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Check out Influads.com - very targeted display advertising for your target audience. CPM's are slightly high though. If you can pull a .5% ctr you would probably end up paying ~$1 click (note: I WOULD not try CPM media buys BEFORE making sure it converts with CPC first).

Shoot for an optin rate ~45.1% at least (if this is hard straight out the box, just have 1 data field, i.e. email address not name+email address)

Profit hack: consider a funnel like this:

squeeze page-->immediate redirect = sales page-->sales page thank you has something like PayWithATweet.com on it...offer a bonus for a social share.

Good luck!
Quit living in the past. We use Planck temperature now.
You can still download Edge for free since it is still in pre-release. It's sort of a cross between Adobe Flash Professional and After Effects. It definitely has some promise in the web animation front. It's worth a try as it will likely become an industry-standard tool in the near future.
No, for a variety of reasons. Mainly we always wanted it as a lifestyle business, but also due to location factors and not wanting to put in that much time again.

I'd say about 15 to 20 hours a week for the first 9 months, then declining to about half that after 18 months.
Can you cite some data that indicate Windows HB license are bought with the intention to resell them?
... everyone. Can never help everyone.
If the system is designed well, the site should have only about 2-3 million hits per day. Way less than something like kayak or orbitz...In terms of modern day traffic, they should be able to handle it effortlessly.
I don't agree at all. If the users attention had no value, then you would not see 800 million users on facebook.

Google+ and FB are in direct competition for the attention of the same users.
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I also find it completely strange that here in the US people tend to use feet as a sub-division of miles, but the mile/foot relation is not trivial: 1 mile == 5280 feet. And why would you need so many units for length? mile, yard, feet, inch... All (apparently) unrelated.

The metric system on the other hand, is so elegant and simple. Only one unit: meter.
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We may never know. There was so much backlash against their TOS changes they had to walk them back. And even if their original intent was to sell their users' images for use in ads then it would be in their interest to claim otherwise and pretend it was just a misunderstanding.
If they made it clear before-hand, then they would not have acquired the users they did and not sold for a billion. So that is not a good solution at all. Personally, I don't see a solution to this.
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Can someone explain, how in a country like India where corruption is widespread, The Tatas built a $100B company without paying any bribes? Am I missing something? I believe Govt officials in India are rapacious.
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I think that most of the people you talk to here are going to tell you to avoid it. A lot of us have apt-get engrained in our minds as the defacto interface for managing software on Debian based systems.

That being said: why not? For Apple, the App Store is great. It shows you what is popular and what others find useful. It adds a layer of social proof to your applications. I was using an HTTP REST client for the longest time that was a pain in the ass to use. A lot of user interface inconveniences existed. After Google failed me, I cracked open the App Store and was fortunately able to find the app Rested. It's not perfect in my opinion, but it's been a breath of fresh air when developing my API.

We can argue all we want on the walled garden approach of the App Store, but it's a great platform. We also need to remember that it's still an infant, and it's going to evolve and improve. The more we use it when building software, and the more our customers and users use it to discover and rate our stuff, the better it will become. Apple certainly doesn't let the community dictate their moves, but they certainly allow us to influence their decisions if enough people are on board.

For this reason, I think you should definitely start using the Ubuntu software center. If it provides a simple and more pleasant experience for your users, great! Hopefully there will be more and more people looking at desktop Linux in the future who will need a place to find applications. If you can help evangelize and shape their platform with the weight of a successful app, then the whole ecosystem will grow and flourish from it.
There are lots of great bikes to be had on Craigslist. It's not tough to find a modern road bike for around $300 in my city, and if you don't mind something frumpier you could get by with spending $150 for something that'll get you to work reliably.
A big weakness of mine is that I can't take someone seriously after they ask such a silly question.
Made me think of Spider Robinson's <a href="http://deathwish.net/arch/godisaniron.htm>God Is an Iron</a>.
If you're under 20, this seems like a great opportunity. I've met a bunch of the participants, and even if you don't ultimately get the $100k fellowship, just going through the process is more than worthwhile.

If you do get $100k to spend 2 years working on whatever amazing things you can think of, it's obviously great.

If were under 20 I would definitely apply, even if I were a student at a top-tier school (actually, especially if I were). It's not as if you can't go back in a few years if that is the best thing for you at the time, but getting a chance to spend 2 years exploring a business, technology, or other interest is the best possible way I can think of spending 2 years.
All too typical of a tale. Too many people working on too many things, where the only person who has ownership is the guy not building any of the things (the PM).

Simple solution: Small teams that own what they're working on, soup to nuts. This probably means 1-2 devs on a team, a designer spread across 1-2 teams (depending on the scope of the team), and the PM helping all of them, where necessary, but not giving them exact specs of what to build. Product manager in an agile-ish organization is an extremely poorly named title, as their primary function is not to manage, but to communicate and facilitate things that are otherwise difficult or inefficient for designers and engineers to get at.

If the PM is giving the designers and devs exact specs on the product to build, he or she is failing in their role. The PM should be focusing on communicating succinctly the business problems to solve, and the software solutions evolve naturally from the small teams. The product manager, as a member of a team that builds software, should be expected to have some insight as to the general design of the software (maybe in the form of wireframes or whatever). But providing exact specs for what to build is a battle-tested Recipe for Failure™.
I believe so, but I've still got some things I'd like to do before I formally Show HN. You can find it on my profile if you are curious.
They started requiring it earlier this year. In Brazil D&B asks for 60 WORKING DAYS!!!!

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It seems like a bit of deflection to point me to a book written in 1928. My impression of domain sitting might be the result of spin, but domains didn't exist in 1928, so that book is not going to explain why what I said "couldn't be further from the truth."

I didn't say that domains aren't an asset; that has little to do with what I was talking about. I'm not saying they're not a good investment, I'm just saying my impression is that they're a kind of investment which does nothing to further society, like other sorts of investments do.
I agree with all of this advice.

The article describes one type of winter danger (extreme cold), but there's another equally dangerous condition it doesn't deal with — temperatures right around freezing.

A friend and I ended a snowcamping trip a day early yesterday because temperatures were ±32º morning and night. The result of the temperature staying just below or at freezing is that you get very wet. You get very wet just doing mundane tasks like shoveling snow because your body heat needs to shift the temperature of snow on your clothing by just a few degrees to melt. Being slightly unprepared for a night in these conditions is just as dangerous as being in the arctic (where you may be cold, but you'll definitely be dry).
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I invested the time getting it set-up, writing content, yadda yadda... In the past 12 months it has earned me ~$300. It's enough to fund other side projects.
There is another argument against singletons. They destroy design information:

http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/201...
Fair points, but we do disagree, I think.

The "worst" part of the question is the worst part. I talk to people about "one" weakness. I also ask for how they are trying to improve, which is actually the key part of the question to me.

This is not intended as a pressure question. The point is not to learn about a weakness so I can disqualify an applicant. If people ask this question in the hopes that an applicant will incriminate himself, they're doing it (interviewing) wrong. I think this misperception about the intent of the question is what drives a lot of the fuss about it.

I think an interview process that is focused on filtering only people who aren't bad enough to obviously reject is going to net a company a lot of bad hires. You're right, plausible lying can be difficult to distinguish from truth. But the kind of hire I'd like to make is one who can speak fluently and with clear honesty about an area where he/she would like to improve.

To your last point: really don't think this is fair. If an applicant isn't comfortable with discussing a single weakness without feeling totally compromised, then I'm truly sorry, but their poor self-esteem is likely to get in the way of co-workers being honest with them. I say that as someone not characterized with excessively high self-esteem.
The one time I fount myself at risk of hypothermia was because I had overestimated the cold. I put on too many layers which kept me nice and warm. But exertion in that warmth caused me to break a sweat. By the time I got where I was going things were just bad enough to make me feel like I had learned a lesson.
There are plenty of people who play for money that are horrible players. I am going later today to play at a live spot in Ebro, Florida. The demographic is largely working class folks playing for the thrill and they're not the best players in the world. You can make 50 to 100 an hour there if you play your game right. As they say in Rounders, win one big hand an hour.
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Hi there - co-founder of GoCardless.com here.

We make it possible to facilitate ACH-style payments via an API, but we're currently UK-only. We'll be available across Europe in the New Year.

For ACH payments in the US, Dwolla is your best bet.
Google will do all the pointing you need and then some, there is a lot of material about him on the web.

And a lot of the Indian sources are in fact in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata

Lots of good links there too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata+biography

https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata

https://www.google.com/search?q=tata+steel

The most interesting parts to me are how he managed to leverage his starting position (definitely not at 0) to the point where he made a play for international expansion.
Yes, it's sad. And no, I'm not a "wordpress" developer, I'm a WordPress developer who didn't properly proofread everything before publishing. You should probably take a lesson from that ... :)
I am not a big fan of "getInstance". For a session it should be named something like "defaultSession". It is perfectly reasonable that you later want to add a separate session that requires HTTPS only cookies, in which case it could be called "secureSession".
Interesting!

How often do you make a sale?

What kind of process do you use for the exchange? Do you have some kind of escrow, and if so who do you use for that?
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the post says, its a joke
Do you trade long only, or short too? Ie, are you trading pure volatility, or more looking for situations where there's a temporary dip in pricing relative to fundamentals?

Do you monitor daily, > daily, and/or use any automated tools to stop out of or otherwise monitor your trades?

It seems like you could make consistent small wins here but would also be subject to occasional big losses.
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Does this make angel "investing" more like angel "speculation"? Or even more so, Venture Capital primarily speculation versus investment? A legitimate question.
If I could get it working on Mint, I'd use it, and I am happy to pay. I am disinclined to switch my distribution for it though.
> by Peter Stark

Apt.
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GOTO in a C/C++ world is actually a fairly efficient way to manage the exit points of your function. If you're carefully managing memory, putting all of your method cleanup code in one place and directing logic there with a GOTO is more efficient that releasing memory at several different locations within your method.

At the same time, if your methods are complicated enough to possibly require multiple exit points, I'd argue that they should be refactored and broken apart a bit more.
Ah. Is that the magic that AirPlay takes care of? Interesting problem...
Personally i think a house you live in is a liability rather than an asset, it costs money, ties up a hell of a lot of capital and these days is a gamble on whether you'll get your initial investment back again.
Came here to say just this. I never understand these like "money saving hacks" that cost very close to what an actual, legitimate product intended for this purpose would cost, with a ton of work, and less reliability.
I agree. But remember, the article is specifically about singletons in WordPress, which is written in PHP, which is single-threaded.
That wasn't even my point. My point was that it's good to be able to treat the work history question as a normal question rather than having to try and compete on my ability to spin the answer. That means you still have to have good answers for that question, and for the behavioral questions, but you can just answer them straightforwardly since there are better ways than personal salesmanship to distinguish between different candidates.

Around here, we hire technical people based on substance, not salesmanship. What the fuck do you do?
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Yes but there's such a thing as leverage on labor. E.g., you could start a coffee cart & hire someone to manage it; be primarily a financial partner in purchasing a small business or house-flip; etc.
I dream of a world where bugs are fixed before features are added so that the product is in a shippable, usable state at all times and the PM can play with it all through the dev cycle.
I find it pretty common given a list of foods that I like, the one with a good picture is the one I'll most likely order. Having more pictures may or may not benefit the restaurant though...

Use of a few pictures now could lead customers to buy a higher profit item, or an item that is much easier to keep in stock in large amounts.

Use of pictures for all items means that the customer will likely expect the food to the table looks like the item in the picture. This could cause some issues with different cooks or item substitutions.
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PSA: Anybody who asks you about your greatest weakness is not really interested in finding a good fit for the job. They are interested in telling people about their flawless interview 'system'. Expect this to reflect the rest of their corporate culture.
"How would you solve that problem without goto?"

I wouldn't bother trying, at least in C.
Weaselwords like 'may' in the title don't help here. Either they did or they didn't, if you don't know don't bother writing an article.
Well, a credit history tells you whether a borrower paid his credit card bill last month, not if he is going to have a job next month.
My point is not that people will try to run away with your money, but that holding 100+ notes from Lending Club might not be the diversified investment it appears to be, especially when some macro event happens.

Peer to peer lending being somewhat new, I would say some of the borrowers think it's cool. Some of them might also be making a principled choice ("banks are evil").
But ultimately, if you have a reasonnably good credit profile it should be noticeably cheaper than the average traditional lender with its branch network etc.
I think it's a testament to modern medicine that we can do these sorts of things. Glad to hear you got through the recovery alright. With the operation I saw, they packed the patient's head with ice bags as well as cooling the blood. I remember thinking to myself that I'd hate to be that guy waking up! Something like a large hangover ;)
Having worked in a large C code base that was occasionally tainted with this approach (rooted only because people have been told to avoid goto as dogma), I have to say that goto is a better approach to emulate try-finally or RAII in C. For one, the goto will read better as a single piece of prose, there will be no need to glance over at some other function to see the free call. Second, let's say your function has 2 allocations and a lock acquisition - that means your cleanup function needs a pointer to each, usually done with parameters. Add an extra allocation? New parameter to the cleanup function. This gets messy, fast, in a way that the goto does not.
Coming from the United States, I find the idea of a country with "rapid trains" pretty darn sophisticated.
Problem#3 is not really I problem for me at least.
When i go eat in a restaurant I am usually in company, so I do not want to hurry with order, eat, pay and go. I want to enjoy conversation, food and take an easy time.
I also think that many choices on the menus are fine.

But i would definitely NOT want the restaurant to have a profile of me.
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And 'bid', not 'big'.
> It has thread-local storage, which dynamic variables are built on top of.

That hack only works if execution can never be suspended though. The issue exists in Python where it's possible to fake dynamic scope using threadlocals, but that can blow up if execution is suspended (between `yield`s in a generator, for instance) as the stack doesn't get unwound (merely frozen) and the threadlocal isn't reverted if it's in the frozen part of the stack. Same deal if it's possible to unshift stack frames, the threadlocal will more than likely end up in the wrong state.

An other thing which bothers me with threadlocals is that it's not really possible to introspect currently-bound locals in order to "save" them alongside lambdas (though that may be an API issue more than an issue with the locals themselves), and in my experience async callbacks tend to need their creation stack context more than their callstack context.
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At the rate the requests are growing there is no way to see if the requests are legitimate. This allows the DMCA to be used as a weapon against sites that are not infringing anything.

http://techflap.com/2012/10/microsoft-sends-dmca-notices-to-...
Yes, there are situations where changing the structure of the code is better than having an 'if' like the example you gave.

But this doesn't mean that it's better to completely eliminate ifs
I would perhaps also look into longer term comparisons. This day 1 year ago, minimum and maximum recorded temperature for that week/month/day etc.
no way.
it all boils down to this: When you open a newly bought iPhone then you want to see the device first after unboxing and not a bunch of how to guides.
your attention is seeking the device and not how-to-make-it-work.
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I..what? That's not how percents work.
I don't think the weakness question has much to do with your actual weaknesses. It a) tests whether a candidate has minimally prepared for the interview (if they stumble over this question, then the answer is "no.") and b) whether they're socially/emotionally sophisticated enough to finesse the question.

Think of it as sort of a game. You may think (as I do) that the game is basically bullshit, but something is in fact being measured by the question, even if it's only how well you play this particular game. And, to be fair, I imagine that if you're good at this game, you'll be good at other useful games (bullshitting, negotiating, etc...)
Follow the money and the established players and you'll see why.
Is it just me or did he never actually address the dependency injection complaints? It read like he spoke glowingly of how dependency injection decouples your code and makes your blissfully flexible and then nothing. Was his counter argument just that sometimes you need to be less flexible?
@jacquesm, I appreciate your links below. But I don't see much critical analysis in those links. For example, in the wikipedia article, there are no details about what he did from 1962 to 1991. What projects did he handle during this time, any crisis, etc. Did he fail anywhere or was it midas touch everywhere? A CEO of $100B empire has no controversies?

Btw, the article conveniently skips 2G scam that happened in India and how his company got a good price on the spectrum. I am not saying he did wrong stuff...but its not entirely overboard.

However, I agree with you, that he definitely leveraged is starting position and made for international expansion.

Btw, if you have $1B starting money, whether you are in first world or third world doesn't matter...you can buy companies anywhere.
I disagree. UI walkthroughs are like instruction manuals. Some people read them, but most just toss them aside and learn about the product by using it. I think there definitely needs to be some sort of help section within the app that the user can refer to when needed, but for the most part UI walkthroughs are just barriers of entry. I would even argue that most UI walkthroughs are pretty overwhelming for the average user.
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Airplay doesn't really do this. The sound is often slightly out of sync but it's enough to be really irritating if you can hear two of them. The best solution I know of for perfectly synchronized wireless sound is Sonos (quite expensive, but I love it)