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As a current customer of Recurly, I am very dissapointed in the way they communicate. I know it's all hands on deck now to fix this problem, but putting communication aside is not the way to go.

For us this is also a very stressful situation, because if the worst case scenario becomes a reality...

"Some customers will be required to reach out to (some or all) of their customers to have them re-enter billing information."

... we can spend days contacting clients to get the payment credit card (which in some cases they should go to their boss for), and go through the billing process again, only to hope to get the list as near to a 100% recovered as possible.

Time for Billing Provider Redundancy?
Are we going to get to a JSON as the media-type of choice - my big concern is that compared to XML, JSON does not support namespaces (hard to define your own media type (and let others parse it)) and gets really messy around the third level of indentation.

Don;t get me wrong, I prefer using it, but XML is better for those all important "here is my new type of doc"
Nope - it's fine.

Google and commercial news is fine - advertising is a big chunk but Google have other products and commercial news still sells paper and has television slots. Legislation will not kill them.

Neither Facebook or Twitter have a sustainable model and will fall in time. They don't actually do much of value really apart from enslave people into walled gardens full of noise and bombard them with advertising.

If you put all your eggs in the advertising basket, get pumped on VC cash and act like a dick, yes you will lose billions.

I quote: You have no right to make money shoveling magic unicorn shit.

Those of us who have a real product and earn from that, it's not a problem. We'll be here in 10 years. We were 10 years ago (in fact we started in '92). Empires have risen and fallen in our time. We have never advertised at all.
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A catastrophe like this could destroy a company. With all the cloud providers etc there is no excuse for losing a customers data.
Don't really mind these sort of comments to be honest but thanks very for the well meant concern :)

Crags comment is perfectly valid, NetBeans support has been missing for a while now. I'm looking into it now however.
I don't know the exact law, but the law might not refer to cookies explicitly, but instead refer to tracking users. Switching from one tracking type to another will not avoid the law then.
Apple's devices are based on Mach which has a different kernel than BSD. Though it does use some BSD code it's not accurate to call it *BSD.
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The key that is being pressed should be shown on the page somewhere - though it would make it look uglier. But for a utility like this, probably won't matter all that much.
That's not what I mean. They could release a new integrated service, do something with the sound, make the thing out of some new material.

They almost certainly have something their sleeve to hype that they can claim competitors don't have. If they just make the screen bigger and some minor changes to the case, they will just be seen as playing catch up.
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The problem is that demand is not as simple as "agents will buy goods below their reserve price." Real world experience shows us that there exist luxury and inferior goods.

We can quite simply see that there are (many) agents who could buy any number of walmart jeans, but would never set foot in the store. Another chunk of agents currently buy, say, Levi jeans, but likely wouldn't buy those either, if those exact jeans were a third the price and sold in a discount store.

Similarly there are agents who don't give Levi a second thought, but will line up for jeans of similarly quality, trivially variable style and 10x the price.

The real world demand curves for blue jeans don't look like the simple axiom suggests.
I'm not sure this is correct. I remember in one episode of Mixergy, Andrew Warner said something to the effect of "X was the most expensive, so I bought it thinking they'd be the best and they sucked! Don't buy x."

Had X been cheaper, he wouldn't have bought it.

What am I missing?
"Poker also has a big potential downside, which is obsession, outright misery and despair which can slowly creep into your life. Distinguishing between addiction and a pursuit you are thoroughly interested in and enjoy is often difficult to pinpoint."

Yeah, a long list of things you can do on the internet has these same potential downsides.

"Math in poker is a little overrated."

I think it's one of the most important parts of the game. Poker is like a market and in each street you are basically looking for arbitrage opportunities. The players set the odds for you, some are long term winners, others are long term losers.

"To get there though will take most people a lot of time, probably time better spent elsewhere."

I agree with this, however, for me poker is a social activity. And that's worth it.
Posting a link to every project you have worked on in a HN post is not really marketing.
Wow that is not good. Keeping your screenshot for future reference. Thanks!
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I don't like how the new iPhone looks. It's just slightly taller, which is not really "bigger" as in "I want a large screen iPhone like those Android phones", and it offers no advantage to those who were writing Ph.D thesis after Ph.D thesis on how 3.5" is the "perfect size" for a touchscreen phone, especially if you want to reach it with your thumb.

Of course that's complete nonsense, as even 4" is quite tiny for a touchscreen, but hey that's what they said! And that's what they thought.
the idea that it's a skype replacement while simultaneously warning the reader about avoiding NAT is funny, 50% of the skype secret sauce is the NAT traversal.
> The question is just when we officially start treating iOS as the minority OS, the one we develop for last.

At least for me(as an indie dev), probably never. Developing for the Android is not enjoyable at all.
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People should be scared. There are companies that know nearly every website they visit, how often, and how they get there. People don't expect this to be the case, but it is.

You complain about bad UX but the solution is obvious: don't use the tracking services and you won't have bad UX.
Totally agree. But unlike traditional media, on the Web you can be a broadcaster too without any permission.
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Yep, exercise is a key factor.

In the context of this article, by 'serious' insomnia, I meant cases that are not just psychological (eg stress).

I didn't mean to downplay significant sleep troubles due to stress alone. Even in those cases, non-psychological factors should be considered.
I'm sure those sales numbers will plummet once Apple pays off some other judge to block the S III from being sold in the US.
I recently bought an S III and gave it back.

At least on my device, the back cover felt cheap and flimsy.

But more importantly, that PenTile screen just looked terrible to me. I constantly noticed a faint checkerboard pattern in bright surfaces. None of my friends see it, but it drove me insane. Am I the only one to notice that?

Apart from that, not a bad device, though.
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It's neither better nor worse.
Emotional control was the biggest skill I learnt from playing Poker.
It's a game where short term winning and losing are unimportant. I learnt to have confidence in my own game, and know that I would (probably) be rewarded (eventually).
Knowing that there are factors out of your control (i.e. luck) and becoming comfortable with that, and even getting to a point where you can embrace that (after all, without luck Poker would be no fun).
I feel I have taken this skill and adapted it to many other aspects of my life.
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Your judgement seems a bit hasty. Comparing sales of a flagship phone on launch week to sales of a one year old phone (that is a spruced up 2.5 year old phone) one week before a replacement is due seems a bit... Ridiculous?

Why dont we compare all of Android sales for the last half of September and see how they look against the new iPhone.
I have a Skype-in regular phone number. I did not see how to set that up and without some sort of local number availability, for me at least, this is no "Skype Replacement"
I'm glad. When it comes to problems with Credit Card storage, it's much more secure to lose the data than to have backups lying about the place.
The post warns about NAT on the server-side (like Amazon EC2 does). Client-side NAT works just fine.
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What would you want it do for Ctrl+Alt+S? When you press one, it does exactly what it should – displays the keycode for the key.

Key combos like you describe would be handled by the shiftKey/metaKey/etc attributes of the event object provided to the event handler.
Unlike 3D, 4K TV is one gimmick you'll actually care about
Having spent a good chunk of time implementing cookie permission popups across our sites, Google Analytics showed a drop down to 10% of the normal traffic. (The traffic is a bit higher according to the logs, but not normal. Also as someone else pointed out the funnelling and reporting is harder to decipher)

Putting in an implied statement and removing the pop-up and we're back to the regular levels.

Sorry but this law is flawed and I'm glad its getting a bit of airing again. Come on ICO and the EU peeps who created this directive please rethink this with some expert advice.
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Has this ever happened in previous years (before new iPhone releases)?
Better than...? I don't like it.
There is a "next steps" section at the bottom of the post pointing this out. You can check the handbook at http://www.sipwise.com/doc/2.6/spce/ar01s04.html#_creating_p... to learn how to do it.
People are all pointing to the fact that the new iPhone is coming out, and for obvious reasons, the iPhone4s will not sell as well.

That said, people are forgetting that this is basically the FIRST TIME that any smartphone has sold more than the iPhone in the US. It's not as big news as it could be, but its definitely big news, and could be indicative of a trend in the US, namely, not just cheap/mid-range Androids are being sold, but a lot of high-end Androids, that cost as much as iPhones are being sold. This is a very interesting and important distinction.
I think the ICO has acknowledged the issues with the law and as a result is taking a gentle approach to enforcing the law (which the OP's crusade seems at odds with...).

I think it's a good idea to attempt to increase user awareness of how information about a person's visit to a site will be used. As the guidance acknowledges, the type of most interest are third party advertising cookies and if the law helps to increase awareness of such usage, then it will have succeeded.

In terms of geographical location, my understanding is that the location of the provider is irrelevant as if they are providing a service in the EU, they should be complying with the law.
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PenTile is a complete joke, Boggles the mind how anyone can ship that on a premium device.
I believe what they're saying to the ICO is that either the law should be enforced on them and their competitors equally; or it should be discarded.
I feel that talk made an impression on many people. I think that talk made live editing "mainstream" and Bret "stole" the concept by doing a good show just like Apple does. It's been done for years but no one "bothered" making a good show/product that wowed people.

From the top of my head (fluxus) [1] and impromptu [2]. And I bet every game company have their own live editing tools.

Anyway, </rant>.

What inspired me was this video of Iq's live coding setup [3] from last year. Months later I made a webgl version [4] to help spread glsl know-how. Then doing the HTML/CSS/JavaScript one was just natural de-evolution :)

[1] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu_(programming_environm...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g8CdctxmeU

[4] http://glsl.heroku.com/e
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Great idea - i've often thought of this and really glad to see it made.

Some feedback:
1. Your website title is "GrowGuard - Welcome" perhaps change this to something more descriptive so that I and google will know that it's about being able to monitor your plants online as well as watering them the right amount.

2. The front page says "GrowGuard" as the h1. Perhaps add a tag line underneath that clearly explains the main and perhaps secondary benefits? Maybe something like "water your plant correctly" or "the easiest way to water your plant" or "the best way to correctly water your plant"

3. The buttons near the top "home, GrowGuard, etc" get a bit lost with the white space above them.

4. The home button doesn't take you home, it actually takes you to the medium kit.

5. The GrowGuard button takes you to the about page, but it's not clear that it will actually do that. perhaps have it say "about us"

6. The money back guarantee is a 3 month / 90 day guarantee. Perhaps just make it 90 days? A large percentage of the time 3 months is roughly 90 days and it lets you get rid of text on the page.

7. On the guarantee page, you say "So, what are you waiting for? Order GrowGuard today!" perhaps link the "Order GrowGuard today" to your order form so that people can click to it.

8. In the 3 benefits part of the page you have "GrowGuard: Keeps your plants from dying" twice with the same text beneath. Perhaps split the "GrowGuard: Keeps your plants from dying" into two separate benefits? This way you have less text on the page and you can show better benefits.

9. In your about us page, you mention pachube.com. When I tried to go to the website it is now https://cosm.com/. Perhaps it's worth rewriting this as well as putting in a link so that I can click on it directly.

10. I see that the plug looks European. Perhaps somewhere on the page put what countries/regions are currently available and which are not.

11. More pictures of plants! =)

12. Give me a sense of why I want to water plants correctly... Perhaps if I'm growing herbs tell me the yield will be 25% more if I water them correctly. That helps me understand the main benefit.

Overall great work. Also - you might think about selling your device on https://tindie.com/

Good luck!
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They need to do something unique like a small always on screen on the back to show statuses.
And a lot of "beautiful" games are quite boring to play. Even if this game is "ugly", does it make it less fun to play? Personally, a game like this is inspiring because it means that it is possible to make a successful game without spending a lot of resources on graphics, and focusing more on gameplay.
> They could release a new integrated service, do something with the sound, make the thing out of some new material.

Those are all relatively absurd examples. They tried the integrated-service route with Ping, and it was an unmitigated failure. What could they possibly do with the sound or the material?

Something tells me I'm going to be severely underwhelmed in a week or so.
It's taken out of context heading straight to it though. It's actually only linked to (afaict) as part of one of their portfolio pieces here
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Will certainly keep trying. I would say there is no right option and at the same time all options are right.

There does seem something common about themes that appeal to many people but ultimately each has their own correct version of how things should be. Hence my next project https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
Interesting idea by the way!
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Any particular reasons for poker instead of chess, go, baccarat, skat etc.?
Glad to hear! :_)
> Why dont we compare all of Android sales for the last half of September and see how they look against the new iPhone.

Doing so wouldn't tell us anything about trends.
I'm curious about what makes android development not enjoyable. Is it the fragmentation or development tools or low economic incentive ?
Yes. Every year.

Edit: archgrove speaks of the pre-release lull, not the competitor's sales figures. By 'this' MatthewPhillips can only be referring to the lull. If MatthewPhillips had meant SIII sales numbers, he should have clarified the antecedent of his pronoun. Ergo, sp332 is still correct that this is the first time a competitor has outsold iPhone and I am still correct that this lull happens every year - these facts are not mutually exclusive.
I only skimmed the intro, but why bring back the problem that REST was trying to solve? It may not be strictly RESTful, but partial updates to JSON resources is simpler... properties specified get updated, properties not specified remain as is, and setting a property undefined is akin to removal. Is that really flawed?
visualmess was informative, thank you.
That's quite a compliment, thanks :)
Let's be ultra clear here:
Florian has no expertise in anything legal related.
He has no law degree, no formal legal training, etc.

His expertise is in lobbying.
Ha - that made me laugh.

Ironically something not far off from that happened to a contract outfit I was working for. They had a telecoms rack rather than a proper one and they couldn't bolt 9x maxed out DL380G2 servers on it as it started to bend. They decided the best approach was to just pile them up on the rack bed.

This was until the one at the bottom needed a RAM upgrade. Cue 6 people carefully trying to lift up 8x DL380's in one go and sliding various OReilly books underneath. The inevitable happened - a hand gave way resulting in a pile of DL380s spread all over the machine room floor and a broken toe from someone in the hosting facility.

Nothing went down though!
It'll be interesting if the next iPhone isn't at least as popular as its predecessors. Until then, I'm chalking it up to pre-announcement lull in iPhone sales.
What I take away from this is that a serious court case costs millions of dollars. Which means is that the current patent system erects a massive moat around the entrenched players with large patent portfolios and the cash to put lawyers to work 24/7/365.

From time to time, some small troll wins a few hundred million from Microsoft or whatever, but the real story here is that if you don't have ten million dollars to buy into the game, you can't play. It's almost as if the odd "win" by a bit player is a PR stunt to convince congress that the current system is an incentive for entrepreneurs and dreamers to invent new things.

But it's all bullshit. It's a rigged game.
Suing websites is going to force browser makers to do something? Perhaps that chain of reasoning can be expanded upon...

Fighting urge to flame the revolutionary baiting in this post, such as use of we don't want in paragraph 2, and possibly not entitled in paragraph 8. I usually don't like deconstructing posts, but the tone rubbed me the wrong way for an intellectual discussion.

All that laws designed to limit technology do is limit technology.
Sorry.

This was posted for two reasons.

1 - I don't believe it is common knowledge. A lot of people know about it, but it is not quite reached the mainstream.

2 - They launched a new website.
Proof that with a great team you can do anything! Good Job Ooomf!
I have read elsewhere that Americans throw out proportionally less of what they buy than do persons in the Third World. Americans can afford more, but refrigeration, canning, etc. keep the purchases edible longer. Sorry; I can't give a source.
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Again, as I said in response to TomGullen's comment, that is still the very basic of poker math. Further, your example is incorrect. To continue with an OESD [open ended straight draw], you do not need 2 opponents. You simply need the pot odds of the bet you are facing [and factoring in potential bets on future streets while drawing, as well as expected profit when you make your draw] to be giving you at least 2:1 odds.

In poker it is very easy to think youve "figured it out," because in a casino it is hard to keep track of your profits and losses over more than a few visits, and the ups and downs can have large impacts on your short term results [which take a long time to get past in a casino].

I do agree that emotional control is the biggest thing [outside of profits] that I got out of poker, because it carries over into the rest of my life. Im more patient, and dont get upset as easily about things that are outside my control. Those are important lessons to learn in life, and if you have gotten those from poker, great, but you still have a ways to go to understand the basic math and other concepts.
> it offers no advantage to those who were writing Ph.D thesis after Ph.D thesis on how 3.5" is the "perfect size" for a touchscreen phone

Those people would've said 2" or 6" was the perfect size, if that was what Apple had decided on. I don't think their opinions are worth that much.
In my opinion, Magic: The Gathering is a far more interesting game for programmers.

Not only does it cover all the same facets of poker (stats, hands, bluffing), it has complex strategy. I think a lot of the logic put into playing and building a deck in MTG aids in similar mental processes for programming.

Actually, the skills needed for MTG are probably even better for someone in business and finance. Learning to budget, offsetting losses and tracking trends in the metagame--all very good skills for someone trying to make money in a market.

Oh, and it's got more geek appeal. Can't overlook that.
Hows it work on Windows? I use Windows, Mac, and Linux in pretty equal amounts so I need a build system that works on all 3.
"No, Tumblr doesn’t count. When was the last time somebody re-tumbled anything more substantial than a picture with two lines of text? And where have all the blog-spanning debates gone anyway?"

It's clear that the author of this post doesn't grok Tumblr. With Tumblr, good content discover is hard and that is the main issue with using it. However, there is TONS of high quality content in long format on Tumblr from a variety of users.

Finding quality content on blogs has always been a crap shoot. Starting your own blog and keeping it high quality is hard and nobody's blog is high quality all of the time. Linking with traditional blogs is and was NOT a good way to disseminate information, as most people have poor information literacy and do not have an easy time of finding relevant material via linking. That is why sharing links and posts via social networks is so popular, as it provided a way to generate and follow content with an easier (not necessarily easy) to understand usage model.
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