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Sent you an email and would gladly have you over for lunch tomorrow. Our focus is weirdly related to "online mapping", (http://eyequant.com), happy to chat more tomorrow.
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Actually you're solving the wrong end of the problem.

There should be no step which is "delete all tracking stuff".

You should be asked when you hit a web page if they can add a cookie.

At the moment, this is done by the page by legislation, but the next step is to do this at the browser level. I'm quite happy as it's training users to do this nicely.

It took us about a day to sort it out on our corporate site and web applications. If you've got loads of social crap plugged in, don't whinge - think before you do something.
Yeah, the article is nonsense.

The linked chart is still intersting though. I'm surprised that the Galaxy S2 is still #3 on T-Mobile.
There's actually a bunch of link love in the post. I made sure to link stuff that seemed relevant.

As for the popup, stern words will be said to whomever turned that on. I didn't know it even existed.
"(it's a perma-warm topic in the UK)" No, most English people don't give a toss. It is a warm topic in Scotland so long as you don't ask how its going to be paid for.
Great work!

Some thoughts -
1. You should add "Web shop for cake decorating supplies" somewhere near the top. Not sure where, but unless I had read your "Show HN" I wouldn't have known that the site was actually about cake decorating supplies.

2. Given that you are proud of and live in Canada, it would be great to include a "Made in Canada" sticker/banner near the bottom to alert me that if I live in Canada this will definitely be awesome for me.

3. Think that you did the english/french translations very well, it's easy to switch back and forth + it doesn't make the experience worse when you switch from one language to the other.

4. The spacing between hr elements could be a little more so that it gives the subscribe button a little room to breathe.

5. Given that almost all the elements are pink (very appropriate for your market I think), the main call to action that I saw on the front page was to subscribe to your email list. Perhaps a main call to action in the main box would be useful?

6. For the email list, the call to intrigue me asks "Looking for inspiration?" ... perhaps something more emotional like "fan of cake baking and decorating? want to hear awesome tips? subscribe to our free newsletter".

7. Your pinterest account looks great as does the twitter account. The one thing I didn't see was a blog? Perhaps you can start one and interview cake / cookie shops all over canada to get web traffic as well as give your twitter / pinterest account content to view?

Well done. Keep us updated with how things go!
You need only one axiom to get a demand curve:

The universe of potential purchasers consists of a set of agents (i=1...N) and each agent has a reserve price R[i]. If a good is priced <= R[i], Agent[i] will purchase it. If it is priced > R[i], Agent[i] will not.
No offense, but just about everything in your comment is wrong. Your argument that suits are dead is way off the mark. Maybe in San Francisco it's not expected to wear a suit to a job interview or to meet with clients, but in every job I've ever worked at the men were expected to wear a suit and tie more often than not.

Your 1% comment doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. Are you saying that only households making over $340k a year[1] would spend that much on a suit? My first job out of college was for $28k a year in a city. I had to spend much of that first year buying $600-800 suits because that's what I was expected to wear. I have friends that make what I make now and gladly drop twice what I would on a suit. It doesn't have anything to do with income.

I believe this was mentioned elsewhere, but a $4,000 suit isn't mainly about income or wealth, it's about taste. Pick up any $4,000 suit from a custom clothier and hang it up next to a $350 suit from Men's Wearhouse. You will absolutely be able to tell the difference from the other side of the room.

[1] http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/top-1-percent-earn.asp...
APOLOGY ABOUT THE SUBSCRIBE POPUP: I am the author of the piece, I did not know popups existed on this blog (I usually write on /fruitblog).

If I knew about this, I would insist on posting on the other blog. Stern words are being said right after I find whomever's responsible.

You have my apologies.

edit: it's been turned off.
Linkbait title and an untrue title at that. The English Premier League, Scottish league, and more are still available to the same audience. The beIN network are available to all DirecTV users at no additional charge.

Seth Vertelney did an article on goal.com about how this deal actually puts Euro-soccer in more homes than before: http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/66/united-states/2012/08/23/3...
I guess I'm slightly confused. When you 'like' this, does it link to this page or the main company site (http://animade.tv/)? Or, is this some sort of "splash" page that you hit from Google? More or less, how does this page get into the user flow?
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From the last part of the article I quote the following:
"Even the richest customer simply has to wait — sometimes months — before the new suit is finished. No wonder so many pass up a $4,000 bespoke suit for a ready-to-wear Kiton version at twice the price."

So customers are clearly willing to pay more, but they are not too keen on waiting two months for the suit.

I guess there are clients that buy a given amount of suits every year and have time to wait, but there are other clients that buy a suit when they need one and do not think 2+++ months up front.

The question is if the former group is large enough to sustain his business, and if they are willing to pay more than $4,000. The latter group have clearly the dough, but don't want to wait, so they are really not a segment he can focus on.

So while hiking the price might work, it might be that the real problem here is time to market.

Edit: Spelling
Bluray security is pretty close to that. Somehow I still keep seeing bluray rips on the internet.
You know what else can cause racing mind syndrome? Apnea. This is when stop breathing periodically at night. The kind that are caused by the muscles in your throat relaxing and closing off or restricting your airway can be treated.

What happens is you start to drift off, you relax, an apnea happens, and your body gives you a dose of adrenalin to help wake you up to breath. Hence the mind racing. Often you don't even realize you had started to drift off at all, and just think your mind has been spinning wildly keeping you awake.
libpurple was not always separate from Pidgin (née Gaim). Relicensing is hard.
I agree that you want the book to truly influence people, but I think you'd be surprised how important a strong launch is. Don't underestimate the importance of making a big splash right away.
I can modify my browser's javascript interpreter if I need to.
There's a cute independent game called "Misunderstood Pigs" where you place walls to try to prevent each incoming barrage of flying birds from succeeding in killing everyone.

http://bostinno.com/2011/12/20/misunderstood-pigs-angry-bird...
I think most people ignore the warning and click through based on the amount of toolbars I have to remove from PCs.

The drop in revenue hasn't happened for us and we've been compliant for months now. I think, based on the quantity of sites this is occuring on, that it's a non issue. People are used to it now.

The malicious people can be identified easily. Think of these changes as covering your arse rather than an inconvenience.
Doesn't it blow your minds how many people are adopting a linux as a primary user OS? And how irrelevant that is, since they don't even know that's what they're running?

Also, the S III has a barometer. How cool is that?
Samsung's new phone is crushing last year's iPhone!
Revisiting my comment from a couple of weeks ago, "mass media, which includes Google, however they may try to deny it, lives by the numbers, which means adapting to the lowest common denominator. Just think, as the Internet spreads, Google will evolve (devolve) closer and closer to broadcast TV!"

Just substitute "the Web" for "Google"; the Web is becoming television!!
aaaaaaaaaand no one cares.
Interesting. I actually still see lots of posts that have lots of links throughout the article. Especially when an article is referencing other code, projects, plugins, articles, etc. I assumed you meant more about the death of 'blogrolls' that has occurred over the past few years because that IS what has died out, in my opinion (and for reasons I stated above).
Remember when MPAA was telling us that SOPA and PIPA would never be used to censor political speech? Yeah, it seems even DMCA is enough for that, and it's already happening. SOPA would've made it just that much worse.

Of course, Google also takes a huge part of the blame here for their automatic takedown system, which shouldn't even exist in the first place. Maybe they should follow in Usteam's footsteps and permanently suspend their system as well.
Maybe it's just me, but wearing jeans to a wedding or funeral and not wearing a jacket and tie to a interview immediately signal disrespect and that the guest/candidate is too lazy to put in the requisite effort.
Apple is looking to ban all Android devices in the US and abroad. From what the iPhone 5 looks like, they've run out of ideas and are now resorting to litigation to keep their profits up.
we have view port meta tag added. Can you check one more time?

Thank you so much. long term, we need to go with 960px circa.
This bug report appears to have been written by a lobotomy victim who has had their "communicating with humans" part of the brain removed.</troll>

It makes me so sad to see this kind of attitude. And usually (don't know about this case) it comes from a person who does not contribute to the project.

Not everyone is a cryptographer. Although they should refrain from writing crypto code, calling them "lobotomy victims" makes you sound like one.
If instead of using cookies we would swap to using the browsers storage, wouldn't we circumvent this entire rubbish law (+ the other advantages it already provides)?

http://www.jstorage.info
The internet itself is extremely simple and has
survived mostly unchanged from the 1980s ...
innovation to take place at the edges...
allow decisions and implementations to be delayed to a
time when everything can be done faster and smarter.

Big projects that don’t plan this way are doomed to
failure.

This is the most interesting point out of the article for me - many of the big government projects are being technologised away. How do we judge government spending from now on? By its ability to be flexible in face of change? By its lack of vast gobs of money?
I think noonespecial's point is that much of Ikea's income comes from people meandering through these labyrinths, being exposed to item after item until they see something that they "must have". It would not make sense for them to cannibalise this by completely changing the business.

You do raise some interesting ideas, and I think there is a place for 3D printing in Ikea's business model, especially in customisation of off-the-shelf items.
It might be possible to save the variable and ID states in the code before updating, then "pasting" them back in once reloaded.
Even if people don't know they are using linux, it's still important if it leads to more investment in the development of linux and related software/technology.

Can anyone shed some light on whether this is happening?
Similar situation for *BSD on the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, it is a golden age for Unix/Linux but, like you say, invisible to the end-user.
OK, the day/week distinction could have been clearer, $1.45 per day = $10.15 per week = half of my weekly food budget, which was about $20. What did I eat, well, lots of jacket potatos and pasta :)
I am a programmer and not a poker player. :)
Spending a significant amount of time in Shanghai the past few years, I've frequented the Shanghai fake market many times. While some portions sell knockoff goods, the fabric section is quite spectacular. I can get a bespoke 2 piece suit for $100 or 3 piece for $150. I get custom dress shirts for $10. The material and craftsmanship is high and the primary market is expatriates (read: non-Chinese) living in Shanghai.

The way it's set up, is there are maybe 50-100 booths set up in the fabric market area. Each of the booths is rented out by a proprietor, and they are in business for themselves. Most operate by relying on an economy of scale behind the scenes. The sole proprietor would take your measurements in the shop, then send them to a behind the scenes system which processes hundreds of suits a day.

It is not uncommon to have your custom clothing done within 24 hours and shipped directly to wherever you are staying. Very interesting way to manage the economy of scale.
Thanks for the info, Ted, and congrats on the referral.
I'm pretty sure we all read this same story last year, at least once. Well, at least twice, if we count the "Verizon subscribers don't really want the iPhone" stories that came out in Q2, as iPhone sales on Verizon tapered off as people expected the new iPhone to launch around July.
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While I agree ont he general sentiment of your post, I remember in the case of memcpy that at least the GCC implementation is a "most general case" implementation which tries to have good performance in average usage.

I remember reading about this some time ago when I was doing some tinkering. I read that for example, John Carmack decided to implement his own memcpy tailored for the games they programmed. Additionally, I read about different alternative implementations o memcpy which were better than the standard for specific domains. I even experimented using Microsoft detours to replace the vanilla memcpy with a faster version.
> Sorry, but that's not a bullshit scenario

It's also not the only relevant scenario. I reckon there are plenty of people who are capable of developing games and are unemployed, at school or living somewhere $100 is a significant amount of money.
I am (in part) attempting to address this discovery issue with http://hubski.com. It is a de-centralized aggregator in that submissions are public, but there are no shared pages. You get the content posted by people you follow, but also the content that they decide to share with you (not unlike a retweet). Instead of votes, posts propagate via shares.

There are also tags, which may be followed as well that are usually topical. That helps 'outside my feed' discovery. Also, you can select a certain amount of external posts to filter into your feed for some serendipity. Finally, you can ignore specific users and tags to control for what type of external posts filter in.

We aren't huge, but we've got a pretty eclectic range of content.

Using this model, bloggers and content creators can post their own links. If people aren't interested, they simply won't see them. -There are no community pages to be polluted. IMHO shared feeds are key to the decline of these types of communities.
If we subscribed to this logic:

"Either put the banner up or get rid of all the junk that you've plugged into your web site."

then we'd still be setting cookies, but we'd be telling users about it after we did so. This is exactly what most sites are doing right now, and it's clearly farcical.

When you start attacking anyone who depends on advertising on the Internet - by which I guess you mean Google, Facebook, Twitter and every commercial news site in existence - then I start to lose you. Those services cost billions, and somebody has to pay for it.
>"I haven't played any games at all in the last year. I worked on 10000000. That was the deal I made with my wife -- I would make the game but that was it, it was my project." Luca Redwood spent a year in monastic isolation with no free time distractions besides new prototypes of 1000000, getting a little better each time.

I really envy this kind of drive. My dream is to be that "bedroom programmer" making small games and it seems like there is simply no time.
To be fair, we should probably wait until the product launch to comment on that. Apple are very good at keeping new features secret, so who knows.
Slashes are pretty common to describe paths (URLs, file systems, XML, etc.)
Linkrot is a real problem, but it's nowhere near as harmful as PageRank was.

Once links have commercial value, people don't want to give them away for free. Serious publishers quit making links to outside sites and soon other people got out of the linking habit.
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Do you know whether that has helped or hindered other BSD based OSes?
That was one of the major challenges Ted Nelson's 70s/80s Xanadu project though would need to be addressed in order to produce a deployable hypertext system. It seems like they were wrong on that front: the web won out by just deploying without addressing it.
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That's interesting, it shows up perfectly for me in the comment (latest Firefox, Ubuntu 12.04).
> You're right of course, but as the only solution would be for:

> (a) Us to remove said services (b) Our competitors to not (c) Us to suffer unjustly, while they prosper

That everyone else is doing wrong is not an excuse to do wrong as well. Suffer with dignity, or be treated as one of the "bad guys".
The discovery solution needs to have the pointers. But the actual content doesn't. I'm advocating keeping discovery on dedicated discovery sites (which would of course be full of links), rather than mixing it in amongst the content.
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I doubt they will change the width, there must be 1000's of apps that will break or look wrong if they change that (without updating).
When they write "primary encryption hardware device", I hear "HSM". I do not read a lot of jargon in this post. When a billing company writes to its customers, "some of our customers will need to contact some or all of their customers to have billing information re-entered", I do not sense evasion.
While comments about iPhone 5 being due soon is probably correct, I suspect this is the first visible sign of a tend which began quite a while ago: iPhone has peaked (just like the iPod did) and right now Android us exploding everywhere.

The question is just when we officially start treating iOS as the minority OS, the one we develop for last.

To those thinking I disregard Windows 8 tablets, I don't. I know they're out really soon now, but it's just too early to predict its impact on the market. My guess is that it will eat into both Android and iOS's market-share for tablets, but how much is impossible to say.
I definitely agree and tone plays a huge part in my personal perception of whether it's disrespectful or not.

That being said, I think it speaks to the actual value of likes. Clearly this approach works for some people and they want that number to go up.
I don't get it.. are you posting this as news?

I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge, I'm one of those annoying node haters and I've known about it for months now.
Programmers probably shouldn't play online poker. When programmers aren't programming, or creating other things, they should probably spend time off the computer. They don't need another computer activity.

So, play poker face to face. Maybe you don't live in an area where you can do that, then start a low stakes home game with friends. Don't have friends, go out and meet some people. ;)

Don't bother with free poker, you will learn much other than the basic rules. Even micro stakes are a bit crazy.
I would unflag it if I was in your place, because it's been fixed[1], and I don't know what triggers losing flag rights.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4479147
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By this logic, programmers should try playing super smash brothers melee competitively.
I made something like this a while ago http://elv1s.ru/files/js/key-code-detector.html
If you have a product you need a link to that product from your blog.
What a tragedy. :(
Setting things up with the command line might seem less convenient, but it's very easy to make a script when you want to automate that setup routine.

This comes off to me as a major disconnect. It almost looks like you're saying making a script to automate a setup is as easy as a point-and-click interface. I would say setting up the script is less convenient, in that you need to learn basic shell scripting first. Point and click requires you to learn basically nothing. Using a CLI rather than a mouse requires worlds more brain power and is worlds less intuitive when you're coming from a Windows world.
Microsoft is getting very ballsy about this and is on a trend to introduce this clause in all license agreements for their products. I hope someone takes them to Court over it and proves it unconstitutional.
If every second word on site was a link, nobody would bother to click them. People would just be frustrated by all that blue words.

Hmm, maybe that's argument for making different categories of links. Like blue links for things you suggest to read, light blue for things that are relevant, but not that important for most readers, and gray for links to definition of a word, source of the data, such things, that most people would ignore.
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Winning players: The winning players he's talking about exist at every level. At the small time level, they're often "prop" players, sponsored by the casino to generate action where the floor manager wants it.

Poker is strongly negative-sum. The venue has to be paid for. There isn't enough sponsorship to go around to everyone, and there definitely isn't any for the small time.

Creativity: spending a lot of time practicing something isn't the opposite of creativity. I find that creativity is simply recombining things you already know how to do. There aren't many fields where someone is simply "a natural" at a very high level; it almost always comes from practice.
It's not just you, but it's also not everyone else. It's a regionalism.
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Foundation looks great but it seems I'd need an entire ruby stack to use the SCSS features? Am I misreading something?
Automation strikes again, or any system that relies on buttons being pushed will eventually have those buttons automatically pushed.
The article is called "Why you can't sleep," and the author most often uses the second person "you." Sometimes the post talks about why "we" can't sleep.
> These new laws seem to be addressing peoples irrational fears, and not the actual problem.

What is the problem, to you? To me the problem is that websites track my movement across the internet and I don't want them to invade my privacy in that way.