unless they were getting paid to, because it's just fundamentally not interesting to individuals.

So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

That got me a look like I had just sprouted a third head, but bear with me, because I think that it's not only crude but insightful. "How will this software get my users laid" should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).

"Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up.
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But wasn't having you guys around at MSFT been a conflict of interest? Would have muddied the waters with other agencies, even if there was a Chinese wall between Razorfish and AdCenter.
It's probably that Java heavily utilizes the multi-thread support and the kernel bug is showing up as a Java bug. It just means Java really exercises the system's concurrent support.
How are you guys obtaining the data for the specials and alcohol costs?
not sure about the cookie issue. we'll look in to it. if you figure anything out feel free to drop us a line at hello@thecityswig.com

thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!
This seems fine to me. It's a public tweet so the government could have easily captured a copy initially. Asking Twitter to produce the message with a court order seems better than the government having their own database of public tweets.

I see a few other problems.

The first is wasting so much money on prosecuting someone who was walking on the street instead of sidewalk. Yes, they blocked the Brooklyn Bridge. But there is the Manhattan Bridge, Queensboro Bridge, Midtown Tunnel, and many other alternate routes from Manhattan to Long Island. The net impact was probably nothing. The sidewalk on the Brooklyn Bridge is woefully inadequate for everything anyway so I don't really blame them for using the road. Better to block cars that can divert at 60mph than bikes that have to divert at 3mph :)

The second issue I see is with the prosecution proving that a chain of custody was maintained for the messages that Twitter produced. If any Twitter employee has write access to the data store, the messages and timestamps could easily have been altered. How can the prosecution prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that this did not happen?

Finally, how can one prove a tweet conveyed actual intent rather than mere interest? I often tweet about things like, "I should go get 5000 of my closest friends to block the Brooklyn Bridge." If I did that on the day of the protest, that would look bad for me. But I might have been posturing rather than organizing, which is my right to do without interference from the government.

Anyway, this is all a huge waste. It seems like New York City is being pressured to keep working on this bullshit case when they should have just cleared the bridge, issued fines, and moved on. Or maybe, you know, provide adequate pedestrian capacity so people can peaceably assemble without having to block traffic!

(Incidentally, the exact lane that the protesters blocked is closed every night for construction...)
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We have a back-end where bars are able to claim (and verify) that they own/manage/work at the establishment. then they can update their own prices. we are working with grocery and convenience stores to get a spreadsheet of prices that we can parse.

frankly, I never thought bars would keep their third-party profile pages updated, but we've been pleasantly shocked that they do!
As crappy as this is - it seems to be legal and logical. You don't get to claim privacy on something you're broadcasting to the world, and neither does the company, considering they asked LoC to permanently archive a chunk.
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For our household, the great selection and prime-available free shipping will keep the majority of purchases with Amazon.

The Irvine, Texas distribution center means that our deliveries are mostly two days from the sale.
cheers! drop us a line at hello@thecityswig.com if you've got any suggestions for us and maybe we'll run in to you in the fan doing some... "market research"
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I don't understand the ruling. Sure, my tweet is public, but why does that mean that the government can demand my email address and other identifying user information?

I'm also confused as to what's even being demanded. If the tweets are public, doesn't the Manhattan DA already have them? And if they know who this person is (since they said his name, Malcom Harris), what identifying user information do they actually need?
PCs last longer these days, are no longer subject to significant performance improvements every couple of years, aren't frequently lost or dropped/broken/stolen, and don't come on plans with carriers that have you in a constant upgrade cycle.
I wonder how much of this popularity is attributable to the success of Minecraft/Notch.
Ah I understand. Yes polymorphism in this case would hide the details, and the implementation for turning the car belongs inside of that object.
> But perhaps the original Mayflower and other migrations, and even the constitution, are not very different from other cultures also.

To argue that, you'd really have to ignore thousands of documents written by the Founding Fathers as well as the Declaration, the Constitution, and the very actions the Founding Fathers. They could have granted themselves and their families royalty status. George Washington literally turned down the offer to be King of the new nation as well as the chance to reign as a perpetual President.

We have their words to read and their historical deeds to examine to show that they were nothing like the Greek Diaspora who folded themselves into the cultures they moved to. They were nothing like the Chinese Diaspora who had no culture, history, or even writings that I could Google that expressed even the remotest philosophy of Democracy or Individual Sovereignty.

> for the same reason humans didn't become dominant anywhere until they discovered agriculture.

But agriculture is just an idea. The main thesis of the article is that resources made America important. That's not true. The resources were here before the Euro-American settlers were. It was the ideas and the culture to use them that made the resources anything more than "worthless" empty fields.
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I agree with you overall but the sad state of Scala's build tools make it still "up-and-coming" in my eyes.
Changing from an automatic car to a manual may save some money when you buy your next car - if you want to learn manual.

For many people, changing OS is probably similar to learning manual when they're happy driving automatic.
If you post on social networks or micro blogs your posting information into the public domain. You are therefore responsible for what you say and this can be used for/against you. I see no difference between a twitter, a spoken recording or a written statement.

Either way it is nice to see twitter did fight this to some extent
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PC market as viewed separate from tablet market is not experience much growth but when combined, they are growing. Don't forget that Microsoft is targeting the tablet market with this release as well.
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As a fresh transplant to Northern Virginia, this is pretty rad. Looking forward to this working in Fairfax county =)
I see now. Sorting by "Cheap" gives me airplane bottles.

Additionally, the subtle difference between "Cheap" and "Best Value" doesn't quite justify making a new sort option -- to me, they're essentially the same, since whoever can afford a $1 shot can also probably afford a $2 fatty mug.
>Sure, this position can exist. It simply doesn't reflect the status quo or have much to do with whether the state should expand marital privileges to cover homosexuals. This is basically an entirely different and opposite campaign: "Stop encouraging permanent coupling all together" instead of "please give more people special encouragement to couple permanently". Also, this argument is what is sometimes meant by "gay marriage will destroy marriage" -- you're extrapolating that based on the contentious attitudes around the gay marriage debate, marriage should stop being a legal thing. This is pretty much as close as you can get to "destroying marriage" in an objective or technical sense.

You know what, I'm not sure I see the downside there? The concept that certain people should get special privileges from the government is a concept that should be destroyed, IMO.

> wut. If religions only qualified as religious institutions if they accepted everything the government said, the only religion that would exist would be "nationalism".

You've got it backwards. Marriage started out as a religious thing, dating back thousands of years. Only recently has the government stepped in and had anything to do with it. So if the government wants to be involved in the religious matter of marriage, they need to be more accepting of other religions that may define marriage differently.
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